Mortal Kombat 1 General Discussion Media Thread

I sense that we are seeing the end times for the Dark Ages of Gaming. So don't rush to hang your controller, gamer.

Also WB just made an announcement that they want to license out their games to other studios. Hmm... I wonder how much MK license would cost.

Where is my goddamn wallet?
There was that cancelled Fire and Ice game that was being done by the same people who did Shaolin Monks, Paradox (aka Midway LA), back in the day. So maybe they're thinking of doing another one of those action adventure games or revisiting that one? Dunno.
That's just my guess, or maybe as to why Scorpion is also now in the Multiversus fighting game (because of licensing).

Regarding gaming (in general), it's also that these days with a 3-month old baby I find myself having less and less time to game, which is expected and I'm also trying to be the best dad and husband that I can be. My gaming time is thus at the late night when I've put the little one down to sleep, for like an hour or 2, or on the weekends when he's napping. It may come to a time where the controller gets hung up for a bit until he gets a little bit older.
 
There was that cancelled Fire and Ice game that was being done by the same people who did Shaolin Monks, Paradox (aka Midway LA), back in the day. So maybe they're thinking of doing another one of those action adventure games or revisiting that one? Dunno.
That's just my guess, or maybe as to why Scorpion is also now in the Multiversus fighting game (because of licensing).

Regarding gaming (in general), it's also that these days with a 3-month old baby I find myself having less and less time to game, which is expected and I'm also trying to be the best dad and husband that I can be. My gaming time is thus at the late night when I've put the little one down to sleep, for like an hour or 2, or on the weekends when he's napping. It may come to a time where the controller gets hung up for a bit until he gets a little bit older.
Well first of all. Congratulations on the kid!

And yeah. That's a completely different story then. So let's rephrase it then. I believe that, by the time you will have more freedom to enjoy gaming again, you might find gaming space in much better place.
 
Well first of all. Congratulations on the kid!

And yeah. That's a completely different story then. So let's rephrase it then. I believe that, by the time you will have more freedom to enjoy gaming again, you might find gaming space in much better place.
Thanks, man.:)

Yeah, hopefully.
Like, I'm looking forward to that Wolfeye game (made up of ex-Dishonored and Prey developers that used to be at Arkane Austin).
It's the whole MK landscape that I would love to see improve.
Between the news of the strike going on and now all of this mess with WB, I hope that the next MK can come out on top.
It's been a crazy few months for the gaming industry, in general.
Just found out that Tango Gameworks (Hi-Fi Rush) was acquired by Krafton from Xbox, and the the studio will no longer be shut down.
So, that's great news.
Now I wish that someone else would buy Arkane Austin so that the studio could re-open as well and Dishonored 3 could be made.
 
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Thanks, man.:)

Yeah, hopefully.
Like, I'm looking forward to that Wolfeye game (made up of ex-Dishonored and Prey developers that used to be at Arkane Austin).
It's the whole MK landscape that I would love to see improve.
Between the news of the strike going on and now all of this mess with WB, I hope that the next MK can come out on top.
It's been a crazy few months for the gaming industry, in general.
Just found out that Tango Gameworks (Hi-Fi Rush) was acquired by Krafton from Xbox, and the the studio will no longer be shut down.
So, that's great news.
Now I wish that someone else would buy Arkane Austin so that the studio could re-open as well and Dishonored 3 could be made.
Well, I just got Ultimate Mortal Kombat Deception installed, with pretty much entire roster and Frost included, plus extra stages... I am also good.
 
That's cool.
The PC mods for MK1 are also fucking leaps and bounds better (imo) than console version skins that NRS themselves have done.
Had I been more into modding and PC stuff in general, I would have originally just gotten MK1 on PC.
The Scorpion Wedding skin, Empress Mileena and UMK3 Sub-Zero and UMK3 Noob Saibot being locked behind the fucking Khaos Reigns pre-order is downright laughable...........especially when the modding community has done better looking skins than that including MK4 Quan Chi, MK4 Tanya, MK4 Reiko, MK4 Liu Kang and I think a Havik mod.
No doubt that they'll put those skins in the premium store though.......because they want people spending Krystals and then running out of said Krystals so that they have to pay with real money.
The mtx in this game are downright egregiously scummy.

Speaking of Deception, I may go back and replay that one again, even if it's just to fire up Puzzle Kombat.
My friends and I used to do competitions with that mode alone.
 
