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I think Cassie Cage will likely be my go-to if Johnny is completely out (she shares his and Sonya's move set, according to video). It's ALSO coming to XBox 360, so no need for a next gen, still. Queen Bee and Hulking Guy Throwing Child don't interest me, but Cage and Khan do. I'd also like to know how Sub Zero is human again...fatalities look crisper than before, all in all, bring it on. And the villain should be Shinnok. He's either gotta piss away the ending of the last game completely (may have already, with SZ) or go with what he already set up.

Hmmm......


Now to find a Fight Stick.


Really disappointed with Cassie Cage; Johnny Cage was my second favorite character, and it's just not the same level of doucheness if it's a chick doing the nut punch.


Here's hoping Baraka makes a comeback though. Khan looks fun as hell, though.

I have a feeling they're gonna have Cassie gain her father's "charm"...just wouldn't be MK without it.

Look at the length of Cassie's neck. It's ridiculous.

At least she's not got a case of the Man-Face that EVERY female in MK9 had.

New Mortal Kombat? Yes, please! Bug Lady looks like fun, here's hoping my staples Ermac, Jade, and Scarlet come back. All in all, this will be a day one PS4 purchase for me! The E3 gameplay looked sick!

 Slarg232 wrote:
At least she's not got a case of the Man-Face that EVERY female in MK9 had.

Yep. The character models they're using now for the chicks are lightyears better than the mannish faces and cartoonishly bad breast to body proportions they had in MK9 and MK vs. DC.

http://images4.fanpop.com/image/photos/22000000/MK-9-Story-Mode-sonya-blade-22090272-640-360.jpg

*shudders*

Didn't they pretty much kill off almost everyone in the story of the last game?

I wonder if they'll do another reboot and everyone's alive again. Or everybody is somehow alive again by releasing their souls!
*poof* Tada! It's MAGIC!

Well, somethings up, because Subby should be a Robot if they had followed that story.

Redeemer31 wrote:
Didn't they pretty much kill off almost everyone in the story of the last game?

I wonder if they'll do another reboot and everyone's alive again. Or everybody is somehow alive again by releasing their souls!
*poof* Tada! It's MAGIC!

To be fair, they killed most of the good guys off at the end of Deadly Alliance as well, only to bring them back via the power of somethingarather at the end of Deception. And Jonny Cage has died twice (Khan killed him at the start of MK3, and then he died to the Deadly Alliance in MK5).

But yeah, they might make the deaths stick this time. Sindel slaughtered basically everyone because Nightwolf used his Ancient Indian Ion Cannon to take her out, and I don't think they can just reverse that.

I'm pretty sure in the story, they'll keep Cyborg Sub-Zero. People would be rather upset (understandably) if they didn't even include regular Sub-Zero to play. And yeah, they killed off a lot of people, but they can keep the story going, with or without bringing them back!

I have a theory on Sub Zero being human again: hear me out. The first Sub Zero was a Lin Quei warrior, and this is the one Quan Chi pretended to be in order to murder Scorpion's family. When the second Sub Zero came along, he addressed the first as his brother, but they also commented that they were clan brothers, not biological. I suspect the new Sub Zero is also an ice-based member of the Lin Quei, another "brother", sent to fulfill the role of his predecessors. Either that, or he is the original that was killed by Scorpion, and his soul rejoined his body. I didn't notice a scar though, meaning it's not the same Sub Zero turned into a cyborg-that one was the "younger brother", not the original.

Raiden is revealed!

Holy crap, I usually semi-dislike Raiden, but he's fething badass here!!! I think I found my favorite version of Raiden ever!!

Quan Chi!

Quan Chi is not my fav, but he looks good.

Nice. Kano looks awesome!! Quan Chi looks like more fun than usual too. I like the 3 fighting styles. Gives far more choices, and new things to learn.

As long as fighting styles don't become pre-order bonus/DLC packs. WBi is very good at aping the worst practices of the other big publishers, so I wouldn't put it past them.

But yeah, Quan-Chi. Excellent. Now we just need Shinnok and they can pay off the teaser at the end of MK9.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
As long as fighting styles don't become pre-order bonus/DLC packs.

I think this is virtually guaranteed to happen.

 Manchu wrote:

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
As long as fighting styles don't become pre-order bonus/DLC packs.

I think this is virtually guaranteed to happen.

Which is a bit saddening.

Goro is already a pre-order bonus, so we have our first gated-off character.

Goro is playable? Time to preorder at gamestop on Monday!! Or is it from other places?

 timetowaste85 wrote:
Goro is playable? Time to preorder at gamestop on Monday!! Or is it from other places?

