I would take off point only if the story is inconsistent and doesn’t respect characters‘ past (for example Sindel in MK11Aftermath) but MKX had a great story!
I have MKXL, the only thing I hated about the story mode was that they wrapped too much of it around the Special Forces and giving them most of the spotlight. I was always a fan of the ninja clans and those who dress like them.
To be fair after mk9 most of the earthrealm defenders were killed so all they really had left was Sonya and Johnny, and with the help of SF that’s all they had to combat Quanchi and shinnoks plans. But ofc Kenshi, jax, the lin kuei , and Shirai ryu joined in later.
I agree that MKX was one of the best mk games. It was my first MK game and I was so crazy over it. I found about it after the dlc with Alien and Predator. I was searching for predator stuff and then I saw a video with every carracter doing a fatality on him. Little me was traumatized haha.
@@UltimateShadow10 MkX was my firat mk game back in 2021 i then got the deluxe version of mk11 on a sale shortly afterwards...i was a bit dissapointed with how mk11 is, the(timed) towers are frustrating or passable at best and there is way less options available to use at once which makes it less skill heavy than mkx where everyone can deal crazy dmg in thier own right
Yeah, its very sad. What was your's? Like most MK games, my favorite part is learning how to string together combos. Its just so satisfying when you learn how to do a flashy combo and dbig damage.
my personal favorite part is more so the core gameplay of mk, but i cant be too mad about someone saying the gore is their favorite part. it is a casual answer but it is what makes mk so iconic.
I mean I kind of agree the brutality in the fatalities are literally some of the greatest parts of that game especially when you're playing it difficult match and you beat him and you finally put one of the most brutal fatalities that ever existed on your opponent. Really amazing
So I think I'm as weird and cringe as this guy because what made me fall in love with this game is fatality and brutality. I love the violence and the blood that spurts when there are X-Rays Paradoxically, I hate violence and have a blood phobia in real life. So I think this game represents the wild part of me or that I'm clear enough in my head to tell the difference between a game and reality.
It depends on the game, world at war, and the games before used real battles. I like those games because I love history, and using real footage of WWII for cutseens was awesome. Every COD after Black Ops, however, became really boring though, especially the future games like Infinite Warfare and Black ops 3.
Initially what drew me into Mortal Kombat was gore, and then I discovered the story. That just cemented my interest in the franchise. Admittedly, I'm not very good at MK, but I slightly improve everytime I play. And I find myself agreeing with UnderDawg. It's not even just about the gore anymore, I'm just enjoying winning matches (vs AI, bite me) and just exploring the different combos. I also find brutalities to be better than fatalities in MKX
I always saw mkxl as a huge upgrade to everything mortal kombat. The replayability that come after injustice and mkx was incredibly well done. Seeing as how they took all the good things they learned from mk9 and injustice 1 to make mkx and xl/11 better games from there on
I actually think the opposite. For me, it was a massive downgrade from MK9. The story was horrible, the soundtrack was lame, the aesthetics were boring asf, and probably the worst roster in MK history with many dogshit characters, boring arenas, with zero replayability, and content. I remember I finished the story mode, and I was so shocked I uninstalled the game right away. Easily the worst Netherrealm game.
@@MioTenaciousmk11 is so good. It's always people like you that have to hate on the current game then change your opinion when the next one comes out. I bet that when the mk 1 reboot comes out you'll say 11 was a masterpiece.
@@apeblackberry3641bro I loved mk9 too. Infact it was my first mk game. But you're high asf if you think mkx Is a massive downgrade. It did everything 9 did but better except maybe that the story was too focused on the Kombat kids and that we didn't have 2v2. It's one thing to say you like mk9 more and it's another saying mkx was a massive downgrade when in fact it proved to be the opposite. Mk9 although fun, was absolutely broken every character could absolutely annihilate one another, gameplay is so clunky compared to X, and the areas don't have much combat options compared to X.
@@celestialecho9817 Brutalities are awesome, but superiority is not only irrelevant, but totally subjective in this instance. I kinda get disappointed when a head pops up like a rockem sockem robot instead of letting me panic press buttons to put them through a meat grinder
@@bwestacado9643 well maybe I used the wrong word, but they are just a better display of skill and actually are fun to try and pull off. It's more satisfying to repeatedly slam someone into the ground as spawn until they explode than it is to open up the menu and copy the inputs written on screen for you
This reminds me of when I recommended a fighting game to my brother. He came back and complained that he could beat it with one button on easy. I suggested that he play the game on a higher difficulty but he just refused and never played it again.
@@nastycanadian1975 normally I would agree but I had already played it with him both seriously and going easy on him, he said he hated it both times. In addition he's the type of player that whines about everything even the character you pick. Mind you I don't mean the sort of complaints like "that character's overpowered" I mean more ridiculous thing like say if the character you pick is wearing a jacket he'd say something like "What are you emo?"
@@nastycanadian1975 I would say that but sometime after that he told me that I "shouldn't buy the sequel" his claim for why I shouldn't was that "it had the same controls." It really didn't matter to me I already had a group I played it with and we all did have fun with it and it's sequel's.
@@crimsondemon2231 Well fighting games aren't for everyone just like I can't play FPS as much as I would like to. my motto "no excuses, only results" can't hate what you can't/play do
I know that it is unrelated to the subject of the video, but when he mentioned the krypt, I remembered a not so funny event that happened to me. When MKX was first released, I was beyond excited for it. Then one of the patrons at GameStop told me that the krypt would have giant spiders in it and my heart sank a bit. I have severe arachnophobia and now a major portion of the game was cut off from me. After I bought the game, I realized that I could buy everything in the krypt without going into it. So I did just that, not because I was lazy, but because I didn't want to risk having a panic attack going through those caves. I thought that I had dodged a bullet. Then Injustice 2 came into the picture with its Halloween event fight with Scarecrow and one of those random items managed to hit me during the battle. I realized then that I never dodged that bullet. It just waited to hit me when my guard was down a few years later.
If it wasn’t for the ending of the story mode, I would find the game perfect. I did not like the ending, but everything else was wonderful. Honestly, it is probably the best made story mode even with the ending. I like how dark it is, the characters, the length, the difficulty, and everything else. The only thing I would compare it to is aftermath. That is only because you get to choose the ending and be evil. I found that very interesting, and it made the story mode very unique.
@@Bighossss Ooo, it would have been cool if it were Fugin. Raiden would have worked, but you beat Shao Kahn with Raiden in MK9, so he had his turn. I don't think its NECESSARY, but I think they should try to have a fair amount of different characters used to beat the final bos. It still needs to make sense though. Cassie didn't make sense.
@@Lance.Gardenhire I think it should have been the whole cast I wish liu kang could have come back in that game and beat shinnok it would have made a lot more sense it would have been way cooler if everyone teamed up and went at him at the same time they could of even had some villans fight him and I wish divorah died in that game she’s is the worst character in mk history I’d rather have mokap 💀
I will say this, a lot of fighting games will always have that one character or that one move that annoys everyone no matter who it is. Players who constantly spam the same move or even the same easy combo that deals a lot of damage will affect your view on the character, your enjoyment of the game, and your overall experience at worst. I still remember seeing a headline on MK9 where people spamming Sektor’s teleport punch and Raiden’s electric fly ruining online, for MK X it was full auto Jackie with her machine gun, and MK 11 it’s a combination of Cetrion, Robocop, Sub Zero, Jade, and Sheeva at one point. That kind of problem will always be a number one reason why I don’t think any fighting game, or MK game, will get a 10/10 but MK X definitely deserves a 9 for the amount of content and ambition it has. Personally I think MK9 gets a 9.5 just because it was a breath of fresh air after the 3D era provided some games that were either hit or miss, the MK vs DC debacle, and because it laid the groundwork for a ton of things we can expect for future games. Things like DLC character, the X-Ray specials, the meter system, and a story that feels satisfying to replay on a higher difficulty, which makes the story for MK X shine while 11 felt more like a step back in its ending. The only real criticisms I can give to MK X is the character costumes blending in too much with the background, they have nice designs but it can be difficult to see what a character is wearing in a darkened stage like Quan Chi’s room, the winter forest, Lin Kuei temple, Sky Temple, and so on. In summary, MK 9 gets a 9.5 for being a great example on how to reboot a series while it retains its history and pushes the story further, MK X deserves a 9 for being ambitious and treading new ground but with some criticism towards the character outfits and saturated colors being too much at times, and just for kicks MK 11 getting an 8.8 for being a step back for newcomers while the story feels a bit rushed at times.
