Board Thread:Mortal Kombat X/@comment-26516813-20171026231015/@comment-30711175-20171116161546

Guldir wrote: RichFromStaten wrote: @Godzillavkk -- After seven games Mortal Kombat was long overdue for a reboot. LONG OVERDUE. The story was starved of ideas, fan favorites were overshadowed with generic characters that added nothing to the mythos, and the 3D gimmick went stale with fans, critics, and the creators themselves desiring a return to the 2D combat. To keep going would have killed this franchise.

So retelling the events at the earliest point in Mortal Kombat history was necessary to reestablish familiar ground with veterans of the classic games, while paving the way for a new story to keep the franchise fresh for newcoming fans. Mortal Kombat got the revival it needed back in 2011. And in keeping with the topic of this discussion I vote for a fresher roster. Fresher how, like just adding random new character that, as you said, add to the lore or introduce new but existant characters that we haven't seen yet but if you thought about it you could see they were there all along such as how Aquaman in the Justice League movie new superman back in Man of Steel making you wonder if he saved him after going into the watewr after the burning rig By a fresher character roster I mean kombatants who are well-developed and integrated into the plot of a game. Not background characters nobody barely uses and who only serve to take up slots on the character select screen.