Mortal Kombat X discussion thread

deathrider · 28-05-2014 11:22pm #1

Ed Boon's been dropping all sorts of hints and teases about a new MK on his Twitter page lately. We all know how he loves to be cryptic (Kryptic?) about this kinda stuff and warm things up before a big announcement. However, apparently this poster just showed up online, showing a busted spine. This is coupled with some kind of countdown that Boon's been talking about (or almost not talking about) lately.
Anyone who knows me knows how mental I am about the franchise, so taking for granted that this is the start of the information on the next Mortal Kombat game, I'm practically bouncing off the walls here!

1man3letters · 29-05-2014 3:51am

Doctor DooM · 29-05-2014 10:12am

Would be gas if it really was Injustice 2 at this point...

jimmypenguin · 29-05-2014 10:15am

or season 3 of mk youtube series! lol

deathrider · 29-05-2014 12:24pm

Doctor DooM wrote: »

Would be gas if it really was Injustice 2 at this point...

Given Boon's trolling track record, I root be surprised. He did say last year that if Injustice sold well (which I'd imagine it did) then his next game wouldn't be a fighter. I guess there's a chance that this could be a MK:SM situation, but I doubt it.

Nutrient · 29-05-2014 7:26pm

Get ready for disappointment

1man3letters · 29-05-2014 10:22pm

Nutrient wrote: »

Get ready for disappointment

with what??

deathrider · 30-05-2014 8:47pm

This is as good a time as any to start speculating about what Monday'sa nnouncement will bring. Any ideas? I'm wondering where exactly the story will go, considering the bulk of the game's cast were killed off. I'd imagine Raiden will have to battle Quan Chi for their souls before anything can really happen. If not, it'll be a bit of a barren landscape if they keep that many fan favourites dead.

Nutrient · 31-05-2014 4:21am

deathrider wrote: »

This is as good a time as any to start speculating about what Monday'sa nnouncement will bring. Any ideas? I'm wondering where exactly the story will go, considering the bulk of the game's cast were killed off. I'd imagine Raiden will have to battle Quan Chi for their souls before anything can really happen. If not, it'll be a bit of a barren landscape if they keep that many fan favourites dead.

I wonder if this what everyone is expecting personally

I'm curious to see if this'll be a sequel to MK9 or something complete seperate to a fighter within MK universe

deathrider · 31-05-2014 11:55am

I'd imagine it'll be a straight sequel, but of course, it's all just speculation at the moment. I'd love to see what that team would/could do if they stepped outside of the fighting genre though.

I'm just hoping the game is PS3/Xbox360 as opposed to XboxOne/PS4.

Doctor DooM · 31-05-2014 12:51pm

Considering all the mk x teasers if say it'll be a fighter.

How comic book is death in the mk universe? Will people blink if they find a way to roll back?

Sairus · 31-05-2014 3:43pm

Doctor DooM wrote: »

Considering all the mk x teasers if say it'll be a fighter.

How comic book is death in the mk universe? Will people blink if they find a way to roll back?

Wasn't the entire concept of MK9's plot a gigantic rollback? I'd say pretty much everyone would be happy with bringing everyone back anyway. As much as everyone liked the story mode in that game, they generally like the characters more than the story itself.

Kuro Tao · 31-05-2014 4:00pm

Sairus wrote: »

Wasn't the entire concept of MK9's plot a gigantic rollback? I'd say pretty much everyone would be happy with bringing everyone back anyway. As much as everyone liked the story mode in that game, they generally like the characters more than the story itself.

There's still a lot that can happen in the MK universe post MK9 imo.
The characters that died in MK9 story have gone to the Netherealm, as per Shao Kahn's deal with Quan Chi. Shinnok is now the power-player continuing the story directly, but that's not to say there are feck all other things happening.
If I were to guess, I'd say we would be seeing General Reiko trying to fill Kahn's shoes, probably an appearance from Fujin and not to mention Kenshi who wasn't even mentioned in the MK9 story.

chopperbyrne · 31-05-2014 4:05pm

How many new characters were in MK9?

