Here's a Look at What's Happening in Mortal Kombat X's Story

Oh, Steve Blume.

Well this looks like its going to be utterly amazing and so very dumb (in a great way) just like mk9. Hooray!

I tore my rotator cuff uppercutting the air in excitement, wow lots of subtle character reveals as well, as someone who's been reading the cheesy dumb/fun comic. I know who all of these people are, this game looks S-Rank and I won't be surprised if some of the characters are Story only and not actually playable. Here's my number call me crazy but I love the idea of playing as Shinnok again, dude was pretty cool.

Not into how this game looks outside of fights but I'm into how dumb this story is shaping up to be. Looking forward to it.

Pre-order/DLC characters are the worst though.

<- Stolen from GAF - love a good ol' speculation - this looks TIGHT. Loved the MK9 story! Oh and Rain dropkick is GOAT.

I dunno what it is, but I'm just not feelin any of the revealed characters this time around. They're all just kinda meh to me. That said, story mode still looks like it's shaping up to be as good as it did in 9 and the actual fighting seems pretty solid from everything we've seen so I can see myself still picking this up at launch.

This could easily have just been the next Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles movie from the way it started.

But all joking aside, I really don't feel like the tone of those cutscenes and the Mortal Kombat Kombat parts mesh well at all. In fact, I found it quite jarring. *yip*

Yeeeees.

That Goro thing at the end ruins an otherwise good trailer

This actually looks like something I'd be interested in playing somewhat... The story in 9 was stupid enough to be great...
I still can't get over how ugly all the characters and general designs are...

If lady jax dosnt have metal arms and or legs by the end of that game they have fucked up

A 90s action tv series, but with gore.

Overall I think the game looks great, but something about those faces looks off.. especially when they speak. They look too plain/clean...

That is a master class in trailer making.

Graphics, especially the faces are like some MMO shit....gross.

Visually MKX looks dark and feels too serious, it just doesn't appeal to me the same way MK9 did. I'll still give a shot though.

That one dude looks like Ogre from Tekken.

That's all I got.

Looks fun as hell. I'm in to it.

@rmanthorp said:

<- Stolen from GAF - love a good ol' speculation - this looks TIGHT. Loved the MK9 story! Oh and Rain dropkick is GOAT.

in case its not clear for folks, "Hanzo Hasashi" (not Hattori Hanzo :P) is basically the human version of Scorpion, so thats basically an alt costume.

and then thats totally Johnny Cage in the bottom left, as according to a rumored leak in the prequel comics, Johnny cage is the new champion of Earthrealm, which is hilarious to me.

@mrfluke: Johnny Cage was always the REAL hero, at least in my heart. Also, these weird character reveals are making me want to check out the new comics, which I would normally not care about. Good on Netherrealm.

Taking that tweet at face value, the 5 are probably Kung Jin, Takeda, Jaqui Briggs, Mileena, and Erron Black. (Cowboy Ninja next to Ermac)

Still holding out hope that Liu Kang is somehow the final boss for this game.

I know you always sees these types of comments but I feel like the graphics for the faces looked a hell of a lot better in MK9 than MKX. The voice acting stands out as being really monotonous too.

Not digging those character redesigns at at all

@bannerthief: they have been a fun read so far, lots and lots of setup still happening. and also goes into the backstory of Kotal Khan (who's pretty badass and seems to be very important to MKX.),

and has some cameos from characters that may or may not be in the final game like Fujin, Reiko, and Frost. (and they name dropped, Mavado, and Daegon)

it starts to setup the powerstruggle for the outworld throne that MKX seems to be hugely about.

@drewbert You should probably edit out the stuff at the end asking people to subscribe to the Mortal Kombat youtube channel ;)

Capcom needs to step up their story game for SF5.

Oh, posse. Nevermind then.

Really? Do you remember Kitana in MK9? I'd say they've stepped it up in the face department.

