Yeah... I agree... the supposedly customizable Shujinko freaking blew chunks...
I kno people hate when we compare MK to SC... but SC3 had a very FUN character creation feature... THAT's the type of costumization that is cool... cause in MK u could make ur fav. character even f it's not in the game. Even if u could use only moves/parts of playable characters... If I want smoke... but he's not there... U could choose a sub zero with the mist effect.. make him gray, and give him scorpion's moves... or stuff like that...
Just give us some parts to mix and match and I would be happy

I hate this idea.

I have never liked it for 1 reason......I dont have any faith its going to be good.

Once its "confirmed", people will be so excited...and they will hate the entire game JUST because they will get a "create your character" option that really sucks and looks bad.

Besides, I rather see them use their time in better things then in an option like this.

And there you have it. I posted a few threads about a create a character option in MK and for every person that liked the idea, there was another that hated it. I would much rather see a create a character mode than some of the crappy waste of time and space modes they've crammed into the last two games. Give me a good practice mode and I won't need to go through the godawful konquest modes. I don't need minigames, I need different modes for FIGHTING, because this is a FIGHTING game series. No more test your whatever or any mode that would include MK characters with big heads. Get rid of them.

I would like a create a character mode if that's the only main non-fighting mode that they'd have in the game. Keep the kurrency system, and win money by beating characters in story mode, arcade mode, survival mode, tag mode, tournament mode etc etc. You could also unlock specific items by doing certain things (like beating Cage four times in survival or beating the game with every character in story mode for example)

You should be able to bet on your own matches (obviously you wouldn't be able to bet against yourself) up to a certain amount when playing the computer. Online, you could bet on your matches or other people's matches, then watch them duke it out. Either way there would be plenty of modes with which to earn currency.

Instead of the krypt for unlocking these items though, I'd have a small, dark, old school Asian style city where you could walk around in first person view and barter with shop owners about clothing and shoes, a barber about hair styles and colors, a dojo for fighting styles, a weapon shop about weapons etc etc. There could be a few shops for each kind of style or gender or race.

Either way, I would want some real depth for this mode. This mode should be infused with MK style. You should get (and unlock) blank picture templates with which to write your character's story, bio and ending on. You should be able to set their animation for the Vs screen, choosing from a stock of predetermined animations. There should be thousands of items that would really allow players to be creative, thus discouraging the idea of making twenty palette swap ninjas.

I agree with Queve though, if this mode can't be done well, and customization to the MK team means Shujinko, then yeah, I'll hate it and wish they hadn't bothered. But if they could really give this idea an MK flavor, allowing MK fans to use their own creativity in writing and style etc, and actually giving us real options for clothes, hair, tattoos, race, gender, fighting styles, weapon styles and special moves (not just what's already in the game either, I'm talkin at least 10 fighting styles, 10 weapon styles, 50 to 100 special moves and a ton of clothing, hair etc options that regular characters don't already have) then I'd MUCH rather have something like this then the garbage "extras" we've had in the last few games.

If not, then no way. Don't bother. Have the whole team concentrate 100% on making the gameplay better. I'd rather have good gameplay and no extra content, then pictures of Carlos Pesina using platic swords and a glitchy, boring, dial a combo based fighting system.

AMEN! if it can't be done RIGHT! don't bother but I still think that the mk team could do an awsome job on this not like the half ass job they did with shujinko.

-Peace Out.

I completely agree with Queve on this matter. I know a lot of you guys would love to see a "Kreate-a-Kombatant" but I wouldn't. I'd rather have the MK Team use the time and effort on areas that need more attention.

Alright, you can hate it, but the fact is is that MK is not getting any better. I'm as big of an MK fan as anyone and I like all the games, but the truth is that MK needs something other than what its had with DA and Deception. If its a character creation mode, then so be it. Look at Soul Calibur 3

But you do realize Soul Calibur is developed by a company with a lot of $ and support. Midway cant even “affordâ€? decent FMVs (even though Im starting to doubt this), how can we expect to get a decent create your character mode?

And it is more then likely that their final answer to us (if they ever make the crappy create your character thing) will be: “We run out of timeâ€?. Better and bigger things can be done with the game and it doesnt need to involve this mode.

