Rate mkx's overall roster from 0-100

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Overall ill give the roster a 90. Lots of great icons in and i like majority of the newbies. Nrs did a really great job with the roster overall. Its so many characters for me to choose from. Dlc isn't really that great imo so no bonus points for that.
 
79 while I do like the new inclusion of characters I do feel as if Netherrealms wussed out a little bit by keeping characters such as Jax, Sonya Blade, Kung Lao, Reptile, and not having at least one Lin Kuei looking cyborg
 
75, though it is really too soon to say for certain. So it has the potential to be 100. Missing the likes of Cyrax, Sektor, Baraka (my fave), Shang Tsung is bold but we needed the store to move forward. I've always liked Shinnok and I think he is finally getting the attention to look dope.
 
You know what? 100.

Yes, the roster could've been larger and more of my favorites could've been included, but they did such a superb job with every single character they've introduced. The variations, the unique movements, playing styles, movesets, etc. Every single character, whether I'm a fan of them or not, looks amazing. MKX is easily the most polished MK game ever. Also, they seem to be covering the missing characters in DLC (giving Tremor a chance and bringing in Tanya). I have faith in NRS and truly think Fujin will get his chance.
 
Oh no, now I have to math. I don't math well and math don't do me well either... it's a hate-hate relationship.

Uhm let's see. Of the entire roster, including the DLC revealed, I like these characters:
- Ermac
- Kenshi
- Kitana
- Mileena
- Cassie
- D'Vorah
- Takeda
- Tanya
- Goro

That's 9 out of 29 characters.
So rounded up, thanks to an online calculator who can help me math, that is 31% of the roster I like.

End result: 31-100
 
With what we comfortably assume to be the 'final' launch roster, I'd give it something like 75. If we throw in Fujin as an unlockable in story mode then that goes to say... 85. Havik as a/the boss? ~90.

I sort of feel bad by saying less than 80 as things stand, but we haven't seen anything of a few characters and I don't really care about two or three of them. Also, I am quite wary of Liu Kang having a somewhat predictable boss form.
 
86.4

There's literally no baseline for a good or bad roster ranking scale, so let's give this sucker a B+ and wrap it up.
 
Let's see what I don't like:
1. No DLC characters I want to play as
2. D'Vorah is a wasted character slot
3. Lui Kang
4. Kung Lao
5. Ferra will be annoying
6. Dead characters returning

I'll rate it a 75.
 
It's a good roster.

Pretty decent mix of classic characters and new ones that are, you know, memorable. There were a few characters that I wish had made the roster, but it's not a deal breaker they're not in.

Giving this an 88.
 
I'll give it a solid 80, there's a couple characters in particular I would have really liked to have; (Sindel & Rain).

And quite a few popular characters are absent I'm sure other's would have liked; Kabal, Smoke, Baraka, Cyrax, & Fujin.

To top that off, I would have liked to see some characters from Deadly Alliance/Deception, like Frost, Hotaru, Havik, Li Mei and Nitara.

With all that I would go lower to a 70 but we're getting some pretty cool new characters I'd say a solid 80 is about right. It could be better but it's damn solid.

I'm kind of thinking or at least hoping we get an "Ultimate MKX" down the line.
 
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I would say no to Jax and his Daughter. She looks generic and seems to be just as boring as he is. And i'm not so sure about Erron Black. He doesn't have that mk vibe so far, Hope he's good.

But the Roster is actually pretty good. If it's not going to change, My rate is a 75. Because some characters i really like apparentely won't be playable in the game.
 
Having Kitana and Tanya is almost perfect for me... However, it´s almost the MK9 roster, so I cannot give it a 100...
If it gets more post mk3 chars like fujin it´ll be a 100, but now it could be an 80??? 90??? (If they eliminate jax it could be a 200!!!)
 
I don't really want to comment outside of just saying.

I feel like the roster was 100% chosen for story purposes. Like they made the story first, decided what characters would be good to move the story along.

And that decided what characters were making it in.

That's why the Roster seems like a "safe" Roster with only a few fan favorites knocked out in room for like 7+? new characters.
 
I'll give it a 95 because Tremor a MK spinoff character doesn't belong in this game. The younger and older fans got a lot of kharacters they wanted. This game will kick arse until the next installment and with more DLC to come I'm set. I guess a lot of guys got their arse whooped by Mr. Lao so they're butt hurt heeeeeeeee's baaaaaack.

Kung Lao forever!
 
I am fine with all characters.

The initial roster is disappointing to me because it is extremely unbalanced. Too many good guys, many neutral and very few truly villains. I don't feel there's enough variety there, especially when Kotal is strongly neutral, Scorpion apparently becomes more of a anti-hero guy and Mileena has no allies.

However, the DLC will bring 5 villains which is awesome to me and a Mileena fanboy: Goro. I would still appreciate characters like Reiko or Fujin. I like they chose 2 obscure characters for DLC and not MK9 returning ones.

I consider this to be one of the weakest rosters in the series but I will give it a solid 70%.
 
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