Still on the subject of crossovers

Now, i got a couple of responses on the previous rant, as i wanna clear up i don't hate ALL crossovers, one of my fav game series, The King of Fighters, is in fact, a cross over between Art of fighting, Fatal Fury, Ikari Warriors and Psycho Soldiers among others such as misc sports games by SNK.

But the thing is, it's plausible. although dates had to b slightly adjusted (Jimmy tells me Art of fighting takes place some years before Fatal Fury), all the characters exist in the same world and timeline, and all have fighting capabilities. their power levels are also similar. Also, all the characters are in character, which rarely happens in crossovers.

Another notable crossover is Smash Bros, only because it didn't try to go with a bullshit story, it was rather clever. When u play the N64 version of the game, the characters as presented as toys that a kid is playing around with, and the battles supposedly take place in his imagination. Rather than to make up a story that involves character than have nothing in common, they just said it's was all in a kid's mind. quite brilliant really. This was later on replaced in the series with trophies and some weird story, but it's fair to assume it's still all happens in a child's imagination. (i haven't played brawl, so if it doesn't, they're fucked it up, but it would explain why sonic got in it)

So what make a bad crossover bad u say? well, the best best to explain is to critique one, a really stupid one, and there's recent game that fits this description PERFECTLY. I'm obviously talking about the steaming pile of shit that is: Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe.

When this game was announced, people actually screeched, literally. Everything with this game is wrong. but let's see why:

• This game involves 2 universes that have not a goddamn thing in common, DC itself is like various universes that aren't always comparable to each other.

• The power levels of characters is absurdly different. Superman should easily pwn anyone in that game, however, even simple punches can harm a guy who u could through a tank at and it wouldn't even mess up his hair. How would, like, Sonya blade, a regular human, defeat superman? fuck you game.
  

• They actually tried to make a story. there really isn't much to say about that, however, I'm confused by 1 thing, MK has humans from earth in it, so why are they fighting for outworld? shouldn't they join the DC cast? IF there is an alternate earth where the humans from the MK cast come from, why would the outworld guys join them? whatever bullshit they came up with, it's fail.

• As I've been pointed out, a lot of the superheroes don't kill. And this is a fucking mortal kombat game, so being in character is gone out the window.

This game made ALL the things that make a crossover shitty. but that aside, i wanna bash it some more, because it's not even a good game, i mean if u look at a couple of videos, u may think that the joker is actually pretty cool and make the game worth it just by himself.

But then u see shit like this video, and u see 2 things game designers are totally doing wrong these days.

• Give a game with cartoon physics a realistic look. i mean, make up ur fucking mind, things have to match, that's what TF2 showed the industry and no one fucking learned from it. Either make it look cartoony and give it toon physics, or make it realistic and give it realistic physics, or half toony looks and physics, don't just do the fucking complete oposite! u'll only make the characters look like ragdolls!
  

• The physics in MK are HORRID, after like, what? 10 years? the mid air kicks still look like the character is sitting on a chair, this made sense back in the 2d game cause that's WHAT THEY ACTUALLY DID! but all punches and kicks are incredibly badly performed and have no weight behind them, Sonya's kicking upwards move is like a fucking joke, seriously looks like something someone would make in poser on his first try, all the moves in this entire game look and feel like SHIT! there is no effort at all to make this game look decent. it's like picking up dolls and wiggling them around in the air.

Has u might have noticed from the previous video, Catwoman ripped out part of Sonya's top, and that all the females in the game have a huge rack. i guess their marketing strategy is hormones.

Also, These 2 idiots should never be allowed to work in the gaming industry ever again, they pretty much made the game suck intentionally. they gave this game the incredibly shitty feel MK games always had.

I still would like to try this game just cause of the Joker.