Board Thread:Mortal Kombat X/@comment-5503721-20150815230710/@comment-25163804-20150827195755

Riley Heligo wrote: WraithBlade115 wrote: Riley Heligo wrote: Dragonspyne wrote: Dynamo68 wrote: WraithBlade115 wrote: Female Cyborg woudl be fun :)

https://twitter.com/noobde/status/636159945059143680 He didn't say no. :P *In all seriousness, Kratos coming back is nonsensical I think.* Yeah. What could you imagine a female cyborg being like?

Also, as cool as Kratos is, MK9 is enough for him, to be perfectly honest. I really like the idea of Kratos coming back to the enevitable Armageddon 2 game where all MK fighters from the beginning till that game come back to fight to the death. I can see Freddy, Jason, and Predator coming back to that game as well. Hopefully by that time Khameleon will be released from Nintendo's grasp and NRS will have full rights and ownership of her. I don't even think Nintendo owned the rights to Khameleon, she was simply a bonus for Nintendo players. From what I've gathered as well, Khameleon's appearance in Armageddon as a Wii exclusive was mostly based on time constraints, which is somewhat believeable seeing as how rushed the game was anyway. Having exclusive content for a specific console is typically done for sales on that specific console and seeing as how the ninjas are typically the more popular characters, it made sense for them to create a character exclusive to the N64 in order to boost sales for the console as well as the N64 release for Trilogy.

In order for the other guests to return they'd have to re-apply for a license to use them as it was probably a one time agreement to use the characters, Kratos would be difficult as well, seeing as he's a Sony owned character so adding him in another game especially as part of the story would be very detrimental, of course Sony could easily flat out refuse for them to use Kratos again. You can't just use a character from a series you don't own, that's why there's licenses and rights for the character being trademarked. The whole idea of console-exclusive characters in general is just bad, for both sales and players, especially when one console gets one but not the other one. There were rumors of an Xbox exclusive character for MK9, but either deals fell flat or something and it never came into fruition. And while WB seems more comfortable to negotiate exclusive deals with Sony than Microsoft (For example, the exclusive/timed exclusive Arkham series stuff like playing as the Joker), Sony could always go 'LoLNOPE' and can said license.

Side note, while we're at this, I feel it's important to note that while Kratos as a character fits like a rubber glove, his fighting style native to the games would be too overpowered in a game like Mortal Kombat, what with the huge range on his normals, incredible combo skill, etc, which is why he had relatively short range in MK9 compared to his games; to make him balanced. But, enough about that, I'll save it for next month. There was supposed to be a 360 exclusive character, but Ed Boon said they weren't allowed for unspecified reasons. Weird... Since they owned Rare, Fulgore or Jago from Killer Instinct woudl have worked. But, wuddever, I'm not a studio exec.