Board Thread:General MK Discussion/@comment-24082398-20150810162047/@comment-4708902-20150916042502

Dirtbag Daryl wrote:

Godzillavkk wrote: Well aren't you polite. What's the story going to be after Onaga shows up? Where will the series go if the One Being is beaten? Armageddon is a prime canidate for re-telling. True new villains might show up, but it'll take time to create them when there's already countless lore.

And let's be honest, in the original games, due to game limitations and story limitations with the exception of fatalities, most characters were bland. You just don't want to admit it because of nostalgia. The characters have evolved a lot.

And I have found from first hand experience myself that people jump on bandwagon's and mindlessly follow whatever someone says just so they can fit it and look cool. lol you're basing everything on your point on the assumption that they HAVE to do what they did before. clearly, they're in favor of doing more new and original stories. don't know why that's hard to understand. there's not even a guarantee Onaga will happen, as they may use that for the 2nd comic series (if it happens).

and no, most characters weren't bland. sure you had a few duds like Stryker, but they all had a clear goal, character, backstory and uniqueness to them. pulling out the "muh nostalgia" card doesn't help your point at all. I could say the exact same thing about the one-and-done characters you're gushing over, except your point would actually apply to them. even Stryker at this point has more character than any new chars from Deception-Armageddon.

they were bad characters because they had ugly designs, they were bland, they had almost no story and what story they did have was so minute and uninteresting that it was barely anything to work with. THAT is why they're not going to waste their time with those characters. even arguing it right now is pointless because it's just pure fact that NRS has distaste for most 3D era chars. there's only a handful that actually did something notable and had interesting plotlines.

also who the fuck thinks hating a fictional character makes them look "cool"? that's just ridiculous lol. i'm sorry me being blunt offends you, but your argument here is really dumb. they're objectively bad characters because of the writing (or rather, lack thereof) for them. Ed Boon even admits it himself.

do I think they should just never get a chance again? nah, anyone can be reworked to not be shit. I was actually kind of hoping Drahmin and Moloch would do something cool in the comic, but that didn't really pan out.

The plots and character motivations of the first games were excuse plots. No real story, just excuses. And also, if the designs of Hsu Hao and Drahmin were bad, then why were they even used? Discarding a character is not a mark of good stortytelling, it's a mark of being lazy. Besides, there are worse. MUCH worse.

Besides, the story and gameplay has improved so much that they could be redeemed. The sooner NRS learns this the better. But for now they seem more interested in pleasing nostalgic fans when they refuse to realize the fandom is going to change. I never played any of the arcade games nor did I play any 3D games. I ws introduced to MK via MK vs DC. As a result I never hated any MK character. And I work hard to try and make a new generation of MK fans who appreciate every character. Eventually new people will come into NRS without any distaste for a character.