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Mortal Kombat 12 Story (poll) (spoilers about MK11)

In what era will the next MK game take place ?

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Dante7

Dante7

Noob
So, in what era will the next MK game take place ?
In my opinion, NRS have 3 options.
  1. Ancient times (The Great Kung Lao / Onaga's reign / young Shao Kahn / the death of Jerrod and fall of Edenia / the war between Shinnok and the Elder Gods)
  2. MK1 / MK9 reboot (the classic story on next gen consoles)
  3. Fast forward to the Kombat Kids (the story moves on)
There are some counter arguments:
  1. Ancient times (will NRS really give up on characters with guns ? Will they really drop out the Kombat Kids, after just 2 games ? It also means no Hanzo or Kuai Liang)
  2. Isn't it a little too early for a new reboot ? MK9 was just 2 games ago.
  3. The era of Kombat Kids means no Scorpion.
    He died in this timeline.
    Are they really gonna drop out the MK mascot ? And who would be the new antagonist ? How will they top Kronika ? Maybe a more realistic approach ?
Also, there are some questions to be answered:
  1. Will Liu Kang keep his powers ?
  2. What will be Raiden's fate ?
  3. Scorpion's ending mentions the existence of
    titans
  4. Should they do something with ALL the timelines ? In the first one, Liu Kang was a zombi and Raiden died at the hands of Shao Kahn. In the second one, Liu Kang become a revenant (before being absorbed) and Dark Raiden disappeared because of Kronika. In the third timeline,
    Liu Kang is... well, God (?) and Raiden is just a mortal.
    Maybe a grand Mortal Kombat tournament between all the timelines ? (past, present and future from different timelines)
 
Rozalin1780

Rozalin1780

Good? Bad? I'm the one with the fans
I’d like to see what made The “Great” Kung Lao so great firsthand. Who competed against him (other than Goro)? What bullshit did Shang Tsung try to pull? Things like that.

I’d also like to see the series go back to the tournament setting it’s named after...
 
xenogorgeous

xenogorgeous

.... they mostly come at night. Mostly.
as Kitana said, they can try to repair all the timeline they want, but "new evils will rise and come up" , so, things can go very interesting from now and then ..... it's soon to deduce what can happen next, but, sure that Fire God Liu Kang will appear at least one more game, this it's safe certain to take place
 
hkriderz

hkriderz

Lin Kuei Scum, yellow robot enthusiast
I would have loved for a retelling of the Deadlly Alliance to Armageddon arc done justice. But since we are we're at now, it makes sense for an Ancient Times story.
 
Marvelnerd

Marvelnerd

Cyber Smoke #1
Probably ancient times. Liu Kang, Great Kung Lao, Kitana, Goro, Shang Tsung, young Shao Kahn, Sindel, King Jerrod: already looks like a pretty sweet roster with classics and a lot of potential for new characters.
 
Z

Zur-En-Arrh

Noob
I think they'll make a fast foward. If Liu Kang will be the new keeper of time/earth protector than he can make Raiden's vision come true without the unecessary deaths (more specifically all of Sindel's victims). Which means, there'll probably be a Mortal Kombat with no revenants, where Shinnok is still the lord from the Netherrealm, Mileena might still be alive (?) and Kung Jin grew up with both Lao and Liu Kang present (which will be a very cool dynamic to see). I personally would love to see the timeline moving on, I like the new dynamics in the world and keeping the old characters (Kitana as ruler of outworld, past Scorpion as the new grand master of the Shirai Ryu) in the present timeline kinda looks neat to me.
 
Lokheit

Lokheit

Noob
Finished the story yesterday and what I hope happens is a soft reboot. Keeping the continuity at a similar point, maybe retconing a couple of things but keeping most of the character development. Maybe mix both continuities a bit.

My reasoning is that I'm 29 years old, next game according to rumors will be in a loooong time, I don't want to be 37 years old and then start to worry if the characters I love will keep having the stories that made me love them or not.

MK9 reboot with the Cyber Sub non sense was painful until he finally got to the same point he was on MKA, I don't want to go through that again when I'm close to 40 and (hopefully) will have more important things to care for.
 
stokedAF

stokedAF

casual kahnage
I would like to see an ancient game when it was still all about the tournament. I chose ff to Kombat Kids for laughs.
 
