I agree with you on the Puzzle mode. It has nothing to do with Kombat. I sort have mixed feelings on Chess mode. It feels a bit out of place on a MK game to me, but it does have to do with the figthing a little bit. I would have liked more fighting modes back. I would have loved endurance mode back. I hope it comes back for MK7. For MK7 and its future I would like more fighting modes rather than games like Puzzle. Again mixed feels on Chess mode.As for the krypt I agree with you. Now that we have had it for 2 MK games, it should never again return. I think like all past MK games all secrets should be hidden within the game itself like UKK was to MK3 - MKT or something like the vs screen boxes. When it comes to stages they all should be availble from the start.Heck bring back button combonation codes as well too to unlock crazy things in kombat like MK3 did like with dark kombat or random kombat when you would change through random people into the match.

Chess Kombat is great. I love it! I think it should stay. Puzzle Kombat should go if any and as for the krypt, they just need a coin convertor in there. It should stay too.

Puzzle Kombat I could care less about. Chess Kombat I enjoy. The Krypt...well, make it smaller, and fill it with stuff I could give a shit about, such as multiple costumes, game modes, character bios and information, and not all the junk about martial arts videos and pictures of the development team, and we're in business.

Nothing wrong with chess kombat or puzzle kombat
If you dont like them, dont play them, simple.
But seriously, whats wrong with them? Ur sayin they're nothin 2 do with MK? Well you didnt complain at "test your sight" did you?
Would you rather MK be : 36 kombatants, arcade mode, versus mode, practice, options
?????????????
NO!
So quit complaining.

Dude chill. Its his opinion. Personally i love the krypt, its gives lifespan to the game. I love Chess aswell, its cool to create strategies and tactics.

I actually really like Chess and Puzzle Kombat. It give u more than just normal arcade mode, ok, thats why we buy MK, but I personally think they are good extras, and very addictive lol.
As for the Krypt, well I quite like that u have to earn the unlockable, in terms of Keys or Koins. And I like how they decreased it from Deadly Alliance. i like looking at the art work from the games development, and the bios etc, but personally I could do without the fighting style videos. Maybe again cutting down on the number of Koffins would be a better idea.

people these days...don't you guys realise that they did puzzle and chess only for deception? I mean, it's not like they're gonna put those games in the next mks lol, anyway I like them both, I thought I wouldn't like puzzle kombat but I love it, chess rocks in multiplayer, the krypt has to stay for forever, and konquest too, but with improvements and changes
mk is perfect right now for the ps2/xbox/gamecube
next mk for ps3 / x-whatever
35/40 characters + Boss (unplayable)
3 outfits per character
improved gameplay
exclusive voices for each character (no more raiden has the same voice as sub zero)
exclusive winning poses (2/3 per character)
exclusive cut scenes in the beggining of each fight (each character has one, but some fights have special intros - sub Vs scorpion)
facial and cloth damage
more realistic blood
more realistic bones and organs
animation for drawing weapons as well as get ups and facial animation
krypt
konquest (action story mode)
cool mini games (kart and golf would rock)
3 fatals
2 hara kiris
death traps
multi tiered arenas
stage weapons
stage interaction
fmv endings or 4/5 pictures with narrator
complete narrated TRUE storyline for every playable character in mk with some drawings (ala tekken)
no more dead characters coming back
IMO this would be the perfect future mk and I think this is pretty much possible

Speaking for myself I didn't complain about mini games in past MK games because they were small and just a small break from the fighting part of the. Also past other MK games were well rounded(good story, good characters, good areas, and damn good games. With Deception the things I said above to me aren't just there. To me the MK team focused too much time on Puzzle and chess combo.They maybe be good ideas , but don't belong on a MK fighting game. The time they spent on Puzzle and Chess could have been adding things to the fighting engine, new areas, better new characters, or even more characters. Again these modes didn't deserve the time to be put in an MK game to me. Games like this IMO should be left out of future MK games. Back to the basics of small mini games like MK1-MKT and MK: DA.
To me if you want a mini games like in Deception go play something else like Mario Party. I bought Mortal Kombat to a can play Mortal Kombat. Deception for me goes a little far of course with Mortal Kombat. When I say that I want to play the fighting aspect of the game 1st and formost. OverallI hope MK team for the next MK game liten up abit about Kontent in the game and put some more fighting modes. Again to me chess is pretty good for a MK game , though its not all about who is the better figher at the same time it gives the player a break from the fighting. I would glady trade up Puzzle krypt, and chess for how MK did in the past in terms of is small mini games and how you unlocked things. < My opinion

Dude! .... that idea rocks ! ... the only thing I'd like see tested is in two player mode if one player gets the other one with a fatality then that character should remain unselecteable while in vs mode. That would add realism and be almost another knockout type game where last player standing wins.

