Board Thread:Mortal Kombat X/@comment-5561191-20140830173232/@comment-5561191-20140912000628

Well, I don't know. About the game parts, I mean. You can resume MKs 1, 2 and 3 into MK 9 (or MK 2011) with relative ease, but I think that putting the equivalent to 5 MK games (including whatever would come after Armageddon) into a single campaign would be a little too much. Not because of lack of data and room in the disk, but simply for being too much for a single campaign and for players to keep up with, specially those who have never played any of these MKs.

Also, the alternative timeline is obviously a strategy to either fix a lot of stuff that went wrong in the original one or to replace them for new events. It's their chance to take out all of those characters and events fans grew to hate in the series to put new exciting content. Not wanting to sound rude at all, but do you really think they would invent a new MK in which the main focus is innovation with with the whole campaign being just a remake of all the previous ones? That's why they killed almost all of the good guys and Shao Kahn in MK 9: to introduce new people and make sure the story would be different. For example, the original timeline had all that lame thing of "And now Liu Kang's killed Shao Kahn! But he's back in MK 3... And he's defeated Shao Kahn again! But he's survived the battle... But Shang Tsung and Quan Chi attacked and overthrew him! But despites everything, everyone that has died somehow will be back in Armageddon even without a good reason for such thing! Just to do almost nothing in the game and die ridiculously in the battle of Argus' Pyramid...". I'm betting they won't repeat this again. This time, Shao Kahn seems to be gone for sure, and look at the changes this has caused already: Kotal Kahn took over Outworld and many new characters appeared. No more of this "Die! Ressurect... Die! Barely survive... Die! Escaped when no one was looking... Die!" that made the games so awkward. I bet Cassie Cage, for example, was only born because of Jax's death, otherwise Sonya wouldn't have payed any attention to Johnny again. That's what I'm talking about: changes that cause the story to be renewed and new people to be introduced.

You're right about Liu Kang. I had forgotten about the effects that were caused on him by the death of everyone else. But Raiden did try to explain his plan to him by saying that Shao Kahn would be punished by the Elder Gods if he tried to conquer Earthrealm by force and that defeating him would only be a temporary victory. Liu Kang just turned around and ran to face Shao Kahn. Maybe he does want to save everyone because it's the right thing, but also for his ego. I'd keep an eye on him anyway. I'm sure hides much behind the "Savior of Earthrealm" mask...