I don't mind the firefly chick and the green guy might grow on me later. But the big guy with the little kid (or midget) on his back? ...Not liking him at all. Out of the three new characters shown, he seems the most out of place, followed by the firefly girl.

Yeah, I was thinking the same thing...apart from the obvious physical size problems, there's gonna be the problem of murdering what very much appears to be a small child. Dunno how NRS is gonna handle that conceptually.

MASTERBLASTER RUNS OUTWORLD!!!!

No, but seriously. I'm shitting myself here.

I'm not going to judge them on looks alone, but Jesus fuck am I ever hyped at the concept of a Chang/Choi CVS2 style fighter.


But...that's a kid up there. We can't start dismembering kids, can we? Odds are she/he'll be knocked aside or avoided while the big brute gets fatalities done on him...

Man, am I hyped. I've also wanted a wasp-themed MK character for years.

FUCKING HELL AM I HYPED.

YES.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vQyfm5w8B4Y

Woah just noticed the aztek guy at 2:11, so we got 3 brand new characters here?

It seems like with certain hits, the little imp girl (?) goes flying off the brute's back; maybe fatalities will just knock her away (or she'll run off) while the muscle gets killed.

On another note, the environments are gorgeous. I noticed that there's occasional highlighting on certain objects (like those pots on the dock) to show you what you can interact with.

Generally style of the game reminds me of KI3 and Deception.


He looks like MK4 Shinnok updated.

It's possible that the little kid thing and brute might be a sub-boss. So fatalities won't matter much since we can't use it against them.

Or the kid is like "Eff this, I'm outta here" and runs off.

I need HD version and names!

No. 99% chance they aren't


I wish the Big Guy didn't have that little brat on him. He'd be much more interesting without that annoying thing.

Btw, I think the big guy with little imp might rule out Noob? At least his main mechanic as it pretty much consisted on using a partner on combos and it seems to be this guys thing?

Also, the 3 new characters have some south america vibe around them. Maybe we're seeing a new realm inspired on those cultures?

Agreed that the man/child character isn't a sub-boss. They wouldn't have revealed it this early, would they have?

Also I'm super stoked about the aesthetic and feel of this game. That ocean/ship stage was killer.

From NeoGAF:

The brat is what is going to give the big guy character. Without the brat, he's just going to be some big dufus loafing around. Another "Moloch-esque" character that's just a beast with no mind. We don't know what the dynamic is between the big guy and the imp. There's bound to be an interesting story between the two.

Sub-Zero's mouth-mask is sometimes covered in a blue glow. I wonder what that signifies.

I think the imp thing controls the big dude from up top like a puppet. That's what I'm guessing.

Same, just blind-sided. I didn't expect pretty much everything from the trailer to make into the game. Looking good, I was bummed about it not being cross gen but after seeing that how can I not be hyped?

I don't mind the new characters. Big & Little guy looks like the most ambitious thing NRS has ever done gameplay wise. I get you guys think "the little one is annoying" but think of the gameplay potential here before you write them off. Marvel vs Capcom is an example of a game that has a lot of weird and unique fighters (Phonix Wright, M.O.D.O.K. and Okami... forget the dogs name). I was also just happy to get a varied character model.

The aztec guy... A few days ago I would have told you that's something that would fit better into Killer Instinct but, he's working for me. I dunno I got the vibe he may have something to do with order realm or somehow fits into the world. I'll have to see more but I'm surprised how OK I am with him lol

Bee girl is cool lol. No complaints, she looks like a power rangers MK love child... that works in MK imo. The whip blade thing looks interesting.

In fact it turns completly white at the end, it kinda annoyed me as the change was too radical. I don't know what it could mean though.

Also he seems to have a kori knives combo. I wonder if he will keep some kori blade moves, I loved the kori blade redesign.

kind of like NoobSmoke from deception execept i think its just the big fella doing most of the work. Lets wait n see.

Why can't the big guy have his own personality? Why does he have to be the typical big dumb brute?

I don't like two characters being fused into one anyway. Especially when one is a little tiny annoying dwarf. I'm not feeling that too much

MasterBlaster is clearly just Solomon Grundy. The kid even talks in Hulk-speak.

The ship reminded me of Deception's nethership. Like a lot.

I don't know what to think of the new characters. The blue guy that we didn't get to see much of looked awesome. I was meh on the bug lady. She was okay, but nothing amazing. I HATED the big guy with the kid though. The whole time I kept thinking God, how annoying is this things voice? It was awful.

So, I had 3 reactions. Good on the blue ancient looking guy. Neutral on the bug lady, and god no on the big guy/child mix. It felt like something out of a really bad horror movie.

Oh, and Bug chick totally has NRS-Jaw. They haven't gotten any better at modelling girls. That's a disappointment.

I am really liking the feeling of a new direction though. I definitely didn't want a MK4 reboot. Cool to see new stuff and a darker feel.

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Get in there, guys!