I had a crazy experience where I absolutely loved MK1 on release. Then the meta was solved very quickly, and play patterns got real boring. Then Tekken came out and I tried it for the first time…. Never want to play MK again now :/
That’s how it is for me. I actually miss krushing blows because visually on screen it was cool. Nothing in this game strikes me as wow so cool you see that. My favorite things are my kitana corner combos and my nitara tremor team. That’s it. Everything else is so tame and slow feeling.
MK1 I feel like you can learn a character and master them in 30mins. Tekken feels like the character can be as good as I want them to be with enough labbing.
Yes but here’s a far simpler explanation: We’re not their target audience. This game was NOT designed for competitive players or enthusiasts. It wasn't even designed for casuals OR the existing fans. The game was designed specifically for a hypothetical *new audience* (detached from the lor or any competitive legacy) who'll buy the game so they can throw out some 'sick fatalities' at a gathering with friends... & never play it again. Business wise, it's smart. It means they get the sale and never have to make any significant changes in the future, or have to dedicate time & resource to a hyper demanding fanbase. That's also why they chose to go with a brand new story: to bring in new players who don't want 20 years of baggage. It also explains why the gameplay is centred around being able to throw out unsafe specials willy nilly & keep everything safe with no consequence. New players hate being punished for using special moves because it’s largely all they know. FYI this is why the game feels fundamentally boring to play and uninteresting to watch. It's a philosophy that incentivises & rewards playing like an idiot, which is why MK1 tournaments are basically a snooze-fest of endless spam loops. MK1 is a goofy, unserious, Mario Kart, party game that's essentially a giant F-you to the fan base that will be dead within its 1st year of life.
mortal kombat has literally always been a goofy, unserious, mario kart party game and that's why fans from the early games still love it. the confusion is everyone (including the MK team) trying to turn it into a hyper competitive EVO fighting game and convert a bunch of elitists into liking it when they never will. they'd be better off just owning it and telling the hardcore FGC to eat a bag of dicks and focus on the casuals who actually buy and play the game.
I’m absolutely loving NRS’s downfall. This is karma for all the shills that made excuses for MK11, & failed to hold them accountable. Tekken is absolutely dunking on MK1. EDIT: I don’t wanna hear all the WB/bureaucracy talk. If you want to hurt a corp. you go after their bottom line. The shills should stop streaming their game, stop buying $10 skins and fatalities, & stop buying their games. It’s so simple.
Accountable for what? The worst thing about mk11 was it's dry gameplay and they solved that. They just sacrificed literally everything else. They knew people were annoyed by mk11's gameplay and changed it, but they had to rush this game out
Delays Peacemaker bc of Tekken 8 Pushes release date to the day before FF7 releases NRS might as well just drop all their dlc like they did with MKX’s KP2 at this point
@@OctopusH2O Ff7 rebirth comes out on the 29th. And final fantasy is a big franchise. People are really looking forward to this game. So yes, that alone will effect the peacekeeper release a day before.
This is all true. Whats funny about this is TEKKEN ITSELF HAD THIS PROBLEM. Tekken 4. Tekken 4 was a tough game because they changed a ton and pushed tekken forward and basically created a new game. Tekken 4 is a "growing pains" game. Namco chilled and revised and enhanced TEKKEN 4s BASE FORMULA ever since. Mortal Kombat is repeatedly Tekken 4-ing themselves by making the game over everytime. Mortal Kombat is in persistent growing pain.
I would prefer to say he's very cathartic to listen to. He gives all of us the voice with reach we dont have with our frustrations succinctly.@aundreii151
Don’t call that thing Stephanie, it’s just 16 bit in a dress and heels lmao. There’s a clear agenda behind this crap game. They clearly didn’t want to make mortal kombat. It’s just a fighting game with characters that look like mk characters with none of the things that made them mk characters. This isn’t mk this game was made to piss off the customers that are mostly male. Don’t believe me look at what they did Star Wars and that new suicide squad that is a smelly heaping pile of dog excrement 😂
calling a man stephanie might be an indication of part of the problem. if you can't even be honest about someone being a man and not a woman, maybe your view of the world is corrupt
The game DOES give you dragon crystals, rarely, but you can still earn them and get store skins for no extra money By the time DA Sub came out I had enough free crystals from character and kameo mastery to get it
@@masasuzuki1762 True, and to get every premium skin is probably more than the amount the game will give you (not to mention the time it would take for character and kameo mastery) but seeing a premium skin and automatically thinking they forked the extra ten is disingenuous
@@OctopusH2O yeah i prefer tekken over sf but they're hottest thing rn of course everyone will shill t8 before sf6... anyway those two beats mk1 anyway LMAO
@@huntersix267akuma is big for SF fans! people here are all mk fans so i don't think akuma can grab their attention and the argument around sf6 is kinda negative aswell cuz of the microtransactions and the balancing
Thank you...I know everyone loves X but they never mentioned that most of these issues started in X and just got more noticeable and undeniable each entry
no the MAIN issue with 11 and 1 is the boring stale slow gameplay, those were not fun games to play Mkx was and still is funny to play so much depth in each variation so what ever problems mk1 has are new problems that X didnt not have
@@MillzSzn did mkx not scrap everything in the game before and give us something that nobody asked for (while we appreciated it with time) with a bunch of variations and start "making characters less annoying" which snowball affected into kung lao basically only being bf2 goro? And need I mention the whole guest character problem?
@@tylerlopez1443 Stop. Mkx had PERFECT guest characters. Mk1 has LAME guest characters. There are way more cooler characters than Omniman, Homelander and Peacemaker. Spawn was a better choice than all 3 of them. I'm not going to keep letting everyone avoid the fact THESE dlc characters are wack. In no world can you convince me that Peacemaker is better than Bloodsport, Deathstroke, Doomslayer, etc. ANYone would've been cooler. Omniman and Homelander are the same EXACT archetype : Evil Supermen. Lame.
@@Do0mSl4yer95 na YOU STOP dickriding...guest characters have ALWAYS been wack they just got EVEN MORE wack...the thing is at least in X they were closer to feeling like they could be in the MK verse it still stand that we should've always got more ACTUAL mk characters then these stupid money grab character because that's what they are don't be stupid and lie
@@IC2IIf you don't agree with what the company you work for is doing, you can bail the fuck out. Hell, NRS could fuck off, run a Kickstarter or whatever, get some additional funding and make their own "totally not Mortal Kombat" EASILY, not even sweating. Yet they prefer to stay there.
Isn’t that the sad truth? Really seems like ya gotta wait till the next one comes out for the previous one to be in a complete somewhat playable state.
I actually branched out after mk11 for the first time since I was a kid into other fighters and wow what a difference. I’m actually really hooked on Virtua Fighter and Street fighter. Played some soul Calibur and Tekken 7 gotta pick up 8 but it looks great!
