Warrior shrine should’ve been individual character rankings and make those ranks of the characters displayed before a ranked match when selected said character. Example; your a rank 34 shao playing against a ranked 26 Raiden or something. I think it would’ve been better received
The fact that the Warrior Shrine is just a top 5 list after being "coming soon" for a year is actually insane, but I think that overall, the expansion is looking good. I am a big fan of the towers, especially in Injustice 2 with the guild version, that was awesome. However, I am worried that the rewards are still going to suck which would make it pointless.
We got DLC's like Elden Ring's over there in the east, where it's longer than most games and passion was put into it and over in the west we got a game keeping a feature/mode behind the works for a year just for it to be a leaderboard system... Bruh I can't 😂
Day 1 people were saying warrior shrine is likely just a leaderboard. Best case scenario it's a way to buy old KL pieces. It's pretty insane to expect more than that. That being said, there's no reason why this couldn't have been in day 1.
People have already surmised the only reason NRS did this is because of crossplay. They waited for crossplay to be implemented and run successfully so they didn't have to make like 3 different leaderboards
They shouldn't of have it on display for everyone to see. They clearly don't understand how small changes can change the perception of the game completely. They goofed big time.
@ZxRw98 they're never gonna buff him. According to Sikander he knows people at NRS and they say that some pros that were in MK11 are now QA testers for MK1. They're making sure sub zero never becomes viable again.
At first I thought the Khaos reigns expansion cost was too much but now that we’re actually seeing the content as a whole I think the cost of just the expansion is pretty fair. • Your getting Animalities for every character (which so far every animality has been pretty cool) • A new Story mode • two New buyable brutalities for characters in an newly updated store. • Towers of Time (new way to get store currency and content) • Three Awesome looking characters at launch and three guest characters post launch. • New Stages and stage variants •New Balancing update including but not limited too: New Base character moves, New Kameo Moves, (unknown buffs/nerfs) • New costumes for pre ordering and included in the expansion update. And more depending on the edition. I realize allot of the things mentioned are technically free but if you were to add them to the cost of say a 40$ expansion it would make a little more sense why Khaos Reigns costs what it does. Either way the expansion seems to be a Giant W and could possibly set the game in a good direction.
For a moment I though maybe I'll buy Sektor just because i mained *him* but thankfully nrs reminded me that they don't deserve a cent or a second from me. Mfs saw sf6's Legend rank and thought "let's do that but make it lame and take a whole ass year". The tweets were hilarious tho
Sidenote, you wouldnt even be able to just get Sektor seperately, because why would you? Well, you might think, let me just Grab the kombat Pack 2 than. But you'd probably be suprised to learn that there is no KP2. So if you want to get either Noob, Sektor or Cyrax, and/or ghostface, T1000 and Conan at a yet undisclosed and uncertain date in the future (whenever that may be) you NEED to invest the price of a generic AAA game. But wait, theres more! Just wait till you learn about the warrior shrine.... Idk either guys. Clownworld i guess.
@@vdjakut222what are you on about? You can buy them separately but not as a pack. Just the characters. It clearly says that K2 will not be sold separately. I doesn’t mean that you have buy the expansion to get the characters
@@thearchon8579 can you source where NRS said they'll make the characters available seperately? If not, than it means that they won't be, just like KP2 wont be sold seperately.
@@thearchon8579 Yeah so you're source is "trust me bro" ? Unlike mk11, where each kombat Pack was Sold seperately, they explicitly say this time KP2 will not be Sold seperately. Its unreasonable to expect the characters themselves will be tho. Dont get me wrong, i DO hope they'll sell them seperately. And unlike for example KP1's characters and kameos, theres no fineprint or Statement that says otherwise.
Noob looks incredible. I’m definitely gonna pick him up when he drops. But the Warrior Shrine is a huge L. We waited so long for it to be just a place where you see the ones who are abusing the meta the most per season lol But allegedly it was gonna be where you could get the old Kombat league skins that you missed but it looks like they put that in the new towers of time.
Sidenote, you wouldnt even be able to just get Noob seperately, because why would you? Well, you might think, let me just Grab the kombat Pack 2 than. But you'd probably be suprised to learn that there is no KP2. So if you want to get either Noob, Sektor or Cyrax, and/or ghostface, T1000 and Conan at a yet undisclosed and uncertain date in the future (whenever that may be) you NEED to invest the price of a generic AAA game. But wait, theres more! Just wait till you learn about the warrior shrine.... Idk either guys. Clownworld i guess.
As a mortal kombat only player I am very disappointed with the warrior shrine all its gonna be is the same meta abusing players for every season and it took a year for it like bro its a joke
Was going to buy the dlc until I found out how weak the warrior shrine is and how basic a "feature" took 8 seasons to put in. There's not even shit in the shrine this season.. just terrible
I honestly think NRS couldn't finish whatever the warrior shine was supposed to be originally so they cobbled together something so people will stop asking about it. They should of just taken the good idea that players had to make it a place to redeem points or whatever for kombat league items. Instead they leave it sitting there empty for a year then throw something together for the Khaos Reigns update.
