Rocksteady teases Suicide Squad game

The one game I felt that they did a proper villain is The Boss from Saints Row 2, he was angry, ambitious, selfish and psychotic for the most part. There are a couple of examples where he would kill someone who was innocent or at least mostly innocent.

He killed a gang boss's girlfriend by stuffing her in the trunk of a car that got crushed unbeknownst to the gang boss and the bartender from the nightclub during a raid by Masako commandos when she was flirting with him and he used her as a meat shield who he then set on fire after she was shot as a distraction so he can shoot back at commandos.

The only people he showed respect towards was those he knew since the beginning. Johnny Gat and Aisha he cared about since joining The Saints and Mr. Wong the Triad Boss when he worked for him in SR1 but Shaundi, Pierce and Carlos. He didn't respect them too much.

They even softened The Boss afterwards because Volition felt he was too evil to be relatable.
 
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Aqua Panda said:
"It's our turn now!" This is 100% the writing of a danger hair who truly thinks Batman is a white male, ultra rich fascist, not a hero.
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Supposedly, the now-infamous Sweet Baby, Inc was involved. Rocksteady's founders also left the studio over a year ago, if that's any indication of how disappointed they must have been.

BiggestKai said:
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"
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Man In A Dress said:
Hold up, if this is a sequel to the Arkham games, shouldn't Amanda Waller and King Shark both be dead already.
Because the animated movie "Assault On Arkham" is part of that continuity and it ended with Deadshot sniping a morbidly obese Amanda Waller. Not to mention the drastic redesign for King Shark.
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Deadshot is supposed to be white in the Arkham series too, NONE of this makes any sense. There's no way this game actually would fit into the Arkhamverse, and frankly, it doesn't deserve to. Knight was the end, and any potential futures should be left up to our imaginations.
(Also a note on Waller, it's implied at some point through the games' tie-in comics that Batman stopped Deadshot before he could shoot her, and she appears in later tie-in comics)

I think the only reason Rocksteady even made a Suicide Squad game in the first place is WB probably told them after they were experimenting with a Superman game, "no we don't have any more Superman movies coming out but we have another Suicide Squad movie coming out and we're going to keep doing those so make a Suicide Squad game to match"

Bunny Tracks said:
Kevin Conroy didn't die for this.
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You have no idea how much this angers me. I knew this game was going to be a disappointing sendoff for my favorite voice actor, but after seeing these leaks, it feels like they outright wanted to desecrate his final performance. The man was iconic and beloved for good reason. As far as I'm concerned this game doesn't exist, it doesn't take place in the Arkhamverse, and Kevin Conroy's final major performances were Arkham Knight and the Killing Joke movie.
In a way, I suppose it's good he's not around to see what they did to him. The disrespect is disgusting. RIP Kevin, you didn't deserve this.
 
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anustart76 said:
Supposedly, the now-infamous Sweet Baby, Inc was involved. Rocksteady's founders also left the studio over a year ago, if that's any indication of how disappointed they must have been.
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Lets be real. They got out because they knew that this game was going to bomb and wanted to leave as to not sully their names by being known as the founders who destroyed their own company and killed Batman and Superman on the altar of social justice. By leaving before the shit hits the fan they will at least avoid the drama and the wrath of angry gamers.
anustart76 said:
I think the only reason Rocksteady even made a Suicide Squad game in the first place is WB probably told them after they were experimenting with a Superman game, "no we don't have any more Superman movies coming out but we have another Suicide Squad movie coming out and we're going to keep doing those so make a Suicide Squad game to match"
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WB and DC, have, for years, tried to make the Suicide Squad and Harley Quinn be the next big things. Every attempt to do so has failed. While Harley Quinn has some popularity, however, her show viewership is pretty niche, her solo movie bombed hard and lost to fucking Sonic the Hedgehog. She is not and will never be as popular as Deadpool. WB and DC fail to realize that people like Harley when she was the Joker's sidekick. They don't like her now with her more or less being a self-insert Mary-Sue for mentally ill BPD women and troons.

Then there is WB and DC trying hard to make the Suicide Squad be their Guardians of the Galaxy. Just edgier and with villains instead of misfits. This has failed time and again with both movies bombing. I think the main reason for that is because there is a wholesomeness and sincerity with the Guardians. The Suicide Squad is just full of cynicism and nihilism. Nobody wants to see their childhood heroes get killed off by a bunch of edge lord chuckle fucks and told to go fuck themselves as it's "Their turn now".

Also, WB and DC HATE Superman. They hate that Superman is a good and wholesome character and have even stated that people (i.e them) don't want a good and heroic Superman but would rather see a evil Superman who uses his powers to take over the world. Both Nerdortic and RedLetterMedia said it best when they say that WB and DC are the most incompetently run companies in the world. They are competely and utterly out of touch with what people want.
 
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I have been playing through Arkham Asylum with a graphics mod the last few days. I played it around 2015 or so. But I never finished the game because of game ADD. I forgot what happened in the game so I just started over with a new file. I have made a personal promise to complete the game this time. lol
 
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Michael Wade said:
Where's the leaked summary for this shit?
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Reddit removed the summary, but someone wrote it down and took a pic: Screenshot 2023-12-19 043139.png
Night Crawler said:
I have been playing through Arkham Asylum with a graphics mod the last few days. I played it around 2015 or so. But I never finished the game because of game ADD. I forgot what happened in the game so I just started over with a new file. I have made a personal promise to complete the game this time. lol
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The Riddler Trophies aren't worth it, man.
 
