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Man, that story has me pissed. Lol. (MAJOR SPOILERS)

SUPAHJD

Horror Guest Shill
I figured after the context of what went down in the comics, Skarlet might have ended up being more. That was wrong. But sure, fine. That's whatever.

Shao Khan kinda goes out like a bitch.

Kotal Khan is still a bitch. A bitch who did go back and forth with Shao for a whopping like...seven seconds though so I give him that.

Kano (my biggest issue) gets done DIRTY. This is HORSE. SHIT. I knew this dumb ass Time Travel thing was going to do something like this, but to this degree? Wowy zowy. That was rough.

Johnny just goes missing.

Sonya dies but I mean.. kinda? Also, nice voice work Ronda. :^) ....

And actually, besides the Kano thing. None of this matters. Because it's allllll wiped away. So nothing matters now. None of it. None of these stories or the emotional weight behind these characters matter because "meany reviewers say they no like kombat kids :( so now we reset <:)". That is the laziest and dumbest thing you can do.

With that ending: thank you for remind me something NRS. While I truly do enjoy and love your games, I will never make the mistake of loving or getting attached to any of these characters because if they somehow make it into the next game, no guarantee they'll even have the same personality.

Edit: I'll comment on the gameplay tho. As for that, it's smooth as all hell.
 

LeoMK29

Noob
I kinda agree with some of it. Like did anything matter if it was all wiped clean? The revenant, the past and present timelines, we didn’t really get to see a resolution to that. Like what happens now?

I’m kinda disappointed overal :/

And here we go again with yet another timeline I guess....it’s getting old
 
No one will ever die for real in mk thats a given. I have issues with all enemies of earthrealm being such total jobbers.....i mean come on. Kotal is a total WIMP now compared to MKX kotal. It pisses me off because he was a total badass in mkx. Now hes either getting his ass kicked, professing his love for Jade or being a good guy (?) Whatever lol.

I like how scorpion cannot win a single fight when he is angry and wants to kill things but then he is a friend of liu kang and suddenly can beat raiden. Lolwtf
 
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HAMMER

Noob
Anyone else think Kronika is cheap AF?

That dinosaur move is epic!!

Wish she was playable.

She has one or two fatalities?

Am I the only one who doesn't know what he's doing still? I was good at all Mortal Kombats, including MK9/MKX; but, I don't know what I'm doing right now.

I've played Story Mode / Beaten Klassic Tower (12 opponents) with Shao Kahn and beat the Time Towers once with Shao Kahn.

I know how to do combos, block OH/LOW etc.; but I mean, it seems like the combos are less complex than they were previously or am I just ignorant of the game right now?
 
@HAMMER

I wouldn't consider myself Tournament level or anything like that, more of a casual gamer, but I've played MK 1 all the way to MK11 and all the Injustice Games. If you're playing towers, expect to be in for a rough ride, and that may be why you're having trouble, the AI reads your inputs and is merciless. I haven't had this much trouble since MK 2.
 

Lun

proud TERF!
I haven't followed the story much, I mostly skipped through it to unlock stuff. But the positive things are 1) a full global retcon of the story was much needed 2) especially if it means no more kombat kids 3) Kronika is a very cool character.
 

stokedAF

casual kahnage
I liked it but I agree with a few things lol.

  1. Kotal was still a bitch lol.
  2. Kahn did go out like a bitch
There was a perfect opportunity for an epic battle that would fix both of those. I would have liked to see Kotal crush Kahn but end up paralyzed. But instead Kotal gets wrecked by his chick and Kahn gets wrecked by his daughter (which would be fine if it wasn’t a simple fan swipe to the face).
 

MalevolentFix

haha shokan queen go down up
I liked it but I agree with a few things lol.

  1. Kotal was still a bitch lol.
  2. Kahn did go out like a bitch
There was a perfect opportunity for an epic battle that would fix both of those. I would have liked to see Kotal crush Kahn but end up paralyzed. But instead Kotal gets wrecked by his chick and Kahn gets wrecked by his daughter (which would be fine if it wasn’t a simple fan swipe to the face).
Can't call Kotal a bitch if he's getting Jade. I mean. Really.
 

stokedAF

casual kahnage
Maybe he likes the heel in his ass?
Maybe he does but do the people of outworld like an emperor that’s always getting his ass kicked? That’s why I liked the Kitana Kahn choice. I also like that Liu took raidens spot. I don’t understand how that fixes the timeline though, raiden said Liu is now in control of the hourglass so does Liu have kronikas powers now or is all the power in the hourglass? Plus raiden is the protector of Earthrealm not the hourglass.

It’s kinda confusing but I liked it overall. Fun story mode.
 
Maybe he does but do the people of outworld like an emperor that’s always getting his ass kicked? That’s why I liked the Kitana Kahn choice. I also like that Liu took raidens spot. I don’t understand how that fixes the timeline though, raiden said Liu is now in control of the hourglass so does Liu have kronikas powers now or is all the power in the hourglass? Plus raiden is the protector of Earthrealm not the hourglass.

It’s kinda confusing but I liked it overall. Fun story mode.
Sadly, Kotal is always going to job, even if it's his chapter. I enjoyed his and Jade's little love story thing, it was nice to have that in an MK game. I'm like you, I have issues with the story, but I don't absolutely hate it. There's good to be had in it.
 
