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Rocksteady teases Suicide Squad game
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Does evil Batman not do plans?
"Try my new tasty Bat-cookies*, chums."
*the cookies are laced with cyanide
There you go, there went the whole Bat-family. The Tower of Babel plans are dumb and overcomplicated too.
Gotta say, a game where you are a bad guy and kill the whole JL sounds like a fun idea except this won't be, oh well.
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The fact that he COULD kill the Batfamily isn't what bothers me about it. Expecting to get the drop on NIGHTWING OR RED HOOD with guns is just laughable and lazy. In a straight fight we've seen Bruce beat Jason bloody, and he could probably do the same to Dick. Babs, Tim and Damien aren't even a contest, but his two oldest would at least make him work for it. The artist could have gone for a couple comics of a psychotic Bruce playing a cat and mouse game with Jason and Dick and eventually killing them, but just gunning them down is lazy and ignores just how fucking good the two are
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This has got to be the dumbest pile of shit I have ever read.
I have read stupid piles of shit before, but this is a whole mountain worth.
This shit isn't going to bomb, it's going to go nuclear. Not even the braindead troon dangerhairs will like this enough to defend it. It's going to be glorious.
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So apparently Harley and Ivy were a thing in the Arkham universe, even though it doesn’t make any sense timeline-wise.
Also, Harley is essentially hitting on a child.
Also, Harley is essentially hitting on a child.
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Anyone who sits in anxious bugman anticipation for this will be executed when the man comes back to town etc.
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when did digibro get hired by rocksteady?
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I feel like the issue is they’re writing these people as friends or like they want to be there. The only game I’ve ever seen do that well is Left 4 Dead 2, where the each character is effectively a stranger with some outright not liking each other to start and then softening.
The character writing in Left 4 Dead was always a bit of stereotypes, but stereotypes work as the basis of a character. Tropes and cliches are not inherently bad if you play into them or subvert them well enough.
The issue here is that the characters really lack any characterization. They’re deep as a puddle. Harley should be annoyingly positive and be put down by other team members. She shouldn’t be the leader, but can put forward dumb plans that almost work. Instead, she’s the main character when it should be an ensemble cast.
The character writing in Left 4 Dead was always a bit of stereotypes, but stereotypes work as the basis of a character. Tropes and cliches are not inherently bad if you play into them or subvert them well enough.
The issue here is that the characters really lack any characterization. They’re deep as a puddle. Harley should be annoyingly positive and be put down by other team members. She shouldn’t be the leader, but can put forward dumb plans that almost work. Instead, she’s the main character when it should be an ensemble cast.
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That is REALLY fucking funny, they're tipping their hand a little too hard
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I fucking KNEW they’d do this! I’m sure they’ll try to play it off as a cringe moment, but they REALLY had to have known better…
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Ain’t even mad at Penguin and Toyman, Ozzy looks as he should and Toyman was Asian in the early 2000’s (he has a bunch of different robot bodies in different ethnicities, I think?), but there’s an assist character I saw named Hack, I believe, and it literally is just a blue-skinned black lady for no other reason than diversity…
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Are these two even the same character anymore? Its shocking to see how little style and tone this game has over the previous 4 games. Its just so bright and colorful and not at all what the Arkham series was. This is like making a sequel to The Dark Knight Rises but on the style of a MCU movie. Talk about selling out your integrity.
...Also Cobblepot shaved his head but he has hair again? What half assed explanation you got for that, Rocksteady?
Perhaps he shot Jason first (since he is the only one that died from a headshot, Drake got hit in the cheek) since he knows he is the only one that would start retaliating with fatal force nearly right away, so it was essential he took out the most dangerous robin in this situation.
In a better story, we would probably get a short story with Dick and Jason teaming up to stop Batman and the former believes there has to be a way to restore Bruce back to normal while the latter just wants to kill him (but makes it clear he doesnt take any enjoyment from it but after Drake, Babs and even Damian getting mercilessly murdered, he knows the man that raised them is gone). But unfortunately both of them fail in a tragic sequence where it truly sets in to Dick that those arent Bruce's eyes anymore, they are the Joker's.
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Exactly. We're getting off the topic of the thread, but IMMEDIATELY fridging even the 2 that could put up a solid fight with Bruce, instead of drawing it out and (god forbid) making something about this schlock entertaining by showing the difficulties the two were having coming to terms with the fact that Bruce, their father, has lost his shit and is going to actually KILL them. I probably would have actually bought that comic because that's a pretty neat premise. Such a god damn waste of potential
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We dont have too many well known stories with Dick and Jason team up so that could have been interesting. I could even picture Jason getting the upperhand but Bruce tricks him that he was able to come to his senses...only for him to strike him in the face with a crowbar and beat him to death with it.
