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Someone posted a "the first 17 minutes of gameplay" full of early spoilers (with four or five story-based fights), and I was really entertained by the story. It's got its funny moments.

MK1 DLC skins getting wild

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Fantastic

https://youtu.be/BBH_KrEFetA

The MK1 KE statue feels/looks like it was 3d printed in someone's basement. Kinda disappointing.

Lame. Mine isn't arriving until Tuesday but we did get the CE.

I played through some of the tutorials because I get some of the in game currency for doing it. I didn’t finish it last night because I was tired. I hope to finish tonight so I can get into the story this weekend. What I played felt solid, but it wasn’t much at all.

Y'all.

Whatever you do, do not buy the Switch version.

I have it on PS5 but MK11 was surprisingly solid on Switch. What is so bad about this one?

The Switch port of MK1 apparently plays fine, but has insane load times, very low quality textures, characters have no facial expressions at all, and there's graphic glitching.

Did you ever play a PS2 port of a PS3 / Xbox 360 game? It's got about the same level of issues.

My point is, please do not spend $70 to buy the Switch port in the state it's in. It's absolutely horrendous and should have not shipped like that. There's lots of Youtube videos but it seems some are very spoilery so I don't want to mess up the story for whenever I get it.

The modern console and PC versions appear to be fine and lots of friends are enjoying those. Wish I could play it, but I doubt my potato could handle it.

Foxhack wrote:


A more fair comparison is probably comparing a PS Vita port of a AAA PS4 game, because Switch is more than just 1 console gen behind at this point.

Did they repeat the same thing with this that they did with MK11, as in not show the Switch version at all leading up to release and use what looked to be screenshots from the other consoles in the eShop listing?
I remember Mortal Kombat 11 on Switch was a big deal because back in 2019 it was the first time a major 3rd party release was launching on Switch the same day as the other consoles, instead of the Switch version coming months or years later, and it was the first M-rated game on a Nintendo console to make the best seller charts in many years. So it was disappointing in how little they showed of it before release, it made it seem like they had no confidence in it.

edit: watched this video, it doesn't sound as bad as I thought it would be. You should know it will be the inferior version before buying it though, but that's true with a lot of big budget multiplatform games on Switch.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bZeWLbeyaao

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That Li Mei picture is so u-g-l-y it ain’t got no alibi.

Seriously, though, of course it’s going to look way worse. It’s a 6 year old machine that was maybe on PS3/360 graphics when it was released 6 1/2 years ago. I watched the RGT85 video on it today and it looks worse, but it also seems to play mostly fine, and that’s what should matter more. But yeah… those pictures ain’t great for sure.

I honestly thought the articles about this was satire, lol. Wow.

https://twitter.com/PauloManrique/status/170346081...

Someone compared the load times of MK1 on the Switch to KOF 98 on the NeoGeo CD.

That said, downgraded graphics are to be expected, but all characters are recognizable. That still doesn't excuse the broken facial animations.

Finally started, loving it!

Kommie wrote:

I swear to make newer gen look better they make older gen games look the worst they could possible look. That looks almost like Nintendo 64 it's so bad.

Mine should arrive today! lol

justin_credible wrote:

It's portable! Is the only possible answer to justify this. But I can't imagine playing a fighting game on a small portable screen with two players is even fun at all

Those eyes, lol!

The first Kombat Pack with 6 characters and the Kameo characters is $40.

I'd call WB greedy but that's too nice.

Kommie wrote:

Well there's online, and also a Switch can be hooked up to a TV. MK 11 looked a lot better than MK 1 for Switch. It's like they just didn't try.

I'm not really saying Switch is the ideal choice though if you can play a fighting game on any other console, but this was pathetic and the fact they are charging $70 is a joke.

It's more than just graphics that are the problem, because Switch owners are already used to getting the shaft in that area anyway. This might have taken the krown from Mortal Kombat Advance, and there wouldn't be anyone else for Ed Boon to blame for it this time.

Mortal Kombat 1 Is Missing A Huge Chunk Of A Key Mode On Switch At Launch

[WARNING] Mortal Kombat 1 is nearly unplayable on Switch

Mortal Kombat 1’s Switch port is getting eviscerated by players. Beyond the graphics, the Switch version lags behind

This sucks. MK1 is great. The Switch version is liquid ass. Just a crapstain on a great game and an overpriced mess on aging hardware.

Sucks for the Switch for sure...

I just got my CE last night. The statue is a rubbery plastic but not super cheap like I worried about. The paint looks good, but feels lacking since it's not full color. There's the MK logo on front of the stand and it is just a cutout, feels like it should have been colored in or something. We probably won't have time to play it until the weekend if we're lucky.

Really enjoying MK1, but the massive jump to Chapter 15 is a let down. Feels like they could have done a lot more with the story there.

Also feels like some gaps and misses overall. Will gather thoughts later, think I'm about to finish now.

Overall very happy with it though.

That’s pretty much how I felt about it. It was uneven story telling. I was hunkered in and ready for a nice long cinematic story and it was going nice and slow and then the last couple chapters felt thrown together and 100MPH.

... People play fighting games for the story?

Kommie wrote:

Yes. Ever since Shujinko I have loved their story mode.

sinnie wrote:

On that note,

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=weNtqxijtIU

I don’t know about all fighting games since a lot of their stories are stupidly convoluted, but yeah the MK story is great and it was the first thing I completed after I did enough tutorials to get bored as crap.

Agreed, last several MK games, story has been quite good.

Yeah, as an SNK fan, I wish we had even a TENTH of the story the MKs have had since MK9.

Finished the campaign and I'm just questioning WTF happened. We transition from war and chaos to dinner with zero transition. Feels crazy rushed which is a shame given the world building they did with this one.

Hopefully they'll repair some of this in the dlc.

Haha, the trophy after getting through the credits "What Just Happened". Maybe I'm not so dumb... Gah I gotta Google, I feel like my game skipped and I missed several minutes or something!

Also, no Krypt mode? Boooo... Hopefully dlc.

Surprised since the Krypt has been a fixture for so long... but I admit some of them got so tedious. Not super mad about it. Has any new modes been added? Still looking at playing some for the first time this weekend.

Yeah there's this Invasion mode that I haven't yet checked out not sure what it's all about yet.

MrBean wrote:

... oh no.

I smell story expansion coming. >:(

Foxhack wrote:

A modern fighting game with paid DLC and paid characters? Surely they would never!

Remember they did their own Mario Kart version on one game? I thought that was decent. I also always loved the Chess Combat. Sad they never brought that one back.