I’ve said this on Twitter before, but these days going to IGN (or Kotaku or Polygon) for a video game review is like asking a vegan for a steakhouse recommendation.
I agree 100% with what you said about the fatalities and gore as well as brutalities. They could remove the gore and I would not care, but I do enjoy the stylized way of ending matches with brutalities. Not a huge fan of the fatalities in general, they don't have to be there for me personally. I know people would riot if they are removed, so I am not actively saying they should be, I just don't care for them myself a whole lot.
I don’t know what’s the sudden problem people have with fatalities. They’re awesome. Brutalities are even cooler cause of the execution to pull them off.
@@jesuspernia8031 I absolutely wouldn't play a censored MK game lol and this game wouldn't have stood out from the crowd without it. It's the staple of the series and it wouldn't be if it didn't have it lol. The clowns who think they're superior for not saying fatalities and gore sold them on the game, are just pretentious asshats. Lmao anyone who thinks they're superior over video games needs to go outside for a little while. Make a friend
Ayo. I respect your opinion, but speak for yourself. This is not Tekken or Street Fighter. This is Mortal Kombat!! And I need my fatalities in my game. Its not mortal Kombat without them
@Olebogeng Moagi You say "but speak for yourself"?? What do you think it means when I say "but for me personally"? Sounds to me like I'm SPEAKING FOR MYSELF 🤔
Don't think I ever obsessed over a fighting game franchise like mortal kombat throughout my time as a fighting game fan and a lot of that is due to just how amazing mkx was alone
Honestly, mkx was an easy 9/10 at launch. The brutalities were awesome to perform and even more fun to discover on accident, while the fatalities looked awesome! Yeah, the faction kills weren't all that great, but it was still a nice add-on and even gave newer players an alternative if the inputs for some of the fatalities were too tricky at the time. The game play is what still keeps bringing me back to this game 7 years later. The klassic towers, pvp groups/lobbies, constantly changing challenge towers, this is still the #1 fighting game in terms of replayability imo.
It's an 7 out of 10 for me. Bear with me here. I'm a guy who grew up in the arcade era of MK. Deception imo was the most FUN MK game ever released. People like to shit on it but they don't know the joy of playing the in game RPG, playing Tetris and Chess modes, and how fun doing stage fatalities and environment interactions in that game was. It was a ton of fun. Armegeddon took a giant shit on what was set up with Deception, and thus MK goes back to 2D form with the release of MK 9. MK 9 was FUN also though. It didn't have the depth of Deception, or all the side games but the gameplay going back to original form was still good. Good enough that a competitive scene started to flourish. That competitive scene is exactly why I am giving MKX a 7 out of 10. See fighting games are still video games. They need to have a large appeal to both casual and competitive players. MK was always a game that was built for casual players, a fun game for people to enjoy with fun animations and even side games. MKX gets released. It is almost immediately apparent that this game was built specifically for the competitive community. The game play is the fastest paced it has ever been. It becomes quickly apparent as well that you will not be able to be very effective in this game without knowing crazy 10-15 hit combo strings. It was a pain in the ass. But I buckled down, learned some combos. Hey, I love MK. Then you start playing online matches, and what do you get? Constantly getting bodied and insulted by toxic 16 year olds with no jobs or lives. Took the fun completely out of the experience. Not to mention the color pallet was honestly way too dark and bland in MKX. MK has always been a colorful game and this game just looked kind of bleh. NRS releases MK11. Which btw, graphically, is the most beautiful MK game ever released. They went back to form building a game that could appeal to both casual players as well as the competitive community. With absolutely insane animations, and a unique system that could be enjoyed by casual players but also played competitively. And what did the comp. community do? Constantly talk shit on the game, it's "too slow", blah blah blah. I have news for you guys who are competitive players, STOP SHITTING ON THE CASUAL COMMUNITY BECAUSE IF THEY DON'T BUY THESE GAMES, THE STUDIOS CAN'T AFFORD TO MAKE THEM ANYMORE. It's literally you shooting yourselves in the foot. That's part of the reason I think MK has taken so long to release a new game. MKX is a good game, I agree. But it's not a 9. It's a 9 for competitive players. Sure. Or 9.5 or whatever. For most of us regular gamers it was way too frustrating to actually enjoy. And aside from the gameplay issues there, (and that IS an issue for a lot of casual gamers), there was also the fact that it really didn't look that good. The colors were gross. So I think giving it an 7 is generous. At least MK9 LOOKED great. It was colorful, and the fatalities in 9 imo were a lot more fun than most of the ones in MKX. I would give MK9 an 8.5 or 9. MK11 is definitely a 9 even 9.5. MKX was a solid 7. Sure, was a decent game, but still my least favorite of the 3 games.
Those IGN "roundtables" are probably the biggest circle-jerks next to Twitter where a user proceeds to block anyone that doesn't agree with their echo chamber. IGN had one for a Sonic review and one of them decided to intentionally antagonize the fan base by saying Sonic has never been good.
Would you consider reacting to the bfgc, blind fighting game community tournaments we have held for mortal Kombat 11? Think you would get a kick out of it, every fighter is either visually impaired or completely blind.
The story mode in mk9 was just fun and had was funny asf. I'd play it again and still have fun but mkx, the ending is what killed it for me because it made absolutely 0 sense. Johnny and Cassy only just realizing they had powers despite JOHNNY USING IT RIGHT IN THE FIRST OPENING CUTSENSE. Can't forgive that bs
@@jesuspernia8031 yeah I hope it stays that way but I been playing this game since 2016 and I will still sit in practice mode doing combos for hours, it's just so satisfying.
I will Agree that MKX has the Better Story and is a Great Game,like the Sonic Franchise,Both IGN and Watchmojo doesn't Understand the Mortal Kombat Franchise.
@@redacted2275 Maybe but I have Seen Both Channels and the Thing I learned from it is that they Lack the Understanding of Both Franchises,So this isn't Me Saying Things Blindly,I'm Saying I have Valid Reasons,They might Learned from It but at the Same Time they Didn't.
when I was 6 years old, what attracted me to the series was its gore and eerie atmosphere. I loved how mortal kombat was dark but fell even hard with its lore and been addicted ever since.
Saying that the gore is your favorite part of a MK game is like saying "my favorite part of this book is the cover" I'm not very experienced when it comes to MK or fighting games in general but I can say for sure that MK has so much more depth in it than it's gore and fatalities.
