Don’t ya just LOVE business???

Don't you just LOVE bad businesses?

Mk11 budget was pretty low

Means they were probably gonna go all out with those but probably got the NOPE from higher ups

V E R I F I E D

That's the system evil has created

That's not even the main problem. The main kick in the dick is that if experience was an issue, they could've fucking said that the first time!

WB either didn't want them, just thought about it the requirement, didn't have faith (even though the project look really good and didn't test the game), really didn't want them and came up with a bullish excuse, or were stupid and wasted the developers' time. Like f_cking really?!

I think it's a sad case of the people who had the option of funding the game not understanding what makes a game good in the first place. If any person who had the option of funding this spent even an hour on the weekend playing any kind of game they'd understand that this was worth investing in. There's been so many countless projects shot down despite showing promise because the industry is plagued with people who don't understand the product they are responsible for mass producing.

That's just one of the fucked up mentalities in employment. Companies and businesses want people with experience, but how the fuck do you get experience without getting a job first?

Yeah, I always hated that crap! LoL!

That should be abolished sometimes

and then WB gave the project to BLIND SQUIRREL STUDIOS of all choices!

probably boomer suits that only hires you if you have "previous work experience", even if your actual experience and education is even better than a guy that worked for years in the same shit.

Yeah, but you need to understand. They haven't made any other games... except for the one they are pitching which was basically done and would have been done before if WB didn't tell them to stop in the first place. Translation: "We don't want you to do this, how many times do we have to say: No?" -WB

@@siruno6024 Too fucking real as an IT.

It's purely business practice. I've heard this crap from executives many times.

Ngl, sounds kinda hype to fight Tom and Jerry and Steven Universe as frickin Scorpion.

They’re gonna have Scorpion fight new Multiversus OC:Pigeon Girl

What... Alex? Just...what...

Screw that. It's the 30th anniversary of the series. Anything less than something really special just won't do. I want something like a MK9 remaster, or a Tag Mode add-on and graphics update patch for MKX, or a complete overhaul of MK11 alongside an apology for screwing up MK11 so badly. Sadly I know none of these things will happen.

And Robin from Teen Titans Go! and probably Jimmy from ReAnimated/Out of Jimmy's Head.

I mean Ed Boon is one of the few old school developers left still in a bigger AAA studio. He knows the struggle of coming up from nothing and trying to build a studio and trying to pitch games. Something all these executives would never understand.

I think their mentality is to split up the old character releases for larger nostalgia cashgrabs, and it has a side effect of saving workpower. Sure, we could get the OG cast of 1, 2, or 3 with the respective stages all at once in a nice and tidy package with a set price. Or... Netherrealm and WB could release half the roster at launch and tug on nostalgia heartstrings for the DLC characters (Mk 10 and 11 are guilty of this)

The sad part is WB used to be a respectable publisher in the PS360 era. They released banger after banger that were polished fun experiences day 1. Everything changed when the PS4 came out. Arkham Knight being rushed was the first sign they had gone evil.

I feel like a modern Shaolin Monks game will likely never happen at this point. Both because they're stuck being WB's cash cow and NRS probably doesn't know how to make a game like that anymore, seeing as it's been so long since they did a similar project like SM. Really, if I want anything from NRS, it's to focus on improving animations all around and if possible, not focus so much on gore as a selling point. I don't wanna make it sound like I'm PC, but if you know of NRS' behind the scene stuff, then you know about the crunch and PTSD from researching fatalities. I just feel like that stuff's not worth it considering how much the devs suffer for it when at the end of the day, it's only really there to be controversial and splash the headlines. It doesn't really add much substance to their games, personally speaking.

Has it been confirmed that WB gaming division is "safe" from the re-structuring, or if the re-structuring is still ongoing?

@@EZOnTheEyes To be fair, aside from Tekken and Guilty Gear (GG1's cast, because they're all in Strive), I don't know a fighting game that doesn't save some of its fan favorites for DLC later on. I do wish NRS took an approach simillar to Street Fighter, Tekken and Guilty Gear when it comes to having some of the DLC be brand new characters instead of always being returning ones. Makes the lineup less predictable. Heck, some of GG's and SFV's newcomers have had a lot of spotlight and seem to push the plot/setting forward in interesting ways for the future, meanwhile when NRS does it, most newcomers end up as jobbers (Kotal, oof) and they just focus back to the OG. Looking at you, MK11.

@@thecunninlynguist Yeah. What kind of crap is that? Maybe the WB execs then and now are different. Then again, we’d likely have more Midway revivals by now.

Proceeds to make a MK game demo showing their competence for then WB to say they havent completed any games... cmon they would have completed if you let them complete it WB suits people be stupid asf!

@@thecunninlynguist I know man! That was FRUSTRATING!!!!!

@@weirdotzero7065 Wait, they actually have worked on games? I don't know if it shows concern because that means they have some experience to say the least And no matter how shitty the game they once did, people have to start somewhere. I mean, how many dev that started as a cute games or anthropomorphic platformer to brutal and gritty games

“We Can’t Trust the development of such an important project to a team without any completed game titles” It literally says that the team of the HD Remake never made a completed game title before. The devs at PFG did work on God Of War, Disney, Riot Games...

@@Krysnha BRUH it doesn't matter. Only the end product matters.

@@Krysnha thats just a catch 22 excuse. like an entry level job requiring previous experience. to get the job you need experience, to get experience you need to get the job. Its all circular logic as an excuse that they just didnt want to fund it.

@@Shiirow and thats why it's impossible to find work for a job you're passionate about today

That would awesome. I use to love Armored Core.

