Mortal Kombat 9 SAVES THE FRANCHISE
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- Опубліковано 18 бер 2024
- Probably the most requested video on the channel, we're finally here. Conquering the NRS-era MK games starting with MK9!
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I know you guys have been asking for this one for awhile so here it is, MK9! The game that not only saved the franchise, but made MK what it is today. Enjoy everybody!
Well it's the best mk game, but 11 made 1 what it is today full of stuff they want you to buy
Did it need shao khan to be that much of a jerk?
"MK9 saved the franchise."
God, that statement that gets slapped on this nostalgia-bait game so that it will look more significant and good than it actually is.
If we talk about financial status, MK was already purchased by WB, therefore however the next game would end up being, it would unquestionably receive superior budget and resources than before, both in production and in marketing, thereby reaching higher sales and popularity anyway. Based on that regard, it would be more accurate to say that MK vs DCU saved the franchise, since it brought it to WB's attention and showed that it was still profitable, and MK9 was the first game made after it was saved. Heck, considering MK's popularity as an IP, it would probably still get bought by someone anyway, WB or someone else.
If we go about strictly popularity, some of tge things in the orevious argument apply here as well (already pretty popular, bought by WB thereby would reach bigger audiences by default).
Some people say that MK9 made the series popular due to appealing to the competitive side of things, but tgat is an extremely weak argument. Forgive me if my understanding of how competitive tournaments work is flawed, but isn't a game being competitively popular by either influencial figures in the community playing it, the game itself being modified from its original state to fit the competitive field and the devs advertising the game in tournaments and such. These things don't have much to do with the game itself and frankly, I believe that this specific category matters very little to the overall debate to begin with.
Finally, there is, in my opinion, the most important, yet also most subjective, aspect of the question, quality/entertainment value. This heavily varies based on the criteria we have over what makes a game good/fun and it depends based on our opinion about MK9 and the previous installments. In my opinion, MK9 oversimplified the story, the gameplay, the aesthetic and the additional content for the sake of mainstream and/or competitive appeal and gave birth or significantly worsened a lot of the series' constantly growing issues all the while paving the way for future mediocrity.
@@Tuturial464Did it need Shao Kahn to be that much of a moron?
And sometimes dead is better.
Mk9 to 11 killed any interest I had in the series new entries .
32:49 Raiden got jump scared by Stryker and just dies
Bruh what the hell
Stryker gave Raiden had a heart attack
I think it's more of Raiden just saying "you know what? F this!"
Stryker clearly learned from Kabal
Hot take: I still think Taven’s ending is canon. Everyone’s powers being amplified to the point where they essentially kill each other makes sense to me.
Same
Tavens ending the battle was still continuing, everyone was gonna die regardless of the scenario. The only thing that doesn't make sense is Shao Kahn.
It’s still weird that Shao Kahn managed to defeat Onaga all by himself, walk back to the crater, climb the pyramid and defeat all the other remaining warriors bar Raiden.
But how can they kill each other if their powers are equal?
@@CalciumChief Using them in a smarter way than their opponents.
"why is Jax locked up?"
Stryker: 😳😨
YOOOO 😂
"Police brutality coming up!"
@@deltaheavy2094 FINISH HIM!... Turns off body cam
I love MK9 because its the only game where my favorite character Stryker was relevent
It to me showed a laziness in nrs hands with how they just didn't try with the ot characters not as fleshed out or liked.
They could of reworked even Hsu Hao into something instead of giving his chest piece to kano.
Like you can make something work with them ,but to me nrs just are lazy about handling characters.
What bugs me of nrs game fans is hpw they will crap on the ot 3d characters yet they give the nrs trilogy characters who I'd argue just were as underdeveloped and undercooked a pass.
The fact that MK9 story is basically MK1-3 is simply mind blowing . Literally best MK in the series
8:06 the way that this is my favorite clip in TGTKAI history
Dude I lost it 😂 I was not expecting it at all
“Goddamn [insert hot female character] Jesus Christ” has to be a meme on this channel!
Madam bo:
@@Idontwannabetheguynuh uh
14:53 🎶we will we will rock you 🎶
It is true that MK9 revived the Mortal Kombat franchise!
