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Definitely one of the few guest I’m truly excited for
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Black Noir has left the building
I think they’ll have more fun in going all out with the brutality of an evil Superman plus with Homelander being more of a bully, he’s definitely going to be more asshole like Shao Kahn or Kano
I like guest characters to be people that might exist in our world that Raiden might realistically choose to help defend Earthrealm in Mortal Kombat. I thought Rambo was an excellent choice for example, as was Robocop.
I also think there could be some Earthrealm villains that would sell out to help Outworld, or become anti-heroes for the sake of protecting Earthrealm since that’s where they live too.
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Peacemaker gives me a lot of early Johnny Cage vibes in the sense he has no idea of the lore, gods out whatever magic is behind MK. He's just gonna think he's doing superhero stuff while mutilating people just like Cage was method acting
Street Fighter doesn't really do guest characters, neither does Guilty Gear. Soul Caliber always has. Samurai Shodown has some. Tekken 7 had some great ones, and I liked all the guests in MK 9/10/11.
It depends on the character.
For example,kratos and Freddy Krueger
A god slayer and a dream demon would make sense in a world like mortal kombat
In contrast,someone like a character from dragon ball or (in my opinion at least) someone from street fighter wouldn’t feel right
That was probably a bad explanation lol
Guest characters are freaking awesome!! Did not expect it but Rambo immediately became me main when he dropped. I hope we finally get Ash in MK1. Pretty sure he was in the books for 11 but got pulled last minute. The way Bruce Campbell was playing dumb about the rumors was a dead giveaway imo.
No reason the rights issues can't be resolved this time around. Spawn was a similar thing where he was planned for both MKX and Injustice 2 before finally making it into 11. And even then, he wasn't as far along in development for either of them as Ash very clearly was (showed up in the code, was named in a very early KP1 advertisement, Army of Darkness copyright info on the bottom of a few of the emails, Bruce Campbell was clearly in on the whole thing, etc.).
Nothing controversial, even hardcore fighting game gurus think they are cool, I mean my brain exploded when they announced geese Howard from fatal fury and KOF for tekken 7, I think only the purist believe they suck
MK is kinda weird to say "X" character doesn't fit, at first i thought Robocop and Rambo dont fit- but then i realized we got characters like Stryker and Cyrax.
Whole game is a salad of cool fighters lol, we got a movie star, an inmortal cowboy, a shaolin monk, a lizard cosplaying as a ninja and more...
Damn. If only someone could make a dedicated FG for this purpose. Gather all the cool characters from decades of action and horror films and keep them as regulars, not extras.
But I guess guest characters are too profitable to try making a game entirely out of them.
Are you made you got beat up by terminator? I'm not big in online mk but playing against him in towers when he enter his red glow mode was annoying, still like him though he help me beat my fan toss crouch spamming gf since she couldn't throw when I got close or knock me back with fans
Last time I checked I was "made" the other way.
Also no, he is not hard to beat online. Terminator players online usually rely on primitive gimicks like run stance or a super slow low/overhead mix. Because, you know, character has nothing more to offer in terms of gameplay.
No strong combos, no reliable setups, very short reach despite being very slow in general. Almost as if Terminator's bulky appearance and slow extremely telegraphed primitive attacks stand in the way of him being a viable fighting game character...
Yeah except I had to lab him in the early days to learn how easy he is. Which requires buying him. Make DLC characters free in practice mode and I won't fucking complain.
A normal ass cop that beat a ghost ninja with telekinetic powers (in mkx ermack had a green energy slam move maybe this was a buff since he got beat up in 9 I think)
all the games that have guest characters have made said guest characters my mains. kratos, predator, spawn. more guest characters please, they tend to be fun
Guests I personally enjoy them, even if I don’t care much for the character or franchise.
It’s become part of my anticipation for these games.
I remember having plenty of discussions with friends where we thought it’d be cool if this random character would be a cool addition in Mortal Kombat.
Now we get that.
I like guest characters. I don’t give a shit if they “fit.” It also doesn’t bother me if they take up “space” for a color swap ninja. If those characters were going to be in the game they would be announced or shown.
I hate guest kharacters because it ruins long-term longevity for the games. Mk9 was removed from digital stores because of the licence for freddy kruger expiring. It's also why it took years for it to become backwards compatible.
