I hope NRS resolves all these subplots they've accumulated

[Hexin_Wishes]

Shang Tsung was confirmed dead in the comics. How he died, we don't know.

Didn't he get killed and then given to Sindel as an enhancement in MK2011? I think Quan wouldn't separate them for a more powerful fighter, no?

 

[Justice]

Inconsistency. Ermac was also a creation of Shao Khan. If he's still around Skarlet should be too... and Equally decrepit as Ermac.

Close, but no cigar. Skarlet is a creation from nothing to something using magic. Ermac was a corpse used to house the souls magically.

Or who knows, maybe you're right and for simplicity sake they just said that Skarlet fell apart faster.

 

[Hexin_Wishes]

Close, but no cigar. Skarlet is a creation from nothing to something using magic. Ermac was a corpse used to house the souls magically.

Or who knows, maybe you're right and for simplicity sake they just said that Skarlet fell apart faster.

I didn't know he was a corpse infused with souls, I just thought the vessel was created to house the souls.

In looking up her info I found the last sentence of her MK2011 ending might be what literally is the case (her returning to the shadows awaiting Shao's rebirth).

 

[DEVILSSON139]

mark my words mk brothers and sisters, there will be a story pack with more characters. i mean boon said big bad was a surprise and to my knowledge it is actually raiden now (that is a surprsie) so the story will carry on and hopefully bring in new characters.... i still want to see what happened to noob smoke etc etc, imo nrs probably gave us half a story so we pay for the rest lolz

 

[tjcombowins]

I'm happy Jade was not in this game at all. she sucks, people only talk about her because she's a ninja nothing more

 

[Hexin_Wishes]

I'm happy Jade was not in this game at all. she sucks, people only talk about her because she's a ninja nothing more

You must have just sucked as Jade tbh. While, Jade > Jacquie and Cassie, I can't deny her hype (along with every other palette swap) is strongly from that.

 

[Briggsfan]

I never understood why it only took cassie (a mortal) to kill shinnok , it didnt make sense .. but i can see if raiden killed him, but cassie? Its weird

Neither killed Shinnok. Cassie defeated Shinnok with her green shadow powers and Raiden decapitated Shinnok, But he's STILL alive. He's just a head now.

 

[tjcombowins]

You must have just sucked as Jade tbh. While, Jade > Jacquie and Cassie, I can't deny her hype (along with every other palette swap) is strongly from that.

jacqui is much better then jade

 

[Briggsfan]

Just because a character contributes nothing to the story mode doesn't mean that they shouldn't be playable. You especially can't bring up that argument since Goro is in this game. Hell, Erron and F/T didn't do shit neither, and don't even get me started on Reptile and Ermac..

Pretty much, not having a chapter focusing on the character doesn't mean they shouldn't be playable.

It was the polite way to say "fuck that bitch".

Jade does show up in Kitana's ending though.

 

[Hexin_Wishes]

Just because a character contributes nothing to the story mode doesn't mean that they shouldn't be playable. You especially can't bring up that argument since Goro is in this game. Hell, Erron and F/T didn't do shit neither, and don't even get me started on Reptile and Ermac..

Pretty much, not having a chapter focusing on the character doesn't mean they shouldn't be playable.

I don't think that's what he/she was saying, guys. It's more the fact that the three he mentioned barely appeared during story mode yet were in the roster over characters who had more appearances/significance.

Erron, FeTo, Reptile, and Ermac all played their part in the story.

 

[The Slaj Jazz]

I read that there might be a story dlc coming out

 

[Hexin_Wishes]

Do people honestly believe Boon's story pack tweet to be about additional chapters? It isn't unwelcome but that tweet was in response to someone begging for Rain, Sindel and Baraka to be playable.

 

[Briggsfan]

I don't think that's what he/she was saying, guys. It's more the fact that the three he mentioned barely appeared during story mode yet were in the roster over characters who had more appearances/significance.

Erron, FeTo, Reptile, and Ermac all played their part in the story.

Liu Kang and Kitana also played their part in the story though, and a rather important one in the stinger setting up future games.

They are also mainstays of the series, so it's a no brainer they're playable.

They still got more focus than others.

