Mortal Kombat 11 – Old Skool Vs. New Skool Trailer

OsakaDon · Mar 25, 2019

Wow, that was such a fun trailer. It felt like an action movie trailer. It doesn't fit the setting of Mortal Kombat but sure gives it a fun vibe. It also goes to highlight how crappy modern hiphop is.
The first part of the trailer I had my toe tapping and head bobbing, then the modern music kicks in and it just sounds like fucking noise.
Either way, I'm always curious to see what they do with Mortal Kombat, I'm hoping this game turns out good.

Blaackstarr · Mar 25, 2019

Vincent Grayson said:
This might be a dumb question, but will this have the awesome equipment/visual change stuff that Injustice 2 had? That was a huge part of what got me interested.

Yes its back.

MZZ · Mar 25, 2019

There is a distinct lack of ninjas in the trailer.

It's really good though. Johnny cage as a character has really come together.

The Vathlonian · Mar 25, 2019

OsakaDon said:
Wow, that was such a fun trailer. It felt like an action movie trailer. It doesn't fit the setting of Mortal Kombat but sure gives it a fun vibe. It also goes to highlight how crappy modern hiphop is.
The first part of the trailer I had my toe tapping and head bobbing, then the modern music kicks in and it just sounds like fucking noise.
Either way, I'm always curious to see what they do with Mortal Kombat, I'm hoping this game turns out good.

It was the opposite for me. I like the first track better if I'm just sitting back listening. But the trap beats fit the combat much better than chiggidy check yourself

Lifejumper · Mar 25, 2019

Deleted member 5593 · Mar 25, 2019

Kinthey said:
It was kind of funny when they had the MK reveal with all the toned down designs and then Alicia Marie joined the stream with her Shao Khan cosplay going the opposite direction

You do realize there's a universe of difference between a consenting adult dressing to her own volition versus a bunch of dudes ordering artists to dress women as sex objects at a fight to the death for "boner culture".

spman2099 · Mar 25, 2019

Excellent trailer! I am so close to buying this. They are really selling this game well.

Hailinel · Mar 25, 2019

AAK said:
You do realize there's a universe of difference between a consenting adult dressing to her own volition versus a bunch of dudes ordering artists to dress women as sex objects at a fight to the death for "boner culture".

You make it sound like game designers hold their artists at gunpoint.

Kinthey · Mar 25, 2019

AAK said:
You do realize there's a universe of difference between a consenting adult dressing to her own volition versus a bunch of dudes ordering artists to dress women as sex objects at a fight to the death for "boner culture".

So if she'd be the one ordering the artists to model a character after her cosplay you'd be cool? I'm also not sure if it makes much sense to bring up consent when it comes to videogame characters. These characters didn't consent to a battle to the death either

ILikeFeet · Mar 25, 2019

Hailinel said:
You make it sound like game designers hold their artists at gunpoint.

well, I mean, the designers are the ones making a lot of the rules here...

-COOLIO- · Mar 25, 2019

great trailer. they got a good team in their video editing dept

Hailinel · Mar 25, 2019

ILikeFeet said:
well, I mean, the designers are the ones making a lot of the rules here...

Sure, but any game designer worth listening to isn't going to micromanage an artist as they work.

vypek · Mar 25, 2019

Maligna said:
MK is one of the most feature rich single player fighting games.

The story mode alone will be likely 3-4 hours worth of content.

Maybe I'll end up picking it up then

Deleted member 5593 · Mar 25, 2019

Kinthey said:
So if she'd be the one ordering the artists to model a character after her cosplay you'd be cool? I'm also not sure if it makes much sense to bring up consent when it comes to videogame characters. These characters didn't consent to a battle to the death either

Because the "fight to the death" is contextual and has no engendered baggage attached to it compared to being misogynistically dressed for the sole purpose of male gaze.

BimmyLee · Mar 25, 2019

Wow, absolutely amazing trailer. Never been a NRS game fan but this is increasingly looking too good to not check out.

NeonZ · Mar 25, 2019

Vincent Grayson said:
This might be a dumb question, but will this have the awesome equipment/visual change stuff that Injustice 2 had? That was a huge part of what got me interested.

Not quite. Each character only gets 3 items that can changed and sometimes they're stuff like belts or minor accessories. You can change colors of the base costume though and also change those objects in all available costumes, unlike in Injustice 2 where the full alternate costumes had no customization options.