And mk11 had to kill it
@@XZAVIER-DAA-GODi believe mk1 did way more damage to the ip, than mk11.
@@TheVAGNETTOnah mk1 took steps forward, mk11 was a oversimplified mess that took a whole year to be somewhat enjoyable.
@@maiqtheliar3502mk 1 also had its over abundance of bugs and problems too. They are still working on making that game enjoyable.
@@XZAVIER-DAA-GODmk1 killed it more than mk11
Ah yes, the days where Ed Boon wasn't scared of offending someone who don't even buy his games, good times
MK9 ain't offensive, it's just tacky af
Sweetie pie, are you offended that people want better than bikini suits for female fighters? grow up
@@pbodyten4694 You mean it had the best possible art direction out of the entire NRS catalog
@Do0mSl4yer95 in my opinion it's pretty good, but nowhere near the best (which gotta be the new MK1). the female character designs in particular are very impractical and only really serve the purpose of making gamers go "booba!!" which would've been fine had it fit the tone of the game, which it certainly did not
@@pbodyten4694 I don't agree. The newer more culturally accurate and practical designs are pretty bland in comparison and there's nothing wrong with jiggle physics during a fighting game. At this point it should be up to the player to customize their roster since that's exactly why Tekken got an overall better review. MK had a culture true to itself which it should stick to. The newer designs are all genuinely lame as hell.
I would kill for a console remaster of this
I’ll let you kill me.. we all need a remaster
Just buy a PS3 or xbox 360, and this game
Mortal Kombat 9 set up a bunch of cool stuff that never realm went back on or just completely forgot about. MKX was the first game I was really genuinely disappointed in, comboing in mk9 just seemed much smoother to me than the rest of the games afterwards
Mkx is cool the comics make the story better
@@XZAVIER-DAA-GODThe comics were great, but next to none of the character interactions and events that occur in them are ever mentioned in the MKX story mode.
Same the combos and gameplay in mk9 were peak gameplay in the modern day era. No game afterwards have came close
@@TheNadroj10 word
Really think you didn’t give the game a serious try. Mkx as a whole is an upgrade to mk9. Character design was improved, gameplay was made even faster, sfx were crispier and the combo potential is far greater to mk9’s because of the run cancelling. I’ve played both games autisticly and i truly believe mkx is NRS’s best game. Only issue with mkx was the balancing, but mk9’s balancing ecen worse because no patches
(18:20) they actually show how they bring Kui back in a comic. Basically, Quan Chi felt like Sub-zero we restricted in his cyborg form, so he painfully restored his body.
Then why did he even have em resurrected like that at the start?
Btw despite what they claim quan chi was never orginaly a necromancer and it was why he teamed up with Shang tsung in deadly alliance.
@darkzeroprojects4245 that's just how he died as.
Liu Kang and Raiden: Shouldn't you guys do something about this invasion and Shao Kahn?
Elder Gods: No, we just gonna sit here and watch
I still have MK9 and Xbox 360. Xbox 360 era was the golden age of gaming.
Fact
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MK9 needs to be released again for PS4/5.
Strongly agree, WB is so desperate for money im shocked they haven't done it
@@tgtkai
I am willing it into existence now.
That's why Xbox is better because you can play it on there
@@XZAVIER-DAA-GODno online though 😢
Facts
MK9 is the best MK for sure.
No it's not
Mkx is better. Mk9 is a brinksmanship mess of game
Edit: I meant to say broken, WHAT THE FUCK IS BRINKMANSHIP autocorrect pls for the love of -
My very first MK I played 10 years ago on the PS3. It was the first time I got introduced to the franchise
You know is it just me or does Mileena have bigger Badonkers than Kitana. Its just something I have been noticing for a while now everytime I look at both of them.
I remember playing MK9 so much with my sister, it definitely resulted in me getting into fighting games later on.
Shame growing up I ended up not enjoying MK, or any NRS game for that matter.
1:39 that might be the most cursed image ive seen in weeks
Never been a fan of this game, but im still glad it exists. The mk franchise would have died otherwise
How are you not a fan of the best mk game?
