My thing is it’s the fact people paid base price and up to $120 for this 💩, that should be enough to cover everything they release during this games life cycle because all they did was remove things that should have been in the base game, and charging y’all for it as dlc as they drip feed it. People saying this game wasn’t finished, it definitely was finished, they just broke it up into pieces to stretch it and make more money. Only 2 online modes in 2024, mostly color palettes as rewards, no lobbies in 2024, boring character designs, boring character move sets, unbalanced Kameo system no one asked for, no mercies, no friendships, mediocre story mode that goes to 💩 half way through, THE most boring online gaming mode EVER in invasions, no way to earn REAL skins after you max your characters but through your wallet, blatant “woke” agendas littered throughout… Man it’s hard to believe what this game has became.
@@corvoattano4544 imagine mkx as a base with no variations instead they add stance switches so the characters have extra tools and u get a mixture of running and wave dashing in the same game neutral jump 2s come back as well
Run button breaks neutral with just one button…it also made every character a rush down on top of that.. MK9 the GOAT- it’s still fast with most characters especially if you learn wave dashing which takes skill and doesn’t break neutral. MK9’s flaw was the power level was too high for some characters, but it should have been the blueprint from that game forward.
MKX is the _only_ NRS product that could have been "fixed" to bring the franchise up to Capcom / SNK / Bamco standards. MK9 was still too stilted to be proper, competitive fighter; MK11, too simple and restrictive (Krushing Blow supers were a nice addition, tho'); Injustices, too gimmicky and projectile-happy. 'X' was as good as NRS got, and everything since has gone backwards -- to where we are now back to about MKvDCU levels of substandard.
I'm not spending one more dollar on this game, I paid $120 for a beta and my reward is the chance to pay more? Used to be when I paid $120 I expected a full game
"What does NRS have to do......" How about listen to the community instead of implementing a bunch of crap no one asked for? Start with either scrapping the kameo system or making it a separate game mode.
Imagine if they didn’t start making every game from scrap… we would have proper 1v1, 2v2, kameo mode as extra game mode and many more… imagine if they at least stopped making Mk games from scrap after MkX and just kept improving.
The game is still in a bad way. A slightly less stinky turd is still a turd. -The expansion does nothing to remedy the extreme lack of single player content and game modes. -The online features and functionality is still a joke compared to other games on the market. -Invasions mode is still painfully boring to play. And there is no other single player mode for people to play instead. -The costume designs still look stupid. With actual good looking costumes being locked behind a paywall. -There are way too many guest characters in this game. We're coming up on 6 guest characters already. Where the hell is this going to end? When over half the roster is guest characters from movies and TV shows of a bygone era? -We still don't have multiple slots for character customization. So whenever you want a different look for your character you have to customize them all over again every time. -$50 for a expansion that does not even have half the content of the base game. Are they on drugs over at NRS and WB? Because the only explanation for this insanely stupid price is the people over there have to be on some strong drugs. These guys are quickly becoming Activision 2.0.
- New single player story expansion does nothing to remedy the issue with single player content - why do people think the NRS community are fucking morons?
@@intellectic9155 lmao I dislike the game as much as the next person but only a halfwit would've bothered typing all that out. Plus, the first point is nonsensical I'd say you're the moron too for replying
You actually do have multiple customization loadouts...unfortunately they're randomized instead of letting you pick from multiple custom slots in the character select screen like Tekken or THE LITERAL LAST GAME. Clunky asf
Maximilian made a video the other day struggling with Takeda trails and he said that the reason why people don't like kameos is because they are not easy to use in combos like other assist games.
I truly think that's why most people don't like the game. I think is more so that they can't deal with the cameos being used against them making them lose. With this generation of players, winning has become the most important thing in their lives. You get threatened with you life, called the n word just because they lost to you. It's sad to see
I can use Kameos very good, but I still hate them, Kameos would have been cool as an extra game mode 🤷🏼♂️ all I want from MK is proper 1v1 and 2v2 and then some extra modes… but nah, for some reason NRS keeps making every mk game from scratch instead of improving and expanding and making a great mortal kombat game. They started so good with MK9, there was so much stuff, proper 1v1, 2v2. Then with MKX they evolved, gave characters more moves by splitting them into variations, with MK11 it was all about customisation… but then came this MK1 crap, the only good thing about it is the roster, roster was lacking in MKX and MK11… they also took that REBOOT thing to far that got us this bare bones trash game…
Ermac Quan chi Liu Kang Raiden Baraaka Homelander Peacemaker Cage Mileena Sindel Tonia Ashrah Nitara Kameos Combos uninterrupted from defense Broken combo breaks. The game is still buggy.
Same. I stuck around for Injustice 2... But, the franchise died for me at about the Sindel update of MK11. Since then, only 'X' remains installed. Everything about MK1 is nearly the diametric opposite of the direction that the franchise _looked like_ it was heading in with MKX... There is, literally, nothing in "nu MK" for me any longer.
imagine: MK1 2v2. Leave all the kameo calls, but as soon as you do a breaker, or a forward throw your teammate stays and steps up (many ways to do the swap). That would be the best MK of all time for sure and would take it's own №1 place in 2v2 fighting games. And as one dies he stays on the ground as a ragdoll for others to kick him around, the match ends when the whole team is dead. P.S. ofcourse I mean 2p vs 2p.
I don't know, I just feel like this game feels so much like Injustice? And I like Injustice but I don't want MK to feel like it. I want them to be separate...
Without 1v1, I'd never touch this game... Not even for T-1000 and Conan. The game is just too shallow with assists stealing 50% of the main characters' moves. The fact that they have refused to provide a 1v1 mode -- even DBZF had 1v1, 2v2, and 3v3; with the team-based KoF's having had 1v1 for decades -- means that they know that 1) providing 1v1 would expose the stripped-down nature of the characters, and 2) people would flock to 1v1, exposing how much they hate assists.
