Mortal Kombat's IP is up for sale. Which publisher can save this fucking franchise?

That's what we want. Fatalities and gore are gimmicks. We want gameplay and animation. Imagine a balanced and well looking game with a huge budget.

Make it into an actually good fighting game, more like.

That's retarded and I'm glad no one puts you in charge of preserving anything. Just because it's a gimmick does not make it a bad thing. Fatalities and gore are fundamental to MK and you can improve literally everything else without having to sacrifice either of those.

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>I'm glad no one puts you in charge of preserving anything.
He said, about the current iteration which literally rewrites everything. Literally, actually. Not him, by the way, but boy are you retarded.

Preserving the character of a game. MK11 still feels like MK game 100%. Fuck off ESL.

No one can "save" mortal kombat. The series will forever be shit until a completely new studio picks it up.

Mortal Kombat is the type of game that ALWAYS feels like it's made by people who don't actually understand how fighting games work. Both in the originals and the newer games. The newer games are definitely better and closer to real fighting games but there are so many weird decisions that just comes off as "wow these developers literally don't know how FGs work"

I can't blame them, they never had to learn how to make a real fighting game because they're so insanely popular. People buy their games because of graphics and gore and don't care so much for the gameplay

Activision/Blizzard would save this franchise.

>MK11 still feels like MK game 100%.
Which is objectively a worse fighting game than Tekken, and has been thought of as such for basically ever.
>Fuck off ESL.
Lol. Get fucked, kid. Come back when you actually know what you're talking about.

fuck off retard

If you buy the IP you can tell the devs to fuck off, it's simple.
MK has always had a rocky ass history in balance, you're 100% right, but it's a huge part of game history and it deserves better treatment.

I dont think so

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NetherRealm is doing an okay job.

Overall the new additions to MK feel really good, my only problem with it is the fucking absurd inbalance in only a few characters, namely Geras. While really interesting and fun characters like Fujin fall to the wayside because they don't fit the clearly defined meta.

But that is in no way exclusive to NR. Fighting game devs all across the board have simply gone to shit because the popularity and budget of the genre has plummeted, and anyone who disagrees doesn't actually play video games and is just a One Angry Incel shitposter.

Suck me. Your dumbass, childish opinions mean dick. They gutted all the characters TWICE in one game.

Fighting genre is plummeting because not a single developer is trying to innovate. They're all comfortable applying the same template with different skins and adding a gimmick mechanic.
MK used to be released with some serious extra fucking kontent. But now they all wanna be Street Fighter 2 Turbo clones.

It's called Mortal Kombat. You typically expect characters to die, the fuck are you smoking.

Clearly I triggered an NRSfag who probably likes the series because of extreme nostalgia for playing them as a kid and you never grew up to realize the the original games are dogshit and the newer ones don't hold a candle to any other mainstream fighting games.

While that's true, why would they? Why would a publisher tell the developers of a highly profitable series to fuck off? Every game seems to be selling more and more.

Again, idk if it really deserves better treatment. It's always been a very shallow series with very simplistic surface level ideas. It was revolutionary for the time and definitely has very important historical impact, now it's nothing special other than the BRAND being recognizable and iconic, along with no other games really showcasing "epic gore".

That being said, I actually think MK11 has some good ideas and the characters are well designed visually. It feels like it wants to be 2D Tekken mixed with Street Fighter but it's just not pulled off that well.

>It's called Mortal Kombat. You typically expect characters to die
Now who's the ESL

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The IP isn't just for sale the entire fucking WB gaming division is

Because, like you said, it sells purely off brand recognition and although there's a huge connection between MK and Boon any third-party can recognize what it's lacking and get them replaced, or at least tell em to do something better.

Still you, lmao.

Realistically WB can't sell their whole division in bulk. It'll be picked apart for valuable IPs and the rest will be left to die.

That would be cool

With lame fatalities. Even the old and new Samshos don't have very realistic and creative fatalities. They either get cut in half (horizontal, vertical, diagonal, combo, decapitated or just lose their head, offscreen deaths, jugular spurt, and other lame shit. Mortal Kombat's emphasis on fatalities is one of the pillars of the franchise and a neutered approach to it would kill the franchise for the new IP owners before they could even begin running it to the ground like NR did, with their pandering to mentally ill SJWs who almost certainly didn't even buy their games. I say sell it to some Eastern European company as they don't really give a fuck about hurting the feelings of undesirables.

>Fighting genre is plummeting because not a single developer is trying to innovate. They're all comfortable applying the same template with different skins and adding a gimmick mechanic.
MK used to be released with some serious extra fucking kontent. But now they all wanna be Street Fighter 2 Turbo clones.
Yeah, totally agree with you except for this one point
>MK used to be released with some serious extra fucking kontent
They were only doing that because MK was literally dying and hemorrhaging money, and they were throwing everything at the wall in the hopes that something sticks and works.

But you're absolutely right in that they're just throwing in new gimmicks instead of making new and innovative games. And while MK11 is definitely guilty of this, I think the new mechanics are pretty interesting and do a great job of slowing down the fights and making them more mentally intense instead of something like MK9 where you just memorize a 65% BnB combo and slap it out constantly.

But because of horrible inbalance in characters FUCKING GERAS the gameplay they built the entire game around just doesn't exist in reality. Why poke and prod and bait for a combo when you can just play Geras and do infinite fucking throw loops and then do a guaranteed 40% one meter burn combo that you can't even break away from. Every other character in the game would have to burn 2 meters, and a KB, and you can break away from the combo to even get close to that number. And it just adds fucking insult to the player when they announce that he's going to get nerfed in the next patch, but he actually gets a HUGE fucking buff.

>That's what we want.
>we
GET OUT. THERE IS NO 'WE'.

Really only Valuable ones is NRS and possibly the Lego series Ubisoft can die

Maybe you're right. But I miss shit like "COOKING WITH SCORPION". Even if it was a last ditch attempt to save MK/MidWay it was appreciated to see what goofy shit they were trying to attract players. Now it's a template to appease the current cancerous FGC who are comfortable with the standard Fighter and nothing else.

We need devs who aren't scared of banning characters until they find solutions to it. MK11 can be fixed if devs just didn't fucking hesitate to hold on to some characters for offline use only.