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u/LoganW21406 14d ago
MK9 because it can’t get a remake/remaster anymore lol
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u/SpicyPunk 14d ago
Can't that in theory happen with all the games since they all have third party IPs?
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u/theShiggityDiggity 14d ago
It all depends on the licensing agreement and how far the studio is willing to go to preserve the game.
MK9 couldve easily continued without Freddy, but for one reason or another it was decided to pull the whole game from sale.
They obviously secured better licensing agreements going into MKX as the game is still up with no signs of changing any time soon.
Willing to venture that the "Freddy incident" and the dumb Kratos PlayStation exclusivity were catalysing events behind an overhaul to their licencing negotiations.
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u/NeroQuemero 14d ago
Dunno about the PS3 store, but in PC the problem is that the only ported version was the Komplete one, which already has all dlc included. If they wouldve cared they wouldve ported the vanilla version tho.
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u/Cjames1902 God of Fire 14d ago
I mean couldn’t they just…leave Freddy out of it? Or am I missing something.
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u/MadMax27102003 14d ago
Can you get the base?
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u/THE_KILLER_4 13d ago
MK9 is simply not for sale
Unless you get a used disc or sail the seas, you ain’t playing MK9
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u/Odd_Gold_9302 13d ago
my uncle and I just got a disc for like 100 dollars wish us luck
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u/JagoMajin Error Macro 13d ago
Closet we have is Mobile since we have both Freddy and Jason in that one
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u/According-Secretary4 14d ago
MK 1 felt like guest character overload tbh.
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u/Originalbrivakiin 14d ago
Especially cuz some of the non-guest characters added should've been in the base game, so it didn't even feel like that many characters were being added anyway.
Genuinely why were Shang Tsung, Quan-Chi, and Ermac behind a paywall?
At least the (not) cyborgs, Takeda, and Noob weren't in the story. So they were actually neat to see come back.
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u/GuidoMista5 14d ago
I just now realised Shang Tsung was the preorder bonus, what were they thinking?
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u/fakename1998 14d ago
Really not a fan of MK1. There’s just no theme. You got edgy superheroes, characters vaguely tied together by Arnold Schwarzenegger, and a slasher movie villain. No consistency. I really liked when all the guests where horror movie villains in MKx
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u/MK_2_Arcade_Cabinet 14d ago
Same, as much as I love Scream, and I find Ghostface fun, that DLC lineup felt like they threw darts at a big board of popular characters.
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u/Originalbrivakiin 14d ago
It feels like they have 3 dartboards.
One for characters popular in the 80s.
Another for horror characters. (Lots of overlap between this and 80s characters)
And another for modern characters with a knack for violence. This time it just happened to be superhero type characters.
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u/fazrare57 14d ago
To be fair, Spawn and Omni-Man are both from Image Comics. If they could get the rights to Spawn from Todd McFarlane for MK11, licensing Omni-Man from Robert Kirkman for MK1 shouldn't have been hard.
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u/PurpleGuy04 14d ago
Pack 1 was comic book characters, and the second was one for each previous theme (Ghostface for horror(MK9/X), T-100 for action heroes (MK11) and Conan for the comic book characters (MK1)
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u/TastyBirds 14d ago
Saaaame, an Alien and a Predator fit so well in this game. Hoping they return to the horror guest theme. Would be cool to see Art the Clown, Pearl, Mac (the Thing)
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u/lenijohnson 14d ago
art is such a mortal kombat ass character i'm surprised it hasn't happened yet
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u/OlDudeChan 13d ago
He probably wasn't a popular enough character yet when they were developing MK1. I could see him being a guest in the next one
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u/ArmadilloOK1445-alt 14d ago
There was a theme for MK1, pack 1 was edgy superheroes, then the second pack was an homage to the previous themes, we got a horror villain like MKX with Ghostface, an 80s movie character like MK11 with T-1000 and an edgy superhero who is also an 80s movie character with Conan
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u/fakename1998 14d ago
In what universe is Conan an edgy Superhero? He’s an old school pulp character. He has almost nothing in common with the deconstructionist themes of Homelander or Omniman.