Do people honestly believe Boon's story pack tweet to be about additional chapters? It isn't unwelcome but that tweet was in response to someone begging for Rain, Sindel and Baraka to be playable.

Yeah, a story pack would likely be about making some or all of those three playable.

 

[RYX]

jacqui is much better then jade

skarlet's better than both of them and she doesn't even have dialogue yet

Close, but no cigar. Skarlet is a creation from nothing to something using magic. Ermac was a corpse used to house the souls magically.

Or who knows, maybe you're right and for simplicity sake they just said that Skarlet fell apart faster.

or NRS just hates cool characters

 

[Eddy Wang]

So the in game story was supposed to be, 5, 10, 15, 25. But they skip from 5 to 25 WTF!

I'm honestly disappointed with this.

 

[BLACKRENEGADE]

So is the War with kotal khan still going on after the story's finish? He seemed to try to protect outworld at all costs from Shinnok, but Raiden is all like we must exercise detente, so I'm betting something is gonna happen soon. And Rain will return.

 

[brizzle]

It would have made more sense for them to have fujin, Tanya, and rain in the roster instead of Lao, kang and kitana. They contributed nothing to the story at all and makes no sense that they are alive in their playable forms and dead in the story.

Instead of a story dlc pack with npcs (rain Tanya fujin Bo raicho li mei), they should have had the revanants as dlc ( kang Lao sindel smoke night wolf)

 

[Dirtylova]

BARAKA??? Where is he????

 

[Barrogh]

Y'all are expecting too much from a fighting game story, but NRS seriously needs to hire some top caliber writers because there is more plot holes in this story-line than Swiss cheese.

As long as these aren't of that top caliber who got the name by writing horrible continuity porn for popular franchises and putting over-the-top descriptions everywhere to make it look "awesome".

What I really want to know is why the fuck is liu kang and kung lao old af? the story did not at all show what happened to them in the end

They aren't really. This is just multiplayer skins of theirs.

Liu Kang and Kitana as rulers of the Netherrealm? Don't see them as a fitting pair to do that.

It seems that there's nobody capable of objection left, so...

Plus, Raiden has gone evil? Whoa, what da fuq?

Guess breathing Shinnok's fumes while reciting chants does things to people. That said, I'm not sure why declaring that you won't wait for another "incident" that kills at least millions to act when you're in force makes you evil. We're yet to see his actual, not merely declared policy though...

 

[DownfouralitY]

BARAKA??? Where is he????

dead

 

[ScreamQueen]

Whilst I can see where people are coming from with these questions, and I have a few myself (many of which have already been asked here) Honestly, I think it just "is what it is"

They wrote a story, had a zillion characters, tried to squeeze it together based around 30 odd fights and only 12 locations, tie it in with a comic, then had an obligatory boss fight and a 2015-friendly post credits teaser. Power balances were all over the place, people came and went, and some entirely no-showed. They had to make all this alongside everything else involved with the game and with Warners and the fans breathing down their necks, whilst trying not to repeat themselves or paint themselves into corners.
The next game will, of course, expand on some of these stories, retcon others, and ignore some entirely, the same way MKX did with MK9 or many movie and comic series do. I *certainly* don't think more chapters are coming as DLC.

I enjoyed the story, but, like many others, I preferred MK9s by far.
The voice acting and motion capture in X were a step up though and It was still head and shoulders, over any other fighting game efforts.

Ive always approached MK lore exactly like comic book lore: Everything only matters in the moment, death means dick, nothings set in stone and, crucially, just because something happened doesn't mean you'll ever get clarification on why, or that it won't be completely ignored later.

Decisions are made around the table, years after the fact, with a 50/50 balance between "what's good for story" and "what's good for sales"
Mileena will be in the next game, Shang Tsung will come back, Scorpion will become demonised again and at least two of the new characters will likely not be on the roster. Hell, somewhere down the line we'll see Sektor/Cyrax/Jade again.
Because Mortal Kombat is a world of souls and magic, necromancy and resurrection, realms and gods, all supported by passionate, and occasionally obsessive, fans. In that kind of world, you can have *anything* happen in the blink of a narrative eye.

I guess it's one of the reasons we love it.


But still, *Princess* Kitana in charge instead of *Queen* Sindel? Really?
Ninja, please...