mk4life
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Feel free to give your opinions on my thoughts or even state where YOU think they went wrong in story mode. Here is where they went wrong IMO:
1) creation of cyber sub zero
2) the way sindel killed off all of those characters.
I could see how they thought cyber sub zero would be "different" and could work, however i think it did not pay off in the end. The connection the fans had to the real sub zero was too strong. Yes it's still sub zero, but is there really a connection there with cyber sub zero? I think it would have been better to have smoke turned into a cyborg even in the altered timeline. I mean this game is all about nostalgia right . However maybe this time something goes wrong in the process of being transformed that maybe he gets killed by accident. something along those lines. This way, we have cyborg smoke as an alternate, and we are left wondering what COULD have been had smoke been transformed into a cyborg.
This brings me to my second point. Eventually, characters are going to die. thats just the way it is. if they really wanted to kill off some people, couldn't they have just done it in a more diverse way? instead of sindel just killing off half the roster, have someone get killed here and there throughout the story mode. to be honest i think this would have made the story even more depressing, and more importantly, more realistic. for example maybe have reptile kill stryker in a stealthy way. stryker never saw it coming, BOOM earthrealm takes a hit. have smoke die the way i said earlier in this post, AFTER he gets some story time and you develop a connection with him. there goes another for earthrealm, this time it was by accident. later on in the story kitana tries to convince her mother to return to the good side but to no avail. as a result sindel kills her daughter, kitana. this actually happened in the story and i am fine with it. shao kahn breaking kung lao's neck is fine also. there you go. you see, each one of the good guys is slowly but surely being killed off. as time passes raiden grows even more anxious and desperate. so on and so forth. dont get me wrong, the story was great, just change the WAY in which these people die. and maybe keep a few of them alive (jax, jade, sub zero, kabal).
This way, earthrealm actually has a fighting chance against shinnok, quan chi, and the netherrealm in the next game without having to bring half of these characters back to life. and ultimately you can keep the ones that are dead.....dead. its either that, or bring in a whole new load of characters for the next game, but we all know that wont end well.
1) creation of cyber sub zero
2) the way sindel killed off all of those characters.
I could see how they thought cyber sub zero would be "different" and could work, however i think it did not pay off in the end. The connection the fans had to the real sub zero was too strong. Yes it's still sub zero, but is there really a connection there with cyber sub zero? I think it would have been better to have smoke turned into a cyborg even in the altered timeline. I mean this game is all about nostalgia right . However maybe this time something goes wrong in the process of being transformed that maybe he gets killed by accident. something along those lines. This way, we have cyborg smoke as an alternate, and we are left wondering what COULD have been had smoke been transformed into a cyborg.
This brings me to my second point. Eventually, characters are going to die. thats just the way it is. if they really wanted to kill off some people, couldn't they have just done it in a more diverse way? instead of sindel just killing off half the roster, have someone get killed here and there throughout the story mode. to be honest i think this would have made the story even more depressing, and more importantly, more realistic. for example maybe have reptile kill stryker in a stealthy way. stryker never saw it coming, BOOM earthrealm takes a hit. have smoke die the way i said earlier in this post, AFTER he gets some story time and you develop a connection with him. there goes another for earthrealm, this time it was by accident. later on in the story kitana tries to convince her mother to return to the good side but to no avail. as a result sindel kills her daughter, kitana. this actually happened in the story and i am fine with it. shao kahn breaking kung lao's neck is fine also. there you go. you see, each one of the good guys is slowly but surely being killed off. as time passes raiden grows even more anxious and desperate. so on and so forth. dont get me wrong, the story was great, just change the WAY in which these people die. and maybe keep a few of them alive (jax, jade, sub zero, kabal).
This way, earthrealm actually has a fighting chance against shinnok, quan chi, and the netherrealm in the next game without having to bring half of these characters back to life. and ultimately you can keep the ones that are dead.....dead. its either that, or bring in a whole new load of characters for the next game, but we all know that wont end well.