Mortal Kombat 1 (MK 12)

[KSUowls]

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Pulled the trigger on the premium edition to get early access.

First experience was an excruciatingly slow install of the game after downloading it. It took 2 hours before the story and invasion modes were available.

Once I was able to get in though I started having fun. The story mode is quite interesting so far.

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[franch1se]

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Day 1. Loving Smoke. But he seems to be who everyone is gravitating to online right now. Makes me want to try someone else.


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[LowerWolf]

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I went through the basic training last night. Then I ignored everything I just learned and button mashed through my first fight. But I'm going to try to actually learn at least one character (probably Kitana).

I never did play Aftermath on 11, so I may try to do that before starting the story up on MK1.

[KSUowls]

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Finished the story. Pretty cool.

Just started invasion. Setting is uh...odd for sure. Characters have been fun to play with so far.

[Hooe]

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The ending of this game's story mode is stupid and ridiculous.

I love it.

[Junior Moe]

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I just finished the main campaign and really enjoyed. I got the premium edition with Peacemaker and the others, when will they all be available?

Nevermind. They are gonna be in Kombat Pack 1 when it releases.

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[Hooe]

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So apparently in Chapter 15

Spoiler

there are more fights available than the story gives you, and the game just pulls which ones you get out of a hat. It's pretty entertaining seeing who shows up as an opponent lol.

[JazzMan]

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I went through the basic training last night. Then I ignored everything I just learned and button mashed through my first fight. But I'm going to try to actually learn at least one character (probably Kitana).

I never did play Aftermath on 11, so I may try to do that before starting the story up on MK1.

Without spoiling anything, you'll definitely want to do Aftermath

[Hooe]

Mortal Kombat 1 (MK 12)

Man… away from story mode, Mortal Kombat 1 is a sublime fighting game surrounded by a ton of krap.

The actual fighting mechanics are fantastic. Round to round, this is easily the most fun I’ve had playing a fighting game since Mortal Kombat 3 or Tekken Tag Tournament. I imagine that the competitive scene of this game is going to thrive (at least wherever the game isn’t banned for excessive violence lol); all the kombatants have something unique to offer, and everything feels meticulously balanced. And the graphics are gorgeous. The only real gameplay complaint I have is that I’m experiencing a bug where the sound effects drop out for a fight every once in a while. Finally, the tutorials were actually useful in teaching me just enough so that I could understand an extended Sub-Zero breakdown video on YouTube and start to really understand how to unlock his full potential.

My main gripe right now is with Invasions. It is decent enough as a content drip-feed mode (albeit all the JRPG stuff is a bit rote), but there’s way too much hostile nonsense. I haven’t finished it all yet, but I’m growing super tired of fighting CPU opponents with super armor (which lets their move beat yours even if your move should win based on frame data). Also some of the buffs / debuffs I endured in the Tarkatan Village were absurd. So far: there were spawning arena totems which mixed up all the buttons on my controller if I was near them for too long; sometimes the CPU gets a buff where the screen turns black if you get close to them (which, I mean, it’s a fighting game, come on now); and sometimes freaking meteors fall from the sky or the arena fills with toxic smoke which prevents combos. It’s all quite annoying stuff I thought video games left behind once arcades died.

Hopefully future seasons of Invasions are more about fighting tough opponents and less about overcoming cheap bull****. I know MK is infamous for being cheap, but we aren’t dropping quarters into arcade cabinets anymore, there’s no need for some of the stuff that’s happening in this game right now.

[TheShizNo1]

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Man… away from story mode, Mortal Kombat 1 is a sublime fighting game surrounded by a ton of krap.

The actual fighting mechanics are fantastic. Round to round, this is easily the most fun I’ve had playing a fighting game since Mortal Kombat 3 or Tekken Tag Tournament. I imagine that the competitive scene of this game is going to thrive (at least wherever the game isn’t banned for excessive violence lol); all the kombatants have something unique to offer, and everything feels meticulously balanced. And the graphics are gorgeous. The only real gameplay complaint I have is that I’m experiencing a bug where the sound effects drop out for a fight every once in a while. Finally, the tutorials were actually useful in teaching me just enough so that I could understand an extended Sub-Zero breakdown video on YouTube and start to really understand how to unlock his full potential.

My main gripe right now is with Invasions. It is decent enough as a content drip-feed mode (albeit all the JRPG stuff is a bit rote), but there’s way too much hostile nonsense. I haven’t finished it all yet, but I’m growing super tired of fighting CPU opponents with super armor (which lets their move beat yours even if your move should win based on frame data). Also some of the buffs / debuffs I endured in the Tarkatan Village were absurd. So far: there were spawning arena totems which mixed up all the buttons on my controller if I was near them for too long; sometimes the CPU gets a buff where the screen turns black if you get close to them (which, I mean, it’s a fighting game, come on now); and sometimes freaking meteors fall from the sky or the arena fills with toxic smoke which prevents combos. It’s all quite annoying stuff I thought video games left behind once arcades died.

Hopefully future seasons of Invasions are more about fighting tough opponents and less about overcoming cheap bull****. I know MK is infamous for being cheap, but we aren’t dropping quarters into arcade cabinets anymore, there’s no need for some of the stuff that’s happening in this game right now.

Genuinely annoyed with this review because of the truth.

I feel like it's been this way since Injustice 2....... their tower mode would have **** like: screen blackouts for 10 seconds , the camera tilting, and **** falling from the sky...... Wtf

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[Gotmadskillzson]

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I must say this is a mighty gorgeous looking game. One of the handful of games out there that does HDR correctly.

[JazzMan]

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Genuinely annoyed with this review because of the truth.

I feel like it's been this way since Injustice 2....... their tower mode would have **** like: screen blackouts for 10 seconds , the camera tilting, and **** falling from the sky...... Wtf

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Towers of Time was the only reason I never sought out getting all the gear and skins for my mains in 11. Had my man Shao rocking default most of the game's cycle lol

Just too much of a pain in the *** to try and grind those towers when, like you said, the game is throwing cheap bull**** at you like screen blackouts, immunity for AI, heat-seeking missiles that shoot at you every 5 seconds, just wasn't an enjoyable experience in the slightest

And MK1 thus far doesn't even have close to the amount of skins/gear that 11 had at release, I know it's slow-drip but man, it's bone dry

[ODogg]

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I must say this is a mighty gorgeous looking game. One of the handful of games out there that does HDR correctly.

Yeah, this is definitely a beautiful game on PC w HDR

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[Hooe]

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Finished the first season of Invasions. The Hellfire Scorpion boss battle would have been ludicrous had I not prepared for it with the konsumable which doubles all your base stats.

Literally in the third and final stage of the fight he'll just spam fireballs at you and be literally invulnerable for 60 seconds, on top of the ridiculous super armor the CPU opponents in Invasion tend to have.

I still have to go back and knock out all the Netherstone fights, which are inaccessible before you defeat Hellfire Scorpion. If the four in Fengjian Village were any indication, be prepared for a bunch of Level 30 boss fights behind all the Netherstone gates lol.

[kingsofthevalley]

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I think everyone in here has lost all of their marbles , Mortal Kombat BEEN wack since wack was a word lol. Died out for me with Tekken, DOA and Soul Caliber. Guys come on now, might as well be playing Killer Instinct, COMBO BREAKERRRR lol!!!

However, I cannot tell a lie, I was hooked on injustice 2 for a few weeks. On a serious note, I was really thrown off when they introduced the X-ray machine to the deaths, waaay too corny for me!