I liked MKDA's.

Kang is dead=Earthrealm people all pissed off and want to kill Shang and Quan.

Shao Kahn is dead=All of his minions having no Emperor,even if it was a clone.

The Dragon King=The fact that he is indeed supposed to return,as shown in Deception's intro.

The Deadly Alliance=Great team up,should have lasted longer though.

Goro dies=Well its not really him but it was a good storyline.

Reptile=Reptile thinks he can trust this vampire,even if she betrays him and he ends up becoming the Dragon King.

I'd have to go with MK4.

MKD

Without a doubt. The Dragon King Returning, and the latest up to date game, with the most content, so far (not counting MKA yet).

For overall content it's MKDA. It's easily the most fleshed out. It's Konquest mode even gives more details about what happened in the older games than we had known before. DA has a bunch of interesting subplots and more detail in the endings instead of wasting time with so many "what if" scenarios.


But honorable mentions to MK4 and MK3.

MK4 for having a whole game(MKM) as set up. They did a good job building to Shinnok as the new main villain. Too bad he sucked as an actual character in gameplay.

MK3 for having my favorite premise. The idea of the game starting with Kahn having already taken over Earth was awesome. We actually got to see what would happen had he won in the first two and it feels like the biggest threat the heroes had ever faced. Kahn was at the height of power and credibility as a villain.

Gotta disagree there. IMO MKDe has easily the weakest and least satisfying story of any MK game, ever!
It's main weak points for me are:

-The Undefeatable Army have changed already. In MKDA they resurrect repeatedly after being killed by Kitana's forces, yet in MKDe it's only by the Dragon King's heart that they can be resurrected

-Sub-Zero and Frost apparently have not met up Raiden et al, as shown in his story- "On the way to the rendezvous point with Raiden and the other heroes [to attack the DA], Sub-Zero was betrayed by Frost..." thus contradicting MKDA intro where Frost is clearly seen with the other Earth warriors.

-Scorpion, in attempt to change the character's path (some might argue actually GIVE him a character lol) is suddenly made "Champion of the Elder Gods". Yet he retains all his hell-spawned powers and isn't any different than before. Doesn't really work.

-The less said about the "revelation" that Kahn and Goro did not really die- they had, basically, lookalikes- the better. It's damn feeble. Plus Goro, after having a noble story in MK4 / Gold is suddenly made a puppet of Kahn because Kahn saved him (never mind how Kahn sold out the Shokan to the Centaurs, etc!).

-SubZero has the worst ending, ever, as it simply has him on the run and killing a few Tarkatan on his way to the rendezvous. No, "After defeating Onaga, Sub-Zero...", no Kenshi or Hotaru, who were featured in his bio. Utter rubbish.

-The Order / chaos theme feels tacked on- where was it before?- and Dairou is basicslly tedious. That's all pure personal opinion though

-Shujinko shouldn't mean "protagonist" in Japanese. It should mean "clumsy plot device-character to justify a side-game where he meets all the MK characters in defiance of the odds and manages to set this game up by being a bit stupid". The next-generation Liu Kang according to Boon, before the backlash hit. I don't think that's the plan anymore...

Erm...that's all lol

*goes to have a lie down*

^ I ditto that. It's pretty much exactly what I was about to type. Glad I read first.

The only thing I'll add is specifically mentioning the death of Liu Kang in the opening. I don't like games that don't let people die. So the opening to this seemed awesome to me. Its one of the things I liked about MK3. They cut so many characters out from the previous game. I like to see change like that. Hopefully after MK:A they can start doing fresh characters again and stop bringing everybody back.

^ Agreed. MKDA had the best storyline.

Yeah, one of the weak things about the MK story is the lack of consequences. There's no reason to care about any of the bad situations because it's only a matter of one or two games or upgrades before it's retconned.

Kahn was my favorite villain but I'll always maintain that he should have stayed dead after MK3. He was at his prime there. He'll never be able to top the invasion of Earth. That was the closest a villain can get. He had a great run and was a big threat but when he lost it should have been over for good. Bringing him back just makes him look weak. They can't have him as the main boss again cause it's played out so he is just a side character now and that doesn't do him justice. Sometimes the best thing for a character is to just play their role in the story then bow out.

Indeed. Shao Kahn is going from MSH Thanos to MvC2 Thanos as we speak.

Also I still have issues with Noob Saibot/Classic Sub-Zero connection.


To me, it ruins both characters.


I do like Noob Saibot's mystique and Classic Sub-Zero fight thru MKM:Sub Zero.


But Combining them feels so wrong.

MKDA. Longest bios and konquest was simply training with for one a COMPLETE STORY. MKD comes second i guess but konquest only realy helped to create shujinko as a character with cameos from eveyone else. So yeah MKDA i'de have to say was the stongest part of the stroy.

MKDA for sure. But ofcourse they had to ruin it with MKD.

IMO MKD had a good storyline on it's own, but it completly destroyed everything that MKDA had achieved (Kang, Kahn, Goro all revived... and the rest of those retconned deaths).

Next up would be MK3.

The best storyline is when Kahn invades earthrealm (MK3,UMK3,MKT),the only thing i don't like is that Johnny Cage die!
However it's confirmed the old storyline has been removed and now he isn't dead.
However i HATE MK3 because there's no sign of Cage,Raiden,Scorpion,Human Smoke,Reptile,Masked Sub Zero,Baraka,etc;
and because there's four of the my personal mosthated characters Sindel,Nightwolf,Kung Lao and Jax.
Trilogy is the BEST MK EVER!

I think it would have to be Shoalin Monks because it has a full adventure and it's also a new kind of challenging storyline

MK1 followed by MK2, and very close behind MK:DA.

I loved MK1's take on the whole mystical tournament to save the realm, which MK2 the took one step further.

MK:DA was also great in that it had the same feel, while also adding alot more to the story.

umm.........mk3 good story line mk2 go's with it