Dude, when they finally told us what the warrior shrine was I literally spit out my drink with laughter. It took them a year to implement a "mode" in the game that's been in menus since launch and it's just to promote the top 5 players in the previous ranked season. 🤣🤣🤣 Sorry, think I'll keep exploding zombies in rainbows of awesomeness with a chainsaw welding ninja cheerleader 👍
Pray at the alter of the SHAMBOLITES, or face their wrath! TBH, all the SHAMBOLITICS in this game is making it WOKE! 😂 Jk! Yea, SHAMBOLICAL is the word you should use Mike!
I had a theory, that NRS pre-plans the game content in future before the official launch, and they deliver updates based on their made calendar. The same calendar also shows when game support will end. That's why Mortal Kombat does not have long shell life.
they sholdnt have had it listed as "coming soon" for a whole year in our faces. and still no mention of online practice. Noob is legit the most interesting character i want to play and now i cant buy him seperately hes locked behind a full price DLC good job NRS.
Hey Mike I came across your videos scrounging to MK videos love your content and your approach and the interviews you do with a lot of pro players, I agree with everything you said in this video but hear me out MK is in a very unique position compared to Street Fighter or Tekken, they are one of the few franchises who could literally develop a standalone game with any of the many popular characters and flesh out the lore an action rpg or adventure game and it would be a hit It was kind of done with mythologies, Shaolin Monks and Deception (Shoutout Damashi) that being said I truly feel like WB acquiring the NetherRealm is the main reason for the lack of polish in their games and for their games feeling stale to a certain degree probably due to them being given a fixed release date and not allowing them to take their time with development. The numerous patches and move additions and even skins to a certain degree, invasions mode etc are proof of that and a lot of franchises are starting to suffer from this and like Sikander said after Khaos reigns releases this is now the full game a year later, If this game launched how it is right now the opinion would be quite different. Big fan broski (I think the warrior shrine was supposed to a challenge mode that would have you facing off against the ghost of the top players on the leaderboards). The game is finally where it was supposed to be when it came out all we can do is wait and see and hope that Netherealm gets bought but until then we out here. Salute my brother
Thank you, brother. Appreciate the kind words ☝🏾 WB probably has had a big part in the downfall of this game, but the general design philosophy is still down to NRS and it's shocking to see some of the things they decide on as a team. Even with WB breathing down their neck, they do some of this to themselves 😂
I knew exactly what the warrior's shrine was gonna be just from the name; some of these guys just had too high of an expectation. The update looks fire, im glad it's just the story/characters that i have to pay for because I'm not considering it based on what we know is in the package.
A whole year just to see the a statue for the top players of those dumb seasons… and seeing the towers of time returning is just another boring tiring grinding mode literally nothing but a waste of time. (For those that are excited for these new stuff being added I hope you all enjoy it)
bro, this title killed me xD edit: I'm a bit disappointed you're adamant about not picking the xpac up. I was hoping to see your take on Noob Saibot - I thouroughly enjoyed your MK11 battles with the character. I mean, it makes sense with all the things you had said but still. ;)
Yeah, I just can't. Noobs design does look cool. The best it's ever looked actually, but it's on a wonky foundation and I'd just get annoyed in the end 😂
I guess I’m not too surprised. I thought it would be a leaderboard type thing entire time actually came out pretty good with the new adds. A lot of the stuff should’ve been in the game from day one but im happy we are getting the changes we are. Still a little bit annoyed that there are no lobbies which should’ve also been in the game on day one
I think the biggest thing is, if that’s all it was gonna be why TF did it need to be delayed for an entire year. Like it’s no way nobody there had the thought of how will this come off when we delayed it for a year. They could of just left it off at that point. The unfortunate part is there weren’t any real negatives about the last for the most part but that was so disappointing it just killed the hype.
You need to make a video on noob be was awesome. Side note Mike i was thinking i think mk1 really took the new timeline rebuild a lil too seriously which is why they probably building the game up slowly instead of giving us a complete game at launch kind of took the SF5 route which is risky yet they thriving on the negative critics cause it keeps them relevant as they build the game right in front of us. Now yes when it comes to the warrior shrine that was bad what they did is good if they wanted to do it with the top 5 cool but make that in a different name a or a different location in the game not behind the warrior shrine when you had that there for ever and could have use it to be something special hell put a version of the krypt there if anything that was the biggest down like whatever moment from the kombat Kast the rest was actually pretty good
Thanks for saving me $50 NRS!👍🏾 Y’all prove that you’ll do just enough to sucker us in and string us along without giving us what we really want in the game.😑🙄👎🏾
I think it was supposed to be something else, but it got scrapped later on so they had to add something, because no way in hell it does take ONE YEAR to make a leaderboard. I mean who would even care about that
Yea. It is not a good look and really silly that they couldn't have added that with like the first MK1 patch, but I don't really care. The actual expansion is looking good and if they keep going in this direction, we could have a SF5 scenario.
Rock and Metal you say? If this game didn't suck i would have checked it out, I'm a big Metal Head and hearing that a game has a rock and metal soundtrack gets my attention.
It sucks Warrior Shrine turned out to just be a leaderboard. Stuff I liked though is that there is now a way to earn premium currency and can get previous season skins in the towers of time.
