NRS/WB are smart knowing more sites are pumping out this news thanks to SDCC and the guests. EVO was for the FGC, SDCC is for the mainstream.
Our disappointment probably doesn't mean much lol
Our disappointment probably doesn't mean much lol
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Mortal Kombat 1: Khaos Reigns expansion trailer, releasing September 24
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My first thought on the cyborgs is that the animations are really disappointing.
Frost in MK11 looked great because she had moves that broke her anatomy: Rotating her torso like a propeller, tossing her head, you get the idea. They really leaned into her no longer being human.
Cyrax and Sektor just fight like they're wearing costumes. I imagine there are non-cyborg costumes like in MK9, but I would rather have cool ass robot animations.
Frost in MK11 looked great because she had moves that broke her anatomy: Rotating her torso like a propeller, tossing her head, you get the idea. They really leaned into her no longer being human.
Cyrax and Sektor just fight like they're wearing costumes. I imagine there are non-cyborg costumes like in MK9, but I would rather have cool ass robot animations.
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NRS really need to go all in with him. Terminator was a huge letdown in MK11. Make him look cool and sick nrs pls.
I don't mind it actually, very happy that Sektor and Cyrax are female!
$50 is a lot though, hoping for some discounted prices for PC.
$50 is a lot though, hoping for some discounted prices for PC.
Aside from the guest characters this has probably been the worst part of modern MK for me, they seem to have no interest in going beyond 4 and just rebooting the timeline over and over, it's so boring.
I was really excited for the sequel to X possibly retelling the Onaga stuff but they just... didn't bother
I get that a lot of people don't like a lot of the post-4, pre-9 characters but they can just, y'know, make them more interesting. They already had the first reboot as a way to handwave away any major changes to improve the characters but they just don't want to go that route.
Even the brand new MK1 timeline that was supposed to be completely different felt mostly uninteresting again.
Bringing back animalities is very fun.
But my god, this is one of the most boring fighter DLC packs I've ever seen. Yet again, an overreliance on guest characters while female characters get the shaft.
I'm sorry, but gender swapping the two cyborg characters doesn't count in my book. It actually comes off as very cynical, as if to say, "See? Here's some women. You happy now?"
There are 30 years of established female characters that they could bring back and they are actively choosing not to.
But my god, this is one of the most boring fighter DLC packs I've ever seen. Yet again, an overreliance on guest characters while female characters get the shaft.
I'm sorry, but gender swapping the two cyborg characters doesn't count in my book. It actually comes off as very cynical, as if to say, "See? Here's some women. You happy now?"
There are 30 years of established female characters that they could bring back and they are actively choosing not to.
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they're the first playable women on the roster to not have heels
This looks amazing. I absolutely cannot wait to buy this in 2 years when the Komplete Edition is on sale.
I really hope the other leak is true and we get
Cassie and Jade soon.
They'd have to pay me $50 to play this shit. I paid that for 18 characters and a full story mode and still felt ripped off.
Well as an outside looking in, Animalities being back is cool.
But otherwise, Ghostface still seems really lame. Sektor and Cyrax do kind of look like they wanted to have Iron Man or something. Particularly Sektor. Not sure if its a repurposed Injustice 3 concept or not.
But otherwise, Ghostface still seems really lame. Sektor and Cyrax do kind of look like they wanted to have Iron Man or something. Particularly Sektor. Not sure if its a repurposed Injustice 3 concept or not.
Exactly my point. They actually made to women characters without high heels, it's a Christmas miracle.
They didn't even really do Cyrax and Sektor, they just made them into Iron Man.
I swear Ed Boon just sees whatever movie is popular and goes "let's do that!"
According to the leaks they might not be robots/cyborgs. They're just wearing suits like Iron Man.
The Kamidogu, i.e the 6 stones you are referencing have already existed in MK Deception back in 2004 predating the entire MCU by 4 years.
But it is, though. The political theory of cooperation and lack of hierarchical government is a reappropriation of a term that was already being used to refer to a state of chaos and disorder as caused by a lack of government authority for like 200 years.
It would be a misuse of the word "Anarchism," but it's a perfectly accurate use of the word "anarchy."
Not bad considering kp1 was only characters for $40. If it's anything like mk11s expansion the story was pretty meaty
I love animalities coming back but sad to see no new single player mode or revised invasions as it stinks in its current iteration.
Yeah, but Dom (the writer now) has basically retconned the One Being out of existence
I mean if we want to get into etymologies, "anarchy" has been treated as an extreme form of direct democracy since ancient Greece
"Anarchy" when used by a political fighter like Havik shouldn't be understood the same way as "chaos" would be, even if he comes from the realm of Chaos. he could just say chaos
Do you remember the story leak for this expansion that happened a few months(?) ago? I'll leave the remainder in spoilers.
Havik kidnaps Geras. He intends to use his reality shaping relics, the Kamidogu and infuse them with Geras' time-crystals, allowing them to affect other timelines. Geras is the only being who has lived through all previous timelines so he has the building block of every timeline. The One Being may no longer be a thing but the Kamidogu still very much exist.
Not what I said, it's the way Havik has them like Thanos did on his body. That's 100% copying what Marvel did and it's not the first and be won't be the last. MK has lost all it's creativity and unique tone, designs etc. It's like they don't believe in their own product. They need to chase gimmicks to stay relevant instead of staying through to the core. They sold out.
If we're going back to root words instead of discussing whether or not the English use of an English word is correct, the Greek negative use of "anarchy" also predates the positive use. 404 BC was literally referred to as "the year of anarchy" and that had nothing to do with a lack of hierarchical authority, the Oligarchs had simply taken power from the Archon and placed it in themselves.
1. Not MK1 Havik. Darrius is political. Pre-MK1 Havik isn't.
2. "I don't like it" is not justification for ahistorical linguistic prescriptivism.
As someone who does not like MK1's art choices: MK has always been a mishmash of stolen ideas from pop culture, let's not kid ourselves here.
The animalities look amazing, so glad they're free as there's zero chance I'm buying the DLC full price when I was so disappointed by KP1 and regret buying the complete edition.
I'm so, so sick of the guest characters now. Especially when they have no theme, they look so jarring - a future cop, a barbarian and a regular guy in a fucking Halloween mask, so silly.
I'm so, so sick of the guest characters now. Especially when they have no theme, they look so jarring - a future cop, a barbarian and a regular guy in a fucking Halloween mask, so silly.
I was under the impression that the Greek use was never positive; if I recall, it was basically the same as Aristotle's disdain for democracy, rooted in the idea that commonly-abled people weren't spiritually capable of governing themselves. I think the need for some kind of ruling class was considered necessary by nearly all of the immediate post-Socratic philosophers, though I might be forgetting a couple
There's nothing ahistorical about this conversation! Maybe I'm being prescriptive, but I'm not talking about a two-hundred-year-old usage of the word, I'm talking about the current usage of it, when "anarchy" as a perjorative is best understood as either a thoughtless imprecision or as an authoritarian dogwhistle
Not looking forward to more of Dominic's story telling and it saddens me to see Ed not caring enough for the future of MK's story. But, all the new characters look very cool and finally, we have Sektor and Cyrax as separate characters on the main roster, after more than 13 years.