Ideas for MK11

MK9 shipped with 28 characters, so it's possible.
That said, I agree with you that they'd probably do 24 - 25 for the next game, then do another 4 to 8 as DLC.
That seems to be their latest business model.
 
I remember Spawn, Pinhead, and Michael Meyers, but I don't recall any requests for Leatherface.
Must have been that minimal.
Regardless, I do remember that people were WAY more pissed that we got 2 more guest characters in KP2, rather than 4 more MK characters.

No, Leatherface was actually requested a lot on twitter and I'm sure some other places. I've seen a lot of it on twitter since MKX was first being announced and onward. Only 2% of trmk wanted him, doesn't mean the rest of the internet didn't.

A new movie coming out could be a factor as you said. It could also be a tribute to Gunnar Hansen. But you're wrong saying no one requested him. Plenty enough did for him to end up as dlc.

Which, by the way, is going to be great. So hyped for the stream today.
 
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A new movie coming out could be a factor as you said. It could also be a tribute to Gunnar Hansen.

That's my guess (the new movie coming out).
As much as I usually don't care for guests, Freddy vs Jason (much like AvP) in MKX would have sold like hotcakes.
Leatherface seems to have annoyed more people that it pleased, according to the comments from people when KP2 was announced.
When KP2 was announced, most people (like me) didn't want 2 more guests, and those that did didn't want Leatherface (according to YouTube comments and MK facebook comments).
 
That's my guess (the new movie coming out).
As much as I usually don't care for guests, Freddy vs Jason (much like AvP) in MKX would have sold like hotcakes.
Leatherface seems to have annoyed more people that it pleased, according to the comments from people when KP2 was announced.
When KP2 was announced, most people (like me) didn't want 2 more guests, and those that did didn't want Leatherface (according to YouTube comments and MK facebook comments).

Those youtube and facebook comments don't change the amount of people that actually did want him. Granted, there's plenty of people who didn't want him. Jason seemed to have a growing affect on people. He was highly requested, pissed other people off but I think his popularity even grew after release, dispite the amount of backlash he got.

Luckily for me, I'm among those very pleased with Leatherface. But witn DLC, just in general, no matter who is pleased, its going to displease another group and visa versa. But what's interesting is how these choices become more accepted after release.

No one would of guessed Bo Rai' Cho. He seems like a wild card among the MK character dlc choices. I think its cool that NRS makes choices out of what people want, and also, what they'd like to do. Because, as its been proven, people come to accept characters they are disappointed with after release. Their popularity only grows. I think they took that in consideration with Bo. Sometimes, people don't know what they want. I saw a lot of backlash on Bo, but more and more, that backlash its reduced with people actually accepting it.
 
There are a slew of people that over-all have a mixed bag of feelings (mostly hate) towards Kombat Pack 2.
Some of them hate Alien, some of them hate Bo Rai Cho and some of them hate Leatherface.


From the MK FB page, when KP2 was announced........


out of all the mortal kombat characters u could include .
it HAD to be bo rai cho , didnt it ?
i dont mind tri borg or alien , leatherface isnt at all a good choice ... but a mortal kombat character , out of all the characters we needed ... smoke , noob , kabal , nightewolf , syndel , baraka ... sector .. cyrax , hell id go even for chameleon or frost and im not a fan of them much..
it had to be bo rai cho ... Smh Ed Boon ..

169 people agreed with him


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They should've replaced leatherface with Fujin

10 people agreed with him


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Bo rai cho is awesome! He trained liu kang why wouldn't he be in the game????but I would have preferred knight wolf kabal or havik lol....and yeah leather face is stupid.

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I agree he sucks... where's Fujin goddamit

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Could agree more I hate bo rai one of he worst characters for sure





As for YouTube people hating on KP2 for the most part this was about 85% of the posts (hating or making fun of KP2), with another 10% being pissed off PC people and another 5% or so being actual praise for KP2...........

