To be honest it just isn’t fun to watch. We talked trash about MK11 but it was way better as an overall game. The cameo system is gimmicky. Most MK players want a classic 1v1. We mainly wanted them to improve the combo system from 11 and make all the variations into one variation. It feels like I’m watchin Injustice rather than a MK game. It’s not a balanced game, all characters should be on level playing field. 11 was in motion for 5 yrs, ppl took breaks and would comeback on it, just like MKX
This game is Mortal Kombat 11, but worse. NRS took that game, edited the mechanics a bit, and made this game. It's Mortal Kombat 11 with a kameo system.
@@user-fs1lc2cj5s crazy ass analogy 💀 no way y'all are comparing a damn video game to a corrupt government, PLEASE be more dramatic, the strawmannig is hilarious
I've been done with the franchise since after the Sindel DLC of MK11; and I was already over it be that time. MK1 is the nail in the coffin that has, finally, allowed me to "let go" of the childhood toy that MK once was.
The most lazy and incompetent studio ever, mk deserves better, they really need to sell this franchise. It’s so embarrassing being an mk fan right now, midway by a long shot was a better developer for MK.
It’s crazy that they are nerfing paid for kameos and it’s still better than base roster then nerf cyrax a base kameo back to being terrible , the game feels pay to win in certain scenarios bc why are they so reluctant to buff base roster kameos
I just can't with this game man. Almost a year in and they still don't even know what the fanbase wants. Season 1 (I know it wasn't perfect) had a good thing going with a lot of broken stuff but since then it's just nerf after nerf. Lowering health is such a lazy nerf too. Elden ring DLC is here, think I might just say bye to the 130 GB MK1 (INSANE for a fighting game) until they listen to the fans. This game had so much promise but legit is one of the worst if not the worst triple A games management wise and communication wise I've ever seen
They should have just carried on with mkx the variation system was fine. The game was faster gameplay wise and way more smoother for combos. Mk1 has just been such a mess
Unfortunately this game fundamentally isn't suitable for a tag game. Stuff like faster movement (which this game is faster than MK11 but not as fast as 9 or X (which is what it should be if it wants to be a tag game)), most the cast (outside of Johnny) having slower attack speeds, and ultimately not having mechanics that other assist base games have to make dealing with the assist better isn't in here. As long as that is still the issue, the balancing won't get any better.
The ambush kameos ruining any sense of neutral in the game. Ambushes just promote yolo game play with little to no risk. The characters where the buffs go
i'm proud to say, and for my own sanity, i didn't buy this bullshit. reviews exists so we can make an inform decision. hopefully, the reviewer is being honest. and that's all i ask. and when describing the game play of i game i have not played, it will or will not spark my interest in a game. MK 11 was my breaking point with NRS. i vowed to never buy another game from the studio because of how shit the game was and how NRS either the developers or their community managers, initially attacked customer/fans for criticisms about the game. unfortunately i had pre-ordered the game and did like the beta, then when the actual game released, it was different in some aspects from the beta. but i tried to like it, i tried to find why i was not having fun with MK 11. i tried to force myself to like MK 11. when reality hit that MK 11 was shit, i said, i'm done. MK 1's Kameo system sounds like straight ass! so shout out to the real ones being honest about this game. you helped me save my damn money.
Facts. Thank you, fucking thank you. No one is saying this and wants to admit that’s what happened. Stop nerfing the good kameos, make them the standard. And bring everyone up to the same level, instead of trying to nerf everyone but the top 5.
I still remember when they showed some characters getting new moves. I thought maybe Nitara might have gotten some too because she's borderline unusable and needs tools to even compete with other low tiers and she got basically no changes that patch. I've always preferred buffs to weak characters over nerfs to strong characters, but it seems like in this game, they don't make sensible changes. Reptile wasn't top tier, but he certainly wasn't struggling. And then most of the cameos are either only used in very specific situations or not used at all. I really wanted to love this game, but the way it's being handled is just so bad.
Yea I uninstalled the game, they refuse to buff other kameos they didn’t try to fix cyrax they just reverted him to being trash. Don’t mind Khameleon as long as we have other good options. MK11 was a better game than this Pos imo.
"The only way this is going to change is if the bottom line is affected." That or the execs in all their wisdom just go "Oh, people just don't like Mortal Kombat anymore. Don't make MK games anymore." It almost happened with character action games because of Devil May Cry 2 (DMC3 saved the genre). It almost happened with fighting games because of Capcom Fighting Evolution (Street Fighter 4 saved THAT genre AFAIK). It practically HAS happened with Star Fox games with Star Fox Zero. Executives aren't smart. They misinterpret numbers all the time and they'll read these numbers like "Oh, people just don't like these games in general anymore" when they ACTUALLY say "People just didn't like THIS game." :P
I havent played mortal kombat in so long. I think the last mortal kombat i played was mkx. The games fight Choreograph animations just seem to get stiffer and less snappier each new mortal kombat. Characters are constantly being redesigned, reimagined, fighting stances changed, ect. There is no consistency in their designs over generations. Like why is every character 6'2 in these games? There are so many design choices that are so questionable both mechanically and character wise. Mk9 will forever be the best mk imo.
First and foremost: Those weren't real nerfs. The question is "what makes X character broken or overtuned?" Another way to go about it, "what do the majority of players complain about when playing against X character." The problem that Johnny had his plus frames. It is NOT fun to play against characters who, basically, never lose a turn. Instead of hitting his 1, 1 punch or hitting his jab frames, they nerfed something else completely. Of course Johnny would still be number one. Raiden and Cyrax were broken for similar reasons, minus Raiden doing 2 touch KO combos. They nerfed their main abilities by giving them more frames or giving their opponent more of chance to play the game. 🤯 What do you know! You nerf the plus frames and now nobody complains nearly as much about them, let alone plays them. Personally, I believe the power should be lowered (i.e.nerfs) that way the game is more balanced and more fair and players have to rely on skill rather than gimmicks and cheap tricks. I used to be completely opposed to buffs. However, I went on a philosophical journey and came to the conclusion buffs are not my enemy. I understand the power of buffing everyone to the top 1%'s level. The game would be more, in a sense, more fun, and in a sense, more fair. Either method would promote more character and playstyle variety and enable more characters freedom to do what they do best without collectively being crapped on by the same fraction of characters.
Game is trash!! I’ll never buy another NRS game at full price lol. It’s been almost a year and the game still feels incomplete. No content for casuals. Invasions sucks and is repetitive. Seems like every decision they make is a bad one lol.
I stopped playing after Omni Man came out. I'm just waiting on the game to get some serious change. Ermac and Homelander look fun but I just don't have excitement to play.
I also feel their narrative decisions are also very shallow and awful. As a kasual I may have been able to excuse the gameplay if the narrative wasn't also just as dry, shallow, and boring as the gameplay itself. A lot of the interesting characterization from the older games was discarded for the sake of the New Era and I wouldn't mind as much except that they barely did anything with the new setups. The narrative went for a lazy cop-out MCU multiverse ending and it just made me think as why should I care about the New Era when in another timeline Scorpion is actually Hanzo, Shao is actually a Khan, etc. Why go through the effort of making a new era at that point. It completely eliminates stakes and makes me not care about how you plan to change up these characters, which most of the changes are kinda stupid and arbitrary and don't make sense. I'm harping on this because the barebones narrative is kind of a microcosm of MK1 itself, in that is bland, shallow, uncreative, with mountains of wasted potential. I sincerely hope there is a course correction in the future as I want this franchise to do well.
there is nothing to be positive about. life isnt always positive. yall must be kids/teens cus you dont care/see what his actual point is. we PAID 70+ for an UNFINISHED game. huge emphasis on UNFINISHED. how is it even right to charge or even release this?