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>In total, The Flash, Earth 1!Lex Luthor, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, Tim Drake, Batman, and Superman all die
>Earth 1's Justice League are all brainwashed by Brainiac, and the plot is basically Tower of Babel, but really fucking dumb, and confusing
>The Flash is killed by Captain Boomerang after he's drawn out by the Suicide Squad making fun of him on national television
>Green Lantern is killed by probably (it says that) Deadshot
>Wonder Woman saves the Suicide Squad from the Superman and then dies
>Tim Drake is killed by Batman
>Harley Quinn gives a speech before killing Batman, and he tells her it's shit
>Harley Quinn is implied to have carved a bat symbol into Batman's corpse
>Amanda Waller tries to nuke Metropolis to draw out Superman who is killed by presumably (again, it says that) Shark

This is somehow worse than I thought it would be.
 
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that summary reads like it's full of deus ex machina bullshit, even by capeshit standards.

I don't doubt a villain story can be done well (saints row 2 has already been mentioned), but this chaotic evil lol so randumb bullshit is not going to resonate with an audience that doesn't live their lives constantly having revenge fantasies against imagined oppressors. Y'know, 80% of normal people.

Shit I'm all for playing as a bad guy and fucking shit up, but that summary just sounds cringe as fuck.

edit: It almost feels like the game was written by feeding gamergate era reddit posts into an AI. Batman is an evil hu-white man oppressing the minorities who just want to rape kill and loot in peace.
 
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Reddit removed the summary, but someone wrote it down and took a pic: View attachment 5578052

The Riddler Trophies aren't worth it, man.
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I don't care. I hunt for them anyway. If I remember correctly, you can find maps in the game that tell you where they all are. I like what Marvels Spider Man did with it's collectibles. They were easy to find and the game would tell you where they were. But swinging all over the map was still fun.
 
Bunny Tracks said:
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 that.
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What DC and WB don't understand is that Harley was interesting when she was the Joker's sidekick. She was the Bonnie to his Clyde. The problem now is, due to #MeToo, having Harley be the abused sidekick who is madly in love with the Joker is too "problematic". She needs to be "liberated", "empowered" and also a lesbian. What DC, WB and feminists also don't understand is that Harley was never meant to be this. This is all detrimental to what her character was suppose to be. Thankfully Modern Harley has more or less failed. All the movies and shows she has starred in have bombed with general audiences. People don't want a Harley without the Joker.
cerulean hydra said:
I don't doubt a villain story can be done well (saints row 2 has already been mentioned), but this chaotic evil lol so randumb bullshit is not going to resonate with an audience that doesn't live their lives constantly having revenge fantasies against imagined oppressors. Y'know, 80% of normal people.
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Oh don't be silly. More like 95% of people. Even Lefties in my ultra Blue state are sick to death of these kind of characters and storytelling. From what they tell me is that times are hard right now. People can use a little hope and optimism to get them through the day and cheer them up. They are getting sick to death of the constant nihilism and cynicism that plagues modern entertainment. As I said before this game will be a product of its time. A relic of a begone era where the writers of that age thought nihilism and cynicism equaled intelligence and artistic value.
 
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PaladinBoo said:
Oh don't be silly. More like 95% of people. Even Lefties in my ultra Blue state are sick to death of these kind of characters and storytelling. From what they tell me is that times are hard right now. People can use a little hope and optimism to get them through the day and cheer them up. They are getting sick to death of the constant nihilism and cynicism that plagues modern entertainment. As I said before this game will be a product of its time. A relic of a begone era where the writers of that age thought nihilism and cynicism equaled intelligence and artistic value.
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They will never get any of that if they keep going with their stupid leftist faggotry. Maybe they will get so depressed they decide to kill themselves. One can only hope right? lol
 
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PaladinBoo said:
People don't want a Harley without the Joker.
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I think this is mostly true, but I also think Harley can work without the Joker. Unfortunately, it requires her having a character to explore beyond being a quippy #BossBitch and beyond just being Joker's lackey. And most writing with her modern character falls short of that. You can't have something like BtAS's Harley's Holiday today, where she's a good-natured ditz who has chaos follow her around, and who shows (and is shown) sympathy with Batman. I think it's more of a condemnation of the writers than the potential of the character, who are, as you say, more focused on having her be this symbol of "empowerment" over having her be a character with traces of depth, like how she was able to capture and (almost) kill Batman, until the Joker got pissy about it.
 
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The really sad thing is the DLC characters are way more interesting and fitting for the kind of game this is, then the shitty C team that's on the cover.

I mean Joker, Mr freeze, killer croc, and deathstroke seems like a better and more interesting team for this game. Shit ill even give them some props if they took the time to redo the cutscenes for them.

Alt universe Joker shooting batman in the head is still shit, but at least there's some gravatas to it. At least it feels a little bit more thematically interesting and a contrast to arkham city.

If your going to have the bad guys win or do fucked up shit. You cant have the shitty forgettable diversity hire C listers do it, You need to have the A tier badasses doing it. There's a germ of an interesting idea here that is forever fucked by terrible decision making and the asinine decision to tie this into arkham verse.

Fuck I really wonder if mark is doing the voice. I cant imagine him doing it post conroy death unless he's a real piece of shit at heart. That even assumes this DLC gets made if the backlash is bad enough.


The standout insulting shit is them ignoring batman's advice on how to kill the justice league and the fact that it looks like there's no way to bring them back. They really just fucking kill them.... lovely. Yeah this is going to bomb.
 
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