Y’all done slapped this man around so bad about his opinions on this 🚮 game that he just said fk it and caved in.. Bro sounds defeated and uninspired in these videos.😂
no, he actually sounds honest. if MK had a legacy like street fighter or Tekken that carried from game to game that was more than fatalities and gore I'm sure more people would be happy. I was able to pick up my main in Tekken 8 after not playing the series for over a decade and it was like riding a bike. That's legacy!
@@arjunratnadev While I will admit there is a problem, sadly this is something that we can only measure improvement from across the next couple of games lol
This is a really good point. To draw on another example, DarkSoul2 saw a lot of criticism from players coming from DS1, but is beloved by those who played DS2 first. Both are great games but feel very different in core gameplay mechanics beyond just an iteration of development, so you see a great dichotomy of opinion between the players of the fromsoft games. However, NRS’ aim to do something new for the next title doesn’t seek middle-ground of strong features from prior titles, but instead continuous and distinctive iteration of development for unique identity. That’s not necessarily bad, but if the voice of players is continuously ignored, who are they making the game for?
This is how I felt coming off of MK9 and MKX. I wasn't a fan of MK11 and it was a struggle to start enjoying MK1. It's a shame because I have been playing MK for over 20 years. I would love some kind of legacy system. Still waiting for them to find something and stick with it.
MK9 was a good comeback for the franchise; while MKX the pinnacle for NRS gameplay. The Injustice games were amusing for what they were, and get a pass because they were MK games. MK11 marked the "ꝯoꝩslopping" of the brand into oblivion; with only it's characters' designs being up to par. MK1 has not only dropped the ball on every metric that MK should be adjudicated upon, it's kicked the balls its dropped into the ocean. I honestly doubt I'll ever play another [new] NRS game that's not a "HD" re-release of an older title... MK1 is just _that_ irredeemably bad, and leaves such an indelible stain on the brand, that I don't see it ever regaining its grandeur.
I agree strongly with this take. My personal view is the game doesn’t look appealing. I mean yeah graphics are good but I prefer the whole flashy aesthetic of sf6 and tekken. Especially with how tekken looks overall mk looks bland in comparison.
Tom, I'll never purchase or play another NRS game again. They got me on IJ2, they got me on MK11 and they got me on MK1. 3 strikes and you're out. It's been over 10 years since NRS has put out a playable game. I'd be a fool to give them another chance and I'm no fool.
The buff patch made the game a lot better and I finally got to play Takeda (although I’m struggling to do his combos consistently 😝). My main prob with the kameos is I don’t like the idea that my characters need ‘help’ to do insane combos: makes my main fighter feel like they need to be pampered by the kameos 😂
Nrs and wb don’t want you to buy the base game anymore just wait and pay 75 bucks for the final version of the game get everything people like me spent over 200$ on now and just cherry pick the skins you want
Won’t happen, because some dumb@SS at NRS decided to make KAMEOS part of the core gameplay 🤦🏻♂️ removing them is like removing 3 wheels from your 4 wheels car, the car will work, but how far will you be able to go in that?
Won't happen, as they've already started on their next game (they do that during the expansion period), and there is no way they would devote the man-hours needed to flesh-out the main cast with more specials etc.; much less, balance it all. The one thing with NRS products that you can be certain of, is that what you see at launch, DLC racketeering aside, will be 99% of what you see once they are abandoned
I'd be happy if the game didn't feel like I was fighting in a pool of honey and everything wasn't moving slow AF... And why TF does this game still not have push block? And no! "Flawless block" isn't the same thing, flawless block belongs in the same place MK11 does, the trash.
Yep... That about covers it. However, there is as much chance of that happening as there if of NRS overhauling the game engine to play like MKX! _>don't hold your breath_
While the patch was very good for the game, as long as they keep their current design philosophy it'll never be good enough. Characters who had classic movesets for 20+ years were redone from the ground up, with most of their new tools being much weaker. Just look at mileena MK9/MKX vs MK1: why can't she do air sais? Why don't they go full screen? Why does ex sai cost 2 bars? Why change what was already working so well? In the end you are correct this game has MK11 all over it and while some people might like that, they sure don't like kameos. An entire system that basically boils down to combo extensions and plus frames instead of real assist mechanics. And why do DLC characters seem so much more complete and interesting? Maybe it's because they woke up to these issues or because the game wasn't finished on release, I don't know. Either way they'll need to do more in the upcoming expansion to really turn MK1 into a game worth playing.
I'll tell you why the DLC kharacters are so good. 2 words-PAY TO WIN. imagine paying for a character and finding out after that it sucks balls, would you ever buy another one? Then it dominoes from there. Other people see its strength and just have to buy it too. Then the kompetitors HAVE to buy it cause its now meta and they'll lose tourneys without it. They only care about money which for them is great cause they'll lose everything after that cause people lose interest. They watch literally everyone uses 2 characters the whole tourney which is super fuking boring, so people stop watching. Then people stop playing cause who wants to fight (enter current dlc here) over and over and over. It sucks..
@@Dethgato5060 I never said anything about power level. Sure they have this incentive to make DLC characters powerful, but not to a ridiculous extent like you mentioned. Quan Chi and now Takeda are mediocre at best, while Kenshi and Johnny Cage have remained top tier since launch for example. I meant DLC chars feel like they have a more interesting/complete moveset, while half the main roster's lacking in creativity and are left without anything interesting to do(see raiden stormcell).
