Mortal Kombat 1 Reboot

[oddech_wymarlych_swiatow]

Sort of makes Liu Kang look like a dick when, given the opportunity to rewrite time as he sees fit, he turns Raiden into just some guy.

He made Kung Lao farmer... but ruler of other timeline went further, he made him a woman (according to leaks when timelines converge there is a fight against female KL).

 

[Assisted Living Godzilla]

Sort of makes Liu Kang look like a dick when, given the opportunity to rewrite time as he sees fit, he turns Raiden into just some guy.

Raiden has had it coming since Mortal Kombat: Armageddon. It’s like NetherRealm Studios have spent the last almost 18 years trying to make their audience hate Raiden, they just keep having him do stupid shit. It’s kind of hilarious how much they fucked him over the years.

 

[Assisted Living Godzilla]

Bunch of new stuff went up recently.

 

[oddech_wymarlych_swiatow]

It's Nitara between Ashrah and Havik:

 

[oddech_wymarlych_swiatow]

Megan Fox as Nitara is real!

 

[Aemar]

The character resonates with her because she admitted she drinks blood for 'ritual purposes'. If only Nitara would have forced her male offsprings to wear female clothes as well.

 

[mediocrepoet]

It finally happened: the game character looks more like a real person than the voice actor.

"She's evil but she's also good."

 

[BrotherFrank]

Don’t like new nitara and was skeptical of megan fox as a good va after rhonda rousey and based on this sample my skepticism was justified. But like with limei i’m now going to get gaslighted that she is actually amazing i guess.

Hell, every time i read the comments for these trailers i feel like i’ve stepped into the twilight zone.
Am i so out of touch? No, it’s the gamers who are wrong.

Whilst i’m here bitching : invasion mode looks very grindy and time consuming, the reveal they will add new ”seasons” every week or month or whatever all but confirms this will be the same bs they pulled with mk 11‘s towers in that it will be a vehicle to push microtransactions whilst disrespecting the player’s time. And somehow people are excited for this, fml.

 

[rumSaint]

Don’t like new nitara and was skeptical of megan fox as a good va after rhonda rousey and based on this sample my skepticism was justified. But like with limei i’m now going to get gaslighted that she is actually amazing i guess.

Hell, every time i read the comments for these trailers i feel like i’ve stepped into the twilight zone.
Am i so out of touch? No, it’s the gamers who are wrong.

Whilst i’m here bitching : invasion mode looks very grindy and time consuming, the reveal they will add new ”seasons” every week or month or whatever all but confirms this will be the same bs they pulled with mk 11‘s towers in that it will be a vehicle to push microtransactions whilst disrespecting the player’s time. And somehow people are excited for this, fml.

Yeah slap some season pass and micro on top of that and you will have to spend money and play every fucking day to get all cosmetics. The usual 3 months to spin some more content. It's so tiring.

 

[Nathir]

Nu-Mortal Kombat is retarded.

 

[Silverfish]

Megan Fox as Nitara is real!

Rarely have I been happier to save $60.

 

[Assisted Living Godzilla]

Don’t like new nitara and was skeptical of megan fox as a good va after rhonda rousey and based on this sample my skepticism was justified. But like with limei i’m now going to get gaslighted that she is actually amazing i guess.

Hell, every time i read the comments for these trailers i feel like i’ve stepped into the twilight zone.
Am i so out of touch? No, it’s the gamers who are wrong.

Whilst i’m here bitching : invasion mode looks very grindy and time consuming, the reveal they will add new ”seasons” every week or month or whatever all but confirms this will be the same bs they pulled with mk 11‘s towers in that it will be a vehicle to push microtransactions whilst disrespecting the player’s time. And somehow people are excited for this, fml.

She’s fine. Something really dumb the trailer does though, is they have her just flat read a line and match it to game footage like that delivery from the game, but it’s not.

 

[BrotherFrank]

She’s fine. Something really dumb the trailer does though, is they have her just flat read a line and match it to game footage like that delivery from the game, but it’s not.

