Well, the automatically available characters will be on top, all clustered together. Or possibly in the middle, with unlockables all around them.

Ah hell, we don't know anything about the final select screen.

thats actually a real good idea i like the timeline better than the abc method the only other way i can see them doing ti besides just random liek it is in the demo at e3 they could do it by liek what they are like first have the ninjas (scorp,subby,rain,ermac,reptile,& noob) then they can have the robots, than the shokans etc etc

I like the idea of starting off with the originals but I suspect that's not how it's going down. The MK team will probably want players to start off with some fresh faces like Sareena.

I strongly dislike the E3 select screen... I hope they make major improvements to it.

I really like the select screen and formation it is in. Alot of boss characters and new introductees to the 3D MK are playable from the start. This is good it will grab the hearts of all those people who finally get to play as their favourites in 3D.

I can guarantee you right now that the final screen will not have Shao Kahn and Kintaro available from the start.

Although I agree with the previous statement, I think it takes away at the same time. I would have liked to play my way through before I can use Kintaro, etc. I just wish they could have put all the characters on one screen though.

I find it too artless... The desert-like setting, the in-game character models on either side versus the ambient renders, the Random button, the Rotate button...

I realllyy like how when a character is highlighted they are positioned in a fighting stance. It just blows the boring renders out of the water. That also goes along with 2-D style 3-D fighting....as that was a feature of the 2-D MKs.

The background of the desert reminds me of the huge LOTR style battle we saw in the trailer. While I understand where the MK team is coming from, I think multiple backgrounds should be featured. It can't be that hard to feature favorite backgrounds like the Living Forest and Subway switching randomly everytime the select screen is loaded. They have plenty of time to do that as well!

I know this is probably not official, but in that interview with Boon where they were playing MKA, it showed that people like Stryker, Sareena, Sektor, Shinnok, goro, Sheeva, Kintaro, all them were already unlocked. WTF? Those guys are making an amazing return they should be Last to be unlocked!!

I actually agree with the first post. that a really good idea having MK1 characters unlocked first.

I agree. I don't like the position of the character and I don't like the 'Rotation' thing either.
I think the characters should be put in the select screen randomly. Alphabetically is nice, but I would like them to be randomly placed in the select screen. They all should be on one side too. I don't like the 'Rotation' idea at all.
I think because is the final game. All the characters should be on side. I just think it would be better that way.

Or Fujin or Reiko because they were "unlocked" in Konquest.

They just wanted the characters who haven't yet been in the 3D fighting games of the series to be playable at E3. Those characters were also the ones shown in all the videos.

I like the chronological unlock idea that Casselman brought up, although it has been going around for a long time. My question is that if they do it that way, would we see Noob Saibot or Sub-Zero unlocked from the start.

It won't happen though. The MK team doesn't give us cool ways to unlock people. Ever.

i don't have much in the way of issues with the select screen. the playables shown at e3 are very unlikly to remain playable from the get go, and the whole thing of them being listed alphabetically i also doubt very much.

i'd prefer it if the select screen was like this

http://www.lilwall.net/temp/ss-big.png

sure, the portraits would have be a little smaller, but if you cut out all the space between the edge of the screen and the actual portrait blocks thats used for background image, i think they'd be able to fit all the characters onto one screen, and still have some space to show the highlighted character in their fighting pose. gets rid of random select square and the rotate square, hitting the KAK Select Screen button could bring up a whole blank select screen where portraits of the KAKs can go.

it might sound like a lot for KAKs, but honestly, i don't see why KAK info can't be stored on mem cards or xbox harddrives. it' snot like they're saving the model or anything, just what parts, colours and moves ar associatied with that name file so you can load it up again when next you turn on the game. and seriously, i don't think anyone would mind terribly if we had the option to make around 60 KAKs anyway :P

i sure wouldn't.

Snowcat - DAMN. That'd be absolutely fantastic. :D I wish you worked for Midway. I wouldn't mind if you could make 360 Kreated Fighters. I'd still want more. ;)

That select screen looks identical to Trilogy. I like it but there is a problem with it. The select screen featured at E3 had the desert background. The proposed MKT select screen blocks the opportunity of having a desert background or possibly other varied backgrounds.

Snowcat I like your Select Screen a lot. I think they should do something like that or similar to it.

I hate the idea of unlocking them in Chronological Order.

Because that way, we would be unlocking some of the all-star characters at the beginning of the game, and that's never right. Raiden, Goro, Shang Tsung, Kitana, Jax, Liu Kang, Reptile, Kintaro, Kahn, and Kung Lao should all be unlockables IMO.

maybe we should start with Moloch (cuz nobody likes him) and have to unlock EVERYBODY else

lol

Moloch pwns Sektor in originality.

I love Moloch.

Sektor > Moloch

now now, everybody has opinions, and that was kind of a shot at me knowing i like sektor, but i dont care

i happy with the way he looks and how he will most likely play.

and i think when i practice, il go against moloch and own, considering not may people outside die hard mk fans will be him because they are all scorpion and subzero players ONLY.

i respect your opinion Chrome but must disagree

yeah dude molochs tight.