Nickolaidas
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Why her? Why risk another shitstorm?
Because they're completely tone-deaf when it comes to what the fans want?
Why her? Why risk another shitstorm?
Ah yes. "A Medieval Tale" and "Medieval Lady". I remember them trying to force her new look. They even did a crossover with Belladonna just to sell her. Didn't do shit. That's why her Medieval Tale look never stuck.
Since she was revealed in 1991 in Evil Ernie #1 issue she always wore her iconic Bikini set. The Gauntlet and Medieval Tale tried to introduce new look, but failed. That's why both series ended pretty quickly. Her iconic look still remained the same and to this day if someone mentions Lady Death, they think of her iconic look, not the Medieval Tale or Gauntlet.
So yeah good luck. Even if MK11 will try to put those two outfits, they cannot just take away or alter her iconic look that has been set for 2 decades. MK females is one thing, as it is their stuff. But Lady Death is not their property to alter. So once again I don't see this happening. They could wait out the shit storm caused by their own self censorship, but taking a character from different IP and giving her only a Burka will piss people off. It will be a simple argument.
"You want to censor your stuff? Sure. But don't touch our stuff!"
Not to mention even in The Gauntlet and Medieval Tale, she was always shown to be seriously busty. And MK11 is completely against that.
Also Jade Halloween outfit... yeah. Sure. Like Xenon said to me. If it is green skin, they can allow themselves some exposure. I want to see them do the same thing with normal skin. Not to mention. Compare Jade's Halloween outfit with Lady Death... it's like day and night. So no way.
I will believe it, once I will see it. Not to mention, she seems too random for a guest character. While her popularity began rising again, she is still nowhere close to other guest characters. So this all sounds very fishy. Why her? Why risk another shitstorm?
Because they're completely tone-deaf when it comes to what the fans want?
companies are going in a different direction of this politically correct nonsense.
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Also what did you expect when asking who she is in TestYourMight? She has a very niche fanbase and her own corner. She isn't even mainstream. So no wonder that a lot of people who never delved deep in comics, wouldn't know her. Hence, I am as confused as you, as to why bring her? If they just want to jump back on "sex sells". They can just dress up their characters and play safe. Put on that family friendly sexy like Halloween Jade and be happy. Why bring a character that has been wearing bikini for 2 decades? Especially as Steve Beran is a known bikini hater.
How so? Last time I checked, they accused the haters as being misogynists ala Ghostbusters, blah blah blah. When did they say that they will revert to their old ways? Honestly curious, not being sarcastic.
Ghostbusters was 2016.
Oh and they are definitely not going to say out loud. For example. Gillete with their "Boys will be Boys" campaign lost 8 billion. They immediately abandoned that campaign and started the "Local Heroes".
Star Wars... oh boi... Star Wars. Galaxy park for Star Wars is empty, drinks are getting overpriced just to make up for losses. Movies... well a catastrophe. The third one is already set for financial failure by their own analysts. The guys that threw away Game Of Thrones series for Star Wars movies, now suddenly found more important projects than STAR WARS and decided to quit, so they could work on... Netflix projects. And there have been already suggestion that Disney is buying tickets for their own movie. Just like they did with Captain Marvel.
Terminator: Dark Fate.... Bombed harder than the nuclear bomb during Judgement Day.
Point is. None of the companies will go and say "Oh it was a mistake"
But at this point, you can call people sexists and misogynists only so many times, until you realize the reality. This social justice thing is not working out. Since the inception of SJW, they haven't made one profitable product of their own. All franchises they touched turned to shit. Hell look at MK11. I have never seen such fractured fanbase. Never. People would not agree on characters or which one is better "Deception or MK9". That was max. Now you have people, that despise the game to the point that they call it the most disgusting shit to come upon creation or others claiming how it is the best MK game ever and proceed to cry about grind or variations for 2 hours.
Point is. Companies tried to cash in on Social Justice and get some social points, but now reality is here. It isn't profitable. It doesn't make money. MK11 sold well for 2 months. And? What about now? MKX was selling like cookies whole summer. While PC version was a nightmare, people were having a blast on consoles. Now I watch same people compete over and over in tourneys and barely anyone watching their events. 2 good financial months are nothing. Tekken 7 maybe didn't have the launch of MK11, but it beats MK11 in long game by 100 of miles. So yeah. No need for them to say anything. Writing is on the wall.