How da f*** is that Raiden start of round movement bug not been fixed!!!? It has been known since day 1 of launch. I swear ever since a certain person took over QA for NRS, their QA has gotten worst. Look at all the bugs in Invasion like talismans still firing off during cinema events not to mention the massive frame rate drop when you pepper the fight with a talisman like electric orbs. But hey everyone at NRS will still get their double bonuses b/c all they care about including WB is money and not fixing or making a quality product.
@@danielsawaked685 not really Raiden specific but it happened in a major tournament recently. It's a glitch that's been in the game around week 1 of the game where someone can move faster BEFORE round start. Like they can do a move before it says "Round 2, Fight!" and this allows for a truly unblockable combo because the other guy literally can't do anything. It's one thing seeing it happen online or maybe at your own system (some of the AI do it and abuse it in towers and such). It's another thing if it happens in a tournament where apparently these glitches were fixed already
@@darksigma0282 First it was the aerial P1 advantage with air combos during the first two months. Yet they missed the start of round 2 & 3 pre-movement bug. Which just caused someone a money tournament. It's just one thing after another with NRS this game. Like the twitter dev cycle photo shows. They start with a fresh system each game and they don't have time in the dev cycle to fully fix and hammer out the bugs and glitches. Instead, they do a patch every so often or with a new DLC character/kameo to "fix" the issue and half the time it doesn't fix the issue, so we have to wait for another patch. The game is 100% rushed and unfinished, and the game engine/system isn't fully functional. They probably needed another 6 months but with the summer release of SF6 and the 30th anniversary of MK, I'm sure WB said no get it out we need Q3 sales. Then, comes Tekken 8, and they fixed the online server issue within hours not weeks/month like NRS. GO CHIEFS!
I think we need a Tom Brady led , Bar Rescue type show where you bust into game developers/publishers and make them get their act together…Jon Taffer style.
That whole post about bureaucracies only matters to people with no integrity. Sometimes you just have to have a set of balls and start calling people out regardless of the consequences. If I were Ed Boon I would be burning things down at this point. I can't believe he can just sit there as his life's work and passions go up in flames because John from HR says he can't say or do anything. Loser mentality.
I gave my MK1 back within a month. One of the most regrettable gaming purchases I’ve ever made. I bought a painfully unfinished game. Won’t make that mistake again.
I bought a used MK1 for 20 euros, installed it and played for 10 mins. Not played since. If the February patch gives Mk1 a big overhaul, it will pay off. Otherwise, at least I haven't thrown away too much money....
everyvody and their mum knows what bureaucracie is and how it works. but there is a spectrum to it, its not good or bad. Its also not like OTHER game studios dont have this "issue". Somehow others get it done and it works, NRS/WB tho... does not, for YEARS. Therfore, why these essays about how "stuff works behind the scenes" just to excuse NRS/WB? I wouldnt count on a "fix"to the netcode. It seems more Unreal Engine 4 related. Capcom with SFV couldnt "fix" this too. I wont buy any NRS game anymore unless its well established for at least 6 months first, I let others alpha and beta test first. Im not gonna do it again.
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NRS is even scrapping the lore and character identities and backstories for each game. It's so stupid.
The fall of Mortal Kombat after MK9 and MKX needs to be studied. February is a make or break it month for MK1 and this delay is crushing if you ask me.
MK11 sold more than any other MK. And MK1 is selling at a faster pace in comparison. What are you talking about? Stop living in an echo chamber and look at reality.
u know bad teams sell out every game dont mean they r a good team ppl buy the games because a. they really like mk b. ppl want to give it a try. after ppl play it they r disgusted and left feeling played sales is what makes nrs thinks their games are flawless and everybody loves them, however listen to everything wrong with this game not even about the stale boring gameplay
@@iggyig420 Homie I'm a gameplay first guy I don't own any stock in the company so I don't care what MK11 sold and I for sure don't care about what MK1 is selling and neither should you, no matter what the game sells gameplay wise MK11 sucked and for me personally MK1 is even worse from a gameplay, feature, off and online standpoint when compared to the other two major fighting games Tekken 8 and SF6. OF COURSE, its going to sell its Mortal Kombat I bought the game because like MANY others its my favorite fighting game franchise lol Maybe you need to wake up and look at the reality that even though MK1 is selling well the causals and even the Pros are jumping ship to Tekken 8 and that has nothing to do with sells lol
Capcom and Namco had to adapt after the arcades crashed, but NRS refuses to adapt to competition. It's not that hard to give what people want. Just pump up the graphics, bring back fan favourites and come up with a little twist to the formula, but keep the damn formula
@@InterstellarBountyHunter521 even mk9 had more content, rooms, tag battles, challanging ladder etc. after 4 years since mk11 they gave us washed up game, and invasion mode is a boring grindfest....
it is not WB that caused all these technical issues, bugs or unbalanced players/khameos in the game. I mean, just having desync issues for month and a half is terrible, on top of basic issues like Raiden being able to move first on round start (lol). That is pure incompetence and lack of quality on the NRS side. It would be a precedent if actual tweets and emails can solve bugs. They do not! I will never forget the shitposting of Ed Boon on Twitter, basically every day, during the buildup of MK1. He was borderline insufferable, but now when it's time to "man up", acknowledge the issues and the lack of quality in the sold product, he is nowhere to be found. Now it is actually WB preventing them from tweeting and communicating? I don't think so! Where was WB during Boon's shitposting on twitter? It's a sad state of affairs and they deserve every part of it.
Never thought I would after 5 years of only mk. After one too many desyncs this season I downloaded Tekken 8. Haven’t touched mk since. But I still watch your updates haha.
I’ve had a few mid level corporate jobs. Nothing crazy, but I will also attest that the communication thing is true. However, the reality is : no one cares. Most people know it’s WB but even so, NRS is still a front facing part of the mortal kombat product. In the end, it’s just not a good look for WB who’s already been having a tough time with the way they handled the DCU, etc.
Well, that was unexpected. Almost spit out my drink, when my graph showed up. Yeah. That's the point. NRS attempt at being "unique" backfired at them to the point, that not only that destroyed the world building they had going, but even games have become so inconsistent, that you cannot invest yourself for a long term. One game it is your traditional 1v1 fighting, then suddenly you have custom variations with moves being split everywhere, and then you think the nightmare is over. Oh here you go! Tag assist fighter! Mah man. Can you at least KEEP THE CORE CONSISTENT? And the worst part. NRS/Boon THEMSELVES complained multiple times how hard it is to innovate with each game. THEN WHY ARE YOU DOING THAT IN THE FIRST PLACE???
Mk1 was so broken after the Quan Chi update that I decided to try the Tekken 8 demo (which we didn't have to purchase the game to play). Mk lost me immediately, and Tekken gained a new fan! Their not even comparable... (I'm going to try Street Fighter next month)
Problem with the bureaucracy excuse is someone got the go ahead to change the season patch date so why not also have the communication aspect solved at the same time. Can’t blame everything on bureaucracy when it worked fine.
