My mom used to love Mortal Kombat when she was younger. Actually, she told me that it was one of the three games she’d play before i was born. The other two being one of the Ogre Battle (or Tactics Ogre, still not sure which one is more of a fitting name), and the amazing SNES JRPG Chrono Trigger
Shujinko didn't fail his quest. He actually completed it, which was exactly what Onaga wanted. He was a spirit at the time, since he was previously killed by Shao Khan, and wanted Shujinko to collect the Kamidogu so he could merge the realms. This would bring back the One Being, a deity that existed before everything else, who was eventually split into the realms that exist. Once Reptile got turned into Onaga's new body in his Deadly Alliance ending, Onaga took the Kamidogu from Shujinko, who thought he was on a quest from the Elder Gods to save the realms. That's why the game talks about Deception. Deception, and to an extent Armageddon, are driven by the One Being trying to reform, which would end all of reality. As for MK10 being less colorful, I believe it reflects the serious nature of the story. In the original timeline, Shao Khan is still alive, and most of Earthrealm's heroes are still alive. This means Shinnok has to settle for a tournament in order to conquer Earthrealm and absorb it into the Netherrealm. This would bring the One Being closer to resurrection, of course, showing its influence over even a fallen Elder God. But, Liu Kang kicks Shinnok's ass and sends the Netherrealm packing. In the new timeline, most of Earthrealm's fighters are dead and serving as Revenants under Shinnok, while Outworld is in the middle of a civil war because of Shao Khan being killed at the end of MK9. This lets Shinnok launch a full-scale invasion of Earthrealm, complete with an army of demons. It's just about as bleak a situation as possible for Earthrealm in this game. Shinnok's Arcade ending even has him conquer all the realms and merge them, intentionally bringing back the One Being. That ending basically tells us he was being mentally influenced by this dead entity. So, MK10 has a lot at stake, which, again, I believe is the reason for the darker color tones. Sorry for the long post, but the lore and background machinations in MK are very interesting to me.
Johnny Cage in the 1st and 2nd MK games was actually modelled after Jean Claude Van Damme from bloodsport. And not sure why exactly; but watching Kitana turn into a ravenous rabbit then attacking made me immediately think of Monty Python and the Holy Grail. And Tiger electronics had made a card barcode scanner MK3 handheld game. When I played that it confused the crap out of me due to having to use certain cards for certain moves for certain characters. Street Fighter also had one which I also have. Fun fact; Carey-Hiroyuki Tagawa also portrayed Shang Tsung in live action in MK Legacy for 3 episodes. He also portrayed Heihachi in both live action Tekken movies.
To me the peak was Ultimate MK3 it had all the characters from the previous games up to that point and added 3 new ninjas Noob Saibot, Rain, and Ermac its also the first time you can play as Shao Khan, Goro, Kintaro, and Motaro, Motaro in MK Armageddon kind of blows I still have that game but my ps2 is broken
A flawless retrospective. To think I've been playing MK in its inception, I can see why it's still going strong 30 years later. I really appreciatetaking us into your journey with your experience with MK. A crown jewel of both fighting games and pop culture. All there's left to say is excellent!
Fun fact, quan chi’s first ACTUAL appearance was not the games, but the cartoon spelt with a K: defenders of the realm where all he does is make this goofy freeze frame worthy face, then peaces out until 4 came out…our villain everyone
Great video! I remember when the first Mortal Kombat came out in arcades and just blew everyone's mind. I always thought it was kind of weird how the graphics style would change a little from game to game, but overall I was always impressed by the visuals... until they went 3D. MK4 turned my off of the series as a whole, to the point where I just never got back into it. Shout out to Kyle!
Jesas Khrist Deception, I was casually listening to this retrospective when I heard the name of the main character. Shujinkou (主人公) in Japanese LITERALLY translate to "protagonist". I'm simultaneously proud I caught that and pissed I now know this trivia.
Here's the kicker: Shujinko, aka Protagonist, is approached by a spirit who gives him his mission supposedly on behalf of the Elder Gods. The spirit is actually an avatar summoned by Onaga, the dead Dragon King, to set up events so he could be resurrected. The spirit's name? Damashi. aka "Deceive"...in a game called Mortal Kombat: Deception.
I like mk3 the most, but deception was really damn good. Chess kombat was addictive af to me as I love chess. Playing story mode was so relaxing to me, it is a great game to stream even to this day, can't go wrong with it. Mk3 gave me bursts of action and fun, but I could definitely sit there and stream deception for hours.
