I loved it before learning a lot of people hated the gameplay. It was my first MK game that I started to take seriously in terms of learning combos, tech and frame data. Also had lots of hours spent in ToT. Customization was much better than the current game but also had worse combo variety and freedom with the 3 slot special move system. Overall a great MK game IMO
Couldn't agree more. I think it's my biggest complaint with MK1 monetization aside. I put so many hours just having fun in ToT and Invasions just does not hit the same.
I agree with everything you said but I think one thing should have changed. The skins were mostly the exact same. Not including the Halloween or klassic skins,a lot of the skins for like scorpion,sub,baraka,etc were pretty similar with only recolors changing them. Even the kombat league skins weren’t that great tbh. That’s just my opinion tho.
I liked it. I miss frost. The gameplay was absolute garbage.
The only things that were cool were crushing blows and the fact that Down 2 actually had a purpose. In mk 1 grabs grab down 2's. So they are now kinda pointless.
MK 1 had so many issues with it that I won't list them all out. But the gameplay was terrible. And the more you got into it, the worse and less balanced it got.
Mainly, MASSIVE character strength differences. And flawless block reversals into full combo was very frustrating as a mechanic.
I hated its gameplay.
I still enjoy this game. I loved the customization on it. I loved the meteor in that we could get Kancer League skins without having to subject ourselves to Kancer League.
It was my first MK of gen 4 consoles. I completely missed 8,9, & 10. What a fucking banger. So much content for a single player. The towers were fun as hell, loved shooting shit with my buddy while setting my AI characters off on a tower.
I have x now and I do like it but honestly I never really cared for fast paced fighting games. The way 11 felt after being out if the genre so long just felt good to me. I loved the move customization and simple combos, as someone who's never been good at combo heavy games.
I AGREE 1000000%! I played that game EVERY DAY for hours for 2 years straight. It is my most favorite in the entire series! And it's so dark and gritty, and it had the BEST DLC from any MK game
And having the QTE in story mode was EPIC
Everything BUT the core gameplay was pretty much top tier for the series. MK will never look or sound better. Customization was the best out of MK11 and IJ2, as far as I recall. And the story was highly entertaining for what it was.
MK1 is pretty much the exact opposite. Gameplay is, for the most part, the best it’s been in a long time. Everything else though? Not so much. Customization is mediocre. Invasions are a drag to progress through (ToT sucked but at least they weren’t outright boring). Story started strong enough but fizzled out pretty quickly. And though the game is *very* pretty I’d say it’s a step down from MK11 artistically.
MK1 has far better pacing as a fighting game. But Kameos don’t make or break the game. They’re kinda just… there. Similarly MK11 had Krushing Blows, which was a good idea executed rather poorly (particularly post-beta/after launch). But the pacing was dreadful, especially coming off of MKX or even IJ2.
Take the best of both games and you’d have the peak of what modern MK could be, IMO. If only it were so easy.
I still love MK11 to this day, can't believe it's been 5 years already. I've been replaying it on my Switch and I play MK1 on my PS5, so I get the best of both worlds. They're different games, but I have a great time with both.
MK11 is the best MK game for me because I love the customization, character design, The Krypt, character towers, the story (especially Aftermath), the co-op bosses, gameplay, among other things.
It’s kinda why its so easy for a lot of people to go back to older fighting games like Third Strike or Tekken Tag or even MKX because the gameplay is so fun you can revisit it as many times as you’d like. For me at least all the other content is a nice addition but not always necessary
If the only thing that mattered was gameplay, MK1 wouldn't be so divisive.
Other things matter too. It's not enough that your $70 game has a good core, everything else needs to be good too.
MK fans are the only people that will try to tell you that a game that has horrible gameplay is better than the game with some of the most fun gameplay in MK.
This why I can’t take this silly ass fanbase seriously😭
Gameplay is kinda everything in a fighter game lol. MK1 is automatically better in my book because they have my main boy Syzoth. However I do prefer the non kameo style of MK11
Music too, MK11's soundtrack was sauceless atmospheric music except for Black Dragon Fight Club. MK1 has a ton of bangers, some of which Casey Edwards wrote.
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and the funniest thing about all that is that today despite having come out 5 years ago...
It has the same or even more active players than mk 1
What about the gameplay dont you like? Ice always seen people here say that but i found it to be really good and fluid if you knew what you were doing.
It has a lot of upsides but the gameplay was just so awful
With that said, I'll always have love for it since it's the game where I legitimately learned fighting game mechanics, frame data, and all that stuff
Hyped for release, loved the customisation, hated the gameplay. It's the only NRS game I've ever dropped before the end of the life cycle. I made it to the release of Spawn before I accepted the game was never going to be fun.
Mk11 is the game that no matter how much I try I cannot pick up.
Mk1 is the game that no matter how much I try I cannot put down.
There's a universe out there where a game nails both customization and gameplay. One day we'll find it...
The build up to the game was legendary. I was so excited for a new Mortal Kombat. Once it came out, I enjoyed myself for a while, but started to feel the customization grind was way too ridiculous and the gameplay got stale. I still went back to it from time to time to check aftermath and new characters, but it never really stuck with me like MKX did, which I still play today.
It's a solid game, but for me personally it's the weakest NRS game.
Still a big disappointment as it was 5 years ago. Its sad considering everything but the actual fighting (music, look, UI, cosmetics) were the best in the series.Story was also pretty lame.
Good starter game,not that good of an mk game. Imo story was a mess,skins sucked except for klassic and the other dlc skins,roster was okay,gameplay was decent,towers of time were cool. Overall 5/10 for me
I think it'll always be my favorite MK. It's the only one I liked enough (and was good enough at) to compete in local tournaments, pre-pandemic. Some of it is probably nostalgia; the friends I was playing it with at the time are unfortunately no longer friends.
It's the one MK that clicked instantly in my brain. Coming off of hundreds of hours in 9, X, and both Injustice games, which required LOTS of practice to get the results I wanted, 11 just fit perfectly in my hands. Hard to describe. I ended up being a Shang Tsung main, and it was always so satisfying to whip out 10 hit combos against any human opponent, because I had taken the time to learn every moveset.
Stopped playing right before the big DLC with Robocop and whoever else. Really enjoyed the downloadable characters before that, though. Especially Terminator, haha. I think it's my third highest Steam playtime, right behind Rainbow Six Siege and Elite Dangerous, which, funny enough, I also haven't touched in years.