I said on Twitter I was underwhelmed by this major balance patch, I also mentioned how I liked the khameleon changes and that ferra and Takeda were good additions. But I think a lot more buffs should’ve been given, not trying to be ungrateful or nothing either cause the patch itself was mostly good changes I’m just hoping their future patches have more buffs and a lot of them
I as a casual, dislike the story, dislike kameos being mandatory, dislike the tournament seen being sooooooo boring, dislike the fact there's no krypt like MK11, dislike how I can't practice online with friends with qol improvements ☠️ dislike how invasions is only decent the 1st playthough, dislike how augments were replaced with talismans, dislike how there's no other game modes or updated rooms, dislike how people claim the game was rushed but their priorities are obvious with $10 mtx, dislike how I paid for some of those mtx in hopes that maybe nrs would be like "hey let's give this game some love since they're supporting us even though we're scamming them" but no. It's a disappointment man, it's been a disappointment since launch and they've just been playing catch up. The dlc characters are amazing, but I just wish they did the same amount of work on the og cast. Kameos are cool in concept but terrible in execution, I'm not a assist fan, and nrs isn't an assist developer which is blatantly obvious. So it just got boring too quickly to me. Haven't played it in ages, I'm not sure what I'm even hoping for tbh. I love mk as a franchise, but mk1 seems like such a step backwards. Wish WB would sell NRS to Xbox 💯
Shao Kahn isn't even *Shao* Kahn -- more like Steppenwolf / Ayres re-skinned, minus 75% of his moves list from MK11. When I tried the game and found how awfully shallow and boring Kahn was (not unlike the rest of the roster), I immediately un-installed and moved on. When their most iconic boss character is turned into some generic normie with an axe, you know that they have abandoned the essence of the franchise in favour of something entirely different.
IDK why MK11 is bad as everybody says, I like it a lot, more than MKX and that's when the point become true: MKX change so much to MK11 which makes me like the game. And no, MK1 is nothing from MK11, don't do this to MK11. MK1 is waaaaaaay the worst MK, and I'm putting Special Forces and MKMS in this list
Its gameplay is bland, restrictive, and boring as such... Like NRS designed it to be played in only one way (just as with MK1); which, for veteran and experienced players, is the death knell to any game in the genre. If players cannot express themselves with their characters, there is no point playing those characters. Specifically, MK11 was too reliant on universal mechanics, which compounded the lack of freedom offered to players... Which is rather ironic, given the slew of abilities characters had there, ready to be unlocked; only to be restricted by NRS's unwillingness to allow players access to it. Aside from the character designs and, perhaps, content quite, MK11 just wasn't Outworld cricket for MK fans... Albeit, still much better than MK1!
I agree, 11 had a better roster and characters I like. The characters I do like in mk1 are kameos so I stopped play the game after that week, and due to the game being boring on top of that. No content, no nothing. 11 is your best bet
I still hate this game. They gave something for the online players but those of us who don’t keep getting neglected. Invasions is still the same crap. At least 11 had the towers of time. Besides the money grab is disgusting. I bought the premium version and now I have to pay the price of a new game for 5 chapters and character I couldn’t care less. Additionally is there never anything new, never a new character. Always the same thing. And don’t get me started on paying for new seasonal fatalities to only get 3 crappy ones.
I was pretty happy right up until i saw what they did to cyrax and sektor, SBI DEI is just so down my throat I can barely breathe and to see so many people defend it so aggressively while obvlivious to the only reason these changes were ever made blows my mind. I love mortal kombat so much, I hate sbi political screaming equally and now im deeply conflicted when trying to support this game.
Let’s get a thing straight, this game does not resemble 11 lol. I understand trying to compare it to “new age” mk but real talk, mk 11 was a much better, more solid game fundamentally (imo). Obviously mkx was even better than 11, but I honestly think they strayed a bit too far from 11 and x with 1. Mk 1 isn’t even a bad game, it just has more problems than we are used to I think. When the next game comes out we will be living this cycle all over again on who likes it and who doesn’t because that’s just what we do…..
How come in 2024 they have so little content? You would think they would a dozen + dlc stages from all of the previous MK'S. They could easily put many more moves per character. many more modes. cameo and non cameo mode. add a mode where the mechanics are different and there is a run button. is there a random select for the cameos? I cant find it. Take a look at the mod skins all over the internet. How come some guy modding a game after a days work can make cooler costumes than WB (billion dollar company). If creating the art is to expensive have AI help. IDC in 2024 there should be way more content than this. This sucks. In invasions they have characters completely customized and blended together. Give that customization capability to the people! NRS is capable of so much more than what they are giving us. "Its always the bare minimum with NRS"
I love mk, but i so badly want to review bomb the game, so whoever is in charge knows we want change . 50 bucks for dlc ?!?! Bro, your game is not even finish , u gave us a 75% completed game.
For me this game just isn’t it. The kameo system being a leftover mode from mk11 is 100% my biggest problem. But the lack of fun is not just the main game but also lack of any other modes. 1st time I will pass on dlc. Mk11 was bad mk1 is worse. I’ll wait to see the next game and hope it’s a return to form
MK9 Was a complete package of legacies of MK. 2D fast smooth gameplay, classic characters, Story, stages. Then we got MKX. MKX gameplay was amazing, Story was good but there were alot of new things in it, like new characters, stages. MK11 gameplay was super annoying casual, Story was OK until expansion after that awful, customization was good, krypt was good. mk1 has no legacy, lazy dumb writing, they switched characters that is horrible, no krypt , lack of full power for main characters , lack of important classic characters & etc.....
Tom with your latest videos you're proving you're not only saying negative things it's just that what you're saying is usually true and now that the game is in a good place you're defending it and I love to see it!
Truth is MK die hard fans would never stop loving MK no matter what happens or how the game is and NRS knows that so they don’t really care about people that don’t like what they’re doing because if you stop liking the game you were never really a die hard fan anyway so they’re jus chilling I’m glad I love this game along side all the rest I sleep like a baby lol😂
Everyone wants this... But, the thing is, for them to do it, they would have to flesh out the characters' move sets -- adding two, three, even half-a-dozen specials to some characters, in order to not have them exposed as the puddle-of-piss shallow skeletons of their previous selves they now are. So, in other words, cancelling out assists is simple enough; it's the copious work bringing the main characters up to 1v1 standard that is impossible to see NRS ever doing that; even if WB tasked them to do it (which they would never do -- no money in it). They're now doing is finishing up the obligatory expansion -- details of which were leaked two years ago; thereby, evidence that the content for these games is decided upon _years_ prior to launch -- and move to working on whatever project they have on the boiler next. Work began on MK1 during the "Aftermath" expansion for MK11... So, it's unfathomable that they'd set aside the man-hours needed to create a proper 1v1 mode. At best, there might be some hack that turns off assists... That's about it, I'm afraid.
