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I'll be happy if it's at least an ok movie, as even that would be way better than the average videogame adaptation.
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It won't get amazing reviews but these type of films just need what the sonic movie got and that should be the barrier to reach.
And someone asked what's more popular Street Fighter or Mortal Kombat recently...
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SF's always had more cultural cache and credibility, especially amongst the FGC, but I think MK's kind of always been a bit more popular.
Maybe I'm wrong, though.
Wouldn't be the first(or the last) time era is wrong about something.
Can't wait for Subz to beat up Scorpion.
Can't wait for Subz to beat up Scorpion.
All of that plus an animated show.
I want a 3rd person character action game in the MK universe so baaaaaaad
I recall WB stating that MK2011(MK9) alone managed to return all the money they spent to acquire the IP and more. WB struck oil acquiring the IP.
For real, a Scorpion game makes too much sense. Or even a Kitana/Jade game set in Edenia.
Yeah, people underestimated big time the MK Team talent:
Most of their game since the Ps1 era were made on a rush/low budget since Midway was always struggling. It's incredible how much the quality went up the moment they got proper funding.
Deadly Alliance and Deception along with Shaolin Monks definitely were not rushed or low budget. Armageddon is when things were a bit more rushed.
But those other three games were big deals and kept up with other stuff from their era. Deception might still be my favorite MK.
Makes you wonder about the box office numbers. Could have been huge in the US, unless it turns out to be really bad.
WB has some marketing folks 👀
WB has some marketing folks 👀
MK is more popular among the mainstream while SF is more geared toward hardcore gamers. Just look at tournament activity and how the SF playerbase is more dedicated toward playing the game. Tekken is very similar to SF in this regard as well since it's got a strong level of commitment and similar selling power. Complaints toward MK games are recurrent (bad / sloppy animations, bad / mediocre gameplay by FG standards, etc).
To make it simple: MK outsell SF and Tekken (MK X and XI sold ~20M combined LTD), but it's got the least active playerbase out of the 3 and it's a struggle when it come to maintaining a healthy competitive tournament scene relatively to it's impressive sale numbers.
You are right, I borked the era. It was post Ps2 when stuff went dowhill...
The original pitch for a sequel was 'Fire and Ice' and it would be Sub and Scorp buddying up.
Which is why a movie and trailer should do so well for mk. For many of the fans this is the same experience as a major new game release in the franchise. You watch the violence on youtube, go "oh cool" and then never touch the game.
It's worth notice that MK, like KI and any other western fighting game that comes to be, have no presence in asian countries, which is where fighting games were born per say. And also that games like SF and Tekken have been cultivating a competitve scene way before MK, granted that MK didn't have the same substance in terms of gameplay compared to those games.
But the bolded has been changing, MK11 has a very decent playerbase currently(even on PC), and numerous tournaments going on(mostly community driven though).
Would be astonished if something wasn't already in the works.
I imagine it probably would have been another Detective Pikachu case. It's one thing to get a lot of trailer views, it's another to convert them into butts into seats.
Yep, I thought for sure Pokemon was going to be big, maybe even 1billion big due to the popularity of the games. Boy that crow was not a tasty one.
honestly, something along the lines of a shaolin Monk's sequel set in the new timeline with God Liu, omg I NEED IT NOW.
I wouldn't say SF has more cultural cache as the MK theme song has massive mainstream culture cache (it's litterally the ubiquitous fight song). SF does have lot of cultural cache though no doubt about it.
This is an interesting point, Midway wasn't anywhere near close of a powerhouse as Capcom and Namco. It worked for the 2d era when games were less costly, but they felt the impact going 3d:
DA and Deception were good entries.
MK4, Armageddon and MKvsDC had considerable issues.
But imo it's undeniable that it was through WB games that the MK team got the funds they needed to make a fully realized MK game after the klassic era.
Mortal Kombat done right has the potential draw butt's. The original did and there's a lot of nostalgia for the first film
even when MK games were bad they still thrived while other fighting games wavered
MK has always been a powerhouse of an IP in the west
A movie coming to a streaming service. Yes peo
Track record on WB movies this year have been <_<
