/vr/ - Retro Games

This makes me sad

Also this

And this

Apparently they were remaking all three original games with all new actors in HD.

>>4765685
Why does Sonya's model look white but her avatar looks asian?

>>4765698
>remaking all three original games with all new actors
that's really gay

redo/touch-up the original sprites in HD or forget it

>>4765727
>redo/touch-up the original sprites in HD or forget it

Isn't that basically what the version for PS3/4 on the PSN is?
>I know, not /vr/

>>4765727
They were "redoing" the original sprites the way they were made in the first place: through photographing actors.

>>4765729
>>4765729
no, they were just the straight arcade ports upscaled to 720p or 1080p, whatever it was

upscaling the video signal to 720p, 1080p or 4k etc. doesn't affect the spirtes as originally created

e.g. 224×288 pac-man will still look exactly like 224×288 pac-man on a 1080p or 4k upscale, it doesn't magically make him round, pic related

not referring to you, but i don't get why this confuses people so much, i see it a lot
>>4765741
>photographing actors
using different actors is what's gay, it looses all of the original's charm, it wouldn't be the same game, if they did a SF2 remake and everyone looked like different people, that'd be gay too

they could "HD-ify" the original sprites by hand or redo the sprites with the original video captures, which they still have:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VK44Et3QB5w

>>4765685
Why'd it get cancelled?

>>4765698
>>4765727
>>4765753
I think Sonya was played by her original actress.

>>4765753
That isn't high definition.

>>4765685
This looks like some fake parody you'd see on a TV show.

>>4765685
Ed Boon never said why still :C

>>4765685
>cancelled
>not kancelled

One job, OP.

i would've been interested in a balanced version of mortal kombat 1 and 2. they would have to include the original games, too, but a balance update would've been interesting

>>4765753
if they hdify the umk3 kitana actress I will fap profusely.

>>4765727
You mean people age?

>>4765821
That was the MK3 actress, this is the MK1 actress

not even the same outfit

>>4765845
>>4765920
>on the spectrum

>>4765694
No in-between frames? LOL, what's the point in HDfying it then? Gonna look janky as fuck.

>>4765927
mmmm very nice of sweety baps

>>4765698
>>4765741
This is a bad idea. In HD we would see how cheap and bad everything looks.

The best way to remake would be using pre-rendered graphics.

>>4766027
Ewww no.

>>4765821

No it was another actress, the third one if you start counting.
I remember finding more info about her when the hd remake was going on, some sort of modeling site.
But that was a long time ago, its clearly not Kerri Hoskins.

They'll finish it when they realize no one cares about any game past 3, let alone any of the new reboot shit. Th-they'll realize this, r-right?

Not the original footage and using new actors? Glad they gave up on it.

>>4765685

Strange how they put Ho-Sung Pak's Liu Kang in the top left, I was always under the assumption that they tried their best to stay away from the original actors who sued them.
Sure it was probably temp art, but they still shared these images online.

>>4766027
>In HD we would see how cheap and bad everything looks.
it's that literally the point?

>>4766041
Why not? The fans were trying to create a remake using 3D graphics and it looked pretty good.

>>4766232

>>4766235

>>4766235
better than the op

>>4765685
>tfw no ff7 true HD remaster

>>4766232
>>4766235
>>4766239

I wish NRS would just make remakes themselves already, but they'd most likely go overboard and redesign everybody to have a ton of extra clothing details that just end up making it look like a totally different game.

>we will never play 3D remakes made by Boon/Tobias/Pesina

>>4766027
>This is a bad idea. In HD we would see how cheap and bad everything looks.

We could already see that in SD though.

More. I don't know if this project still exists.

Why can't Mortal Kombat look like this? How fans have better models than the actual developers?

I don't even like MK anymore yet I recognize the game lost its visual identity. Being realistic was part of the charm, yet now we have those atrocious grotesque model with awfully busy costume designs straight from a Rob Liefeld comic.
OK, I know this trend started back in MK3, but now it's way worse.

>>4767556
>>4767560
This is a fan project?? What’s it called?

>>4767576
Seriously, the current designs look like complete shit.