Freddie excluded.

Kuro Tao · 31-05-2014 4:12pm

chopperbyrne wrote: »

How many new characters were in MK9?

Freddie excluded.

1 iirc. Cyber Sub Zero. Even then, pseudo-new.

Edit: Forgot Skarlet. The other DLC character nobody really cared about.

Fergus_ · 31-05-2014 5:51pm

Sareena and Li Mei pls

Jun_DP101 · 31-05-2014 6:21pm

Mk web series or iOS version. Hype!

deathrider · 31-05-2014 8:43pm

Kuro Tao wrote: »

There's still a lot that can happen in the MK universe post MK9 imo.
The characters that died in MK9 story have gone to the Netherealm, as per Shao Kahn's deal with Quan Chi. Shinnok is now the power-player continuing the story directly, but that's not to say there are feck all other things happening.
If I were to guess, I'd say we would be seeing General Reiko trying to fill Kahn's shoes, probably an appearance from Fujin and not to mention Kenshi who wasn't even mentioned in the MK9 story.

I reckon Reiko should have a big part to play alright. Also, we saw Shinnok pulling the strings at the end of the alst one, so it'll take a hell of a twist for him not to be the title's big bad. Although, Shang Tsung and Quan Chi could easily "Deadly Allicance" him out of the picture.

chopperbyrne wrote: »

How many new characters were in MK9?

Freddie excluded.

Nobody really (not including DLC). But that was the whole point, bringing the series back to basics.

Also, someone mentioned MK being comic booky- I have to agree. I always thought it was that way, and people coming back from beyond the grave is nothing new in the Kombat universe.

Sairus · 02-06-2014 1:09am

http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=sr_st_date-desc-rank?keywords=Mortal+Kombat+X&qid=1401637448&rh=n:300703,n:676193011,k:Mortal+Kombat+X&sort=date-desc-rank

Mortal Kombat X it seems.

deathrider · 02-06-2014 2:45am

Sairus wrote: »

http://www.amazon.co.uk/s/ref=sr_st_date-desc-rank?keywords=Mortal+Kombat+X&qid=1401637448&rh=n:300703,n:676193011,k:Mortal+Kombat+X&sort=date-desc-rank

Mortal Kombat X it seems.

Not liking the X part. I hope there's a sub title instead. According to 1Man3Letters, the annoucment trailer should be up around 12 or 1pm tomorrow.
EDIT: Which is technically today, as it's about 3am at the moment.

Jun_DP101 · 02-06-2014 12:37pm

deathrider wrote: »

Not liking the X part. I hope there's a sub title instead. According to 1Man3Letters, the annoucment trailer should be up around 12 or 1pm tomorrow.
EDIT: Which is technically today, as it's about 3am at the moment.

GMT?

deathrider · 02-06-2014 2:06pm

Boon just confirmed that the title is indeed Mortal Kombat X (boo!) on his Twitter feed. No sign of a trailer or anything else yet though.

Sairus · 02-06-2014 2:23pm

Trailer's up:

deathrider · 02-06-2014 2:34pm

Hold onto your eyebrows, boys!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LFVgTdPZ6p8

Xenji · 02-06-2014 2:40pm

The music in the trailer so does not suit Mortal Kombat, but the X-Ray moves looked cool.

EDIT - Is it Wiz Khalifa.

Sairus · 02-06-2014 2:40pm

Thoughts:

Stage Interactables all over the place, including an ice sword that looks like it might be used like cody's knife.
Heavy use of counters.
Scorpion looks awesome.
Music was incredibly out of place.

deathrider wrote: »

Hold onto your eyebrows, boys!