If they are going to do it, it has to be good, and quite frankly, I doubt it.

But you do realize Soul Calibur is developed by a company with a lot of $ and support. Midway cant even “affordâ€? decent FMVs (even though Im starting to doubt this), how can we expect to get a decent create your character mode?

And it is more then likely that their final answer to us (if they ever make the crappy create your character thing) will be: “We run out of timeâ€?. Better and bigger things can be done with the game and it doesnt need to involve this mode.

If they are going to do it, it has to be good, and quite frankly, I doubt it.

Right. I'm starting to think what MK really needs is John Tobias. I mean, MK hasen't been quite the same since he left.

I'm with Q on this. Create a character just isn't needed in MK at all. They have better and more important things to be spending their time and money on.

as much as I agree with every one on one point or another I think they will half to eventually do a charctor creation to compete with future fighting tittles. but that is just my opinion.

-Peace Out.

I think that if we all made up a list of priorities for MK7, better gameplay would be at the top for almost everyone on this site. A better fighting system with much more depth, better playtesting, and everything else that would go into making what we really care about above all else superior in every way to what has come before. No arguments here. I'm all for that. Gameplay should be the MK team's #1 priority.

My stance however, is that if the MK team is going to put in extra modes like they've done in the past (konquest, the krypt, test your might, test your sight, chess kombat, puzzle kombat), then I'd like to see something that A) would be more fun to work with B) would allow fans to use their creativity and C) would interweave with other modes in the fighting game. If we're going to have extra modes, it'd like it to be create a character.

No one here is talking about whether the MK team would mess it up, and everyone knows that the MK team should be spending the lions share of development time and money on making a fighting game that's fun to play. But if we're talking extra modes, and let's say they'll put one or two in regardless, then I'd like that extra mode to revolve around character creation in the style and feel of Mortal Kombat.

I don't want another konquest from MK:D. To me, it was the worst thing MK has done since Special Forces. It was awful, dull, boring...You name the negative adjective. I hated it. So yeah, I think that there's real potential that the MK team could mess up a character creation mode, but then, there's that same potential for them to mess up any other type of new mode. So tell me Queve and TGrant, what type of modes would you guys like to see in MK7 if not a create a character? I'm not trying to be defensive or anything, I'm genuinely curious. I like throwing around ideas like this, having the irrational hope that there's some teeny tiny possibility someone from the MK team might read it and get an idea. I know, probably not, but who knows? Either way, I like to hear what other new ideas should go into MK7.

I'd also like to see a three on three tag team mode, four player (on the screen at the same time) kombat, a survival mode, and a real standard practice mode. I know, not very new ideas, but I think they would be cool. So if you guys, and anyone else for that matter, had to pick a new fighting game mode (like the few I just mentioned), it could be from another game or something new entirely, what would it be? How about a completely new extra non-core fighting gameplay mode? I'm assuming that MK will do one of each for MK7 (at least) anyways, so what does everyone think? Me? I still like create a character. If it's deep enough, and with the real feel of MK, I think it could have the potential for greatness. Notice I said POTENTIAL. Reality? Who knows.

gameplay is the priority for annihilation

but i can see character creation in next gen MK (that is if annihilation comes out on current gen)

Also i would prefer the character creation to be more like the wrestling caw thingies

also they could call it KAK

Kreate a Kombatant

A kreate-a-kombatant mode sounds kind of lame, frankly. It works fine in things like wrestling games and RPGs, where you want to play as a character and write their own stories as you see fit, where you play a role that is open to you rather than written by someone else, but in fighting games I cannot see them working too well. I am not sure what the Soul Calibur 3 create mode is like, and I'm not enthusiastic enough about the game to want to find out. SC2 put me way off that series.

I think of all the things MK needs, like more fluid and balanced gameplay (which I think is debateable), smoother graphics, a well-written and non-contradicting storyline, kreate-a-character is hardly priority. And you cannot justify its inclusion by saying it needs to compete with other fighting games, since you don't compete by copying what someone else has already done for the sake of it (nothing wrong with that if you have a new spin on it), you compete by being innovative.

