I really thought Noob should have been involved. I mean KL dismissing Bi-han's death as Quan Chi's fault seemed like kind of a cop out.

I seriously thought he'd emerge as a sincere threat from the Netherrealm, instead they let Kitana/LK do that.

Lot of questionable choices.

You're kidding, right? Please tell me you're making an awful attempt at trolling, and you don't think that the Mortal Kombat movies have anything to do with the games..........


As for everyone else talking about the comics - the MKX comic and the MKX games are entirely separate entities. It was clear by chapter 2 that the comic has nothing to do with the game. What sucks about this is that questions left unanswered in the comic are ALSO left unanswered in the game, since neither explained most of the plot holes. Frankly I have no desire to continue with the comic knowing that it is not tied into the game.

That story mode was two hours and fifteen minutes I'll never get back. I wanted to vomit every time a Briggs appeared onscreen.
Between that and the (so far) terrible comic, the storytelling in the MK series has plunged to the depths of Special Forces.

Ah, yes, because the storytelling was SO much better back in the golden days.

We all remember the award-winning, Oscar-worthy performances in MK4's Jax Ending...

LOL

*facepalm*
Forgive me, for that imperceptibly slipped my mind.
*goes and sits in corner*

D'vorah is waaaay more interesting of a character than Tanya. Or are you just blinded by nostalgia?

Anyway I do agree that they could have done a lot more with the story. I'd really like to see some DLC added on to clear things up. That'd be amazing,

I fucking hate the story mode of this game. People say mk9 was bad. This shit is terrible! Cassie cage beating Shinnok! A fallen elder god she knows shit about on a competitive level. Not to mention the failed training exercise at the lin kuei temple. Get the fuck out!!!

This 25 years storyline was a piece of shit. And people said I was immature for ranting about how this fuckery was a bad idea! Ha! My god the stupidity level of this story line.

Mk4 should of been the main focus. All these cameos were fucking useless and not needed.

Mkx should of focused on mk4s events and re-written it's previous efforts but better. I was so ready for this NR invasion.

SHAO KAHN WAS BLINDED BY RAGE!

No, no, no. Nrs was blinded by stupidity. This games storys reaks more ass then a sumo with a bad digestive system.

I'm at dissapoint. The QTEs was it's only saving grace. My god.

Seriously?

D'Vorah had more charisma in two hours than Tanya has had in eighteen years.

I know it's bad, if it's enough to make you mad. Lol I don't think I've seen you rant, but I agree with almost everything you said.

While the desendants have grown on me, I got a bad taste in my mouth the moment I found out about the pointless 25 year jump. The idea was so illogical to me that I actually thought that Cassie was Johhny Cage's sister the first time I saw her. Way too early into the reboot to be jumping 25 years into the future. I hope mk11 is like 2 weeks after this game or else we're gonna be seeing Johnny and Sonya smackin' people with their canes and walkers in the next game.

They should have indeed focused on mk4. It was a simple formula that would have made a way better story. It didn't have to be exactly the same, but it's not like we got a detailed version of mk4's story the first time around. That's what I loved about mk9. It gave us the story we technically never saw, we just read about it in the character endings.

And honestly, I could tolerate some of the absurd match ups in mk9, but Cassie beating Shinny just baffled me. The guy is an elder god to begin with and he
had just absorbed the life of a planet, Cassie should not had been nearly enough, and I say this as a fan of her. I don't mind Shinnok being defeated, I expected him to lose, but at least do him some justice.

The way they set Shinnok up in the last game gives the impression that he was going to be a lingering threat like Shao Kahn was in 9. They didn't even explain how he had his own amulet, Quan Chi betrayed him and stole it, in this game, he goes out of his way to free Shinnok.

- I really wanted to see Sub and Scorp kill Quan Chi together albeit in different circumstances, then what was shown to be the effect of releasing Shinnok.

- I love Cassie i really do, but i just do not buy her killing Shinnok, in fact it should take the combined effort of the best fighters to take down an ELDER GOD, and even then i am not sure how.

- Really wanted to fight Sektor as Sub-zero not just mention his death at Sub-Zero's hands, was it so hard to give us that fight, and extend Sub-Zero's chapter a bit longer?

- Still do not get why Kitana, Kang, and Lao are playable after what role they play in the story.

- Kotal went from being a sensible, and smart ruler to a buffoon really quick.

- Ferra/Torr should not have been in this game they served no purpose from a story perspective. Like i said it is a one and done, we wont be seeing them again.