I want so badly to hate on T8s limited customization, but the fact that MK1s customization exists AND YOU CAN ONLY HAVE 1 SLOT IN 2024 makes it tough to knock Tekken. And you're right, Tom. If you played MK2, you could pick up Scorpion in UMK3 and he'd play basically how you remember, just with stuff added. Starting from scratch every game is insane.
I'd also like to add that Ed Boone stated that "they don't want to have their new game feeling like the last one." Which is why they're in the hole they're in. Let's take DB Sparking Zero as an example. It's started they're using the same gameplay formula from Tenkaichi 3 from 17 years ago! Why?? Because they know that gameplay formula worked and was truly successful! That's what NRS needs to do! Develop in this era is very complicated right down to the characters alone(2 to 3 months development cycle per character) Business had always worked in the form of "if it ain't broke don't fix it." And that's what NRS should've done with MKX. The gameplay was exciting and all they needed to do was keep that formula and build on top of it. Hopefully this is a valuable lesson they learn because as you've said, their flawed decision making had finally caught up with them.
I still have fun with the game but goddamn it sucks that we still don’t have basic QoL and multiplayer “mode” like cross play and lobbies. This patch better be the golden patch, the patch that adds a ton of shit.
@@itsspaceboi dude I think NRS thinks that they are innovating something "BRAND NEW" to their consumers by scrapping the entire last game mechanics and creating something new, they think that by creating something entirely new in fighting mechanics there will be no question on their efforts made towards their end product, but you know innovation can also mean to end up being a total dud or it might seem to be very exciting at first but end up looking just as boring in the long run and the new bugs and other problems are then not even addressed in time and perhaps for good reasons
Eh…I honestly dug up my copy of Mortal Kombat 9 and popped it in my Xbox. I’ve relying on that to scratch my MK itch. Truth be told, I’m having way more fun on an MK game that released way back in 2011 than I am on MK1
Honestly NRS just deserves the hate at this point the fact that they had crossplay in MK11 but decide nah who needs that at launch is crazy. I love mk but there is no possible way to defend this disappointing excuse of a game.
Both are strange, mk1 is an incomplete mess and street fighter in general is too spammy and it feels strange to learn, i dont get the “build your own strings”
This video solidifies that no one is going to give a shit about any DLC going further because what if we experience the same problems every time with every single update. MK1 is dead unless Kombat Pack 2 is a Komplete overhaul
God damn that was a good video. I’m getting sick and tired of people defending NRS for MK1 absolute dog shit state. It’s not WB that developed the game. It’s not WB that did the none existent QA on the game. Like you said instead of games like SF and Tekken NRS try reinventing the wheel. Why not build on MK9 that was great, MK11 was bad but instead of learning they come out with this piece of turd.
I suspect they did build on MK11’s engine. It has the same stiffness in moves. The game even has exactly some of its moves. E.g. launch Quan chi in story had MK11’s Shang moveset I believe
That graphics chart explaining the issues is legit 💯 What will NRS do next game? Scrap everything in MK1 cuz the many issues and complaints?! They need to start fresh imo
Make it a 3d fighting game like mk deception or make it like mkx but without the running, or make both running with the stance switch button and wave dashing, like tekken
Now that they have the Raiden Round Start bug what are they gonna do? Are they gonna delay it even more because they will spend resources to trying to fix the Raiden round start bug 😂
They are burning down this franchise to the ground in almost every aspect. The gameplay is a mess, the story is just garbled alternate universe BS, no basic features you’d expect in 2024, etc. Good thing we’ll always have the classics to fall back on.
MK1 is bleeding money daily and from the looks of things they will not get any of that back. The one's with the absolute power is the players. Let's not fool ourselves thinking NRS didn't know what players wanted for the next game. NRS had 4 years to develop this game and they blew it. Not sure if they will ever get their player base back. Tekken and SF will only get better and NRS is many years behind them.
I bought Tekken 8 the other day. And it's amazing! With a crazy story mode... It's about damn time. Another fighting game had an MK type story mode. It's not as good as MK story modes. But it's a massive step up. With great online and so much content for a fighting game. Right now, MK1 is dead to me, just makes me sad how fucking shit MK1 is. MK was supposed to be the only FG I wanted and needed to play.
as customers we should of seen this coming ahead of time before the game's release. Those who paid attention were aware of the gaming industry in the last 10 years. Was MK1 really the first game you bought in the last couple of years which ended up being not as good as so called all the hype for that game prior to it's release? Don't have to be honest with me, just with yourself. Now they got your money and you can bark as much as like, who knows, they might do something about it, but I kind of doubt it.
Exactly, I saw the writing on the wall way before MK1 came out. The amount of stupid decisions that were made in MK11. Also how they abandoned the game, that made me wary of anything coming from NRS. Something told me back in August not to get this game on release and to wait for info. I'm glad I listened...
If the Feb 28th Peacemaker update does not also contain a major face-lift to MK1, meaning the addition of more single player modes, this game is finished.
The fact that this game needs a major facelift this early on in its cycle shows this game is already doomed... This shit is irreversible lmfaooo this game will never regain its playerbase. They are going to have to take a few years off for the next game.
@@XYjujuPSN the sad fact of the matter is that this isn’t true. Mortal Kombat always has its player base come back. They shouldn’t because the quality of the game is severely lacking, but it’s the most popular fighting game franchise. It’s why contrary to what people online are saying the game will never die. It will always have its dedicated player base, and every time they release a DLC everybody comes rushing back.
@DrewKingery11 that's not really happening this time. MK11 is actually doing better than MK1 on steam. It's had more players within the last 24 hrs, and it had a higher all time peak. Mk1 is at 1400 players currently, on PC which is the largest platform in the world. Tekken 8s all team peak is double what MK1's was.
@@Conflict1922 well if it does die it’ll be a major wake up call to NRS that they need to kinda look in the mirror and reform. Maybe if they can somehow break away from W B they can get back on track
@@DrewKingery11 WB owns them, WB would have to sell them for NRS to get away. I don't see that happening. MK1 will still make them money and that's all WB cares about at the end of the day.
I’ve been a die-hard fan of Mortal Kombat since 1992 and the current state of this franchise is extremely depressing. Like you said, if this next update doesn’t drastically alter how this game plays or addresses how incomplete and broken it is, I must say that this franchise is doomed.
Everyone should’ve refunded the game when crossplay wasn’t available at launch. MK11 had it and this game doesn’t? I played the tower on release beat it, then refunded the game 15 minutes in because it felt lifeless. I remember replying to Ed Boones tweet calling the game bad and got a bunch of randoms calling me an idiot. Let’s this game burn in the dumpster fire
We have a simpler version of the discussed system at my job so I'm familiar with stuff like that. I know that they can't share sensitive information but I really don't believe that they can't easily put out a simple statement acknowledging issues and saying they're working on a fix. Also, other developers don't seem to have a problem in that regard as seen on Tekken 8's launch day.
theres no way WB and NRS dont see any of this shit. they are literally melting the respect from their audience. IDGAF how hard something is. If we PAID MONEY for a product we expect shit to be GOOD. If that was the case it shouldve never been released. These employees are bots. Soulless beings.
justifying bureaucracies is insane, you either deliver or you don't. incredible the level of shill. I used to work on a big company and yes the processes are slow but the client is always updated of what is going on and delivery dates. the problem here is that NRS got their money, they don't feel compromise to deliver a working product.