I'm no longer meekly accepting this anymore. I'm sick of eating mediocrity and being told to like it. No she isn't fine. She looks bland (old design had a lot more character) and her face is just "ok", like with Kitana.
The one thing I am glad about nu Nitara is she has the skimpiest design of all the women so far, showing a fair amount of skin and even thighs *gasp* when the devs seemed to have gone out of their way to censor such bodyparts with every other female character including background kameos. Because now you can't just dismiss me as a coomer who wants to see noodz, i got a coomerish design and I'm still saying it sucks.

And it's not like nu Nitara face is something amazing to rave about, wtf do I care if she is modelled after Megan Fox? No other fighting games besides Mortal Kombat struggles so much with making good looking aesthetically pleasing female characters.
Hur hur frank is just being a coomer i'm sure some might say. Well how can I bitch about the male characters? Most of them look like k-pop stars cosplaying for a music video, they are all so handsome (even havik jfc) that it's making me question my heterosexuality. Every one has a designer haircut, even Baraka doesn't really strike me as being horrifying anymore, and sure enough i've seen plenty of plebbitors swooning over him. Even Reptile looks like he is some big name rapper about to drop the latest hip single that all the teens will be singing to. Clearly they can make really good looking models when they want to, they choose not to.

No Nitara is not fine. Give me back the OG design, i'm standing my ground on this one: the "reimaginings" for the 3d era female characters have been shit, all of them.
I will however 100% give the benefit of the doubt when it comes to VA though, you are right in that the conditions for the trailer were weird and might not be reflective of ingame performance. Gods i fucking hope that is the case indeed.
But i really am loathing this trend of getting "big names" to do the VA, the only good this seems to do is for PR.

 

[anvi]

The should have called it Mortal Kombat 1 2.

 

[Assisted Living Godzilla]

She’s fine. Something really dumb the trailer does though, is they have her just flat read a line and match it to game footage like that delivery from the game, but it’s not.

I'm no longer meekly accepting this anymore. I'm sick of eating mediocrity and being told to like it. No she isn't fine. She looks bland (old design had a lot more character) and her face is just "ok", like with Kitana.
The one thing I am glad about nu Nitara is she has the skimpiest design of all the women so far, showing a fair amount of skin and even thighs *gasp* when the devs seemed to have gone out of their way to censor such bodyparts with every other female character including background kameos. Because now you can't just dismiss me as a coomer who wants to see noodz, i got a coomerish design and I'm still saying it sucks.

And it's not like nu Nitara face is something amazing to rave about, wtf do I care if she is modelled after Megan Fox? No other fighting games besides Mortal Kombat struggles so much with making good looking aesthetically pleasing female characters.
Hur hur frank is just being a coomer i'm sure some might say. Well how can I bitch about the male characters? Most of them look like k-pop stars cosplaying for a music video, they are all so handsome (even havik jfc) that it's making me question my heterosexuality. Every one has a designer haircut, even Baraka doesn't really strike me as being horrifying anymore, and sure enough i've seen plenty of plebbitors swooning over him. Even Reptile looks like he is some big name rapper about to drop the latest hip single that all the teens will be singing to. Clearly they can make really good looking models when they want to, they choose not to.

No Nitara is not fine. Give me back the OG design, i'm standing my ground on this one: the "reimaginings" for the 3d era female characters have been shit, all of them.
I will however 100% give the benefit of the doubt when it comes to VA though, you are right in that the conditions for the trailer were weird and might not be reflective of ingame performance. Gods i fucking hope that is the case indeed.
But i really am loathing this trend of getting "big names" to do the VA, the only good this seems to do is for PR.

I was clearly talking about the fucking voice acting you sperg. Your comment seemed to just be about the voice acting. At least as far as that character goes, because you also said something about Invasion Mode. The in-game voice acting seems just find. The trailer stupidly added one bit that doesn’t sound fine, but that’s not from the game, (it sounds totally different from her in-game lines) and just a flat line reading they had her do during the interview section that gets edited in the trailer to look like it’s in-game.

The design is a whole different matter. Original Nitara design was pretty bland. The characters was pretty bland and forgettable, and is probably only in this game because she showed up in that recent movie so they’d have a character to kill off. That said, this design is pretty bland too. It’s also weird they modeled her after Megan Fox (kind of) but changed her hair color when Megan Fox and original Nitara both have black hair. I wouldn’t be too surprised if the game had a costume that looked more like the Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance look. They haven’t really gone into that aspect yet, but the Kameo Fighters have pretty perfect replicas of looks from the ‘90s games, (and I wouldn’t be surprised if you can unlock those for playable characters) and they’ve already shown Raiden looking a few different ways.

