Finish him: Midway facing 50-day countdown to bankruptcy

If they would have being smart they could have ask Batman to create an Anti-Bankruptcy spray or something.

Cmon Midway... use a Babality on those creditors!!!!

i dont use that spray bullshit anymore

this is what happens when you take one of the most mature fighting franchises and dumb it down to pg-13.. alienating their most loyal fans of years..

I played it. Honestly it would have been better as just a DC universe fighting game. It was written like one and could have survived... but adding the MK legacy was doomed from the start.

Go straight to jail, don't pass go, don't collect $150 million

LMFAO that was really funny!!!

"Think of this as pay back for making Mortal Kombat after 2 ;)"

Fixed

"Think of this as pay back for making Mortal Kombat after 3 ;)"

Fixed part Deux.

Fair enough. lol

Uh, those aren't fixed, kids. MK Deception was very good. Deadly Alliance and Armageddon weren't too shabby either. MK vs. DC is a blast to play. Learn to think for yourselves.

'Uh, those aren't fixed, kids. MK Deception was very good. Deadly Alliance and Armageddon weren't too shabby either. MK vs. DC is a blast to play. Learn to think for yourselves.'


Fine

'Think of this as pay back for allowing a crappy Mortal kombat movie to be made.'


Corrected :)

The first one wasnt bad.

MK2 was ok but MK3 Ultimate stands the winner :p Man, the school lunch hours wasted at the arcades playing it....aaaah the memories.

Unless you count the S.F spin off, MK series are pretty good. I don't know who started with the MK is teh suxxors bullshit.

Even the Movie (considering is based on a videogame) is the only movie based in a videogame that doesn't blows and is quite entertaining.

The only MK game I dislike is Armageddon which was just ambitious and failed
because it was half baked.

If you ask me is Blacksite / Blitz fault.

-=sniff=-

Detroit

What has happened to my hometown?

Yes, it is as bad as it sounds here...

Midway is one of those uber-western companies, though. They couldn't push their bread-and-butter east of the Urals if they tried

It really does suck seeing Midway go down like this.

Then again, what was the last midway game you bought and enjoyed?

UT3? Nah..

UT3 was good, but it was still just an expansion pack to the first one more than anything.

I enjoyed Blitz the Leauge! 1 and 2! The first time I saw that groin shot, I almost died. Mindless violence. I do hope someone other than Activision or EA gobbles up all the properties. Spread the wealth around a little bit.

MK vs DC and I have my serious face on.

Really is one of those games you would think it’s bad but actually is pretty good and the storyline isn't bad either. I would like to see a comic about it I mean if DC already did Batman Vs Depredator why the hell not a MK DC crossover? .Also crossovers sell like pancakes.

Also the “DC” ending just priceless. I won’t spoil the ending but is just one of those things you just have to see. I never laugh so hard

(Is just me or Depredators seem to visit earth just to die? I was reading Depredator in the soviet era I think and guess how it ends? It kills itself, freakin original rite?)

i think this is a Aclaim type of Bankruptcy :(, there goes my childhood =(.

Maybe Capcom can buy the rights to MK and make one fighter game to rule them all.

*Sheds a tear rememnbering how excellent Acclaim was*

Can't help the tears, Shadowman and Forsaken, both on N64, are two of my favourite games ever.

As for Midway. Nintendo seems to be sitting on 100 Billion Dollars, they should just step in and buy the whole company, making ALL future Midway games for Nintendo only. Then with Nintendo helping them out, they might reach the status of Rare in the N64 days.

Rare did so well back then due to Nintendos support, but now M$ doesn't support them in the same way and they've been bollocks ever since. Midway could really be helped by Nintendo on this one.

I could go for a new or remade Hydro Thunder.

Midway should pull a Run Lola Run and bet all of their $10 million on one number in Roullette

Then again they still wouldn't have enough.

Wasn't that the EXACT SAME plot of Ocean's 12?

"Midway should pull a Run Lola Run and bet all of their $10 million on one number in Roullette

Then again they still wouldn't have enough."

If you win a bet on a single number in Roulette, don't you get 36 times the money back?

If they won that round of Roulette, they'd have $360 million...

They better pray that the cover system works well for their asses.

I hope that's sarcasm....

Right, because Midway wasn't having any troubles whatsoever before this generation, they have a reputation of shipping nothing but top-notch amazing titles, and of course the economic downturn isn't affecting them one iota. CURSE YOU SONY and MIRCROSOFT! CURSE YOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOUUUUUUUUU!!!!!!!!!!!!!

High development costs aren't what's killing Midway; alienating their audience and releasing nothing but mediocre games (that no one really wants) for a few years straight is.

Mortal Kombat moved in the opposite direction of what fans originally bought it for. The over top violence has been castrated and the gore's all but non-existent. The new "fatalities" don't hold a candle to the old ones. Go read about how the Joker's fatality was tweaked just so the game could go from an MA to a T rating. It's now just a watered down fighter, and with better games out there, what compelling reason does someone have to buy Mortal Kombat?

Or how about Unreal Tournament 3? People were clamoring for the game when it was first announced but Midway discovered something quite strange. If a new game in a series is a regression from its predecessor, people won't buy it no matter how pretty it is. UT3 offered nothing over UT2004 in terms of gameplay, actually has fewer modes, and PC gamers absolutely detested the consolized UI. Not all PC mods work with the PS3, and the Xbox 360 version has no mod support whatsoever (a massive no-no for an Unreal Tournament game). That's why there's probably less than 500 UT3 players online worldwide right now while UT2004 is, right now, being played by thousands.

Mediocrity killed Midway, Evan. I wish people would actually realize this before they start the "high development costs are killing the gaming industry" bandwagon.