Ed Boon outs potential downloadable characters for new Mortal Kombat

BARAKA best be available from the start in this game or else...

Tadmok Latrom

Ermac would be a great addition.

I hate when they announce DLC before the games even out..

I'd like Frost to be in the game.

I demand chest-harpoonage!

New characters please. What's the point of a "reboot" if theirs more old characters than new.?

New character! Baraka Obama

seriously if they recolored Scorpion/subzero/reptile 26 times I would probably be happy. Quantity over quality baby.

I kid.

Actually make it so I can call upon the "Toasty" guy as much as I want. AND make an easter Egg of Dan Trachtenberg doing "Video Games" and I will be very happy.

TRS!

Will this game have animalities? I hope so

Which characters would I like to see downloadable? None of them. I'd like it, just for once, for game companies to actually give the people who buy their products the full experience!

@Underachiever

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Please no new characters. Everytime we get a new MK game with new characters 90% of them are "meh".

This is supposed to be a reboot, right? Then where the hell is Liu Kang?

Noob Saibot please.

Btw, one of the options is robo-smoke. Is regular smoke already in the game?

Noob Saibot or GTFO!

How about a full game instead of a $60 starter pack? Seriously video games are getting worse than card games with these "expansion packs."

well if you would have looked deeper in the screenshots. You would have noticed the DLC square on the character select screen. And really I hope they left it open for them to include more characters that are not included on the disc and so they wouldn't need a super mega ultra arcade 3d edition later. But the last time I played a mortal kombat game was when 4 came out in arcades.

I thought this reboot took place in the Trilogy era. Shouldn't Rain and Robo-Smoke be part of the default roster?

Having not played this series in so freakin' long, my initial vote went to one of the first two. But after a quick google-image search for the others: HD boobs pls.!!!

Weird that Quan Chi isn't in the poll. Maybe he's in the game already?

@Walkdiesel

oh yes please

paid dlc over a decade past its prime
wgas wgaf

I'd like a character who isn't a ninja and doesn't look as though he/she was designed by a ten-year-old.

I looked up all of them on the MK wiki, and I agree that Kenshi is the best.

@nesinvaders

No they did that with Armageddon and it failed in my opinion. Mortal Kombat as a franchise has a lot of characters. They churn them out like cookies but their has to be a limit for the game itself. Back to armageddon adding to many people just makes the game feel bland and added to the fact they added a kreate a fighter that made it even more bland to play the cast themselves.

Having a stable number of characters and a few DLC is fine. Remember you don't actually have to buy the DLC. It all revolves around choice. That key word choice.

RAIN........

Chewbacca

CURTIS STRYKER RIGHT NOW, MAKE IT HAPPEN!

This is the problem with Mortal Kombat. They reboot it, cut out all the bullshit, focus on developing a few characters, and it's awesome. Then, it all goes to their heads, they jam pack it with 100 more characters, a chess game, tetris, and some boring adventure game.

They don't need to announce more characters or even think about adding them. They just need to get the MK2 cast with maybe one or two of the memorable new additions like Quan Chi and just call it a day.

Welcome to this comment section where people don't realize that the development of dlc is a budgeted cost and that if it wasn't being sold later then it wouldn't have been made in the first place.

I wish they started calling DLC "Additional Content" instead, so people would start thinking that that is exactly what it is, ADDITIONAL, as in something you would not have gotten otherwise.

I hope Noob Saibot is in the game.

I want onaga, drahmin, goro, noob, human smoke (from mk:a with smoke clouds for his body, not human flesh), havik, and darrius.

Don't even know who will be in this game... Striker comes to my mind on "do want!", but Jade would be awesome to see too...

There seems to be a lot of uniformed people in the comments so I will try to help out. This game is a retelling of MK-UMK3 and is getting back to the roots of Mortal Kombat. They are going back to the 2D fighting plane and classic characters. Here is a list of the widely believed 26 character roster.
1 Scropion- confirmed
2 Sub-Zero- confirmed
3 Mileena- confirmed
4 Night Wolf- confirmed
5 Johnny Cage- confirmed
6 Jax- confirmed
7 Sonya- confirmed
8 Kung Lao- confirmed
9 Cyrax- confirmed
10 Kitana- confirmed
11 Sektor- confirmed
12 Ermac- confirmed
13 Reptile- confirmed
14 Jade- confirmed
15 Sindel- confirmed
16 Raiden- confirmed
17 Shang Tsung- loosely confirmed
18 Smoke- leaked
19 Kabal- leaked
20 Noob- leaked
21 Quan Chi- leaked
22 Stryker- leaked
23 Sheeva- no word but believed
24 Kano- no word but believed
25 Baraka- no word but believed
26 Liu Kang- no word but believed
They have also confirmed Goro as a unplayable boss character.
Shao Kahn has also been confirmed but no word if he will be playable or not.
God of War's Kratos has been confirmed as a PS3 exclusive character. Kratos will be DLC that ships with all PS3 copies of the game and will not take up one of the 26 character slot.
I hope that this has helped.

@kgoo867
I have been following this game since it was announced and you are getting well over $60 worth of game. 26 plus characters each with at least 2 real fatalities, to costumes and their own completely unique moves and stances. A huge number of classic stages that look beautiful and many having their on stage fatalities. Numerous game mode including a story mode much like MK vs. DCU only over 3 times as long and in dept. The most in dept fighting engine ever in a Mortal Kombat and the ability to fit any bugs on the fly with out having to wait for a patch and an online mode with several modes of play for it as well.

That is more than any other Mortal Kombat game that you have paid for and they are giving you a choice to download extra content after the game is out. They are not leaving anything out of the game they are simply add content after release and continuing to support the game after launch. How can people complain about that? They have even stated that if you don't download the extra characters they are trying to make it where you can still fight against them online if some one else has downloaded them rather force you to download the new content to play online like some other games. If anyone chooses to not download the DLC then that is their choice but this is one time that the game industry is not nickle and diming us.