Soooo sloooooooow

Jun_DP101 · 02-06-2014 2:41pm

music 2 crunk.

deathrider · 02-06-2014 2:56pm

Sairus wrote: »

Soooo sloooooooow

Had the post ready to go and waiting for Boon to post the trailer... then I got distracted by watching the trailer a few times.

deathrider · 03-06-2014 5:43pm

Playstation have a tweet up claiming that MKX is coming to both PS3 and PS4. I'm happy to hear that.

Also, could one of the mods change the name of this thread to Mortal Kombat X please.

EDIT: According to Gamspot, Warner Bros. said that the game will be available on PS3, PS4, Xbox360, Xbox One and PC.

J0hnick · 03-06-2014 11:11pm

PC version of MK9 Ultimate Edition is €5 on steam, Injustice is €7.

Xenji · 04-06-2014 3:14pm

Box Art

deathrider · 04-06-2014 4:11pm

Xenji wrote: »

Box Art

I saw that on a few MK facebook pages, but I didn't know whether or not it was official.

Xenji · 04-06-2014 4:46pm

deathrider wrote: »

I saw that on a few MK facebook pages, but I didn't know whether or not it was official.

I saw it on IGN, they are claiming it is official anyway.

deathrider · 04-06-2014 10:26pm

Xenji wrote: »

I saw it on IGN, they are claiming it is official anyway.

That's cool. Odd that we've seen the box art before any actual gameplay footage.

Robert ninja · 05-06-2014 12:07am

deathrider wrote: »

EDIT: According to Gamspot, Warner Bros. said that the game will be available on PS3, PS4, Xbox360, Xbox One and PC.

This is great. Everyone gets to play it! - I hope it's good.

But at the same time, knowing it's getting a last-gen release pretty much means it's not going to be making any progress in technical capabilities for a fighting game... unless they really can make innovative stuff as priority and just downgrade the graphics/resolution/effects big time to make it run on PS3/360. I swear some of the things devs can get to run on 512mb of RAM is insane.

deathrider · 05-06-2014 12:49am

I'll be happy if it plays anything the last one. It doesn't need to be too fancy pants to impress me. I'm delighted to see it come to the current gen because I haven't moved on to the next gen yet, and I'm in any real rush to either.

Robert ninja · 05-06-2014 1:39am

^ Yeah I agree, I'm happy it's cross-gen - was just thinking about the cons of that too.

Oh and current gen = PS4/XBOne/WiiU

deathrider · 05-06-2014 1:04pm

Robert ninja wrote: »

^ Yeah I agree, I'm happy it's cross-gen - was just thinking about the cons of that too.

Oh and current gen = PS4/XBOne/WiiU

I reckon current gen will be Xbox One/PS4/WiiU when there are more games out for them and they're actually relevant. They're kinda in that void between being new and bring important at the moment. I'm sure this well change in the next year though. That's the way I see it, anyways. Bit that's a while 'nother topic either way.

Sairus · 10-06-2014 4:19am

MKX gameplay trailer was shown at the Sony conference:

New characters (none of whom I recognize), stage interactables, etc. One thing also looked like the X-Rays might be two part things now. Both shown in the trailer seemed to have a ground section then a launcher with a big pause where you'd have plenty of time to input a followup.

Also, this dude was only shown in the Fatality reel at the end:

Doctor DooM · 10-06-2014 5:35am

+

Get a feeling we'll be seeing a lot of this...

Macal · 10-06-2014 10:05am

The bug lady appears to be named Farrah (she addresses herself in third person for whatever reason). I'm going to take an educated guess that her fatality will involve vomiting wasps down the opponent's throat, or something like that. Plus, the voice actor for the kid on the brute sounds like Timmy Turner for Fairly Oddparents.