The problem with X's story mode is that it totally rewrites/erases 25 years of the game's history. I used to be a die-hard MK Fan, even when everybody else forgot about it but the minute MK9 comes around everyone is a fan now! I was super excited for MK's comeback in 2011 and loved it (hated the ending though). But X--how we go backwards in time just to move forward in time in the next installment??? It broke the continuity just like everything else which is currently a trend along with MESSING WITH TIMELINES! And I don't wanna hear about Raiden jacking up said timeline cause that is some buuullshiiit...! The Kombat Kids are godawful (design-wise and their involvement in the story), the other new characters were just whatever, and the graphics are so uncanny it made characters like D'Vorah look terrible. Then their fatalities, jeebus, not creative at all. The fricken X-rays looked better because they WERE fatalities. I also don't like how NRS made their OGs hella weak just to make their new cats look dope af but in reality they not and never will be. And let's be honest here too there was some political stuff in play as well between Cassie defeating an over-powered Fallen Elder God to all the females being heavily clothed then use phrases like "being more realistic" as a scapegoat. Lastly, I could seriously care less about the added bells and whistles to this game. If it ain't fun enough for me to be invested, why bother? Plus the Variation component seemed unnecessary. 9 will forever be the best installment of this game series until I am convinced otherwise. P.S - MK 11 sucks balls too!
Completely agree with you tho I still am a die hard mortal kombat fan at heart I just hate the route they're taking the franchise in, MK1 was doing so well then they completely fxxxed up the story with all the multiverse bs tho because I still am a die hard fan I will support it I just want MK to be as good as it was like back in the 3D era
What you said about fatalities and brutalities are exactly how I feel. I definitely prefer brutalities to fatalities. I wonder if netherrealm will merge them at some point.
MKX was probably the game I had the most playtime in any mk game just due to the fact the Kombat was so fun to play and unique. I don’t play games online a lot but I religiously played this game online every day.
6:48 - Or like Kingdom Hearts 3 which goes so catastrophically against the very thesis statement of what the original KH game was all about that you get the feeling Nomura actually hates the very idea of making a Disney Game at all and would rather drop the very Disney element which made KHerven stand out as a commercial product..........and that's on top of being cringe and making no sense. Or Final Fantasy 7 Remake which also goes so catastrophically against what the original was all about _(i.e. death and loss)_ that it outright retcons Zach to have survived, has the side members of Avalanche survive, is heavily telegraphing that Aerith is going to survive and has even brought back the actual Sephiroth from another timeline just so he can be the actual big bad instead of Jenova. Why? So that folks can finally get the "epic" story centered around Cloud VS Sephiroth that people thought the original FF7 was about which surprise of all surprises it wasn't......and that's on top of being cringe and making no sense.......... Wait what were talking about again? 9:32 through - Yeah and y'know what else? That first Mortal Kombat movie's PG-13 rating didn't hurt it one bit! If anything it gave the film a tighter focus on trying to make a fun decent flick with fun decent characters and by the Elder Gods it ended up being such a beloved classic that it is still a core part of the franchise's identity right down to Kano being Australian and bloody Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa making a return for MK11! "Oh man that film sucks for not having the gore like the games!" oh yes it was truly a lost cause. _Well what about Annihilation then?_ We don't talk about Annihilation........
I would probably have gave it a 8.5. I remember being a bit let down when they removed the 2v2 Fights & the Tower mode with the 100 floors with the 1v4 at the end. These two things were amount my favorite features in MK9. MK9 story was more fun too from what I remember. MKX have better fight mechanics and was probably better balanced tho but that doesn't matter much to most casual.
MKX is a great game , it had so much kontent to explore and play , mortal kombat x's story is really great and sure people may not like the ending but overall the story was overall great and i think in my opinion mkx is a pretty great game and during its release it had a lot more to offer compared to other fighting games during that time , IGN sucks ngl , the costumes were great as well!!! 9.7 score almost a perfect 10
The only thing MKX has over MK11 is I can play as Ermac and Kenshi. Skarlet and Noob are awesome subs in 11, but Ermac is my favorite. Did anyone else notice 11 is basically a console made mobile game? I actually got mad at myself for buying 11 when I saw you can just have the AI play through the towers for you. I have this massive 40 gig file on my Switch and I'm more disappointed with it than having fun playing it. The story mode is cool and I like getting to go back and play different fights with characters (picking Subzero instead of Scorpion and vice versa), but once I'm done with it I don't really have anything left except the krypt and that's just okay. It slows down a lot when I'm in there a long time, so I'm not even encouraged to stay and explore lol. Also Erron Black was funner to use in X than 11
Challenge towers were ok, but they weren't Chess Kombat or Motor Kombat. Also, the two biggest selling points for MK over the decades is the voilence and the story. Midway era MK didn't have a super in-depth / well-balanced combat system compared to other fighting games. The thing that attracted people to the MK games was the voilence and the story - especially in the 3D era. Talking on forums people were way more focused on story and predicting characters based on how they'd fit in with the story, rather than fulfilling a gameplay role (grappler, zoner, and all that jazz). I think the biggest issue with the story mode is the chapter system, and how it dictates the story itself. There are some genuinely cool moments and plot ideas in the story, but the execution lets it down. Letting the chapter system and "shock value" dictate the story, rather than just trying to tell the best story. Heck, the shock value even dictated Mileena's design (the lips). Speaking of design: MKX has some of the best costumes of the entire franchise. I understand some people see them as too toned down / bland compared to the designs in other games from the franchise - but honestly, some of the older costumes were just way over the top or on the nose. Scorpion's MK9 costume for example: I hate it. I feel it's his second worst. It just feels too cartoony and like Deviant Art fan art. I don't particularly care for the (obviously Spawn inspired) cape in Snow Blind either. I'm all for having hellish and scorpion decals, but I prefer more practical designs (covering up the womens bodies because it's not practical, but putting them all in high heels.... good job NRS). Anyway, I don't like giving scores for things, because it's usually done on a whim with no set rules on what adds / removes a specific amount of points. And even if it did; someone else will always disagree with the system and argue over a single decimal place, or compare it to the score of another game from a competely differen genre. Just seems pointless and distracting - I'd rather just focus on discussing the games actual merits and flaws rather than the point system for rating said game.
I haven't read the full review but what I'm picking up is that they feel the story is kinda tacky? I kinda agree with that and it should bear weight in a review, now HOW MUCH it should bear weight is a subjective matter. I personally liked the story of 11 better, the Jax arc is touching. Visually mkX is kinda bland colour vise, something both SF5 and mk11 did better but I remember playing mkx and having a blast and I'm a filthy casual. I'd give mkx 8.8 and mk11 an 9. Mk11 does the mkx stuff but better imo
Cassie cage wiping the floor with shinnok definitely removes half a point in my mind. The problem with IGN is that some of their reviews are so biased that it throws off other scores in comparison. I think an 8.4-9 is a good score for MKX but the fact they review call of duty every year and give it similar scores is what makes it frustrating
Me, a horror fan who always appreciates gore, but has enjoyed stuff like Johnny Cage's development throughout the years: *loud, nervous sweating noises* I like fatalities and brutalities--but I do think they might seem a bit out of character for some people. If some bloke is a martial artist and trained to not kill, seems off to give them a fatality. Rule of cool, I guess?
8.4 is a good score tho. A very good score. Mind you, MKX was not as good as it was before the XL updates. The problem isn't that 8.4 is bad, it's that IGN has created a strange creep where they give bad games good scores. Launch MKX is definitely an 8.4. Post updates/dlc MKX would be much higher. Street Fighter 5 should have seen a 6 tops.