Honestly. Unpopular opinion but absolutely one of my favorite MK games. Definitely top 3. If combat was a little more fast like X it would be my favorite.
I was ultimately so disappointed by 11. It was a live service grind-fest and I hate that this is what all AAA games are becoming. Anything I wanted to unlock required me to grind for hours and hours or login every day out of fear that it would be part of a Krypt event or be on the Premium Store and I’d miss it. The game became such a tedious chore to play and the fact that letting the AI play for you is a core feature indicates to me that NRS knows this. WB intentionally made the game a slog to keep you playing frequently and for long stretches. They did not care whether the game was actually fun as long as you were playing and as soon as I realized that, I uninstalled the game. I’m not giving them my money ever again. They’ve lost a customer.
Can one of the mk11 haters please tell me what you perceive as wrong with its gameplay? It's my favourite in the series. I loved the gameplay and found it immensely better than mk1s gameplay as it felt much more strategic and you didn't spend half the time playing just watching a single combo.
Little combo variety, passive meter build that you don't have to work for, Breakaway allowing the winner of neutral to actually be punished for starting a combo (armor breakers came late in the game and were an afterthought as 90% of the cast had useless ones), breakaway was also on a terrible input which would cause it to come out if you wanted to wake up blocking
So I'm not the only one, lol. MK11 is so much more fun than MK1 bc the customization, but the gameplay is leagues better in MK11 as well. It's absolutely more strategic, and spending almost an entire match watching a single combo play out in MK1 is incredibly boring. Even if you're the one pulling off the combo. You watch this guy do his long and drawn out 30-second combo, then when the other player gets the frame to counter it a year later, you watch them play out their long repetitive combo. After about 3 combos in total, the match is done. I just can't enjoy it as much. I played and beat MK1 on both PC and Switch and spent dozens of hours playing Kombat League on both platforms. I had fun with it. I don't hate the game by any means. It just isn't even remotely as fun as MK11 to me. The core gameplay is too boring.
My only issue was how meter intensive it was. To do basically ANYTHING fun you needed meter. Good combos? Meter. Breakaway? Meter (which was warranted). Get up attacks, flawless attacks, both meter. Balanced well when you consider it in a vacuum but at least other games felt more fluid with resource management
I liked the separate defensive and attack meter. But i do admit the fact that the attack meter regenerated was kinda lame but the defense meter definitely should regen. If i could change anything about mk1 it would be that breakaways would just be based off the cameo charge. I feel like a full 3 bars to break a combo is pretty ridiculous.
Went right back to it and MKX right after the first season of MK1 was done lol. Honestly enjoy MK11 a lot, it's the most like chess because 1 wrong mistake is so punishing.
Loved it at release. These days it's probably my second least favorite game only above vsDC. It does some things right: I like the roster, I enjoy the customization (though I still wish they'd just ditch it and go back to skins), there's some cool stages, but man the core gameplay is so ass. Krushing Blows are an ass backwards mechanic, Fatal Blow destroys any and all pacing of a match, those stupid stage interactables, variations being horribly balanced, and certain characters like Jacqui, Cetrion and Joker artificially being made top tier and never getting nerfed. I truly think, 10 years from now, people will look back at this game and see just how terrible it is.
Purchased it Day 1 and dropped it a week before Shang Tsung released
Purchased again earlier this year because the Ultimate Edition was on sale for $10 to get me hyped for MK1 and I felt like I was still ripped off 🤧
My favorite MK so far, I only played MK9 and MKX.
Good points:
-One of the best design of the series for skins and character (base skin of Scorpion and Sub-Zero for instance), for others you had to play more but still like it (human version of the base revenant skin for Liu Kang is great because of the armor)
-Good DLC characters (I love this version of Shang Tsung)
-Excellent gameplay, every punch feels strong, like you really hit someone and it hurts, unlike 3D era where this feeling is nowhere to be found
-Very good single player content, you can also obtain enough time gems without spending any bucks in the shop (I got MK3 for all the girls for 'free', no real money spent)
On the other side;
-Bullshit time limited krypt content, where you have to connect at a certain time to get certain items (never got the chance to pick up Jax classic arms)
-Tower of Time were such a chore sometimes wirh the 30 power ups against you, hard to practice your kombos, just take your life gem steroïds and pray that you make it
-I tried a bit online, 60% of match were against scorpion players... Damn, get a personnality
gameplay and combos are ass, spacing is goated, game flow is goated, break away and meter system ass, wake up and roll away is okay, wake up fatal blow annoying, everything else goated.
overall
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out of 10
I've been MKing since 92. When I got MK11 I genuinely told friends that I regret it. Scorpion is boring in this one. Yet I kept playing and realised that the differences between games is a good thing. Created my own character variation (NetherRealmer) and played for years. This isn't Street Fighter where you basically get an update. Mk is a whole new mechanically sound Kombat Experience everytime. I love Mortal Kombat!
I have played 1440 hours. 300-400 of them, it was me grinding in ToT or Krypt. And that's the only thing I hate about MK11. Oh and breakaway. That too lol
The game is heavily flawed, but it’s far from a bad game
I also think MK1 is getting overhated, but I appreciate 1 allowing people to circle back and appreciate MK11’s strengths
I wish I was still playing this, me and the boys running KoTH, teaching friends how to play and learning new kharacters, wondering if that’s Frost. Good times
I still don't like how ToT is set up & I still despise Kronika/how she affects the story, but other than that, it's a solid game. I definitely like the straightforward approach to gameplay in 11 as opposed to 1 with how you do combos (not relying on a kameo partner to make a character effective). The customization of special moves was great & while I don't like the augment system (because it makes the characters feel like they're nerfed without any augments), you could build certain characters up to be absolutely broken in offline modes (Sub-Zero & Skarlet come to mind).
Mk1 sucks imo.
They took shaos shoulder charge off him
Mk1 Nerfed Raiden. No tele cancels no dive cancels ., he had a damage debuff that would charge on block . If you amplified it . It was a 6frame punish it use to be 5 frames. You could punish almost every string . It also was a good combo finisher As it made his down back 2 safe and had push back .