@XZAVIER-DAA-GOD I don't think mk9 is the best the franchise has to offer. I just don't think it's fun, especially compared to the games that came after it. Just my opinion though, I get why so many people love it.
@@BRIANNA_00 doesn't matter you think, it's the best, it's a better version of MK3, the best mk designs, and move sets. Fun gameplay best maps. And the best roster that's not Armageddon, its the best nrs game, MKX is good but not as great, and 11 & 1 are jokes
@XZAVIER-DAA-GOD Like I said, it's just my opinion. Neither of us are wrong.
@@BRIANNA_00 ah no you are, 9 is the best, is has everything that you want in a mk game, and tag team, like if you say 1 or 11 are better that's laughable, if you say X that's wrong because X is like the 5th best games under Deception, UMK3, Shaolin Monks & maybe DA
8:27 Bruh, ninjas loved technology. They totally used firearms whenever they could get a hold of them. It's this romanticized image of ninjas being or mystical and magical, but they just used a lot of clever tech.
Uh are you referring to real history? Dude….ninjas didn’t exist in real life. They’re literally a myth. There are no mentions of them in all of history until the 1900’s.
He could of said "shao khan must merge relms without winning in mortal kombat" real quickly
This would’ve solved so many problems in one precise move
"Shaomustmergerealmswitho-" *CRUSH*
'Let Shao in.'
Mk9 aka how raiden ruined the timeline
Not really
Netherrealm studios ruined the timeline.
@@Kageofyoutube technically There's 3 timelines but the original is the best
Johnny cage was funny he was like "I'm taking you out im taking you out and im taking you out. . .for dinner
Deception is what got me into the series. Nothing beats 2000’s camp that made MK into TMNT with boobs and blood. The direction they went with 10 and on was a mistake.
It got me into fighting games my first one when I was 4
Might be a hot take. I actually really like general Shao for Mk1. It's kind of nice to see him rise up to power to the big bad we all know instead of just instantly being the final boss. Gives characters like Onaga a chance to be the villain in the next game
I love the fact that he was literally a sickly child but developed into big and important warrior, gives him depth and a reason for don't retreat, for if he retreats, all his experience will be in vain
Nah. The whole rise to power thing is lame as hell. Plus Shao Kahn was in power for a very long time before we ever saw him as a boss. Plus Onaga could've easily been the new main boss if they just ignored Kronika. Shang Tsung is underwhelming considering he was the last boss of the Aftermath expansion.
Shao Khan went from a conniving ruthless villain to a complete jobber in the last two games.
@@jameszbierski391 11 did him dirty, mk1 is building him up to be a major threat
@@julianray-mt9ku He doesn't need build up because the opportunity to do the crazy shit he needed to become emperor already came and went. Killing King Jerrod was the pinnacle of that plan and the main reason MK was a priority was because Shao Kahn needed to win 1 more tournament against Earth realm before he could invade without Elder God interference. THAT was build up. Mk1 has NOTHING near that level of build up. Onaga is already in chains so they made sure to show us he's not a threat. The new timeline sucked.
If Shao Kahn's new plan is to usurp the throne from Mileena it won't be anywhere near as urgent as when he killed Jerrod because of course Shao Kahn can kill Mileena. Plus on the flip side the only significance Mileena had to Shao Kahn was her complete obedience to his rule and she was going to trick the population into thinking she was Kitana.
None of that is happening and nothing close to being as cool as that has been planned.
Titan versions of the characters ruined MK's story telling. Titans should've been a separate species way stronger than Elder God's and Lui Kang becoming one should've been an extremely rare case. Only for them to show all the kombatants became titans in separate timelines ? That's lame as hell.
The last MK game to have female characters in scantily clad outfits.
Well not necessary true but, the best mk game had to have it
Yeah and like the only MK to have them
@@Harmalarm813ahhh not they’re not. The character designs were like this from MK3 all the the though the 3D area till nine
@@Harmalarm813 mk2, 3 and 4 had scantily clad women.
@@XZAVIER-DAA-GODit’s not the best mk game. Story is a mess, gameplay is unbalanced and broken and the characters are like 80% shit.
