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@@sleepylmguy9968 Johnny in Mk9 and under was a Hollywood star and his costume was relatively the same throughout until X which just turned him into an army dude. The revenants were introduced in 9 and even then they weren’t skins. The ninjas are fine, and the characters I refer to looking the same as they do in X are because they’re introduced in X… the fodder looking characters are characters introduced in 11 The main issue comes from aside from the ninjas, every character looks like an NPC
This. I preordered MK11 Premium Edition and the changes done to the time-consuming krypt and the monetization plan alone made me wish I didn't. I sold my copy later.
Yeah especially with the story. Outworld Civil War, NetherRealm invading Earth, Evil Raiden? All looked really cool...then NRS just dropped all of them xD
@@TrueUnderDawgGaming personally I attribute the success with the guest characters no concle exclusives like 9 as well helps especially considering Rambo the terminator spawn the joker and adding characters that haven't been in the series for a awile and you got a recipe for the best selling mortal kombat simply because of the roaster and skins still being grindlble
That’s for sure. While Rhonda Rousey wasn’t the best Sonya . At least she didn’t do a bad job voicing her. Megan on the other hand was a terrible choice for voice acting.
No... I think Ronda's voice fit Sonya better, but her voice acting was worse. Megan had better voice acting but her voice didn't fit the character at all.
MK1 honestly had Crazy hype all the way until about a week after it released. Then people noticed all the glitches, the kameo system frustration, the story shenanigans, etc.
@ imo the hype kinda went down when they revealed that the story would be taking place in Edenia. I hope mk2 lore is better . I just think the lore could have been better
@@DanielofSophagus Yeah, it was a BG3 logo, hence the tentacles nick, but I player Phantom Liberty (the XP2077 expansion) and decided to change for this, it's just so damn good. I also used a Samurai t-shirt soon after that release tbh XD
Mk11 was the most balanced and gave people opportunities to learn and chain combos. There’s not a learning curve you can just easily go into training pick a character and learn them yourself or learn competitive strings through youtube
7:42 Mortal Kombat makes a new game every 4 years. Mortal Kombat 9 was released in 2011, MKX was released in 2015, MK11 was released in 2019, MK1 was released in 2023
Mk11 was a great game. Great story great graphics and alot to do the krypt was so fun and the towers of time. Alot of customisation to unlock in the crypt. So appealing to casuals. Even the interactions were amazing. They were also alot less predatory in mk 11 compared to mk1. Mkx had better game play and more fun in terms of combat but mk11 was a way more fun game. If mk1 had a crypt and fun modes and more customisation it would not be getting cancelled
I saw a thread with 5000 upvotes and like a thousand comments talking about how hard the tutorial in mk11 is and how they can't even get past it. I'm not understand people who say mk11 is easier in my opinion. I think when a game is more fluid and moves quickly it's so much easier for combos and combat. As someone who's really good on mk11 and put about 600 hours into it I played MK1 for the first time the other week and it's beyond easy! I couldn't even believe how slow they fell I was buzzing lmfao. Not only that but the distance the dash covers and how arcadey the movement is meant special moves and dash cancel was easy asf
MK 11 is the best MK in my opinion. I loved the slower gameplay and krushing blow system. It felt like you were in a real fight where you have to pick your spots in order to win. The graphics were amazing and I got me into customization which is something i usually don’t care to much for.
*Rhonda Rousey >* Megan Fox MK11 was a great game imo. I liked the gameplay, the story, & it had a lot of content to grind. It felt incomplete even with aftermath. Felt like they could of done 1 last Kombat pack before pulling the plug like adding Havik, Smoke, Reptile, Reiko, Sektor, Cyrax, Ermac, & Quan Chi. But unfortunately that wasn't the case.
Street fighter player here. MK11 is the only MK that I ever liked and bought . This game has a SF feeling to it, I cannot put my finger on the reason why it has this SF vibe. I guess this may be one of reasons, people from other franchises jumped in.
This, despite disliking some mechanics in MK11, it is by far my favorite. The slower methodical gameplay and the movement is what stuck with me. SF6 is scratching that itch now for me, MK1 was uninstalled after 2 months. 😅
I mean obviously. The content was crazy. Casuals love it. And its online worked. Also it came out in the digital age. All games from the last few years have been the best selling of that franchise.