The fact they attempted to charge y’all for fatalities at first shoulda told y’all what this company was on.. They even took special moves and slapped a skin on them called them “kameos” so they can now charge y’all for fk’in SPECIAL MOVES.. Lol bro I swear you can’t make this ish up, f this game bro I’m mad asl I wasted my bread on this 💩.
I can admire NRS taking risks and making their games different. However, if you have no idea how to excute an idea properly, then you probably shouldn't try it. The kameo system wasn't even a good idea from the start. People don't like major changes to their games like this. Mortal Kombat is known for being a 1 VS 1 fighter. The game is nearly a year old, and I still see people telling NRS they want a no kameo mode, which they probably won't get in my opinion. To change the game and make it an assist based game was a very bad idea. Had NRS made this system work, it might of been enjoyable, but I still wouldn't want it in the next game. It would of been a nice little change, but it should not be carried into the next game.
I think theyre waiting a full year of the game being out or two so they can try and fool people into taking it seriously competitively, then when theyre fully working on next game, put in the no kameo mode. Cuz think about it it wouldnt be that hard to have been in by now. But if they did before all these kombat packs were done and idiots watch tournys for the shitty kameo gameplay, if they DID put it in, no matter what SOME people would play it and would show they themselves (NRS) werent taking it seriously either or didnt know what they wanted the main gameplay to be.
i like team up versus games and i want the game to lean into that more bc we've never had this in mk before besides mk9 which nobody played sadly, i do wish the kameos were fully playable and it was tag team with assist attacks like mk9
@@sk8lifeXgr8life a no kameo mode would be absolute hell, johnny and peacemaker would shit on everybody even harder than they already do. the game is fundamentally built around assists covering your character's weaknesses and the base roster is really badly designed around that having characters like those two and raiden and liu kang that are all pretty self sufficient without assists which was a mistake
@@mikaela5938Because JUST LIKE MK9, NO ONE BUT THE ABSOLUTE TRASH OF FIGHTING GAME FAMS WANTS 2V2 in FING DEATH MATCH MK! I KNOW I PROBABLY HURT YOUR FEELINGS TALKING ABOUT A GAME MURDERING YOU OPPOSITION IS THE GOAL!
hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha what a cluster fuck Mk1 is dogshit. MKX is goated you see the combos in that game and you know the persons good and figured out swaggy shit. MK11 was a very different game style not just slapped together like this shit "MK". Didnt mind the grounded style and characters still had fuck neutral specials. People bitched about Krushing blows cuz they werent done well for doing too much dmg so what did they do with MK Mobile for console? Every basic bnb does krushing blow level damage, they make fatal blows tied to your health still a thing while having normal meter so you can whiff a raw super then combo break. They think balancing the new shit gimmick should be affecting the health bars of the characters. Like Mk1 feels like they IMMEDIATELY made it as a response to "theres no combos in 11" and "wheres xyz character" so they slapped some shit together and said it was "So new and creative" by making tower assists the main gameplay thing and doing them worse. I gave it plenty of time to iron out kinks and wait for "content" kept playing as a fan of MK but im done with it now. Staight up feels like a cheesey mobile game and has the worst online connection of the modern fighters out right now. The story feels like a weird spin off TV show just about character arcs. Its a wrap. Real MK fans are tired of it, NRS. Remember guys warrior shrine coming soon. "aNd KeEp ThAt CoMbO gOinG bY cLicKiNg sUbsCrIbE🤪" its for fortnite kids who want to feel like they have knowledge of what MK is
Having played the genre since the early 90s, I could see the game was trash the moment I laid eyes on it... Even more so than I did with MK11, which, at least, _looked_ the part.
MK11 was the Fujin mirror edition and MK1 is the Johnny Cage Mirror edition featuring John Cena. But hey, as long as the game has 200 viewers on Twitch and 20 of the same "pros" playing the game, NRS is happy somehow.
It is absolutely disrespectful how NRS went about this game. All they worry about is the 20 - 30 professional player and not the tens of thousands of fans. And a year later the game is still incomplete with modes that cannot be selected. They even tried to "fix" the game with PAID characters. Just sad as a Midway era fan. What's even worse is that Ed boon is in charge, if the creator himself doesn't care, who will?
Man forget who they’re worrying about, these guys/girls don’t know how to make a damn character stick to an archetype. Too many of their “top tier” characters are jack of all trades.
@@XboxIsSoftbrain dead casuals aren't the ones making videos calling MK1s gameplay the greatest MK game of all time bud. That's the shills who NRS catered this game to. Foxygrandpa isn't a casual, and he's shilled this game as the best MK of all time. And had made videos stating such
Do not believe for one second that Ed is behind this. Companies love letting people who have never worked on a project before…edit and input anything they want. Remember Kronika? That wasn’t ed cmon now
@georgealvarez1195 Although some pros may shill the game, the majority agreeing with people like him are casuals. Most pros who shill just do it for handouts/invites to events. The rest of the pros will be honest. MK1 has the least kompetitors for a reason. Most pros hate it.
Lets be honest, the KAMEO system is a failure. Terrible idea from a studio weak in terms of balanced fighting game. Every MK or Injustice is unbalanced.
Yeah, they need to take a chance on tag mode. Data miners found the code for it at one point. I don't think people would mind being able to select between 1vs1, kameo or tag.
A lot of people want a no kameo mode. I don't think they will ever get one. People just need to accept that this is what the game is. If they don't like it, time to move on. There would have to be a lot of balance changes to make a no kameo mode. There would also have to be forward throw animations for characters. NRS is not going to put in that type of work. Even if they did make a no kameo mode, then the kameo mode we have now would die. I think most people would only play the no kameo mode. They basically would have put all that work into the mode for nothing.
Am I the only one that feels like we should be able to switch characters in ranked? Being someone who plays like half the roster I MAINLY get annoyed at the balancing when I'm FORCED to stay in a bad match-up for an entire set, but the pros get to switch characters in tournament? C'mon now
@Killjoy4106 it was literally in every other game, anybreason u got for not having it in this game is a skill issue when the pros can do it in ACTUAL tournament
Why did they kill cyrax again? He didn't even pose a threat and they had data on him to see if they want him to stay or revert him out the game. Took the lazy route and just took him out again
Cyrax was the second best cameo in the game behind Cam, he was the best at what he did by far. He has to be nerfed but so does Cam(she needs alot of work)
@@GeorgePivtorak he was already toned down and can be ducked. Not hardly a threat anymore also he still had a dmg nerf. Other Kameos did what he does but better.
People whining about Cyrax nerf are really insane, instantly the Raiden/Baraka + Cyrax flooded some ranks on league and people was abusing chip damage as crazy, anything + unsafe special + chip + cyrax + chip = SAFE, then repeat. Disgusting as first day... Chameleon at least require more skill, and constant awareness, plus it doesn't chip like mad.
