Mortal Kombat 9

Originally posted by Bro SMASH
1. I'm pretty sure fans wanted him back really bad otherwise, you can bet fans would throw a huge hissy fit over the fact that he missed out on two games in a row.

2. I think it was better than all three, mainly because it wasn't that stiff and was closer to the 2D games.

1. Since when do hissy fits from fans justify the bringing back of a character? If their reason for bringing back Liu Kang is due to a hissy fit from his fans, it's not a very smart move on their part. It also puts Liu Kang fans in a bad light, as it shows they are irrational.
His status as the Protagonist of the series also doesn't weigh in much with regards to his quick resurrection. I was pretty shocked when Shang Tsung and Quan Chi killed him, and I actually expected him to be brought back sometime after a few games had passed. Bringing him back so quickly was a dick move on their part.

2. It was still as R_P said, unbalanced mainly due to Rage. Adding some sort of temporary power-up in a Fighting game for every character is a gay move and completely unbalances the flow of standard gameplay.
If such a thing should be included, it should be given to a couple of characters only.

Originally posted by Ridley_Prime
Co-signed/quoted for truth (on all of that 😛).

Sector's ground teleport has always been rather broken. Can be used to dodge & counter any projectile and stuff when used at the right time (robot Smoke having that move too didn't help either). I remember plenty of players would disconnect on me on UMK3 (X-Box Live version) when I would teleport uppercut as they try to spear me, freeze me, or somethin'. 😂

1. Spam Sector's missiles by doing both the homing missile and the straight missile.
2. Teleport uppercut the opponent while they're confused on what to do about the incoming missiles, followed by a jump kick before they reach the ground.
3. ????
4. Profit.

And agreed on the X-ray moves. Those were all pretty freakin' sweet.

Very true.
Though in this game, between all the custom combos and the super moves, it is going to be even more broken.

😂 They seriously did that? After just one teleport? Or were you being a cheap-ass and spamming it? 😛

I know ehh? I like what they've done with Cage as well. The cockiness is pretty cool. I just hope it doesn't become excessive and move into 'annoying' territory. facepalm
1 X-ray fatality per character is what I want now. The X-ray moves are skirt close to the fatality area anyway, but an X-Ray fatality would be even moar awesome. Seeing the acid from Reptile's mouth burn away everything inside them would be pretty sweet no? [csm]313[/csm[

Originally posted by Zack Fair
I'm so hyped for this. Used to be hyped over MvC3 but then I saw it in action and learned the even easier layout and just didn't care anymore.

I'm so going to main SubZero...like always

That old MK interest I had back in the MK3 days is starting to come back.

Originally posted by Bro SMASH
2. It wasn't that bad. It was mainly Superman's infinite that made it unbalance.

Originally posted by Demonic Phoenix
2. It was still as R_P said, unbalanced mainly due to Rage. Adding some sort of temporary power-up in a Fighting game for every character is a gay move and completely unbalances the flow of standard gameplay.
If such a thing should be included, it should be given to a couple of characters only.

Originally posted by Demonic Phoenix
Very true.
Though in this game, between all the custom combos and the super moves, it is going to be even more broken.

Originally posted by Demonic Phoenix
😂 They seriously did that? After just one teleport? Or were you being a cheap-ass and spamming it? 😛

Originally posted by Demonic Phoenix
I know ehh? I like what they've done with Cage as well. The cockiness is pretty cool. I just hope it doesn't become excessive and move into 'annoying' territory. facepalm
1 X-ray fatality per character is what I want now. The X-ray moves are skirt close to the fatality area anyway, but an X-Ray fatality would be even moar awesome. Seeing the acid from Reptile's mouth burn away everything inside them would be pretty sweet no? 313

Yes, that it would 131, as would an X-ray fatality involving Cage's Shadow Kick or one of his other shadow moves.

Originally posted by Demonic Phoenix
[B]1. Since when do hissy fits from fans justify the bringing back of a character? If their reason for bringing back Liu Kang is due to a hissy fit from his fans, it's not a very smart move on their part. It also puts Liu Kang fans in a bad light, as it shows they are irrational.
His status as the Protagonist of the series also doesn't weigh in much with regards to his quick resurrection. I was pretty shocked when Shang Tsung and Quan Chi killed him, and I actually expected him to be brought back sometime after a few games had passed. Bringing him back so quickly was a dick move on their part.

2. It was still as R_P said, unbalanced mainly due to Rage. Adding some sort of temporary power-up in a Fighting game for every character is a gay move and completely unbalances the flow of standard gameplay.
If such a thing should be included, it should be given to a couple of characters only.

1. Why should it matter how fast they bring him back? And why would he be gone for a long time anyway? As for the fans wanting him back, you can expect the same thing for almost any character that has a fanbase. It doesn't put them in a bad light, it just means the fans care about the character and the series. It's equivalent to killing Ryu and having him miss out on a few SF games but that's a bad move, because he's really important to SF games, just as Liu Kang is to MK. Liu Kang may not be the mascot of MK but he's an iconic MK character.