Batman doesn’t kill…but he brutally lays the smackdown on anyone in his path to the point where the unfortunate j-bronne is in a hospital, hanging on for dear life.
The first Mortal Kombat game I’ve played was Mortal Kombat (2011) on the Xbox 360 and it was fantastic. And I was also too young to play that game at the time, I was about 7 or so. But I still love Mortal Kombat in all of its Gory Glory.
Honestly, mk 9 was one of my favorites, I loved how your character kept their injuries as they fought to where at the end they're standing there with chunks of their body missing and whatnot, lol. Seems like after that game they'd mostly spray blood but most look like sweaty angry ppl.
Honestly I don’t know why they don’t do another mk vs dc universe. I think they’ve gotten pretty good at making the modern mk gameplay as well as injustice’s take in it with dc characters. Both series are do well so it almost seems like a no-brainer to try again. I feel like this time they could actually give marvel vs capcom the run for their money that they were originally intending with mk 8
I still remember when I first played Mortal Kombat on Genesis. I hadn't ever played it at the arcade, partly because I've always hated playing fighting games at the arcade because of having to use a crappy joystick that doesn't register anything properly. So when I did get the chance to play Mortal Kombat, which involved some exploitation of an incident to convince my mom to let me rent it, I was highly disappointed by the low level of violence. Yes, it was still more violent than most other games I'd played, but compared to all the rumors I had heard of the game at the time, and without having experienced the arcade original, I came to the conclusion that all the hype over the game's violence was heavily over exaggerated.
I played in the arcade because I was poor, we were always behind on the game consoles as well when we were barely getting an snes people already had n64 and playstation, then we got the N64 and the ps2 came out, then we finally caught up with the ps2 and the ps3 came out so we gave up after getting a ps3 and xbox360
@@rockk9753 On the plus side, staying a generation behind means most games will be cheaper to buy, and you can research the console's entire library in advance, instead of buying a console early then hoping for the best in the years to come.
MK Armageddon was the first mortal kombat I saw. My brothers wouldn’t let me play with them so I would sit and watch. When I did play the game my main was Liu Kang.
As an 3D era lover and advocate, I never understood why 3D era haters or people who haven't played the 3D games would call the new characters "generic" when characters from the klassic era like Johnny, Sonya, kano, Jax (to a lesser extent) and especially Liu Kang are as generic as they come in their debut games, Johnny is every white Hollywood actor ever, Sonya is basically just "Girl" kano was basically "ever bad guy grunt ever," Jax is bodybuilder/pro wrestler, and Liu Kang is 1 of a million Bruce lee ripoff/copycats. Now if you were to say, read their bios or see their arcade endings they might become more interesting, but guess what I'm about to say. Go on, guess. The same think would happen if people did the same thing for the 3D era characters!! Lets use Ashrah as an example. Some people have called Ashrah a "Raiden Clone" which outside of the color theme and ONE move, is not true. and if people read Ashrah's bio and story, they'd learn that Ashrah is a Demon from the netherrealm who wants to cleanse her soul and and escape damnation. there is a lot more to her story but everyone else can look that up. but this is just one example of many 3d era characters that are very interesting if you look past the surface of "Character select" (RANT OVER) Also to talk about the "Bad voice acting" I understand it can be annoying to some but remember, unlike NRS, Midway wasn't a major game developer, they had to work a much smaller budget, most videogames of this era had bad, Cheesy voice acting, there are some exceptions but those are exceptions.
I never played X for pretty much the exact same reason you did: I didn't have an Xbox or Playstation from that generation. Hell, the only reason I was able to play MK9 was cuz I bought a 360 super cheap during a black Friday sale towards the end of that console's life. What can I say, I've mostly been a Nintendo fanboy most of my life. Though when the next game, MK11, did actually come out on a console I owned, I went and watched a supercut of all of X's story cutscenes on youtube to prepare myself. Because, yes, I actually am that kind of dork who actually plays these games for the story.
This video is amazing. Your content is top notch. I'm actually low key crying a little, so much memories and your experience seems so familiar to mine... Thanks for your work...
Mortal Kombat really brings such nostalgia to my childhood, and I’ve played all of these games (most of them). Now that they are recently releasing a brand new rebooted game, and calling it Mortal Kombat 1.