@@Lanzetsu You're acting like that sequence can't be done with other Kameos. That's exactly what Peace Maker did during Final Kombat or are you blind like the rest of the known sell outs in the community hyping up that garbage cause that ALL he did with KHAMLEON...
If the NRS made A Mortal Kombat 9 remaster, it would have be more than an update in graphics. It would require some balance because Kabal is broken in that game. I would also want new kontent that the original didn't have, and brutalities. I'm guessing if NRS made a remake of that game, it would be $70.00. An update in graphics won't cut it for me.
@@theretrogamingnerd3316 I feel it’s balanced, a lot of characters were broken, Jax reset combos 100%+ in the corner with full meter, cyrax reset combos that were 70-90% damage full screen, Sonya blade was really good, sonicfox showed how Sonya was good, kitana was pretty good at spamming as well, there was a lot of brokenness involved not just kabal which made it fun to use broken vs broken
@Eric16ss I don't remember much of Mortal Kombat 9 since it was so long ago. I do remember Kabal the most about that game though. A remake would not be a bad idea. It would probably kill off Mortal kombat 1 if NRS made that.
It's crazy to me that I choose SF over MK today. As a GEN X'r I literally grew up w/ both SF and MK. At a time when they were both setting the world on fire too. I always leaned MK. Not anymore. _NRS_ is the dumpster fire you should be talking about...
I hated it since the beginning. I loved the Variants more because atleast they didn't feel awkward to use. I gave up on MK1 for so many reasons, and the main reason I gave up was for the Kameo system. It never felt satisfying
I didn't even know Kameos affected your base health. This game is like it's changing features found in other fighting games in an ineffective attempt to do something different.
As an Ermac main nrs nerfing Janet was really petty she wasn’t breaking the game at all. I agree nrs is lazy and nrs praise is toxic it keeps the quality low.
Well I all see is the same old..well copy n paste janet combos from these pro players give. No one does anything different. I mean Ermac is like a complete character and no one uses different kameo's for him BUT I agree, she wasn't breaking the game. Just the same old combos
I knew mk was all downhill when 11 came out, they had slow, stiff movements, bright superhero colors like injustice the game looked and for the longest was called injustice 11 they even took inj long cinematic cutscenes Mk should be dark, dirty and grimey looking
No mk1 has by far best stages you know why? Because they’re creative,enjoyable to look at,and some like fleshpits are dirty and enjoyable to look at. Mkx was the worst it has ever looked. Mk9 and mk1 are the best it has ever looked
Actually, making Shadow Kick - on wiff and Block will help immensely. If Johnny has at least 1 weakness that will help this games meta. Let me give you all an example on how to do a nerf right. KILLER INSTINCT. Season 2 of the game gave the main Balanced character JAGO a Health recovery mode. Whenever he lands a Fire ball he recovers health. People hated that and wanted it nerfed. Sometime later he got a Nerf. Not to his Health buff, but his Wind kick ( basically Shadow kick ) was made - on whiff and block. Players hated that at 1st. But after some time those same players realised they stopped complaining about him. They wer like, "Wait I can actually fight this character?" So in conclusion The K.i devs realised that the main problem was JAGO had no bad match ups. By giving him a weakness that made the JAGO player think a little more helped immensely. To quote the DEVS. "Treat the disease. Not the Symptoms."
So Cyrax gets nerfed again and khameleon is still runnin wild. Why did nrs even bother to try and be sneaky by buffing Cyrax just to nerf him again immediately smh
Definitely in terms of content but it was the first MK game I was incredibly disappointed in just largely due to the gameplay, in my opinion. Before MK1, there was a chance that they would improve upon MK 11's weaker elements, but yeah, nah, we are now in the MK Dark Ages, and we are probably never getting out of it.
@@lonewanderer9876 all they had to do was speed up gameplay and open up the game . The Crushing blows and flawless block mechanics were awesome bro all they had to do was expand on those core game play mechanics and tweak a few things and the gameplay would’ve been amazing but once again these busters screwed up with MK1 and now we gotta start over from scratch 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
Most people play the OP characters so I assume their brain dead idea is “nerf them and we lose most of our player base” sad to see. We’re not going to get a balanced/good game with such a greedy company🤷🏾♂️
That's why dropping the distinction of "archetypes" (rush-downers, zoners, grapplers etc.) was such a grave mistake. As MKTB has broached, if every character plays almost identically -- either because of some universal mechanics which render everything around them, moot; or because the characters themselves are simply copy-pasta clones (MK1 suffers from both these issues, as does Tekken 8 to a less extent; SF6, somewhat from the former) -- then, minute differences within the framework of those universal mechanics (Kameos / shin jabs / throws; Heat Burst / Rage Art; Drive Rush / Drive Impact / throws) will be exacerbated to "broken" status. Compare that to a game where the roster is diverse in gameplay -- with each character having a "meta" very specific to them, and the character alone -- even if there are "O. P." characters (which is inevitable), the game still remains fun to learn, play, and watch. MK1 is not fun to learn (because there's nothing to learn) play (because it's the same one or two BnB's x infinity), and coma-inducing to watch (obviously) -- the triple-whammy death knell for a fighting game (if not, franchise). Moreover, whereas SF and Tekken have some good will to trade, MK / NRS do not; and for MK1 to fail in the eyes of the FG community -- over and above whatever sales numbers it ends up with -- it will be very, very difficult for an "MK13" (?) to make people forget that.
One of the devs said to do one change they have to confirm it with multiple upper management to apply that change, which slows down the process significantly. Their development structure is outdated and convoluted , which is sadly the case for most tech companies. They should really try to make a experimental pipeline and let one dev that knows about balance , change willy nilly. And this experimental mode should be available to players, so based on community feedback they can do a permanent change. If they are too afraid to do it. But i guess they don't care about this game anymore
Yeah most of the cameos dont actually do anything useful and the ones that are useful only have one or two good moves, and most of this moves don’t even look cool.
This MK is the first one that made me drop it for another fighting game after being loyal for 28 years lol. I guess NRS fired all of the good employees that gave us the beauty of MK9 and MKX. Oh well, fuck em.
i can play someone who isn’t using kham and i feel in control the whole match. then they switch to Kham the next match and its just a whole different game 😭
You know, I didn’t want to get on the conspiracy train but I honestly think they buffed Cyrax back to day 1 before Final Kombat specifically for Sonicfox. They saw that he won the first major with the Cyrax kameo and since he’s NRS’s poster-boy, they thought they’d make sure he’d win again. Ironically, he didn’t touch Cyrax for Final Kombat. Give me one good reason, besides this, that they’d buff him, not include the buff in the patch notes and then the NEXT day nerf him back. This, by the way, was all after Sonic posted on Twitter how he’d leave MK after Cyrax was nerfed.
You know I didn’t know why I didn’t like the khameleon merfs yet you just explained why. It hurts bottom and mid tiers while letting top tiers get a slap on the wrist.
