Mortal Kombat Thread - GET OVER HERE!!!

[Nobunaga]

They really fucked up by having Mileena's mouth go from having a serpent tongue and those teeth to a weird Alien like square jaw thingy.

Frost has gotta be the dumbest, most unoriginal character. "HEY! LET'S MAKE A FEMALE SUBZERO!"

And who can forget her awesome "w-what if....sub zero.....had tits.......and was a complete cunt because.......uhhh" personality

 

[Kheapathic]

Was this Ed Boon trying to fulfill a fantasy or something? Too late, Ed. Not when your women all look like trannies.

Been saying it for a while, Boon just needs to cash-in all his favors and use the Warner Brothers connection to make the game or movie he always wanted to make. You could've gotten any half-decent adult female to voice Nitara, and instead you get Megan Fox who... the last movie I think I heard about her in was some sort of lesbian vampire thing... and I can't even remember when that was, that was a long time ago... and before that it was Transformers, which was even further back.

 

[Would]

To those who actually know the story of MK 11, is there any reason Liu Kang didn't just end the Mortal Kombat shit?

Irrelevant, because since MK9 NRS has had the shit habit of retcon'ing their endings.

MK9: Shinnok has arrived! Prepare to re-experience his attempted Konquest of Earthrealm!
MKX: LOLno, have this shitty story about the next generation replacing your favorites and originals instead, and stay tuned for the climactic ending of this new trilogy featuring the final clash between Dark Rayden and revenant Liu Kang! How will Earth's new generation and original survivors outlast this battle of wills?
MK11: LOL they won't, because we get rid of most of everyone important in MKX in the first act LOLOLOLOL, have this even shittier story about Time Lord Caillou attempting for the Nth time to force her will on the entire universe instead, and after the Kredits roll, prepare yourself for a new timeline (again), as we see Liu Kang visit this timeline's Great Kung Lao, years before he becomes the legendary warrior who saved Earthrealm from Outworld's grasp. Prepare yourself for a prequel set 500 years before the events of MK1!!
MK1,2023: LOL you just never learn, do you?

So it really doesn't matter what MK11 did or said, because NRS is autistic and can't stick to a well-planned, elaborate story despite trying to do just that.

But if you really wanna know, he can't end it because despite being a Time Lord, he can't actually prevent his enemies from existing. No one can.
Kronika couldn't either, it's why every time she tried, either Liu Kang or Rayden would foil her scheme and she would reset time, wait billions of years, then try again... and be foiled again... and again... and again... for what is implied to be trillions of years which only aggravated her insanity.
So Liu Kang is stuck being a glorified spectator the same way Kronika was. It almost makes you question why anyone would even want the job of time lord.
We also don't know yet what Liu Kang's goals even are. Kronika's goal was always for her son Shinnok to win his rebellion against the other Elder Gods and got tired of Rayden and the Earthrealmers fucking up her son's plan, which is why she allies herself with Earth's enemies in a bid to eliminate Rayden and Liu Kang, as well as attempt to spread discord between Rayden and Kang in the hopes they off each other for her.
Meanwhile all Liu Kang said was that he wanted to bring back everyone and have them live in peace, which Rayden reassures him they would (which is complete bullshit now in MK12 because Rayden is no longer Liu's right hand man/concilliary like he was at the end of 11, but instead has Liu's spot in time as a mortal).

TL-DR none of this shit makes sense, just look at the pretty gore and buy, buy. buy.

Why does it have to always be Shao Khan or Kronika or Shang Tsung as some universal constant that exists outside of time (And what makes Tsung so special when Khan and Kronika also seem immune to Kang's powers)? Hell if you must have Shao Khan in the game, why not spice it up and make him an antihero who will resist any tyrant that isn't him?

One of those is not like the others. Tsung and Kahn are iconic. Kronika is mid at best and shit on average.
They are giving Kahn some sort of rewrite this time where he's a proud warrior loyal to his people but forced to swear fealty to Sindel (So he's her bitch the way Kintaro was his), though it's implied he will betray Sindel if her will conflicts with the will of the people of Outworld, which seems to so far put him in the anti-hero role you want.

Though personally, I love him as the Konquerer of realms. They still had a lot of material to work with. We never got to see Kahn's cunning and conniving side, like how he managed to outsmart Onaga and poison him, or how he made Edenia his bitch and Jerrod a cuck.

what makes Tsung so special when Khan and Kronika also seem immune to Kang's powers

- Again. Kahn is not immune. He's not the same guy as seen in MK2-3-Armaggedon.
- My guess is Kronika sees Tsung as the ultimate foil to rival Kang, as well as the most useful puppet to control. He did make her crown and serve her interests for a while, after all.

The only thing I'd genuinely want out of the story mode is that it focuses on the TOURNAMENT. LIKE THE TITLE OF THE GAME!!???

NRS is full of redditors and redditors see UMK3 as the best game in the series, and that game is the one that stopped using a tournament as a setting and replaced it with a doomsday scenario instead. It made sense for UMK3 to do it because the story justified it as this was "Kahn's final attempt at Earth in an all-out invasion". The only rules being kill the Emperor or die.
Every other game that refuses to focus on the tournament aspect (X/11) haven't been as good and their "invasions" of Earthrealm sucked compared to MK3's basic but effective premise.
They should have had a return to basics tournament focused game with 12, but like I mentioned earlier NRS is autistic and can't stick to the plan laid out by their own post-credit scenes.

