Board Thread:Mortal Kombat (Alternate Timeline)/@comment-5503721-20190518202650/@comment-34018739-20190922094402

I wouldn't mind new characters, just give them something to really add to the setting. The Kombat Kids and Skarlet are great and all, and Kotal's alright, but I feel the rest of the NRS era's newbies are all just kinda there...

Or in the case of Kronika and D'Vorah, extremely aggrivating.

I don't want any more new characters that stand around and get their asses kicked like Erron Black and Geras, especially when older characters like Noob and Kabal are forced to suffer the same. We already have over 70 characters to work with, they should focus on being able to balance a decent number of those before coming out with too many new guys that will ultimately go underdeveloped.

For all the flak it gets, I for one appreciate that the 3D era made a conscious effort to give each character an actual role in the plot or at least some manner of subplot. Everybody on those rosters had a reason to be there. Armageddon kinda dropped the ball with not finishing the bios, but Deadly Alliance and Deception, in my eyes, made sure every character had some manner of relevance to the events that were taking place. There weren't the likes of Ferra/Torr or Kollector who....exist but do absolutely nothing. Maybe if they went back to longer bios for the characters, gave these things a bit more thought, or started doing prequel comics again but not doing what the MKX one did, which was become more preocuppied with killing characters for no reason than it was with actually telling an engaging story that led into the game. Just some manner of actual planning or thought beyond setting up for something (Shinnok, Dark Raiden) and then blatantly changing their minds and getting rid of that something early on in the story and then only adress it near the very end.

Also, can we PLEASE drop the chapter system. They're needlessly limiting themselves by making it so each played character only gets to be useful in one interval of four fights and it makes the villains look like absolute jokes since they never win outside of cheap cutscene kills.