>>4768059
you're alone in this
The character design in MK 9 and 10 is top tier

>>4767576
Fans don't have time limits or cunts from marketing breathing down their necks.

>>4768059

Slowly, More and more belts..

>>4765727
Upscaling and touching up sprites always looks terrible.

>>4768318
>> More belts, I WANT MORE BELTS!
its odd that they are doing that

>>4768072
Yeah, if you like ugly manly trannies dressed like cheap ghetto hookers, Spawn or Youngblood characters, shoulderpads and wiggers ('cause that's what they turner Johnny Cage into).

They should try and create models that look like real people, as this is something that defined MK. MK lost its identity just like what happened to King of Fighters when SNK turned it into some animu waifufest with this awful cheap plastic chinese anime style.

MK should drop the grimdarktacticool art direction, tone down the cybernetic crap, make the games brighter and more colorful and create a pirate character. We have ninjas, cyberninjas, niggers, cyberniggers, centaurs, so why not a pirate?

Oh, and no hip hop crap. Not even in the trailers.

>>4768370
I thought the girls looked pretty okay in MKX, but hilariously bad in MK9, with enormously massive tits, more muscular than a real life male athlete can possibly get, stiletto heels etc.

>>4768439
Aside from the faces, that's how MK should be in my opinion.

>>4768459
Dunno about you but I vastly prefer the original look. Here's the UMK3 actress (Becky Gable).

>>4768469
I do agree actually. Design wise I like the MK3 outfit the best by a pretty good margin. But I do like the new 9 designs as well, and generally think big tits, big muscles and ridiculous outfits like heels is right in the MK wheelhouse.

>>4768439
>>4768459
MK9 has the best MK aesthetic. Ashame they're going the way they are.

https://archiveofourown.org/works/9800783

>>4768525
I'm fine with it.

>>4768439
>with enormously massive tits
There's nothing wrong with massive tits, unless you're a fag.

>>4768602
I don't want my fighting game to look like a cheap porn from the 80's with bolted on tits and all.

>>4768607
And I don't want my game to be ruined by political correctness crap design to appease SJW's by reducing breast sizes and having female characters wear less sexier clothes.

>>4768607
>"Women being beaten up and torn in half is a-okay with me"
>"But they better not be sexy while it's happening!"

>>4768618
>>4768625
>basketball sized breasts are finally replaced with a more realistic look
>damn you SJWs!

>>4768625
Excessive violence is fine, nudity is fucking disgusting.
That's the fucked up country we live in.

>>4768636
>realistic
>on a game based on killing and maiming each other with magic powers
There is no realism in Mortal Kombat you retard.

>>4768607
But that fits MK perfectly. It's a cheesy, over the top series.

>>4768640
>series that got popular because of digitized actors
>realism doesn't matter

See the pic you double nigger.

>>4768656
Realism in Mortal Kombat still doesn't matter because you got characters that could never exist in the real world, such as a thunder god and a 4 armed monster.

>>4768637

You clearly weren’t around in the 90s, Mortal Kombat’s excessive violence was a huge topic and was a big reason we have game ratings today

At least in America we just slap ratings on things and call it a day instead of the UK which banned “video nasties” in the 80s and there is a big list of games outright banned in Australia. Who are the real prudes here?

>>4768668
SJW's with their political correctness crap are starting to affect any and all games released here in the U.S., hence why certain games aimed at sexualizing female characters haven't been released here because of SJW's. Either way censorship is bad in any country.

>>4768618
MK9 females are a gay 13-year-old boy's idea of what a sexy woman might look like

Next you'll be bitching that SJWs made the hero a chinaman

>>4768679
There's nothing gay about how the female characters looked in MK9.

>>4768525

Had she been in MKX they would have deflated her to a big A cup and made her wear a suit made up of 10 different layers of fabric held together by rubies and belts and straps and she'd have worn a hat emblazoned with a billion little details about her people.

MK9 just gave her nice big titties and a slingshot swimsuit.

>>4768694
I was gonna say she would look like a shitty Ashrah, but even Ashrah was sexy.

Also don't scare me like that.

At least they had a good Kerri Hoskins lookalike.

