Well one thing I can say for sure, though. Next MK game is a reboot.
Recently I have been seeing more people talking about how MK12 will have Liu Kang as the new God and replace Raiden.... Ahahahahaha... right sure.
I agree to an extent and I could see them doing a reboot because it's the easy way out...
That said, story-wise I conversely also don't see
why they can't have the GKL win or become Goro's ally (since Liu Kang wiped Shang Tsung from existence).
- The MK Champion doesn't age when they win, so the GKL can be brought forward in time to the present day.
- Start the first 3 or 4 chapters showing GKL winning and with him and FGLK explaining how the current threat came to be.
- Maybe even with Shao Kahn out of the picture Shao doesn't get to poison Onaga, so that's a threat that FG Liu Kang never saw coming since MK11 Liu never dealt with what 3D era Liu Kang did.
I (unfortunately) don't see NRS having the cojones to go with Shang Tsung's Aftermath ending, especially with fuck-head Dom doing the majority of the writing these days, and again, yeah I agree with you that the reboot angle is probably more likely.
Also, people were begging for Cyrax, Sektor, Ermac, Reptile and human Smoke to be in a "KP3," so as long as people keep asking for the same MK9 / UMK3 roster then that's what they'll continue to do.
In all honesty, a part of me wonders why I've stuck around for so long when the same klassic roster will probably be repackaged for a 3rd time.
I got my hopes up with MKX bringing us 5 post-MK3 characters and Tremor.... then MK11 comes out and we have Frost (or whatever you want to call that) and Fujin (which I was happy to see).
Aside from those 2 it was 22 klassic characters from MK9, and 6 of those were from DLC.