I wish they would release the Mortal Kombat games into Collections. Kombat Collection 1 would have Mk 1,2,3,4 (The Gold Version), Mythologies, and Special Forces. Kombat Kollection 2 would have Shaolin Monks, Deadly Alliance, Deception, Armageddon, Vs DC Universe, and Mortal Kombat (2011)
Your perspective of the MK 11 story is opinion of course but I think honestly if you think about it, the multiverse reset aspect of it is the best way to reintroduce the 3D characters again which does appear to be a thing Ed Boon has said recently. Story wise I imagine it’s not a trilogy and MK12 will continue the story. If we see characters like Havok for example reappear and some others that would need a bigger redesign return I think that’s a strong move as well as in a way reopening the door for future games to bring back Onaga in a new way since timeline wise from MK9 it could make sense. However when you mentioned the MK movie and everything to do with it Hell yes. No one can replace Cage or Shang from that movie. They were perfect and it’s an easy guilty pleasure movie I’ve watched countless times. Great video though. Loved the content
mkx being so low makes me so sad bc it was basically my first hands on experience with the 2D style of mortal Kombat and I loved it so much and I learned so many combos and got really good at it. But overall Mkx is an amazing game but it sucks how bad the color palette was.
Mortal Kombat 2011 where you play in the story mode as Liu kang and have to fight shao kahn is still to this day the hardest level of any game i have ever played in my life, i wasn’t much of a controller thrower but if i was i definitely would’ve went through a few and maybe a tv or 2
Great, now I can try one of those fa-alities! 😂 My brother was my rival in video games. With Shao Lin Monks I was always Kung Lao or Scorpion while he was always Liu Kang or Sub-Zero though I was always player 1. Would've been nice if they would've followed up with Shao Lin Monks 2, that first game was awesome.
I know I am the only person who feels this way, but MK 4 is my favorite MK game of all time. I loved the chessy endings, and I was also really good at it. Beat the game with every character on Ultimate II and took the time to actually memorize the move sets for each character.
Seeing someone rank MKX so low is actually so surprising to me, I guess it’s because from a gameplay stand point MKX is so much more fun than mk11 for me personally with running, meter management and having simpler variations. While MK11 has one of the worst comeback mechanics I have ever seen in a fighting game, worse story imo and quantity over quality cosmetics with micro transactions slapped on that you have to grind in towers for hours to even get for free. I could go on but honestly through all it’s faults I love both games and they both have something that keeps me coming back, hoping MK12 which is “soon” becomes the best it can possibly be
MK armagedon was packed with effing content! If it was released now, some characters will be locked by paywall, kreate a fighter is non existent or if it was it's heavily reliant on micro transactions, and motor kombat would be released as a stand alone game priced at $60
I remember hearing back when deadly alliance came out that Liu Kang was killed off because Ed Boon really didn't like the character to begin with. Could have been just a baseless rumor though.
I liked Stryker in 3. I also liked MK4 and Reiko. When they gave some Shao Kahn mystery to him, I was excited. I understand why they undid it cause people didn't care for him. I definitely hated him in the 2020 movie.
As a kid I loved to play as Goro agents my sisters on the first ever playstation. The only reason why I chose him was because he has 4 arms so I would do the input to hold them and beat them with the extra arms. I was a dirty cheater with him but I lost most of the time. But I had fun.(Especially when me or one of my sisters pulled off a fatality.
My mom used to love Mortal Kombat when she was younger. Actually, she told me that it was one of the three games she’d play before i was born. The other two being one of the Ogre Battle (or Tactics Ogre, still not sure which one is more of a fitting name), and the amazing SNES JRPG Chrono Trigger
Ogre Battle, now there's a game I haven't heard of in a long time. It sure was an interesting one
My mom was too much of a fool to not play that game
why is my mom not like yours
@@vortex4613 I have no clue. the most my mom plays for games these days is very rarely Pokemon Conquest.
Your mom sounds amazing all 3 great games!
Kyle is a legend for teaching this man about Mortal Kombat
"Kyle The Legend" is the person we never got to know but the person we need to learn about..
#MortalKyleSweep
Mortal Kombat will remain one of my most favorite fighting game franchises of all time.
Shujinko didn't fail his quest. He actually completed it, which was exactly what Onaga wanted. He was a spirit at the time, since he was previously killed by Shao Khan, and wanted Shujinko to collect the Kamidogu so he could merge the realms. This would bring back the One Being, a deity that existed before everything else, who was eventually split into the realms that exist. Once Reptile got turned into Onaga's new body in his Deadly Alliance ending, Onaga took the Kamidogu from Shujinko, who thought he was on a quest from the Elder Gods to save the realms. That's why the game talks about Deception. Deception, and to an extent Armageddon, are driven by the One Being trying to reform, which would end all of reality.
