Board Thread:Mortal Kombat (Alternate Timeline)/@comment-4708902-20160816191251

Everyone one way or another, fears change. But I'm more concerned about how people react to it. And I sense change comming to MK. As you know, MKX has said that many older characters, such as Johnny Cage, Sonya, Kano, Kenshi, Jaxx etc etc, are getting older and slower in universe and are liable to retire and be replaced by successors, Cassie, Takeda, Jaquei, Kung-Jinn and others yet to be revealed.

This is not the first time a fighting game has used in-universe time to age out older characters and create new ones to succeed them. Soul Calibur did so with their fifth game, but nearly everyone hated the newcommers because they were nothing at all like their predeccessors and now Namco has re-hired an older exec who has promised the full return of the old roster.

But what Namco and the Soul fandom are not realizing, is that game franchises must evolve and change overtime, otherwise they'll get stuck in a status quo. But we're getting off topic. I want to ask the MK fans a question. IF, NRS released an MK game, that had NONE of the pre-X characters, and instead has the Spec Force team, Kotal Kahn, Erron Black, D'vorah, Ferra Torr and any other newer characters introduced in future games, would you still play and at least try to enjoy the game? Or does Mortal Kombat mean nothing without veteran characters? 