Mortal Kombat 1 - What REALLY Went Wrong! 

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Plain and simple: The game was released too early and then neglected in updates. The lack of new content in the last 7 months is unacceptable

Fun Fact: It's called MK1 because they took 10 steps back from MK11.

I low-key hate the kameo system, the lack of customization and the lack of single player modes really makes MK1 a very lackluster game.

I'm surprised they haven't made a no kameo mode yet, considering it's one of the main reasons people have left the game.

Not having a Krypt is crazy

Some reasons i've read. 1: Some people don't like the kameo mechanic 2: Way less customization 3: Having to grind each character to get unlocks (which feels like it gets nerfed if new patch) 4: As a result of #3, the loss of A.I. battles to level for you. 5: Way to many characters have gimmick mechanics that you have to use (Kenshi, Johnny, Shao, etc etc)

1. NOBODY WANTED JANET CAGE 2. Kross play still missing king of hill 3. No chat rooms 4. No practice mode while waiting load in like king of the hill. 5. Lack of soundtrack 6. Invasions garbage 7. Miss the krypt 8. Micro trans (not that bad) 9. No gold skins on cameo 10. No 2v2 11. You enjoy a character then get nerferd

I really dislike the cameo system. I wish all the carakters could stand on thier own legs without it

Does anyone else just miss the simple gameplay and days of MKX?

To say players are “complaining” while we paid 110$ for content and a game that wasn’t finished is mad disrespectful and mad wild.

Requiring everything to be online is a big reason for me. I have internet, sure but i live in an area where its not always great, or maybe im visiting family without it and i want to play some matches with my cousins or something, the fact that u lose access to 85% of the game if you arent online is a HUGE turnoff for any game imo.

"What went wrong?" My gut reaction: EVERYTHING lol

It sucks to see fighting games lose people’s interest because of terrible micro-transactions. All of the recent fighting game big 3 (SF6, MK1, TK8) have suffered from the same issues.

If invasions was open world like how the krypt in mk11 was, it would’ve been the most 🔥 thing in the game. Especially if you still had fight encounters. Even if it had to transition to the fights, the live action encounter would’ve been epic for this game.

If feel like they pulled a EA and took stuff out and reintroduce it later as new and improved

I miss playing Deception. It was so fun and wandering around on a quest in a fighting game while learning special fighting movies from characters like Scorpion. I miss that game.

Tbh I got bored with online, one guy can only stand people running away the whole game then t bagging until you start wanting to smash your head on your desk

The reason I got tired of it wasn't because of the gameplay, but instead Invasions mode was too grindy for me. It felt like I was putting hours into it just to get a couple costumes which wasn't the case with towers.

Kameo system being mandatory is definitely a big reason why im not a huge fan of this one. I still had fun while playing it and the system can be cool, but I definitely prefer just a straight 1v1.

MK11 Krypt was such an amazing feature. It was another game, went into the lore and history of MK.

The game would be better if : 1. If NRS put an option to not use the kameo system 2. No invasions mode 3. No more multiverse nonsense 4 . Tag Team mode 5. This is more of a personal one but maybe adding classic stages from the old games like the Subway stage and the Bank stage from MK3.

I'm still hoping we get a remastered version of MK9, the one that started all this.

I agree, they need to put more effort into the single player modes. They did a better job in the past 3 games

One of the main things I don't like about MK1 is the mastery system. I really wish you can still level the character mastery in a casual and local match, cuz playing invasions as the fastest way to level them gets old pretty fast, and I'm not really into playing ranked matches. In MK 11, you could still gain currency for the krypt by playing local and casual matches, but why not do that here?

I don't mind microtransactions in games like Fortnite or League of Legends as much because they are free to play games. MK1 is a fully priced, paid dlc game. I don't want to pay for alternate colors or skins when I already paid $100+ to play the game and the additional characters. If MK1 launched as a free to play game with microtransactions I don't think people would be fussing over it and I think the player count would be higher. Conversely, if the game just stuck to the price tag with no microtransactions there would be a similar player count to a free to play model.

