Mortal Kombat Thread - GET OVER HERE!!!

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That jcvd model is fucking shit

 

[Mayor Cody Travers]

As time goes on after seeing story mode it feels so strange to have Kuai Liang copypasted onto Hanzo's life. Identity, elemental powers, color, even stealing his wife then raising Hanzo, as a boy, with said wife. By itself I actually like him being a firebender to Bi-Han's ice and an active rivalry of brothers is cool, yeah... but I would've been fine with him being called Scorpion but with red coloring, or yellow coloring but named a different codename (like how he was once Tundra despite sharing color and powers with Bi-Han's Sub-Zero). Something to truly differentiate him from Hanzo's Scorpion while recalling him.

Hell, having Hanzo's Scorpion be a Lin Kuei who got unjustly murdered by a jealous Bi-Han in rivalry and his family killed by Quan Chi to motivate him into becoming Scorpion and Quan's bitch boy would've been all you needed if Liu's merging a bunch of stuff.

 

[DenseDeerFather]

Welp I think I am beginning to understand more of the horror that is the normie MK fandom as @Stanley Ipkiss mentioned at some point in here.

Has the misfortune of encountering some consumer who's hyped for MK1.

"OMG NITARA. OMG MEGAN FOXX IS ACTUALLY TALENTED AND COOL. OMG JOHNNY IS DOING A COOL DANCE AND THE CROWD IS CHEERING ON HIM WHILE HE DOES IT. OMG THE STORY IS SO EPIC. OMG THERE'S ABSOLUTELY NOTHING WRONG WITH THIS GAME AT ALL!"

It's extremely exhausting.

 

[Xenomorphs Are Cute]

Well then!

Jean-Claude Van Damme? More like Jean-Claude God Damn. He looks almost nothing like JCVD, & his voice makes me wonder if it's JCVD voicing himself like Sylvester Stallone did for Rambo in MK11, or just the same VA of Johnny Cage doing a variation of voice by doing JCVD's accent.

That said, credit where it's due. I love his brutality & fatality. It's very reminiscent of the soul of the old MK games.

Welp I think I am beginning to understand more of the horror that is the normie MK fandom as @Stanley Ipkiss mentioned at some point in here.

Has the misfortune of encountering some consumer who's hyped for MK1.

"OMG NITARA. OMG MEGAN FOXX IS ACTUALLY TALENTED AND COOL. OMG JOHNNY IS DOING A COOL DANCE AND THE CROWD IS CHEERING ON HIM WHILE HE DOES IT. OMG THE STORY IS SO EPIC. OMG THERE'S ABSOLUTELY NOTHING WRONG WITH THIS GAME AT ALL!"

It's extremely exhausting.

One of the funniest parts of Nitara being played by Megan Fox is that Megan Fox actually did drink blood of her 2nd husband Machine Gun Kelly as a marriage ritual. He did the same for her.

 

[derpherp2]

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

idk she reminds me of my grandma that got me into boxing now. Instead of the creepy uncle that got me into boxing.
Also the image of an old woman getting her shit kicked in while flying by blue ninja vry funne.

 

[Calandrino]

You can tell MK is woke because instead of ninja clans they should logically have ninja KLANS

 

[wtfNeedSignUp]

idk she reminds me of my grandma that got me into boxing now. Instead of the creepy uncle that got me into boxing.
Also the image of an old woman getting her shit kicked in while flying by blue ninja vry funne.

I hate how current year makes me think of fun shit like kung fu grandma as woke/cringe.

 

[Dr. Geronimo]

I hate how current year makes me think of fun shit like kung fu grandma as woke/cringe.

It's only woke because they won't let you rip her spine out.

 

[Stanley Ipkiss]

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

It's your money to spend at the end of the day, but..........you don't actually have to play this game, especially if it's the sole reason for a $600 purchase. Last one I played was X and I'm still alive and kicking. Just saying.

Welp I think I am beginning to understand more of the horror that is the normie MK fandom as @Stanley Ipkiss mentioned at some point in here.

Has the misfortune of encountering some consumer who's hyped for MK1.

"OMG NITARA. OMG MEGAN FOXX IS ACTUALLY TALENTED AND COOL. OMG JOHNNY IS DOING A COOL DANCE AND THE CROWD IS CHEERING ON HIM WHILE HE DOES IT. OMG THE STORY IS SO EPIC. OMG THERE'S ABSOLUTELY NOTHING WRONG WITH THIS GAME AT ALL!"

It's extremely exhausting.

Part of me thinks it's just part of the natural evolution of the Internet. i.e maybe if we had YouTube in 1992, there would still be story-obsessed normies who would never buy the game drooling over guest characters and intro compilations.
But I'm leaning towards NRS hopping on the "game as cinema" bandwagon that has led to the decline of gaming in general. It's funny how all the talk of Street fighter and Tekken is still, over 30 years later, about footsies and mixups and zoners and shotos and all that fighting meta shit, while with MK it's (mostly) just lore and how the characters look.

 

[DenseDeerFather]

Launch trailer is out.

I got thoughts on this;

• Apparently, Kung Lao is a Disney princess who wants more out of life.
  
  
• Okay so my realm lore is a bit rusty but wasn't the tournament between all the realms? Why is it only Outworld and Earthrealm? The fuck is Edenia doing?
  
  
• Reiko is here. Looking like a fucking model from GQ.
  
  
• Darrius Kameo....don't care.
  
  
• Adventure...mode? Lin Kuei Mystery Dungeon What?
  
  
• Shang Tsung joins forces with Kronika...uhm...why? What does he need her for? He can't actually be that retarded, can he?

