Very good Ideas! I too think that someone entering to get revenge or to save there people are tired. Come up with some new reasons. even if they are selfish ones, like cages he just wanted to prove to the world that he wasn't a fake and could fight. And then capatalized on the experience with hit movies. Heroism or Revenge wasn't his motivator it was just pure human selfishness. I'm sure with some imagination they can come up with new reasons.

kamionero Wrote: one of the problems with Li Mei is that she seemed out of place.... if they would have added other young characters, maybe she would have not been so innapropiate.

I don't agree with this. My problem with Li Mei is that it seemed like Mileena was originally going to be in the game, but they canned her at the last second, changed her looks slightly, and renamed her to Li Mei.

It's just like MK 4 where they changed Kano to Jarek, with the same moves and everything, and they changed Kitana into the super-lame Tanya.

Same crap with Li Mei. She resembles Mileena a lot and even has the same weapons. She's just an unimpressed character.

But that's not the point. If they can create characters *WORTH* liking, I don't think anyone would care. I mean no one was really angry with the new characters in MK 2 and MK 3 because they actually kicked ass. In MK 4 and DA, most of the new characters were just crappy in design, story line, game play, or a mixture of any of the three. Jarek, Tanya, Kai, and Reiko were just jokes. In DA, Li Mei, Bo Rai Cho, and Drahmin, although better in quality than what we saw in MK 4, didn't really add a whole lot. We had Frost and Kenshi, and to a lesser extent Mavado, but that was about it. They just weren't really all that cool or exciting, or even intersting.

hideo_sakaguchi Wrote: kamionero Wrote: one of the problems with Li Mei is that she seemed out of place.... if they would have added other young characters, maybe she would have not been so innapropiate. I don't agree with this. My problem with Li Mei is that it seemed like Mileena was originally going to be in the game, but they canned her at the last second, changed her looks slightly, and renamed her to Li Mei. It's just like MK 4 where they changed Kano to Jarek, with the same moves and everything, and they changed Kitana into the super-lame Tanya. Same crap with Li Mei. She resembles Mileena a lot and even has the same weapons. She's just an unimpressed character. But that's not the point. If they can create characters *WORTH* liking, I don't think anyone would care. I mean no one was really angry with the new characters in MK 2 and MK 3 because they actually kicked ass. In MK 4 and DA, most of the new characters were just crappy in design, story line, game play, or a mixture of any of the three. Jarek, Tanya, Kai, and Reiko were just jokes. In DA, Li Mei, Bo Rai Cho, and Drahmin, although better in quality than what we saw in MK 4, didn't really add a whole lot. We had Frost and Kenshi, and to a lesser extent Mavado, but that was about it. They just weren't really all that cool or exciting, or even intersting.

I agree. That made me mad to. I mean even the name was similar. further proof if you look at some of the kicks Mileena is doing in some pics she is clearly using the Liu he ba fa style. That to me says that they planned it for Mileena originally.

If they were to add new characters to Mortal Kombat I want to see them capture a character from a culture from our world we live in today.

I thought Kai was an interesting character, he was an African tribal warrior which I thought was very original.

I would like to see a character based on gods and characters from Egyptian religion or from Greek mythology.

hideo_sakaguchi Wrote: kamionero Wrote: one of the problems with Li Mei is that she seemed out of place.... if they would have added other young characters, maybe she would have not been so innapropiate. I don't agree with this. My problem with Li Mei is that it seemed like Mileena was originally going to be in the game, but they canned her at the last second, changed her looks slightly, and renamed her to Li Mei. It's just like MK 4 where they changed Kano to Jarek, with the same moves and everything, and they changed Kitana into the super-lame Tanya. Same crap with Li Mei. She resembles Mileena a lot and even has the same weapons. She's just an unimpressed character. But that's not the point. If they can create characters *WORTH* liking, I don't think anyone would care. I mean no one was really angry with the new characters in MK 2 and MK 3 because they actually kicked ass. In MK 4 and DA, most of the new characters were just crappy in design, story line, game play, or a mixture of any of the three. Jarek, Tanya, Kai, and Reiko were just jokes. In DA, Li Mei, Bo Rai Cho, and Drahmin, although better in quality than what we saw in MK 4, didn't really add a whole lot. We had Frost and Kenshi, and to a lesser extent Mavado, but that was about it. They just weren't really all that cool or exciting, or even intersting.

I knoiw... I agree with you!!! That's why I said they should hae completly original moves... It's not clear enoough... but I meant as in characters like Jarek and Tanya... crappy clones of other more famous MK characters...

HAHAH!!! i think that they canned mileena at the last moment too!!! Like they did to Kitana in MK4!!!

nope... no double post here...