Does anyone have any hope left for the mortal kombat franchise? It feels like they fucked up the identity of the franchise so hard that it's impossible to fix without rebooting it AGAIN.
After MK4 it was all downhill, the franchise's 15 minutes was over and ended with the 90's
The upcoming movie will renew some interest and we'll get a new game from that baby
No. It died with 11 for me.
don't even care.they could make it whatever
>>736255075I doubt the movie has anything to do with the dogshit story in the games currently. We'll most likely get fucking onaga and shujinko
>>736254850Very difficult to salvage it after the whole marvel, multiverse garbage.
Mortal Kombat was always a laughing stonk that nobody took seriously except for the faggots who thought muh story was somehow an intricate and fascinating thing.
>>736255231MK was the middle ground between super casual brawler type games and serious fighting games. It helped that it had that tekken 3 energy of having fun gimmick modes up until 3D era.
>>736254850The only way for mortal kombat to move on as a franchise is to take people's eyes away from the mess they have made, and direct them to MK universe clashing with another old and forgotten (but just as bloody) fighting universe>Enter MK vs EC
>>736255179The main chunk of the movie is the tournament iirc but more like the way MK9 did it with what they've shown so far at least.
>>736255231>>736255369This is my problem with the new games. They tried to be a serious fighting game when the series only got big because of cool fun characters, fatalities and cheesy story. If I wanted a proper fighter, I would play Tekken, SF, Soul Calibur, Smash Bros, Virtua Fighter etc. For MK I want something casual with a variety of modes, lots of content and unlockables. Not eSports shit.
>>736254850Since what, MK9 in 2011 they've basically been only making remakes/soft reboots of their series because they're too afraid to move forward. Too be a little fair, that's everyone these days. But no, I have no faith in the series. It's always sucked and we're so far removed from the things that inspired it in the first place being relevant that unless it goes through a major actual rework and finds a new identity it's just going to be a nostalgia-bait series.
>>736254850if they do a re-release that has Shaolin Monks and Deception I'll buy it immediately. Other than that it will have to look and play amazing for me to have any interest after 11 and 1.
>>736255231Mortal Kombat feels like the gaming equivalent to those edgy comics that failed to properly transition to a new era.
>>736254850>>736254914Pretty much this. It's gone so far out of pocket it's kinda comical. The more they reach for ways to "explore" it, expand it, make up new stories about it, etc, the more retarded it becomes.MK is the game where you rip people's spines out and shit. That's all. Nothing deeper. The further away you get from that, the shittier the games.
>>736254850>Make chicks hot again>Bring back brutality, friendship, animality... in full package>Ditch the x-ray slowmo garbage>Go back to more basic albeit comical gore instead of overkill cringe>New characters>Drop the hollywood shitThere it shouldn't be so damn hard.
Nope, everything past 9 is liquid shit and Ed Boon looks suicidal these days. Remember the good times at least.https://youtu.be/Gs4tAuiANQE
Mortal kombats biggest issue is scale. Remember when shao khan and his soulnado were super threatening? When goro was actually imposing? Now it doesn't even fucking matter anymore because they increased the powerlevel to some cosmic level shit. Titans that are apparently older than elder gods, blaze bringing about armaggeddon, chronika resetting timelines. It makes everything feel so meaningless.
>>736256593>Make chicks hot againThey need to go a step further and finally add sexalities.
>>736254914Yeah I had fun with Deception and Armageddon as products but the multiplayer was dogshit. Less is more with this franchise.
>>736256740It began as a homage of Enter the Dragon, but swiftly became capeshit, and now is LITERAL capeshit somehow getting joined at the hip with DC (and a bunch of 80's franchises)??? How did that even happen?
>>736254850This movie is DoA the moment they casted a fucking uggo 60 year old as Johnny Cage>but Johnny cage is old in MK11YES MKX and MK11 where the timeline has been going on for like 25 years at that point, how the fuck are you going to START OFF with your most beloved character being geriatric in his first appearance
>>736257267>How did that even happen?MK was influenced by capeshit from day fucking one both Ed Boon and Tobias were and are massive comicfagsWB owns both DC and MK so obviously it made sense to pair them eventually
>>736254850...then just reboot it again? Who the fuck cares about the MK story anyway? No one would really give a shit if they decide to pull another reboot, especially if it ends up making the game cooler and not woke censorship slop like it is now
>>736257772>most beloved characterThat's Sub Zero. Guys only played Johnny cage back in the day because his fatality was piss easy
>>736258241>Who the fuck cares about the MK story anyway?the last entries sell millions because of the story mode and single player modes.