Look the game is just too slow Tom, if it had speed like MK9 it would be great, even mk11 speed became even better. The way how the characters execute the hits or attack just looks so slow and dull and that's just the truth.
Crazy that i dropped mk11 in a couple months and with mk1 im addicted, but the state of this game is horrible but the characters are too sick for me to not play.
Kameo mechanic is dumb. DEI gender swapping characters is dumb. Bad guest characters (they should be horror characters, not comic/superheros). MK is no longer the MK of old/legacy. It’s now just a commercial product which lost its lore and originality.
I hate that they made Cyrax and Sektor women. And from what we saw frkm thr trailer they are nothing like the old versions. Invasion mode still sucks ass Customization is still dumb Kameos are dumb I dunno it just feels like they are trying tk kill their own game. Didn't they just have a ton of lay offs at NRE? Maybe less DEI and more respect to their legacy and fans who have been around since Mortal Kombat appeared on the Sega genesis (me and others) would gain them more positive reviews and reception.
In my opinion, everyone who paid the full price at the beginning or gamers like me who pre ordered a crap game at the beginning, watching a massive drop at the price after a few weeks, they should get the expansion pack for free again. We get a beta game, with bugs, wrong input lists a a really bad gaming experience. I will never ever invest one more doller into this game
If they re-did MKX with modern visuals and roll-back net-code, I'd pre-order it in a heart beat. If they added more characters, I'd buy each one.... However, it's the _only_ MK I'd do that for: A "Mortal Kombat X: Armageddon" game.
I’ve had my moneys worth for sure over 800 hours of kombat league , and I knew before release that there would be DLC characters later and you know what …. I’ll buy them too 😂 I preordered the Expansion soon as it went up
This is gunu sound crazy, and y’all are gunu laugh at me which is fine. But mk1 is probably in my top 5 favorite games of all time. I seriously like it so much, every single decision they made gameplay wise I like. And in MY OPINION the game is incredibly balanced, sure some kameos are not as good as others, but base roster wise, I feel like every character is very viable. Not to mention the game looks incredible. Look how sick the characters look
i know you think you stumbled upon some incredible insight here, but every fighting game franchise changes fundamentally between iterations. mk sucks because nrs is a flawed developer, full stop. they allocate too many resources to casual appeal like edge lord try hard 90s gore and not enough to clean animation and well thought out implementation of fun system mechanics. In the entire history of the franchise, there's been what, 6 titles that were at all well received outside of the niche fanbase? I'm not even saying mk games are bad video games, just usually bad fighting games
My thing is it’s the fact people paid base price and up to $120 for this 💩, that should be enough to cover everything they release during this games life cycle because all they did was remove things that should have been in the base game, and charging y’all for it as dlc as they drip feed it. People saying this game wasn’t finished, it definitely was finished, they just broke it up into pieces to stretch it and make more money. Only 2 online modes in 2024, mostly color palettes as rewards, no lobbies in 2024, boring character designs, boring character move sets, unbalanced Kameo system no one asked for, no mercies, no friendships, mediocre story mode that goes to 💩 half way through, THE most boring online gaming mode EVER in invasions, no way to earn REAL skins after you max your characters but through your wallet, blatant “woke” agendas littered throughout… Man it’s hard to believe what this game has became.
Right
I’ve played over 800 hours … I’ve had £90 worth
@jahdorose8659 how mfs answer when someone gives valid criticism:
@@SpecialOrder935you play tournaments?
This was the first MK deluxe edition I ever bought. Never again.
Mkx was the ultimate formula all it needed was tweaks and adjustments.
Even mk9 would have worked way better than this dumpster fire
@@corvoattano4544 imagine mkx as a base with no variations instead they add stance switches so the characters have extra tools and u get a mixture of running and wave dashing in the same game neutral jump 2s come back as well
Run button breaks neutral with just one button…it also made every character a rush down on top of that.. MK9 the GOAT- it’s still fast with most characters especially if you learn wave dashing which takes skill and doesn’t break neutral. MK9’s flaw was the power level was too high for some characters, but it should have been the blueprint from that game forward.
MKX is the _only_ NRS product that could have been "fixed" to bring the franchise up to Capcom / SNK / Bamco standards. MK9 was still too stilted to be proper, competitive fighter; MK11, too simple and restrictive (Krushing Blow supers were a nice addition, tho'); Injustices, too gimmicky and projectile-happy. 'X' was as good as NRS got, and everything since has gone backwards -- to where we are now back to about MKvDCU levels of substandard.
@@BattleBrotherCasten so what's wrong with checking your opponents run?
I'm not spending one more dollar on this game, I paid $120 for a beta and my reward is the chance to pay more? Used to be when I paid $120 I expected a full game
uninstalled and trying to get started on Tekken
@@arjunratnadev yup
@@arjunratnadev SF6. Fuck Tekken. Tekken is for blue haired weebs.
fax. We got scammed, we should have spent our money on sf6
@@yoolaroola872 eww naw I don't wanna waste money just to spam xxxx yyyyy spam grab spam grab down forward x
"What does NRS have to do......"
How about listen to the community instead of implementing a bunch of crap no one asked for? Start with either scrapping the kameo system or making it a separate game mode.
Imagine if they didn’t start making every game from scrap… we would have proper 1v1, 2v2, kameo mode as extra game mode and many more… imagine if they at least stopped making Mk games from scrap after MkX and just kept improving.
His ability to pin point accuracy identify the problem is something.
GPT Chat? 😵
I think MK1 is boring at it's core. The whole Kameo system is boring and doesn't appeal to majority of players.
The game is still in a bad way. A slightly less stinky turd is still a turd.
