Official DLC Ideas Discussion ~ Stages, Costumes, Characters, -alities, etc.

Re: fresh new characters please

Ug, forgot Skarlet was a new character. Also I don't count as human Cyrax/etc as new characters, just different skin. Cyber SubZero is new, but still an alternate version. Still good to see though but not a "fresh" character.

NRS is a different studio from the old days (better budget, etc), so if/when they create new characters I think they would do it differently now than the past few games.
 
Re: fresh new characters please

Yes, please. I love the original MK1-MKT cast, don't get me wrong, but I don't want to see the same damn cast every game. New faces like Skarlett and some post-Trilogy characters are needed. Don't you guys want MK to keep moving forward? Introducing new characters and re-introducing post-Trilogy characters that are on par with the ones we all know and love would really show how much MK has changed for the better since NRS was born. And not everyone from post-Trilogy is bad. Sure, the new Armageddon characters and most of the new Deadly Alliance/Deception characters were bad, but, IMO, most of the MK4 new characters weren't bad at all (except Jarek, but everybody hates him).

They made a lot of the least liked new characters from MK3 like Stryker and Nightwolf likeable, Human Smoke is now fully fleshed-out and many people like him now, and they made a post-Trilogy character, Quan Chi, great in this 2D game, so I bet a lot of you will change your minds when you see gameplay of DLC characters (Kenshi, Shinnok, Skarlett, Tanya, Fujin, or possibly Reiko). Many of the post-Trilogy characters haven't had as big of a chance to develop like the klassic characters due to Midway's finanicial problems, so let's give the few MK4 and Deadly Alliance characters that will be DLC a fresh start; IMO, they deserve it.
 
robwill80 said:
It would be great if Friendships were DLC, but I don't think they will be. I think they could lose some of their charm if they were bought and known about, instead of locked and hidden in the game. The only ways I can see these coming are either hidden through a patch, or a paid expansion - "Ultimate MK9" or something like that.
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You would still have to figure out the rules to being able to do them (such as no blocking or only kicking in the winning round) and figure out the button sequence combination for each character.

BTW, if bosses had friendships, then I would love to see Shao Kahn holding up a sign saying "FEED THE CHILDREN!" or something involving children, heh.
 
Re: Do you think we will get "Friendship's" on DLC?

Friendships would be okay, but I would rather see animalities, if anything.
 
Re: fresh new characters please

I really want new characters, but I would prefer if they saved them for the next game. And if you are one of the posters saying they shouldn't make new characters because all of the new ones from the 3d games suck, and you also dislike all the 3d games, you need to check your logic (if you like the new games that is). Going by your logic, they should have never made this game, because "NRS sucks at making new games, so they shouldn't make anymore." And hell yes at the posters saying we need a pirate. Also, this game isn't a remake.
 
Re: Do you think we will get "Friendship's" on DLC?

friendships would be awesome. i hope brutalities never make it back into mk.
 
Re: fresh new characters please

There's a lot of people who just scream out 'omfg all characters after MK3 sockzorz!1!!11one!' on threads and then it starts a wave of people saying the same thing in hysteria even though they're just saying that because someone with a lot of rep said the same thing. Yeah people are entitled to their own opinions and I respect that, I'll also admit that a lot of the new characters after MK3 weren't as good. However take into consideration that After MK3 the Mortal Kombat team couldn't just keep doing the same thing like 'oh here comes Liu Kang! He must beat Shao Khan against all odds to save everything! Will he do it?! Yes! Yayyyyy! Now let's bring back all the characters that died along the way for the next installment' over and over, they had to move on with the times. They had to try new things and yes it's kinda obvious that a lot of those things haven't worked out. The Post-MK3 era bought us Quan Chi, Shinok, Tanya, Havik, Frost, Kenshi which in my opinion are interesting characters. Give NRS a chance to flesh them out like they did with Stryker and I'm sure they will deliver.

On topic of the thread though I think although the Arcade endings weren't cannon (they almost never are), NRS used them to set the stage for future characters. I won't list them but there are quite a few, Don't wana spoil it for people and those who completed a few Arcade ladders will understand what I'm talking about. This made me have faith in NRS again and I'm really looking forward for future installments as I think they've learned what we want and won't make massive mistakes that they made in the 3D era again, have some faith =)

Here's my opinion - MK4 - MK:D were actually alright, they had their flaws and a lot of shitty characters but at least they had an interesting storyline and it actually felt like NRS tried new things. MK:A and MKvsDC however I'm not even gonna defend, they were just awful and I can go on a long rant about those games but it's nothing to do with this thread.

