absolute garbage

[Anonymous No.6575730]

Daily reminder that this series doesn't have a single redeeming quality and it's entire existence has been riding on the same shitty gimmick for over 20 years.

[Anonymous No.6575738]

The movies are better than the games

[Anonymous No.6575758]

>tryhard/10

[Anonymous No.6575763]

>>6575738
movie*

Second one was shit.

To OP, originally the lore was cool, but MK3 onward kinda screwed that pooch.

[Anonymous No.6575770]

>>6575758
Cope.

[Anonymous No.6575775]

The whole blood/gore/grossout stuff of the 90s is probably the lamest worst shit to go back to.
Second to FMV if we're talking games.
And MK has both...

[Anonymous No.6575863]

>>6575730
Now, maybe. But there was a time when this series had soul, and was fun and campy and free of identity politics, sadistic(non-comical) gore, and boring, forgetable, story and characters. You could tell the people making the old games were just having fun and really loved making videogames. RIP MK.

[Anonymous No.6575867]

>>6575763
Yeah, once Outworld attacked Earth the overall story quality sank like a stone.

[Anonymous No.6575868]

the game is still good

[Anonymous No.6575881]

>>6575770
Have sex.

[Anonymous No.6575889]

Wasting quarters to find out divekick was the only reasonable strategy sucked ass, but 2 player at home was where it was fucking at. Trading fatality inputs, codes, secret battles. People who didn't like at least one game in the series also didn't have friends.

[Anonymous No.6575896]

>>6575770
Lol There's nothing to cope over, I don't give a hoot about your hipster opinions.

[Anonymous No.6575905]

>>6575730
Shaolin Monks is clearly the way to go for the next game. Everyone loved that game and I think it’s personally the best MK product in general. Give the team a break from fighting games and let someone who loves all the classic lore and stories and make another game celebrating those aspects.

[Anonymous No.6575993]

>>6575905
>Shaolin Monks
This holy shit
11 was bad

[Anonymous No.6576023]

>>6575993
11 is proof that trannies can even adrenaline dripping series like MK where it's focused on scantily clad girls and dudes killing each other.

[Anonymous No.6576025]

>>6575905
>Shaolin Monks

[Anonymous No.6576026]

>>6575993
11 is proof that trannies can even ruin adrenaline and test dripping series like MK where it's focused on scantily clad girls and dudes killing each other.

[Anonymous No.6576051]

>>6575993
>>6576025
I say make it about Chameleon. That way, you can explain why this character had been around for the first 3 (4 maybe? Fuck it yeah let’s do it) games (A WARRIOR WHO HAS HID IN THE SHADOWS SINCE MK1 CHALLENGES YOU or whatever it used to say), then you get to give one character the powers and moves of ALL ninjas. Like Shaolin Monks you could do whatever with the story and let Chameleon kill whoever, or you could make it really good and not have Chameleon kill ANYONE outside if goons. That way it still fits in the story and you’re not retconning anything too crazy, plus you could establish Chamelon as a mysterious warrior that even the most powerful kombatants respect or fear. Let us wander around levels like SM did, but maybe interconnect them even better? And let us explore EVERY area we have ever seen. I wanna know where the fuck the Game Over spike pit from MK4 is. I wanna know what else is around The Pit 3. Ah it like that is why I loved the first one so much. All the wonder I had as a kid about these environments where these gory battles took place.
Hell make it even more RPG like and have it to where Chameleon earns his powers as he defeats the ninjas?

[Anonymous No.6576063]

>>6575905
Love Shaolin Monks. Beat it with my only friend back in the day, and even nowadays when we manage to find the time to get together we'll eventually go through it again.

[Anonymous No.6576149]

>>6575775
To this day I love live action FMV cutscenes, though.

[Anonymous No.6576273]

>>6576051
>Hell make it even more RPG like and have it to where Chameleon earns his powers as he defeats the ninjas?
Sounds like Mortal Kombat Deception where Shujinko learned abilities from characters who mentored him. Deception, despite being part of the dark ages, had probably my favorite story mode just because it let you actually openly explore the setting. I'd love to see them do something similar agian.

[Anonymous No.6576276]

>>6575730
Thats not true. MK had brilliant marketing.

[Anonymous No.6576319]

I want to fuck frost

[Anonymous No.6576370]

>>6576319
Not retro, get some of that retro ninja pussy

[Anonymous No.6576376]

You can only pick one, who's it gonna be?

[Anonymous No.6576423]

>>6576376
>You can only pick one
Maybe if you bought the PS1 version

[Anonymous No.6576453]

>>6576376
Imma take Jade wit that brown ass

[Anonymous No.6576516]

>>6575905
No

[Anonymous No.6576518]

>>6576051
Gay

[Anonymous No.6576519]

>>6576376
Not Jade because black women have no value.

