Mortal Kombat Thread - GET OVER HERE!!!

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Best Ninja?

  • Yellow Ninja

    Votes: 76 17.6%

  • Blue Ninja

    Votes: 58 13.4%

  • Green Ninja

    Votes: 22 5.1%

  • Purple Ninja

    Votes: 9 2.1%

  • Red Ninja

    Votes: 10 2.3%

  • Smoky Ninja

    Votes: 28 6.5%

  • Robot Ninja

    Votes: 13 3.0%

  • Boobie Ninja

    Votes: 98 22.6%

  • Ninja But Not A Ninja

    Votes: 16 3.7%

  • Kurtis Stryker

    Votes: 103 23.8%
  • Total voters
    433
purpleboy said:
Sounds like it’s less a case of the game CURRENTLY being MTX heavy and more a fear that NRS has built this grindy system to encourage people to buy MTXs that’ll get implemented later. Sometime we’ll get online games that manage to prevent themselves from implementing buyable in-game currency like the previously mentioned MHW or many of Nintendo’s online multiplayer games, but other times you get shit like GTAO or SF5. I guess for now we just wait and hope that NRS is allowed to step in and balance the game and WB doesn’t drag its tentacles against the game with its scumminess
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I get the suspicion, but it doesn't make sense to take the MTX flak twice, if they wanted to get heavy MTX in, they would have done it already, instead this game really doesn't want you to buy anything that isn't DLC characters, the big problem is its horribly balanced game economy + difficulty curve for ToT, because the game legitimately gives you a shitton to do that isn't Krypt or ToT (online is fucking great btw). It's probably the most content-dense fighting game since Injustice 2, which is saying something!

I think WB Games are a great publisher at picking games to do (most of their games manage to interest me in terms of content and developer competence), but they are kinda shitty at managing their MTX strategy and PC Ports.

MTX-wise, they're not necessarily as bad as EA, they don't always ty things to basic gameplay, and they managed to listen to the community a bit better than most pubs do (see Shadow of War, and it seems MK11 is going down that path too). Their non-NRS community management needs work tho.

PC Ports are definitely something they need to improve tho, they range from really good (Mordor games, Mad Max) to absolutely horrible (MK X, Arkham Knight, MK11).
 
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neural said:
I get the suspicion, but it doesn't make sense to take the MTX flak twice, if they wanted to get heavy MTX in, they would have done it already, instead this game really doesn't want you to buy anything that isn't DLC characters, the big problem is its horribly balanced game economy + difficulty curve for ToT, because the game legitimately gives you a shitton to do that isn't Krypt or ToT (online is fucking great btw). It's probably the most content-dense fighting game since Injustice 2, which is saying something!

I think WB Games are a great publisher at picking games to do (most of their games manage to interest me in terms of content and developer competence), but they are kinda shitty at managing their MTX strategy and PC Ports.

MTX-wise, they're not necessarily as bad as EA, they don't always ty things to basic gameplay, and they managed to listen to the community a bit better than most pubs do (see Shadow of War, and it seems MK11 is going down that path too). Their non-NRS community management needs work tho.

PC Ports are definitely something they need to improve tho, they range from really good (Mordor games, Mad Max) to absolutely horrible (MK X, Arkham Knight, MK11).
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Arkham Knights was done by a third party. Not sure if MK X and 11 are done in house. Usually with games running Unreal Engine you'll get issues either with textures or with netcode if people don't know what they're doing. Netcode being the usual problem though.
 
Anonymus Fluhre said:
Arkham Knights was done by a third party. Not sure if MK X and 11 are done in house. Usually with games running Unreal Engine you'll get issues either with textures or with netcode if people don't know what they're doing. Netcode being the usual problem though.
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All of them are 3rd party and made on Unreal engine iirc (I'm sure of the 1st, but not the latter).

Can confirm that netcode on PS4 is really, really good (I switched to buying on that platform in the last minute, which while more expensive, seems like the right choice from what I'm seeing).
 
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neural said:
All of them are 3rd party and made on Unreal engine iirc (I'm sure of the 1st, but not the latter).

Can confirm that netcode on PS4 is really, really good (I switched to buying on that platform in the last minute, which while more expensive, seems like the right choice from what I'm seeing).
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I meant that the port was done by a third party when it comes to Arkham Knights. Rocksteady got someone else to do the port to PC (Iron Galaxy). They were only known for doing console ports and never worked on PC ports before. The last games they ported were Skyrim for the Switch and Diablo 3 for the Switch. The last game they ported over to PC was Dungeons & Dragons: Chronicles of Mystara in 2013 before Arkham Knight which is of course no where near as hard as porting over a UE3 game.

Edit: Seems the Switch port for MK11 is being done by Shiver Entertainment.
 
