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That is because, in Kombatese, you change the 'c' to a 'k' when it is the first letter of a word, not every instance it pops up.

Ahtman and Hybrid are korrect.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
I just hope that nuSmoke (whatever he calls himself in the first act) and Fujin become fully playable characters. And Reiko eventually, as the lead-in comic has made him kind of a big deal.

Word on the street is alot of the game's plot directly contradicts the events of the comics'.

That would be odd, as NRS have referred to the comic saying it tells the story of what happened between.

A bunch of places in NYC and NJ have broken the street date. I'm gonna see if I can go to my local GameStop and talk them into an early copy. It is legal for them to do, as other stores breaking street date can cannibalize their sales. It's worth a shot, anyway.

 Ahtman wrote:
That is because, in Kombatese, you change the 'c' to a 'k' when it is the first letter of a word, not every instance it pops up.

More specifically, 'soft' C remains C (Charles) whereas 'hard' C becomes K (Kombat), as well as the first letter in the word being a requirement.

This is a very important science.

Only a few hours left to go (for those getting it at midnight EST). Soon we will all be able to complain that it isn't quite what we wanted.

"Me too! Me too!" screamed Warner Brothers, as they added micro-transactions to their full-price retail release, a game that already had Day-1 DLC and disc-locked paid DLC.


It's like they had a market research team look at all the things consumers hate and went "Yep. Let's do all of those!"

I found about the simplified fatalities for €/$ on Twitter and I was gonna post about it, but apparently H.B.M.C. beat me to it. That is so preposterous it is actually funny!

The easy fatalities sounds stupid but only stupid people would pay for that. Any real mortal kombat gamer would prefer to do the fatalities normal like they have since the first game.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
I must keep my strength and not pre-order. Wait for the Komplete Edition.

Perfectly sums up my attitude. Having a gift certificate for Best Buy right now is not helping though!

Besides the fact no one is forcing anyone to get the easy fatalities DLC you can get it for free immediately through the Krypt. I was more annoyed by the "Unlock the Entire Krypt" for $19.99.

Someone said Komplete Edition?

 Ahtman wrote:
... no one is forcing anyone...

Utterly irrelevant. Micro-transactions should not be part of full-priced retail releases. Neither should disc-locked paid DLC. These anti-consumer practices are why people hate Ubi-soft, are why people voted EA the worst company in America twice, and are I consider WB to be the biggest 'Me too!' publisher out there, as they try to ape the worst practices of their bigger brothers.

Doesn't help that the game is broken on release as well.

Ah the marvels of PC

prettier, faster, smoother but consoles still have it beat for actually sitting down and playing games

(pretty woefull though)

OK so I got my hard copy today to avoid having to download it all on my crappy connection. Only to find Steam butting in and saying it wants 3GB downloading before I can play. Followed by a 450MB ish update after that which won't install. I can get to a load screen on practice mode before I get booted off.

Anyone else having these sorts of issues?

As I understand it the Xbone should be set to offline mode when installing or it tries to do it all at once including the update and with everyone doing it at once it takes forever.

Ummm Steam isn't on Xbone Ahtman? I should have been a bit more specific- I meant for PC.

 angelofvengeance wrote:
Ummm Steam isn't on Xbone Ahtman? I should have been a bit more specific- I meant for PC.

No, I understood and I know what Steam is, I was just sharing download troubles.

 Manchu wrote:

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
I must keep my strength and not pre-order. Wait for the Komplete Edition.

Perfectly sums up my attitude. Having a gift certificate for Best Buy right now is not helping though!

Thirded. Of course, the reports I am getting that the game is broken makes it easier to resist, for now.

TB wrote:Mortal Kombat X uses a "streaming install system" by which I mean, "it breaks"

TB wrote:I'm frankly a little bit surprised more people seem upset about the fatalities thing than locking goddamn Goro behind a preorder paywall

TB wrote:Even after downloading the 30 install packs, MK is still missing characters and features, this thing is a mess

Yikes...

Well the four characters from the season pass are not available day one, and it was never said they were. Knowing you are getting Jason, Tremor, Tanya, and the Predator doesn't mean getting them at launch. As I understand it the first one will be in a week or two and then a week or so between each new character. If you preorder you immediately have access to Goro as well as the Samurai Pack reskins. Depending on whether you get the Kollecto'rs Edition or whatnot you may also have a different skin for Scorpion as well.

