The more i see the more i hate this game

[Csumbi]

and NRS for what they did to the Mortal Kombat franchise. MK has been on a steady downfall ever since MKX to me. Mileenas new face was the best thing about MKX, and then the gameplay, the rest wast absolutely terrible, from the graphics with its brown gray desaturated look and its character models that ranged from alright to hideous, to the story with its focus on the kombat kids and Earthrealm military. MK11 continued this trend but with technically beautiful presentation, with the added bonus of terrible costume designs and retconning characters and long established lore, like Sindel for example. MK1 seemingly retcons everything, from lore to characters and i absolutely hate it. Not to mention the kameo system which just makes no sense in the games context since they are not another character from the playable roster but some other random characters. Then there are the guest characters that have no place in MK. Ever since MKX i feel like MK is losing its identity and instead of creating its own identity with its own characters it just dilutes it with the guest characters. Then there is the in game shop and microtransactions, and mobile game mechanics, which MK11 had way too much of it, and im sure MK1 will have as well.
Either way, this is a hard pass for me. I just needed to vent a bit after i saw the latest trailer with Reptile, Ashrah and what they did to them.

[Rubercaine]

It's not a retcon, if it's a new and reshaped universe.

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I just needed to vent a bit after i saw the latest trailer with Reptile, Ashrah and what they did to them.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y0PKG5-t3zU

[Star Rain]

I dont recall Ashrah was a demon i just remember the goofy hat.

[itzDerrio]

im still waiting for someone to show me the ''grey/brown'' washed out graphics of mkx, i havent seen it yet. maybe see a eye doctor?

and mk11 presentation was trash - too clean and bright and the atrocious menus look like a mobile game. MK4 had the best presentation in the series. MK will never be dark and 90's cheese again. its about wokeness and being super serious now, with serious and respectful "realistic" designs.

[Leon]

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I just needed to vent a bit after i saw the latest trailer with Reptile, Ashrah and what they did to them.

"So you have chosen death..."

=D Just kidding

Dude, Reptile has never been more intimidating than THIS[www.gematsu.com]

[BlackSunEmpire]

It kind of reminds me of what they did to Cowboy Bebop with the netflix tv show or Lord of the Rings with The Rings of Power.

The characters have still the same names, but literally everything else is different........ and not in a good way ;)

I feel your pain, I also hate it when developer or movie producer have no respect for the source material, or even worse deem it as "problematic" :

https://www.gameshedge.com/mortal-kombat-11-female-character-design/

Its always best to get not too attached to any franchise, as already said they are all owned by giant mega corps and its always just a matter of time until they ruin them for the sake of profit and virtue signaling ;)

[xenon]

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Publicado originalmente por Csumbi:

I just needed to vent a bit after i saw the latest trailer with Reptile, Ashrah and what they did to them.

"So you have chosen death..."

=D Just kidding

Dude, Reptile has never been more intimidating than THIS[www.gematsu.com]

Nothing about that is "intimidating".

[My Name is Mud]

Baseless crying and negativity on the Steam forums?

Save it for actual game release like every other game you nerds.

[Leon]

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"So you have chosen death..."

=D Just kidding

Dude, Reptile has never been more intimidating than THIS[www.gematsu.com]

Nothing about that is "intimidating".

If someday you end up facing a pure muscle, 2 metes tall animal full of knife-like teeths and claws, i'm inclned to believe that you 'll change your mind =)

[xenon]

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Nothing about that is "intimidating".

If someday you end up facing a pure muscle, 2 metes tall animal full of knife-like teeths and claws, i'm inclned to believe that you 'll change your mind =)

This is a video game where you have Lui opening wormholes, people get blown up to bits and then 2 seconds later get up like nothing happened.... No, cheap Godzilla Jr there isn't intimidating at all. He got wasted by Cole Young and Sonya, then fatality'd by Kano.

Human Soytile isn't intimidating either.

[Leon]

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He got wasted by Cole Young and Sonya, then fatality'd by Kano.

