Returning to Mortal Kombat 11 After MK1 - What's Better?

[@BL3ACH-101]

Xombat pin 🙏

[@morgan-leecarstens5987]

When you said "Look at Rain here and then look at him in MK1" I felt that course through my veins, I got so upset just now

[@frogaroach]

Mk1 and mk11 could mix and somewhere between is perfect

[@nergal2741]

for MK12 they should probably take MK1's gameplay (with or without kameos i don't care), and the skins and looks from MK11 and make the next MK perfect

[@frogaroach]

@ yeah, i agree. I would happily trade kameos for BALANCED krushing blows. Also less damage on them please lol

[@JDFlyy]

Yup

[@brucehtdallas]

Air combos in 11 would’ve made it the GOAT

[@rando8831]

I hopped back on mk11 the other day and I forgot how trash it was 😂 it’s definitely a more complete game with more features and no glitches, but mk1’s gameplay is wayyyyy better

[@LegendofZaron]

Lmao mk11 is so scrubby it’s catered to those scrub clowns KB’s everywhere d2 d2 jab jab zoning, mashing, Nonsense lmao I recently got back into playing it and I got pissed lmao I like tekken better

[@LegendofZaron]

In mk11 you can lose to anyone even a scrubby Scorpion mashing all his move set and random teleports lmao anyone can play like an idiot and beat you in this game it’s terrible.

[@D1smantle]

Bruh... the existence of breakaways alone is enough to make me hate MK11. I'm not really concerned about customization tbh... I mean, customization has always never truly been a part of MK. All we use to get was main skin and two or three alternate customes up until MK11 when they decided to start playing dress-up

[@jmack8230]

And now we can’t even choose a skin. A feature that was around for 10+ years smh

[@nergal2741]

@@jmack8230 what do you mean "can't choose a skin" ? there's like 3-9 different skins for most chars and then you can also choose a colour palette. Can't choose any small detail of a char, but the main one (mask for most, weapons for some, or tattoos like for Quan Chi etc)

[@isaiahacevedo541]

@@nergal2741I think they meant multiple loadouts/skin select at the character select screen. MK1 only has random favorite skin but you can’t cycle thru at character select.

[@SholoMayhem888]

Breakaway is almost in every mk game tbh before it was “breakers” or something like that and it’s still there in mk1. Luckily for you there’s a game called Tekken, chefs kiss lmao. Tekken 8 knocks every mk out the park for me I enjoy it and the previous tekken games, if you haven’t already check it out, customization is better and no breakaways if I practice a 90 damage combo and land it my opponent has to hold that and pray I drop the combo lmao. I love tekken. Screw that breakaway bs still like mk11 tho but screw that lmao

[@sosunnyjoe]

Mk11 was just a more komplete game but the gameplay is where it falls off the throw KB was bs. Nd the breakaway was bs.

[@tonyhormiga5242]

MKX and 11 gameplay is what made me want to get into mortal kombat. It was short lived after getting all three games and experiencing them. Mk1 let me down. Took that desire to play away since I know most people are going to be into the new one. Now Im waiting for the next game and hopefully it tops all previous games.

[@Nonlifting_breezy]

Mk1 is actually the slower game. I imagine it’s because so people could find the time to call their kameos in and not require so much execution

[@god7418]

If mk1 is slow then mk11 is slower than a fkin snail fr

[@Nonlifting_breezy]

@ you know you’re wrong right? What string in mk11 does scorpion got that’s slower than f32?

[@god7418]

@@Nonlifting_breezy you said mk1 is slower than mk11…who cares about scorpion F32. Let me proof you wrong: Movement: mk11 movement was nothing to write home about excluding fujin, rain and mileena whereas an mk1 character move faster than mk11. COMBOS: mk11 combos were slower or average at best because the game concept was all about footsies. Which is why many or all mk11 characters JUST HAD ONE COMBO. Comparing that to mk1 is pure fraud. Mk1 has various combo routes that at a high level the timing and precision makes the combos fast. Last but not the least: HOW would you say mk1 is slower when mk11 was all about footsies which demanded you move at a slow pace. WHY DO you think ppl consider mkX as a fast paced game. This is because mkX was a rush down game while mk1 is a combination of rush down and footsies.