After the install, patches, and dlc nothing is missing that should be there.

I have no issues with those waiting, of course. I got it because some friends did and I knew one of the guys selling it so pre-ordering wasn't a big deal to me. If neither had been true I probably would have waited as well.

 Ahtman wrote:
Well the four characters from the season pass are not available day one, and it was never said they were. Knowing you are getting Jason, Tremor, Tanya, and the Predator doesn't mean getting them at launch.

Yeah but they're done. They're content removed from the game to later be added back for an additional fee. It's one of the most predatory things plaguing the gaming industry these days, only behind micro-transactions and disc-locked content... speaking of...

 Ahtman wrote:
If you preorder you immediately have access to Goro as well as the Samurai Pack reskins.

Why should I have to pre-order to get something that is clearly already part of the game, and is either on the disc and disc-locked behind a paywall (ala Capcom's Street Fighter games), or removed from the finished game so that you have to download it (ala Catwoman in Arkham City, surprise surprise another WB game!)? If I buy it in store for full price day 1 I have a character denied because I didn't pre-order it.

That's really gakky.

 Ahtman wrote:
After the install, patches, and dlc nothing is missing that should be there.

Other than the money you have to spend to put the content they cut from the game back in.

Skins are fine, mind you - they're things your art team can do long after the game is 'done'. Charge whatever for cosmetic stuff, that's not a problem. But actual game content? No.


Compare this to a publisher that doesn't want to rub its customers' faces in gak: CD Projekt Red. Witcher 3 is going to have tons of DLC. All of it will be free with the exception of two full expansions, one 10 hours the other 20 hours, that they're working on once the game is finished (they're not sure when they're coming out 'cause they're still not done).

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
Yeah but they're done.

Actually they aren't done. We know they are going to be in the game at some point but as far as being complete in-game assets with three fight styles each they are not.

As for everything else I don't necessarily disagree but it has sadly become the norm these days and I don't see a few people on the net keeping it from happening. We just have to pick and choose our battles. Even Batman: Arkham Knight has a pre-order "pay wall" incentive.

You know what's even more hilarious about this? I bought a DVD copy of the game to avoid all the downloading lol. fething insanity.

Eh, don't remind me. I got the physical copy for the reasons above, but also to be able to take it to friends/family (brother has a Bone as well) but entirely forgot about the stupid downloading to even be able to play it.


It is a fun game and really well crafted, but it certainly is part of the current generations dark side (DLC, installation to be able to play, hard copy vs digital, ect). They didn't invent it but it doesn't really make it any better.

That being said I won my only online match so far using my boy Goro.

So...Beat story mode. Spoilered for the ending and some character discussion!! Do not read if you care about the story!!




All in all, the story wasn't quite as good as Injustice or MK9, but it was still a ton of fun and there were some pretty awesome death scenes. The in game graphics are really nice, and the video cutscene graphics are fantastic. The leather around Raiden's head LOOKS like real bloody leather.


Story I'd give an 8, being generous (MK9 and Injustice I felt fluctuated between a 9 and 9.5)
Graphics are a 9.5
Gameplay and combos are improved from MK9, and with the three new classes per character I'd give gameplay a 9
Online gets a 0 from me, as I can't even access it! It'll find matches, but won't connect to play. I'll change that rating when it works
Kharacter interactions are great, there's a TON of dialogue. For a fighting game with RPG style interactions, it's a perfect 10
DLC...too expensive and two guest characters: I give it a 4
Fatalities: 2 each, 5 brutalities, 2 Faction fatalities. Plenty of finishers: gets a 10

Any other things you want my take on, say so. Overall, I'd call it an 8.5 or 9, similar level to MK 9. MK 9 was only better with story mode.

HOLY. CRAP.

See...I'm used to gore. Really. But I'm currently watching the All Fatalities video and..wow. That's really disgusting stuff there.

...although "HEEEEEEEEEEEEEERE'S JOHNNY!" got me laughing.

Yeah, I'm liking the Stephen King reference.

And I'm also seriously enjoying playing as Hardcore Miley Cyrus. I mean Cassie.



And by "disgusting", I assume you just mis-spelled "amazing". Don't worry. Happens to everyone eventually.

Oh, I mean disgusting by the average. I wouldn't be watching such a video if I was disgusted by it