2. How is giving it to only a few characters gonna make it even more balance? If anything it makes it worse, as those characters will always have an advantage over the others. Such a feature would give all characters a chance. Also, there's more complaints about Superman and Flash.

Originally posted by Bro SMASH
1. Why should it matter how fast they bring him back?

Originally posted by Bro SMASH
1. Why should it matter how fast they bring him back? And why would he be gone for a long time anyway? As for the fans wanting him back, you can expect the same thing for almost any character that has a fanbase. It doesn't put them in a bad light, it just means the fans care about the character and the series. It's equivalent to killing Ryu and having him miss out on a few SF games but that's a bad move, because he's really important to SF games, just as Liu Kang is to MK. Liu Kang may not be the mascot of MK but he's an iconic MK character

Originally posted by Ridley_Prime
As mentioned earlier, if you kill someone off and then bring them back quickly, it lessens the impact. 'sides that, you can tell they brought Liu back just for the sake of it (or without much reason) when he became a killing zombie with chains.

But his role wasn't all that important. I mean, it's not like he became the hero once again. Really, I was under the impression that you guys just don't want him to keep playing the hero but darn, you all sound like you want him completely out of the series.

Originally posted by I-Drop
It's not equivalent to killing Ryu. Not even close. Capcom would NEVER kill Ryu. Ryu can never miss a SF. He's waaaaay to important. In comparison, killing off Liu Lame isn't really that big of a deal. Bringing him back that quick WAS silly. Had me like "what was the point of killing him off in the 1st place if they were just gonna bring him back in the next game in the stupidest way possible? Were they just trying to make me REALLY happy for just one game?".

Liu Kang is pretty important too. When you have a character that's as important as him, having him miss one game is almost more than enough.

I'm just saying he's not Ryu-level important

MORTAL KOMBAT!! I need to DL the MK movie

Originally posted by Bro SMASH
But his role wasn't all that important. I mean, it's not like he became the hero once again. Really, I was under the impression that you guys just don't want him to keep playing the hero but darn, you all sound like you want him completely out of the series.

Found this for story on wikipedia supposly from Ed Boon

Ed Boon describes the game as an altered re-telling of the events of Mortal Kombat through Mortal Kombat 3.[4]

“ ...Raiden is about to be killed by Shao Kahn, and just before he delivers the last blow, he sends a mental message to his earlier self, so the camera rewinds back to Mortal Kombat 1. The Raiden from back then gets a message and he doesn't know what's going on, but he knows something bad's going to happen, and the game spans Mortal Kombat 1, 2 and 3, retelling the story with an enlightened Raiden, and he's changing the course of things, so everything you've seen happen before – Liu Kang winning, the guys turning into cybernetic ninjas, are changed around, so you might see a character become cybernetic who wasn't before, and so you see a different version [of events].

Yeah, I read something on the wiki about Raiden being defeated by Shao Khan either during or a little bit after Armageddon, and wondered what that was all about. Now it makes a bit more sense...

A character cybernetic who wasn't before? I can already see a cybernetic Subzero happening, since the Lin Kuei already tried to make him into one of those (like they did his friend Smoke) at one point.

Originally posted by Kazenji
Found this for story on wikipedia supposly from Ed Boon

Great! 😄 Raiden is the new protagonist now! Down with Liu Lame!

As long as he doesn't become that "dark" Raiden like in Deception & Armageddon, I'm fine with it I guess.

Well now MK1 might make sense, since in the game you can choose him, but if we look at whats cannon he was always just the one watching the tournament, never acturlly participating, or am I wrong? Because I remember reading "I can no longer interfer" which is raidens quote in MK3 or something.

I have seen the trailer and it is really amazing. This game is looking stunning. i have two hopes for this game back to normal MK like armegeddon with full violence and fatalities that any character. I am eager to play this game.

Originally posted by Bluesteel
Well now MK1 might make sense, since in the game you can choose him, but if we look at whats cannon he was always just the one watching the tournament, never acturlly participating, or am I wrong? Because I remember reading "I can no longer interfer" which is raidens quote in MK3 or something.

http://www.xbox360achievements.org/news/news-5526-Mortal-Kombat-Reboot-To-Feature-26-Characters-and-DLC.html

Originally posted by Kazenji
http://www.xbox360achievements.org/news/news-5526-Mortal-Kombat-Reboot-To-Feature-26-Characters-and-DLC.html

I already posted something like that except I showed a select screen. Oh well, it's good to keep info like this bumped if nobody wants to look at other pages.

Anyway, that's a satisfying number for the roster. That's just one more character than UMK3 (including secret chars but minus bosses). Can't complain with that since that's enough space to put in all the popular characters.

JAX JAX JAX!!! I can't wait to see his x-ray move, has to be devastating 🙂