the roster is perfect, the designs are the best they have EVER BEEN. the DLC picks so far are really good, and the leaks have me very excited. however, my problem lies with the fact that there is almost no replay-ability.
once you beat invasions mode for the month (which takes about 5 hours), you do not have much to do. looking back on MK11 (heavy bias for that game btw), every character had a TON of gear to unlock so it always felt like i was working towards something. and with the krypt being huge and its own little game gave me a ton of stuff to do.
in MK1, you level up characters by playing them, and unlock their cosmetics, brutalities and fatalities that way. while I am a fan of this, (rewarding the player for playing), the execution is not my favorite. In MK11 you would unlock items for any character, even if you didnt play them. This made it so that if you wanted to try a new character, you already had a lot of things to play around with. In MK1, it feels like you just started a new save file.
A lot of people hate the premium shop, and rightfully so. I personally don't mind it that much, as I am used to microtransactions for cosmetics, and the game does give the player a TON of skins for just playing the game.
so far since launch i've been playing this game for about a week and then putting it down for a month, due to having nothing to do. the EXP gain is incredibly slow. when omni-man came out I planned on leveling him up to max, because he was fun. I had to play 250 matches, and win almost all of them to get him to max level. At that point he was no longer fun, and I will probably not play him for a very long time.
I'm still going to play this game as new content comes out, but for now, if you have not played a mortal kombat game before, I recommend you skip this one and play MK9 or MK11 until more releases.
once you beat invasions mode for the month (which takes about 5 hours), you do not have much to do. looking back on MK11 (heavy bias for that game btw), every character had a TON of gear to unlock so it always felt like i was working towards something. and with the krypt being huge and its own little game gave me a ton of stuff to do.
in MK1, you level up characters by playing them, and unlock their cosmetics, brutalities and fatalities that way. while I am a fan of this, (rewarding the player for playing), the execution is not my favorite. In MK11 you would unlock items for any character, even if you didnt play them. This made it so that if you wanted to try a new character, you already had a lot of things to play around with. In MK1, it feels like you just started a new save file.
A lot of people hate the premium shop, and rightfully so. I personally don't mind it that much, as I am used to microtransactions for cosmetics, and the game does give the player a TON of skins for just playing the game.
so far since launch i've been playing this game for about a week and then putting it down for a month, due to having nothing to do. the EXP gain is incredibly slow. when omni-man came out I planned on leveling him up to max, because he was fun. I had to play 250 matches, and win almost all of them to get him to max level. At that point he was no longer fun, and I will probably not play him for a very long time.
I'm still going to play this game as new content comes out, but for now, if you have not played a mortal kombat game before, I recommend you skip this one and play MK9 or MK11 until more releases.