I’d go a season 4. Even if just for more characters instead of massive overhauls/new modes etc. I’m on with guests too - they’re easier to design as some of the work is already there to work from vs crafting an idea completely out of nothing. They also get more headlines on media sites I’ve noticed.
I would take fixed retros and stages over more guests. May not make sense business wise though. Gotta get the casuals.
haha, but if that new game gets dlc it wont be a complete experience until all dlc is released.
While I don’t expect an announcement of season4 any time sooner than the 4th. I do believe we’ll have some news on it eventually. Hopefully the devs will make the posts on the poll they released a priority for sure.
Honestly, in the end I just want the franchise as a whole to continue growing. While I may be more on the same boat as those who want a sequel, S4 is also a good thing as well. However, I feel S4 would be better off as more of a content and polish season. We has plenty enough characters as it is so if they have to add more, I would prefer about 4 characters at most. The rest of the time and budget can be used for things like more modes, stages (including those who don’t have them), ultimates, costumes, accessories, overall polish, etc. I’ll be perfectly content if S4 is the last season of this iteration of KI.
That being said, I still stand by that S3 should be the last season story-wise. Throughout all three seasons we have gone from a tournament to stopping a full scale invasion and defeating not one but TWO warlords! I definitely feel like that’s a good stopping place for the story of this KI. If they do decide to add more characters they don’t have to some role in the current story. They can just be there to expand the KI universe. Leave the aftermath stuff for the sequel.
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Two warlords?
Gargos and Eyedol who else?
But we never beat eyedol. Gargos did.
In the past yes, but he’s back now and we have to stop him and Gargos
Unless gargos kills him again in his story.
Well however he’s defeated, that fact of the matter is that both of them will be gone in the end. Thus again a good stopping place for the story of this game.
That’d be pretty funny. “Gargos I have come for my reve-” proceeds to get his head(s) ripped off by two arms through portals.
I support the 4th season whole heartedly but I don’t think it’s happening but if it does I’ll be soooooo HYPE!
I’d much prefer a new KI tanking full advantage of Scorpio and getting rid of the “double dev wierd engine mess”.
Goodness some of the toxicity in this thread.
- A proper Season 4 of 8/9 additional characters is indeed unlikely.
- Post Season 3 in the form of new characters is all but confirmed.
- Other high-character-count Fighting Games should not be indicative of a decline in KI’s gameplay balance.
- Guest characters have not tarnished KI in any way, shape or form. They are playable characters in Killer Instinct. Their design aesthetic is highly unimportant when it comes down to it.
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Yeah, it’s kind of a shame there’s so much disagreement when at the core we all just want to see KI get more support. In a way, it’s making more sense to me that the guests don’t have canon roles in Shadow Lords, because it’s a clever way to make sure that you don’t really need to acknowledge them if you don’t care about the fighters who aren’t part of the Killer Instinct universe. I’ve never played Gears of War, so General RAAM is a big question mark for me. But since he’s not in the middle of story mode, that’s not really detrimental to me experience.
As for personal preference, I’d be more worried about character balance if IG wasn’t doing such a good job of regular balance patches and community feedback.
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I want a Shadowrun character. Its owned by Microsoft and is relevant. I don’t hate the idea of Joanna Dark, but if we have guests she is absolutely last on my list. I think she defeats the purpose of the guest. People already playing KI would think she is the best option for a guest but I think more people who are interested in fighting games but haven’t tried yet would be more enticed by a Halo Brute or a more relevant and mainstream game (whereas the people who think Joanna Dark is the best option for a guest would be at least equally happy with an original character).
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I want a season 4 just because everyone stops with the season 3 is garbage train, and starts with season 3 was great, season 4 ruined the game
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Roxy Rave.
…either that or Black Orchid.
Not sure if it deserves another season per se, but I’d pay for the “missing” stages and fixes to the bad retros and stage finishers.