I don’t really care about warrior shrine. It was pretty obvious what it was given the name, plus we got towers of time so it’s not like we ‘lost content’ in a sense. It was never like it was confirmed to be a mode in the first place either.
lowkey i feel like if they made shaolin monks 2 itd pretty good imagine doing co op raid bosses and seasonal realms and shit i feel like itd be cool af
There's still a lack of game modes. People are hyping this dlc up but I guarantee that by the end of October they'll be back to trashing this game again. Also I don't know why people were thinking the warrior shrine was anything special. It was under the ranked mode and has "shrine" in the name. Animalities are cool but people don't even do fatalities so you'll rarely see those, and when you do see them that's about it. This update really don't have anything going for the game in the long run. Hopefully I can buy noob separately so I can play him cause that's my all time MK main.
And people still jump to defend this game I swear Mortal Kombat is the Fast n Furious of fighting games because no matter how many shitty games they release, shills and fanboys will always buy and defend them.
Honestly MK was never about hard rock. The first 2 games was more inspired by KungFu inspired soundtracks. 3 was more urban/techno and MK4 was like a mixture of the first 3. 3d didnt have that much rock other than the immortal soundtrack but i could be wrong about the 3d era ost
What if it wasn't a mode that was suddenly changed at the last minute because of budget costs. What if it was always supposed to be a leaderboard, but maybe it had 1000 people on it instead of five. Then the casuals could reach to try and get on it at the very least. But with the dwindling player base, then everyone would literally get on the leaderboard so why not cut it down to 5?
The mode is dumb but people are upset with a mode that they made up in there head, Noone from nrs gave them the ideas people were saying, need to focus on the towers of time and upcoming patch possible issues
I’ve been a fan of MK for years. I don’t hate MK1 personally, its gameplay is better than 11 however it’s clear that NRS is just half listening to us with all these features. We’ve been begging for Sektor & Cyrax to come back as fully fleshed out characters for over a decade. Just for them to bring them back in the most controversial way possible. The warrior shrine is absolutely stupid. I thought it was gonna be a shrine to obtain all the Kombat League rewards, but all it ends up being is a f*cking leaderboard. Now it’s cool they are reintroducing Towers of Time and you can get all the old KL skins from it, but why make this red herring with the Warrior Shrine? Why didn’t you just call it anything else, but a SHRINE? Do they not understand how misleading that is? I know I’m shitting on MK hard rn, but I just want to reiterate. I am a fan, I would even say I am a shill because the amount of costumes I buy in that shitty premium shop. I know that the game has improved and they have been making a turn around. Lowering the store prices, finally adding crossplay, improving invasions, actually surprising me with how fun the DLC characters are. I’m even excited for Khaos Reigns even though it’s just a goofy parody of the MCU, but I think that’s fun. They have made improvements and I am not turning a blind eye to that. But when you make us wait a year, for FUCKING LEADERBOARDS… you’re really testing my patience NRS. Mike listen, cause I know you’re probably gonna read this. These are the reasons I left MK for Tekken. I wasn’t even a Tekken fan until Tekken. I know I played 7 a bit, and probably a few of the older games a long time ago but not enough to remember. I know you got your issues with Tekken 8, but from someone like me, an MK fan since I was a little kid, coming into Tekken 8 this game has wowed me. I’d even say it’s my 2nd favorite fighting game overall rn (MK9 is still the GOAT IMO). I’ve been watching you ever since I got into Tekken and you really opened my eyes on things with MK and fighting games as a whole.
People thinking the shrine was gonna be a pseudo konquest mode lol. Like I always knew it was gonna be something underwhelming, not to this degree though, but I always hoped it would be something like konquest, but I thought it would've been just some weird tower of time thing, or a very minimal krypt, like more minimal than mk deadly alliance, and sure still underwhelming but fine, certainly I wouldn't complain for content, but damn, seriously? At this point just don't show the shrine at all, usually when games show something you can access, it's something very big, or at least fun, like ygo master duel, events were shown, but no one knew what they were until a few weeks later, and it was literally a new format, a super fun event with great rewards, the warrior shrine was teased basically for a year, and it was just a glorified leaderboard, like seriously? Like why didn't you hide it? Or even better, why didn't you change it? Y'all could've still made the tower of time the warrior shrine, even though it would be very lazy and kinda fraudish and then make a leaderboard, cause at least it makes people think they waited for something fun, not this leaderboard, of a game that almost no one plays anymore, at this point the warrior shrine is as valiable as winning the gold, silver or bronze medal in a competition where only 4 people play, like wow I'm better than 3 other people.
They had to have seen people speculating. They had to know a leader board is only exciting for the 5 people who actually made it the previous seasons. Like why would you just not put out a tweet a week ago to saying it's just a fancy leaderboard? Like honestly if they just said something when the speculation started getting really crazy this would have been a non issue. whoever is in charge really needs to be fired. They don't understand games and they don't understand their community. It honestly shouldn't have even been a locked icon on release if it's just a leaderboard
The thumbnail makes it look like you've finally lost your sanity after dealing with MK and NRS and their shambolic decisions. I agree about the music though, a step in the right direction.
The warrior shrine ahould copy the ai player ghost feature from tekken .. but this time it allows people to fight the warrior shrine top 5 against their player ghosts for dragon Krystals.... That could be fun
And adding a real mode where the top 50 players can play against the top 5 for an honorary warrior position in the warrior shrine and some dragon Krystals ... The good matches can even be recorded and immortalized where people can watch later.... Just a leaderboard is too shallow some other things must be added so it has some depth
The concept in itself is really cool, but revealing it like this? Hell no, shameful all around lmao NRS has been taking a step forward and three backwards with every announcement for this game.