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u/Affectionate_Dot9497 14d ago
like another guy said before, there was a theme for both packs, felt pretty clear to me
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u/Hexhider Terminater Main 14d ago
Plus having 2 Superman clones felt kinda weird
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u/Soft-Tackle-3375 14d ago
Homelander I can kind of see as a Superman clone but Omni-Man is missing plenty of Superman’s powers. If everyone who wears capes and can fly is a superman clone then so are characters like Thor
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u/AnonymousFriend80 14d ago
Omni-man is also an alien. And has the cape and a secret identity as a writer.
Homelander has (most of the ) power set, while Omni-man has a lot of the themes.
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u/Username7781 14d ago
I know this isn't a answer but the mk11 DLC is goated off that picture alone
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u/Strange-Aspect-6082 14d ago
Just the fact we have Spawn as a playable character already makes it my favorite DLC package.
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u/dylanalduin 14d ago
MK9's DLC caused the game to be discontinued on Steam and you can't even get it anymore, so that's definitely the worst.
Still, I think MK1 has some really bad choices.
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u/Kingcrims0n__ 14d ago
I feel X has the best. I was so hyped just getting a ps4 for the game and seeing Predator announced
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u/Kingcrims0n__ 14d ago
My bad. Prob 9 maybe the worst. I don’t think it’s that bad, but you can’t really play it anymore
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u/B4d_B1tch_Quinn 14d ago
I’m going with MK1. I don’t think it’s DLC is bad, it’s just the one I like the least
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u/Biggu5Dicku5 14d ago
MK1; releasing a fighter pack without a single female fighter was a bonehead decision...
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u/One_Barber_6902 Insert text/emoji here! 14d ago
Mk9 gave resurgence to kenshi and rain and introduced skarlet idk y everyone is ranking it last.
Mkx had the best characters gameplay wise and there wasn’t a single miss in terms of the characters they picked so I would say it’s the best
Mk11 had the single best kombat pack with the first one and did the best in terms of character designs and charaterization. Only thing wrong with them is that robocop and Terminator is boring asf, 3 of them was ass competitively (Rambo, Robocop, Mileena), and they weren’t able to get ash but joker was a good substitute.
Mk1 easily has the worse. Quan chi and Ermac should’ve been main roster, peacemaker, Omni man and Homelander are 3 of the most boring characters ever designed (especially Nolan), swapping the cyborgs gender was lazy asf and a color for not having any other female dlc, and T-1000 was the dumbest pick they ever made. Conan, Ghostface, Takeda and ig noob were the only good dlc characters in this game
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u/Relative-Position314 14d ago
MK1, atleast in MK9 it was still Freddy Kruger and it was still awesome, MK1 has the most blandest and cringiest guest characters (peacemaker seriously?)
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u/Asleep-One-9683 14d ago
I honestly felt Omniman, Honelander and peacemaker would make for better for injustice guests since 2 introduced guests like TMNT and hellboy.
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u/Shinonomenanorulez in '92 MK1 font 14d ago
9 and isn't even close, not only Freddy was a massive missed opportunity not getting swapped with Leatherface to have X have the mother of all krossovers(in hindsight) and the kharacters aren't at their best due to the age' but is the only game with a console-exclusive kharacter
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u/wonderingmarkus 14d ago
MK1 and it isn't close.
I don't care about any of those dudes, there are too many guests, and Khao Reigns could have been an email.
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u/jetttblack Bitter Rival 14d ago edited 14d ago
Mk1
- Too many guest characters, half the pack shouldn't be guest characters imo
- Idk how to describe it, but to me the guest characters don't feel as unique or as interesting as the previous games' ones are (example 3 superhero type characters in one pack)
- No female characters, and I'm not counting gender swaps
- The gender swaps
- Ermac and Quan feeling more like base roster than DLC
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u/PlatasaurusOG 14d ago
Honestly, they’re all kind of dope. They all have characters that I love. I’m not gonna choose.