 

[blablabla]

its raiden, you stupid fuck

 

[kadoink]

If Megan Fox could act better, specifically voice act I don't think there'd be as many issues as there are. Seriously though, MK as a franchise has been reddit washed into something 'acceptable". Its an embarrassment because everything is so fucking bland now. In a game about tearing each other to pieces they found out how to make it boring visually, stupid storywise (Mks story hasn't been a work of art but the simple goals of the past legacy titles sure make this shit look try hard) and to date still somehow fucked up so bad they rebooted the franchise twice in 14 years.

How hard is it to connect a bunch of simple stories together so they occasionally interconnect with other characters stories in an attempt to craft a fun experience that occasionally has moments of satisfaction for all players? Mk9 managed to do this pretty well, still had its stupid moments but its like that was the last true MK game. Everything since has been Kotaku style faggotry "gamers dont have to be your audience anymore" nonsense.

 

[Jonah Hill poster]

These mad man, they did it, they really did it. They killed the franchise.

This literal whore isn't even trying to voice act.
She's also too stupid to know when video games came out.

Megan Fox in Mortal Kombat would have been cool if this were 2006 during the Transformers hype train. I highly doubt she used to be a big fan of the original MK games in her youth.

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Downgrading the women’s physical attributes while doing nothing about the fighting core aspect of gameplay in current day.

This is why MK of today gets traded in for Tekken or Soul Calibur.

 

[Anonymus Fluhre]

Been saying it for a while, Boon just needs to cash-in all his favors and use the Warner Brothers connection to make the game or movie he always wanted to make. You could've gotten any half-decent adult female to voice Nitara, and instead you get Megan Fox who... the last movie I think I heard about her in was some sort of lesbian vampire thing... and I can't even remember when that was, that was a long time ago... and before that it was Transformers, which was even further back.

She's going to be in Expend4bles so could be some sort of promotional thing. Like "we got this "important actress" to voice a character!"

 

[Kheapathic]

In a game about tearing each other to pieces they found out how to make it boring visually, stupid storywise (Mks story hasn't been a work of art but the simple goals of the past legacy titles sure make this shit look try hard) and to date still somehow fucked up so bad they rebooted the franchise twice in 14 years.

It was only 12 years, but don't label it by actual time, label it by how many games... three, the answer is three. MK 9, 10, 11, and now 12. And unfortunately, the numerical order mirrors the order of quality.

 

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3 reboots in fucking 12 years lmao

 

[Mike Matei's Penis]

Apologies if late but crossplay appears to have been quietly removed from the MK1 Steam store page, it might not be there at launch (or at all) which is disappointing.

 

[Calandrino]

This literal whore isn't even trying to voice act.

She is. That's her best effort.

 

[DenseDeerFather]

Was this Ed Boon trying to fulfill a fantasy or something? Too late, Ed. Not when your women all look like trannies.

It worked for Michael Bay so......I guess

Frost has gotta be the dumbest, most unoriginal character. "HEY! LET'S MAKE A FEMALE SUBZERO!"

TBF, "Character A but with tits" is an old trick used by many a video game company.

It's just that Frost is genuinely unlikeable and didn't even have a unique design before MK11. She looked so uninspired.

You could've gotten any half-decent adult female to voice Nitara

But that won't get as many clicks!

Kidding aside, it irritates me because they should have just hired actual VAs and not the local C-list bimbo off the street who's only famous because she has more tit than talent.

It was only 12 years, but don't label it by actual time, label it by how many games... three, the answer is three. MK 9, 10, 11, and now 12. And unfortunately, the numerical order mirrors the order of quality.

It's actually insane to me. It still is. WTF went through Boon's mind when he planned this? Did he even plan this?

 

[Mariposa2.0 LTE]

Megan Fox in Mortal Kombat would have been cool if this were 2006 during the Transformers hype train. I highly doubt she used to be a big fan of the original MK games in her youth.


Downgrading the women’s physical attributes while doing nothing about the fighting core aspect of gameplay in current day.

This is why MK of today gets traded in for Tekken or Soul Calibur.

You know, I enjoy following the story. I saw her trailer. It's an alright concept. I feel like there should have been better direction and better voice acting.

 

[Michael Wade]

You know, I enjoy following the story. I saw her trailer. It's an alright concept. I feel like there should have been better direction and better voice acting.

The sad thing is she probably has the best looking model out of all of them right now.

 

[Mariposa2.0 LTE]

The sad thing is she probably has the best looking model out of all of them right now.

Sindel and Li Mei are pretty good. But she knows what she's doing. Years from now, she'll get horny nerds to bang her when she's in her 60s after her fame is gone.
Though, I feel like they're scraping the bottom of the barrel. What's next? Barb as madam Bo or Chris as a cursed Kitana?

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

I can kinda see the potential in playing with the characters original goals and morality, if you created a new world might as well have fun with it. But I doubt they'd go too hard on any changes.

 

[Spit bucket]

Ed was recently on Hot Ones. For as much shit as I could give the MK team the one saving grace is Ed seems like just a well rounded guy. Looking at his twitter and he keeps it professional. Only tweeting about the games or maybe a wholesome chungus meme or whatever.

Though I'd wish he kick everyone else out of the studio and invite John Tobias back and make a TRUE MK game.

 

[Molesting the Decapitated]

Sucks I'm gonna have to actually buy a PS5 just to play this MK1 game even though I know I'm gonna most likely have some complaints about it.

Only wanting to play it mostly cuz i've been waiting years for Nitara to return. glad it's finally happening

 

[Would]

I still can't believe they gave Bo Rai Cho a sex change.

 

[DenseDeerFather]

Well then!