Mortal Kombat 1 Reveals Six Fighters In Official Kombat Pack DLC

Every reminder that this is from WB helps, so thanks.

If they get all of the people who play the characters to voice them in game then I'm going to be extremely hyped.

This is an incredible dlc lineup, and I’m not even a Mortal Kombat fan

While that is nice the new Li Mei and Baraka trailer was deadly awesome indeed.

Weird. I can’t see Peacemaker in the pic…

Why is it called Mortal Kombat 1? That's a SNES and MD game.

The Boys is such an amazing show. Such a refreshing watch after the endless superhero junk that takes itself too seriously we've had shoved at us ever since RDJ did his thing.

Homelander is certainly a perfect crossover though.

Not really interested in the guest characters. I'm just happy to have Takeda and Quan Chi back.

Game isn’t out yet and we have a DLC announcement. LMFAO.

Finally get to do Homelander vs. Omni-man. The MK team is genius.

This dlc lineup is so good! I don’t even play MK but this makes me want too! I can finally see Omni man kill Hollander and vice versa.

I wish we were getting Injustice 3.

@andyg1412 This is what I was thinking too. I thought it would be the remake / remaster of Mortal Kombat 1 but it's not the case. They just reboot the series, like Tomb Raider etc.

Naming it mortal kombat 1 is so dumb. I haven't heard a dumber name since Xbox One. I get that they want to try something new and fresh but they could have called it anything else. Whatever. As long as it's good and doesn't run like ass on the switch which by gaming standards is an antiquated system now.

It's been theorised that the title may end up like what they did with MKX, turning it into MKXL once the DLC was finished. If they do a story expansion at some point, they may call that MK2 and combine the two titles to make MK12, making a triple entendre.

(Edit: Or maybe just a double... my brain can't quite wrap around that one.)

@ZeldaFan83 Well, it's better than selling a season pass with no idea what it will contain.

Was obvious the leaked DLC was real but disappointed it is. Quan Chi and Takeda are neat, and Ermac's fine, but the guest characters are a big turnoff.

It isn't even really an anti-guest character thing (though not really a fan), just zero interest in these particular ones.

That said I hope Peacemaker's throw is the AA.

@ZeldaFan83 Honestly I don't blame them. Gamers used to see DLC/season pass as a bad thing when they were released close to release but nowadays it's the reason why fighting games are hated if they don't do it. DNF Duel was heavily criticized for taking a year to release DLC and game's like FighterZ and Strive were constantly used as examples because they offered early DLC.

@Sambuc This might be vary unpopular, but I hope whenever we do, if we do, I can actually play as Superman, I’m just a weee bit tired of evil Superman, and that’s not injustice fault, there’s just been a lot of evil Superman’s as of late, I would love to play as the nice one.

@theModestMouse I’ll be honest, I don’t really see what makes The Boys so refreshing. Once you get past the initial catch of “Super Heroes evil” it really doesn’t have much else going for it.

Mortal Kombat has such a small roster that it definitely needs characters from other franchises to enrich it.

@SpoonySpoons It's not about "super heroes bad", it's about non powered people doing something to face powered up individuals and I'm not talking (just) about super powers. It practically portrays what's wrong with society, whith super heroes being practically how celebrities work already. It also shows how corporations operate and how political agendas are used and people fall for it.

Also, it's kind of a weird critique to point out the main theme of something and say "other than that, it doesn't have much else going for it. Weall, yeah... you take the core element of something and that usually happens:

"Other than Godzilla and other monsters it doesn't have much else going for it".

"Other than the Pokemon it doesn't have much else going for it". "

Other than wizards it doesn't have much else for it".

It applies to everything.

@SpoonySpoons Except for maybe all that satire.

@theModestMouse - Just to confirm, have you also criticised MCU films for being too quippy? Because if so, you might have a bit of a contradiction on your hands…(most of the DCU though, yeah, fair enough)

@SpoonySpoons - You’re not missing out on much; it’s probably the most overrated show going at the moment, with good production values and acting being the only things going for it.

Ah, right, I forgot Peacemaker was also part of the leak. Well, I guess if I ever get the game there’s another good training dummy to practice fatalities on.

Curious as to who they’re going to include next season; this season seems to be drawing from recent tv shows, but unless I’ve missed some (or they take more characters from the shows they’ve used here) they’ve already kinda run out of shows with potential candidates, so will they broaden the theme to recent characters, or change to something else?

@ZeldaFan83 exactly my thought. That's why I relegate WB games to either 1 year later complete editions or even more likely just have it in one of the subscription services. So less money for you WB.