Mask-less Sub Zero looks too much like Kano to me. Everything else looks pretty cool though.

@mrfluke: I'm fairly sure the fifth is Shinnok. As for the other characters we just see a glimpse of (Baraka, Rain, Sindel, said Cowboy Ninja), they may very well end up as playable characters in the game, or simply be background dressing/take part in a cutscene. Either way, many of them haven been given less than half a second of screen-time, I think that constitutes it not being a "full" reveal, but rather a tease.

Any kind of "Character reveal" in a fighting game in 2015 is just hilarious to me. New graphics don't fool me. Street Fighter 2 is all you need.

Holy shit, this looks so stupid. I love it.

Guess I feel the need to pop in and say how much I'm loving all the character designs so far, as this thread is kind of shockingly full of complaints. Especially the female characters. In MK9 they all had identical big boob Barbie bodies with hideous cheap stripper outfits. Here, they're still sexy bud bad ass and individual to boot.

And the "Graphics" in general look amazing to me. Different strokes, I guess?

Also, as pointless as it always is, I kind of enjoy having to go through an age gate for MK stuff. :)

Seems like they've finally gotten a handle on character design with MKX.

Seen a lot of complaints around the internet about all the new characters; old characters being excluded. Fighting game players sure are slaves to nostalgia. Guess I'm one of the exceptions.

I know, it's the internet. I shouldn't be reading comments most places anyway.

It's spelled Blum-Zero.

Didnt mean those guys will never make it into the game, lots of them could very well be just story only characters (i hope sindel is one of these), just more that Boon teased 5 characters, and Erron Black (Cowboy Ninja) in the comics, is one of Kotal Khan's main guys..

i dont disagree with you on Shinnok though, as i don't think you tease that character in the end of MK9, and then show his supposed fall in the trailer for the story mode.

but ultimately i agree we'ill see who's next when more character reveals happen,

I'm glad they're not shying away from a bunch of new characters. Yeah, most non-classic MK characters historically kind of suck, but this batch looks interesting. Erron Black (cowboy ninja! COWBOY NINJA!) and Ferra/Torr in particular.

They look too generic to me, though hopefully they have personalities that make them memorable. Like Cassie Cage, she's got all of Johnny's sass and even wears his stupid sunglasses in one stance.

@theinnkeeper: I agree 100%. Pretty much every MK character you would want is in MK9. And while my mains were Johnny Cage and Kung Lao, I'm excited to try De'vorah and bow and arrow guy. Give me some new people to play around with.

I can't help but just roll my eyes every time I hear Steven Blum's gravely-man voice. So overused.

If only other fighting games could learn from NetherRealm Studios how to make story modes...

That being said, this MK warrior junior brigade story does not look all that enticing either.

I just love how they did it in MK9 but nearly all characters and fighting animations in MK are so goddamn terrible.

This looks fun and dumb.I'm aching to test out that dismemberment system.

Is it just me? These cut-scene graphics look like early PS3. The actual fighting graphics look insane but wow.

@theinnkeeper: Is it really that weird that people have favorite characters and want those same characters to be included in the next game in the series?...

Obviously some people take their anger too far, but I feel like being disappointed that a character you've grown attached to won't be included the next time around is a completely understandable reaction.

@hassun : Amen to that. Other fighting games tend to focus exclusively on the competitive side of things which isn't all bad, but not only does a robust story mode add more value to the game, I feel like it helps bring in the more casual audience by giving them something to do other than just hopping online and getting bodied.

To be fair, half of the classic characters would seem pretty generic if they were new. Imagine if Liu Kang were a new character, for instance. Would anybody give a damn about a barely-avoiding-a-lawsuit Bruce Lee clone?

So are they just gonna ignore the fact that Sub-Zero was a cyborg in the last one?

Cool

Considering where they left Liu Kang at the end of MK9, i think they could go a very interesting route with the character,

but if your talking about a Liu Kang styled character, then i agree, that would be generic,