Today's Notes 5/23/21: Mortal Kombat 11, Ronda Rousey Can't Act & More

Good afternoon everyone,

Yes I slept in today, because I didn't go to bed until 4 AM, because it was all about Mortal Konbat 11 for me yesterday.

So for last night's stream, the big focus was on doing the story mode for Mortal Kombat 11, which picks up sometime after Mortal Kombat X, and we learn through the entire story that there have been multiple time lines in the Mortal Kombat Universe as part of an enternal plan to have a perfect time line as crafted by the villain of the story Kronika, who happens to be the mother Shinnok, and that she is reason behind the events seen in Mortal Kombat 9 where Raiden and Liu Kang go head in the final chapter. It's an okay plot that gives context to a lot of things such as Mortal Kombat vs DC Universe as well Scoprion and Sub-Zero appearing in the Injustice video games. It took me about 4 1/2 hours to get through the story mode, as each fight was two rounds, and most of the characters used in the story mode I have not used in the prior weeks in my achievement grinding. 

Speaking of which here are the achievements unlocked last night, some were done after the stream because they required some 'focused' attention.

1. Half Way There: Komplete 50% of Story Mode
2. What's Next?: Komplete Story Mode
3. R-E-S-P-E-C-T: Pay 100 total respect points in King of the Hill
4. Hit The Dojo: Komplete all Basics Tutorials

Now I know I said I wasn't going to go for the Tutorial achievements, but I was only two away from completing Hit The Dojo, and it took me an half an hour to figure out the timing needed to do a combo using Scorpion's spear. Anyway, if all goes right after tonight's stream, I'll be going after the Victorious achievement, since I need to unlock just one more victory pose and equip it to its corresponding character.

Of course we do have clips from last night as well, so here a few highlights

Twitch Clips: Cassie Cage Brutality

Twitch Clips: You know what they say, it's better to burn out than to fade away

Twitch Clips: We pulled that one out of our backside

Twitch Clips: Cassie Cage: Fatal Blow To Fatality

Now let me turn my attention to Ronda Rousey, who puts in a dreadful performance as Sonya Blade where it comes across as her blatantly just reading lines off a piece of paper with little or no direction. This was obvious with her performance in the story more for WWE 2K20 and when having to cut promos on Monday Night RAW, but it's really exposed here because there are supposed to be some several emotionally intense moments for Sonya but because of Ronda's inability to put any emotion into anything she does, Sonya comes across as oddly disinterested in what's happening to her as a character and what she learns. You know what Netherealm Studios should have done was when they managed to get Bridgette Wilson for the Mortal Kombat 95 skin back, they should have had her record all of Sonya's lines for the story mode and patched Rousey's piss-poor acting out of the game. Believe me, if replacing Peter Dinklage with Nolan North improved the original Destiny, replacing Ronda Rousey would've helped give MK 11's story mode the emotional punch it needed.

Moving on, Today's Fitness Boxing 2 session was short for me for a Sunday as I felt a little sluggish at times. Still was a 40 minute workout, I just didn't do anything extra. Besides most people just do the dailies only, from what I've seen on Twitter anyone who is doing Fitness Boxing on a daily basis are not doing any free exercises to go with them. 

With it being Sunday that means our attention will be on Overwatch and since the anniversary event is going on, we might be able to work in one of the seasonal brawls that are PVE (depending on what the daily cycle in the arcade mode has listed). Otherwise, we'll stick with Quick Play matches.

And on that note we'll see you later over on twitch.tv/fredcasden!

 

Highlights For The Week May 16, 2021

 

Here are highlights from things that happened on http://twitch.tv/fredcasden for the week of May 16, 2021 which featured Overwatch, Ftiness Boxing 2 Rhythm & Exercise, Mass Effect: Legendary Edition, Tom Clancy's The Division, Star Trek Online, WWF WrestleMania: The Arcade Game & Mortal Kombat 11!