Nice Rant Tom I agree why dose the cycle take so long, but it didn't take long when all the Mesas this month were broken and give free stuff they pulled the plug in a hour but a desync took over a month to get the go head fix it.
At this point I'm having way more fun playing Tekken 8 and don't plan on going back to MK1 any time soon regardless of Peacemaker even though I loved the TV show
Mk11 should have been mkx with krushing blows and mk1 should have been mkx with krushing blows and kameos. In other words an evolution of the most fun and faster game they ever made. Improve mkx but now y’all got this buggy ,stiff , and slow game
The issue with nrs games for me is that characters don't have strong enough specials. You get some interesting moves like Sindel anti Kameo, cage dashing, sub clone, kitama trap etc. They're just not strong enough so the optimal way to play is the basic strike throw and use kameos to steal turns.
Maybe it has to do with NRS being the only relevant western fighting game developer, but the battle design blunders they have are unmatched. They have glitches that haven’t been in SF since the 90s, the mechanics are like a 3d fighter stuck in a 2d world and they are always ready to just make it suck with new bad mechanics in the next game. Feel sorry for the people who have to take their games competitively seriously.
The real question is why are there SO MANY problems with this damn game!!! WB/NRS is quick to take our money but are not quick to make this game worthwhile. If this was any other aspect of business people would be requesting refunds! 😳🙄🤦🏽♂️💀
It’s always been their fault they never stick with the same formula even though when they have a successful one everybody who liked a specific game in the Mortal Kombat franchise never got the same replica to it again to enjoy it so people who like MK 11 are now suffering on MK one people who like MKX are now suffering on MK one. No one is happy. They just don’t follow up and keep the customers happy put on top of that, they give up on supporting the game every two years, and it was a matter of time for this to happen to them. They brought down a Akklaim? I doubt they’ll be able to bring down Warner Brother, but this studio has a big problem internally and people need to start realizing that and blaming them not just the publisher.
Ed Boon to busy playing Tekken 8 😂😂😂
I would too if I was him
Ed Boon said he's is a fan of tekken more than his own work😂
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I had a crazy experience where I absolutely loved MK1 on release. Then the meta was solved very quickly, and play patterns got real boring. Then Tekken came out and I tried it for the first time…. Never want to play MK again now :/
I've had the same experience back in the days when T3 destroyed MK4 lol
That’s how it is for me. I actually miss krushing blows because visually on screen it was cool. Nothing in this game strikes me as wow so cool you see that. My favorite things are my kitana corner combos and my nitara tremor team. That’s it. Everything else is so tame and slow feeling.
Tekken is the gold standard.
MK1 I feel like you can learn a character and master them in 30mins. Tekken feels like the character can be as good as I want them to be with enough labbing.
Same boat. Tekken 8 gives me the same feelings as soul calibur 2 did
TH-cam gave me a tekken 8 ad before this video started, lol
@DarkKazamaStyle891 Funny enough tekken is my main game. This was my first mk. I decided to give him a try, and they let me down
Did tou buy it
@donkeydonk127 I preordered it on announcement day, and i'm staunchly against preordering. No regrets
I can't believe people still see ads on YT. I haven't seen an ad on YT in a decade. Get Ublock origin... FFS.
Get it, i haven’t even touched MK1 since I bought Tekken 8
Yes but here’s a far simpler explanation:
We’re not their target audience.
This game was NOT designed for competitive players or enthusiasts. It wasn't even designed for casuals OR the existing fans.
The game was designed specifically for a hypothetical *new audience* (detached from the lor or any competitive legacy) who'll buy the game so they can throw out some 'sick fatalities' at a gathering with friends... & never play it again. Business wise, it's smart. It means they get the sale and never have to make any significant changes in the future, or have to dedicate time & resource to a hyper demanding fanbase.
That's also why they chose to go with a brand new story: to bring in new players who don't want 20 years of baggage.
It also explains why the gameplay is centred around being able to throw out unsafe specials willy nilly & keep everything safe with no consequence. New players hate being punished for using special moves because it’s largely all they know.
FYI this is why the game feels fundamentally boring to play and uninteresting to watch. It's a philosophy that incentivises & rewards playing like an idiot, which is why MK1 tournaments are basically a snooze-fest of endless spam loops.
MK1 is a goofy, unserious, Mario Kart, party game that's essentially a giant F-you to the fan base that will be dead within its 1st year of life.
Mario kart double dash had more depth than mk1
mortal kombat has literally always been a goofy, unserious, mario kart party game and that's why fans from the early games still love it. the confusion is everyone (including the MK team) trying to turn it into a hyper competitive EVO fighting game and convert a bunch of elitists into liking it when they never will. they'd be better off just owning it and telling the hardcore FGC to eat a bag of dicks and focus on the casuals who actually buy and play the game.
I’m absolutely loving NRS’s downfall. This is karma for all the shills that made excuses for MK11, & failed to hold them accountable. Tekken is absolutely dunking on MK1.
EDIT: I don’t wanna hear all the WB/bureaucracy talk. If you want to hurt a corp. you go after their bottom line. The shills should stop streaming their game, stop buying $10 skins and fatalities, & stop buying their games. It’s so simple.
Not just NRS but the entirety of WB games, hopefully it will crash and burn in order to be rebuilt
Accountable for what? The worst thing about mk11 was it's dry gameplay and they solved that. They just sacrificed literally everything else. They knew people were annoyed by mk11's gameplay and changed it, but they had to rush this game out
@magic_manl2572 solved the dry gameplay? Are you high, my guy? By adding what exactly?
Make sure to buy that Eddie DLC
Calm down lil boy
Delays Peacemaker bc of Tekken 8
Pushes release date to the day before FF7 releases
NRS might as well just drop all their dlc like they did with MKX’s KP2 at this point
Ya like most people won’t even bother buying peacekeeper or playing him much, when most people will be waiting to play FF7.
Final Fantasy ? The fuck is FF ?
@@OctopusH2O Ff7 rebirth comes out on the 29th. And final fantasy is a big franchise. People are really looking forward to this game. So yes, that alone will effect the peacekeeper release a day before.
This is all true. Whats funny about this is TEKKEN ITSELF HAD THIS PROBLEM.
Tekken 4. Tekken 4 was a tough game because they changed a ton and pushed tekken forward and basically created a new game. Tekken 4 is a "growing pains" game. Namco chilled and revised and enhanced TEKKEN 4s BASE FORMULA ever since.
Mortal Kombat is repeatedly Tekken 4-ing themselves by making the game over everytime.
