What even is the appeal of modern MK? The women look ugly, the story sucks, the gameplay sucks and the gore is way too overboard now. They were right to try to censor the game back then.
What even is the appeal of modern MK?
What even is the appeal of modern MK? The women look ugly, the story sucks, the gameplay sucks and the gore is way too overboard now. They were right to try to censor the game back then.
boomers pissing and shitting when max ranks the fatal, when robocop fights rambo, and when ed book kums down their throat
>the gore is way too overboard now
this is how i know your a millennial homosexual
>no actual rebuttal
i accept your concession.
MK fans are all mentally 14 years old
WHOOP WHOOP
>the gore is way too overboard now
It isn't over the top, it is just dumb. In the originals the gore was at the end of the fight... the fatality. All the modern editions have you spend 25% of the fight in cutscenes of each character breaking every bone in each others body and then just going back to fighting like nothing happened. Its moronic.
Thing that baffles me is how they use snuff footage as frame of reference. Its like they're ashamed of how over the top they used to be.
>25% of the fight in cutscenes of each character breaking every bone
It is moronic and that is coming from a lifelong MK fan from the first game.
its played out now and the worse is that people are shitters online fatality you at the end forcing you to watch another cutscene when you just want to run back.
Its tedious.
Still I think brutalities were a great idea, and it seems (so far) the brutalities in MK1 dont force you to do gay shit all the match just to get it to have a chance of coming out end of the match.
>What even is the appeal of modern MK?
This may be a shock to you but Mortal Kombat has legions of fans who genuinely enjoy the fighting mechanics of the series. It's simple and easy to play which attracts a lot of people.
The kung fu movie aesthetic and over the top gore appeals to a lot of people, especially those that don't like the anime aesthetic of basically every other fighting game.
It's also got some of the coolest characters in fighting games.
Lastly, the games are just fun. I've rarely enjoyed a gaming session more than just hopping into a KOTH lobby with friends and fighting.
>the gore is way too overboard now
I understand where you're coming from but they had to keep ramping it up. If they just stuck with MK1-4 style fatalities they would've gotten old quick. If you think it's too much then just don't do them I guess?
Shill spotted. Most normal people hate the ugly women, censorship, dogshit story, game mechanics, etc.
Yeah, that's why it outsells literally every other non platform fighter. People just haaaaaate Mortal Kombat.
>that's why it outsells literally every other non platform fighter
>5 days since it released
>still hasn't broken 1 million sales
MK is over
this shovelware flopped
>5 days since it released
huh?
you have to understand that the average Gankertard has a single digit IQ.
cope
why is tekken that high? where's GG?
>why is tekken that high?
GG is too low to even be on the list
gg has a single game thats even broken 1 million sales
>where's GG?
you mean kingdom hearts fighting game edition?
>why is tekken that high?
It used to be the premier fighting game franchise for PlayStation 1 and 2, and this latest one was also pretty succesful.
MK has had 17 games
Smash just recycled Melee assets for every game
Mortal Kombat 11 is the fourth best selling fighting game ever. The only ones above it are Smash Ultimate, SF2 (every version) and the combined sales of Smash Wii U and 3DS.
Delusional moron get out of Ganker for once.
There is normies that defend frigging nu-Tania
never udnerstimate normies awful taste
>PLEASE SERS PLEASE TO BUYING OUR GAME OR WE WILL NOT BE GIVEN OUR TOILET SERS
This, the fact is that only troony and autists like games like SF or KoF.
MK is simple enough to be enjoyable just like Soul Calibur by people who just picked the controllers. The point is to have dumb fun.
Soul Calibur sells like shit. MK11 sells because of the story, the features like netcode, new gimmicks every game, and character designs. SC bombs because it decided to dumb down after 2 and never fix anything. SF sells more than SC.
Holy shit every one is a jap or black, and these designs sucks, even worse than Mk11.
And don't try going with "good gameplay". Modern Mks are too sluggish and heavy. You're just playing for nostalgia.
>the gore is way too overboard now
lmao no, the Brutalities in 1 are the most boring in the series
the blood looks like fricking jell-o
Every mk game dies a month after release. It has one of the worst retention of any fighting game.
