So It's a Bust

[Bijiooo]

so, MK1 - a total and unadulterated flipper-flop compared to the last two MK games. true?

just looking at the estimated numbers available -- MK9, the one nobody wanted or knew they wanted sold 3 million in '09 and on and brought the series right back from the series' Fatality. nice. and it's a good game - this is all ultimately not a rant on the new ones but a rant on how I really want MK9 on Steam.

after 9 came MKX (the best one), which goes bananas and sells 12 million - an absurd number; that's a times FOUR duplication of sales from release to release -- something that sounds kinda unprecedented in the realm of hit video game releases. publishers eternally dream of multiplying franchise sales numbers, but times FOUR? that's intense. and DAMN well-earned. people clearly loved 9, and I say without doubt that MKXL is the best Mortal Kombat game ever made.

then, at least in my imo, the bad times started rolling with MK11 - I think maybe my choice for worst-flowing Mortal Kombat since the first one ... AND without the first one's endearing nostalgic charms. it's just okay, I guess, but managed to outsell even the mighty X with 15 million. compared with how much better X did over 9, a disappointment, but there's really only so high you can go with this kind of thing. only so many fans of this kinda thing. still, right now MK11 is fourth-best-selling fighting game ever made. I may not dig it so much, but like these games used to say? in the good old days - those sales? impressive.

annnd then out comes MK1, a game that got a severely muted response even at launch, and even from some of the diehards. and it's only gone down in common opinion since then. feels alright to play - I see real IMPROVEMENT to 11 in terms of speed and flow, but then the characters keep talking and you realize you're playing Millennial Kombat. the iconic cast of monks, gods and screeching weirdos are now mostly all young, sarcastic, carefree yuppies. the Eternal God Of Lightning Raiden looks and acts like he's an immature 32. uh? sweet. yeah. it's Marvel Kombat. or Millennial Kombat. that story dialogue gets ROUGH, and not in the campy fun ways it used to. it's simply grating to listen to and to be around and I have no connection to it other than wanting it to stop ASAP whenever it comes on. which isn't often.

and still the game stalls at 4 million sales; just a million more than the 9th one did way back when the series was thought dead - a bigger division of 11's sales numbers than than the multiplication in sales between 9 and X. MK1 did what, 37% of the sales that the last game did? Street Fighter 6, the game from the series of technical games for fighting game nerds has outsold it. what the flying fool happened, Warner Blos?

I personally think it speaks alot about how people ultimately felt about MK11, because as crap as many feel the game is, if it weren't for the character design? or all their dialogue? or the general bizarre spa-like vibe and HIDEOUS and industry-leading MTX fart-balloon practices...? I do feel it's the better fighting game over Mortal Kombat 11. in a blind gameplay taste test of a single match from 11 then one from MK1, I bet 8 out of 10 of the people say MK1 feels better to play. but that's me. (but both 11 and 1 are totally outshone by X and 9. obviously.)

my main thing is this - MK1 is a big fat turkey, and not a delicious one. so why can't I buy MK9 on Steam? or anywhere? why won't WB let me give them money for a game people actually seem to enjoy? how expensive IS the stupid licensing? all this for Freddy Kruger? gimme a damn break. cut the character if you have to - cut ALL DLC characters if you have to! put the game back on sale, you wienies!

I *don't* want to grey-market. I'm really *not* a pirate at heart. and certainly not with video games.

but what choice do I have? what choice do you leave us, Brothers of Warner?

MK1 stinks up the joint, many words have it they're killing the game SOON, and yet they don't even let us purchase code that's been finished for 15 years. I ain't no business-talkin' guy, but that ain't don't no make no sense, man.

MK1 is a bigger bust than the one they gave Sonya Blade in MK9. yet they won't even *sell* us MK9 because of movie character licenses expiring (and also ???). who knows these things. not I. pretty funny how Sonya's boobs expand the more you go back in time on these 3D Mortal Kombats. signs of them times, I guess. I miss when it was agreed that silly games were silly. but that's me. maybe you, too.

be well everyone and all. I don't expect this to get anything done, I just had to get it off my chest. and SPEAKING of chests, look at the one they .... nevermind. (laff. peace!)

[usa423]

Man, something about MK 11 reminded me of 2. The story for this game does not seem to be necessarily bad or nothing, I just think it was not the right time for this story or something. Just like the war games trying to do WW2 again in the last 5 or so years and I feel they already got that in the 00s.

[redgreen999]

i read all that.. do I get an achievment?

[Cheezie]

It's one video game man...not that deep and not that serious. lol Holy crap.