Just looking at the gameplay while Brady destroys netherealm really takes me back. It’s giving me those Saints Row vibes. As if the original creators of this universe and mechanics around are not here. Instead we have a team more focused on what ppl will say when they see something vs pushing out a product and KNOWING your fan base will eat it. TEKKEN only winning bc netherealm failed us
Being an MK fan since the 90's sucks!! Never liked S.F. or Tekken. K.I. was decent & even liked Primal Rage & Golden Axe.... but those games are dust. It sucks; because the game IS boring! The idea for a Lui Kang led universe; turned SH!T ; oh cant escape fate? What a lack of imagination. Kameo idea was a great way to include more characters;; but kack of execution; turned it to crap! Online is Toxic to say the least, Pro scene is a Joke, Offline??? Invasions is the crappiest b.s. I've ever seen. Now this 1 month delay? Then there will be a promise;; New content, expansion, new characters.... Just Pay & People will sadly; & it will be more SH!T in the long run!! Well Tom atleast you'll never run out of NRS idiots to bash. They deserve it; but bro, that brick wall hurts after awhile. If they'd give my $120 back; I'd give them good ideas.... But it would just turn to Ash in My mouth.
I've bought and owned every MK Game except for the spin-offs and imo, they're becoming lamer with each interation. Imho, they peaked at MK 2, MK 9 and MK 10. MK 11 is ok but MK 12 (M1K) is a step back. But then again, I'm just a filthy casual so what do I know? I know I've had M1K since day 1 and I may have played maybe 6 time's at most. I'll stick to MK2, 9 and 10. 😊
Nowadays alot of game devs aren't really gamers or even play the game they're working on, so I'd say that's probably one reason the game is so poorly balanced. But couldn't agree with you more regarding your thoughts on MK1 and the community.
CLOWN company. I have played bunch of multiplayer games. I dont think I have ever seen balance team that is THIS BAD at the job. Its asinine. Are they even working? Seriously, are they working? Do they just come every 3 months into the office, piss in the wind, push the changes and leave for next 3 months?
Nrs community gets what it deserves. Nobody besides couple of people saying something about falsely promised product. If you buy product from the store, and its not working properly or its damaged, you WILL return it. But when it comes to the digital product like games, Everyone are sitting quietly waiting for another slap in the face, like a good sheep or a dog. Idk why Tom even trying at all,he needs to realise, there is no cure for stupidity. Only people who praise this game are the ones who earn money from nrs/wb.Of course they will advertise it in positive manner. Its all about the money, nrs doesnt gives a F about how community feels
Should have made all the kameos playable characters. This game is joke and not even trying to fix it. Look at Tekken, it started bad, but they actually listen to people. Now Tekken is amazing.
When you're measuring something on "how much worse" scale, you know that the horse being flogged is in rigor mortis, and should probably be left to the worms.
The fact of the matter is, no dev worth their salt wants to work at toxic NRS, so they are forced to hire fresh out of school developers with zero experience in fighting games who must learn on the job and its showing in the product itself. And the worst part is Ed Boon likes it this way.
@@BujinDao With all due respect, MK1 was that. They listened to "top players" they deemed respectable and knowledgeable about the game and went about making a game they thought "top players" would love. This is a game completely and totally catered to that demographic of player and it showed why no competitive game, including outside of FGs, should ever listen to their "top players" about their state of the game, almost no matter what because outside of a few niche buff/nerf suggestions top players/pros are completely clueless as to how to maintain a healthy fun game environment, they legit only know how to git gud and literally cannot relate to other players. Meaning those type of guys should never be listened to because they are the definition of selfish who only care about themselves and winning, even at the cost of the games health. Brownback started off as a pro player who got a job at NRS and look at what a job hes done. Terrible.
@@youngdresbabykameos were NRSs solution to pros and content creators crying about variation and roster. They are the classic example of "getting what you wanted and asked for, in a way you didn't want"
"They already have a penalty, they're in MK1" lmao
It’s embarrassing that some characters in MK f*cking 11 can be top 1 in this game💀
That doesn’t mean anything
To be honest it just isn’t fun to watch. We talked trash about MK11 but it was way better as an overall game. The cameo system is gimmicky. Most MK players want a classic 1v1. We mainly wanted them to improve the combo system from 11 and make all the variations into one variation. It feels like I’m watchin Injustice rather than a MK game. It’s not a balanced game, all characters should be on level playing field. 11 was in motion for 5 yrs, ppl took breaks and would comeback on it, just like MKX
It's all the same sh*t
This game is Mortal Kombat 11, but worse. NRS took that game, edited the mechanics a bit, and made this game. It's Mortal Kombat 11 with a kameo system.
@@theretrogamingnerd3316 lol, no its not
Everything related to this game is a total dumpster, no matter how MK1 bootlickers try deny that.
Yet after one year, you still talk about this game...
I’m still having fun, feel bad for y’all fr
@@dumbbumsc5329real the game is so fun
@@Kerojey”if the goverment is corrupt, why are you still talking about it?”
@@user-fs1lc2cj5s crazy ass analogy 💀 no way y'all are comparing a damn video game to a corrupt government, PLEASE be more dramatic, the strawmannig is hilarious
Imagine having to open a separate menu just to change a cosmetic? And the cosmetic is a fingernail design and nothing else….. just wow
Just a fun fact:
Each MK game's reveal trailer (MKX - MK1) has descending views 😂
I've been done with the franchise since after the Sindel DLC of MK11; and I was already over it be that time. MK1 is the nail in the coffin that has, finally, allowed me to "let go" of the childhood toy that MK once was.
The most lazy and incompetent studio ever, mk deserves better, they really need to sell this franchise. It’s so embarrassing being an mk fan right now, midway by a long shot was a better developer for MK.
just remake MK9 at this point
Preach!
The remake would suck. They will bring all the shit that people didn't like from the latest entries to it.
I dont play any mk but are you serious? Giving chars less health just based on the assist being used is nasty work
It’s crazy that they are nerfing paid for kameos and it’s still better than base roster then nerf cyrax a base kameo back to being terrible , the game feels pay to win in certain scenarios bc why are they so reluctant to buff base roster kameos
I just can't with this game man. Almost a year in and they still don't even know what the fanbase wants. Season 1 (I know it wasn't perfect) had a good thing going with a lot of broken stuff but since then it's just nerf after nerf. Lowering health is such a lazy nerf too. Elden ring DLC is here, think I might just say bye to the 130 GB MK1 (INSANE for a fighting game) until they listen to the fans. This game had so much promise but legit is one of the worst if not the worst triple A games management wise and communication wise I've ever seen
JC and PM play the same too. Full screen shadow kicks, random plus frames and deadly mix ups when they’re close.
Maybe my internet went to 💩 but every match has been extremely laggy since the patch. Pregame says ping in the 50s but laggy and glitchy during
They should have just carried on with mkx the variation system was fine. The game was faster gameplay wise and way more smoother for combos. Mk1 has just been such a mess
Unfortunately this game fundamentally isn't suitable for a tag game. Stuff like faster movement (which this game is faster than MK11 but not as fast as 9 or X (which is what it should be if it wants to be a tag game)), most the cast (outside of Johnny) having slower attack speeds, and ultimately not having mechanics that other assist base games have to make dealing with the assist better isn't in here.
As long as that is still the issue, the balancing won't get any better.
Mk11 is faster but far more ridged
The ambush kameos ruining any sense of neutral in the game. Ambushes just promote yolo game play with little to no risk. The characters where the buffs go
i'm proud to say, and for my own sanity, i didn't buy this bullshit. reviews exists so we can make an inform decision. hopefully, the reviewer is being honest. and that's all i ask. and when describing the game play of i game i have not played, it will or will not spark my interest in a game. MK 11 was my breaking point with NRS.
i vowed to never buy another game from the studio because of how shit the game was and how NRS either the developers or their community managers, initially attacked customer/fans for criticisms about the game.
unfortunately i had pre-ordered the game and did like the beta, then when the actual game released, it was different in some aspects from the beta. but i tried to like it, i tried to find why i was not having fun with MK 11. i tried to force myself to like MK 11. when reality hit that MK 11 was shit, i said, i'm done. MK 1's Kameo system sounds like straight ass! so shout out to the real ones being honest about this game. you helped me save my damn money.
