How about some modifying to what already is the best NRS storymode? Remove the scene where Sindel kills everyone and instead have the heroes their their own deaths from different villains. The slower pacing of that should give off a greater feeling of dread that pushes Liu Kang to turn on Raiden, and as a plus the story would be longer.
MK9's story is a pretty sad affair. Replaying it, its clear that the only care put into it was to make sure every character repeated an iconic moment or rivalry from the previous games even if that means having horrible pacing, no character development and a nonsensical plot. I'd honestly love to see them tighten the screws a bit there. I don't think it would fix the story, but I don't necessarily want it fixed. I'd just enjoy a more polished and well thought out mode.
I wouldn’t. Add more modes, costumes and characters. What made MK9 so great and fun is because it was comically broken and half the hype came from when a low-tier character came close to, or even straight up beat a high tier character. MK9 had some of the biggest impact on my personal life in so many ways. I wouldn’t change it at its base. If they came out with a remaster, I potentially wouldn’t even touch the newer ones again to be honest.
Other than the one time a notable Sheeva beat a notable Kabal and Tom Brady making a couple top 8s with Sub Zero, how often do you remember low/bottom tiers doing anything but drowning in pools and those players straight up leaving the game competitively or switching to top tier after a year? I may not have played much back then but I definitely watched avidly and the most you'd get were players like Sonicfox making an upper mid tier like Mileena look good along with some Sektor players.
I'm genuinely ok with not changing the top tiers even though I definitely want Kung Lao to have his legs chopped off. But I really don't see why characters like Jade, Sheeva and the rest of the bottom 10 shouldn't get some minor tune-ups to make them more comparable.
I think every character outside of the top 8-10 or so be 100% unplayable at high level (let alone top level) just wouldn't make the game last long for spectators or players alike. I hope that if it ever does happen and they decide to not change balance that it wouldn't die out immediately, but I would honestly be confident in saying that all of the people who say they wouldn't want Sheeva to not be in FFFFFFFFFFF tier won't play the game for very long and the scene would be a small side tournament at majors like it is now. I can already see the sarcastic threads now, "So to everyone who wanted no changes, where are you now???". The most it would do is give people who don't have PCs a way to play it on modern platforms. But I'm already playing this game everyday on my PC and even playing against other people online. I don't really want a remaster if the only change would be a better training mode and better netcode, even if those would be super duper dope.
Rambling a lot here, but yea. I don't think anyone suggesting balance changes for MK9 doesn't want the game to remain broken. There is a very stark difference between a game being broken in a fun way and 75% of the roster being unplayable in tournament and losing so badly to the top 25% that they might as well just forfeit against a decent player. If anything buffing the lower tier characters would make the game even MORE broken and crazy, isn't that what ya'll like MK9 for? I know that's what I like it for, so more broken characters that can at least attempt to hang with the big bois sounds like music to my ears.
