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New 3D-Era Representation: Who Makes it to MK12?

Two 3D-era Representatives for MK12

  • Jarek

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Reiko

    Votes: 12 19.4%
  • Kai

    Votes: 1 1.6%
  • Mavado

    Votes: 1 1.6%
  • Hsu Hao

    Votes: 2 3.2%
  • Li Mei

    Votes: 12 19.4%
  • Nitara

    Votes: 12 19.4%
  • Drahmin

    Votes: 4 6.5%
  • Dairou

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Darrius

    Votes: 1 1.6%
  • Hotaru

    Votes: 6 9.7%
  • Shujinko

    Votes: 5 8.1%
  • Kobra

    Votes: 0 0.0%
  • Ashrah

    Votes: 11 17.7%
  • Kira

    Votes: 2 3.2%
  • Havik

    Votes: 29 46.8%
  • Taven

    Votes: 2 3.2%
  • Dagon

    Votes: 1 1.6%
  • Sareena

    Votes: 13 21.0%
  • Meat

    Votes: 1 1.6%

  • Total voters
    62
Havik for sure but when it comes to Sareena, Nitara and Ashrah I can't pick one over the others because they're all equally interesting to bring back. What's also cool about them is that despite how all four of them look they're not truly evil or good, they're all more on the neutral side of things.

Honorable mentions to Kai, Hotaru and... I guess Li Mei if they basically make her Michelle Yeoh crossed with Xianghua. You could do something with these characters moveset-wise but I don't want them over the above.

Dump the rest, they're not worth bringing back as playable characters. Tavern and Gonad are best left forgotten at the Pyramid.
 
These are my picks as well

everyone often simps over sareena too much, but i gotta say the Sisterhood of Shadows are the three of them or none of them.

Kia and Jataaka deserves Equal Shot too and i think they would be amazing in a modern MK game.
I can't get over Kia's name and how she looks way too similar to Sareena. But Jataaka's look works, She reminds me of Storm and how we're never going to get a good all X-Men fighting game from Capcom.

So I'd be interested in seeing Jataaka as a playable character.
 

Ptehu

Prince of Edenia
Not gonna lie, I never had any issue with Drahmin's original design, in fact I absolutely loved his Japanese oni mask and monstrous minimalism. His design is simple yet deeply rooted in classic Eastern mythology and reminded me of one of the stop motion zombies from the classic 1987 movie 'A Chinese Ghost Story', crossed with that eternally stunning Japanese demon imagery. I was actually quite saddened to read that Ed Boon considered him one of the most disappointing characters they'd created, when for me he felt worthy of MK1's original Oriental lore that drew me into the series in the first place.

I vastly prefer that supernatural Eastern mythology mashup any day to the just very Western fetishistic and military or gothic death metal imagery that the MK franchise has been a bit too eager to adopt ever since MK3.

To me Drahmin is more 'Mortal Kombat' than the likes of Erron Black, Nightwolf or the Kombat kids will ever be, and the very reason I love Ashrah so much. The more Mortal Kombat reminds me of A Chinese Ghost Story, the happier I am, since that's the tone I love the most from the series. For that reason I'll always prefer Shujinko, Drahmin, Ashrah, Fujin and Bo Rai Cho (flatulence notwithstanding, I'd much prefer him as a respectful grand old master) over the likes of Taven, Darrius, Dairou, Daegon and yes, even Havik.

For that reason alone, for me Kitana's 'Summer Heat' skin is the best she's ever looked, because it's classic Hong Kong martial arts cinema :rolleyes:

Amen to that, bro. Let's get rid of this whole military crap, or at least limit it to bare minimum.
 

STB Sgt Reed

Online Warrior
lmao well I voted incorrectly cause I thought it was who do you WANT in mk12 of the 3d era and tbh, I don't really want the majority of them. We already have all the ones I consider good from that era (aka kenshi and that's pretty much it :p)

I voted for Ashrah and Havik as those are really the only two I would care to see back cause I'd like to see how they change up ashrah and I think she has a cool background story. Havik just to see how crazy and weird they would make him. But I find most of the 3d era characters boring af lol

As for the actual question the OP asked... which 2 do I think NRS would put in the game?
Probably Reiko and Havik
 

Arqwart

D'Vorah for KP2 copium
Finally throwing my hat into my own poll here to say Ashrah and Havik as wanted picks, Havik and Reiko as expected picks (with Nitara close behind courtesy of the most recent movies).

I would also be interested in seeing an MK where Skarlet and Nitara are both playable. Two hemomancers with wildly different takes on how to utilize it.
 

Rice

SIRO FOR MK1
High Chance:
Havik
Sareena
Reiko

Good Chance:
Nitara
Onaga
Li Mei

Outsider Chance:
Ashrah
Shujinko
Hotaru


If i can only pick 2 i would pick Sareena and Havik.

