Mortal Kombat vs DC - What Happened? 

And now we have a Harley Quinn +18 show full with violence and a coming Deathstroke +18 show. Jesus, DC changed a lot.

@@wesleym95 Dude, the Harley Quinn show already out. It's on the DC streaming service. The first episode on RU-vid.

That's a lot of hyperbole. They're kinda bloody at that era sure, but a lot of things still prevented them from full of blood and guts everywhere.

@@oh-not-the-bees7872 I think this game came out around the same time that Black Adam killed Psycho Pirate by gouging his eyes through the back of his skull, which was preeeeetty brutal

@@darthXreven Holy crap. The stupidity, the cringe. I'll just quote Harley herself: "Fuck off, kid."

That's why they reused it in MK9 lmao

i hope it will be a brutality in mk11

Are you 6?

I really hated how complicated it was to actually get one of those off in a match🤦🏽‍♂️ spent a lot of time just kickin people off buildings or just using the environment so I didnt get bored with the game

@Jon Tap Wait until you graduate, man.

Seen how old this video is?

Me too

I was thinking about that too. I knew of the series from having a couple games, but bought this to get back into the franchise.

same this was the game that exposed me to the franchise as well.

Same here, I’m not a big mortal kombat fan outside of couch coop with my friends, but this is one mk game that I love

Same

15min of arm crossed

We made him upset.

No talk, he angy.

Nothin Happun

Subverting my expectations.

Plus it really feels like they learned from mk vs dc how to make mk9 onwards into actually great fighting games

Absolutely. I get that MK v. DC was not the crown jewel they intended, but it really did lead to stronger development of both franchises. A classic "learn from failure" moment.

@@SilkyLew Armageddon just was badass. Wish they left the chess kombat and kart kombat for a better konquest mode with open world like deception

Plus joker's fully realized fatality sneaking I to mk9

@@SilkyLew what, armageddon was fun to play at least

It worked on all of us. Who puts his head in the sand now - “mr. grown-up” and “I didn’t fell for anything” Justin Bieber - and pretends he didn’t do it, is a big Pinocchio.

And I’m talking in general.

Mine was armageddon

Damn, so young. MK1 on Mega Drive (Genesis) for me.

Oh same here!

This was the second MK introduced to me as a kid . I was like wtf .

Yeah mine too. Also, I'm your 100th like. Remember me when this has 200.

@@jeremyriley1238 I'd doubt MK would of died forever. Someone was bound to pick up the rights for the game, but I'd agree MK9 probably wouldn't of happened when it did.

Tbh I'd prefer if we never got Injustice.

@@milkmonstrosity you have horrible taste in games and stories then.

​@@cajunbatmaninjustice is not that good.

@@insertedgynamehere game sales numbers, a top selling spin-off comic and animated movie says otherwise.

Etsy, eBay, Amazon

@@JaelinBezel the are error macro and rain and reptile and tremor (joke)

Yes, a brighter future: MK X and MK11 Maybe we were better off before.

@@zyxluz4645 didn't care for X much but 11 is fine?

@@zyxluz4645 what’s wrong with MKX and MK11?

@Ed Corona No. MKX is trash, 11 is legendary

@Ed Corona I never bothered with 11 yet. I'm still playing X

It was kinda similar for me. I was actually more into MK than DC at the time but I knew very little about either side, so I started with the DC story mode, of which had more characters I recognized, and soon enough I became interested in the MK characters I knew nothing about outside of Yellow Ninia use Spear and Blue Ninja use Ice

Yeah I didn't get his criticism that that was a "stupid" idea. The MK characters were way more niche and obscure. It makes sense to give them a platform boost next to DC' timeless heroes that most people recognize even if they've never picked up a comic

Yeah Matt's definitely really into the FGC community... which probably skewed the perspective that not everyone would really be interested in MK. Certainly not as many people who can recognize Superman or Batman; these are cult icons and getting Scorpion next to them would definitely increase exposure like in your experience.

I guess everyone's story different. I played the earlier MK's, and Captain Marvel's the only character I wasn't familiar with in this game. I knew the other DC heroes from cartoons.

You’re just in the majority

I'm happy that worked for some people? But like I said in the video, this game didn't sell any better or worse than previous MKs...so on a mass mainstream level, it didn't really work.

Matt McMuscles I agree. Not to mention the whole reason for this game existence is bullshit to begin with as the Mortal Kombat series (especially during the “Dark Age of Fighting Games) already has huge child audience at the time. Namely edgy elementary and middle schoolers who unironically buy every games Midway pops out because of all the violence and (sometimes) sexiness; thus becoming the main source of the franchise income. Oh God, did I just described my own childhood with that sentence?