Kombat Pack 3 ideas:

1. Kanye West
2. My dad
3. Stephen Hawkings
4. Mike Tysons face tattoo.

Leatherface is a waste of a character slot idc

i agree leather face was a shit choice. shouldve chose motaro

just thinking about how many characters they could of chose from, like all the possibilities and we get leatherface, Bo Rai Cho and AVP in the game like they're great people but c'mon...

The only reason he's in here is because they're making a leatherface solo film that comes out this year.

real killers shouldnt be advertised on games like this, and he will always be a shit choice.

Money talks. The shame of man

LOL The worst kombat pack ever:,D and a tarkatan Alien? really man? why not just bring in baraka !!! not such shitty movie characters in this game call this game then Movie kombat 10-.-

Why guess characters

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Because they are cash grabs.

This is really a 50/50 hit and miss Kombat Pack. Alien/Baraka Hybrib is awesome and could possibly reintroduce the tarkatans as a more bad ass dominating tribe rather than brute followers.
Tri-Borg is quite interesting as it could've been Sektor's back-up plan if he anticipated a revolution against the cyber-initiative and wanted some assurance for its continuity.

Leatherface is a complete miss because his character doesn't fit in Mortal Kombat unless they are going to try and have us believe that Raiden's Sky Temple is somehow located in a secret forest in Texas and Leatherface has been just lurking around in the forest all this time. Also, if this game is going to feature Alien vs Predator, why not give us Freddy vs Jason as well?
Bo Rai Cho? Seriously? This guy was a joke then and he's still a joke. The MKX Story inclusion of him did absolutely nothing to redeem his character other than not say anything excessively stupid. Also, of all the characters that were featured, but not playable in Story mode that people would've wanted (Fujin, Rain, Sindel, Kabal, Frost, Sareena, etc), they went with this guy instead? Very poor judgement there.

This is GARBAGE! Nobody wanted these characters. Predator was cool but am sorely disappointed in all the guests, this is supposed to be Mortal Kombat, where's Skarlet, Baraka, Sindel, Stryker!? The best DLC in the last pack was Tanya. See if I don't waste my money on this bullshit

This ridiculous, You know what? just make mk11 and don't put any original mk characters in the game. This is starting to feel like guest kombat x.

why leather face though? like really???

why no love for xenomorph

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It's a character that no one asked for like Leatherface. Can't wait to play as Bo Rai Cho and Triborg.

Why bo rai cho...why?? Smh

Trade Leatherface for Kabal, Fujin or Meat and I'm in af

This is so ridiculous - what are the developers doing?!

who the f*** asked 4 bo ri cho to be in the game hahaha...hes a useless fat ...alien and tri borg look sick tho

Nr stop going Cod on us with the dlc packs

leather face???Micheal Myers would of been a much better choice since people were dieing to see a jason vs myers fight

Leatherface? What happened with barraka or Shao Khan?

I wanted Baraka, Sindel, Rain and Stryker.
Well shit.
At least we got 3 cool cyborgs in one.
Gonna get alot of hates for this due to stryker.

go f*** yourselves with your shit marketing. C***lords.

They should change the name from "Kombat Pack 2" to "Bullshit"

Alien and Leatherface are such a waste of character slot.

Instead of giving us characters like Rain who were ALREADY IN THE GAME to begin with, we get f***ing BoRaiCho(who I hate), Jason Part 2, Xenomorph skin for Baraka and then 1 good original character which stay true to the franchise.
Amazing job Ed Boon, just amazing.

Mortal Kombat is going overboard with incorporating these movie characters into their games.First freddy krueger,jason, predator and now leather face and the xenomorph? Who's next Chucky,Boogeyman?

enough with the guest characters, jesus
its not even mortal kombat anymore
just put the guest characters in their own fighting game

Wow they tried their hardest to not put Fujin in this game. Out of all the MK characters they could have brought back.. Bo Rai Cho, seriously? and I didn't know this was MORTAL KOMBAT GUEST PARTY EDITION.. Leatherface looks f***ing stupid yeah I said it

They should just make a tournament fighter with all the famous horror movie icons

they could've literally added anyone from Star Wars instead of leatherface and I would've been satisfied

Walks into Netherrealm studios
Me: I have no quarrel with you.

