Yeah. I've recently picked up on watching LOSTyGirl so I'm getting my story mode fix from her. But I'm certain he's done or currently playing and a vid drops in a few days because I love Matt's commentary.
What I appreciate about Matt's list is that it actually looks like a proper bell curve. Most fall in the middle with only a few in the excellent and terrible slots.
Decent List. MK9/2011 is Khampion for me. Out of all the games, its the only one that delivers on Story mode, Roster, Mechanics and Kontent. And its the only one that allows you to play Tag Ladder. Had too many hours of Couch Co-Op fun with it. Its also has the greatest Test Your Might Minigames we likely will ever get.
MKII was the first game I actually wanted so badly that I did extra chores to ensure I could buy it day one. And yes, my brothers and I would stay up until 2am playing this
When you got to MK X, I was shocked. Felt like I was the only one in this camp, but i think its one of the only games that I got 300+ hours in. It got me into MK as I was always a casual player.
MKT was not just our first MK, but our first fighting game and our first playstation game. We got a PS2 for christmas and got Agent Under Fire, Driver 1, and MKT. That character select screen is burned into my 6yo brain. I can remember never being able to beat CPUs but my brother and I would just jump at each other and mash buttons. Never saw a tower ending. Never saw a fatality (which is probably how I got away with playing it at all). It was just little me and Noob teleporting through childhood. It is unfortunate that it's also how child me learned CD's can easily become unreadable. I SOBBED over that one. To this day it's the only disk I've ever ruined.
Mk 9 to me felt classic but a little bit more enhanced with combat but in all honesty it was mix of the classic Mk with more elements added that made the combat and combos feel rewarding making it a solid mk game. X-Rays were cool, Characters had multiple fatalities, Stage fatalities: the god of war stage had 3 stage fatalities plus, forest of death, deadpool, street stage, subway, pit stage, nether realm and Babalities were back, Dan Forden wearing a shirt with the Toast on it when he says toasty in the corner and the pit stage had the witch, Santa Claus; the krypt had that stupid jump scare etc. (the silly stuff which might be cheesy but I love it anyway). Combos were ridiculous and looked flashy , then you had tag team combat (me and my cousin would play tag team arcade ladder and it was fun), test your might, test your sight, mk ladder, story mode, the mission tower especially the last one where you fight Goro, Kintaro, Mileena and Shao Khan on one health bar. Plus the presentation was great I mean just pressing the start button seeing an animation of Sub-Zero getting uppercutted by Scorpion in Shao Khans arena; you haven’t even started the game yet and it just sets the tone perfectly.
That start menu was crazy first time I saw it. Crowd cheering and the two characters in a stand off and the first time you see that upper cut your caught off guard. Real great way to set the tone.
Holy shit, I had that exact same experience with MK Trilogy being my first exposure to that word and mispronouncing it the same way. I remember these two kids at summer camp laughing at me a bunch because of it lol
I'd be down to see more tier list videos like this one in the future. Maybe with Spooky Season right around the corner, you could do a tier list for Resident Evil, Silent Hill, Friday the 13th, or any other horror-related franchise that takes your fancy!
MK3 and UMK3 both are the highest tier of MK for me. MK3 kame out right as I was introduced to Predator, so Smoke, Cyrax, and Sektor were instant favorites. Even tracked down the PS1 long box of MK3! Deadly Alliance, Deception, and 9 are all interchangeable for me in that second spot
I was not expecting an appearance from the YEAH! Movement in LA Knight watching a random mortal kombat tier list, you just earned yourself another viewer 😂
I used to pronounce MK Trilogy as Tri-logy (like Trine). And my PS1 disc was scratched so sometimes it wouldn't work, or the music wouldn't play, and it would freeze constantly. But I still played the hell out of it.
We didn't see a lot of movies in theatres growing up, most of the time we waited for home video. And the times we did go see movies we did so "as a family" my mom and sister got to pick. This is why instead of going to see Mortal Kombat my brother and I were dragged to go see "To Wong Fu, Thanks for Everything. Julie Numar" despite MK having the same start time and rating.