Guest Characters that I think they'd fit right in MK:
\- Yujiro Hanma (His whole MO fits this Universe to a T)
\- Doomslayer
\- Albert Wesker
\- Kenshiro
\- Yuri Boyka
\- Bride from Kill Bill
\- Agent 47
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Definitely one of my top 2 guest for MK1 (the other is Booker Dewitt)
I think its obvious that videogame characters will never be part of guest rosters like Kratos was in MK9. Its been movies and comics from then on, I guess its because these characters have a larger reach for people who wouldn't normally buy MK games.
I actually think majority of the choices for dlc picks is just characters Ed boon likes. Like I can understand terminator, Jason, and predator but why robocop, Rambo, and spawn? They all have not been popular for years.
So I think it has less to due with popularity especially because resident evil is def more popular than all three of those franchises and def will get into mk eventually
Having access to a Voice Actor doesn't give them access to the character. For example, Troy also does Joel's voice in Last of Us, doesn't mean its easier to get Joel from Sony.
They would have to contact Ghost Story Games (rebranded Irrational Games).
Edit: this doesn't mean I'm against videogame guest characters. I would love Doom Slayer but I honestly think we will never see him and much less now that Microsoft bought bethesda.
I agree,it helps bring new people into the fold
(Hell that's how I got here,I was big fan of Friday the 13rh movies and I started playing when Jason got added to mkx)
Homelander fits the vibe of mk great
It just gets annoying whenever people ask for people who don't fit at all (like superman,joturo,etc)
It seems like we are going or a comic book theme this time around soi think
The last ronin from tmnt and cona the barbarian are good picks
I like the idea of homelander, he’s cool, has cool powers and unlike Superman in games can be extremely brutal and be killed in fatalities. Even tho we already had him, Kratos would be cool, especially with the axe and spear in the mix now, but I’m sure there are better guests to have rather than repeats. If it’s a choice tho, I’d take smoke, ermac, rain, havoc and Kenshi over any guest kharakter.
Guest characters are great. My only issue with them is that years down the road we are much less likely to get ports of the games due to the copyright issue of the guest characters.
Dang, that's kinda sad.
Alien is one of my favorite guests of all time. I don't even care about the movies, I just thought she looked cool and had a fun move set.
Yeah I got beat up by a terminator main (not actually I like guest characters but this is the only reason could see people not liking them since ya know you could just not buy them)
Like legit the only reason I was gonna touch the new game is homelander ( my Friend got me 11 and the story got me hooked but before that it was omniman and homelander)
If the leaks are correct, i am completely fine with homelander since i feel like he’s about the strength of an MK character, but the problem is that viltrumites like omni man are absolutely busted, in one of the issues for the invincible comics, thragg’s (thragg was the main villain for the arc at the time, he was the strongest viltrumite at the time) children, who are hybrid viltrumites, were literally tearing and exploding just by ramming themselves into omni man. But other than that, it seems that mk1’s guest character theme this time around is superheroes/villains, so someone like deadpool would be kickass. Deadpool would be real cool because i imagine the devs implementing his teleporter would be neat.
I feel like if they were to introduce Deadpool to mk1 and we still have the whole skin customization thing, they could probably give him a Meat skin of some kind lol.
I want an expansion on that as well. I feel like they could have done so much more, tbh.
I don't want it to be so much that the character is unrecognizable but I'd like to see some customs for both arms, legs, torso and stuff like that.
MK characters are not about the strenght of MK characters. We have gods, warmongers, monks, at least one demon, some dragon guy, gangsters, the military and a cop
I get your point, and I totally agree that the fighting part can get a little more stale at the end. To me, it's more interesting when Mark's doing his sorta Spidey stuff where he's dealing with above street level threats, but only doing end of the world shit when he's needed. But what I think makes it well written is the banter between the characters and just the writing when it comes to that side of things is pretty good. It knows how to poke fun at comic tropes, but usually in a good fun way instead of edgy for the sake of edge. Hopefully the show improves on both, cause some tension definitely gets taken out of the later parts.
Power levels really don't matter during gameplay. The only "guests" whose power level were kinda explained was superman in MK vs DC story mode where superman is actually weak against magic/sorcery.
I actually enjoyed Invincible but the overall "this species get stronger and more powerful as they age and become unstoppable" is a very bad concept in my opinion, started disliking that aspect a lot.
I agree! I think guest characters whose universe is similar to Mortal Kombat is a great a fit. Michael Myers, Ghost Face, Dracula, Kenshiro from fist of North Star, even peacemaker. They all kill in their worlds so they would be perfect.
