Originally posted by Tourniquet:

Am I the only one who thinks Mortal Kombat 9 and Mortal Kombat X were the peak of this franchise?
I mean, 9 is literally the original 3 games, just rewritten for a different route the original story might have gone. Giving us all the original characters from those games and giving us cooler and hotter looks for them all.
Mortal Kombat X was everything that happens afterwards. Deception, Deadly Alliance etc. pretty much doesn't happen because of the changed events of 9. The NetherRealm games were pretty much a What If? scenario.

The gameplay is awesome, story pretty cool, designs are better than they ever have been. But then we got 11, which wasn't a bad game by any means, but it was just...odd. Customisation was cool, but I personally prefer just picking skins like how 9 & X did. Story wasn't that great nor was the villain, sure Kronika I thought was pretty cool, but she never felt intimidating on screen.
Shao Kahn in 9 felt dangerous and pretty much the Thanos of the MK lore and universe. Every time he's on screen you feel the weight of his presence, even when he was injured at one point. When finally defeating him in the end of the story, it felt satisfying, a relief that he was gone.
Shinnok in X although I'll admit, I didn't feel as threatened with him as I did Shao Kahn, I did understand his presence was pretty much the Darkseid of Mortal Kombat. The very being who can absolutely bring Earthrealm down to it's knees effortlessly if he succeeded. A foe that was seriously more powerful than Shao Kahn. Sure how he's beaten is silly and not nearly as satisfying in X as it is in 9, but still satisfying.

Kronika, I didn't feel any of that. When she died I was happy sure, but I didn't feel a whole lot with it. Sure, 11 picks it up with the DLC story, that was a much better end of the story.

But now MK 1, it's not a bad game, but it feels very lacklustre compared to the previous games, especially if 11 had more than twice as much content than the game is now. The gameplay is good, but the story feels lacking, not to mention multiple character assassinations in the remade lore of MK, which I'm not a fan of. I dislike how they pretty much restarted the story again, but this time they're completely changed what some characters are supposed to be. I'm not a fan when changes like this are made. And it doesn't help when there's a lot more transactional stuff in this game compared to the rest. The Kameo system I don't like, nor do I like Invasions mode. That's literally Super Mario MK.

Am I wrong?
I seriously feel like 2011 & 2015 were the best Mortal Kombat will ever be. I'm hoping it can improve, but when the direction the franchise has been going, I'm not liking it's chances.