>>4765685
is this photo from the original project too?

did they planned to do a crossover mode with all characters from the 3 main games or something?

>>4768737

Doubt it, looks like a fan mashup. (characters have this weird color to them, background looks very cgi and is probably stolen from the fan HD thing, and they slapped original sprites on the top knowing fully well that there are no proper MK1 sprites to use for that)

Kinda glad its a fan edit, looked too bloomy.

Such a shame, looked like they were really doing their best to mimic the original stances/moves completely.

Daily reminder that MK9 "females" were literal trannies with male skeletal structures (and a male even did their motion capture, kek) with giant silicone infused balloon tits. If you found them remotely attractive in any way you are without doubt a homosexual.

>ask about ambitious fan project
>people yelling about new games and tits

I agree with that one anon though. Hip hop doesn’t belong in MK trailers, good hip hop exists but not wiz khalifa

MK9 was so awesome

>>4765685
Honestly this doesn't look good at all. I'm not one of those 4chan faggots that hates shit just to hate shit but that really does look like shit. I'm not even sure if it's real or you're trolling -- looks so fake, tacky and unprofessional, like an internet fan shoop some kid made.

>>4768769
I always felt their shoulders were too broad. Guess that's why.

>>4768769
If anything, supporting these character models would make you the progressive SJW, kek.

>>4768678
not necessarily, look at gal-gun and akiba's trip.

it's major franchises that are now trying to add more/bigger tits that are getting shit on. it sucks but I agree with you everywhere else though.

>>4768776
maybe it is an internet fan shoop, look at the player names

>>4768820

100% shoop, shame because it made people think the actual remake was gonna look saturated and with meme bars.

>>4768685
They look like fucking trannies!

>>4768978

And you would know how a tranny looks anon.

>>4768978
What do you mean Hulk with balloon boobs and high heels is not sexy.

Bigger boobs = more sexy

>>4768776
>I'm not even sure if it's real or you're trolling -- looks so fake, tacky and unprofessional
The world needs HD digitized fighters... the market is crying out for them

>>4768978
You say that both like it's something new and something bad, both of which are funny.

>>4768978

>>4768808
>it's major franchises that are now trying to add more/bigger tits that are getting shit on.
Which is exactly why I hate SJW's. They ruin everything from video games, to movies, to comics and wrestling.

>>4768978
Any woman with muscles look like trannies to you anon. But they don't to me. Sure they look like they could kick my ass, but that doesn't necessarily mean they look like trannies. Maybe if they had an adam's apple and a manly butt-chin, I'd agree. But at this point, you have no valid point.

>>4768978
>they look like trannies
If they were flat chested, sure.

>>4769052
No, they're literally trannies with male skeletal structures and fake silicone tits. If you find this attractive you are literally a homosexual. A male even did their motion capture lmao. Some butthurt janny just banned me for this, claiming it was "off-topic", yet the discussion continues :^)

Why they're this way? Because of the fatality system. They had a one-size-fits-all policy for the anatomical destruction, so everybody in the game is basically a male. They're pretty much all the same height, too.

Why the fuck so many threads were deleted? We're justing discussing the art direction!

>>4768776
>>4768950
ouch
Let's be honest though. It would have been pretty neat for like three months (about as long as the multiplayer would have been alive) then big hissy about it being either "too different" or "too similar" would begin.

>>4768636
cuck

>>4768745
No anon.
That's a pic Ed Boon shared from the project online.

>>4769153
Trannies in MK aren't retro, except for Shang Tsung

>>4769204

Well I'll be damned, You're right.

https://twitter.com/noobde/status/662840629832122369/photo/1

Still weird that they'd use a fan made background for this, guess they knew nobody would complain. :p

>>4766235
>>4766239
>>4766232
those are pretty good
too bad it's a small team and it's been like the development of Black Mesa or even longer

>>4767907
Mortal Kombat HD Remix with MUGEN (they haven't a proper name yet)

I think it looks pretty rad in part because of how cheesy it looks. MK in HD should look like HD restored 90's porno.

>>4769302

Regarding the stage background.

>>4769314

Fucking Probe and their terrible conversions.

>>4766235
>>4766239
I’m ok with it being cancelled.