- Reptile 20 years of doing nothing, seriously every ending has something to do with him finding some sort of clue about his people, just fucking reunite him with them already, and make them major players for power or something, anything already...

- Scorpion being a dumb goof again, unlike his comic counter-part.

- Johnny was great honestly i loved him, and he REALLY grew on me this game.

- Personal quip, but i am sick of Ermac, and wish the spot went to Smoke, honestly i am sick of Reptile also with his lack of character development as i mentioned before. Smoke, Noob, and Frost would've been better choices.

- No Fujin, why? He really should have been in this game.

They should've turned Ermac into King Jerrod's soul.

Yes

Don't want to repost the entire post (which I totally agree with, mind) but why would Smoke be a viable replacement over Ermac?
Also, no way Jose over the Jerrod thing. Yeah, as usual he had little to do in the story mode (Jesus, go climb a rock, NRS) but I'll take it over him just being controlled by Jerrod.

Like i said it was a personal quip that's all, i am really disliking his look, and story direction. I think Smoke really went from nothing to a very interesting character in mk9, and i wish they placed him in the starting roster for X.

Do you guys feel that they could've made a longer campaign? I mean I feel like they just stopped at 12 chapters just because that's what they've always been doing. They could've gone to 14 if they wanted too. Ferra/torr and Kenshi could've had some fleshing out to do.

Also, Jacqui and Sub's chapters should've been switched. It'd make more sense that Kuai would be the one to take down the Kotal Krew in chapter 11 since he's a grandmaster.

And one last thing. Kotal Kahn jobbing to Kung Jin was just plain stupid.

I think i can speak for us all when i say, more chapters would have been great, personally i wanted another 20

Hopefully, no fans would complain that they want all the dead revenants to be back to normal and playable for MK 11. That's the reason why they were playable in the first place, literally it was many forums and ppl making videos on YouTube saying their favorite better be back after seeing MK 9's story. But NRS should focus on those remaining 3D characters development and story and bring in those characters that made cameo in MK 10 story. Rain, Fujin, Li Mei etc. But damn, and I thought MK 9 story was controversial since the whole roster was killed lol, I guess not

I just finished story mode. It in itself was fun, but wow was that RUSHED! Geez, was a clusterfuck. Back and forth and this character to that character and all along the way pretty much NOTHING was explained. We have NO idea what happened with some of the other characters and just like that Cassie saves the day with not even a scratch on her after?

Where did Sareena go? What in the hell happened to Fujin? Where did Rain & Tanya end up?

Why are Liu Kang, Kung Lao, etc playable or even somone like Reptile(I love Reptile btw) yet in some cases those who had bigger more dominant roles at points like Rain, Tanya, Baraka, etc are left as NPC?

And poor Mileena....kill her off? Fine, but go a little more in depth here and explain her story a little more. And I feel like the story made it seem like D'vorah has been around forever. I sure as hell don't remember her in past games. Whatever.

I had fun playing the story mode, but I feel MK9's did a much better job of actually telling a story.

I can't help but feel like this is mostly about Shinnok getting bodied by Cassie. You should be happy with what they did with Shinnok. He was a legitimate threat this time around. Not some goofy move stealing Shang knock off like last time. He was finally imposing. Cassie beating him doesn't take away from that.

I would've liked an MK4 based story, but the minute we knew there would be 25 years it was pretty clear MK4 would just be glossed over. But what they did show was great so I can't complain.

I'm just saying that when a video game series is inspired by a popular film, it's only right for the games to acknowledge the events of said film.

I find her beating him hilarious. Sorry but no. And no it's true. No signs of Kai or Jarek. What happened?

You can't tell me that the Special Forces 2.0 kiddies can just waltz right in and wipe the mat with more experienced, powerful characters. Sorry, but I hated how the SM was all about them, and it's nothing to do with nostalgia.

On a side note, this isn't really a gripe, but will Kenshi ever have an ending in which he's not killing someone with his sword?

There are a lot of things in the story that I don't like - HOWEVER, I'll chalk that up to personal taste instead of saying they were problems with the story.

One thing I'm confused about - why is Ermac still a dick in this timeline?

Although i agree with some points of people in the thread, and agree there are issues...

Things like:

What happened to Kotal?
Where did Rain and Tanya go?

Don't really need to be answered for every character, when it's easy to assume what happened.

Kotal's back in outworld. Rain and Tanya are back in outworld, probably plotting some crap. Kano and D'Vorah are captured by special forces(although that's probably irrelevant since they'll have escaped before the next game takes place). Nightwolf, Stryker, all the other revenants, still in the netherrealm.