Mortal Kombat 1

Been an MK fan since 1992, played every one, and found something to love about each along the way. The size, scope and detail of a game like MK1 in 2023 is enormous. I felt the reboot was refreshing, beautiful, injecting tons of details and twists over a 30 year history.

No, the game wasn't perfect and really outside of just a "fighting game" there weren't a ton of other modes that we grew accustomed to over the years. Additionally, the lack of online modes and missing crossplay were kind of shocking upon release. But the core of the game, the roster, the simplified meters/mechanics from the previous game, made for a great feeling game. I feel the roster here currently is one of the best (next to MK9).

I have stuck with it over the last year+ and it has only gotten better, added some great characters/kameos, additional 3hr story, stages, animalities and crossplay. As it stands now, I still enjoy it. I am disappointed that we live in such an instantly negative generation where complaining becomes a runaway snowball to the point of this past weeks rumors surfacing that supposedly "the game is dead and Kombat Pack 3 is dead/cancelled". The game is not "trash" by any stretch, and I'm thankful to everyone who busted their talent to make this entry possible. Including Ed Boon who has remained steadfast to the quality of this franchise throughout 30+ years, and a bunch of legal transitions (Midway, WB, etc). The game is awesome. One if the best rosters in the franchise's history, and if KP3 does happen, it will cap it off nicely.

I am hopeful we get the already promised KP3, and this latest news is just a publicity stunt of sorts. I am here for it. Blow everyone away with some unexpected single player content, complete the roster, enhance online play with lobbies and better menu system, rerelease some old classic titles, emulated with online multiplayer, just some thoughts.

Thanks MK team.

What were you guys thinking when you made this?

1. Character balancing. The character balancing is just terrible cause kameos like sareena can hit 50% damage combos without even trying whilst others take more effort and only get 35% max?. Also this issue is also with the playable characters cause nitara, havik, reiko, are all annoying and broken characters when you know they're combos which can hit 60% DAMAGE COMBOS!, Whilst others can't even get past 45 even if they tried?

2. The dlcs. The dlcs and the game in general is incredibly overpriced cause in the kombat pack you get 6 new playable characters like cyrax, noob saibot, and sektor, seems cool but when you look at the design you will think otherwise cause there's no reason for them to change cyrax and sektor from robots to humans with armor suits, and also noob saibots design isn't as bad as cyrax and sektors but it still is quite bad cause they gave him a bad looking hat but a decent suit. And then in the kombat pack you also get a rushed part 2 to the story mode and that's it. How much does this rubish kombat pack cost you may ask, 30 BUCKS! AND THE BASE GAME COST 70 BUCKS? ARE YOU SERIOUS ED BOON FOR THIS YOU SHOULD GET SUED FOR THE PEOPLE WHO BOUGHT IT EXPECTING GOOD THINGS FROM IT.

Overall don't ever waste your money on this terrible mortal kombat game.

If your here wondering if you should pick up this game at your local store so you can see what the newest edition of mortal kombat looks like you might want to get 11, mk1 is single handedly the worst game and I mean absolutely devastating blow to the mortal kombat franchise, the whole game is based around transactions so you can play it, and dont get me started on the roster, it doesn't even have a tenth as many characters to play with then 11 had, the customization is terrible the only way to be good is spend countless hours or just button mash like an idiot, this whole game had so much hype and basically died out as soon as it actually came out. Seriously dont waste your money/time in this piece of garbage. Some people arnt gonna like what I said but its the truth.

I realized a long time ago that the developments of Mortal Kombat are real talkers. Mortal Kombat 1 just confirmed it. I can't be a fan of this series anymore. I'm tired of developers Mortal Kombat. This is not a Mortal Kombat, but a nightmare. The graphics are worse than in Mortal Kombat 11, the characters smile at each other for some reason, constantly crashes. It's not worth wasting your time on this at all. The ratings of the game are intentionally overestimated. She is not worthy of the award she received. It would be better if everything ended on Mortal Kombat 11. I do not know to what extent you need to sit in pink glasses to believe in MK1. That's it, Mortal Kombat is dead... I'm not even betting 0 out of 10.

This game has been out for almost 2 years, here are some of the hundreds of facts you should know to demonstrate that it is objectively the worst fighting game ever made.