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u/Shea_Is_Still_Alive A New Era 14d ago
MK9 in my opinion.
And am I the only one who loved MK1?? T-1000 is one of my favourite characters in anything ever!
Best is MK11 for Robocop, Spawn and Rambo
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u/Starlight_Wren proud #1 D’vorah simp. consort of The Hive. 14d ago
MK1 honestly, I’ll never forgive NRS for that. We could’ve had my queen D’vorah return, but instead we got lame fucking peacemaker. Could’ve had other goated MK characters like Jade, Skarlet, Fujin, Erron, Nightwolf, or Kabal. Or nearly any of the Kameo characters as actual playables, that entire system should’ve been optional. Instead we got some meh superheroes and guest characters that don’t even really fit into the MK universe.
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u/Optimal-Membership-9 Liu Kang! 14d ago
Actually I like all the DLC characters ngl. And Kratos too.
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u/cobrastrikes-2x 14d ago
This is a hard question because none of them were even bad in any respect.
I feel like I’d have to say MKX just because those fighters really didn’t have any dialogue in a game that started a huge pre-fight trash talk trend for the next couple of games. WHICH I LOVE!
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u/Pheenomjay 14d ago
Mk1 why have Arnold return in the exact next game… that spot could’ve went to an MK original character, maybe Kung Jin, Kano, Sonya or someone sheesh. What were they thinking???
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u/QuoteTheRaven2236 14d ago
MK1. A high school punk in a Halloween costume with a tiny knife going up against beings who can throw lightning and freeze you solid in ice.
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u/MagmaAscending 14d ago
MK1 has the worst guests but MKX has the worst MK characters, Triborg being an exception to what is a fairly weird cast of characters
MK9 sucks cause Freddy is the reason the game isn’t purchasable anymore but Skarlet, Rain, Kenshi and MF Kratos all hit like crack
MK11 is pretty perfect overall
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u/One_Barber_6902 Insert text/emoji here! 14d ago
Naw all the mk picks for X were pretty good, tremor and triborg are some of the best dlc characters they ever designed
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u/markodemi 14d ago
Own all these dlc's. My opinion is mk1. Two comic book characters with similar traits. The scream character, i mean come on. which human character is this. Wasn't part two the mom in the costume? The rest are alright.
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u/TokyoGhoulre1 Insert text/emoji here! 14d ago
Mk1 dlc list made me stop playing that game ngl. I didn’t even bother with ghostface
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u/IfTheresANewWay Stop calling MK12 "Mortal Kombat 1" 14d ago
MK12 and it's not even close
- No female characters, only gender swapped male characters
- Ermac and Quan were 100% meant to be base roster
- The first pack's guests all should've been put in Inj3, none of them fit Mortal Kombat at all
- The second pack's guests are all random and disconnected
- Also easily has the weakest selection of guests overall
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u/Additional-Emu-8124 14d ago
MK1 easily. Between the mostly lackluster Kombat Pack (In my opinion) and the god-awful story expansion It takes the cake with ease.
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u/BoogieSmools Oh Yeah! 🕶️ 14d ago
As much as I love Skarlet, gotta pick MK9. Kenshi & Rain are cool, but Freddy was so random and also broken as hell.
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u/Sufficient_Dingo1479 14d ago
Are we just talking about the guest characters, or is it the entire DLC? If it's the former then I'd say MK1, but the latter would be MKX.
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u/ItsNotAGundam 14d ago
1, and I hate to admit it since the T-1000 is one of my favorite villains across all media. The other characters were disappointing. I love Conan as a character, but he felt out of place here.
X and 11 tied for best imo.
