I have been saying this since the teaser, lol. I wasn't buying any of it dude, the cameo system sucks. It looks good, feels like Marvel vs Capcom kind of thing. But it is just NOT Mortal Kombat. Can't they understand this.
The multiverse stories have worked like Deadpool and Logan, Spiderman No Way Home as well as Dr Strange and the multiverse of madness and even the one in Bayonetta 3 was fun on the switch
You must not know anything about Mortal combat to say that. The first Mortal Kombat doesn't start on 1. I believe it starts on 8th tournament. And every game follows after. Meaning the story of 1-7 was never told.
"I mean, how cocky do you have to be to literally call your first movie THE FIRST MOVIE? It's like they knew they were gonna have a bajillion sequels so they decided to call it the FIRST movie just to make it easy for us. That's like naming the first Lord of the Rings movie, 'Lord of the Rings: Don't Worry, We're Gonna Have a SHIT Load of Sequels.'" - The Nostalgia Critic, on 'Pokémon: The First Movie' "First of all, I have to point out that this title is pretty pompous, as if to indicate that there's no doubt that our film is going to be so popular that, of course, it's going to warrant a sequel. But unlike 'Pokémon: The First Movie', where they knew the sequels were already made, this one was just on its own. And wouldn't you know it? The film didn't make enough money to milk any sequels." - The Nostalgia Critic, on 'Doug's 1st Movie'
@@ThePresentation010 "You must not know anything about Mortal combat to say that. " Says the one who put Combat instead of Kombat. LOL The issue is when referring to it by writing, it makes it weird b/c we used to always write MK1 referring to the original, now after three decades that suddenly doesn't work. It's a really dumb name.
@@ThePresentation010 The idea of a realm having to win 10 tournaments in a row in order to invade another realm was first established in 'Mortal Kombat (1995 film)' - the same year that 'Mortal Kombat 3' was released.
Mortal kombat 1 had a chance to start fresh and move away from the multiverse madness and they jumped right back to it and made things 100 times worse was so disappointed with the story!
The game is just inferior to MK11: 1) The story got so convoluted. All they had to do was make it Liu Kang's timeline vs. Shang Tsung's timeline (where everyone is corrupted), and leave it at that. It would be a fun battle. But instead we have infinite versions of the characters, which means that no one is special and all are disposable. And now you can have race swaps or gender swaps, and it's somehow "justified." I'm a female player, and I don't want Janet Cage. 2) Invasions is horrible. I loved exploring The Krypt in MK11--the spooky ambience sounds, the different levels, and all the rewards you got for finding things and achieving goals in the game. Invasions have NONE of that. It's repetitive with barely any payoff. 3) Towers of Time. Classic towers are just boring; Towers of Time had fun challenges and special powers you could earn, including funny ones like Mileena's exploding teddy bear. And again, you got ample rewards for beating the towers. 4) Customization. First off, why does EVERYONE in MK1 wear MC Hammer puffy pants? It's okay for one or two characters, but everyone from Scorpion to Mileena has a costumes that poof and puff, and makes everyone look like they have the same style. Next, we could pick five different customizations per character--skins, gear, special abilities...where is it? 5) Kameos. Bring back tag team play, like in MK9--that was my favorite part of that game. Kameos are a gimmick; it's one thing to pick two good players to go up against the game with two plays switching out. This isn't that. Ultimately, MK11 is just a superior game. MK1 has better graphics, but that's a tech issue. Outside of that, it's clearly rushed, and it deserves to fail to teach these corporate hacks a good lesson.
Well said. You made a number of valid points with articulate criticisms. Companies should take the time to listen to the community that supports their franchise. I appreciate hearing female gamers express their disapproval of gender swapping when it is unnecessary. I am of a mixed race of black and white and anytime a character is race swapped, I feel like what was the point of it. Where is the fan base that was asking for this change. Happy gaming.
I absolutely agree! I'm so glad someone else thinks this is a problem. When franchises do the whole multiverse and time traveling stuff, it just means they are running out of creativity to continue an original storyline. So they would rather hop on the multiverse and time travel hype train to keep feeding you the same characters and storylines. Although I think MK9 was fun. They really did mess up the story.
@ I can understand that and honestly personally for me even though I am one of the few people who liked mortal kombat 11 storyline for what it was, I was hoping really hoping mk1 was going to be a fresh start far away from the multiverse as possible but nope I was wrong they went full steam ahead with the multiverse and the end result of that endeavor was a mess in my opinion.
@@TevyaSmolka yea I thought the gameplay on Mk11 was really fun and the grinding and constant unlocks were great. But I just couldn't take the story seriously after MK9. If I was in charge I would make a similar game to Shaolin monks and pick it up after the events of Armageddon. After that I would go back to continue the games with classic fighting. But of course only one can dream😥
Why is it dying? Because less people are investing time in it. Most play story and move on. Some didnt even buying this one because of dumb microtransactio choices, stupid caneo system, and worse of all player 2 still cant use customisation/costumes that ive made. This is dumb. In tekken 8, if I make customised characters, both player 1 and 2 can use these.
This is what happens when you sell gamers a premium game at $150 and give them absolutely nothing for it. For a single player experience, it’s horrible. You have nothing to do but grind against a cheap computer that is equipped with things that make the fight super boring And unfair against everything you learned. If you wanna venture online instead of giving you the co-op mode that was an MK 11 where you’re able to swap between a teammate to fight a stronger computer or maybe at this point with all the brand new systems could’ve been two actual people against two actual people that never happened. On top of that no rooms or lobbies for you to understand who’s the player you’re picking on instead you’re always put against killers that are always online and playing this game so you’re always getting beat down and never having any fun. Finally, if you’re in the game because you wanna collect skins and enjoy some different modes, you can kiss that goodbye because the studio decided to dress up all the characters in the worst outfits ever so you can go ahead and spend money on micro transaction to get skins that actually look worse than the entire Mortal Kombat library but you’re stuck and you need them because you have horrible skins and pallet's on characters at the release of the game that you bought at premium price. The publisher and the studio should be ashamed of themselves for burning the customers like this I will never preorder a Mortal Kombat game again until I see the reviews and see that the Dev team is actually behind it and supporting it for now. I think I’m Mortal Kombat 11. One last thing you can never compare the Mortal Kombat 11 storyline to the MK one storyline, which was very cheesy with dialogue that made me just wanna end it all, but at the same time I was chasing the achievements and maybe some unlockable skins which there was none. horrible story that doesn’t stand a chance against Mortal Kombat 11.
Things that killed mortal kombat one where, Micro transactions up the ass, the whole cameo fights thing, as well as the whole multiverse story line killed the game. Honestly all I hear is people want a back to basics mortal kombat game good story no micro transactions, guest fighters you you unlock through the story and online fights, and maybe if it is substantial enough a story expansion.
