It's kinda hard to want more after seeing that fatality video, ain't it? Boon said in one interview that this game is pretty much like a "love letter to the fans". I'm not gonna lie, it looks like they heard that Fan Assessment (link in sig) recording we all did a while back, loud and clear.

At any rate, I'm a fan so, sure I'll let greed supersede logic for a wish list.

Gameplay

1.) Training Mode - I got alot more usage//value out of this mode than I did the Kombo Challenges so, this is the one I want back. 2 player select capable too, please. I had fun with it.

2.) Endurance Mode - On the ladder in traditional fashion, right before the sub-boss(es)

3.) Grey the fatality screen, don't black it out! - I see it during that X-ray thing, and that looks phenomenal, but I still see that totally blacked out screen during some of the fatality screens. Disgusting. Meanwhile, other arenas don't have an effect on the background at all. Wut up with that? Grey-scale//darken the screen during a fatality. Only thing that should still keep their initial color is the two players' characters, blood, and guts.

4.) Victory Poses on the Select Screen! - MK1-3, right? Do it!

5.) MK Pong or Test Your Might during the loading screens. - Doesn't have to mean, or be for anything really. It's just something to occupy us during any loading time.

**I'm pretty happy with the way gameplay looks right now. They seem to be covering all the bases, so I'm not worried at all about it being good.
They're going to have the MK ladder, tournament mode online to some capacity, gamer recognition online, wagering//betting, tag mode, something like breakers, string combos, something like pro-moves//super moves, special moves during combos, 3D Fatalities?!!!??...on and on and on it seems to go.

All these things feel right according to what MK is about, and what a modern MK should probably have to offer. Therefor? I have less to want from it and as a consequence (a positive consequence...), it offers that peace of mind. Way to go NR Studios!

Story

1.) A Konquest mode//Story mode I can mostly run around in. - I don't mind the cut-scenes as long as they're not railroading the playing experience or killing off any player control. I want to control it, I don't wanna watch it. MKD, MKSM, and MKA did a really good job at letting us play it more than sit there and watch it.

2.) Survival Mode - Similar, if not exactly like they had it in MKSM. Still in the story//konquest mode, still as a complicated secret that we have to find, but just with a different cluster of characters. As a key note: there should be a bigger reward at the end of it this time. Alot more money, unlock more than one unexpected character, or something else worth going through all the trouble//fun of beating the mode for. Last time, I felt like; "That was damn fun...but don't I get anything more for finding the mode, and doing all that work?"

3.) 3-5min FMV ending to the Konquest//Story mode. - Step it up from MKD and MKA's Konquest endings. The drawing, and getting Shujinko//Taven was an adequate prize for beating that mode, but the icing on the cake would have been a nice video to watch. I'd definitely be cool with loosing a couple of the animated cut-scenes during the mode, for an awesome prize like this at the end of the thing. Hell, I'd almost take the drawings with the narrator all the way through this mode if there was gonna be a nice FMV at the end to close it all up in some really dramatic fashion. As a minimum, I'd probably "expect" to see like, 4 animated cut-scenes though. As a minimum....

4.) Really descriptive, and well written Profiles and Bios. [animated please?] - For the Profiles, break the characters down, y'know? Give up some good background stuff, tell me where their from specifically, how the humans got their special moves//magic, and all that silly fan fodder stuff.

For instance, Sonya's a woman in the USSF. That's not possible in real life so... how'd she do it? -- How old is Quan Chi? -- How many assassinations does Kitana have under her belt? -- And just how powerful is Raiden, and in what condition? Considering he has a human and god form...Stuff like that.

Exclusively for the bio screen, I've traditionally liked to just read these, but I have always loved the idea of the character themselves narrating these. Simplify with a "Play//FF//Rwnd//Pause//Stop widget.

For animations, nothing complicated, really. Maybe let them perform their kata during the profile screen? End with their victory pose and loop? Then for the bios, freeze frame them like in MKvsDc. But let me spin the 360 degree wheel. Facial expressions or simple "at ease" animations could be cool here too.

5.) Special Edition Includes a comic, or a digital graphic novel. - Since they're making a joy ride out of the story element in this game....I WILL pay to have this! lol No bs tho. This is probably the best place to go into detail about what was going on with any number of these characters as of MKA's end and MK9's start. Do all kinds of stuff here.

Extra(s)

1.) Kreate-a-Kharacter - I don't see it in the cards this go round, so what I hope is that they allow us to make our own character and go through story mode that way. This game's already jam packed so, I'd probably shit a brick if it is in this game.

2.) A full-er Online experience in general. - Mortal Kombat has not been great at all here so, I'd hope they go ahead and make online like a whole world// universe of it's own now.

Also, if they want mini-games and so on in the game, this is another great place (besides the loading screens) to put alot of that kind of stuff as exclusives. MK Pong, Chess Kombat, MK Tetris, Motor Kombat, Test Your Might, Test Your Sight....there could also be "Get the Flag" or "Last man Standing" sorts of games on here too. In comparison, I'd call them something like "Get the Dragon" and "Kill or be Killed" or something like that.