Once you’ve seen all the fatalities it’s kinda like a been there done that feeling. My friends and I usually don’t fatality because it’s a waste of time. Unless someone deserves it
In my opinion, fighting games like mortal kombat shouldn’t focus on a story mode. The things netherrealm studios has to do to keep it fresh must be exhausting. A reboot, half the cast gets killed off but the fans want them back so they come back as zombies, the keeper of time pulls characters together from different periods, now another complete reboot. Some times things just run their course. With a game that’s run for so long maybe less is more in terms of story
I never finished the krypt in MKX because i hate spiders. (Like you said) which is why i bought the optional dlc where it automatically unlocks everything in the krypt
Honestly 8.5 seems like a good score for MK X in a vacuum, the problem is how they rate other trash games so high. Mk X is a great game (prob the best Mk out of the last 3), but it has some problems, like the variations lock some basic shit that every character should have as their base kit, the graphics were ok for the time and aged very poorly today, honestly, Mk 9 stylized graphics aged less badly, the pc port was awful, the game had delay netcode for a long time and Shinnok is worst villain on MK lore.
Is it weird that a lot of times I forget that MK is widely known for the gore? Like yeah we all want to see them a few times when the game is new but they're hardly a main feature
MKX will always be the best when it comes to it's combos. Being able to grab someone mid-combo while they are in the air is the best, stylish way to end a combo string into a brutality.
In an era of arcade vs games, MKX was as much of a paradigm changer as something like soul calibur back in the day. The current focus on content rich fighters owes a lot to MKX. I would say a 9 minimum is the absolute lowest justifiable score
I know this video is focused in a fighting game, but IGN's bad metric extends to other stuff too. For example, they gave Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky a 4.9 and labeled it "Bad". That game is considered by many the best Pokémon spinoff game, a game heavily story based, that while it has its shortcomings (e.g. some dungeons could become very repetitive) that even its fans admit and accept, was scored badly because it was too similar to Explorers of Time and Explorers of Darkness. And while we could say "Okay, Pokemon always does that, they release two games and then a third one thats like a mix of the previous two plus extra stuff", the review was full of inaccuracies, and pretty much like here where they lowered the score because they didnt like the character clothes or the topics mentioned in the story mode, in that review they lowered the score because the reviewer didnt like the music. To make it worse, the reviewer didnt even bother with the full game; they played only one of the "extra episodes" and that was it. What about the original games? Explorers of Time and Darkness? I mean, if the "complete version" with lots of extra stuff is bad, the originals that had less stuff should be lower, right? Nope. They were scored as a 6.5. However, that score has a nuance: The reviewer of these apparently didnt play beyond Apple Woods, an early game dungeon- basically he didnt play more than a 20% of the story. I know this may be a bit "nerdying about pokemon", a franchise that a lot of people into fighting games dont even care much about. However, I put this mainly to illustrate why nobody who takes videogames with any degree of seriousness will really respect IGN's reviews.
I disagree with your point against their review of the story mode. If you don't like a part if the game and it is _your_ review of the game, then you have every right to give it a lower score for it.
Street Fighter V had so little content at launch that I didn't play and a few years later I discovered I bought the game at some point. That's how disappointed I was I forgot I bought the game and never tried to play it again. Also I use Steam.
by all means you can lose points for having a bad story. Take Y2K RPG, no real glitches of bugs, just a really really bad story with boring gameplay at worse. In that game if anything the story is the weakest point in the game so naturally it'll loose points over it. As far as I'm concerned, as long as they create a story mode, it being bad or boring is a valid critisism since it's a part of the game. Same for the costumes, I think that if the execution was so-so, then it's totally fair to remove points for it. Same with the SFV comparison, yeah the game had less to offer but it executed well on what it had and while the game was broken in terms of imput lag, IGN is clearly not a competative crowd, they're casuals, and they review the games they play as casual players of games who just play for the fun of it so things like that tend to matter less to them.
MKX's story mode was sufficient in most ways but had poor writing. I'd take off points too I think. Surely having something be just ok on top of a lot of great kontent means that the package overall is worse now, right?
MKX did also launch with horrible net code for the time. They did fix it after a year but if we are using igns numbering it wouldn't get a 9 or above just for that. I played online at launch and it was like playing underwater
Not enjoying the “theme” of the story is absolutely a valid reason to take off points. The dude thought the story was bad. It’s a review. They’re opinionated. They do the same thing for movies lol
He didn't say he disliked the story tho. He just said he disliked the theme of family in an MK game. Movies are literally just stories so it matters more in a review for them lol.
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I would take off point only if the story is inconsistent and doesn’t respect characters‘ past (for example Sindel in MK11Aftermath) but MKX had a great story!
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I just noticed You clicked the dislike too lol
Sir I don't sleep so this doesn't effect me
@@bakedpintos Jokes aside, you NEED to sleep lol. Otherwise you will age prematurely and possibly die 0_0
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Even in spanish lol
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Tbf their reviews are fair
I have MKXL, the only thing I hated about the story mode was that they wrapped too much of it around the Special Forces and giving them most of the spotlight. I was always a fan of the ninja clans and those who dress like them.
To be fair after mk9 most of the earthrealm defenders were killed so all they really had left was Sonya and Johnny, and with the help of SF that’s all they had to combat Quanchi and shinnoks plans. But ofc Kenshi, jax, the lin kuei , and Shirai ryu joined in later.
@@XxTheSabertoothxX agreed i think this is the main factor for why the timelines are all jumbled and restarted
I laughed at the "my man Sagat is just wearing SHORTS" pretty hard
Bruh 🤣🤣
MK9 : Sonya's too revealing. We don't like that
MKX : Sonya's too basic looking. We don't like that
PICK ONE DAM IT!!!! XD
Hi Sanic :D
Yo love your vids but you can have an awesome memorable outfit without being revealing (I personally don't have a problem with it) but yeah.
Tbf you're pretty much like that.
@@Dripx-yes I agree
Mkx
Cons: too much water
I agree that MKX was one of the best mk games. It was my first MK game and I was so crazy over it. I found about it after the dlc with Alien and Predator. I was searching for predator stuff and then I saw a video with every carracter doing a fatality on him. Little me was traumatized haha.
Holy shit you're brand new to MK. X is a great start, at least your first MK wasn't something completely unplayable like MK Advance or something.
haha zoomer
Not to criticize you but it was your first I feel so bad for u
@@UltimateShadow10 MkX was my firat mk game back in 2021 i then got the deluxe version of mk11 on a sale shortly afterwards...i was a bit dissapointed with how mk11 is, the(timed) towers are frustrating or passable at best and there is way less options available to use at once which makes it less skill heavy than mkx where everyone can deal crazy dmg in thier own right
Fax me to
when my mans said his favorite part is the gore i literally sank into my chair from cringe
Yeah, its very sad. What was your's? Like most MK games, my favorite part is learning how to string together combos. Its just so satisfying when you learn how to do a flashy combo and dbig damage.
my personal favorite part is more so the core gameplay of mk, but i cant be too mad about someone saying the gore is their favorite part. it is a casual answer but it is what makes mk so iconic.
I mean I kind of agree the brutality in the fatalities are literally some of the greatest parts of that game especially when you're playing it difficult match and you beat him and you finally put one of the most brutal fatalities that ever existed on your opponent. Really amazing
I think my fav is way you can end a match with a combo into brutality
So I think I'm as weird and cringe as this guy because what made me fall in love with this game is fatality and brutality.
I love the violence and the blood that spurts when there are X-Rays
Paradoxically, I hate violence and have a blood phobia in real life.
So I think this game represents the wild part of me or that I'm clear enough in my head to tell the difference between a game and reality.
If a bad story mode costs a game points CoD should never get above a -6 on the IGN scale
It depends on the game, world at war, and the games before used real battles. I like those games because I love history, and using real footage of WWII for cutseens was awesome. Every COD after Black Ops, however, became really boring though, especially the future games like Infinite Warfare and Black ops 3.
@@thesayerofthelaw if that's what makes for a good story, watch a documentary
They are an interactive documentary in ways, and that makes them cool.