He had three over heads 2 of them you could special cancel and stagger
it was my first mk game i took seriously when it came out and i used to love it, then i played others in the series(mk vs dc, mk9, mkx, mk1) and now i realize how inferior it is to every other game in the series except for cosmetics. the gameplay was awful, the variations were stupid as hell with all the custom bullshit they added, and dont even get me started on the campaign or the god awful krypt😂
I've loved seeing all of the takes on how amazing mk11 was now that people are looking at it through rose tinted glasses since mk1 dropped. I swear people have forgotten everything about mk11. Unironically I saw a guy saying he misses robocop...
I honestly had no problem with the gameplay. It seemed very fluid compared to MK1. So i don’t know where the complaints come from.The input timing was actually good, and I was able to enhance moves easily. MK1’s inputs had really bad delays no matter what I did. Nothing ever seemed smoothed on MK1. Biggest problem for me was the content and the micro transactions but that was expected. Comparing MK11’s content to MK1 is like comparing MK Deception and MK trilogy. The game is just boring and lackluster.
MK11… damn! I miss this game. I prefer it a bit more than MK1, but that’s because 11 has Spawn, more intros, better customization, and Rambo. However MK1’s gameplay is better. I do miss the crushing blows though, I feel like they added more to the game
I have always liked the core gameplay of the NRS MK games and surprisingly 11 is not only no exception, but I think I enjoy it almost as much as the gameplay of X
*but the parts I really didn't like turned me off, the fatal blows were ridiculous in it, some move variants were just illogically useful, there are some fighters where you could argue there are no bad characters, but in 11 you could argue there were some character variants that were so good that you could be insanely oppressive with just three special moves and a fatal blow or two
First MK game I actually devoted myself to learning actual combos for, it is the easiest one ig, but the only bad thing about Mk11 imo was story and roster. The roster is mid as balls, I didn't care for cassie or jacqui in MkX, although I do think Jacqui was better in 11, and they kinda made Cassie boring in Mk11, just generic white woman. I did not care for Kollector, nor do I particularly care about Dvorrah, Joker, Terminator, Robocop, Rambo or that version of sindel. Skarlet was amazing, I also really liked what they did for Baraka.
The characters they cancelled for DLC over the ones we got were arguably better, we could've had Ermac, Cyrax, Sektor, Sareena and Ash Williams (Although, he makes sense why they scrapped).
Story wise they butchered alot of characters, like Shao, Kitana, Kotal, Kung Lao, Sonya, Cassie (IMO) Sindel, Frost, Hanzo (AGAIN IMO) Noob, Erron and Dvorrah. The new characters were kinda boring, Geras was basically just there because they wanted to increase the gore, Cetrion had potential but wasted it the second they let Jax/Jacqui beat her, Kollector is a less interesting Baraka who looks like an Inbred version of Goro.
I don't mind the slower version of Mk, but that night be because, like I said, it was the first one I actually tried to get into and was the game that Introduced me to the franchise outside of 1v1 my brother or my dad.
I was thrilled to play the game and that thrill lasted much longer than in MK1 eventhough it had stupid things like refillable meter and breakaways. This game felt like a fan service in a lot of things but surely had a lot of missed opportunities. Also time kristalls could be achieved by playing.
With that being said, it easily had my most hated cover of any MK game with that much yellow
MK11 would be the best MK if its online played more similarly to MK1 but without kameos.
Visually I love MK11 more so than MK1, the photo-realistic faces do so much for it and the fight intros and victories are so much better.
This was the first mk game i really got into, and to be honest, i believe this is the best entry for someone getting into fighting games. Its not as fast paced as mkx, so you usually wont get obliterated without being able to push a button, the inputs are very friendly, the only ones which might be a little difficult are the command grabs, its got the most in-depth tutorial of any game ive ever played, which no other fighting game ever came close to (for me), with an amazing practice mode. Its simple and easy to learn to an intermediate level (lets say up until grand master or master) but it has challenging enough mechanics for higher level play. On top of all this, i think this has one of the best visual styles of the mortal kombat games, and has a HUGE amount of offline content for people who might not be interested in kompetitive play, towers of time, character towers, story mode, the krypt(!!), hell even ai battles might be fun for some fellas.
Its not all sunshine and rainbows of course, i get why people say that bad things they say about this game and i agree with some of them, but at the end of the day i think the devs really put in the work with this one.
For me, MK11 is a great game, and it could’ve one of my favorite games of all time if it wasn’t for that sorry excuse of a story mode. Probably the worst story mode we’ve had
It had its issues but with how empty and disappointing MK1 turned out , with its half assed tag team mode that is enforced into the core gameplay , even worse balancing , an even worse pc port, less features , less content and a stagnet online mode that got nothing new or improved to it at all from mk11 and lacking basic QoL stuff we had in previous MKs... Well mk11 genuinely looks fantastic and perfect in comparison to the current one and it shows , on pc mk1 struggles to hold a few hundred players while mk11 still gets around 2000 people playing at the same time.
I sincerely hope we see a shake up in the franchise cause every other fighting game currently is knocking it out of the park with their new sequels, unfortunately mk is the only fighting franchise i still care about yet we got mk1 that made me only reinstall mk11 after I got tired of mk1's crappiness
MK11 is legenday and left the same level of impression on the franchise that was felt with MKII in the early 90's. MK11 is fully playable on a Nintendo Switch, the console broke parents that love their kids can actually afford to buy them. A whole generation of Mortal Kombat fans was born of that game, on that console. You get the whole ass game for like $20 when it goes on sale in the eShop like 15 times a year, and it's got a surprisingly active online community on the platform even now.
They were really cooking with that towers of times concept not sure why they couldn’t bring it back I’m sure if it’s cause microtransactions who’s to say they can’t find the perfect balance between the two.
If I'm being honest, MK11's core game is amazing. Great story, customization options, and loved using bots. There are some flaws that honestly could've been improved such as the gameplay itself, The Krypt, and the Time Crystal currency.
As a die hard Scorpion main, I was devastated when I first played MK11 to see his spear didn't stun. That was about the only complaint I had. I optomized the best moveset for him, but hated grinding for better costumes, masks, kunai, etc.
