Re: which 4 character to return in MK8?
This is a stupid thread! It may seem like I'm new but I use to go on TRMK all the time. So I have the right to state this. You guys ask what characters you want to come back but think of how lame the story has become. Me personally I don't like the fact they bring in Daegon and Taven. The last game's star was Shujinko. What happened to that fag. I thought he was the new idol of Mortal Kombat. And then everyone dies and comes back. Then they die again and come back. Ed Boon is a ****ing idiot. John Tobias was the real artist here (And when I say artist I don't mean picture wise) he made the storyline. Then they got some homo off the street to come and make a new storyline for the game. "Ya we'll just throw that faggot in, make this guy a part of that clan, kill off the star of the game, No! Wait the fans didn't like that. We'll bring him back! Ahhh **** I already added this old fart with a broke hip. What can I do to fix that? I know make Raiden evil, make two more new gay ass stars for the game, and to top it off throw in a few more black people who look like jax, and give them everyone elses moves so that way they are in no way original or unique. There we go!"
So to make this ^ long story short. They need to erase everybody and start off new. Oh and another thing, I am so tired of Scorpion. He found the person who killed his people and he still hasn't gotten revenge. So he needs not to come back (Only if Quan Chi comes back. Then Shinnok has to come back then yada yada).... And as for Sub-Zero make him get some frosty ass and have little frostbytin babies. Then his son can be the new sub. Ya'll can hate me for this message but everyone has an opinion remember that! Peace!
Now, now. As much as I got laughing with the Jax comment, I must say that you are right with the whole Tobias thing... Don't blame anyone for that other than John Tobias himself for leaving a franchise that would be on top of the world right now if he were still in charge of the story. Why was he so important? Because he actually cared and took it places we wanted it to go before we knew we wanted it to go there.
John Vogel isn't bad but the guy needs to get a spine, and a set of balls while he's at it because like you said he'll kill someone and bring them back just because we ***** and whine. What he needs to realize is that we'll do that no matter what he does haha. He's in charge of the story, not us, and I'll go on record now saying if I was in charge of the storyline Mortal Kombat would be the best selling game each and every year it came out. I mean it.
I like how the story is going some what though, they're in the right direction they just need to actually make a decision instead of all this "What if?" shit all the time. That works every now and then but it doesn't work ALL the frikkin' time. The biggest dissappointment in MK:A wasn't the crappy Konquest, or the fact the beginning FMV had more people saying "Why?" than saying "HOLY CRAP EFFIN' AWESOME CAN'T WAIT TO RIP A SPINE OUT!!!!" hell it wasn't even the cheap ass fatality system that WILL KILL the MK franchise if we ever see it again. It was the fact that all that we're built up to with the Konquest story of "This will happen if he beats Blaze and this will happen if he beats Blaze". I was so into the story and couldn't wait to see the ending because I wanted to see how it turned out. Then I about jumped off a building when I beat the game and it's all like "Neither one happens, a whole different things happens."
I was like "..." yeah, speechless because well, for about the third game in a row they couldn't just stick with their plan. They had to pussy out and do something to try and make everyone happy.
THAT is the main reason MK has yet to make it's fan base grow and has been restricted to nothing more than us die hards. If they want to make progress they need to think out the story, and go with it. Not get scared at the last second that someone isn't going to like their decision. They already have the biggest loop hole known the video games, it's called the Netherrealm.
"What? Liu Kang is dead? Oh it's ok, he sits out this game and comes back in the next thanks to someone rescuing his soul from the Netherrealm." It's that simple, they did it with Johnny Cage, they did it with Shinnok, they did it with Noob Saibot.
Oh and as far as Sub-Zero goes, he doesn't need any Noob help, or any new image. He owns the Lin Kuei, he's the greatest thing MK has going for it. Keep him an ageless Ninja, let him keep freezing people, and we'll all be happy. Well not all of us because some people won't be happy regardless.
Mortal Kombat will catch it's rise again, and become great. It's just going to take some guts from the creative team, which I should be on, and John Vogel getting it together and sticking to a plan that HE wants... Or else Ed Boon needs to hire me.
Come on Mr. Boon, if nothing else at least let me be Vogel's assistant so I can help him with the story... I promise, it'll be the best thing you've done since creating Mortal Kombat.