This is where the Liu Kang vs Raiden trope comes from. Liu Kang tells Raiden at the end “Shang Tsung is not the enemy this time” and Raiden tells him Get out of the way Liu Kang and threatens to kill him. We then saw it in MK9 at the end, then again in Mk11. In the flashbacks through different universes it shows Liu Kang and Raiden fighting on floating rocks in space. Referencing the first falling out from MKvsDC.
It’s become synonymous with mortal kombat at this point. And for no reason whatsoever. Even though Scorpion v Sub, Liu v Shang, Sonya v Kano, Kitana v Mileena is very repetitive there’s a reason for those fights but Raiden v Liu just happens cause they’re both pissy babies and can’t coexist at the same time 💀
@@omarslayz I mean, it is canon. in the first film he disbelieves raiden and calls him a beggar. presumes he should fight in the tournament so he can take revenge.
I'm somewhat ashamed to say this, but this was the first Mortal Kombat game I owned. Mostly because I was more into superheroes as a little kid and my cousins owned Deception so when I was able to get my own copy, I was thrilled. Looking back, it's amazing how easily entertained I was. Still, I enjoyed playing the game, warts and all, and I'm glad I'm still a fan of both franchises to this day. Also, you need to serve a sentence in horny jail for that Baraka part.
Well that's exactly what the game's goal was, to get people who were already interested in MK or DC and get them interested in each franchise. I'd say the tactic worked, I was the same way. I was more into DC and seeing a fighting game with DC heroes made me get it, and then I saw a tiny taste of what MK and enjoyed it. Thus when MK9 came out I bought it. Nowadays people got out of their way and pay money to see the universes interact since Scorpion, Sub Zero, and Raiden were in Injustice while Joker was in MK11.
@@bloopblop5710 100% hit the nail on the head here. I think that’s where the game succeeded. I had heard of MK because my dad was a huge fan (he wanted to name me after Johnny Cage, fun fact), but I never had got to play it minus a few rounds on Deception or Armageddon with my older cousins. I had grew up with DC and once I played this game I was hooked on MK and remember was checking forums and other outlets for leaks and images about MK9. Good times. Really brought me back.
@@Musketforhome I didn't mind a couple of the neck snap type fatalities, reminds me of the less comedically violent MK 92 fatalities to an extent... Green Lantern crushing you was also surprisingly metal and could've been legit nasty with an M rating
It's crazy to me that this is the actual MK8. because DA, Deception, and Armageddon were 5, 6 and 7. And X is 10. All because MK didn't properly title MK9, it's just "Mortal Kombat". So the fans incorrectly call it MK9, and the MK creators forgot that it should actually be MK8 when they made MKX, because the non-cannon spin-offs don't count to the numbered entries. By that logic, Mythologies is MK4, and Shaolin Monks is MK7. Meaning MK11 should be titled MK13.
@@liammech6694they do reference MK vs DC in MK11s story mode too though, considering 1-The Shang Tsung v Raiden confrontation where Liu Kang interrupts them is almost a 1:1 recreation of the MKVDC confrontation 2-We do see an MKVDC Stage in the footage of Raiden beating Liu Kang on several timelines So unfortunately, among the many things MK11 did wrong, Making MKVDC cannon was one of them, lol
1. That actually was a scene from MK vs DCU. 2. That scene was basically implying that it’s part of a completely different timeline, which MK vs DCU is from a different timeline, not the official story. That's like putting all the X-Men vs Street Fighter games as part of the original Street Fighter story and numbering all the following games based on on the inclusion of those alternate universe games. Ed Boon said in interviews that Mk vs DCU isn't MK8.
especially the endings i wish they would release a comic based on the story and events of this game and expand on the endings and continuity of that timeline
It was a cash grab and potshot At marvel vs capcom, and Warner bros bought midway games after going bankrupt, ed boon acted quickly and bought the rights and opened a new studio callee nether realm stuidos thus retaining the intellectual property of the mortal kombat series . 4 characters that never made as dlc were kung lao , quan chi , harley quinn and some other dc comics character Edit * brainiac from dc comics . Edit again * possibly doomsday
Shao Kahn and Raiden are only brothers in this game and the sequel to the orignal movie, it is not canon in the original timeline nor the Mk9-Mk11 timeline
For improvements on the part without footage, I believe you can fix that by using old footage while talking (ie you say Joker fights Scorpion, so you use the footage from the fight in Scorpion's chapter). You could also do minor re-records of the character bios or endings (assuming these are accessible in a gallery instead of having to beat arcade), and possibly use outside footage from other people. Like you could look up a video of MK vs DC cutscenes and use that, and put a watermark of "Credit: [channel name]" in the corner. It makes editing harder I'm sure, but the end product will look much better.