I assume it has a way higher proportion of its playerbase being casual normies that play some campaign and maybe a versus every month of so with friends on the couch vs the hardcore playerbase that mainline the other big fgs
>dies a month after release
I've been able to find matches in 11 within seconds whenever I played it for the entirety of it's lifecycle. That's not a dead game.
You can still find online matches in MKX
Mortal Kombat is so shit it should be banned.
Like in based Japan.
How does Japan have fricked up anime and torture porn horror movies but MK is too much?
whats the point of rebooting and rewriting characters and events if youre just gonna revert back to shang tsung being the big bad? the story ends up being Aftermath 2.0, even down to the timeline bs.
also what the frick happened to Hanzo? did he just get cucked out of existence by Kuai Liang?
he shows up as a prodigy kid that joins the monks in Smoke's arcade ending
MK characters have zero charisma or personality. Johnny Cage is like the only exception to this.
>MK characters have zero charisma or personality
MK characters have more lore and more conversations/interactions with each other than any other fighting franchise. You can spend hours watching character intros on youtube and watch them all react with each other.
From MK Mythologies, Shaolin Monks, MK:Deception Konquest Mode, and pretty much all MK9, X, 11, and 1 story modes.
The series has a FRICK TON of shit to go on. Prior the only franchise that was even close to having good lore was Tekken, but Tekken 5 ruined all that. Now we have joke endings and characters being introduced and doing frick all.
MK is king in terms of Lore and Story. Regardless of what you think of the games.
God, there's so much to unlock. I'm finally home.
They did Hanzo dirty.
Frick NRS.
>Kameo fatalities are fun
>Main fatalities are boring and samey
>No moronalities, again.
>No konquest mode
>Guest fighters are all capeshit characters no one asked for, WB idea most likely.
I am going to call it, we are going to receive a Game of Thrones character or some other bullshit.
Wait... people actually like the story of Mortal Kombat?
Fatalities make no sense in this game any more since Liu Kang's timeline is so damn milquetoast.
>the gore is way too overboard now
People have been saying that since mk9 and the level of gore hasn't changed in the slightest between the last 4 games, sounds to me like a pussy b***h problem.
Snuff footage.
It's amazing really
Even MCU watchers have gotten burned out with the MCU and of course the drop in quality. But gamers will keep coming back to the same garbage no matter how bad it gets, right now Twitter is constantly pushing console war bullshit between Starfield and Spiderman 2 like anyone gives a shit.
You get one game every few years. MCU has been shitting like 3 movies and 3 Disney+ series a year.
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2:53.00 timestamp sums it up for a lot of people.
>The women look ugly, the story sucks, the gameplay sucks and the gore is way too overboard now. They were right to try to censor the game back then.
You're not supposed to troll with objective truths, you have to mix in something that's jarringly incorrect.
the worst of all, it's the worst and most unfun popular fighting from gameplay perspective
and it was always like that, not just with the modern ones
was just being edgy more than enough to gain such popularity among normies?
MK1 is troony and weeb repellent. It's great because it means locals won't have that smell.
It got ESG points though
Genuinely.
>casual and mashy enough that more people can play it have fun
>is "bad" so is more resistant to FGC autists that ruin online modes in most fighting games
>looks photoreal and movie-like, with high production quality cutscenes that outdo most tv series
>has a wry sense of humour, self aware at how cheesy it is, which feels more welcoming than previous games that were super serious 2000s-edge (on the surface at least)
>is one of the oldest video game series still going, meaning it has legacy fans
>tonnes of A-list crossovers from other huge franchises like Terminator or Rambo
>great hype campaigns that feel like ads for movies
I don't personally like it, but it's obvious why it's so appealing.
>That ruin online modes
MK is notoriously terrible. It's filled with ragequitters and people hurling death threats to the point tournament players just create lobbies. You can't have 5 straight games in Kombat League without someone quitting
Preferable to a wall of turbo autists that combo you to death without any hope of you fighting back. I don't think the average Gankerirgin realises just how off putting that is to most other gamers.
But you get that in MK as well.
MK is 90% setplay like anime games, but with more ragequitters.
This image is as true now as it was over a decade ago
This game is unironically carrying the torch of insane late stage capeshit time janny shenanigans, for that stupidity alone I respect it
Mk9 x ray attacks were the best