So it took them an entire year to implement what is essentially a ranking system? Are they working in slow motion over at NRS? I've seen game studios create an entire game in a year's time.
Get better not saying in a mean way but literally practice and also my advice is don’t give up after losing a lot don’t back out when facing higher ranks use that to get better u won’t get better playing ppl lower or on your skill level fight those ppl higher than you I promise you will get better
As a Day 1 Beta Mortal Kombat Onslaught player and 3-star Kitana main who achieved everything there is to do in the game, a Mortal Kombat Mobile player, and a lifelong Mortal Kombat fan, I have 100% confidence to say I am once again asking NRS to not be a dog shit company who suck at managing Mortal Kombat.
nah no way, a whole year to add a feature basically already in the game, you cant make this shit up😭😭😭
They're top trolls at this point.
@@twistsx. An entire year just to add what is essentially a ranking system. That is beyond pathetic.
@@twistsx. Battlefield 2042 type shit
They most likely forgot about it
So Sonic Fox, NinjaKilla, Rewind and a toss up between the other pros are the names that we’re gonna see in the shrine from now until the next game.
No lies detected
I hate that this is accurate, and annoyingly true
And TheMetaUnjust
Wish this was a lie
Warrior shrine should’ve been individual character rankings and make those ranks of the characters displayed before a ranked match when selected said character. Example; your a rank 34 shao playing against a ranked 26 Raiden or something. I think it would’ve been better received
Love this idea
A much better idea tbh. NRS are incompetent.
The way that Derrick prefaced the birthday shoutouts with “And most importantly!” Seriously man, I’m going to lose it 😂
I feel like he's seen how much people hate it and he keeps doing it 😂 I almost respect it at this point.
I feel like Mike is the only one that speaks for me about Mortal Kombat 1
The fact that the Warrior Shrine is just a top 5 list after being "coming soon" for a year is actually insane, but I think that overall, the expansion is looking good. I am a big fan of the towers, especially in Injustice 2 with the guild version, that was awesome. However, I am worried that the rewards are still going to suck which would make it pointless.
If you're a sub zero fan this game will disappoint you over and over again.
Sikander and Tom Brady are elbow dropping air right now.
Sub is officially dead, it sucks being a sub main man
Womp
@@RealMikeHollow Hahahahaha,true,and funny 🤣.
We got DLC's like Elden Ring's over there in the east, where it's longer than most games and passion was put into it and over in the west we got a game keeping a feature/mode behind the works for a year just for it to be a leaderboard system... Bruh I can't 😂
Day 1 people were saying warrior shrine is likely just a leaderboard. Best case scenario it's a way to buy old KL pieces. It's pretty insane to expect more than that. That being said, there's no reason why this couldn't have been in day 1.
Mike’s face in the thumbnail is SHAMBOLIC 😭😭💀
😂😂😂 I was truly flabbergasted.
Thats mikes face on the right??? 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
The left i mean
People have already surmised the only reason NRS did this is because of crossplay. They waited for crossplay to be implemented and run successfully so they didn't have to make like 3 different leaderboards
They shouldn't of have it on display for everyone to see. They clearly don't understand how small changes can change the perception of the game completely. They goofed big time.
they buffed kung lao before sub-zero 💀
Ik right I mean he could still have buffs they don't always show everything in the kombat kast
@yomrwhite607 I'm still hoping that they buffed him and just didn't talk about it because it's so stupid to not buff him
Everyone basically saying Noob is the buff 🤦♂️
@ZxRw98 they're never gonna buff him.
According to Sikander he knows people at NRS and they say that some pros that were in MK11 are now QA testers for MK1.
They're making sure sub zero never becomes viable again.
konquest forever missed
It's why Deception was such a hit. Sooo much content you know...ON THE DISC. How did NRS regress rather than progress? Baffles the mind.
Its like they're allergic to good reactions online.
@@MeatSim64 even the krypt was fire
Nrs is the most incompetent studio ever
After MK9 and MKX it was all downhill from there.
Rocksteady is actually
Well as a lot of others like EA
Nah NRS is bad but THE most incompetent gaming company is easily 343 industries
@@blakerogers9600Let's hope their new management can change that
At first I thought the Khaos reigns expansion cost was too much but now that we’re actually seeing the content as a whole I think the cost of just the expansion is pretty fair.
• Your getting Animalities for every character (which so far every animality has been pretty cool)
• A new Story mode
• two New buyable brutalities for characters in an newly updated store.
• Towers of Time (new way to get store currency and content)
• Three Awesome looking characters at launch and three guest characters post launch.
• New Stages and stage variants
•New Balancing update including but not limited too: New Base character moves, New Kameo Moves, (unknown buffs/nerfs)
• New costumes for pre ordering and included in the expansion update.
And more depending on the edition. I realize allot of the things mentioned are technically free but if you were to add them to the cost of say a 40$ expansion it would make a little more sense why Khaos Reigns costs what it does. Either way the expansion seems to be a Giant W and could possibly set the game in a good direction.
