I think you're right! I loved Nitara, Quan and Kung Lao, but the rest seemed bland. With this line up, we have old favorites to choose from. Although I wish Nitara made it in.


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Hehe, I do too! Nitara was awesome and very resourceful. You know, she was the only character I could beat DA with on the Max difficulty level? Albeit, it was kind of cheap- I just kept blood-sucking, but if the game engine wants to do the same long combos over and over on me... then I'm gonna fight dirty too! (lol)

i gotto say i hate sindel and nightwolf too

but i didnt read your entire post, so ill stop at that

Meh, not necessarily. None of the new characters, save Ashrah, really interest me and as far as "returning favorites" go, only ones I like are Kabal, Nightwolf, and Li Mei. Plus I just can't be bothered to give a rat's ass about the Dragon King as I don't find him all that interesting.

Sindel is the best! and jade and tanya and mileena and kira

I think that this is definetely the best cast any MK game has ever had (besides MK trilogy)

the_coolness Wrote: i gotto say i hate sindel and nightwolf too but i didnt read your entire post, so ill stop at that

Lol, coolness, I'm glad I can see your honest side .
Noktis, I have to agree that Trilogy has an outstanding cast... but mainly because it's every character in MK history and plus So I think it's kind of easy to give Trilogy that award. But I would say they are very closely matched, by a .00001!!! But I seem to like old characters I never liked before, even before playing the game! So Deception gets it *nod* .

I think this is the best cast since MK2. I have to admit I don't know why characters like Sindel, Noob, Smoke, Nightwolf, and Ermac are back, because I always thought they were really weak designs and just throw away characters, but somehow this game still seems to have a great cast, and since those characters all seem very popular, I'm glad with the choice to include them.
Also, Mileena, Jade, Tanya, Scorpion...awesome

I have mixed feelings about this cast.

In my opinion this cast was assembled only to cater to those who whine about their one-time favorites from MK3 not appearing in any other game. There's too many characters in this game that just weren't important enough to the overall story, nor do they have any significant character development, to matter in MKD. I hope characters like Nightwolf and Kabal have a good reason for returning. I don't want to play a game full of characters that have endings like 'Soandso came to the call of battle. He/she fought bravely. He/she defeated (insert nemesis). He/she went home.'


IMO the cast is far from the most appealing. It has some eye-candy characters and old favorites, sure. But are they important enough to the series to warrant being the game's main cast? Let's hope they develop them enough to be.

Here's how I feel about some of the characters:
Jade: Awesome. Welcome back. Always wanted to see her make a big comeback.
Tanya: Crap. A poor, uninteresting and boring MK4 filler character. Needs alot of development to be of any importance at all.
Nightwolf: Good. Glad to see him back, I liked him because everyone else hated him.
Kabal: Eh, Ok. I thought he was dead, but no one stays dead in MK. Hope he's developed well.
Sindel: Great. A one-game wonder but at least she is important to the story and events. A welcome comeback.
Ermac: Eh.... He was just one of many pallete swaps from UMK3, though he was pretty bad ass, and his look in MKD is excellent. MKDA gave him some purpose, so I'd like to see what they have in store for him now. Otherwise...I would've picked someone else.
Noob Saibot: Eh.... GBA MKDA made him a crucial character to the plot. Lets see how he develops. Otherwise he's just another pointless pallete swap turned unique character with no backstory.
Baraka: Outstanding. So glad to see him back after that dismal MKGold. Looks like he factors big into the story too, which is OK in my book.
Mileena: Great. Very happy to see her make a big come back as a crucial plot character.
So in essence i'm rather disappointed in some characters but very happy to see others back. The rest i'm strictly 'meh' towards. I'm glad that at this point, it seems Sonya and Jax are gone, i'm sick of them, and its great to see some of the one game wonders return, I just hope they can factor them into the story well enough.
of course now i'll probably be flamed for having my own opinion on these characters, but whatever.

I agree that this is the best cast since MKII. And like MKII, it lacks any bad characters.

There's just so many more of them! It's gonna be great.

MKD is a very appealing cast hell the whole game is the most apealing game to me in years. i can not wait for this game to be released.

Good points shang_heihachi. I see your reasoning behind your likes and dislikes ect. Actually, they make a lot of sense to me. There are a lot of seemingly useless MK3 characters and others who don't seem like they will have a good story so far are not needed for the game. Though if you look at how the stories went in MK:DA, we might as well give up on any good story-line, huh?
lol... uhmmm, sleepy...