As for MK10 being less colorful, I believe it reflects the serious nature of the story. In the original timeline, Shao Khan is still alive, and most of Earthrealm's heroes are still alive. This means Shinnok has to settle for a tournament in order to conquer Earthrealm and absorb it into the Netherrealm. This would bring the One Being closer to resurrection, of course, showing its influence over even a fallen Elder God. But, Liu Kang kicks Shinnok's ass and sends the Netherrealm packing. In the new timeline, most of Earthrealm's fighters are dead and serving as Revenants under Shinnok, while Outworld is in the middle of a civil war because of Shao Khan being killed at the end of MK9. This lets Shinnok launch a full-scale invasion of Earthrealm, complete with an army of demons. It's just about as bleak a situation as possible for Earthrealm in this game. Shinnok's Arcade ending even has him conquer all the realms and merge them, intentionally bringing back the One Being. That ending basically tells us he was being mentally influenced by this dead entity. So, MK10 has a lot at stake, which, again, I believe is the reason for the darker color tones.
Sorry for the long post, but the lore and background machinations in MK are very interesting to me.
MK4 was an invasion not a tournament. It's only a tournament from a gameplay perspective.
Alot at stake but the NRS storyline is trash.
Johnny Cage in the 1st and 2nd MK games was actually modelled after Jean Claude Van Damme from bloodsport.
And not sure why exactly; but watching Kitana turn into a ravenous rabbit then attacking made me immediately think of Monty Python and the Holy Grail.
And Tiger electronics had made a card barcode scanner MK3 handheld game. When I played that it confused the crap out of me due to having to use certain cards for certain moves for certain characters. Street Fighter also had one which I also have.
Fun fact; Carey-Hiroyuki Tagawa also portrayed Shang Tsung in live action in MK Legacy for 3 episodes. He also portrayed Heihachi in both live action Tekken movies.
Ok, now his iconic splits/crotch shot move makes 1000x more sense 😂
Armageddon and 9 (2011) are easily the peak back to back games. I NEED A SHAOLIN MONKS SEQUEL AND REMASTER NOW
To me the peak was Ultimate MK3 it had all the characters from the previous games up to that point and added 3 new ninjas Noob Saibot, Rain, and Ermac its also the first time you can play as Shao Khan, Goro, Kintaro, and Motaro, Motaro in MK Armageddon kind of blows I still have that game but my ps2 is broken
A flawless retrospective.
To think I've been playing MK in its inception, I can see why it's still going strong 30 years later. I really appreciatetaking us into your journey with your experience with MK. A crown jewel of both fighting games and pop culture. All there's left to say is excellent!
It's not flawless, he talked shit about Fujin.
"Wrong, Jarek! This is not a brutality! This is a FATALITY!" "IMSOGAAAAAAAAAAY!!!"
Mortal kombat is my FAVOURITE game series, i see positives for ever game, and it's good to see just content on someone who's lovin talking about it
This video has to have the most chaotic ranking of the Mortal Kombat games I’ve ever seen
Me: Mains Reiko when he is playable.
Conner: Reiko fans don't exist
Me: ok. (Fades from existance)
Fun fact, quan chi’s first ACTUAL appearance was not the games, but the cartoon spelt with a K: defenders of the realm where all he does is make this goofy freeze frame worthy face, then peaces out until 4 came out…our villain everyone
Great video! I remember when the first Mortal Kombat came out in arcades and just blew everyone's mind. I always thought it was kind of weird how the graphics style would change a little from game to game, but overall I was always impressed by the visuals... until they went 3D. MK4 turned my off of the series as a whole, to the point where I just never got back into it.
Shout out to Kyle!
Jesas Khrist Deception, I was casually listening to this retrospective when I heard the name of the main character.
Shujinkou (主人公) in Japanese LITERALLY translate to "protagonist".
I'm simultaneously proud I caught that and pissed I now know this trivia.
Here's the kicker: Shujinko, aka Protagonist, is approached by a spirit who gives him his mission supposedly on behalf of the Elder Gods. The spirit is actually an avatar summoned by Onaga, the dead Dragon King, to set up events so he could be resurrected.