That's cool.
The PC mods for MK1 are also fucking leaps and bounds better (imo) than console version skins that NRS themselves have done.
Had I been more into modding and PC stuff in general, I would have originally just gotten MK1 on PC.
The Scorpion Wedding skin, Empress Mileena and UMK3 Sub-Zero and UMK3 Noob Saibot being locked behind the fucking Khaos Reigns pre-order is downright laughable...........especially when the modding community has done better looking skins than that including MK4 Quan Chi, MK4 Tanya, MK4 Reiko, MK4 Liu Kang and I think a Havik mod.
No doubt that they'll put those skins in the premium store though.......because they want people spending Krystals and then running out of said Krystals so that they have to pay with real money.
The mtx in this game are downright egregiously scummy.

Speaking of Deception, I may go back and replay that one again, even if it's just to fire up Puzzle Kombat.
My friends and I used to do competitions with that mode alone.
Dude... the memories I have of Deception are nothing, but fun. It was ahead of its time and had the best stages too. I lost the count on how many times me and my buddy have laughed till we cried, while fighting in Nethership Interior or Falling Cliffs.

Puzzle Kombat too... Kombat Chess... eh. Good stuff.

As or MK1. Yeaaaah. I mean... the "expansion" itself is charging people 50 bucks for basically 2 hours of additional cutscenes. People are now paying to watch the games, not play them.
 
Dude... the memories I have of Deception are nothing, but fun. It was ahead of its time and had the best stages too. I lost the count on how many times me and my buddy have laughed till we cried, while fighting in Nethership Interior or Falling Cliffs.

Puzzle Kombat too... Kombat Chess... eh. Good stuff.

As or MK1. Yeaaaah. I mean... the "expansion" itself is charging people 50 bucks for basically 2 hours of additional cutscenes. People are now paying to watch the games, not play them.
Agreed. So many fun memories with Deception.
Puzzle Kombat, Chess Kombat and even just the Konquest mode was fun because aside from fights you could go around and explore stuff.
Speaking of stages, the Slaughterhouse from Deception is a stage that I've been wanting back in an MK game for YEARS now, as well.

Whereas, with MK1 now the Invasion mode is such a grind and not really worth it.
Only season that really felt worth it was the Raiden Season (season 4), because at least that season gave us Dark Raiden and the rainy variant of the Tea House (probably my favorite stage in the game....along with Cage's Mansion Halloween and the Gateway Christmas stage)

There's one NEW stage that they showed off in the short Cyrax snippet / teaser, today, and it looks like some sort of restaurant or store with Havik's face on it. So, that stage looks like some of the goofy shenanigans (like cooking with Scorpion) that I would have seen in the 3D era, and I'm down with it.
Would be funny as shit if Meat ends up being the head chef of that restaurant, as a little easter egg / nod. :ROFLMAO:
Left side of the screen.....


As for the expansion, yeah, I'm not bothering with it.
I'll watch the expansion whenever someone uploads it to YouTube or get the details from the MKLeaks reddit, but I don't care for guests and Noob was JUST playable in MK11. Dunno. Not feeling most of the characters in this pack.
KP1 at least let me buy Quan Chi, Ermac from story mode seemed cool and I got Takeda back.
This one, though..... :cautious:
I actually probably might consider either Cyrax or Sektor to get (*gasp* I know a non 3D era one) if they're fun enough in the Weekly Tower trials, but if this is an all or nothing "get the Khaos Reigns or nothing" type of deal with NRS / WB and their bullshit then nothing it is.🤷‍♂️
I'm not buying a whole pack just for 3 guests that I don't give a damn about.
I did it with KP1 where I bought Quan Chi, Ermac, Takeda and the 5 kameos for a total of $19, and I'll do it again with MS rewards (again) if possible.
Already got $15 in free MS rewards money saved up, so then 1 or 2 of the characters could be practically free for me ( or a total of $1).

Like, I know that it's a spit in the bucket to NRS but I'm not ever buying guests in an MK game, and people can call me purist or whatever other bullshit, but I don't care for them and never will. People have even suggested Corvo Attano or Daud to me knowing I'm a huge fan of the Dishonored series, but not even then.
 