Xenji · 10-06-2014 12:29pm

There is so much stuff going on in the backgrounds of the levels, had to watch the trailer 3 or 4 times to see everything, the blood effect looks great as well with no sign of a new Tekken any time soon this will be my main fighting game when it comes out.

deathrider · 10-06-2014 12:39pm

Macal wrote: »

The bug lady appears to be named Farrah (she addresses herself in third person for whatever reason). I'm going to take an educated guess that her fatality will involve vomiting wasps down the opponent's throat, or something like that. Plus, the voice actor for the kid on the brute sounds like Timmy Turner for Fairly Oddparents.

The lady who does Timmy Turner's voice is also Bubbles from The Powerpuff Girls. If I could have some Powerpuff and MK at the same time, that would be all of my favourite things.

Nice to see some new characters showing up. There haven't really been any MK newbies (Skarlet excluded, because I keep forgetting able her due to her being so late to the MK9 party) since Taven and Daegon. And having said that, they were the only real new folks in Armageddon, so you'd have to go back even further for an influx of new cast. I'm wondering if the bug lady has any connection to Drahmin from Deadly Alliance. Also, for the, time being, I'm totally referring to the little/large tag team as Master Blaster.

koko_PoPs · 10-06-2014 2:48pm

mortAL combat x looks amazing. im a defo play it when itcomes out.im not too much a fan of the gore butthis game looks sick

deathrider · 10-06-2014 4:18pm

I'm gonna go out on a limb and say that the green dude shown near the end is one of the story's big baddies. Possible boss even, if Shinnok and Quan Chi aren't up to their old tricks.

Penn · 10-06-2014 4:21pm

deathrider wrote: »

The lady who does Timmy Turner's voice is also Bubbles from The Powerpuff Girls. If I could have some Powerpuff and MK at the same time, that would be all of my favourite things.

Nice to see some new characters showing up. There haven't really been any MK newbies (Skarlet excluded, because I keep forgetting able her due to her being so late to the MK9 party) since Taven and Daegon. And having said that, they were the only real new folks in Armageddon, so you'd have to go back even further for an influx of new cast. I'm wondering if the bug lady has any connection to Drahmin from Deadly Alliance. Also, for the, time being, I'm totally referring to the little/large tag team as Master Blaster.

In fairness, they were kind of restricted in terms of roster for Armageddon (by trying to include every MK character) and MK9 (reboot of the story taking place during MK1-3). Deadly Alliance and Deception had a good mix of new and returning characters, hoping to see the same happen for MKX.

deathrider · 10-06-2014 5:55pm

Penn wrote: »

In fairness, they were kind of restricted in terms of roster for Armageddon (by trying to include every MK character) and MK9 (reboot of the story taking place during MK1-3). Deadly Alliance and Deception had a good mix of new and returning characters, hoping to see the same happen for MKX.

Oh, I completely understand that. Armageddon was undoubtably a clusterfeck, and MK9's return to the original cast was completely necessary. It'll be interesting to see where they go from here. Pretty brave move stepping straight up with to new characters.

Macal · 10-06-2014 6:34pm

deathrider wrote: »

Oh, I completely understand that. Armageddon was undoubtably a clusterfeck, and MK9's return to the original cast was completely necessary. It'll be interesting to see where they go from here. Pretty brave move stepping straight up with to new characters.

To be honest, almost every "good" MK character was in MK9. They need to start again with new character designs, once they're not ****e.

Macal · 10-06-2014 9:10pm

It's been confirmed that the bug-lady is called D'Vorah and the brute and child are called Torr and Ferra. No word on the blue dude yet.

2gen · 11-06-2014 1:02am

some gameplay. also the reveal of "Cassie Cage" .... Johnny and Sonya's daughter .... -_-*

deathrider · 11-06-2014 1:23am

Sun-Zero's X-Ray is phemenal. The more I'm seeing of this game, the more I'm liking it. Story mode spans twenty years (not of actual gameplay... obviously) with multiple decendants of classic characters. Perhaps that's why Subby's not automated. Perhap's he's the son of the second Sub-Zero. Also a "surprise returning" bad guy? I'm intrigued... And I hope it's Onaga!

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