As soon as u said mk9 saved the franchise , u definitely earned my subscription to ur channel. I still have my mk9 game on Xbox 360 and my fav character is Johnny cage and the extra character I love is freddy Krueger
Bro starts reciting the bible everytime he sees a female character in the screen 💀💀💀
Jade Chapter: I’m getting light headed from all the blood rushing to my…..head 👀
One of the best MK channels I've come across...
I HATED how they made shao khan win armageddon because it makes no goddamn sense. It was such a asspull of a reason to reset.
How? Who should of won then? And Shoa Kahn is the villain of mk so ?
@@XZAVIER-DAA-GOD watch the intro of the game foo, Shao Kahn got taken away from the pyramid by Onaga.
Taven should have won... sort of. He says that it was a failure and he was trying to come up with a solution so what about after knocking sense into Raiden ( because I'm pretty sure Raiden is on the light side in intro) the fighting becomes too much and both of them realize the realms are about to tear themselves apart so THEN Raiden sends a message back, knowing it will cause a butterfly effect, of course past Raiden still wouldn't know what he meant and 9 can happen without missing the point of armageddon. Armageddon's whole point was all the fighting leads to NO true winners.
@@XZAVIER-DAA-GODthere's many main villains of mk. Not just Shao Kahn.
@@isuckatgaming1873 1. Shao Khan
2. Shang Tsung
3. Quan-Chi
4. Shinnok
5. Onaga
They should make MK9 Remastered
What pissed me off is in the later games they made kitana more asian like in appearance she has eyes like apostrophes
I really, really want them to take the risk again with special input meter burns. Idk if you remember this, but during mk11's super, super early development, during the earliest alpha test, meter burning moves required special inputs like pressing triangle, or pressing back + 2, or forward + 4. Unfortunately, fans wanted them to bring it back to just pressing R2. I want them to take the risk and bring it back again because it encourages hard work, more focus and effort in learning the characters. Not only that, they could implement multiple meter-burned special moves by inputing different inputs.
Mk9 is what introduced me to the series officially. I heard of the game from the movie years before but never saw or played the game
Started singing We Will Rock You to your Smoke combo and it fits so well 😂
your funny asf😭 i had to sub
Great narration , makes the story great to watch again.
MK9 is the best MK game ever
Love your content keep up the great work
MK 9 saved the franchise and MK 11 killed it.
The greatest MK of all time. MK11 is a close second.
My gta verse has mortal Kombat being canonical to the gta games. The big difference is that there’s 2 different versions of the mk characters. They’re different characters with different names. Maybe share the same names. But their backgrounds differ. There’s a fire god Liu Kang and human Liu Kang, there’s a farmer Raiden. And the god of thunder Raiden.
I can't wait for next video...
Mortal Komabt 1 KILLS THE FRANCHISE
This was me and my siblings first MK game back in 2009 when I was like 12. Shit was an experience,loved it
Awesome Video Bro!
You know what?
I don't care what people say..
Raiden Did NOTHING Wrong
Raiden isn't a saint but the Elder Gods were stupider than he was, like most real elders and their outdated ideologies💀
@LilWeeWeeGamin69 your goddamn right
They really just brought out their chairs and popcorn and watched the madness unfold until Shao Khan came to earthrealm
Milenna is my favorite mk character
Ok, permit me to be that “ACKCHYEWALLY” guy. Sonya’s chapter: I don’t think she beat Raiden. I think Raiden ultimately knew they needed to be on the same side, so he held back and didn’t want to actually hurt her. As for the helicopter getting to another dimension…it didn’t. Shang Tsung’s island is in Earthrealm I believe.
Good video. Good stuff. I love this game and this story mode so much that I have every chapter and fight order memorized.
