Why people hate guest characters?

[Patrick Wayne]

Guest characters are more fun than the canon characters.

Omni Man proved that. So why would you be against making this game more fun?

Peacemaker and Homelander sound fun too. Who among MK characters would even be better than them?

Guest characters carry this franchise. People would rather play as Homelander than some Johny Cage.

[acowsik]

So in prev games guest chars carried the game?

Freddy was strong in MK9 but wasnt used widely. Alien and Predator were strong but were nerfed heavily in later patches. MK11 guest chars bar Joker and maybe Robocop didnt really get used much. Rambo was one of the worst chars in MK11.

So guest chars being top tier in the meta is not always the case and they are not required always as the MK universe has plenty of chars to pick from already.

[popsicle]

Originally posted by Patrick Wayne:

Omni Man proved that. So why would you be against making this game more fun?

Omni man proved that guests are purposely made OP with no weaknesses. This unfair advantage is what makes the guests "fun". They did the same with MK11 spawn also.

[itzDerrio]

mk lost its identity so idc if they add corny superheroes anymore.

[eden]

Agreed. Guest characters from outa nowhere destroy the mood of mk for me. This is not super smash bros.

[Antasmunchie]

weak bait like always. do better

[KripTed]

When they’re purposely broken so you feel like you got your money’s worth then that’s not fun or fair. That’s considered pay to win. Not to mention these are Injustice type characters.

[Yaramazie]

I wouldn't say that I hate them. But there are two points that I don't like. 1- The guest characters ruin the atmosphere. 2 - most often in order to be bought they make them a little OP

[uKER]

Guest characters = out of place

[popsicle]

Originally posted by uKER:

Guest characters = out of place

We barely have enough MK chars. All the really good MK chars are just kameos while the guests are all playable. Is ridiculous.

[uKER]

I would sure have liked Tremor to be an actual character.

[Monéo Atréides]

I wouldn't buy MK if there weren't guests

[Hurt Me Plenty]

1. Omni Man is a ghay character in a very skimpy costume. His costume hurts my eyes. (please do not refer to my nickname "Hurt Me Plenty" - thats not the point). Honestly he seems to be naked just with a skin color change there and there to fit the costume color. Thats kinda double standards as the female characters are either fully covered or mostly covered but ugly. Not to mention the Omni Man is more naked than any MK9 female costume.

2. Guests characters generally doesn't belong to the game. I would like to have returning characters from old MK games AND some (but not much) totally new characters that will fit into the universe. Guests characters are... Just guest characters, they are literally from different "story" and simply doesn't fit. They are added to all fighting games but in my opinion they are just ruining these games. We didn't had guest characters in any fighting games in the past. I think MK9 from 2011 started this trend? But it was just one guest character (two for PS4). Not like 25% of the characters roster which is standard in every fighting game now. Give us old characters back that haven't been there for years like Stryker rather than guest characters.

3. You said "guests characters carry the franchise" - no, they actually ruin it as these characters doesn't belong to the game. In the next 10 years with release of Mortal Kombat 15 or something I'm pretty sure we will have only 4-6 original characters (2 mascots characters like Scorpion and Sub Zero and then 4 random characters from the universe) and then all the other will just be the guests as with current fighting games standard is almost all the new characters are guests characters. And it will get worse. Every fighting game in the future will be literally guest characters from various TV shows fighting just on different game engines. For example 2D Mortal Kombat Engine or 3D Tekken Engine... But there will be no place for the original characters.

[°ºZcure]

More guests less main characters but I played anyway