Mortal Kombat is in persistent growing pain.
yall i love tom brady's rants lol
Same fr he almost therapeutic
dont incentivize that @@aundreii151toxic behaviour
Too bad you don't love reading. Maybe you'd know how to form sentences or use punctuation.
@@intellectic9155you’re mad cause he didn’t put a comma & a period? Lmfaooo get the f outta here. This ain’t University 😂
I would prefer to say he's very cathartic to listen to. He gives all of us the voice with reach we dont have with our frustrations succinctly.@aundreii151
This should be played in a WB boardroom
When PeaceMaker comes out they won’t do shit.
How it is that Stephanie, Tyler and Derek still have jobs at this point is beyond me. Two straight games of absolute drip-feed live service BS.
Don’t call that thing Stephanie, it’s just 16 bit in a dress and heels lmao. There’s a clear agenda behind this crap game. They clearly didn’t want to make mortal kombat. It’s just a fighting game with characters that look like mk characters with none of the things that made them mk characters. This isn’t mk this game was made to piss off the customers that are mostly male. Don’t believe me look at what they did Star Wars and that new suicide squad that is a smelly heaping pile of dog excrement 😂
WB wants it like that. Look at suicide squad game
calling a man stephanie might be an indication of part of the problem. if you can't even be honest about someone being a man and not a woman, maybe your view of the world is corrupt
Tom Brady needs to be in charge of NRS.
I cringe every time I see a 10 dollar skin online or someone using a 10 dollar fatality.
Da poopoo.
The game DOES give you dragon crystals, rarely, but you can still earn them and get store skins for no extra money
By the time DA Sub came out I had enough free crystals from character and kameo mastery to get it
@@PyroInTheFace21 the game only gives a finite amount of dragon crytals
@@masasuzuki1762 True, and to get every premium skin is probably more than the amount the game will give you (not to mention the time it would take for character and kameo mastery) but seeing a premium skin and automatically thinking they forked the extra ten is disingenuous
While Tekken 8 gives you a way to create your own skins and color palletes, for free!
Going to every MK1 video as of late and seeing mostly comments of people praising Tekken 8 is fk’ing hilarious 😂
its gonna be sf6 later on since they're on hibernating rn gotta wait that akuma and fabled patch drops
@@huntersix267nah, Tekken is the superior fighting game, coming from an mk fan who played both during childhood but always loved mk more
@@OctopusH2O yeah i prefer tekken over sf but they're hottest thing rn of course everyone will shill t8 before sf6... anyway those two beats mk1 anyway LMAO
@@huntersix267akuma is big for SF fans! people here are all mk fans so i don't think akuma can grab their attention and the argument around sf6 is kinda negative aswell cuz of the microtransactions and the balancing
@@dat1faclesdudeexactly they charge for way more & I love sf6 but none of those to me are better than mk1
NRS has been going downhill since MKX
Thank you...I know everyone loves X but they never mentioned that most of these issues started in X and just got more noticeable and undeniable each entry
no the MAIN issue with 11 and 1 is the boring stale slow gameplay, those were not fun games to play
Mkx was and still is funny to play so much depth in each variation
so what ever problems mk1 has are new problems that X didnt not have
@@MillzSzn did mkx not scrap everything in the game before and give us something that nobody asked for (while we appreciated it with time) with a bunch of variations and start "making characters less annoying" which snowball affected into kung lao basically only being bf2 goro? And need I mention the whole guest character problem?
@@tylerlopez1443 Stop. Mkx had PERFECT guest characters. Mk1 has LAME guest characters. There are way more cooler characters than Omniman, Homelander and Peacemaker. Spawn was a better choice than all 3 of them. I'm not going to keep letting everyone avoid the fact THESE dlc characters are wack. In no world can you convince me that Peacemaker is better than Bloodsport, Deathstroke, Doomslayer, etc. ANYone would've been cooler. Omniman and Homelander are the same EXACT archetype : Evil Supermen. Lame.
@@Do0mSl4yer95 na YOU STOP dickriding...guest characters have ALWAYS been wack they just got EVEN MORE wack...the thing is at least in X they were closer to feeling like they could be in the MK verse it still stand that we should've always got more ACTUAL mk characters then these stupid money grab character because that's what they are don't be stupid and lie
Tekken 8 exists now. It is superior in every way. Not even close
Not really.
It's boring and the combat is stiff.....no. MK has its issues but no
@@dreamcorridor ...but it really is
Stiff??? Are you talking about tekken or MK?@@GBurnYa
Yet during pro Komp every one stopped playing tekken and was streaming mk, which one is it
man, i wish NRS had someone like harada or murray.
Ed Boon is supposed to be their Harada, the problem is people put him too much into pedestal, and WB kinda restricts him in some way or another.
Ed Boon and all of NRS have become greedy narcissistic demons. RIP Mortal Kombat.
U do kno that micotransactions in the game are more from wb then nrs
@@datboyetvthey both still agreed to it
@@DrippleDragonI don't think nrs has a say in that
@@IC2IIf you don't agree with what the company you work for is doing, you can bail the fuck out. Hell, NRS could fuck off, run a Kickstarter or whatever, get some additional funding and make their own "totally not Mortal Kombat" EASILY, not even sweating. Yet they prefer to stay there.
So you're blind 😊@@IC2I
It feels like NRS has flatly ignored player pleas since their resurgence with MK9. They've completely wasted the fan loyalty that game earned them.
NRS version of powering up their game:
- player round start advantage
- Hard to blockables
- Infinites
- Throw combos
Don't forget the health points balancing act! Let's reduce this character to 950 and other one goes to 1150. Problem solved haha
I think throw combos was the point where i gave up on mk and knew I wanted to move on to tekken
Actually lol’d 😂
@@milhad.salihithis tactic actually comes from sf
@@spacemanju7not really since there’s more damage scaling in that game. After 50% hp you take less damage
They need more lunch breaks to reach Elder God, Tom. Cut them some slack.
“Hey, I’m thinking about playing MK1. When should I get it?”
“When MK2 comes out.”
Isn’t that the sad truth? Really seems like ya gotta wait till the next one comes out for the previous one to be in a complete somewhat playable state.
Boys Tekken 8 is crazy good. I’m playing Lars and it’s so satisfying. PLEASE LEAVE MK FOR TEKKEN TRUST ME ITS WORTH IT!
Your lars is free I'll mop you in a mirror you nrs player😂
Come on we gotta be more welcoming. No need to create unnecessary beef.@@pfuze_5775
Lars is complicated but one of my mains for sure👌
Dropped mk1 for tekken 8....its sooo good.......been playing paul phoenix
I actually branched out after mk11 for the first time since I was a kid into other fighters and wow what a difference. I’m actually really hooked on Virtua Fighter and Street fighter. Played some soul Calibur and Tekken 7 gotta pick up 8 but it looks great!