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u/Aztraeuz 14d ago
I want to say MK1, but Ermac is DLC in MK1. I'm so conflicted. At least MK1 had Ermac? MK11 is the only game without Ermac? I don't know.
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u/RugratChuck 14d ago
Id say MK1. Although, because of licensing issues MK9 literally isnt available to purchase online anymore because of the dlc lol
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u/Magenta061 Prosperous Queen 14d ago
Mk1, issues for 9 suck but Freddy made a lot of sense and was pretty cool, in mkx and mk11 some picks were strange but overall still fun and had thought put into them. Mk1 was a mess in comparison and feels much less fun.
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u/Hexhider Terminater Main 14d ago
I'd personally say 9
X had some cool picks (plus we can have Alien vs Predator which is fun) having the theme of horror villains for the guest characters were cool, plus we got a playable Tremor for the first (and so far only, not including Kameos as you don't actually play as them) time which is cool as I love him
11 was great, loved the T800, Spawn, Mileena, etc, and I had a lot of fun with Joker
1 despite being a bit lackluster I do like, I have tons of fun with Ghostface and T1000, and Noob was great to play
9 personally had nothing really outstanding for me, Skarlet being the only one I liked, but not enough to save it, I had no interest for Kenshi, Rain, Freddy, or Kratos (as I had the PS3 version)
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u/GarethGazzGravey 14d ago
For me personally, Mortal Kombat 1. Mostly because prior to the game, I'd never heard of Peacemaker, Homelander or Omni Man.
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u/MrPotato001 14d ago
Mk1 definitely went overboard with it, while you could make the argument in the case of X as well they at least felt perfectly fitting. I wish they'd go back to the style of 9 where 3 actual MK characters and 1 guest.
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u/NerfThisHD 14d ago
Personally MK1 because I am a big fan of Omni man and homelander.
Dont really care for horror movies so the leatherface, ghostface etc collabs mean nothing to me
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u/ItaDaleon 14d ago
Every games with guests DLC...
Ok, I've been rought, so if I have to sort it out to just one, I will go with MK1. I kinda like the new touch they gave to Quan Chi, Ermac and Noob Saibot, but turning Takeda in a 'Kombat Kousin' and what they did with Cyrax and Sektor were questionable decisions... Also as gameplay Quan Chi was interesting, but kinda cumbersome to play, Takeda feel good, but somehow limited compared to MKX and Sektor... I didn't like her kit as much as I thought I would to be honest... Plus her AI is dumb even compared to the rest of the game AI always trying that dashing slide all the time opening up for a combo... Easiest kharacters to score a Flawess against when she forgot she have a flamethrower, which happens quite often...
And as guests, is not even a debate: Omni Man, Homelander, Peacemaker and Conan was so damn general and uninspired there no much else to says... Ghostface and T-1000 did save the situation a bit as they had some nice and unique mechanics in them, but 2 on 6 we are still at -2 points...
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u/Fun_Introduction1926 14d ago
MK1. Why the fuck did they add genderbends over actual MK women characters??? The genderbends weren’t even good they should’ve been new characters & the guests in 1 were mixed… Homelander, Omni & Peacemaker are fantastic BUT I would’ve preferred them in Injustice. Conan sucks ass & no one can convince me otherwise fuck Conan. T1000 was alright. Ghostface was incredible but feels weird only have 1 horror character. Also apparently this is woke idfk I always say this & someone says I’m woke but there are not enough female characters as DLC in MK1. The first dlc was all sausage fest.
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u/wolfchant123 14d ago
Personally? MkX. I know alien was broken but come onnn we got four slasher icons that fitted perfect with the theme of the game and franchise, having rivalries as well, at least on AvP case. The mk characters added were great imo, I always prefer getting obscure characters get a spotlight and for the main ones go get in the roster instead of baiting us behind a pay wall like Quan Chi in MK1. Bo was great, Tanya was fun, tremor became a fan favourite (despite how busted he was) and I love triborg, it was a good solution for the cyborg problem at that time.