The spirit's name? Damashi.
aka "Deceive"...in a game called Mortal Kombat: Deception.
Nice timing I've been bingeing mk kontent recently
MK trilogy is the only one i still love playing to this day. its the best homage to the first 3 games.
MK Deadly Alliance had the first guest character. My dawg Mokap.
I like mk3 the most, but deception was really damn good. Chess kombat was addictive af to me as I love chess. Playing story mode was so relaxing to me, it is a great game to stream even to this day, can't go wrong with it. Mk3 gave me bursts of action and fun, but I could definitely sit there and stream deception for hours.
Armageddon was basically the smash ultimate of mortal kombat
One of the best MK4 jibberishes is Jarek: "OHI'MGONNATHROWYOUOVERTHERE!!!" ("Oh I'm gonna throw you over there!")
The disrespect to fujin is unforgivable.
Also, deadly alliance had an arcade release as well. It was just...wierd.
No it didn't, it had a handheld version named Tournament Edition and it was trash.
@@Euro.Patriot yes it did. I saw it a few times.
The mortal Kombat series was alot of fun to play.
Batman doesn’t kill…but he brutally lays the smackdown on anyone in his path to the point where the unfortunate j-bronne is in a hospital, hanging on for dear life.
Thanks for the long format video! It was a great nostalgia romp. Great summary 👌
God, MK on Gameboy looked like a Tiger Electronics game. That's rough
😂😂😂😂
True
I wish you mentioned one of my favorite things about Mortal Kombat Deadly Alliance.
The music video for Adema's Immortal
I would be so funny if you renamed this video to the bloody world of mortal Kombat
He should do that
Caddicarus
My favorite type of video game is Mortal Kombat 4 for the Nintendo 64 because it is a great game too play 🎮🥋👍🥳😊
Mortal Kombat is fantastic, from the original cabinet to the upcoming mobile title.
The first Mortal Kombat game I’ve played was Mortal Kombat (2011) on the Xbox 360 and it was fantastic. And I was also too young to play that game at the time, I was about 7 or so. But I still love Mortal Kombat in all of its Gory Glory.
Honestly, mk 9 was one of my favorites, I loved how your character kept their injuries as they fought to where at the end they're standing there with chunks of their body missing and whatnot, lol. Seems like after that game they'd mostly spray blood but most look like sweaty angry ppl.
i used to dislike ashrah…. but her combos were crazy so i love her now. and hotaro, and havik i thought were so cool
The that’s so raiden line. 100% gold. Had me in tears
I will not allow the total disrespect of Shujinko
Honestly I don’t know why they don’t do another mk vs dc universe. I think they’ve gotten pretty good at making the modern mk gameplay as well as injustice’s take in it with dc characters. Both series are do well so it almost seems like a no-brainer to try again. I feel like this time they could actually give marvel vs capcom the run for their money that they were originally intending with mk 8
I still remember when I first played Mortal Kombat on Genesis. I hadn't ever played it at the arcade, partly because I've always hated playing fighting games at the arcade because of having to use a crappy joystick that doesn't register anything properly. So when I did get the chance to play Mortal Kombat, which involved some exploitation of an incident to convince my mom to let me rent it, I was highly disappointed by the low level of violence. Yes, it was still more violent than most other games I'd played, but compared to all the rumors I had heard of the game at the time, and without having experienced the arcade original, I came to the conclusion that all the hype over the game's violence was heavily over exaggerated.
I played in the arcade because I was poor, we were always behind on the game consoles as well when we were barely getting an snes people already had n64 and playstation, then we got the N64 and the ps2 came out, then we finally caught up with the ps2 and the ps3 came out so we gave up after getting a ps3 and xbox360
@@rockk9753 On the plus side, staying a generation behind means most games will be cheaper to buy, and you can research the console's entire library in advance, instead of buying a console early then hoping for the best in the years to come.
MK Armageddon was the first mortal kombat I saw. My brothers wouldn’t let me play with them so I would sit and watch. When I did play the game my main was Liu Kang.
Very entertaining mate loved that! Thanks for the effort. Flawless Victory :P
I used to watch your content when I was in middle school, glad to see you’re still uploading :)
I met the actors for johnny/ninjas, Jax, and Raiden. Really cool dudes.