*sigh*

Thanks for highlighting everything that is anti-consumer with the game publishing industry right now. MKX has a gated character, and will have DLC characters (probably 4-5 of them, if MK9 and Injustice are anything to go by). And that's before we get to skin packs. Supporting WBi's methods just encourages them to continue them.

Don't pre-order the game. Don't buy it on release. Wait until they release the inevitable "Komplete Edition", and get the game, plus all the extras, for less than the original retail price.

It's one of three games I'll be buying this year, and it's my absolute favorite fighter game. I don't mind splurging. I'm not one of those guys who gets the new system right away, gets games as soon as they come out, beat them, and resell them. I pick and choose, buy a lot of old games, and keep them. To date, here are the titles I bought on release:
Marvel Nemesis: Rise of the Imperfects
Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2
Mortal Kombat 9
Borderlands 2

Soon joined by MKX and Borderlands: tPS. I'm not worried about spending big on what is quite literally only a handful of games.

 H.B.M.C. wrote:
Wait until they release the inevitable "Komplete Edition", and get the game, plus all the extras, for less than the original retail price.

I did this with Injustice. But TBH not because I wanted to FIGHT THE MAN; it was just because I got caught up in other things for a while and did not make it back to Injustice until the Everything For Thirty Bucks edition had come out. I think pre-orders, DLC, and all that is here to stay and will only get more ridiculous (Day One DLC advertised in-game and "season passes" are already well-established and just egregious). For people who refuse to participate in that, there's waiting for the inevitable Thirty Bucks edition. It's a great option but it is a part of the existing marketing structure not an alternative to it.

 Compel wrote:
For what its worth, improvised / environmental attacks are a fairly big thing in Injustice, so it isn't massively unlikely that they'd pull them through and improve on them for Mortal Kombat.

That is basically one of my gripes with Injustice. The game looks so damn good, and the combat can be decent at times (Though for the life of me, I can't seem to pull off any of Shazam's moves when I actually want to). But the environment is so damn annoying. While it is a new concept, the ability to spam its use through the match is tedious and annoying, especially since you can't actually block it and HAVE to jump or try to teleport and can further be punished in doing so. Plus the fact each hit can take close to a quarter of a health bar is absurd.

When I'm playing a fighting game (specifically a more traditional '2D' fighter), the environment shouldn't be such a big deciding factor in the match. I know it's super hero gimmicky and gak, but still. It's the main reason I'd rather play SF. I'd rather be punished for a mistake than be punished because my opponent uses a character who can lob every object on the map and kill me without needing to really throw a punch.


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 Ashiraya wrote:
I see the characters' absurd ability to ignore crippling damage is as consistent as usual.

Delightful.

Of course! We all know fatal wounds don't matter UNLESS you're told to FINISH HIM/HER!

I don't much mind gated characters (Because those are never exclusive long enough to matter, they want their money after all.), but gated fighting styles is going to WRECK the balance of the game, and that would be a disaster.

Goro will probably be Season Pass DLC character 1; people who preorder just get him sooner. Also, I thought I read somewhere that it was Goro's son, not the man himself.

 Slarg232 wrote:
I don't much mind gated characters (Because those are never exclusive long enough to matter, they want their money after all.), but gated fighting styles is going to WRECK the balance of the game, and that would be a disaster.

Goro will probably be Season Pass DLC character 1; people who preorder just get him sooner. Also, I thought I read somewhere that it was Goro's son, not the man himself.

Yep, I agree. DLC characters don't bother me that much. Often times, they aren't characters that are cool enough to bait me into buying. Even Injustice didn't have any characters I wanted that badly, so I've yet to download them :( Though MK might pull some oldies but goodies on us. I'm still a little sad we haven't had a decent 3D Motaro introduced yet. The whole 'Sheeva and Goro's people cursed him to be a minotaur instead' was annoying in Armageddon :(

I will be pretty ticked if they cut out people's fighting styles for DLC purposes though. I'd be mad too if they had extras for download, because it will be just as bad as cutting out styles. Creating imbalance on purpose is terrible.

I havent played MK since the mid 90s versions but holy heebus it looks pretty good.
Some of the backgrounds and arena settings as just wow.
And the fatalities.
Thats an 18+ cert for sure

Melevolence wrote:
I'm still a little sad we haven't had a decent 3D Motaro introduced yet. The whole 'Sheeva and Goro's people cursed him to be a minotaur instead' was annoying in Armageddon :(

That was silly, but it was a limitation of the engine that they didn't have time to rectify. He didn't show up in MK9 either (well he did, but was taken out off screen), probably for similar reasons (too big, didn't fit with tag combat style).

Melevolence wrote:
I will be pretty ticked if they cut out people's fighting styles for DLC purposes though. I'd be mad too if they had extras for download, because it will be just as bad as cutting out styles. Creating imbalance on purpose is terrible.

It's WBi. I would not put it past them.