>>4769328

>>4769365
I can't quite tell what version of the game that is.
I'm going to guess DOS version.

>>4769365

I swear that must have been an accident, they probably forgot to inform the team that handled the conversion to ruin it.

>>4768625
Tbqh famalam I'm alright with half naked chicks but for some reason making Mileena overtly sexy just always felt off to me even though I've always wanted her to bite my dick off.

>>4769312
Ty anon

Also ty for the cleanup, mods

>>4769434
Sexy Mileena is best Mileena

>>4768469
sweet vagina bones bro

>>4765685
I'm glad it was cancelled.

>>4769365
Mortal Kombat is a game about two people slapping each other until one of them falls over.

It has no finesse as a fighting game.

I have changed my mind as of MK9 but nothing before that is worth playing for anything other than a kek.

>>4766027
Have you ever seen an HD digitized game, like Streets of Fury? Its awesome. Yes, it looks ridiculous, but it doesn't look bad.

>>4766140
Might be why it was cancelled. Reissues are probably protected but a remake might just be opening a huge can of worms.

>>4767907
School spare time project never to be finished #537 I think.

>>4770075
Not me.

>>4769007
sure but not when it looks like a tacky fan made shoop m8

>>4771541
That's what MK in HD should look like though.

Man, I'd love an HD game with digitized graphics, it'll look better than CG renders right now. Why aren't they used anymore?

>>4771597
disagree

>>4771627
I suppose that's fair. To me that cheesy aesthetic is MK to a tee.

>>4765753
>using different actors is what's gay, it looses all of the original's charm

Nah you're retarded. You couldn't even tell their faces from the originals.

>>4769007

Why is it that I cringe whenever I see digitized fighting games like this but fucking cheer when I see MKII?
It's like everybody just got it wrong while MKII had this magical way of making it all actually work together and rise above that cheesy look.

>>4772163
MK just worked for some reason. They seemed to have a grasp for the martial arts cinema that they were satirizing, and the over-the-top violence worked well with how cheesy the whole package was to sell.

>>4772190
Be careful because back then Mortal Kombat was not considered cheesy. It had some fun elements, but the blood and violence caused a big conmotion not only inside but outside the gaming scene too. Also, the game took itself more seriously than revisionists want to believe, and in fact, the MK movie was even more serious than the Street Fighter movie.

>>4772202
>Be careful because back then Mortal Kombat was not considered cheesy.

Yes it was. It was always silly and cheesy.

>>4772225
No it wasn't. I remember even my parents being a bit outraged about the game's violence. Nobody from my friends or the magazines back then thought it was just a dumb cheesy game, even if it had some jokes and humor. It's like the revisionism with Street Fighter 2 saying it was supposed to ba a joke game when it was released, just to justify the dumb design decissions and bad jokes of the last two Street Fighters (4 & 5).

Mortal Kombat's violence and gore was even discussed about in the US congress and led to the creation of the Entertainment Software Ratings Board in 1993. Watching real actors being beheaded or sliced in half was pretty strong back then, even if the game was not overly serious at all.

>>4765685
>not Kancelled
nigga u gay

>>4772249

Very true anon, I hate those fucking kids who pretend to know what it was actually like back then.
Here in my country they even had it as a main segment in the 6 o clock news about the horrors of ultra realistic violent fighting games.

>>4772163

I think its also because Daniel Pesina knew his fucking martial arts, and Tobias had a great vision when it came to character design.
But you can tell the actual kungfu look was gone by the time of MK3. (now that is the game that started the cheesy feel, with its shitty fatalities and robots)

>>4765753
>>4771737
If anything using new actors retains the charm, rather than using 3D models.

>>4772249
It was controversial, but still cheesy. Like slasher movies.

>>4772249

Street Fighter going straight cartoony was awful, how can you not look at the bloody and bruised faces in SF2s character-defeated portraits and see the series used to have some grittiness to it? It started veering into anime territory with the Alpha series but even then it still had some bloody beatings in the endings and characters were straight up killed by Akuma or Bison. Now no one dies in SF canon-wise, Charlie is alive again, there are no stakes.

>>4772249
You can say that you thought it was serious, but that's not how I ever saw it ir thought they intended it.