@@BigK13372 Yeah, I find it ironic because the game was rated T(so not for kids technically) and the first time I played MK was when I was 7 years old and Sub-Zero has been my favorite video game character since then, Captain Marvel was actually the only character in the game I never heard of.

Same here actually

Same here

“That’s Impossible”…. Luke skywalker

for real. Fight for NY was like one of my favs of the PS2 era

I actually liked Icon but never returned to it like I did with FFNY.

Great choice. Ffny had so much potential in a sequel but they had to throw the joystick gimmick in and get RID OF SUPERS. Insane decision. Can You imagine a new def jam with custom supers and rap star dlc? Would you pay money to play as Busta Rhymes? You could have bundles of legacy character. With modern graphics and an updating soundtrack. Thats A lot of 💰

This is a great idea! I actually forgot about this game. FFNY was a game I went back to constantly when I was younger. Vendetta too! Icon..... yeah I played through that once.

FFNY was one of my favorite games. I don't know how many times I played through that story mode. I was so pissed when I played Icon.

that game was in production forever (6-8? years) at like $1M a year, and really never had anything to show for it. It was Midways most expensive game, and it never made it to market.

Just awful mismanagement all around. Such a shame.

I vaguely remember hearing of it then poof, nothing. Kind of a shame really, it sounds like it could've been a bit entertaining at least

MKVDC: "No Gore 'cuz DC!" The Joker: Allow me to introduce myself...

Well I think they meant because it features characters like Superman who isn’t an R rated character

Even in that mid-late 2000's era, DC comics tended to be really gory. I remember reading an issue of Teen Titans where Beast Boy defeated Brother Blood by turning into a tapeworm and tearing up his internal organs, and the issue ended with Ravager cutting her own eyeball out to match Deathstroke's missing eye.

It was a different time

My favorite memory of this game was watching the A.I. play against itself using the Flash VS Scorpion. It started spamming teleport and juggles like crazy. Looked so cool and funny I still want a live action version one day.

I'll be honest, I never knew the MK Franchise until this game so I thank MKvsDC for that.

We know kids watch porn, but you shouldn´t say out loud "WE ARE TRYING TO INTRUDUCE PORN TO KIDS". Same with MK over-the-top gore.

@@map04wormhole this game was awesome

edfreak9001 honestly I learned about MK by playing this game

To be honest, I ultimately didn’t know about MK until this game came out. I even got Armageddon on the old Xbox & unchained on the PS2. Then I got MK 9, X & now 11. This game practically made me a fan of the franchise.

Just another example of why Batman related stuff is the only true reason DC is still relevant to a lot of people, they are allowed to do whatever works with him. You start adding superman, wonderwoman etc. and it just makes everything more boring over time.

@@plasmaoctopus1728 No. You can do different things with the other characters as well. Same thing with the Marvel universe.

Your HORSE must LOSE!

Then raiden died. The end

Hey past me, let Shao Khan win and the Elder Gods will punish him.

Same here, I remember very vividly when I played this game with my friend at his house. I was really bad at the game lol. This was my first introduction to a fighting game on console. Never really considered it bad too. Though like I said it was my first fighting game I was introduced to and it holds a special place in my heart.

wowz , you typed alot for a first reply

Logan Chase interesting thank you for the information. I will when I have some spare time have a wonderful day take care and stay awesome.

Press X to doubt

Plastic man and The Butlering are my personal highlights. What a great and crazy AU.

I don't like injustice, the games have terrible writing and awful animation. The comics have better writing but they were held back by having to stick to the games, and Injustice 2 directly contradicted the comic but then expected you to have comic information to understand Green Arrow and Black Canary. That said I did like a few specific moments, like Alfred kicking the shit out of Superman and then hitting him with the "I'm not mad, I'm disappointed"

He literally did: 16:02

Yeah, apparently this game served as the humble beginnings of MK9 and Netherrealm Studios in general. In spite of its flaws, it got WB eyes on Ed's crew and also apparently was one of the first to get UE3 to run at 60fps or some shit compared to everything else locked at 30 lol

I think Injustice is also precursors to MK games. All tests for Mortal Kombat games lol.

Oh? What's the skinny on that? I had heard the movie was just bad. But is there a story behind it?