3.) Behind the Scenes (BTS) Footage. - The pictures in the Krypt didn't really do it for me, but a good video? It's always cool to see the team in action. I almost anticipate them doing this with the new NetherRealm Studios and what not. It's a cool notion anyway, and I'd welcome it.

4.) Content Section. - A place to put stuff like in MKDA - MKA. I really liked being able to go back over and over and check out the endings and other krypt inventory that I acquired.

And I think that's about it! (yes...I think)

- Endurance Matches, should be a great challenge now that both oppenents can atttack you at the same time

- Original Stances from the first games, haven't seen one yet.

- Oriental influenced music like MK 1 and MK 2

- Secrets, suprise factor back

- Uppercuts that really feel like (MK) uppercuts

- Classic costumes as alt or DLC

- Fatalities as DLC

Some things that pop into my mind.

1. Konquest mode

2. Alternate costumes

3. Endurance, Survival, Time Attack Mode

4. Test Your Might

5. Krypt

Those are in order of importance to me personally.

Oh, and I forgot to add MK2 style announcer.

Nitara.

I really like these ideas, that would make MK9 Phenomenal.

I’m happy how this game is shaping up to be. If they put in some little extras like survival mode and stuff I’ll welcome it. If they don’t, I’ll still be happy as long as most of the classic characters are in. So I’m not going to ask for more..

However I am going to tell you what I don’t want.

And that’s stuff like:
The Krypt.
Konquest.
Mini games like Chess, Puzzle Komat and Racers.
Babalities, Animalities and Brutalities.
Create a character
Drahmin and Meat.

I really want them to put their focus on the main game this time.. and that’s Fighting. If they put in some extra tweaked modes or other stuff which will enrich the fighting then bring it on. Otherwise leave it out.

Your ideas were great all around, but these were the ones that I really wanted to focus in on.

--I can't believe I left out the training mode! Well, most MK's have had them lately, but I would like this to be refined to the point where you can see the timing of the button presses and it shows you the moves and combos being perfermed etc.

I'd also like to see a button that allows you to go from a demonstration of a move, right back to where you were on the move list so you can go down the whole list one by one and see demo's and try to do the moves yourself and go on to the next move etc.

--Endurance? I'd HAVE to assume the MK team wants to bring this back as well. I mean, how long have fans been asking for this back now? It only makes sense given the return to 2D (not sure what that has to do with anything, but regardless...)

--Victory poses on the select screen: Absolutely!! Not much more to say beyond that but honestly, that was just a small touch in the old MK games that I always enjoyed. Not sure why they went away from that, but oh well.

--Test your might during the load screen: I'm honestly not sure how long it will take to load this game given how fast the load times are these days, but I'd welcome it! Granted, I don't know if I'd want it for EVERY vs load, but maybe once every three matches? I'd be cool with that. I still like the idea of actually earning something for it, but I'd be okay regardless. Great idea!!

--Highly detailed profiles/bios: I kind of go back and forth on this, because while I think that I get what you're saying, there's still a part of me that wants to leave a little mystery as well. Still, given that we know most of the characters (if not all) by now, what's wrong with adding some more detail?

I'd even like them to go back to them doing the MK1 style kata's on their profiles. I still remember Sub Zero's, thinking that Reptile was in the background because there's a small green flash in the corner during his kata.

Either way man, I dig all of these ideas you have here! Good job man!

Especially right now, given the popularity of Twilight and Tru Blood.


Anyway, wishlist.

- Create-a-fighter.

-Unlocking characters and extras via certain conditions in Arcade / Story mode rather than the Krypt.

-Some sort of mini-game.

-A shameless ripoff of Halo 3's record feature.

-The full array of finishers.

-MK3 / Trilogy throwback endings (a render of the character and text).

-Stryker.

- MK4-style endings, full FMV, give us some highlights of the MK story that we never got to see, like Scorpion killing the first Sub Zero.

- Liu Kang back as a serious character, not a cartoonishly buff goody-goody who worships the ground Kitana walks on. Maybe have him downplaying the whole "hero" angle, like he doesn't really enjoy all the attention. I know he was originally a Bruce Lee ripoff, how about giving him some of Bruce Lee's good qualities, or maybe even some of his bad ones, he is a human being after all, he doesn't have be a beacon of light all the time, maybe give him a bit of a cocky, arrogant streak, nothing overplayed, just subtle. He really should be played up as a badass fighter with a quiet, calm confidence, not this naive buffoon that was in MKSM.

- More serious angles all around, I'm tired of MK being a shameless self parody, give us more depth to the characters, I'm tired of peeps like Reptile being wasted as one-dimensional henchmen. Give him some gravitas, some huevos, his own direction. He does after all, have his own agenda, which should place him more as reluctant villain or antihero than bloodthirsty antagonist.

Create a character
Krypt

I want

Choose Your Destiny ladders with 4 or 5 towers. 7 , 9, 11, 13 and 15 battles.

No more 6 battles in arcade mode. A real sub-boss would be nice too. Maybe all 4 legged Motaro, but i go fine with the Shokans too.

Also, make the arenas being in prefixed order style of the old games, instead of glue those with the character that you are fighting against.