 

[BrotherFrank]

I was clearly talking about the fucking voice acting you sperg. Your comment seemed to just be about the voice acting. At least as far as that character goes, because you also said something about Invasion Mode. The in-game voice acting seems just find. The trailer stupidly added one bit that doesn’t sound fine, but that’s not from the game, (it sounds totally different from her in-game lines) and just a flat line reading they had her do during the interview section that gets edited in the trailer to look like it’s in-game.

The design is a whole different matter. Original Nitara design was pretty bland. The characters was pretty bland and forgettable, and is probably only in this game because she showed up in that recent movie so they’d have a character to kill off. That said, this design is pretty bland too. It’s also weird they modeled her after Megan Fox (kind of) but changed her hair color when Megan Fox and original Nitara both have black hair. I wouldn’t be too surprised if the game had a costume that looked more like the Mortal Kombat: Deadly Alliance look. They haven’t really gone into that aspect yet, but the Kameo Fighters have pretty perfect replicas of looks from the ‘90s games, (and I wouldn’t be surprised if you can unlock those for playable characters) and they’ve already shown Raiden looking a few different ways.

I'll take the L on the sperging because i enjoy an excuse to rant and 100% stick by it as part of an ongoing back and forth i have been having about this topic.

I ain't going to act like OG Nitara was super iconic but "bland" isn't the word i'd describe for piratey vampire look, heavily disagree there or at least we are going to have to use different words because using bland for both OG and nu looks puts them on the same tier when they are worlds apart in term of character and uniqueness. The geisha alt had potential too with the white face paint but was a case where the skimpiness was a bad thing, she needed fitting clothing to go along with it instead of bra and panties.
Both concepts had something to them and didn't need to be thrown overboard to be replaced.

As for the costumes we will see, but slapping on a bandana on an alt and expecting me to be all halelujah nitara is back! is fabulously optimistic, no fucking way they will be bringing back the og costume due to how skimpy it was, so they will of course heavily alter it.
Not a problem for male characters of course though:

 

[oddech_wymarlych_swiatow]

Switch port looks... weird. Keep that Fortnite shit out of my MK!

 

[Aemar]

 

[oddech_wymarlych_swiatow]

Why is GOW3 Hercules in my MK?

Oh, and Evil Kombat Kids leak was true:

HEAVY SPOILER

[ /SPOILER]

 

[Silverfish]

Oh, and Evil Kombat Kids leak was true:

How? When does this actually take place?

 

[oddech_wymarlych_swiatow]

Oh, and Evil Kombat Kids leak was true:

How? When does this actually take place?

HEAVIER SPOILER

During final chapter called Armageddon, there is a great battle between good and evil Titans from various timelies. In that chapter, player chooses his own protagonist and fights many Kreate-A-Fighter Dragon Ball fusion characters like Quan-Zero, Baracage, Black Dragon Sonya or Hellfire Frost. Kombat Kids are killed during cutscene though.

 

[BrotherFrank]

That last chapter reveal seems like something that deserves its own game tbh.

 

[Aemar]

Seeing Liu Kang, Sub Zero and Scorpion ringing the bell and asking Johnny to enter his house is so surreal.

 

[oddech_wymarlych_swiatow]

That last chapter reveal seems like something that deserves its own game tbh.

It felt rushed but was fun anyway, btw since you can choose any fighter you want, guest characters will be also available in story mode once they arrive.

Boon already mentioned a story DLC but we propably need to wait longer, Aftermatch based on DLC characters that were released pretty fast but not in base game story mode, this Quan Chi and Ermac were already put in MK1 and only Takeda left so they propably need Kombat Pack 3 characters.

 

[Alex]

Kano and Sonya have been staple characters since day 1. The other ones mentioned, not so much. Filler characters. They're mostly remembered only by hardcore MK players.

Are those really characters? I thought he would was making a joke.

Speaking of which, I was wondering, is there any version of that Mortal Kombat theme song that mentions the names of all (or maybe just most) fighters from all games? I am guessing it would go on for 30 minutes name-dropping only, but would be fun if someone took the time to do that.