>>736254850>Does anyone have any hope left for the mortal kombat franchise?a tiny bit, but it has faded in these long years
>>736257883I'm surprised DC don't have regular MK comics published. The MKX were well regarded at the time if I remember correctly, and NRS make offical DC fighting Games
>>736254850After MK 1 they could just make any random bullshit at this point.>Coming 2030: MK 13 - Absolute Krisis aka MK vs DC 2, which serves as a full reboot for both Mortal Kombat and the DC comics continuity as a whole and fully integrates MK into the DC mythos while simultaneously merging parts of the DC Absolute Universe into the main Earth.
The most interesting the story got was Raiden going off to invade Outrealm like he should have all along. They shat on that after 5 minutes and replaced him with an anorexic bald bitch.
>>736255075The upcoming movie is almost certainly going to be garbage
>>736254850not only is nrs dogshit, they're owned by fucking WBi spit on and laugh at modern mk
>>736259693The most interesting story premise MK had was MKX, where the old guard turned evil and new characters and Outworld had this weird uneasy cold war thing going on. Sadly most of the new characters were shitMK actually has a fun world, people to this day recall how cool Deception, Armageddon, and Shaolin Monks were because they were all about running around the realms. But the lore is such a mess now it doesn't work and even on a more basic level the games just aren't fun
>>736257267I liked the crossovers when it was just Horror stuff like Jason Vorhees and Alien, but that was probably the gateway into NRS trying to turn the series into boomer Fortnite
>>736259693He spent too long consulting with THE ELDER GODS
>>736254850Somehow the franchise that fought for artistic freedom become one of the most sterile game companies to ever do it.
>>736254850we need another non-fighting game entry like Shaolin Monks
>>736255075the new movie is almost certainly going to be tethered to the retarded mk1 plot threads, they thought mk1 was gonna be a huge success and it didn't even make it through the whole season pass.
MK1 was such a disaster story and tone wise, that the only way forward would be a complete, hard reboot. I don't mean one like MK9, where they change the timeline or whatever, I mean a complete and utter reset. NRS has proven they have no fucking clue what they're doing with it anymore either, so just wait 10 years and get a new studio on it some day.
They pretty much killed the franchise with MK1. NRS is one of the very first companies to start pushing "the message" in their games dating back to MKXThe only even half decent thing to come out of the NRS era of MK games is Skarlet
>>736264007Kinda funny that MK1 had tie in skins for the movie and then it died before the movie even came out.
>>736264325That's what I'm saying, they tanked it really fucking hard. I don't think I remember a game with such a genuinely decently received launch followed by 0 fucking support and followup patches. All those big issues from launch got fixed but it took over a month, what the fuck were they on.
>>7362642079 had fridge bodies and horrible faces but the designs were fantastic, the concept art shows that. They've only gotten worse over time. Like this >>736264325why the fuck is Shao Kahn a dragon man?
always wondered, how on earth did Sindel end up becoming the gold standard for futa dommy mommy?
>>736264325why did boon start self inserting himself into johnny?
>>736254850>Went unironically gay as fuck>Soon to be owned by NetflixNah, shit has never been more over
ed boon hasn't had a say in an MK game since MK9. a tranny and a liberal cuck beaner are the ones who actually make all the decisions and that's why the game is shit and why boon looks miserable in every photo he has taken in the past 20 years
>>736264207>NRS is one of the very first companies to start pushing "the message" in their games dating back to MKXThis is the exact point I more or less dropped the series alongside my friends. I could be lazy and blame the tranny on the dev team that gets paraded every stream, but the Kombat Kids and every girl looking ugly as fuck in X did it no favors. The story even for a fighting game dropped off a cliff going onwards from 9
>>736256716Yep mortal kombat 9 was excellent, playing it now on xenia againThe first time I played it myself and a friend played story mode on the hardest difficulty, was damn good
I didn't read the thread but the last time I played Mortal Kombat was 3 Ultimate on my Mega Drive like 30 years ago. Thanks for asking.
