Anime Mortal Kombat 11

[Melcar]

Didn't they learn from the other trailer? They also used some horrible hiphop thing and got shit for it.

 

[Reinhardt]

horrible hiphop thing

You misspelled "beautiful diverse music of diversity"

 

[Barbarian]

The story seems as retarded as the first time around.

 

[oddech_wymarlych_swiatow]

The story seems as retarded as the first time around.

I've read detailed spoiler and it's sooo good:

Spoiler

- seems to be pretty long
- after little time travel it starts as alternate take on what happened after Kitana killed Shao Kahn
- 2 endings + both end with cliffhanger that annouces return of.... nah, secret
- Aftermatch reveals the true role of Shang Tsung who gets completely retconned

 

[Reinhardt]

it's sooo good

you misspelled "retarded"

 

[Silverfish]

Spoiler

- Aftermatch reveals the true role of Shang Tsung who gets completely retconned

Spoiler

He was the turkey all along.

 

[Generic-Giant-Spider]

If the story spoilers are true then this has to be the worst story-telling I've ever seen and doesn't even resemble MK anymore.

It's also a great character assassination for Shang Tsung.

 

[KVVRR]

The fact that they are continuing the story at all is very weird. I thought the ending meant it was supposed to be a reboot of sorts for a far away game? Maybe allowing Netherrealm to focus on new projects for a while?
It's not like following the aftermath of this story is worth it at all.

 

[oddech_wymarlych_swiatow]

The fact that they are continuing the story at all is very weird. I thought the ending meant it was supposed to be a reboot of sorts for a far away game? Maybe allowing Netherrealm to focus on new projects for a while?

Vanilla MK11 ending looked like definitive end of MK history so they decided to mess further with time traveling, now they are basically rebooting second half of MK11 events and if spoilers are true, Aftermatch 2 will be the reboot of reboot of reboot, with Havik pulling the strings.

 

[KVVRR]

The fact that they are continuing the story at all is very weird. I thought the ending meant it was supposed to be a reboot of sorts for a far away game? Maybe allowing Netherrealm to focus on new projects for a while?

Vanilla MK11 ending looked like definitive end of MK history so they decided to mess further with time traveling, now they are basically rebooting second half of MK11 events and if spoilers are true, Aftermatch 2 will be the reboot of reboot of reboot, with Havik pulling the strings.

but why

 

[oddech_wymarlych_swiatow]

ANOTHER story trailer, wtf?

 

[Nathir]

Where's my cringe rating?

 

[Barbarian]

I would much prefer they focus on gameplay improvement, larger roster and aesthetics(classic scenarios, classic skins, etc). More story is such a fuckup.

Their lead writers seem to be Beavis and Butthead types. At least in their interpretations of the 90's feel I guess.

 

[Barbarian]

Also the whole time travel BS is a perfect excuse to have a mishmash of classic characters in the roster. A pity they are making so many bad choices.

Even with the guest characters. Bringing in Cyrax and company would have been much better than Robocop. Easier too. They are aready in the game damn it.

 

[Melcar]

Never understood why fighting games need deep stories.

 

[Silverfish]

In MK's case it happened by accident, funny enough. The old MK games did it right, creating just enough of a story to lend context to the fighting (tournament, evil tournament, invasion, divine invasion), but because the series continued on long after its fad period, settings, characters and mcguffins piled up and by Deadly Alliance, the devs realized they actually had a pretty robust world on their hands.

 

[oddech_wymarlych_swiatow]

Just bumping thread with quality music.



edit: I'm watching story mode right now and Shang is absolutely nuts!
edit: first mention about Havik just right in the first chapter.

edit: Ok, Aftermatch story destroys vannilla. And all thos references to Mythologies, Deception and even MK vs DC...

Final battle is another Dragon Ball rip-off. Both of these characters a presentend just like Goku and Vegeta.