I was obsessed with the demo of armored core. I loved slicing up robots with my robot.

I miss armour core 😢

I've asked 3 times before. I doubt he'll do it. 👍👍 if he reads your post and runs with it.

We all know what happened to Armored Core. Dark Souls blew up

Alone in the Dark: Illumination would also be interesting, since they tried to stealth launch it on steam too

@@vladalexan oh crap, I forgot that game happened.

@@lexnoil I think almost everyone did tbh :))

that game is better left alone for good,it has nothing thats unique enough apart from the original game......

They can be good, look at Mass Effect. The problem here was probably Sega giving them almost no time or money. Most probably both.

I feel ya man Same here

Game : take a shot everytime someone says Blind Squirrel Studio is bad despite their work on Mass Effect Legendary Edition being phenomenal, and completely ignoring the fact that SEGA can't keep their own stuff like source codes and assets to save their own lives.

@@ArpeggioPegasusMusic except Sega gave BS everything, they had every single asset from Colors, the biggest evidence being the cutscene data being hidden in the files, when the Wii version uses prerendered cutscenes. Also, I don't know how true this is, but I heard Colors Ultimate was supposed to release in 2020, but ended up releasing in late 2021

@@ArpeggioPegasusMusic They fucked up porting XCOM 2. A game that's been ported to the fucking iPhone.

Welcome the to community! He really is a great creator.

Same here!

I did the same thing a month or so ago when I found this channel lol

I came here to comment exactly this

Yeah Matt's an excellent KZfaqr for video games. Stop skeletons from fighting is another good one if you are taking recommendations..

Don't forget Sega. They used to be good until they started ignoring older IPs for garbage Sonic games every five years. And he's my favorite character!

Capcom, Sony and sigh Activision are often talked as well

Also Ubisoft. Theres a whole lot of game companies who should be shamed relentlessly

Only exception to the EA rule I can think of is Anthem.

If there's any game that needs it, it's the GTA Trilogy.

Bro shaggy is now in a fighting game now so

@@cringedefender5264 He was also at the beginning of MK Legends Battle of the Realms. Matthew Lillard even got in the end credits listing

Yeah she still cute as hell

You know the original title of that was going to be ESPionage? I remember on techTV /way/ back in the day when they had a show that was nothing but game trailers and it was on there. I agree though, would love to see a Psi-Ops remake.

Really?

their ports of Sonic Colors and WWE 2K18 on Switch are really invocative of how they are ran as a company, but also invocative of how for some reason, publishers look at them and go, YEAH, GO AND HANDLE OUR IPS

​@@bulletchains8205 Well, aside from 2k18 Switch, they made BioShock: The Collection, Sunset Overdrive PC, Borderlands: Game of the Year Enhanced Edition and Mass Effect Legendary Edition, which were mostly good ports and remasters. Can't completely blame Sega for thinking that they had a good track record.

@@spongebobfan78 i mean, the bioshock collection was fun, i played it a bunch, its just as a switch owner, dealing with their ports of games i just kinda go "UH OH, BlindSquirrel!!!"

@@spongebobfan78 Bioshock remasters aren't completely bad, but they are a mixed bag... A lot of textures are better than in the original but missing a lot of atmospheric effects of the original game.

Agreed

You almost have to admire how far they dug their heels into the ground for that series.

@@NobodyInTheVoid Thank God we are past that. Well, kind of. The FF7 compilation is technically still ongoing as we speak. But at least that doesn't seem to be the direction that FF16 is going for, as far as we are aware.

That wasn't even counting the chickens before they hatched. That was counting the damn chickens before you even got the eggs in the first place with how early they announced those projects.

Yet another series project handed to Nomura that he can't deliver. Why is he even the go to guy at Square Enix?

Easier said than done. For one, WB games owns all rights to Mortal Kombat, so even if Ed leaves Warner Bros. he has to start from scratch, no budget, no IPs, barely any employees. And then after all that Warner Bros would just replace Netherealm studios to have another company work on Mortal Kombat.

@@Unchainedful I was referring to eyeball studios (was that their name? They're in the video) and how they went through all sorts of hoops to get permission to work on their remake, only to have that permission reneged a small time later. But I'm sure Ed hates working for them too.

It's a tricky situation. If you get a fame as "that one company that made a fuss after their project was turned down", you'll never find work in the industry again. Plus it's America, and big companies can just find excuses to sue you and lead you down the legal fees rabbit hole. Plus WB has done worse in the past and been in bigger scandals. So as a developer, you'd be sticking your neck out to hurt an company that won't even remember you existed in six months.

@@spdewertton Yeah true, I understand the reasoning for keeping mum about these abuses; which is why I said "I Wish" rather than "They Should". I also said "we (as in the entire consumer base) should be racking them across the coals", but of course the gamer audience is extremely fickle, and seem to care very little so long as the end product is good (more like "just released" given the amount of garbage released from abusive companies lately). The only real way for these developers to gain their freedom is to go indie and develop for themselves; publishers are not needed to release games anymore. Unfortunately not every studio has the finances to start making even small budget games (thus the need for publishers to finance). I suppose all we can do is dream.

As a professional animator, i second this. That whole movie reeks of “wha-happun”

Oh GOD, Yes!!!!

Yes, that would be so cool

Official mk games don't have pantherk, Simon, or Bear Sub-Zero

It's kinda weird they never just did that. Always going for 3 games instead.

Fuck, they're pretty much all EA I wanna shoot myself in the face

Why? Was the development troubled?