The game had stunning visuals that’s why. When I first saw gameplay at the mk event and they showed baraka blighting the flesh off your arm was damn mind blowing
its funny cuz mortal kombat 11 was actually the first mk i ever owned and i loved made me want to go back and even try some of the older games. I still even play mk1 since im waiting for Conan and the T-1000 characters
Graphics make or break the game for me 90% of the time. I don’t care if the gameplay is good, I just can’t enjoy bad graphics for long periods. Truly don’t care what anyone has to say.
Even if I ended up dislinking many of the gameplay changes in 11, there is no doubt they knocked it out of the park with everything else. The huge krypt, the story mode plus the expansion that marked the finale to the timeline, the atmosphere and character designs are gorgeous, the huge amount of customization options (not moveset related, those suck), all the different towers with all kinds of rewards and gimmicks, Geras my beloved (even if I suck at him) and Fatal Blows.
The game's presentation in general was amazing. The intro, outros, appearance customization (and later the skill loadout), along with some iconic guest characters pushed the game a lot. I love MK11, it was the game that brought me back into enjoying fighting games, but even I knows it had flaws in a gameplay perspective. Being noob-friendly helped it a lot, too.
EXACTLY I'm convinced most people who hate mk11 put the controller down at the tutorial as it's notorious as one of the hardest tutorials it has like a 25% completion rate lmao. When I launch someone with Cassie I better have dash canceled 5 years ago because they'd fall RAPID. The timing in mk11 had to be perfect. Some combos the body had to be an inch of the ground or the rest wouldn't land which meant insane reflexes. In MK1 when I played it for the first time I could NOT believe how easy it was to combo lmfao I was over the moon when I saw how slow they fell in the air. Love how they like to complain about breakaways, rolls and get up attacks when they've got them too they just clearly don't know how to deal with them. Lastly... They talk about mk11 holding your hand but the fatal blow freezes in MK1? 😂😂😭 Come on now...
Mk11 was my return to fighting games, really enjoyed it, the roster was great rambo/robocop/terminator I really feel it was made with me in mind. I do wish they had the cyber ninjas and I wish the brutalities were easier to do like you can do in MKX but other than that I think it was pretty perfect. also playing shao kahn and calling someone worthless and weak never gets old.
I still play this game till this day,it has the best roster incarnation,his online community remains very strong tho,not dig 💯with the story even tho I love fire god Liu kang,I wish could have given more love and care to this game as really well deserved,I’ll never surpass/move on the fact that i never got the klassic frost skin and mk9 scorpion 🦂💢🤯💔
I just don’t get why NRS would stray so far away from MK11 AESTHETICALLY.. The character designs and graphics were 🔥… Also one thing they underestimated in MK1 was how important character customization is to people. Lose the cameo bs, make the characters look like actual fearsome warriors again, bring back the dark gritty grimey look, bring back the krypt, and hire a new story writer..💯
7:06 just cuz people were looking forward to mk11 just cuz of X isn’t the reason why 11 sold well. That means that the game was at its height when it dropped. Those numbers are over the games life span😂 and mk1 proves that
Everyone knows this it’s no secret Boon said it many times. After first two of NRS were 🔥 n heavy promo expectations were high that’s a reason why. The graphics were absolutely outstanding too still holds up beautifully. It was casual friendly & had heaps of content too. You can’t compare to old ones though because we don’t have official figures, I would also add that MK2 made like a billion in the arcades for a year (90’s money) before selling roughly 6-8 million copies. That’s pretty insane, imagine these days a game being played for a year at arcades n selling like that afterwards? 90’s fighters were a different beast!! I wish we could get a proper breakdown of all MK games sales!!
MK11 was the first fighting game of this generation that I ever played. I remember being blown away by the graphics, gameplay, and story. Then I went online and saw how much people hated it. I just didn't get it. To this day, I still consider MK11 to be a top tier game.
I will confess that many years ago playing those Capcom versus games in the arcade I used to press down on all the buttons at once to get a super move activated. So, maybe to probably I can't deny if it was offered in a fighting game, I would use these auto combos mentioned in this video.
I think a few items you missed here were the customization and the augments system. The fact you could save up to i believe it was 5 different versions of the same character with all of the cool different skins they offered was huge for me. Then also customizing with the Augments and Jinsei Augments was really fun to me. The chase of trying to get or find the level 4 augments to max out your favorite characters had me continuously playing after everything else was completed and there was nothing else to do. Personally I didn't like they dropped these options for MK1 and I didn't really care for the whole Kameo fighter aspect either.
