Conan is already pathetic

[ExTaZzY]

I knew it would be like this since the day I saw this boring unwanted character on the DLC list.
Seems like Ed Boon posted a video with a bit of his voice and gameplay on Twitter (X) and people in the comments are bashing him for the right reasons.
His animations do look kinda ugly and I see one move copy pasted from Tanya.
Voice acting is awful too

It's funny to think that in MK11, the previous game, we had Terminator which was modeled after Arnold Schwarzenegger and now we have Conan which is also modeled after Arnold so it feels like he's in both games.

Man, Kombat Pack 1 did have some cool and unique characters to show off and MAYBE, just MAYBE a tiny tiny bit worth to wait for them to release like yeah Omni Man was cool (just to see, his move set is insanely stupid and annoying), Ermac was nice too, Peacemaker also nice, I personally loved the show and John Cena can voice act at least, Quan Chi and Takeda were nice additions too and Homelander was an amazing character to finish it off (although Takeda was the last one to come one month later I m pretty sure most waited for Homelander anyways)

That was a solid pack.
In this second pack the only good ones are Ghostface and Noob though to be honest I'm not really fond of old characters to be used in paid dlcs but it's whatever now
Also Conan and Terminator T-100 are probably the least interesting characters in the franchise and also the most unwanted.

If someone told you there was a new MK game in development and asked you what guest characters you'd want to see and your response would contain one of those 2 or both then sorry but you're either a boring person or very unimaginative.
Again, waste of character slots, why didn't they get some better ips such as Doom Slayer, that would have been sick or Michael Myers I dunno

[Realigo Actual]

One man's trash. This is how I feel about Ghostface. Actually looking forward to Conan.

I wonder if Ed maybe intended The Duel he had set up for this game to actually happen in the last game. Or maybe he had intended Terminator to return. He fit so great last time, it really felt like he could be brought in-universe. Maybe this was their intent and Ed had a second duel like Homelander vs. Butcher in Terminator vs. T1000 planned for the second season.

While Conan's cool, the pick does seem kind of out there. Disagree about the animations, looks fine to me. Conan's not a ninja. Again, this is why it's really a double-edged sword npi to have these guest characters in a fighting game.

[Weapon G]

I'm an Arnold fan but find Conan to be a weak character. I've been a fan since I saw Commando and The Running Man. I don't understand why there is a fanbase for the Conan movies.

[Shoah Kahn]

Weapon-based characters in hand-to-hand combat games, are always odd... Even Jade's pole feels out-of-place; as did Sindels naginata. However, for a game as jank as MK, and for a character as famous as Conan, it looks that much worse. His sword swipes look like some TikTok 'tard trying to twirl their mother's mop handle; and the actual slashes just do not connect with the opponent like one would expect a broadsword to. There should be oodles of blood and gore from every slash, and really meaty slashing audio effects.

Notwithstanding, MK1 is just a very, very poor fighting game, and given that all principle development has already been abandoned, anything left to add to the product with be thrown together like it's being done at 3pm on a Friday before a long weekend. Sad, too, given that Conan and T-1000 are iconic 80s/90s characters... Just not characters for a game as abjectly and irrevocably bad as MK1 is.

[Neon Triangle]

Publicado originalmente por Shoah Kahn:

Weapon-based characters in hand-to-hand combat games, are always odd... Even Jade's pole feels out-of-place; as did Sindels naginata. However, for a game as jank as MK, and for a character as famous as Conan, it looks that much worse.

Even to this day the only game I feel that did it right in recent times was the Killer Instinct reboot, mainly with Tusk. Even though it's not perfect, since the devs were constantly being rushed out the door by M$, there is still a far greater sense of fluidity and impact from most of his sword attacks than anything we've seen in NRS games. And considering that Tusk was always just a knockoff of Conan (even back in the arcade KI2) it's sad to see that the real Conan looks like the knockoff here.

I would hope that the final version of Conan fixes the animations to some extent, but let's be honest with ourselves; they've done this too many times already.

[Cpt Obvious]

Still better than the trash that was Ghostface.

[ExTaZzY]

Publicado originalmente por Cpt Obvious:

Still better than the trash that was Ghostface.

Why is ghostface trash ?

[aresco1]

How about we stick to mk lore not guest charakters?

[Weapon G]

Publicado originalmente por aresco1:

How about we stick to mk lore not guest charakters?

Popular guest characters attract new customers. The ones for this game? Uhhh... I don't know about that. I was only excited for Ghostface so far. I was curious how the others would play, but I wasn't excited for them. Also I was disappointed in Ghostface. I am a fan of T-1000 but don't expect to be blown away.

