Ultimachu Wrote:Chrome Wrote:raidenthefridge Wrote:
So the game is taking place over a 25 year period? wow.
Aren't MK tournaments held every 10 years?
No. It was never specified, the interval is said to be a generation. And a generation from a sociological standpoint is more than 10 years.
Now onto the big reveal...
Now I am interested. It probably means that the MK9 casualties are indeed killed off.
Tournaments used to be held every 500 years, but the tournament was corrupted by Shang Tsung and the tournaments were then held every fifty years. Shang goes on to win 9 tournaments and on the 10th (500 years later) is the tournament Liu Kang wins. Shao Khan also yells to Shang Tsung
"Five hundred years I have waited! Now I must wait five hundred more!" when he returns to Outworld.
Not quite accurate. Shang's corruption of the tournament never affected how often it's held, all he did was add Fatalities, so that he could steal the souls of the fighters who die.
It was always once every 50 years.
They did used to say "it's held once a generation", but a generation can be any vague amount of time. They later clarified that it's exactly once every 50 years in Deception. But anyone could have figured that out on their own if they did the math of dividing Goro's winning streak, 500 years, by 10.
You could also go by Shang's age, which is given as 1000 years old in MK1. He has lived through two ten-tournament cycles.
Shang won the first 9 tournaments, Great Kung Lao won the tenth.
Goro won the next 9 tournaments, Liu Kang won the tenth.