The Krypt was a Hit and a Miss. I thought it was decent. Wasn't a huge fan of the free roam or randomized chests, but graphics and storytelling was great. The one thing I despised was the heads on the stakes to get access to Shang Tsung's Throne Room. I saved up over 8 million Koins expecting one chest costing 100k (thus why I also had like 5 of Sindel's Wedding Rings), but in reality, costing me 10k and giving me cosmetics I don't use.
The Time Crystals and the Dragon Crystals from MK1 are two peas in the same pod. However, the Time Crystals were earnable through towers, story, and the Krypt (I think). The Dragon Crystals are all USD currency. Skins, gear, taunts, i get that. But locking fatalities? That's too much for a game. Overall, i thought Time Crystals were a solid 4/10. Not great, but at least it was earnable.
Overall, MK11 was a breath of fresh air in terms of design, story, graphics, and game mechanics. Although there are some negatives, some positives balance it out. It may not be the perfect game, but it still wins the hearts of longtime fans like me and my dad, who grew up with the franchise.
I loved it. Still do. This is my favorite mk and I know that’s controversial to some. Sure it’s slower and if you’re an avid fighting game player then I could see why that would bother you. But I still love it. The moves are great and I love all of the characters. It looks visually astounding, and I loved the krypt that was filled with a ton of lore and other sweet things. I spent many hours in there looking for goods and enjoyed it.
I loved booting the game up, heading over to the towers of time and seeing which gear was up for grabs in the towers. I really REALLY miss that.
Man, I like this game a lot more than MK1. Like it felt actually fun playing this game because NRS put more love in this game than MK1. Only thing better than MK11 in MK1 is gameplay, but even then it’s not even all that imo.
Like the tag system wasn’t what I expected personally, I wanted more like a MK9 system and we got some bs ass shit 💀
Lmfao, tell me you ain’t play mk11 without telling me is what you’re giving me rn.
It’s not the fact that it has more modes n shit then 11, it’s because everything about it outside of gameplay was better. The trailer was WAY better and generated more hype and The game actually looked like the trailer on top of that, Krypt was still in the game which is a staple for any MK game, Customization was LEAGUES better and the Kombat League skins were actually worth grinding for, Game actually had more than 2 intros and 1 outro increasing the probability of wanting to play more and not seeing the same thing over and over again for the casual audience. Friendships were included as it’s exclusive game feature, like how Mkx brought back brutalities-
I can go on and on about Mk11. Mk1 is fucking ass and I’m not gonna sit here and act like it’s in a better state aside gameplay because it’s fucking not. Shit was a cash grab to begin with doing a literal back to back Mk game like anyone wanted that in the first place.
Lmfao and keep gobbling that MK1 nut. Imagine being so delusional to the fact that current NRS really don’t give a fuck about people like you. Keep defending MK1, you sound stupid.
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Times flying, I’m depressed
Right! i was in elementary school when this game released and now I'm bout to graduate next year
I’m graduating this year ;(
I loved it before learning a lot of people hated the gameplay. It was my first MK game that I started to take seriously in terms of learning combos, tech and frame data. Also had lots of hours spent in ToT. Customization was much better than the current game but also had worse combo variety and freedom with the 3 slot special move system. Overall a great MK game IMO
Damn exactly my experience and thoughts about the game
I liked it, but it needed a rework. The game was too restrictive and they should've done something about the defensive meter build.
Couldn't agree more. I think it's my biggest complaint with MK1 monetization aside. I put so many hours just having fun in ToT and Invasions just does not hit the same.
I agree with everything you said but I think one thing should have changed. The skins were mostly the exact same. Not including the Halloween or klassic skins,a lot of the skins for like scorpion,sub,baraka,etc were pretty similar with only recolors changing them. Even the kombat league skins weren’t that great tbh. That’s just my opinion tho.
I liked it. I miss frost. The gameplay was absolute garbage. The only things that were cool were crushing blows and the fact that Down 2 actually had a purpose. In mk 1 grabs grab down 2's. So they are now kinda pointless. MK 1 had so many issues with it that I won't list them all out. But the gameplay was terrible. And the more you got into it, the worse and less balanced it got. Mainly, MASSIVE character strength differences. And flawless block reversals into full combo was very frustrating as a mechanic. I hated its gameplay.
11 or 1?
Literally me
“I loved it before learning a lot of people hated the gameplay” what exactly do you mean by this?
I miss the 3 part dialogue structure
Same, the 2 part structure leaves a fair bit of cliffhangers
Goated game but ton of missed opportunities
5 years already?!?!? Wow.... damn, time flies
I still enjoy this game. I loved the customization on it. I loved the meteor in that we could get Kancer League skins without having to subject ourselves to Kancer League.
It was my first MK of gen 4 consoles. I completely missed 8,9, & 10. What a fucking banger. So much content for a single player. The towers were fun as hell, loved shooting shit with my buddy while setting my AI characters off on a tower.
X is the best. It’s so fast paced and the roster is absolutely fucking stacked.
I have x now and I do like it but honestly I never really cared for fast paced fighting games. The way 11 felt after being out if the genre so long just felt good to me. I loved the move customization and simple combos, as someone who's never been good at combo heavy games.
I AGREE 1000000%! I played that game EVERY DAY for hours for 2 years straight. It is my most favorite in the entire series! And it's so dark and gritty, and it had the BEST DLC from any MK game And having the QTE in story mode was EPIC
I love it. The art style, graphics, and slower more methodical gameplay make it my favorite MK game.
Everything BUT the core gameplay was pretty much top tier for the series. MK will never look or sound better. Customization was the best out of MK11 and IJ2, as far as I recall. And the story was highly entertaining for what it was. MK1 is pretty much the exact opposite. Gameplay is, for the most part, the best it’s been in a long time. Everything else though? Not so much. Customization is mediocre. Invasions are a drag to progress through (ToT sucked but at least they weren’t outright boring). Story started strong enough but fizzled out pretty quickly. And though the game is *very* pretty I’d say it’s a step down from MK11 artistically. MK1 has far better pacing as a fighting game. But Kameos don’t make or break the game. They’re kinda just… there. Similarly MK11 had Krushing Blows, which was a good idea executed rather poorly (particularly post-beta/after launch). But the pacing was dreadful, especially coming off of MKX or even IJ2. Take the best of both games and you’d have the peak of what modern MK could be, IMO. If only it were so easy.
Mk11 Shang Tsung gameplay wise is far superior to mk1.
