I agree MK1 is definitely underrated and doesn’t deserve all the hate-it’s such an awesome game! I’m really hoping KP3 gets confirmed too. Adding more characters would make it even better and keep the excitement going!
I dont think I'd like stage interactions but I'd love stage fatalities. I had to cut that out of the video as it stated running to long, but I think Pyramid (Top) and treasure chamber (smelter on) are great stages for fatals; and add more!
@ScottyKombat everyone is entitled to what they want to see in Mortal Kombat 1. The only thing that really messed it up was the Kameo Fighting System. If I had known that NRS was going to make Mortal Kombat 1 like this then it should have been just straight up 1vs1 or somewhat like Mortal Kombat 9 with the tag team features where we could play with both characters fully
I agree I love this game but I think it suffers from what every game in the last ten years suffers from greed and release before it’s ready to go out to the people.
As much as I love Animalities I really wish they would've brought back Babalities, Mercy's, or Friendships. I hope if there does end up being a KP3, I hope they at least bring one of those back. Great video as always scotty and I'll see you in the live!
For real, I love babalities and friendships for the personalities and their interactions. I'm glad we got animalities since they were due but now that I can compare them in a their modern iterations I'd love to have them if I had to pick. I'm glad you'll be on ill see you soon!
Tbf it seems like in almost every nrs game they brought them back. Mk9 had babalities, mk11 had friendships, mkx brought back brutalities in a very good way, and mk1 has animalities
I do hope KP3 or at least some characters come out. I'm not a Jade stan, but I think she would've fit perfectly in this story where the MK ladies are getting more fleshed out stories. Ideal KP3 would be Jade, Kintaro, Kabal, Kung Jin, Hotaru, and Meat(for the memes/ an abomination that escaped from Shang Tsung's lab seeking revenge?). As for guest characters, Doom Slayer is the best option for sure. Hbu Scotty, what's your ideal KP3?
Dude your KP3 dream team hits hard i love it. I'd actually take that with doom slayer as a guest too 🔥 the only change I'd make is swapping out Kung Jin for Nightwolf. This was a great one to read! I also think kintaro fits great since goro and motaro have been here without him. Edit: spelling
Your literally my favorite Mortal Kombat content creator because you literally understand exactly how I feel about this game. I definitely agree that Mortal Kombat 1 deserves more attention and love.
@@SkullBerry2013 This is one of the kindest thing a creator can hear and I appreciate you sharing it, thank you so much. Let's hope MK1 gets the love & attention it deserves ✊
Respect. I hope to see more comments like this that disagree. Genuinely, its nice to see someone disagree and share their takes. This doesn't cause a divide as MK fans when we're sharing instead. I still love MK9 & X.
I love MK12's gameplay but I just wish it was a tag game instead, I also wish they just combined both main and kameo rosters instead of separating them, and I hated that they removed classic moves and gave it to kameos that already shared in the roster like Kung Lao, I just wish that this game never removed anyones iconic moves and revamping them or just gave it to kameos I wish every kameo was playable along with the main fighters instead of a seperate roster, Like maybe I'd like to play Sub-Zero and Smoke as team switching and using their moves as assists just like Mk9 instead one of them being stuck in the back, this game had potential to be the best mk game if they did this and of course it didn't help that they made almost everyone unrecognizable in the lore compared to their og midway versions.
Man I've really been hoping for this. When Ed Boon said in an earlier interview for MK1 that there will be a big surprise of kontent this is what I imagined. In story mode we get to have some of the main roster fighters as kameos so its like hmm... It's already kinda there right? Maybe not fully developed but a start. I would love a flip flop of playing the kameo as main with our main as kameo or kameo/kameo | main/main. Perhaps its possible, I think it would be a lot of fun if so to really add to the chaos and variety. I'm hoping we can see tag team in the next title/near future as well
@ Me too Scotty that’s how I see it after playing the main story on launch and I ask the same question, and also Sub-Zero and Kung Lao shared the exact same moves as the Kameo with the costumes they wear for the main fighter versions, and since they wore it as kameos in the story why couldn’t we wear Sub’s MK2 costume and Kung Lao’s MK2 and MK3 costume? It really bothers me that they’re locked on their Kameo versions, and I also wish they shared moves as well.
If only NRS decided to devolep the mortal kombat game which was the continuation from MK11 with crushing blows with x-rays, more Characters Custuomization with all variations which was similar to injustice 2, story mode where play could choose destinys to create thier own storylines at the end of the each story chapter, fatalites, mash-up fatalities, brutalities, babalities and friendships.
I do agree cameos are so fun to use and the most good thing about it is its global when a cameo is buffed or nerfed it effects on main characters as well and that's so cool to have this future in your game
I don't think it's overhated. It's right-hated, just like it's right-rated. It deconstructed a bunch of iconic characters and did some real dirty (especially Scorpion - by turning him into Sub-Zero jr. character-wise and taking away his swords). I mean I get that after 11 mainline games a soft reboot was needed because you can only have the story move so far - but keeping iconic characters intact should've been a no-brainer. Also the whole "kameo" idea is so so to me personally.
I get what you mean but this is the 12th Fing game in a main series. MK has always taken pretty big swings. If it were such a “no brainer” to keep OG characters intact we never would have gotten Noob Saibot and if they never tried “Sub-Zero Jr” we never would have gotten Kuai Liang at all. Never would have gotten the amazing DA intro with the death of Liu Kang or Deception that basically killed everyone. Criticism is valid, sure, nothing is perfect. I also am not a huge fan of kameos but there’s a little bit of complaining for the sake of complaining amongst the community. I think.