[@Nonlifting_breezy]

@ mk11 is not slower on average. You are wrong. Speed of the game also applies to strings. Maximillian who knows more than you and I also said mk11 was faster. We’re not talking mkx because both 11 and 1 are nothing like it. The strings are slower in this game so people can think to use their kameo

[@TheBlackJac]

​@Nonlifting_breezy you're wrong. Mk1 gameplay wise and pacing is overall faster. Movement speed and combos are overall faster. Mk11 only LOOKS faster because the amount of footsies that can be implied but that doesn't change the movement speed nor it's pacing. Which is indeed a slower pacing game. It looks faster but in reality it's not. At all.

[@OpenMiker-rp4eo]

MK1 > MK11 in gameplay. MK11 was so simple. I’m no big fan of kameos but combos are so much better in 1 and esp. when switching kameos to find new combo routes. I just wish characters didn’t need kameos for those full kameos. MKX combos were amazing lols.

[@ByTheElderGods]

This is why MK 11 is my favorite MK game because the intros, victories, customization, character design, and DLC Characters, the hype for the first trailer was insane scorpion being the strongest in MK is better then MK 1 main character. Remember this is my opinion

[@spectrexr1]

I agree with your opinion lol

[@kuzma6044]

Mk11 will forever be goated❤

[@kangweiyan7012]

MK1 gameplay is better, but almost everything else is worse than MK11😢

[@snoogcity]

No way MK11 is more fun to watch or play than MK1. Graphics? That is in the eye of the beholder… but the game is more polished for sure… I think the true passionate of the NRS scene are older, have less time to play and therefore hold the past games to a better standard. Please watch the videos of people like MK Tom Brady hating on EACH of the games. MKX lasted 1 year and the year 2 at Evo , it was Alien galore, and the finale was at 8AM in an empty theater …. Injustice 2 … Deadshot was making people squirt… MK11 was a lack of combos… MK1 was absolutely rushed BY WB, because they are gready pigs. But the gameplay……. Watch the other countries and there is wayyyyy more experiment than here in the US. We STILL finding new pairings and the combos are insane. I’m 47 and played them all, watch a lots of competitive matches and i myself can hold my own. This is just my opinion.

[@RBTrell]

this exactly what i be saying 😂😂 ion really play mk nomo but i watch mk1 all the time literally everyday 💀all the different setups n everything just enjoyable to watch ngl

[@izaac07]

no discussion about the krushing blow mechanic? I hated that.

[@frogaroach]

They were cool on paper but they did too much damage and were very unbalanced in their distribution

[@GeneralCba]

MK1 is better by a fucking mile imo. Gameplay wise, MK11 was the most stale shit of all time, plus the game mechanics sucked

[@tonyhormiga5242]

absolutely not

[@N3r0ThlHeavyMetal]

Both are trash in their own ways haha

[@irina1296]

The MK 11 era was more fun but overall, I still prefer MK1 when it comes to story line, gameplay and characters. Still a bit mad they didn't add Sonya Blade, Jax, Stryker, Sareena, Kabal, REAL Sektor & Cyrax, Kai, Taven, Jade to the main roster

[@koalabearkhan145]

I think most of the characters play how they’re designed in this game, but they missed out on some iconic moves for some characters as well. I think the execution of variation and custom moves could’ve been done better, and helped a lot of characters as well. Although it’s very strike throw heavy, I feel like I’m playing the characters I pick, and wished the combos were implemented better as well as the KB and breakaway mechanics

[@jerrod9009]

Joker and JC made me fall in love with mk

[@MaoriGamerDood]

And a few MK fans thought I was crazy for saying MK1 looks cheap. Thank you for reaffirming that yes, MK1 indeed looks cheap. However with that said, I'll stick with MKX. Now THAT game had peak scorpion 🔥

[@SltlakeSinnr_]

He's rocking the ninjakilla kombat kard

[@migueljuarez6788]

Xombat what's your favorite mk game? Can you make a video ranking the past mk games starting at mk9?

[@Xombat]

Competitively MK 11 was really enjoyable when it was in its prime but every NRS game has had major issues tbh.

