Board Thread:General MK Discussion/@comment-26454032-20150112045302/@comment-26454032-20150115211514

Apollyon嫌っ wrote: Boon himself has stated in many interviews that with MKX they're going to go nuts with new stuff. New generation, new consoles, new MK. I believe in an interview he stated that MKX is going to feature the new generation of fighters, but so far it's the same old tired crap.

16 returning and 14 new doesn't really sound like the new generation to me. More like old gen with a few (most likely crappy) new characters. I hope you're dead wrong, Gamer. I'm sure most of the new characters will be cool. Kotal Kahn, Cassie Cage, D'Vorah and Ferra/Torr all look cool a play interesting. Especially when you compare them to the new characters they added in MK:DA, MK:D and MK:A.

One of the reasons why they might be revealing only returning characters, is to keep the new characters a secret. They know we've already seen those characters before, but with the new characters, that's very different. They want to keep them a secret, but they would also rather show us the returning characters because we know how they normally play. This will allow them to show off a character and basically say "Hey! Remember that character from the last game? CHECK THEM OUT NOW!!", so everyone's like "Holy crap! They did so many improvements to this character! This is the best MK ever".

If they were to show a new character though, people would be like "That's cool! But, I kinda want to see the returning characters, and keep the new ones a secret". How do I know this? Because I read it all the time. It seems that the majority of people would rather see the old characters, and find out the new characters when they first put in the game.