Smasher1311
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So the Kenshi/Takeda arc of the story pretty much dies after the Scorpion part. We never see the father/son redemption.
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Harpoon
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Redemption for what? Takeda's chapter flashback and his present day interactions with his dad pretty much showed they made up with each other.
GOBBLESNOOFERS
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There was just no bulk to that part of the story. It was more just like. Oh, okay Kenshi wasn't around, got it. Next part of the story.
p.W
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Yeah, the problem there wasn't a lack of resolution, the problem was how meaningless the conflict was. "Oh hey, once upon a time Takeda had issues, but then he fought his dad and then he didn't have issues anymore."
At least Kung Jin's flashback felt like it had a modicum of weight to it because he was still acting like a jerk in the present, so we can see that being a good guy doesn't come easy to him. The other three rugrats ended up being complete Mary Sues.
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Tanyas Husband
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Takeda and Kenshi still seem pretty mad at each other in their dialogue intros.
natedoggcata
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So.. we are getting Story Mode part 2 DLC right? I love everything about this game... except story mode which was a HUGE disappointment and I stayed away from all spoilers
Seriously we have to wait another 4-5 years for that?
Also, deaths in story mode. We are still doing this? What's the point? MK9 was the game where they could have taken deaths VERY seriously.... and then they retconned most of the important ones in MKX. So we know death really doesnt matter, so what was the point of killing off Baraka and Mileena?
Seriously, I just groaned at Mileena's death because we all know it means nothing. It was supposed to be the death of a major character... and they acted like it was nothing, probably because it was nothing.
And how are Kung Lao and Kitana even in human form anyways? They were dead after MK9. We then got flashbacks in story mode of Kung and Liu alive. So did they die in MK9, get brought back to life, die again and they were brought back as revenants? How did Raiden become a revenant if Quan Chi and Shinnok are gone?
There is just so much inconsistency here. Why is Jade not a Revenant? Why did Fujin show up for 10 seconds and never appear again? Why the hell would they even put Li Mei, Bo Rai cho and Sareena in this game as cameos? Frost shows up for 2 seconds and is then dispatched of. Why? What was the point of that? If the comic is canon, where the hell is Reiko and Havik? And I could go on and on.
Finally, I absolutely love Cassie Cage, but her being the hero of the game and defeating Shinnok was an absolute joke. Is he going to be the new Liu Kang or something?
Dont get me wrong, I LOVE the hell out of MKX but the story is a huge mess right now and that was the really disappointing thing about it for me.
The story from the comics was WAY more interesting than this
Seriously we have to wait another 4-5 years for that?
Also, deaths in story mode. We are still doing this? What's the point? MK9 was the game where they could have taken deaths VERY seriously.... and then they retconned most of the important ones in MKX. So we know death really doesnt matter, so what was the point of killing off Baraka and Mileena?
Seriously, I just groaned at Mileena's death because we all know it means nothing. It was supposed to be the death of a major character... and they acted like it was nothing, probably because it was nothing.
And how are Kung Lao and Kitana even in human form anyways? They were dead after MK9. We then got flashbacks in story mode of Kung and Liu alive. So did they die in MK9, get brought back to life, die again and they were brought back as revenants? How did Raiden become a revenant if Quan Chi and Shinnok are gone?
There is just so much inconsistency here. Why is Jade not a Revenant? Why did Fujin show up for 10 seconds and never appear again? Why the hell would they even put Li Mei, Bo Rai cho and Sareena in this game as cameos? Frost shows up for 2 seconds and is then dispatched of. Why? What was the point of that? If the comic is canon, where the hell is Reiko and Havik? And I could go on and on.
Finally, I absolutely love Cassie Cage, but her being the hero of the game and defeating Shinnok was an absolute joke. Is he going to be the new Liu Kang or something?
Dont get me wrong, I LOVE the hell out of MKX but the story is a huge mess right now and that was the really disappointing thing about it for me.
The story from the comics was WAY more interesting than this
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Tanyas Husband
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I was disappointed in Mileena's death for a good 9 minutes until I said 'Nah she'll be back in MK11.'