I've used basic attacks to counter a fatal blow sometimes it'll be a millisecond I press my controll before they press there fatal blow and it'll break their armor
Mk11 was a great fighting game story mode part 1 was decent 7.5/10 the aftermath was great and had a great ending leading into mk1 10/10, and awesome gameplay and game modes.
MK11 is the best entry. In no small part due to nostalgia bait, but also because it nailed the mechanics the best without all the extra, often unneeded, fat that other MK games came with
MK11 was a ton of fun. I played it for 2 years straight almost every day until I burnt myself out on it. I wonder if that burn out carried over to the new Game.
I think MK11 also benefited from some really exciting marketing / trailers. Another reason, even if it's seen as the worst version, is the Switch version. The Switch version was able to add a lot of sales due to the popularity of the console, this making MK11 a game you can play on-the-go, and all without being ...too compromised (at least, not as badly as MK1 on Switch).
Because I got the Ultimate Edition for $8.99 Canadian in a bundle that also included Injustice 2 Ultimate Edition. Pretty sure I wasn't the only one... WB is desperate.
MK 11 graphics were excellent,, unfortunately the characters felt glued to the ground and had a delayed reaction time. I purchased it because I was stoked on MKX and was so disappointed that I haven't played it since . Hopefully the characters move better and have a quick response on MK 1
I will say this as a player who was alive and playing in the arcades back when Mortal Kombat II was a big thing MK11 had that MK2 feel in hype and fun with kombat league the competitiveness👍🏼👍🏼💯
MK11 only beat MKX due to the time of release, the quarantine was literally the year after, and also it was super easy for cheese so a lot of new players hop on that lol
I prefer mk11 over mk1 any day…. I halte the kameo mechanic and Even if mk1 is maybe better Gameplay Wise, the Whole package of mk11 blows mk1 outta the park imo
What a coinidence! I was just talking about this game with my mother and how MK1 dropped the ball by not having Cary Hiroyuki Tagawa as Shang and not having characters such as D'vorah, Cetrion (her favourite), or Kronika over people like Johnny Cage. (One of her bottom five). It's her favourite fighting game btw, even better then Street fighter 2, and she LOVED that game when she was a kid.
I definitely think it rode the high of MKX. But it was a step down for me in terms of roster, character designs, and Fatalities believe it or not. Only a few good ones this time. Funnily enough bringing the gear system in, which was an Injustice thing, made this the first MK game to feel a lot like Injustice, when I always felt NetherRealm was dedicated to making the two franchises different.
Mk11 looks stunning. Imho looks even better than mk1. Quality of 3d models is insane. Backgrounds are simple and effective. Say what you want about balancing and story, but mk11 was a finished and polished product. (Unlike mk1 on launch or over the course of the year)
People blaming Covid is pure copium. That’s what helping those people sleep better. The Riding the MKX train makes sense. GTA 5 wouldn’t had been so good without the success of GTA4 and their other Entries
Well deserved. It had a shit load of content and customization. The base roster was pretty good and got better with dlc. Out of the NRS era its my favorite entry with 9 being second. It played like a tweaked mk2 imo which is my favorite of the classic era. I feel most of the hate came from the esports sides of things. There is a reason why mk1 is not looked at as well mainly cause all the stuff mk11 offered mk1 just doesnt have.
The reason is because of the story they want to know how the story will continue, I know 1000 people in group which is there reason on buying mk11 and mk1
Just going to say one thing Mkx and Mk11 have been on sale with the ultimate edition at like $4.99 for like 2 years each also the current Mk is only on new gen so with that said for not being out for nearly as long and not being on sale like those two have been it’s already sold 5 million that’s all
I got mortal Kombat 11 after it released two years later. I did not have a PlayStation 4 or 5 all I had was a Nintendo switch. So I was able to get the game on Nintendo switch which I could not do for mortal Kombat X and I also got it with all the DLC already on the game pretty much for $30. I would not have gotten mortal Kombat 11 had it not been on the Nintendo hey I've been on sale with all the DLC like that. Had MKX been on a Nintendo console and had all the DLC accessible 10 minutes on a discount then I certainly would have got it too. So that is definitely a contributing factor to why it's sold so well.
