Thank god I missed this conversation, but I just want to say you hit the nail on the head. I mentally check out when I hear buzzwords like that or how people think those ideas in film/games is a brand new thing. Could you imagine if Star Wars came out today? The movie about beating up fascists would be the most woke movie ever made!
I absolutely want neutral jump punches to do pop ups again. I do want to see Flawless Blocks back, personally. Can't do them for the life of me.
I know a lot of people who didn't like Mortal Kombat (2011), but enjoyed one of the sequels. People will always be divided over something.
Yup, once you start seeing the buzzwords, it's almost always a sign that it's just sensationalistic overreaction.
Well sure, I am just hoping the haters will be a minority this time. MK11 managed to piss off quite a large part of the fanbase. I personally loved it, but I understand why many people hated a lot of its elements (gameplay, grind, etc.)
Interestingly, I agree with a regular on the franchise's official Discord, where Mortal Kombat XL and Mortal Kombat 11 Ultimate were polarizing in a way that was very reminicent of the split between Mortal Kombat II and Ultimate Mortal Kombat 3 back in the mid-90's.
In the same boat here. I'm not a fan of fighting games where offense is tuned to loop into itself in a million ways and at a breakneck speed. MK9 was an ok inbetween where every character had dirt, but the game wasn't so insanely fast like MKX where one wrong step meant you were staring at your opponent playing the game solo for 20-30 seconds. I'd still prefer MK12 to be slower than MK9 but faster than MK11. The issue always lies in how to balance characters while still allowing them to do cool shit / have unique dirt to utilize.
wat, are we supposed to get a teaser tomorrow?
Brand new MK ERA. And yeah, I think you're right on the money there. They probably feel MK games from now on aren't connected to the older entries in terms of canon and lore, so they might as well call it '1' to signify this is a NEW beginning, a NEW saga.
I'm going off the pattern the last couple weeks. The past two Wednesdays around 1pm EST they've dropped a trailer. So I would assume they're gonna continue the hype train up to the reveal.
ohhhhhhhhh okay I didn't even notice that lmao. A cinematic trailer would be nice.
Things I'm most curious about right now:
I'm gonna say ... 4 months from now.
That'd be pretty nifty. It'd be close to my b-day, and I know my financee is going to get me an Xbox gift card, which would go to the game.
The S is pretty cool for the cost point. Like it miles more than my PS4Pro and runs MK11 very well though not sure about a new entry. I played the first SF6 beta on the S and thought it looked and played great. Then I played the 2nd beta and demo on PC and Series X. Going back to the S, the demo on S currently makes a lot of concessions and I think they may have had to dial stuff back for it since the beta but don't really know how to say for sure. In game is ok, but character select is shockingly low res. Betas didn't have a char select so, maybe it was always that way.
Making the game for anything less than the current gen consoles and PC would be a huge mistake. It is time to put the PS4 in the trash. Stop gimping games to run on it. PS5, XboX or PC should be the only targets. Maybe after it has been out and a hit get a 3rd party developer to make a hand-held version for Switch and SteamDeck, and PS4.
Maybe.. I think this is likely, but the "1" might not mean "mk1" it might mean "The 1st Mortal Kombat". Looping right to the start. Great Kung Loa... the very first MK between realms... not just doing MK1 reboot.... a prequel of sorts going through the first MK and the elder gods setting up the rules and all that.
Don't know who this new Radian character is, but he sounds disappointing.
If you were in NRSs/WBs shoes you most likely wouldnt make the game you discribed. Simply cuz you want to make as much money as possible and your idea is way to big of a risk for that goal. But also cuz you know their will be a sh..storm of raging ppls and bad publicity everywhere.
