10 Overpriced Video Game BS You Should AVOID

10. Mortal Kombat 1's $12 Happy Halloween Fatality

There are many things that players might accept as monetisable in a video game, but fatalities in Mortal Kombat? Not a damn chance.

Just before Halloween, developer NetherRealm released a patch for the most recent iteration of the fighting franchise, Mortal Kombat 1, which included a new fatality themed around All Hallows' Eve.

The fatality in question sees the perpetrator shove a jack o'lantern on their victim's head, watch as creepy crawlies pour out of it, and then kick their pumpkin-clad head clean off, sending it flying before it smashes into the front door of a house nearby.

Sounds like a perfect fit for the game, right?

Yet NetherRealm ultimately decided to charge a pretty penny for the pleasure, with the fatality costing an eye-watering $12.

Fans quite rightly complained that they were being nickel-and-dimed, with those who splashed out a whopping $110 on the game's Premium Edition - which doesn't include this fatality - feeling especially hard-done-by.

And on top of this, it's not even a particularly creative fatality by Mortal Kombat's gloriously unhinged standards. As entertaining as the core game is, this monetisation is vile.