@@MattMcMuscles Dunno if this is credible, but I found this page: amp.thisisinsider.com/the-snowman-michael-fassbender-director-bad-movie-reviews-2017-10

@@MattMcMuscles I heard that 10 to 15% of the screenplay was unfilmed, which led to rushed edits

Matt McMuscles Quite a few things went wrong with the production. According to the director, they waited for several months to get the funding for the film, until the studio basically called him out of the blue telling him they had the money, and that he needed to get to London to start filming, giving him little time to prepare. And then for some reason, maybe the money ran out, maybe a schedule mistake, maybe just incompetence, the filming was cut short, resulting in about 10-15% of the screenplay not being filmed. They brought in two Oscar-nominated editors to help salvage the thing but with 10-15% of the movie not there, it was pretty much impossible. It was also weird to adapt this movie first considering it was actually the seventh in the series it was based on. And there’s the “Dear Mister Police” marketing campaign which was more hilarious than anything, and one of the weirder changes from the book. There’s also the fact that Val Kilmer has gone through a battle with throat cancer at the time, so all of his lines had to be done in ADR... in a manner that doesn’t match his lip movements at all and voiced by someone who didn’t remotely sound like Kilmer. And the studio was banking hard on this movie. They already had plans to adapt the other books in the series but judging by how poorly this movie performed, it likely isn’t going to happen for a long time.

Actually it kinda can if you consider how DC has been so gory nowadays.

Problem is noclip already did the ultimate wha happun on that phoenix

cringe

@@21Handguns he is not wrong. This game got positive reviews and most people liked it. The hate started years later.

For me, it's Shao Khan vs Superman. Just wish Khan and Darkseid had fatalities

Midway killed the franchise, Warner Bro brought it back to life

@@pandaboi551 no, midway didn't kill it.

Wait I thought they still do, just under the Neatherrealm banner (yes I know the company merged under the Warner Bros banner, but they still have rights/control of their series they’re still developing).

Ole 1995

@@pandaboi551 In the form of a disgusting microtransaction ridden mobile game grindfest. If that's the future of MK from now on then let it remain dead. Boon's writing team is also the worst it has ever been and it doesn't look like it will get any better.

It only happened in 2012. The salt has not subsided.

I'd wait to see if Harada was actually serious about restarting development on TxSF first.

@@MrRuano825 they never scrapped what they worked on they just halted it. Harada is the head now and he's torn between supporting Tekken 7 more Making Tekken 8 or continuing on TxSF.

I'm going to say they wanted to make 7 different games but refused to abandon the trainwreck universe of MK out of fear. That's how we get a sidescroller, 3d shooter/beatemup, mini-kart game, 3d action adventure, and even a card game all shoehorned into the same grungy brown retcon world of hell portals.

Exactly. Jumped the shark in 1995.

@@thefonzkiss the reality : The MK 3D era with DA, Deception and Armageddon, was a trilogy of masterpieces, and MK jumped the sark in 2011. (:

@@thefonzkiss More like 1997

Or the Ouya

Agreed! Honestly i don't like that a lot of people trash them for no reason! In fact my first mortal kombat game was Deadly Alliance so it holds a special place in my heart

If you grow up on shit you tend to get a taste for it.

@@deepakdeodathbasdeo1672 to think if it was not for those games, there may have been one less MK fan out there.

@@MichaelVarcade agreed, honestly it doesn't matter where you get your start, but once you became a fan and joined the fandom. That to me is what really counts

I thought it was kind of weird that he put down the PS2 Trilogy (yeah Armageddon was pretty weak but not terrible) but then mentions that MK had been Midway’s bright spot prior to MK vs DC and how the lack of features from those games contributed to the lackluster MK vs DC package

It's funny because they had BEEN doing that since before this game came out. And little surprise, it was the Joker doing most of them especially in the Batman comics circa 2008-2014 or so, to a ridiculous degree. Literally to the point *most Joker fans at the time including myself were sick of it.* I repeat. JOKER fans. Were sick of the Joker doing nothing but be a two bit murderer.

Is that like a gag in the FGC?

Is that like a gag in the FGC?

Is that like a gag in the FGC?

Is that like a gag in the FGC?

Is that like a gag in the FGC?

Eh. XIII-2 and XIII-3 weren't that bad. XIII is the only one i consider to be "truly" bad one from the trilogy

Motomu Toriyama happened to FF13, so here we are. gotta admit though, this trilogy was a guilty pleasure of mine at the time

@@DurradonXylles I disagree with that statement, but to each their own. I actually consider FF XIII-3 to be a sort-of hidden gem of the decade because of how eager everyone is to write it off, and because of how much I enjoyed it compared to the other 2.

And by extension FF 15 because I heard it went through development hell. Did he do one on Spirits Within at all?

For me, all three of them were nothing but squandered potential of great ideas. 13 could have been one of the best in the series with better direction and writing. 13-2, while really stupid, felt self aware and just had fun with it. Lighting Returns was just insulting, in my opinion.

*MK1 has entered the chat*

Its sucked... thats all 😂