-The expansion does nothing to remedy the extreme lack of single player content and game modes.
-The online features and functionality is still a joke compared to other games on the market.
-Invasions mode is still painfully boring to play. And there is no other single player mode for people to play instead.
-The costume designs still look stupid. With actual good looking costumes being locked behind a paywall.
-There are way too many guest characters in this game. We're coming up on 6 guest characters already. Where the hell is this going to end? When over half the roster is guest characters from movies and TV shows of a bygone era?
-We still don't have multiple slots for character customization. So whenever you want a different look for your character you have to customize them all over again every time.
-$50 for a expansion that does not even have half the content of the base game. Are they on drugs over at NRS and WB? Because the only explanation for this insanely stupid price is the people over there have to be on some strong drugs. These guys are quickly becoming Activision 2.0.
- New single player story expansion does nothing to remedy the issue with single player content
- why do people think the NRS community are fucking morons?
@@saracenrue3643 B/C most of you are.
@@intellectic9155 lmao I dislike the game as much as the next person but only a halfwit would've bothered typing all that out. Plus, the first point is nonsensical
I'd say you're the moron too for replying
You actually do have multiple customization loadouts...unfortunately they're randomized instead of letting you pick from multiple custom slots in the character select screen like Tekken or THE LITERAL LAST GAME. Clunky asf
Khaos reigns should be free
Shitty move of NRS
Nobody hates MK more than MK fans.
Maximilian made a video the other day struggling with Takeda trails and he said that the reason why people don't like kameos is because they are not easy to use in combos like other assist games.
I truly think that's why most people don't like the game. I think is more so that they can't deal with the cameos being used against them making them lose. With this generation of players, winning has become the most important thing in their lives. You get threatened with you life, called the n word just because they lost to you. It's sad to see
I can use Kameos very good, but I still hate them, Kameos would have been cool as an extra game mode 🤷🏼♂️ all I want from MK is proper 1v1 and 2v2 and then some extra modes… but nah, for some reason NRS keeps making every mk game from scratch instead of improving and expanding and making a great mortal kombat game. They started so good with MK9, there was so much stuff, proper 1v1, 2v2. Then with MKX they evolved, gave characters more moves by splitting them into variations, with MK11 it was all about customisation… but then came this MK1 crap, the only good thing about it is the roster, roster was lacking in MKX and MK11… they also took that REBOOT thing to far that got us this bare bones trash game…
The patch itself was good, but not anywhere near enough to fix the game.
Ermac
Quan chi
Liu Kang
Raiden
Baraaka
Homelander
Peacemaker
Cage
Mileena
Sindel
Tonia
Ashrah
Nitara
Kameos
Combos uninterrupted from defense
Broken combo breaks.
The game is still buggy.
Bro what’s wrong with the game?😂😂 yall want everybody op nd that’s just not go happen dawg
@@straightcaniven906 oh it will 😂
4:51 Nah man most MK11 fans including myself doesnt like MK1 at all
The point stands still, mk1 is mk11 with kameos.
@@heimstaden4588 MK11 is WAYYY faster
@@heimstaden4588 MK11 is much better than MK1, the only thing MK1 is better at, is the fighters roster and that’s it 🤷🏼♂️
@@V-95K mk11 is pure garbage dude. 0 fun.
Wtf you are saying ?! Mk11 was a pure shitty gameplay
To be honest they lost me at mk11. Once I realized that they were going away from MKX I was like yeah nah this ain’t for me
Same. I stuck around for Injustice 2... But, the franchise died for me at about the Sindel update of MK11. Since then, only 'X' remains installed. Everything about MK1 is nearly the diametric opposite of the direction that the franchise _looked like_ it was heading in with MKX... There is, literally, nothing in "nu MK" for me any longer.
Knowing what NRS could give us, I’ll never be at my peak of happiness with MK1 until the let us play the custom characters.
imagine: MK1 2v2. Leave all the kameo calls, but as soon as you do a breaker, or a forward throw your teammate stays and steps up (many ways to do the swap). That would be the best MK of all time for sure and would take it's own №1 place in 2v2 fighting games. And as one dies he stays on the ground as a ragdoll for others to kick him around, the match ends when the whole team is dead.
P.S. ofcourse I mean 2p vs 2p.
Patches don’t matter when the Kameo system is what makes the game shit. They need to go back to the 1-on-1 combat system.
Bro if it was 1v1 yall would still complain I guarantee it
Excellent commentary, opinion and observation! Thank you!
We'll said!
MK will never, ever be the same.
I don't know, I just feel like this game feels so much like Injustice? And I like Injustice but I don't want MK to feel like it. I want them to be separate...
Without 1v1, I'd never touch this game... Not even for T-1000 and Conan. The game is just too shallow with assists stealing 50% of the main characters' moves. The fact that they have refused to provide a 1v1 mode -- even DBZF had 1v1, 2v2, and 3v3; with the team-based KoF's having had 1v1 for decades -- means that they know that 1) providing 1v1 would expose the stripped-down nature of the characters, and 2) people would flock to 1v1, exposing how much they hate assists.
Tf is u on about u don’t even have to use the assist there isn’t any 2v2
@@SP-ez4vz Google translator?
@@shoahkhan5670 you’re a idiot?
Y’all done slapped this man around so bad about his opinions on this 🚮 game that he just said fk it and caved in.. Bro sounds defeated and uninspired in these videos.😂
mk1 turned out 💩, NRS is a fffin disappointment
no, he actually sounds honest. if MK had a legacy like street fighter or Tekken that carried from game to game that was more than fatalities and gore I'm sure more people would be happy. I was able to pick up my main in Tekken 8 after not playing the series for over a decade and it was like riding a bike. That's legacy!