People have to speak with their money. That's the only thing companies listen to. They see people buying everything and get greedy, then they start to raise prices until it don't sale anymore.

For me, because of the kameos, every character felt too much like the same. It's rare the character and not the kameo open you up.

Community pulling a "Friendship" move by showing respect and being civil, unexpected - but glad to hear about it. 💯

The single player content and the kameos is what killed it for me

Love your content keep up the great work

the biggest problem with mortal kombat is that every few years they make a new game that costs a fuckton instead of making one game and keeping all the fun characters in it and just updating it. Second problem is that the games are giga expensive + u have to buy dlcs just to play new characters + cosmetics are expensive too. Its just a big cashgrab

Where the fuk are these Cyborgs as mains???

This vid is sick and yea underdawg we will be nice to amazing youtubers

I dont even play mortal Kombat any more, haven't played since MKX but I love watching your videos.

My problem with MK1 is that combos and linking special moves feel so weird. I can do trials for every character in SF6 but come into MK1, linking specials in combos feel such an issue, especially online.

Kameo system was trash to me so I dumped it after 2 weeks

Amazing video man your talented when you do your videos your awesome bro

Love your vids really make me feel i can do yt !!

You covered alot it's my 1st time commenting on your video but I look at every one of them in I got to say my good brother keep up the great work because mk1 is a crazy game lol let's just hope for the best in 11days or something like that let's see what the update be like much love in respect my good brother 🫡🫡🫡🫡💯💯💯💯💯🤝🤝🤝🤝💛💛💛✌️✌️✌️✌️

I'm still enjoying the game, but I don't really do the online competition. I think they need to release more characters and hype them up. The time between release of the Kombat Pack characters feels a bit ridiculous. It's 6 months on and they still haven't finished releasing the full first pack.

Invasions would be mire fun if we had more gear pieces

Honestly for me I miss having the towers where you can unlock costumes, brutility etc. and doing invasion just to unlock 1 costume and you have to keep grinding just takes up too much time. That is my reason because i stopped playing it a while ago.

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Why couldn’t we get the umk3 Sub Zero skin like Reptile Smoke and Scorpion 😭😭😭

What really went wrong was the addition of kameo mode. No one asked for it. No one wanted it, and it breaks all immersion when the best kameo for your character is an enemy of your character. Not to mention every characters move set has to be nerfed so the kameos dont break every character. If I hadnt already opted out of MK12 after I saw how much bullshit there was to unlock with grinding in MK11, I knew Id never even bother playing MK12 after I heard about this garbage kameo system.

I just got here and at the very end of the video i out loud said you're comments are nice cause you have a chill vibe

I'm so glad someone made this video. Missing so much in this game

I hate the time travel concept man just keep it simple like hanzo being scorp and kuai being sub and the revenants be restored and keep raiden as the protector no more time travel it’s not meant for fighting games😠😤😡

This video should've been longer;

My main problem is how bad the single player is and how much they changed the characters. Scorpion not being hanzo still makes me mad, Raiden and lui kang being swapped is kinda cool as concept but wasn’t great in the story. Having to pay 5 dollars per skin is crazy and the announcer voices are so expensive. The reboot of the story every few games needs to stop. Getting attached to characters is hard when the story will be rebooted in two games.

Let me get this straight. In September 2023, MK1 went from over 1.6 million players to April 2024 now having 7.1 thousand? It’s only been 7 months.

The only bad thing about this game is the lack of Customization because the reason I keep playing MK11 and Injustice 2 is because the reward I get from winning any fight I would get something for that character to make him look totally different appearance but in this game they just give you color changes but with same outfit and the only thing changeable is something that you barely see when you are Fighting. That's my only complain in this game and Give dlc characters more outfits!!!

