Going backwards hmmm sounds good.

Then they could work up to the events before MK1.

The only problem is that we know that outcome of this story all ready, Outworld win until Lui Kang...

didn't keep the last 3 star wars from doing 9 zillion dollars.

I would hate that. The characters are pretty much exactly the same as what we have now, so it wouldn't be good.

I like this idea. You could then take it all the way to when Onaga actually ruled Outworld and how Shao Kahn, his underling, came to overthrow him, and how Shao built Outworld to be the power that it is today. Things like that. You could see what Outworld was like prior to it being decimated. You could see Shinnok before he began to hate the Elder Gods. Eventually you could play as Kenshi, with the ability to see. You could see Sindel's hubby (forgot his name) as he ruled Edenia and how Edenia fell and who actually made this happen, etc. Maybe even eventually see Sektor and Cyrax as they originally were before becoming cyborgs.

Cool idea.

Thats cinema its different, totally different. They should go further back than Kung Lao getting defeated by Goro if they are to do it.

i do not think they should make a new mk for the next generation .Because
people who play mk a lot will not play it any more and it will not make any
money. Am not trying you can make a new mk for the next generation but
have scorpion and subzero as a secret charater.

sorry about that.

The trouble with making all prequels is that they are technically and visually superior to the originals, which in a timeline sort of way looks weird. Plus they never live up to the originals, changing parts of the story to make them work, diluting the story of mk.

One of the great things about mk is the history and the fact you have to use your imagination to bring it to life, the game, if made would never live up to our expectations a bit like the 3 new star-wars films.

Nonetheless its a great idea and it could work it just wouldn't be as loved as the current mk games.

Nah cause once you get past a few games you would have to start over again so no. I think MK8 should move forward not backwards

This guy came up with a similar idea, see if you like any of the ideas from there.

And I like your Takeda idea, that sounds pretty cool.

Pretty sure i said summit like this earlier

sorry to clog up this forum but if they were to use this idea we would already know the endings which are canon because Earthrelm was continuely defeated untill lui kang won

Truman, as long as the MK team makes an MK game, MK fans, fighting game fans, and fairweather fans will buy it. I guess I don't know what you mean when you say that there shouldn't be a new game for the next generation. Are you saying that the MK series should die on PS2, XBox and GC? Or are you saying that because the 360 and PS3 don't have a large installed user base that the sales will be low because there aren't enough systems to play the game on?

Last I checked, 360 games are selling well, and PS3 will undoubtedly sell a ton of systems, regardless of whether it costs a gagillion dollars. So I don't think that's really a worry. Not to mention the fact that the next generation MK probably won't come out for at least a year and half from from now, if not two and a half years. I'm not sure whether they'll abandon the whole "a new MK game every year" philosophy that Midway said a while back. Oh yeah, and Boon has already said that there will be a rebirth of MK on the next gen consoles when he was talking about MK:A, so I think that ship has already sailed.

As far as going into the past is concerned, I'd be for it on one condition:

Split the MK team up, and then make both of the new teams bigger. Have one team work on MK games from the past, while Ed Boon and the other team work on future games. That way they could stick with the whole "a new MK game every year" thing and have a two storylines for MK. Two separate products basically.

One is a new MK series that delves way into the past, dealing with the history of many characters from Jerrod (that's Sindel's husband), Onaga, Shao Khan, the rise of Shang Tsung, Kitana, Kung Lao, etc etc etc as well as the many many other characters that history may have forgotten or purposely left out. Did some other group rule the MK tournament at one time? What were the factions way back when? There had to have been other ones besides the Lin Kuei and the Red Dragon etc. As for the groups we do know, who were the characters back then that led these groups or were a part of them? Who was in the Shinrai Ryu before Scorpion? There could be several stories that could strengthen the history of MK's past.

The other MK is the new generation. Armageddon has come and gone. Who is alive? Who has been altered by the war? What new power is rising to threaten Earth? Is it very old? Has something been awakened? Who will now step up on both the good and evil sides of this conflict? Will new characters from old groups/factions step up? Will new groups be formed in the wake of Armageddon? WIll alliances be shaken? Reformed? Broken? Will previously hidden races reveal themselves? The list goes on and on.

So basically, you split the brand in to two unique time periods with completely unique storylines and characters that do not cross over (unless they are a god or someone that has lived for 10,000 years etc). The old MK series gets a unique name like "Chronicles of Mortal Kombat" while the new one could still be "Mortal Kombat: Resurrection" or whatever. Then the Chronicles line could start doing that with it's sequels like "Chronicles of Mortal Kombat: Wrath of the Gods." For example.

Thoughts? That's really the only way I'd want to see the past revisited. I'd still like to see the series move forward. This way, we get origin stories, links to the present and future as well as the actual future of MK. Everyone wins.