>>4772341
Yes, but it wasn't anything overly-conscious, as some revisionists say or like some modern games like Street Fighter 5 do. It was a bunch of crazy guys in good mood making what they new was a revolutionary game. They had fun, yes, but the game also had a serious and mature side that was noticeable, and that you can see even in the Mortal Kombat movies, comics and animated series of that time.

Look at magazines of those days and forget what journalists and developers say nowadays. There you can see the real mood and people opinions. I can tell you you're not going to see people or journalists saying: "Lool heads exploding, that was so cheesy!". Furthermore, the digitized graphics were incredible for the time, but the technology advancements have made lookd dated and such, more cheesy that what it was.

>>4772383
I dunno, I don't think I'm a revisionist I always thought it was meant to be silly. If you saw it different that's fine but at least for me, and I think what I've seen ftom them there was always a heavy camp influence.

>>4768607
>not liking 80s porn
Wtf is wrong with you mang?

>>4772389
>I always thought it was meant to be silly.
Then you really weren't around for it.
It was widely and popularly a scapegoat for decaying morals in video games, led national debates about censorship, was the catalyst for the ESRB and dictated law regarding how blood and gore are used in various countries. It has influences from martial arts movies, which are inherently rather silly at times but the tone and presentation of Mortal Kombat was always dark and serious. If you found camp elements in it, then you're probably just associating them with sillier shit you saw somewhere else because MK does not present them in any jocular fashion as you're suggesting.

>>4772383
>that you can see even in the Mortal Kombat movies, comics and animated series of that time
real mortal kombat fans hated all of that shit. the movies were god damn awful.
>but the technology advancements have made lookd dated and such, more cheesy that what it was.
no shit, genius. we're in 2018. you must have been born in the last 18 years, because nobody that was around in the 90s and experienced the technology wouldn't write such unbelievable fucking bullshit about mortal kombat. you're one of the WORST KINDS of revisionists, just making shit up as you go, shitposting it up like there's no tomorrow, to fit some deluded viewpoint.

>>4772415
>real mortal kombat fans hated all of that shit. the movies were god damn awful.
You just outed yourself. Literally nobody hates the first movie.

>>4770473
Kek

>>4772415
>the movies were god damn awful
You will be next.

>>4772303
Shut up queer

>>4772415
>real mortal kombat fans hated all of that shit. the movies were god damn awful.
Those were 500$ sunglasses, asshole.

>>4772303
The art style of SFII was ugly as sin pre-Super.

>>4772517
>>4772534
Glad I didn't ask him to park the thread.

>>4772415
Lol, I was 12 years old when Mortal Kombat was released, so yes, I was there, and even had the second and third game on the Genesis. I don't know what a real Mortal Kombat fan is, but I had a few comics (which were, again, pretty dark) and thought the movie looked awesome, although I couldn't watch it until much later. Now, if we talk about Mortal Kombat Anihilation, then that movie was absolutely crazy and cheesy, yes. Oh, and I even had the VHS of the animated movie, which had awesome 3D fights.

>>4772413
This, basically.

>>4772563
>second and third game on the Genesis

I'm sorry

People itt are confusing the meanings and implications of "silly" and "serious."

>>4772541
I don't agree. The game became more "manga like" as sequels were released, but the original SF2 and Champion Edition had a lot of western influence in the artstyle. A lot of classic Capcom games had that mix of styles too, like Captain Commando, Midnight Wanderers, or Forgotten Worlds, but it started to change when CPS2 replaced CPS1, and Capcom went for more anime influences and spiky hair designs (not that those games were bad or anything, though)

>>4772576
"REEE ANIME" doesn't make SFII's profile art any less ugly, anon.

>>4772383
It's camp dude. It's awesome camp.

>>4772413
I was 18 when Mortal Kombat came out (though I didn't see it till a year or so later) and it was awesome, but it was never ever super serious. At least to me it wasn't.

The first movie is still one of the all time best video game movies.

>>4772659
Man, the movie theme song was playing fucking everywhere back then.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BxsNnUAyfd4

>by all the powers of evil, I will not rest until I get my revenge!
>get.. over here!

