All we wanted was a Superman game, Rocksteady. Or a Justice League game. But no, you had to go with the fucking Suicide "Why they keep getting brought up" Squad.
You can tell that this game was mainly made by women, troons and gay men. Letting women into nerd hobbies has been a disaster of epic proportions. Their legacy will be that of ash and shit. They have no love for the properties and only see them as vehicles for their activism and need for self insertion. Harley Quinn has become a self insert for mentally ill, BPD, man hating, lesbians and troons. Harley shooting Batman dead is the ultimate "Fuck you" and self insertion act for the narcissist, man hating, BPD whore. Case in point, the terrible Batwoman show did the same thing with the female writers having the lesbian self insert kill Batman. The women who wrote this dreck should never be hired to write anything ever again. I hope with the entertainment industry losing trillions will make them think twice with having a majority female writing team. They can't keep losing money forever. That ESG well is about to dry up.
Blackrock says otherwise with their infinite money cheats.
In case people are wondering how the Joker's back: It's a multiverse story. It's a fucking multiverse story. The set up for the live service continuation content is that there's twelve other brainiacs across the multiverse that the squad need to take down.
Kind of takes away from Joker's iconic death in Arkham City (especially since it was done at a time where his popularity was at an all time high with The Dark Knight), doesnt it? Oh who am I kidding, they made it clear they dont care anymore. It was already kind of cheap when they brought him back in Knight but at LEAST you could argue it gave his legacy a fitting end as it implies he is now forgotten, what he feared the most. He doesnt live on not even as an idea or memory anymore while Batman always would live on one way or the other.
So how exactly does Arkham Batman joining the justice league make sense, if by Knight everyone knows his identity?
Does he just go "Yeah I'm Bruce Wayne, do something about it" considering he's three fridges stacked side by side in the games?
Also where do Robin/Oracle/Nightwing/Alfred/the now alive Jason Todd go? I don't know which is worse, if they're never brought up or if they just go "yeah Braniac made batman kill them here's Alfred's corpse chilling out in a batcave because fuck you"
Worst case scenario, they will say this game takes place in an alternative continuity and that "it totally doesnt affect the prime Arkham verse, guys! This was the plan from the start!".
James Gunn did say he wanted more games set in this setting, which is hard to buy since this entry completely destroys whatever people had any interest in.
All they had to do was port Arkham Origins to the current day consoles, do a 60fps/HDR patch for all 4, and then tease Origns 2 (do something like the origin of Robin/Batgirl, etc.) That's it.
Reminds me that Origins DID have a post credit tease or something
Guess like many things in the Arkhamverse continuity, we will just ignore it for the sake of this recent entry, huh?
You would have thought the videogame industry would have learned something from the explosive failure of Marvel's Avengers. In fact just about anything put out from Square-Enix's western division.
We've literally already seen this happen. It's the equivalent of watching some dude put his hand in a furnace and burning it off, having everyone in the room tell you not to put your hand in there, then putting your hand in there because fuck it
I think the issue is that this game legally has to come out since it was already in production when Marvel's Avengers came out. But I wouldnt discard them being so arrogant that they think it wouldnt happen to them.
I'm just gonna say it. Modern!Harley Quinn has been a disaster for DC.
What started out as an interesting, well-written, and entertaining side-character has been turned into an annoying, edgy, preppy-goth, yandere, BPD, #girlboss cheerleader who's constantly whored out in countless movies, spinoffs, tv shows, comics, and videogames because coomers love to coom to her, thots see her as a "literally me" character, and DC's done so little to market other characters like her outside the Joker that they can't make more money than they can with her, and him.
This game deserves to fail. Modern!Harley Quinn deserves to fail, and I hope this game is the catalyst that finally begins tha.t
Which is funny because Arkham Harley was pretty close to her source material, with her being subservent to the Joker even after his death. Now this game happens and we are suppose to buy she got over her obssession. They wanted to have their cake and eat it by having OG styled Harley acting like Modern Harley.
Classic Harley is the only one that matters (also hotter too). But it seems unlikely we are seeing modern Harley going away, especially with her overrated animated series being a hit with basic bitch audiences who have surface knowledge of these characters because comic books are for nerds. DC sees her as their Deadpool and they will be damned if they are letting her go anytime soon.