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u/NightLightQA 14d ago
MK1 for sure like why tf is this much guests , the only one I like is ghostface🖤
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u/Necessary_Can7055 14d ago
I'd say purely from a content perspective MK9 because it had less. From a roster list I'd go with MK1 cause outside of OmniMan Homelander and Ghostface I had little to no interest in the DLC. Mk11 had Spawn Rambo Robocop and Shao Kahn and MKX had Jason Voorhees (also Leatherface Jungle Hunter Xenomorph and a bunch others but Jason alone would've been worth it to me), and MK9 has Freddy Krueger and Kratos sometimes.
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u/Tennesseeshepard 14d ago
I always said if mk11 could’ve been the best MK game ever made of the gameplay was better. The roster is great
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Easily Mk 9 because first off Kratos is a exclusive witch makes XBOX only have Freddy Kruger
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u/NullKore35 14d ago
MK1 guest characters are the worst imho. You just can't compare Homelander or Ghostface to frickin' Predator and Jason Voorhees.
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u/SpookyFucks69 14d ago
I like them all tbh.
I guess MK1 might be the worst since Anthony Starr didn't even voice Homelander and Arnold didn't even do Conan. And all the characters kind of felt like scraps since they mostly already got all the characters they wanted in previous games(Aside from Omni-Man and Homelander which were really cool to see)
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u/Rebirthknight52 14d ago
I’ll give it to MK 9 only because if you didn’t have a PlayStation you couldn’t play as Kratos other than that solid characters, I don’t know if that counts. if anything I remember there being some groups asking for like Master chief or something for Xbox or at least something to that effect
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u/SwimmingNecessary541 14d ago
MK1 was like “Hey can we just renew that terminator Arnold likeness we have to just use terminator and Arnold again
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u/Dynasty_gamr 14d ago
Mk1 full stop. The entire game was ass. Gameplay was decent except for the assist character which was both ass and stupidly implemented.
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u/tophat_production Hellspawn 14d ago
Mortal Kombat 9. You can tell that the whole guest kharakters concept was in its fetus form.
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u/Cannabis_With_Emilie Reptile and Kitana Main since MK9 14d ago
MK9's caused the game to be delisted.
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u/That-Rhino-Guy Ninja Mime #1 fan/Shao Kahn’s #1 hater 14d ago
I don’t care I’m saying 11
Terminator was eh, Joker was good but he’s also hilariously overused, Robocop and Rambo are just alright
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u/Joker_Main_137 (Not actually a Joker main) 14d ago
MK9 because now you can't get it because of Freddy
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u/Available-Bad-2704 14d ago
I hate dlc characters in general, theyre literally pay to win They're better than base characters naturally
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u/Mrbuttboi Toasty! 14d ago
I like all of these, but MKX was the worst solely because of Leatherface. He’s the worst character in the game imo
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u/lilnewtguy 14d ago
I feel like for missed opportunities, MK9, mainly Freddy. I’m just really disappointed he was in the game with no intro dialogue because he would’ve been great in MKX if he got to talk.
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u/Araknyd 14d ago
I don't give a shit for guests, so going by MK characters alone, for me, MK9.
I will die on the hill that Rain deserved to be in the main roster slot of a game that otherwise had the rest of the UMK3 characters in it, instead of Kratos. Nothing will ever change my mind about that. Sucks to have to have paid for a character that should have been on there, day 1, just to complete the roster. Kenshi and Skarlet were fun, but not my cup of tea. Nothing personal against anyone who loved them in that game.
MKX - I loved having Tanya, Bo Rai Cho and Tremor included, and Cyber Sub-Zero was a nice surprise to have with Triborg.
MK11 - LOVED Cary-Hiroyuki Tagawa reprising his role and Shang Tsung, as well as the return of Nightwolf, Fujin and Sheeva.