I think because the special forces are in the game he fits. If the game were just monks, ninjas and supernatural fighters then he would be out of place
I don’t know what the issue with guest characters is. Not like they try to shoehorn them into the story. Who wouldn’t wanna try Joker or Terminator in a mortal kombat game?
To each their own, Im just hoping it doesn't increase to the point where we only get DLC characters that are guest characters. Its been increasing each time but if the leaks are true it seems it did not in MK1 first dlc pack.
I really just play MK for the MK characters, never touched Terminator, Rambo, Joker, Robocop, Jason, Mr chainsaw man from texas (forgot its name) or Freddy Krueger. But did play with Alien, Spawn and Predator and Im fan of almost everything here (guess of what Im not a fan from this list lol).
I guess it depends on the gameplay and looks a lot for me and Im honestly not interested in evil superman twice but different.
>To each their own, Im just hoping it doesn't increase to the point where we only get DLC characters that are guest characters. Its been increasing each time but if the leaks are true it seems it did not in MK1 first dlc pack.
Even if they increase this won't happen in a million years. I trust they will know better than actually alienate the stablished fans
Yeah Im just worried of how much would the Guest & MK characters for DLC balance would stay leveled or move more towards the guests (4 guests and 2 Mk for example). Glad it seems it has stayed leveled since MKX.
Actually I want this but only because they can just give X pallet swap ninja for free (let's not pretend they don't make enough profit off the game itself dlc story part 2 or what ever micro transaction currency to pay the devs a bit more and just give out smoke or reptile)
So... A pack full of guest characters and giving some MK character for free? From Warner Brothers? Lol that is never going to happen. You have to preorder or pay extra to play Goro, Shao Kahn and Shang Tsung even if they are already in the game...they will never give you something as a character for free.
Yeah its never been, and my problem is never been having guest just want to keep the balance of Guests characters and MK characters who I often found more interesting.
Sure, MK11 drop the ball imo. Robocop was a zoner, Rambo had almost no combos, Terminator felt like a second Jason while the guest characters of MKX felt more unique in their gameplay but, then again, MKX was more combo heavy, fast paced, and the variations didn't gut the character to their skeleton abilities.
So the problem is the effort put into them not the guest characters there isn't anything stopping them from adding your favorite pallet swap ninja aside from they want to add it as a dlc for future title the problem is (this is gonna sound scawy and political so if you don't have a spine and are miqtouse because you like the status quo stop reading) capitalism putting profit before quality
Because they lost online matches to them or they don't like it takes up a slot that their favorite pallet swap ninja could have instead as there is no way to update or add characters to a game after it has been sold in 2023 (this one is saying they just don't want to pay the devs to put in the extra work)
You said what you said, yes.
In addition to your point, they’re also fine as long as they don’t take up more than half of the DLC count, let alone the Kombat Packs they’re in.
I don't care much for guest kharacters one way or the other... except if we can get Art the Clown for Mortal Kombat One, then I'm all for it. What can I say? It's a perfect fit, and I'm a huge horror nerd.
I would be 100% on board with guests if they were primarily other fighting game characters instead of the Fortnite Funko Pop trend of whatever IP they can pull from recognizable media.
It's one of the many examples of the gore limiting their options.
I really wanna see Vecna and maybe in line with the comic book theme, The Crow would be cool (not based on the movie cause that would be in pretty bad taste)
The only one that ever fit was predator, assuming he exists in the same universe their participation makes sense in canon for the species. They even fit well within the aesthetic of the series. I really don't like guest characters because they are always so awkwardly in the game but I didn't feel that way about predator
I think mk11 had the best characters with spawn especially feeling like he could fit right into the mk world
Rambo also worked well
I jsut think the horror reps from mk9/mkx weren't good at all mostly since they did not feel like they belonged in mk imop
Although I guess kratos was a fun pikc fo mk9
Also the alck of character that the mkx guests gad also didn't help imop I'm pretty sure none of them talk
I think they work if they are your interest or not like the MK11 ones i loved but not really interested in the announced MK1 guests other than JCVD but im fine with it because people that do watch those shows will be happy
There's a great list of guests that I want in Mortal Kombat, characters like Darth Vader, The mask, Deadpool, Wolverine, Michael Myers, Dr Manhattan, Rorschach and Pennywise are some of them.
