Bo Ceephus

3mo

That's why it's got ruined imo

JJThaJuiceman

3mo

@BlackAndMildSauce my forever stance on both games. Both bad in many different ways

JJThaJuiceman

2y

Mortal Kombat (2011) and Mortal Kombat X give the player the freedom and options to play characters in unique ways, letting creativity flow which allows for more depth and different play styles. Mortal Kombat 11 gets rid of these tools, for a more streamlined approach, which in turn makes the game a lot more “cookie cutter” and formulaic. The end result is a game that’s very shallow and dull.

1. MK11 capitalizes on the variation system from MKX, and the customizable abilities from Injustice 2. Every character has a set list of special moves they can choose for a variation now, which in theory, allows for much more creativity than ever before. Like I said though, “in theory” because these variations have strong limitations that de-incentivize any creative play. There’s only 3 slots for these specials and the ratio of how many slots a moves takes up in a variation was never reconsidered, not even when Aftermath or Ultimate released. This has allowed characters that were strong enough to take advantage of this system (Cetrion) to stay strong throughout the games lifespan and characters who needed the extra push (Kitana) never grow. There’s no fun/uniqueness to be had if the character your playing was only realistically playable with 2 moves. This isn’t even me mentioning “banned moves” and the worse scenario when custom variations were not allowed in
Kombat League.

2. Armored moves and Armor break was an issue for a bit. They introduced Armor Break moves with Spawn, and eventually the gave them to the rest of the cast. However, these moves weren’t balanced across the roster. Some of the armor breaking properties were put on moves that were on a characters base moveset, while others were placed on a special move that was tied to the variation system. This created a new issue of risking a genuinely good combo starter for an armor break move while the character you were facing…was allowed both. This never made any sense.

3. Breakaway was much different from breaker in MK9 and MKX. Instead of returning the game to neutral, it would punish the player in advantage (playing the game and doing combos). There’s some debate about this, especially in MKX’s case (resetting to neutral against Mileena was a nightmare) but the overall consensus is that anyone who is doing good and playing well doesn’t deserve to get slapped on the wrist. The meter system played into this as well, as breakaway wasn’t shared with enhancing or meterburning specials anymore. Separating offense and defensive options once again streamlined things again, and removed the risk/reward factor previous Netherrealm games already established. It didn’t help that both meters weren’t affected by how bad/good the player was doing, as it increased on a timer anyway, almost like a mobile game. This made playing and watching the game very…slow.

4. Fatal Blows are the one comeback mechanic that many can agree on to never return. This mechanic has zero consequence of missing, because if a player did, just like the meter system, it’s based on quick timer. Yes it’s only available at 30% and you can’t use it again for the rest of the match if it hits, but for how much damage it does, how “fake” punishable most of them are, and how they are armored, it’s a headache to deal with and pushes all fun out the window.
5. The Krypt is really cool to walk around, and still the best “Extras” menu fighting games have to offer, but in terms of unlocking everything and having to grind so many pointless hours to get gear (which you might or may not get, since it’s randomized),it’s a chore to do. Grabbing augments just isn’t fun at all.
6. I’ve said for years that MK’s story is really dumb and not great as everyone says it is, and 11 proves that even further. Won’t really get into spoilers I guess, but it is even more disappointing then X’s.

7. The roster also is the weakest in the trilogy. Which sucks because the characters they picked aren’t bad, but since the game is the way it’s designed, most of them just aren’t fun. I know this is the most opinion thing I’ve said, but most of these characters play this games boing, one-note rules so much, or lose everything about them that made them unique in the first place. Skarlet is a good example, as her whole kit was completely changed to just show off the new blood engine they made for the game. This isn’t the first time a fighting dev changed a character to show off tech (Gill in Street Fighter III), but to erase her completely an not even have moves to customize her as her MK9 self? (Maybe this is just nitpicking, but I don’t care anymore lmao). The one character in the game that actually feels like they have that ability to let customization and strategic gameplay flow is Fujin, which yeah, he’s a DLC character.

8. There’s a lot I can say about Kombat League, but the primary focus is this. There is no real way, to determine what makes someone a “good” player with the way the ranking system works. You can play like an absolute caveman against someone, and work not even as half as hard as someone who is playing “intentionally” if that makes sense. This is less of an MK11 thing and more so a genre thing though, so I won’t stress too hard on it. But something that’s cool about Street Fighter is how it measure how good your defense is etc. It’s not perfect but it’s step in the right direction.

There’s definitely more I wanna say, but this already long as hell and is all I could think of the top of my head. Long story short, game sucks

@ShintaroKago

JJThaJuiceman

3mo

@RedEyeJedi

Pretty much my issues with 11. As a complete package, it’s very serviceable and genuinely good tho.

HaroldsChicken

2y

In the interview going to try to mention various things so I look the most informed possible on their recent games but truthfully I fell off of gaming and especially netherrealm recently.

Street Fighter IV my s***, V was aight, Guilty Gear I am getting into. I am reading the patch notes to get a better Idea. If I get it would be 9 month QA testing contract likely on Injustice 3

JaeRell

2y

Lack of combo variations. People use the same 2-3 combos for every character.

gasdrawls

2y

I do not miss playing kombat league and when I look back at it, the only thing that had me coming back was new DLC characters.

I will never forgive netherrealm for not dropping one last kombat pack, but onto new things i suppose.

OHMNI

3mo

anyway my final day is January I am going to try to get many things signed I am watching anime til then f*** working hard

OHMNI

3mo

LMFAO CAUSE I HAD YOU TYPE THIS UP FOR MY INTERVIEW

TODAY MY 2 YEAR ANNIVERSARY

JJThaJuiceman

3mo

Truly one of the worst fighting games ever and somehow NRS managed to put out something objectively worse

JJThaJuiceman

2y

If 1 is bad, I’m blaming @ShintaroKago !!1!!1

JJThaJuiceman

2y

I wonder if it will turn out to be one of those things where the core audience dislikes it, but the broader FGC falls in love with it