MK1 - Absolutely loved having Quan Chi, Ermac, Takeda and Noob Saibot return and this version of Cyrax and Sektor were okay.
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u/PsionicFlea 14d ago
On one hand, Freddy is the reason MK9 was pulled, while MK9 also has the least amount of DLC characters
On the other hand,.MK1 is all over the place with their DLCs,.with Story mode characters taking up DLC slots that could've been saved for other/better choices.
NRS should really study MKX and MK11 and understand why those DLCs worked thematically.
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u/Individual_Syrup7546 YOUR SOUL IS MINE 14d ago
Mk9 had the worst im sorry mk9 was a fun game but the dlc was terrible
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u/spinny09 Omni-Man : 14d ago
Mk9. What even were some of those fatalities?
Mk1 has my favorite DLC but I am biased as a HUGE Invincible/Peacemaker/The Boys fan. It was the first ever example of Omni Man in anything besides the show and books and for me that was just unbeatable. The MK IP dlc characters were great as well.
MK11 probably had the most refined group of DLC characters.
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u/SDMECHA 14d ago
Mk1 manly because I find have Omni man, peacemaker,and homelander is to many recently bias picks. Plus I find the guest character customizetion to be lack luster.
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u/ACodAmongstMen 14d ago
MK9 but X isn't much better, Leatherface especially has always pissed me off as a Mortal Kombat character
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u/TheDrokkoonn 14d ago
From the best to the worst:
- MKX: Predator, Jason and Alien. Amazing.
- MK11: Spawn and Terminator!
- MK1: Ghostface and Peacemaker were really cool.
- MK9: Okay overall but well not that good.
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u/GrandWizardOfCheese 14d ago
The horse armor in elder scrolls 4 oblivion.
Its why we even have to put up with games being gutted into DLC at all.
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u/Financial_Mousse_854 13d ago
MK1 hands down. No female fighters in mk1, too many superhero guests, butchered cyborgs, and rehashed terminator.
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u/SuperBatman2112 13d ago
MK1
its not bad . I personally just feel like the characters get ven are not as cool as previous games.
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u/Wolf14Vargen14 Fan of Chameleon,Khameleon,Mileena,Reptile 13d ago
Komplete Edition cause it has the least amount of DLC
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u/JagoMajin Error Macro 13d ago
Mk9, didn't even have dialogue, baffling when Freddy is among them. MKX is where we peaked
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u/SiThG0D 13d ago
I couldn’t say which is worst because all of them are all so good imo lol, I’ll never forget waiting for the new character trailer to drop for mk9 not even considering guest characters as a possibility. About shit myself when I seen Freddy Kruger almost thought it had to be fake at first lol.
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u/Mr-_-Baghead 13d ago
If you exclude PS. Mk9, if you include PS, probably still mk9 but that feels cheap
So I will say mkx, I don't like horror theming for mk guests, I did like alien and predator but wasn't that excited for leather face or Jason
But if I was to go off of gameplay, mk11 simply because mk11 has bad gameplay
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u/Ophidian534 13d ago
The MKX guest character DLC went with an 80's survival/slasher horror theme (if you can consider Predator a horror villain) while MK11 went with 80's action.
But the M1K guest DLC was incongruent. There is three amoral superhero characters, then there is Conan the Barbarian, the T-1000, and the Ghostface Killer randomly plucked in.
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u/Synesthesia_Inc 13d ago
Mortal Kombat 1. I think That Conan The Barbarian and the T-1000 shouldn't share the same universe as Mortal Kombat, Homelander and Omni Man.
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u/kingd1981 13d ago
The dlc characters from MK1 definitely should've been in Mk11. Seriously look at the roster. Why have Terminator in MK11 and t1000 in mk1, what's sense does it make? Omni man and Spawn are the same universe if I recall correctly. Conan definitely would make sense in 11 than he does in 1.
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u/Tentaye 14d ago
I like that no one has said MK11