As far as the shareholders are concerned, _nothing went wrong._ They sold 3M+ copies. FGC people need to stop deluding themselves into thinking that a game's ongoing popularity is at all relevant to its "success"; all they care about are selling copies of the game. They don't give a crap if people never play it; if anything, that's convenient. Tekken 7 had a long life as a popular fighting game, yet I guarantee you it still made the bulk of its revenue within a month or two of release... from game sales. If we get to the point where fighting games are free and supported by microtransactions, this could change, but as long as they're charging $60-$110 for each copy of the game, that's _always_ going to dwarf any recurring revenue streams.

Very well done. I'm going to add to parts of this: - It'd be fine enough if this game wanted to flip the unlock priorities from single player to online and multiplayer. However, they didn't really do that, either. I admit I bailed off of 1 for a lot of reasons within a month, but from what I recall, the Online modes were the exact same as 11, if not with far fewer modes, to boot. So you didn't do anything fresh to make me excited to go online. - I should note that on XSX, I experienced some of the choppiest gameplay for ANY GENRE OF GAME since I got this console 4 years ago. We're talking literally 3-4 FPS, crashes to dashboard, and my connection is perfectly fine for other games. This also came with the audio completely cutting out during matches and it wouldn't come back until the match ended, so the admittedly wonderful audio was...GONE. For long stretches. - So if I'm having these online issues, I'm going to play solo, but you're not getting anything for basic stuff. Sometimes I like practicing timing, new stuff, fussing about in 1v1 CPU fights. I can boot up MK11 right now, pick up a character I never touched, do a single fight, and make progress to unlocking SOMETHING. Which reminds me... - MK11 rewarded you HOWEVER you wanted to engage with it. You want to fuck around for 10 minutes and bail? Cool. You want to do king of the hill for half an hour? Cool. You want to play Kombat League for 7 hours? Cool. MK1 feels like they wanted to take away from you. - You mentioned the Towers stuff from 11. You know what was a common gimmick in those towers? KAMEOS! Which were fun enough for a novelty on occasion, but weren't the main draw. So if you played a lot of MK11, this pivot into making the whole game revolve around kameos isn't new or fresh. It felt like NRS didn't have any ideas as to how to evolve. Compound that with the general sense that individual characters, despite having more special moves and tools than ever before, feel like they've been inherently weakened to force your hand with Kameos (this is something I've heard A LOT with Scorpion, arguably your most popular character...not great, Bob!) and at least I got a sense that I was always playing with a "lesser than" character. - Related to that, I found it very telling that MaximillianDood, who said for months that he never fully jived with anyone, seemed to immediately love Peacemaker primarily because he felt like the most fleshed-out character who least-needed Kameos to thrive. If the best characters in the game seem to eschew your primary mechanic, you done fucked up. - Finally: I know MK11 got a lot of flack for being too defensive, but that game understood damage scaling. Rounds could move really quickly. MK1? After you've sat through the same 14-hit kameo combo with no real way to get out of it unless you saved all your meter, is a fucking SLOG to play and to watch on stream. Rounds FEEL like they take eons. The game doesn't have "OOMPH" to it.

I hated how Ermac and Quan Chi are not in the base game while being an important part of the story and even vsing them. Having Shang Tsung behind a pay wall when you literally play as him in the story. A less predatory approach would of been Reiko as the pre order bonus but you can unlock him by finishing the story. Greedy company

With Fortnite, I can somewhat give them the benefit of the doubt with their microtransactions because it is 'Free To Play' and require no money to purchase. But with games that cost 70$ like MK1 and (not to be an MK shill) Tekken 8, microtransactions is the worst method of monitization to be added in there.

Invasions and kameos killed it for me. I did the first 2 seasons but it was just way too much of a grind. Especially when it first came out giving enemies all that armor. And as for cameos. Yea it's fun ish but I really prefer the 1v1. Also the story wasn't as good as expected.

aren't you the guy who was saying Mortal Kombat 1, a fighting game that shipped with no online lobbies that had to be patched in, was better than Tekken 8 at launch?