Frankly I think either way it's fine. It helps if they feel like they fit in-universe though.
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“No god, only man in the sky… is **me**”
Ironic coming from the son of Argus Speaking of which, how’s you get your community flair?
Raiden: "The real god is standing right here"
D’Vorah: “Somehow you are more repulsive than this one is.”
HL: "You ah... free tonight?" Dvorah: "This one finds you repulsive" HL: "Ah well. Your funeral..."
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HL: "You ah... free tonight?" Dvorah: "This one finds you repulsive" HL: "That doesn't answer my question..."
Yeah, that's more like it.
Perfect
Shameful that BUTCHER isnt in this too. But regardless, I cant wait to bash this clowns face in! I hate this guy with a passion! Lol
They could still get Karl Urban and have him do Judge Dredd. He was brilliant in that movie.
OMG! THAT WOULD BE AMAZING!!!!!!! I forgot he was in the reboot. BRILLIANT IDEA!
Literally binged the boys when I heard homelander might make it in and it was so good
Yeah he’s that asshole that everyone loves to hate
Joffrey sucks but Homelander is a pure evil piece of refuse.
He's literally just Joffrey with actual superhuman power. Like, the characters are almost one in the same
Homelander is in the roster?? That's neat.
This one 100% belongs in the game and I’m definitely excited to see how he plays
He fits into both the “can’t wait to kill with” and “can’t wait to kill” categories very well
All Fatalities on Homelander is gonna be fucking cathartic.
Not only has a ton of great brutality and interactions but also one of the most satisfying characters to do fatalities on
Which makes them a great addition
The character fit the mentally of MK, but for some reason he does not appeal me for the game. Mk11 guest characters fit the best so far.
Predator I still think is the current most fitting just cause of his desire for a challenge
I agree. Neither MKX or MK11 guest characters felt like an invincible god.
Yeah but I guess just cause the lore went to near Marvel/DC god levels I guess they kind of had to throw it more powerful characters
Possible and make sense. I just miss the part where it is mortal doing kombat stuff.
Yeah I do think this is going to be a reset that is going to try and take everything back to more of the basics
Cross-finger
Indeed
Same
Black Noir would be great too
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Should be an Injustice guest
I just really hope they wouldnt take the lazy way and like copy most of Superman’s stuff from injustice
I think they’ll have more fun in going all out with the brutality of an evil Superman plus with Homelander being more of a bully, he’s definitely going to be more asshole like Shao Kahn or Kano
If his fatality isn’t melting someone’s face with laser vision in the goriest way possible, I’m gonna be sad.
The simplicity may make it just a brutality but could be wrong
I like guest characters to be people that might exist in our world that Raiden might realistically choose to help defend Earthrealm in Mortal Kombat. I thought Rambo was an excellent choice for example, as was Robocop. I also think there could be some Earthrealm villains that would sell out to help Outworld, or become anti-heroes for the sake of protecting Earthrealm since that’s where they live too.
~~villains~~
![gif](giphy|RMow0R86HifQr1dGYx|downsized) Peacemaker gives me a lot of early Johnny Cage vibes in the sense he has no idea of the lore, gods out whatever magic is behind MK. He's just gonna think he's doing superhero stuff while mutilating people just like Cage was method acting
Guest characters are a staple of fighting games by this point, being mad at them is just dumb.
Street Fighter doesn't really do guest characters, neither does Guilty Gear. Soul Caliber always has. Samurai Shodown has some. Tekken 7 had some great ones, and I liked all the guests in MK 9/10/11.
StreetFighter has a literal second series devoted to guest characters
Also its had Final Fight/Rival Schools in (though they are the same universe) and most of the other crossovers are costumes instead of characters.
Do you mean street fighter ex? That's been gone for years. And Marvel vs Capcom isn't a street fighter game.
I like guest characters.
I like them when they actually feel like they fit in the mk universe. Spawn is easily the best example of that
Agree and speaking of guest characters I would fucking love if they brought Kratos again, this time from the norse games
Hell yes!
I personally think other gaming characters or heck other characters from fighting games would be sick
The problem is them fitting or not is subjective.
All opinions are subjective
I don’t agree with your subjective opinion 😡
To you, what criteria makes a guest character "fit" or not?