They know their scene is dumb and will pay for slop no matter how much they complain
🤡
For a moment I though maybe I'll buy Sektor just because i mained *him* but thankfully nrs reminded me that they don't deserve a cent or a second from me.
Mfs saw sf6's Legend rank and thought "let's do that but make it lame and take a whole ass year".
The tweets were hilarious tho
Sidenote, you wouldnt even be able to just get Sektor seperately, because why would you? Well, you might think, let me just Grab the kombat Pack 2 than.
But you'd probably be suprised to learn that there is no KP2.
So if you want to get either Noob, Sektor or Cyrax, and/or ghostface, T1000 and Conan at a yet undisclosed and uncertain date in the future (whenever that may be) you NEED to invest the price of a generic AAA game.
But wait, theres more! Just wait till you learn about the warrior shrine....
Idk either guys. Clownworld i guess.
@@vdjakut222what are you on about? You can buy them separately but not as a pack. Just the characters. It clearly says that K2 will not be sold separately. I doesn’t mean that you have buy the expansion to get the characters
@@thearchon8579 can you source where NRS said they'll make the characters available seperately? If not, than it means that they won't be, just like KP2 wont be sold seperately.
@@vdjakut222 just like mk11. You can buy the characters from the expansion. Probably one week after launch 🤷🏻♂️
@@thearchon8579 Yeah so you're source is "trust me bro" ? Unlike mk11, where each kombat Pack was Sold seperately, they explicitly say this time KP2 will not be Sold seperately. Its unreasonable to expect the characters themselves will be tho. Dont get me wrong, i DO hope they'll sell them seperately. And unlike for example KP1's characters and kameos, theres no fineprint or Statement that says otherwise.
Man...the thumbnail scared the shit outa me...
Still always a pleasure hearing you out man.
😂😂😂 my bad fam.
R.I.P Chess Kombat
Better times 🥲
Literally one of the game modes people were asking for since before release.
Noob looks incredible. I’m definitely gonna pick him up when he drops. But the Warrior Shrine is a huge L.
We waited so long for it to be just a place where you see the ones who are abusing the meta the most per season lol
But allegedly it was gonna be where you could get the old Kombat league skins that you missed but it looks like they put that in the new towers of time.
Sidenote, you wouldnt even be able to just get Noob seperately, because why would you? Well, you might think, let me just Grab the kombat Pack 2 than.
But you'd probably be suprised to learn that there is no KP2.
So if you want to get either Noob, Sektor or Cyrax, and/or ghostface, T1000 and Conan at a yet undisclosed and uncertain date in the future (whenever that may be) you NEED to invest the price of a generic AAA game.
But wait, theres more! Just wait till you learn about the warrior shrine....
Idk either guys. Clownworld i guess.
Towers of time is awesome in mk11
Thanks, NRS. We really wanted/needed a leader board. Thanks for reading all reviews and energy in the room 😂
Not gonna lie, the music in the new stage sounds familiar to Mick Gordan’s work.
They’re on the heavy pharmaceuticals.
Warrior shrine sounds pretty redundant when I’m pretty sure you can look up past kombat league seasons and their leaderboards
As a mortal kombat only player I am very disappointed with the warrior shrine all its gonna be is the same meta abusing players for every season and it took a year for it like bro its a joke
Get ready to see Sonics name up there every month.
Was going to buy the dlc until I found out how weak the warrior shrine is and how basic a "feature" took 8 seasons to put in. There's not even shit in the shrine this season.. just terrible
I honestly think NRS couldn't finish whatever the warrior shine was supposed to be originally so they cobbled together something so people will stop asking about it. They should of just taken the good idea that players had to make it a place to redeem points or whatever for kombat league items. Instead they leave it sitting there empty for a year then throw something together for the Khaos Reigns update.
The thumbnail looks 🔥
Thank you, sir ☝🏾
Dude, when they finally told us what the warrior shrine was I literally spit out my drink with laughter. It took them a year to implement a "mode" in the game that's been in menus since launch and it's just to promote the top 5 players in the previous ranked season.
🤣🤣🤣 Sorry, think I'll keep exploding zombies in rainbows of awesomeness with a chainsaw welding ninja cheerleader 👍
😂😂😂 I couldn't believe it. I thought I had misheard. They're not paying attention to the reactions online.
@@RealMikeHollow shambolic right? Here in America we say FUBAR
Warrior shrine reminds for MK11 when they announced AI battles. I was soooooo disappointed. Same as this.
I got you Mike.
(*NEW WORD ALERT*) Shambolic + diabolical equals.....
This Warriors Shine BS after waiting over a year is SHAMBOLICAL
😂😂😂 I shall enter this into the word of Shambolicism.
Pray at the alter of the SHAMBOLITES, or face their wrath! TBH, all the SHAMBOLITICS in this game is making it WOKE! 😂 Jk! Yea, SHAMBOLICAL is the word you should use Mike!
I don't know what word you can come up with that is lower than 'shambolic'.
Someone said Shambalistic 😂
@@RealMikeHollow So long as it's not 'Concorded'.
thank God. really thought they would forget those birthday shoutouts 😅
Can't forget those damn birthday shout outs 😂
That thumbnail throw me off. But after watching the video, yep, this expression is pretty suitable
I didn't know how else to look at the screen 😂
I had a theory, that NRS pre-plans the game content in future before the official launch, and they deliver updates based on their made calendar. The same calendar also shows when game support will end. That's why Mortal Kombat does not have long shell life.