The list of characters I think should definitely be scrapped thought are:

Mokap, Kobra, Taven, Draegon, Maldavo...The others however I think have potential and if NRS play their cards right and do what they did with Stryker they might very well become the new fan favorites.
 
Re: fresh new characters please

I'm pretty sure that Sektor, Cyrax, Smoke, Sonya, and (hopefully) Shang Tsung had canon endings.
 
Re: fresh new characters please

DCP said:
Oh please no Mexican characters. Hispanic character? Cool. But no Mexican ones. Mexicans already get the notion they are the only Hispanic country in existence.
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I'm Mexican.. I know there are other hispanic countries.. Not hating, just sayin'
 
Re: Do you think we will get "Friendship's" on DLC?

Bruce Norris Forever said:
You would still have to figure out the rules to being able to do them (such as no blocking or only kicking in the winning round) and figure out the button sequence combination for each character.
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I'm not quite so sure about that. Would it be considered an ethical business practice if it were paid DLC? Paying for a game that contains secrets is fine, but here you'd be paying exclusively for an option in a game, without being told the means to access it. I'm not sure if that's been done before. Seems a bit shady.
 
Re: Do you think we will get "Friendship's" on DLC?

I would enjoy seeing the return of Friendships, you could use them on good players you actually want to be friends with online. You really can't go wrong with more features and ways to end a match in this already very exciting game.
 
Re: fresh new characters please

Critical-Limit said:
not to mention New characters make the game extremely hard to balance.

Lets say this move is balanced against half the cast. And is overpowered against the other half. Nerfing this "move" would make this character even with half the cast and now a unwinning matchup for the rest. cuz of 1 change. The more characters you add the harder it is to reach game balance.
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I don't see how a character is harder to balance after release as opposed to during development of the game? The bottom line is you still have to balance them with other fighter regardless of what stage the game is at. The game started with a fairly large roster.
 
Re: fresh new characters please

I don't mind new characters at all so long as they are not clones of other characters (Kobra the Ken clone), and especially not another ninja (we have more than enough). As long as that's settled then I'm totally for new characters.

In a way human Cyrax/Sektor/Smoke were like new characters, or rather aspects of characters we have not seen before, and Cyber Sub Zero is definitely a new character (or alternate version of another character). But Skarlet I'm definitely looking forward to (and happy we also got Kenshi).

I'd like to see another earthrealm character (female since so far we've only had Sonya...and we all know what most think of Kira...) and I'll let Netherrealm surprise us with the rest.
 
~ Outworld's Goddess ~ said:
maybe they can make another princess, i like the name tameena. her weapon can be a parasol blade like setsuka from SC4!! :D
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YO dude this is MK not soul caliber you sir should refrain from those ideas
 
to continue from Axe's comment a few posts above, any character (fresh or old) will require the same amount of steps to balance.

Also since the story alters the story line, wouldn't it be possible that other characters would have been involved now with the story. The chances that only the original characters (with no new parties) are only involved even once the timeline has changed dramaticall is very minimal...by fictional logic
 
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Re: fresh new characters please

celticpr said:
In a way human Cyrax/Sektor/Smoke were like new characters, or rather aspects of characters we have not seen before, and Cyber Sub Zero is definitely a new character (or alternate version of another character). But Skarlet I'm definitely looking forward to (and happy we also got Kenshi).
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Smoke had a human form since MK2. Calling human Cyrax and Sektor new characters is a real stretch, they are palette swaps as far as I'm concerned. True they have reworked animations, but they are functionally identical (or least that's the intent) to their cybernetic counterparts. Cyber Sub-Zero, on the other hand, actually has a movelist separate from his Human counterpoint, so I consider him a new character.
 
Re: Do you think we will get "Friendship's" on DLC?

Was about to post something similar regarding Animalities.
Would be nice to see both again, it seems a LOT of things were missed out in MK 2011, although it IS good to see it getting back to it's roots.

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Really don't know why they put in Babalities over Animalities/Friendships, since they're all essentially the same, and does get quite dull after seeing one character do it.
 
Re: Do you think we will get "Friendship's" on DLC?

Jade said:
If friendships are in the game, I don't think they will be DLC, I think they are just hidden.



Friendships aren't an -ality, though, so they can still be in it.
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I guess that would count brutalities out then!
 
Re: Do you think we will get "Friendship's" on DLC?

How can they call this a fan service game and not have Friendships. Total BS. We better get them for DLC. They should give us as much as they can in this game, forget a new game. We already have the game we've been waiting for, lets add mroe to it to make it even better.
 
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