Ed Boon förklarar varför vissa karaktärer återvänder i Mortal Kombat 1

Mortal Kombat 1 väntar precis runt hörnet, och på Gamescom fick vi en pratstund med självaste Ed Boon om gameplay, story och mycket annat.

Under vår intervju med seriens medskapare frågade vi också om hur beslutsprocessen ser ut när det gäller att återanvända gamla karaktärer. Vi har sett många klassiska ansikten återvända hittills, men fansen längtar alltid efter att just deras favoriter ska tas till nåder igen. Boon sade:

"It's kind of a bit of a gut feeling for us. We really felt like, again, Mortal Kombat 1, we wanted to have as much new things to it. Some of those characters haven't been in a Mortal Kombat game for 17 years. So it certainly felt like it was time to refresh them, bring them into this fighting mechanic, and the cameos also allows us to bring back characters like Motaro, these crazy big characters that don't work as well in the normal fighting game, but players are missing the characters, and so when they see them return, it's fun to see a modernized version of them."

Dessutom verkar det som om dessa moderniserade versioner kommer bli mycket kraftfullare. När Boon fick frågan om hur man balanserar ett spel där riktiga gudar slåss, sade han:

"If I were to describe the difference between Mortal Kombat 11 and Mortal Kombat 1, I think we've just loosened things up. We let players just go a little bit more crazy with the ideas, and it's a little bit more of a Wild West type of free-for-all, and that has just really allowed players to come up with the craziest combos that we had no idea they were going to come up with."

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