I get what they were trying to do with MKA, but part of me does wish they hadn't. Yes, some characters needed closing. Finding out what happened to Rain was sort of good. That being said, with Sheeva dying in MK3, was there any real point to bringing her back? A more selective "larger cast game" could have been very good, and maybe given the MK Team time for stories and actually wrap up the saga.

I do think we need a true sequel before we head off into the new era. That being said, though, a "flash forward" to the future where only a handful of characters remain, and we then go back and fill in the blanks (for example: a Krypt mode in which instead of unlocking characters and such, you can open a koffin and find out about a dead character's fate), could be very cool.

I was considering more a special retrospective for a Collector's Edition bonus disc.

Adding a Wing of the Krypt for that would be cool too.

I just hope they either close up The current generation, or just call MKA noncanon and just jump to G2 MK.

I think it should be a continuation, but not necessarily a sequel to MkA. I like the prospect of the next game taking place after MkD alot better. Vogel and team did better with that games story.

You can't continue from where MKD left off without it ALSO being a continuation of MKA because MKA is confirmed canon.
It's referenced in Deception handheld version's endings and it revealed things that can't be ignored, things that feel like they were deliberately set up in previous games to turn out this way, like the origin of the Red Dragon clan and who the Lin Kuei temple belonged to before Sub-Zero found it. Besides, the few released bios did an excellent job explaining how Onaga was defeated.
It's not even hard to infer how characters who did not get bios made it into the game. "Shinnok brought them to the party" pretty much covers it for all the dead characters and villains, and "Shinnok manipulated them into showing up" takes care of the heroes. Seriously, the entire war in the crater, both armies, it's all Shinnok's doing.
And according to Daegon's ending, the prize isn't even real, Argus just shows up to hand pick his successor. So nobody's got greater powers, Taven is now Protector-God of Edenia, and the only thing left to find out from MK9 is who's still alive after the Battle for the Pyramid.

So what.

Story is manipulable to a point. Those things can be re-affirmed easily. Especially coming from the base of a more solid story.

Grant the canon tidbits to a new story, through a method of supplement. As away to deliver them through to a greater plot, and necessary progression.

Not hard.

Yeeeeeeah...

Well, you keep hoping for that, and I'll keep expecting a canon follow-up, and we'll see which idea crosses the finish line, assuming some other company doesn't end up with the IP and do something completely unexpected and idiotic with the story.

I don't even know why people are so into the story. Certain aspects like Noob being the original Sub Zero is cool and all but simple information like that is all I need to know. I really dont care for what happens in which realm to who and why. A sense of mystery was always nice behind characters.

I know what would be good in the next game:

MORE CHARACTERS
MORE ARENAS
MORE DEATHS
MORE ADVENTUE
ED BOON AS A PLAYABLE CHARACTER

It would be nice to make a continuation to Armageddon. It's quite easy: They just have to make some sort of THING that happens, or that threatens the existance of the realms FOR THE 50TH TIME, maybe a new character and realm, and hopefully, HOPEFULLY, Way more blood and gore than the 8th game.

This really strikes me as the happy and exciting compromise.
I rather like the idea of a new MKSM/Konquest-style adventure game that introduces the new generation and maybe has one fighter in particular peeling back the layers to learn what happened to some after MKA.

If you play the definition of a 'generation' fast and loose, it's an opportunity to go back to the roots of the tournament with a fighting arcade engine, while using the Konquest mode to acquaint ourselves with the old characters who've become the new legends.

If Shao Kahn is among the dead, then the Mortal Kombat tournament will be over and the "once a generation" thing won't apply anymore anyway. A new realm, or even Outworld again, has to issue another challenge to restart the tournament and the first of the new series can be held right then and there.

Also, there is no "fast and loose", Deception confirmed flat out it's 50 years.

As if we couldn't have figured out 500 (how many years ago Goro became champ) divided by 10 (how many tournaments it's been since) on our own, anyway...

If an MK8 is made, maybe the new tournament is established to install a new emporor into Outworld.

It would not only be infested with the divided political factions amongst Outworld (Kahn's followers who wish to restore the former emporor's eternal rule (Maybe in a GG Venom fashion), Onaga's followers whom claim the rightful throne, Edenian loyalists, etc.), but also civil war and other political corrupton.