Simply vote with your wallet and see how fast they'll make things happen
Also I've always said they should have just built off of mkx's formula
How da f*** is that Raiden start of round movement bug not been fixed!!!? It has been known since day 1 of launch. I swear ever since a certain person took over QA for NRS, their QA has gotten worst. Look at all the bugs in Invasion like talismans still firing off during cinema events not to mention the massive frame rate drop when you pepper the fight with a talisman like electric orbs. But hey everyone at NRS will still get their double bonuses b/c all they care about including WB is money and not fixing or making a quality product.
What is raidens glitch ?
@@danielsawaked685 not really Raiden specific but it happened in a major tournament recently. It's a glitch that's been in the game around week 1 of the game where someone can move faster BEFORE round start. Like they can do a move before it says "Round 2, Fight!" and this allows for a truly unblockable combo because the other guy literally can't do anything.
It's one thing seeing it happen online or maybe at your own system (some of the AI do it and abuse it in towers and such). It's another thing if it happens in a tournament where apparently these glitches were fixed already
Not just raiden, bozo. I get you hate that character but that’s just dihonest
@@darksigma0282 oh got it now I know what u mean I always thought that was just my internet bugging out
@@darksigma0282 First it was the aerial P1 advantage with air combos during the first two months. Yet they missed the start of round 2 & 3 pre-movement bug. Which just caused someone a money tournament. It's just one thing after another with NRS this game. Like the twitter dev cycle photo shows. They start with a fresh system each game and they don't have time in the dev cycle to fully fix and hammer out the bugs and glitches. Instead, they do a patch every so often or with a new DLC character/kameo to "fix" the issue and half the time it doesn't fix the issue, so we have to wait for another patch. The game is 100% rushed and unfinished, and the game engine/system isn't fully functional. They probably needed another 6 months but with the summer release of SF6 and the 30th anniversary of MK, I'm sure WB said no get it out we need Q3 sales. Then, comes Tekken 8, and they fixed the online server issue within hours not weeks/month like NRS. GO CHIEFS!
Rocksteady, WB, and NRS are now basically a laughing stock to me
this is rocksteady's first misstep. give me a fucking break lol.
@@twistedspine7300 but, after hearing rumors of “Batman’s return,” this may be their step to make things better I guess
Meanwhile tekken has a patch already and already looking into further patches / fixes
I think we need a Tom Brady led , Bar Rescue type show where you bust into game developers/publishers and make them get their act together…Jon Taffer style.
That whole post about bureaucracies only matters to people with no integrity. Sometimes you just have to have a set of balls and start calling people out regardless of the consequences. If I were Ed Boon I would be burning things down at this point. I can't believe he can just sit there as his life's work and passions go up in flames because John from HR says he can't say or do anything. Loser mentality.
I uninstalled MK1 and bought Tekken8 last night...
I gave my MK1 back within a month. One of the most regrettable gaming purchases I’ve ever made. I bought a painfully unfinished game. Won’t make that mistake again.
I bought a used MK1 for 20 euros, installed it and played for 10 mins. Not played since. If the February patch gives Mk1 a big overhaul, it will pay off. Otherwise, at least I haven't thrown away too much money....
@@milhad.salihi I preordered the premium edition and it still feels like I'm playing the beta
Boy, you're in for a treat. Game is full of content, and is only 86gb.
Is it possible to return a copy of mk1 on steam?
I used to feel sorry for developers but we spending all this money just to go through all this shit keep your foot on their necks great video
everyvody and their mum knows what bureaucracie is and how it works. but there is a spectrum to it, its not good or bad. Its also not like OTHER game studios dont have this "issue". Somehow others get it done and it works, NRS/WB tho... does not, for YEARS. Therfore, why these essays about how "stuff works behind the scenes" just to excuse NRS/WB?
I wouldnt count on a "fix"to the netcode. It seems more Unreal Engine 4 related. Capcom with SFV couldnt "fix" this too.
I wont buy any NRS game anymore unless its well established for at least 6 months first, I let others alpha and beta test first. Im not gonna do it again.
NRS is even scrapping the lore and character identities and backstories for each game. It's so stupid.
Tom are you gonna do videos on T8 too? Like short guides and such
I REALLY do not want mk1 to become the legacy template
Dear God no.... Please NRS don't use MK1....
The fall of Mortal Kombat after MK9 and MKX needs to be studied.
February is a make or break it month for MK1 and this delay is crushing if you ask me.
MK11 sold more than any other MK. And MK1 is selling at a faster pace in comparison. What are you talking about? Stop living in an echo chamber and look at reality.
@iggyig420
Sales do not equal good game...
MK is one of the most WIDELY known franchises that has ever existed. Of course it is selling...
u know bad teams sell out every game dont mean they r a good team
ppl buy the games because a. they really like mk b. ppl want to give it a try. after ppl play it they r disgusted and left feeling played
sales is what makes nrs thinks their games are flawless and everybody loves them, however listen to everything wrong with this game not even about the stale boring gameplay
@@iggyig420 Homie I'm a gameplay first guy I don't own any stock in the company so I don't care what MK11 sold and I for sure don't care about what MK1 is selling and neither should you, no matter what the game sells gameplay wise MK11 sucked and for me personally MK1 is even worse from a gameplay, feature, off and online standpoint when compared to the other two major fighting games Tekken 8 and SF6.
OF COURSE, its going to sell its Mortal Kombat I bought the game because like MANY others its my favorite fighting game franchise lol Maybe you need to wake up and look at the reality that even though MK1 is selling well the causals and even the Pros are jumping ship to Tekken 8 and that has nothing to do with sells lol
IDK about the sales but you are saying this game company is in the shutter and that is just not the reality.
Crazy how NRS throws out the baby with the bath water with every MK installment.
Capcom and Namco had to adapt after the arcades crashed, but NRS refuses to adapt to competition. It's not that hard to give what people want. Just pump up the graphics, bring back fan favourites and come up with a little twist to the formula, but keep the damn formula
What formula? Since mortal kombat 9 the gameplay and mechanics change after every game. This series no longer has an identity
This game should have played like Mk9 with updated graphics. Kameos should have been a different gamemode.
@@InterstellarBountyHunter521 even mk9 had more content, rooms, tag battles, challanging ladder etc.
after 4 years since mk11 they gave us washed up game, and invasion mode is a boring grindfest....
it is not WB that caused all these technical issues, bugs or unbalanced players/khameos in the game. I mean, just having desync issues for month and a half is terrible, on top of basic issues like Raiden being able to move first on round start (lol). That is pure incompetence and lack of quality on the NRS side. It would be a precedent if actual tweets and emails can solve bugs. They do not!
I will never forget the shitposting of Ed Boon on Twitter, basically every day, during the buildup of MK1. He was borderline insufferable, but now when it's time to "man up", acknowledge the issues and the lack of quality in the sold product, he is nowhere to be found. Now it is actually WB preventing them from tweeting and communicating? I don't think so! Where was WB during Boon's shitposting on twitter? It's a sad state of affairs and they deserve every part of it.
The minute we saw kameos , was the minute we should realize we shoulda go to sf6 or wait for tekken 8
Yeah I skipped this MK luckily. MK10 and 11 was disappointing for me. Loved Mk9.