[@lightknightayden813]

Hell yeah I loved mk11 more than mk1. I really enjoyed this game so much. 🔥

[@fortunefiderikumo]

we are not having nostalgia for this trash ass game bro stop

[@frogaroach]

Nah mk11 was fire

[@ashcatchem5281]

You was just bad at the game

[@fortunefiderikumo]

@@ashcatchem5281 MK11 was pratically designed for bad players after many complained of MKX, if you think the gameplay of this game was good then it was probably designed for you

[@angel2x813]

@@fortunefiderikumothe only downside to the game in my op was breakaway and krushing blows, you still needed fundamentals

[@artofgarduno]

MK1 sucks

[@amgoingmad]

I think MK1 is better than MK11

[@D1smantle]

Gameplay wise, it's not even close

[@amgoingmad]

@D1smantle And people were saying that about MKX is better than MK11. I believe when MK2 releases people will be saying MK1 is better

[@Freshrealcold]

@@amgoingmadmkx is still better than mk11 but its old now

[@straightcaniven906]

@@amgoingmadthat’s a fact ppl bashing mk1 now when mk2 drops mk1 gonna be loved

[@migueljuarez6788]

I used to think the same, but I'm not sure anymore. Variations had more variety compared to kameos

[@beatblockbeats]

Mk 1 was lazy as hell mk11 def trumps 1

[@sk1llgr]

MK11 gameplay wasn't that bad. All the game needed was a final patch and a dlc pack...

[@MC24DB]

Competitively MK11 was a far better game, it's the mechanics that let it down, if it had normal breaker, normal meter and better combo freedom it would of been the best MK game to date.

[@Im_mashing]

Who is this video for? No chance mk1 has brought in new players

[@dannyyarbrough5938]

MK11 Was just too far ahead of its time! We expected way more from MK1 and were left holding the bag! Greed, Cameos, and the game being incomplete is some of what kept this game from getting over!! I could go on and on, but I’ll always prefer MK11 over MK1!!

[@spectrexr1]

I just waited to do the better combos when they were out of defensive bar.

[@gabehinterman9142]

That Rain was soooooooo much better!

[@ShampooMasta]

People love to glaze customization in this game but at the end of the day we have to play the game. Customization doesn’t matter during gameplay which is where MK11 feels the worst at. I want everyone to boot up MK11 and try to move around in that game. It is beyond stiff and the combos+dashing around feel gross to input. You can never convince me that MK11 is better than MK1 when MK11 had so many gameplay flaws.

[@UnatMar]

Pokes being barely minus was very funny too

[@ElChuvachelo]

English is not my native language, so maybe I misunderstood something, but he really admires the customization of 9 minutes? This is a really cool player and I do not want to offend anyone, so I apologize in advance. If we are talking about downgrade, maybe then we can compare the customization in Injustice 2 and MK11? Or will we just admire the fact that in MK11 you can change the scroll of Shang Tsung or the knives on Sub Zero's belt? Obviously, the problems of MK1 are not in how it looks or its customization +- they are equally good with MK11. And not even in the gameplay with cameos. The problem is that the full edition costs more than a hundred dollars, and it feels like the game is on alpha testing and the developers are in no hurry to fix it. No communication with the community, patches only when a new character is released (to a greater extent), the difference between the releases of characters is almost three months. That's the problem with the game, no content, no communication with players (and no fucking rooms!), that's the same reason mk11 died

[@GodFather_XI]

MK11 is light years superior in nearly every aspect. MK1 looks, plays and feels like a game for 8 year olds.

[@carlbob0002]

Jax FB pre nerf was a warcrime

[@AbbasZaini]

😛 I miss watching you play and comment, but I want nothing to do with MK anymore, best of luck 🙏

[@eldiabloxxiii]

What pisses me off even more is that mk1 is like 40 gbs bigger than mk11 and look at all the shit thats missing lol

[@Miggysaurus13]

Injustice 2 was peak NRS for me . MK11 combo system was whack , break away was one of the worse things in any mk game , and variation suck

[@legendlee4x543]

They need to scratch mk1 timeline go back to old timeline but switch a couple things up that’s it to make it more unique but mk11 was definitely at its peak

[@shariffspence9624]

Mk11 been giving New Brutals lately

[@undergroundvgt]

The graphics in mk11 was waaaaaaaay better than mk1. But I accepted the downgrade lol

[@undergroundvgt]

Breakaways were necessary nobody wanted to be stuck in a combo

[@tbohacker]

Best of both worlds would be customization, speed and art style of 11 with lower gravity and higher combo potential of mk1, minus kameos. It’s like 1 step forward and 2 back every time. 11s customization level will never return, game devs now realize how much people will pay for minor cosmetics so they’ll never give it to us for free. Both 11 and mk1 have flaws but I hope mk2 takes best from both games. Probably won’t see another mk game until id say 2026? Let’s hope they don’t just abandon mk1 for the next year.

