Roster Speculation

BBBLP said:
Like I already said, Rain was never going to be in Mortal Kombat 9. They drafted the story LONG before they made the character models. Meaning they knew who was going to be in the game as they were writing it down on paper. They decided that Rain had no place in the original trilogy, and they were right. He never even became relevant until (what was supposed to be) the final game, Armageddon.



Although the Cyber Sub-Zero arc was a miss, it could have been incredible. One of the biggest "What-if"s in the MK mythos, was "what if it was Sub-Zero who was captured instead of Smoke?" Which is honestly a hell of a lot more interesting than Rain imo
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Exactly what I meant. For sure, MKX has already its story written and the characters of the game chosen until months probably.
 
Critical-Limit said:
Subzero took 2 slots.
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In MK9.
In UMK3 he took up another 2 slots and in Trilogy it was Sub-Zero AND Smoke who BOTH took up 4 combined slots.
That's a lot of slots for 2 characters.


Critical-Limit said:
In mortal kombat they only did it with one character.
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MK9 isn't the first time they do it, though, and they could have easily made him 1 character.


Critical-Limit said:
Araknyd if you're looking for NRS to cut corners to make room for an extra character.

Would you have been fine with 2 character Subzero slots. IF say Cybersubzero had all the same normals/specials. (maybe 1-2 changed specials)

Just changed a bit via speed? safe? unsafe? ect ect.
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No.
My whole point was that if Cyrax and Sektor had their human counterparts as alts, the same could have been done for Sub-Zero.
In an early build of the MK9 demo, human Sub-Zero had the Ice Parry / Sword move.
It felt like NRS just said "Hey, lets just divide up Sub-Zero's moves and give half of them to Cyber too."
For that, why not just make Sub-Zero a faster paced character, with ALL the Sub-Zero moves in 1 character (like Cyrax and Sektor also have in their human counterparts), and just make Cyber Sub-Zero an alternate costume.

I saw NO need for them to make a completely separate character, as both moves sets could have been consolidated into 1 character, with the move animation slightly changing depending on which version you used.
It was pointless!



BBBLP said:
See now I disagree on that too.
I feel like it would have been a waste of potential. To make such an iconic character into a cyborg, and then change nothing about them but their appearance?


Why turn him into a cyborg, but leave out abilities like bombs, teleports and self-destructing?
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bombs = Ice Grenades
Teleport = Tombstone Teleport (the one that Sub-Zero had in MKvsDC), and Cyrax also does Teleports in his human form with smoke bombs, btw.
Self destructing belongs to Cyrax, if you mean his dumb fatality.

There's no gameplay move that Cyber Sub-Zero had, that human Sub-Zero couldn't also do with some animation.
 
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Personally I really think Smoke has a strong chance in being in the game. Cyber Smoke of course. And FYI my character speculation of who the final boss will be ............ Meat but he will only become Meat by the end of the game.
 
Kyle Yacey said:
Personally I really think Smoke has a strong chance in being in the game. Cyber Smoke of course. And FYI my character speculation of who the final boss will be ............ Meat but he will only become Meat by the end of the game.
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Regular Smoke or no Smoke at all. We don't need any more cyborgs.
 
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I think Cyber Smoke is the only Smoke that can appear at this point. Human Smoke doesn't make sense for me anymore.

As for Comic-Con, I'd love to see a returning female character, but I don't know if that'll be the case. I think, given how few of them will be in the game, that they'll save them for later.

My money is either on a new male/female character or Ermac. The reason I say Ermac is because out of all the characters he has the most Comic-Con-vibe design. Especially his updated look that was "leaked".

But Ed saying at least one indicates likely two, so it is possible we'll be getting one old and one new or one male and female. Or one character and a new arena (which I'd prefer).
 
If there will be 14 new character released do you guys think it would be awesome if they kept at least 5 of the 14 hidden away for the release date.if we are going to have 30 characters I'm fine with them showing us 25...I have feeling that they will only show us 12 or maybe 14 before release.I can't remember if we got a reveal for everyone in mk9.
 
Mr. Ice said:
I think Cyber Smoke is the only Smoke that can appear at this point. Human Smoke doesn't make sense for me anymore.

As for Comic-Con, I'd love to see a returning female character, but I don't know if that'll be the case. I think, given how few of them will be in the game, that they'll save them for later.

My money is either on a new male/female character or Ermac. The reason I say Ermac is because out of all the characters he has the most Comic-Con-vibe design. Especially his updated look that was "leaked".

But Ed saying at least one indicates likely two, so it is possible we'll be getting one old and one new or one male and female. Or one character and a new arena (which I'd prefer).
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Smoke died by Sindel

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Araknyd_Commander said:
And???
Bi-Han disappeared disappeared in the Soulnado and Kuai-Liang died by Sindel's hands, as well, and now there's a Sub-Zero in MK X.

Just because they died in MK9, doesn't mean that they can't come back.
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Noob may or may have not died maybe he was cleansed and also maybe thats another subby I mean theres like 3 already lol

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Elias6999 said:
Noob may or may have not died maybe he was cleansed
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Agreed.
Which is why I said:

me said:
Bi-Han disappeared disappeared in the Soulnado
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Elias6999 said:
and also maybe thats another subby
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Quite possibly.



Elias6999 said:
I mean theres like 3 already lol
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Brothers with the title "Sub-Zero?" No. There are only 2 who have used the name Sub-Zero; Bi-Han and Kuai-Liang.
Cryomancers? Yes. Bi-Han, Kuai-Liang and Frost.
 
Do you REALLY think the Elder Gods would save Bi-Han's soul after he nearly brought them to their knees, AND was an accessory to Shao Kahn breaking the rules of Mortal Kombat set forth by the Elder Gods?

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Tarkatan Trash said:
Do you REALLY think the Elder Gods would save Bi-Han's soul after he nearly brought them to their knees, AND was an accessory to Shao Kahn breaking the rules of Mortal Kombat set forth by the Elder Gods?
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Yeah, I do.

"He once defended Earthrealm from the Netherrealm armies of Shinnok and Quan Chi." - MK9 Raiden

Who better to bring back from the dead / save from the Soulnado in MK X, than the 1 person who previously stopped the armies of Shinnok and Quan Chi???
 
Araknyd_Commander said:
Yeah, I do.

"He once defended Earthrealm from the Netherrealm armies of Shinnok and Quan Chi." - MK9 Raiden

Who better to bring back from the dead / save from the Soulnado in MK X, than the 1 person who previously stopped the armies of Shinnok and Quan Chi???
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He pissed the Elder Gods off TWICE. And those same Gods shipped him to the Netherrealm the first time.

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