As an 3D era lover and advocate, I never understood why 3D era haters or people who haven't played the 3D games would call the new characters "generic" when characters from the klassic era like Johnny, Sonya, kano, Jax (to a lesser extent) and especially Liu Kang are as generic as they come in their debut games, Johnny is every white Hollywood actor ever, Sonya is basically just "Girl" kano was basically "ever bad guy grunt ever," Jax is bodybuilder/pro wrestler, and Liu Kang is 1 of a million Bruce lee ripoff/copycats. Now if you were to say, read their bios or see their arcade endings they might become more interesting, but guess what I'm about to say. Go on, guess. The same think would happen if people did the same thing for the 3D era characters!!
Lets use Ashrah as an example. Some people have called Ashrah a "Raiden Clone" which outside of the color theme and ONE move, is not true. and if people read Ashrah's bio and story, they'd learn that Ashrah is a Demon from the netherrealm who wants to cleanse her soul and and escape damnation. there is a lot more to her story but everyone else can look that up. but this is just one example of many 3d era characters that are very interesting if you look past the surface of "Character select"
(RANT OVER)
Also to talk about the "Bad voice acting" I understand it can be annoying to some but remember, unlike NRS, Midway wasn't a major game developer, they had to work a much smaller budget, most videogames of this era had bad, Cheesy voice acting, there are some exceptions but those are exceptions.
Kobra is the Dan of MK and I unironically want him to come back.
One of the most iconic fighting game franchises of all time
I never played X for pretty much the exact same reason you did: I didn't have an Xbox or Playstation from that generation. Hell, the only reason I was able to play MK9 was cuz I bought a 360 super cheap during a black Friday sale towards the end of that console's life. What can I say, I've mostly been a Nintendo fanboy most of my life. Though when the next game, MK11, did actually come out on a console I owned, I went and watched a supercut of all of X's story cutscenes on youtube to prepare myself. Because, yes, I actually am that kind of dork who actually plays these games for the story.
This video is amazing. Your content is top notch. I'm actually low key crying a little, so much memories and your experience seems so familiar to mine... Thanks for your work...
This and the powerpuff girls video are my favorite videos of Conner, Keep up the great job Conner
lmao as a child i use to awlays mk vids from u but i could never now ik my old self will be happy
Deception will always be my favorite so many great game modes along with arcade
Mortal Kombat really brings such nostalgia to my childhood, and I’ve played all of these games (most of them). Now that they are recently releasing a brand new rebooted game, and calling it Mortal Kombat 1.
I wish they would release the Mortal Kombat games into Collections.
Kombat Collection 1 would have Mk 1,2,3,4 (The Gold Version), Mythologies, and Special Forces. Kombat Kollection 2 would have Shaolin Monks, Deadly Alliance, Deception, Armageddon, Vs DC Universe, and Mortal Kombat (2011)
Glad you made this, I just got into this series after playing Mk11 with my Dad on the PS4 and Bought Mk11 Ultimate on the switch.
The Mk 11 Nintendo switch port doesn’t have the best graphics thoguh
@Scream Soda Yeah tell me about it ugh
glad to know you're just as much of an MK nerd as i am 👍
Your perspective of the MK 11 story is opinion of course but I think honestly if you think about it, the multiverse reset aspect of it is the best way to reintroduce the 3D characters again which does appear to be a thing Ed Boon has said recently. Story wise I imagine it’s not a trilogy and MK12 will continue the story. If we see characters like Havok for example reappear and some others that would need a bigger redesign return I think that’s a strong move as well as in a way reopening the door for future games to bring back Onaga in a new way since timeline wise from MK9 it could make sense. However when you mentioned the MK movie and everything to do with it Hell yes. No one can replace Cage or Shang from that movie. They were perfect and it’s an easy guilty pleasure movie I’ve watched countless times. Great video though. Loved the content
I just want to see Onaga and Havik in the roster again
mkx being so low makes me so sad bc it was basically my first hands on experience with the 2D style of mortal Kombat and I loved it so much and I learned so many combos and got really good at it. But overall Mkx is an amazing game but it sucks how bad the color palette was.
I grew up with Mortal Kombat Armageddon, Bad Game but it got me into a great franchise.
Mortal Kombat 2011 where you play in the story mode as Liu kang and have to fight shao kahn is still to this day the hardest level of any game i have ever played in my life, i wasn’t much of a controller thrower but if i was i definitely would’ve went through a few and maybe a tv or 2
mans's out here putting some Tales of Series tracks In the video. kudos to you mate.