@@Aichi1138very odd take
@@tommoorcroft2026not at all
Injustice proved that a netherrealms game doesnt have to be extremely brutal to be enjoyed
Initially what drew me into Mortal Kombat was gore, and then I discovered the story. That just cemented my interest in the franchise. Admittedly, I'm not very good at MK, but I slightly improve everytime I play.
And I find myself agreeing with UnderDawg. It's not even just about the gore anymore, I'm just enjoying winning matches (vs AI, bite me) and just exploring the different combos. I also find brutalities to be better than fatalities in MKX
I always saw mkxl as a huge upgrade to everything mortal kombat. The replayability that come after injustice and mkx was incredibly well done. Seeing as how they took all the good things they learned from mk9 and injustice 1 to make mkx and xl/11 better games from there on
i disagree MK11 is bad
I actually think the opposite. For me, it was a massive downgrade from MK9. The story was horrible, the soundtrack was lame, the aesthetics were boring asf, and probably the worst roster in MK history with many dogshit characters, boring arenas, with zero replayability, and content. I remember I finished the story mode, and I was so shocked I uninstalled the game right away. Easily the worst Netherrealm game.
@@MioTenaciousmk11 is so good. It's always people like you that have to hate on the current game then change your opinion when the next one comes out. I bet that when the mk 1 reboot comes out you'll say 11 was a masterpiece.
@@apeblackberry3641bro I loved mk9 too. Infact it was my first mk game. But you're high asf if you think mkx Is a massive downgrade. It did everything 9 did but better except maybe that the story was too focused on the Kombat kids and that we didn't have 2v2. It's one thing to say you like mk9 more and it's another saying mkx was a massive downgrade when in fact it proved to be the opposite. Mk9 although fun, was absolutely broken every character could absolutely annihilate one another, gameplay is so clunky compared to X, and the areas don't have much combat options compared to X.
@@karimayman9203 i stopped reading when u said when the next time gonna hit im automatically saying its good because i dont do that idiot
I got so desensitized from the gore in these games that I rarely bother to perform fatalites anymore.
Brutalities are just far superior in every single way tbh
That's sad. You need to go outside lmao. Imagine playing a game so much that it stops being fun
@@celestialecho9817 Brutalities are awesome, but superiority is not only irrelevant, but totally subjective in this instance. I kinda get disappointed when a head pops up like a rockem sockem robot instead of letting me panic press buttons to put them through a meat grinder
@@bwestacado9643 well maybe I used the wrong word, but they are just a better display of skill and actually are fun to try and pull off. It's more satisfying to repeatedly slam someone into the ground as spawn until they explode than it is to open up the menu and copy the inputs written on screen for you
@@bwestacado9643 I barely play Mortal Kombat anymore. I never even played MK11.
This reminds me of when I recommended a fighting game to my brother. He came back and complained that he could beat it with one button on easy. I suggested that he play the game on a higher difficulty but he just refused and never played it again.
The true fun is versus. You should of challenged him to play against YOU with that strategy and you would of had a field day.
@@nastycanadian1975 normally I would agree but I had already played it with him both seriously and going easy on him, he said he hated it both times. In addition he's the type of player that whines about everything even the character you pick. Mind you I don't mean the sort of complaints like "that character's overpowered" I mean more ridiculous thing like say if the character you pick is wearing a jacket he'd say something like "What are you emo?"
@@crimsondemon2231 lol It's not hate. It's can't play. Sorry bub.
@@nastycanadian1975 I would say that but sometime after that he told me that I "shouldn't buy the sequel" his claim for why I shouldn't was that "it had the same controls." It really didn't matter to me I already had a group I played it with and we all did have fun with it and it's sequel's.
@@crimsondemon2231 Well fighting games aren't for everyone just like I can't play FPS as much as I would like to. my motto "no excuses, only results" can't hate what you can't/play do
Dawg’s recent “Bashing IGN” arc is the content I sub for
Though the ign reviewers werent great, my guy spent 10 minutes talking about how they didn't like the game as much as he did
I know that it is unrelated to the subject of the video, but when he mentioned the krypt, I remembered a not so funny event that happened to me. When MKX was first released, I was beyond excited for it. Then one of the patrons at GameStop told me that the krypt would have giant spiders in it and my heart sank a bit. I have severe arachnophobia and now a major portion of the game was cut off from me. After I bought the game, I realized that I could buy everything in the krypt without going into it. So I did just that, not because I was lazy, but because I didn't want to risk having a panic attack going through those caves. I thought that I had dodged a bullet. Then Injustice 2 came into the picture with its Halloween event fight with Scarecrow and one of those random items managed to hit me during the battle. I realized then that I never dodged that bullet. It just waited to hit me when my guard was down a few years later.
Awwww man, that is a sad story :'(
You and MaximilianDood feel the same pain!
If it wasn’t for the ending of the story mode, I would find the game perfect. I did not like the ending, but everything else was wonderful. Honestly, it is probably the best made story mode even with the ending. I like how dark it is, the characters, the length, the difficulty, and everything else. The only thing I would compare it to is aftermath. That is only because you get to choose the ending and be evil. I found that very interesting, and it made the story mode very unique.
Fax raiden and fujin should have beat shinnok not Cassie 🤣 she’s such a mid character imo
@@Bighossss Ooo, it would have been cool if it were Fugin. Raiden would have worked, but you beat Shao Kahn with Raiden in MK9, so he had his turn. I don't think its NECESSARY, but I think they should try to have a fair amount of different characters used to beat the final bos. It still needs to make sense though. Cassie didn't make sense.
@@Lance.Gardenhire I think it should have been the whole cast I wish liu kang could have come back in that game and beat shinnok it would have made a lot more sense it would have been way cooler if everyone teamed up and went at him at the same time they could of even had some villans fight him and I wish divorah died in that game she’s is the worst character in mk history I’d rather have mokap 💀
I will say this, a lot of fighting games will always have that one character or that one move that annoys everyone no matter who it is. Players who constantly spam the same move or even the same easy combo that deals a lot of damage will affect your view on the character, your enjoyment of the game, and your overall experience at worst. I still remember seeing a headline on MK9 where people spamming Sektor’s teleport punch and Raiden’s electric fly ruining online, for MK X it was full auto Jackie with her machine gun, and MK 11 it’s a combination of Cetrion, Robocop, Sub Zero, Jade, and Sheeva at one point. That kind of problem will always be a number one reason why I don’t think any fighting game, or MK game, will get a 10/10 but MK X definitely deserves a 9 for the amount of content and ambition it has. Personally I think MK9 gets a 9.5 just because it was a breath of fresh air after the 3D era provided some games that were either hit or miss, the MK vs DC debacle, and because it laid the groundwork for a ton of things we can expect for future games. Things like DLC character, the X-Ray specials, the meter system, and a story that feels satisfying to replay on a higher difficulty, which makes the story for MK X shine while 11 felt more like a step back in its ending. The only real criticisms I can give to MK X is the character costumes blending in too much with the background, they have nice designs but it can be difficult to see what a character is wearing in a darkened stage like Quan Chi’s room, the winter forest, Lin Kuei temple, Sky Temple, and so on. In summary, MK 9 gets a 9.5 for being a great example on how to reboot a series while it retains its history and pushes the story further, MK X deserves a 9 for being ambitious and treading new ground but with some criticism towards the character outfits and saturated colors being too much at times, and just for kicks MK 11 getting an 8.8 for being a step back for newcomers while the story feels a bit rushed at times.
Well said 👏
"Reviews exist only to validate my opinions, because I have a fragile ego."
I’ve said this on Twitter before, but these days going to IGN (or Kotaku or Polygon) for a video game review is like asking a vegan for a steakhouse recommendation.
