Wow! Cool! Great that they're still thinking ahead. Wait. Is he including MKT? Coz I mean if theres more characters than that then...oh....my....ga................(*drools)

For some very strange reason, the enormous character roster sounds like bad news to me. I think it's going to mess up the story, since it means that everybody that has died in my history will be resurrected. Also, I fear that the team may be focusing way too much on quantity, rather than on the quality. Well, I hope I'm wrong.

cool. Can't wait to hear roster leaks. One thing, though: (Not whining, it's a serious point) Ed already told us that Scorpion and Sub-Zero will be in every game as long as he's in charge, so why bother confirming them right off the bat? We'll already know they're in the game, anyway, so let's find out about other characters first. I know I'd sure like to know at least 5-7 characters besides them, so we'd know 7-9 right from the get-go. What does everyone else think?

I just hope that someway, somehow, it makes it to current-gen consoles, 'cause it's gonna be a while before I get any next-gen systems.

3 words..

CAGE IS BACK!

Finally, someone who appreciates cage.

I do appreciate Cage as well.

Smells like a MK Trilogy part 2...

This really isn't new news.

If Boon had said "We're totally discarding the MK5/6 system, and coming up with something great and innovative", I would've been glad to hear it, as most others would be as well.

But what does he promise us? "A bigger roster." Like abis said, sounds like a MK Trilogy 2.

I don't care if the game has 10 charas, come on, Boon.......we asked you on MK:DA and we begged you on MK:D.

To quote kingjolly, we want quality...not quantity.

Also, I fear that the team may be focusing way too much on quantity, rather than on the quality. Well, I hope I'm wrong.

That's exactly what I fear. They have to fix everything in the core engine first, but the last we heard from E3, they said something about a possible new system.

They should test the game out with a few characters and not everyone at once to get the engine going and then work out the bugs and balance the game when new characters are added.

I sound pretty dumb when I say that they shouldn't add all the characters at once because it's not what they do, but in a technical aspect, it seems like they add a character, test them out, and then leave them in the game to play with with very minimal testing.

It's frustrating because I love MK, but they should take baby steps and (once again) test the characters they add in each time that they're added in, fix the possible brokeness, then go on to add a new character and repeat what happened with the previous character. Each character should be tested against all other characters and then once everyone is in the game, they test it out to make sure there isn't any other holes in the gameplay. They should also test the damn hitboxes and how fast specials should be performed. (Bo' Rai Cho with -->+3 and Dairou with his tombstone drop were definitely not tested for the first releases of MK:D)

Then theres other issues such as throw reversals, "chickens", perry's, and frame advantages that everyone else and myself have discussed many times over. I mean, what the hell? Why was a jab really high risk for some characters? It's issues like these that need to be taken care of before loading the game with characters, then once all the characters are completely done and fixed, tweak the way reversals, chickens, and perry's are and then test the game out again to see if theres any severe brokeness in the engine.

I guess what I'm getting at is test, test, test, test, TEST! Then maybe we'll have the Mortal Kombat we've always wanted.

Yeah dude..he takes us for idiots, but that's only because most of us are.

When MK7 sucks the dumbasses will say "HE GAVE YOU 50 CHARACTERS! WHAT ELSE DO YOU WANT FROM HIM?! HE'S A GREAT GUY!"

Cool there is gonna be a MK7. I'm guessing there will be 40 characters in it. And yes, quality over quantity.

I hope MK7 will be on a next gen console like the xbox360. Imagine the possibilities. Though like others said, this could turn out to be MK Trilogy 2 on current consoles. Still good news!

i could care less about frame counting and all that. i hate when ppl are all "make it like tekken..or vf". if it was like tekken or vf, then it wouldnt be mk. the most successful fighing game of all time.

id like to see reversals, maybe a few "grapples" that arent fucking wrestling related (powerbombs, ddt, etc), block/parry would be cool cause you could slap the opponents hand/leg away and counter it.

i also wish combos had a little more freedom. auto combos are just fine and all, but there needs to be more ways to come up with custom combos with out using an auto combo first.

i dont want the game to end up like tekken, or vf cause i think those games suck. the characters move funky and the gameplay sucks. i want mk to maintain its style, but make it better.

shut the fuck up.

amen man. tekken and vf totally got down on their dirty little knees and licked at my balls like there was no tomorrow. grapples would ROCK, being a grappler myself, i would love to see this.