Tl:dr : Nobody is playing, nobody is competing, nobody is watching, it's been so poorly received and has so few players future dlc has been taken off the table, pro competition might not even make it to a second season and the one and only single player mode with any content at all, invasions, nrs declared within 4 months of release they won't be adding any new seasons to it. It died faster than any fighting game ever released, WB gave NRS a blank cheque and the longest development period they've ever had, nrs squandered all of it, released an unfinished, untested pile of crap and have done literally nothing to salvage it post release.

Casual Scene:

• Almost every single day since launch has had fewer players than mk11
• All time peak player count is barely half of sf or tekken
• 1/20th the daily viewers of sf or tekken
• The game is so objectively dead that the one time it had more than 100 consecutive players online ed boon tweeted about it
• There is no content at all, it got no invasions seasons beyond those included in the launch build and the kombat packs were so poorly received that any potential future dlc were instantly taken off the table
• The gameplay is the most one dimensional it's ever been, each charcters has 1 string , 1 combo route and 1 combo, that's it, almost 2 years since release and there are zero combos that you didn't see on day 1
• Slower than mk11, people whine about 11 being "slow", mk1 has had more time outs in pro comp, r1ps arena and casual play in 1 year than mk11 had in 5
• Worse graphics than 11
• Worse fatalities and brutalities than 11
• More unbalanced roster than any fighting game ever
• Less customization than 11
• Worse story than 11
• Characters like quan and shang who have been unviable since their respective launch dates have got zero improvements, meanwhile characters so easy they basically play themselves, mileena, kitana, shao, kenshi, sub have all had buffs
• The game is so bad that in year 1 it went on sale with over 70% discounts and still it was unable to get any player base whatsoever
• The game is such an objectively bad product that steam have presumably taken a pay day to falsely advertise it, there are games from 2013 ( when steam first introduced the "community" tab) that have threads from 2013 that are still active, mk1 which released end of 2023 has people censoring the community tab locking then deleting any and all critique with the blatant lie of an excuse as " the thread was old before the latest post was made"
• The games only form of anti cheat is denuvo, a tool originally sold under the pretense of fighting piracy, something it categorically failed at, so it re-branded and claimed to stop cheating, which it also categorically fails at, meaning this game has no anti cheat. There are videos on youtube of people playing their match replays, proving beyond any doubt their opponents were cheating, but since denuvo can't detect cheating and nrs don't care, it is simply a common part of this game and that won't change

QOL:

• Had the biggest budget and longest development cycle of any mk ever yet launched in a clearly untested state with massive, unmissable bugs like black screens, descyncs, player 1 advantage to name a few
• Worst netcode in gaming
• PC was outsourced to the same company who made such a hash of 11 that nrs were forced to bring in a second company to salvage the project, but this time a second company was not brought in, pc gets the sloppy, dirt cheap port and nothing else
• No wi fi filter
• No ability to practice while it searches for matches
• Krypt has been replaced by a literal loading screen

-Towers of time have been replaced by a slower, more tedious mode that takes 10x more time to complete yet has almost nothing to unlock

• ^This is made even worse by nrs declaring in year 1 they would not be adding new "seasons" meaning zero new content
• Tekken 8 launched with internet issues, bandai namco released a day 1 patch that fixed 100% of them, almost 2 years down the line mk1 still has bugs that were present on launch

-^ In this same vein, every single patch, update and "hotfix" has introduced more bugs

• Every single dlc character released has launched with bugs proven yet again zero testing was done, infinite flight, broken hitboxes, broken scaling, broken combo gravity, one button infinites, super speed just to name a few

Competitive Scene:

• In year 1 was deemed so irrelevant it wasn't even included in FGC offline events
• VSF the UK's biggest offline venue, on the ground floor had thousands watching hundreds play tekken and sf, mk1 was not included, but 2 uk streamers volunteered to do everything, send invites, bring hardware, handle prizes, so a major stage in the "pro komp" scene had 40 people in an upstairs office sharing 1 console to compete for a scorpion funko pop
• Fewer than 300 registrations in US pro comp
• A community ran mario kart booth at a fighting game venue had more attendees than the mortal kombat prize pool competition.