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Wait, I'm seeing people say Ash is going to be DLC for this one? Is this a leak or a """leak"""? Fucking figures the one they finally put him in is the worst game since the fucking 3D era.
 
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Anonymus Fluhre said:
Nothing really new. Could be worse, they could be working at CryTek and get paid once a year when royalty fees come in.
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I love the accusations of sexism and really should have seen it coming given Boon's statements, all that virtue signalling may not have been about scapegoating from MTX and actually about trying to hide his own skeletons.
 
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SiccDicc said:
I love the accusations of sexism and really should have seen it coming given Boon's statements, all that virtue signalling may not have been about scapegoating from MTX and actually about trying to hide his own skeletons.
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Social Justice always eats their own. If people don't realize that then they deserve what they get. I for one can't wait for a new Mortal Kombat that forget's 11 happened.
 
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I think the reason why people found information about the leaked characters coming in the DLC packs is because Shiver Entertainment seems to be new when it comes to doing ports. This seems to be their third one and their first major IP.
 
SiccDicc said:
I love the accusations of sexism and really should have seen it coming given Boon's statements, all that virtue signalling may not have been about scapegoating from MTX and actually about trying to hide his own skeletons.
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People who act like militant anti-racists/male feminists on Twitter are actually racist, sexist scumfucks irl...

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Chin of Campbell said:
Wait, I'm seeing people say Ash is going to be DLC for this one? Is this a leak or a """leak"""? Fucking figures the one they finally put him in is the worst game since the fucking 3D era.
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Yeah, people have been datamining the Switch version of MK11. Ash is listed, as well as:
Terminator
Spawn
The Joker

For actual MK characters, you get:
Shang Tsung (which we already knew about)
Sindel
Sheeva (which now has Keegan-Michael Key's face)
Nightwolf
Fujin

So... yeah. Sorry to all of those Cyrax, Sector, Rain, Mileena, Goro, Sereena, and Stryker fans out there. You get to play as the garbage tier character from Injustice 2 and a comic book character that was last relevant back when Clinton was in office.
 
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Honestly, I'm just sad that
Geras died.
Dude is one of the likable characters next to Kotal, even going so far to just let time flow as normal in his (sadly non-canon) Tower ending because he knew mortals shape their own destinies. In story mode, dude's just doing his job and even then from his little screentime, he's pretty nice by doing so.
It just feels like him proudly boasting of his immortality, despite the fact that he was tired of it and wanted rest, feels like a copout from some writer that wanted to kill him because said writer doesn't like him. Then Evil Raiden just letting him eternally drown in the deep ocean from an anchor is kind of... harsh. Poor Geras.
 
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Yeah, people have been datamining the Switch version of MK11. Ash is listed, as well as:
Terminator
Spawn
The Joker

For actual MK characters, you get:
Shang Tsung (which we already knew about)
Sindel
Sheeva (which now has Keegan-Michael Key's face)
Nightwolf
Fujin

So... yeah. Sorry to all of those Cyrax, Sector, Rain, Mileena, Goro, Sereena, and Stryker fans out there. You get to play as the garbage tier character from Injustice 2 and a comic book character that was last relevant back when Clinton was in office.
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Who’s Honkler do you think it’ll be, Phoenix, Leto, or Hamill?
 
purpleboy said:
Who’s Honkler do you think it’ll be, Phoenix, Leto, or Hamill?
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Hamill is probably too iconic to try and do, especially with the hyper-realistic artstyle they're doing. And I doubt Phoenix would be okay with his likeness being repeatedly disemboweled, probably the same as Leto (although I'm sure the majority of people would love to murder Leto's Joker in the most visceral ways possible).

I'm halfway certain MK Joker is just going to be like Injustice 2's Joker - just some hobo looking fucker with clown makeup on. Maybe we'll luck out and NRS will actually include different clown facepaint, so you can have a Leto, Phoenix, Ledger, etc. facsimilie.
 
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Hamill is probably too iconic to try and do, especially with the hyper-realistic artstyle they're doing. And I doubt Phoenix would be okay with his likeness being repeatedly disemboweled, probably the same as Leto (although I'm sure the majority of people would love to murder Leto's Joker in the most visceral ways possible).

I'm halfway certain MK Joker is just going to be like Injustice 2's Joker - just some hobo looking fucker with clown makeup on. Maybe we'll luck out and NRS will actually include different clown facepaint, so you can have a Leto, Phoenix, Ledger, etc. facsimilie.
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Next question: will he live in a society?
 
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SiccDicc said:
I love the accusations of sexism and really should have seen it coming given Boon's statements, all that virtue signalling may not have been about scapegoating from MTX and actually about trying to hide his own skeletons.
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wouldn't be surprised if very soon we end up looking at his skeletons, bitch
 
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So wait, you have to unlock fatalities? You can't just enter the proper button combo and go? If so, that's the cocksuckingest thing I've ever heard.
 
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