That thumbnail had me thinking
Shao Kahn “ what was that supposed to be, Raiden”
My Rankings:
35. Motaro
34. Rain
33. Baraka
32. Reptile
31. Ermac
30. Goro
29. Quan Chi
28. Sektor
27. Cyrax
26. Sheeva
25. Skarlett
24. Sub-Zero
23. Scorpion
22. Raiden
21. Liu Kang
20. Shao Kahn
19. Kung Lao
18. Kabal
17. Stryker
16. Nightwolf
15. Smoke
14. Shang Tsung
13. Cyber Sub-Zero
12. Kratos
11. Jax
10. Freddy Kruger
9. Kintaro
8. Soyna
7. Kano
6. Noob Saibot
5. Mileena
4. Kitana
3. Jade
2. Sindel
1. Johnny Cage
Mk9 was literally perfect then each game after just became worse and worse
So regarding the rules of the first tournament, the only logical explanation is if it's a team-based round robin where everybody on one side fights everybody on the other side at least once. Then if somebody on the defending side manages to win without losing a single match, they take on the two elite members being goro and Shang tsung. This sounds incredibly stupid, but remember that the rules are already stacked in shao Kahn's favor. for example any citizen of any realm can outright help out world, including people from the defending realm, but any outworld citizen has no choice but to help outworld if they decide to join. That's why boraicho never showed up. On top of that the banning of deities like Raiden and fujin exclusively help the attacking realm, as outworld only has one God, being shao Kahn himself who wouldn't want to join in that anyway and would rather send his lackeys. We can assume that the reason the rules are so wacky and lean heavily in outworld's favor is because shao Kahn helped write the rules if not wrote them completely by himself at which point the elder gods officiated them.
There also doesn't seem to be any rules about when and how the fights happen. Which allows outworld to cheat even further because they get to decide that whenever. Like having people take on two separate combatants simultaneously, or just straight-up ambushing somebody with an immediate fight that they have no choice, but to take on right that second.
That... is actually a much better explanation of the tournament that we have gotten from even the creators themselves. Kudos.
MK1 does explain their tournament format, but as we all know... Fire God Liu Kang reset the universe to make it happen this way. Damn thing is still incredibly lopsided in the New Era, lol. 🤣
As a little child the farthest I got was the jade and I think it was kitatana tag team level
Taven ending is canon, everyone got buffed
MK9 Sonya 😘
the kick and the xray
Deception is the best in my opinion. I always played without death traps.
But I like 3D better.
This game took me 8 years to platinum. Atrocious 24 hours and 150 wins and 100 x rays, 100 fatalities, 15,000 pints of blood spilled for every kharacter. What was NRS thinking? Lol
19:08 i dig it, brotha.
MK9 is what made me a fan of the series.
How would you rank the all the NRS MK story modes so far?
My personal list goes:
1. MK9 - Feels truest to the dark fantastical roots of the series with fun characters, though they write themselves into their first corner when Sindel murders several of the main cast members.
2. M1K - A fun, if too lighthearted in tone, re-reboot. But they shit the bed again by not just making it a clean break from the previous timeline by adding in multiverse nonsense that everyone is tired of. And they had a golden opportunity to use Onaga again, but he’ll presumably show up in a sequel. If they’re smart, they’ll put it the multiverse to bed for the next game, but knowing the present writing team, I somehow doubt it.
3. MKX - I actually enjoyed the dynamic with some of the Kombat Kids, but the story is bogged down by the overuse of the Special Forces faction. And what they had Scorpion do screwed them even deeper into the corner. More focus on Outworld stuff would’ve been better.
4. MK11 w/Aftermath - The Sonya scene near the start actually made me emotional, but again, the stakes are lowered because it’s the start of the timeline nonsense to try and dig themselves out of the corner. Even more questionable characterization and story decisions. Aftermath is propped up by the main trio of Shang Tsung, Fujin, and Nightwolf, but I think a lot of can us agree that it turned into a big shitshow near the end.
So i'm planning to actually do just this for a video and rank all the story modes, so i'll save it for that. But MK9 I still do think is the best way to experience the OG MK story
somebody give this man a medal for speaking god's words!
19:26 Giga smash!
17:56 anyone with a brain would think so
Mk1 Scorpion is a disgrace to this kharacter's name
They Should have made it like that in Mortal Kombat 1 where Hanzo Hasashi still as Scorpion where he has brother’s.
Mortal Kombat 9 was the first Mortal Kombat game i ever played, i think also the first fighting game i’ve ever played (Edit: 32:46 - 32:53 = I laughed instantly 😂 (This guy is my favorite Mortal Kombat content-creator now *Story-Mode Wise*)
Late a week to see this Masterpiece.
