ErmacMk5 Wrote: 28?30? well, we've busted the 24 number; the following characters have all been confirmed to be returning by some source or another: 01.Liu Kang 02.Raiden 03.Scorpion 04.Sub-Zero 05.Jax 06.Mileena 07.Baraka 08.Smoke 09.Noob Saibot 10.Sindel 11.Sektor 12.Nightwolf 13.Kabal 14.Ermac 15.Tanya 16.Bo Rai Cho 17.Li Mei 18.Kenshi add the 8 new characters, and the rumors of Shang Tsung and Quan Chi, and you get a wopping 28 characters. From what I've heard, Boon has said that many characters from Deadly alliance will come back as secret characters. So my question is , when it's all said and done, how many characters (including secret characters) do you predict? I predict less than 40, but more than 30 playable characters. I'll go with 35.

Hey, you forgot Ashrah! And thanks for making Liu Kang no.1! Lol!
Anyway, there are still fighters that have yet to be REALLY confirmed as playable. Will Raiden and Jax be back as fightable characters or just "konquest Kameos?" I didn't see a guy with a fisherman hat at the select screen.

P.S. Oh! Where is Liu Kang!?

I except no more than 30 characters. I want all of the characters to be quality unlike Blaze and Mokap from MK:DA.

I agree, I'd rather have the complete set of 24 making a great, fully balanced game than 40 mediocre characters with five or six sticking out and three or four being hard to master and unrewarding. Hell, MKDA was that way already...

But as to the question, I'm guessing the final number will be no more than 30. More like 28 perhaps. A German source (forgot which one) said Nitara was going to be in the game as well. That strengthens claims of many DA characters being playable but not on the select screen.

VQ

as long as more doesnt mean less.

by that i mean 35plus character is fantastic. I will never get bored, but as long as the number of characters doesnt decrease game quality then the more the better

So far, Mortal Kombat: Deception is 20% complete. There are already 15 kombat zones (fighting arenas). The game will come out in early October so they'll have plenty of time to add more and more to this game. Just wait until the game is 100% complete.

ask ed boon too have more then 30 characters :)

eugenicz Wrote: ErmacMk5 Wrote: 28?30? well, we've busted the 24 number; the following characters have all been confirmed to be returning by some source or another: 01.Liu Kang 02.Raiden 03.Scorpion 04.Sub-Zero 05.Jax 06.Mileena 07.Baraka 08.Smoke 09.Noob Saibot 10.Sindel 11.Sektor 12.Nightwolf 13.Kabal 14.Ermac 15.Tanya 16.Bo Rai Cho 17.Li Mei 18.Kenshi add the 8 new characters, and the rumors of Shang Tsung and Quan Chi, and you get a wopping 28 characters. From what I've heard, Boon has said that many characters from Deadly alliance will come back as secret characters. So my question is , when it's all said and done, how many characters (including secret characters) do you predict? I predict less than 40, but more than 30 playable characters. I'll go with 35. Hey, you forgot Ashrah! And thanks for making Liu Kang no.1! Lol! Anyway, there are still fighters that have yet to be REALLY confirmed as playable. Will Raiden and Jax be back as fightable characters or just "konquest Kameos?" I didn't see a guy with a fisherman hat at the select screen. P.S. Oh! Where is Liu Kang!?

Yeah, but at this point the select screen we saw means nothing. That could change in a heartbeat. There was an early DA select screen that wasn't used...so we can't really base anything on the select screen.

Yeah thats true. I just hope it goes from good to better and not from good to crappy. The whole game is tight in everyway so far. Anyone who doesn't think so should be shot for stupidity. Haha. Just kidding.

Haha, I was only counting returning characters.
And I was going by first appearances so I could stay organized.

eugenicz Wrote: ErmacMk5 Wrote: 28?30? well, we've busted the 24 number; the following characters have all been confirmed to be returning by some source or another: 01.Liu Kang 02.Raiden 03.Scorpion 04.Sub-Zero 05.Jax 06.Mileena 07.Baraka 08.Smoke 09.Noob Saibot 10.Sindel 11.Sektor 12.Nightwolf 13.Kabal 14.Ermac 15.Tanya 16.Bo Rai Cho 17.Li Mei 18.Kenshi add the 8 new characters, and the rumors of Shang Tsung and Quan Chi, and you get a wopping 28 characters. From what I've heard, Boon has said that many characters from Deadly alliance will come back as secret characters. So my question is , when it's all said and done, how many characters (including secret characters) do you predict? I predict less than 40, but more than 30 playable characters. I'll go with 35. Hey, you forgot Ashrah! And thanks for making Liu Kang no.1! Lol! Anyway, there are still fighters that have yet to be REALLY confirmed as playable. Will Raiden and Jax be back as fightable characters or just "konquest Kameos?" I didn't see a guy with a fisherman hat at the select screen. P.S. Oh! Where is Liu Kang!?

I say 30's enough more then thats insane i would say the game would be delayed if they had 35 but hey i would like 35 lol but 30's better then 24 lol 24-30 would keep me happy this game be4 christmmas would make me happy to

I have a feeling that 30 is going to be the magic number. They'll probably have 24 on the select screen and six hidden.

Something makes me think that they're going to start widdling down the roster, because I agree, it does look like there's going to be almost 40 characters right now.