"Feeling nostalgic, Jason? I might even say 'traumatic'. Hahahaha!"
And Dick arrives too late, only to find Jason's dead body and Batman dropping a sarcastic jab over how "Aww, sorry, we wont be able to fix Red Riding Hood again. Im afraid he is only good for a closed casket now. AHAHAHAAR!"
And thats where Dick snaps while holding Jason's dead body on his arms. Jason's first death was always a sore spot for Bruce and to see him now mocking him after making him experience the same as before? Dick leap at Bruce, filled with rage and guilt, and we see him giving a brutal beatdown. Bruce would fight back hard too but Dick is seeing red so badly that he barely reacts to the pain. But eventually the fight ends on the edge of a rooftop. They both fall only for Batman to hold on the edge with Dick on the other hand. He looks down with his Joker grin and says "Grayson...fly!" (referencing Dick's parents, "Flying Graysons"). Perhaps not even caring about his own life anymore, Dick is able to conjur enough strength to jump up at Bruce with his electric batons out and shoves them into his eyes full force, crushing and frying them. Dick falls to his death in a gut wrenching scene and a now blinded Batman climbs back up, in a mixture of small laughing and pain. It would explain why TBWL wears that thing on his eyes, he doesnt need to see.
"Feeling nostalgic, Jason? I might even say 'traumatic'. Hahahaha!"
And Dick arrives too late, only to find Jason's dead body and Batman dropping a sarcastic jab over how "Aww, sorry, we wont be able to fix Red Riding Hood again. Im afraid he is only good for a closed casket now. AHAHAHAAR!"
And thats where Dick snaps while holding Jason's dead body on his arms. Jason's first death was always a sore spot for Bruce and to see him now mocking him after making him experience the same as before? Dick leap at Bruce, filled with rage and guilt, and we see him giving a brutal beatdown. Bruce would fight back hard too but Dick is seeing red so badly that he barely reacts to the pain. But eventually the fight ends on the edge of a rooftop. They both fall only for Batman to hold on the edge with Dick on the other hand. He looks down with his Joker grin and says "Grayson...fly!" (referencing Dick's parents, "Flying Graysons"). Perhaps not even caring about his own life anymore, Dick is able to conjur enough strength to jump up at Bruce with his electric batons out and shoves them into his eyes full force, crushing and frying them. Dick falls to his death in a gut wrenching scene and a now blinded Batman climbs back up, in a mixture of small laughing and pain. It would explain why TBWL wears that thing on his eyes, he doesnt need to see.
The first Borderlands worked because its humor and characters still felt fresh for the gaming industry that took itself far too seriously at the time. When the quality of the writing began to go down and every idiot under the sun began to try to replicate it, it lost what made it so special and unique.
Oh and it helped Borderlands was a new Ip at the time instead of a pre existing one in a pre-existing universe with a wildly different tone.
Back then we used to just get complex villains that COULD redeem themselves if they wanted so, and even if they did, it would be a long ways until they achieved redemption. There is a reason why the redeemed villain either dies or goes away knowing they will never be accepted right now.
Heroes stand for traditions, standards, values and etc, aka, they are "boring". Hell, look how many people prefer Anakin over Luke. Altho Anakin did a few good things, bro still did genocides and oppressed countless innocents (but its 'kay because he felt bad about it and he kills the old man he served for years at the end for equally selfish reasons), Luke may have stumbled but he still rose up and did the right thing. People like to make villains relatable because they want to "relate" to them instead of look up to heroes because to do the latter means you would need to do self improvement and no modern person wants that anymore.
Batman - Saved countless innocents over the years, prevented many terrorist plots, exposed multiple corruption schemes, brought improvement and safety to Gotham. Stopped The Joker's scheme to use Titan to make an army of grotestic freaks to destroy Gotham. Stopped Dr Strange/Ras'al Ghul's plan to corrupt Gotham from the inside and genocide many innocents stuck in Arkham City. Stopped Scarecrow's plan from plunging Gotham into fear induced chaos. And not to mention the many many broken bones belonging to murderous evil thugs that displayed nothing but legit enjoyment from hurting others. The lies goes on.
Harley - Slept her way into her job. Fell for a murderous psychopathic clown after he used the cheapest tricks in the book. Murdered countless innocents. Participated in multiple terrorist plots that, if they were pulled off, would result in more countless innocent deaths. Demonstrated no regret at all. When she isnt fucking the clown, she is fucking a murderous green terrorist plant woman. The list goes on.
