Mortal Kombat 1 General Discussion Media Thread

Personally, I don’t see Sony ever purchasing WB since it’s been a sinking ship of debt for a while now. Unless WBs is just giving away all their IPs out of desperation. I’m not convinced. Sony is still trying to figure out why they bought Bungie for over 3 billion and yet to have anything to show for it. Sony isn’t like Microsoft and can just set giant piles of money on fire and walk away.
 
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Personally, I don’t see Sony ever purchasing WB since it’s been a sinking ship of debt for a while now. Unless WBs is just giving away all their IPs out of desperation. I’m not convinced. Sony is still trying to figure out why they bought Bungie for over 3 billion and yet to have anything to show for it. Sony isn’t like Microsoft and can just set giant piles of money on fire and walk away.
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Apparently SONY is more interested in WB Games. And even then they just want certain assets.

Speaking of which... Legacy Kollection got me excited. I am so hoping for 3D Era... Gods if they add 3D Era into this Kollection, I will be the happiest I have been in 10 years, when it comes to MK.
 
Apparently, the split between Warner and Discovery is going to be made in a way that Discovery inherits most of the debt...and CNN, =P

I am also not really sure if Sony is capable of acquiring Warner, because...I seem to recall an old news where Sony spun off a bank...because they couldn't make it profitable.

Either way, I find it fun to imagine what-if scenarios.
 
CF7 said:
another rumor says...Sony is interested in buying the Warner part of the forthcoming split;
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Oh, yay! Just what's needed. Another fucking Sony exclusive fighting game (see SFV and the latest Marvel Tokon for further reference).
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Idk this whole marvel Tokon thing reminds me of that tatsunoko vs capcom game on the Wii situation all over again. Outside of smash Bros, fighting games never really thrive when they’re locked to a certain console. KI and SF5 are perfect examples of this. At least it’s a “new ip” and not an already established franchise locked to a certain platform.
 
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KI and SFV are perfect examples as to why I don't want either Sony or MS buying up WB, though.
Sony could easily try to make MK exclusive to just PS5 / PS6 and PC.
At least with MS it could be argued that they're going more 3rd party now, but Sony likes to take IPs and make them exclusive to THAT console.
SFV (Sony funded) and Spider-Man (Sony licensed) are examples of Sony taking well-known IPs an making them exclusive.
On the other hand, DOOM and Indiana Jones are playable on both Sony and MS consoles & on PC, despite both being published by MS / MS owned Bethesda.
 
Still annoying as fuck to have a fighting game with 3rd party characters locked to a console, imo.
I understand Smash Bros. because that's first party stuff with Mario, Donkey Kong, Link, et al.

As for the Legacy Collection, if 1 of the last 4 games (now 3 games) to be revealed isn't MK GOLD, then I'm just going to skip over it.
The rest I can still thankfully play on a PS2 or Sega Genesis, but I no longer have a Dreamcast.
 
Nintendo is just as egregious as Sony with IPs in Smash with 3rd party characters like Cloud and Sephiroth from FF7, Kazuya from Tekken etc; I get you’re annoyed by it but it’s something that’s been going on in fighting games for years now. Soul Calibur 2, a game where you had to own a ps2, gamecube and Xbox versions of the game to play all the guest characters did this long before the MK9 guest character controversy. Unfortunately, I don’t see this trend ending anytime soon.
 
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lariat said:
Nintendo is just as egregious as Sony with IPs in Smash with 3rd party characters like Cloud and Sephiroth from FF7, Kazuya from Tekken etc; I get you’re annoyed by it but it’s something that’s been going on in fighting games for years now. Soul Calibur 2, a game where you had to own a ps2, gamecube and Xbox versions of the game to play all the guest characters did this long before the MK9 guest character controversy. Unfortunately, I don’t see this trend ending anytime soon.
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Yeah, but I'm not talking about 1 or 2 guests, though.
I'm talking specifically about a WHOLE damn game like SFV and Marvel Tokon being only on 1 console and PC.
If Sony ever bought out MK then I could see them making it exclusive to just PS6 / PC just like they did with SFV (since they funded that), since they're a bunch of assholes like that. That's why I wouldn't want Sony to buy out NRS from WB.
MK being exclusive to 1 console (since Sony and Nintendo don't like to share) would suck ass. That's what I'm getting at.
 
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Yeah, but I'm not talking about 1 or 2 guests, though.
I'm talking specifically about a WHOLE damn game like SFV and Marvel Tokon being only on 1 console and PC.
If Sony ever bought out MK then I could see them making it exclusive to just PS6 / PC just like they did with SFV (since they funded that), since they're a bunch of assholes like that. That's why I wouldn't want Sony to buy out NRS from WB.
MK being exclusive to 1 console (since Sony and Nintendo don't like to share) would suck ass. That's what I'm getting at.
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Sony runs the gaming market so they can dictate.
 
mandead said:
MKX forum has 40+ pages, MK11 has 23? pages - this has one page. Ouch.
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Welp, aside from a few of us who post here and there, most people seem to have checked out of this place (TRMK) in general, at about the time that MKX's cycle for KP2 was done. The numbers then continued to decline after that. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯

I love the actual gameplay of MK1 and Lie Mei / Frost or Sonya are my mains, but this place feels like Portal 2.
Left to die with plants and tree vegetation covering the rest.
It also doesn't help when the main page hasn't be updated in god knows how long (probably since the MKX comics run).

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Well aside from that Injustice 3 rumor that the Superman voice actor “leaked” and the MK legacy collection being a huge disappointment in the making. There’s not much to get excited about. Personally, I’ll be surprised if the legacy collection even makes its 2025 release date.
 
Is there a reason why the Legacy Collection wouldn't come out in 2025? Genuinely wondering.

As for Injustice 3, unless Killer Croc, King Shark and Penguin are playable, I really don't give a rat's ass. Sick and tired of Penguin and Killer Croc always getting sidelined, especially the latter (Killer Croc) which has been nothing but stage transition fodder over the last 2 games. Either way, MK1 was the last base game that I day 1 from them ever again, especially since it was rushed and filled with MTX.
Gameplay itself was fun, but from a consumer perspective I don't feel like ever giving them day 1 / full price for anything. Sale or special editions from here on out for everything from them, especially since I don't play online much.
 
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From what I gather..MK 4 is still not running correctly on consoles and that’s why the game got pushed back to December. There’s no n64 version of MK trilogy, No MK gold, No cross play and no lobbies for any of the online….yeah good times ahead for MK fans.
 
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