[Shoah Kahn]

Publicado originalmente por Neon Triangle:

Even to this day the only game I feel that did it right in recent times was the Killer Instinct reboot, mainly with Tusk.

Ironically enough, given Tusk is heavily inspired by Conan. NRS have no excuse, because is nothing if not gore; and Conan's attack should be making minced meat of the targets with each slash. I actually didn't mind Jason's cleaver in MKX... Albeit, more from the comical standpoint.

They just mish-mash too much stuff together into a game engine that sucks and is 90% asset flips. Monsters, weapons, robots... liquid metal?! There just isn't enough to work with to make all these different archetypes work together, and/or their design shortcomings to be hidden be good gameplay.

[H4NS]

Still less pathetic than autopilot Johnny and his mains :)

[AndD]

I think the main problem this game has it is not problem with WHAT characters it has but problem is with kameo balancing stuff, some are just better than others and when you go with certain combinations character feels turbo overpowerd or super weak compare to others it schould not be this way... I can't w8 to play as conan i hope he will fit well for my playstyle and expectations but tbh i think he is added instead of kotal , we had that skin in mk11 kotal the barbarian with 6 palettes.

[power_ranger_x]

well, what were you expecting in already pathetic game??. you already know, how bad the gameplay has been, 29+1 years. their S h i t tier guest character pick ( scream ) killed the game.
Conan may look ok, but in a terribly packaged gameplay that MK always has been ( since inception of MK4 ) , and gacha elements.
does anybody go back and play any MK game? no
does anybody bother to make MK mods? no
the only one worth playing are the current MUGEN / IKEMEN versions of MK collectively, the remixes. sadly MK devs do NOT know how to make a fighting game.
i mean who throws unplayable but -halfassed but near finished characters as assists ? you know how annoying that is? especially the interrupt bandwagon of BS? let alone no tag to the damn character?

i dont get what kind of stupid sytem they were coming up with. Legacy characters are halfassed as assists. great. unplayable. then why bother?
NRS? 2v2 kombat? without the annoying assists?. horrible layout. terrible gameplay. bad gameplay animations for nearly half of the roster , especially guest supermans. MK devs, what the hells going on?

dear Mortal Baffons, please fix the damn game, or just cancel this right away.
i dont see the point of this " fighting game" if you can call it that, being in existence, unless they totally REDO the gameplay and hideous Guest character choices ( scream being the wrost and effectively killing the game ) that slot couldve been anything from SolidSNAKE, LARA, almost anything anime, a fighting game character possibly from other umbrellas.
WB forces garbage down players and NRS throats. NRS never builds a game better, back. instead they destoy it into oblivion.

Obliterated.

[ExTaZzY]

Publicado originalmente por power_ranger_x:

well, what were you expecting in already pathetic game??. you already know, how bad the gameplay has been, 29+1 years. their S h i t tier guest character pick ( scream ) killed the game.
Conan may look ok, but in a terribly packaged gameplay that MK always has been ( since inception of MK4 ) , and gacha elements.
does anybody go back and play any MK game? no
does anybody bother to make MK mods? no
the only one worth playing are the current MUGEN / IKEMEN versions of MK collectively, the remixes. sadly MK devs do NOT know how to make a fighting game.
i mean who throws unplayable but -halfassed but near finished characters as assists ? you know how annoying that is? especially the interrupt bandwagon of BS? let alone no tag to the damn character?

i dont get what kind of stupid sytem they were coming up with. Legacy characters are halfassed as assists. great. unplayable. then why bother?
NRS? 2v2 kombat? without the annoying assists?. horrible layout. terrible gameplay. bad gameplay animations for nearly half of the roster , especially guest supermans. MK devs, what the hells going on?

dear Mortal Baffons, please fix the damn game, or just cancel this right away.
i dont see the point of this " fighting game" if you can call it that, being in existence, unless they totally REDO the gameplay and hideous Guest character choices ( scream being the wrost and effectively killing the game ) that slot couldve been anything from SolidSNAKE, LARA, almost anything anime, a fighting game character possibly from other umbrellas.
WB forces garbage down players and NRS throats. NRS never builds a game better, back. instead they destoy it into oblivion.

Obliterated.

Not disagreeing but how did Ghostface killed the game ? It had no impact it just had another peak of players for a short while and then it went down to it's usual 1.5-2k players on steam like it always does each season
I'm gonna say that although I don't see Ghostface that fitting for MK he is fun to play and has good voice lines but that's it, I'm also not fond of the 2 other ghostfaces aside from the gameplay mechanic