Goku/Kang beats invinicible big guy Nappa/Goro and then is boss, Vegeta/Tsung. In Aftermatch, they've already reached Super Saiyan Bule levels.

 

[Lacrymas]

I watched the story too, it was much better than I anticipated.

Spoiler

The time travel and dragon ball z ending drags it all down, but you had like 4 factions all at each others throat (Raiden and Fujin vs. Sindel and Shao Khan vs. Kronika and her minions vs. Shang Tsung).

This actually had potential had the underlying narrative not been as shit.

 

[karoliner]

 

[oddech_wymarlych_swiatow]

Spoiler

but you had like 4 factions all at each others throat (Raiden and Fujin vs. Sindel and Shao Khan vs. Kronika and her minions vs. Shang Tsung).

Spoiler

Yeah, modern timeline was divided only on good or evil side, now it got few shades of grey.

BTW The way Shang Tsung finished Centrion and almost entire fight of Shang/Fujin/Nightwolf against Geras is one big homage for Deception intro and Shang/Quan Chi/Raiden battle against Onaga.

 

[Daedalos]

Story in fighting games

'kay

 

[Lacrymas]

A lot of people care about MK's characters because they are iconic. Outside of that, this DLC only offers 3 characters besides the story, sooooo it's a story-focused DLC. It's not worth the money, but there you go. Adding Robocop and Sheeva instead of more worthy staples like Mileena, Smoke, Ermac, Rain, Kenshi, the cyborgs, or Reptile is laughable. I'm just now realizing how bland the cast in 11 is. They don't have the excuse of "they are dead" because of the time traveling bullshit. They butchered Sindel and robbed her of any depth in this DLC too.

Of the new kharacters, I only like D'Vorah. They turned her into a lovecraftian/The Thing-ish creature with no true form who fights very viciously and I'd say scary. How she pumps her victims with poison is the stuff of nightmares.

 

[Generic-Giant-Spider]

HUGE story spoilers concerning Noob-Saibot.

Spoiler

He has one line and is still a jobber.

Shang Tsung carried this DLC HARD.

Edit -

Datamining has determined the following:

Sektor and Cyrax are playable. Sektor has voice interaction lines as well as a space on the fighter select screen and a character ending. Cyrax has no such thing, but...

There's a KP3 reservation so the belief right now is KP2 = Sektor and KP3 = Cyrax.

Test your might/sight minigames.

Ash Williams files are completely removed. Is the era of force fucking guests over? Probably not.

I am hoping that they also toss Ermac/Reptile into both DLC packs to help beef this roster up. If Sektor/Cyrax are true then that helps monumentally with this bland as fuck roster.

 

[Vityaz]

Shang Tsung was pretty damn awesome in Aftermath. Cary proves yet again he's the ultimate depiction of him, no matter what media.

HUGE story spoilers concerning Noob-Saibot.

Spoiler

He has one line and is still a jobber.

The biggest, ultimate jobber is

Spoiler

still Geras

I know it's literally his purpose but guy keeps getting shat on so spectacularly and so much in Aftermath (even more than the main story mode), to the point where I was almost feeling a bit sorry for him, lmao.

 

[Generic-Giant-Spider]

Geras is why I'm not sure why people would want to see Havik since that's ultimately what his role would be: a convenient guy that you can kick the shit out of gruesomely but will keep coming back.

But when it comes to legitimate jobbers the one that makes me lol most is

Spoiler

Kotal Kahn. Guy gets completely fucked up over and over again. Shao Kahn pretty much established as his unquestionable superior. Made all of Outworld build ramps for him after getting his spine broken and then Shao/Sindel easily annihilate Kotal/Jade. Even made his own army cheer against him. LOL

Shao/Sindel and Shang had the best chapters by far. The former at least restored Shao Kahn's badassery. Goes around stomping people's heads with his big ass warhammer, has his MILF wife act all submissively towards him like the barbaric alpha he is.