MK3 holds a special place in my heart. I remember being a kid on a long car ride to up north with my family to go on a camping track. I was reading how to combos and special moves from a gaming magazine on the ride up there. When we get up north, settled in, etc, we went to a putt putt course to play some mini golf. The putt putt place had a small arcade to the side and it had a brand new MK3 cabinet. I played the shit out of that arcade machine. The memories of pulling off combos for the first time in a MK game and beating some random dude with Kabal who tried playing against me are always going to be part of my favorite moments growing up. IMO, I think MK3 is a step up from MK2 with the combos but I understand why someone would like one over the other. Awesome video Matt! You did nothing wrong, you did everything correct! *wink*
MK9 is my favorite and it's purely because of it being such a nostalgia trip through the original trilogy just with better production value and the story mode. Behind that I can take either MK Trilogy PS1 or UMK3 After that... damn it's hard for me to actually rank favorites. I love most of this franchise and even the ones that are lower tier would still be games I could boot up and have an enjoyable time playing. This is my favorite fighting game franchise and overall just one of my favorite game franchises. I love that for something like an arcade fighter there is actually such an expansive and extensive lore behind it all
Literally all of my favourites besides Johnny Cage died in the story mode so I can't love MK9 (and the MK9 style female outfits only looked not laughable in the 2D era), all the new MK games are simultaneously amazing and disappointing, like some lore fuckups or gimmick seriously holding it back.
@@Spaced92 Yeah Sindel destroys the MK universe 😂 That's definitely the last one where the women were looking a little ridiculous, but I can't help but still pick that one just because of the roster basically. Also I liked that tag team mode
I still like the very first Mortal Kombat most. The older games had more of those disturbing screams and stuff. New games only have better graphics. Also the announcer sounded better in the first one. Fun fact: Raiden's cut Fatality from the first game is even better than theoriginal uncut Fatality lol
IMHO, MKT aged ridiculously good. MK3 was a big downgrade from 2, MKT is what 3 should’ve been. MK1 to MK2 was a massive jump. MKT was as big of a jump from as MK was to MK2
Its not really that good. It's super buggy. The game just freezes after beating it, and shang tsungs morphs causing the whole match to freeze is unacceptable. Also, the move reading AI is the worst of the era. It had some fun ideas, like playable bosses and bringing back old versions of characters, but the novelty wears off pretty fast tbh.
My closest friend back in elementary introduced me to Final Fantasy and Dragon Warrior on the NES. We would do sleepovers that were an excuse to rent all Friday13th movies, or Sleepaway Camp, Slumber Party Massacre, Nightmare on Elm - we'd grab a few 2player co-op games, some of those vague brawlers that flooded the snes or we'd try and rock Castlevania, Mega Man or Double Dragon in sequence... All while consuming the most unhealthy, likely-toxic snacks and drinks then allowed on the market (does ANYONE remember that Orbitz drink, O'Ryans chips or the popcorn that came with a slab of fudge you had to place inside a half-nuked bag of hot corn ?). Throw in some Vuarnet, Dr Zogs and British Knights and I'm hoping a lot of that is familiar to some people out there because we were all enjoying something awesome and did it all totally undisturbed, uninterrupted and were the last to enjoy lives that didn't turn reality into a subscription-based affair. Truly, the best of times.
MK2 was the first i ever played. My older brother had it for his snes, and i learned the ropes by getting my ass handed to me when we'd play. It's the first game i loved. The gore was crazy, but the aesthetics were clutch. The colors/stages were somehow both drab AND vibrant, the music and sound effects memorable, and it was truly satisfying finally beating shao kahn. From there i was hooked
13:44 I mean, promoting a competitor while in character is a pretty big bridge burning maneuver that it's not surprising they didn't want any sort of relation with him.
