Board Thread:General MK Discussion/@comment-1084762-20150830085026/@comment-30211512-20150903235440

Uglyguy25 wrote: @Heatlineheard I'm fine with guys like Johnny, Sonya and Jax staying in the game. Ok, they are getting old as hell and it clearly won't be better in the next MK, but you said it yourself: people still like them. They are the classics after all. If people like them, why should they be left out? And it isn't hard to find an excuse for them to stop aging. Just say that they get a longer lifespawn for being protectors of Earthrealm or anything like that. Wasn't that Liu Kang's case, for example?

Besides, this new generation thing has some risks. You can be lucky and get a Takeda, but if we're supposed to trade them for new characters like Jacqui or Cassie, I'm telling you it's going to suck.

And I agree about the Jarek redesign. Out of all crappy characters from the 3D era, I think he's the only one that has a chance of redemption. In MK4, he was literally just Kano with a different look, and when he finally got his own personality in Armageddon, he wasn't relevant to the story at all. And he never got his own fatalities, because his MK4 ones were Kano's and you know how Armageddon was. It looks easy to fix this: give him a nice gameplay and fatalities and people will be able to look at him with some respect. I wouldn't mind if he just died though, or if he got the redesign AND died. I just think the original roster has been done to death at this point and keeping them on life-support I find to be pretty sad. In my eyes it just shows that they couldn't make any better characters than the ones back in the 90s.

Either that or people just won't ALLOW new characters to be fan favourites. Erron Black was always going to be a fan fave just by glancing at him once. Shame he didn't have much of a spotlight in story mode.

And yeah, thumbs up with Jarek. Nobody really bats an eyelid about him which sucks. He's a character that could be made really cool. I mean, face it. The only reason Tremor returned was because he was a coloured ninja and he was more minor than freaking Jarek himself.

Meaning that he DEFINETLY has no excuse of not returning. The only reason nobody really cares about him is because of how badly he was done in MK4. But by the looks of things, netherealm is able to make any goofy character look cool.

I mean, look at Shinnok, one of the goofiest and dumbest looking final bosses ever in 4 and now an actual badass threat in MKX.