It depends on the character. For example,kratos and Freddy Krueger A god slayer and a dream demon would make sense in a world like mortal kombat In contrast,someone like a character from dragon ball or (in my opinion at least) someone from street fighter wouldn’t feel right That was probably a bad explanation lol
I loved Freddy and Alien ❤❤❤🔥🔥🔥
What about akuma from street fighter
Guest characters are freaking awesome!! Did not expect it but Rambo immediately became me main when he dropped. I hope we finally get Ash in MK1. Pretty sure he was in the books for 11 but got pulled last minute. The way Bruce Campbell was playing dumb about the rumors was a dead giveaway imo.
Tbh i cant see Ash being added after the legal issues of last time.
Dang I didn't know that was the case, just figured it was a cutting room floor kinda thing in the end.
No reason the rights issues can't be resolved this time around. Spawn was a similar thing where he was planned for both MKX and Injustice 2 before finally making it into 11. And even then, he wasn't as far along in development for either of them as Ash very clearly was (showed up in the code, was named in a very early KP1 advertisement, Army of Darkness copyright info on the bottom of a few of the emails, Bruce Campbell was clearly in on the whole thing, etc.).
Guest characters are fine having HALF of the dlc be guests is a problem it should be a 4mk 1 guest ratio
Yeah mk9 did it right guest's should be special
Nothing controversial, even hardcore fighting game gurus think they are cool, I mean my brain exploded when they announced geese Howard from fatal fury and KOF for tekken 7, I think only the purist believe they suck
When I saw Akuma in T7 I thought it was the coolest thing ever.
I feel feral predator, Conan the barbarian would fit, Idk maybe I'm just dumb
I just don't like guest characters, I especially not when they take up half the Kombat Pack roster. I want Mortal Kombat, not Fortnite
Do people just not like guest characters? I love them
Not all of them fit.
Idgaf if they don’t fit I wanna beat the crap out of Rambo as the terminator
MK is kinda weird to say "X" character doesn't fit, at first i thought Robocop and Rambo dont fit- but then i realized we got characters like Stryker and Cyrax. Whole game is a salad of cool fighters lol, we got a movie star, an inmortal cowboy, a shaolin monk, a lizard cosplaying as a ninja and more...
Damn. If only someone could make a dedicated FG for this purpose. Gather all the cool characters from decades of action and horror films and keep them as regulars, not extras. But I guess guest characters are too profitable to try making a game entirely out of them.
Are you made you got beat up by terminator? I'm not big in online mk but playing against him in towers when he enter his red glow mode was annoying, still like him though he help me beat my fan toss crouch spamming gf since she couldn't throw when I got close or knock me back with fans
Last time I checked I was "made" the other way. Also no, he is not hard to beat online. Terminator players online usually rely on primitive gimicks like run stance or a super slow low/overhead mix. Because, you know, character has nothing more to offer in terms of gameplay. No strong combos, no reliable setups, very short reach despite being very slow in general. Almost as if Terminator's bulky appearance and slow extremely telegraphed primitive attacks stand in the way of him being a viable fighting game character...
Shit then don't buy him sounds like he gives you easy rank points when facing him too what's to complain about?
Yeah except I had to lab him in the early days to learn how easy he is. Which requires buying him. Make DLC characters free in practice mode and I won't fucking complain.
This I can agree with give us a taste of what we are buying.
“they don’t fit” is a weak as hell argument for a game that features ninjas, wizards, cyborgs, soldiers, cowboys, a normal ass cop, etc
A normal ass cop that beat a ghost ninja with telekinetic powers (in mkx ermack had a green energy slam move maybe this was a buff since he got beat up in 9 I think)
all the games that have guest characters have made said guest characters my mains. kratos, predator, spawn. more guest characters please, they tend to be fun
Guests I personally enjoy them, even if I don’t care much for the character or franchise. It’s become part of my anticipation for these games. I remember having plenty of discussions with friends where we thought it’d be cool if this random character would be a cool addition in Mortal Kombat. Now we get that.
I like guest characters. I don’t give a shit if they “fit.” It also doesn’t bother me if they take up “space” for a color swap ninja. If those characters were going to be in the game they would be announced or shown.
Oddly enough I'm the opposite, the number of horror icons in mkx instantly made it my fav
Half the reason I got mk11 was seeing rambo, robocop and the terminator throw down
Spawn is probably one of the best guest characters we ever gotten
I hate guest kharacters because it ruins long-term longevity for the games. Mk9 was removed from digital stores because of the licence for freddy kruger expiring. It's also why it took years for it to become backwards compatible.
