Is anyone scared for MK8?

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The 7th Number

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Well as you know almost all the characters in MK past are going to die off in MKArmageddon. Then in the new MK games, which will be for Xbox 360 and PS3, they will have a few of the survivors, and a cast of new characters. Here is where it gets scary. I dont know but it seems like in the recent past, when they do make new characters, its usually a human...and a boring one at that. I hope the future of mortal kombat isnt similar to Tekken, where 90% of the fighters are human and there are 2 or 3 animals/robots/myth creatures. It wouldnt be so bad if they could come up with cool human fighters. But in most recent memory they have made people like Hotaru, cobra, Jarek, kia, mavado, hsu hao, and well these characters are really lame. Shujinko looks cool, but they gave him other peoples moves and made him look dumb as a door knob. I just really hope they can still make good characters, hopefully they have been saving some for the new games, otherwise they might kill themselves with new characters.
 
I have actually hated pretty much all of the new characters they have made up since MK4. I thought MK 3 had some crap characters (wow, Stryker?) but it wasn't bad. They had great characters like Nightwolf, Sindel, Cyrax, Sektor, etc. so the one or two garbage characters in MK 3 were overshadowed. After that it all went downhill IMO.
 
i rate characters based on their special moves and how they are used in 2 player games. Stryker as you mentioned you thought was crap but in a 2 player environment his MKT version was by far one of the most versatile and strongest fighters to choose from.

in regards to mk8, i personally dont give a toss. mk pretty much ended for me at MK Gold and while i hope MK Armageddon finally makes the fans happy, no matter what they can do with newer graphics or gameplay, you cant invent MK again. im sorry boon and cronies, i really think MK is just about over.
 
I would really like to see how they would make a decent story line. the one thats been going on since 92 has so many twist and turns and stories that just end and dont tie together. maybe in the upcoming games they can get everything to fit together much better.
 
XxJadexX said:
I have actually hated pretty much all of the new characters they have made up since MK4.
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Ditto for me. I haven't given a flying rat's ass about the new characters they've come up with since MK3 anyway, so why should I care now? We all know Scorpion and Sub-Zero will be in the game, and since they're already two of my most favorite characters in the series, that's plenty good enough for me. Hell, in most of the MK games I don't even regularly play as more than two or three characters, so having a new MK game in which I only play as Scorpion and Sub-Zero won't be much of a stretch for me.
 
Vixen said:
I would really like to see how they would make a decent story line. the one thats been going on since 92 has so many twist and turns and stories that just end and dont tie together. maybe in the upcoming games they can get everything to fit together much better.
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Some of the characters can be Non-canon......
 
I'm pretty much focussing now on the days till MK:Armageddon is released. maybe in 18 months from now, i'll start caring about mk8
 
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im_a_loner_dottie_a_rebel said:
yeah, pretty much all the charecters from mk4 and on, are pretty lame, i really hope they can pull something out of their ass.
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LOL, I think that was the problem in the first place, they just pulled characters out of their asses.

Oh, ya need to fix your link in your sig ^_^
 
I would like to see more robotic or cyborg characters and new bosses. They need to get creative. Also if they are going to make new ninjas, make them look like ninjas.
 
How about everyone gets Borgified? What's a "Borg" you ask?

See below.

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Good idea ChiefThunder! We need more other-worldly races than just human. I don't mean to get off-topic, but in some of the RPG games, you see a lot of different species of people in the game. Why couldn't they do that in the first place? Anyways, I hope that 55% of the new characters are non-human.
 
Maybe we could get a Robotic-Ninja-Type-Cyborg-Monkey-Warrior as the new main character.
 
Lol....Real funny Kona, but another great idea of a brand new race added. Kind of reminds me of Super Monkey Team Hyper Force Go!

Maybe add sort of alien/tiger creature to the game.
 
Hahahaha! Funny Gif, man. Mecha Kong beating up his real life counterpart. We have your last comment to thank for this, Kona. I guessed I helped a little bit as well.

Lol.
 
You know what always made me nuts about Mortal Kombat? That the endings hardly ever mean jack. I mean, how can we figure out what'll happen after Armageddon if the endings contradict each other or are just non-canon? Its so stressful.

I personally hope that Boon and his crew don't end up crapping up the storyline. I mean, anymore than they already have.

But that's off topic, sort of.

The main concern here is that they don't end up making a whole bunch of "new" characters that are just copies of old ones. Kira for example! She's nothing more than a cheap hybrid of Kano and Sonya. Kobra...well that's just Ken from Street Fighter. And Shujinko...as much as I've grown to love him through Konquest, even I can't deny that he's painfully unoriginal.
 
Ms.Hilton said:
You know what always made me nuts about Mortal Kombat? That the endings hardly ever mean jack. I mean, how can we figure out what'll happen after Armageddon if the endings contradict each other or are just non-canon?
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I believe Boon discussed that a while back. Basically he said they're tossing the what-if endings, at least for this game. What we see in the endings is supposed to be what actually happens this time.
 
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