[Anonymous No.6576520]

>>6576273
NOT RETRO LEL

[Anonymous No.6576548]

>>6575863
>series had soul
Opinion discarded

[Anonymous No.6576559]

MK II is the best fighter ever created.

[Anonymous No.6576562]

>>6576559
Nope

[Anonymous No.6576931]

>>6576548
Nah, it definitely had soul. Tobias put so much effort into the stuff with comic books and bios all of that pretty much went out the window once he left.

[Anonymous No.6577312]

MK Trilogy is the best fighting game ever made.

[Anonymous No.6577336]

>>6576376
Was there really any question here?

[Anonymous No.6577382]

>>6576376
I want Mileena to nibble on my dick

[Anonymous No.6577410]

Still the best kharacter selection music.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n4pGCa8-wIg

[Anonymous No.6577459]

Forget all the fussin' and a-feudin', I like Capcom and SNK fighters and MK2 is still a fuckin' jam.

[Anonymous No.6577462]

>>6575730
MK sucks ass, but then again, an entire genre based around repetitive battles between two people using a limited selection of largely identical characters isn't exactly a recipe for quality to begin with.

IMO killer instinct gold was the better game for the time period.

[Anonymous No.6577550]

>>6577459
Fuck off Erron.

[Anonymous No.6577627]

>>6576376
Definitely not Jade because negro women have no value.

[Anonymous No.6577636]

>>6577627
>negro
She's not even human, anon.

[Anonymous No.6577637]

>>6575730
Scorpion is a badass character. There's a redeeming quality for you. Argument destroyed.

[Anonymous No.6577641]

>>6577636
Negroes aren't human either my dude

[Anonymous No.6577649]

>>6575730
I think the ps2 games are some of the most fun fighters to play singleplayer
But anyways the old games were all about the lore and mythology and rumors surrounding them, it was a "you had to be there" kinda deal almost like an ARG.

[Anonymous No.6577874]

Sounds like someone needs to up their game and “git gud”. OP probably couldn’t beat the game and is bitter about it.

[Anonymous No.6577882]

>>6575905
A few weeks back I took out my PS2 and my Shaolin Monks saves were there. Loved that game, had a save on the final boss. Didn't remember the controls but managed to beat Goro, but Shao Khan was too much.
Armageddon also had a similar mode to that, but I think the best single player in a mainstream Mortal Kombat game was in Deception, where it was free roam with Shujinko. I think a lot could also be done with that idea

But MK has hit a lot of success with its current formula, so I don't really see it changing. Boon used to tease a Shaolin Monks remaster but nothing came of it

[Anonymous No.6577970]

>>6577627
She is a shitskinned asian you cumskinned retard

[Anonymous No.6578059]

>>6577970
pajeet pls

[Anonymous No.6579148]

https://archiveofourown.org/series/1805197

[Anonymous No.6579162]

I hate how MK continues to embrace stiff character animations. MK1 through Trilogy had to have stiff, riggid animations due to taking snapshots of real people for their sprites, but from MK4 and onwards they've had no fucking excuse. They could've smoothed things out but NOOOOOOOOO, they have to keep making it like the old games. It's so fucking stupid.

I understand that it's a little unfair to ask MK to change when Street Fighter, Tekken, and the like have all remained mostly the same, but I really feel like Mortal Kombat always wanted to be a smoother game from the get go but were forced into what they do to do. I look at gameplay for MK11 and it's fucking gross how bad the character animations are.

[Anonymous No.6579192]

MK is based and has been making tryhard faggots like OP seethe for over 2 decades

daily reminder that MK has sold more copies than street fighter ever will

[Anonymous No.6579896]

>>6575730
Probably. Never felt like buying new ones. I don't mind it existing tho

[Anonymous No.6580010]

MK1: bang average (The Altered Beast of 1on1 fighters)
MK2: Great
MK3: MK2 + more gimmicky stuff = less
MK 4: If you have an N64 it's a solid Fighter
Everything else: Lost interest after MK3.

[Anonymous No.6580091]

>>6580010

lemme fill your blind spots since i entirely agree with your ratings

MK Gold: same as MK4 but for dreamcast
MK Deadly Alliance: awkward reboot trying too hard to distance itself from classic MK, not fun
MK Deception: same engine as DA but slightly better in terms of character selection and gameplay, still bad but a step in the right direction
MK Armageddon: completely overboard with content to the point where it's a diluted mess with over simplified characters and gameplay. the low point of modern MK
MK9: a really well executed reboot. best MK since 2 which exceeds it in many ways. the best competitive MK ever. all great characters return, good fatalities, great stages and game modes. this is where MK peaked in my opinion
MKX: feels like MK9 but more gimmick heavy. adds some cool characters and the general style is good but gameplay is not as good as MK9.
MK11: gameplay somehow becomes even MORE gimmicky. weird graphical style that divides fanbase. probably the weakest of the post-reboot MKs

[Anonymous No.6580103]

>>6575730
bad dragon?