3 main reasons imo. They have gone way too far with micotra-transactions and charging too much for them along with expansion pack they cost like 50$ more than the base game itself and because they took out features from previous game's that fans really enjoyed and also because they embraced wokeness in the studio culture and that's like a repellent for most people thus why we have had so many woke flops recently people are sick of it.
@Billioncompany786 Aside from he says. Lol You just gave some examples the devs openly said they where desexualizing the female characters and for what it's rated M why not have some sexy alt costumes like before again wokeness.
@@thatguyfawkes2328 Why you deleted your previous comment? Anyways. So they stop sexual costome back in 2015 with MKX & Even in MK11 but still does two games didn't get woke or go broke. Less Sexy custome doesn't mean it's woke. This shows that you have no idea what you are talking about.
@@Billioncompany786 I didn't delete any comment if a comment is removed it wasn't me who removed it. Yeah not having sexy costumes like every other MK game is a component of woke culture that's why they removed it plus I gave a bunch of examples. It's a pattern in the industry being pushed very hard I tried linking some articles of some of the devs talking about changing the culture at neatherrealms studio a couple game's back but TH-cam won't let me link them but that was the beginning of the woke culture spreading into the studio that's why gender swaps happened and desexualizing of the female costumes was removed... There's literally no other logical reasoning to do such things it's a rated M game and no one playing MK game's complained about the sexy costumes or wanted male characters turned into female.
@andrewmoore7927 it could've sold 10.9 BAJILLION copies. Even so? That STILL doesn't make up for the shit microtransactions, story/dlc being lackluster, the NUMEROUS bugs & glitches that are still lingering within the game, characters being nerfed when they don't have to be, etc...I could go on & on, but i'm sure you get the point.
@donttrip9228 That's what i meant actually. It ruined it for me knowing they used to be cyborgs. But I heard somewhere that Cyrax was black and it was Canon. Not sure if it is true
Let's be real. Gender swap was dumb af. They could have just been new characters. If Scropion Lui Kang and Smoke turned into B**ches It would have been a riot!!
GAME TOO WOKE - TRANS-Former Cage, Race and Gender Swapped Cyrax & Sector (legecy canonical characters) as well as the Abysmal $50.00 DLC - WOKENESS REIGNS (Hard Pass) This game has SWEET BABY INC's leftist activism all over it. I will NEVER pre-order video games again without vetting for WOKENESS.
For me, the biggest offender is the BIG emphasis on micro transactions. It was decent when getting skin packs, but being charged $5 for just 1 skin is too much for a game that is already $70. I would understand if it was a free game, but that is not the case
I got it last Christmas, only start playing it now because I got the DLC ridiculously cheap for something that was released 2 months ago. Copped that a single skin is 5 quid and I was shocked. Hope they take a long look at this game and the criticism and bring back old MK. 9 was peak, but I loved X and 11 too.
There is no involvement of SBI. If they were involved why they didn't mention such a big game in their website? Like they mentioned Alan Wake 2, Spiderman 2 & GOW Ragnarok
@@Billioncompany786 Your attempt at gaslighting us won't fool those who know that SBI was actually involved in MK1. A simple google search will confirm this. 🙄
Cameos was the biggest problem. I knew it was gonna be terrible and I’m glad I didn’t buy the game. Last MK game I bought was MKX and I’m still playing MK9 on my PS3 🔥
I remember some dude defending Invasion called it innovative and better than "Bloated The Krypt and Konquest." Like🤣 nowaday people just so boring they prefer doing the same shit over and over again rather than enjoying the whole atmosphere and unique aesthetic. Back in my day we Unlock things in-game, not Buying characters with real money. Pathetic modern day thinking.
kameo should have been an extra and not the normal fighting thing. less combos than before roster is not as appealing invasions are boring micros for everything thats it..
as an avid MK fan what killed this game is the lack of content, the micro-transactions, and the disappointing narrative choices trying to appease woke audiences as if the multiverse story being played out wasn't enough to disappoint.
What went wrong with MK1? It was too focused on dial-in combos and not being a fun pick-up and play type of game. Plus, the Cameo system felt unintuitive and not really useful. The game bored me. I went back to MK11.
..you REMOVED most of the more popular fighters and demoted them to “assist characters”. And then you GENDER SWAPPED the other more popular fighters! ..Gee I wonder why it’s failing.. 🙄
MK turned into a corporate piggy bank.....too much stupid dlc, too little fighting innovation, stupid story even for a fighting game, and way too much grind or pay up to skip the grind... oh and Tekken 8 nailed it to the floor.
GAME TOO WOKE - TRANS-Former Cage, Race and Gender Swapped Cyrax & Sector (legecy canonical characters) as well as the Abysmal $50.00 DLC - WOKENESS REIGNS (Hard Pass) This game has SWEET BABY INC's leftist activism all over it. I will NEVER pre-order video games again without vetting for WOKENESS.
Making characters post launch dlc or having to pay for them separately sucks. Whatever happened to getting all the characters/stages on the disc day 1?? The gaming industry as a whole has gotten too greedy for its own good. Gamers are getting tired of it and game sales reflect that.
Really? How many times do I have to post this? -Surprising lack of single player content for a NRS game, and what little single player content the game has is overly grindy, dull, boring, and give very little reward for the time it demands from the player. -Barebones online features and functionality to the point where games from 10 years ago have more to offer. -Disney Marvel multiverse alternate timelines time travel copy-paste story arc. People are tired of all this multiverse nonsense. -Way too much of a focus on guest characters to the point where it now feels more like a multiversus game than a actual Mortal Kombat game. -Invasions mode is utter trash and needs to be replaced with something else. -A lot of people dislike the Kameo system for various reasons. -The game tries to absolutely gouge the player's wallet around every turn. -The game is unappealing to look at, with dull and bland character models all for the sake of not "offending" anyone, and with the ugliest costume designs I have ever seen. Why do the characters in this game look like they're about to bust out a musical number singing "Arabian Nights"? I thought the series was based on Asian designs, not Middle Eastern ones. Unless the dev team think the Middle East and Asia are the same. -Too much 4th wall breaking humor nonsense. They are trying way too hard to turn Johnny Cage into Deadpool. -A lot of the "new era" changes are completely nonsensical. Tarkat is no longer a race but rather a disease (WTF?), the whole situation with Hanzo Hasashi not being Scorpion, Johnny Cage not having his shadow powers, every villain now being a goodguy, gender swaps solely for the sake of scoring DEI points, etc. -The Khaos Reigns story expansion was clearly written by a very early version of an incredibly glitchy AI program. Either that or a person with brain damage.
🐉🔥 It's dying because it was tainted by Sweet Baby Inc. I don't enjoy the whackey guest characters and gameplay is boring imo. They need to make an MK game like MK X again.
If games are going to start adding so many micro transactions then they need to be sold at $19.99. By the time you buy add ons it should total $79. Gaming a la carte.