I mostly liked the story. Yeah, another time reboot is annoying, but the story of MKX sucked a lot more to me, so I don’t mind a clean slate.

I thought Kotal was better treated in this story, not a lot mind you, but I feel like Jade had a chance to win, whereas Kung Jin winning was laughable. If someone was going to break his back, I’m glad it was Shao. I feel like Shao would win in a fight anyway.

I liked Kitana killing Shao personally, but am glad there’s a reset so hopefully she’s not Kitana Kahn in the next game.

I loved most of the character interactions to be honest, though Ronda’s VA work took me out of her scenes. Johnny disappearing was noticeable but I didn’t mind.

When Raiden went dark and fought Liu again, I got pissed but I liked how they turned it around afterwards.

My biggest hanging question is why the F is Shao Kahn half dragon or whatever? I’m figuring it’s a redesign like they did with a lot of characters, possibly tied to Onaga, but either way, I wish this was explained... I’m hoping this is explained in his tower ending (please no spoilers if it is).

Another complaint is can we ever play chapters as bad guys? It’s kinda of annoying that every fight is a good guy winning, but the bad guys can only win in the cinematics. The SFV story mode wasn’t great, but they didn’t resort to chapters; pretty much every single fight you controlled a different character, and it was a bad guy or good guy, depending on the plot. I wouldn’t mind that model for the next game to be honest.
 
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SUPAHJD

Horror Guest Shill
I guess I'm as heavy against the reset as I am because I actually really liked the Kombat Kids. Especially Cassie.

Really sucks if we're just throwing that away because some people don't like change.
 

Dankster Morgan

It is better this way
I said this in the other thread but not only did Kotal Kuck get boned throughout his entire existence, but Jade is the worst too.

I want you guys to keep in mind this is the Jade who at this point in time had just fought in the first MK tournament with the intention of allowing Shao Kahn to kill literally everyone. But Kotal is too mean for wanting to kill Baraka and the Tarkatans. So she BEATS HIS ASS and basically serves the poor bastard up to Shao Kahn on a sliver platter, putting him in the place to get him crippled.

Now Kotal is gonna spend the rest of his days getting wheeled around by this bitch who cucked him out of his throne basically
 
I liked the kids. I really only liked Cassie and Takeda in X, but I liked both Cassie and Jacqui in 11.

I just didn’t like the plot armour they had in X, and I didn’t like that it kept revenants as revenants.

To be honest, I don’t think they’d sit out of the next game, and I wouldn’t mind if Sonya took a seat.
 

MalevolentFix

haha shokan queen go down up
You've done this enough.

Are we going to pretend they're above criticism? There are definitely good aspects of the game but I don't think writing was ever a strong NRS characteristic.
What? No lmfao Don't be a silly billy.

No I mean in today's market everyone's standards vary and the meter by which we judge everything about games has changed drastically. I'm not sitting over here weeping tears of pain for NRS, because they can wipe their asses with Benjamin Franklins I'm 100% sure, I'm just saying that the demand and expectation on Devs these days is pretty mountainous especially with a franchise as long running as MK. Indie devs in a way have it a lot easier in the market than AAA titles because there is no bar for them. None of this is super relevant here I'm just thinking out loud sorry.
 

Saboteur-6

Filthy Casual
Story was sort of anticlimactic overall and the idea of death (so therefore real dramatic tension) in the MK universe is cheapened anyway because of:
  1. The Netherrealm existing as a physical plane aka (oh don't worry you can actually just come back as a revenant).
  2. Time travel hand-waving away any major plot points.
I mean to be fair the overall plot of MK has usually been depicted as pretty schlocky with plenty of plot holes and plot armor moments so it's not completely unexpected. I dunno though I think the character interactions were pretty interesting even if the main plot was pretty stupid. Except for anything with Sonya thanks to Rondey Roussey's shitacular voice acting.

I'd say Story overall 6.5/10. Not as good as Injustice 2 but about on par with MKX.
 

pure.Wasted

'ello baby, did you miss me?
I said this in the other thread but not only did Kotal Kuck get boned throughout his entire existence, but Jade is the worst too.

I want you guys to keep in mind this is the Jade who at this point in time had just fought in the first MK tournament with the intention of allowing Shao Kahn to kill literally everyone. But Kotal is too mean for wanting to kill Baraka and the Tarkatans. So she BEATS HIS ASS and basically serves the poor bastard up to Shao Kahn on a sliver platter, putting him in the place to get him crippled.

Now Kotal is gonna spend the rest of his days getting wheeled around by this bitch who cucked him out of his throne basically
Pre-MK11 Jade isn't a character so much as a green bikini attached to a pair of DDD knockers. I for one have zero problem with them retconning the fuck out of her and turning her into an actual character with opinions and shit.
 

Dankster Morgan

It is better this way
Pre-MK11 Jade isn't a character so much as a green bikini attached to a pair of DDD knockers. I for one have zero problem with them retconning the fuck out of her and turning her into an actual character with opinions and shit.
I’m okay with her having a personality too, they just make her seem like a dummy dumb dumb idiot