Mortal Kombat 1 sold over 6.2 million copies

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Combat -> Kombat -> Kambat,
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Oi! Ya playin Mahtal Kambat ye cunt?
 
Despite all the pissing and moaning I wouldn't be surprised to see Tekken 8 sell better than Tekken 7.

Thanks to rollback fighting games are huge again.
 
Fermbiz said:
For reference, MK11 sold over 15 million world wide.
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It's also regularly 9 bucks or less. In fact the ultimate edition is on sale on Steam for 9 bucks right now. The pleb edition is 5. It keeps selling because they discount it so often.

I did pick up the full MK1 package not too long ago when it was on sale. It's an ok game.
 
Fermbiz said:
For reference, MK11 sold over 15 million world wide.
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It is a huge drop off and MK1 just does not offer thematic content or combat design on the production level of MK11. I know the whole beloved Mortal Kombat characters as assists for this basic bitch remix roster with random spandex tights DLC fighters soured me on the whole thing. Did not like the return of air combos either.
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ReBurn said:
It's also regularly 9 bucks or less. In fact the ultimate edition is on sale on Steam for 9 bucks right now. The pleb edition is 5. It keeps selling because they discount it so often.

I did pick up the full MK1 package not too long ago when it was on sale. It's an ok game.
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that 15 mil copy is for 2022 (3 years after release in 2019)
 
digimaster7 said:
that 15 mil copy is for 2022 (3 years after release in 2019)
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It was already heavily discounted by then. And MK1 isn't even two years old. It's not going to do 15 million in 3 years, but I'm guessing the current number is way more than some people expected.
 
I think they need to find a way to bring back a bit more of the MKX style of gameplay and get rid of any kind of gear system, just focus on creating totally new skins that don't have any impact on gameplay or what moves you can do. I would also like to see interactive stage weapons and hazards brought back as well as stage fatalities, get rid of the kameo thing and just add an optional tag mode as long as it doesn't take up too many resources. I do hope they keep up with animalities in the next game, they were pretty much all great in this one.

They do need to get away from the MK4 stuff though, not enough people liked that era of MK.
 
Shang Tsung was made gay without actually saying hes gay, every character showed the dev teams foot fetish, single player content was laughable, no stage fatalities, very little hidden content, gender bending longtime favorite characters, no extra games (like kombat chess, etc...), story was laugh out loud stupid....game was a huge miss. I still platinumed it despite all this but ill be skipping any new MKs if they go in this same stupid woke direction.
 
sloppyjoe_gamer said:
Shang Tsung was made gay without actually saying hes gay, every character showed the dev teams foot fetish, single player content was laughable, no stage fatalities, very little hidden content, gender bending longtime favorite characters, no extra games (like kombat chess, etc...), story was laugh out loud stupid....game was a huge miss. I still platinumed it despite all this but ill be skipping any new MKs if they go in this same stupid woke direction.
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I never thought he seemed gay and I am gay lol, he just seemed like a schemer from an 80's soap opera lol.
 
MK11 might have had the covid boost. I know I bought it heavily discounted. I still have to play MK1...also waiting on a heavy discount.
 
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sloppyjoe_gamer said:
Shang Tsung was made gay without actually saying hes gay, every character showed the dev teams foot fetish, single player content was laughable, no stage fatalities, very little hidden content, gender bending longtime favorite characters, no extra games (like kombat chess, etc...), story was laugh out loud stupid....game was a huge miss. I still platinumed it despite all this but ill be skipping any new MKs if they go in this same stupid woke direction.
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Agree with everything. Can we stop it with this stupid ass multiverse bullshit already?

They need to just scrap the entire thing....again. The storyline is so f'd up at this point it's not even worth continuing.

Also, I freaking hated the character designs in this game. That whole foot fetish thing you mentioned sounds ridiculous at first, but it's actually a legit criticism. I was confused when I saw some of the characters. It's like they ran out of time and just had to whip up some designs real quick or something. You know how they have like a hundred different versions of the characters in the storymode from different timelines? It's like the actual main designs were given as much thought as those. Garbage.

The best part is that I am one of the 6.2 million who bought this crap. Idiot, lol.
 
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Man, I really didn't care for MK1. I completed the campaign, but it just felt like nothing else was really worth the time IMO. I gave MKX and 11 a shot, but MK9/MK was the last one that really, really got me. What a great game.
 
MiguelItUp said:
Man, I really didn't care for MK1. I completed the campaign, but it just felt like nothing else was really worth the time IMO. I gave MKX and 11 a shot, but MK9/MK was the last one that really, really got me. What a great game.
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The MK9 challenge tower was peak (literally).
 
MagiusNecros said:
MK9 as a whole is peak.
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Yeah. I have only minor nitpicks for that game.

-Skarlet should have been included in the base roster over dumbass Quan Chi or Cyber Sub Zero. Cyber Sub Zero was awesome but could have just been a costume like human Cyrax and human Sektor.
-The girls' shoulders look bad.

And thats it. Great game that I remember fondly.
 
Sub_Level said:
Yeah. I have only minor nitpicks for that game.

-Skarlet should have been included in the base roster over dumbass Quan Chi or Cyber Sub Zero. Cyber Sub Zero was awesome but could have just been a costume like human Cyrax and human Sektor.
-The girls' shoulders look bad.

And thats it. Great game that I remember fondly.
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It was an awesome era for the FGC. Going between that and SF IV was a lot of fun.
 
MiguelItUp said:
MK9/MK was the last one that really, really got me.
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Yep.

Deadly Alliance and Deception were outstanding IMO.

Never played Armageddon because it sounded terrible.

MKvsDC and MK9 were a return to form.

MKX was goodish.

MK11 was midish.

Never bought MK1. No thanks.

NRS has some serious soul searching for their next game. They 100% need to drop the woke slop and dial back on the live service crap because ain't nobody want everything neutered and locked behind online connectivity.

The MK Kollection seems like an apology letter at least. 🤷
 
Genuinely didn't care for MK1, most unnecessary reboot, so light on content and just looks worse compared to MK11, eventhough a lot of the more hardcore MK fans tend to prefer it over MK11 because it brought back Breakers and unlocking things in it was less grindy.
 
I am sure it's been said to death but the Kameo system is just not fun to use. What do you mean I can only do grabs with my Kameo character? What do you mean I have to use them?
 
violence said:
MK11 might have had the covid boost. I know I bought it heavily discounted. I still have to play MK1...also waiting on a heavy discount.
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It was like $20 i think last holiday, i backed out of buying it when folks said the game was woke. Glad i did because now i can play it on ps sub.
 
Ed Boon releasing patch notes! Are there any game directors/creators who have held a lead role in a single game series for as long as Ed Boon? He has spent over 33 years on Mortal Kombat.

I was thinking Hideo Kojima with Metal Gear, but that was 1987-2015, so only 28 years.

Miyamoto, perhaps, but then I think he became more of a figurehead for those big Nintendo games in the post-N64 era.
 
Ed Boon has gotten alot of shit about MK1, and while we don't know for certain how much of the certain things from MK1 so many vocally hated he pushed for, i think in a lot of ways he took his marching orders from WB and they are the blame (in my eyes) for the majority of the reasons why people hated MK1.

I hope that with whatever MK does next (new mainline game), they bring back Tobias and let Ed and John work their magic.
 
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GreatnessRD said:
MK9 still clears all the garbage that came after it.
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I played MK9 back to back with MK11 and even dumbed down characters like Sub-Zero played better in the latter. I think the default specials need to be tweaked for every character to shine but outside of footsies and general spacing (without specials) everything comes together beautifully.
 
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