Mk 1 felt rushed, to me something just felt off with the game to, when compared to mk9 x and even 11 it was lacking things like the krypt. Kameo i think could have been good but tbh i would much rather have a full on tag game
I wouldn’t be surprised if it comes out that it was given that Injustice 3 was originally going to be NRS next game but with everything going on with WB they wasn’t sure if they’d be able to
@ I don’t know if it’s confirmed but they didn’t do it because this when WB was selling studios and largely in their gaming division and Ed said they didn’t want to make it then have to deal with licensing for the characters if they wasn’t under WB anymore
Dying..I thought it was dead....the roster never got completed to the level of mk11...it missed a lot of fan favorites like jade, Cassie cage, Kabal and spawn....and khaos reigns dlc was absolute trash...I only liked noob saibot among all the released dlc characters...
cmon, this a weird take. Of course, we are missing fan favourites...but Cassie and Spawn (a guest character)? Not to mentioning that Jade was get out of jail card in MK11 with all the d1 and zonning tools. Regarding the cast is one of the best MK's ever (just beaten by MK9 imo), but everything else is one of the worst in the series
@@cesarcruz6947..I disagree on the roster..but that is subjective...for me...Cassie and spawn were really the standouts of the nrs era but that is subjective...
They limited the amount of ppl playing when it was released exclusive to a next gen console. Also, the look of this one is different, using brighter colors as opposed to the darker look of previous games. And the kameo system is dumb. For those reasons, I have 0 interest in playing and MK is one of my absolute favorites, so this saddens me. I hope the next one is better.
It pains me to see this game because there was so much potential at least put obscure characters like Kai the African American monk who had so much potential he was literally trained by Liu kang and in mk4s ending he was given a lightning staff by raiden and what else taven the main character in mk Armageddon that was so much potential what else hotaru Kira kobra Jarek any other obscure character you can put in and what else bring balance to online gaming and all is forgiven and game would improve
Its dying because Ed Boon & Co have been making the same game over and over again for the past 2 decades. The finishing moves have become so over-the-top and ridiculous, its lost its impact and originality. There is no "shock" effect anymore like the franchise used to have. People used to flock to the arcades when a new MK game out to see the new finishing moves ... it created excitement. Now, its a stale, boring mess. They are trying to fix it by introducing guest characters, pop culture references "Just throw Chucky in there, it ll make the fans excited!". That kind of approach wont work for the longer run. Basicly, they milked the franchise to death. I dont even know what the MK story line is about anymore. Nobody knows. Go ahead, explain the MK story line, whats it about? They are just making up the story as they go.
All these scrub casuals crying about kameos are killing me 😂 Seems they never played any assist fighting game before. It's the rushed and lacking content with bad server and greedy business practice that truly kill MK1
Cameos, invasions, trash pallet swap cosmetics and gears, and way over priced cosmetics for just classic nijnjas 🤦♂️ohh and sex changing the robots to have a romance with subzero 🤡
It's like they decided to do a reboot, then halfway through they had no idea which direction to go, so they thought 'you know what, lets just continue the old timeline and mix it together, this will create more timelines. Genius.'
The only thing that killed mortal Kombat 1 was their overpricing. From holiday fatalities to the new DLC. Nobody suffering from mortal Kombat fatigue. Mortal Kombat 11 and MK1 are two different games with two different end goals
Okay now you went to far with this one. I'm going to disregard the "woke" comment. I don't get into all of that, but MKX's character models were absolutely terrible. MKX to MK11 character model wise is a huge leap. MKX models look like generic cartoon characters.
@@JADub87 I think he means that they gender swapped cyborg characters (ironic isn't it) and a voice actress for one of them is a massive woke activist. (its true look it up)
@@TheSixthSLoT I hear you but I'd give MK9 the edge character wise over MKX. Now I am not hating on MKX because I love the game but the lack of color & character models just didn't hit for me.
Grinding and microtransactions has completely killed the game for me. I'm sure the usual brain rotted crowd will blame "woke" but the truth is it just isn't fun grinding for skins
If you think wokeness has nothing to do with the huge dip in quality particularly when it comes to story and writing in the industry and pushing hard ideological dogma into them such as these things killing dragon age and so many other game's that flopped over the last 5 year's like forspoken and dustborn the last Wolfenstein game ect ect not to mention ruining Spider-Man 2 than your brain rotted one who is incapable of using pattern recognition. They have websites now and huge groups of of gamer's that won't buy woke crap because we see the patterns in the industry we see the ideological consultant companies such as sweet baby inc spreading their influence in the industry and ruining everything they touch we see the ideological enforcement programs called DEI and we've seen the rockstar employees having to go through corporate reeducation classes for unconscious racial bias training and out of the 60 employees having to take that "course" 58 where white guy's and two where Asian guy's....They made them go through training not because they where racist but subconsciously racist.....Yeah woke ideology is real and it's a pretty big problem in government's and corporation's in the west you've been sleeping under a rock time to wake up buddy.
If you think wokeness has nothing to do with the huge dip in quality particularly when it comes to story and writing in the industry and pushing hard ideological dogma into them such as these things killing dragon age and so many other game's that flopped over the last 5 year's like forspoken and dustborn the last Wolfenstein game ect ect not to mention ruining Spider-Man 2 than your the brain rotted one who is incapable of using pattern recognition. They have websites now dedicated to exposing game's developed with woke corporate culture and there's huge groups of gamer's that won't buy woke crap because we see the patterns in the industry we see the ideological consultant companies such as sweet baby inc spreading their influence in the industry and ruining everything they touch we see the ideological enforcement programs called DEI and we've seen the rockstar employees having to go through corporate reeducation classes for unconscious racial bias training and out of the 60 employees having to take that "course" 58 where white guy's and two where Asian guy's....They made them go through training not because they where racist but subconsciously racist.....Yeah woke ideology is real and it's a pretty big problem in government's and corporation's in the west you've been sleeping under a rock time to wake up buddy.
@@thatguyfawkes2328, you can't convince a woke defender otherwise. Their one brain cell can't think beyond the woke stuff. You're wasting your time bud.
It’s so crazy half The old MK games are better..I thought they would go back to That 3D or MK4/Deception kind of gameplay..MK9,10 & 11 were Good but they have to switch it up !!
There’s a easy answer here, and we all know it. They went woke and now going broke, gamers are sick of this political nonsense getting crammed down their throats…
@@DonovanNL A genuine question brother nothing else. I don't like woke as much as next person but I also hate when people try to make something woke for no reason. The game failed because they didn't provide proper story DLC and try to sell DLC in 50$
@@Billioncompany786 Woke was the ONLY reason I did not buy the DLC and stopped playing MK1. I think you forgot about MK1 multiverse storyline, the gender swapped version of all of the characters? MK was supposed a dark and gritty violent fighting game, not a bright, purple, rainbow kumbaya game. Even in the footage above, it just looks freaking strange to have Shao Kahn @7:15 standing in that brightly lit scene. Not to mention uglifying all female characters to avoid the male gaze. It is WOKE AF.