If that is true then they need to change it up. Its killing the games reputation.
We're gonna be seeing a lot of Homelander/Ferra statues moving forward once the update drops 💀💀💀
😂😂 it's gonna become a meme.
they sholdnt have had it listed as "coming soon" for a whole year in our faces. and still no mention of online practice. Noob is legit the most interesting character i want to play and now i cant buy him seperately hes locked behind a full price DLC good job NRS.
For Mortal Kombat to redeem itself, it would take selling the company to Fromsoft or something XD
I’d take any studio that isn’t woke.
That stage music sounds like something that came from a Doom game.
Hey Mike I came across your videos scrounging to MK videos love your content and your approach and the interviews you do with a lot of pro players, I agree with everything you said in this video but hear me out MK is in a very unique position compared to Street Fighter or Tekken, they are one of the few franchises who could literally develop a standalone game with any of the many popular characters and flesh out the lore an action rpg or adventure game and it would be a hit It was kind of done with mythologies, Shaolin Monks and Deception (Shoutout Damashi) that being said I truly feel like WB acquiring the NetherRealm is the main reason for the lack of polish in their games and for their games feeling stale to a certain degree probably due to them being given a fixed release date and not allowing them to take their time with development. The numerous patches and move additions and even skins to a certain degree, invasions mode etc are proof of that and a lot of franchises are starting to suffer from this and like Sikander said after Khaos reigns releases this is now the full game a year later, If this game launched how it is right now the opinion would be quite different. Big fan broski (I think the warrior shrine was supposed to a challenge mode that would have you facing off against the ghost of the top players on the leaderboards). The game is finally where it was supposed to be when it came out all we can do is wait and see and hope that Netherealm gets bought but until then we out here. Salute my brother
Thank you, brother. Appreciate the kind words ☝🏾 WB probably has had a big part in the downfall of this game, but the general design philosophy is still down to NRS and it's shocking to see some of the things they decide on as a team. Even with WB breathing down their neck, they do some of this to themselves 😂
I knew exactly what the warrior's shrine was gonna be just from the name; some of these guys just had too high of an expectation. The update looks fire, im glad it's just the story/characters that i have to pay for because I'm not considering it based on what we know is in the package.
0:01 you thought wrong, I was thinking about how legendary that thumbnail looked
😂😂😂 thank you.
they just want to see how much they can troll us
Literally 😂
A whole year just to see the a statue for the top players of those dumb seasons… and seeing the towers of time returning is just another boring tiring grinding mode literally nothing but a waste of time. (For those that are excited for these new stuff being added I hope you all enjoy it)
Ngl Mike we might need a horror skit who how that thumbnail looks🤣
😂😂😂 consider it in the works.
I love noob saibot and towers of time but it makes invasions obsolete now, but I will try to be positive
The towers are replacing Invasion mode entirely.
The thumbnail of the century.
Shambolic ❌
Diabolic ✅
bro, this title killed me xD
edit: I'm a bit disappointed you're adamant about not picking the xpac up. I was hoping to see your take on Noob Saibot - I thouroughly enjoyed your MK11 battles with the character. I mean, it makes sense with all the things you had said but still. ;)
Yeah, I just can't. Noobs design does look cool. The best it's ever looked actually, but it's on a wonky foundation and I'd just get annoyed in the end 😂
I guess I’m not too surprised. I thought it would be a leaderboard type thing entire time actually came out pretty good with the new adds. A lot of the stuff should’ve been in the game from day one but im happy we are getting the changes we are. Still a little bit annoyed that there are no lobbies which should’ve also been in the game on day one
No lobbies in a traditional fighting game is crazy.
Mike hallow is the type of guy to get into a fight and lose cuz he was more focused on the music playing than worried about the actual fight
Its Hollow, boy 🗿
Think about it....the roster/ modes reveal for Sparking Zero, was followed up by Warrior Shrine.
Let's not compare bamco to nrs, you'll just be disappointed
I think the biggest thing is, if that’s all it was gonna be why TF did it need to be delayed for an entire year. Like it’s no way nobody there had the thought of how will this come off when we delayed it for a year. They could of just left it off at that point.
The unfortunate part is there weren’t any real negatives about the last for the most part but that was so disappointing it just killed the hype.
Its like none of them have twitter and couldn't see anticipation building for the mode slowly.
You need to make a video on noob be was awesome. Side note Mike i was thinking i think mk1 really took the new timeline rebuild a lil too seriously which is why they probably building the game up slowly instead of giving us a complete game at launch kind of took the SF5 route which is risky yet they thriving on the negative critics cause it keeps them relevant as they build the game right in front of us. Now yes when it comes to the warrior shrine that was bad what they did is good if they wanted to do it with the top 5 cool but make that in a different name a or a different location in the game not behind the warrior shrine when you had that there for ever and could have use it to be something special hell put a version of the krypt there if anything that was the biggest down like whatever moment from the kombat Kast the rest was actually pretty good
I thought there was going to be a no Kameo mode
I still don't understand why the character sub-zero has not got a buff yet they give better buffs to the cameo than the actual character
Shambolisimo is my bid for your new word to describe this mess lol
😂😂😂
What's going on is.... I'm not there anymore....
