Mortal Kombat X - Part 1

[TheNextNolan22]

Just in the mobile version, my boy Kenshi looks bad ass!

 

[TX85]

Yup

 

[Benstamania]

I see beards are going to be a thing in this game.

As they should be.

 

[Nathan]

Who will be the one to sport nothing but a glorious mustache?

 

[Benstamania]

Isn't that old man Kung Lao? Maybe Shang Tsung?

 

[zeptron]

It will be such a great day when Injustice 2 is announced with a trailer shown. I just hope that with that game and MK after this one,NR starts to increase the roster sizes. F***k just 25,Injustice 2 better be at least 40..plus dlc characters!

The only way the starting rosters of the next MK and Injustice will have 40 characters is if they port over characters from the previous game. If all characters have new models for the game, you can forget about having around 40 right at the start because that's just unrealistic.

 

[TX85]

It happens in mma and wrestling games,so why is it unrealisticly for fighting games?

 

[GREEN =w= DAY]

"zombie" Sindel & Kenshi are all but confirmed it seems

wonder if we'll also get a "zombie" Liu Kang. actually, seeing as how the last game ended it wouldn't be a stretch to have Liu be a villain this time around.

 

[Benstamania]

Zombie Kenshi? I saw living Kenshi. I half expect Lui to be the big bad this time as well. Him or Rieko.

 

[zeptron]

It happens in mma and wrestling games,so why is it unrealisticly for fighting games?

Because it takes much more time when a game is made from scratch than it does when they just port over characters from past games. The more characters that are already in the game, the longer it takes to add another one. Development time grows exponentially the more characters are added, not linearly. They have to program each character to interact with every existing character and repeat that process every time they introduce someone.

If you look at any other fighting game that had a starting roster with at least 40 characters, you'd see that the majority of them were just ported over from previous games. In MK Armageddon, the majority of the characters were just ported over from Deadly Alliance and Deception. In Marvel vs Capcom 2, only 9 out of the 56 characters had new sprites. The rest were just ported over from the previous Capcom vs games as well as from the Street Fighter Alpha and Darkstalkers games.

In Street Fighter X Tekken, the majority of the SF cast was taken from SSF4. The only new SFers that actually had new models were Rolento, Hugo, Poison and Elena. Capcom vs SNK 2 had 48 characters and most of them were just ported over from the first game which had almost half the roster ported from the Street Fighter Alpha series and one Darkstalkers character.

The King Of Fighters series has always had a huge roster of characters, but when they decided to go with a different art style, they had to make every single character from scratch. Because of the new art style, KOF12 only had 20 characters, which is the smallest roster in the history of the series, even smaller than the first game. KOF13 had around 30 something because they ported the previous characters over (they also did some palette swapping to increase the roster a lot quicker).

 

[Benstamania]

Johnny Cage will be playable.

http://m.ign.com/articles/2015/03/0...ms-johnny-cage-is-playable-in-mortal-kombat-x

 

[terry78]

Good....good.

 

[Havok83]

Johnny Cage will be playable.

http://m.ign.com/articles/2015/03/0...ms-johnny-cage-is-playable-in-mortal-kombat-x

all I need is Sonya and all my faves are in

 

[TX85]

Johnny Cage finally confirmed,hell to the yeah!

My favorites are all in and so extra old ones that I like are bonuses

 

[zeptron]

Starting to look like that leak may be legit.

On another note, it was stated that the DLC pack would be two MK characters and two guest characters. I hope the two MK characters are ones that weren't in MK9.

 

[GREEN =w= DAY]

and my guess is that those two guest characters are Spawn & Predator since the rumors of them being in the game have grown strong in the past couple of weeks

 

[Tron Bonne]

and my guess is that those two guest characters are Spawn & Predator since the rumors of them being in the game have grown strong in the past couple of weeks

Has there been anything about Spawn outside the McFarlene interview? Because I would barely even count that as a rumor.

 

[TX85]

With Johnny Cage confirmed,how many roster spots are left(before dlc)?

 

[Sparta*]

if the leaks are true, which they appear to be considering kenshi and cage were just confirmed (hell yea to cage btw, my main is back, as well as reptile)

these are 99% confirmed to be the last 6 characters on the roster, before DLC

Spoiler

sonya, jax, shinnok, erron black, mileena and liu kang

 

[Jick]

Fine by me, since I know we'll get more later.

 

[TheVileOne]

Shinnok seemed pretty obvious from the story trailer. Even though that could've been a cutscene. Seems to make sense that they'd make the model to use in the actual game.

Then again, Kintaro was never playable for Mortal Kombat 9 unless it was like a PC mod.

 

[TX85]

If Liu Kang is in then I just really hope he's brought back to life in the story and he goes evil on his own. No Zombie Kang like before and no him being under an evil spell.

Just a pure pissed off Kang!

 

[Nathan]

I enjoyed pissed off Kang in the second season of MK Legacy. Would love to have him be angry at Raiden in the game. And I hope that he'd still be scarred from Raiden's attack.

 

[Jick]

I hated that in Legacy. But the idea of him like that in this game is enticing.

 

[TX85]

I had mixed feelings about it on the show but for this game it would make sense and be cool,fresh and interesting. Much potential with him being a big baddie now