Baraka407 Wrote:
Temp mentioned Havik as a character he'd be okay with returning. I freakin hated Havik. I liked Mavado, Nitara, Drahmin, Li Mei, Kira, Kobra, Sareena and Kenshi the most among new characters. Some of you might love that list and agree whole heartedly. Some of you might hate a few or even all of those characters.
So while I get that alot of people apparently want MK2 with modernized graphics, there's nothing wrong with a little variety as well. I'm really hoping that this isn't just a reboot of the series. Go forward, not backwards. But even if it is a reboot, I still want stuff that I've never seen before. Sure, reimaginings are great. The dead pool looks awesome, so does the Pit II and Shang Tsung's throne room looks phenomenal, but this HAS to be more than simply throwing a coat of gloss on MK1-MK3 and giving it MKvsDC's engine.
And you could add to that list. A few other users seemed to have inferred that I'm against new characters because I didn't like previous ones, but I thought 2/3 of the previous set was solid (and four of them were gold).
The reason I'm against new characters is because the minute they cease to be "new," no one seems to care about them. True, you have your Quan Chi(s) and your Kenshi(s), but they're the anomalies. Quan Chi turned into a boss character in his second run, and Kenshi was immensely popular before his debut game was even released.
I loved Li Mei, and I loved Shujinko. I don't really love or like Bo Rai Cho, but I deem him a respectable element of MK. That's why I adopted this "foundational roster" philosophy. When you add new characters to the next installment, the ones who have to pay the price are the new characters from the previous installment.