Homelander and Omega Man are some of the scariest Villains in current memory.

No Ultra Instinct Shaggy, no buy

@andyg1412

In the last Game there is Time jumping in, so storywise they went back in Time to the Period of the first Game and changed Time Line to make everything undone what happened, to have a peaceful Time, but seemingly something doesn't want them to have Peace

@nkarafo
As it follows the Story of the previous Games, it is not exactly a Reboot.

Thats one of the Things such Games with insane Stories can profit from, you can Change nearly everything because there are Gods etc. that can change Time and Space.

A beloved Charakter is dead? No Problem, let him come back as a Undead and put it in the Story

Well that was extremely disappointing.
Previous guests were very well known and established, who even are these people?

This is about to be that one Death Battle episode again

Yay for Ermac! I don't know who Omni Man is.

DLC don't you just hate it paying extra for characters that should come with the game.

Multiple DLCs and Season Passes for fighting games need to stop. Absolutely pointless dropping stupid amounts of money when the inevitable Ultimate / Deluxe version eventually comes out.

They've announced more playable DLC characters than they've announced playable characters in the game you'll be buying. Something is wrong with this picture

I'm a bit burned out on MK. I feel the games haven't progressed much from the excellent MK9 reboot.
But the early rumours of Homelander being included piqued my interest again. I adore that character from the show.
With this confirmation I will be buying MK1 and even if Homelander is a trash character I will play as him and only him.

Alright I might give John Cena a go too

Delighted with this

Take my shirt off my back and bend me over WB!! $70 for base game and holding back retro DLC characters to those wearing rose tinted glasses!!! SHAME ON YOU WB, SHAME ON YOU!! GREEDY F'ING CEO's!! At least I'm MAN enough to stand up to these constant tactics of trying to eat away at the money I have!! Stop supporting this B.S.!!!

@roy130390 Yeah, I get the point of the show. My issue is that its not particularly clever or nuanced, at least in the season I watched. The characters are too flat, unlikeable, and predictable to really sell the whole subversion of the super hero genre. So yeah, when the “Super Hero bad” charm wears off its just another paint by numbers show with some edge.

Also, for the record you totally could just remove Godzilla and friends from a good amount of the Kaiju flicks. Many of them function as disaster mcguffins to get the characters moving during an emergency. Not really the generalization you think it is.

@SpoonySpoons Dude, what makes them Kaiju films is the monsters. You can say that they are a allegory or whatever of society facing natural disasters, but the truth is that most of it's audience have criticized the amount of time given to humans and are actually more interested in the monster fights. It really is the generalization I say it is. I'm aware of the intention of the first Godzilla film about nuclear catastrophes and all of that but it doesn't change it. Remove that element and let's see how popular they stay with their main audience.

As for what you said about the show, that's perfectly fine, to each their own. But that critique about flat characters, unlikeable, predictable or whatever has been said about literally every show and movie ever by someone, no matter how universally praised it is. So maybe, it's simply is that it just isn't for the person instead of being something terrible like people usually say about something that they didn't enjoy.

@andyg1412 it’s not just an SNES and MD game. The 9th MK was also called MK1 which was a ps3, X360 and psvita game.

And similarly to MK9 being 1, MK12 is called 1 because it’s a timeline reset while still being a sequel.

@Pat_trick the mortal kombat released for the 10th anniversary, I think MK annihilation, has almost 60 playable characters. Since then they introduced a good 30 extra ones. In no one is its legacy roster small.

@darkswabber I was being sarcastic. Mortal Kombat is known for its large roster and I think it's wholly unnecessary to add characters from other franchises. Especially ones that clearly don't match.

Ohhh yes, Omni man!

@RubyCarbuncle Amen dude. was about to comment the same thing, but you hit it on the head perfectly.

That's pretty cool! By coincidence, I just happened to pick up the Mortal Kombat Triple Feature yesterday. For those that don't know, it includes Mortal Kombat, Mortal Kombat Annihilation, & season 1 of Mortal Kombat: Legacy for just $5.

@andyg1412 I think they're rebooting the MK universe, so they probably decided to play into that by resetting the numbering of the series back to 1. It'll have people confused until they get all the way back up to 11 again lol.

@nkarafo you need to play the last game to fully understand why

@RubyCarbuncle me too. AAA game companies love to nickle and dime gamers who buy into this crap. And the gamers love it.

Getting to play as Homelander in Mortal Kombat??!
Someone's been doing their research on "things a lot of people would find VERY attractive".