It was certainly good, but still not on MK's level.

Really? Konquest mode?
With its awful voice acting, outdated graphics (the open world, not the fighting arenas and character models which were awesome) and bad cutscenes (animations, camera angles, everything is awful)?
I can understand it can be fun to walk around the different realms and see many characters of the franchise but it wasn't nearly as polished as MK 9's story mode.

MK 9 gives you interesting cutscenes to watch and seemless transitions leading to actual fighting which makes the whole story mode more enjoyable and interesting. For the first time I actually cared about the characters I was playing with (even though I felt that Kabal's *death* wasn't as dramatic as it should have been).

I'm not saying the idea of Konquest mode is bad, I'm saying it wasn't done properly and eventually became boring, though Shujinko's evolution was something nice. It could be given another go on this generation of consoles and I'd say focusing on a single character or having different story modes could be something really interesting to develop each one's background (unlike MK9 which gave each kombattant a mere 20 minutes of character development).

TL;DR : Konquest mode, as an idea, is more interesting than MK 9's Story mode but the way it was done made it less fun to play. Video games = fun comes first. MK 9 wins.

A more recent fighter game, Tekken 6, also had a story mode, and it was kind of decent, but still not interesting when it comes to the plot and the actual fighting (it was even awful at certain moments... try to turn a fighting game into a Beat them all).

(Sorry for the long reply...)
Then on that we agree.

Konquest was an attempt at building a real single player story mode around a fighting game, similar to an RPG, while MK 9's story is composed of cutscenes and fights which is what it has always been.

So I perfectly understand your point. It was a bold attempt. It was made so that MK would be more than a fighter, possibly to avoid the repetitiveness of them.

I still believe, however, that MK 9's story redefined Mortal Kombat as it provided us with something compelling enough to make us play until the end (whereas Tekken 6's story mode almost made me quit out of boredom and frustration).

Try to imagine if every fighting game you know would at least have such a mode, made in a similar way.
We all know arcade modes ending with a cutscene telling us about what happens after the character wins, Tekken, Street Fighter and Soul Calibur do that and even this Mortal Kombat does it with its Ladder mode.

But never before have I seen a fighting game with an actual plot making characters fight for a reason and making the environment part of the story (like the streets under attack from MK3) instead of simply being a background. (I don't know anything about Blazblue though).

So in the end, such a story mode is a step forward, not only for MK but for the whole genre. While Konquest had a greater scale, it wasn't created as a means to link every part of the game together. It felt more like a bonus, something different to make you rest before fighting again.

Then again, that's my opinion. Now what I want to know is where the series is heading to now that the reboot is complete, and I hope Soul Calibur 6/Tekken 7 or any other fighting game will benefit from Mortal Kombat's return.

Not nearly a step backwards, but it IS funny that people are praising all the stuff that they bashed in Deadly Alliance and to some extent Deception (except for the 3D roaming which was purely a matter of taste imo.)

Underrated comment. I used to hate that game so much that any time my siblings asked me to play it, I just picked Hom and shut myself down mid-match.

The description clearly says what it is. It is not like people have to click to the site. They just have to read.