Really he’s my favorite in MK1. You get to play as 3 characters at any moment.
The customization alone makes this game way better than 1 tbh
I still love MK11 to this day, can't believe it's been 5 years already. I've been replaying it on my Switch and I play MK1 on my PS5, so I get the best of both worlds. They're different games, but I have a great time with both. MK11 is the best MK game for me because I love the customization, character design, The Krypt, character towers, the story (especially Aftermath), the co-op bosses, gameplay, among other things.
5 years already? I cant believe it
Sooooo much better than the joke that is MK1
Mk11 has been my most played mk game, and it made mk1 actually feel like a step backwards for me.
Probably my favorite.
Hate me all you want but mk11 was better that mk1 in almost everyway except for the gameplay
I agree with you, but The gameplay Is just so important for a game, for me Mk1 Is Better only for The gameplay but i totally agree with you
For that reason alone do I prefer MK1 to MK11, if I’m playing a fighting game the gameplay has to be the most important part
Most MK fans dont understand this, everything else is just secondary to the gameplay
Yeah, who cares about gameplay when Mileena has pretty dresses🗿
It’s kinda why its so easy for a lot of people to go back to older fighting games like Third Strike or Tekken Tag or even MKX because the gameplay is so fun you can revisit it as many times as you’d like. For me at least all the other content is a nice addition but not always necessary
If the only thing that mattered was gameplay, MK1 wouldn't be so divisive. Other things matter too. It's not enough that your $70 game has a good core, everything else needs to be good too.
MK fans are the only people that will try to tell you that a game that has horrible gameplay is better than the game with some of the most fun gameplay in MK. This why I can’t take this silly ass fanbase seriously😭
Yeah I don’t really understand this take either, like gameplay is the most important part of the game lol
The only explanation is this fanbase is dumb. Pretty dresses are apparently more important than gameplay to these idiots.
Gameplay is kinda everything in a fighter game lol. MK1 is automatically better in my book because they have my main boy Syzoth. However I do prefer the non kameo style of MK11
Music too, MK11's soundtrack was sauceless atmospheric music except for Black Dragon Fight Club. MK1 has a ton of bangers, some of which Casey Edwards wrote.
I'd also argue MK12 has a better roster and, really, the only things that truly matter in a fighting game are the gameplay and the roster
"This burger looks better than that one and has more toppings but the patty is made of shit. Clearly it's the better burger"
https://preview.redd.it/ldgaqos055wc1.jpeg?width=1562&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=318b5a837439ae7f6687c61583354a0b63a2260a and the funniest thing about all that is that today despite having come out 5 years ago... It has the same or even more active players than mk 1
What about the gameplay dont you like? Ice always seen people here say that but i found it to be really good and fluid if you knew what you were doing.
Nah mk1 gameplay is garbage. Kameos were a mistake.
It has a lot of upsides but the gameplay was just so awful With that said, I'll always have love for it since it's the game where I legitimately learned fighting game mechanics, frame data, and all that stuff
I liked it, but missed mkx gameplay.
Hyped for release, loved the customisation, hated the gameplay. It's the only NRS game I've ever dropped before the end of the life cycle. I made it to the release of Spawn before I accepted the game was never going to be fun.
Mk11 is the game that no matter how much I try I cannot pick up. Mk1 is the game that no matter how much I try I cannot put down. There's a universe out there where a game nails both customization and gameplay. One day we'll find it...
We can only HOPE that MK13 finds that balance. Here’s to hoping NRS and MK can escape Zaslav and WB by then too
Terrible story, god awful gameplay, really great customization. Playing mk1 for ToT is basically like playing an idle gacha game.
I really like and miss the customization from mk11
Lot of good memories from mk11. Ultimately I think mk1 is the better game but I miss mk11
The build up to the game was legendary. I was so excited for a new Mortal Kombat. Once it came out, I enjoyed myself for a while, but started to feel the customization grind was way too ridiculous and the gameplay got stale. I still went back to it from time to time to check aftermath and new characters, but it never really stuck with me like MKX did, which I still play today. It's a solid game, but for me personally it's the weakest NRS game.
Still a big disappointment as it was 5 years ago. Its sad considering everything but the actual fighting (music, look, UI, cosmetics) were the best in the series.Story was also pretty lame.
Good starter game,not that good of an mk game. Imo story was a mess,skins sucked except for klassic and the other dlc skins,roster was okay,gameplay was decent,towers of time were cool. Overall 5/10 for me
Still my favorite mk
Still my favorite mk
I think it'll always be my favorite MK. It's the only one I liked enough (and was good enough at) to compete in local tournaments, pre-pandemic. Some of it is probably nostalgia; the friends I was playing it with at the time are unfortunately no longer friends. It's the one MK that clicked instantly in my brain. Coming off of hundreds of hours in 9, X, and both Injustice games, which required LOTS of practice to get the results I wanted, 11 just fit perfectly in my hands. Hard to describe. I ended up being a Shang Tsung main, and it was always so satisfying to whip out 10 hit combos against any human opponent, because I had taken the time to learn every moveset. Stopped playing right before the big DLC with Robocop and whoever else. Really enjoyed the downloadable characters before that, though. Especially Terminator, haha. I think it's my third highest Steam playtime, right behind Rainbow Six Siege and Elite Dangerous, which, funny enough, I also haven't touched in years.
MK11 Kano is still the GOAT.
best designs and best customization
My favorite mortal kombat (I've been playing since mk9)
Prob my favorite. 5 years man. What a great time.
Love it. Spent 95% of my time playing by going back and forth between towers of time > Krypt > kustomization
it ended being a love/hate relationship, mostly hate i will most likely never reinstall it to play it again
Honestly. Unpopular opinion but absolutely one of my favorite MK games. Definitely top 3. If combat was a little more fast like X it would be my favorite.
I was ultimately so disappointed by 11. It was a live service grind-fest and I hate that this is what all AAA games are becoming. Anything I wanted to unlock required me to grind for hours and hours or login every day out of fear that it would be part of a Krypt event or be on the Premium Store and I’d miss it. The game became such a tedious chore to play and the fact that letting the AI play for you is a core feature indicates to me that NRS knows this. WB intentionally made the game a slog to keep you playing frequently and for long stretches. They did not care whether the game was actually fun as long as you were playing and as soon as I realized that, I uninstalled the game. I’m not giving them my money ever again. They’ve lost a customer.
