Praise, Raiden! Mortal Kombat Legacy Kollection Adds Mythologies, Special Forces

If only the PS2 games were in it I would buy it but I wonder if those are going to be put on the classics collection to buy separately

Well at least we'll know that collection vol 2 will include the ps2 era games

Really hope MK Gold gets added. Either way its an incredible package.

I'm all in on this. Even though Nether Realm isn't developing this it feels like a big "sorry bout mk1" kind of thing. They need to produce some good will. Wish they were independent.

I would just want MK Gold and MK Trilogy N64 version. I know this should address the loading times in the PS version which was the main issue with that one, but I had the N64 version and for all intent of purposes is the one I remember and prefer (the whole point of this is nostalgia, so I want it to feel authentic for me)

Don't forget the whole Digital Eclipse interactive museum bits. That (and nostalgia) are what is interesting me the most about this.

Mk Trilogy N64, MK Gold and MK Sega CD.

Mythologies was so terrible but I loved it. Press a button to turn around? shudder

I had the special forces Jax game back when it came out and thought it was extremely mediocre back then so I imagine I'll find it to be a steaming turd by today's standards, but I never had the misfortune to play the sub zero game..

Why include a version of MK Deadly Alliance (GBA) if you aren't going to include others - just seems weird (that said im not familiar with the GBA version).

For me, by the time the PS2 came out the 2D Mortal Kombat/Street Fighter model was looking pretty tired and 3D fighters like Soul Calibur, DOA & Virtua Fighter did 3D fighters better. The popularity of MK in the 6th gen was far cry from the hype that surrounded the MK franchise during the SNES/MD era. I think I had probably completely lost interest in the series after MK3.
These games were always better with friends in the arcade and arcades were quickly dying off in the early 2000s.
So this line up looks pretty good for me. However, like most games these days, I never pay full price and never buy games on release. Those days are long gone. This will be no different. Will be fun for a tenner.

Really wish it had the PS2 era MKs. Deadly Alliance is a stone cold classic in my opinion. Hopefully they do a second collection for those at some point.

As for Mythologies and Special Forces, it cool that they actually included them but oh boy are they bad...like really bad. Shaolin Monks is by a country mile the best of their attempts at spin-off games like this.

I only care about Shaolin Monks.

Hmm... odd choice to focus on getting the GBA games no one cares about instead of mk gold.

Oh boy, those two games are pretty... not good. But hey, at least they're on modern platforms.

@Scottyy Was about to say the same. Apart from MK2 waaaaaaay back on the Mega drive it's genuinely the only other game in the entire series I have genuinely liked and it's not a half bad attempt at a beat em up in a 3d space. I remember it being unintentionally amusing as well.

Obviously fans of the series will love this but the MK games are very jank to me compared to SF. Mk 1 and 2 are really basic and unless the online is packed you'll need at least on mate who likes to play, no fun was ever had going against the AI in these things lol

Fantastic package even if Gold is not added. I will be there day one. Of course there are more that they could one like the N64 version of Trilogy, or Master System or Saturn versions but the package is perfect.

I will get the digital version day one but I could also consider a physical version that is widely available and has all possible DLC and updates included.

Now let's be serious : all these games are easily available via emulation and, in all honesty, how many of them are still enjoyable today, except for a few moments of nostalgia?

PS2 Deadly Alliance was a good one. Was that the one with the graveyard for unlocking concept art, etc.? I also really liked the PS3 Mortal Kombat (9?) but maybe I’m in the minority as I don’t think I’ve seen any mention of it in the context of collection.

This is what customers have been clamoring for. Who gave WB coffee?

@belmont Not sure you'd want the Master System version of MK3, to be honest--that one's one of those "Brazilian backport of the Game Gear version" kind of deals (unlike MK1 and MK2, which did get proper Master System versions that saw European release), and those kind of products don't always have the best track record--if you see comparisons between the Game Gear and Master System versions of Sonic Blast, you'll see what kind of job I'm talking about...

@shiningpikablu252 I have the Master System versions of MK1 and 2 (not 3 since I am from Europe) and the Game Gear versions of all 3 games. I have seen videos of the Master System version of MK3. It is basically as you describe a kind of zoomed out version of the Game Gear version of MK3 which is pretty bad.

Still, this collection is all about game preservation, so everything should be on the table.

@AdamNovice There are countless devices, especially portable ones, made specifically for emulation with preexisting os and software that make emulation as easy as can get.

And any good guide will make the process of emulation very easy to anyone even without any technical know-how.

@AdamNovice Which is exactly the issue. If you're ready to pay full price for a few minutes of nostalgia with old games (most of them either bad, or now completely obsolete) when you could do it very easily for free, then we get this kind of packages. It's obviously a cashgrab, and like all cashgrabs, it'll work...

I've never been a fan of MK, but I guess I will be!

@Olmaz Regardless of how dead simple emulation has gotten and how easy it is to obtain the games in this collection through other means, calling this collection a "cashgrab" is not only obscenely cynical but also does a massive disservice to the people putting in the work to make this a worthwhile collection.

You seem to be under the impression that they just threw a bunch of roms on a disc and called it a day, which is simply not the case. They've put a ridiculous amount of time and work into this thing, collecting decades of documentation about the games, producing a whole slew of new video features about the history of the series, written an entirely new from-scratch emulator specifically for MK4 (as the arcade version has never been faithfully ported to any other platform), or add online multiplayer with rollback netcode to every single game...and that's just the big stuff.

This isn't going attract any new MK fans and, like you said, the vast majority of these are worth little more than a few minutes of nostalgia. This is explicitly for the MK hardcores. Not the 15 million that bought MK11...they're not expecting this to be a massive seller, it's for the few thousand that still care about these original entries and want to have them in one place that's easily accessible. If that's not you, that's fine, but don't dump on all the obvious hard work the folks at Digital Eclipse have done to put this together for those that do care.

@GeneJacket Fair enough and thanks for the lengthy respectful and quite interesting reply.

While I agree the collection isn't just a bunch of roms on a disc, I'll push back on 2 points :

• "a ridiculous amount of time" : the time put into making such a collection can't be compared to the time needed to create a new game, and while work time doesn't always equate value, 50$ (or 60$ for Switch2!!) is not what I would evaluate the value of such a collection. If this collection is to be viewed as a preservation endeavor, well, the price of a museum ticket should be applied, something like 10$, 15$ max.
• you say the collection is for the hardcore fans, and I can't disagree on that as only these hardcore fans will find any value in it beyond a few minutes, but can we at least agree that Netherrealms is not marketing it this way, and is hoping for a lot more sales than just a few hardcore fans?
  And also, what is "hardcore fans" nowadays? It seems to me than anyone with an ounce of nostalgia for some games they played when they were kids/teens (and I'm one of them) want to feel included in this group. I've played countless hours of MK and MK2 on my Super Nintendo and in the arcade back in the day, but I wouldn't consider myself a "hardcore fan" and while I may enjoy some of the content of this collection, I'm sure a youtube video I could watch for free and/or a blog page from a retro gaming site like Time Extension would fully satisfy my curiosity. Now we can maybe pretend I'm in the minority here, but I don't think so, and if Netherrealms is producing such a game, it's because they count on people acting on their nostalgia and then very quickly regretting, or at least forgetting, their purchase...

I may be wrong, and the collection may well end up being an incredible work of preservation elevating all the games contained to a new level and offering buyers countless hours of gameplay and informative content... but somehow I don't think it will be the case and Netherrealms is in my opinion asking nostalgic gamers to buy what seems to be a nice, but in the end overpriced, collection of obsolete and/or bad games.