Excellent commentary, opinion and observations as always.
Thank you, sir ☝🏾
CONGRATS ON 15K BROTHER KEEP ON STRIVING 😈❤️
@@NomaGang thank you, bro ☝🏾
Thanks for saving me $50 NRS!👍🏾 Y’all prove that you’ll do just enough to sucker us in and string us along without giving us what we really want in the game.😑🙄👎🏾
I think it was supposed to be something else, but it got scrapped later on so they had to add something, because no way in hell it does take ONE YEAR to make a leaderboard. I mean who would even care about that
I still enjoy mk1. I pre-ordered khaos [with a discount] but warrior shrine is one of the biggest nrs ball drops ever.
Yea. It is not a good look and really silly that they couldn't have added that with like the first MK1 patch, but I don't really care. The actual expansion is looking good and if they keep going in this direction, we could have a SF5 scenario.
Rock and Metal you say? If this game didn't suck i would have checked it out, I'm a big Metal Head and hearing that a game has a rock and metal soundtrack gets my attention.
Let's hope they continue to put some of that music in the game. It fits it really well.
😂😂 these guys at nrs never cease to amaze me, of course theres no way that this shrine was meant to be this from the beginning,, right?!😅😂
It sucks Warrior Shrine turned out to just be a leaderboard. Stuff I liked though is that there is now a way to earn premium currency and can get previous season skins in the towers of time.
I don’t really care about warrior shrine. It was pretty obvious what it was given the name, plus we got towers of time so it’s not like we ‘lost content’ in a sense. It was never like it was confirmed to be a mode in the first place either.
NRS will always do the LEAST amount of work possible
Kudos for showing so many tweets
I was gonna keep going but I didn't know how long I was gonna be speaking for 😂 it was an endless stream of disappointment.
im with you... MK had literally lost its identity
lowkey i feel like if they made shaolin monks 2 itd pretty good
imagine doing co op raid bosses and seasonal realms and shit i feel like itd be cool af
I think it might be time for them to focus their efforts on things outside of fighting games, so I agree.
There's still a lack of game modes. People are hyping this dlc up but I guarantee that by the end of October they'll be back to trashing this game again. Also I don't know why people were thinking the warrior shrine was anything special. It was under the ranked mode and has "shrine" in the name. Animalities are cool but people don't even do fatalities so you'll rarely see those, and when you do see them that's about it. This update really don't have anything going for the game in the long run. Hopefully I can buy noob separately so I can play him cause that's my all time MK main.
You can buy them individually you just can't get the kobat pack without the story mode.
I thought it was going to have something to something to do with the created characters at the end of the game
thumbnail is scarier then a game with fatalities (=
😂😂😂
And people still jump to defend this game I swear Mortal Kombat is the Fast n Furious of fighting games because no matter how many shitty games they release, shills and fanboys will always buy and defend them.
The music should go back to how it was in MK9. That game had a great ost.
Agreed. A shame not all of the great soundtracks made it into the base game though.
Even the character select theme went hard🔥
There's still buffs to come. They said that's just a sneak peak.
Don't hold ya breath. I bet it'll be a few more 😂
Honestly MK was never about hard rock. The first 2 games was more inspired by KungFu inspired soundtracks. 3 was more urban/techno and MK4 was like a mixture of the first 3. 3d didnt have that much rock other than the immortal soundtrack but i could be wrong about the 3d era ost
What if it wasn't a mode that was suddenly changed at the last minute because of budget costs. What if it was always supposed to be a leaderboard, but maybe it had 1000 people on it instead of five. Then the casuals could reach to try and get on it at the very least. But with the dwindling player base, then everyone would literally get on the leaderboard so why not cut it down to 5?
The mode is dumb but people are upset with a mode that they made up in there head, Noone from nrs gave them the ideas people were saying, need to focus on the towers of time and upcoming patch possible issues
I’ve been a fan of MK for years. I don’t hate MK1 personally, its gameplay is better than 11 however it’s clear that NRS is just half listening to us with all these features.
We’ve been begging for Sektor & Cyrax to come back as fully fleshed out characters for over a decade. Just for them to bring them back in the most controversial way possible.
The warrior shrine is absolutely stupid. I thought it was gonna be a shrine to obtain all the Kombat League rewards, but all it ends up being is a f*cking leaderboard. Now it’s cool they are reintroducing Towers of Time and you can get all the old KL skins from it, but why make this red herring with the Warrior Shrine? Why didn’t you just call it anything else, but a SHRINE? Do they not understand how misleading that is?
I know I’m shitting on MK hard rn, but I just want to reiterate. I am a fan, I would even say I am a shill because the amount of costumes I buy in that shitty premium shop. I know that the game has improved and they have been making a turn around. Lowering the store prices, finally adding crossplay, improving invasions, actually surprising me with how fun the DLC characters are. I’m even excited for Khaos Reigns even though it’s just a goofy parody of the MCU, but I think that’s fun. They have made improvements and I am not turning a blind eye to that. But when you make us wait a year, for FUCKING LEADERBOARDS… you’re really testing my patience NRS.