Ed Boon: Leatherface will be playable.

Me: I now have a quarrel with you
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My personal favorite.

Am I the only one who is excited for Bo-ri-cho?

Mortal Kombat Kommandment #9: "Thou Shalt Not Show Thy Lame Characters...such as Bo' Rai Cho". GamingSins says that he's a terrible character because his "Flaming Fart" is one of the DUMBEST Fatalities every created. Thus, he's not a redeemable kombatant.

Putting in Leatherface only gives me more of a reason to hate the fact that they won't put in Ash Williams.

sick of guest characters, can tolerate alien, but seriously leather face? no one outside america likes these horror characters
would trade him for a bottom of the barrel mk character.

Leatherface meh should have chosen michael, not sure who the robot dude is, boraocho ffs stop making original characters (AND CHARACTERS THAT ARE SEEN IN THE F***ING GAME) dlc characters just makes you look money grabbing

bo rai cho is a f***ing joke i was dissapointed waiting for a legendary fighter and i received a mother f***er drunk


I never expected leatherface



NO BODY VOTED FOR HIM I WANT NOOB SAIBOT

well it looks like guest characters are taking over the game except nettherrealm studios doesn't gives a shit about mortal kombat anymore

guest charecters are being overused im fine with 2 charectars but now 4 why dont you just call the game mkx vs movie charecaters btw the only intresting charectar for me is tri bog only for sektor as i didnt like that smoke is a stupid robot i wanted him as a humad gj netherealm

I'm not happy with the new Dlc characters except the new robot

ok leatherface is a mistake u could of put micheal myers and tri borg awsome love it bo rye cho he is ok but the alien is kool to

50% of Mortal Kombat DLC charters are movie charters :(. What a waste of space.

Someone explain why Leatherface would fix MK universe? all he can do is swing his chainsaw and that's it..

Why leather face? There were so many better option cough*fujin*cough

BARRAKA YESSSSS, OOH OOH SEKTOR YEEEEESSS!!!!!!!! Alright Boricho ok still Satisfi..... Wait wait wait....... Who's the black robot??? WTF!!!!!!! ALIEN KILLS BARRAKA????????!!!!!!! Xenomorph with BARRAKA claws??????? Chainsaw guy I don't know and dont care about. Well there goes all hope. Dissapointing.

this is a mixed bag for me .but has a opposite feel unlike pack 1
what I like
.a dlc pack AFTER release
.has added a recurring. character in.
.made a new character to compensate for the ninja cyborg absense

what I hate
.the hype was jarring and I got baffled
.leather face¿?of all horror mask killers you add leather face??I know this games self parody but Christ
.they use the xenomorph as a way to say "no baraka,made zenomprph with blades", first impression but to me LAZY=_=
.they use a another character out of nowhere to compensation for none of the ninja cyborgs absence







Unfortunately, I have to quote all of these too because otherwise someone on this thread will be like "Commander is just making stuff up, and people love KP2." in an effort to try to make me look bad.

These are also likely a mixed bad of casuals and hardcore fans, the same group of fans who make up most of the MK purchases.
 
Bo Rai Cho and Leather Face are 2 sides of the same issue - not so many die hard MK fans want Bo Rai Cho, no casuals want him, not so many casuals want Leather face (they want Freddy more, by obvious reasons), no die hard MK fans want him. There so many characters who are more accepted by both die hards and casuals, that these choices looks confusing to say the least.
And no, fans do not accept Bo Rai Cho just because they became less vocal, they simply have no interest to talk about him whatsoever.
If anything, people asked for Fujin and Freddy to be included, not these 2
 
Not bad, although they wouldn't ship with so many characters. Injustice/MKX shipped with 24 and were successful. SFV will be super successful with only 16. There's no reason for them to not be complacent with 16-24 and then sell the rest on the side as DLC.

Anyway, I would love to see Motaro and Drahmin again, even though neither is likely to happen.

Is there a reason you dropped Takeda and Tremor? They were some of the best-received new characters for MKX, so I'm just surprised by that decision.

