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Finally someone made this topic, I was wondering where the MK fans were at.

Netherealm has successfully stoked the flames of nostalgia, and so I'm set on pre-ordering this game. I'm really digging how it's so much like MK1-3 and Trilogy. I don't care for anything in the series after those games.

One problem though...WHERE'S RAIN!?!?!?

Also who you guys gonna main? For me it's def Noob Saibot.

I really hope we get a 360 demo sometime soon.

Having never played MK4 I have no idea what Quan Chi's deal is. Some people seem to hate him with a passion though.

Rain DLC would be swell, but I personally can't think of any other characters I would want, in fact with Rain I think we'd be missing no one from the MK1-3 days. I would however love DLC in the form of costumes, stages, fatalites, etc of course. Custom characters are kinda meh for me in fighters though in Soul Calibur 4 you could make some hilarious dudes.

Jade is def in, the Noob Saibot videos has him beating the crap out of her. I forgot about all the beast guys, mostly because IIRC they were hidden/boss characters. But isn't Kintaro in? Also I'm positive Smoke is in. He has to be...or else!

OK gotcha on the Smoke thing. I do vaguely recall something called Noob-Smoke but I was past MK at the time. I'm still confused about his human/cyborg status and which version we'll get if he is included (I doubt they would tether him to Noob). Maybe we could get both versions.

Edit: Wait do we have definitive proof Smoke is in the game in any of his incarnations, whether as part as Noob or whatever it may be? From the Noob videos there didn't seem to be any indication of Smoke's prescence which leads me to believe he would be on his own if included.

Noob was always able to make clones, that inky shadow guy is just a part of him. It's a separate entity from Smoke. Interestingly in an interview with Boon he said he likes to imagine that the charcter you play as is "Noob" and the shadow clone is "Saibot".

Or maybe we'll get trolled and she won't be in at all.

Oh Ed Boon you so crazy! But seriously give us Rain before all these other chumps!

Are there any other vendors giving out bonus fatalities with their pre-orders, or is it just Gamestop? And will these "exclusives" be unlockable in the krypt?

And for something kompletely different: Why does everyone pronounce Ermac like Ur-mac. Shouldn't it be Err-mac like in error macro? That was bothering me as a drove back from school...yeah I have odd thoughts.

Not sure about in-game but in most of the people in videos I've seen and plenty of people I talked to in person say Urmac. And for some reason that bothers me :/

Ugh I don't care for the costumes, but I would like to get as many fatalities as possible. I think I'll go for Scorpion's then...

TOASTY!

Hey timetowaste85 when you played the game was it on the 360? And if so how was the d-pad? The Xbox d-pad has some "issues" to say the least.

While I don't own a PS3 the idea of Kratos being in seems kinda silly. It's like when they throw in all those odd characters in the Soul Calibur series Yoda, Link, Darth Vader, Heihachi, Spawn...

None of those DLC packs said Rain :( Also doesn't look like Khan is playable, that's a shame.

Also do you have a source for this?

Well since I have a 360 I guess the Kratos thing is a non-issue for me. I guess when I play a MK game I want to be an MK guy fighting other MK guys. But if people enjoy playing Kratos good for them.

Also scans of those DLC lists are floating around the net, as well as other random tidbits like pics of what appears to be Smoke and Sheeva.

I'm still astounded that those fools are in before Rain, Boon must really be trolling us hard.

Where's our Purple Prince!

Why is he in two slots? And isn't that the DLC spot he's in? I thought Cyber Sub was in the Krypt.

Hmm I wonder what Cyber Reptile would be like.

A ninja dinosaur-man turned robot that spits acid and can go invisible, is the right kind of crazy MK needs.

Cyber Rain would just fitzz out with all that water.

Cyber Rain sounds like an energy drink, or maybe a techno band. Or maybe techno bands just sound like energy drinks...

From what I heard the Xbox is getting an exclusive "something", not necessarily a character. So maybe a stage, fatality, concept art, who really knows.

Though it would be hilarious if only we got Rain.

Slarg232 wrote:

Lord Scythican wrote:

Slarg232 wrote:I am about 95% positive that Xbox Exclusive is Ryu Hayabusa, but no official word yet.

If he is, I hope they give him a Klassic ninja suit as well that looks like Sub-zeros but solid blue.

Well, the thing is, there was this picture that was posted on the forum I was watching that had a very suspicious look to it; it was almost exactly like Ryus.

Since Smoke hadn't been revealed, but Noob had, everyone assumed it was Smoke.