Wb is to blame along with the fans and leakers. More than one person can have blame. I enjoy the game but you can tell it was rushed by wb. Mk 11 released in a way better state.
Greed is imploding the gaming industry. Games are failing left and right. They increased the game prices and argued "games are too cheap and we're more expensive in the past" while ignoring those games didn't have dlc and microtransactions. Folks are now asking themselves if they need a $70 game that will also have about 90 bucks in dlc over the next year or 2. I passed on mk despite owning every other title. Pass
MKX was arguably the last great Mortal Kombat. There’s a reason people flocked back to it after MK11’s launch. Now the same thing is happening to MK1 where people are going back to the older ones. It seems like Street Fighter is the only one of the big 3 that’s able to maintain its player base.
I personally just don’t like the new timeline. Kompletely changing each character was a bold move after 30 years and for me personally, I don’t care for the new direction. And now there’s no way back.
I've never really been a big Mortal Kombat fan. However since I am a fan of fighting games I normally buy every Mortal Kombat game that is released. As other people have said I absolutely hated the cameos. Also like someone else said being sold individual characters and character packs has affected the way I feel about fighting games. I am sick of being so games with incomplete rosters and then sold characters at a later date especially when they are characters from previous games. I don't care when they do that with guest characters but I definitely care when they leave out characters who should already be part of the roster of the base game and then sell them to us.
Gamingbolt hit it right on. $10 fatalities, $5-$10 content, $50 Kaos Reigns, and constantly nerfing what they originally gave us.. killed the interest for me. Additional development support and content (if Kombat Pack 3 was real) shouldn't be dependent on sales (Kaos Reigns).
This game has been dead. No jak, Sonia & Kano the OGs. The weird story, it was good at the beginning but at the end they were like F it. We are going to make sure nothing makes sense in the MK world. I played all the sessions and I even bought the dlc. But I'm like damn MK has lost something. MK 11 was way better.
MK11 holds up for me perfectly in 2024. The issue is that I have no real reason to drop 70 bucks on a game in this economy when the predecssor is argubly better.
Stop making us pay for us characters and let us unlock them by completing challenges like we used to
Every game does that now a days.
Yeah, that's not happening anymore. You might as well not even bring that up.
@@KamiKoroshi_ Would be nice though
@jomac3423 Yeah, it would, but everything is about money now. Believe me, I wish we could unlock things like back then.
@KamiKoroshi_ Yeah once they found out they could make money like that it was over
The story was convoluted to the point I had no interest in the expansion at all and so much grinding and micro transactions killed it.
That’s why they rebooted the entire story for MK1.
I bought khaos reigns only for ghostface still havent played the khaos story expansion
@@kris4un54 You could have saved a ton of money but spending only $7.99 for the character.
@alberta.4692 i thought it will be interesting but my hype fell
@@kris4un54I still haven’t played the base game story like who buys a fighting game for the lore if you want that get an RPG.
Invasions, Multiverse story, grinding, 10 USD fatalities.....
Thats rough 😅, I play tekken. It's not perfect but this is crazy
bra the only fatals you pay for was the sessional ones like Halloween Christmas thanks giving and it was a all in one pack
@@highbredsmoke so paid fatalities just like he said? K, thx
Cameo system single handedly messed this game up.
no it didn't, it was working with sweet baby inc, an overpriced khaos reigns expansion, and raceswapping and genderswapping sector and syraxx
It was the innovention and made us play more MK characters than ever.
I have been saying this since the teaser, lol. I wasn't buying any of it dude, the cameo system sucks. It looks good, feels like Marvel vs Capcom kind of thing. But it is just NOT Mortal Kombat. Can't they understand this.
@@icernexus especially when that Janet cameo comes in and then your character falls to the ground. Look goofy as heck
All they had to do was a simple on/off option for Kameos. Guess that was TOO hard to program...🙄
Multiverse storyline has been done to death and the kameo system is not enjoyable
The multiverse stories have worked like Deadpool and Logan, Spiderman No Way Home as well as Dr Strange and the multiverse of madness and even the one in Bayonetta 3 was fun on the switch
@@justingochioco1121 which is why it sucks
Too many stories use it
Marvel is all about multiverse and time travel their comics are filled with it@@justingochioco1121
The first mistake was calling it 'Mortal Kombat 1'
Shouldn’t have been the name of the game.
You must not know anything about Mortal combat to say that. The first Mortal Kombat doesn't start on 1. I believe it starts on 8th tournament. And every game follows after.
Meaning the story of 1-7 was never told.
"I mean, how cocky do you have to be to literally call your first movie THE FIRST MOVIE? It's like they knew they were gonna have a bajillion sequels so they decided to call it the FIRST movie just to make it easy for us. That's like naming the first Lord of the Rings movie, 'Lord of the Rings: Don't Worry, We're Gonna Have a SHIT Load of Sequels.'"
- The Nostalgia Critic, on 'Pokémon: The First Movie'
"First of all, I have to point out that this title is pretty pompous, as if to indicate that there's no doubt that our film is going to be so popular that, of course, it's going to warrant a sequel. But unlike 'Pokémon: The First Movie', where they knew the sequels were already made, this one was just on its own. And wouldn't you know it? The film didn't make enough money to milk any sequels."
- The Nostalgia Critic, on 'Doug's 1st Movie'
@@ThePresentation010 "You must not know anything about Mortal combat to say that. " Says the one who put Combat instead of Kombat. LOL
The issue is when referring to it by writing, it makes it weird b/c we used to always write MK1 referring to the original, now after three decades that suddenly doesn't work. It's a really dumb name.
@@ThePresentation010 The idea of a realm having to win 10 tournaments in a row in order to invade another realm was first established in 'Mortal Kombat (1995 film)' - the same year that 'Mortal Kombat 3' was released.
Mortal kombat 1 had a chance to start fresh and move away from the multiverse madness and they jumped right back to it and made things 100 times worse was so disappointed with the story!
MICROTRANSACTIONS 👎🏼
And it's overpriced at launched with overpriced DLCs.
That's every fighting game
@@georgehernandez2156 until today dec.11 2024 it's overpriced
Cameos and invasions should not continue into the next WB game
The Kameo system is not a MK staple thats why a lot of ppl dont like it
@@Tribrid-zv3nq they should've brought back a MK staple like stage fatalities instead but noooo...
@@DonYoGi8331 fr or the tag teams
@@Tribrid-zv3nqexactly! They should have at least given the option to switch it off!
it will
The game is just inferior to MK11:
1) The story got so convoluted. All they had to do was make it Liu Kang's timeline vs. Shang Tsung's timeline (where everyone is corrupted), and leave it at that. It would be a fun battle. But instead we have infinite versions of the characters, which means that no one is special and all are disposable. And now you can have race swaps or gender swaps, and it's somehow "justified." I'm a female player, and I don't want Janet Cage.
