Board Thread:Mortal Kombat (Alternate Timeline)/@comment-5503721-20190518202650/@comment-30711175-20190610010732

TornadoMan.EXE wrote: RichFromStaten wrote: I have to disagree with this notion that the plots of the new games are retreading the stories of the first seven games. Mind you, there are people who believe that Mortal Kombat X is just Mortal Kombat 4: The Remix. Why? Because Mortal Kombat (2011) retold the events of 1, 2, and 3? Never mind the fact that everything after MK3 was retconned, and Shinnok was just a loose end who was manipulating the series of events that led to Shao Kahn's invasion of Earthrealm.

There is also the matter of the 25 year time skip between MK9 and MKX and the fact that the roster in MKX is drastically different from MK4. As well as the settings and the conflicts of those two games not aligning with each other (The Attack on the Elder Gods and the Invasion of Edenia in MK4; The Special Forces Raid on the Netherrealm and the Outworld Civil War in MKX).

The 3D era games (Deadly Alliance, Deception, Armageddon) also have no bearing or relevance in the new timeline, other than a few sporadic references and cameos from characters who were introduced in those games. And the reason why people want a reboot of 5-8 is because we already got reboots of 1-4, and generally people liked the characters. The only reason they don’t have relevance is because instead NRS decided to make that annoying bitch Kronika.

In other words, you want a redundant, rehashed version of the Midway MK games rather than a story that takes the Mortal Kombat lore in a different direction. There is nothing about Mortal Kombat X that indicates it is another Mortal Kombat 4, but a sequel to a soft reboot. By your logic Mortal Kombat 11 should have been Deadly Alliance 2.0. See where I'm going with this?