I agree with you on the Kameo system, it's a better option over the variation system they tried to implement. (I feel the variation system while fun to customise and use made the matches a bit messy, the game play in MK1 over MK11 feels much more balanced) I feel too that the it is much tighter and it makes the matches entertaining and indeed immersive to play even against the AI. I am hoping for the next Kombat Pack to be released and really hope that they upkeep the support for a while.
I completely agree! The way the devs have been fixing and improving the game since launch has been amazing. Characters still get crazy new moves like Kitana's wind and Reiko's air command grab. I think KP3 is a lock because of the 255K pro tour they're having, but i really wish that season pass includes kameos because every playable character from season 2 has been amazingly fun and saucy so i can only imagine on what new kameos would do, specially because they affect every single character (as you said, kameos are like variatios but on crack, it's literally like having 20 variations lol). As far as what characters i would like, this is a mix between what i think are the most popular left and my personal liking: Cassie, Scarlet, Jade, Erron Black, Fujin and one guest. Yes, only one guest because i feel we're lacking a lot of MK characters (mostly females, male side of the roster is kinda "all stars" already) and we already got a ton of guests. But just one guest could make the pass sell way more. I don't know who can they add, but I would personally love Deadpool or Wolverine. As far as kameos go, i really hope we can get 4-6 kameos, i really don't care who they are as long as they're really saucy and creative. Maybe they can have smaller guests there? Like Invincible/Atom Eve (or Chucky idk lol) Great video Scotty 👍
Mk1 is a great game, and I don't think it deserves the hate. I like where this story is going. I hope it DOES get another part to the story. Maybe they focus on Outworld next and cuts back on the multiverse stuff. Because Shang Tsung and the others are still out there. Maybe something happens and it's so bad that Liu Kang has to free Noob Saibot to go deal with it. And maybe they do a "Choose your destiny" thing where Shao and Liu Kang face off?
I like this for story. I'd much rather have realm focus than timelines. I think there's so much more to explore and focus on in different realms versus titans and timelines and feeling like characters can be easily replaced and less at stake.
23 base roster 6 KP1 + 5 Kameos (16 Kameos total) 6 KP2 35 character roster by early-2025 (either by March or April) 5 New Kameos rumored? M1K Ultimate? Potentially 3 more characters with 1 being a guest. 38 characters + 21 Kameos by late 2025? I bring this up because if M1K ends with T-1000, then we will have roster size that is less than MK11 by 2. As MK11 had 37 characters at the end. Something to keep in mind, every new game has a bigger roster than the last one. Imo KP3 will likely be the "M1K Ultimate" upgrade later this year, 2 characters + 1 more guest. Along with other things in game like online lobbies/etc. Plus 5 more kameos thrown in there, all likely to launch all together at the same time. 🤔
@@Edenia93 This is an amazing analysis. One that also boosts my hope for KP3 further. I like the sounds of an MK1 Ultimate. Although I hope that doesn't have to come to soon. Regardless I will be looking forward to it and what it will bring ✊ I'm also hoping, whichever this goes - that we can see some more love for kameos whether new ones or new designs before its time for the curtain to fall.
At this point all I want is costume slots. I don’t think it makes any sense that the whole game is about unlocking costumes… but I can’t put together some outfits without going to the main menu?
@@theoldfartnugget6251 yeah with such a strong reward drive on palette unlocks and occasionally gear pieces i agree. We need a kustomization feature that is beyond selecting one or random favorite.
@ yeah straight up it has to be an afterthought or something. No way they seriously expect us to just rock the same outfit or randomize. Hell, I’d go as far as to say they should bring back the custom names off of mk11 too.
I hope more kontent comes soon to the games as well, just would be too controversial to end it after yet another empty promise of further support. Plus, with Warner's financial issues, would make sense to reaaaallly extend the life cycle of this game for a while longer. I don't think they have the budget to just make another game immediately, unless resources were fully pumped into a new game from now on.
as much as i would LIKE an expansion story, im honestly fine just getting new characters. for loreheads like me, i would at least get intro dialogues to look forward to that would make things fun for me. the bar is kinda in hell for an expansion story concept. i personally feel like nothing would have made that titan havik story good, but i also really dont like multiverses so thats just me. in a hypothetical kp3 expansion, i think as long as they keep to the main universe and let us explore all the new things instead of them trying and failing to nostalgia-bait everyone, i would be happy. they made a new timeline for a reason, i would MUCH rather explore it than be stuck dealing with multiversal threats. also i BEG kp3 to have more canon characters than guests. preferably no guests tbh but i know they wont give us that
Im having a lot of fun with mk1! I came here after picking up X for the first time in 2024 I very much enjoy the pacing of mk1. It makes you think on your toes. X is extremely fast and Id say reflex based? playing mk 11 felt extremely easy after 1. I love all of these characters too i never knew there was such a rich world in these games. Keep doing what you do love the channel!
Yes! Spot on with comparing the titles gameplay. This is why I also hope they dig more into existing source material (realms/factions) than timelines. Great comment and thanks for your support :)
I agree with you this is definitely the most fun mk game in my opinion as well i love the kameos, and towers now as well main story was fine khaos reigns was eh to me but damnit give smoke a chapter my favorite mk characters never getting chapers smoke and Erron anyway much love and stay safe.Edit need cyber smoke skin.