I also doubt we will ever see Drahmin, Motaro or Nitara. For Tremor, no reason, i like him and he could be swapped with Smoke or even Nightwolf without any problem. For Takeda, no, i really hated him. He's too Naruto-ish for my likes, despite too much Scorpion inspired moves.
 
[MENTION=5028]Commander[/MENTION]

That wasn't nessesary. I know most people hated KP2.

My point was, that these guests were requested enough to be considered, and obviously were. That's it.
 
Jason, Predator & Tremor, all highly requested.
Tanya, requested by a vocal minority.

The same goes with KP2.
Cyborgs (Cyrax, Sektor, Smoke) and Alien for DLC, highly requested.
Bo Rai Cho and Leatherface, requested by a vocal minority.
My point was that NRS doesn't always put in highly requested characters for MKX DLC.

Jason, Predator, Alien, Tremor, Tri-Borg = non-risk DLC, since lots of people wanted them.
Leatherface, Tanya, Bo Rai Cho = high-risk DLC, since many don't care for their inclusion or like them.
 
Bo Rai Cho and Leatherface, requested by a vocal minority.
My point was that NRS doesn't always put in highly requested characters for MKX DLC.

That's also what I was saying. I feel like I'm taking crazy pills sometimes :lol:

I feel NRS should take more risks in my opinion.
 
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I feel NRS should more risks in my opinion.

As do I. :-D
As much as I don't personally care for Leatherface, I'm happy for those fans that wanted him in and are getting him.
I wish I could say the same for Fujin, but it looks like I'll have to wait longer (2019 or 2020) for any hopes of seeing him in an MK game.
As for Bo:
While I may or may not get him (depending on whether or not he has a more serious variation or not), I hope that he sells well, for the sake of more post-MK3 characters making the main roster or being DLC in future MK games.
 
As do I. :-D
As much as I don't personally care for Leatherface, I'm happy for those fans that wanted him in and are getting him.
I wish I could say the same for Fujin, but it looks like I'll have to wait longer (2019 or 2020) for any hopes of seeing him in an MK game.
As for Bo:
While I may or may not get him (depending on whether or not he has a more serious variation or not), I hope that he sells well, for the sake of more post-MK3 characters making the main roster or being DLC in future MK games.

I wasn't really expecting him nor counting on him making it. It didn't even cross my mind. When I saw people requesting him, I thought, "get real". Even when I saw the trailer, I was in a cross of, "not another guest". that quickly turned to "buuuut its fvcking Leatherface." I understand not everyone likes it. But its hilarious to me when people (not you, you're a rare breed) are offended by my satisfaction :lol:

When MK11 gets closer, I'll support Fujin's return as a playable character since he's out of luck now. But he's not the first or only character I'll be requesting.

At first, I wasn't all about Bo Rai' Cho silliness. But after I saw him, and his enhanced attack where he shits on the opponents face WtF? :laugh:
I warmed up to the idea. He looks fun to play as and he's another comical character like Johnny Cage. Johnny was well done I thought. It wasn't completely outlandish to where it ruins the game. So, with keeping that in mind, that gets me excited for Bo. One more comical character won't hurt, in my opinion. I personally wouldn't worry about the variations. His fart/puke focussed variation is probably the only one that fully highlights that aspect of the character.
 
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I might play Bo Rai Cho a bit online just for lols and to shit on those who don't like him. I'm glad he's getting love, especially we very much needed post-UMK3 kombatants in the line anyways. I maybe way off on Bo's variation names and, but here it goes:

1)Drunken Master-Gains evasive attacks and empowered Flip Attack. Besides gaining more variant attacks and combo, he also can use a much powerful forward flip attack and gains an drinking special, in which it increases damage up to 3 times per match on any variation-specific combo.
2)Jojutsu-Gains short staff attacks. Universal specials are the same, but gains different attacks and some combo enders utilizing the short staff.
3)Vulgarous-Grants empowered Puke and gains questionable combo enders. The range and stun duration of Puke increases and gains a couple variation-specific combo enders that causes a hard-knockdown or hitstun.

