I wish Jax died. Not only because I'm sick of the character (along with Sonya, Johnny, Shao Kahn, etc), but it would actually give FemJax better motivation.

Currently she's "doing it all for my daddy". If he's still alive and kicking then it's just "meh whatever". But if he's dead, and that's what gives FemJax her drive... then it would be a lot more impactful.

She still needs to develop a life and mind of her own though. Until then I'll always call her FemJax.

I agree. Jax, Cage and Sonya need to be benched for a while so that the new generation can be developed more. I understand keeping some older established fighters around for story purposes, but I'm personally sick of seeing some of them over and over again. MK is evolving for the better in my opinion. Look at other fighting games that are playing out. Virtua Fighter has always been dull and seemed like it never evolved at all despite adding a new character here and there. It was always tailored towards tournament play. Soul Calibur is great but once again they failed miserably with story mode. Dead or Alive was a disaster both times with story mode and has grown stale. Tekken has morphed from being a fun fighter to being all about tournament play like Virtua Fighter. 7's roster is terrible and the characters have fizzled out too.

Awesome, can't wait to play him in MK11.

Good. No need to remove one of the 10 most played characters for "story reasons" or because "he's boring" to add "interesting" characters that no one plays in a FIGHTING game.

MK11 Jacqui looks like a better character than Jax has ever looked in his entire existence.

Jax's presence won't take away from Jacqui being awesome. I can't say the same for the other way around.

Piss off, Jax. Your daughter is better than you.

Seriously some of you thought that Jax was going to miss a game?

Jax is a staple character like Sub-zero and Scorpion, mk vs dc made it clear

Mileena, Reptile, Kung Lao and Johnny Cage skipped that game, Jax did not.

I remember when Baraka was a staple character...

Ka-Tra

I double-checked and I'm genuinely surprised the only game he's missed are MK1 and Deception.

He's so forgettable and unimportant to the series outside of MK2 (where he was a stand-in for Sonya) that I thought he'd only made at most 4 appearances.

I like Jax, but is there really a reason for him to be in this game?

You know, that's quite interesting. It is a bit surprising that Cage didn't make it into that game, considering his status now as essentially the main good guy.

To be fair, he KINDA was in Deception, if you count the "Unchained" port.

Baraka was up until MKX- Then all over a sudden he was treated like a complete joke. Baraka, Rain, and Tanya should've been in the base roster.

In a war between Mileena and Kotal over who gets Outworld- Mileena needed more playable allies! That always bothered me.

Then Baraka fans had to suffer the double humiliation of seeing him decked out in a new outfit yet only fightable in story mode AND then killed. If that wasn't enough, his iconic blades is given over to some lame guest character.

Jesus, MKX was a terrible time to be a Baraka fan...and I'm not even a Baraka fan.

Sorry, I know this is about Jax but I just had to let that out.

I think Tetra was just making a joke about Baraka's staples from his MKG appearance.

Oh fuck.

I have officially lost 2019.

Just....yeah...I'll see myself out.

Oh look Jax, I'd say I told you so and steal a couple dance moves from Gillbob, but its so likely there's not even enough reason to be smug about it.

Its a foregone conclusion really, you WILL get the MK1 Roster plus Kung Lao, Kitana and Jax every game from MK9 on. Every roster we see in an MK game take 10 spaces away and reserve them for these guys.

Meanwhile with Takeda....

Ehhhhhh sort of. He missed MK3... and MK4, until the Gold expansion... then Deadly Alliance. It was kind of a big deal when he actually made the roster in Deception. And they knew it too, considering he was front and center in the marketing.

It's remarkable how iconic he is for how little we've ever seen of him. I mean, he only had 2 games before Armageddon. If you count expansions, Noob Saibot had twice as much exposure as Baraka over the same span.

This is weirding me out a little bit.

I'm just glad Baraka has his heart and brain back.

Although I doubt he'll actually use them

Why do the older characters need to be left out for the new generation to shine? In my opinion, if a new character is done well, the old characters should not need to be shafted for their benefit.

MKX was a good example. While Johnny, Sonya, and Jax had important roles in the story, Cassie, Takeda, Jacqui, and Kung Jin were placed front and center as the main protagonists of the story. And I think it did a very good job at showing how the old characters were relevant while still letting the new characters shine as protagonists.

This is not to mention that NRS has been pretty good at differentiating the old character and their offspring. For example, Cassie and Johhny both use green energy. But they were careful to have them both manifest it in different ways, making the characters fundamentally different gsmeplay-wise. I'm confident they will continue this which Jacqui and Jax.

No one plays with them because they're never around to be played with. Let's not act like these characters are being ingored in is several games.

If keeping these old characters in is that important, they can just be permanent unlockables, and have it be super easy to unlock them. No sense in crippling the story just to keep them in.

When they were around almost no one picked them.

If that were the case, people wouldn't be asking for them now.

Don't apply your own displeasure to everyone else.

Then explain why one of the least played characters from MKX (FemJax) is returning, yet one of the most played (Takeda) is not. Kung Jin was much more played than her too, apparently. She literally did nothing in the story either - cut her out of it and hardly anyone would notice as barely anything would've changed.

As much as I am pleased with Jacqui's return, I have to agree.

Jacqui is perhaps the least liked newcomer of MKX, yet she surpassed fan favorite Takeda. Clearly "most played" was not a factor here. Jax has no need to return. Give another character the opportunity to become better.

Well he was one of the 10 most used characters,so he FACTUALLY deserves to return and is here to stay. You whining doens't change the fact. Better luck next time.

Being one of the most used characters is not an explicit agent for returning, as we just discussed.

Jax is returning because the developers want him to. That is the fact at hand. You can pull your head out of your ass now.

I said that he factually DESERVES to be back because he's one of the player's favorite characters. And he is. This is a FIGHTING game and they are likely to favor characters that people PLAY.

I never said that the most used characters are GUARANTEED to return, so learn to read.