Great, now I can try one of those fa-alities! 😂
My brother was my rival in video games. With Shao Lin Monks I was always Kung Lao or Scorpion while he was always Liu Kang or Sub-Zero though I was always player 1. Would've been nice if they would've followed up with Shao Lin Monks 2, that first game was awesome.
Out of every single character, cyborg smoke is still the best out of all of them.
Considering how in love you were with Lui Kang, I'm surprised you didn't mention his zombie being a secret unlockable in Deadly Alliance.
nice video bro, me , my bro , and nephew love mk games!!
The only one of the Kombat Kids that I kinda liked was Takeda
28:50 Omg wait wasn’t this called mortal kombat unchained on psp I could of sworn I had this on the psp
On point I'm older but u are right the first 2 just push buttons till someone loses the third tho it was time to learn, Shaolin monks best one ever.
MK gold was always my favorite. 1 and 2 rounding out the top 3 games in the franchise imo.
Digital Actors was my favorite part of Mortal Kombat
Shoutout to kyle
Hope he is still doing ok.
Also I am the fabled raiko fan
@@beardizz😂R…really?😳
@@himwhoisnottobenamed5427 yeah I am
MK2 & MK9 are my all time favorites in the franchise.
Cool mortal Kombat love the complete trilogy
I know I am the only person who feels this way, but MK 4 is my favorite MK game of all time. I loved the chessy endings, and I was also really good at it. Beat the game with every character on Ultimate II and took the time to actually memorize the move sets for each character.
My first mk was 9 and know I'm in love with the franchise.
MK started it all, MK2 set the tone, and MK3 made the gameplay we have today possible. The original trilogy is incredible.
Thank you for nostalgia
Thank you, Kyle
TOASTY
Seeing someone rank MKX so low is actually so surprising to me, I guess it’s because from a gameplay stand point MKX is so much more fun than mk11 for me personally with running, meter management and having simpler variations. While MK11 has one of the worst comeback mechanics I have ever seen in a fighting game, worse story imo and quantity over quality cosmetics with micro transactions slapped on that you have to grind in towers for hours to even get for free. I could go on but honestly through all it’s faults I love both games and they both have something that keeps me coming back, hoping MK12 which is “soon” becomes the best it can possibly be
MK armagedon was packed with effing content! If it was released now, some characters will be locked by paywall, kreate a fighter is non existent or if it was it's heavily reliant on micro transactions, and motor kombat would be released as a stand alone game priced at $60
Man no one could remember fatalities back then we had them written down on a piece of paper after seeing them in magazines
i wasnt born around this time. but when i got a genesis classic and played mortal kombat it was fun
mk is one of the first fighting games and i became a die-hard fan ever sense
Anyone else feel bad that Jade basically dies in every MK story mode?
All you gotta do to cheese Shao Kahn in 3 was crouch freeze, run up and uppercut, back off. Repeat.
7 year old me was obsessed.
Wow someone else who appreciates Deception as much as me
Mkm sub zero is my favorite mk game most ppl just don't understand how to play it because it's a great game
Thanks, Kyle.
big fan of the three original mortal kombat games
I remember hearing back when deadly alliance came out that Liu Kang was killed off because Ed Boon really didn't like the character to begin with. Could have been just a baseless rumor though.
Waffle, waffle, waffle, waffle, waffle, waffle, waffle, waffle, it’s so cool❤
I liked Stryker in 3. I also liked MK4 and Reiko. When they gave some Shao Kahn mystery to him, I was excited. I understand why they undid it cause people didn't care for him. I definitely hated him in the 2020 movie.
MKX is actually my all time favorite fighting game
You should do a Marvel vs Capcom retrospective.
As a kid I loved to play as Goro agents my sisters on the first ever playstation. The only reason why I chose him was because he has 4 arms so I would do the input to hold them and beat them with the extra arms. I was a dirty cheater with him but I lost most of the time. But I had fun.(Especially when me or one of my sisters pulled off a fatality.
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Wow also thanks kyle
Mavado was actually a pre damn good character, other than Quan Chi he was my go to for that game.
You forgotvmortal kombat 1 which came out in 2023
thanks Kyle
WHY WASN'T I WARNED OF THIS NEW VID-
It just means you gotta hit that bell
But I did-
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THANK YOU for this!!!! :)
If we get an actual standalone game of Mortor Kombat in the future I'll buy it lol
I know it's not but, the actor playing Raiden in Mythologies Sub-Zero always reminded me of Patrick Warburton. He just kind of resembled him to me.