[Anonymous No.6580139]

>>6580091
>MK Deadly Alliance: awkward reboot trying too hard to distance itself from classic MK, not fun
Deadly Alliance was more in tone with the older MKs than anything there after (baring Shaolin Monks)
Also had some of the best tracks of the 3D era MKs
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k56IHIfhvgU
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=f3KDN4HJZ4g
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mBZViaUMbh4

[Anonymous No.6580705]

>>6575993
>>6576025
>>6576063
>/vr/ is shaolin territory
perfect

[Anonymous No.6580863]

>>6580091
>MK Deception: same engine as DA but slightly better in terms of character selection and gameplay, still bad but a step in the right direction
Nah, son. Deception is a straight up bad game that is way worse than Deadly Alliance. I'd say this is where it really started to show that Midway had learned nothing at all and was just doing the same stupid shit they always did. They cut almost every character from Deadly Alliance for "story reasons" and then haphazardly cut-and-pasted the fighting styles from other characters that were in Deadly Alliance across all of the new characters without properly checking to make sure they worked or functioned properly. Then, instead of fixing the gameplay problems, they decided to double down on gimmicky shit such as literal mini-game modes (Chess Kombat and Puzzle Kombat) and gimmicky stages that had ringout fatalities, which only ended up annoying the fanbase because they could happen in-between rounds. None of the new characters are likeable, introducing boring concepts like Orderrealm and Chaosrealm ("lul one has LAW AND ORDER and the other has CHAOS AND ANARCHY get it dewdz") and were so haphazardly done they suffered from "Ketchup and Mustard" names and stories like Sektor and Cyrax did right up until a month before it went gold for shipment. The only worthwhile thing about Deception is that it introduced Konquest mode, which was great for fans of lore, but the actual mode looked like shit in the face of pretty much every other action adventure game at the time. There's more stuff too I could get into like Shujinko not living up to the hypetrain and combo breakers being an after thought but yeah, fuck Deception and fuck anyone who thinks that game is good.

[Anonymous No.6580865]

>>6576548
Not sure why they needed to make an even gayer meme than "kino" but they have been incredibly successful with doing so.

[Anonymous No.6580881]

>>6580863
Anon I like Deception
Konquest was good for a fighting game story mode, kind of shows how MK always tried to do more with its single player content than other fighting games, like they did with MK9 and found a lot of success with. It's one of the only times you can actually explore all the realms that are constantly spoken of in MK lore.
Also I liked Chess Kombat so screw you, some gimmicks can be fun.
I can give you the core gameplay being poor though

[Anonymous No.6581085]

>>6580865
Yeah terms like 'soul' and 'kino' were annoying at first but have become quite useful in weeding out people who have nothing of value to actually say. As soon as you see either you know the person typing is worthless.

[Anonymous No.6581453]

[Anonymous No.6581460]

>>6581453

[Anonymous No.6581462]

>>6581460

[Anonymous No.6581590]

>>6576376
MK3 Sindel or Sonja. Hell, Sheeva'd be fun for a weekend. Forget the Ninjettes.

[Anonymous No.6582018]

>>6581453
>>6581460
>>6581462
>>6581590
See: >>6579148

[Anonymous No.6582061]

None of the MK games are good fighters and the 3 modern titles are only somewhat competent. MK11 is the best fighter but also happens to be the most boring.

As a ZOOMER who got into classic figthing games at an older age, there is just nothing good about classic MK. I can understand how people back then might've thought it was badass and cool but objectively, compared to the fuck ton of other arcade FGs, MK is easily one of the worst.
Literally only nostalgia goggled retards and people who haven't even tried other FGs think it's ever been a good fighting game.

[Anonymous No.6582098]

>>6577874
a game series can be good or bad regardless of your ability to beat the games, Anon

[Anonymous No.6582115]

>>6581085
Omg! So much Soul and so Comfy! Pure Kino!!!!

[Anonymous No.6582132]

Life bar go br

[Anonymous No.6582146]

At least the last few games are thought of as competent fighters, funnily enough, by copying japanese fighting games and adding mechanics from them.

Never really cared for them and find the old games more charming, but then again, i am a weak man when it comes to gore, some of the newest fatalities just make me sick looking at them.

I prefer the more cartoony aspect of MK2 and 3 really, and 1's fatalities are still much better to look at than some of the modern stuff.

[Anonymous No.6582159]

>>6582115
>>6582132

Yeah. Just like that.

[Anonymous No.6582456]

>>6582061

>MK11 is the best fighter

and into the trash your opinion goes. you know nothing about fighters if you think this is true