So MK11 was announced at the Game Awards:

Full reveal coming in January, with the game launching in April. Details are slightly sparse, but MK11 does appear to continue from MKX and also incorporate time-travel. So it's probably going to be a stupid story, but hopefully the good kind of stupid. This also means we might be in a Smash Bros. Ultimate "EVERYONE IS HERE!" situation, which is great because I got pretty good with Mileena in MKX and I hope she returns for 11.
It is Warner Bros. so expect DLC and probably microtransaction tomfoolery. Already announced is Shao Khan as a preorder bonus.
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I also wonder what the guest characters will be like this time, still horror movie characters or something else? I do like the idea of Robocop and The Terminator in Mortal Kombat. Plus the T-800 would fit into a time travel story, if a guest character is in fact going to appear in the story mode.
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I could be wrong, but I think there will be a good amount of both characters and stages in the new game. If the time travel thing is accurate, they could mix a lot of classic characters and stages with whatever new ones they come up with.
Also excited for the "new engine". Most assuredly it'll be UE4, but considering the wizardry they pulled off with UE3 for Injustice 2, MK11 should look amazing. Improved "gore-tech" engine for fatalities should be interesting too.
Somebody asked McFarlane during an AMA if Spawn might appear in MK11 and he answered "I believe he's on his way"
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More stuff, nothing super mind blowing. He talks about the Spawn thing, and another retailer leaking some info. But like, Liu Kang and Sub-Zero are practically a given for a MK game. The possibility of HD Remakes of the original 3 MK games is kind of exciting though. Not sure what Max means about MK returning to a Nintendo console being so huge, though. Like, it's cool that it's going to be on Switch but I don't get what he means by "It might mean some things".
Also he's going to do a Mortal Kombat Legacy series, which is awesome. Love watching the legacy stuff he does. The recent run through of games with Ken were all great.
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The HD remakes were cancelled quite a while ago.
Honestly, wise move. MK2 is fun to go back to very occasionally, for nostalgia's sake, but I think I would feel like an HD remake of it would be a whole lot of talented effort wasted.
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I think by "It might mean some things." is that Max has had a theory that a MK character, likely Sub Zero, will appear in Smash Brothers.
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I'm less than excited that the loot system from Injustice 2 is coming to MK. It was... Fine, but poorly weighted towards trash drops. I never fully completed my Nightwing armor set for Robin because the challenges were so crazy rough. And that was like, the one character I played most of the time.
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I think the rumor was that 11 would feature a similar campaign mode to SM, and that's why it took an extra year for them to drop 11 compared to their usual schedule.
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Some more leaks seem to suggest Sonya is confirmed for MK11, which again is practically a given, but they also mention that she'll played by Ronda Rousey. That would be pretty badass, if true.
Then those single player challenges.... man those were terribly balanced. The only hope I had to complete them was to throw a fully powered up CPU at it. Even then the CPU would have to repeat the challenge over and over before getting lucky. I found that I was watching Injustice 2 more than I was actually playing it. You know there’s something wrong with the game when that’s happening.
Overall I still enjoy Netherrealm games so I’m optimistic.
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Has there ever been an MK on a Nintendo console with gore + blood?
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MK1 was the only one that didn't have blood in it.
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Well I mean, they *do* censor their own games for a western audience; I think the reputation is a bit earned
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They definitely earned some of it but they're perceived very differently than the competition. Shows how one bad decision has long lasting impact.
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I always find it amusing how much back story and stuff there is to fighting games.
I mean, I suck at the genre so it's rarely high on my list of go to entertainment, so the most depth I tend to get is "Yellow guy or blue guy?" on the character select screen.
But then I'll fall down a wiki hole learning about the 6 realms fighting a constant war for supremacy by way of single elimination millennial fighting tournaments and ancient and new gods and sorcerers and everything else that you've got running in the background.
And it's just amusing how much back story there is for the genre in general. I don't think I've seen one where it's just "All these guys are getting together to fight and see who's the best. Also, there might be prize money.". No cyborgs, no soul eating wizards, no secret plans for world domination, no "big boss killed by sister/father/best friend's third favorite gecko" tragic back story driving revenge.
Then shit went insane.
Tekken became a father/son/evil corporation/devil gene anime, and KoF was all about ancient Japanese treasure lore and evil god blood, before it went a step further and I can't even describe what KoF is about now. I blame that period of time when SNK went bankrupt and the game was being handled by some Korean developer before going back to SNK.
Backstories of characters relative/kin/fish being killed and revenge plots are more for the Dead or Alive and Soul Calibur series.
I think Virtua Fighter might have been the most pure, in terms of character stories, in that there really weren't any. At least not for the first three games.
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All of this could even get scrubbed before the new game even starts with the time travel shenanigans.
Pretty funny how tame the xrays in MK9 seem now too.
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