Ed Boon Excited To Share What's Next For Mortal Kombat 1

I’m just not interested. In this MK. I used to love the earlier ones.

I'm probably one of the few who stayed with the series through the beginning all the way to the current games. There's highs and lows sure. Loved MK 2 Obviously! MK 3 felt rushed and lazy. Mk 4 was the beginning of the 3D Era so that was pretty cool. Deadly Alliance was like a rebirth after things started getting stale. Deception was even better than that. Armageddon was back to feeling like another lazy rush job. MK vs DC was something nobody expected but a rather disappointing experiment and everything since has been pretty much back to form and more bloody and gruesome than ever!

I had such an obsession with this series as a teen and it never really went away. Heck i even sorta like MK mythologies Subzero. Anybody remember that one?

Serve a meal when you're "only at the beginning" of making it, and you should expect a less than enthusiastic reception.The same applies to games.

After the astounding success of the switch port, they should port Mortal Kombat 1 to even lower end systems! The Wii U, Quest 2, 2DS, Wii, Toaster, a random paper plate, Virtual Boy.

@HotGoomba I'd totally play the paper plate port! Mine runs Doom pretty well so I think it can handle the new Mortal Kombat. Jokes aside, I'm happy I skipped MK 1 reboot on Switch despite the surprising success of MK 11. The age of miracle Nintendo Switch ports are long over.

@MarcusIsCool Same. I'm Oldschool. Loved OG 1 and 2. As for reboots, that 2013 (I think it was) game that was simply called Mortal Kombat was a faithful reboot of the first three games.

I regret buying it at launch for Switch. There are moments where it plays ok, but then it comes back to reality and is in just such rough shape. I really hope they're able to put in the time to patch it up, but it really hurts a company's image when they do something like this. I'm nervous about WB's other big Switch port, Hogwarts Legacy, but am glad they gave it more time in development to hopefully be amazing!

I do think they should do something to compensate people who paid full price for this on Switch. I dunno, like free dlc or a free port of MK Trilogy lol, something. And just some transparency about what is wrong, and what's being done to fix it. That can go a long way imo.

At least someone's excited 🥱

On switch is S#cks, but on pc dayum, this is seriously the best MK ever made.
Before it was mk Trilogy (all time favorite) this one tops even that, thanks ed boon and team.

@Truegamer79 Yeah, i'm also old school. But, you know, I still feel that this third era of MK games (MK9 and onwards) are kind of dissapointing. I still found kind of lack in the "magic" of Mortal Kombat. I don't know what it is, but, i find the original 3 games, ultimate and trilogy, more like magical than what they've done in the last years.

I don't know what it is, but... except for X, the rest didn't resonate with me. I still have to play 1, but being the dissapointment that was 11, i am a bit concerned. Yeah, having Havik and Kenshi, my two favourites 3D era characters, in the roster helps, and probably i will buy it in the future (for xbox) but i am cautious.

Yeah I mean it is the beginning if you need to patch it to be playable in the first place

I'd love a Shaolin Monks 2 or even a remake. One of my favourite co-op games.

While I enjoy these games, it's really difficult to invest in their story going forward now since you know they just going to retconned or reboot the story again and again anyways. In one version of the main game, your favorite character may be a good guy then he/she turn into a bad guy in the next game then a God or a jobber in the next game then back to goody twoshoes again in the next game and then fully disappeared in the next game and then return as a wholly different character in the next game and then became an existing character of the one before in the next game and then became the main boss in the next game it keeps on getting re-connect and reboots and it's just hard to follow now. My nephew who follow the series since Deadly Alliance didn't like the fact that Liu Kang is now a God and that Raiden is a mortal though he does like babyface Reptile and Baraka.

Ah, just the beginning. I respect that the current model is base game and then loads of DLC... but I do miss the days of 'game come out, game done, enjoy game'

@sleepinglion which is why I will wait for months to pick this up, patched and running smooth with all fighters included.
I stopped with most games day 1. everyone else was paying $100 for early copies of starfield, I picked up fallout 4 for $5 on my steamdeck. There are plenty of games out there that not much demands day 1 purchases…especially at prices they asking for unfinished games.

MK2 is still the best, there was the tournament and there was the dark eastern atmosphere. MK9 the most complete.

Netherealm is a good studio, that loves the art of games, and cares about its fans.

That makes it even more of a shame, that they're shackled to Warner Bros, a corporation that only cares about maximizing profits, as quickly as possible. Which is evidenced by the rapid release date of this game, the fact that a premium $70 USD game still has microtransactions, and the overall sorry state of the Switch version.

Thanks for the heads up. I will kalmy wait for the Komplete edition to come out in two to three years for thirty or forty bucks, on PS5.

@Donutman Right on! I like your approach. In recent years I've never picked up a MK game at launch. Eventually, they wind up on perma-sale, even the ultimate editions. I respect that fans who love the series don't wish to wait. I have some like that as well. But I can wait on this one

I remember buying MK11 day one on Switch physically and it wasn't terrible. At least the initial download wasn't that bad at around 16GB unlike MK1 at around 29GB right now I believe. Sure, the download for 11 physical is now at 26GB but that's AFTER the getting Aftermath and the update with friendships and stages. Kinda glad I skipped this one for now. Like most are saying, I'll wait till the updates come out and the price goes down.

Maybe actually doing a good job with porting a game?

how about fixing the switch version before focusing on the future of the game boon.

Here my guess was that excitement was fixing MK1 on Switch or offering a full refund and abandoning this dumpster fire. My Bad.

Gives me more reason to wait a year or two for an ultimate edition; thanks Ed!

Like others have said I got "EVERYTHING all things ever released MK11 (Switch)" on a massive discount for about $26. It's still sitting in my backlog untouched. I'll get around to it eventually. So with that said I plan on doing the same thing for this one.

On a side note what killed my MK hype some was my own doing. Around the time I got MK11 there was rumors floating around that "MK Trilogy" was going to be remastered/remade or whatever for the MK Anniversary. MK Trilogy was my jam on N64!!! I got all dressed up and nowhere to go when we found out that the "Anniversary" was a total bust and the new game was a "reboot" back to 1...starting off from what happened in 11...uhhh ok.

I think MK 1 is a distractionmaneuver. First it is senseless due to lack of Ad hoc multiplayer. Second because of a frog publicly admitting to snort. I think with MK11 theres flat water for a while. Which sadly suffered from playabilitykillers by putting weaponmoves onto punch and kick buttons. With that, Deadly alliance is and stays the best MK yet. With full 3d environment, several fighting styles and perfect playability it is technically still the best MK. A clever head knows now what Ed Boon is pulling off with MK 1. And because of that i cant wait to buy Deadly alliance remake with ad hoc multiplayer for the Nintendo Switch !!

“We are only at the beginning.”

Thank you for being upfront. All I need to hear to stay away until there’s a complete, working game worth my money like in the old days. Lol the sadness of modern gaming.

Does it involve releasing invasions?

@RiasGremory

But he can’t sell you the fixes

i miss when a game came on a cart or disc, and you didnt know how to get to them yet, but you just new there were more secret fighters in there!

getting the rest of the game trickled in over the following months, and having devs "decide" a character is in a game later to boost interest, etc, is a LOT less satisfying. the kids dont know, but we know.

i want to play this but honestly id rather a retro kompilation of some kind. even just warts and all MK trilogy would be pretty cool for me.

also, somebody up there mentioned 4 😎👍 i forgot about that game.

Translation: We rushed the game out and will keep adding content that we wish was there at the beginning.

I’ve enjoyed MK1 on Switch!