For real man, Smoke & Kitana not having a story chapter feels criminal. If we get KP3 maybe we'll see Erron? I'm keeping my spirits up, anything is possible. Thank you brother keep warm / stay safe 🤝
Yo Scotty Kombat, thank you very much for the video, and for your question. I hope to see for the kombat pack 3, Harley Quinn, Abigail The Vampire, Deadpool, Skarlet, Jade, D'vorah. And for the new Kameos, I hope to see Harumi, Fujina, the Raiden's sister, Flyod, Shinnok, Tsu Hao. It will be awesome ! 😁👍😉👍🤗😔🙏♥️
Played them all . Watch every competitions I can since MK9 …. This is my favorite MK by far . Love the kameos . Also watch the EU scene ….. way more inventing and still finding new chemistry between characters. In 10 years people will come and say it was amazing…..
Find me a good komet 😊 just sucks these days with all the social media how you can be a crybaby and be able to totally destroy something 💯 I hope they'll continue with what they said they were going to do and we at least get a Kombat pack 3 I think the game is awesome unique and people need to stop hating
I'm still rooting for KP3. I really want a definitive ending to the Khaos Reigns story. It's wild they ended it like that. Looking at the player selection screen, I don't think we are getting more characters. Hopefully, I am wrong though.
I agree the ending felt empty. I would've preferred an antagonistic cliff hanger to give me something, the send off was bleak. I can see KP3 going either way and I hope we get it too
The character select screen is empty on both buttom left and button right, add 3 characters on both sides in the shape of an L and the roster will be a full rectangle.
I will always and forever defend MK1 with my Life, I’m aware of its flaws and criticisms but this game improved what MK11 wanted to achieve and failed in the process as I’m not a fan of the Variation System as it overrides the purpose to a Creative Character that’s extremely Unique, if we get more Kameos and a KP3 and another Expansion Story then I’m gonna be happy, there’s so much potential in this that if it retcons this New Era Again it will damage it completely, MK1 has more passion and Love to the 3D Era that I’m hoping these Criticisms don’t take them away as NRS has so many Characters they can Fix instead of making New Characters, not that is a bad thing but unless the Base Roster isn’t Larger and don’t do a Smash Bros, there’s a Chance that we might never see them again
I literally have this game on two systems and gladly go through all the steps for each one (switch, ps5) twice the towers of time for rewards each cycle, twice the story, twice the invasions, and I LOVE every single second of it. I feel like I’m still scratching the surface on what’s possible in this game. I do hope (please NRS!) that we get a 3rd KP. I guess I can deal without more story, even though I loved both the initial story, AND khaos reigns. I want to know where the story goes after this! But if not, please at least give us a few more kharacters/kameos, a coupe more stages, and at least ONE STAGE FATALITY! Pretty please!! Anyway, I absolutely love this game, and do not understand why so many people whine so much about it. Most of the complaints I still see are issues that haven’t existed for at least a year! But still, just chill and have fun guys and gals!
I definetly think this game is a top 3 imo, it gave us new mechanics such as kameos and air combos returned from armageddon, the hate for this game is so dumb💀😭
I could be over generalizing, but people mad about kameos because bad, but that's also NRS' fault. IMO there should have a mandatory kameo tutorial, and every kameo during story mode should have had universal functionality on at least one of the buttons (they may have already for all I know, I was ass at this game when I played the story 😅)
Its the devs fault. They never communicate anything. If they have dlc they wanna sell, all of a sudden there is a kombat kast, but that's about it. We already had leaks about the game beeing done, is there any denial from the devs? No!
I hate the Kameo Fighting System because that reminds of Marvel vs Capcom and I feel like they duplicated the Kameo fighting system from the Marvel vs Capcom fighting game series
Yo bro. Good video. I agree. Way too much hate. I was disappointed for a while but it's getting better. More KHARACTERS and more stages with stage fatalities. No more guest dlc and no more KAMEOS for the next mk hopefully
Why didn't they bring back the five factions that people could join from Mortal Kombat 10 onto Mortal Kombat 1 and do faction kills based on whatever faction you are in? They should have brought that back.
@@dominicpotter4878 yeah I'm looking forward to the patch and what he brings. I don't know much about the Conan so I can't say I'm hyped for him specifically but I'm excited for the update and seeing how he plays. What about you?
@@spiderverse616 Yes but I feel they may be pretty unlikely, ty for asking. Personally I'd love to see Chameleon, Cyber Smoke (whether character or skin) and Nightwolf. Since it's a wishlist I'd say Frost for sure, but seeing as she is a kameo I know its not likely but if the chance were there definitely :) Other characters I'd be hyped to see make an entrance would be Shinnok, Jade, Kintaro & Hotaru.
hot take: mk1 while not better than mk9 is better than mk11 & mkx & in 10 years will be looked back on fondly for the depth the kameo system adds. the mk kommunity will pretend like they never bashed mk1 like it was the worst game ever.
