Would you welcome NPC fights on Story Mode back?

[EdenianWarrior]

Again, generic NPCs like Shaolin Monk, Special Forces soldier, Edenian Rebel/Knight, Tarkatan, Netherdemon, etc. are great substitutes honestly.

 

[BarakaTile]

He blocked you ? He’s acting sad and super unprofessional

To be fair to him I was super salty by that bait and switch with Baraka because in the KP2 Shadow teaser that is def his Silhouette standing there. Heated words about the npcs were said and rather than argue back he blocked me, I hear He left NRS anyway so whatever.

Still at least I'm not that crazy Reiko fan that made threats against Shaun Himmerick's Family (causing him to leave Twitter entirely). Or the guy Lansdown replied to that demanded the female outfits fit his standards or he would lose respect for NRS.

...Twitter's a great place.

 

[ji-high]

No. I don't want to be teased with a Nightwolf fight just to end up with blue balls. If they go through the trouble of modelling him and giving him moves then i want him to be playable.

I also don't see why anybody in the roster should waste their time in multiple rounds fights against generic Tarkatans warriors/Black Dragon members/Special Forces grunts. Those are fodder that are supposed to be dispatched without even thinking. That stuff works better in Shaolin Monks type of game. They don't have their place in a fighting game in my opinion.

100% agree with NRS' decision on this one.

 

[DragonofDadashov24]

Absolutely no. Ingame characters get less screen time because of this

 

[LeoMK29]

Yes. Even if they aren’t a dlc it has the potential for to add the story, which is one of my favorite aspects of MK games.

 

[dribirut]

I’d rather not. It’s just frustrating not being able to play them

 

[stokedAF]

Yes I liked them. I don’t see why anybody had a problem with them.

 

[Lord Greyjoy]

They were cool cameos and served as filler fights so other characters jobbed less. But they're removed because too many people can't tell a fully-finished player-ready character from a reused asset. Can't have nice things.

 

[BarakaTile]

Wouldn't call that a nice thing, Characters still jobbed twice in Story.

Then you had stupid writing near the end. Kotal refusing to work together because reasons, Reptile's Acid Spit getting a hard nerf once he spits it at Takeda. Cassie saves her Daddy from Shinnok via bs Green Magic instead of all four Kids working together to fight him.

 

[Cassie Cyrus]

I wished the likes of Sonya and Jax would be NPC fights.

 

[Qaesen]

I have to agree with what @Pterodactyl said. Fighting some mooks like random Tarkatans would be nice and avoid making characters into jobbers (cough cough Erron Black, Baraka, Reptile, Kano, Sheeva, Ermac, Ferra/Torr). I'd totally be down with it.

But making characters that aren't playable, like Rain or Baraka from MKX, is just kinda shitty. Having them appear in cutscenes is one thing, but fighting against them without getting to play as them was kinda cruel

 

[Kiss the Missile]

I'm down for them if they're low effort rips like the ones in MKX.
I'm tired of fighting Ermac and Reptile for 60% of the story mode.

 

[pure.Wasted]

I have to agree with what @Pterodactyl said. Fighting some mooks like random Tarkatans would be nice and avoid making characters into jobbers (cough cough Erron Black, Baraka, Reptile, Kano, Sheeva, Ermac, Ferra/Torr). I'd totally be down with it.

It really wouldn't. Not by itself. Like, I see what you guys are getting at, but this would only cut down on how much jobbing characters do -- it wouldn't change who the jobbers are. Instead of Erron, Kano, Kabal, and Noob losing 2 fights each and not winning any, they'll lose 1 fight each and not win any.

The way you make bad guys not seem like jobbers is by letting (some of) them be playable, and by building them up in cutscenes in storymode. No one thought Shao Kahn was a jobber in MK9, and he lost the 2 fights he was in. But we know that he's a bad-ass because of context.

 

[Kiss the Missile]

They can lose as much as they need to, but they need to have a presence. Goro was more of a jobber in mk9 than Ermac was because Ermac was presented as an actual threat. They lost the same amount but Goro did significantly less overall.

 

[Cassie Cyrus]

Cassie is the most popular character to come out of MKX. They're not going to erase her from the timeline.

They can lose as much as they need to, but they need to have a presence. Goro was more of a jobber in mk9 than Ermac was because Ermac was presented as an actual threat. They lost the same amount but Goro did significantly less overall.

Yes, they build Ermac up pretty good, only for him to be a jobber against FUCKING Stryker... Every character who lost to stryker is probably a character Ed Boon doesn't care about.

Really hate that good-guys always win shit. A child could write better than that.

 

[Kiss the Missile]

Stryker taking out Kintaro was insane.

They need to ditch the "chapter" aspect entirely. A good guy losing a fight doesn't mean they have to die. Baraka beats Johnny, but before he can kill him Sonya throws in a flashbang or something.

 

[pure.Wasted]

Stryker taking out Kintaro was insane.

They need to ditch the "chapter" aspect entirely. A good guy losing a fight doesn't mean they have to die. Baraka beats Johnny, but before he can kill him Sonya throws in a flashbang or something.

Baraka does not beat Johnny, fam.

 

[DoDaMuSiC]

Story mode should have a chapter for every character. Period

 

[mikeraskol]

Story mode should have a chapter for every character. Period

The practical realities of modern AAA video game development mean this is never going to happen. 25 chapters minimum are you kidding?

 

[RothVI]

I'm against having actual characters as NPCs, but it would be cool to fight those warriors that were with Shao Kahn in the story trailer.

 

[HeavyNorse]

Nah, I was heavily disappointed when we fought Rain, Sindel and Baraka in MKX, and then did NOT get them as DLC later down the line. Also seeing characters like Fujin and Sareena, and them only being NPC's, it just didn't feel right to me.

I'm glad they decided not to do the same in IJ2, and I hope they'll stick to it in MK11 as well.

 

[pure.Wasted]

Nah, I was heavily disappointed when we fought Rain, Sindel and Baraka in MKX, and then did NOT get them as DLC later down the line. Also seeing characters like Fujin and Sareena, and them only being NPC's, it just didn't feel right to me.

I'm glad they decided not to do the same in IJ2, and I hope they'll stick to it in MK11 as well.

...you hope that Fujin isn't in the story? You hope that we never see Nightwolf, Smoke, Sindel and Liu Kang's army is just Kabal and Jade? You hope that all of Kotal Kahn's Outworld allies are just inexplicably missing?

Everyone in the MK universe except for 25 specific characters should just randomly stop existing for a while?

Bruh. :/

 

[BarakaTile]

Baraka does not beat Johnny, fam.

Reptile being the first character to job followed immediately by Baraka is one of the dumbest things in MK9.

Why is Baraka even at the Earthrealm tournament, why is Sheeva there?! MK9 was dumb.

...you hope that Fujin isn't in the story? You hope that we never see Nightwolf, Smoke, Sindel and Liu Kang's army is just Kabal and Jade? You hope that all of Kotal Kahn's Outworld allies are just inexplicably missing?

Everyone in the MK universe except for 25 specific characters should just randomly stop existing for a while?

Bruh. :/

Are Kotals allies sole contribution to the story showing up for 5 minutes then getting their heads chopped off by Shao Kahn's Forces?

Yeah I dont think I'd like that. I would rather they not show up for that to happen.

 

[Ghost of The Moon]

It'd be welcomed. That's why it makes the fights special: Rarity, and non-playable opponents. The MKX fights were lack-luster though, compared to MK9!

 

[trufenix]

For the record, I want the canon preserved way more than I want my playable character ego stroked, I'm all for non-playables in every capacity. Story, bosses, hidden, you name it.