Is this the most retconned video game series of all time?

Is this the most retconned video game series of all time?

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I stopped at this game.

No because it is an alternate timeline.

Ingame, yes. Otherwise it's Mario.

I mean, the sole reason they came up with the alternative timeline bullshit is because they realized how much they fucked up the story and were completely disrespectful with their characters.

After that it's hard to take the "canon" seriously.

I just want a mode where I can travel the realms again.
Until then no buy.

I'm not big into MK but Metal Gear is certainly up there in retcons.

I miss that game, just walking around or waiting for events was nice.

Which is why they went with an alternate timeline. Now everything is kanon, no headaches and no hurt feelings.

Metal Gear Solid was a reboot to Metal Gear so it's not really a retcon

MK is a numbered series though

That's pretty kool I guess, did they just say that on twitter or in a game?

i don't even remember how scorpion vs. sub-zero story went

I think Quan framed sub-zero and then scorpion killed someone? I forgot too.

>everything is canon and nothing is
but that makes the story lose any weight. Like they can do anything with the characters, kill off anyone, and in the next game say it's a different timeline so none of that matters.

They should just have one main story (numbered games) and as many spin-offs as they want (game:subtitle).

Crunchy framed Subzero and the Lin kuei for the death of the shirairyu. So that Scorpions revenge ghost would kill Bi-han. That way crunchy would have two undead super ninjas.

Maybe for Fighting Games.

We'll have to wait and see what Soul Calibur 6 is going to do, but MK9 definitely fucked around with the old game canon

>ITT people who doesn't know what retcon means

It's funny. Prior to the new series, Johnny Cage was treated like ass while Liu Kang was the hero of MK.

Now, Liu Kang is the villain while Johnny Cage went from zero to hero.

Kingdom hearts.
Any other answer is a blatant lie.

One of the only good things about MKX's story was that Cage stepped up after everybody died cause of him

MK1: Old Sub Zero (Bi-Han) kills Scorpion during a mission. Scorpion comes back to get revenge and kills him in the tournament

MK2: Scorpion finds out that sub-Zero is still alive (actually old sub-zero's younger brother Kuai Liang who took on his mantle) Discovers nu-Sub Zero is not old sub zero and vows to protect him for killing his brother

MK3/UMK3/MKT: Scorpion wasn't in the original MK3 at all. in UMK3/T he joins Shao Kahn's army because Crunchy tells him to or something, but he switches sides when he finds nu-Sub Zero fighting for Earthrealmers

MK4: Crunchy tells Scorpion that nu-Sub Zero wiped out his clan/killed his family, so wtf I hate nu-Sub Zero now!? By the end of the plot Scorpion learns Crunchy actually did it and drags him back to hell

MKDA and beyond: Scorpion and Sub-Zero mostly don't care about each other anymore and nu-Sub Zero sets out to rebuild the Lin Kuei and Scorpion becomes Raiden's champion or some shit, Noob Saibot turns out to be old Sub Zero and (more) evil now.

MKDA: Quan manages to escape from Scorp in hell and becomes buddies with Shang Tsung. Scorp fails in getting revenge and gets tossed into the Soulnado. Sub gets betrayed by his number 1 pupil but she gets frozen by his amulet cause she's weak.

MKD: Scorp doesn't get ripped apart by the Soulnado and meets the Elder Gods instead. He agrees to fight for them if they revive his clan. Sub travels with Kenshi in Outworld for some reason

MKA: Scorp gets fucked over by the Elder Gods because his clan are revived as zombies.

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forgot to take off your rp mommy

what about sub zeros stand alone game

Soul Reaver into Soul Reaver 2
and then Soul Reaver 2 into Defiance

That is the one Sub Zero kills Scorpion in

Re-release of MKT when

I've considered myself quite an MK fan in the past and didn't even know about this Sub Zero/Scorpion broship. I thought they are always enemies

MK9 is a damn-near perfect game, even if it lacks the depth of other fighters.
Excellent roster, excellent story mode, fuckloads of singleplayer content, great online, great unlockables, Test Your Luck with 7 modifiers is the GOAT local multiplayer party fightan game.