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As for the expansion, yeah, I'm not bothering with it.
I'll watch the expansion whenever someone uploads it to YouTube or get the details from the MKLeaks reddit, but I don't care for guests and Noob was JUST playable in MK11. Dunno. Not feeling most of the characters in this pack.
KP1 at least let me buy Quan Chi, Ermac from story mode seemed cool and I got Takeda back.
This one, though..... :cautious:
I actually probably might consider either Cyrax or Sektor to get (*gasp* I know a non 3D era one) if they're fun enough in the Weekly Tower trials, but if this is an all or nothing "get the Khaos Reigns or nothing" type of deal with NRS / WB and their bullshit then nothing it is.🤷‍♂️
I'm not buying a whole pack just for 3 guests that I don't give a damn about.
I did it with KP1 where I bought Quan Chi, Ermac, Takeda and the 5 kameos for a total of $19, and I'll do it again with MS rewards (again) if possible.
Already got $15 in free MS rewards money saved up, so then 1 or 2 of the characters could be practically free for me ( or a total of $1).
You bought Quan Chi, Ermac and Takeda? Nice. I wasn't accepting to buy Ermac and Takeda that were already playable in an NRS game. I know Quan Chi is a 3D fighter, but he has been already playable multiple times in the NRS era. That's why I didn't purchase 3 MK characters as DLC. Quan Chi and Ermac were originally intended to be main character rosters because they were heavily featured in the story mode. I'm not fond of any MK character that is already playable in the past for DLC in the newest game. Sareena and Darrius or Mavado could've added to DLC instead of Kameos. NRS simply running out of time to finish them is a waste time of slots. This is the first NRS game where NONE of the DLC characters in the KP1 interest me in the slightest.

You bought 5 Kameos? Cool. I bought Khameleon and Mavado that were reimagined in their first NRS game. Tremor? I was interested to buy Tremor in the MKX KP2 a few years ago. Tremor was DLC as a Kameo? Why do I have to buy for him twice again like what they did with Rain and Shang Tsung? I'm not a big fan of paying the same DLC character twice in every game. Releasing them twice as a paid character just a few years apart is a joke.

Skarlet, Tremor and Triborg had their first playable appearances in the games they were DLC for, which is why they were new to me. That made me buy them and they looked awesome. Same with 3D era ones included Kenshi, Tanya and Bo' Rai Cho. There hasn't been any NPC characters (Tasia, No Face, Kia, Jataaka) for DLC in MK11 and MK1. What a shame.

There are those like a Kintaro, Taven, Kai and others that haven't been made playable in almost 20 years. Sareena and Kira currently the only female 3D era characters who have never been playable during the NRS era of MK. Sareena, on the other hand, was nothing but an NPC character in MKX in that game's story mode, as well as MK1's story mode. Frankly, it's a crime that she was reduced as a Kameo Fighter in MK1.

Cyrax and Sektor have been gender swapped in the KP2 now? The female versions of Nightwolf and Fujin were in the MK11 ending? We had Janet Cage as a Kameo first and then we have another gender swap for those two now? Why? I thought they would've chose many female MK characters in the MK universe we haven't seen in years. I'm extremely disappointed.

I personally don't like quest characters in any MK game. It's officially a joke of a game, NRS and WB are a joke, let's just call this embarrassing game MK Woke, this game is a agenda base propaganda tool to appease certain people that don't even care about this game or play it. Ed Boon's received marching orders from above that thou shalt push esg, now DEI and check boxes with forced agenda and politics. It's like like the franchise doesn't want to be MK anymore. MK has gone to shit and is getting worse and worse. Also this new era of gamers and developers are so soft nowadays, bringing their social justice warrior way of thinking into video games which results in a water down product. Disney is woke, these woke TV shows, many films have become woke, Hollywood woke, etc.
 
You bought Quan Chi, Ermac and Takeda? Nice. I wasn't accepting to buy Ermac and Takeda that were already playable in an NRS game. I know Quan Chi is a 3D fighter, but he has been already playable multiple times in the NRS era. That's why I didn't purchase 3 MK characters as DLC. Quan Chi and Ermac were originally intended to be main character rosters because they were heavily featured in the story mode. I'm not fond of any MK character that is already playable in the past for DLC in the newest game. Sareena and Darrius or Mavado could've added to DLC instead of Kameos. NRS simply running out of time to finish them is a waste time of slots. This is the first NRS game where NONE of the DLC characters in the KP1 interest me in the slightest.

Yeah.
I've been wanting more 3D era characters and Takeda was my main for MKX.
Tried out MK1 Ermac in the Weekly Towers and he ended up being fun too, so I said "what the hell."
The 3 of them came out to $19 given that I had used up $5 in MS rewards for Takeda.

You bought 5 Kameos? Cool. I bought Khameleon and Mavado that were reimagined in their first NRS game. Tremor? I was interested to buy Tremor in the MKX KP2 a few years ago. Tremor was DLC as a Kameo? Why do I have to buy for him twice again like what they did with Rain and Shang Tsung? I'm not a big fan of paying the same DLC character twice in every game. Releasing them twice as a paid character just a few years apart is a joke.

Again, bought is a loose term as I essentially "got" them for "free."
I didn't pay a single cent out of my own pocket for the kameos, because again, I used up MS rewards points.
Quan Chi, Ermac, Takeda + 5 kameos = $19 for me.