I personally really enjoy how the game solved the issue of fighting game characters being of all equal power level for my gameplay perspective. Forcing everyone to be of the same power and having them have to deal with that it's a really interesting idea and I wish it was utilized in..... well, a better fighting game
Man this dude lol, the whole blank screen part had me dying 😂… this is why I subscribed to this dude his content on the MK universe is straight raw and just hilarious.
Bro is dealing w/ college and is doing this for fun, I dont blame him and I appreciate the blunt honesty from him and how he feels about re-recording. Editing is tedious as is and we're all a bit lazy
And they never gave Sub Zero his Teleport back... Ever... Maybe as Taunts in Mk11 and MK1.. but never gave it back to him to use in Kombat.. some BULLSHIT!
It's a shame that you forgot to record the last bit of the story but it happens to the best of it. Keep up the hard work. Did memberships get turned off?
Weirdly enough it’s a good thing this game was made. Apparently this was the game that got WB Games attention enough to buy the rights to MK after Midway went bankrupt. So if this game never existed, MK may have never been revived.
Haven't watched the full video yet, though I am trying to agree with the points that you gave in the first minute or so. I will say at this point I feel like the connections between Mortal Kombat and DC in the modern day are just so connected, they almost feel like sister franchises, and I really enjoyed seeing the characters crossover throughout the more modern games. Seeing Sub-Zero and Raiden in Injustice 2, and seeing the Joker in Mortal Kombat 11 was just awesome, as a fan of both series, and I'm really excited to see them cross over again. With the more mature DC content that exists today, what with the Batman who laughs add some of the other stuff, I feel like a proper remake of this game, or a sequel, would be really really cool!
Fun fact, Raiden and Shao Kahn aren't brothers at all. For some reason the writer of those bios pulled that plot point from Mortal Kombat Annihilation and inserted it into Raiden's bio.
Placing The Joker against Kotal in MK11, there's a chance you'll hear this. Joker: Shao Kahn, Kotal Kahn, Dark Kahn... Kotal: Dark Kahn? Joker: That's right. You missed it. Also, as a bonus, the "Kronika turning Raiden and Liu Kang against each other" was first shown to us in this game.
Hey Steele, its me, Maximus! I was wondering when your next stream will be? And here's an idea: Maybe go more into the mechanics of the games, the unique ones at least like for this one, the rage meter or the weird test your might-ish falls.
At the beginning, the way you talk about it having no relevance to the MK story makes it sound as if you were expecting it to. I don't know why you would though? these sorts of crossover fighters never have any sort of relevance to their respective franchises.
When the game came out, NO ONE called it "MK8" so why the f*ck are fans calling Mortal Kombat (2011) "MK9" and so on? Ed Boon said in numerous interviews that MK vs DCU isn't MK8. This game was basically a retelling of Mortal Kombat 3 but with DC characters. No one calls the X-Men vs Street Fighter games part of the main Street Fighter series, so why did so many fans call Mortal Kombat (2011) MK9? Initially even Ed Boon said that because MK(2011) was a reboot, it wasn't going to be part of the original numbered story. When MKX was announced, Ed Boon said the "X" didn’t mean 10, it was supposed to represent a "variable" like we aren't supposed to know what the number is. Then MK11 comes out, completely invalidating his previous statements. I personally think Ed Boon caved to fan pressure because so many of us were simple-minded and just thought every game with Mortal Kombat characters was an MK game continuing the story. This is probably why Ed Boon named the new game MK1. So fans can stop giving unofficial numbers to his games. Too bad he didn't put enough thought into the story.