I think we'll start seeing some of those names like Sektor, Dairou, Smoke, Kabal, Jax, Rayden, etc start to disappear. Before everyone jumps down my throat and says "NO NO they're confirmed idiot!" hear me out.

During the whole process of putting the game together, they probably thought that they could fit all of this content into the game in the time they had. Then they started getting other ideas, and other characters were confirmed as well. I'm pretty sure the MK team is or has already realized that there's no way that they have time to fit 40 characters, each with 3 move sets, 3 outfits, 2 fatalities, etc etc into the game. Besides, that's just an unbelievably large number. So much so that I don't believe it myself.

So if they do decide to go with 30, some names are going to get trimmed. I'm not saying all of these characters. I'm sure Rayden, Smoke, and some of the others will be in. But the longer I go without seeing screenshots of Kabal and some of the others, the more I start to think that magazines were just printing rumors, or that MK team members were just saying something that they hope they can do or think they can do, only to decide later that time doesn't allow.

Seriously, 40?

Well in a magazine i think....well somewhere they said this is the biggest roster of characters for a fighting game or somthing 24 big?? Naaahh 28 all together im guessing

baraka407 I hear your points and they are reasonable, however :

I feel Kabal, Smoke and Sektor are trump cards in this game. They are all being kept very secret at this time and have most likely been worked on for quite some time, therefore not headed for the scrapheap. I have high hopes they will rock and we will be amazed when we see them.

Dairou might be another matter, I am not convinced he isn't actually Hotaru. I feel this is very likely. In the same way as Ben is Kobra.

Former MKDA characters are very possible. Those rumours could be true or otherwise. On a personal note I'd be very happy to be able to use Nitara with a few alterations, particularly a couple of new special moves. The blood spit needs to be replaced by something like summoning attacking Vampire bats, I dunno, haven't thought of exactly what that much. Still, I am happy for only a selection of these MKDA guys to reappear. No need Hsu Hao again for example.

As for the final total, who knows, between 28 and 36 somewhere maybe.

no more then 32 characters, probly less than 30 is my guess

The more the better. And I hope the whole MK DA characters being playable is true even if they don't have endings. You still get that many more characters to fight with and against which gives more variety and replay value.

exactly.

Ninjaholic Wrote: The more the better. And I hope the whole MK DA characters being playable is true even if they don't have endings. You still get that many more characters to fight with and against which gives more variety and replay value.

Not too be looking to deeply into what has been said but didn't Ed Boon say in the PSM issue that was the first exclusive coverage of MK:D that even editors, etc. would be decieved during the period before the game is released. Right now I'm iffy about several things I've heard including the official number of playable characters. Who knows maybe they had started work on more than the 24 announced before we even thought about having more than that. Anyway I wouldn't hold what is said by magazines all to high on the truth list considering that Boon seems to be enjoying the rumors and confusion the game is creating amongst us. I'll wait till the game comes out before I freak out over the number. I'll be happy from what I've seen so far anyways.

I don't know about the whole 'the more the better thing' I prefer to have characters who each have more then 4 special moves and who each have original fighting styles(with a proper amount of throws and combos) then some generic fighters who suck ass.

I would really like to see Quan Chi in the game however... but if he is exactly like in MKDA(with the same stupid fatality) and no new special moves, I prefer to not see him in MKD(just my opinion however)

I have a feeling that 30 is going to be the magic number. They'll probably have 24 on the select screen and six hidden.

Something makes me think that they're going to start widdling down the roster, because I agree, it does look like there's going to be almost 40 characters right now.

I think we'll start seeing some of those names like Sektor, Dairou, Smoke, Kabal, Jax, Rayden, etc start to disappear. Before everyone jumps down my throat and says "NO NO they're confirmed idiot!" hear me out.

During the whole process of putting the game together, they probably thought that they could fit all of this content into the game in the time they had. Then they started getting other ideas, and other characters were confirmed as well. I'm pretty sure the MK team is or has already realized that there's no way that they have time to fit 40 characters, each with 3 move sets, 3 outfits, 2 fatalities, etc etc into the game. Besides, that's just an unbelievably large number. So much so that I don't believe it myself.

So if they do decide to go with 30, some names are going to get trimmed. I'm not saying all of these characters. I'm sure Rayden, Smoke, and some of the others will be in. But the longer I go without seeing screenshots of Kabal and some of the others, the more I start to think that magazines were just printing rumors, or that MK team members were just saying something that they hope they can do or think they can do, only to decide later that time doesn't allow.

Seriously, 40?

Well I don't see the confirmed people start disappearing ya rite the only reason theirs no pics because their not included in the 12 that u can start out with

I too agree with the more the better, and i think we will see at least 30. Look at the character selection screen, there is room for three characters on the left side, and 3 on the right, giving a total of 30. Also they maybe able to fit a couple above which would give us from 35-40. I know they can change the screen, but it is just an idea.

I can't believe I just came to this topic thinking of Fox's 24 show....(don't scare me like that) As for the topic, I really hope there are more than 24 characters playable. It's the best way to appease most fans. I just hope the characters we've seen that are part of backgrounds means they aren't playable. (You can see MK2 and MK1 Shang Tsung, noo...)

check this and search for 24.

Ya there is room on the right but I think they would do there old trick I think It was MK trilogy or the one where u could play as Shao Kahn if u had the cheat all u did was scroll and then it would keep going and a new line would show up