2) Invasions is horrible. I loved exploring The Krypt in MK11--the spooky ambience sounds, the different levels, and all the rewards you got for finding things and achieving goals in the game. Invasions have NONE of that. It's repetitive with barely any payoff.
3) Towers of Time. Classic towers are just boring; Towers of Time had fun challenges and special powers you could earn, including funny ones like Mileena's exploding teddy bear. And again, you got ample rewards for beating the towers.
4) Customization. First off, why does EVERYONE in MK1 wear MC Hammer puffy pants? It's okay for one or two characters, but everyone from Scorpion to Mileena has a costumes that poof and puff, and makes everyone look like they have the same style. Next, we could pick five different customizations per character--skins, gear, special abilities...where is it?
5) Kameos. Bring back tag team play, like in MK9--that was my favorite part of that game. Kameos are a gimmick; it's one thing to pick two good players to go up against the game with two plays switching out. This isn't that.
Ultimately, MK11 is just a superior game. MK1 has better graphics, but that's a tech issue. Outside of that, it's clearly rushed, and it deserves to fail to teach these corporate hacks a good lesson.
True 😮
Well said
Well said. You made a number of valid points with articulate criticisms. Companies should take the time to listen to the community that supports their franchise.
I appreciate hearing female gamers express their disapproval of gender swapping when it is unnecessary. I am of a mixed race of black and white and anytime a character is race swapped, I feel like what was the point of it. Where is the fan base that was asking for this change.
Happy gaming.
I must at ☝️ most of the movesets themselves are lackluster in comparison to past installments.
I agree completely!
We really need a break from multiverse stories away from mortal kombat in my opinion
I absolutely agree! I'm so glad someone else thinks this is a problem. When franchises do the whole multiverse and time traveling stuff, it just means they are running out of creativity to continue an original storyline. So they would rather hop on the multiverse and time travel hype train to keep feeding you the same characters and storylines. Although I think MK9 was fun. They really did mess up the story.
@ I can understand that and honestly personally for me even though I am one of the few people who liked mortal kombat 11 storyline for what it was, I was hoping really hoping mk1 was going to be a fresh start far away from the multiverse as possible but nope I was wrong they went full steam ahead with the multiverse and the end result of that endeavor was a mess in my opinion.
@@TevyaSmolka yea I thought the gameplay on Mk11 was really fun and the grinding and constant unlocks were great. But I just couldn't take the story seriously after MK9. If I was in charge I would make a similar game to Shaolin monks and pick it up after the events of Armageddon. After that I would go back to continue the games with classic fighting. But of course only one can dream😥
@ actually that’s not a bad idea and honestly I would be all for that.
This game had a blank slate and they blew it in every way possible.
The gender swap shit didnt help
It really didnt, its just fueling the fire
Cry baby Inc. is a bad desease.
Who did they gender swap? Male Cyrax and Sektor are in the game. I guess your just ignorant
@georgehernandez2156 They aren't canon. They are a game mechanic
@@georgehernandez2156 I think you are.
Tekken 8 Fighting game of the year
Mk11 and Mk10 is very good game. Mk9 is the ace.
MK 11 had the best looking character designs. MK 1 should’ve kept those looks. Kenshi was the exception for me in the game I thought he looked best.
@Sonicx216 regarding mk1s graphics it's has good graphics, but it's overpriced micro transaction is it's downside and bugs on its switch version.
MK 11 was garbage.
I like 10 the best.
@@andrewmoore7927 yeah and it was released 10 years ago, still a nice looking game until today
Why is it dying? Because less people are investing time in it. Most play story and move on. Some didnt even buying this one because of dumb microtransactio choices, stupid caneo system, and worse of all player 2 still cant use customisation/costumes that ive made. This is dumb. In tekken 8, if I make customised characters, both player 1 and 2 can use these.
This is what happens when you sell gamers a premium game at $150 and give them absolutely nothing for it. For a single player experience, it’s horrible. You have nothing to do but grind against a cheap computer that is equipped with things that make the fight super boring And unfair against everything you learned. If you wanna venture online instead of giving you the co-op mode that was an MK 11 where you’re able to swap between a teammate to fight a stronger computer or maybe at this point with all the brand new systems could’ve been two actual people against two actual people that never happened. On top of that no rooms or lobbies for you to understand who’s the player you’re picking on instead you’re always put against killers that are always online and playing this game so you’re always getting beat down and never having any fun. Finally, if you’re in the game because you wanna collect skins and enjoy some different modes, you can kiss that goodbye because the studio decided to dress up all the characters in the worst outfits ever so you can go ahead and spend money on micro transaction to get skins that actually look worse than the entire Mortal Kombat library but you’re stuck and you need them because you have horrible skins and pallet's on characters at the release of the game that you bought at premium price. The publisher and the studio should be ashamed of themselves for burning the customers like this I will never preorder a Mortal Kombat game again until I see the reviews and see that the Dev team is actually behind it and supporting it for now. I think I’m Mortal Kombat 11. One last thing you can never compare the Mortal Kombat 11 storyline to the MK one storyline, which was very cheesy with dialogue that made me just wanna end it all, but at the same time I was chasing the achievements and maybe some unlockable skins which there was none. horrible story that doesn’t stand a chance against Mortal Kombat 11.
No jax was a dealbreaker
No backbreaker, just dealbreaker :(
Facts
Because the game is shitty and woke. It is not a mystery, make a bad game and it will flop.
As a guy with the real & only Sektor as my profile pic, I agree. I never touched this crap after finishing one story playthrough.
When will they learn
Things that killed mortal kombat one where, Micro transactions up the ass, the whole cameo fights thing, as well as the whole multiverse story line killed the game. Honestly all I hear is people want a back to basics mortal kombat game good story no micro transactions, guest fighters you you unlock through the story and online fights, and maybe if it is substantial enough a story expansion.
3 main reasons imo. They have gone way too far with micotra-transactions and charging too much for them along with expansion pack they cost like 50$ more than the base game itself and because they took out features from previous game's that fans really enjoyed and also because they embraced wokeness in the studio culture and that's like a repellent for most people thus why we have had so many woke flops recently people are sick of it.
Aside of Gender Change of Sektor & Cyrax there is no hint of wokeness
@Billioncompany786 Aside from he says. Lol You just gave some examples the devs openly said they where desexualizing the female characters and for what it's rated M why not have some sexy alt costumes like before again wokeness.
@@thatguyfawkes2328 Why you deleted your previous comment?
Anyways. So they stop sexual costome back in 2015 with MKX & Even in MK11 but still does two games didn't get woke or go broke.
Less Sexy custome doesn't mean it's woke. This shows that you have no idea what you are talking about.