The biggest mistake by mk1 is costumization, thats all what we can do beside fighting and in mk1 you dont even have costumization slots, either choose one skin and one gear or make it random, and we cant even costumazie, just choose between three for skins with dozens of bad colour combinations and a few gears, Kameos dont have anything at all. You cant jump from MK11 to MK1 because its an obvious let down rushed game
I would love the customize feature from MK11, or any kind of load out. I agree MK1 needs more customizing, but the gameplay for me is a worlds difference. I'd rather pick a few favorite outfits with a better fighting system than a fighting system that lacks and has more customizing. Subjective on gameplay of course, but its hard for me to play 11 after 1. Edit: I also agree kameos need more customizing
In my opinion, there are 3 main reasons why people mostly hate this game : 1/ NRS decasualized the game. Those 80 seconds long combos, with some characters having very difficult executions (homelander and cancel flights, when u play with a controller is hard) made it a HARD game. People are used to 3 buttons combos in MK (mk11), or spamming robocop gun from afar. I personnaly find that zoning is still possible in mk1, but it is way less possible to abuse this mechanic than in other mks. 2/ Kameos. They add complexity (despite legitimate criticisms on usefulness of some of them). U get clipped by sareena from nowhere then u just rage " i didnt ask for this, this shit is 1v1, its mk!". 3/ Content : this is legitimate. There is way less than in other mks, ans a lot of things feels half assed. Feels like a waste. The game has the most incredible DLC characters in any video games, quality wise (Ghostface incredible design and gameplay, Conan will be incredible from the latest trailers). But the game is dead.
Mortal Kombat 1 in my opinion just feel dry to me. I am happy that they brought back animalities and some new and returning characters. Obviously the game needs some additional gameplay features like hirakilis from Mortal Kombat Deception and some more female fighters in the game. The game it is a total dude festival lol
It's the kameos that I was never a fan of. Hope the next mk will leave out kameos and the grind to level up the characters to keep the 2nd fatality inputs on the list. Also, no more multiverse
Hey Scotty i personal think kp3 is not cancel i think we will get the kp3 in mid 2027 before the next game speaking of fighting games you should try Sifu are you going live
I think we'll see KP3 if it happens before then if it does but I do hope we see it man. I've never heard of Sifu, I'd like to go live within the next 30; will you be on?
the games got problems and saying the games unplayable for the most part is very valid ivasions sucks balls towers of time is ok at best and the kameo system isnt loved by most the community so this is just either rage bait for views or ur just out of touch this is coming from someone thats loves the game btw
Like we had already had seen that. I really wanted to see something different with Mortal Kombat 1 and not that same exact fighting mechanic being brought from the Marvel vs Capcom fighting game series
There is a lack of defensive options. Score a knockdown and go unga bunga. Kameo assist that are summons when your character strikes a pose looks absolutely stupid. Is there really combo variety when you’re just using an assist to hold the opponent in the air while you recover? Music is still bad maybe notice one track and that’s from the fire temple. Story is awful just a marvel rip off that took time money and resources that could’ve went to the gameplay and online modes. Why’s mkx a 10’year old game get you to the online menus after a match faster than mk1?
I JUST want MK lore characters in NO MORE GUESTS And I hope for some of these characters return: - Cassie Cage - Kung Jin - Nightwolf or Fujin or Erron Black - Jade - Sonya Blade - Skarlet or Jax or Kano or Kabal
I agree MK1 is definitely underrated and doesn’t deserve all the hate-it’s such an awesome game! I’m really hoping KP3 gets confirmed too. Adding more characters would make it even better and keep the excitement going!
Spot on comment!
It's a good game individually but it ISN'T a Mortal Kombat game + the DLC prices on release were ungodly and some still are.
Ikr!!!
What are your thoughts on KP3?
Kombat Pack 3 Mortal Kombat 1 my dreams Sylvester Stallone Cobra, Michael Myers, CHUCKY, ART TERRIFIER, Jade, Kabal, Pennywise, and Letherface return.
Floyd and KP3 will complete this game.
@@RodrigoScaranare-oe3osthat's like 8 characters! You already NRS ain't doing that. We may get some of those in this game, hopefully!
“The fans” always allegedly hate the newest game but we all always love the games in retrospect? Weird.
Some people just need some time to adapt.
I want to see stage interactions, stage fatalities, and mercies brought back in Mortal Kombat 1
I dont think I'd like stage interactions but I'd love stage fatalities. I had to cut that out of the video as it stated running to long, but I think Pyramid (Top) and treasure chamber (smelter on) are great stages for fatals; and add more!
@ScottyKombat everyone is entitled to what they want to see in Mortal Kombat 1. The only thing that really messed it up was the Kameo Fighting System. If I had known that NRS was going to make Mortal Kombat 1 like this then it should have been just straight up 1vs1 or somewhat like Mortal Kombat 9 with the tag team features where we could play with both characters fully
That's a good idea.
I agree I love this game but I think it suffers from what every game in the last ten years suffers from greed and release before it’s ready to go out to the people.
I agree it gets more hate than it deserves. Hopefully this game isn’t dead
I think KP 3 will be 3 final fighters to fill in the remaining slots.
As much as I love Animalities I really wish they would've brought back Babalities, Mercy's, or Friendships. I hope if there does end up being a KP3, I hope they at least bring one of those back. Great video as always scotty and I'll see you in the live!
For real, I love babalities and friendships for the personalities and their interactions. I'm glad we got animalities since they were due but now that I can compare them in a their modern iterations I'd love to have them if I had to pick.
I'm glad you'll be on ill see you soon!
Tbf it seems like in almost every nrs game they brought them back. Mk9 had babalities, mk11 had friendships, mkx brought back brutalities in a very good way, and mk1 has animalities
@ Exactly and even though I know it won't happen I just wish they would put them all in the same game, that would be sick.