Havik is the most demanded of the 3D Era characters and Sareena missed so many times the roster by a sliver that its finally her time to shine.
 
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Eddy Wang

Skarlet scientist
I can't get over Kia's name and how she looks way too similar to Sareena. But Jataaka's look works, She reminds me of Storm and how we're never going to get a good all X-Men fighting game from Capcom.

So I'd be interested in seeing Jataaka as a playable character.
I like it, because from her animations i have in storage, she is soo different from the entire roster, she fights with a skirt to start off which is pretty uncommon in Mortal Kombat and her design just clicked, she also has stretch and can put up some spectacular kicks, thanks to kerri hoskins job on portraying the character.

Their blood in the files is actually green like Reptile's
And when they die, they change into weird skelecton.

As weapon, She has a bladed Boomerang, which in the game, she has different ways of putting on screen, one goes, and come back, the other one just flyies around and travel in weird speeds and angles while on screen before disappear or comes back, which makes me believe she was intended in design to be a setup character, her boomerangs are not exactly to zone, but to put on screen when she find openings, then her opponents do have to worried about the boomerang, while she uses this opportunity to approach and apply pressure, since she fights barehanded.

She can heal herself too, an ability given during Armaggedon.


I like the implementation of these 3 as they can offer new styles in the game, not only visually and lorewise, but playstyle as well, Jatakka can have sword stances and pretty sure with that weapon they can be a lot more creative, Sareena too, but more importantly, since they are all demons who stay in human form due to Quan Chi's Magic, they can go dephs into this and explore, for example, having transformations in the game, or even better, when their health goes beyond 50% their scream hit reactions could start changing up with a more demonic voice mixed with their female ones.

Not only would be an inovative push but the design and race itself would introduce an area mortal kombat has not explored yet.

Lets not forget Sareena tends to be more inclined to goodnes, while those two are straight up evil, so if Sareena's story is to be told, these two have to be involved.
 

Rathalos

Play Monster Hunter!
Nitara is cool, but I feel like NRS would fuck up the wings and they would either look goofy or be really distracting.
Movado has grappling hooks apparently, so that could be fun.
Kobra would be cool if he literally was just a douchebag ken, with a fire ball and DP.

Indifferent to the rest.
 

Eddy Wang

Skarlet scientist
Nitara is cool, but I feel like NRS would fuck up the wings and they would either look goofy or be really distracting.
Movado has grappling hooks apparently, so that could be fun.
Kobra would be cool if he literally was just a douchebag ken, with a fire ball and DP.

Indifferent to the rest.
They can take the wings away and completely redesign her, i don't think her DA design would work.

If anything, Skarlet from MK11 is what i think how Nitara should play, just add more vampiric stuff into it. And leave MK9 Skarlet to OG skarlet.
 

Espio

Kokomo
I mainly want Ashrah, Havik and Drahmin, but Nitara keeps popping up in media (I like her enough to be happy and try her if she makes it).

Fan demand I'd say Havik is long overdue. In terms of exposure in the live action and animated movie...Nitara seems heavily teased and promoted.
 
Every 3d character remade so far, is very well done.
Especially quan chi, he is a phenomenal character in all aspects.
I'd like to see Sareena( special love for mythologies) and it would be funny to see Hsu Hao and Kobra remade for the memes.
Aside from Reiko, Havik, Ashrah, Hotaru I find the rest of the 3ds irredeemable...
 

mattteo

Apprentice
So everyone they made is great but you think they are iredeemable?

Cool. They don't need to be 'redeemed' anyway. They were great the way they were and Midway went bankrupt bcs of other games, MK was still selling well even in the 3D era (for its standards and games made for consoles only, not PC).
 
So everyone they made is great but you think they are iredeemable?

Cool. They don't need to be 'redeemed' anyway. They were great the way they were and Midway went bankrupt bcs of other games, MK was still selling well even in the 3D era (for its standards and games made for consoles only, not PC).
I think the ones that were already made had true potential, and there are a few more as well.
Arguably the 3d bunch has also some characters who don't have anything about them, or are just a lesser versions of the classics
 

Juxtapose

Master
They don't need to be 'redeemed' anyway.
Because they're irredeemable :laughing:.

They were great the way they were and Midway went bankrupt bcs of other games, MK was still selling well even in the 3D era
They really weren't and this was the poorest performing period of the franchise's life. Midway went bankrupt due to many factors as they made more than just Mortal Kombat games, but the 3D era is not a high point for the franchise in any way, shape, or form.

I know you love them, and that's cool, but what you say and what the reality was is quite different.
 

projectzero00

nomnomnom
I really hope Ashrah makes it. I saw this fanart a while ago on reddit where she was redesigned as this angelic/demonic warrior and thought it would be really cool to have her light powers and demonic side explored with new technology



I mean look at this:rolleyes: