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.

[xenon]

Yeah, now that I think of it, "always been whack" is a bit of a stretch. Trilogy, 3D Era had nice stories. MK9 was fine since it's mostly a reboot of Trilogy mixed with 4 a bit. Then it just all headed downhill from there.

[Freedom Gamer]

Oprindeligt skrevet af Star Rain:

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

Ashrah was always a demon. I just done playing the game she was first introduced.

Her background story is basically the same. Her new design is also much better since she is not fully purified. In Mortal Kombat: Deception she was not fully purified despite her design assuming her to be... also I imagine that adding small details was kind of harder back then so they didn't even tried with the demon side of things in her design.

[LiL blade]

Oprindeligt skrevet af Leon:

Oprindeligt skrevet af Csumbi:

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

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

i aint gonna lie, the pose he has in the shot made me laugh, i find it silly, "rawr im scury"

[Nihiliste]

Ok boomer
8 chars

[Star Rain]

well lizards are not scary, how much could they do?

[popsicle]

Oprindeligt skrevet af Freedom Gamer:

Her background story is basically the same. Her new design is also much better since she is not fully purified. In Mortal Kombat: Deception she was not fully purified despite her design assuming her to be... also I imagine that adding small details was kind of harder back then so they didn't even tried with the demon side of things in her design.

In the trailer there is a 1 sec image of what looks to be Ashrah wearing the hat. So that gives me hope she has retained her original design.

[LiL blade]

Oprindeligt skrevet af popsicle:

Oprindeligt skrevet af Freedom Gamer:

Her background story is basically the same. Her new design is also much better since she is not fully purified. In Mortal Kombat: Deception she was not fully purified despite her design assuming her to be... also I imagine that adding small details was kind of harder back then so they didn't even tried with the demon side of things in her design.

In the trailer there is a 1 sec image of what looks to be Ashrah wearing the hat. So that gives me hope she has retained her original design.

im hoping every character gets there original design as an alternate, li mei especially needs her old DA costume back cuz the one she got now is boring as hell.

EDIT: i looked at the trailer again and the hat that ashrah wears at the festival is red and not white and gold like it should be,bit of a shame really. maybe we will still get the white hat tho.

[Rubercaine]

Oprindeligt skrevet af LiL dragon:

the one she got now is boring as hell.

[popsicle]

Oprindeligt skrevet af LiL dragon:

im hoping every character gets there original design as an alternate, li mei especially needs her old DA costume back cuz the one she got now is boring as hell.

That Li mei DA bell bottom costume is way too revealing by today's standard. It'll never make it in.

[LiL blade]

you mean her primary from DA? since NRS are so sensitive to boobs, all they gotta do is make her robe cover up the window. (wish they wouldnt but that aint happenin)

[Rubercaine]

Oprindeligt skrevet af popsicle:

That Li mei DA bell bottom costume is way too revealing by today's standard. It'll never make it in.

It has a chance, original MK2 and MK3 female costumes were able to make it to MK11.

[Star Rain]

Yeah they would just close up her top a bit but i do really love the flowy pant design of it.

[Deedog]

mkx was the pennical of fun with mk

[Osmond_NLG]

Oprindeligt skrevet af 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.

It's one of those things where you try to create a multiverse-like scenario to "restart" the franchise. It gets pretty bad because now you set the narrative where if the story goes stupid, just redo everything. It just loses it's.....identity of what it was. I'm not liking the kameo system as well. Just an easy cash grab to me as ppl already gotten sold by the "superheroes". I'm still calling it, that those kameos will be so broken because why wouldn't they. Easy money in my eyes. Wait til they get a certain threshold then nerf the hell out of it.

[Leon]

Oprindeligt skrevet af Osmond_NLG:

It's one of those things where you try to create a multiverse-like scenario to "restart" the franchise. It gets pretty bad because now you set the narrative where if the story goes stupid, just redo everything

Its the crisis on infinity earths effect, and well, MK have been DC-fied a lot on previous games.
Maybe it can be a running thing for sometime, when things are getting stale they go CRISIS again to reshape and restart

But, just thinking about it,as those franchises (fighthing games, i mean) are getting old they will have to do something to keep it, at the same time, familiar and fresh. It must be a hard trick to pull out cause fans will always be attached to classic chars and replacing them is very risk, as we had seem with X and the kombat kids, that i believe, were intented to replace the classic roster on future instalments

So, maybe the CRISIS can be a necessary evil