MK will never be good again

[Sandy]

MK9 was the last good MK game.

Ever since then the combat is dumbed down, the women are ugly as hell, wokeness is everywhere, extreme microtransactions that will make even EA jealous and etc.

It's degrades with each new game. They don't even improve basic things like animations.
Animations are clunky and wonky as ever.

Kameo system looks stupid as hell.
In any proper fighting game where you have more than one char you get to play as them during the match (tekken tag 2, fighterz, mvc, etc).
And not just summon them couple of times and be done with it. What is even the point?

The pacing is all over the place. Especially with the throws that last too long.

Not to mention that they treat pc playerbase like garbage.

[Furry Chipmunk]

I liked MKX more than MK9.

[Square Jumps]

you dont like it dont buy it! a game made names mortal kombat is enaugh for me to buy it :)

[Sandy]

A shame that someone with Hades (one of the best games out there) pfp defends the trash that the current MK is.

[AndD]

Mk9 was bugged as hell you could juggle with stand 1 for eternity in this game if you did proper combination, roster was nice and it was enjoyable at some point, MKX was about very dynamic gameplay i liked it but it was very hard to learn 1 character,roster not so good and not well made for PC(keyboard) most of characters just didint work well on keyboard, MK11 was perfect in roster as in playing anything, you can pick what you want there is variation for you with ur fav char you can pick all, this is great with 100% keyboard support but the gameplay is so trash in this game, tons of glitches or bugged textures also joke mechanics, characters hit you without touching you bla bla, balancing is very poor, this game is just not finished, they just abandoned it, I just hope MK1 will be better game even with this garbage kameo system atleast it looks better from gameplays and stress test but i really would like to get a demo/or beta on pc cuz considering what happend to MK11 and knowing other company is making the game for pc, just like mk11, i just doubt it is worth spending time in it... i dont know how you feel guys but for me it will be hard to spend $$ on this game

[King of Persia]

i agree with tc on the fact that mk9 was the best of the modern mk games by FAR and it's not even close.

It was the PERFECT blend of:

- Roster
- Environments
- Gameplay
- Outfits
- No dumb variations.

I also agree that wokeness is written all over the later games. It started a 'little' bit with MKX, but it didn't go over the top. Like even tho Mileena's outfit in MKX was less sexualised, it still looked cool, and Kitana also had her Tournament alternate outfit which was cool too.

But MK11. Easily the WORST out of the modern mk games for several reasons:

- Wokeness dialled up to 10 (except for Sindel)
- Change to Kitana's ethnicity and curves were unneeded and a MASSIVE downgrade, which also extends to Mileena cause twins
- GAMEPLAY. Omg the gameplay was like 10 steps back. This dumbed down footsie style gameplay that caters to esports has ruined it completely for me.

Like, go watch some youtube vids of some esports finals in all the games. Look at the difference in pace between MK9/MKX and MK11. So damn boring with what it has become. Like they purposely increase recovery time after each of your standard 3 hit combos to intentionally REDUCE the ability to juggle and do awesome combos?????? really???

MK11 was a big L in my opinion. From what I've seen of MK1, it's a step in the right direction with more combo variety and creativity, but it still looks like MK11 2.0.

[itzDerrio]

facts @ lol at these ppl out here forcing themselves to be excited about this mediocre looking game that literally looks like MK11 reskinned . it’s still the same ♥♥♥♥

[Хамелеон]

its k needs some work before full release lkie get rid of ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ black and gray it makes x rays look stuped

[Xavi_Media]

MK has been garbage for a long time... I only bought the last one when it went down to 20 bucks, the fatalities still make me laugh, overall the game was ♥♥♥♥ though. These NRS guys just cannot make a good Mortal Kombat game.

[Хамелеон]

mk x , 11 ok but not perfect

[OneWingedJehuty]

I have always considered MKX to be the black sheep of the current era of MK games. I didn't enjoy the story mode as much as in 9, the new characters weren't terribly appealing, and I did think the backlash from MK9's "stripper bodies" was starting. 11 continued the latter trend with a lot of virtue signaling about how people - particularly women - wouldn't dress provocatively in a real fight to the death because it's not practical, but then clad them all in stilettos. However, I did enjoy 11's story mode and thought the gameplay content was very solid for a single player.

For whatever reason, though, I feel like MK1 is going to be the black sheep. The game's announcement only came a couple months before the title is set to release, there hasn't been a whole lot of information released on it (barring the leak), relatively little fanfare, and there's this odd bit of "some characters are redesigned, others aren't," and the ones that aren't look very out of place versus the ones that are. Sonya, for example. I love the original MK, and Sonya was one of my favorites, but her spandex design just looks so... out of place when standing next to the other characters in this game. This kind of reminds me of Killer Instinct's retro costumes, and how bad they looked compared to the newer ones, in part because many of them were incredibly simplistic and in today's era of graphical capabilities, look very uninspired. Also, the kameo system screams "FGC legitimacy move", which is odd because I thought 11 was very prominent in FGC tournaments as is?

Although I'm not thrilled with some of the social stances of the people who work on this franchise and how they've found their way into the series over the past couple iterations, I find Mortal Kombat has had strong patterns of consistent enjoyment throughout the life of the franchise, so I'm definitely willing to check this game out, but it does make me feel like this is Mortal Kombat 11.5, or Mortal Kombat Alpha, which ends up later being considered not part of the main series. Again, I'm not sure why I'm fully getting this vibes, and I could be - and most likely am - totally wrong, but that's just how I've felt about this title since I first heard about it.

[kyna]

Originally posted by Xavi_Media:

the fatalities still make me laugh

so much THISSS

[King of Persia]

Do you guys agree that MK:Deception was also one of the best mk games ever?? Yes, it was 3D, but the konquest mode, the CHESS KOMBAT MODE which would be so fun with online and forcing you to be good with multiple characters, etc.

I really loved that game and its what got me from "oh cool, MK" to "YESSSSS MK!!!!"

[Star Rain]

But all the Kameos are in their original klassic kostumes, not just Sonya.

[Salander]

Originally posted by King Of Jupiter:

Kameo system looks stupid as hell.
In any proper fighting game where you have more than one char you get to play as them during the match (tekken tag 2, fighterz, mvc, etc).
And not just summon them couple of times and be done with it.

I'm not fond of it either, but it was there in Marvel vs. Capcom too: You could choose two characters while having an extra one as an "Assist". Lots of them appeared before (Magneto, Juggs, etc), but there were new ones as well (Devilot, Thor, etc).

If I recall correctly, even a KoF did it in one of their games. In the end it's just a way to add... Well, more characters as cameos.

It doesn't fit MK at all though.

[Cheezie]

Man you really complain by making a lot of posts in steam discussions...Just an educated guess but I'm assuming your life isn't in a good place is it?