“It’s sheer amount of content”
3D MK Games: Am I joke to you?
„There’s more content in this game than any other fighting games“ me remembering MK9 actually had almost double the amount of content MKX had
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I was stunned when I found out that they gave SF5 at launch an 8. Wow…
IGN: "Factions are boring"
Also IGN:"I like the fatalities"
And what do Factions give you? More Fatalities which are called Faction kills
I agree 100% with what you said about the fatalities and gore as well as brutalities. They could remove the gore and I would not care, but I do enjoy the stylized way of ending matches with brutalities. Not a huge fan of the fatalities in general, they don't have to be there for me personally. I know people would riot if they are removed, so I am not actively saying they should be, I just don't care for them myself a whole lot.
I don’t know what’s the sudden problem people have with fatalities. They’re awesome. Brutalities are even cooler cause of the execution to pull them off.
@@jesuspernia8031 I absolutely wouldn't play a censored MK game lol and this game wouldn't have stood out from the crowd without it. It's the staple of the series and it wouldn't be if it didn't have it lol. The clowns who think they're superior for not saying fatalities and gore sold them on the game, are just pretentious asshats. Lmao anyone who thinks they're superior over video games needs to go outside for a little while. Make a friend
Ayo. I respect your opinion, but speak for yourself. This is not Tekken or Street Fighter. This is Mortal Kombat!! And I need my fatalities in my game. Its not mortal Kombat without them
@@olebogengmoagi5648 Sadly you're right, MK is not Tekken or Street Fighter
@Olebogeng Moagi You say "but speak for yourself"??
What do you think it means when I say "but for me personally"?
Sounds to me like I'm SPEAKING FOR MYSELF 🤔
Kotal Khan who loses to literally everyone is the biggest flaw of the story
Don't think I ever obsessed over a fighting game franchise like mortal kombat throughout my time as a fighting game fan and a lot of that is due to just how amazing mkx was alone
Honestly, mkx was an easy 9/10 at launch. The brutalities were awesome to perform and even more fun to discover on accident, while the fatalities looked awesome! Yeah, the faction kills weren't all that great, but it was still a nice add-on and even gave newer players an alternative if the inputs for some of the fatalities were too tricky at the time. The game play is what still keeps bringing me back to this game 7 years later. The klassic towers, pvp groups/lobbies, constantly changing challenge towers, this is still the #1 fighting game in terms of replayability imo.
Maybe if Sonya dressed up like a Call of Duty character there wouldn't be so many graphical inconsistencies.
I’d love to take orders from MK9 Sonya
It's an 7 out of 10 for me. Bear with me here.
I'm a guy who grew up in the arcade era of MK. Deception imo was the most FUN MK game ever released. People like to shit on it but they don't know the joy of playing the in game RPG, playing Tetris and Chess modes, and how fun doing stage fatalities and environment interactions in that game was. It was a ton of fun.
Armegeddon took a giant shit on what was set up with Deception, and thus MK goes back to 2D form with the release of MK 9. MK 9 was FUN also though. It didn't have the depth of Deception, or all the side games but the gameplay going back to original form was still good. Good enough that a competitive scene started to flourish. That competitive scene is exactly why I am giving MKX a 7 out of 10.
See fighting games are still video games. They need to have a large appeal to both casual and competitive players. MK was always a game that was built for casual players, a fun game for people to enjoy with fun animations and even side games.
MKX gets released. It is almost immediately apparent that this game was built specifically for the competitive community. The game play is the fastest paced it has ever been. It becomes quickly apparent as well that you will not be able to be very effective in this game without knowing crazy 10-15 hit combo strings. It was a pain in the ass. But I buckled down, learned some combos. Hey, I love MK. Then you start playing online matches, and what do you get? Constantly getting bodied and insulted by toxic 16 year olds with no jobs or lives. Took the fun completely out of the experience. Not to mention the color pallet was honestly way too dark and bland in MKX. MK has always been a colorful game and this game just looked kind of bleh.
NRS releases MK11. Which btw, graphically, is the most beautiful MK game ever released. They went back to form building a game that could appeal to both casual players as well as the competitive community. With absolutely insane animations, and a unique system that could be enjoyed by casual players but also played competitively. And what did the comp. community do? Constantly talk shit on the game, it's "too slow", blah blah blah. I have news for you guys who are competitive players, STOP SHITTING ON THE CASUAL COMMUNITY BECAUSE IF THEY DON'T BUY THESE GAMES, THE STUDIOS CAN'T AFFORD TO MAKE THEM ANYMORE. It's literally you shooting yourselves in the foot. That's part of the reason I think MK has taken so long to release a new game.
MKX is a good game, I agree. But it's not a 9. It's a 9 for competitive players. Sure. Or 9.5 or whatever. For most of us regular gamers it was way too frustrating to actually enjoy. And aside from the gameplay issues there, (and that IS an issue for a lot of casual gamers), there was also the fact that it really didn't look that good. The colors were gross. So I think giving it an 7 is generous. At least MK9 LOOKED great. It was colorful, and the fatalities in 9 imo were a lot more fun than most of the ones in MKX. I would give MK9 an 8.5 or 9. MK11 is definitely a 9 even 9.5. MKX was a solid 7. Sure, was a decent game, but still my least favorite of the 3 games.
“You’re a fool!”
😂😂😂
I love it
Those IGN "roundtables" are probably the biggest circle-jerks next to Twitter where a user proceeds to block anyone that doesn't agree with their echo chamber.
IGN had one for a Sonic review and one of them decided to intentionally antagonize the fan base by saying Sonic has never been good.
Would you consider reacting to the bfgc, blind fighting game community tournaments we have held for mortal Kombat 11? Think you would get a kick out of it, every fighter is either visually impaired or completely blind.
5:00 hmmmm. A bad story can definitely be criticized and make a game lose points.
I recommend try doing the opposite, the most hyped/ entertaining MK video make by MK/YT
Ngl mate 8.4 is a crazy good score for any game
When he said about the part of the Krypt- Cave part... He is correct... I have arachnophobia
IGNs review really made me FEEL like a Mortal
Be glad they gave it that 8.4. these days nothing gets fast 7 from them.
They gave Sonic Frontiers a 7/10 and honestly Sonic Team really made a great game. Shouldn’t have been lower than an 8
@@jesuspernia8031 ign in a nutshell.
Make "The most clickbait Mortal Kombat youtuber list" and put yourself on the first place :D
The story mode in mk9 was just fun and had was funny asf. I'd play it again and still have fun but mkx, the ending is what killed it for me because it made absolutely 0 sense. Johnny and Cassy only just realizing they had powers despite JOHNNY USING IT RIGHT IN THE FIRST OPENING CUTSENSE. Can't forgive that bs
They were surprised that Cassy unlocked her powers.
11 out of 10 for me, I love this game. MKX will be that game that I play until I just can't play games anymore.
Well lucky for us that it’s still got a community online
@@jesuspernia8031 yeah I hope it stays that way but I been playing this game since 2016 and I will still sit in practice mode doing combos for hours, it's just so satisfying.
I will Agree that MKX has the Better Story and is a Great Game,like the Sonic Franchise,Both IGN and Watchmojo doesn't Understand the Mortal Kombat Franchise.
Watchmojo is just an entertainment channel about "Top 10s," IGN is regarded as a supposedly trusted source for video game journalism.
@@redacted2275 Maybe but I have Seen Both Channels and the Thing I learned from it is that they Lack the Understanding of Both Franchises,So this isn't Me Saying Things Blindly,I'm Saying I have Valid Reasons,They might Learned from It but at the Same Time they Didn't.
