But I was thinking about, and it would be pretty cool if they went and made a game that covered the stories of 4-Armageddon.....sure, a lot of the new characters sucked, but who knows, they could be a lot more fun to play using the MK9 engine...

I hope they keep going, I'll be fair and say that I barely played MK9 after I finished storymode.
They could, and should, start out with a nice big DLC pack in my opinion.

Enough MK, where is Darkstalkers?

I see no reason for a sequal yet.

@Hizang said:

I see no reason for a sequal yet.

Neither do I, I'm just saying that as much as the newer games sucked and pretty much all of the new characters were pretty lame....I wouldn't mind seeing them in a game that plays more like MK9

If they do make a sequel, which the most likely will, I want them to take their sweet ass time with it.  If it comes out in two years, that's too soon.  Let the community play the game and grow before releasing a new game.

If they do make a sequel, which the most likely will, I want them to take their sweet ass time with it.  If it comes out in two years, that's too soon.  Let the community play the game and grow before releasing a new game.

But I was thinking about, and it would be pretty cool if they went and made a game that covered the stories of 4-Armageddon.....sure, a lot of the new characters sucked, but who knows, they could be a lot more fun to play using the MK9 engine...

I think  they should patch the online play tbh before a sequel.

Definitely looking forward to a sequel, don't care if it comes out sooner or later, but i want it.

If they do make a sequel, which the most likely will, I want them to take their sweet ass time with it.  If it comes out in two years, that's too soon.  Let the community play the game and grow before releasing a new game.

Just got it today with a new 360 (never owned a console this generation!) and loving it!  So much replay value here that I don't think I'll be needing a sequel for a while, but maybe I'm still exploding with joy from owning a new console :P

If they do make a sequel, which the most likely will, I want them to take their sweet ass time with it.  If it comes out in two years, that's too soon.  Let the community play the game and grow before releasing a new game.

 WARNING: STORY MODE SPOILERS
 
I was thinking about this myself in a "where do they go from here way". Now I don't want a sequel anytime soon, but come on, if you sell over a million copies of a game you're going to make a sequel, that's just the business.
 
But where DO they go? The ending of story mode clearly sets up a re-telling of MK4. Now I kind of enjoyed it because I'm just an MK die-hard and am in the small minority that love Quan Chi and Shinnok. Tanya was made good in Deception, and Reiko was alright. I'm not a fan of Fujin, Kai, or Meat however. The story is a good one though, an Elder God breaking free from his prison and killing other gods. The combined powers of Quan Chi and Shinnok also allow pretty much anyone to be resurrected so all those pesky main character deaths from story mode can of course be undone.
 
Unfortunately it seems not everyone likes Quan Chi, and can't forgive Shinnok being a playable boss who didn't actually shapeshift and was no more challenging than the other fighters. But that will be fixed, I mean look at how much the difficulty of Kahn was ramped up! As characters I think both have nice rich backstories and some cool abilities. Quan Chi is a beast in MK9.
 
But if they don't redo MK4 (and perhaps beyond) then what can they do? You can't just do another story only involving those same 30 characters. At some point, new ones are going to have to be designed, but the backlash against almost every character created after MK3 is huge. Some were just uninspired like Kobra, Kira, and some were just silly, Bo' Rai Cho. But almost all the others were just acceptable. Ashrah, Mavado, Havik, Frost etc had nothing really wrong with them, it's just people couldn't accept them the same way they did the characters from the original trilogy. Skarlett looks like she plays well, but I too have that disconnect when it comes to her, she just doesn't fit.
 
So if they can't just start creating new characters then they HAVE to remake 4 right? Now I'd be more than fine with that as I said, but what then? Deadly Alliance and Deception? I don't think so. 
 
Anyone got thoughts?

I see no reason for a sequal yet.

I think at this point, now that they gave me some great mk nostalgia and established a good engine/system, they should look toward something new.  They can still use Shinnok and Quan Chi as villains, as well as a few of the important mk 1-3 characters, but I want a new roster and story.  I know they can make good characters this time! Also i think they will need something different in the story instead of just battle, cut scene, which i enjoyed but yea...that's long down the road.

But I was thinking about, and it would be pretty cool if they went and made a game that covered the stories of 4-Armageddon.....sure, a lot of the new characters sucked, but who knows, they could be a lot more fun to play using the MK9 engine...