Mk1 would have sold better if it was on ps4 at launch instead of a damn Wii kmt who the hell even ask for a that shit honest a waist of time and resources
They ported it to Switch because 11 actually sold pretty well on it. It also helped that 11 was actually a serviceable port on Switch, so there was some expectation that they wouldn't totally screw up MK1 on the same system.
@haiven5205 They did, but they also probably didn't want to have to make six different versions of the game, especially when two of the versions they did release look and run as poorly as they do.
The fact that MK11 is the most successful game in the Franchise makes me feel sick to my stomach, I will admit it has some good qualities but it doesn’t change the fact that it’s the most Flawed Game in the Franchise with more issues than MK1 and Fans are Forgetting and Ignoring.
@ I heartily disagree on this, while I see than MK1 has some issues is all on the result of how the Development was built too early and the concept of the Multiverse was done too late, keep in mind that Fans bought MK11 because how much they loved MKX and the same goes to MK1 with 11, you must understand that the Issues with MK1 started with MK11 and I know the Issues with 11 that I could write about it
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MK11 sold well because the designs and customization were top tier
I don’t wanna be that guy but 40% of the cast are in army gear, 20% are zombies, 5% are ninjas, 30% look the same as X, and 5% look like fodder
no it was because it was reigniting the hype back from mkx, then snuffed that hype out and mk1 killed the last bit of goodwill.
@@nathanbrewer408no offense but that just sounds like what Mortal Kombat cast wore in most of the games. What’s the issue in MK11?
@@sleepylmguy9968 Johnny in Mk9 and under was a Hollywood star and his costume was relatively the same throughout until X which just turned him into an army dude. The revenants were introduced in 9 and even then they weren’t skins. The ninjas are fine, and the characters I refer to looking the same as they do in X are because they’re introduced in X… the fodder looking characters are characters introduced in 11
The main issue comes from aside from the ninjas, every character looks like an NPC
@@nathanbrewer408 That’s honestly a very good perspective 👍
Mk11 sold well because the expectations for a sequel to MKX were highly optimistic.
This. I preordered MK11 Premium Edition and the changes done to the time-consuming krypt and the monetization plan alone made me wish I didn't. I sold my copy later.
Yeah especially with the story. Outworld Civil War, NetherRealm invading Earth, Evil Raiden? All looked really cool...then NRS just dropped all of them xD
@@TrueUnderDawgGaming personally I attribute the success with the guest characters no concle exclusives like 9 as well helps especially considering Rambo the terminator spawn the joker and adding characters that haven't been in the series for a awile and you got a recipe for the best selling mortal kombat simply because of the roaster and skins still being grindlble
I agree, that's why I bought it
@@TrueUnderDawgGamingstill better then MK1 by fucking miles
Can we all at least admit Rhonda did better than Megan?
That’s for sure. While Rhonda Rousey wasn’t the best Sonya . At least she didn’t do a bad job voicing her. Megan on the other hand was a terrible choice for voice acting.
No... I think Ronda's voice fit Sonya better, but her voice acting was worse. Megan had better voice acting but her voice didn't fit the character at all.
@@hanzohasashi4534Megan did not voice act good, she sounded like a robot 🙏
@@derek6914 Both were crap
Ronda did such a good job, aint nobody knew it was her
I’ll never forgot the mk11 hype and reveal. Mk1 never touched that
I played MK11 a lot, Regret buying MK1🥴
MK1 honestly had Crazy hype all the way until about a week after it released. Then people noticed all the glitches, the kameo system frustration, the story shenanigans, etc.
@ imo the hype kinda went down when they revealed that the story would be taking place in Edenia. I hope mk2 lore is better . I just think the lore could have been better
Mk1 reveal as soon as they showed gameplay everybody noticed it was a step back visually and in many other ways 😢
KK in a Wheelchair carried MK11 XD
He started off hating Tarkatan
@@orsonthompson5085now he doesnt really care
You shut your mouth
No you
Damn those moobs are huge, don't just stare
Mk X was amazing so MK 11 sold well. This happens to ALL franchise series.
I love your profile picture man
@@DanielofSophagus Yeah, it was a BG3 logo, hence the tentacles nick, but I player Phantom Liberty (the XP2077 expansion) and decided to change for this, it's just so damn good.