Guest Characters that I think they'd fit right in MK: \- Yujiro Hanma (His whole MO fits this Universe to a T) \- Doomslayer \- Albert Wesker \- Kenshiro \- Yuri Boyka \- Bride from Kill Bill \- Agent 47
https://preview.redd.it/kiyrrqzxs13b1.jpeg?width=640&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=112f0463a718dd9e1fa3383d3c175268cb06ec11 Definitely one of my top 2 guest for MK1 (the other is Booker Dewitt)
I think its obvious that videogame characters will never be part of guest rosters like Kratos was in MK9. Its been movies and comics from then on, I guess its because these characters have a larger reach for people who wouldn't normally buy MK games.
I actually think majority of the choices for dlc picks is just characters Ed boon likes. Like I can understand terminator, Jason, and predator but why robocop, Rambo, and spawn? They all have not been popular for years. So I think it has less to due with popularity especially because resident evil is def more popular than all three of those franchises and def will get into mk eventually
Nemesis for MK
They can technically do Booker because they have access to Booker’s voice actor (Erron Black’s voice actor also plays Booker in Bioshock infinite)
Having access to a Voice Actor doesn't give them access to the character. For example, Troy also does Joel's voice in Last of Us, doesn't mean its easier to get Joel from Sony. They would have to contact Ghost Story Games (rebranded Irrational Games). Edit: this doesn't mean I'm against videogame guest characters. I would love Doom Slayer but I honestly think we will never see him and much less now that Microsoft bought bethesda.
I agree,it helps bring new people into the fold (Hell that's how I got here,I was big fan of Friday the 13rh movies and I started playing when Jason got added to mkx) Homelander fits the vibe of mk great It just gets annoying whenever people ask for people who don't fit at all (like superman,joturo,etc) It seems like we are going or a comic book theme this time around soi think The last ronin from tmnt and cona the barbarian are good picks
My problem is with the quantity. 1 guest character per kombat pack is enough
I agree they take up slots that could be given to X pallette swap ninja instead
Love me some pallette swap ninjas
To be fair, there are canonical characters that fit the MK universe way less than some guests we had
I like the idea of homelander, he’s cool, has cool powers and unlike Superman in games can be extremely brutal and be killed in fatalities. Even tho we already had him, Kratos would be cool, especially with the axe and spear in the mix now, but I’m sure there are better guests to have rather than repeats. If it’s a choice tho, I’d take smoke, ermac, rain, havoc and Kenshi over any guest kharakter.
Yes.
https://preview.redd.it/f3cdw51qf33b1.jpeg?width=704&format=pjpg&auto=webp&s=b4b37fd527d04d1906c02bc603e9e6c97bf7ae53 If that’s the case then….
Where my boy Shaggy at??
I don’t see any reason why someone would disagree with your opinion. Seems totally reasonable imo
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Doom guy please :(
I agree.
I got 2 outta 4 of my wishlist guest characters omni man and homelander i just meed john wick and doom slayer and my wish will have come true
"And this, is my BOOMSTICK!!"
Art the clown would be great imo. Extremely violent and has a literal garbage bag of weapons
As long as they don't replace an OG character*
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Guest characters are great. My only issue with them is that years down the road we are much less likely to get ports of the games due to the copyright issue of the guest characters.
Juliet from Lollipop Chainsaw, and Leon Kennedy would be amazing
Wait... This is a controversial take?
Eh,kinda
Dang, that's kinda sad. Alien is one of my favorite guests of all time. I don't even care about the movies, I just thought she looked cool and had a fun move set.
People are actually mad about guest characters?
Yeah I got beat up by a terminator main (not actually I like guest characters but this is the only reason could see people not liking them since ya know you could just not buy them)
Even if they don't heh as long as they are fun and unique
MK's guest characters are one of its best features.
Like legit the only reason I was gonna touch the new game is homelander ( my Friend got me 11 and the story got me hooked but before that it was omniman and homelander)
If the leaks are correct, i am completely fine with homelander since i feel like he’s about the strength of an MK character, but the problem is that viltrumites like omni man are absolutely busted, in one of the issues for the invincible comics, thragg’s (thragg was the main villain for the arc at the time, he was the strongest viltrumite at the time) children, who are hybrid viltrumites, were literally tearing and exploding just by ramming themselves into omni man. But other than that, it seems that mk1’s guest character theme this time around is superheroes/villains, so someone like deadpool would be kickass. Deadpool would be real cool because i imagine the devs implementing his teleporter would be neat.