Tbh the hate for MK1 is probably worse than the hate for Spider Man 3 back in 2007
Thank you!!! Every time I watch or play mk1 I always think “people are wrong about this game”. It’s so fun and complex. It’s up there with mkx for me
I do hope KP3 or at least some characters come out. I'm not a Jade stan, but I think she would've fit perfectly in this story where the MK ladies are getting more fleshed out stories. Ideal KP3 would be Jade, Kintaro, Kabal, Kung Jin, Hotaru, and Meat(for the memes/ an abomination that escaped from Shang Tsung's lab seeking revenge?). As for guest characters, Doom Slayer is the best option for sure. Hbu Scotty, what's your ideal KP3?
Dude your KP3 dream team hits hard i love it. I'd actually take that with doom slayer as a guest too 🔥 the only change I'd make is swapping out Kung Jin for Nightwolf. This was a great one to read! I also think kintaro fits great since goro and motaro have been here without him.
Edit: spelling
Your literally my favorite Mortal Kombat content creator because you literally understand exactly how I feel about this game. I definitely agree that Mortal Kombat 1 deserves more attention and love.
@@SkullBerry2013 This is one of the kindest thing a creator can hear and I appreciate you sharing it, thank you so much. Let's hope MK1 gets the love & attention it deserves ✊
If there is kp 3 coming I will get excited
@@Matty1-t2j sup Matty! Fingers crossed 🤞
MKX was the most competitive MK game and is still in my opinion the best MK game.
For me MKX & MK9 were the last two great & perfect Mortal Kombat games in my opinion.
Respect. I hope to see more comments like this that disagree. Genuinely, its nice to see someone disagree and share their takes. This doesn't cause a divide as MK fans when we're sharing instead. I still love MK9 & X.
I Hope KP3 , Great video Bro 👍😉
Thanks man ✊
I love MK12's gameplay but I just wish it was a tag game instead, I also wish they just combined both main and kameo rosters instead of separating them, and I hated that they removed classic moves and gave it to kameos that already shared in the roster like Kung Lao, I just wish that this game never removed anyones iconic moves and revamping them or just gave it to kameos I wish every kameo was playable along with the main fighters instead of a seperate roster, Like maybe I'd like to play Sub-Zero and Smoke as team switching and using their moves as assists just like Mk9 instead one of them being stuck in the back, this game had potential to be the best mk game if they did this and of course it didn't help that they made almost everyone unrecognizable in the lore compared to their og midway versions.
Man I've really been hoping for this. When Ed Boon said in an earlier interview for MK1 that there will be a big surprise of kontent this is what I imagined. In story mode we get to have some of the main roster fighters as kameos so its like hmm... It's already kinda there right? Maybe not fully developed but a start.
I would love a flip flop of playing the kameo as main with our main as kameo or kameo/kameo | main/main.
Perhaps its possible, I think it would be a lot of fun if so to really add to the chaos and variety.
I'm hoping we can see tag team in the next title/near future as well
@ Me too Scotty that’s how I see it after playing the main story on launch and I ask the same question, and also Sub-Zero and Kung Lao shared the exact same moves as the Kameo with the costumes they wear for the main fighter versions, and since they wore it as kameos in the story why couldn’t we wear Sub’s MK2 costume and Kung Lao’s MK2 and MK3 costume? It really bothers me that they’re locked on their Kameo versions, and I also wish they shared moves as well.
If only NRS decided to devolep the mortal kombat game which was the continuation from MK11 with crushing blows with x-rays, more Characters Custuomization with all variations which was similar to injustice 2, story mode where play could choose destinys to create thier own storylines at the end of the each story chapter, fatalites, mash-up fatalities, brutalities, babalities and friendships.
@@MatthewHaggerty-zk9mg no thanks crushing blows was a dumb addition to the gameplay, plus it only happens once per match.
The image at 8:33 should happen! I would like Ermac to have his iconic energy ball and for smoke to get his iconic cyber ninja skin. Please! 🙏
I agree with you 💯 percent
I do agree cameos are so fun to use and the most good thing about it is its global
when a cameo is buffed or nerfed it effects on main characters as well and that's so cool to have this future in your game
I don't think it's overhated. It's right-hated, just like it's right-rated. It deconstructed a bunch of iconic characters and did some real dirty (especially Scorpion - by turning him into Sub-Zero jr. character-wise and taking away his swords). I mean I get that after 11 mainline games a soft reboot was needed because you can only have the story move so far - but keeping iconic characters intact should've been a no-brainer. Also the whole "kameo" idea is so so to me personally.
I get what you mean but this is the 12th Fing game in a main series. MK has always taken pretty big swings. If it were such a “no brainer” to keep OG characters intact we never would have gotten Noob Saibot and if they never tried “Sub-Zero Jr” we never would have gotten Kuai Liang at all. Never would have gotten the amazing DA intro with the death of Liu Kang or Deception that basically killed everyone. Criticism is valid, sure, nothing is perfect. I also am not a huge fan of kameos but there’s a little bit of complaining for the sake of complaining amongst the community. I think.
100% Agree🙌🐉
I agree with you on the Kameo system, it's a better option over the variation system they tried to implement. (I feel the variation system while fun to customise and use made the matches a bit messy, the game play in MK1 over MK11 feels much more balanced) I feel too that the it is much tighter and it makes the matches entertaining and indeed immersive to play even against the AI. I am hoping for the next Kombat Pack to be released and really hope that they upkeep the support for a while.
