Twitter is a great place to keep in touch with celebs, musicians and even game developers, one game developer who is extremely active on Twitter is Ed Boon. Ed occasionally answers questions from Mortal Kombat fans about characters, tournaments and DLC. Today was no different as he answered a question about NPC’s in the story becoming playable characters.
Within the dynamic realm of interactive gaming, NetherRealm Studios (NRS) stands as a source of both excitement and contention, with discussions spanning visual aesthetics and kinetic animations. Since the debuts of Injustice 2 and Mortal Kombat 11, the studio’s visual evolution has been nothing short of remarkable. An evolution that becomes most apparent in the refined portrayal of character facial models, enhancing both their visual appeal and their ability to authentically render the intricacies of Black skin across various lighting conditions. However, in the midst of this progress, one aspect remains a challenge—the attack animations—an ongoing Achilles’ heel within the domain of NRS games.
My personal opinion would be that they focused less on juggles and more on grounded combos so sticking out a poke and it continues to juggle an airborne enemy should go away. It just looks silly. I love MK and Tekken, but this aspect has always been silly to me. It still has some great looking combos, but the air juggles just makes the animations reset, making those specific combos look stiff.
SF has some of these air juggles, but not nearly as much. I'd much prefer their combos combos which are generally more grounded. I don't think the animations are bad in MK in any way, it's the way they are implemented in gameplay in the juggle state.
MK1 is still a day one for me, but fixing this issue would make a lot of people complain less about MK1's animations.
During SDCC I spoke with Ed Boon and Thiago Gomes about Mortal Kombat 1 as part of a Roundtable.
Ed Boon shares his choices for which Mortal Kombat characters should appear in the next Super Smash Bros. game should a crossover happen.
I KNEW IT!!! I F***KING KNEW IT!. That's why the story was so short and had a cliff hanger ending with things left to be done. Honestly if it's paid dlc NRS can kiss my ***. They've been micro transaction dlc crazed for mkx, i knew this was gonna happen that's why im not buying any dlc, I'll wait for the komplete edition.
This is more likely a ruse by the ruse man Ed Boon.
Really disappointed I spent so much money on half a game.
Just bring back Smoke... I miss playing him...
People make it way to easy for him to troll. Don't ever believe what he says on Twitter, most of the time it's not true and he's just saying it so he doesn't accidentally reveal anything.