I just rewatched that scene cause the hypetile, and....well the movie as a whole is terrible bad, but that scene in particular is so dumb
Reptile in the movie is like the perfect killing machine, but instead of using his invisibility, acid and claws to kill everybody before they even notice, he keeps gently bouncing them around until they kill him
Its not Reps fault tho, thats was all on the writer =)

[xenon]

Well yeah, in cutscenes and movies Reptile has been treated like a joke for the past 30 years. He got wasted even worse in the latest animated movie.

I can't say too much about his gameplay yet, which is why I main Reptile in the first place.

[Leon]

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Well yeah, in cutscenes and movies Reptile has been treated like a joke for the past 30 years. He got wasted even worse in the latest animated movie.

I can't say too much about his gameplay yet, which is why I main Reptile in the first place.

I think the problem with Rep and outworld races in general is that they are, conceptualy, too OP compared to earthrealmers.
I mean, they are villains so they will eventualy lose to the protags, but they are so powerfull that their defeats end up being ridiculous.It would take a really good writer to make good fights and believable outcomes.

Thats one of the good things MK1 did to characters like Rep and Baraka. They are finally being writen with respect, and it seems they will even have chapters on story mode.

[Kai]

I liked this trailer a lot, it makes my decision to skip MK and save my time and money this time a lot easier. What a load of garbage lol, who the f designs these characters, what the f are those costumes.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3009196965

Tekken is gonna wipe the floor with this crap. So glad,
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3011821866

[xenon]

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Well yeah, in cutscenes and movies Reptile has been treated like a joke for the past 30 years. He got wasted even worse in the latest animated movie.

I can't say too much about his gameplay yet, which is why I main Reptile in the first place.

I think the problem with Rep and outworld races in general is that they are, conceptualy, too OP compared to earthrealmers.
I mean, they are villains so they will eventualy lose to the protags, but they are so powerfull that their defeats end up being ridiculous.It would take a really good writer to make good fights and believable outcomes.

Thats one of the good things MK1 did to characters like Rep and Baraka. They are finally being writen with respect, and it seems they will even have chapters on story mode.

I don't see what's OP about them when someone like Kitana wiped the floor easily with Shao Kahn in MK11. Yes, it's the same writers for MK1.

Btw Baraka and his race was turned into a disease this game. Derptile is now Killer Croc mixed with some nerd who does a switcharoo. Don't really see what's respectful about that... But hey if you like it that's fine.

Anyways the story in MK has always been whack.

[Leon]

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https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3009196965

S**T ahuahuauhahuauhauhauha xDDDDD

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I don't see what's OP about them when someone like Kitana wiped the floor easily with Shao Kahn in MK11. Yes, it's the same writers for MK1.

Thats the problem.They are conceptualy OP, writen to be powerful like Shao Khan, but then they are beaten in ridiculous ways, making then seem like fools.
In the hands of competent writers those battles could be epic. The antagonist would lose as expected, but not as ridiculous jobbers.As and exemple , i dont know if you are into manga but, think aabout Kenshiro vs Raoh from Hokuto no Ken. Raoh loses the fight but nobody would say he's a loser

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Btw Baraka and his race was turned into a disease this game.

Yep, at first i got mad about it, but then i learned to accept and even see how that can turn out pretty interesting if well writen
In the original timeline Tarkatans are mutated outworld/netherrealm hybrids. Now, i think the Tarkat disease will be man made, by Shang Tsung in the flesh pits. They start as shunned and hopless but, by the end, turn out as the stable Tarkatans we knew in the previous timeline

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Derptile is now Killer Croc mixed with some nerd who does a switcharoo. Don't really see what's respectful about that.

He is more Spidey's Lizard tho xD
I think just the fact he's not just a thug to be beaten by the protags is already leaps and bounds a better representation
In the original trilogy he could disguise himself as human while he was in fact a Lizardman.Now we have that concept back but expanded. Rep is a reverse Werebeast, a Beast that can turn into human and is shunned by his "pack" for that( if you know Werewolf :the Apocalypse you know in that RPG werewolfs can be born from normal wolfs too, and those wolfs that can turn into humans are abandoned by the pack)
So i think we have a solid backstory forming here.

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Anyways the story in MK has always been whack.

I know that is a personal thing, but i really think the original trilogy + Mythologies Sub-Zero's lore by John Tobias was very good.After that it declined tho.


I know, i wrote a lot, sorry bout that xD