Kinthey · Mar 25, 2019

AAK said:
Because the "fight to the death" is contextual and has no engendered baggage attached to it compared to being misogynistically dressed for the sole purpose of male gaze.

All the context is created by the developers, so that's not really an argument to me. Shao Khan fights topless because that's what his people in outworld do for example.

Manu · Mar 25, 2019

Are we really doing the "Kratos is half-naked all the time too" thing again

In 2019

Deleted member 5593 · Mar 25, 2019

Kinthey said:
All the context is created by the developers, so that's not really an argument to me. Shao Khan fights topless because that's what his people in outworld do for example.

Except the developers went to great lengths and detail for the context of why/when/where everyone is fighting (I.e. Context) Now please show where they applied that level of context to the female MK9 designs.

ElBoxy · Mar 25, 2019

verycutedog said:
What's the name of the two songs used in this trailer? They were great.

Check Yo Self - Ice Cube
Blue Suede - Vince Staples

Arttemis · Mar 25, 2019

Vincent Grayson said:
This might be a dumb question, but will this have the awesome equipment/visual change stuff that Injustice 2 had? That was a huge part of what got me interested.

NeonZ said:
Not quite. Each character only gets 3 items that can changed and sometimes they're stuff like belts or minor accessories. You can change colors of the base costume though and also change those objects in all available costumes, unlike in Injustice 2 where the full alternate costumes had no customization options.

It is back, though. There are 3 items per character that can be customized AND the entire outfit outside of those 3 things can be changed as well. There seem to be at least three styles of outfits with a handful of colors for each style; at least, that's what we had in the very limited stress test.

DWarriorSN · Mar 25, 2019

Jax looks so clean! Hopefully he plays different than MKX, i hated him in that game.

Maligna · Mar 25, 2019

vypek said:
Maybe I'll end up picking it up then

It gets better, apparently the story mode is closer to 8 hours.

Kinthey · Mar 25, 2019

AAK said:
Except the developers went to great lengths and detail for the context of why/when/where everyone is fighting (I.e. Context) Now please show where they applied that level of context to the female MK9 designs.

I'd say the same level of context applies to all the outfits. A topless Johnny Cage can be as easily explained as a female warrior that's dressed like Shao Khan. In MK it would for example make sense to have people from earth dress more practically while people from outworld dress, well, outlandish.
I'm not sure this really matters anyway, if these characters were just mindlessly murdering each other without context there'd still be no mention of consent.

The whole point of the cosplay pic was just that it's funny that they promoted a hardcore fan who'd take the costume design in the completely opposite direction

henhowc · Mar 26, 2019

Johnny cage is the goat

Blaackstarr · Mar 26, 2019

Vincent Grayson said:
This might be a dumb question, but will this have the awesome equipment/visual change stuff that Injustice 2 had? That was a huge part of what got me interested.

NeonZ said:
Not quite. Each character only gets 3 items that can changed and sometimes they're stuff like belts or minor accessories. You can change colors of the base costume though and also change those objects in all available costumes, unlike in Injustice 2 where the full alternate costumes had no customization options.

Actually it IS back and better imo. Each character has 3 different skins with different colors you can choose. The skins make them look different, instead of IJ2 where you had the same skin but just put the gear on top of them. You also can customize these 3 skins with 3 or 4 accessories, like Scorpions mask, sword and spear. You can also pick different intro's and outros for each character. And correct me if I'm wrong but you can change the in between round animation as well. Along with at least 2 fatalities for each character.

Yog-Sothoth · Mar 26, 2019

Seeing young Liu Kang and Kung Lao together gave me massive Shaolin Monks flashbacks <3

ArgyleReptile · Mar 26, 2019

Trailer was fantastic. Jax, Liu Kang, and Kung Lao look amazing. Don't know if anyone noticed, but Liu Kang has nunchucks.

King Alamat · Mar 26, 2019

I'm ashamed to admit this is the first time I've ever heard the original version of Check Yo Self.

PLASTICA-MAN · Mar 26, 2019

I knew that both timelines would clash since the first reveal.

nasirum · Mar 26, 2019

Way to go - I'm so excited to play this story mode.

The Mortal Kombat of my childhood versus the Mortal Kombat from the last decade?

Let's go.

Sento · Mar 26, 2019

Old Jax is definitely working with Kronika.

