Board Thread:Mortal Kombat (Alternate Timeline)/@comment-5503721-20190518202650/@comment-362861-20190609214739

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.

How so? Shinnok still came back and Johnny still saves the day in the beginning. The MKX comic takes a lot of MK4’s original story elements too. Kai, Jarek, Reiko, and if you want to get picky, Meat, are the only ones that didn’t come back. Jarek and Reiko are already dead as of MKXC, Kai is MIA but was going to come back until he was switched out for Bo Rai Cho, and Meat is a gag character. Use a Fatality on any character to see him lol.

Like the events of MK9 was to MK1-3, the timeskip is where MKX takes MK4 and flips it on its head. In MK1-3, a major turning point was Kitana reaching out to her mother and making her come to her senses. That certainly wasn’t the case in MK9. That doesn’t mean MK9 isn’t covering MK3. There isn’t a pointing “rebooting” a game’s story if you tell the exact same story.

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.