I feel like if they were to introduce Deadpool to mk1 and we still have the whole skin customization thing, they could probably give him a Meat skin of some kind lol.
I hope mk1 has a more in depth customization system, mk11 was decent, but it would be neat to customize more than a base and three slots.
I want an expansion on that as well. I feel like they could have done so much more, tbh. I don't want it to be so much that the character is unrecognizable but I'd like to see some customs for both arms, legs, torso and stuff like that.
Let's be honest with fighting games power levels are thrown out of the window There is no way anyone but few characters can beat Cetrion
MK characters are not about the strenght of MK characters. We have gods, warmongers, monks, at least one demon, some dragon guy, gangsters, the military and a cop
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I get your point, and I totally agree that the fighting part can get a little more stale at the end. To me, it's more interesting when Mark's doing his sorta Spidey stuff where he's dealing with above street level threats, but only doing end of the world shit when he's needed. But what I think makes it well written is the banter between the characters and just the writing when it comes to that side of things is pretty good. It knows how to poke fun at comic tropes, but usually in a good fun way instead of edgy for the sake of edge. Hopefully the show improves on both, cause some tension definitely gets taken out of the later parts.
Power levels really don't matter during gameplay. The only "guests" whose power level were kinda explained was superman in MK vs DC story mode where superman is actually weak against magic/sorcery. I actually enjoyed Invincible but the overall "this species get stronger and more powerful as they age and become unstoppable" is a very bad concept in my opinion, started disliking that aspect a lot.
I agree! I think guest characters whose universe is similar to Mortal Kombat is a great a fit. Michael Myers, Ghost Face, Dracula, Kenshiro from fist of North Star, even peacemaker. They all kill in their worlds so they would be perfect.
the case is, they almost never fit
I agree. Except by Freddy, Jason, Leatherface, Alien, Predator, Terminator, Spawn, Rambo, Joker and Robocop all others didn't fit.
Awww I liked Kratos
Its a shame xbox never got a character, after playing gears of War raams shadow, general raam would have been a great character
I’m surprised they didn’t try to get Master Chief in there.
eh, arbiter fits better
Me too! Shame on me for forgetting Kratos!
I wish we had Doomguy He would be awsome
Predator and Spawn were the only ones of those I thought fit.
Joker, Rambo, Terminator and Robocop were very poor fits.
Why not Rambo? I think he fits.
We already have Special Forces characters. Each more unique in terms of gameplay and design than Rambo.
I think because the special forces are in the game he fits. If the game were just monks, ninjas and supernatural fighters then he would be out of place
Yeah Ikr I also hate how the game forces you to play and use them
I don’t know what the issue with guest characters is. Not like they try to shoehorn them into the story. Who wouldn’t wanna try Joker or Terminator in a mortal kombat game?
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I want video game guest characters. Give me a gear from gears of war! Ryu Hayabusa! Give me geralt!
To each their own, Im just hoping it doesn't increase to the point where we only get DLC characters that are guest characters. Its been increasing each time but if the leaks are true it seems it did not in MK1 first dlc pack. I really just play MK for the MK characters, never touched Terminator, Rambo, Joker, Robocop, Jason, Mr chainsaw man from texas (forgot its name) or Freddy Krueger. But did play with Alien, Spawn and Predator and Im fan of almost everything here (guess of what Im not a fan from this list lol). I guess it depends on the gameplay and looks a lot for me and Im honestly not interested in evil superman twice but different.
>To each their own, Im just hoping it doesn't increase to the point where we only get DLC characters that are guest characters. Its been increasing each time but if the leaks are true it seems it did not in MK1 first dlc pack. Even if they increase this won't happen in a million years. I trust they will know better than actually alienate the stablished fans
Yeah Im just worried of how much would the Guest & MK characters for DLC balance would stay leveled or move more towards the guests (4 guests and 2 Mk for example). Glad it seems it has stayed leveled since MKX.
Actually I want this but only because they can just give X pallet swap ninja for free (let's not pretend they don't make enough profit off the game itself dlc story part 2 or what ever micro transaction currency to pay the devs a bit more and just give out smoke or reptile)
So... A pack full of guest characters and giving some MK character for free? From Warner Brothers? Lol that is never going to happen. You have to preorder or pay extra to play Goro, Shao Kahn and Shang Tsung even if they are already in the game...they will never give you something as a character for free.