IGN still doesn’t understand Sonic. Frontiers got a 7 when it’s an 8 at the very worst.
when I was 6 years old, what attracted me to the series was its gore and eerie atmosphere. I loved how mortal kombat was dark but fell even hard with its lore and been addicted ever since.
Saying that the gore is your favorite part of a MK game is like saying "my favorite part of this book is the cover"
I'm not very experienced when it comes to MK or fighting games in general but I can say for sure that MK has so much more depth in it than it's gore and fatalities.
The problem with X's story mode is that it totally rewrites/erases 25 years of the game's history. I used to be a die-hard MK Fan, even when everybody else forgot about it but the minute MK9 comes around everyone is a fan now!
I was super excited for MK's comeback in 2011 and loved it (hated the ending though). But X--how we go backwards in time just to move forward in time in the next installment??? It broke the continuity just like everything else which is currently a trend along with MESSING WITH TIMELINES! And I don't wanna hear about Raiden jacking up said timeline cause that is some buuullshiiit...!
The Kombat Kids are godawful (design-wise and their involvement in the story), the other new characters were just whatever, and the graphics are so uncanny it made characters like D'Vorah look terrible. Then their fatalities, jeebus, not creative at all. The fricken X-rays looked better because they WERE fatalities.
I also don't like how NRS made their OGs hella weak just to make their new cats look dope af but in reality they not and never will be. And let's be honest here too there was some political stuff in play as well between Cassie defeating an over-powered Fallen Elder God to all the females being heavily clothed then use phrases like "being more realistic" as a scapegoat.
Lastly, I could seriously care less about the added bells and whistles to this game. If it ain't fun enough for me to be invested, why bother? Plus the Variation component seemed unnecessary. 9 will forever be the best installment of this game series until I am convinced otherwise.
P.S - MK 11 sucks balls too!
Completely agree with you tho I still am a die hard mortal kombat fan at heart I just hate the route they're taking the franchise in, MK1 was doing so well then they completely fxxxed up the story with all the multiverse bs tho because I still am a die hard fan I will support it I just want MK to be as good as it was like back in the 3D era
What you said about fatalities and brutalities are exactly how I feel. I definitely prefer brutalities to fatalities. I wonder if netherrealm will merge them at some point.
I’m pretty sure the people at IGN and Kotaku get together weekly to smell each other’s farts.
I thought they were going to show my youtube videos 😅
MKX was probably the game I had the most playtime in any mk game just due to the fact the Kombat was so fun to play and unique. I don’t play games online a lot but I religiously played this game online every day.
6:48 - Or like Kingdom Hearts 3 which goes so catastrophically against the very thesis statement of what the original KH game was all about that you get the feeling Nomura actually hates the very idea of making a Disney Game at all and would rather drop the very Disney element which made KHerven stand out as a commercial product..........and that's on top of being cringe and making no sense.
Or Final Fantasy 7 Remake which also goes so catastrophically against what the original was all about _(i.e. death and loss)_ that it outright retcons Zach to have survived, has the side members of Avalanche survive, is heavily telegraphing that Aerith is going to survive and has even brought back the actual Sephiroth from another timeline just so he can be the actual big bad instead of Jenova. Why? So that folks can finally get the "epic" story centered around Cloud VS Sephiroth that people thought the original FF7 was about which surprise of all surprises it wasn't......and that's on top of being cringe and making no sense..........
Wait what were talking about again?
9:32 through - Yeah and y'know what else? That first Mortal Kombat movie's PG-13 rating didn't hurt it one bit! If anything it gave the film a tighter focus on trying to make a fun decent flick with fun decent characters and by the Elder Gods it ended up being such a beloved classic that it is still a core part of the franchise's identity right down to Kano being Australian and bloody Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa making a return for MK11! "Oh man that film sucks for not having the gore like the games!" oh yes it was truly a lost cause. _Well what about Annihilation then?_ We don't talk about Annihilation........
How did you get a image of the dislike button ? I thought the dislike button was removed.
I would probably have gave it a 8.5.
I remember being a bit let down when they removed the 2v2 Fights & the Tower mode with the 100 floors with the 1v4 at the end. These two things were amount my favorite features in MK9. MK9 story was more fun too from what I remember. MKX have better fight mechanics and was probably better balanced tho but that doesn't matter much to most casual.
I never thought I would see a number at the side of the dislike button ever again.
In recent memory yes, deception, DA, and SM though.. 🐐
DA and Deception may not have been the best for competitive play, but they were still sick ass fighting games. Plus Deception’s story was fire.
I enjoyed Armageddon and the opening scene for Armageddon 🐐ed
Why do yall care so much. Its just a review it isnt the be all and end all of gaming quality.
MKX is a great game , it had so much kontent to explore and play , mortal kombat x's story is really great and sure people may not like the ending but overall the story was overall great and i think in my opinion mkx is a pretty great game and during its release it had a lot more to offer compared to other fighting games during that time , IGN sucks ngl , the costumes were great as well!!! 9.7 score almost a perfect 10
Mkx was great Story was good but the ending was the worst out of the rebooted trilogy I also liked mk9s story. Mk11 I didn’t really like it that much
The only thing MKX has over MK11 is I can play as Ermac and Kenshi. Skarlet and Noob are awesome subs in 11, but Ermac is my favorite. Did anyone else notice 11 is basically a console made mobile game? I actually got mad at myself for buying 11 when I saw you can just have the AI play through the towers for you. I have this massive 40 gig file on my Switch and I'm more disappointed with it than having fun playing it. The story mode is cool and I like getting to go back and play different fights with characters (picking Subzero instead of Scorpion and vice versa), but once I'm done with it I don't really have anything left except the krypt and that's just okay. It slows down a lot when I'm in there a long time, so I'm not even encouraged to stay and explore lol. Also Erron Black was funner to use in X than 11
You: “in my opinion mkx is a great game”
IGN: Gives the game a “great” rating.
You: IGN SUX!!!
I like the whole game! 9.8/10 from me! -0.2 for the Cassie beating Shinnok ending.
Nah I’d take points off for literal plot holes
the video starts at 3:43
Challenge towers were ok, but they weren't Chess Kombat or Motor Kombat. Also, the two biggest selling points for MK over the decades is the voilence and the story. Midway era MK didn't have a super in-depth / well-balanced combat system compared to other fighting games. The thing that attracted people to the MK games was the voilence and the story - especially in the 3D era. Talking on forums people were way more focused on story and predicting characters based on how they'd fit in with the story, rather than fulfilling a gameplay role (grappler, zoner, and all that jazz).
I think the biggest issue with the story mode is the chapter system, and how it dictates the story itself. There are some genuinely cool moments and plot ideas in the story, but the execution lets it down. Letting the chapter system and "shock value" dictate the story, rather than just trying to tell the best story. Heck, the shock value even dictated Mileena's design (the lips).
Speaking of design: MKX has some of the best costumes of the entire franchise. I understand some people see them as too toned down / bland compared to the designs in other games from the franchise - but honestly, some of the older costumes were just way over the top or on the nose. Scorpion's MK9 costume for example: I hate it. I feel it's his second worst. It just feels too cartoony and like Deviant Art fan art. I don't particularly care for the (obviously Spawn inspired) cape in Snow Blind either. I'm all for having hellish and scorpion decals, but I prefer more practical designs (covering up the womens bodies because it's not practical, but putting them all in high heels.... good job NRS).
Anyway, I don't like giving scores for things, because it's usually done on a whim with no set rules on what adds / removes a specific amount of points. And even if it did; someone else will always disagree with the system and argue over a single decimal place, or compare it to the score of another game from a competely differen genre. Just seems pointless and distracting - I'd rather just focus on discussing the games actual merits and flaws rather than the point system for rating said game.
