animalities would be sweet

Absolutely not. I refuse to give these alities second chances. I know what's going to happen, they're going to repeat what they did in MK3 with the Anamalities and show nothing but the same few things over and over again with different animals. They're either going to do the following:

Eat the opponent
Knock off the opponent's head
Knock the opponent off screen

I refuse to give the Anamality a second chance.

Friendships are just as worse. They're meaningless to a game that shows extreme violence and gore. You want something in a violent game that expresses some mushy happy feeling, the kind you would see on Dora or something like that? No, Mortal Kombat is a serious game that needs to have no Friendships and happiness... It's a game about killing your opponent senseless to where there's nothing left, not, "Oh I just beat your fucking ass, let's be friends now."

I refuse to give the Friendship a second chance.

Aggressor? That was only featured in Trilogy and never made a return since. That was a dumb feature in that game and it just made no sense to have it now after years past since Triology has been out and it hasn't made a return since.

You can count that being out.

Babalities? Seriously? I have no idea who would actually enjoy that ality at all. It too is completely useless and senseless to have in a game that is all serious and evil and dark. You don't want something that shows little kids that "Hey, we feature something you might want to, all you have to do is beat your friends down to a bloody pulp to witness this friendly little finisher and all your troubles will be over." Cutesy in a dark game throws everything off, it might be add just for comic relief, but I find no comic relief in that whatsoever. Just something that throws the seriousness off.

So you can see why I'm strongly prepared to say no for these alities to make a return. They were never good to begin with, and I don't understand how some people actually want them to come back. Yes, this is your opinion and I fully respect that, and I write this because I know that many people here automatically assume that I just shut down opinions too easily, well, of course I shut down this one, but I just don't see why anyone would want these alities to return... they're pointless.

Though, you never quite stated exactly why you want them in the next game.

Personally, the only one I found vaguely interesting was the animalities, but even then they didn't seem to get it right. I mean, they gave Scorpion a friggin penguin! What the fuck was all that about.

Either way, I don't think all these fighters should have the ability to morph when that ability is one of Shang Tsung's signature moves. Therefore only Shang Tsung should get an animality and it should just take the place of one of his finishers.

Babyality was the most annoying thing ever. Friendship seemed pointless, stupid and out of character. And I don't even know what the other thing is (haven't played Trilogy in a long time). But there is one thing missing from your list: Brutalities - where the winner would unleash a really long combo before the loser explodes and bones fly everywhere.

brutalities were sweet. the only thing that sucked was that i couldnt do them. but i wouldnt want them any different cuz i want it to be a challenge

Yes To Liu Kang's dragon fatality/animality.


Also Scorpion had a fatality that he turns into a Scorpion in MK4.

yes to that also.

i love the Dragon Fatality by Liu Kang in mk4 and well as scorpion transofrmation by the hellspecter ninja.These are the only Animalities id' left and they just have to replace a normal fatality for them.

about the AGGRESSOR it was cool and added some unpredictable on the gameply,it was really useful to turn the tables especially in round three.
It come back,to be honest,as RAGE MODE in Shaolin Monks(if completed succesfully it become a brutality) and with RAGE in Mk vs DCU so it's not true that was used only in Mk trilogy.It's a funny gimmick to me.

absolutely No to all other -alities except for fatalities.

1. Friendships - No. While I disagree with Icebaby in that they're totally useless, they were funny the first time, but the jokkd to make fun of soccer moms who proteted MK, is now a hollow shell of its former self, old and broken, it can stay out of the games, since it's lost its flare and doesn't deserve to come back

2. Agressor - I would say that RAGE could techincally be Agressor reincarnated, yet at the same time, Agressor was WAY too broken I mean looks at this! If it were toned down, which is essentially what RAGE is, I'd be cool with it.

3. Animalities - I enjoyed Animalities, because they were different, sure, some of the animals made no sense, but if they could somehow find a way to make each animal make sense and make a different, sensical attack for each one, I'd be fine with it.

4. Bablities - Always found these utterly pointless. So they take a sprite of a baby, and dress it up like a character, and slap it on as a finisher, I always thought it was an office joke that got WAY to out of hand. Babalities are nothing special and really nothing good.

So yeah, these should probably stay gone, they were good then, not so much now.

you could turn off the agressor in trilogy

MK needs 2 on 2 kombat back. Friendships were great back then, but I don't want them back.

They seriously gotta bring the brutalities back! there's just so much awesome stuff they could add to it!!!
Animalities, friendships and babalitites, mehhh...it'd be neat to have those, but i think that having all those things as pre-rendered sprites like in the past was much more cheaper, and prolly they reason they had 'em in the first place...in 3d it might turn out to be a costly and unnecesary feature, that could easily be put to better use...

I really enjoyed the friendships. I am surprised that I seem to be the only one.

2 vs 2 arcade and team battle from MK4

i agree with everything you said icebaby

1. I think Friendships and Babalities were sort of in the same boat -- just jokes and ways of mocking your opponent after defeating them, and having a bit of a laugh with a second player. I don't think they have a place in any new Mortal Kombat, though.

2. Aggressors is not a bad concept, but it needs to be refined and mastered. I don't think it should be used for every character. For some, it sort of makes sense. For example, I could see Scorpion becomes pissed off enough that he powers up and becomes a bit more effective, or whatever. I don't see a level-headed fighter like Kitana doing that, though. Characters who can power-up, or become more angry, could be implemented into a deep strategy system for MK9, but I wouldn't like to see an Aggressor bar or Rage for each character.

3. Animalities were actually a favourite of mine back in the day. I just thought they were kind of pretty. Nowadays, I'd only want to see them brought back for specific characters as Fatalities. For example, Nightwolf turning into a wolf to finish his opponent might not be too bad. I also wouldn't mind it if they included a special "Animality" announcement at the end of it -- but I wouldn't want to see, for example, Cyrax with an Animalitity.

4. See Friendships.

One thing I wouldn't mind coming back, are Brutalities. Chain blow after blow together until your opponent starts falling apart. That could be done really cool. "Kreate-a-Fatality" almost did that in Armageddon. I say it can be refined a lot more, and made very cool.

I also never want to see Hara-Kiris again. Like Friendships and Babalities, I think the point of them was to spark conversation with the player sitting beside you, but they should be dropped and replaced with victim-specific Fatalities, in my opinion. ie. Kabal gets his respirator ripped off, and struggles to breathe before dying; Cyrax has his self-destruct code activated, and then gets the arm with his de-activation panel ripped off. I could see those being sort of cool.