I think that MK games arent as hard as they used to be, the ultimate level on MK4, was not even half the very easy level on MK3. That right there is living proof that the games are getting easier as they go along. The hardest game there was, was MK3, because not only was the pre- boss (Motaro) was impossible to beat, but all the characters to get to him were practicly impossible to beat! The only way you could possibly get to Motaro was to play two player, learn the special moves of one specific character, and re-peatedly use it on the computer ( while it was on very easy) and then you couldnt even beat Motaro with that! Whenever you did a special move on him, he would throw it right back at you. So if you wanted to beat him, you would have to be extra skilled, and be able to hit and run as fast as you could, with out being taken and thrown by motaro, taking away 1/3 of your life away from you in the process. In MK2 it wasnt as hard as MK3, because the characters, were easier, but Kintaro was also extremely hard. But MK1 wasnt even as hard as MK2, because it had sainly difficult characters in it, and the pr- boss Goro was not as hard as his Shokan brother Kintaro. So there i go, drifting off from my own point. yeah i guess i caught my-self in a little stumble, my subject was to talk about how the MK games get easier as they go on, and im typing how much harder they get. But those were the only series of games that got harder one after the other, after that they all got easier, like Ultimate MK 3 gets alot easier than MK three. And MK Trilogy gets alot easier than Ultimate Mk 3. And then came MK4 witch was realy easy for me, it wasnt much of a challenge (not that i didnt enjoy it). Then came MK Deadly Allience, witch you couldnt say was easier than MK 4, but it cant get much easier than MK4. But you can say it was alot easier than MK 1-trilogy. But there were games inbetween the game series, like MK analogy, and MK Sub-zero, whitch were of course harder than MK4, MKDA, and MKD. But i do have to admit that MKD is alot harder than MKDA. So that pretty much ruins my idea of MK getting easier per game. I guess the difficulties, are random. But i dont expect MK to be that dark in the next gen MK witch will have an all new line up of MK characters, for MK , and it will grow into the dark series that MK is now. I also expect the games to start out pretty easy, about as easy as MK4. Then the next next gen game will be slightly harder. And then the third next gen MK gameto be really hard, just like the first three originals. Then the ones after that can be as random as they want. Since it is the area of a new generation of vidio games, i am expecting an MK story mode, with character movies, after beating the game once. I am also expecting secret characters that you can unlock, ect. Well that was my post i hope you enjoy, thank you, and reply nicely.