I try to tell those bastards at that forum this, and I get "THERE WILL BE NO XBOX EXCLUSIVE, GET OVER IT, I DON'T WANT ONE, I WANT A PURE MORTAL KOMBAT, MY OPINION IS VALID, YOURS IS FALSE, YOU SUCK, GO DIE IN A GREASE FIRE!"


And they wonder why Mortal Kombat has such a bad rep for it's community.....

Actually if you tell them this they'll probably scream "April Fool's prank!" before any other accusations.

Oh, well nevermind then.

Bleh I never liked Kabal, he's at the top of the bottom with Stryker, Cage, and Kano for me. You know I don't think I liked any of the plain ole regular humans.

Mileena on the other hand I agree with. I never cared for the ladies in MK, but maining Mileena is looking like an attractive option.

The guys I'm considering maining (in no particular order) are:
Noob
Kung Lao
Mileena
Cyrax
Shang Tsung
...and Rain if he shows up

Hmm? Any thoughts on who I should pick?

Slarg232 wrote:
- Tormentor somewhat parodies Godzilla (?)

- Only Fatality accesible in the training mode.

That's all some sweet info, but could you clarify on these two? What's the Tormentor? And are certain fatalities only available in training mode? That seems rather strange.

Also thanks for the tips on the main. I used to play Shang a lot in MK2-MKT but I might pass on him in this game. I love Noob mostly because my older brother loved older Sub (and consequently Noob) and being an impressionable youngster at the time I did everything my older brother did. So now I'm a Noob fan (also older Sub>>>>younger Sub :p) Too bad Noob seems like a scrub magnet, and maybe even Kung Lao too, to a less extent. Normally this wouldn't bother me but I think I might go for Mileena and Cyrax to be different. I mean honestly does anyone main Cyrax?

Stryker was just a fat cop who tried to be edgy by wearing his hat backwards (someone needs to inform him that he has put his hat on wrong in MK9). To his credit he is cooler this time around and less Woody Harrelson-esque (though that's not a bad thing).

He just seems so...mundane. Everyone else can steal souls, shoot ice, fire rockets, and have blades for arms but all Stryker has is a gun, a taser, and a couple of grenades.

As for Cage I hate him because he's a douche-bag, but given his charcter design I say that reaction is exactly what they were going for. So I hate Cage in a good way if that makes sense.

I think I hated Kabal because back in the day I couldn't tell what the hell he was suposed to be. Maybe some kind of dystopian future gangster with a gas mask? Weird.

Kano...Kano just has knives...Ok he rips your heart out which is awesome. Maybe I don't like him because he was such an idiot in the movie.


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Oh yeah forgot to thank you Slarg232 for clearing up that bit on the Fatalities and the Tormentor.

I just want to know how some fat cop became one of Raiden's chosen warriors. "Hmm I have a few Shaolin monks, a guy with metal arms, a couple ninjas, what am I missing? Oh yeah a cop :/"

Anyway, kinda off topic but if you haven't heard Reptile's new theme song you really should here it is:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fGcsvZI63Ss&feature=related

Edit: here's most of the character themes if you guys are interested http://music.aol.com/new-releases-full-cds/#/8

I've seen most of those movies, but I rather have Snake Plisken in, he'd be way cooler than Stryker fo sho.

No you're still old I just like retro movies

I used to ignore Smoke, neither disliked nor liked him, but this time around I might use him. Unless he goes robot again, then I'll pass.

I highly doubt 360 gets anything at all. Marketing will always trump any silly PR/Boon-trolling, and so if there was an exclusive it would have been announced a while ago to garner more pre-orders.

It's too close to release for them to release any info and expect a sales boost...or maybe they have an awful marketing team and we do get something hidden.

Again I think if we got DLC exclusives it would have been announced already. I kinda hope we don't get anything, I like having only MK characters. And TBH I feel like when one console gets exclusive stuff it's kind of a slap in the face of the other console users.

Consensus seems to be that the pre-order exclusives are unlockable in-game. Well the klassic kostumes at the least, not sure on the fatalities.

That's good news. I think the outfits will be unlocked in-game rather than DLC. Boon has stated they aren't doing on-disk DLC and the klassic outfits are clearly in the game (in the Challenge Tower).

Well to be fair to Gamestop the wording on the pre-order bonuses is "unlock" (as in unlock something already in-game) so you could argue that they aren't tricking anyone into thinking it's exclusive.


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Jades Victory Pose. Personally, I was expecting more of a "Crouch and stand up rapidly while standing" over this, but meh, whatever.

Now I hate Jade even more. Her only redeeming factor is her silky smooth dark skin. We mocha-flavoured people are the prettiest people in the world. That's a fact, I know because of science.