Baraka playable? Not buying it.

*Very loud yells of approval*

Why exactly? What is so damn unbelievable about that?

Beats me, Baraka is brutal as fuck. the word they have been using to describe MKX is brutal. So Baraka was kind of a lock from the start, I'm actually a bit upset we didn't see it from the start and we doubted it.

But after that pic, anybody who doubts Baraka being playable, is a little "worrying" to put it nicely.

As was the case with Rain?
As was the case with Li Mei?
As was the case with Fujin?
As will be the case with Smoke?

Now we get Baraka.

30+ playable characters confirmed!!!!!1

There will be NPC fights in story mode.

I'm guessing Baraka is a non playable story mode fight. Same with Rain. They won't have Variations, they'll have their exact MK9 moveset.

I definitely wouldn't mind being wrong on this one but that is my best guess right now.

Just playing devil's advocate...the "leaked roster" that has been 100% correct didn't include Baraka.

They should find a way for us to play NPCs, I don't care if they have no fatalities or variations!

Overhype is a dangerous thing.

Also, those cheek spikes are gnarly. If it is him, dude needs to see a dentist...worse than ever.

Smh. Thickheaded people. Oh well they can believe whatever their little pea brains has the compacity of believing but I for one can't wait to see the backtracking they'll do if proven wrong like with Shinnok.

But we don't know for sure about those characters either.

Why make an entirely new model (Even the fucking eyes are changed) for him and Rain when we get MK9 Sindel?

Why go that far? Just to treat them as NPCs? Then that would make NRS as a whole a bunch of dicks for keeping these shiny new characters and models story jobbers?

Fuck that noise, The hope is real.

Exactly what you said about Shinnok. Guess I'm not the only two-faced nut around here, eh?

I knew this kind of post was coming. Shut the hell up with the blatant negativity. You haven't even see his gameplay yet.

Okay I know we're getting too many dudes with too many beards.

But a beard of small Spikes for Baraka would be sick.

Let them believe whatever they want without name calling.

Check your logic at the door with that one mate. There's absolutely no winning with him.

Argh dude you have Jason Voorhees, let me have this hope

Aw crap double post. Sorry about that.

The "leaked" roster was a list anyone could've came up with from already knowninfo. We've been expecting Cage, Blade, Jax, and Kenshi for months now. Jaqui, Takeda, and Erron were already featured in the comics. Kung Jin was in the casting call.

What was so darn miraculous about that list? The only person that we have had no evidence at all of being in the game that was on it is Liu Kang and he hasn't shown up yet.

All the presumed npc's we've seen so far have new designs, Sindel included. Doesn't mean much. They told us we'd see lot's of npc in the story.

I'd love a playable Baraka but he doesn't look quite as nice or detailed as the other playable characters, hell, he looked better in MK9 imo. Not sure how his picture relates to that achievement, but I'm not optimistic about his playability.

Lol it's not only Shinnok.

If I believe correctly, he was one of the people who said the leak list is 100% true. That's why he doesn't want to believe Baraka is playable.

At this point, the leak list is no longer a 100%, Baraka is in. Why waste time giving Baraka a new design? Why waste time giving Rain a new design? They proved that they can just update a former design like they did with Scorpion "MK9" Design.

So if Baraka is just an NPC, why didn't they use his MK9 costume?

I guess people really are in denial.

Shinnok is in and Baraka is in, congratz to their fans :).

Still waiting for Rain,Kabal and Smoke though. Also SEKTOR!

Except the Sindel in MKX is a new model.

NPC fights with main stay characters would be the dumbest thing I have ever heard.

What is preventing them from being playable at that point.

24 characters was the goal and NRS has said multiple times that they kept adding characters once they completed the original goal

Can't even have a discussion about the possibility of present/not present characters without it getting personal around here. Sad.

And you don't think it's strange for an NPC to be a trophy picture? More than that the ONLY NPC character has a trophy picture?