Agreed
& who'd yall want in Future Kombat Pack's?
I completely agree! The way the devs have been fixing and improving the game since launch has been amazing. Characters still get crazy new moves like Kitana's wind and Reiko's air command grab.
I think KP3 is a lock because of the 255K pro tour they're having, but i really wish that season pass includes kameos because every playable character from season 2 has been amazingly fun and saucy so i can only imagine on what new kameos would do, specially because they affect every single character (as you said, kameos are like variatios but on crack, it's literally like having 20 variations lol).
As far as what characters i would like, this is a mix between what i think are the most popular left and my personal liking: Cassie, Scarlet, Jade, Erron Black, Fujin and one guest. Yes, only one guest because i feel we're lacking a lot of MK characters (mostly females, male side of the roster is kinda "all stars" already) and we already got a ton of guests. But just one guest could make the pass sell way more. I don't know who can they add, but I would personally love Deadpool or Wolverine. As far as kameos go, i really hope we can get 4-6 kameos, i really don't care who they are as long as they're really saucy and creative. Maybe they can have smaller guests there? Like Invincible/Atom Eve (or Chucky idk lol)
Great video Scotty 👍
It would be nice to see variations and kameos brought together in Mortal Kombat 1
Mk1 is a great game, and I don't think it deserves the hate. I like where this story is going. I hope it DOES get another part to the story. Maybe they focus on Outworld next and cuts back on the multiverse stuff. Because Shang Tsung and the others are still out there. Maybe something happens and it's so bad that Liu Kang has to free Noob Saibot to go deal with it. And maybe they do a "Choose your destiny" thing where Shao and Liu Kang face off?
I like this for story. I'd much rather have realm focus than timelines. I think there's so much more to explore and focus on in different realms versus titans and timelines and feeling like characters can be easily replaced and less at stake.
@ Maybe we see where Smoke has been in Khaos Reigns, and he tries to help Kitana and Mileena fight Shao.
23 base roster
6 KP1 + 5 Kameos (16 Kameos total)
6 KP2
35 character roster by early-2025 (either by March or April)
5 New Kameos rumored?
M1K Ultimate? Potentially 3 more characters with 1 being a guest.
38 characters + 21 Kameos by late 2025?
I bring this up because if M1K ends with T-1000, then we will have roster size that is less than MK11 by 2. As MK11 had 37 characters at the end. Something to keep in mind, every new game has a bigger roster than the last one. Imo KP3 will likely be the "M1K Ultimate" upgrade later this year, 2 characters + 1 more guest. Along with other things in game like online lobbies/etc. Plus 5 more kameos thrown in there, all likely to launch all together at the same time. 🤔
@@Edenia93 This is an amazing analysis. One that also boosts my hope for KP3 further.
I like the sounds of an MK1 Ultimate.
Although I hope that doesn't have to come to soon. Regardless I will be looking forward to it and what it will bring ✊
I'm also hoping, whichever this goes - that we can see some more love for kameos whether new ones or new designs before its time for the curtain to fall.
At this point all I want is costume slots. I don’t think it makes any sense that the whole game is about unlocking costumes… but I can’t put together some outfits without going to the main menu?
@@theoldfartnugget6251 yeah with such a strong reward drive on palette unlocks and occasionally gear pieces i agree. We need a kustomization feature that is beyond selecting one or random favorite.
@ yeah straight up it has to be an afterthought or something. No way they seriously expect us to just rock the same outfit or randomize. Hell, I’d go as far as to say they should bring back the custom names off of mk11 too.
I hope more kontent comes soon to the games as well, just would be too controversial to end it after yet another empty promise of further support. Plus, with Warner's financial issues, would make sense to reaaaallly extend the life cycle of this game for a while longer. I don't think they have the budget to just make another game immediately, unless resources were fully pumped into a new game from now on.
as much as i would LIKE an expansion story, im honestly fine just getting new characters. for loreheads like me, i would at least get intro dialogues to look forward to that would make things fun for me. the bar is kinda in hell for an expansion story concept. i personally feel like nothing would have made that titan havik story good, but i also really dont like multiverses so thats just me. in a hypothetical kp3 expansion, i think as long as they keep to the main universe and let us explore all the new things instead of them trying and failing to nostalgia-bait everyone, i would be happy. they made a new timeline for a reason, i would MUCH rather explore it than be stuck dealing with multiversal threats. also i BEG kp3 to have more canon characters than guests. preferably no guests tbh but i know they wont give us that
Im having a lot of fun with mk1! I came here after picking up X for the first time in 2024 I very much enjoy the pacing of mk1. It makes you think on your toes. X is extremely fast and Id say reflex based? playing mk 11 felt extremely easy after 1. I love all of these characters too i never knew there was such a rich world in these games. Keep doing what you do love the channel!
Yes! Spot on with comparing the titles gameplay. This is why I also hope they dig more into existing source material (realms/factions) than timelines. Great comment and thanks for your support :)
Also the brushing blows were more frequent in Mortal Kombat 11 than they are in Mortal Kombat 1
I agree with you this is definitely the most fun mk game in my opinion as well i love the kameos, and towers now as well main story was fine khaos reigns was eh to me but damnit give smoke a chapter my favorite mk characters never getting chapers smoke and Erron anyway much love and stay safe.Edit need cyber smoke skin.
For real man, Smoke & Kitana not having a story chapter feels criminal. If we get KP3 maybe we'll see Erron? I'm keeping my spirits up, anything is possible.
