Board Thread:General MK Discussion/@comment-1084762-20150830085026/@comment-24938557-20150904010850

Uglyguy25 wrote: @Heatlineheard What exactly do you mean with done to death? That they're too old now in real life, and not only in the game? I think the only expiration date for them will be when people stop asking for them. Look at Scorpion and Sub-Zero for example, two of the oldest MK characters ever, debuting at the very first game. In MKX, Sub-Zero was very old too, I guess no less than 40, and Scorpion would be older had it not been for the ressurection and wraith thing. But can you imagine a MK without them?

Completely agreed about the new characters. I didn't really care about Cassie, Jacqui and Kung Jin since the beginning. I wanted to see how Erron, Ferra/Torr, D'Vorah etc were going to do. And then most of them were just enforcers? Erron, Ferra/Torr, Reptile, Ermac, and also Liu Kang, Kitana, Kung Lao...

I hate so much when they do this to a character, make them an irrelevant body guard / soldier for the whole story mode. It ruins their reputation so much, even when they do have potential. It's one of the reasons Baraka became unpopular, along with Kintaro.

To me, almost every new character should have gotten a chapter for themselves, including Erron and Ferra/Torr. It would not only show us more about them, but could also have been used to lenghten the Outworld Civil War for a bit longer in MKX. Is it just me or it ended extremely quickly for an event Netherrealm had been teasing so much? I think he said they were added on too many games, even in this new timeline, which made old 3D Era characters and the new MKX Characters feel like side ones, and removing their importance, as they are always stealing the show for themselves. They go as far as ressurecting them for the sake of not developing others.

And I agree, the only news I cared were Outworlders and Erron Black, though Kotal Kahn was the only fleshed out for me.