[@cheapmovies25]

The past was doing its best here...

[@doublecupinawraith]

you cant beat no one good on a real game.

[@saeed7099]

Just compare scorpion. Look how cool he looks in mk11 versus mk1. Mk11 killed it in terms of design

[@SholoMayhem888]

Yeah Johnny’s design is better in mk11 and his moveset looks cooler too his flashy green energy powers and everything, his mk11 version is way cooler than mk1. Johnny looks boring in mk1 and he isn’t as fun as he is in 11 also Shang Tsung looks better and his powers in 11 in mk1 Shang is boring and he’s just pyrokinetic like Liu I miss Shang’s soul powers in 11… they messed up big time going from mk11 -> mk1 should’ve just made more dlc characters for mk11 and continue from there instead of giving us mk1 tbh I would have preferred all mk1 new/returning characters in mk11

[@crazeworld9842]

Comparing a game with +4 years of support vs 1 year of support lol

[@eliasyoung5929]

Mk11 only had like 2 years support, like every nrs game

[@ForeverMG]

4 years of support? 😂

[@mohastgridlock]

I hate the intro music but otherwise MK11 is kind of dope sans perfect block

[@ianator879]

MK11 is better than mk1 by a mile in everything but gameplay. And that's saying a lot cuz mk1s gameplay is ass

[@nergal2741]

"in everything but gameplay" .. so what do you play MK for if not for gameplay?

[@fortunefiderikumo]

@@nergal2741 as you spend more time on MK Social media especially reddit you'll start to realise how much so many of these players don't really care about gameplay, no wonder MK is a Joke to the FGC

[@dieshadow4861]

@@fortunefiderikumothey mostly removed every random and low skilled winning ways to win in mk1 and they just found out they need to put a lot of time learning the game in order to win and that's just not what they want. I sometimes play casual and they are ppl who still use down 2 and fatal blows on wake up just like they did in mk11 mk1 gameplay is the best in the series

[@N3r0ThlHeavyMetal]

@@dieshadow4861 Hell nah. MK1 is cheap and slow.

[@JDFlyy]

Describe what you mean by everything but gameplay? Because customization doesn’t make me wanna keep playing a game 😂😂

[@RBTrell]

u just reminded me why i hated this game omg😭 the push backs made no sense to me. i use to hate fighting jade n cetrion 🤣🤣

[@Ridaz777]

The fact that mk1 didn’t come with dlc character style costumes for mk characters like mk11 is such a downgrade and lazy move. For example the jacqui spawn skin and Cassie noob and baraka batman skins. Could’ve gotten like a black noir smoke skin or something

[@angelsilva7207]

Dropped this game soon after Nightwolf came out. Fuuuuuuck that game. Yeah, the solo action and customization is cool but gameplay wise? MKX and MK1 annnnnnyyyyyy day of the week.

[@huracheman15]

Don't hype 11 NOW. Lol. Everyone hated 11 when it came out because it didn't play like MKX.🤦🏿‍♂️

[@darkwolf8180]

Even injustice 2 is waayyy better than MK1

[@ChuckBassFGC]

I miss the joker

[@Mkaust1n]

Mk1 will always be better than this game

[@UnrealSm0ke]

You should try takken 8

[@scrapcuz8370]

Mkx is better

[@mosabhdaib7812]

The gameplay is mk11 was boring unlike mk1 which is very fun and the roster in 1 is probably the best in the modern mk games and at the end gameplay is what matters in fighting games and the gameplay in 11 was just bad and not fun

[@user-qk8yu8br9gw]

bro mk1👎😔😭 mk11 ,mkx 👍👍👍❤

[@irvingp6859]

Na am not gonna lie I hate m11 because dvore was bad and the game was bad but everything else is 100% better ,menu,lobbies customization everything but I do like mk1 gameplay better ,your thumbnail got me 😅

[@kroganforce3891]

Mkxl still the best.

