Ok, a few things. 1. Assault, I kinda agree with you I guess, the mk 9 story mode kinda did bore me and what I saw from mk gold and the rest weren't all that good. Second, I must say, the new sub zero has a much cooler voice. The guy from before kinda had an annoying voice. He sounds kinda like Kabal but a bit more robotic in this one though. I saw a few videos on youtube today and there are definitely more characters. Noob, kitana, and rain are being hinted at, but Kitana died in mk 9... But I also found out that quan chi is ressurecting the casualties of the war in mk 9 as revenants. Maybe zombie liu kang will make an appearance? But goro is gonna be my main man. I'm gonna whoop so much ass, sorry for the language. Not saying I don't do that anyway... lol.

I don't see them doing zombie leu again, though I do see him returning as he's kinda a staple of the series.
I do agree about injustice and mk9 though, they left near half the cast with no reason to care about them.  Hoping for better with MKX, and it is looking promising.
BTW, kodel can say 'temporarily' all day if he likes...

No, because those characters would've been way, way overpowered and cheap... and in a tournament-level fighting game, the goal is to cut out cheap or overpowered characters so that the cast is fairly balanced. NRS would've needed to essentially rework the characters or at least scale down their damage, since their moves took off so much health.
DanC I don't see him coming back unless as a revenant or NRS doing something to again retcon the fact that he died in MK 9. And that was still one of the stupidest plot holes and one I won't let go... along with Sindel suddenly being able to overpower five fighters with superpowers without even resorting to her own abilities. A God who can't incapacitate a human without killing him? lol But if I keep going, I'm not going to stop. I do agree that this cast of MK at least seems to have more personality... here's hoping we aren't disappointed. lol

Yeah, something along those lines... I think Shao Kahn's did too. If those characters were playable... then noone would ever use anyone else at tournaments. That's why Ultra Street Fighter IV is such a tournament standard and all the versions of SFIV have been... because it's one of the most balanced games around. Characters who have huge damage output or good damage tools trade that for low health and endurance. Seth for example. Yes, he is a boss. But as a playable character, while his attacks have good damage output, his health is crap... two solid combos can easily take off half his life, and considering that Street Fighter doesn't have emphasis on very long combos, that isn't a lot of damage.

So I've found out plenty more. Shinok, which I'm really excited about, might be playable, as well as Jax, Sonya and Johnny. Speaking of Jax, his daughter, Jacky Briggs, will be playable, and as we all know, Cassie Cage. A few other people with really Chinese names I can't remember will also be playable, as well as someone named Aaron Black. Goro, of course, will be the pre-order bonus and there is now a faction system, where you pick a clan and go on line to win your faction war. I will be pre-ordering the game for my Xbox 360. At first I was skeptical about doing this, but after I heard what the company in charge of the port has done, for example, worked on Injustice and MK 9, all of that skepticism has been blown away.

Its true that the compnay doing the port, High Voltage Software, did some work on Injustice and MK 9, according to there page which an employee at a local videogame store told me just last night.

@ghost rider. Ah. thanks for letting me know... I wasn't aware. That hopefully means that the difference will only be graphical then, rather than specifically game-related... but videogame store employees don't always know the complete facts. lol

Unique intros have been around for a few years... if you like that sort of thing, play Blazblue or guilty gear XRD... MK has only recently picked up that trend after their first outing with injustice and the character dynamics there. And I'm not getting the pc version, only on ps3... so we'll see how that turns out. If High voltage rolls out a horrible port, then yes I may get the pc edition as it's being worked on by NRS. But unfortunately, I'm not expecting too much on the accessibility front, as the new factions system will make everything change around a lot especially in the new equivalent to the challenge tower. But it's nice to see MK characters finally talk to each other, though apparently they still haven't gotten to making them speak more than gibberish in game with the exception of a few characters. And the dialog for the intros is decent this time around, so I'm hoping the story mode script isn't quite as cheesy as MK 9's. There were definitely some hilarious moments, most of which were very unintended. Shang tsung, for example. "Combahtahnts!" Or, "Let the tooanament begin!"

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I don't know if they are random ornot as they only showed that particular amtch once. However, I wouldn't be surprised if they are, but at least it continues. When they say fights change, I think they mean the QTE fight will change, depending on how many you get right and things, you will get different animations and effects, hopefully some of them audio related.
I also was glad to finally hear a match without everyone talking, and the stereo field seems to have quite a lot of depth, and it does actually sound a little faster than mk9 this time.

Glad to have found this topic. You have a very old-school Mortal Kombat player here. I remember playing Mortal Kombat one in the arcades. Fun times, and I have played every Mortal Kombat cents. This is the first time I am debating if to get it for   PS4, or PC, but we'll see. I look forward to discussing the game here, and hopefully playing some of you guys at some point.

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Just a heads up, the ps3 verison has been delayed, and they have chosen high voltage to develop that version, and that might be a little concerning. At the same time though, it might not be so bad because petty much all ps3's have the same system specs, so I dunno, maybe High voltage will do a much better job, and, just maybe that was why they were movd to previous gen development, maybe they specialize in that generation rather than the current one?

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Region locking... again? seriously? So, who will I be ble to play against then? Will i be restricted to the UK only, or will this count Europe so I can play against pitermach assuming he gets it, and such?