I also used a Samurai t-shirt soon after that release tbh XD
J@@DanielofSophagusKUAI LIANG SUB-ZERO
The brutalities in this game were 10/10
mk 11 ride on the nostalgic hype with its marketing
not surprised honestly, MK 11 captured the original arcade games vibes and the characters are recognizable to their Arcade counterparts,
Mk11 was the most balanced and gave people opportunities to learn and chain combos. There’s not a learning curve you can just easily go into training pick a character and learn them yourself or learn competitive strings through youtube
7:42 Mortal Kombat makes a new game every 4 years. Mortal Kombat 9 was released in 2011, MKX was released in 2015, MK11 was released in 2019, MK1 was released in 2023
@@datdankdj8264 Yes but players were enjoying Injustice games in-between. It was like a palette cleanser.
@ yeah, I liked those games too, but I stand by my opinion that Injustice 1 had WAY better character models lol
Mk11 was a great game. Great story great graphics and alot to do the krypt was so fun and the towers of time. Alot of customisation to unlock in the crypt. So appealing to casuals. Even the interactions were amazing. They were also alot less predatory in mk 11 compared to mk1. Mkx had better game play and more fun in terms of combat but mk11 was a way more fun game. If mk1 had a crypt and fun modes and more customisation it would not be getting cancelled
I saw a thread with 5000 upvotes and like a thousand comments talking about how hard the tutorial in mk11 is and how they can't even get past it. I'm not understand people who say mk11 is easier in my opinion. I think when a game is more fluid and moves quickly it's so much easier for combos and combat. As someone who's really good on mk11 and put about 600 hours into it I played MK1 for the first time the other week and it's beyond easy!
I couldn't even believe how slow they fell I was buzzing lmfao. Not only that but the distance the dash covers and how arcadey the movement is meant special moves and dash cancel was easy asf
It came out in the c19 era and everyone was stuck at home
That was a crushing blow man😂
Excuses to cope with
MK 11 is the best MK in my opinion. I loved the slower gameplay and krushing blow system. It felt like you were in a real fight where you have to pick your spots in order to win. The graphics were amazing and I got me into customization which is something i usually don’t care to much for.
I loved MK11. I had more fun with MK11 than all the rest. I did enjoy MK9 and MKX, but I like MK11 more. I said what I said. Fight me
it’s legit a fun game!
I do to. My fav MK by a mile
Mk 11s story and aftermath story was hilariously enjoyable
Shang was amazing 😊❤
Unlike Khao's Reign
@@itsizzi4369 did somebody say khaos!!!😈
I still play it
*Rhonda Rousey >* Megan Fox
MK11 was a great game imo. I liked the gameplay, the story, & it had a lot of content to grind. It felt incomplete even with aftermath. Felt like they could of done 1 last Kombat pack before pulling the plug like adding Havik, Smoke, Reptile, Reiko, Sektor, Cyrax, Ermac, & Quan Chi. But unfortunately that wasn't the case.
Street fighter player here. MK11 is the only MK that I ever liked and bought . This game has a SF feeling to it, I cannot put my finger on the reason why it has this SF vibe. I guess this may be one of reasons, people from other franchises jumped in.
This, despite disliking some mechanics in MK11, it is by far my favorite.
The slower methodical gameplay and the movement is what stuck with me.
SF6 is scratching that itch now for me, MK1 was uninstalled after 2 months. 😅
MK11 had most of the characters from MK Trilogy. Fighting game success is all in the characters.
Mk11 is my favorite of the Mk games followed by MK Trilogy Playstation edition.
I never once had an issue with Rhonda’s voice acting I thought it actually fit Sonya really well
I think you forgot how we got a lot of kontent for MK11
I mean obviously. The content was crazy. Casuals love it. And its online worked. Also it came out in the digital age. All games from the last few years have been the best selling of that franchise.
The game had stunning visuals that’s why. When I first saw gameplay at the mk event and they showed baraka blighting the flesh off your arm was damn mind blowing
It was fun. A ton of cosmetic, intro and outro options. No kameos. Fatalities were awesome!!!
mk11 is the GOAT
its funny cuz mortal kombat 11 was actually the first mk i ever owned and i loved made me want to go back and even try some of the older games. I still even play mk1 since im waiting for Conan and the T-1000 characters
Tbh not rlly shocked by this. Mkx was so good, that made the expectations for mk11 that damn high. The hype for that game was honestly unreal
Graphics make or break the game for me 90% of the time. I don’t care if the gameplay is good, I just can’t enjoy bad graphics for long periods. Truly don’t care what anyone has to say.
