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Okay, so it’s a bad thing because you think it’s cheap, lazy, and you don’t like it. Got it
Yeah it’d be cool. And you’re right, I’m not super emotionally attached to video game characters so I don’t really care about their race or gender. As long as they look cool and can do cool shit, that’s all I care about. I understand that you have a far deeper personal connection to fictional video game characters though, so I get it from that aspect I suppose.
What does this even mean? “the male characters are more than the female ones”, more what?
You do realize there is alternate universes in the actual story mode of this game, right? And characters from those alternate universes also appear in the story. And a lot of them are different versions of these established characters. AND a lot of the characters in “this” universe also have been altered from their previous established lore. So yeah, it’s completely consistent with the lore.
As relative as T-1000. Actually, considering Conan kept being in movies and comics while T-1000 never appeared again, I'd call Conan more relative.
More in number.
What exactly are you trying to say here? That the cyborgs we see are what-if versions and not the canon Cyborgs? That the lore of MK is that there is basically no lore? I mean, I know the in-lore reason they fucked up the established lore. I don't AGREE with it, and I don't like it. That's the whole point.
Oh, right, lol… derp moment
For MK1, all of that is technically “canon”. The female Sektor & Cyrax are most likely from the alternate universes like we saw at the end of the story mode. That entire ending was lazy writing so I agree there, but since they made all those “what if” characters real, then technically any different version of these established characters make sense.
What am saying is that I am a huge Scorpion, Smoke and Nightwolf fan for instance. But I’m not huge fans of them for any specific lore reasons. I care far more about their aesthetics and their playstyle/movesets. The backstories and lore just add to the character for me. So they can change up their backstories and lore or create new ones and it wouldn’t effect me that negatively as long as it wasn’t something stupid like Zombie Liu Kang. But that’s also for aesthetic reasons because Zombie LK looks stupid as hell to me and the concept is also dumb af in my opinion. And I understand now that for you and others, you care far more deeply about these characters and their lore, so the line for y’all is different. I was thinking about it from my perspective and forgot that there’s people that really get into the lore of FG characters.
This is completely valid criticism. However, like all other characters in Liu Kang's new era, they're not exactly our beloved characters we always knew. Scorpion is not Hanzo for example. That's also huge. Similarly, there's essentially no cyber initiative in the new era. Instead, we have iron man suits. It's fundamentally different but I see it as another take on the characters, NOT a replacement.
Off topic but thats crazy to me. I always saw Triborg as Super Sektor. Because he was pretty much 100% Sektor personality wise. He was an egotistical, murderous psychopath. He embraced cybernetics to a degree more than anyone, and even founded the Tekunin in this new timeline (even if Triborg might not be canon)
Its not just lore reasons,it the active and underlying purpose of the change.
Considering that Kuai Liang seems pissed with Cyrax, that gives me the impression that they're this universe's K&M, not an alt's.
I think the biggest reason is they were making a sausage fest KP two times in a row, and needed more females, but also, they know the players wanted the cyborgs. So they had two choices:
No. What I would prefer would be brand new female Lin Kuei getting cyborg'd. Perhaps Sektor has one or two female over-zealous and cocky Lin Kuei warriors willing to become the prototype models and when she/they get(s) whooped at the final battle in the story, Sektor compiles the data, figures out what he did wrong and makes the 'new, improved' designs for him and Cyrax in MK2 or something. Like, imagine if he made ironman suits for the two female Lin Kuei, and in the end he goes like ... "Curses ... I didn't go far enough ... we need more than armor casings. We need to become one with the metal ... one with the machine ..." So in MK1, he and Cyrax are human (NPCs), and full-cyborg'd (playable) in MK2.
S'all good. I have no problem with different opinions, my problem is that it's very tedious that when I say why I hate those changes, the first thing the usual crowd will say is something along the lines, 'no, you just hate women'.
Ditto.
While I 100% get you, we are treading a fine line as it is and this thread will start getting mass post deletes. It happens all the time once the 'known suspect target group' begins to be mentioned. So let's focus on the game breaking lore consistency.
Interesting. To me, the fact that Triborg could switch between different characters like changing a battery, removed all the individuality and personality of each character.
And right on cue!
so true. remember that frost was basicallly female sub, ashrahs idea was female raiden and kitana and mileena the female ninja couterparts to sub and scorpion. i dont mind the new cyrax and sektor at all, NRS had to do something about them anyway because the kameos already cover the iconic moves (new cyrax goo looks bad though). im quite excited about them and the other new chars, contrary to the anti-heroes in spandex.
there are multiple geras' in that scene though.
So basically we’ll all be censored? Sounds about right.
Except Ashrah is not female Raiden, Kitana and Mileena are not female Sub and Scorp. They got their own unique moves, storylines, personalities, etc.