Skarlet, Tremor and Triborg had their first playable appearances in the games they were DLC for, which is why they were new to me. That made me buy them and they looked awesome. Same with 3D era ones included Kenshi, Tanya and Bo' Rai Cho. There hasn't been any NPC characters (Tasia, No Face, Kia, Jataaka) for DLC in MK11 and MK1. What a shame.

There are those like a Kintaro, Taven, Kai and others that haven't been made playable in almost 20 years. Sareena and Kira currently the only female 3D era characters who have never been playable during the NRS era of MK. Sareena, on the other hand, was nothing but an NPC character in MKX in that game's story mode, as well as MK1's story mode. Frankly, it's a crime that she was reduced as a Kameo Fighter in MK1.

You're preaching to the choir as I'm the biggest advocate for wanting more post-MK3 characters in MK games and the one that I wanted to be playable THE MOST for this game is Sareena. So, again, preaching to the choir.
I'm happy to have at least 8 of the post-MK3 characters in this game, even though I would greedily want more.

Cyrax and Sektor have been gender swapped in the KP2 now? The female versions of Nightwolf and Fujin were in the MK11 ending? We had Janet Cage as a Kameo first and then we have another gender swap for those two now? Why? I thought they would've chose many female MK characters in the MK universe we haven't seen in years. I'm extremely disappointed.

Janet Cage I honestly don't give a flying fuck about 1 way or another.
Tbh, I would rather have that kameo than a guest being a kameo.
It's a what if character that was a small appearance in story mode, so whatever. Would have had the same reaction if Quan-Zero or Johnny Savage showed up as kameos. 🤷‍♂️

I personally don't like quest characters in any MK game. It's officially a joke of a game, NRS and WB are a joke, let's just call this embarrassing game MK Woke, this game is a agenda base propaganda tool to appease certain people that don't even care about this game or play it. Ed Boon's received marching orders from above that thou shalt push esg, now DEI and check boxes with forced agenda and politics. It's like like the franchise doesn't want to be MK anymore. MK has gone to shit and is getting worse and worse. Also this new era of gamers and developers are so soft nowadays, bringing their social justice warrior way of thinking into video games which results in a water down product. Disney is woke, these woke TV shows, many films have become woke, Hollywood woke, etc.

I don't like guests in any MK game, either, which is why I've never bought a single guest (solely because I've wanted to) for any MK game.
Personally, I don't care 1 way or another for what gender the cyborgs are and it's more weird to me that they're just wearing Iron Man types of "suits" more than anything, but whatever.
I'm going to check and see if any of the MK characters for the Khaos Reigns expansion are any fun and if they are and I can get them individually with MS rewards points then I'll do so.

Unless they bring back Sareena or more of the 3D era characters in an update, though, then this may be where MK ends for me.
The new stages and Animalities are gonna be nice to have, but I have Takeda, 8 post-MK3 characters and kameo Frost, Ferra, Mavado, Sareena, Darrius and Shujinko that I use with my main (Li Mei) so I'm good.
 
The DEI and ESG money is drying up even Disney/Marvel fired like over a 1000 of it's employees over it. Deadpool and Wolverine made a billion at the box office so it's pretty clear the people have spoken with their wallets. It's not going to happen overnight but I do see other big companies following this trend as well. Hopefully sooner rather than later.
 
Well, you got Sektoria instead, sooo... congratulations? :D

I'm not tripping off that. She's still crazy, so personality wise its still Sektor. My only issue is the ironman shit. I cannot stand them being humans and not cyborgs. Seeing Cyrax's face pop out during her winpose is genuinely disgusting
 
She's still crazy, so personality wise its still Sektor. My only issue is the ironman shit. I cannot stand them being humans and not cyborgs. Seeing Cyrax's face pop out during her winpose is genuinely disgusting
Same.
Like, I'm gonna wait to see if any of them show up in the Gateway Mesa weekly Towers for free trials and see if they call my attention enough with the gameplay to be like "Ok, I'll buy this one separately."
So far, neither of the cyborgs convince me, though, and that booger ball with Cyrax ain't it. :ROFLMAO:
In KP1 Ermac convinced me enough to go "Yeah, I'll get him."
The only one that so far stands out like that (from what little I've seen) is Noob Saibot.
 
I don't like guests in any MK game, either, which is why I've never bought a single guest (solely because I've wanted to) for any MK game.
Personally, I don't care 1 way or another for what gender the cyborgs are and it's more weird to me that they're just wearing Iron Man types of "suits" more than anything, but whatever.
I'm going to check and see if any of the MK characters for the Khaos Reigns expansion are any fun and if they are and I can get them individually with MS rewards points then I'll do so.