The Best Mortal Kombat Game is The Nintendo Port of the Old Mortal Kombat. The One where the blood is replaced with sweat.
Even if I ended up dislinking many of the gameplay changes in 11, there is no doubt they knocked it out of the park with everything else.
The huge krypt, the story mode plus the expansion that marked the finale to the timeline, the atmosphere and character designs are gorgeous, the huge amount of customization options (not moveset related, those suck), all the different towers with all kinds of rewards and gimmicks, Geras my beloved (even if I suck at him) and Fatal Blows.
Maybe it’s because it’s my first mortal kombat I played seriously, but this game is so fun, the combat is fun, and the game is eye candy
The game's presentation in general was amazing. The intro, outros, appearance customization (and later the skill loadout), along with some iconic guest characters pushed the game a lot. I love MK11, it was the game that brought me back into enjoying fighting games, but even I knows it had flaws in a gameplay perspective. Being noob-friendly helped it a lot, too.
Skill issue. I beat and blocked tons of Fatale blows. And I owned tons of Scorpion players with my Skarlet. MK11 is my favorite of the new MK games
EXACTLY I'm convinced most people who hate mk11 put the controller down at the tutorial as it's notorious as one of the hardest tutorials it has like a 25% completion rate lmao.
When I launch someone with Cassie I better have dash canceled 5 years ago because they'd fall RAPID. The timing in mk11 had to be perfect. Some combos the body had to be an inch of the ground or the rest wouldn't land which meant insane reflexes.
In MK1 when I played it for the first time I could NOT believe how easy it was to combo lmfao I was over the moon when I saw how slow they fell in the air. Love how they like to complain about breakaways, rolls and get up attacks when they've got them too they just clearly don't know how to deal with them.
Lastly... They talk about mk11 holding your hand but the fatal blow freezes in MK1? 😂😂😭 Come on now...
Mk11 was my return to fighting games, really enjoyed it, the roster was great rambo/robocop/terminator I really feel it was made with me in mind. I do wish they had the cyber ninjas and I wish the brutalities were easier to do like you can do in MKX but other than that I think it was pretty perfect. also playing shao kahn and calling someone worthless and weak never gets old.
Great points were brought up.
Well said.
I still play this game till this day,it has the best roster incarnation,his online community remains very strong tho,not dig 💯with the story even tho I love fire god Liu kang,I wish could have given more love and care to this game as really well deserved,I’ll never surpass/move on the fact that i never got the klassic frost skin and mk9 scorpion 🦂💢🤯💔
I just don’t get why NRS would stray so far away from MK11 AESTHETICALLY.. The character designs and graphics were 🔥… Also one thing they underestimated in MK1 was how important character customization is to people. Lose the cameo bs, make the characters look like actual fearsome warriors again, bring back the dark gritty grimey look, bring back the krypt, and hire a new story writer..💯
7:06 just cuz people were looking forward to mk11 just cuz of X isn’t the reason why 11 sold well. That means that the game was at its height when it dropped. Those numbers are over the games life span😂 and mk1 proves that
rhonda wasnt that bad, i liked her voice
We should not forget the massive customizations and amazing Crypt mod.
Even changing the fighting styles was very good and helpful.
Everyone knows this it’s no secret Boon said it many times. After first two of NRS were 🔥 n heavy promo expectations were high that’s a reason why. The graphics were absolutely outstanding too still holds up beautifully. It was casual friendly & had heaps of content too. You can’t compare to old ones though because we don’t have official figures, I would also add that MK2 made like a billion in the arcades for a year (90’s money) before selling roughly 6-8 million copies. That’s pretty insane, imagine these days a game being played for a year at arcades n selling like that afterwards? 90’s fighters were a different beast!! I wish we could get a proper breakdown of all MK games sales!!
The guests. You forgot the guests.
I love the grinding in MK11. Best game for casuals
MK11 was the first fighting game of this generation that I ever played. I remember being blown away by the graphics, gameplay, and story. Then I went online and saw how much people hated it. I just didn't get it. To this day, I still consider MK11 to be a top tier game.
I will confess that many years ago playing those Capcom versus games in the arcade I used to press down on all the buttons at once to get a super move activated. So, maybe to probably I can't deny if it was offered in a fighting game, I would use these auto combos mentioned in this video.