When you got to Trilogy and you mentioned that you used to pronounce it wrong, you had my full attention and was anticipating what you called it and I was thinking "please tell me that I wasn't the only that said it the same way..." and when you said it, I started laughing because I used to call it the EXACT SAME THING! I'm so glad I wasn't the only one and my best friend still cracks jokes every once in a while lol great memories
I LOVE tier lists, this was a treat! My first MK was Deadly Alliance and I've played all the ones after that one but I never really touched the first four. The digitised graphics always looked kinda whack to me 😅 I have a special relationship with the PS2 trilogy because it was my starting point, but I always felt these games looked v janky compared to the Tekkens or the Virtua Fighters that were out at the time, but I still liked them a lot. Deception's Konquest mode was a moment in history to be remembered, hope NRS maybe decides to revisit it again, especially after Street Fighter 6's triumph with World Tour. I like to pretend I don't know what MK vs. DC is, but I'd be lying if I didn't admit I had a little fun with it as well. The Rebooted trilogy was also a fun era. I never really bought the hype for the story mode completely, particularly why every single other fighting game decided to have its own NRS story mode, but it is what it is. MK2011 as a whole is great in terms of cast (they look excruciatingly ugly though) gameplay is possibly the best it's ever been and I love all the iconic stages! The story premise is also interesting and fun to watch, but my main issue with this type of story mode is that you play it once and then you have no inclination to go back and play it ever again. MKX is where I started to have issues with the NRS way of doing things. The game's visuals look extremely outdated to me, the character models look like PS2 models, the sweat on the models looks like blisters, the janky animations are in full effect here and the story, one of the main selling points of the game, is the weakest out of the three. It was also really popular at the time for story-focused games to release random side crap like movies, comics, anime and whatnot containing canon parts of the story and NRS unfortunately decided they should also do that which is bullshit. MK11 is where FINALLY, for the first time ever in the series, character models actually look great! The stages are also pretty good and even the music, for the first time, is kinda memorable. Unfortunately, the grindy bullshit way of unlocking kosmetics and shit and gameplay eventually drove me away from the series. However... MK1 seems to be doing a lot of things right so I might just eventually return. I will wait for the extra ultimate komplete edition to come out for sure, but the story looks to be mostly doing things right, the characters, although most of the designs are a downgrade from MK11, look great and the stages are the best they've ever looked. Gameplay looks better than 11 but I do think the Kameo system is a bit goofy and the Kameo Kharacters themselves look like PS3 NPCs. Ultimately, I have a weird relationship with the series as it has a ton of stuff I love but also a ton of stuff I hate, compared to other fighting game franchisees especially, so it's always hard for me to not be critical of stuff I might otherwise excuse 😂
When i was a kid i kept playing mythologies sub zero over and over trying to see how fast i could beat. I had never heard of speedrunning before but it was what i was doing.
12:08 I DID THE SAME THING, the Sam Raimi Spider Man Trilogy was the only trilogy i had, instead of "i want to to watch the Spider Mqn Trilogy" it was "i wanna watch the Spider Man Triology"
With Mortal Kombat Deadly Alliance they went the Pokemon route for the GBA, splitting the roster into two games: Deadly Alliance (GBA) and Tournament Edition (GBA), with TE getting the bigger half. I think, they still lacked Blaze and Mokap, but instead TE had Sareena, Noob and Sector.
Bro one day a bunch of friends and we’re hanging out at a girls house and she happened to have a kopy of mortal kombat Armageddon for her PlayStation 2. There was a room of us and none of us had really spent any time playing that game. We ended playing all day long with the rules that if a character was the victim of a fatality then they couldn’t be selected again and it was one of the best times I’ve ever had playing video games. 37:22
jets and guns gold 2 has a mortal kombat tetris mini game that is pretty great and you tap out fatalities and special moves while the blocks are falling
Solid tier list, but I'm surprised to hear you praise the variation system, especially over the Kameo system. I always saw the variation system as pretty obnoxious padding that left me feeling like I was playing an incomplete kharacter.
It’s so nice hearing some reverence for MK3, I also have similar levels of nostalgia for it, but a lot of people dunk on it for how much it switched up the roster
The fact that you specifically use the character select music from the SNES version of Mortal Kombat as intro music is a very particular cut only us old AF fans would recognize.
Loved the video Matt! Just a reminder for future their list videos from left to right within the teirs are theirs on their own as in who is the best in the champion Tier should help with placing
The only problem i have with 10 being up top is that 10 and 11 both feel like mobile games when they're popping up microtransactions and selling you fatalities. 2 takes it for me.
Holy fuck, that's probably a reason why I don't play X. Everytime I start the game I get earraped by an announcement begging me to buy MK12. I don't even have a PS5 and don't plan on getting one.
I've never been too much into fighting games in general (mostly because I suck at them) but I did play Ultimate MK3 and MK4 a lot with friends so they're the ones I think of when I hear Mortal Kombat. Those are the ones they had in the rental place and we played the hell out of them. Good times, even if my turn with the controller didn't last long.