I find it funny that the info for MK 7 is released on the 7th of august.


But damn its to early to start this shit again, i cant wait for MKSM, and now ill be waiting for this too, maybe we'll get a pic or somethign in the near future. The "Biggest Roster" is gonna be hit or miss though. I foresee alot of story shifting, and messups if this is true, none the less, should be really fun to find out whats going to happen.

The more I think about it, the more this seems like it is going to be a Trilogy 2 of sorts, and on the current gen. After all, Boon did say that there was going to be a new MK game every year, and I'm pretty sure he also said that every other one was going to be a fighting game. And if they're going to be doing trilogy 2, they've already got a lot of character models (from DA and Deception) to work with, which they would have to redo for next-gen, and that cold save them a lot of time. Then again, maybe I'm just making myself feel better.

The words "like before" speak volumes about MK team's seeming lack of ambition. Really, the MK games don't need "two or three very huge elements," it needs a complete overhaul, which needs to include more than two or three elements, regardless of their size. It needs to step into the twenty-first century, Ed!



Like others have said, I don't want more characters. The 30 gazillion that appeared in MK:D was plenty-enough, if not overkill. What is needed is a reduction in the amount of characters to make room and time for engine overhauls.

They should let me be the producer of the next MK game. I'd set 'em straight.

i could care less about frame counting and all that. i hate when ppl are all "make it like tekken..or vf". if it was like tekken or vf, then it wouldnt be mk. the most successful fighing game of all time.

Nobody said they wanted MK to be like Tekken or VF, but fuck, it can take some things that make those games great and make them work for the MK games.

Implementing features found in other games is NOT going ot keep it from being a Mortal Kombat game...

And you don't need to care about frame advantages and whatever, but I really give a fuck when I'm fighting someone and my jab is slower than their roundhouse kick. You don't need to give a shit, but there are others that DO want to make the game better.

Come on guys,quit fighting! Us mortal kombat fans always gotta piss and moan about something.Like every body else said,this will probably just be a MK Triolgy 2 instead of MK7,So calm down.BTW,I loved the original MK trilogy!

If it's going to be the next MK game in the series of MK games, sorry to burst your guys bubble...but it won't be a MK Trilogy 2.0.

LOL! The STFU comment toped it off, too.

It's the same old PR stuff that Midway/Boon/MK spits. Yes, we need to wait and see. Yes, quality over quality. Yes, those of us who pointed out flaws in D before it came out were right - though constantly told otherwise. We'll analyze it again and most likely be right, again.

Stop the bickering? That's what makes the MK community. You take away the bickering, you take away the MK community, lol. Bickering builds character, anyways. It makes people develop their thoughts so people take them seriously, and weeds out the noobs who don't have a clue. A good tounge lashing is good for the soul.

It's good to have the info anyways. Even though, there have been a few posts regarding this before, heh. We're getting into a new MK cylce!! Get excited!! Those who "hate" and aren't fans, lets start hating. Those who'd rather talk about the "amazing" story of MK than actually make a decently playing game,, lets get the character speculation going. Those who want MK to be Tekken and VF, lets start explaining why. WOOT!! Oh, and god bless Peter Jennings. You'll be missed.

I can feel the heat from all the flaming above..

A bigger roster means less moves. Do you think they'll implement a unique plethora of moves for 45+ characters? It'll be like a wrestling game if they use todays hardware for that many characters. They'd have to completely ditch most extra "games" (which I would like for them to do) and focus more on Mortal Kombat.

Anybody else find it kind of funny that ray pretty much called it before this news was released? Anyway, this wasn't exactly the first tidbits of information that I wanted to hear... I'm not sure what to think. Depressed I think. Then again we don't know anything yet but I'm getting worried about the whole thing now. Man.