Bro 5% is huge 😂😂 having 1050 with kotal and 1100 with shao in mk11 saved me COUNTLESS times
I love how passionate tom brady is about mk. He was even at his peak in his classic mkx videos.
khameleon isn't the problem, it's every other kameo being basically worthless bc you can only use them once or maybe twice a round
This game is somewhat fun to play, but I can't get over the inevitable nerfs. It's always gonna happen with every fuckin character.
Facts. Thank you, fucking thank you. No one is saying this and wants to admit that’s what happened. Stop nerfing the good kameos, make them the standard. And bring everyone up to the same level, instead of trying to nerf everyone but the top 5.
Yep, just buff the weak so they are on par with one another and stop with the nerfs. Nerfs just kill a game and make it dry to play.
The assists are terrible. I play kombat league sometimes and the amount of times I’ve lost to a rondo Jade glacé 😂. Oh well. Thanks Tom
I still remember when they showed some characters getting new moves. I thought maybe Nitara might have gotten some too because she's borderline unusable and needs tools to even compete with other low tiers and she got basically no changes that patch. I've always preferred buffs to weak characters over nerfs to strong characters, but it seems like in this game, they don't make sensible changes. Reptile wasn't top tier, but he certainly wasn't struggling. And then most of the cameos are either only used in very specific situations or not used at all. I really wanted to love this game, but the way it's being handled is just so bad.
im sure the balance is an NRS problem but im equally sure that the predatory monetization is a WB problem
... along with the game itself... and the last 2 games before that!
At this point I'm convinced WB is paying no more than 5 people to support MK. 😂
It is funny that SubZero's special ice moves are useless. Like what's the point. 😂😂😂 you get punished for using them.
Yea I uninstalled the game, they refuse to buff other kameos they didn’t try to fix cyrax they just reverted him to being trash.
Don’t mind Khameleon as long as we have other good options. MK11 was a better game than this Pos imo.
Who are the top kontent creators you think are shilling the game? Is it True Underdawg? Uncaged Games? I'm just curious as to who you're referring to.
"The only way this is going to change is if the bottom line is affected."
That or the execs in all their wisdom just go "Oh, people just don't like Mortal Kombat anymore. Don't make MK games anymore." It almost happened with character action games because of Devil May Cry 2 (DMC3 saved the genre). It almost happened with fighting games because of Capcom Fighting Evolution (Street Fighter 4 saved THAT genre AFAIK). It practically HAS happened with Star Fox games with Star Fox Zero. Executives aren't smart. They misinterpret numbers all the time and they'll read these numbers like "Oh, people just don't like these games in general anymore" when they ACTUALLY say "People just didn't like THIS game." :P
I hate how they balance all the characters around the top 5% of players who are gods at the game.
I havent played mortal kombat in so long. I think the last mortal kombat i played was mkx. The games fight Choreograph animations just seem to get stiffer and less snappier each new mortal kombat. Characters are constantly being redesigned, reimagined, fighting stances changed, ect. There is no consistency in their designs over generations. Like why is every character 6'2 in these games? There are so many design choices that are so questionable both mechanically and character wise. Mk9 will forever be the best mk imo.
First and foremost: Those weren't real nerfs.
The question is "what makes X character broken or overtuned?" Another way to go about it, "what do the majority of players complain about when playing against X character." The problem that Johnny had his plus frames. It is NOT fun to play against characters who, basically, never lose a turn. Instead of hitting his 1, 1 punch or hitting his jab frames, they nerfed something else completely. Of course Johnny would still be number one.
Raiden and Cyrax were broken for similar reasons, minus Raiden doing 2 touch KO combos. They nerfed their main abilities by giving them more frames or giving their opponent more of chance to play the game. 🤯 What do you know! You nerf the plus frames and now nobody complains nearly as much about them, let alone plays them.
Personally, I believe the power should be lowered (i.e.nerfs) that way the game is more balanced and more fair and players have to rely on skill rather than gimmicks and cheap tricks.
I used to be completely opposed to buffs. However, I went on a philosophical journey and came to the conclusion buffs are not my enemy. I understand the power of buffing everyone to the top 1%'s level. The game would be more, in a sense, more fun, and in a sense, more fair. Either method would promote more character and playstyle variety and enable more characters freedom to do what they do best without collectively being crapped on by the same fraction of characters.
Game is trash!! I’ll never buy another NRS game at full price lol. It’s been almost a year and the game still feels incomplete. No content for casuals. Invasions sucks and is repetitive. Seems like every decision they make is a bad one lol.
I stopped playing after Omni Man came out. I'm just waiting on the game to get some serious change. Ermac and Homelander look fun but I just don't have excitement to play.
You're the real one Tom! Keep it up.
Mk1 and NRS are such trash. They dropped the ball. Hard reset mk already
I also feel their narrative decisions are also very shallow and awful. As a kasual I may have been able to excuse the gameplay if the narrative wasn't also just as dry, shallow, and boring as the gameplay itself. A lot of the interesting characterization from the older games was discarded for the sake of the New Era and I wouldn't mind as much except that they barely did anything with the new setups. The narrative went for a lazy cop-out MCU multiverse ending and it just made me think as why should I care about the New Era when in another timeline Scorpion is actually Hanzo, Shao is actually a Khan, etc. Why go through the effort of making a new era at that point. It completely eliminates stakes and makes me not care about how you plan to change up these characters, which most of the changes are kinda stupid and arbitrary and don't make sense. I'm harping on this because the barebones narrative is kind of a microcosm of MK1 itself, in that is bland, shallow, uncreative, with mountains of wasted potential. I sincerely hope there is a course correction in the future as I want this franchise to do well.
They should just rename it into Johnny Cage VS Peacemaker 1 at this point 🤣
Should have been 2v2 like in MK9.
I hope NRS goes down like Midway. Was supppose to be the best MK and it’s not, wasted money on a PS5 just for this game💯
RIP Positive Tom
May 2024 - June 2024
😂
Lmaooooo
Yeah I think it would be good for his health if he stepped away from MK for a bit lol
I am shocked Positive Tom lasted that long. 🤣 May he rest in peace.
there is nothing to be positive about. life isnt always positive. yall must be kids/teens cus you dont care/see what his actual point is. we PAID 70+ for an UNFINISHED game. huge emphasis on UNFINISHED. how is it even right to charge or even release this?
@@TayOHNO Literally they made a joke and you missed the point, completely. It went over your head.
Real MK Tom Brady continues to hold the frontline in the war against MK1/NRS
The fact they attempted to charge y’all for fatalities at first shoulda told y’all what this company was on.. They even took special moves and slapped a skin on them called them “kameos” so they can now charge y’all for fk’in SPECIAL MOVES.. Lol bro I swear you can’t make this ish up, f this game bro I’m mad asl I wasted my bread on this 💩.