Thank you brother keep warm / stay safe 🤝
Yo Scotty Kombat, thank you very much for the video, and for your question. I hope to see for the kombat pack 3, Harley Quinn, Abigail The Vampire, Deadpool, Skarlet, Jade, D'vorah. And for the new Kameos, I hope to see Harumi, Fujina, the Raiden's sister, Flyod, Shinnok, Tsu Hao. It will be awesome ! 😁👍😉👍🤗😔🙏♥️
Played them all . Watch every competitions I can since MK9 …. This is my favorite MK by far . Love the kameos . Also watch the EU scene ….. way more inventing and still finding new chemistry between characters. In 10 years people will come and say it was amazing…..
YES I LOVE THIS GAME ITS SO UNDERRATED AND THE ONLY PROBLEM RIGHT NOW IS THE SHRINE WE NEED THAT BUT THE GAME IS GREAT
KP3. Wishlist. Jade.....Jax......nightwolf...
Kintaro.....Kronika.....
Too many people hate on this game 😢
If we get KP3, I'd love to see:
Deathstroke
The Dragonborn
John Wick
Jade
Skarlet
Kintaro
💯💯💯
Find me a good komet 😊 just sucks these days with all the social media how you can be a crybaby and be able to totally destroy something 💯 I hope they'll continue with what they said they were going to do and we at least get a Kombat pack 3 I think the game is awesome unique and people need to stop hating
I'm still rooting for KP3. I really want a definitive ending to the Khaos Reigns story. It's wild they ended it like that. Looking at the player selection screen, I don't think we are getting more characters. Hopefully, I am wrong though.
I agree the ending felt empty. I would've preferred an antagonistic cliff hanger to give me something, the send off was bleak. I can see KP3 going either way and I hope we get it too
The character select screen is empty on both buttom left and button right, add 3 characters on both sides in the shape of an L and the roster will be a full rectangle.
I will always and forever defend MK1 with my Life, I’m aware of its flaws and criticisms but this game improved what MK11 wanted to achieve and failed in the process as I’m not a fan of the Variation System as it overrides the purpose to a Creative Character that’s extremely Unique, if we get more Kameos and a KP3 and another Expansion Story then I’m gonna be happy, there’s so much potential in this that if it retcons this New Era Again it will damage it completely, MK1 has more passion and Love to the 3D Era that I’m hoping these Criticisms don’t take them away as NRS has so many Characters they can Fix instead of making New Characters, not that is a bad thing but unless the Base Roster isn’t Larger and don’t do a Smash Bros, there’s a Chance that we might never see them again
I literally have this game on two systems and gladly go through all the steps for each one (switch, ps5) twice the towers of time for rewards each cycle, twice the story, twice the invasions, and I LOVE every single second of it. I feel like I’m still scratching the surface on what’s possible in this game. I do hope (please NRS!) that we get a 3rd KP. I guess I can deal without more story, even though I loved both the initial story, AND khaos reigns. I want to know where the story goes after this! But if not, please at least give us a few more kharacters/kameos, a coupe more stages, and at least ONE STAGE FATALITY! Pretty please!! Anyway, I absolutely love this game, and do not understand why so many people whine so much about it. Most of the complaints I still see are issues that haven’t existed for at least a year! But still, just chill and have fun guys and gals!
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I appreciate you man 🤜🤛
I would like to see a Kombat Pack 3 being brought into the game as well but I do not know if Netherrealms Studios are going to do that or not
I love mk1 too but kp3 needs hara kiri as a finisher
That would be cool lol I think the closest we have to do that is when someone quits online
I definetly think this game is a top 3 imo, it gave us new mechanics such as kameos and air combos returned from armageddon, the hate for this game is so dumb💀😭
I could be over generalizing, but people mad about kameos because bad, but that's also NRS' fault. IMO there should have a mandatory kameo tutorial, and every kameo during story mode should have had universal functionality on at least one of the buttons (they may have already for all I know, I was ass at this game when I played the story 😅)
I love mk one and i think we will get kombat pack 3 i yhink it will happen
I enjoy playing MK1 more than MK11. MK11 was just a complete slog for me to be enjoyable, especially having been an MKX player.
The only time you see krushing blows in Mortal Kombat 1 is when you do the Fatal Blow when you are low on health
Its the devs fault. They never communicate anything. If they have dlc they wanna sell, all of a sudden there is a kombat kast, but that's about it.
We already had leaks about the game beeing done, is there any denial from the devs? No!
I honestly thought all 3 recent mk games are all winners. Mk 10, mk 11 and mk1 all have there unique things that make them all fun.
With Mortal Kombat 1 and overall the way it was made i feel like we were giving the short end of the stick
I love mk1 I bought it twice I own it on pc & ps5❤
I hate the Kameo Fighting System because that reminds of Marvel vs Capcom and I feel like they duplicated the Kameo fighting system from the Marvel vs Capcom fighting game series
Yo bro. Good video. I agree. Way too much hate. I was disappointed for a while but it's getting better. More KHARACTERS and more stages with stage fatalities. No more guest dlc and no more KAMEOS for the next mk hopefully
Why didn't they bring back the five factions that people could join from Mortal Kombat 10 onto Mortal Kombat 1 and do faction kills based on whatever faction you are in? They should have brought that back.
Well they did say that they would support this game for 3 to 5 years, so no KP3 equals a lot of hate🤦♂️
Hey Scotty you excited about conan?
