Mortal Kombat HD Dev Wants To Remake The OG Trilogy, But It Needs Your Support

Okay. But I don't want to see high res 3D models. I want to see the 4k imaging from the original live footage they captured for the original game. If they can pull that off, then I'm all the way interested.

Lol this should take seconds…
All on one cart with no download required for switch please and thank you.
Perhaps a toggle for true OG mode and one for the new school.
And with no additional content please. Play the game to unlock your fighters.
100,000 switch supporters in seconds.

@Gwynbleidd I grew up with these games, too. I’d welcome them.

@Ketsumeishi I also grew up with these games, and they've not aged gracefully.

I'm all for it if that means we get a version for Switch and PC; however, even if we didn't get one those fan made Mugen ones already exist which looks, ran, and plays much better anyways so it really is up to Warner Bros. if they want money or not. Also for these remakes for once in regards to the ninja characters, create unique fighting and winning stance for each one please, I know the original had them share some of those but that's cause of limitation of the arcade and console hardware so for this modern remake give everyone a unique proper stance.

These remakes would be a neat little curio, but taking off the rose colored lenses for a bit reveals that the games exist now as stiff, janky 2D fighters that coasted on their aesthetics.

(that said, I'd probably buy em anyway, because I am a sucker.)

@CharlieGirl - That jank control is prominent in the series today. Sort of hard to imagine them as "gory Street Fighter."

A broader accessibility to the games are encouraged if you ask me, especially if they're from legacy franchises. Younger markets should experience them too.

That and I want them on easier to acquire systems than going fossil hunting.

So they are making it a Switch, PC, PS5 and XSX/S release. Very interesting how this will turn out considering they are making a Switch port but NOT a Xbox One and PS4 port.

Of course. The older ones weren't as off putting because the graphics weren't so real.

A trilogy of MK remade would sell at least a few hundred thousand considering you have everything in place. Give em a chance, WB.

@anoyonmus Not surprising though, power differences aside all of those are current gen platforms, PS4 and Xbox One are part of last gen with the Wii U and not current gen. Current gen just means that they are the latest platforms that are supported by their respective company and not anything to do with powers.

@Specter_of-the_OLED I am gonna wait and hear the complaining

I so want this. A remaster of MK Trilogy from the PS1 would be even better though. Favorite MK game hands down.

Okay, I’ll admit this looks pretty cool, but there’s an important problem here: no gameplay.

They’re showing a couple of pawns spawned into a 2.5D game space and playing idle animations. It’s pretty. It shows they can pull off the visuals. But the characters need to move, to interact, to use their abilities and to feel right. There’s still a ton of work to be done here. This is, at this point, an art tech demo and nothing more.

Hopefully they show off some gameplay soon and prove me wrong. It might be fun to revisit these games.

As much as I want this, I really don't want to support WB for well obvious reasons, especially in their movies which I will boycott too

@Tasuki We have Dark Souls on PC thanks to a petition, actually.

https://www.gamesradar.com/dark-souls-pc-petition-successful-prepare-die-come-august/

Oh hell yeah! Day one purchase from me.
Please warner bros make it happen.

Would love it but WB won't do it, they have had so many chances at doing one but WB don't care they don't want it even if Boon is very interested in it.

Why does such a well-known franchise need a freaking petition?

And considering how badly they handled the physical release of MK11 on Switch, no thanks.

@Desrever ‘s proposal is also a great idea.

To clarify, this petition is for a remake of Mortal Kombat Trilogy, not the original 3 games. Why on earth the article is calling it ‘OG Trilogy’ I’ll never know.

@Silly_G It doesn't need a petition, it's just a marketing ploy.

Still waiting on the MK klassic kollection??

@gcunit @Silly_G As the article says, a developer group pitched this to WB and got a "it probably wouldn't sell 100k copies" response years ago, so they decided to make a petition to prove WB was wrong and try another pitch.

Why not ask Ed Boon and have him support it?
I can imagine he will also benefit from the profit.

Bring it on, just no in game store bs

Just doesn’t look right, it’s kind of how I would expect MK for ios to look like if that ever exists. Honestly they should just re-release the arcade versions which are excellent in their own right (maybe with a few extra modes).

At first glance it looks good, but it looks so stiff, static and dated.
It lacks the soul of the originals.
In fact this GFX style looks exactly like Super VGA GFX made for MS-DOS gams almost 30 years ago.
They new new graphics artists.

I think it will be hard to get 100K on board on this as it won't be properly done.

@anoyonmus I don't think it'll be as big as MK11 and the Samurai Shodown reboot and both of those ran great on Switch. The only thing is if the game ran on next gen engine, if not a Switch port should ran fine.

I'll only be happy with the remake if they can fix the darn hit detection. I'm sick of not being able to uppercut the CPU then have it immediately uppercut me instead.

@Specter_of-the_OLED UE5 is fully compatible with the Switch. So, if it's made, it'll run well.

MK Trilogy is my favorite Klassic MK game. Hopefully, they'll make it. I'd buy it day one.

I just want the original trilogy in it's original form + Mk4.

If my PS3 mk klassic fight stick works with it then that is a plus

Remake? Sure, but give us the arcade trilogy uncensored too. I'll buy it in a heartbeat.

I want green blood!

The good old days where you could win with upper cuts and jump kicks.

HOLY CRAP YESSSSSSS.

This game is a classic for me from the Arcade days wasting coins away and also they did make a 3DS version of MK as well so if people don't recall this did happen as well. I get it just for Collectors value.

