Board Thread:Mortal Kombat X/@comment-25163804-20140813234620

This is going to be really short, as this article will explain everything I will say here in detail, but I'll give the quick rundown on everything that was new while reinforcing things we already knew. All quotes are from Ed Boon.

First, we already know that the game will span over 25 years, but it seems it won't entirely be linear. It appears that it will bounce around between the 'right after MK9, five years, ten years, fifteen years, twenty years, twenty five years' timeline we'll be looking at. It seems the story in MKX will follow a similar storytelling technique in MK9 and Injustice, but with a twist. Quote: "You still play the different chapters and each chapter has a character where it follows their actions, but instead of just jumping from one character to the next, it'll jump in time as well. So all of a sudden, you may have a flashback and you'll participate in those, but sometimes the story will just move forward five or ten years." This could mean that MKX will have one of the best story modes in all of fighting game history.

Next, we get more details about the story, but most excitingly, we finally learn D'Vorah's intentions, how new characters relate to the story, and details about Kotal Kahn's rule. Let's take care of them all at once. Quote: "A lot of the new characters are those that came into power after MK9. Kotal Khan is one of them. He was one of the rulers of Outworld during that 25 year period, and the story mode basically follows his rise and fall. D'vorrah works with him, but there's twists there. I won't give away the story, but a lot of these characters come in and out of power over the course of the story." Evidently, it looks like I was wrong about D'Vorah being a good guy, but instead having some ulterior motives for working with Kotal Kahn. Sneaky little bee, aren't ya?

Anyways, there is also apparently going to be the return of console-exclusive fighters like Kratos for the PS3. Quote from Luke Karmali, the writer of this article: "Boon promised the roster would be expanded with DLC post-launch, as well as revealed that yes, console-specific exclusive fighters would again be back. But between now and launch, the focus is very much on creating new characters that fans can get behind." Such news might be unsettling to some of you, but I personally believe that these console exclusive fighters are probably going to be nothing more than guests, again like Kratos for the PS3 version of MK9.

Thoughts? Comments? Leave them below and let me know if anything else has been revealed at Gamescom.





  