[@mostkasualplayer9640]

Mk11 is 10x better than mk((1)) in every aspect

[@kuzma6044]

I wish they would just ditch mk1 and come back to support this game😮‍💨

[@Polobreezy]

11:17 what u say??? 😂😂😂

[@AuContraireMonFraire]

Damn, first time I came early (pause)

[@god7418]

Yall did the exact same thing when mkX came out for mk11 now yall doing the same for mk1…..Dey gotta be paying yall for lying in broad daylight😑

[@patrickpaby9877]

Mk11 better

[@maquisdugaming]

Kotal can beat you with less than 10 hit in this game that's trash asf

[@danilojankovic660]

Easy, mk11 is better, the game just needed longer support, a little bit of balancing and it would be perfect

[@TabiOwusu]

To be honest if you (Xombat) think mk11 is better it’s because you just not performing in it cause my god mk11 gameplay is soo trash

[@luigiwiiUU]

youre actually a troll if you think MK11 was better lmao (Injustice 2 is better than both)

[@nergal2741]

don't even know what i really watched .. half an hour of glazing about skins and how much you could customize. You didn't even show the customization of the abilities (which is basically MKX's variations) and then some mechanics like breakaways and worse combos ... So since MK never was about skins, but rather gameplay, i deduct that MK1 is the better game?

[@lavaclark2824]

This game was so bad.😭

[@allminds786]

Respectfully, I disagree. I think break away in MK11 was one of its best features. The trick was to set them up to use their break away and just be ready to use your character’s armor breaker. MK11 took big brains.

[@scottestes5941]

Mk1 is the best!!

[@Vustazoid]

Ight imma be real. I love you, but u glazing this doodoo game. U doin this like when mk13 comes out u ain’t gonna run straight back to mk1 and talk about how “mk1 was good” the community needs to cut this bullshit out. Because I don’t know a single person who actually has an issue with mk that stops them from playing. If you don’t like the game fine play whatever. But the need to throw out an opinion that you know not everyone is gonna agree with is just stupid imo

[@Xombat]

@Vustazoid “glazing” when majority of the video is me talking about the issues MK 11 had so watch the full video first my boy and second, it’s my opinion so telling me not to share it because people ain’t gonna agree is faded 😂 This comment ain’t it brother, don’t compare me to NRS NPC’s, appreciate you 🙏

[@Vustazoid]

@ no the part of the opinion that’s stupid is that you will do the exact fucking thing when mk13 comes out. Yall hated mkx in its prime you hated mk11 in its prime. And now yall hate mk1 in its prime. It’s just how it’s gonna be. But I’m sorry you took what I said so negatively.

[@Xombat]

@ who’s y’all? I enjoyed MK 11 year 1-Aftermath and hated customs which I spoke about, every balance patch of MK 1 has been horrible for the most part and I didn’t play MK X but that game also had issues. Sharing an opinion and comparing is valid especially when each game has its own issues, you keep grouping me with “y’all” like I just said

[@Vustazoid]

@ you are a highlight of the FGC. Everyone knows your name you are gonna get grouped into it thats all there really is to it. I commented bc i personally don’t agree W you. And I hate seeing ppl acting like they liked mk11 when 2021-2022 people were hating on it

[@Vustazoid]

I played mk11 for its entire lifetime. Do not get me wrong I liked the game, but looking back if we all just go back to mk11 we will all have the same exact problem we had for two years

[@xxAB24]

Literally the worst game NRS has ever put out lmao

[@sevdailieva3163]

Aint no one returning to mk11 trash lol

[@azizkash286]

Mk11 is soo ass lol

[@haysan32]

Gameplay was boring af

[@Los-0120]

Both games are equally shit. Lmao

[@Xombat]

😂😂

[@tiagotoledo1806]

Mk11 🤮

[@beatblockbeats]

Downgrade for sure

[@arkhammike6423]

Unbearable was smart and kept the superior mk game alive. Gone ahead and join him on that game instead