@@Billioncompany786 I didn't delete any comment if a comment is removed it wasn't me who removed it.
Yeah not having sexy costumes like every other MK game is a component of woke culture that's why they removed it plus I gave a bunch of examples.
It's a pattern in the industry being pushed very hard I tried linking some articles of some of the devs talking about changing the culture at neatherrealms studio a couple game's back but TH-cam won't let me link them but that was the beginning of the woke culture spreading into the studio that's why gender swaps happened and desexualizing of the female costumes was removed... There's literally no other logical reasoning to do such things it's a rated M game and no one playing MK game's complained about the sexy costumes or wanted male characters turned into female.
What do you mean "Dying"? That sucka is DEAD!
DEADER than a DOORKNOB! 👎👎👎
Probably dead online activity, but what were the overall sales?
Exactly🤣🤣🤣
😂
@andrewmoore7927 it could've sold 10.9 BAJILLION copies.
Even so? That STILL doesn't make up for the shit microtransactions, story/dlc being lackluster, the NUMEROUS bugs & glitches that are still lingering within the game, characters being nerfed when they don't have to be, etc...I could go on & on, but i'm sure you get the point.
Story is unnecessarily confusing and DLC cost just as much as the original game.
Making Cyrax and sector women didnt help their game.
I mean I personally didn't care about the gender swap I hated that they weren't cyborgs and just women in suits
@donttrip9228 That's what i meant actually. It ruined it for me knowing they used to be cyborgs. But I heard somewhere that Cyrax was black and it was Canon. Not sure if it is true
Let's be real. Gender swap was dumb af. They could have just been new characters. If Scropion Lui Kang and Smoke turned into B**ches It would have been a riot!!
@@rickmasters219Specifically, he's Botswanan.
@@rickmasters219 Cyrax being black was first established in 'Mortal Kombat Gold' (an updated version of 1997's 'Mortal Kombat 4').
Because 2 things... Warner Bros and Woke
The only reason it failed for me
GAME TOO WOKE - TRANS-Former Cage, Race and Gender Swapped Cyrax & Sector (legecy canonical characters) as well as the Abysmal $50.00 DLC - WOKENESS REIGNS (Hard Pass)
This game has SWEET BABY INC's leftist activism all over it.
I will NEVER pre-order video games again without vetting for WOKENESS.
Yes, it's the worst game i've played this year, stick to MK-9-X-11
Invasion is trash and so is the gay ass kameo system. Thats what killed mk1.
I hate the Kameo system with a passion
Took the words out of my texts!!!
That’s how to describe it.
Whats with the kameo hate i feel like it makes a bigger skill gap in my opinion
@@Brian-ib8sh they were unique I will give it that but it wasn’t good and some of the kameos should have been playable.
It’s a tag team game. MK is not a tag team series. They go back to normal combat and the series will be great again.
Mk9 was, and did it well. It was fun.
For me, the biggest offender is the BIG emphasis on micro transactions. It was decent when getting skin packs, but being charged $5 for just 1 skin is too much for a game that is already $70. I would understand if it was a free game, but that is not the case
I got it last Christmas, only start playing it now because I got the DLC ridiculously cheap for something that was released 2 months ago.
Copped that a single skin is 5 quid and I was shocked.
Hope they take a long look at this game and the criticism and bring back old MK. 9 was peak, but I loved X and 11 too.
Maybe don’t let sweet baby inc work on the next one.
I blame Raiden for all these stupid timelines, No wonder Kronika wanna gets rid of him
Come on everyone knows its microtransactions and woke shit.
Because Street Fighter 6 is better and that's coming from a former die hard Mortal Kombat fan.
SF has always been the superior game, by far. I dislike the robotic janky animation and cringe dialogue of MK.
Street fighter has better online and single player now
I grew up a Mortal Kombat fan and have grown to appreciate Street Fighter and Tekken.
Its not even comparable. Mk1 is just an ugly mess..
And Tekken 8 is better then both
$50 for a storyline DLC pack is GD nuts 🤑
Sweet Baby Inc. enough said
There is no involvement of SBI. If they were involved why they didn't mention such a big game in their website?
Like they mentioned Alan Wake 2, Spiderman 2 & GOW Ragnarok
A three second Google search begs to differ@Billioncompany786
@Billioncompany786 they did. They worked with WB Games until they revamp their website and dropped the client list
@@Billioncompany786 Your attempt at gaslighting us won't fool those who know that SBI was actually involved in MK1. A simple google search will confirm this. 🙄
@@Billioncompany786They had it on their website at one point, but then they removed it.
Cameos was the biggest problem. I knew it was gonna be terrible and I’m glad I didn’t buy the game. Last MK game I bought was MKX and I’m still playing MK9 on my PS3 🔥
This is the way. Me too. I’ve got 9 on series x backwards compatible. Has a magic to it. The Komplete package .
The story was decent until they bought in the multiverse foolishness. Khaos Reigns made it worse.
I remember some dude defending Invasion called it innovative and better than "Bloated The Krypt and Konquest." Like🤣 nowaday people just so boring they prefer doing the same shit over and over again rather than enjoying the whole atmosphere and unique aesthetic. Back in my day we Unlock things in-game, not Buying characters with real money. Pathetic modern day thinking.
kameo should have been an extra and not the normal fighting thing.
less combos than before
roster is not as appealing
invasions are boring
micros for everything
thats it..
as an avid MK fan what killed this game is the lack of content, the micro-transactions, and the disappointing narrative choices trying to appease woke audiences as if the multiverse story being played out wasn't enough to disappoint.
Agreed. All of this sociopathic woke nonsense is becoming extraordinarily annoying.
@@jaybeam1466how tf is this sociopathic? Yall just saying shit now
Kameos ruined the gameplay, I said this this it launched
What went wrong with MK1? It was too focused on dial-in combos and not being a fun pick-up and play type of game. Plus, the Cameo system felt unintuitive and not really useful. The game bored me. I went back to MK11.
Im here after Virtua Fighter 6 announcement
Spelled the thumbnail wrong, I know you meant to put “Dead”. Honest mistake.
Didn't like the story, Invasions can't replace The Krypt from prior games, microtransactions and grinding put the nail in the coffin.
So true I play every mortal Kombat game except this one 😢
..you REMOVED most of the more popular fighters and demoted them to “assist characters”. And then you GENDER SWAPPED the other more popular fighters! ..Gee I wonder why it’s failing.. 🙄
It isn’t ‘dying’. I can find matches, regardless of time.
After 12am no one is playing it
Sell the IP to the chinese and let them make the next Mortal Kombat.
MK turned into a corporate piggy bank.....too much stupid dlc, too little fighting innovation, stupid story even for a fighting game, and way too much grind or pay up to skip the grind...
oh and Tekken 8 nailed it to the floor.
