Board Thread:Mortal Kombat X/@comment-1772284-20150601163110/@comment-21005855-20150605020359

72.197.211.140 wrote:

The problem as I see it I'm not sure you can keep going with the horror film franchise and everything. Putting Freddy Krueger in MK9 and Jason Vorhees in MKX is fine, but they're the best known. It's not like you can just take Michael Meyers from the Halloween franchise and put him in MK11, his style would be too much like Jason's and therefore would add nothing new.

Adding Predator in MKX I didn't think was too smart if they were trying to go for the scare factor. The first Alien film came out in 1979. After 36 years, I'm willing to bet virtually EVERYONE has seen the Alien Quadrilogy, the 3 Predator films, the 2 Alien vs. Predator films, as well as the 2012 Prometheus film.

That, along with the games like Alien: Isolation and Colonial Marines, makes it virtually impossible to make the Alien and Predator anything scary to the audience because we've already seen so much of them. Right, I'm sure that the horror movie franchise guest characters may have ran their coarse. Although I would love to see Michael Myers in a future Mortal Kombat.

Also, I'm sure the biggest reason why they added Predator to the game was because his spine rip in the movies is the inspiration for Sub-Zero's fatality in MK1. I think of it like a throwback.