I think a few items you missed here were the customization and the augments system. The fact you could save up to i believe it was 5 different versions of the same character with all of the cool different skins they offered was huge for me. Then also customizing with the Augments and Jinsei Augments was really fun to me. The chase of trying to get or find the level 4 augments to max out your favorite characters had me continuously playing after everything else was completed and there was nothing else to do. Personally I didn't like they dropped these options for MK1 and I didn't really care for the whole Kameo fighter aspect either.
I've used basic attacks to counter a fatal blow sometimes it'll be a millisecond I press my controll before they press there fatal blow and it'll break their armor
Mk11 was a great fighting game story mode part 1 was decent 7.5/10 the aftermath was great and had a great ending leading into mk1 10/10, and awesome gameplay and game modes.
"We don't even know when the Conan trailer is coming out."
Literally a day later. "Conan's trailer is coming out on Thursday." How ironic.
certainly helps that MKX was a banger and MK11 is on sale like every other month ..
MK11 is the best entry. In no small part due to nostalgia bait, but also because it nailed the mechanics the best without all the extra, often unneeded, fat that other MK games came with
MK 11 and MK Deception are the GREATEST GAMES EVER MADE!!!!!!! Let's Go TrueUnderDawg!!!!!!! 🎮👊🏻🐉🦂🦂🦂✌🏻😎🙏🏻
MK11 was a ton of fun. I played it for 2 years straight almost every day until I burnt myself out on it. I wonder if that burn out carried over to the new Game.
11 has to be my favourite out of every MK game.
If they merge 11 and 1 together, for MK2... that game is going to be on point!!! And probably will sell just as well. 🔥
Mk11 gameplay is great still to this day, it's what I've been playing since chaos reigns
I think MK11 also benefited from some really exciting marketing / trailers. Another reason, even if it's seen as the worst version, is the Switch version. The Switch version was able to add a lot of sales due to the popularity of the console, this making MK11 a game you can play on-the-go, and all without being ...too compromised (at least, not as badly as MK1 on Switch).
Because I got the Ultimate Edition for $8.99 Canadian in a bundle that also included Injustice 2 Ultimate Edition. Pretty sure I wasn't the only one... WB is desperate.
I truly feel one the reasons why MK11 sold well was due to the hype from MKX.
MK 11 graphics were excellent,, unfortunately the characters felt glued to the ground and had a delayed reaction time. I purchased it because I was stoked on MKX and was so disappointed that I haven't played it since . Hopefully the characters move better and have a quick response on MK 1
I will say this as a player who was alive and playing in the arcades back when Mortal Kombat II was a big thing MK11 had that MK2 feel in hype and fun with kombat league the competitiveness👍🏼👍🏼💯
Wait, does that list include all of the different SF2 variations?
This needs to be shown to all mk1 fans...
MK11 only beat MKX due to the time of release, the quarantine was literally the year after, and also it was super easy for cheese so a lot of new players hop on that lol
Damn bro stop the glazing😭😭
MK11 is awesome! (I don’t know anything about competitive play)
Mk11 did all the things right for Casuals like story mode, graphics, dialogues etc
I prefer mk11 over mk1 any day…. I halte the kameo mechanic and Even if mk1 is maybe better Gameplay Wise, the Whole package of mk11 blows mk1 outta the park imo
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What a coinidence! I was just talking about this game with my mother and how MK1 dropped the ball by not having Cary Hiroyuki Tagawa as Shang and not having characters such as D'vorah, Cetrion (her favourite), or Kronika over people like Johnny Cage. (One of her bottom five).
It's her favourite fighting game btw, even better then Street fighter 2, and she LOVED that game when she was a kid.
I’ve been playing MK since MK II on arcade and tbh MK 11 is my favorite in the series.
Honestly I would've thought MK9 would sell the most since it revived the franchise.
I definitely think it rode the high of MKX. But it was a step down for me in terms of roster, character designs, and Fatalities believe it or not. Only a few good ones this time. Funnily enough bringing the gear system in, which was an Injustice thing, made this the first MK game to feel a lot like Injustice, when I always felt NetherRealm was dedicated to making the two franchises different.
Mk11 looks stunning. Imho looks even better than mk1. Quality of 3d models is insane. Backgrounds are simple and effective. Say what you want about balancing and story, but mk11 was a finished and polished product. (Unlike mk1 on launch or over the course of the year)
Bro you got a smooth voice you should try to be a narrator FR.
