Board Thread:Mortal Kombat (Alternate Timeline)/@comment-34018739-20190327152005/@comment-34018739-20190513135321

Zalbaag wrote: RdcTohoKingdom wrote: Then again, NRS doesn't really like making good decisions when it comes to their stories so... They are weird. To me, Mortal Kombat 9 had an absolutely stellar story, like you could have easily just made that into a big budget movie and people would have loved it, it would’ve overshadowed the original movie by far. But then MKX came out. Barely anything interesting happened, and it felt bland. Then MK11 happened, and it just tossed everything aside so we could have this new Kronika nonsense that seems to be setting up another reboot. How could you not with how that ended. I mean, it basically makes M9, X, and everything that happened in 11 moot. They killed Kano and Hanzo in 11 and now it means nothing.

But what was wrong with Onaga? Or Havik? Or Blaze? Or hell have an iteration of Armageddon where everyone DOESN’T get slaughtered and go from there. One thing I don’t get is how they cast aside all the characters people hated or thought were bland only to add new bland and hate worthy characters.

Let’s hope MK12 doesn’t reboot MK1-4 again, it was ok the first time but t’ll get old a second. Much as I would disagree on MK9's story being "stellar", I do agree with your points on X and 11, especially the part about everything being pretty pointless in the end.

I to would also like to see an "everyone doesn't die" version of Armageddon that leads into a continuation of the original timeine, that would be sweet as hell.

As for the new characters, I'm split. I generally like Cassie, Takeda, Jin, Jacqui, and Kotal aside from some issues with each of them. I think Skarlet and Triborg have potential, but none of it has been utilized to any effect.

All the other new characters can be forgotten, except for D'Vorah and Kronika, who can instead die in a fire, because they are the worst characters in the seires BAR NONE, and I honestly don't want to hear anyone bitching and moaning about Hsu Hao or Kobra when characters that awful exist.

I also agree that another retelling would be just retreading old ground, though I wouldn't mind another MK4 retelling if it actually tried to be MK4, unlike MKX, which opted to rush through MK4 as quickly as possible and then do its own thing.