Board Thread:Mortal Kombat X/@comment-5561191-20140912094911/@comment-5561191-20141011130745

Dynamo68 This must be the third time I have to talk about Jarek here, so I'll have to repeat what I wrote in previous comments.

I feel indifferent about him. Not against him being in the game, but indifferent.

He was only brought to MK4 because producers felt like they needed a substitute for Kano, who was presumably dead by that time, a representor of the Black Dragon. Thus all of his special moves in this game are either copies of Kano's ones or apparent attempts of new moves for Kano, whereas his fatalities were 100% copied from Kano, as you know.

Armageddon helped to differentiate him from Kano with the new special moves and visual, but didn't go any further in terms of giving him importance. He does nothing in the game. You know that fight with him in the first obelisk counts for nothing, and if he participated in that cutscene of the Battle of Armageddon (before the main menu) I don't even remember having seen him. Also, like everyone else, he didn't get any new fatalities from this game, which is even more dumb if you consider his bio kard, which tells he had been training his new fatality techniques since he was presumably killed in MK4 and wanted to test them now. Repeating the sentence I used the last time: What's the credibility of a MK fighter whose only fatalities in the whole series are copies of another character's ones?

So in one game he was just a copy of Kano and in the other one he does nothing. Yeah, a lot needs to be done about him if he's going to be in this game. Starting by the reason why he's in the game: like I said, he was only brought to MK4 to substitute Kano and represent the Black Dragon in his place. Now that we not only know that Kano is alive in this timeline but also that he's present in the game, we don't need Jarek to do this. So something new needs to happen for him to be brought back with the importance he had in MK4.

I honestly don't care much about him. I think he deserves this chance to become a real character, and so I'd be glad to see a new and (much) better version of him in MKX. He's not so popular among fans but no one has any reason to hate him after all (I'm in this situation too). But if he's not brought back, I will feel indifferent and just keep on playing it. I got the feeling that the worst scenario would be he appearing only as a cameo.