MK11 is my ultimate favourite game of all time plus I love the AI Fights… I actually preordered MK1 based on MK11 which I regretted as I loathe MK1
Same
I foolishly contributed to mk11 sales thinking it would play somewhat like mkx. Long story short, I dropped it after 2 weeks.
10:15 That could be part of the reason why MK1 sales are low. People bought MK11, didn't like it, and didn't want to take a chance with MK1
People blaming Covid is pure copium. That’s what helping those people sleep better. The Riding the MKX train makes sense. GTA 5 wouldn’t had been so good without the success of GTA4 and their other Entries
I think you missed the krypt with its third person perspective and puzzles, traps and rewards
That was definitely a cool part of the game, but I don't think its why people bought the game.
MK 11 is the best Mortal Kombat released yet! It has a deep and balanced gameplay!
That's because it's actually the best mortal Kombat and I've been playing since 1992
Well deserved. It had a shit load of content and customization. The base roster was pretty good and got better with dlc. Out of the NRS era its my favorite entry with 9 being second. It played like a tweaked mk2 imo which is my favorite of the classic era.
I feel most of the hate came from the esports sides of things. There is a reason why mk1 is not looked at as well mainly cause all the stuff mk11 offered mk1 just doesnt have.
The reason is because of the story they want to know how the story will continue, I know 1000 people in group which is there reason on buying mk11 and mk1
Just going to say one thing Mkx and Mk11 have been on sale with the ultimate edition at like $4.99 for like 2 years each also the current Mk is only on new gen so with that said for not being out for nearly as long and not being on sale like those two have been it’s already sold 5 million that’s all
Random but I need to know where you got that black canary statue from?!
@@kakeman36 Studio 71, I think lol
@ appreciate it! Love the content!
I bought the game a year ago. I haven't played MK since the 90s, and I thought it was a great game.
Alot of hype from MK9 and MKX, plus comics, build the hype.
I got mortal Kombat 11 after it released two years later. I did not have a PlayStation 4 or 5 all I had was a Nintendo switch. So I was able to get the game on Nintendo switch which I could not do for mortal Kombat X and I also got it with all the DLC already on the game pretty much for $30. I would not have gotten mortal Kombat 11 had it not been on the Nintendo hey I've been on sale with all the DLC like that. Had MKX been on a Nintendo console and had all the DLC accessible 10 minutes on a discount then I certainly would have got it too. So that is definitely a contributing factor to why it's sold so well.
I think is fear to mention that MK11 Krypt was very good.
MK11 was FANTASTIC…MK1 IS HORRENDOUS
Towers of time were kinda fun. Better than invasions.
Mk1 would have sold better if it was on ps4 at launch instead of a damn Wii kmt who the hell even ask for a that shit honest a waist of time and resources
They ported it to Switch because 11 actually sold pretty well on it. It also helped that 11 was actually a serviceable port on Switch, so there was some expectation that they wouldn't totally screw up MK1 on the same system.
@ that’s understandable but at the same time they left out a huge market by leaving out ps4 and Xbox 1 out
@haiven5205 They did, but they also probably didn't want to have to make six different versions of the game, especially when two of the versions they did release look and run as poorly as they do.
Mk11 was the only MK game that i pre ordered. People hated that game. And now after mk1 all of a sudden people started to dikride mk11.
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I do LOOOOOOVE MK11… wish we got KP3
I also want KP3 for MK1… I want Kung Jin
Is the t 1000 available because he isn’t on mines yet
VF also a game that looks and sounds outdated. Cuz it is a same old game from 2006. Much hope for VF6 to revive the series
The fact that MK11 is the most successful game in the Franchise makes me feel sick to my stomach, I will admit it has some good qualities but it doesn’t change the fact that it’s the most Flawed Game in the Franchise with more issues than MK1 and Fans are Forgetting and Ignoring.
i loved mk 11 people hated so bad on that game now they wanna switch up and say it’s better than mk1
@ I heartily disagree on this, while I see than MK1 has some issues is all on the result of how the Development was built too early and the concept of the Multiverse was done too late, keep in mind that Fans bought MK11 because how much they loved MKX and the same goes to MK1 with 11, you must understand that the Issues with MK1 started with MK11 and I know the Issues with 11 that I could write about it
They not ready for that conversation @featherguardian6023
I like MK11 way more than MKX and MK1
Mk11 is probably the most balanced game rn. I don’t personally like it a whole lot either however it does have a good competitive atmosphere