@@arjunratnadev While I will admit there is a problem, sadly this is something that we can only measure improvement from across the next couple of games lol
@@yonderboygames wellp! I won't preorder the next injustice until the reviews are out
This is a really good point. To draw on another example, DarkSoul2 saw a lot of criticism from players coming from DS1, but is beloved by those who played DS2 first. Both are great games but feel very different in core gameplay mechanics beyond just an iteration of development, so you see a great dichotomy of opinion between the players of the fromsoft games. However, NRS’ aim to do something new for the next title doesn’t seek middle-ground of strong features from prior titles, but instead continuous and distinctive iteration of development for unique identity. That’s not necessarily bad, but if the voice of players is continuously ignored, who are they making the game for?
This is how I felt coming off of MK9 and MKX.
I wasn't a fan of MK11 and it was a struggle to start enjoying MK1.
It's a shame because I have been playing MK for over 20 years. I would love some kind of legacy system. Still waiting for them to find something and stick with it.
MK9 was a good comeback for the franchise; while MKX the pinnacle for NRS gameplay. The Injustice games were amusing for what they were, and get a pass because they were MK games. MK11 marked the "ꝯoꝩslopping" of the brand into oblivion; with only it's characters' designs being up to par. MK1 has not only dropped the ball on every metric that MK should be adjudicated upon, it's kicked the balls its dropped into the ocean. I honestly doubt I'll ever play another [new] NRS game that's not a "HD" re-release of an older title... MK1 is just _that_ irredeemably bad, and leaves such an indelible stain on the brand, that I don't see it ever regaining its grandeur.
Personally kameos buried this game for me, I never liked assist fighting games, MK didn't need it either.
I agree strongly with this take. My personal view is the game doesn’t look appealing. I mean yeah graphics are good but I prefer the whole flashy aesthetic of sf6 and tekken. Especially with how tekken looks overall mk looks bland in comparison.
Tom, I'll never purchase or play another NRS game again. They got me on IJ2, they got me on MK11 and they got me on MK1. 3 strikes and you're out. It's been over 10 years since NRS has put out a playable game. I'd be a fool to give them another chance and I'm no fool.
You’re right Tom. No legacy!
The buff patch made the game a lot better and I finally got to play Takeda (although I’m struggling to do his combos consistently 😝). My main prob with the kameos is I don’t like the idea that my characters need ‘help’ to do insane combos: makes my main fighter feel like they need to be pampered by the kameos 😂
Nrs and wb don’t want you to buy the base game anymore just wait and pay 75 bucks for the final version of the game get everything people like me spent over 200$ on now and just cherry pick the skins you want
Im definitely still in the camp of hoping for a kameo-less mode 😔
Wont happen. That would be them admit defeat.
Won’t happen, because some dumb@SS at NRS decided to make KAMEOS part of the core gameplay 🤦🏻♂️ removing them is like removing 3 wheels from your 4 wheels car, the car will work, but how far will you be able to go in that?
@@V-95K But then again, NRS is great at repackaging/removing already existing content (aka MK11 variations) and advertising it as something new lol
Won't happen, as they've already started on their next game (they do that during the expansion period), and there is no way they would devote the man-hours needed to flesh-out the main cast with more specials etc.; much less, balance it all. The one thing with NRS products that you can be certain of, is that what you see at launch, DLC racketeering aside, will be 99% of what you see once they are abandoned
I'd be happy if the game didn't feel like I was fighting in a pool of honey and everything wasn't moving slow AF... And why TF does this game still not have push block? And no! "Flawless block" isn't the same thing, flawless block belongs in the same place MK11 does, the trash.
I JUST WANTED CYRAX, this is like when you ask a spiteful person to make you a cake and they give you bread with icing on it.
Tag Team, 1v1, Konquest, and Motor Kombat
Yep... That about covers it. However, there is as much chance of that happening as there if of NRS overhauling the game engine to play like MKX! _>don't hold your breath_
While the patch was very good for the game, as long as they keep their current design philosophy it'll never be good enough. Characters who had classic movesets for 20+ years were redone from the ground up, with most of their new tools being much weaker. Just look at mileena MK9/MKX vs MK1: why can't she do air sais? Why don't they go full screen? Why does ex sai cost 2 bars? Why change what was already working so well?
In the end you are correct this game has MK11 all over it and while some people might like that, they sure don't like kameos. An entire system that basically boils down to combo extensions and plus frames instead of real assist mechanics. And why do DLC characters seem so much more complete and interesting? Maybe it's because they woke up to these issues or because the game wasn't finished on release, I don't know. Either way they'll need to do more in the upcoming expansion to really turn MK1 into a game worth playing.
I'll tell you why the DLC kharacters are so good. 2 words-PAY TO WIN. imagine paying for a character and finding out after that it sucks balls, would you ever buy another one? Then it dominoes from there. Other people see its strength and just have to buy it too. Then the kompetitors HAVE to buy it cause its now meta and they'll lose tourneys without it. They only care about money which for them is great cause they'll lose everything after that cause people lose interest. They watch literally everyone uses 2 characters the whole tourney which is super fuking boring, so people stop watching. Then people stop playing cause who wants to fight (enter current dlc here) over and over and over. It sucks..
@@Dethgato5060 I never said anything about power level. Sure they have this incentive to make DLC characters powerful, but not to a ridiculous extent like you mentioned. Quan Chi and now Takeda are mediocre at best, while Kenshi and Johnny Cage have remained top tier since launch for example. I meant DLC chars feel like they have a more interesting/complete moveset, while half the main roster's lacking in creativity and are left without anything interesting to do(see raiden stormcell).
I said on Twitter I was underwhelmed by this major balance patch, I also mentioned how I liked the khameleon changes and that ferra and Takeda were good additions. But I think a lot more buffs should’ve been given, not trying to be ungrateful or nothing either cause the patch itself was mostly good changes I’m just hoping their future patches have more buffs and a lot of them
The big overhaul won't come until the DLC drops. Most likely characters will have more strings, extra special moves, etc.
Weird how there’s so many complaints and it’s still the greatest MK of them all
Come on Tom, where’s the full patch video?
so you're saying this 💩 game is now complete? how?
