Board Thread:Mortal Kombat X/@comment-5561191-20140912094911/@comment-5561191-20140929222733

Cmandaboss3 wrote: Has anyone given a single thought towards Kintaro being in the game. We actually talked about him very briefly in the other thread about Goro in the game.

I don't think he'll make it as a playable character in this game because we already have Goro, so why would we need another large male Shokan character whose powers and gameplay are very similar to those of Goro. We'd have two characters who are pretty much the same.

Now you'll tell me: "Your argument is invalid. If Kintaro is just a copy of Goro and his powers are almost the same, then why would NRS have put him in MK 9?". Because MK 9 was mostly a remake the three first Mortal Kombat games, and so NRS brought back about every character who participated in these games, even the Easter Eggish ones (the hidden versions of Reptile, Noob, Smoke and Jade in the Arcade Ladder). One thing that supports this is that the game had almost no new character, and was mainly composed of the traditional ones. Kintaro was among these "traditional" characters who had to be in the story because of his major role in these three games.

But this is no longer the case in MK X. MK 9 was there for adaptation, and now MK X is here for innovation. You can tell this by looking at the great quantity of new characters, for example. New characters mean a new storyline, you know.

Besides, I believe (and correct me if i'm wrong, because I'm afraid of people trying to kill me for saying this) that Goro is much more popular than Kintaro among fans. Many people even consider Kintaro as merely a new version of Goro invented to fill his role in MK 2 (that is, as the game's sub-boss).

Also, Goro was taken back to the series in MK 4, as many people liked him, and was kept in the stories of the following games - not always as one of the main characters, but always finding a way to fit the plots of Deadly Alliance, Deception and Armageddon, for example. This proves his popularity. Kintaro, on the other hand, was abandoned until Armageddon, and was only back in this game because it had every character of the series. Yet his role in it is so minimun that even his only appearance in story mode was that of an illusion, a clone of him, and not himself. If you want to mention he being present in Shaolin Monks, keep in mind that he was there about for the same reason as of MK 9: the game was a remake of the first games, in this case a spin off.

Have to hurry now, talk to you guys again later.