Affectionate Diary

Ed Boon - what a cunt. On Street Fighter IV - “I hope they add enough new stuff”. Yeah, cos that’s what makes a fighting game good - loads of additional pointless gimmick features that amuse for a second or less. At least I know from his comments that it’s definitely NOT worth touching the new Mortal Kombat game. Not that I ever really needed validation. If a game sucks 20 times in a row, you can hardly have hopes for the 21st version.

If he meant “I hope they elaborate on the core concept and give the player lots of way to enjoy the basic premise of the game” then he might have been on to something. If he said “I hope they innovate without ripping the heart out of what makes fighting games great” then maybe he’d be on the button. But I don’t think he understands what makes a great fighting game.

On his new Mortal Kombat game - “it has dual storylines - we tell the story from the perspective of the MK guys and from the DC guys.”

FUCK YEAH, STORY!

Idiot.

“It has new fighting mechanics, transition combat, freefall combat - so you’re actually punching and kicking as you fall to a new area. So it’s going to be a completely different feel.”

OMG FREEFALL COMBAT! TRANSITION COMBAT! I can’t wait to see how the game becomes interesting as they (presumably) change the basic rules of movement for each character mid-battle.

“It’s not going to feel anything like MK Armageddon.”

Ah well, maybe there’s hope yet. After all, we don’t care how your game plays. We just want to be able to do fatalities and we’re good. Cos that’s what kids in focus groups say, right? That they’re cool. So you better have them. You do have them, right? Right? Hello?

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