GAME TOO WOKE - TRANS-Former Cage, Race and Gender Swapped Cyrax & Sector (legecy canonical characters) as well as the Abysmal $50.00 DLC - WOKENESS REIGNS (Hard Pass)
This game has SWEET BABY INC's leftist activism all over it.
I will NEVER pre-order video games again without vetting for WOKENESS.
Microtrans on 70 dollar game is ridiculous. Luckily i got this for 30 and not bothering with the microtrans. Like always
Cuz they didnt add onaga and fucked up the characters we love with time travel bs
Making characters post launch dlc or having to pay for them separately sucks. Whatever happened to getting all the characters/stages on the disc day 1?? The gaming industry as a whole has gotten too greedy for its own good. Gamers are getting tired of it and game sales reflect that.
Get rid of that crappy and annoying cameo system or at least give the option to turn it off
Really? How many times do I have to post this?
-Surprising lack of single player content for a NRS game, and what little single player content the game has is overly grindy, dull, boring, and give very little reward for the time it demands from the player.
-Barebones online features and functionality to the point where games from 10 years ago have more to offer.
-Disney Marvel multiverse alternate timelines time travel copy-paste story arc. People are tired of all this multiverse nonsense.
-Way too much of a focus on guest characters to the point where it now feels more like a multiversus game than a actual Mortal Kombat game.
-Invasions mode is utter trash and needs to be replaced with something else.
-A lot of people dislike the Kameo system for various reasons.
-The game tries to absolutely gouge the player's wallet around every turn.
-The game is unappealing to look at, with dull and bland character models all for the sake of not "offending" anyone, and with the ugliest costume designs I have ever seen. Why do the characters in this game look like they're about to bust out a musical number singing "Arabian Nights"? I thought the series was based on Asian designs, not Middle Eastern ones. Unless the dev team think the Middle East and Asia are the same.
-Too much 4th wall breaking humor nonsense. They are trying way too hard to turn Johnny Cage into Deadpool.
-A lot of the "new era" changes are completely nonsensical. Tarkat is no longer a race but rather a disease (WTF?), the whole situation with Hanzo Hasashi not being Scorpion, Johnny Cage not having his shadow powers, every villain now being a goodguy, gender swaps solely for the sake of scoring DEI points, etc.
-The Khaos Reigns story expansion was clearly written by a very early version of an incredibly glitchy AI program. Either that or a person with brain damage.
Best comment 😅 100% agree
🐉🔥 It's dying because it was tainted by Sweet Baby Inc. I don't enjoy the whackey guest characters and gameplay is boring imo. They need to make an MK game like MK X again.
If games are going to start adding so many micro transactions then they need to be sold at $19.99. By the time you buy add ons it should total $79. Gaming a la carte.
Because it just sucks. Multiverse nonsense, Kameo system, slow gameplay, lack of content, stupid skins and microtransactions
Mk 1 felt rushed, to me something just felt off with the game to, when compared to mk9 x and even 11 it was lacking things like the krypt. Kameo i think could have been good but tbh i would much rather have a full on tag game
I wouldn’t be surprised if it comes out that it was given that Injustice 3 was originally going to be NRS next game but with everything going on with WB they wasn’t sure if they’d be able to
@ShawnJ96 I suspect they might have started work on injustice 3 but they got word from wb to make Mortal kombat and that is why the game was rushed
@ I don’t know if it’s confirmed but they didn’t do it because this when WB was selling studios and largely in their gaming division and Ed said they didn’t want to make it then have to deal with licensing for the characters if they wasn’t under WB anymore
Dying..I thought it was dead....the roster never got completed to the level of mk11...it missed a lot of fan favorites like jade, Cassie cage, Kabal and spawn....and khaos reigns dlc was absolute trash...I only liked noob saibot among all the released dlc characters...
cmon, this a weird take. Of course, we are missing fan favourites...but Cassie and Spawn (a guest character)? Not to mentioning that Jade was get out of jail card in MK11 with all the d1 and zonning tools.
Regarding the cast is one of the best MK's ever (just beaten by MK9 imo), but everything else is one of the worst in the series
@@cesarcruz6947..I disagree on the roster..but that is subjective...for me...Cassie and spawn were really the standouts of the nrs era but that is subjective...
They limited the amount of ppl playing when it was released exclusive to a next gen console. Also, the look of this one is different, using brighter colors as opposed to the darker look of previous games. And the kameo system is dumb. For those reasons, I have 0 interest in playing and MK is one of my absolute favorites, so this saddens me. I hope the next one is better.
It pains me to see this game because there was so much potential at least put obscure characters like Kai the African American monk who had so much potential he was literally trained by Liu kang and in mk4s ending he was given a lightning staff by raiden and what else taven the main character in mk Armageddon that was so much potential what else hotaru Kira kobra Jarek any other obscure character you can put in and what else bring balance to online gaming and all is forgiven and game would improve
Lets be honest, because they decided to go woke
Exacly ! Los wokendas killed it
Simple. Warner Bros.
Its dying because Ed Boon & Co have been making the same game over and over again for the past 2 decades. The finishing moves have become so over-the-top and ridiculous, its lost its impact and originality. There is no "shock" effect anymore like the franchise used to have. People used to flock to the arcades when a new MK game out to see the new finishing moves ... it created excitement. Now, its a stale, boring mess. They are trying to fix it by introducing guest characters, pop culture references "Just throw Chucky in there, it ll make the fans excited!". That kind of approach wont work for the longer run. Basicly, they milked the franchise to death. I dont even know what the MK story line is about anymore. Nobody knows. Go ahead, explain the MK story line, whats it about? They are just making up the story as they go.
Just face it. Game is ugly asf.
Blacks
All these scrub casuals crying about kameos are killing me 😂 Seems they never played any assist fighting game before. It's the rushed and lacking content with bad server and greedy business practice that truly kill MK1
They need to change it back to what it was before I'm not feeling this new timeline bs
Because it is not so good in many ways.
It ain't NRS or MK's fault.
The problem is that modern gaming is trash and WB is in that race to the bottom.
Corporate greed. WB forced Netherrealm Studios to put out another MK game when they were probably getting the concept of Injustice 3 wrapped.
Went woke went broke.
Far from broke but we knew racists would chime in and embarrass themselves being stupid like always. Lmao I bet your account look broke. 💁🏽♂️🪑
Mk11 was on last Gen too so yk hey
They went too woke with it. MK1 has the same problems that Concord, Suicide Squad, and Saints Row had.
Cameos, invasions, trash pallet swap cosmetics and gears, and way over priced cosmetics for just classic nijnjas 🤦♂️ohh and sex changing the robots to have a romance with subzero 🤡
It's like they decided to do a reboot, then halfway through they had no idea which direction to go, so they thought 'you know what, lets just continue the old timeline and mix it together, this will create more timelines. Genius.'