Same I should’ve bought sparking zero. They’re eating rn
Why do they seem like they wanna kill this game more and more every patch
to hype up the next one lolol
@@KillDozer44 It will be really dumb from us to buy the next one, I love MK but this one is a scam really
My guess is that because of the mixed reception and low sales of this game, they want to kill it quickly for the next one to hype up.
This game should’ve just been a 1v1 fighter. Kameos should’ve been actual playable characters. Patch after patch after patch lol
I can admire NRS taking risks and making their games different. However, if you have no idea how to excute an idea properly, then you probably shouldn't try it. The kameo system wasn't even a good idea from the start. People don't like major changes to their games like this. Mortal Kombat is known for being a 1 VS 1 fighter. The game is nearly a year old, and I still see people telling NRS they want a no kameo mode, which they probably won't get in my opinion. To change the game and make it an assist based game was a very bad idea. Had NRS made this system work, it might of been enjoyable, but I still wouldn't want it in the next game. It would of been a nice little change, but it should not be carried into the next game.
I think theyre waiting a full year of the game being out or two so they can try and fool people into taking it seriously competitively, then when theyre fully working on next game, put in the no kameo mode. Cuz think about it it wouldnt be that hard to have been in by now. But if they did before all these kombat packs were done and idiots watch tournys for the shitty kameo gameplay, if they DID put it in, no matter what SOME people would play it and would show they themselves (NRS) werent taking it seriously either or didnt know what they wanted the main gameplay to be.
i like team up versus games and i want the game to lean into that more bc we've never had this in mk before besides mk9 which nobody played sadly, i do wish the kameos were fully playable and it was tag team with assist attacks like mk9
@@sk8lifeXgr8life a no kameo mode would be absolute hell, johnny and peacemaker would shit on everybody even harder than they already do. the game is fundamentally built around assists covering your character's weaknesses and the base roster is really badly designed around that having characters like those two and raiden and liu kang that are all pretty self sufficient without assists which was a mistake
@@mikaela5938Because JUST LIKE MK9, NO ONE BUT THE ABSOLUTE TRASH OF FIGHTING GAME FAMS WANTS 2V2 in FING DEATH MATCH MK!
I KNOW I PROBABLY HURT YOUR FEELINGS TALKING ABOUT A GAME MURDERING YOU OPPOSITION IS THE GOAL!
Lowering the health in a fighting game that has BOO BOO ASS DEFENSIVE MECHANICS
Great patch guys👌💯
I thought I was seeing things when i saw sub with 950 health
MK content creators: "Gameplay wise, MK1 is the greatest MK of all time" 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
hahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha what a cluster fuck Mk1 is dogshit. MKX is goated you see the combos in that game and you know the persons good and figured out swaggy shit. MK11 was a very different game style not just slapped together like this shit "MK". Didnt mind the grounded style and characters still had fuck neutral specials. People bitched about Krushing blows cuz they werent done well for doing too much dmg so what did they do with MK Mobile for console? Every basic bnb does krushing blow level damage, they make fatal blows tied to your health still a thing while having normal meter so you can whiff a raw super then combo break. They think balancing the new shit gimmick should be affecting the health bars of the characters. Like Mk1 feels like they IMMEDIATELY made it as a response to "theres no combos in 11" and "wheres xyz character" so they slapped some shit together and said it was "So new and creative" by making tower assists the main gameplay thing and doing them worse. I gave it plenty of time to iron out kinks and wait for "content" kept playing as a fan of MK but im done with it now. Staight up feels like a cheesey mobile game and has the worst online connection of the modern fighters out right now. The story feels like a weird spin off TV show just about character arcs. Its a wrap. Real MK fans are tired of it, NRS. Remember guys warrior shrine coming soon. "aNd KeEp ThAt CoMbO gOinG bY cLicKiNg sUbsCrIbE🤪" its for fortnite kids who want to feel like they have knowledge of what MK is
Every time I watch gameplay of this game, I'm thankful I didn't buy it. It looks janky and just not fun to play.
Having played the genre since the early 90s, I could see the game was trash the moment I laid eyes on it... Even more so than I did with MK11, which, at least, _looked_ the part.
MK11 was the Fujin mirror edition and MK1 is the Johnny Cage Mirror edition featuring John Cena. But hey, as long as the game has 200 viewers on Twitch and 20 of the same "pros" playing the game, NRS is happy somehow.
Fujin at least required good execution. All the scrubs pick scorpion in mk11. Now In mk1 JC is top tier and is even easier than mk11 scorpion
Lol I am imagining John Cena's number one fan in the audience going, "I was saying 'boo-urns'."
Cetrion you mean
It is absolutely disrespectful how NRS went about this game. All they worry about is the 20 - 30 professional player and not the tens of thousands of fans. And a year later the game is still incomplete with modes that cannot be selected. They even tried to "fix" the game with PAID characters. Just sad as a Midway era fan. What's even worse is that Ed boon is in charge, if the creator himself doesn't care, who will?
They do the opposite. They design the game for braindead casuals with gimmicky mechanical systems each game to "attempt" to keep it fresh.
Man forget who they’re worrying about, these guys/girls don’t know how to make a damn character stick to an archetype. Too many of their “top tier” characters are jack of all trades.
@@XboxIsSoftbrain dead casuals aren't the ones making videos calling MK1s gameplay the greatest MK game of all time bud. That's the shills who NRS catered this game to. Foxygrandpa isn't a casual, and he's shilled this game as the best MK of all time. And had made videos stating such
Do not believe for one second that Ed is behind this. Companies love letting people who have never worked on a project before…edit and input anything they want. Remember Kronika? That wasn’t ed cmon now
@georgealvarez1195
Although some pros may shill the game, the majority agreeing with people like him are casuals. Most pros who shill just do it for handouts/invites to events. The rest of the pros will be honest. MK1 has the least kompetitors for a reason. Most pros hate it.
NRS is on a mission to prove that their incompetence is in fact REAL AF!!!
Already proved it to me.
Dats real
they alr proved they were incompetent in mk11. now its BOTH nrs and wb haha
@@chuenjinyang4513 yep.
It’s more so probably WB pushing them to make more money off of MK
Lets be honest, the KAMEO system is a failure. Terrible idea from a studio weak in terms of balanced fighting game. Every MK or Injustice is unbalanced.
Yeah, they need to take a chance on tag mode. Data miners found the code for it at one point. I don't think people would mind being able to select between 1vs1, kameo or tag.
Injustice 2 and mk11 were not to bad tbh
A lot of people want a no kameo mode. I don't think they will ever get one. People just need to accept that this is what the game is. If they don't like it, time to move on. There would have to be a lot of balance changes to make a no kameo mode. There would also have to be forward throw animations for characters. NRS is not going to put in that type of work. Even if they did make a no kameo mode, then the kameo mode we have now would die. I think most people would only play the no kameo mode. They basically would have put all that work into the mode for nothing.
@@GeorgePivtorak Injustice 2 is good but the gear system ruined it
@humaneshadow300 absolutely but those were banned in competitive
Am I the only one that feels like we should be able to switch characters in ranked? Being someone who plays like half the roster I MAINLY get annoyed at the balancing when I'm FORCED to stay in a bad match-up for an entire set, but the pros get to switch characters in tournament? C'mon now
Yes this. Mk11 allowed this but mk1 nah fuck us right? Lol
There is a good reason for why you can’t do that
Nah
@Killjoy4106 it was literally in every other game, anybreason u got for not having it in this game is a skill issue when the pros can do it in ACTUAL tournament
@@DreBagsGaming that's what I'm saying it's not a big deal but people wanna keep mk1 bland as per usual
Game should be called Johnny Vs Peacemaker
Why did they kill cyrax again? He didn't even pose a threat and they had data on him to see if they want him to stay or revert him out the game.