Customization and level progression is a big selling point for me. It’s why I loved playing Injustice 2 and MK11 ‘cause the customization in those games is legendary. But MK1 blew it for me. To put into perspective, at launch every MK11 character had about 4 - 6 unique skins with about 5 - 10 different color variations. Plus 3 gear slots that each include around 30 gear pieces. In total, every character has up to 60 skins with 90 gear piece options, and there was a variety of ways to collect these items. The Towers of Time had a simple, quick, and fun progression that always rewarded you various currency, konsumables, enchantments, concept art, gear pieces, and skins. The Krypt offered the same rewards but in a semi-open environment that made you feel like an explorer. In MK1 however, every character had about 2 - 4 unique skins with 9 color variations, and only 1 gear slot with a much smaller amount than MK11. Plus, most skins need to be bought using Dragon Krystals, which you can only obtain a finite amount of for free, which I think is the biggest turn-off for most players. Nobody minds the monetization in Fortnite ‘cause it’s Free to Play and needs to make money somehow. But because MK1 is $70+, having to also play for skins and fatalities just sucks and shows the greed seeping from the game, likely a WB decision because in spite of the mistakes NRS has made, I can’t imagine them being *THAT* greedy and were instead forced to by the executives. Sure there’s Invasions mode and the rotating challenges, but they truly feel like you’re just grinding for the sake of grinding. Can’t wait to play 2 hours to get enough coins to unlock a color-swap of the default outfit! I was excited for Invasions on paper, but in practice it’s a slog to get through. Would much prefer a “Towers of Reality” type deal to get your fix. One other thing MK11 did better was actually showing you what skins and gear there were in the game, while also telling you how to unlock it. In MK1 you kinda just have to estimate how many skins and gear a character had, while MK11 just shows you in the select screen. I really wanted to love MK1, and I enjoyed the campaign for the most part (up until the whole “infinite timelines” thing. they should have kept it to just 2 timelines, Liu’s and Shang’s). But man I cannot get myself to play the game like I could with IJ2 and MK11.

A specific certain ESG game company name that you can't bring up that's what happened.

That ad read was so damn long.

Kameo is RIDICULOUS. I hate random secondary character coming in randomly. It was pretty lame

Great video as usual, I agree MK1 abandoned assets that MK11 really invested in such as towers of time.MK1 just really never got its hooks in me as MK11 did. The story was great would love to see more

Kameo is what turned me away

TBH I think the problem is there isn’t more multiplayer content

What makes the Cameo system even worse, is that it feels like a half-baked version of tag team mode from mk9. Originally, you were going to be able to play as your cameo character in tandem with your choice from the base roster, but they never finished that function and as a result it just feels like a half-baked version of Marvel vs Capcom.

UnderDawg how do you make your thumbnails? Does someone else make it? Do you find it off google? I wanna know the artwork looks so cool

Bro glazed so hard just to come back around when everyone harped on his ass

Sub Zero got nerfed

The Kameo system killed it for me. In MK11 you could have them if you wanted, but making them mandatory and making the whole system way more complicated than it has to be (you not only need to know the character but gameplay can radically change based on who you take with you) and replacing the "kustomisation" system which was way more engaging was just asinine.

Instead of building and keeping what we enjoyed in the past, NRS went underneath the fans and show a strong lack of confidence in this game.

For me, generally not a fan of what they've done to the characters/lore (I know other's will call it a "fresh" take, but, to me, it just feels like fan-fiction in official form), would have preferred a full-blown MK9 tag system rather than what we're getting with the Kameo fighters, absolutely despise the scummy monetization tactics, and... unpopular opinion here... I really, genuinely don't like the cartoony violence and overall art direction in this. Just something about the blood and gore here that feels so off... probably with how bulgy/bubbly it all appears. I wasn't the biggest fan of how all that looked in MK11 and especially the dismemberment effects in MKX, but now I'd gladly go back to those instead.

Two v two was a huge mistake

So much of this game feels like it was gonna be injustice 3 you can still see small snippets left behind in things like the intros looking like the clash animations from injustice 2 and how all three guests were super hero themed all the way to how you unlocked cosmetics being the same as the mother box system

"The shrine" is the worst Krypt system we have ever seen in an MK game. Spending 1000 coing to sit there and watch a delayed animation is so utterly boring. Invasions would have been a lot more fun if there were more gear slots and variant costumes to unlock, giving more incentive to find and unlock chests. Color swaps arent rewarding. They also should have created more maps that cycled each season so you aren't playing the same ones over and over. This game is not for the single player experience. Gave up on it real fast.