I’d say this tier list is very close to what I would’ve put down.. except I am older, and have a lot of memories of MK(1) and MKTrilogy, I would’ve put those higher, everything else I’d say is pretty on point
Only thing is, you talked about the SNES version of UMK3 like it came out before Trilogy, when in fact it didn’t, it came out at the same time as Trilogy.. in fact same day even, I think. Original UMK3 is far different and I would say that the snes UMK3 is closer to Trilogy than the original UMK3, which completely makes no sense considering you put MKT so much lower… Also, MKT on N64 fucking sucked lol.. and PS1 version took way too long to load. I didn’t own either of those consoles and played MKT on Windows, and it was fucking great 😅
I remember being disappointed with Trilogy because I was hoping for a compilation of all 3 games (especially since the first two hadn't been ported to PS1 or N64), but instead it was just MK3 again with more characters. Still ended up playing a ton of it, mostly on N64 because the CPU was way, WAY easier in that version. PS1's CPU difficulty was ludicrously unfair.
What about combining all Mortal Kombat stuff from all games to create ideal Mortal Kombat game. Like roster from Armagedon, Kombat gameplay, Story etc.
They were going to do a Shaolin Monks 2-like game, staring Sub-Zero and Scorpion. I believe the time for it was MK Fire and Ice, or something like that. I loved MK Shaolin Monks. Wished they would have made a remake or the Fire and Ice one.
I can't help but have a soft spot for the 1st mk3. Yeah we lost Scorpion,but we got "Smoke" (the first unlockable character). The apocalyptic theme, very dark and gritty almost 90s horror theme. Combos, Aminality. Just a different spectrum I thought. Maskless SubZero (badass moveset and he turned into a polar bear). Kabal,cyber arm Jax, Striker (as lame as he looked, he had a badass move set as well), Sheeva(finally getting to play a 4 armed character) Kano came back and was more brutal. Mataro was alot more intimidating.
Now hear me out you guys, hear me out. Matt should do a Fatal Fury game tier list next. Ehh? Ehh? In all seriousness though, I would love to see him rank these games. I know that Mark of the Wolves is obviously the best one of them all but I wanted to see what all the other Fatal Fury games that came out before Mark of the Wolves are all about.
I'm glad I'm not the only one who has trouble ranking Deception these days. I adored it in that era. I loved the fighting style changes. Konquest mode is still a very fun mode that I wish they'd bring back. I loved the extra modes. BUT the roster is arguably the most inconsistent ever and the way it plays is less intuitive than almost every 2D game
I loved MK as a kid, around the time of Mortal Monday, but Deception was probably my height of MK obsession. I was on IGN boards arguing with people about "super unlockables" every day for months after release.
I completely understand not liking the grind of MK11 but me personally it's fits like a glove for me, since fighting games are one of my favorite genres and since i needed a game to grind and most rpgs and destiny 2 just weren't for me so i loved mk11's grind but I do completely understand it and im actually glad you didn't slam the game like alot of people do.
Fuck no, I wanna buy the stuff I want for my favorite character though ingame currency not played 500 games for a chance to get something for my favorite character.
I believe the uploader deleted or privated the playlist but there was a particular MKM:SZ playthrough that was hilarious to watch because not only did the guy really know his stuff and practically glided through the story but also because he did funny stuff like make Sub dance while climbing when the enemies were near or dance when he defeated a boss. Shit like that cracked me up. I'm sad that I'll probably never see that playthrough again. And I still own a copy of UMKDS since high school. Recently popped it in for a short while. I was upset to hear that MK2 was scrapped for Puzzle Kombat and I'm also a little upset that the UMK3 port didn't include Rain and Noob. Lastly, hands down agree with the tone of MKX. The intro dialogues between some of the characters felt so hostile, even if they were good guys talking to other good guys.
I pine for the day we get 3D, PS2 era MK games in a collection. If MK11 had a Konquest campaign it would have been fantastic. The Krypt mini map was a tease on how that could have been. Gimme muh 6, 7, & 8 Nether Realm. 9 I'm fine with being abandonware. S'fine.
You have to do a Street Fighter games tier list. I'm very curious where you think games like SFV, and Street Fighter: The Movie stand. Because I already know what the top of the heap will be (it's 3rd Strike, right?)
Surprisingly, I strongly agree with the more extreme ends of your list. X is exactly where I would put it, and it would be alone for me too, probably. Putting the original so low on the list is ballsy, but absolutely accurate to me too. It was revolutionary, sure. But it's not exactly fun and was immediately killed when MK2 dropped. Great stuff, Matt!
Missed out ultimate mortal kombat 3 from the Saturn,apart from the xbox 360 and ps3 arcade collection of the original games,at the time of its release it was the definitive version at the time