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Re: Some MK:DA info (may be old news, please be gentle)

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From: Gumbo ...
Date: Thu, 09 May 2002 00:40
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On Wed, 8 May 2002 19:01:27 -0500, Bradley Poe <bp...@prairienet.org>
wrote:

>>I think there are a few thing in the blurb that bear repeating
>>anyway, and besides....not all of us can download the thing.  :)

My point in taken...

>>The Bad News:
>>
>>--The initial character count is at 24 characters, which means that a
>>*lot* of both character cloning (one ninja for evey color of the rainbow,
>>for instance) and/or style cloning is likely.

Don't know this for a fact... I have heard of others from the rest of
the MK games coming back such as Kabal...

>>--And the Biggest Bad News of all:  No indication that MK:DA is going to
>>hit the arcades, where people can play the thing with a *REAL* controller.
>>Sony's standard digital Four Chiclets of Death bug the piss out of me...
>>it's possibly the *worst* single example of a crappy standard issue
>>controller I've ever seen (a $200 system deserves *better*, I don't care
>>if it *is* a DVD player).  Which means no MK for me this time out ;_( .
>>It's a shame too....the only modern fighting game in the arcades where
>>I live is Tekken or Marvel Vs. Crap.  I am sick to *death* of random
>>button-mashing bullshit that *looks* pretty and yet is broken with 
>>regard to either certain characters in two-player or certain new game
>>features.

This game was never made for the arcades... Boon said that before even
making the game cause he knows and Midway knows that the Arcade scene
is dead... And he can do 100% more with a playstation than arcade
mother board...

>>--Cyrax is back.  'Nuff Said.

Cyrax is still kewl...

>>--Did I already mention that MK:DA isn't headed to the arcades, and that
>>it's coming out on the one system with a total piece of shit controller...
>>ooops, I already did, sorry.

One system... Umm... It's been announced for all the systems...
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From: Gumbo ... <Gu...@mkx.org>
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Subject: Re: Some MK:DA info (may be old news, please be gentle)
Date: Wed, 08 May 2002 19:40:08 -0500
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