Originally posted by Nemesis X
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I usually roll my eyes when people complain about the game being cheaper now than it was when it came out. That's the price of being an early adopter.
Aftermath alone being 40 dollars though is a load of shite. WB once again showing their greed.
I can buy this leak being legit given some of the things it accurately predicted ahead of time, although Robocop was kind of a safe bet anyway, but still. Mostly fine with this being the rest of the DLC cast which I can see being the case with what we've had so far, though there were some MK characters I would've preferred instead, but can see myself still getting a good chunk of these.
And if the Aftermath bundle really comes with those six characters total and not just the three we already know of (plus the story DLC), then it's a better deal than what was first thought. I don't know, will have to wait and see.
Aftermath will be 5 chapters which is about half the amount of chapters as the base game's story you can do in 2 hours. So unless Shang and gang's chapters are longer, you're legit nearly paying a full game's price for not only 3 characters but 2 hours of story.
On the subject of the quality/content of the story DLC though, will say I appreciate how they did everything I could've hoped for and more with Shang Tsung. The love and cunning he got this time around made him single handedly one of the most powerful characters in-universe, and it being the Cary Tagawa version nonetheless made it all the sweeter. The end revenge felt like a long time coming as well after how he was done in by MK9's story. Fujin and the other DLC characters got their plenty moments too.
How much the cutscene fight choreography overall has improved since the last couple games is also praiseworthy. MK9 had it rough there in comparison.
Price wise, the aftermath expansion is still too much, but whenever it's discounted half off or so like the first fighter pass for the game is now, will gladly pick it up. 👆
Congrats to Mileena fans I guess, but was she worth all the ridicule by Boon and the community to get to this point? Would've rather had one of the other rumored femme fatales since she had already been in plenty games, but whatever. Was still a glaring omission out of the base roster.
Rain being a DLC character twice is in bad taste, but at this point I'm just surprised they gave a bone to one of the other ninjas again.
Ash Williams I'm sure was planned at some point, but covid may have changed things around. Regardless, Rambo only makes me weep for him more. If they actually get a Stallone voicein though unlike with Arnold, I'll be impressed.
This is how you market nostalgia. All that's missing is Robin Shou Liu Kang.