OFT.

Fujin fans are

So just like Kitana fans right?

Nothing quite says "stuck up your own ass" like bashing a characters fans because, God forbid, people have different opinions.

Have some manners, people. Or did they disappear once the age of the internet forum come around?

Yup. The internet has turned an entire generation (and thus far, the generation after it) into pathetic, self-important shit heads, as his comment and many others on this forum illustrate.

He's had two appearances. How many did Stryker have before he became great?(...and I still don't like him)

We base a whole story on the what I consider the 'mediocre' Cage family, their friends, and random other kids, but somehow Fujin cannot be relevant? Oh please.

I do not see how NRS retells the events of MK4 and completely exclude all MK4 characters as playable except Shinnok. Tanya should have been on the roster, Fujin should have been on the roster, Reiko should have been on the roster.

It really is like a lot of you didn't even play MK4/MKGold. Midway created these characters and it literally is silly to expose them but not expand/utilize them. Fujin in chapter one, vanishing, and not being playable is stupid.

People have always been rude. The internet simply makes it easier to get away with, but it's nothing exclusive to modern generations.

This so much. Fujin's appearance in MK4 was honestly pretty great. He was one of the most fun characters to play in that game and it's a shame not really many people know that.

I completely agree. Fujin is already a fan favorite, no one would be mad if Fujin was a playable character in this game save for a couple of trolls. There's no reason he shouldn't be, the plot centers around MK4, he was involved in the story and this is the best he's ever looked. I see no reason why this character wasn't on the roster from the beginning, and I really hope he will be announced after the kombat pack is over. I've said this before but if you were to tell me a year before MKX was announced that Fujin wouldn't be in this game I would have called you an idiot and walked away. Everyone thought that this character was a lock, and it's painfully obvious that NRS knows how requested he is but he's still not in the game. There's NO reason he shouldn't be.

Oh, and "He lacks a personality" uh, probably more than 2/4 of all the MK characters lack a personality. lol

That drunken asshole who always talks shit at the pub, yeah they existed since the dawn of time. The internet has just let them talk to the people outside.

Also, while I do like Reiko and Tanya, I don't like their allegiance with Shinnok in MK4 as much as I do with Milleena against Kotal. Reiko using his hot bod and smarts to get close to the top is more interesting than "He served Shao Kahn, now he serves Shinnok." And Tayna's Edenian-ness being partnered with "Prince" Rain helps them both out, where as before she basically was just another bad guy. So, I wouldn't call MKX a retelling of MK4 at all (maybe the first chapter). They just have the same bad guy.

Fujin is an alternative God character. He had a lot of potential originally, and they even went ahead and let him grow (or graduate) into the role of protector of earthrealm in the story. He had the bow and arrow, and had the 50/50 projectile from a distance. Made him really cool and refreshing, instead of only being stuck with Raiden all the time (...almost seemed like potential to pick them both in a two-on-two game and have a "God team").

Plus, speaking to his potential again, you can do alot with wind superpowers if you put the effort into it. Tornado set-ups, hurricane sweeps, direct wind blasts, and alot of other centrifugal force powers are all possible with a Fujin. Not to mention his long ponytail, and whatever a new version of the bow and arrow might look like for a God character. Really play up his power over wind as a God.

In MKA, they did a great job of updating him. It's just that system was abysmal for gameplay. I enjoyed Fujin in that game anyway though because the fouls in the system kind of played to his m.o. (air combat and whatnot). He was still really fun to play with.

For this game, it really does feel like he fits in there somewhere, and I think they're making a mistake by not including him. What with them completely retooling events that harken back to MK4. The mood and feel of this game does that as well. He should at least be playable. At least.

Hell, they're micro selling us everything else about the game, put him in another pack (should have been in the pack with Tanya and Tremor, honestly) and put it up for sale. I think it's cool but, I didn't really need The Predator or Jason. Seems like they're bogging things down and ultimately not contributing to anything at all. They're not that versatile, and they're not that fun to play with, honestly.

Are you mad? Do you possess anger?

A lot of people are saying there is no reason fujin was excluded and that he should have been in the game at launch.

As much as I would appreciate fujin, there is a reason.

Fujin played virtually no role in the story that NRS wanted to tell. While u think other stories could have been better, NRS decided to tell this story (which happens not to have fujin). Additionally he doesnt/didn't have the popularity to warrant being forced in like reptile and ermac.

He isn't guaranteed for dlc, he is far from guaranteed to show up at all in the next game, and all we can do is hope and ask.

That's kind of a weak excuse though. Story doesn't particularly dictate who gets to be playable. The truth is they probably just didn't want to develop him and put their resources elsewhere. You upset a lot more fans by excluding Reptile or Ermac than Fujin, that coupled with the fact that WB has a hard on for guests and NRS disinterest in the character is a perfect storm for disappointing Fujin fans.

Exactly^ Ive been thinking this NRS don't like fujin at all, if this much demand was for another character they would be dlc without a shadow of a doubt.

Let's just look at it this way:

Fujin is in demand. A large portion of the vocal MK fans want him. That's not saying the millions of others do, but the vocal ones, the ones NRS listens to the most, which are here on MKO, TRMK, and other sites...are asking for him. Not to mention Ed's twitter blows up with Fujin requests daily (and now Sareena, too).

Tremor exists in MKX, not necessarily because of the petition, but because people have been pestering Ed/NRS for YEARS. He's giving the vocal minority what they want, because they are loud. I wouldn't be surprised if we never see Tremor again after this...Ed's thought process is undoubtedly "I'm glad we can do something for the fans, but I'm also hoping they'll finally shut the fuck up about Tremor."

Fujin is going along that same path - if he doesn't show up as extra DLC for MKX, he'll probably pop up in MKXI as regular roster, or DLC.

Also - look at the current poll. It's Fujin vs. Sub-Zero. If Fujin Fever wasn't sweeping this fanbase, Sub-Zero would be killing the fuck out of him right now. The voting would probably be 99% Sub-Zero, 1%Fujin. Instead, it's neck and neck. That would be very different if Fujin was in the game already.

Fujin doing so well doesn't mean that people live him so much as it means people are sick of Sub-Zero. Same for Scorpion and how quickly he losses in the tournament. It isn't quite reflective of their actual popularity.

I think don't think Tremor got in because of a loud vocal minority. More people have been asking for Fujin and Sareena more consistently. With Tremor and Skarlet it lets them do something new and we all know how much NRS likes new.

Also true, I agree.

The accuracy, though.

Kai should have been on the roster, Jarek should have been on the roster, Meat should have been on the roster.

If new is their thing then why not use Fujin? He's not 100% new, but he'd be like new. He's been in 2 MK games, 1 of which shouldn't even count. The casual audience isn't even aware he exists. Plus they never really have fully explored Wind as an element anyway.

They could reimagine Fujin in a way that makes him feel like a completely new character.

QFT.

Fujin fans better get ready for all the bashing and trolling they are gonna experience now that "Fujin Fever" is full force. I got random insults thrown at me all the time for simply saying I would like to see Rain and Tanya in MK 9/MKX throughout the years...

Also, I would whole-heartedly welcome Fujin back, but getting this far in the poll is a little much. It beats a ninja winning once again, though!

Definitely a character that would be breath of fresh air to the stale roster, I mean, we have characters like kitana where half of her moveset was stolen from other characters and added "wind powers" in order to adapt her to the variation system, she's almost completely irrelevant to the plot, yet we still have her because of causal demand and being the waifu of some very lonely fans.

So...just like Fujin then right?

You're joking right?