MK is one of those games that I play to follow the path of one of my favourite characters and to advance the story, and a kreate-a-character would ruin that, I think. Its okay in SC3 where you honestly couldn't give a shit about any of the characters (even the long-running ones like Taki, Sophitia and Mitsurugi are boring as all hell), but in MK the characters actually mean something to me, and creating me own would feel kind of cheap by comparison.

I bow before the words of Weskerian.

I am not worthy...
I am not worthy..

Better believe it bitch. You're not even fit to grovel in my presence.

Seriously though, say what?

Weskerian, as I said, I don't think that anyone would argue the fact that a kreate a kharacter mode should be low in the list of the MK team's priorities when compared to the likes of better gameplay, graphics, story etc. I'm simply hoping for this type of mode IF they're going to have extra non-fighting modes. If they're going to have an extra mode, then I'd like it to be kreate a kharacter as opposed to MK hopscotch or MK test your height.

For as much time as the MK team had to have spent on the konquest mode for MK:D, I thought that it was a huge waste of time and energy that could've and should've been focused on gameplay. So if they choose to go down the road of big extra modes again, and I have a bad feeling they probably will, I'd rather see a kreate a kharacter mode than a weak fetch quest game with awful graphics and more repitition than history.

Soul Calibur 3's create a character mode is decent, but I think the innovation for MK would come in with how the mode would be implemented. You choose your race, size, hairstyle, clothes, tattoos etc, and then you get templates that are unlockable so that you can create a character select screen pic, an intro story, a bio and an ending for your character. This would allow for real creativity, which MK fans seem to have alot of. You could see other people's creations and stories online and maybe even swap characters perhaps? Hell, with enough memory, maybe you can even create your own main storyline with templates, create a good number of characters and import real characters into your very own game. Want to recreate MK1? Go for it. This might be a bit overboard, but you get my idea. To me, that's never been done before in a fighting game, or any other game for that matter really.

But again, I agree with what some people are saying about gameplay. Fix that first, pleeeease, and then I'd feel alot better talking about extra modes.

Oh, and Spineshank rocks. Cool sig!

The idea of creating your own characther has really become redundant and it's a bad idea if we created our own character.

i think it could be fun but only if you could use your created fighters in vs mode because having a guy modeled after some smelly ass 15 year old take down the slew of mk warriors and saving earth would suck hard in story mode of any kind. yeah its true that soul calibur 3 had a kick ass character creator mode and ieven made scorpion liu kang and kitana all on my soul calibur roster so if they put someting like what soul calibur did it would be great. the only thing it would REALLY beed is a build your own fatality thing or atl east varying options for cuztomizable fatalities. would be able to pick how you fight. if anybody has played like the oldschool wrestlemania for the N64 you know what i mean when it said you cold choose the way you run at your oppnent what your punches looked like even just how your winning pose looked. i think mk should at least explore in that direction and even if it does botch hardcore it cant possibly get worse than the Konquest mode god that sucked.

I would create old fighters and of course me too

Well guys, if you can check the main page it has recently been announced that Mortal Kombat: Armageddon is going to have a Create-a-Character Mode, there is also going to be a Konquest Mode more like the MK:SM gameplay.

Can't say I'm not happy about this......Can't say it cause it would be a lie

it seems okay, ill be able to make a robotic version of sub zero that Ive been dreaming about since I was like 8

if the charictor creation mode is detailed enough (witch I highly dought it will be) what kind of charictors will you create?
Me I will probibly try and create an old school ninja like some or something. oh I wounder what kind of wepons will be avalible. and if konquest mode is going to play like sholin monks does that mean I can attack people at random(yes I know that's mean.)?

Peace Out.

I can see, a new set of problems coming with this character creation. The model in game informer, doesn't look sharp and I think this area of expertise could be over the mk teams head.

I can see freezing issues being a problem.

i think that they should make a literal mortal kombat rpg with stats and everything new moves character customization, maybe they could have pre assembled characters that look like characters from the series, you could have characters that use magic like shang sung and have weapons based characters, or fists and kicks people, even have people who have inborn control over an element like scorpion or subzero, and if you choose to have ice powers youd be doomed against a fire charecter, you could have different types of armor and even make pivotol choice like should i save the village, leave it to fate, or destroy it myself for story line purposes i could go on and on about this but i wont. and yes i know im comma happy, im not good at punctuation lol.