I just tweeted Ed about this Moloch thing. Hope he responds.

So they "wasted" time modelling and creating Moloch just to use his head for Quan;s intro ? I think not and his head already done is bigger chance of him being in the game!!!

Perhaps in story mode as a cameo, yes. Playable fighter? Not a chance, especially if he's showing up already deceased in an intro.

Shit, couldn't it have been Drahmin instead? At least Moloch is easier on the eyes.
And there's no way he's a playable. Cameo, 99% positive.

Why they couldn't model only his head, without body and everything else?

I wonder how many Moloch's fans will pop-out of woodwork over the course of the few next days...? Such things always happens, when some mediocre character is deconfirmed one way or the other.

Impressive if true. I could only kill Moloch with Li Mei.

So according to Facebook and Twitter, John Vogel has confirmed that it is indeed Moloch.

Hopefully we at least get to see Quan tear his head off in the story or something, I like cameos lol

There are Moloch fans?

Hello, I'm right here!

Yes, in with the new, out with the old.


And yet, so far what we have seen, aside the newcomers is exactly the same reused stuff from the Golden age of MK triteness. Hell, aside from the increase in violence, the small tonal shift, this is still the same atavistic MK.


IF they really want to disown the post MK4 era and stick to the same old stuff we have seen, then I really do not see any purpose to follow the franchise. Back to MK1 I guess.

That's quite a shame, I actually liked Moloch, but alas.

Oh you've seen the full game? They've been saying "More new characters than any MK game" yet you complain about "sameness". I think it's too early to make that say. I've been surprised by a lot of the newness I've seen, love the stages and character designs, the variations, and the fatalities haven't been more gruesome, imo. But if you don't like what you see enough to jump ship already, that's your prerogative. Sameness is laughable though, and I'll enjoy MKX even more as it paves over the disastrous creative choices they made while Midway was running out of oxygen.

So far this is my impression of MKX. I only speak out of what we have seen so far, and what might be logically constructed or expected from the given material.

Oh, stages, fatalities, in other words the package may be new and more shiny, but are irrelevant to wether the game is new or not. In short, this is NOT as much of an innovation as MKDA was.

Think: let's say that 2/3 of the characters are new, and let's be optimistic, most of them are distinguished from previous characters (for example, they do not put in Tremor as a new character, or do not do clones, or semi-clones)

But what if the majority of the overall story revovles around the remaining 3/5 who are from the MK1-3 era? What if those newcomers only play second fiddle to the original characters? This is what I fear, that MK will not move away from point B when it should have been at point C by now.

In short: we get the same MK4 as before with slight variations on the overall plot, with the newcomers only tagged on as expendable setting pieces. I really want to see the roster to move away from the sacred cows and relwegate the overused-albeit popular- characters to secondary roles.


TLDR: I do not wish to see a game where the majority of the cast is the MK2-3 cast. Those characters have been overused. You want them in? Fine. But let the second generation be more than supporting actors top the first generation.

This is why I liked MKD, it killed off a lot of the originals. They were in the story, but not playable. Hell, they can come back, but please, PLEASE move them away from center stage.

Chrome I think what you want is a new game. Killer Instinct looks fun, go to the store and buy that. Then rush home and bust out your thesaurus and get on a Killer Instinct forum and go to town on those simple minded "plebeians." That seems like a word you'd use.

Why would I do that? Isn't it obvious that if that were the case I would have left already? I specifically like MK, I am not much of a fighting game player. For one, I barely play video games at all, second I am more of an adventure/rpg guy.


Would tone down on the anti-intellectualism if I were you.

Dude, don't bother. Chrome is clinically unable to feel anything other than disdain for anything bar himself. He's only interested in his ideal MK and anything else is tawdry fan service.

Not necessarily. I just do not praise the major part of the games as much as people use to, or got used to. i still adore MK1, I like MK2, DA...

And I am not that egocentric that much as to disregard everyone else's opinion. I just find general pandering to be annoying. And objectively harmful in some cases in media.

Me no tone down anti-intelllesbism for no one!

You love MK but don't like fighters, MK is a fighter. You hardly even play video games, MK is a video game. Surely your massive Chrome brain detects something wrong with that. If you don't like the genre of the game and don't play games much to begin with isn't it illogical to spend so much time speculating about said game and complaining about said game? Or do you just like pooping on other peoples excitement? Case in point youre a party pooper, your rebuttal?




EDIT: Oh shit chrome your under fire from two fronts buddy! barrel roll do a barrel roll!!!!!!!

Ahaha, only one front I've gotta stop dicking around on the web, have to get to work!

No reason to attack eachother. And that goes to all fronts.

1. I said I am not much of a fighter gamer. I did not say I do not like them.

2. So... because I do not have the ability to play games, since work and all means I should not play them?

3. Again, I have nothing against the genre. MK is the only one that is predominantly interesting to me.

4. The reason why I linger here is mainly because of MKX, and a few people around here. plus, When I had the time and ability, I did frequent these boards, and was quite active.

So what? Nice try making a strawman out of me, though. Have fun.

Thank you, Switzerland.

And yeah, I'm just kiddin around fella's.



Fair enough buddy you got me, I will holster my party pooper argument but I got my eye on you Chromeo.

Indeed.

While I am obsessively verbose, word of advice: make sure that people here can see when you are joking or not. Usually by taking explicit refuge in audacit-

-fuck it-

make it as silly for us to not be able to take it seriously.

I swear that the Netherealm team doesn't fuc***** understand the universe it created. Moloch has been f*******dead for thousands of years, he resides in literal Hell, he could get beaten, tortured, feasted upon, raped, f***** in the ass and he would still wake up there, every time recovering IN HELL (not saying all those things did happen to him, as he was more likely the one inducing them). Why would Quan Chi carry around the oni's head in the real world when Moloch would just be fine in the Netherealm????

It's these kind of mistakes that make me think they will fu** up this game, as the universe has become too complex for them. I know, bad language, I'm just pissed