>>4772563
you aren't talking about this are you?
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Lp00spgp0AU

>>4773674
Yes, that one. The 2D animation was really bad, but I liked a lot the 3D fights. The whole movie was kind of afwul, though.

>>4772202
>>4772249
Why are you establishing cheesy and violent as mutually exclusive?
MK was always absurdly cartoonish, but still violent
If you couldn't tell from the gallons of blood from 1 uppercut, or humorously punching someone's head off
or punching someone's nuts

>>4772303

That was the days. I Still love those portraits.

>>4773963
Some anon above has already answered that poiting the massive outrage in society with the violence, and the general dark tone of the plot. It had cheesiness, but it wasn't as obvious or the main theme of the game, I think. To me, it became much more obvious when around Mortal Kombat 3. that's when it was much more humorous and crazy than the first two games.

>>4774286
> It had cheesiness, but it wasn't as obvious or the main theme of the game, I think.

Maybe it wasn't obvious to you, but it was to most people. It's campy horror gore.

>>4767576
Fans are stuck in the past, when things still had style. Devs are trying to stay modern and relevant to the times. Problem is that the times suck now and so does most of the character design.

>>4768094
I hate fucking posts like this. You are just making excuses for the status quo. Contemporary MK costume design sucks ass because of artistic choices, not because of fucking time limits. They don't look like overdesigned ass because they are rushed or because marketing demands it.

No, it's because creative is fucking artistically bankrupt. All the pure fucking style and awesome from the late 80s and early 90s just evaporated over time. Nothing is that fucking cool anymore. Culture and sensibilities as well as visual flair has so far degraded that even when they try their hardest to actually just fucking copy what used to be magical, they just fucking fail so hard like nu Star Wars.

Only fan projects of people fully stuck in the past can still create this kind of fucking awesome.

>>4768656
>realism means big tits don't exist

You know big tits do exist naturally, right? FURTHER, shitface, fake tits also exist within actual fucking reality. So either fucking way, big tits are perfectly compatible with realism. There's nothing realistic about the whole fucking cast having A cups by the way.

>>4772249
It's the same with fucking underaged söÿboÿs arguing that adding too much gore to a Doom mod is distasteful as if Doom wasn't the original "murder simulator" shock game that outraged nomrlafags back then, just like those whiny cunts who call themselves fans are outraged by too much blood or too realistic pixel gore.

>>4772428
>>4772517
First movie was so fucking sweet. Shame about how hard it went downhill after that.

>>4775132
I dunno, I'm an old fart MK fan and I still like the new designs. Maybe a little too much of the Nomura beltzandzippers in some places, but overall I like it.

I wonder what the story is behind this? An HD remake with new actors sounded awesome.

>>4775302

Boon once said he'd tell the story, but I guess he forgot.

>>4768607
>I don't want my fighting game to look like Mortal Kombat

Fiffy

But why was it cancelled?

>>4773947
>>4773674
I had it too
it was badass back then

>>4768679
>Next you'll be bitching that SJWs made the hero a chinaman
Explain what puritan finger wagging over sexy characters has to do with race

>>4765698
>New actors
Dropped, least they could have done is see if they still had the raw photographs and remastered them

>>4775428
You're an idiot.

>>4775428

nop. old ass photos. many probably lost. the work in progress images looked good

>>4775132
Agree. Something similar has happened with Sonic Mania, which has brought back the fantastic original style of the first games, thanks to the creators being fans who understood what made those games great.

>>4765685
They probably realized that lou kang is le problematic and that puts a hole through the whole project

man I don't get it.
The super metroid shits.
and the mortal kombat shits.

not to mentionen other companies that swing the ban hammer on some very worthwhile projects.

can't these projects just move to china?
I thought they didn't have good IP laws.
Or do they still have to suck IP dick if they want to distribute in the western world?

>>4776281
Explain. Lui Kang's still in new MK games and this was before the massive surge in SJW shite
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4v8JGTAXvYk

Is there a tier list for MK characters?

>>4775219
I want to pound Mileena in her butthole.

>>4776516

She's got teeth there too.

>>4765948
This, same problem street fighter 2 HD has.