That wouldn’t have happened in any mk universe. Not even my gta verse. And the gta verse has its guardians of the milky galaxy and it ain’t the marvel or mcu guardians of the galaxy. Star lord would be sued by the elder gods for copyright infringement. But Star lord wouldn’t care and uses it anyways. But anyways. Raiden would be some god guardian of his sector. And the red dead redemptions strange top hat man would be the guardian of the gta earth sector. Roaming across the sector for potential guardians of his sector. And looked at John Marston in 1911. And seemed to reject his offer. But Liu Kang would be an elder god of this era. The new era. The gta verse. Because it seemed that this universe was a rebooted universe that had older eras merged into one. Or so it seems. But Liu Kang allowed to create two versions of each mk character. Even he himself is an elder god. But another liu kang is friends with 2 kung Laos. Elder. And lesser. And a raiden who doesn’t have god abilities. Just a farmer from a village in the land of rice fields. And is the most beloved farmer. Even in the white lotus. Founded by liu kang, his philosophy expands to the avatar earth. And it’s a secret society there. Protecting the avatar. A human being with the spirit of Raava. A light spirit who is the bridge of physical and spiritual world. Shao Kahn would rule out world. But general shao is a militant dragon edenian general who wants to protect the edenian freehold from out world empire. Led by shao Kahn. And has some intolerance of outsiders. Liu Kang did remember his father. And owes his allegiance. And there’s three Shang tsungs. One in outworld. A former earth realmer. Who sold out his monk brothers for power. Another from the village. Selling snake oils to unwise customers. Surviving for coins and living another day. And the third happens to be from another timeline. Who witnessed a resetting of his universe and wants revenge on elder god liu kang.
As bad to meh as it is, if we didn’t want MK to possibly die off this is definitely something that needed to happen. Plus it helped to get more people into the series.
I thought the Raiden and Shao Kahn being brothers thing was only a brainfart by the movie Mortal Kombat Annihilation. Now we need for Shinnok to be their father and the fuckery will be complete :D
Much as I personally love that this game exists, because I just love crossovers even if they make zero sense, I can 100% see why most people just ignore this game. Weirdly though, according to an interview with NRS about Aftermath, they said there was a scene where Raiden and Liu Kang discuss if they can trust Shang Tsung, and I guess that was meant as a nod to MK vs DC, or at least thats what they said? Anyway, doing some googling, apparently this game is canon to both the MK Multiverse (whether it's one of Kronika's many failed timelines or just earlier than Deadly Alliance idk) and the Injustice universe in DC's multiverse which is still kinda nuts lol
In retrospect, this game is dull and shallow, but as MK fans, don't act like this game wasn't amazing when it came out. It just had a lack of content. The story mode was awesome, and online servers were good. Not to mention the amazing Dark Kahn. Playing as him was awesome.
Shao Kahn and Raiden being brothers is complete bullshit. It has never been stated in any other game. It was first brought up in the movie ‘Mortal Kombat: Annihilation’, so yeah…!
At the time i enjoyed this game simply for the story but was always puzzled why the fatality's were so toned down & the lack of gore made it feel like it wasnt a MK game. Lack of fighters didn't help either.
I actually see this as an important release for Mortal Kombat because it essentially is the foundation of future games from this studio. Given MK1 is kinda a disaster. I would like to see a remake of this or Injustice 3 before we get a new MK.
I think you start the video off all wrong: "After the release of Mortal Kombat: Armageddon, Midway decided the next big mainline title in the MK series would be a crossover with the DC Universe." This isn't exactly true. Armageddon wasn't very successful, and it certainly wasn't very beloved by day one fans. Furthermore, it was competing with 3D fighting games that were much, much better. Deception and Shaolin Monks were great games, but Armageddon fell short. I distinctly remember nobody actually playing the game, back then. I'm talking about friends who all grew up playing MK games on the SNES in the 90s, and everybody owning Playstations and having tons of games. Armageddon just wasn't relevant. Perhaps a younger generation's first introduction could've been Armageddon, and you do get fans saying they liked that game, but I think that this is because they hadn't grown up playing all previous titles. And they'd written themselves in a corner with MK:A's end-of-all-existence storyline. It felt like the end of the franchise, because it effectively ended the entire story. Anyway, on top of that, Midway was having financial issues. They were actually planning to reboot the Mortal Kombat storyline, after MK:A. The title for that game was in fact Mortal Kombat 8. Concept art still exists of that game, and you can Google Vincent Proce's work on it, who was a creative designer at the time, working for Midway. The art clearly shows a way more gritty, realistic and ominous reinterpreting of classic characters, like Raiden, Kano, and Scorpion. His 'new' Sub-Zero design, to this day, I think is probably the coolest design for Sub-Zero that I've ever seen. In fact, NRS would later take his concept art of MK8 Sub-Zero and use it for MKX Sub-Zero, although tweaking the