Board Thread:Mortal Kombat X/@comment-5561191-20140912094911/@comment-5561191-20141107190238

@MKRedemption19180 I think Goro will be present in the game one way or another, but if the game disk is not a pre-ordered one or if his pre-order download code isn't used, he appears in the game just as he did in MK9: as a non-playable sub-boss. I think this because everything about him until now says "pre-order now to play/fight as Goro". It gives me the impression that he's present in the game, but you can only play/fight as him through pre-order or, like Macaulyn's been suggesting, when he becomes downloadable months after the game's release.

Also, he's too important to become merely a DLC or pre-order exclusive and not being present in the normal version of the game. He's had an important or at least significant role in every game he's been in, and just didn't appear in MKs 2 and 3 because he was presumably dead during them. He didn't die in MK9, and I doubt Kotal Kahn or anyone else wouldn't hear of such a warrior and try to recruit him.

And he's not a simple DLC, but a pre-order one. Kenshi, Skarlet etc didn't get their own roles in MK9 because they were released after the game was ready, like most DLCs, and it'd be too hard to expand the story just because of them. But if Goro was being announced more than 7 months before the game's release, then NRS has enough time to give him a role in it without having to modify and add anything after it, which is much harder.

Sorry for not replying earlier. I've been studying and relaxing for a test this weekend.