Tekken is life
Never thought I would after 5 years of only mk. After one too many desyncs this season I downloaded Tekken 8. Haven’t touched mk since. But I still watch your updates haha.
They really thought that essential features are to be preserved for Seasonal Updates for MK1.
So we basically pay them to test their game.
Many people said at launch that is was still in Beta😑
Ed boon better watch this even if he know for the sake of mortal kombat
I’ve had a few mid level corporate jobs. Nothing crazy, but I will also attest that the communication thing is true. However, the reality is : no one cares. Most people know it’s WB but even so, NRS is still a front facing part of the mortal kombat product. In the end, it’s just not a good look for WB who’s already been having a tough time with the way they handled the DCU, etc.
9:46 This sums it up very well. Even though WB is at fault for a lot of things, NRS has to take responsibility on how they develop their games
Well, that was unexpected. Almost spit out my drink, when my graph showed up.
Yeah. That's the point. NRS attempt at being "unique" backfired at them to the point, that not only that destroyed the world building they had going, but even games have become so inconsistent, that you cannot invest yourself for a long term. One game it is your traditional 1v1 fighting, then suddenly you have custom variations with moves being split everywhere, and then you think the nightmare is over. Oh here you go! Tag assist fighter!
Mah man. Can you at least KEEP THE CORE CONSISTENT?
And the worst part. NRS/Boon THEMSELVES complained multiple times how hard it is to innovate with each game. THEN WHY ARE YOU DOING THAT IN THE FIRST PLACE???
NRS should have refined mk9 because that was the only good game they have made. Since 2D. Blame Ed boon for the state of Mk
imagine Harada going through all those approvals for his tweets 😂
How are the majority of these people still employed is beyond me
Mk1 was so broken after the Quan Chi update that I decided to try the Tekken 8 demo (which we didn't have to purchase the game to play). Mk lost me immediately, and Tekken gained a new fan! Their not even comparable...
(I'm going to try Street Fighter next month)
sf is way better than mk1, fast paced similiar to mkx run cancels,
@omgoat I've never actually learned how to play SF, so I'm looking forward to it!
@@Oby1KaToby download a demo and try it, much better than mk1 unfortunetelly...
Tom preaching truth today!
Now, for some good ass Tekken !
Tekken is life
Problem with the bureaucracy excuse is someone got the go ahead to change the season patch date so why not also have the communication aspect solved at the same time. Can’t blame everything on bureaucracy when it worked fine.
I want so badly to hate on T8s limited customization, but the fact that MK1s customization exists AND YOU CAN ONLY HAVE 1 SLOT IN 2024 makes it tough to knock Tekken.
And you're right, Tom. If you played MK2, you could pick up Scorpion in UMK3 and he'd play basically how you remember, just with stuff added. Starting from scratch every game is insane.
I'd also like to add that Ed Boone stated that "they don't want to have their new game feeling like the last one." Which is why they're in the hole they're in.
Let's take DB Sparking Zero as an example. It's started they're using the same gameplay formula from Tenkaichi 3 from 17 years ago! Why?? Because they know that gameplay formula worked and was truly successful!
That's what NRS needs to do! Develop in this era is very complicated right down to the characters alone(2 to 3 months development cycle per character)
Business had always worked in the form of "if it ain't broke don't fix it." And that's what NRS should've done with MKX. The gameplay was exciting and all they needed to do was keep that formula and build on top of it.
Hopefully this is a valuable lesson they learn because as you've said, their flawed decision making had finally caught up with them.
I still have fun with the game but goddamn it sucks that we still don’t have basic QoL and multiplayer “mode” like cross play and lobbies.
This patch better be the golden patch, the patch that adds a ton of shit.
whoever made that dev process charts is a genius 👍🏼👌🏼👏🏼
I mean anybody with half a brain noticed and called out this pattern long time ago
@@itsspaceboi dude I think NRS thinks that they are innovating something "BRAND NEW" to their consumers by scrapping the entire last game mechanics and creating something new, they think that by creating something entirely new in fighting mechanics there will be no question on their efforts made towards their end product, but you know innovation can also mean to end up being a total dud or it might seem to be very exciting at first but end up looking just as boring in the long run and the new bugs and other problems are then not even addressed in time and perhaps for good reasons
Eh…I honestly dug up my copy of Mortal Kombat 9 and popped it in my Xbox. I’ve relying on that to scratch my MK itch. Truth be told, I’m having way more fun on an MK game that released way back in 2011 than I am on MK1
Nrs signed the WB deal., hold them responsible. Bureaucracy or not They don’t get a pass for WB having them by the balls
Honestly NRS just deserves the hate at this point the fact that they had crossplay in MK11 but decide nah who needs that at launch is crazy. I love mk but there is no possible way to defend this disappointing excuse of a game.
it was nnot full crossplay like other games, worked only in rooms(player matches) no kombat league (ranked) crossplay...
This kind of business model is detrimental to the sacred relationship between the devs and players of THIS video game community.
This could be an example of late stage capitalism
SF6 is better than MK1 for sure. I’ll give it that.
Both are strange, mk1 is an incomplete mess and street fighter in general is too spammy and it feels strange to learn, i dont get the “build your own strings”
This video solidifies that no one is going to give a shit about any DLC going further because what if we experience the same problems every time with every single update.
MK1 is dead unless Kombat Pack 2 is a Komplete overhaul
God damn that was a good video. I’m getting sick and tired of people defending NRS for MK1 absolute dog shit state. It’s not WB that developed the game. It’s not WB that did the none existent QA on the game. Like you said instead of games like SF and Tekken NRS try reinventing the wheel. Why not build on MK9 that was great, MK11 was bad but instead of learning they come out with this piece of turd.
I suspect they did build on MK11’s engine. It has the same stiffness in moves. The game even has exactly some of its moves. E.g. launch Quan chi in story had MK11’s Shang moveset I believe
Please NRS let the franchise rest already, you can't do it anymore
That graphics chart explaining the issues is legit 💯 What will NRS do next game? Scrap everything in MK1 cuz the many issues and complaints?! They need to start fresh imo
Mk9 Mkx formula/reboot
Make it a 3d fighting game like mk deception or make it like mkx but without the running, or make both running with the stance switch button and wave dashing, like tekken
I've been a fan of Mortal Kombat since Day One, but there's no denying it. This franchise is in some big trouble these days.
Now that they have the Raiden Round Start bug what are they gonna do? Are they gonna delay it even more because they will spend resources to trying to fix the Raiden round start bug 😂
They are burning down this franchise to the ground in almost every aspect. The gameplay is a mess, the story is just garbled alternate universe BS, no basic features you’d expect in 2024, etc. Good thing we’ll always have the classics to fall back on.
MK1 is bleeding money daily and from the looks of things they will not get any of that back. The one's with the absolute power is the players. Let's not fool ourselves thinking NRS didn't know what players wanted for the next game. NRS had 4 years to develop this game and they blew it. Not sure if they will ever get their player base back. Tekken and SF will only get better and NRS is many years behind them.
