and to think...2 days ago I had my thread closed saying how Id like to see either Hornbuckle or Nimbus in the game..IN YOUR FACE MOD DUDES!!!!

Ugh..finally! Thank you!! I think it's their job to shake up the rumor hive and toss it to the fans. You always hear about all these other characters gonna come out and then in the end it's like Darrious or someone like that. Then again...there was the rumor of Ermac back in the day

Yeah in my opinion those aren't good enough reasons to claim that it will be Animalities that make it into the new MK.

If you think about it from both a more reasonable standpoint and from a developer standpoint it has a better chance being Friendships.

For Animalities not to be utter shit like in MK 3, they would have to have team members model, texture, animate and add unique sound effects to every single characters animal form. This is far from feasible when they're trying to do so much already. The animation of each and every animal alone makes this a silly choice if you are making the game.

However, with Friendships they simply have to model and texture 'props'. Think about it, they only have to make the props and then have actors act out the Friendship in a manner of mintues to get the job done!

All you saying Animalities will make it in will be disappointed come the release of the game.

not to mention, all Friendship needs to be is a non-lethal, cute way to finish the match.

Hell, like I've been saying, they can even add some dark humor to them. Like Mileena offering the other guy a half-eaten chicken carcass

HAHAHA thats hilarious!

Could be brutalities?

I agree 100% with the your ideas on Animalities and Friendships.

Dude's right. In this fancy new world of 3D gaming, Animalities aren't feasible.

Modeling, Rigging and Animating 28 different animals for nothing more than a 10 second death clip would be far more work than something like a friendship or babality. (As was said, the friendship would just involve props... babality would also be easy, as it would just involve smaller baby models, which could all be built from essentially the same template baby model, and if animated, use the same rig and animations.)

As for the "more serious tone" arguement... yeah... they've been saying that for like 10 years, and in that time we've had Puzzle Kombat, Chess Kombat, Motor Kombat and Batman.

So yeah, it's a thought they throw out alot... but frankly they don't seem to follow it all that religiously.

I could totally see Friendships making a comeback and I'd welcome it whole-heartedly. I was never one of those people who thought they ruined the game. I always loved them, and have missed them for quite some time.

"[Internal Skeleton System] The heart, The lungs, The brain; The tongue. We can separate the model from the neck or even the jaw, So you can see the tongue flapping around, The brain can fall out"

- this is some neat shit! Really lovely news, the only good news that is because:


"Hidden Characters that didn't even exist. We're gonna make sure they exist now".

- This is some bad news... I hope they become downloadable or maybe Tremor, the only character I like to see, I would hate to see Hornbuckle or whatever that shit is called and Bellok? I hate him already for cutting my precious Rain out of the game... a character that actually makes sense and they probably leave out of the game without reasons.

"You look at Babalities, Animalities; Friendships. We're not gonna bring all those back, But I promise you we will bring at least one of those back".

- BLEH! I sure hope it are friendships they bring back... animalities don't make sense and they spoil Liu Kangs dragon fatality, it should be a fatality no green shit thing. And Babalities are the worst of them, who wants to see that? NOBODY! That suicide fatalities, those were fun, they should return for the sport of dying before being killed by a fatality... those were fun, not those stupid funny things.

I think we all know who the hidden character who was never actually in MK is going to be.

Meat-Blaze.

Barring that, I'd like to see them do Skarlet based on my SCIV CaS work.

you forgot about D) Brutalities! I don'T wanna see animalities, because there aren't enought deadly animals for every char. I am fine with some fighters having a beast-form fatality, but please no animalities.

with all the details like organs and bones we see during x-ray moves, I think Brutalities would be the perfect addition to this game. no explosions in the end , but a really bloods combo with brutal hits like in x-ray... just extended

If only they had asked him about there only being one level of CPU difficulty in the entire game in that interview. But they probably didn ́t know about that at the time.
I ́m incredibly disappointed if it ́s true.
I just pray that it ́s only for the more linear story mode. It still would suck, but at least we ́d get real CPU difficulties in the other modes.

Yeah, I'm sure everyone is just dying to see Zebron though. A "character" who is probably the biggest joke of all (actually, the king of all jokes, moreso than even Mokap). That guy, I mean, animal, is nothing more than wasteful-spare-the-time concept art for shits and giggles. Mokap is atleast an actual tribute to someone, so props for that. But Zebron? WTF, who, where, what, when ......is that? Belokk was completely planned for MK, only company-copyright is the problem, unfortunately. So you and whoever else about that Zebron garbage....I'd only hope to think you're joking.