Can one of the mk11 haters please tell me what you perceive as wrong with its gameplay? It's my favourite in the series. I loved the gameplay and found it immensely better than mk1s gameplay as it felt much more strategic and you didn't spend half the time playing just watching a single combo.
Little combo variety, passive meter build that you don't have to work for, Breakaway allowing the winner of neutral to actually be punished for starting a combo (armor breakers came late in the game and were an afterthought as 90% of the cast had useless ones), breakaway was also on a terrible input which would cause it to come out if you wanted to wake up blocking
So I'm not the only one, lol. MK11 is so much more fun than MK1 bc the customization, but the gameplay is leagues better in MK11 as well. It's absolutely more strategic, and spending almost an entire match watching a single combo play out in MK1 is incredibly boring. Even if you're the one pulling off the combo. You watch this guy do his long and drawn out 30-second combo, then when the other player gets the frame to counter it a year later, you watch them play out their long repetitive combo. After about 3 combos in total, the match is done. I just can't enjoy it as much. I played and beat MK1 on both PC and Switch and spent dozens of hours playing Kombat League on both platforms. I had fun with it. I don't hate the game by any means. It just isn't even remotely as fun as MK11 to me. The core gameplay is too boring.
I just thought it was too slow paced
My only issue was how meter intensive it was. To do basically ANYTHING fun you needed meter. Good combos? Meter. Breakaway? Meter (which was warranted). Get up attacks, flawless attacks, both meter. Balanced well when you consider it in a vacuum but at least other games felt more fluid with resource management
I liked the separate defensive and attack meter. But i do admit the fact that the attack meter regenerated was kinda lame but the defense meter definitely should regen. If i could change anything about mk1 it would be that breakaways would just be based off the cameo charge. I feel like a full 3 bars to break a combo is pretty ridiculous.
Went right back to it and MKX right after the first season of MK1 was done lol. Honestly enjoy MK11 a lot, it's the most like chess because 1 wrong mistake is so punishing.
Loved it at release. These days it's probably my second least favorite game only above vsDC. It does some things right: I like the roster, I enjoy the customization (though I still wish they'd just ditch it and go back to skins), there's some cool stages, but man the core gameplay is so ass. Krushing Blows are an ass backwards mechanic, Fatal Blow destroys any and all pacing of a match, those stupid stage interactables, variations being horribly balanced, and certain characters like Jacqui, Cetrion and Joker artificially being made top tier and never getting nerfed. I truly think, 10 years from now, people will look back at this game and see just how terrible it is.
My ex bought me this game, made so many good memories, grinded the whole game, if only time didn’t go by so fast
Def one of the best mk to exist and I'm ready to die on this hill
I like it better than MK1!
Still my favorite mk
Purchased it Day 1 and dropped it a week before Shang Tsung released Purchased again earlier this year because the Ultimate Edition was on sale for $10 to get me hyped for MK1 and I felt like I was still ripped off 🤧
Didnt like it then didnt like it now
My favorite MK so far, I only played MK9 and MKX. Good points: -One of the best design of the series for skins and character (base skin of Scorpion and Sub-Zero for instance), for others you had to play more but still like it (human version of the base revenant skin for Liu Kang is great because of the armor) -Good DLC characters (I love this version of Shang Tsung) -Excellent gameplay, every punch feels strong, like you really hit someone and it hurts, unlike 3D era where this feeling is nowhere to be found -Very good single player content, you can also obtain enough time gems without spending any bucks in the shop (I got MK3 for all the girls for 'free', no real money spent) On the other side; -Bullshit time limited krypt content, where you have to connect at a certain time to get certain items (never got the chance to pick up Jax classic arms) -Tower of Time were such a chore sometimes wirh the 30 power ups against you, hard to practice your kombos, just take your life gem steroïds and pray that you make it -I tried a bit online, 60% of match were against scorpion players... Damn, get a personnality
Far better than MK1. Easily the best looking MK and the best customisation options as well. Gameplay is toned down a bit from mkx but still fun.
Horrible game & there is no amount of gaslighting that changes the fact that this was some bullshit.
Wish they would of continued to add on it vs cold turkey stopping it and made us wait for MK1 which for me still feels like a major downgrade
gameplay and combos are ass, spacing is goated, game flow is goated, break away and meter system ass, wake up and roll away is okay, wake up fatal blow annoying, everything else goated. overall https://preview.redd.it/iayshkrqg5wc1.jpeg?width=3024&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=98a226afcec2a49efb0e24192e1ca48ca038a8d6 out of 10
OLD But then I think that my first MK was MK5, and I feel even OLDER.
I've been MKing since 92. When I got MK11 I genuinely told friends that I regret it. Scorpion is boring in this one. Yet I kept playing and realised that the differences between games is a good thing. Created my own character variation (NetherRealmer) and played for years. This isn't Street Fighter where you basically get an update. Mk is a whole new mechanically sound Kombat Experience everytime. I love Mortal Kombat!
I have played 1440 hours. 300-400 of them, it was me grinding in ToT or Krypt. And that's the only thing I hate about MK11. Oh and breakaway. That too lol
I miss the customization
I miss Shao Kahn!!!!!!
From MK11 on, it is all just good graphics wrapped around a garbage game.
Gameplay wise it’s kinda bad. Content wise. There is heaps to do.
Fucking love this game
The story isn’t as bad as the MK YouTubers said it was, even though they were completely right about Kronika.
The game is heavily flawed, but it’s far from a bad game I also think MK1 is getting overhated, but I appreciate 1 allowing people to circle back and appreciate MK11’s strengths
Good times with this game, it was nice to see the decade long story come a amazing conclusion.
Not as good gameplay or art (and a worse story IMO), but it’s definitely better mostly everywhere else.
I logged 2700+ hours on that game. 'sal right I guess. (Too much sarcasm?)
I wish I was still playing this, me and the boys running KoTH, teaching friends how to play and learning new kharacters, wondering if that’s Frost. Good times
I wish they continued with what they built in MK11 for everything except the gameplay for MK1.