The only thing that killed mortal Kombat 1 was their overpricing. From holiday fatalities to the new DLC. Nobody suffering from mortal Kombat fatigue. Mortal Kombat 11 and MK1 are two different games with two different end goals
Dumb cameos & "wokeness" The character models were garbage. MKX looked way better! And that's 2015!
Okay now you went to far with this one. I'm going to disregard the "woke" comment. I don't get into all of that, but MKX's character models were absolutely terrible. MKX to MK11 character model wise is a huge leap. MKX models look like generic cartoon characters.
@@JADub87 Generic cartoon characters? Now I think you're the one going too far. MKX's character models were way better than that.
@@JADub87 I think he means that they gender swapped cyborg characters (ironic isn't it) and a voice actress for one of them is a massive woke activist. (its true look it up)
@@TheSixthSLoT I hear you but I'd give MK9 the edge character wise over MKX. Now I am not hating on MKX because I love the game but the lack of color & character models just didn't hit for me.
Said little, but said a lot of nonsense
Paying instead of earning
MK PEAKED at MKX. Period.
Grinding and microtransactions has completely killed the game for me. I'm sure the usual brain rotted crowd will blame "woke" but the truth is it just isn't fun grinding for skins
It's never fun to grind for skins especially if they're ugly
If you think wokeness has nothing to do with the huge dip in quality particularly when it comes to story and writing in the industry and pushing hard ideological dogma into them such as these things killing dragon age and so many other game's that flopped over the last 5 year's like forspoken and dustborn the last Wolfenstein game ect ect not to mention ruining Spider-Man 2 than your brain rotted one who is incapable of using pattern recognition.
They have websites now and huge groups of of gamer's that won't buy woke crap because we see the patterns in the industry we see the ideological consultant companies such as sweet baby inc spreading their influence in the industry and ruining everything they touch we see the ideological enforcement programs called DEI and we've seen the rockstar employees having to go through corporate reeducation classes for unconscious racial bias training and out of the 60 employees having to take that "course" 58 where white guy's and two where Asian guy's....They made them go through training not because they where racist but subconsciously racist.....Yeah woke ideology is real and it's a pretty big problem in government's and corporation's in the west you've been sleeping under a rock time to wake up buddy.
If you think wokeness has nothing to do with the huge dip in quality particularly when it comes to story and writing in the industry and pushing hard ideological dogma into them such as these things killing dragon age and so many other game's that flopped over the last 5 year's like forspoken and dustborn the last Wolfenstein game ect ect not to mention ruining Spider-Man 2 than your the brain rotted one who is incapable of using pattern recognition.
They have websites now dedicated to exposing game's developed with woke corporate culture and there's huge groups of gamer's that won't buy woke crap because we see the patterns in the industry we see the ideological consultant companies such as sweet baby inc spreading their influence in the industry and ruining everything they touch we see the ideological enforcement programs called DEI and we've seen the rockstar employees having to go through corporate reeducation classes for unconscious racial bias training and out of the 60 employees having to take that "course" 58 where white guy's and two where Asian guy's....They made them go through training not because they where racist but subconsciously racist.....Yeah woke ideology is real and it's a pretty big problem in government's and corporation's in the west you've been sleeping under a rock time to wake up buddy.
@@thatguyfawkes2328, you can't convince a woke defender otherwise. Their one brain cell can't think beyond the woke stuff. You're wasting your time bud.
It’s so crazy half The old MK games are better..I thought they would go back to That 3D or MK4/Deception kind of gameplay..MK9,10 & 11 were Good but they have to switch it up !!
I would love a new MK with digitized sprites.
The Marketing for Mortal Kombat 1 was nonexistent. Didn’t even know it came out till I watched some TH-cam videos talking about it.
It's woke ..
There’s a easy answer here, and we all know it. They went woke and now going broke, gamers are sick of this political nonsense getting crammed down their throats…
What was woke about this game aside of Gender change of Cyrax & Sektor?
@ Lol aside? You are part of the problem. 😆
@@DonovanNL A genuine question brother nothing else. I don't like woke as much as next person but I also hate when people try to make something woke for no reason.
The game failed because they didn't provide proper story DLC and try to sell DLC in 50$
@@Billioncompany786 Woke was the ONLY reason I did not buy the DLC and stopped playing MK1. I think you forgot about MK1 multiverse storyline, the gender swapped version of all of the characters? MK was supposed a dark and gritty violent fighting game, not a bright, purple, rainbow kumbaya game. Even in the footage above, it just looks freaking strange to have Shao Kahn @7:15 standing in that brightly lit scene. Not to mention uglifying all female characters to avoid the male gaze. It is WOKE AF.
It went woke, that’s why
Knew racists would chime in to embarrass themselves and look stupid
The reason it died is because midway is not part of the picture anymore we need midway haha
Wb is to blame along with the fans and leakers. More than one person can have blame. I enjoy the game but you can tell it was rushed by wb. Mk 11 released in a way better state.
Greed is imploding the gaming industry. Games are failing left and right. They increased the game prices and argued "games are too cheap and we're more expensive in the past" while ignoring those games didn't have dlc and microtransactions. Folks are now asking themselves if they need a $70 game that will also have about 90 bucks in dlc over the next year or 2. I passed on mk despite owning every other title. Pass
Storyline kameo system and invasions trash
MKX was arguably the last great Mortal Kombat. There’s a reason people flocked back to it after MK11’s launch. Now the same thing is happening to MK1 where people are going back to the older ones. It seems like Street Fighter is the only one of the big 3 that’s able to maintain its player base.
I personally just don’t like the new timeline. Kompletely changing each character was a bold move after 30 years and for me personally, I don’t care for the new direction. And now there’s no way back.
Injustice vs mortal kombat let’s gooooo!
I've never really been a big Mortal Kombat fan. However since I am a fan of fighting games I normally buy every Mortal Kombat game that is released. As other people have said I absolutely hated the cameos. Also like someone else said being sold individual characters and character packs has affected the way I feel about fighting games. I am sick of being so games with incomplete rosters and then sold characters at a later date especially when they are characters from previous games. I don't care when they do that with guest characters but I definitely care when they leave out characters who should already be part of the roster of the base game and then sell them to us.
Gamingbolt hit it right on. $10 fatalities, $5-$10 content, $50 Kaos Reigns, and constantly nerfing what they originally gave us.. killed the interest for me. Additional development support and content (if Kombat Pack 3 was real) shouldn't be dependent on sales (Kaos Reigns).
This game has been dead.
No jak, Sonia & Kano the OGs.
The weird story, it was good at the beginning but at the end they were like F it. We are going to make sure nothing makes sense in the MK world.
I played all the sessions and I even bought the dlc.
But I'm like damn MK has lost something. MK 11 was way better.
I still think MK11 looks better. Intro and outros are way better looking
MK11 holds up for me perfectly in 2024. The issue is that I have no real reason to drop 70 bucks on a game in this economy when the predecssor is argubly better.
May Mortal Kombat,Cod, and Madden rest in peace.