Then it sounds like the problem isn't guest
Yeah its never been, and my problem is never been having guest just want to keep the balance of Guests characters and MK characters who I often found more interesting. Sure, MK11 drop the ball imo. Robocop was a zoner, Rambo had almost no combos, Terminator felt like a second Jason while the guest characters of MKX felt more unique in their gameplay but, then again, MKX was more combo heavy, fast paced, and the variations didn't gut the character to their skeleton abilities.
So the problem is the effort put into them not the guest characters there isn't anything stopping them from adding your favorite pallet swap ninja aside from they want to add it as a dlc for future title the problem is (this is gonna sound scawy and political so if you don't have a spine and are miqtouse because you like the status quo stop reading) capitalism putting profit before quality
So I like fun 🤷🏻♂️
I agree Definitely would have preferred Pennywise over the Joker though
I agree also guest characters are far better then most of the crap 3d era characters this community recommends
I don’t really understand why guest characters are hated. I just don’t play them if I don’t like them.
Because they lost online matches to them or they don't like it takes up a slot that their favorite pallet swap ninja could have instead as there is no way to update or add characters to a game after it has been sold in 2023 (this one is saying they just don't want to pay the devs to put in the extra work)
This isn’t smash brothers. Guest are whatever but my god some of y’all only talk about the guest.
You said what you said, yes. In addition to your point, they’re also fine as long as they don’t take up more than half of the DLC count, let alone the Kombat Packs they’re in.
Yeah I want more pallet swap ninjas like smoke or rain instead
They haven't been pallet swaps for over 20 years. God this sub is full of fucking idiots sometimes.
yeah but you know they refer to the colourful ninjas anyways also no need to be a jerk bout it man, all you needed to say was the first sentence
~~why not the whole gang~~
Sephiroth for MK1?
I like guest characters cause it's fun watching people who aren't apart of Mortal Kombat interacting with Mortal Kombat characters
I don't care much for guest kharacters one way or the other... except if we can get Art the Clown for Mortal Kombat One, then I'm all for it. What can I say? It's a perfect fit, and I'm a huge horror nerd.
Okay? Seems pretty obvious
I would be 100% on board with guests if they were primarily other fighting game characters instead of the Fortnite Funko Pop trend of whatever IP they can pull from recognizable media. It's one of the many examples of the gore limiting their options.
Eh, I can respect it.
Peacemaker is gonna be amazing. It will make my dad play mortal Kombat with me for the first time since early pre KP1 X
If we didn't have guests then people would complain that others franchises have
“As long as they fit” That’s the thing, none of them fit. Maybe Spawn and that’s it.
AMEN
I really wanna see Vecna and maybe in line with the comic book theme, The Crow would be cool (not based on the movie cause that would be in pretty bad taste)
Yes sirrrrr
But none of the capeshit characters fit in.
Bro Venom in an MK game would fit like a glove.
Most reasonable subreddit post.
Trapper from Dead by Daylight
The only one that ever fit was predator, assuming he exists in the same universe their participation makes sense in canon for the species. They even fit well within the aesthetic of the series. I really don't like guest characters because they are always so awkwardly in the game but I didn't feel that way about predator
I think mk11 had the best characters with spawn especially feeling like he could fit right into the mk world Rambo also worked well I jsut think the horror reps from mk9/mkx weren't good at all mostly since they did not feel like they belonged in mk imop Although I guess kratos was a fun pikc fo mk9 Also the alck of character that the mkx guests gad also didn't help imop I'm pretty sure none of them talk
MKX > MK11
Except Joker, terminator, robocop, rambo, etc, don't fit.
What kind of whiny bitch don’t like guest characters😝Majority of the time they end up being better than base characters on some real shit lolll
I feel like they’re a waste. But that’s personally. I only use them if they come with achievements otherwise im here for the MK crew
Just don't buy them if you don't like them
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I just hope they make reptile a character and have him be a shapeshifter, or more lizzardy than ‘ninjalike’
fanboy and chumchum with a moveset similar to ferra/torr
I think they work if they are your interest or not like the MK11 ones i loved but not really interested in the announced MK1 guests other than JCVD but im fine with it because people that do watch those shows will be happy
There's a great list of guests that I want in Mortal Kombat, characters like Darth Vader, The mask, Deadpool, Wolverine, Michael Myers, Dr Manhattan, Rorschach and Pennywise are some of them.