I KILL PXLS · Mar 26, 2019

I LOVE this trailer. I don't really play fighting games anymore but I'm going to watch the shit out of the story on youtube.

Sign My Guestbook! · Mar 26, 2019

Bobbetybob said:
No the problem was that the song sucked it didn't matter what nationality the rapper was. This fits the vibe of the trailer and the game much better.

It works because it has energy. Good rap is good.

Spinky · Mar 26, 2019

Eon said:
Btw, after Skarlet's reveal with that amazing short hairdo, all I've seen is a longer hair model that looks like trash. Are we getting both, or am I wearing a hat on Skarlet forever?

Apparently we're getting both "and more".

DanteMenethil · Mar 26, 2019

Really makes me think we're ready for a new MK movie. Even a MK cinematic universe. Make it happen WB.

poofynamanama2 · Mar 26, 2019

Yog-Sothoth said:
Seeing young Liu Kang and Kung Lao together gave me massive Shaolin Monks flashbacks <3

I really hope they skip Injustice 3 this time around and make another action adventure game

J-Skee · Mar 26, 2019

I really need to play MKX because I have no idea what's happening in this trailer. And probably watch MK9 cutscenes because I pretty much forgot what happened in that game.

Nihilus · Mar 26, 2019

Just perfect... Already preordered Premium Ed. on Steam. Hope they deliver on PC this time

Deleted member 5593 · Mar 26, 2019

Kinthey said:
I'd say the same level of context applies to all the outfits. A topless Johnny Cage can be as easily explained as a female warrior that's dressed like Shao Khan. In MK it would for example make sense to have people from earth dress more practically while people from outworld dress, well, outlandish.
I'm not sure this really matters anyway, if these characters were just mindlessly murdering each other without context there'd still be no mention of consent.

The whole point of the cosplay pic was just that it's funny that they promoted a hardcore fan who'd take the costume design in the completely opposite direction

Because that is a false equivalence. The fan isn't dressing like that to go fight. She's a fan and she can dress the way she pleases. And yes I know video-game characters don't consent to fighting either but the main difference is that having women fight doesn't carry any negative tropes against women while being dressed like sex objects are.

TheBaldwin · Mar 26, 2019

King Alamat said:
I'm ashamed to admit this is the first time I've ever heard the original version of Check Yo Self.

Its the superior version, never liked the alternative.

The beat is perfect for walking down the street like you fucking own it

Slaythe · Mar 26, 2019

spman2099 said:
Excellent trailer! I am so close to buying this. They are really selling this game well.

Hey Sp ! Go ahead. They're really putting everything they got into the game.

And the fact they let you custom characters a bit means you can make their look and feel however you prefer !

GasProblem · Mar 26, 2019

I'm thinking about preordering so I atleast can play the beta this weekend.

After watching some youtube videos and Maximillians impressions, I do worry about seeing the same combo's over and over again.

PhantomKnight · Mar 26, 2019

The game wasn't on my radar for some reason, but after this trailer, I am very interested in it. Can anyone tell me if I require to know the story of the previous 2 MK games or can I just jump in?

Vanta Aurelius · Mar 26, 2019

This trailer was fantastic!

Needed more 21 Savage though

DontHateTheBacon · Mar 26, 2019

This is one of the best trailers this generation.

Maligna · Mar 26, 2019

Helacious said:
Really makes me think we're ready for a new MK movie. Even a MK cinematic universe. Make it happen WB.

It's already in works actually.

PhantomKnight said:
The game wasn't on my radar for some reason, but after this trailer, I am very interested in it. Can anyone tell me if I require to know the story of the previous 2 MK games or can I just jump in?

You definitely need to see the story from 9 and 10 to understand this. Luckily you can watch them as movies on YouTube.

J_Viper · Mar 26, 2019

PhantomKnight said:
The game wasn't on my radar for some reason, but after this trailer, I am very interested in it. Can anyone tell me if I require to know the story of the previous 2 MK games or can I just jump in?

These and Injustice are the only fighting games with actual effort placed into the narrative, so I'd recommend breeezing past the first two

If you're on PC, they're both dirt cheap on CDkeys

nikasun :D · Mar 26, 2019

How big is the PC community for this?

TheBaldwin · Mar 26, 2019

I didn't even catch the fact that It's 90's Hip Hop Vs modern Hip Hop to symbolise 90's mortal Kombat Vs Modern Day Mortal Kombat

Damn good trailer.

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