I think it plays more like 11, but with some 10 in it. It moves better than 11.
Plays like a muted version of MK11; very little like MKX... Even closer to MK9 than X.
Have to pay 60 for khaos reigns after paying 120
Wtf! Im debating now
B.s.
I as a casual, dislike the story, dislike kameos being mandatory, dislike the tournament seen being sooooooo boring, dislike the fact there's no krypt like MK11, dislike how I can't practice online with friends with qol improvements ☠️ dislike how invasions is only decent the 1st playthough, dislike how augments were replaced with talismans, dislike how there's no other game modes or updated rooms, dislike how people claim the game was rushed but their priorities are obvious with $10 mtx, dislike how I paid for some of those mtx in hopes that maybe nrs would be like "hey let's give this game some love since they're supporting us even though we're scamming them" but no.
It's a disappointment man, it's been a disappointment since launch and they've just been playing catch up. The dlc characters are amazing, but I just wish they did the same amount of work on the og cast. Kameos are cool in concept but terrible in execution, I'm not a assist fan, and nrs isn't an assist developer which is blatantly obvious. So it just got boring too quickly to me. Haven't played it in ages, I'm not sure what I'm even hoping for tbh. I love mk as a franchise, but mk1 seems like such a step backwards. Wish WB would sell NRS to Xbox 💯
It's why MK1 fails so miserably: It's disliked by the very demographic it was purported to be catering to!
Shao kahn and omni man have been untouched for so dam long bruh
Smoke as well
Shao Kahn isn't even *Shao* Kahn -- more like Steppenwolf / Ayres re-skinned, minus 75% of his moves list from MK11. When I tried the game and found how awfully shallow and boring Kahn was (not unlike the rest of the roster), I immediately un-installed and moved on. When their most iconic boss character is turned into some generic normie with an axe, you know that they have abandoned the essence of the franchise in favour of something entirely different.
if you feel like you are doing the same thing, then maybe try another kameo?
Nah... I'll just try another game. Thanks 👌😏
IDK why MK11 is bad as everybody says, I like it a lot, more than MKX and that's when the point become true: MKX change so much to MK11 which makes me like the game. And no, MK1 is nothing from MK11, don't do this to MK11. MK1 is waaaaaaay the worst MK, and I'm putting Special Forces and MKMS in this list
Its gameplay is bland, restrictive, and boring as such... Like NRS designed it to be played in only one way (just as with MK1); which, for veteran and experienced players, is the death knell to any game in the genre. If players cannot express themselves with their characters, there is no point playing those characters. Specifically, MK11 was too reliant on universal mechanics, which compounded the lack of freedom offered to players... Which is rather ironic, given the slew of abilities characters had there, ready to be unlocked; only to be restricted by NRS's unwillingness to allow players access to it. Aside from the character designs and, perhaps, content quite, MK11 just wasn't Outworld cricket for MK fans... Albeit, still much better than MK1!
I agree, 11 had a better roster and characters I like. The characters I do like in mk1 are kameos so I stopped play the game after that week, and due to the game being boring on top of that. No content, no nothing. 11 is your best bet
Yes thank you!!! This 100% Agree!
I’m dropping mk1 this game has been a huge disappointment
It might really be time for them to go back 8D...
Mk arcade collection.... 👀
Liu Kang Liu Kang Liu Kang Liu Kang Liu Kang Liu Kang Liu Kang Liu Kang!!!
I still hate this game. They gave something for the online players but those of us who don’t keep getting neglected. Invasions is still the same crap. At least 11 had the towers of time. Besides the money grab is disgusting. I bought the premium version and now I have to pay the price of a new game for 5 chapters and character I couldn’t care less. Additionally is there never anything new, never a new character. Always the same thing. And don’t get me started on paying for new seasonal fatalities to only get 3 crappy ones.
I was pretty happy right up until i saw what they did to cyrax and sektor, SBI DEI is just so down my throat I can barely breathe and to see so many people defend it so aggressively while obvlivious to the only reason these changes were ever made blows my mind. I love mortal kombat so much, I hate sbi political screaming equally and now im deeply conflicted when trying to support this game.
Let’s get a thing straight, this game does not resemble 11 lol. I understand trying to compare it to “new age” mk but real talk, mk 11 was a much better, more solid game fundamentally (imo). Obviously mkx was even better than 11, but I honestly think they strayed a bit too far from 11 and x with 1. Mk 1 isn’t even a bad game, it just has more problems than we are used to I think. When the next game comes out we will be living this cycle all over again on who likes it and who doesn’t because that’s just what we do…..
How come in 2024 they have so little content? You would think they would a dozen + dlc stages from all of the previous MK'S. They could easily put many more moves per character. many more modes. cameo and non cameo mode. add a mode where the mechanics are different and there is a run button. is there a random select for the cameos? I cant find it. Take a look at the mod skins all over the internet. How come some guy modding a game after a days work can make cooler costumes than WB (billion dollar company). If creating the art is to expensive have AI help. IDC in 2024 there should be way more content than this. This sucks.
In invasions they have characters completely customized and blended together. Give that customization capability to the people! NRS is capable of so much more than what they are giving us. "Its always the bare minimum with NRS"
Because fu ck you. That’s why. We are walking wallets to them, so they thought they’d swindle us into a live service fighting game. Absolutely not
Did they hotfix takeda his kara throw???
If they did then why
Cause rain has a kara throw
tom shilling mk1 now smh buying the skins and eventually the expansion, no wonder nrs keeps doing this. our leader has fallen
How can someone make countless videos bashing the game then turn around and pour more money into it. Makes zero sense.
How is he shilling wtf is “shilling” bro u really mad cuz he ain’t bashing the game cmon cuhh yall so lame it’s a trend to hate mk1
@@straightcaniven906 Who puts money into something they “hate”. That’s like me saying I hate McDonald’s but I go and buy food there all the time
I love mk, but i so badly want to review bomb the game, so whoever is in charge knows we want change . 50 bucks for dlc ?!?! Bro, your game is not even finish , u gave us a 75% completed game.