Mk9 is still peak MK, trash Story aside. Its a type of game I'll install whenever friends or families came around or during weekend. Just press it for Ladder, some funny Test your Luck and others.
Heck I call them to do 2 vs 2 for some fun, not even the sequels can be this Fun anymore.
Awesome vid
I still do Shao Kahn babality runs once every once in a while. Best MK game IMO.
It was also this game that made a lot of people lose a lot enjoyment of the 3d era games as well, not because they were all garbage, but because in terms of gameplay and experience, MK9 is what a lot of people were wishing for in a home console MK for a long time.
Kitana and Jade, Shang Tsung and Shao Kahn were the hardest mother fuckers to beat i stg
It's also the best mk game ever
16:31 I laughed way more than I should have 😅
Normi Liu Kang making his first fatality look “brutal” lol
Remember the shao kahn fight it took so long to beat him
He must win 🔥 💯
Armageddon is the last true canon Mortal Kombat.
jesus crisis (Jade, Katana) 2:04
jesus crisis tho Jade 4:50
God dam Jade jesus crisis 13:43
Jesus goddam crisis holy crap Jade 19:08
jesus crisis goddam Mileena 19:35
jesus crisis goddam holy shit Jade 20:29
jesus goddam holy crap jade 20:41
God damm jesus crisis Jade 20:53
jesus crisis goddam Mileena 21:16
Jesus god fuck crisis jesus Jade 21:18
Oh my god jesus mary and Joseph and the goddam Mileena 21:21
He is like "Goddam Mileena Holy Shit 25:37
Jesus goddam crisis Sindel 27:00
Jesus god crisis goddam Sindel 30:29
:v
This comment should be pinned lol
I always hear people saying that liu kang death and the timeline are all raiden fault but in my opinion I don't think that's raiden fault like raiden did nothing wrong
1 raiden didn't expect that shao will kill kung lao
2 raiden didn't that sindel will kill everyone
3 liu kang should've Calm the hell down
I 100% agree!! All Raiden had was a few random flashes of vision of random events and from all that, was supposed to prevent some huge outcome. He couldn’t possibly know the consequences of any actions because it was never clear if he had to prevent it or let it ride. Also Liu Kang attacked Raiden first and Raiden defended himself. I don’t think he was aiming to kill, it legit was an accident
Imagine Ed so woke he goes back and patch up mk9 sexy ladies 😆😆
This was my first mk game
Peak MK
Goated vid
Shao khan was a beast in this game the way hes supposed to he his voice actor was great too a lot better imo to 11 and 1
He sounded so goat contrasting to mk 11 and mk 1 where he does sound like a stock villain.
I love how every character was damn near broken in this game lol. Such a good game. Be dope if they remade it, would be better then F***in MK1
Y’all remember the newgrounds animation with Jade from MK9? Good times
Obviously the best
The best MK game
14:48 Smoke is a fan of Queen confirmed 😅
dont you want to see the combo on its full? yeah, in fact i was expecting that, but never delivered
Imo yeah, Shao was super nerfed, like in mk9 he was so strong that not even Raiden could beat him without the power of the Elder Gods, wish they didn't nerf him as much as they did, they did reedem him a tiny bit in MK11 Aftermath tho.
Best game of mk
When Jade and Sheeva were fighting sheeva had her primary costume but when jade defeated her she was wearing her alt. Is this mistake or something because sheeva wears that costume later when fighting Kabal??
Somehow I remember the female characters looking very bad and disproportionate in this game, but they don't, they look great, a little naked maybe but it's MK.
The only thing that is the same is that if Mileena is a clone of Kitana made to replace her they did a terrible job. She's supposed to look just like Kitana if she covers her mouth but she has yellow eyes with snake like pupils and a completely different voice... Kinda noticeable
Also God damn Jesus Christ holy shit Jade
Shao Kahn was at his full power in this game he literally took out every one 💯💯💯💯💯
we need that mk9 scorpion skin in mk11 it's the best he's ever looked away from the 95 film