I know that NRS won't change, until it is critical. Once they will see that social justice is keeping them away from tons of cash, they will drop all bikinis and busty female models in one go and will charge them as DLC. That is a fact.
The loudest complaints I heard about MK11 was the simplification of the gameplay and said gameplay being slower (your mileage may vary), the Krypt grind (which was fixed one week after release), the microtransactions (which is bull), and the SJW aspect. While I still say that the number of fans leaving MK because of MK11 is up for debate, those losses cannot be attributed to SJWism alone.
I think NRS tried to make MK11 a solid, competitive game to promote at e-sports, but they may be lacking the expertise to make it so (though most MK fans agree that it *is* the most balanced MK game there is right now). Now I don't know if the majority of the fanbase doesn't WANT MK to be balanced (like Maximillian who wants his fighting games broken in order to do 'crazy $hi%t'), but MK11 is the MK game I had the most fun with so far. I don't really care about the bikini-less characters because I don't play games to watch T&A, I just want to have fun and kill digital people.
Heck, Kombat League even prompted me to play online, which is something I almost never do.
Anyway, my point is that there have been dozens of complaints about MK11 (like they were with X and 9 before it), so I don't really think Kitana not looking like a stripper is the reason some MK fans didn't play as long as they used to with older entries.
However, I do agree that shoving down our throats numerous female icon wanna-bes in order to replace pop culture icons who were strictly male in the past is a cringeworthy procedure which I do not condone. Especially in the way Disney is handling it.
And the minute someone is willing to give Dark Fate a 10 out of 10 for the sole reason that it is a Terminator film without a single male in the poster, is the minute I realize that this whole SJW is going too far.
Not to mention... why.. in.. the F$%K, do you need INTERNET CONNECTION for Krypt???
To answer this question alone, I'd imagine that it's to be able to refresh the chests with random things.
I can kiiiiiiiiiiinda understand that part, but I DO think that it's utter horseshit to need internet to play other SP modes, use unlocked stuff (skins and gear) or even downloaded DLC characters.
Stuff that's unlocked should be unlocked from that point on out without having to need an internet connection to verify, imo.
It's stupid that if the internet happens to go out you can't use Shang Tsung and Nightwolf.
Nope. You want to randomize the content? You can simply code it that way, so it auto manages. No need for internet connection. Not to mention, now that I went through that horseshit myself, I can see that Krypt has absolutely no logical reason to have internet connection. You can simply randomize for offline and that's it.
Oh and I saw what you meant Commander. I took some towers, and yeah... Terminator appearing on every fookin tower. Amazing. Didn't spend any money on that shit, and I still have to deal with it.
Also wow. PC version just blows. Visual glitches and frame/audio stuttering? Goro lair is just amazing. I get green/yellow flashes of light during the fight. Welp. Now according to internet I have a full right to say that game suck balls.
Ah, ok.
I don't know about coding and was just going off what sounded as a valid reason (imo), so I thought it had to be online to constantly refresh. Yeah, I agree that that's dumb, then.
Yeah, guests that I didn't pay for showing up on the Towers is annoying.
I have something ridiculous like 600 skip tokens in MK11, but I shouldn't have to use all of them on some shit DLC character that I didn't want to buy in the first fuggin' place.
MKX had it perfect in that sense: people could still use the guest characters online against others that didn't have them, yet you didn't have to see them in SP modes if you didn't want to buy them.
With MK11? No, fvck you, we'll shove the guest characters down everyone's throats.
Wait, what!?
Your're guys saying that if I buy some Shao Kahn or Shang Tsung, I cannot use them without the internet connection? And even though I didn't buy any guests, yet they appear in offline towers? Somehow I managed to accept the case with Krypt, but that? What is this crap!?
I planned waiting until all DLC characters are released to buy the game and have already the "full" roster (without guests obviously, so KPs are no use to me), but if this is how it looks like, I'm strongly considering staying away from this whole MK11 thing. This policy is really messed up...
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