@@dominicpotter4878 yeah I'm looking forward to the patch and what he brings. I don't know much about the Conan so I can't say I'm hyped for him specifically but I'm excited for the update and seeing how he plays. What about you?
@ScottyKombat definitely excited to see what kind of fun stuff I can come up with and I'm really hoping we get some new skins this update honestly.
BEAUTIFUL GAME AND GEAR LOVE THE NEW ERA , ERMAC, SUB , TAKEDA , SHAO NOOB GHOSTFACE AND WAYYY MORE THE KAMEOS LIKE TREMOR AND KHEMELEON ARE SO FUN
Do you have a KP3 Wishlist?
@@spiderverse616 Yes but I feel they may be pretty unlikely, ty for asking. Personally I'd love to see Chameleon, Cyber Smoke (whether character or skin) and Nightwolf. Since it's a wishlist I'd say Frost for sure, but seeing as she is a kameo I know its not likely but if the chance were there definitely :)
Other characters I'd be hyped to see make an entrance would be Shinnok, Jade, Kintaro & Hotaru.
hot take: mk1 while not better than mk9 is better than mk11 & mkx & in 10 years will be looked back on fondly for the depth the kameo system adds. the mk kommunity will pretend like they never bashed mk1 like it was the worst game ever.
The biggest mistake by mk1 is costumization, thats all what we can do beside fighting and in mk1 you dont even have costumization slots, either choose one skin and one gear or make it random, and we cant even costumazie, just choose between three for skins with dozens of bad colour combinations and a few gears, Kameos dont have anything at all. You cant jump from MK11 to MK1 because its an obvious let down rushed game
I would love the customize feature from MK11, or any kind of load out. I agree MK1 needs more customizing, but the gameplay for me is a worlds difference. I'd rather pick a few favorite outfits with a better fighting system than a fighting system that lacks and has more customizing.
Subjective on gameplay of course, but its hard for me to play 11 after 1.
Edit: I also agree kameos need more customizing
In my opinion, there are 3 main reasons why people mostly hate this game :
1/ NRS decasualized the game. Those 80 seconds long combos, with some characters having very difficult executions (homelander and cancel flights, when u play with a controller is hard) made it a HARD game. People are used to 3 buttons combos in MK (mk11), or spamming robocop gun from afar. I personnaly find that zoning is still possible in mk1, but it is way less possible to abuse this mechanic than in other mks.
2/ Kameos. They add complexity (despite legitimate criticisms on usefulness of some of them). U get clipped by sareena from nowhere then u just rage " i didnt ask for this, this shit is 1v1, its mk!".
3/ Content : this is legitimate. There is way less than in other mks, ans a lot of things feels half assed.
Feels like a waste. The game has the most incredible DLC characters in any video games, quality wise (Ghostface incredible design and gameplay, Conan will be incredible from the latest trailers). But the game is dead.
Mortal Kombat 1 in my opinion just feel dry to me. I am happy that they brought back animalities and some new and returning characters. Obviously the game needs some additional gameplay features like hirakilis from Mortal Kombat Deception and some more female fighters in the game. The game it is a total dude festival lol
It's the kameos that I was never a fan of. Hope the next mk will leave out kameos and the grind to level up the characters to keep the 2nd fatality inputs on the list. Also, no more multiverse
With toxic "fan" mixed in the community. It's going to be hard
Is this a particular person or a label as some fans in general?
Hey Scotty i personal think kp3 is not cancel i think we will get the kp3 in mid 2027 before the next game speaking of fighting games you should try Sifu are you going live
I think we'll see KP3 if it happens before then if it does but I do hope we see it man. I've never heard of Sifu, I'd like to go live within the next 30; will you be on?
@@ScottyKombat yes
@@ScottyKombat So let me explain what sifu is it's a japanese fighter
We should be able to have an ai ability like in mortal kombat 11
Me too
the games got problems and saying the games unplayable for the most part is very valid ivasions sucks balls towers of time is ok at best and the kameo system isnt loved by most the community so this is just either rage bait for views or ur just out of touch this is coming from someone thats loves the game btw
Opinions of a fan boy
You wipe forward
Like we had already had seen that. I really wanted to see something different with Mortal Kombat 1 and not that same exact fighting mechanic being brought from the Marvel vs Capcom fighting game series
I feel like they did my favorite character Liu Kang dirty though. I like him better in Mortal Kombat 11 more than I do on Mortal Kombat 1.
The hate is well deserved this game singlehandedly ruined the reputation of the mk franchise
No mk1 is unbalanced and we dont need another mortal kombat
We'll always need more mortal kombat
I enjoy the variation system more than the kameo fighting system
There is a lack of defensive options. Score a knockdown and go unga bunga. Kameo assist that are summons when your character strikes a pose looks absolutely stupid. Is there really combo variety when you’re just using an assist to hold the opponent in the air while you recover? Music is still bad maybe notice one track and that’s from the fire temple. Story is awful just a marvel rip off that took time money and resources that could’ve went to the gameplay and online modes. Why’s mkx a 10’year old game get you to the online menus after a match faster than mk1?
Nope it’s effing trash.
They gave him lesser combos
I JUST want MK lore characters in NO MORE GUESTS
And I hope for some of these characters return:
- Cassie Cage
- Kung Jin
- Nightwolf or Fujin or Erron Black
- Jade
- Sonya Blade
- Skarlet or Jax or Kano or Kabal
This game is shit.