I bought Tekken 8 the other day. And it's amazing! With a crazy story mode...
It's about damn time. Another fighting game had an MK type story mode. It's not as good as MK story modes. But it's a massive step up.
With great online and so much content for a fighting game.
Right now, MK1 is dead to me, just makes me sad how fucking shit MK1 is. MK was supposed to be the only FG I wanted and needed to play.
as customers we should of seen this coming ahead of time before the game's release. Those who paid attention were aware of the gaming industry in the last 10 years. Was MK1 really the first game you bought in the last couple of years which ended up being not as good as so called all the hype for that game prior to it's release? Don't have to be honest with me, just with yourself. Now they got your money and you can bark as much as like, who knows, they might do something about it, but I kind of doubt it.
Signs were always on the wall smh. How many times do people have to get ripped off before they start waiting to buy games 🤦♂️
Exactly, I saw the writing on the wall way before MK1 came out. The amount of stupid decisions that were made in MK11. Also how they abandoned the game, that made me wary of anything coming from NRS. Something told me back in August not to get this game on release and to wait for info. I'm glad I listened...
Mk1 is a complete disaster, its not only “not as good”
Every great empire falls. Maybe that time is now for NRS.
If the Feb 28th Peacemaker update does not also contain a major face-lift to MK1, meaning the addition of more single player modes, this game is finished.
The fact that this game needs a major facelift this early on in its cycle shows this game is already doomed... This shit is irreversible lmfaooo this game will never regain its playerbase. They are going to have to take a few years off for the next game.
@@XYjujuPSN the sad fact of the matter is that this isn’t true. Mortal Kombat always has its player base come back. They shouldn’t because the quality of the game is severely lacking, but it’s the most popular fighting game franchise. It’s why contrary to what people online are saying the game will never die. It will always have its dedicated player base, and every time they release a DLC everybody comes rushing back.
@DrewKingery11 that's not really happening this time. MK11 is actually doing better than MK1 on steam. It's had more players within the last 24 hrs, and it had a higher all time peak. Mk1 is at 1400 players currently, on PC which is the largest platform in the world. Tekken 8s all team peak is double what MK1's was.
@@Conflict1922 well if it does die it’ll be a major wake up call to NRS that they need to kinda look in the mirror and reform. Maybe if they can somehow break away from W B they can get back on track
@@DrewKingery11 WB owns them, WB would have to sell them for NRS to get away. I don't see that happening. MK1 will still make them money and that's all WB cares about at the end of the day.
Kudos to whoever made that graphic. Hit the nail on the head.
I’ve been a die-hard fan of Mortal Kombat since 1992 and the current state of this franchise is extremely depressing. Like you said, if this next update doesn’t drastically alter how this game plays or addresses how incomplete and broken it is, I must say that this franchise is doomed.
That's what happens when you load your company up with unqualified DEI hires who are bad at their jobs
Everyone should’ve refunded the game when crossplay wasn’t available at launch. MK11 had it and this game doesn’t? I played the tower on release beat it, then refunded the game 15 minutes in because it felt lifeless. I remember replying to Ed Boones tweet calling the game bad and got a bunch of randoms calling me an idiot. Let’s this game burn in the dumpster fire
We have a simpler version of the discussed system at my job so I'm familiar with stuff like that. I know that they can't share sensitive information but I really don't believe that they can't easily put out a simple statement acknowledging issues and saying they're working on a fix. Also, other developers don't seem to have a problem in that regard as seen on Tekken 8's launch day.
Sounds like excuses and in the military we say,” Excuses are like aholes everybody has one.
theres no way WB and NRS dont see any of this shit. they are literally melting the respect from their audience. IDGAF how hard something is. If we PAID MONEY for a product we expect shit to be GOOD. If that was the case it shouldve never been released. These employees are bots. Soulless beings.
justifying bureaucracies is insane, you either deliver or you don't. incredible the level of shill. I used to work on a big company and yes the processes are slow but the client is always updated of what is going on and delivery dates. the problem here is that NRS got their money, they don't feel compromise to deliver a working product.
Lmao Tom Brady bringing back him saying Ed's full name 9:29
It’s such a funny running joke he does.
I'm so tired of people defending multi million dollars companies. They got you money, the bare minimum they can do is deliver a working product.
Peace maker is the endgame for MK. But I don't see this gm being popular or play by more then 100 ppl entering spring
Nice Rant Tom I agree why dose the cycle take so long, but it didn't take long when all the Mesas this month were broken and give free stuff they pulled the plug in a hour but a desync took over a month to get the go head fix it.
So did Tyler have to go through all those division approvals for the “go chiefs”? Lol
At this point I'm having way more fun playing Tekken 8 and don't plan on going back to MK1 any time soon regardless of Peacemaker even though I loved the TV show
Mk11 should have been mkx with krushing blows and mk1 should have been mkx with krushing blows and kameos. In other words an evolution of the most fun and faster game they ever made. Improve mkx but now y’all got this buggy ,stiff , and slow game
Soooo... can we like... I don't know... finally accept the fact that even if MK 9 was good, this franchise never needed a revival after Armaggedon?
Gosh NRS if you're gonna blow it at least blow it good. 😂 This also applies to the fans.
Who yall got on sunday
The issue with nrs games for me is that characters don't have strong enough specials. You get some interesting moves like Sindel anti Kameo, cage dashing, sub clone, kitama trap etc. They're just not strong enough so the optimal way to play is the basic strike throw and use kameos to steal turns.
I wonder what nrs was smoking when they started that cycle that the image showed when developing mk11.
Not going to lie but you do have a point
Maybe it has to do with NRS being the only relevant western fighting game developer, but the battle design blunders they have are unmatched. They have glitches that haven’t been in SF since the 90s, the mechanics are like a 3d fighter stuck in a 2d world and they are always ready to just make it suck with new bad mechanics in the next game. Feel sorry for the people who have to take their games competitively seriously.
The real question is why are there SO MANY problems with this damn game!!! WB/NRS is quick to take our money but are not quick to make this game worthwhile. If this was any other aspect of business people would be requesting refunds! 😳🙄🤦🏽♂️💀
It’s always been their fault they never stick with the same formula even though when they have a successful one everybody who liked a specific game in the Mortal Kombat franchise never got the same replica to it again to enjoy it so people who like MK 11 are now suffering on MK one people who like MKX are now suffering on MK one. No one is happy. They just don’t follow up and keep the customers happy put on top of that, they give up on supporting the game every two years, and it was a matter of time for this to happen to them. They brought down a Akklaim? I doubt they’ll be able to bring down Warner Brother, but this studio has a big problem internally and people need to start realizing that and blaming them not just the publisher.
WB just ruined another DC game. It’s definitely WBs fault
Just bought a ps5 finally a few weeks ago and i really regret wasting my money on MK1 😢