Mortal Kombat 1's Story Will Be Similar In Length To MK11 And X

I can't remember if it was X or 11 that I was playing, but 1 of them was putting me to sleep during the story. I did enjoy 9 tho, the reboot.

Sometimes I feel like the only person that doesn’t care about story bloat in fighting games. I don’t care why they are punching each other, let’s just get to the punching each other faster.

Unless you're playing just the games, the majority of these stories makes no sense and the characters who had no part in the story somehow someway became a part of it for no reason. For example Kenshi was a DLC character in MK9 and had no canon story to anyone in that game but somehow he seem to know who Scorpion is, married a woman at some point, and had a son who is already Liu Kang's age in MK4. Then we had the strange disconnection between Kenshi and Ermac with both of them no longer ever crossing path in the series yet Kenshi seem to know the art of telekinesis as if he somehow learn from Ermac despite the two never met in the reboot series.

Sub-Zero (Kuai-Liang) who was a cyborg at the end of MK9 somehow manage to find a way to revert back to his human form completely ignoring the part where he got his ass whoop and killed by a Shang Tsung Motaro fusion combo version of Sindel and should had been a revenant like the other jobber characters but nope because he's one of Boon's poster boys he gets to revert back to a human whereas Kung Lao and Liu Kang who weren't killed by Sindel somehow became revenants.

I had a feeling MK1 story will feature more of these out of place story elements, yes it's another reboot again but I betcha some of the old connection that make sense in the older timeline which should not had make sense in the newer one will pop up in MK1 somewhere.

I just hope they scrap the awful chapter system and just let us play as whoever is involved in the current situation. Chapters hurt both gameplay and story by not giving the player a proper tutorial on the full roster and never letting us play as villains which makes them feel weak in the story.

Need a seprate download for story and vs mode, the file is too huge

The only MK story I followed was Shaolin Monks (the best MK game in my opinion) and MK Deception (one of the worst MK games, in my opinion). I only buy 2D fighting games to play with mates or the Mrs.

@Serpenterror Mortal Kombat X apart from the opening chapters and some flashbacks os set 25 years after MK9 . Liu Kang is an undead revenant in it since MK9. So nothing wrong with Kenshi having a kid that's now an adult.
The second Sub zero becomes a cyborg in 9 then dies, becomes an undead revenant than is brought back to life in MKX as human same as Jax.
Liu kang being a revenant makes sense too as they actually say all Earth realms warriors souls that die in Shao Kahn invasion go to Netherrealm due to his deal with Quan Chi.
Kung Lao dies before that in outworld so it's unclear when deal was in place but it's a fighting game story's never going be air tight or the focus.
Always going be some retcons (like 9 changed the timeline entirely and 11 is full of time based shenigans and mk1 is another big reboot of the mk unniverse)and always going be endless that character is back from the dead etc been doing that since like MK3 ulimate at least

@Serpenterror
Well the last trailer has characters specifically talking about the previous timeline which unfortunately means this won’t be the clean start it needed, Boon and co have a backdoor now to bring back whatever they want, there will probably be some twist about a multiverse that allows this and even explains the kameo characters.

OutWorld, a different dimension (one of a vast many) seeks to conquer Earth.
A few fighters are chosen to stand against OutWorld.
Fighting ensues.
Earth wins.
The end!

Until the next game when OutWorld wants revenge!

There, story done!

@SalvorHardin the fact they keep talking about the past timeline as well as the fact that it would just generally be really stupid of them to say oh the next game is MK2 makes me think yeah at some point the while it’s a reboot thing will get thrown away and it’s just MK12. I mean when they did MK 2009 or whatever the next game wasn’t MK2 again was it? Nah MKX.

As long as it’s a decent story mode that when I beat it I go wow that was pretty good thanks Mortal Kombat I’ll be happy. I’m always advocating for longer story modes don’t get me wrong but Mortal Kombat ain’t Street Fighter VI there’s no open world exploring it’s mostly a movie you can play.

@Serpenterror
They did a Star Wars and explained it in expanded materials. It was explained in official comic that is canon. They also explained a lot of MK 11 story like that also.

It sucks when series do this, it makes the main story feel incomplete.

Honestly, I wish they'd go back to the Deception-Armageddon konquest story mode. It wasn't super great but it was playing in the MK universe instead of being a movie cut by fights. With today's technology, they could make it better than what they did before and be more immersive... but I do think I'm probably alone on my island in Outworld to have liked that.

Maybe I am one of the few players who buy MK only for the story mode, and I was very disappointed with the recent games because the story mode is very short. I remember MK 9 if I am not mistaken, I was shocked that we finished the game within maybe one day or actually few hours. MK now only focus on online and DLCs.