I love all the MK games man, I own every game possible for the game boy colour, and advanced, I have the SNES just to play the older games, I kept my N64 so I could play 4 and Mythologies, and I've still got DA, D, and I own Armageddon. I'll admit the newer games aren't as cool now as the earlier ones were then but it's hard to top a game like MKII. Still, I think MK would of kept going north if Tobias had stayed on instead of leaving. Instead it's not going North or South it's just kind of there.
It's still the best fighting game on the market, and I should know I work at Gamestop, you barely see any MK games traded in but I'll get a ton of Soul Calibers or Tekken's traded in all the time.
Mortal Kombat stays strong because of the story line, that's what I love about it. The fact it's not just a game where you kill each other. To me it seems as though each move could tell a story and I like that. I study the story. I read all the ending and watch the MK 4 endings on a weekly basis just so I can try and piece it all together.
The more I think about it, the more I'm glad the storyline doesn't make sense because then I wouldn't have to worry with thinking of what's going on. Now though since I'm actually unsure of what's happening I like to read over it as often as I can.
So don't ever try and say that I'm just a current day fan boy. I was playing MK before you knew how to pick your nose, and wipe your own ass.