Everyone doing the same optimal strings it feels boring

I'll never forget, the Day I got MK11 I picked Raiden. I did my first match offline and when when I won he came Flying at the Screen with all this Lightning and stuff and it blew me away. It looked so Cool. I didn't have that experience with MK1. Nothing Wowed Me. The Graphics didn't seem that much better and it didn't take long to realize it was severely lacking in so many ways. The incredibly Basic UI. No pinning moves to the screen was a big one for me. The Towers aren't animated. They were just static looking Towers and when you beat one all you get is your score. It doesn't start at Zero and Zoom up to your score. It's just very anti-climatic. It's doesn't have the Cool in your Face intro and outro animations of your Character to unlock. With the Kameos added it just shows your Team at the end from far away. It's not very impactful. I don't play online so the whole game just feels very bare bones. I loved making each Character look just how I wanted them to with all the customization options in MK11. This Game didn't hardly try to implement Customization. I don't care for all the Color swaps. Having a Blue Scorpion just doesn't sit right with me.

We don’t need 5 versions of every character in every franchise, and all the most beloved MK games never had dlc stuff because characters who had nothing to do MK or even fighting weren’t needed either

I am 35 years old, I am from Palestine, I played almost every Mortal Kombat game ever released... I rarely watch any content about MK except your channel... Love you dawg

What bothered me in MK1 was how a lot of the characters look in terms of their costumes, and the dlc prices are way too high and under deliver. The fact that the classic costumes for Lee may and Nitara are 10 bucks each and they feel the need to censor them was a really downer for me

The towers / krypt combo was amazing you could see your rewards for get for beating 8 ppl. Invasion is 500 single round matches over and over The true definition of grind

Bro!!! U made that game add sound freakin spectacular!! And i dont really play games like that . haha

Man I haven’t had one of your videos in my feed since Soulcalibur 6

Invasion Mode is what turned me off. Especially the survive tiles. Hard for this game to remain attractive (to me) when there are gems like Tekken 8, Under Night In-Birth 2 and SF6.

Yeah, after they took the crypt out, I knew mk1 was gonna die

This was so well said man, shows your maturity and understanding, plus you ended on a positive note🤴🏼King Vibes

Thank you for being objective True Dog. People can be critical of things they love, care goes hand in hand.

Truth be told I feel like the best thing for them would just be to add a conquest style game mode

It all started going downhill at mk11

Mk11 single player content was amazing, I was looking forward to that more then anything when mk1 was coming out. Invasions is so bad. I don’t how you go from the amazing content in mk11 to mk1. We all know multiplayer in Mk1 is lacking compared to all the other fighting games. I got bored after the first month and never looked back. It’s a shame cause I pre ordered $120 version

I miss creativity in MK games. It has been droping more and more since MKX

I pre-ordered this unfinished game. First and last time Netherrealm will fool me.

The story is by far the worst thing about mk1; it's so bad that NRS should fire whoever wrote that piece of sh*t

11:22 this type of reaction and relationship with your audience is very admirable

Not having a mini "shaolin monks" style conquest mode including all kinds of characters was criminally STUPID.

The vision was for this game to be really good once all the content was released. They didnt forsee how incredibly bad the game would be until then.

I kind of think content creators pushing the game is dead narrative is one of the biggest contributing factors

To me, there was no need to reboot the series this soon and close to MK11. They should have gave it a while. Release a few more characters and stories for MK11 and then reboot the series about 10 years later.

The second I saw that trailer I knew it was not going to go well, and Netherrealm was out of touch. - MCU like presentation - overproduced nostalgia bait completely missing the heart of the original - Batista I got a bad feeling from it, and I said that. Was called a hater. Turns out I was right.