Why do people shit on smaller roster sizes it's nice when developers pour all they got into a smaller cast. Makes characters have way more depth
I haven't read the full review but what I'm picking up is that they feel the story is kinda tacky? I kinda agree with that and it should bear weight in a review, now HOW MUCH it should bear weight is a subjective matter. I personally liked the story of 11 better, the Jax arc is touching. Visually mkX is kinda bland colour vise, something both SF5 and mk11 did better but I remember playing mkx and having a blast and I'm a filthy casual. I'd give mkx 8.8 and mk11 an 9. Mk11 does the mkx stuff but better imo
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I thought you turned into the guy with the purple shirt. I gotta stop smoking bud. lmmfbaooooooo
Sad to admit but that’s the same reason I never go into the Krypt I hate the spiders.
Cassie cage wiping the floor with shinnok definitely removes half a point in my mind. The problem with IGN is that some of their reviews are so biased that it throws off other scores in comparison. I think an 8.4-9 is a good score for MKX but the fact they review call of duty every year and give it similar scores is what makes it frustrating
Me, a horror fan who always appreciates gore, but has enjoyed stuff like Johnny Cage's development throughout the years: *loud, nervous sweating noises*
I like fatalities and brutalities--but I do think they might seem a bit out of character for some people. If some bloke is a martial artist and trained to not kill, seems off to give them a fatality. Rule of cool, I guess?
8.4 is a good score tho. A very good score. Mind you, MKX was not as good as it was before the XL updates. The problem isn't that 8.4 is bad, it's that IGN has created a strange creep where they give bad games good scores. Launch MKX is definitely an 8.4. Post updates/dlc MKX would be much higher.
Street Fighter 5 should have seen a 6 tops.
Once you’ve seen all the fatalities it’s kinda like a been there done that feeling. My friends and I usually don’t fatality because it’s a waste of time. Unless someone deserves it
In my opinion, fighting games like mortal kombat shouldn’t focus on a story mode. The things netherrealm studios has to do to keep it fresh must be exhausting. A reboot, half the cast gets killed off but the fans want them back so they come back as zombies, the keeper of time pulls characters together from different periods, now another complete reboot. Some times things just run their course. With a game that’s run for so long maybe less is more in terms of story
@5:10 why you gotta mess with my brain like that. Lol
Video idea(s):
- "The longest combo in MK history"
- "The deadliest combo in MK history" (Highest damaging combo)"
- "The hardest combo in MK history"
All of those belong to Shang Tsung in MK11. He has this absurd 110% damage combo in the corner of the Cyber Lin Kuei map
I never finished the krypt in MKX because i hate spiders. (Like you said) which is why i bought the optional dlc where it automatically unlocks everything in the krypt
Ye I didn't finish the crypt because of my arachnophobia 😭
Mfs basically said that Sonya looks too much like her job lmao tf is she supposed to wear civilian clothing?
Why is an 8.4 considered bad?
Honestly 8.5 seems like a good score for MK X in a vacuum, the problem is how they rate other trash games so high.
Mk X is a great game (prob the best Mk out of the last 3), but it has some problems, like the variations lock some basic shit that every character should have as their base kit, the graphics were ok for the time and aged very poorly today, honestly, Mk 9 stylized graphics aged less badly, the pc port was awful, the game had delay netcode for a long time and Shinnok is worst villain on MK lore.
I was waiting for that type of respond and explenation. Nice video bro.
Is it weird that a lot of times I forget that MK is widely known for the gore? Like yeah we all want to see them a few times when the game is new but they're hardly a main feature
I love MK11, but I miss Reptile, Smoke, Ermac, Cyrax and Sektor
MKX will always be the best when it comes to it's combos. Being able to grab someone mid-combo while they are in the air is the best, stylish way to end a combo string into a brutality.
IGN are really picking, aren’t they?
Real talk, how are you still able to see dislike counts?
You can add it using Google. Just search "See TH-cam Dislikes" or something like that
@@TrueUnderDawgGaming It's also on Firefox if you use it (like me), which is great.
In an era of arcade vs games, MKX was as much of a paradigm changer as something like soul calibur back in the day. The current focus on content rich fighters owes a lot to MKX. I would say a 9 minimum is the absolute lowest justifiable score
I know this video is focused in a fighting game, but IGN's bad metric extends to other stuff too. For example, they gave Pokémon Mystery Dungeon: Explorers of Sky a 4.9 and labeled it "Bad". That game is considered by many the best Pokémon spinoff game, a game heavily story based, that while it has its shortcomings (e.g. some dungeons could become very repetitive) that even its fans admit and accept, was scored badly because it was too similar to Explorers of Time and Explorers of Darkness.
And while we could say "Okay, Pokemon always does that, they release two games and then a third one thats like a mix of the previous two plus extra stuff", the review was full of inaccuracies, and pretty much like here where they lowered the score because they didnt like the character clothes or the topics mentioned in the story mode, in that review they lowered the score because the reviewer didnt like the music. To make it worse, the reviewer didnt even bother with the full game; they played only one of the "extra episodes" and that was it.
What about the original games? Explorers of Time and Darkness? I mean, if the "complete version" with lots of extra stuff is bad, the originals that had less stuff should be lower, right? Nope. They were scored as a 6.5. However, that score has a nuance: The reviewer of these apparently didnt play beyond Apple Woods, an early game dungeon- basically he didnt play more than a 20% of the story.
I know this may be a bit "nerdying about pokemon", a franchise that a lot of people into fighting games dont even care much about. However, I put this mainly to illustrate why nobody who takes videogames with any degree of seriousness will really respect IGN's reviews.
I disagree with your point against their review of the story mode. If you don't like a part if the game and it is _your_ review of the game, then you have every right to give it a lower score for it.
Street Fighter V had so little content at launch that I didn't play and a few years later I discovered I bought the game at some point. That's how disappointed I was I forgot I bought the game and never tried to play it again. Also I use Steam.
by all means you can lose points for having a bad story. Take Y2K RPG, no real glitches of bugs, just a really really bad story with boring gameplay at worse. In that game if anything the story is the weakest point in the game so naturally it'll loose points over it. As far as I'm concerned, as long as they create a story mode, it being bad or boring is a valid critisism since it's a part of the game.
Same for the costumes, I think that if the execution was so-so, then it's totally fair to remove points for it.
Same with the SFV comparison, yeah the game had less to offer but it executed well on what it had and while the game was broken in terms of imput lag, IGN is clearly not a competative crowd, they're casuals, and they review the games they play as casual players of games who just play for the fun of it so things like that tend to matter less to them.
MKX's story mode was sufficient in most ways but had poor writing. I'd take off points too I think. Surely having something be just ok on top of a lot of great kontent means that the package overall is worse now, right?
9.5 for me from the day 1! and still best game ever imho anyways... always more room to improve, unbeliveable pace....
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6:47 that's his opinion on his review bro tf? its almost like whatever people review and rate is their personal preference
anything under a 9 for MKXL is criminal.
MKX did also launch with horrible net code for the time. They did fix it after a year but if we are using igns numbering it wouldn't get a 9 or above just for that. I played online at launch and it was like playing underwater
Not enjoying the “theme” of the story is absolutely a valid reason to take off points. The dude thought the story was bad. It’s a review. They’re opinionated. They do the same thing for movies lol
He didn't say he disliked the story tho. He just said he disliked the theme of family in an MK game. Movies are literally just stories so it matters more in a review for them lol.
How was he able to see the dislike ratio on the video?
Well what else could be expected from IGN? They gave one of the best Assassin creed a low score because “too much water”
My only problem is how dirty Baraka and milleana where done and how ermac and reptile where just jobbers