Tom, make a video on the Chaos Reigns dlc.
For me this game just isn’t it. The kameo system being a leftover mode from mk11 is 100% my biggest problem. But the lack of fun is not just the main game but also lack of any other modes. 1st time I will pass on dlc. Mk11 was bad mk1 is worse. I’ll wait to see the next game and hope it’s a return to form
How is MK1 closer fo MK11?! It's MK9 with cameos! 🤷🏻♂️
Man, this game is so, so, SO TRASH!!!
MK9 Was a complete package of legacies of MK. 2D fast smooth gameplay, classic characters, Story, stages.
Then we got MKX. MKX gameplay was amazing, Story was good but there were alot of new things in it, like new characters, stages.
MK11 gameplay was super annoying casual, Story was OK until expansion after that awful, customization was good, krypt was good.
mk1 has no legacy, lazy dumb writing, they switched characters that is horrible, no krypt , lack of full power for main characters , lack of important classic characters & etc.....
Tom with your latest videos you're proving you're not only saying negative things it's just that what you're saying is usually true and now that the game is in a good place you're defending it and I love to see it!
Truth is MK die hard fans would never stop loving MK no matter what happens or how the game is and NRS knows that so they don’t really care about people that don’t like what they’re doing because if you stop liking the game you were never really a die hard fan anyway so they’re jus chilling I’m glad I love this game along side all the rest I sleep like a baby lol😂
"Die hard" = euphemism for CULTISH ZEALOTRY; and if that is now WB-NRS's core target demographic, they can have one another.
didn't you claim before that you won't make anymore mk related content on yt
this MF is farming every drop till is bank account says different
well he goe emotional in that video like we all do right.. I'm actually glad he hasn't stopped.
Make 1v1 mode please for the love of godd. Kameo literally the only reason i think the game is garbage
Everyone wants this... But, the thing is, for them to do it, they would have to flesh out the characters' move sets -- adding two, three, even half-a-dozen specials to some characters, in order to not have them exposed as the puddle-of-piss shallow skeletons of their previous selves they now are. So, in other words, cancelling out assists is simple enough; it's the copious work bringing the main characters up to 1v1 standard that is impossible to see NRS ever doing that; even if WB tasked them to do it (which they would never do -- no money in it). They're now doing is finishing up the obligatory expansion -- details of which were leaked two years ago; thereby, evidence that the content for these games is decided upon _years_ prior to launch -- and move to working on whatever project they have on the boiler next. Work began on MK1 during the "Aftermath" expansion for MK11... So, it's unfathomable that they'd set aside the man-hours needed to create a proper 1v1 mode. At best, there might be some hack that turns off assists... That's about it, I'm afraid.
Look the game is just too slow Tom, if it had speed like MK9 it would be great, even mk11 speed became even better. The way how the characters execute the hits or attack just looks so slow and dull and that's just the truth.
Disagreed completely.
NRS has bad animations overall, every attack gonna look like a drunk punching and swinging things
Crazy that i dropped mk11 in a couple months and with mk1 im addicted, but the state of this game is horrible but the characters are too sick for me to not play.
No, they're not. You're just simple.
What character is sick in this game to peak your interest? If this was MKXL I would believe you....
Game is WAYYY too underpowered and basic.
Kameo mechanic is dumb. DEI gender swapping characters is dumb. Bad guest characters (they should be horror characters, not comic/superheros). MK is no longer the MK of old/legacy. It’s now just a commercial product which lost its lore and originality.
Almost everything in MK is dumb... Heck, even calling it Mortal Kombat "1" was ridiculous!
I hate that they made Cyrax and Sektor women. And from what we saw frkm thr trailer they are nothing like the old versions.
Invasion mode still sucks ass
Customization is still dumb
Kameos are dumb
I dunno it just feels like they are trying tk kill their own game. Didn't they just have a ton of lay offs at NRE? Maybe less DEI and more respect to their legacy and fans who have been around since Mortal Kombat appeared on the Sega genesis (me and others) would gain them more positive reviews and reception.
They shut down their mobile team bc Onslaught sucked and wasn't making money.
@bloodCount8895 fair. I even forgot that game existed.
In my opinion, everyone who paid the full price at the beginning or gamers like me who pre ordered a crap game at the beginning, watching a massive drop at the price after a few weeks, they should get the expansion pack for free again. We get a beta game, with bugs, wrong input lists a a really bad gaming experience. I will never ever invest one more doller into this game
If they make legacy games them ln people will say I'm tired of playing the same game all the time. They will never make everyone happy
If they re-did MKX with modern visuals and roll-back net-code, I'd pre-order it in a heart beat. If they added more characters, I'd buy each one.... However, it's the _only_ MK I'd do that for: A "Mortal Kombat X: Armageddon" game.
I’ve had my moneys worth for sure over 800 hours of kombat league , and I knew before release that there would be DLC characters later and you know what …. I’ll buy them too 😂 I preordered the Expansion soon as it went up
Sad...
Quit beating us over the head with your rainbow agenda and DEI !!
This is gunu sound crazy, and y’all are gunu laugh at me which is fine. But mk1 is probably in my top 5 favorite games of all time. I seriously like it so much, every single decision they made gameplay wise I like. And in MY OPINION the game is incredibly balanced, sure some kameos are not as good as others, but base roster wise, I feel like every character is very viable. Not to mention the game looks incredible. Look how sick the characters look
True People will keep complaining about Mk games they find anything to whine about it definitely true
i know you think you stumbled upon some incredible insight here, but every fighting game franchise changes fundamentally between iterations. mk sucks because nrs is a flawed developer, full stop. they allocate too many resources to casual appeal like edge lord try hard 90s gore and not enough to clean animation and well thought out implementation of fun system mechanics. In the entire history of the franchise, there's been what, 6 titles that were at all well received outside of the niche fanbase? I'm not even saying mk games are bad video games, just usually bad fighting games