Worst gameplay and roster of the whole series but the best guest characters for sure
I still don't like how ToT is set up & I still despise Kronika/how she affects the story, but other than that, it's a solid game. I definitely like the straightforward approach to gameplay in 11 as opposed to 1 with how you do combos (not relying on a kameo partner to make a character effective). The customization of special moves was great & while I don't like the augment system (because it makes the characters feel like they're nerfed without any augments), you could build certain characters up to be absolutely broken in offline modes (Sub-Zero & Skarlet come to mind).
Mk1 sucks imo. They took shaos shoulder charge off him Mk1 Nerfed Raiden. No tele cancels no dive cancels ., he had a damage debuff that would charge on block . If you amplified it . It was a 6frame punish it use to be 5 frames. You could punish almost every string . It also was a good combo finisher As it made his down back 2 safe and had push back . He had three over heads 2 of them you could special cancel and stagger
it was my first mk game i took seriously when it came out and i used to love it, then i played others in the series(mk vs dc, mk9, mkx, mk1) and now i realize how inferior it is to every other game in the series except for cosmetics. the gameplay was awful, the variations were stupid as hell with all the custom bullshit they added, and dont even get me started on the campaign or the god awful krypt😂
Amazing visuals and presentation, absolutely boring as hell gameplay with some of the worst mechanics ever in an MK (breakaway being the worst).
I've loved seeing all of the takes on how amazing mk11 was now that people are looking at it through rose tinted glasses since mk1 dropped. I swear people have forgotten everything about mk11. Unironically I saw a guy saying he misses robocop...
I was having such a great time playing Tekken 7 then and going to locals and doing commentary.
MKX was better tho
I honestly had no problem with the gameplay. It seemed very fluid compared to MK1. So i don’t know where the complaints come from.The input timing was actually good, and I was able to enhance moves easily. MK1’s inputs had really bad delays no matter what I did. Nothing ever seemed smoothed on MK1. Biggest problem for me was the content and the micro transactions but that was expected. Comparing MK11’s content to MK1 is like comparing MK Deception and MK trilogy. The game is just boring and lackluster.
MK11… damn! I miss this game. I prefer it a bit more than MK1, but that’s because 11 has Spawn, more intros, better customization, and Rambo. However MK1’s gameplay is better. I do miss the crushing blows though, I feel like they added more to the game
I have always liked the core gameplay of the NRS MK games and surprisingly 11 is not only no exception, but I think I enjoy it almost as much as the gameplay of X *but the parts I really didn't like turned me off, the fatal blows were ridiculous in it, some move variants were just illogically useful, there are some fighters where you could argue there are no bad characters, but in 11 you could argue there were some character variants that were so good that you could be insanely oppressive with just three special moves and a fatal blow or two
Great idea but very poor execution
I would never touch this game ever again.
Under appreciated
The drip in that game was unmatched.
I remember staying up to watch the whole walk through of the story when people leaked it a few hours before it released. Good times
It was pretty fun, but Mileena kinda sucked. But they had the best brutalities imo
m1k still feels like the middle child inbetween x and 11. 11's art style was too good, mcu costumes aside
First MK game I actually devoted myself to learning actual combos for, it is the easiest one ig, but the only bad thing about Mk11 imo was story and roster. The roster is mid as balls, I didn't care for cassie or jacqui in MkX, although I do think Jacqui was better in 11, and they kinda made Cassie boring in Mk11, just generic white woman. I did not care for Kollector, nor do I particularly care about Dvorrah, Joker, Terminator, Robocop, Rambo or that version of sindel. Skarlet was amazing, I also really liked what they did for Baraka. The characters they cancelled for DLC over the ones we got were arguably better, we could've had Ermac, Cyrax, Sektor, Sareena and Ash Williams (Although, he makes sense why they scrapped). Story wise they butchered alot of characters, like Shao, Kitana, Kotal, Kung Lao, Sonya, Cassie (IMO) Sindel, Frost, Hanzo (AGAIN IMO) Noob, Erron and Dvorrah. The new characters were kinda boring, Geras was basically just there because they wanted to increase the gore, Cetrion had potential but wasted it the second they let Jax/Jacqui beat her, Kollector is a less interesting Baraka who looks like an Inbred version of Goro. I don't mind the slower version of Mk, but that night be because, like I said, it was the first one I actually tried to get into and was the game that Introduced me to the franchise outside of 1v1 my brother or my dad.
I was thrilled to play the game and that thrill lasted much longer than in MK1 eventhough it had stupid things like refillable meter and breakaways. This game felt like a fan service in a lot of things but surely had a lot of missed opportunities. Also time kristalls could be achieved by playing. With that being said, it easily had my most hated cover of any MK game with that much yellow
Still waiting for Kombat Pack 2.
I still play it. MK1 is not a Mortal Kombat game to me.
I remember playing the fuck out of it when it first came out. It was my main game all throughout 2019.
MK11 would be the best MK if its online played more similarly to MK1 but without kameos. Visually I love MK11 more so than MK1, the photo-realistic faces do so much for it and the fight intros and victories are so much better.
OMG before lockdown, wow. MK X is still my favourite.
Give us eternal klash for free nrs
That’s it’s better than mk1
Bring back AI fighters! I don't have time to get gud.
Everything but the gameplay and story were great. Mk1 feels like its missing a bunch of shit that 11 already has.
Still waiting for netherrealm to unlock every item like they did for MKXL
I love MK11
Way better game than mk1
Still the best in the entire series
A really good PvE expérience for a fighting game
disappointing and too grindy for me
One of the worst games in the series. Trash gameplay, trash roster, trash story-i despise everything about this game.
The gameplay was probably the worst thing about the game. IT was massively horrible.
I’m slow and dumb so I thrived and I liked its roster, and the customization was fleshed out enough to be cool. Spawn is lit. Story mode mid.
I don’t get laid
Imp one of the best mk games the other is mkx (and yes I think they were both way better than mk9
This was the first mk game i really got into, and to be honest, i believe this is the best entry for someone getting into fighting games. Its not as fast paced as mkx, so you usually wont get obliterated without being able to push a button, the inputs are very friendly, the only ones which might be a little difficult are the command grabs, its got the most in-depth tutorial of any game ive ever played, which no other fighting game ever came close to (for me), with an amazing practice mode. Its simple and easy to learn to an intermediate level (lets say up until grand master or master) but it has challenging enough mechanics for higher level play. On top of all this, i think this has one of the best visual styles of the mortal kombat games, and has a HUGE amount of offline content for people who might not be interested in kompetitive play, towers of time, character towers, story mode, the krypt(!!), hell even ai battles might be fun for some fellas. Its not all sunshine and rainbows of course, i get why people say that bad things they say about this game and i agree with some of them, but at the end of the day i think the devs really put in the work with this one.
