Mortal Kombat X to Introduce More New Characters than any Mortal Kombat Game, Including the First

When you talk about fighting games, one of the most discussed elements is the cast. Everyone wants to know how many characters a game has, which ones from previous installments of the series will come back and how many new ones there will be. Mortal Kombat X Creative Director Ed Boon mentioned in an interview during the latest episode of Larry “Major Nelson” Hryb’s podcast that those that love new and fresh characters have really nothing to worry about with Netherrealm Studios’ upcoming labor of love.

[Gazondaily]

SO excited for this. MK9 nailed the story and MKX is beast.

Also, Major Nelson is a proper gamer. He completed Far Cry 3 lol. What a G.

[XiSasukeUchiha]

MKX will have the most characters, I certainly can't wait for the amount of characters chosen.

[Pozzle]

Can't wait!

[mrpsychoticstalker]

GIVE ME ERMAC

[Drithe]

None of you YOUNG PUNKS are worthy of true Mortal Kombat. For you are wussies who play point and clicky games that involve Kung Fu Pandas .... wow. See what I did there? :)

Most of you YOUNG PUNKS get winded if you get off of your sorry fat butts to get a soda out of mommy's fridge, much less playing a REAL WARRIORS GAME!

Mortal Kombat is not for the weak. Stay out of my .... E-killings! For beating up on wussies like you ruins my Gaming Honorz!!

End of line.

[Qrphe]

You forgot to take your pills

[Fireseed]

Meth is bad for you.

[georgenancy]

you definetly sound like a young punk with that comment

[Drithe]

You do not realize my true powers, for you if did, you would die from knowing the awesomeness of my Mortal Kombat Skillz.

End of line.

[DVAcme]

You need to take your Ritalin, kid.

[SpinalRemains138]

You're so hard and badass!

You must have to sleep on a block of solid ice to keep from melting through the floor and burning down your mansion!

Plz don't kill us, sir!

[vivid83]

lol that's my comment of the night

[Drithe]

With my last post here, I shall spare your digital life for your praise. Your humbling before the powerful Drithe may show you have some sort of potential to be a warrior.

The rest of these noobs shall buy Mortal Kombat and play it for only a few seconds, because that is all it will take for me to drop them like flies. Muahahahahaha!

End of line.

[kenshiro100]

Someone got let out of their looney bin early...

[Mr Marvel]

Really?

You just said all that crap?

Just STFU.

[LOGICWINS]

Love the new character selection screen! 1:06

http://www.youtube.com/watc...

[Ripsta7th]

Welcome to the next gen :) lol

[Majin-vegeta]

Its basically the same layout Deception had.
http://www.icoregames.com/w...

[LOL_WUT]

Deception had the best character design, layout, intro and lightning in the background. Oh and those move sets instant combos ;)

[Relientk77]

I'm ready to see cool characters new and old

[Fireseed]

Im just glad that Jax is dead, god was his voice acting in MK9 painfully bad XD

[LOGICWINS]

Jax wasn't fun to use either IMO. Glad to see them cutting the fat.

[Mr Marvel]

Never liked Jax.

[Quetzll]

MK9 Jax is a tournament-level monster. So many low to high to overhead-hit variations, combined with his grapple moves, added to his unblockables, making him one of the most used characters for tournament/hardcore kombatsmanship.
Jax won't be cut from MK's roster. Ever. He's OG.

Also, its awesome kicking people's keisters with a dude wearing purple pants.

[georgenancy]

kotal kahn looks like he'll be my main
I love using grapplers in fighting games

[Vandamme21]

So I guest this mean...lui kang won't be the main character anymore.

[DVAcme]

My theory is that not only will there be loads of new characters, the game will also be like MK9 in that it'll be a remake of previous stories. I think it'll cover MK4, Deadly Alliance and Deception. Liu Kang's dead, so Raiden needs a new champion, so I'm pretty sure Kai will be in the game, and I'm betting Kenshi and Ermac's story will be a big part of the story too.

[My_Name_BTW_Is_Dante]

That's a bad idea. They kind of suck when it comes to making new characters (I mean the ones they've already shown off prove it). I'd rather have more of the older characters come back.

[Flutterby]

Huh? They made the old characters which where new characters at one time that makes no sense at all.

[Max-Zorin]

Most of the old characters get no love anyway.

[weirdo]

i have beautiful memories of playing the original mk at a wee arcade in glasgow. i'd even walk the 3 miles home just to get a couple of extra shots with scorpion, using my bus fare lol. good times :)

[SpinalRemains138]

I prefer the older games that relied on combos and skill.

The newer MK games are fun, but there are a lot of noobie characters who teleport and then into a 6 hit combo. That's not very cool. A real combo is executed on flat ground, nit by disappearing then reappearing behind your opponent and hitting him when he's airborn again and again.

The game needs to focus on actual combat again, rather than magical absurdness.

[Quetzll]

Teleporters are easy to combat. The old games had dial-a-combos, not free-form combos. The old games had air juggling too, just not as much.

And now that I think about it, MK1-4 were all vastly different. There hasnt been much consistency in the series' mechanics. So, to say it needs to be like the old games, means you basically want a combination of all the old games. Which is what MK9 is.

[TheGrimReaper0011]

Sweet! I can't wait!

On a side note, "including the first"
Well, that was only 10 characters :p

o well, the gameplay premiere at e3 looked si-ick!
And I bet NetherRealms is gonna show other companies how to make a 2.5d fighter! :p

[mafiahajeri]

Would like to see reiko make a return.

[Mighty Boom]

Excellent news.

Disagree me, now.

[Mikeyy]

I would love for shujinko to return.

[DivineAssault]

I hope it still has my fav characters in it since its so late in the mythos.. This is a must have for me

[MasterCornholio]

Anyone get the master blaster reference?