I would have liked to think that Cassie will be the only child... but they said multiple...

I don't really like that because I dont' want to see Jax or Kitana/Liu's lovechilds running around holding Cassies hand.

Sounds like you have a grievance with the majority of the cast. Have you considered trying other games...?

That would never happen. MK fans live for their classic characters.

The only interesting characters showed so far are Scorpion, Sub-Zero and Raiden.

I don't give a damn about Ferra, Torr, D'vorah, Cassie Cage and Kotal Krap.

I hope NRS never move on from the Trilogy era. Of course new additions like Kenshi, Quan Chi and Havik are welcomed, but not mediocre ones like Tanya or Li Mei.

I just want to share that i'm EXTREMLY happy that you're not in control of the MK francise.

Characters from the Trilogy are overrated and overexposed. While the characters in the 3D era never had a real chance and are on average more interesting. The Netherrealm need to make a game to rescue the characters from last generation. Because eg Li Mei is much more interesting than Jade in all aspects (visual, special moves, history, relevance, potential). Just as Tanya is in relation to Kitana.

Said that three new characters appeal to me more than the returns (D'vorah, Kotal and Ferra, in that order).

I agree a little bit with this.

But I think they are going on a good road here by giving us many new faces, mixed with old ones and probably with some 3D area characters as well (I will be pissed if we don't get 3D area characters back)

I agree that many 3D characters are wasted and given cheap abilities... Like the 10.000 Kano clones and other characters feeding off on moves from other characters being total copy-clones of them.

I'd like to see some of them back (Kai, Kobra, Kira) with very different directions and with new fresh takes on them but with some of their looks/stories intact so they are still a bit recognisable.

Change is needed in order for things to get improve though. If we keep getting the same characters in every single game, it would basically be the same game with different mechanics and aesthetics.

I just hope NRS stays far, far away from midway's crap era. Bring back some of the favorites like kenshi and havik and gtfo. Pave their own path. I want the story to be vastly different. If they dont do it now they wont be able to do it for another 15 years.

Please don't put MK9 in the same sentence as those two. D:

AMEN. But Kahn is cool he looks the part so does Cassie but I don't give a shit about the other two ass characters

Jade looks much more attractive than Le mei. Le mei us ugly, bland and just overall an ass character.

I think the main roster should have a bunch of new kharacters n a good mix of MK9 n beyond kharacters cuz I wanna see a new direction as well with a bunch of new kharacters. I like all the new kharacters Ive seen so far but if they are smart then they will bring back a bunch of klassics through DLC and personally I would love to see how the klassic kharacters would look in MKX. This new technology looks amazing

Yeah I like to see how they can make good use of newer characters instead of a lot older ones myself. I do hope a few older ones return from MK4 and MKD.

Li Mei with much less interest has much more history and relevance to Jade. Also has a more innovative and higher impact, relevance Gameplay. Jade is only the bodyguard of Kitana. Besides Li Mei is not only an exchange of Palette. About Appearance, Li Mei is said to muse Game (even players with a certain anger and why has it? Because basically Mortal Kombat has a number of fans who do not accept any change, so always want the same story with same characters and same habits forever, so get more animalistic reptile caracteristas is rejected, they just want more ninja, so great characters like Li Mei and Sareena Moloch are rejected and boring characters like Jade, Sheeva, Striker, Motaro -. than always had a lousy gameplay - are accepted, so that they do not accept that interesting characters from the original trilogy as Kung Lao, need not participate in some games like this to avoid stagnation - as with Sub Zero and Scorpion).

Characters on the MK4-MK9 can divide them into four categories:
- Innovative Characters that need to be developed in some other game than the compedion with all (MK10 and MK11): Shinnok (who deserves to finally have the brightness of the largest Boos Mortal Kombat), Quan Chi, Tanya, Reiko, Fujin, Sareena Li Mei, Kenshi, Nitara, Drahmin, Bo Rai Cho, Ashrah, Havik, Skarlet, Onaga and Hotaru.
- Characters that need to be completely redesigned back: Frost, Kira, Mavado, Daegon, Dairou, Moloch - but the same happens with characters from the first trilogy (as Jade and Khameleon).
- Character Redudantes or useless and must be filed: Dairrus (has the same role as the Dairou), Mokap field (not paper), Kai (has the same role as Liu Kang and Kung Lao), Kobra (has the same role Kira), Meat (no paper), Jarek (plays the same role of Kano), Hsu Hao (has the same function as Mavado) Cyber Sub Zero - But the same happens with characters from the first trilogy as (Sheeva and Kintaro has the same function as Goro, Striker has the same function and Jax Chameleon Khameleon the same function).
- Characters who need to work a bow and should not return: Shujinko, Taven, Blaze - But the Same happens with characters in MKT (as Sindel and Motaro).

Says the guy with a Fujin avatar. Why has Li Mei been in more games than Fujin????

She hasn't. Fujin was in MK:Mythologies, MK4 and MKA. Li Mei was in MKDA-MKA. That's 3 games for both of them.

Doesn't change anything though and is completely irrelevant. The discussion was about Jade and Li Mei, not Fujin. Pointing fingers like this is really childish.

@Squirt: Why has Li Mei been playable in more games than Fujin???

@Jade: don't care.

If you're just going to ignore the parts you don't like and start arguing about needless things, just to try and make yourself feel high and mighty, then there's no reason to discuss with you at all.

I am extremely happy to see that who is in control of the MK franchise followed my ideology on the playable cast and they made Mk a multi - millionaire franchise following that route. On the other hand the games that featured a large number of newcomers were good, but forgettable.


Almost every other fighting series keeps the same cast over the years.

There shouldn't be a problem allowing characters who have returned return. There's going to be fan favorites. But then in the same respect, fans should "accept" change. Which I can never understand at all. I've mentioned this a few times but this series has ALWAYS introduced new characters to us and why it bothers people that there's more newer characters being introduced first than recurring is questioning my mind like crazy.

It shouldn't bother people at all that there's newer characters that we've never seen before. I'm actually down for characters looking completely different than human-looking ones because it's different. But of course, people have their opinions and they're entitled to it. However, they should be open to the idea that there are newer characters being brought into this, at least give them a chance before just hating upon them because you either think they're not a character that belongs in the franchise or with like the two videos of them, they haven't caught your attention.

I just feel like so many people just want their returning characters to come into play and that's it. But the problem is, there are people that don't want that, and they get shunned on because they want change. I've seen a few people who despise this game already because of the newer characters. I'm sorry that they have a huge gripe with that, but at times I really feel like if they don't want the change at all, they should just stick with the older games and don't get the newer ones. It's disappointing, but if they really are bothered by change, which doesn't make sense since the series has always been changing, then they should stick with the past. I hate saying that, but after seeing a few peoples' reactions on different sites and such, I've come to the conclusion that they should just kinda stay playing those games than moving on if they can't and won't.

I don't have a problem with this change, I completely accept it. If other people don't, that's their problem and not mine.

Agreed, Icebaby.

If there were never going to be any new characters introduced to the franchise, we would be stuck with the MK1 cast all the way through. That's not a way to keep the series fresh. New faces have always been welcomed to the franchise, as it should be in any game series.

It's going to be harder for MK to have an all new roster and have success than it was for other series, since MK is 22 years in, SF tried 10 years in and failed, SC also tried and failed. It may have worked for Tekken, but Tekken was 2 games in when they did it. I'm not saying it's not going to be a success, but they will eventually bring the same old characters back again due to fan demand, i mean, MK was 20 years in when MK9 came out and it STILL had everyone from MK1-3.