Back on MKXI topic, I hope they introduce a couple of new neutral/evil characters that rival, or are total opposites of the 4 main heroes introduced in X. Sorta like a anti-hero squad formed either in Outworld by Kotal Kahn (with Reptile/Syzoth as the squad watcher) or in the Netherrealm by the newly crowned Dark Emperor Liu Kang (with either Stryker or Kung Lao as the team's overseer).

And also Raiden forming his own hit squad (consisting of both old and new kombatants) to eliminate all those who would and/or will harm Earthrealm (either by outside forces or from within), regardless of any reason.
 
New characters:
1) Sorceress, maybe Vorpax looks like - since Tsung and Quan both dead, MK need someone new
2) Oni fighter - scary mask and all the stuff, both Moloch and Drahmin failed short, but theme itself is a good one
3) Vampire lady - make her elegant, sexy, in red and black, not scary (until fatalities anyway) or ugly
4) Great Kung Lao - it's been years of teasing and talking about him in comics and TVs, why not finally make him into a character, he can be corrupted or used on Raiden's side, but he will give more retro and continuation feel for sure
 
The best idea I could come up with is 32-36 characters for the base game and 8 DLC and make them only MK characters. I hope to god Fujin, Sareena, Li Mei and Frost are playable in MK11.
 
I think the majority of this site wants to see Fujin, Noob Saibot and Jade and drop Jax and Sonya in the next game. Casuas will follow.
 
This would be my perfect roster.

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Looks good. It'd be perfect if...

Kabal is replaced with Takeda.

Cyrax is replaced w/ Triborg.

Sheeva is replaced w/ Li Mei.

Motaro is replaced w/ Onaga.

New Characters:
- The female raptor in Reptile's MKXL ending.
- Kano's Son

Plus 4 more...
1. Belladonna (Thrill Kill character who is a revenant in the Netherrealm.)
2. Tormentor (Thrill Kill character who is a revenant in the Netherrealm.)
3. Guest
4. Guest
 
gameplay: much less emphasis on coin-flippin' 50/50 bullshit, ggpo on release instead of patch, if variations come back then they need a serious rework as it's still pretty much a tier-list flowchart, with clearly superior and useless variations still in game. females shouldn't have smaller hitboxes just because. stop releasing op dlc characters for a quick $$$, only then to nerf them into the ground. the krypt should have something better to offer other than the constant spam of concept art.

ui design: drop the "modern" "simplistic" white on black design. where is the colour?

graphics: they need to switch engines already because good god it looks like shit compared to the games released today...it really, really does. unreal 3 can only be pushed so far. the lack of colour is balls...mortal kombat was never a "dark, realistic, desaturated" game, it was colourful with some realism elements.

fatalities: much more emphasis on detail. right now it's mostly about slicing perfectly, ripping something out effortlessly, and mkx newest edition is blowing a hole in someone. compare this to "here's johnny!" .

brutalities: the more i look at them now, the more they suck. it's basically a mini-fatality with no fancy camera work, and most of them are very repetitive. i'd actually prefer classic-style brutalities, aka beat someone so bad they explode, but maybe with some variations so it wouldn't get boring fast. the current brutalities don't really bring hype in matches either, the kung-lao's ip man brutality got so overused it's simply lame & annoying now. their requirement is pretty lame, if i know the button combination why should i need to run through some checklist in order to pull it off?

friendships: with higher detailed gore, it's obvious a group of small but very vocal professional victims will get offended by it. queue in friendships because they have no friends irl and for some comic relief.

characters: as noted before, there shouldn't be a hitbox advantage just because you play a different gender. fck that. hitboxes need to have standard sizes, but if they really wanna go that route then some of these advantages need to come with disadvantages. i'm fine with new characters added to the roster as nrs demonstrated they know their stuff. as for the characters i'd like to see back: noob saibot, scorpion, tremor, kotal kahn, goro, sektor and jade. speaking of jade, she should keep her muscle tone, proportions and costume from mk9 just to piss sjw's off this time. screw guest characters in dlc.

sound: the effects are top notch as usual, but the music needs more aggression and less "epic orchestra".
 
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