What I’m hearing is, “It turned out we were incapable of making a game, so we just reworked the monetization model and slapped a 2 on the title so we could pretend to be launching a new game for a publicity bump. We shall now return to crawling indefinitely.”

If you choose to interpret linguistically neutral phrases in the most negative possible way, that’s on you.

I mean no, when MK11 released there were actual stories about the PTSD people went through staring at real life pictures of gore.

I think the original Mortal Kombat games gore was far more comedic then what is in this trailer.  

i dont understand how anyone can be “exhausted” by any form of entertainment. “no longer doin’ it for ya” is not “exhausted,” which implies someone else has exhausted you with their behavior.

I think its maybe because I’m old , but what was fun as a digitised kind of blocky 2D or early 3d character getting splatted now just seems a ..bit much since its in full highly realistic CGI.

Yeah I was in middle school when the original Mortal Kombat was released and adults were fainting in the media about the violence, and at the time I just thought it was hilarious.

I wonder whether the developer is providing mental health counseling to the people working on the awful fatality animations.

She borderline ruined the story mode for me in 11, and it had nothing to do with her personal hot takes. She’s a fucking TERRIBLE actor. Her delivery at times was so unbelievably bad that my jaw dropped thinking someone actually approved this.

In fairness, neither of the previous “Mortal Kombat” titles had 1 at the end. It’s a dumb distinction, but it is technically correct.

But... this is literally Mortal Kombat 1. It’s the first Mortal Kombat set in the new timeline splintering from Liu Kang becoming the Lord of Time. It’s a brand new beginning, and the 1 at the end clearly differentiates it from the 1992 game.

I dunno. You might be missing their main point while arguing semantics...

Yes...that’s my point....

It’s one of the few times it actually makes canonical sense. The story mode from the last game was all about time travel shenanigans so resetting the timeline is perfect. 

“Players who pre-order the game will receive Shang Tsung for free as a playable character. It’s currently unknown if he will be available for purchase later on.”

To be fair, it’s “Mortal Kombat 1" and not just “Mortal Kombat”. They somewhat learned from God of War’s folly.

Fingers crossed that Ronda “Sandy Hook Truther” Rousey isn’t voicing Sonya Blade ever again.

I have a soft spot for Mortal Kombat as an idea, but I can’t be the only one who is *exhausted* by the fatalities at this point, right? The trailer had me until it got MK 11 levels of gross. That’s probably on me for hoping they would rethink how the gore is portrayed.

My expectation with this game is that much like botw the difficulty will simply plateau about half way in and all the material grinding and money saving is effectively busy work to pad it out.

im on the main land. been there for a few hours. I Have not found a single rupee yet. very odd