design and kinda failing to do it justice. So a darker, more eerie approach to the original storyline, which was a great idea, because previous games had a bit of a cartoony vibe to them due to how the characters were rendered. And Armageddon didn't even have proper fatals. They didn't initially plan to do a DCU crossover, because they wouldn't have had the legal rights for that. So what happened? Ed Boon suddenly managed to get WB involved, having been a DC fan himself, and so now "Mortal Kombat 8" got canceled, and MKvsDCU got prioritized. WB wanted them to do the cross-over game, but they had a lot of input in the design and approach. The result was an absolutely crap 'MK' game that literally nobody played back in the day. It was even more hated than MK:A was. Still, MKvsDCU did well enough; generating sufficient income to call it successful, but this had more to do with drawing in a curious DC fanbase, than actual day one MK fans bothering with the game. This was NOT an MK game in our eyes. Hell, DC comics weren't even that popular here in the Netherlands. Nobody cared, and I really viewed it as the end of the MK franchise. Then after this, and despite the supposed financial success, Midway goes belly up, and there were other circumstances involved in that, but in part it had to do with how MKvsDCU was received by 'real' fans. Objectively speaking, there are some positive points that could be mentioned in regards to vsDC, but this just wasn't Mortal Kombat anymore. So Midway implodes, files for bankruptcy, and that was it. So now WB comes to the rescue, and acquires the entire IP, including all physical buildings that were previously owned by Midway. WB buys the whole shebang, after having caused the downfall of the franchise (at least, from the perspective of the fans). Midway employees that stayed now became Netherrealm Studios; just a new name for Midway, while others left the company (including Vincent Proce, for example), and WB has the right to add their own employees. Ed Boon now works for WB, who now owned the IP him and John Tobias (but really; Tobias ought to be credited most) originally conceived. Well done, Ed! The new title had to become a success, and so WB poured resources into the making of MK9, which was a reboot game (go figure). Basically, "Mortal Kombat 8", but according to WB. And this shows. The overall aesthetic style and somewhat cartoony design of MK9 is clearly a continuation of MKvsDCU, but everything else is better. MK9 really was a fun game, and I do consider it second only to MKX in terms of 'new era' games. But a part of me always wondered 'what could've been'. The dark, serious reboot they had in mind prior to WB's involvement. We'll never know.
@@steele1 I remember when MK9 came out. I played a lot of MKvsDC online and MK9 was like sliding into a clean well worn pair of pajamas. Besides getting rid of the sidestep button, MK9 felt very similar imho.
I mean it's bad, but it's so bad that it's even funny, somehow they failed to realise that they need to make it R-rated with MK being villains that invade DC universe, no other way around it, basically 360* Injustice - but once again it needs to be written by very good writer that not gonna bow down to woke mindset. Jax meets Cyborg : "Ha yo, Ballrog are you copying my style? you wouldn't beat me in Street Fighter 5!!"
It will sound but i had fun played this game. Scorpion was so OP in this then Sub Zero and Liu Kang. Sonya Blade had a lot combos and kicks that made things difficult to block
I have played the game in the past and got me in to Mortal Kombat but looking on it back now It made me realize that 3D combat wasn't a good idea for Mortal Kombat in the grants scheme of things going for with a franchise. They should have stuck with 2D it worked for Mortal Kombat.
Dude raden told lue Kane and some other defenders that shaokong was his brother at the very beginning of the second mortal kombat movie. O wait I forgot I’m in the super minority of people that saw that second tripquel sequel film to the Paul Anderson original film and liked it an is crazy enough to agnowledge that he had own annihilation at one point .yes it has a shit ton of problems chronological and storey telling wise with it and pacing . trying to make the film as an adaptation of the next three game sequel mortal kombat 2 3 and 4 did not help. Some of the characters appearances that were not in the previous film like Jade crytex night wolf ext were so small I don’t know why the waste millions of extra dollars to cast them especially,y crytex he doesn’t even speak in his brief fight with lue kang. Scorpion and sub zero 2 cameos were cool but they could have done a better way of having Kanta be kidnapped and taken to the out world dimension that had actual storey relevance and actually mattered.
Mortal Kombat vs. DC Universe was just made in the wrong decade where DC was too shy to push past a T-rating, with Injustice 1 & 2 not being around. Also, Armageddon should've been the one to have these graphics and mechanics. Instead of being a reskin of Deception. (The next-gen game Ed Boon truly wanted to make in the late-2000s was a Mortal Kombat 8 that looks like Gears of War.)
I play through the MK story. Started the DC story. And at that point this game just sucks. The characters are so unbalanced. The response seems so slow. Made me hate playing this game.
Gave the video a dislike because of the ending laziness segment. I would have rather you at least either reuse footage to talk over or ask someone for their footage instead of just a black screen. I understand not wanting to re-record all of that again, but it's not a very good look