Took the lazy route and just took him out again
Cyrax was the second best cameo in the game behind Cam, he was the best at what he did by far. He has to be nerfed but so does Cam(she needs alot of work)
@@GeorgePivtoraknah the second best was Janet Cage. She may have been just as good as kham. Cyrax was up there with them tho
@@GeorgePivtorak he was already toned down and can be ducked. Not hardly a threat anymore also he still had a dmg nerf. Other Kameos did what he does but better.
People whining about Cyrax nerf are really insane, instantly the Raiden/Baraka + Cyrax flooded some ranks on league and people was abusing chip damage as crazy, anything + unsafe special + chip + cyrax + chip = SAFE, then repeat. Disgusting as first day... Chameleon at least require more skill, and constant awareness, plus it doesn't chip like mad.
@@Lanzetsu You're acting like that sequence can't be done with other Kameos. That's exactly what Peace Maker did during Final Kombat or are you blind like the rest of the known sell outs in the community hyping up that garbage cause that ALL he did with KHAMLEON...
Mk9 remastered , forget this game
Mk9 was beast
Yes I wanted it so bad but added on more balance patch add few klassic fatalitys we are good
If the NRS made A Mortal Kombat 9 remaster, it would have be more than an update in graphics. It would require some balance because Kabal is broken in that game. I would also want new kontent that the original didn't have, and brutalities. I'm guessing if NRS made a remake of that game, it would be $70.00. An update in graphics won't cut it for me.
@@theretrogamingnerd3316 I feel it’s balanced, a lot of characters were broken, Jax reset combos 100%+ in the corner with full meter, cyrax reset combos that were 70-90% damage full screen, Sonya blade was really good, sonicfox showed how Sonya was good, kitana was pretty good at spamming as well, there was a lot of brokenness involved not just kabal which made it fun to use broken vs broken
@Eric16ss I don't remember much of Mortal Kombat 9 since it was so long ago. I do remember Kabal the most about that game though. A remake would not be a bad idea. It would probably kill off Mortal kombat 1 if NRS made that.
It's crazy to me that I choose SF over MK today. As a GEN X'r I literally grew up w/ both SF and MK. At a time when they were both setting the world on fire too. I always leaned MK. Not anymore. _NRS_ is the dumpster fire you should be talking about...
Kameo system....
just did not work.
I hated it since the beginning. I loved the Variants more because atleast they didn't feel awkward to use. I gave up on MK1 for so many reasons, and the main reason I gave up was for the Kameo system. It never felt satisfying
I didn't even know Kameos affected your base health.
This game is like it's changing features found in other fighting games in an ineffective attempt to do something different.
Kano Stryker chameleon goro mavado all take health
@@Killjoy4106 yeah it's crazy, it never feels like you have a complete character.
@Killjoy4106 so the only decent Kameos besides Kung Lao take away your health? That sounds about right
@@TexanSilver yeah basically I forgot motaro to he takes away some health as well
As an Ermac main nrs nerfing Janet was really petty she wasn’t breaking the game at all. I agree nrs is lazy and nrs praise is toxic it keeps the quality low.
Well I all see is the same old..well copy n paste janet combos from these pro players give. No one does anything different. I mean Ermac is like a complete character and no one uses different kameo's for him
BUT I agree, she wasn't breaking the game. Just the same old combos
@@sonny凡 yup biggest problem with the pros is that they ruin everything with their repetitive play styles boring to watch boring to play against.
@@Health_hut_ Word!
I knew mk was all downhill when 11 came out, they had slow, stiff movements, bright superhero colors like injustice
the game looked and for the longest was called injustice 11
they even took inj long cinematic cutscenes
Mk should be dark, dirty and grimey looking
No mk1 has by far best stages you know why? Because they’re creative,enjoyable to look at,and some like fleshpits are dirty and enjoyable to look at. Mkx was the worst it has ever looked. Mk9 and mk1 are the best it has ever looked
We gotta give NRS their flowers … for the WORST fighting game of 2023/2024 lmaooo
I wonder what the pros will say about mk1 when the next game comes out. They are only honest about that when the competitive scene is dead.
Actually, making Shadow Kick - on wiff and Block will help immensely. If Johnny has at least 1 weakness that will help this games meta. Let me give you all an example on how to do a nerf right. KILLER INSTINCT. Season 2 of the game gave the main Balanced character JAGO a Health recovery mode. Whenever he lands a Fire ball he recovers health. People hated that and wanted it nerfed. Sometime later he got a Nerf. Not to his Health buff, but his Wind kick ( basically Shadow kick ) was made - on whiff and block. Players hated that at 1st. But after some time those same players realised they stopped complaining about him. They wer like, "Wait I can actually fight this character?" So in conclusion The K.i devs realised that the main problem was JAGO had no bad match ups. By giving him a weakness that made the JAGO player think a little more helped immensely. To quote the DEVS. "Treat the disease. Not the Symptoms."
So Cyrax gets nerfed again and khameleon is still runnin wild. Why did nrs even bother to try and be sneaky by buffing Cyrax just to nerf him again immediately smh
They used the old kameo code as a base for the previous patch, which is why Cyrax was un nerfed to post patch. It wasn't snuck back in
Mk11 is by far a better game from top to bottom we took that game for granted 👉🏾💯👌🏾
Definitely in terms of content but it was the first MK game I was incredibly disappointed in just largely due to the gameplay, in my opinion.
Before MK1, there was a chance that they would improve upon MK 11's weaker elements, but yeah, nah, we are now in the MK Dark Ages, and we are probably never getting out of it.
@@lonewanderer9876 all they had to do was speed up gameplay and open up the game . The Crushing blows and flawless block mechanics were awesome bro all they had to do was expand on those core game play mechanics and tweak a few things and the gameplay would’ve been amazing but once again these busters screwed up with MK1 and now we gotta start over from scratch 🤬🤬🤬🤬🤬
Most people play the OP characters so I assume their brain dead idea is “nerf them and we lose most of our player base” sad to see. We’re not going to get a balanced/good game with such a greedy company🤷🏾♂️
That's why dropping the distinction of "archetypes" (rush-downers, zoners, grapplers etc.) was such a grave mistake. As MKTB has broached, if every character plays almost identically -- either because of some universal mechanics which render everything around them, moot; or because the characters themselves are simply copy-pasta clones (MK1 suffers from both these issues, as does Tekken 8 to a less extent; SF6, somewhat from the former) -- then, minute differences within the framework of those universal mechanics (Kameos / shin jabs / throws; Heat Burst / Rage Art; Drive Rush / Drive Impact / throws) will be exacerbated to "broken" status. Compare that to a game where the roster is diverse in gameplay -- with each character having a "meta" very specific to them, and the character alone -- even if there are "O. P." characters (which is inevitable), the game still remains fun to learn, play, and watch. MK1 is not fun to learn (because there's nothing to learn) play (because it's the same one or two BnB's x infinity), and coma-inducing to watch (obviously) -- the triple-whammy death knell for a fighting game (if not, franchise). Moreover, whereas SF and Tekken have some good will to trade, MK / NRS do not; and for MK1 to fail in the eyes of the FG community -- over and above whatever sales numbers it ends up with -- it will be very, very difficult for an "MK13" (?) to make people forget that.