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Hey, Harley cares a great deal about the mentally ill. Just forget that the reason she became a psychologist in the first place was because she wanted to exploit the mentally ill to sell books.
Also, kind of off-topic; been playing the Mafia games for the first time. Aged pretty well. The writing is the perfect pallet cleanser after listening to all this modern dreck.
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Why does he looks like a male feminist from stonetoss comic about hiding predators?
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There is a YouTuber who I watched talk about how awful the Suicide Squad is going to be and he raised a good question. That question being; "Who is this game made for?" This game is so edgy, cynical, nihilistic and mean spirited that it wasn't made for fans of the Batman Arkham games. WB really believed the myth of the "modern audience". That Reddit updoots and Twitter likes meant that these "people" would buy their slop of a game. Never mind the fact that most of those "people" leaving likes are bots. Bots that they paid for to create engagement for their products and shield them from criticism. The irony. The only thing I look forward to with Suicide Squad is seeing gaming YouTubers rip this game a new asshole and the coping and seething from the writers at Sweet Baby Inc. on Twitter.
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Assault on Arkham did a Suicide Squad story years ago, and pulled it off much better, and actually felt like it fit into the Arkhamverse. And it had Kevin Conroy as Batman outsmarting the villains instead of just getting shot or whatever.
Also a little palate cleanser, reminder that this is what Harley and Ivy looked like in the actual Arkham games.
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What is even going on anymore? This game can’t be set in the Arkhamverse. No fucking way.
See, it was already head-scratching turning Harley and Ivy from platonic friends to lovers, but now we’re taking the kiddy diddling angle now? Not a…not a very good look Rocksteady.
Nevermind the continuity issues and we haven’t even seen the full game yet, unless we’re doing the multiverse shit again. Floyd Lawton/Deadshot is white in Arkham City, but black in Kill the Justice League? Penguin has hair? King Shark and Captain Boomerang are still alive? Harley and Ivy fucked?
What the fuck?
See, it was already head-scratching turning Harley and Ivy from platonic friends to lovers, but now we’re taking the kiddy diddling angle now? Not a…not a very good look Rocksteady.
Nevermind the continuity issues and we haven’t even seen the full game yet, unless we’re doing the multiverse shit again. Floyd Lawton/Deadshot is white in Arkham City, but black in Kill the Justice League? Penguin has hair? King Shark and Captain Boomerang are still alive? Harley and Ivy fucked?
What the fuck?
We can’t have sexy women in games anymore. It’s over for American games, bros.
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There is no way that this is part of the main Arkham Verse. The designs and tone are too different, there is no way they can make this canon anymore than they can slam a square in a round shaped hole. This is either an alternative universe or a reboot, either way nobody is actually going to treat this shit as canon.
Good to see all the pushback the game is already receiving before it even launched, I am sure WB appreciates it now that it is on a cusp of bankruptcy!
Someone brought up a good point: Harley is a character that is co-dependent on another(Joker), so how in the hell is she able to lead a group of violent killers who show her no respect and want to kill her as well? Well, the obvious answer is "She's a strong gurl, just like me!", but within the canon of the game it makes no sense. What a waste of potential, I would love a super villain game where you get to potentially fuck up the heroes at the end, but it needs to have good CHARACTERS and STAKES, not be a fanfic of someone who genuinely admits he hates the source materials and the fans(lol, good luck with that PR!)
The multiplayer title which pitted bat clones and joker clones did a much better job of that. Hell, fucking Shadow The Hedgehog is a much better antagonist game, and that one even lets you be neutral or good if you want. This slop is going to go the same way nu-Saints Row did, hopefully ending with the death of Rocksteady
Good to see all the pushback the game is already receiving before it even launched, I am sure WB appreciates it now that it is on a cusp of bankruptcy!
Someone brought up a good point: Harley is a character that is co-dependent on another(Joker), so how in the hell is she able to lead a group of violent killers who show her no respect and want to kill her as well? Well, the obvious answer is "She's a strong gurl, just like me!", but within the canon of the game it makes no sense. What a waste of potential, I would love a super villain game where you get to potentially fuck up the heroes at the end, but it needs to have good CHARACTERS and STAKES, not be a fanfic of someone who genuinely admits he hates the source materials and the fans(lol, good luck with that PR!)
The multiplayer title which pitted bat clones and joker clones did a much better job of that. Hell, fucking Shadow The Hedgehog is a much better antagonist game, and that one even lets you be neutral or good if you want. This slop is going to go the same way nu-Saints Row did, hopefully ending with the death of Rocksteady