Bring it, I kinda like this better than the new ones

@SwitchForce It's actually an arcade port of Ultimate MK3 bundle with Puzzle Kombat from MK Deception for the DS. While the game is an arcade accurate port, it's heavily missing features like the 2-on-2 Endurance Mode and the 8 Man Tournament Mode. The only selling point of that port is Puzzle Kombat and the WiFi online play. It also doesn't utilize the touch screen as much since all that it use was for entering the Ultimate Kombat Kode and view the move list.

Just give all the Midway (or WB) old Arcades to ‘Arcades Archives’. The original Arcades as they were will do fine

@Specter_of-the_OLED That's a drag then...then back to the good old 3DS port version then. I was hoping for something good to happen.

Absolutely yes! MK Trilogy was my all time favorite MK game and most played fighting game ever back in the old days I want this so bad I may try to pre-pre-order the game at any willing retailer. Just take my money now and I'll settle for a handshake agreement.

@SwitchForce @Specter_of-the_OLED I played the hell out of that DS game MK3 Ultimate. Loved it almost as much as MK Trilogy. However, I remember that DS game had a serious difficulty glitch or something. No matter what Tower difficulty you chose at a certain point the CPU went guns a blazin' crazy hard "I win" mode and just beat the living hell out of you. Going even as far as anticipating your moves to counter you a millisecond after pressing the damn button

Never gonna run on a switch. Back this for PlayStation and Xbox release.

@Desrever That would be awesome. But they taped on video and is very hard to make good 4K transfers from video than for film. And I fear that it might be lost by this point

And then WB Games will just do it themselves with the thousands of employees they have across various studios.

@Desrever @DK-Fan

I think the footage probably still exists, as a lot of it seems to be uploaded to YouTube, but there isn't going to be enough raw resolution, due to the source limitations, to bring that raw footage up to even 720P, let alone 4K.

It would be possible to rotoscope new graphics over the original footage or even the game itself, conceptually similar to what Dotemu did for Wonder Boy: The Dragon's Trap, but that's probably the only way the original games would even begin to approach 4K and it probably brings us right back to hi res 3D models.

@Ganner Yeah that is kinda weird but that's how the AI act in the actual arcade version too. Really odd how the PSP got a Midway collection that includes MK1, MK2, and MK3 but not Ultimate MK3 while DS only got Ultimate MK3. Would be awesome if both got all four. All the PSP versions are also arcade accurate, too accurate that you need two PSP and two copies of the collection just to unlock Smoke in MK3 and while all three games are arcade accurate they had no online play which is a bummer, only local ad-hoc play is possible.

Honestly, I would prefer a rerelease of the Midway Collections which, sadly, will never happen.

I clicked this kinda excited, but no actors, no deal. They could have made a better game recorded the actors with 4k cameras, ultra-widescreen, clearer audio, etc, but instead it just sounds like a regular modern Mortal Kombat game only made by amateurs. The actors gave those games a lot of charm, without that, I think I'd prefer to just play the originals.

Ohh and i want secret unlockables back.
"Toasty" and a funny guy pops into your screen, shau kahn keeps laughing at you when you lose "whuuhaahaha, you weak pathetic fool" hahahah man i hated it at that time when i got my ass kicked, and kahn keeps telling me i suck 😂😂😂😂😂

Or when a secret fighter pops up and you saw noob saibot, smoke etc for the first time. Mannn. The times.
When you guys do remake the game please keep the visuals from the video and polish that even more (backgrounds etc)

I'm all in for this, as long as they can pull it off

I'd be up for this. Love my arcade 1up mk machine but would love to see surrent graphics used

@Specter_of-the_OLED they were probably just ports of the ps1 games and I don't think it ever got ultimate, pretty sure it eventually got gold instead

@Deljo Yeah but MK1 is not on PS1 and all the MK games on the collection for the PSP had no load time issue compare to the PS1. The only loading screen you see is the menu load screen before the game starts and that's it.

@Specter_of-the_OLED good point, only a theory 😀

@Deljo Not a theory, I own the Midway collection on PSP. I can say those three MK games are just arcade roms and because they are MK roms, MK3 on PSP requires two copies of the collection and two PSP in able to unlock Smoke since it used the same Ultimate Kombat Kode as the arcade which required two players to enter the code. The PS1 port of MK3 doesn't required 2 players to unlock Smoke and it had its own cheat menu to do that as well, the arcade version doesn't had a cheat menu.

Don't care about matchmaking due to the jank nature of the games. I'm fine just playing with friends. Day one (or soon after) if it ever sees the light of the day.

Wasn't a Mortal Kombat trilogy collection supposed to be coming to the Switch? WTF happened?

@vio It got turn down by Warner Bros. Even though Ed Boon gave his blessing, the IP rights is own by WB so unless they say yes even Ed can't do anything about it. There were like two HD remakes collection of the MK trilogy of games pitch to WB both of which got turn down. This is the third time another dev gave a pitch, only difference this time is that instead of remaking the three games, they just remake MK Trilogy instead which had contents and assets from those three games instead. Wouldn't surprise me if this got turn down too, Warner Bros. got hundreds of other IPs they could easily make money out of, to them MK is not that essential enough.

This is one reason why you don't ever want a big corporation like WB buying IPs from smaller company like Midway cause then they refuse to support popular IP from that acquisition as they don't see any faith in it so anyone who wants Microsoft buying Sega, Sony buying Square Enix, Capcom buying SNK, this is the reason why. Once the big corporation got a hold of the IPs, your wish for them to do anything with those IPs ain't gonna work even if their original creator wanted it to happen. I could already see Microsoft not wanting to make another Killer Instinct, Konami refuse to make a new Rocket Knight and Goemon, and Square Enix not interest in remastering any of the old Blazer, Ogre, or Lufia games. If it's not worth their time, they ain't gonna allow it, try to fan made it and they take you to court.