Rain, Tremor, Hornbuckle, Blaze, Nimbus, Scarlett, Belokk, (maybe Meat or Chameleon) - are all wise choices I'd personally want to see. I had a feeling hidden characters were somehow going to be put in this game.

Glad to hear about the extra details involving internal organs. As far as the other finishers are concerned, I wouldn't mind seeing friendships return, but with a twist of dark humor.

Brutalities are in and the fighters are Zebron,Tremor and Hornbuckle.

OMG I hope they choose Animalities.
They dont have to be neon glowing animals, they could make them look very impressive!

SO EXCITED!

As for the hidden character, I dont know any others that ppl have mentioned and i dont like any that people have mentioned lol. I'll have to watch this space!

I bet they will bring back animalities!
If they make the beasts look real and not glowing like mk3, it will blow our minds! Image a T-rex animality or a dragon beast animality with today technology graphics! Sweeeeeet!

animalities were just silly, man. I mean Liu Kang's dragon makes sense because he did it before, but then you had Mileena turning into a skunk and farting on the guy until he passed out (I guess cause she has a foul personality...?), Cyrax turning into a shark on land (LOL), and REPTILE turning into a CHIMPANZEE ( What the fuck? ).

How can you think that stuff was cool enough to bring back?

Babyalities are TOO silly for this game. I know MK is known for campy humor but I think that'd be taking it too far.

and I'll bet anything that the X-Ray Moves are gonna be called "Brutalities" in the final version. I mean either way it's a big, crushing combo that fucks up the opponent.

My guess is Friendships. It kinda ties into the recent comment Boon made in an interview that there will be some humor. Granted, he said the game would still be serious, but some humor would be in it. I always liked friendships. In a way, they were a big "LOL" to all the people getting fussy over the blood and fatalities.

We get it, you like Rain.

The secret character would probably be, you know, a secret character, and not take up a spot on the select screen.

And people need to just stop talking about Belokk. Nobody would even remember him if it weren't for that one thread that popped up a few weeks ago.

If you describe them for what they really are, you'd realize they're not that serious.

suddenly, the fighter turns into an animal for no logical reason, and either bites, mauls, or detonates an exploding egg at the opponent.

Hmmmm interesting.

In regards to the returning 'ality' I really wouldnt mind any of them retruning. They are not, and never were/will be, the main focus. its something extra and something different. But we'll see.

For the secret charactetr thing, I like this idea, but to be honest I would rather they focus on making Khameleon a better, individual, more involved character before they start on anyone else.

That being said I would love Skarlett to make an appearance, depending on what they do with her. I cam up with a concept for her a little while ago so it will be interesting to see what they do.
Nimbus/Belokk/Hornbuckle Id be less excited about, but if they make them decent enough I guess it would be ok, and as long as they dont leave out someone for them.

I bet "the hidden characters who didn't exist before" will just be Blaze and Hornbuckle.

Nimbus Terrafaux would blow my mind, though. I wonder if they can even do that or there might be some sort of legal bullshit where Gamepro (or was it EGM?) could claim to own the name since it was their hoax.

As for the -alities, I'm inclined to believe Shaun that one of them will make it in, in my opinion, Ed hasn't been very convincing when people ask if they'll be in the game and he says no.

I hope to god it's not Animalities, though, God DAMN are they awful. Friendships would be great. Both are a fucking joke, but at least in one case, the joke is actually a little funny. Hell, they could do a thing where the friendships turn lethal unexpectedly, like Kung Lao's bunny finishers in Shaolin Monks.

That dude getting eaten by the vines in the original Living Forrest?
Pffff... nah
Nimbus...? pfff. Hell no

Belokk... not in this one. Post MK3 character should stay out of this one for now. Maybe in MK10


Shadow Priest? Yes!!
Masked Guard? Yes!!

Hornbuckle? YES!!!!!!!

Anyone remember poor, overlooked, kinda-of-playable secret character "Monster" from MK: Deception? No? Moving on....

I'm not saying they're "serious", they just generally aren't a joke finishing move. Like when I was little, and someone did a Friendship or a Babality it was campy or silly. But if someone did an Animality it was like "whoa dude! That was awesome!! How'd you do that?" Yah know? Granted, there were some silly Animalities, but there was plenty of silly Fatalities also