Mike listen, cause I know you’re probably gonna read this. These are the reasons I left MK for Tekken. I wasn’t even a Tekken fan until Tekken. I know I played 7 a bit, and probably a few of the older games a long time ago but not enough to remember. I know you got your issues with Tekken 8, but from someone like me, an MK fan since I was a little kid, coming into Tekken 8 this game has wowed me. I’d even say it’s my 2nd favorite fighting game overall rn (MK9 is still the GOAT IMO). I’ve been watching you ever since I got into Tekken and you really opened my eyes on things with MK and fighting games as a whole.
Its a sad state of affairs and MK1 has been handled so poorly over the year that every other game look like a golden nugget 😂
We waited a year for an additional leaderboard 🗿
(And practice mode) 🗿🗿🗿🗿
They really sat there with smiles on their faces as they said it 😂
@@RealMikeHollow Demon smiles 🗿
I'm Not disappointed, because I'm Not Surprised if that makes sense?
Makes sense. Set the bar low with these guys and avoid pain.
Did i miss something? I follow everything about this game and a had no idea this existed.
They got us waiting a whole year for basic features 😭
If taking the piss was a game 😂
It’s probably just gonna be the same people getting on top anyway because they could never TRULY touch grass.
😂😂😂
@@RealMikeHollow am I wrong through lol, I’m a pretty good mk player too but this announcement really humbled me 😂
Yo!.. the thumb nail is hilarious lol
Haha thank you.
*sigh. I need some of those herbs to help me un-see the Warrior Shrine news. It's not even funny or frustrating, I just can't anymore...
People thinking the shrine was gonna be a pseudo konquest mode lol.
Like I always knew it was gonna be something underwhelming, not to this degree though, but I always hoped it would be something like konquest, but I thought it would've been just some weird tower of time thing, or a very minimal krypt, like more minimal than mk deadly alliance, and sure still underwhelming but fine, certainly I wouldn't complain for content, but damn, seriously? At this point just don't show the shrine at all, usually when games show something you can access, it's something very big, or at least fun, like ygo master duel, events were shown, but no one knew what they were until a few weeks later, and it was literally a new format, a super fun event with great rewards, the warrior shrine was teased basically for a year, and it was just a glorified leaderboard, like seriously? Like why didn't you hide it? Or even better, why didn't you change it? Y'all could've still made the tower of time the warrior shrine, even though it would be very lazy and kinda fraudish and then make a leaderboard, cause at least it makes people think they waited for something fun, not this leaderboard, of a game that almost no one plays anymore, at this point the warrior shrine is as valiable as winning the gold, silver or bronze medal in a competition where only 4 people play, like wow I'm better than 3 other people.
They’re definitely on hyperenhanced medications
😂😂😂
The most potent kind 😂
They had to have seen people speculating. They had to know a leader board is only exciting for the 5 people who actually made it the previous seasons. Like why would you just not put out a tweet a week ago to saying it's just a fancy leaderboard? Like honestly if they just said something when the speculation started getting really crazy this would have been a non issue. whoever is in charge really needs to be fired. They don't understand games and they don't understand their community. It honestly shouldn't have even been a locked icon on release if it's just a leaderboard
This is exactly the problem. They're either not paying attention or they're just downright stupid.
The thumbnail makes it look like you've finally lost your sanity after dealing with MK and NRS and their shambolic decisions.
I agree about the music though, a step in the right direction.
Warrior shrine = a big "L". I was hoping the Warrior shrine was going to be a mode like T8's fight lounge or ghost battles.
Loadd of good stuff but the warrior shine was such a let down.
The warrior shrine ahould copy the ai player ghost feature from tekken .. but this time it allows people to fight the warrior shrine top 5 against their player ghosts for dragon Krystals.... That could be fun
That would be a better way to immortalize peoples gameplay and their play styles with some secondary meaning
And adding a real mode where the top 50 players can play against the top 5 for an honorary warrior position in the warrior shrine and some dragon Krystals ... The good matches can even be recorded and immortalized where people can watch later.... Just a leaderboard is too shallow some other things must be added so it has some depth
The concept in itself is really cool, but revealing it like this? Hell no, shameful all around lmao
NRS has been taking a step forward and three backwards with every announcement for this game.
Jokes on you guys, I didn’t have any expectations this whole time
So it took them an entire year to implement what is essentially a ranking system? Are they working in slow motion over at NRS? I've seen game studios create an entire game in a year's time.
I'd love to see what's going on in their offices.
This was lame. I was angry after the Kombat Kast. That was ridiculous.
I don't play fighting games online its too hard and I hate losing all the time
Get better not saying in a mean way but literally practice and also my advice is don’t give up after losing a lot don’t back out when facing higher ranks use that to get better u won’t get better playing ppl lower or on your skill level fight those ppl higher than you I promise you will get better
Skill issue
Yeah losing is a part of the learning processes, ik u got this DoomyRei💪
@@Goro_84s no
@@jaydagoat946 🫡
As a Day 1 Beta Mortal Kombat Onslaught player and 3-star Kitana main who achieved everything there is to do in the game, a Mortal Kombat Mobile player, and a lifelong Mortal Kombat fan, I have 100% confidence to say I am once again asking NRS to not be a dog shit company who suck at managing Mortal Kombat.