Lokheit

Lokheit

Noob
Dante7 said:
Probably in another 4 years.


Maybe not Nightwolf... but his ancestor ? :)
Click to expand...
Everything points at a longer gap. Boon really looks like he wants to try new stuff and the way the ending is handed seems to be them preparing for a long period without another MK.
 
MKF30

MKF30

Fujin and Ermac for MK 11
If they go ancient times, they have to have a Sub-Zero in there, of course it could be the first Sub-Zero originally or just a Cyromancer(doesn't even have to be Sub-Zero). Ed Boon said himself, he's like Batman. It's merely a mantle and we know there has been cyromancers as the Lin Kuei had the ancient and first grand master way back, that bald dude in the MK X stage at the LK HQ.


Or they can do like 10 years later from this now new, fixed, better timeline with Kombat Kids and perhaps other Titans will emerge, new Elder Gods etc
 
Outworld Slasher

Outworld Slasher

Cannibalistic Humanoid Fleshpit Dweller
I don't think it'll be any of these. I think it's more likely the character development we saw in MK X and 11 will stay put, but just in a more perfected timeline where many of the deaths and event outcomes are altered. There'll probably be some plot device to explain how Mileena and other popular "evil" characters are alive and kicking, and I'm pretty sure the villain will most definitely be Onaga and or The One Being with the number of hints that were dropped in MK11 almost everywhere; I've never seen Onaga referenced this much since the 3D era.

I really don't think any of us should be fussing over the possibility of another Trilogy plot. They wouldn't do that yet again, at least I hope.
 
Mk9kevin

Mk9kevin

Sareena for MK11!
I'm very skeptical as to where the story will go from here honestly. I'm not a big fan of the ending now that I've played through it. Raiden becoming mortal and Liu Kang as a god is a good idea, but how will they flesh out the new history? Personally I want them to go back to the way things were before Kronika messed things up, meaning we get the Kombat Kids again. I just don't think it's a good move to make the events of MK9 and MKX "non canon" since it's all been essentially erased.

And a little side note, this game definitely confirmed to me that the Elder Gods are useless AF. I think it's canon that they were meant to be written that way from the start cause holy shit they are pathetic and don't help xD
 
HAMMER

HAMMER

Noob
Why does Johnny Cage have brown eyes instead of blue now? And why does Sub-Zero not have blue eyes as well? Is this more of the same from the NRS team?
 
Corrupted Shinnok

Corrupted Shinnok

Final Boss
A reboot with 30 pre-MKX characters:

Shinnok, Quan Chi, Shao Kahn, Shang Tsung, Raiden, Fujin, Liu Kang, Kung Lao, Scorpion, Sub-Zero, Noob Saibot, Reptile, Ermac, Cyrax, Sektor, Smoke, Rain, Reiko, Kabal, Kano, Goro, Onaga, Kitana, Mileena, Jade, Skarlet, Sindel, Tanya, Sonya Blade, Johnny Cage

Best roster ever.
 
DragonofDadashov24

DragonofDadashov24

Let’s see whose fire burns hotter
I hope they don’t touch story mode ever again.
I had enough of heart attacks during last three games. I have this very strange urge of buying a ticket to Chicago, going to NRS office and destroy their writers.
 
DragonofDadashov24

DragonofDadashov24

Let’s see whose fire burns hotter
Corrupted Shinnok said:
A reboot with 30 pre-MKX characters:

Shinnok, Quan Chi, Shao Kahn, Shang Tsung, Raiden, Fujin, Liu Kang, Kung Lao, Scorpion, Sub-Zero, Noob Saibot, Reptile, Ermac, Cyrax, Sektor, Smoke, Rain, Reiko, Kabal, Kano, Goro, Onaga, Kitana, Mileena, Jade, Skarlet, Sindel, Tanya, Sonya Blade, Johnny Cage

Best roster ever.
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Onaga isn’t pre MKX character though
 
thesacrifist

thesacrifist

Too old for this
Ancient times with some modern characters sendt back in time to help correct some wrong (the staples who weren’t in that time, plus some kombat kids maybe)
 
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