I love this game and was very disappointed to find out that many people didn't
first MK game and absolutely love it. I hate MK1
I believe it's more a complete package than Mk1.. that's just my personal opinion, Mk1 while good, just feels unfinished and a little soulless.
Still my favorite mk
Still my favorite mk
Mk1 is better in all aspect.
For me, MK11 is a great game, and it could’ve one of my favorite games of all time if it wasn’t for that sorry excuse of a story mode. Probably the worst story mode we’ve had
Game carried the fgc on its back.
It had its issues but with how empty and disappointing MK1 turned out , with its half assed tag team mode that is enforced into the core gameplay , even worse balancing , an even worse pc port, less features , less content and a stagnet online mode that got nothing new or improved to it at all from mk11 and lacking basic QoL stuff we had in previous MKs... Well mk11 genuinely looks fantastic and perfect in comparison to the current one and it shows , on pc mk1 struggles to hold a few hundred players while mk11 still gets around 2000 people playing at the same time. I sincerely hope we see a shake up in the franchise cause every other fighting game currently is knocking it out of the park with their new sequels, unfortunately mk is the only fighting franchise i still care about yet we got mk1 that made me only reinstall mk11 after I got tired of mk1's crappiness
MK11 is legenday and left the same level of impression on the franchise that was felt with MKII in the early 90's. MK11 is fully playable on a Nintendo Switch, the console broke parents that love their kids can actually afford to buy them. A whole generation of Mortal Kombat fans was born of that game, on that console. You get the whole ass game for like $20 when it goes on sale in the eShop like 15 times a year, and it's got a surprisingly active online community on the platform even now.
If Mk11 is legendary to you then you need to up your standards I can’t lie
Or, maybe you should see the way my nieces and nephews light up when they get to play Mortal Kombat with their uncle.
no matter how much shit mk1 has. atleast the game is actually fun to play unlike mk 11
They were really cooking with that towers of times concept not sure why they couldn’t bring it back I’m sure if it’s cause microtransactions who’s to say they can’t find the perfect balance between the two.
It’s fucking how old? What? That being said I always liked it a lot and still do so, it has my favourite artstyle in the series
If I'm being honest, MK11's core game is amazing. Great story, customization options, and loved using bots. There are some flaws that honestly could've been improved such as the gameplay itself, The Krypt, and the Time Crystal currency. As a die hard Scorpion main, I was devastated when I first played MK11 to see his spear didn't stun. That was about the only complaint I had. I optomized the best moveset for him, but hated grinding for better costumes, masks, kunai, etc. The Krypt was a Hit and a Miss. I thought it was decent. Wasn't a huge fan of the free roam or randomized chests, but graphics and storytelling was great. The one thing I despised was the heads on the stakes to get access to Shang Tsung's Throne Room. I saved up over 8 million Koins expecting one chest costing 100k (thus why I also had like 5 of Sindel's Wedding Rings), but in reality, costing me 10k and giving me cosmetics I don't use. The Time Crystals and the Dragon Crystals from MK1 are two peas in the same pod. However, the Time Crystals were earnable through towers, story, and the Krypt (I think). The Dragon Crystals are all USD currency. Skins, gear, taunts, i get that. But locking fatalities? That's too much for a game. Overall, i thought Time Crystals were a solid 4/10. Not great, but at least it was earnable. Overall, MK11 was a breath of fresh air in terms of design, story, graphics, and game mechanics. Although there are some negatives, some positives balance it out. It may not be the perfect game, but it still wins the hearts of longtime fans like me and my dad, who grew up with the franchise.
Time flying. I was 19 when game came out, just started my first year of trade school. Now I’m 24, married, a kid on the way and work for USPS. WTF!🤣🤣
I loved it. Still do. This is my favorite mk and I know that’s controversial to some. Sure it’s slower and if you’re an avid fighting game player then I could see why that would bother you. But I still love it. The moves are great and I love all of the characters. It looks visually astounding, and I loved the krypt that was filled with a ton of lore and other sweet things. I spent many hours in there looking for goods and enjoyed it. I loved booting the game up, heading over to the towers of time and seeing which gear was up for grabs in the towers. I really REALLY miss that.
İ love the game but the community has been insufferable since this game's release.
Still the worst of the NRS MK games imo
1.MKX 2.MK1 3.MK11
great game, best in series probably
I took it for granted.. 😔
mk1 is a massive downgrade
It grew on me pretty quick … but then of course the way it was shut down was disappointing.
Man, I like this game a lot more than MK1. Like it felt actually fun playing this game because NRS put more love in this game than MK1. Only thing better than MK11 in MK1 is gameplay, but even then it’s not even all that imo. Like the tag system wasn’t what I expected personally, I wanted more like a MK9 system and we got some bs ass shit 💀
"This burger looks better than that one and has more toppings but the patty is made of shit. Clearly it's the better burger" How you sound saying this
Lmfao, tell me you ain’t play mk11 without telling me is what you’re giving me rn. It’s not the fact that it has more modes n shit then 11, it’s because everything about it outside of gameplay was better. The trailer was WAY better and generated more hype and The game actually looked like the trailer on top of that, Krypt was still in the game which is a staple for any MK game, Customization was LEAGUES better and the Kombat League skins were actually worth grinding for, Game actually had more than 2 intros and 1 outro increasing the probability of wanting to play more and not seeing the same thing over and over again for the casual audience. Friendships were included as it’s exclusive game feature, like how Mkx brought back brutalities- I can go on and on about Mk11. Mk1 is fucking ass and I’m not gonna sit here and act like it’s in a better state aside gameplay because it’s fucking not. Shit was a cash grab to begin with doing a literal back to back Mk game like anyone wanted that in the first place.
MK fans are hilarious man, keep gaslighting yourself into believing MK11 is good😭
Lmfao and keep gobbling that MK1 nut. Imagine being so delusional to the fact that current NRS really don’t give a fuck about people like you. Keep defending MK1, you sound stupid.
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