Bloody Eyes....
"people these days...don't you guys realise that they did puzzle and chess only for deception? I mean, it's not like they're gonna put those games in the next mks lol, anyway I like them both, I thought I wouldn't like puzzle kombat but I love it, chess rocks in multiplayer, the krypt has to stay for forever, and konquest too, but with improvements and changes
mk is perfect right now for the ps2/xbox/gamecube
next mk for ps3 / x-whatever
35/40 characters + Boss (unplayable)
3 outfits per character
improved gameplay
exclusive voices for each character (no more raiden has the same voice as sub zero)
exclusive winning poses (2/3 per character)
exclusive cut scenes in the beggining of each fight (each character has one, but some fights have special intros - sub Vs scorpion)
facial and cloth damage
more realistic blood
more realistic bones and organs
animation for drawing weapons as well as get ups and facial animation
krypt
konquest (action story mode)
cool mini games (kart and golf would rock)
3 fatals
2 hara kiris
death traps
multi tiered arenas
stage weapons
stage interaction
fmv endings or 4/5 pictures with narrator
complete narrated TRUE storyline for every playable character in mk with some drawings (ala tekken)
no more dead characters coming back
IMO this would be the perfect future mk and I think this is pretty much possible"
i think those r great ideas ;) i totally agree. but i disagree with 2 hara kiris.... im happy with the one Hara Kiri

thanks guys, but, like always they'll pay little or no attention to our opinions, except maybe for the character returnings or so...I really hope they implement some of those ideas in mk7, and your vs mode idea is good but as an option cause sometimes we like to chose the same characters over and over for payback time, lol

You cares about the pictures or video of the team? Wasting my time big time. If you don't know what to put, put the stories of all the character of MK in Koffins instead

The Krypt would be nice if all the Koffins were opened through keys and not through koins. Just the time it takes to open a koffin with the damn auto-saving feature is a pain in the neck in itself...
Puzzle and Chess I have no problem with them for as long as they're not wasting time and space for things that should be a priority: improving the fighting engine, the characters, the storyline, the finishers (this is, after all, MORTAL Kombat).

4 me , the puzzle and the chess are good, because after i get beaten by someone using only 3 moves andpissing me off,its a good way to relax ,instead the krypt its a lost of time there ,finding photos and drawnings?
characters and arenas should be already open.

I disagree. I think it a good thing they have other things to do in mortal kombat. Chess is just Awesome, and i actually like something like conquest mode. Conquest is great because it helps you improve on your skills as well as learn about the characters. The krypt keeps you going, and i love the idea of finding out whats in the koffin( I don't read spoilers).
The only I could care less about is puzzle kombat. I don't hate it, but it gets boring quickly.

I think the Chess Kombat is awesome!
I don't care so much for puzzle kombat however....

I love Puzzle Kombat, I find it to be quite addicting. I'm glad I can play people online with it :)
But I also know people who love Chess Kombat, and they won't even play regular MKD, it's just gotta be Chess Kombat.
In short, I'm very glad MKD had all the extra modes, it's like a little something for everybody. But I don't think any of these modes will come back for MK7. They'll think of new goodies for us to play with :)

They should have a larger DVD format by 2006, I heard.

*X*BloodyEyes your idea for the perfect MK does have some awesome ideas to it, however there are a few things I would change or remove. Not all of them are because I disagree its more of MK doing something different than all other fighters. I would negate anything that resembles another fighter that does not increase gameplay. I'll only list the small differences I would remove from your original posted game idea. Everything else can be inferred that I agree:
cool mini games (kart and golf would rock) - I dont mind what the mini games are as long as the emphasis in development is on the fighter and not the minis.
2 hara kiris - I'd rather see something different that 2 ways to kill yourself. maybe something of the old - friendship, babality, brutality, etc. (sorry couldn't come up with something better but I found 2 suicides to be redundant.)
stage weapons - these I found to be terrible. Why use a weapon that your sub par with when the characters already carry a weapon. I'd rather see this removed and just have stage interaction. If your going to just have basic attacks why not just grab a candlestick or something of that nature.
fmv endings - Originally I thought fmv would be great but it was really based just on the look. They may work well for other fighters but MK has always done well with the slideshow narration. I think I'd stick with that. Also it leaves more disc space for bigger and better environments.
complete narrated TRUE storyline for every playable character in mk with some drawings (ala tekken) - You've stated why this shouldn't really be done in your post "(ala tekken)". MK is a tournament, which I believe has been pushed to the side, so every story cannot be truthful. Everyone cant with the tournament so endings still have to be a what if... style. If you make every ending true your remove the tournament. Removing the tournament would cause the fall of MK.
If you know everything that has happened story based then MK would be just as boring a fighter as Tekken or the validity of the tournament would be shattered making it just like every other fighter. MK really is the only fighter, that comes to mind, that puts enough emphasis on the fact that the players are fighting in a tournament that you, as the player, feel as if your in a tournament.
no more dead characters coming back - This would also be difficult. Its a great idea but when put in action many characters will be dead that people love. This certainly would not increase or keep a fan base. Just run through all of the titles and see whos been killed off in the past.

DEAD PEOPLE COMING BACK: I'm, only ccounting the ones who realy died, not just disappeared from the series.
Mortal Kombat 1: only classic Sub-Zero (he came back as Noob Saibot)
Mortal Kombat 2: Mileena killed by Kitana (her MKT bios claims that Khan
ressurected her back to the fold with the ability to read
Kitanas mind)
Kintaro: evaporized by Raiden. Fell to dust and Kang
soon after defeated Shao Khan. Raiden never fought
Khan tough.
Mortal Kombat 3 / Trilogy: Mileena. She also comes from the netherrealm
along with Shinnok in MK4 Gold.
Smoke was only deactivated and Kung lao has
faked his death and retired to a peacefull life.
more I will post later when i looked after some things considering theese deaths.

I think all of the minigames have ups and downs. IMO Chess and Puzzle should be staying, they are not hte main game and they are just there fur fun and to give "REPLAY" value to the game. I don't think ppl should focus only in them as main games, they are jsut add-ons and IMO great.
I think all of the minigames that ever existed in MK should return in the next gen game, it would be great to have so manu options to play and also online-wise plz.