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Monday, July 15th, 2024
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Mortal
Kombat 1 Takeda Gameplay Trailer
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 After
releasing a teaser trailer on Twitter last week, NetherRealm Studios and
Ed Boon shared the full gameplay reveal trailer for the latest Mortal
Kombat 1
(2023)
DLC character, Takeda
Takahashi.
The returning MKX
character becomes playable on July 23rd alongside a new Kameo
character, Ferra.
Without further ado, watch the full 3-minute MK1 Gameplay Reveal
Trailer for Takeda Takahashi. *WARNING.*
The video posted below
contains extreme scenes of violence and gore and is not appropriate for
all audiences.
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While it's likely that
MK1 will
continue on with future seasons, it's worth pointing out that the game
appears to be struggling to hold a steady active player base... especially when
compared with the stats and ongoing success of other modern fighting games in
eSports in 2024 (Street Fighter 6,TEKKEN
8, and Guilty Gear
-STRIVE- to name a few).
NRS's own official Mortal Kombat YouTube channel has very low viewership numbers on their
competitive videos, deeply contrasting the ridiculous view counts on their
reveal trailers. More shockingly, MK1's player registrants at
EVO 2024 turned out abysmally low
for the game's first-ever appearance at the event, with thousands fewer
players than the top-played fighting games of 2024 — MK1
awkwardly thudding into the final EVO '24 leaderboard in 7th, second to
last place. (Source: @EVO).
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Even UNI2 and the
25-years-young Street
Fighter III: 3rd Strike beat Mortal Kombat 1 into a bloody
pulp. (All that "popularity" Ed Boon has on Twitter, and they
couldn't manage to break 650 players?) 
MK1 still sold quite a few copies... so the game will probably be
around for a while, but some might pick up a certain "tone" in
Ed Boon's tweet from earlier... as (he must realize by now) a successful
and long-running competitive fighting game does need an actual active "community" behind it to keep it
relevant.
At the least, a Season 2 for Mortal Kombat 1 is probably
imminent. NRS certainly put enough money into marketing MK1 to keep
it going for a while. However, Mortal Kombat 1's
"potential EVO 2025 appearance" —
on
the other hand —
is
not so guaranteed. (Might be a one and done... like a typical MK1
player pulling the plug for a Quitality.) Sorry, I had to. Thank you for
reading. Keep it here on The Fighters Generation for more fighting game news
and upcoming EVO 2024 coverage.
~TFG Webmaster, Frank Joseph
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@Fighters_Gen
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| Sources:
Gamespot,
@evo
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Takeda Teaser
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On
Twitter, NetherRealm Studios creative director Ed Boon dropped the latest Mortal
Kombat 1 (2023) gameplay teaser
trailer for returning MKX character, Takeda Takahashi, to hype up the
release of the final Kombat Pack 1 DLC fighter...
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Related TFG Links:
Mortal Kombat
1, Takeda
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