With the whole controversies about the latest game Mortal Kombat 12 (because that's what it should be called, not MK1 that's the original Arcade game and we will not honor stupidity)
Was it all good? No absolutely not. A lot of growing pains especially as video games evolved as a medium. They didn't have the money they did back then so a lot of the voice acting was just people down the halls doing voices and whether it sounded good or not varied.
But what really got me hooked was the lore.
I ate up MK Lore back in the day.
I loved it. It all sounded so fascinating. Especially on Mortal Kombat Online which thrived during the PS2 era.
It was all a straightforward timeline that flowed from one game to the next. So it was easy to follow, debating whose ending was canon or not. As I played MK12's story, I was a bit thrown off by how Outworld looked. I asked "Why does it look like Wakanda"? I'm guessing Boon or whoever sees whatever the latest Marvel movie and just decides "Let's do THAT with our next game." and he clearly wants to branch out but WB won't let him. Then it went full multiverse and I checked out.
Things like Multiverse stuff... really doesn't belong in Mortal Kombat in my honest opinion. And Outworld is supposed to be a dying wasteland, it is not Wakanda.
And guest characters galore... which I know is because they make the most money so we get more than we need.
I didn't understand why MK11 just deviated from whatever MKX set up with Dark Raiden (writer change I know) and apparently that's because Ed Boon is all "That's not my Raiden" with Dark Raiden which is why he's Thano snapped at the beginning of MK11 lol.
But what is this? Scorpion in the original Midway timeline had a simple origin: Hanzo Hasasahi was murderered along with his clan and family, brought back to life, he now seeks vengeance. That's Scorpion to me. The Scorpion in the New Era is just Sub-Zero wearing Scorpion's clothes. It just has a real fan fiction feel to it.
Somebody pointed out in an MK Discord that the average MK fan today weren't even alive when MK3 came out in 1995 so they don't know the original 7 games. Largely because WB likes to pretend they don't exist.
That's why I can't get too attached to whatever MK1's doing. The MK I grew with is gone and is never coming back. I've come to terms with that.
Was it all good? No absolutely not. A lot of growing pains especially as video games evolved as a medium. They didn't have the money they did back then so a lot of the voice acting was just people down the halls doing voices and whether it sounded good or not varied.
But what really got me hooked was the lore.
I ate up MK Lore back in the day.
I loved it. It all sounded so fascinating. Especially on Mortal Kombat Online which thrived during the PS2 era.
It was all a straightforward timeline that flowed from one game to the next. So it was easy to follow, debating whose ending was canon or not. As I played MK12's story, I was a bit thrown off by how Outworld looked. I asked "Why does it look like Wakanda"? I'm guessing Boon or whoever sees whatever the latest Marvel movie and just decides "Let's do THAT with our next game." and he clearly wants to branch out but WB won't let him. Then it went full multiverse and I checked out.
Things like Multiverse stuff... really doesn't belong in Mortal Kombat in my honest opinion. And Outworld is supposed to be a dying wasteland, it is not Wakanda.
And guest characters galore... which I know is because they make the most money so we get more than we need.
I didn't understand why MK11 just deviated from whatever MKX set up with Dark Raiden (writer change I know) and apparently that's because Ed Boon is all "That's not my Raiden" with Dark Raiden which is why he's Thano snapped at the beginning of MK11 lol.
But what is this? Scorpion in the original Midway timeline had a simple origin: Hanzo Hasasahi was murderered along with his clan and family, brought back to life, he now seeks vengeance. That's Scorpion to me. The Scorpion in the New Era is just Sub-Zero wearing Scorpion's clothes. It just has a real fan fiction feel to it.
Somebody pointed out in an MK Discord that the average MK fan today weren't even alive when MK3 came out in 1995 so they don't know the original 7 games. Largely because WB likes to pretend they don't exist.
That's why I can't get too attached to whatever MK1's doing. The MK I grew with is gone and is never coming back. I've come to terms with that.
