I wish they'd just of kept characters dead.

[Mads]

Hey gang, it's been a while for me. Hope all are well.
I honestly think that the worst thing about MK:A was the idea of putting everyone in. So many people were virtually the same as another guy. Didn't they learn their lesson from the feedback (primarily negative) on MK Trilogy? It's boring. I felt MK:A was a backward step.

Why is it that all of the Kombatants are alive? It's Mortal Kombat. I think we could have done without people that no-one really cared about. Kai? Peh. Jarek, Kobra and Kira, wow, isn't the Black Dragon desperate for members? Fujin, God of being pox. Shinnok, a fish. The Red Dragon, who cares? Stryker, ha ha. Stay dead. Nitara, doh, our vampire chick idea didn't work. Rain, why bother? Ashrah, I don't think I've seen anyone vaguely interested in her. Hax and Sonya Blah. I didn't cry when Khameleon was left out and, well, I'm not buying the Wii version for just her, I'll buy it on it's merits if it's worth it for the wacky control scheme.

Seriously, they are supposed to be fights to the death, I can understand occasional mercy shown and the odd escape, but Shang Tsung, Liu should remember 'fool you once, shame on me, fool you twice, shame on you'. Another thing is, these people can still die outside of the tournament, some have. Goro, how many times must you die? All the bosses bar Shinnok explode at the end of the games and yet come back, in Khan's case tougher, how come? You can always have new threats. Thanks to Noob Saibot not even the original Subbys dead.

Shokans, Centuars, Onis and Tartakans must have other champions, after all the Earth Realm and Edenia have heaps. So they are all replacable. MK8 is gonna be great, as long as they don't put too many people in, not everyone has to die either, some may not have cause to fight, which is reasonable.

Sorry about the rant folks. Catch ya later. :-D

 

[Frankenberry]

games like MKT and MKA are more or less just party games. giving the fans out there who actually do want to play with ALL the characters alive or dead (and they are out there, despite you not being one of them) a chance to do so. its basically one big favor to the fans, saying "here's all our past characters, now you can play them in 3d with your friends and live your fantasy battles of who would beat who if they were actually in the same game, blah blah blah". The stories that go along with them may or may not be canon we'll have to wait till the next one to find out, but they're put there just so we can make SOME sense of it all.

 

[Kona]

'No one ever really dies in Mortal Kombat' - Ed Boon

Because people want to play as their favorites, and they can't do that if their favorites don't come back.

 

[Glamador]

For one thing, half those characters that "nobody cares about" are some of my favorites. Shinnok especially. Jax and Sonya too? How can you not like Jax and Sonya? And come on Rain is great! I agree that some people needed to stay dead. But not everyone. My list of people that should have stayed out are as follows.

Stryker, Nightwolf, Kai, Jarek, Kobra, Dairou, Darrius, Hotaru, Kenshi, Shujinko, Hsu Hao, Ashrah, Li Mei, TANYA, Frost.

The rest are good enough I say. But the problem is there's not a single character somebody doesn't like.

 

[undertaker3x7]

MK Trilogy was my favorite MK game because it had all the characters and MK:A was great because it had all the characters. The things they screwed up with MK:A isnt the characters but the fighting and crappy ass fatalities.