MKX added a lot of complexity but I feel like it disrupted the purity that 9 achieved as a fighter.

don't forget tag team ladder, co-op fightan was the fucking tits

no SF is

It's the story in a fighting game. Calm down.

Wtf is crunchy?

Say Quan-Chi quickly.

That's so gay

you don't just kill off the main character of a long running series just so you can turn him into zombie kratos for cheap shock/plot twist value

They know they fucked up, that's exactly why they retconned everything.

are you fucking retarded? the game (9) starts with the end of Armageddon and transitions into the new timeline. It's literally a sequel because older raiden tells younger raiden about the future.

>did they sat that on twitter
you either didn't play the game or you didn't pay attention. kunt.

Sure is.

I wouldn't quite go that far but it's certainly up there. At least 9 was a reboot so they could get away from some of the silly shit but even then NRS wrote themselves into a corner in 9 and had Sindel handle everyone and then get got by one of the people she'd just laid out. Still, I'm looking forward to MK11.

its not a reboot at all, its a straight sequel

I need to rethink

Yo post some dope ass Mortal Kombat fanart

>Giving a shit about story in Mortal Kombat

It started out as red man vs blue man killing each other, any story outside of that is forced contrived bullshit nobody should care about.

This game is about fighting, tits, ass and gore. That's it. Stop trying to go deeper.

Relax

every singl mgs retconned everything

FNAF is. Literally every single game adds a whole bunch of retcons thinly disguised as “reveals”, to the point that it’s completely unrecognizable after the first game. The developer’s incapable of planting any long-term plotlines or characters without messing it up.
It’s like The Room of video games. Nothing in its world makes sense past the first game, but the creator seems to believe it does. I would’ve compared it to Saw, but even Saw had less of a sudden descent into insanity.

I think that's because FNAF was supposed to be a one-off but it blew up and turned into a cash cow so they kept it going and they know that they've got a population of practically nothing but whales so they can do just about any dumb shit without much consequence. Just a guess though, for all I know it was supposed to be a series from the get-go and they're truly just terribad story tellers.

If the old timeline is gone then it isn't fucking canon anymore now is it?

the old timeline isn't necessarily gone though.
it could be Raiden ditching the timeline and jumping to a fresh one, ala Zero Escape.

Supposedly according to one of the MKX endings the old timeline could still be around.

They've made plenty of endings into canon to the next game before.

Also it's canon if those events led up to the new timeline, those events are the reason why the new games are around.

Shang Tsung return when?

The fuck? I didn't know how in the old MKs they were such bros. At least in MKX they now have a friendly relationship

Wasn't really retconned, literally every character died in mk7 you have to continue some how

What if user just lied to us all and they weren't bros

How strong is noob saibot compared to scorpion and sub zero

But Sub-Zero and Scorpion were fine in the last few games. Liu Kang is overrated.

>How strong is this guy compared to the guy that killed him and the other guy that killed him?
Is this really an answer you need to crowdsource?

Yes, it was Liu Kang that was the reason of the retcon, not the utter fuckery that was Armageddon+Moving from Midway to WB.

That's why when they rebooted the timeline for MK9, they killed Liu Kang via Blundergod and the following game turned him into a Dark Revenant who went on to become Emporer of Hell.

Wasn't Shujinko killed in MK9 by Cassie Cage or something?
Why would Raiden send some literal who to kill Based Protagonist?

How does a fighting game franchise have some of the best lore in vidya?

This game lacked depth and was busted as hell, but is was fun and there was a ton of shit to do

i hope leatherface is in mk11

The ambient music was pretty comfy too.

He’s coming back in MK11, Ermac is falling apart without Samsung

Bo Rai Cho = Borracho

I hope Baraka and Reptile are in MK11.

Freddy and Jason better return too they can get Robert Englund to do the intros like they did for Scarecrow

>that jumpscare in the Krypt
Fuck you Ed