First of all, Kung Lao, Kang, and Kitana are only in human form for the casual fans, as a what if, as in if you wanted Kang and Lao and Kitana to have dialogue with Jin and Cassie, you can see what it would've been, when in honesty, all along they all stayed dead.
Second of all, Raiden is NOT a revenant. Raiden reverted back to his MKD self, [Dark Raiden] exactly as he did then. No different.
I'm sure that if they had more time, all of those NPCs would have likely been playable. Tanya and Rain played a pretty good part in the storyline contribution, but weren't in, why? I'm sure if they had 6 extra months or so, they would've been on the main roster.
The comic is just that, it's own story. The blood demons and kamidogu were in the prologue. The comics aren't even over yet, they're still coming out.
Yes, actually. She's the new protagonist now that Kang is the king of hell with no way of returning to life.
Tanyas Husband
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Mileena death or is your clone ??? Because i dont understand your game ending
Are you asking if the Mileena that was killed was a clone?
Probably not.
Yeeg
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But so...i didnt fully understand this,because DVorah kills Mileena and the ending appears a "Mileena's clone army"
Tanyas Husband
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Everyone has different endings, none of them are true until proven otherwise.
kadell
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The gameplay is way better than MK9, but the story sucks.
To everyone who told me that the story wouldn't be lackluster when I stated the Kung Lao and Kitana's inclusion meant that the story was going to suck: I was completely right.
They're inclusion as well as Jax and Lui Kang's was unnecessary story wise. They could've been NPCs/DLC characters (which they probably were). It seems like they used them to replace the last 4 new characters that Boon canceled on (which is why their wasn't more new characters than any other MK game).
They've done a horrible job at advertising Ferra/Torr, and I see why. They were complete lackeys and that ending...I don't even want to talk about that.
Mileena's death seemed way too quick imo, but that's neither a positive nor negative.
Kung Jin is the biggest douche in the game. If I was Jacqui, i would've finished him in the second chapter.
Idk where they are going to go with MK11, but hopefully they do a better job with the New characters. Also, the story mode is very short, especially when compared to MK9. Hopefully they'll extend it in the next game.
To everyone who told me that the story wouldn't be lackluster when I stated the Kung Lao and Kitana's inclusion meant that the story was going to suck: I was completely right.
They're inclusion as well as Jax and Lui Kang's was unnecessary story wise. They could've been NPCs/DLC characters (which they probably were). It seems like they used them to replace the last 4 new characters that Boon canceled on (which is why their wasn't more new characters than any other MK game).
They've done a horrible job at advertising Ferra/Torr, and I see why. They were complete lackeys and that ending...I don't even want to talk about that.
Mileena's death seemed way too quick imo, but that's neither a positive nor negative.
Kung Jin is the biggest douche in the game. If I was Jacqui, i would've finished him in the second chapter.
Idk where they are going to go with MK11, but hopefully they do a better job with the New characters. Also, the story mode is very short, especially when compared to MK9. Hopefully they'll extend it in the next game.
p.W
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MKX didn't retcon any deaths. It resurrected characters. There is a difference.
And it didn't resurrect "most of the important ones in MKX," literally only Sub-Zero and Jax came back. Liu Kang, Kitana, Kung Lao, Kabal, Stryker, Sindel, Nightwolf, Smoke, and Jade are all still perfectly dead. That's 9/11 dead characters that stayed dead. In what universe does 2/11 characters coming back, one of whom is Jax, mean "most of the important ones" came back?
This isn't rocket science. There are costumes in this game that aren't canon. They exist so that people:
A) don't have to play as zombies in tournament play where they won't have any other skins unlocked, and
B) aren't spoiled for the story by seeing the roster screen. This way nobody actually knew who would be resurrected until they played the story, because it looked like everybody might have come back. Only two characters did.
Why do you assume that she's not a Revenant? We only saw half of the revenants in the first half of the story, the others were doing other things. Jade could be somewhere else doing something else for Quan Chi. We don't know.