NRS couldn't make a singular character work in mk11. I knew they'd royally mess up a 2 character kameo system.
mk1 is a dumpster fire with or without any patches
They need to nerf WB's greed because it's whooping several dev studios' asses right now.
Same as Blizzard games. Welcome to the club buddy)
Sadly, seems like game industry function like this these days
Adjusting the amount of health is such a lazy way to make changes
NRS released a game with less features and worse netcode than MK11 🤣 How is that possible
One of the devs said to do one change they have to confirm it with multiple upper management to apply that change, which slows down the process significantly.
Their development structure is outdated and convoluted , which is sadly the case for most tech companies. They should really try to make a experimental pipeline and let one dev that knows about balance , change willy nilly.
And this experimental mode should be available to players, so based on community feedback they can do a permanent change. If they are too afraid to do it.
But i guess they don't care about this game anymore
Mk1 sucks
Yeah most of the cameos dont actually do anything useful and the ones that are useful only have one or two good moves, and most of this moves don’t even look cool.
This MK is the first one that made me drop it for another fighting game after being loyal for 28 years lol. I guess NRS fired all of the good employees that gave us the beauty of MK9 and MKX. Oh well, fuck em.
9:35 “Top characters in this game because the rest of the cast is even more garbage!”
I felt that….
Bro the delivery Tom brings to his feedback is amazing. Always has me laughing so hard 😆
Why play this trash? Tekken 8 and street fighter 6 is literally a million times better than this. MK1 is so bad guys
i can play someone who isn’t using kham and i feel in control the whole match. then they switch to Kham the next match and its just a whole different game 😭
The quality of rants on this channel are top notch, we should thanks NRS for making this possible.
You know, I didn’t want to get on the conspiracy train but I honestly think they buffed Cyrax back to day 1 before Final Kombat specifically for Sonicfox. They saw that he won the first major with the Cyrax kameo and since he’s NRS’s poster-boy, they thought they’d make sure he’d win again. Ironically, he didn’t touch Cyrax for Final Kombat.
Give me one good reason, besides this, that they’d buff him, not include the buff in the patch notes and then the NEXT day nerf him back. This, by the way, was all after Sonic posted on Twitter how he’d leave MK after Cyrax was nerfed.
You know I didn’t know why I didn’t like the khameleon merfs yet you just explained why. It hurts bottom and mid tiers while letting top tiers get a slap on the wrist.
Tbh if they nerfed JC would kham nerf even matter ?
Just looking at the gameplay while Brady destroys netherealm really takes me back. It’s giving me those Saints Row vibes. As if the original creators of this universe and mechanics around are not here. Instead we have a team more focused on what ppl will say when they see something vs pushing out a product and KNOWING your fan base will eat it. TEKKEN only winning bc netherealm failed us
Being an MK fan since the 90's sucks!! Never liked S.F. or Tekken. K.I. was decent & even liked Primal Rage & Golden Axe.... but those games are dust. It sucks; because the game IS boring! The idea for a Lui Kang led universe; turned SH!T ; oh cant escape fate? What a lack of imagination. Kameo idea was a great way to include more characters;; but kack of execution; turned it to crap!
Online is Toxic to say the least, Pro scene is a Joke, Offline??? Invasions is the crappiest b.s. I've ever seen. Now this 1 month delay? Then there will be a promise;; New content, expansion, new characters.... Just Pay
& People will sadly; & it will be more SH!T in the long run!! Well Tom atleast you'll never run out of NRS idiots to bash. They deserve it; but bro, that brick wall hurts after awhile.
If they'd give my $120 back; I'd give them good ideas.... But it would just turn to Ash in My mouth.
I've bought and owned every MK Game except for the spin-offs and imo, they're becoming lamer with each interation.
Imho, they peaked at MK 2, MK 9 and MK 10. MK 11 is ok but MK 12 (M1K) is a step back.
But then again, I'm just a filthy casual so what do I know?
I know I've had M1K since day 1 and I may have played maybe 6 time's at most.
I'll stick to MK2, 9 and 10. 😊
Nowadays alot of game devs aren't really gamers or even play the game they're working on, so I'd say that's probably one reason the game is so poorly balanced. But couldn't agree with you more regarding your thoughts on MK1 and the community.
CLOWN company. I have played bunch of multiplayer games. I dont think I have ever seen balance team that is THIS BAD at the job. Its asinine. Are they even working? Seriously, are they working? Do they just come every 3 months into the office, piss in the wind, push the changes and leave for next 3 months?
Nrs community gets what it deserves. Nobody besides couple of people saying something about falsely promised product.
If you buy product from the store, and its not working properly or its damaged, you WILL return it.
But when it comes to the digital product like games, Everyone are sitting quietly waiting for another slap in the face, like a good sheep or a dog.
Idk why Tom even trying at all,he needs to realise, there is no cure for stupidity. Only people who praise this game are the ones who earn money from nrs/wb.Of course they will advertise it in positive manner. Its all about the money, nrs doesnt gives a F about how community feels
Should have made all the kameos playable characters. This game is joke and not even trying to fix it. Look at Tekken, it started bad, but they actually listen to people. Now Tekken is amazing.
This game couldn't get any much worse by now.
When you're measuring something on "how much worse" scale, you know that the horse being flogged is in rigor mortis, and should probably be left to the worms.
6:33 he’s actually loosing slightly more than 5% if it’s going from 950-900 rather than 1000-950 due to the way math works
I meant to say losing more, he’s losing about 5.3%
This isn't a video game, it's a digital slot machine.
If JC was nerfed half the casuals wouldn’t even play
True I'm casual imo pros ruined this game badly 😑
The fact of the matter is, no dev worth their salt wants to work at toxic NRS, so they are forced to hire fresh out of school developers with zero experience in fighting games who must learn on the job and its showing in the product itself. And the worst part is Ed Boon likes it this way.
Which is why imo esport players should be given apprenticeships instead of money. So that top players can learn how to code the game to make it better
@@BujinDao With all due respect, MK1 was that. They listened to "top players" they deemed respectable and knowledgeable about the game and went about making a game they thought "top players" would love. This is a game completely and totally catered to that demographic of player and it showed why no competitive game, including outside of FGs, should ever listen to their "top players" about their state of the game, almost no matter what because outside of a few niche buff/nerf suggestions top players/pros are completely clueless as to how to maintain a healthy fun game environment, they legit only know how to git gud and literally cannot relate to other players. Meaning those type of guys should never be listened to because they are the definition of selfish who only care about themselves and winning, even at the cost of the games health. Brownback started off as a pro player who got a job at NRS and look at what a job hes done. Terrible.
@@BujinDao That's a good idea but they want to make money playing video games not making video games.
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If that was the case, who asked for kameos?
@@youngdresbabykameos were NRSs solution to pros and content creators crying about variation and roster. They are the classic example of "getting what you wanted and asked for, in a way you didn't want"
Making life as balace component is most idiotic thing they could do
What?
Every time I see a video like this, I think to myself "It can't get any worse".
NRS keeps proving me wrong in the worst of ways, yikes.
Can't imagine fans of mk sticking with this game. Who was this patch for? The devs?😅