Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League

beat the game as soon as logged in, refunded

Sounds like a game where it'll get a deep sale very quickly. R.I.P Rocksteady.

Ehh

WB is too incompetent to do anything right these days. Like remaking Suicide Squad for the 8th(?) time, as if anyone wanted or asked for it. It gives off annoying cocaine-snorting-executive vibes more than anything. I honestly don't think they're capable of making a good game.

They have such good IPs, they just can't use them right. It's like there's a new designer drug for rich people that's killing off brain cells.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iocRbdvUgJ4

Looks as bad and disrespectful to everything as Gotham Knights.

Was never planning to get it in the first place, but the reviews certainly haven't helped.

Nor has stuff like this:

https://www.penny-arcade.com/comic/2024/01/31/myopia



aHappySacka posted...

Looks as bad and disrespectful to everything as Gotham Knights.

Also according to Penny Arcade, Gotham Knights is actually the more faithful game. Which says a great deal about Suicide Squad.

MeatiestMeatus posted...

I'm thinking best case scenario it's a s*** show at launch but gradually improves as a live-service game as they tweak it and add content. Probably a game that'll be worth getting in a year or so

Which most likely means it'll launch to disappointing numbers, the studio will put out an AI-generated apology jpeg they prepared shortly after starting work on the game, they'll present a roadmap of totally awesome stuff that will "hopefully" be added within the year, miss 80% of those target dates, then shut down the servers a year later after failing to hook enough new players with those promises.

At this point, it's really only worth getting on board with a new live service game is if it's already proven itself. If it launches strong, great, get in there and have fun. If it launches weak, wait until it recovers before committing to it. There's very, very little value in being an early adopter unless you need to produce a review (in which case hopefully the revenue from that review covers the cost of the game to mitigate the risk).

https://gamefaqs.gamespot.com/a/forum/3/303297c5.jpg

Looks like hot garbage.

I know it's the title, but I didn't expect them to actually kill the Justice League.

Or get tons of lore wrong (Green Lantern in particular)

GanonsSpirit posted...

Or get tons of lore wrong

Far be it for me to defend them, but it's pretty common for both major comic companies to completely change lore whenever they feel like for "alternate universe" stories.

If DC decides it would make for a more interesting story if Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, and Green Lantern were all teenagers in high school, they'll do it regardless of whether or not it makes sense compared to anything that's come before.

Actually, now I can't stop coming up with plots in my head where Lex Luthor tries to sabotage the pep rally or how Braniac is head of the computer science club who wants to destroy the football team for picking on him, and I kind of wish they would write that comic/show/game.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

Far be it for me to defend them, but it's pretty common for both major comic companies to completely change lore whenever they feel like for "alternate universe" stories.

If DC decides it would make for a more interesting story if Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, and Green Lantern were all teenagers in high school, they'll do it regardless of whether or not it makes sense compared to anything that's come before.

Actually, now I can't stop coming up with plots in my head where Lex Luthor tries to sabotage the pep rally or how Braniac is head of the computer science club who wants to destroy the football team for picking on him, and I kind of wish they would write that comic/show/game.

Surely you've heard of Smallville

That's what Elseworlds are

Generally stuff like "a slain Lantern's ring flies away" is kept consistent. Even God damn Snyder got that shit right

Yellow posted...

Surely you've heard of Smallville

You know, when you put it that way, it is sort of that. Especially in the later seasons.

Though I was thinking more like younger cast and more obvious powers earlier on. And completely revolving around the school.

Sort of like they were going to do for the Batman characters in Gotham High:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Batman_(franchise)#Canceled_Batman_animated_series
https://www.slashfilm.com/513187/gotham-high-animated-teen-batman-show

...or like they kind of did with the X-Men in X-Men: Evolution.



Metalsonic66 posted...

Generally stuff like "a slain Lantern's ring flies away" is kept consistent. Even God damn Snyder got that shit right

Yeah, but again, that's not a fundamental and unalterable objective law of the universe. It's just how the current version of the mainline setting tends to treat them, so most adaptations follow. But that doesn't mean it has to be that way. And writers can still change it if they want to.

It's like saying Spider-Man's web shooters are mechanical and he built them himself. That's true in most realities, but it's not like it stopped Raimi from making them organic to simplify things.

Also, there've been stories where rings don't immediately fly away. Depending on the version of the story, in some versions Mogo (the living planet) is the one who causes the rings to seek out suitable recruits, and without him they either seek out pretty much the nearest person with no real direction, or they don't seek out anyone at all. There was a Predator crossover story where one had taken a Green Lantern ring as a trophy (Predator/Batman, maybe?). There've been stories where a ring is drained of power and forceably taken from its proper owner. DC themselves just wrote an Elseworlds/Earth One story where the rings don't seek out a new owner when one dies (and they also don't have weaknesses, require "great will", or any of the other lore elements from past versions).

Plus, lore changes all the time. There've been at least a half-dozen different justifications for why the rings don't work against "yellow" (when that's even a weakness at all). In some versions they're borderline self-aware AI, in others they're completely inert tools. Even in mainline continuity there's like a half-dozen different types of Green Lantern ring (baseline, honor guard, alpha lanterns, prototypes, etc), all of which work slightly differently. And so on.

There's plenty of reasons to crap on the game, but I don't think "lore" is one of them. Especially when the Arkham games have been kind of playing fast and loose with Batman lore for years anyway.

You're right, people should be crapping on the game for all kinds of reasons

woulda been awesome if the Orange Lantern instantly showed up as a

I was hyped from the initial trailers and may get it eventually, but not anytime soon. However, it'll likely be on the cheap, etc.

if you want, you can also pick it up for me

but don't

Lokarin posted...

woulda been awesome if the Orange Lantern instantly showed up as a

As a what? As a what?!







And there technically was an Orange Lantern Corps member in the game. Or two, depending on how you view things.

ParanoidObsessive posted...

As a what? As a what?!

And there technically was an Orange Lantern Corps member in the game. Or two, depending on how you view things.

I accidentally half

I initially said boss fight then deleted it to say bonus boss but then didn't type it in

After watching some cutscenes and looking at some reviews, I did something I've never done before and changed my mind about how good a game looks.

The graphics, characters, and dialogue are all same old rocksteady, and apparently the gameplay isn't that bad either. I love the characters and I hope a Justice League game is next. I also never realized how good their animations are.

I can get over the desecration of the Arkham story, how they murdered their most valuable IPs so disrespectfully. given I know about a serious leak that maybe should have been obvious...

does it get any better after that mind numbingly boring as absolute all-fuck tutorial level?