Unless they bring back Sareena or more of the 3D era characters in an update, though, then this may be where MK ends for me.
The new stages and Animalities are gonna be nice to have, but I have Takeda, 8 post-MK3 characters and kameo Frost, Ferra, Mavado, Sareena, Darrius and Shujinko that I use with my main (Li Mei) so I'm good.
Yeah, I'm very satisfied with having 8 3D era characters on the main roster and 3D era characters, and Khameleon on the Kameo roster. That's all.

Ermac and Quan Chi still showed up on all of the tower ladders in Invasion mode (the Mesa Gateway Towers) I fought against since I didn't buy these 3. I'm extremely glad that any of stupid guests are not including the Invasion towers. Takeda and Ferra will most certainly be in rotation in the next season - this kind of delay was also there for Ermac and Kameos that were released after launch. Shujinko just seems to be an oversight. In season 1, neither Shujinko nor Motaro appeared as AI Kameos, but they had since added Motaro but probably forgot about Shujinko.

By the way, what happened to this TRMK MK website? This site has been abandoned and it hasn't been updated in years since MKX. No wonder why. MK has sites like TYM, MKO, UMK, CMK, MKU and others. They have since been gone and I wanted to know how did it die. TYM is still active, but looks like it slows and goes down after NRS and WB killed MK. MKO is gone downhill since MKX.
 
Yeah, I'm very satisfied with having 8 3D era characters on the main roster and 3D era characters, and Khameleon on the Kameo roster. That's all.

Ermac and Quan Chi still showed up on all of the tower ladders in Invasion mode (the Mesa Gateway Towers) I fought against since I didn't buy these 3. I'm extremely glad that any of stupid guests are not including the Invasion towers. Takeda and Ferra will most certainly be in rotation in the next season - this kind of delay was also there for Ermac and Kameos that were released after launch. Shujinko just seems to be an oversight. In season 1, neither Shujinko nor Motaro appeared as AI Kameos, but they had since added Motaro but probably forgot about Shujinko.

By the way, what happened to this TRMK MK website? This site has been abandoned and it hasn't been updated in years since MKX. No wonder why. MK has sites like TYM, MKO, UMK, CMK, MKU and others. They have since been gone and I wanted to know how did it die. TYM is still active, but looks like it slows and goes down after NRS and WB killed MK. MKO is gone downhill since MKX.
This place has like, maybe 5 semi active members who post sometimes and me who's been lurking here for over a decade now.
 
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By the way, what happened to this TRMK MK website? This site has been abandoned and it hasn't been updated in years since MKX. No wonder why. MK has sites like TYM, MKO, UMK, CMK, MKU and others. They have since been gone and I wanted to know how did it die. TYM is still active, but looks like it slows and goes down after NRS and WB killed MK. MKO is gone downhill since MKX.

The staff here left and nobody cared to update the front page. Even on the off chance that someone did stumble here, they're gonna see an old MKX leak and know the place is abandoned. I honestly don't know how or why this site is still up.

TYM almost went down too, but Mr. Aquaman took over. Its a lost cause though I think. He's trying to make it a competitive haven like it used to be, but it just isn't sticking. Competitive MK players are on Twitter and private discords. TYM nowadays mimics what TRMK was about 2 years ago. Just a handful of the same people arguing over story and lore. I made a thread there about 2 of the biggest MK tournament organizers coming together to make the biggest team tournament of the year. It got zero replies in it.
 
The staff here left and nobody cared to update the front page. Even on the off chance that someone did stumble here, they're gonna see an old MKX leak and know the place is abandoned. I honestly don't know how or why this site is still up.

TYM almost went down too, but Mr. Aquaman took over. Its a lost cause though I think. He's trying to make it a competitive haven like it used to be, but it just isn't sticking. Competitive MK players are on Twitter and private discords. TYM nowadays mimics what TRMK was about 2 years ago. Just a handful of the same people arguing over story and lore. I made a thread there about 2 of the biggest MK tournament organizers coming together to make the biggest team tournament of the year. It got zero replies in it.
Yeah the problem with that mindset is that the owner doesn't understand what needs to be done for Forum to thrive. News comes out fastest on Twitter and Discord is just as good to discuss combos/lore.

It's not like Forums outgrew their use. It is jut there is no reason to use separate forums, when you have one big place you can visit. The only way they could make this or another forum thrive, is if they started updating the news or had something exclusive to the forum. Be it content, news, etc. Whatever interesting enough, that people would decide to come here. Otherwise these forums are only going forward, because of nostalgia.
 
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