Klassic Gear - Where is Subs shredder helmet? Johnnys Lion door knocker belt buckle from DA? Jax DA arms? For fuck sake stop trying to forget the 3D games happened. Some of the fan base loved them, and some nice throwbacks would be really appreciated. This leads into my second point.
3D era characters - I’m of the opinion that the Kombat Pack should only be MK characters, but that’s not happening for KP1 or for KP2. But honestly, they have so many interesting 3D characters they could redesign and bring back. Hell, I wouldn’t even mind no new characters for MK12 when it happens and the only ‘new’ characters are 3D era ones. Those characters have never been in a 2D MK game, they’d play vastly different and would no doubt get a visual redesign. They’d almost be brand new characters in everything but name and some aspects of their appearance. A lot of the new fan base probably didn’t touch the 3D games either, so they’d be new to them. Hotaru, Havik, Kai, Li Mei, even characters like Mavado. I trust current NRS to do spectacular redesigns of characters who were even a bit lacklustre.
Stages - Fuck me. They have the pit I and II essentially modelled out, give them a bit of a touch up (as objects will be seen closer up in an actual stage) and sort out some of the logistics and you have two klassic stages right there. As well as this, you can literally see that the Dead Pool was redesigned in the fucking story mode. The only stage that was fully redesigned during the Raiden vs Liu Kang fight vision (the Warrior Shrine looked different but was the Krypt version in daytime). In fact, they could add the Warrior Shrine too with some slight touch up. Every major fighting game franchise adds stages as DLC whether paid or not - why do NRS insist on not doing them?
I’m not super into the competitive scene, barely dipped my toes in it. So my changes would be more content wise and for the typical player.
