Random predictions.
Brand new character will be in the starting roster and have top billing in the marketing.
There will be some weird gimmick announced that will make all of TYM groan and call the game shit before they have any idea how it works.
All the woman look like men and the entire internet cries.
Ed Boon is really confident that he will satisfy the audience. Can't you just feel that he is proud of his team's work? By now, I say he KNOWS the Mortal Kombat community and what stirs it.
I want to see something like the MK9 reveal trailer, it shows us an inkling of what the story will be and then we see gameplay of a bunch of different characters. Not necessarily all of them poster boys of the franchise, like possibly: Johnny Cage, Sonya and Raiden confirmed to return, then like some clips of Quan Chi and Shinnok, then the newer characters like Kai, Fujin and Tanya.
I'm pretty sure that that is what we'll see. Tanya will probably be there, and Shinnok. Not sure about Sonya and Johnny Cage, though.
I agree. For the love of God please implement an Injustice type training mode in MK10. It would be so godlike
Definitely the best training mode ever, I'm sure that they know it, too.
Yes to brutalities, no to the run button lol.
Agreed.
I was thinking more of the transition between different parts of the stages which we've seen in previous MK titles. I think Injustice has by far the most epic form of this in a fighting game... bring it back to MK with the level of quality seen in Injustice and that should make for an epic fight every time.
I want bloody interactables! Imagine The Dead Pool with interactables.
Now that I quoted everyone, let's get to the point:
The only clues we have are that poster and Ed Boon's tweets. It's not little, though. Ed Boon tweeted about Gears of War "betraying" the fans in order to make something new and good, said that he agreed with that, that the only thing that you accomplish otherwise is boring the audience and making it move on. The poster says "Who's next?". It talks literally about the future. By now, Ed Boon knows that it's a real mistake to try to convince the audience, that sometimes you have to do something else, something that you know will be good for them, and they'll eventually need time to find out that it's good for them. Ed Boon recently said that he used to listen to "4", an album by foreigners. We already saw Shinnok at the end of MK 9, so the idea of a reboot of the franchise starting from MK 4 could be what's going on. Also, Ed Boon answered to a request: "You ask for a LOT. What about what I want?
". That makes me think of a completely new game, with different characters -maybe just a few of the old ones-. I don't think that they will send all of the kombatants to the trash can, I think they will do something similar to what they did in MK 3 and a few characters will remain. Some characters of MK 4 can't be saved. If I have to pick what characters will be in MK X, I would say: Shinnok, Tanya, Reiko, Jarek, Fujin. Raiden will be in the story, not playable. If Jarek's in the game, Kano isn't. If Jarek's not in the game, Kano is.
On the other hand, Ed posted a long time ago that maybe it was really soon to have an MK for the new generation. He may have been teasing, I personally can't forget one of his last tweets, where he says the logo looks, among other things, "updated". I think that's not an accidental word. Why updated? Maybe it's not going to be a new game, maybe they DID take seriously that petition of an ultimate balance patch, it's just that they know it wouldn't be fair nor serious -only Street Fighter releases four versions of the same game without feeling a little bit of shame-. So, what they decide to do, is a new MK 9 -yet still another game, not just a patch-, more balanced, with more graphics, more characters -and less, too, because I think Sheeva is beyond saving-, and something different. Maybe this is an extension of MK 9 -a HUGE extension, with some of the characters of MK 4, after all, MK 4 could be updated also-. That is my second hypothesis. If I have to choose, I pick the first one, though, this other one sounds crazy. I'm probably missing something.
Whatever MK X is, I'm sure it'll shake this community for good.