You're probably trying to ask "why was Jade not in the game as a Revenant?" And the answer is NRS doesn't seem to care about her. I don't blame them, she's a pretty forgettable character and we already had plenty of revenants.
That's not an inconsistency. Just a very strange choice by the writers.
Still not inconsistencies. (The answer to your question, which is not as rhetoric as you think, is because NRS wanted the world to feel alive and big, as opposed to feeling like only 24 people exist in it and nothing else interesting is ever going on that we don't see.)
Did you even watch the scene? The point was incredibly clear. NRS wanted to dramatize Scorpion's forgiveness of Sub-Zero. They did this by showing that Sub-Zero disagrees with other members of his clan (Frost), and is willing to put Scorpion above them to make sure the Lin Kuei/Shirai Ryu rivalry finally dies.
If you want to say that it was strange that she came out of nowhere, when she could have been introduced in Sub-Zero's chapter, then say that.
Take a wild guess.
"Killed" perhaps?
Please don't. You are as bad at critiquing this game's story as this game's story was at living up to expectations.
natedoggcata
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They went WAY overboard with the monsters in the Krypt. It was scary the first few times but now its just annoying. I got FIVE spiders in 30 seconds. Seriously it was like Spider, take two steps, spider, take two steps etc etc
rainreptile
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That was a flashback to the MKII time period.
natedoggcata
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Im sorry but no, just no. You dont just bring back these characters as humans in single player without any explanation as to why they are human. What the hell does tournament play have to do with anything? They cant use revenant skins during a tournament? As far as im concerned, they are alive. I mean there are plenty of spoilers alone just in the interactions the characters have with each other.
Without her weapons? Because she doesnt have them anymore. Kitana does, or is the mournful variation not canon?
I did watch the scene and it was absolutely awful. Seriously they couldnt have just had some random Lin Kuei guy do it? Its like "Oh hey its Fro... oh nevermind"
Anyways, the story mostly disappointed me, yes because of nitpicky stuff but also because it just felt rushed and not as fleshed out as the MK9 story
asears08
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After marinating on the story for most of the day, I have to say I am kind of indifferent about it.
I dont love it or hate it. Now keep in mind that what I am saying is entirely focused on the story and character personalities, not how they play.
First, I dont like any of the four featured newcomers. Cassie, Takeda, Kung, and Jacqui, to me, weren't very likable or interesting.
That said, all four are pretty fun to play as.
I think my biggest issue is that the story mode didnt do a whole lot in moving the story forward for the existing characters and seemed to only really focus on pushing the four new protagonists.
What I mean is that if these are the new guard, something needed to happen to help usher out the old stories. Scorpion and Sub Zero got this, but I was hoping the the Kano/Sonya saga could end so those two characters could disappear.
Ill have to play through it all again before my opinion is set in stone. I did play through most of it super late last night so I may have missed some things.
I dont love it or hate it. Now keep in mind that what I am saying is entirely focused on the story and character personalities, not how they play.
First, I dont like any of the four featured newcomers. Cassie, Takeda, Kung, and Jacqui, to me, weren't very likable or interesting.
That said, all four are pretty fun to play as.
I think my biggest issue is that the story mode didnt do a whole lot in moving the story forward for the existing characters and seemed to only really focus on pushing the four new protagonists.
What I mean is that if these are the new guard, something needed to happen to help usher out the old stories. Scorpion and Sub Zero got this, but I was hoping the the Kano/Sonya saga could end so those two characters could disappear.
Ill have to play through it all again before my opinion is set in stone. I did play through most of it super late last night so I may have missed some things.
natedoggcata
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It seemed like they set up Cassie Cage to be the new Liu Kang and main protagonist. Not sure how I feel about this yet but I really hope that the MK11 finally moves on and we get completely new stories and rivalries. I was incredibly happy to see Sub and Scorpion finally resolved but we still have Sonya and Kano going at it. Or they might just go the traditional route and we will get a Kotal vs. Mileena rivalry until MKXX
asears08
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Before launch I would have said no. After playing the story, and seeing the cash grab going on with the mobile game and the console game (Paying $20 to unlock the krypt contents), I would say anything is possible.