Mortal Kombat 1 Dev Finished with PS5 Fighter, Moving to Next Project

Please be Injustice 3. I need at least one good DC Comics game released this gen.

This has been one of the worst MKs of all time I hate NRS I miss Midway😭😭😭😭😭😭

Will the new project be...

Mortal Kombat II

I hope not.

Ideally, I'd like them to swap between Injustice and Mortal Kombat in the future instead of sticking to one franchise.

Have they ever done anything other than Mortal Kombat and Injustice? So Injustice 3 is next then, which would be cool i guess, it’s been a while since the last one

Imagine. They FINALLY make that horror flick fighter w Alien, Predator, um...Scream, Jason Voorhees, Freddy Krueger, Michael Myers, WB Execs, etc etc etc...and the internet freaks out cause the big lead character is Candyman. Lol.

I’d be very happy to see Injustice 3, but I suspect WB will make NetherRealms double down on micro transactions on a new title. The armour and equipment upgrades in the series will make it an easy implementation unfortunately..

Think it's time they do a new IP...

Well, i hope for them that their next project won't be a GAAS with microtransactions, or it could be their last...

You have a typo in the final paragraph, @get2sammyb. FRUSTRATING instead of FRUSTRATED... 👍

@KillerIsD34D that’s basically an entire studio saying take this job and shove it I don’t need it no more

@Tasuki The point is the developer promised "years of support" and it's closing after 20 months.

@Tasuki Poor comparison. This is a fighting game. They usually have long support and update cycles. Them moving to a new game is a middle finger to the early adopters, especially those who bought in to the expensive DLC packs.

It really sucks when other greats like Street Fighter, Tekken and Guilty Gear are supported for much longer periods of time. This is the type of support I would expect for smaller scale titles like a new Darkstalkers, Rival Schools or Soulcalibur (SC6 got about 17 months of support!), not for one of the big 3 fighting games in the world (in sales at least).

I've had my fun and fill with the game since release, the story was meh, but the gameplay is very good and the kameo's can be fun to play with. It's not even been 20 months of full support, the seasons started looping after the 8th one ended back in November! They have been happy to nickle and dime us for klassic & new skins (outside the 3 themed ones most everyone got), giving Scorpion, Sub-Zero and Mileena a 100 of them while other characters starved. Most returning 3D era characters didn't even get a shot at a klassic skin, like Havik and Ashrah.

Injustice would be poorly timed, the DC cinematic universe fell on its butt and the general fatigue with all things superhero hasn't shifted. With Warner Brothers deep in a debt crisis it's possible they just sell the studio if they're years away from a release.

@KillerIsD34D Unfortunately it will be that's what all fighting games are now

It is still crazy to think that this game came out on Nintendo Switch yet there wasn't a Playstation 4 or XBOX ONE port. I wonder if it would have sold more if it had come out for PS4 too, maybe the game would have gotten more DLC.

Yeah this MK suuuucked, I liked the story but everything else was meh. I enjoyed MK9 more than this.

Really, my least favourite MK since the reboot - I didn't like the over pushing of microtransactions, story, kameo system, or a number of the changed characters (though I did really like reptile and what they did with him). The invasion mode felt awful when compared to the previous games towers.

I think the main problems where A) they got greedy, and B) they focussed too heavily on 'serious' players, rather than fun.

The problem is, will they be trusted again by those that did like it for dropping it so quickly?

if NR is unable to support their games longterm, they should get out of the fighting genre. it's as simple as that. i can't say i have ever seen such a half-assed effort with a major fighting franchise before. amazing they haven't been shuttered considering WB doesn't value or know what to do with its studios and attempted selling them off multiple times. where the heck does NR go from here? if MK failed to earn proper post launch support, i don't think injustice has a prayer considering it is the less popular of the two franchises.

Thank goodness, I hope this is the last we ever see of the Kameo gimmick. I want a new IP next, the second choice is Injustice 3. They just need to let MK rest for a while.

Shaolin Monks 2 would be kick ass.. RPG MK just hit so right man

@Tasuki A fighter should last all gen nowadays not less then 2 years. There's a reason Street Fighter 6 and Tekken 8 will be the only entries in those series this Gen.

@AgentMantis Thunderbolts was really well received and is doing well for Marvel and Fantastic Four is getting a lot of hype. DC wise Superman has a ton of hype behind it as well. People aren't tired of superhero films they're tired of bad ones, stuff like Deadpool & Wolverine and Thunderbolts prove the market is still hungry for them.

Seems very early to give up on it but if the trade off is to finally get a new Injustice game, I'm ok with that. Had way more fun playing Injustice 2 than MK 11 and MK 1 never interested me much at all.

worst NRS MK. Hope they never make another MK again; revisionist trash - gameplay, graphics, characters, story, all of it 👎👎

Give us MKX gameplay and atmosphere back with MK9s charm

Out of all the fighting games out there, I was never big on MK. Isn’t releasing a definitive edition something they always do though?

@Tasuki Check out Terrordrome if you haven't yet ...

@WolfyTn I'm playing through SM again rn, lol. Amazing game.

@Tasuki Because its kinda how it is now and Boon himself even said MK1 would last years.

I was kind of bummed when they announced MK1 because their last game was MK12. I wanted Injustice.

I dropped it after a month, while I played MKX and MK11 until their successors came. It didn’t click with me at all, didn’t like the alternate story, the roster and the kameo system.

Liu kang was the champion but was always a tool. The next MK will probably rewrite his universe as a side story seeing as his actions spawned an entire multiverse of Titans. Raiden will be back at the helm and MK will flourish again.
I'm keen to play a new injustice with more fluid mechanics and controls. NR finally fixed the "I get knocked down but I get up again" when a characters HP reaches zero bug and after the travesty that was suicide squad online I'm sure the WB execs are breathing down their necks seeing as injustice 2 still has more cc players than Suicide squad.

It's most likely just me but I would like to see a War Gods remake now that gratuitous violence in games is a norm. That and Bloody Roar.

@Tasuki Says the companies that make these games (including the one that made this game), and the people that buy them...

Yikes the entitlement of gamers nowadays is astonishing. Go back and play the original Mortal Kombat and see how much content there was and how long the title was 'supported/updated' by the dev. You could do everything it had to offer in a few hours or less and there were no such things as balance patches let alone dlc. No one complained.

The game is dissapointing the roster and the cameo System sucks Sonya Blade not even a selectble character.

Yes MK 11 was better as a game. The problem starts when the guest characters get more important then the original ones.

I really loved Injustice and have great memories with it, but i went really nuts with Injustice 2! All of the dlc announcement hype, its one of my most played hours ever, and my now-wife loved watching me play it actually. I think MK1 was cool and it was their concept to reboot. But hopefully they got the odd ideas out and can make Injustice 3 everything we can hope!

@16BitHero For me its the most dissapointing MK game in a long while. The roster is just not great a lot of mainstays not selectable. Way to much focus on the guest characters Hope we get a Injustice 3 Injustice 2 was a fantastic game.

@Flaming_Kaiser fair enough, it's ok to be disappointed or have certain expectations. I'm definitely onboard with Injustice 3!

@16BitHero I have a big issue with mains coming back as DLC or being left out completely.

well they've lost me as a customer I dont care what the next project that comes out of NRS not gonna buy unless its overwhelmingly positive