 

[Dr. Geronimo]

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• Okay so my realm lore is a bit rusty but wasn't the tournament between all the realms? Why is it only Outworld and Earthrealm? The fuck is Edenia doing?

My realm lore is rusty too.

In the original lore, Mortal Kombat was declared when you wanted to take over another realm, and then you had to win 10 consecutive tournaments. Outworld did this to Edenia and then merged with it. Outworld originally trying to do this to Earthrealm and the events of MKOG is the final tournament before Outworld wins.

But muh multiverse and all that shit.

 

[Kheapathic]

Nice to see actual fighting gameplay; my purple princess is looking smooth, and really enjoy that stabbing her sai in the opponents feet.

Said it before and I'll say it again, Reptile transforming mid fight for different moves and how smooth it is, fucking excellent.

Why the fuck is Reiko using "Earth Realmer" in a condescending way? Wasn't he Earth Realm? Wasn't he a member of the Black Dragon along with Kano?

Never really gave a solitary fuck about Darius; but that knee shatter was fucking awesome.

Shang Tsung... ... ... because a lore important character should be locked away as DLC... the fuck are you doing Boon. You're letting Shang Tsung warp between his young and old self mid combat? Check the trailer, at the 3:00 mark. Shang Tsung is young, hits Liu Kang with something, and he's suddenly in his old man form. This is why 99.9999% of people shouldn't write time travel/manipulation stories, shit becomes weird and you start doing weirder and weirder shit to try and correct the earlier weird shit... and what the fuck is this Alien tier chest burster fatality shit? I'm straight fucking laughing.

Congrats on finally getting Jean Claude though, 30 years of effort finally paying off.

Also, calling it now; Kronika gives Shang Tsung an offer he can't refuse, he starts a war, General Shao Kahn uses this opportunity to ursurp the throne from Sindel since an earlier trailer shows the two of them at odds and Sindel chastizing him to not wage constant war. The new trailer with Mileena showing disfavor with Kitana going to be chosen as Sindel's successor... I'm not gonna say the more things change the more they stay the same; but we're lining up to have General Shao Kahn, Mileena, and Shang Tsung be the enemies of Earh Realm, complete with an ursurper/imposter on the throne of Outworld/Edenia/Whatever. Congrats on writing a fucking time loop (again) Boon.

 

[Dr. Geronimo]

Why the fuck is Reiko using "Earth Realmer" in a condescending way? Wasn't he Earth Realm? Wasn't he a member of the Black Dragon along with Kano?

Reiko is an Shao Kahn dicksucker from Outworld. You're probably thinking of Jarek.

 

[DenseDeerFather]

Reiko is an Shao Kahn dicksucker from Outworld. You're probably thinking of Jarek.

A classic. So "gay"

 

[Kheapathic]

Yup, my bad, getting those two mixed up.

 

[Mariposa2.0 LTE]

God, watched so many spoiler videos for this, and apparently, this is just leading to another reboot of Armageddon with the Pyramid of Argus. Apparently, they're bringing different character versions of each character across timelines. They'll introduce Kitana and Shang Tsung as Titans, and Shoa will be revealed as Onaga's son. Also, Kronika has been erased from all timelines even though she wasn't really the big baddie.

 

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this game will be shit, the story retarded and forgotten in one week

 

[Mariposa2.0 LTE]

this game will be shit, the story retarded and forgotten in one week

I think they needed to stick with one timeline and quit recycling. Making everyone a kahn, elder god, or titan just cheapens things. To me, it feels like a cheap retcon. "Hey, millennials, ever wondered if Onaga is Shoa's father? Well, we just made that a reality." Onaga wasn't even a popular character, yet they're trying to build him to be some big baddie.

 

[The Fair Lady]

I love how absolutely no one likes Kronika and is wondering how and why the fuck she's back. As if her being a manipulative backstabber weren't beyond obvious too.

 

[kadoink]

I looked through the story mode leaks and...fuck. This is yet again another revision of previous events with slightly better outcomes for the villains.(new Shang Tsung, Quan Chi, Rain, and Reptile all bitch out in their endings and in storymode).

Why the retards at netherrealm tried to mimic a Marvel film with this game I'll never know. Stealing Magical asia from Shang Chi and the bitch brigade from Black Panther was stupid as hell, but the whole fucking game looks like a try hards recreation of the MCU. With guts and gore.

They dont even do anything that interesting with the characters and just end with setting up Havik as a new primary antagonist. Fixating on making Mileena and Tanya dykes in the new game as a plot point is as stupid as it was when they did this in Mileenas ending in the last crappy MK game or when they introduced the concept in the previous shit MK game.

Old Mortal Kombat knocked off 'Enter the Dragon' and 'Big trouble in little China'. New Mortal Kombat knocked off of the MCU. Its so stale. They had enough of their own ideas when they started this series off even though they were knocking off other ideas.

They dont have the balls to tell an actual entertaining story anymore in story mode. As stupid and shit as their older stories were, they were entertaining. If they didn't do as good a job as they did with MK9s storymode I wouldn't have cared. But somehow they actually did areally fantastic job with MK9s story mode and set a new standards. But every storymode since has desperately tried to be more like a proper movie, but with the characters written to be more self righteous, stupid, obnoxious, pretentious, and cliché as a diversity quota system demands.

MK9 was all about the tournaments themselves, and since then its always about stopping some evil god manipulating the realms around the tournament and this makes the tournament itself even more redundant that its written to be. Which is hilarious because its bad for a god to do this shit unless its Beta Liu Kang.

Fire the fuckers who run the development of this franchise and get rid of Ed Boon already. At least the retards who they'd replace them with would go full woke and get it over with instead of the gradual faggotry thats been creeping into the series the past few games.