Rocksteady teases Suicide Squad game

[Los Pollos Hermanos]

The double standards are astonishing. There’s a skin for Boomerang where he’s just in his boxers. There’s a part of a cutscene where Deadshot is stuck in place by a trap so Harley grabs his ass and says “worth it”.

But when Boomerang calls Hack “Missy” she gets in his face and says that she’s not one of his incognito browser search girls. That comeback doesn’t even make sense because he didn’t call her a whore or slut or whatever.

I suspect there was a conversation where someone wanted Boomerang to be degrading to women, but then someone stepped in and made sure that he wasn’t TOO degrading since that might be triggering, so the worst line they could come up with was “Missy”, which is just pathetic.

 

[Michael Wade]

Well one thing is for sure. This'll make a great oneyplays episode

 

[Love Is Blue]

lol
lmfao even
but in tears

This is how it happened...
This is how Rocksteady died

 

[Activelo]

>Fakes his death in Arkham Knight after his identity gets exposed to protect his loved ones
>Goes "lol nvm" and publicly reveals himself after being invited to the Justice League

 

[xXx: State of the Union]

>Fakes his death in Arkham Knight after his identity gets exposed to protect his loved ones
>Goes "lol nvm" and publicly reveals himself after being invited to the Justice League

Why did *this* have to be in the Arkham Universe, again?

Gotham Knights wasn't ffs

Edit: Also

 

[The Doom Slayer]

The Batman death is so fucking stupid, my God. He's just sitting there on a bench like a bitch and then gets unceremoniously shot in the head like he's some random mook. Just awful.

 

[Mayor Cody Travers]

Between this, the movies' fandom tearing itself apart over Snyder, and the comics' readership collapsing since arguably New52 and definitely Rebirth so continuity and thus stakes in them don't matter anymore.... it's been a hellvua decade (fine, dozen) years for DC to utterly flush itself down the toilet in terms of cultural relevance, huh?

 

[SteelPlatedHeart]

When they kill Flash, Boomerang pisses on his corpse and he has a big dick.

That’s the joke.

https://x.com/buggy_con/status/1752134624862732780

 

[anustart76]

lol
lmfao even
but in tears

This is just incredibly disrespectful. I can't put into words the disgust I feel at seeing what they did with Kevin Conroy's final performance. That man was the iconic Batman of a generation, in two massive franchises, and widely beloved as a really nice guy, and how do they honor his legacy? With a Sweet Baby Inc gunshot to the head of his Batman. Ugh.

I feel like they made every single wrong choice when creating this game.

Just the basic story pitch is bad. Look I'm a Batman fan, I read about DC Comics, and I love Harley Quinn. There's a HUGE problem with your playable characters because I don't care at all for King Shark, Captain Boomerang, or Deadshot. I know Deadshot has some fans but those other 2 are D-Listers.

I don't want to play this game campaign for more than 10 hours max, and it's some live service RPG shit so that means you're supposed to keep going back to this game for months even years? No thank you. I liked the Batman Arkham games because I'd be them in a couple weeks. They didn't wear out their welcome.

How many games could they have made in the timeframe they took to make this trash? Just mediocre.

There should never have been another game after Arkham Knight. It was the end, and a solid end. But if they really wanted to milk the series more, I can pull a better concept out of my ass right now: a Tower of Babel game. You could have the story be Ra's al Ghul, or one of his lieutenants (depending on how you want to handle the choice from Arkham Knight), steal Batman's files on the various superheroes around the world, and have the story be Batman's quest to rescue them from his own machinations turned against them, slowly building up the Justice League from the rescued heroes, and attempting to retrieve his parents' exhumed bodies from Ra's.

The irony of going live service is that the Arkham games are games that I often go back to just because they're that fun. Great story, visuals, acting, gameplay, everything. They're a really fun and immersive experience. Live service games always feel boring and grindy, because all the focus is on MTX, and I never end up wanting to play much of those. Those old pay-once games have so much more to offer than the "always on" live service games do.

 

[Fartificial Insmelligence]

Been watching the cutscenes uploaded on Jewtube, it really is what we all feared. They couldn’t even get basic lore about DC characters correct, like Superman gets stabbed IN THE CHEST by a piece of Kryptonite the size of a tall-boy can of beer, and yet can still use his heat vision and super speed and flight with seemingly ZERO effect! They didn’t even realize that the Guardians of Oa would certainly have recalled Green Lantern’s ring the moment he turned, thus rendering him powerless!


What’s even worse is that they do, in fact, kill every Leaguer by emptying their guns into them! I get shooting Supes with a Kryptonite bullet or something (even though regular K does fuck-all in this universe apparently), but you couldn’t have made something more unique to kill Flash and GL? Hell, they just KO Batman, tie him up and then Harley just puts a bullet in his dome!


I’ve heard the cope from people online saying “oh, the heroes will be back in DLC expansions!”, but if that’s true, then we either killed clones or alt-universe versions of the heroes, in which case that defeats the premise and appeal/ gimmick of the game, or if they don’t come back, we took out some of the most powerful characters in all of fiction like fish in a barrel. I don’t even wanna get into the fact that Marvel had similar ideas for their Avengers game, to flesh out more story and add more characters with expansions, and that ended about as well as sharting yourself in a hot tub. If they don’t get enough sales to warrant releasing any DLC where the heroes come back, then this will be the finale of the Arkhamverse, and that’s… just too bad…

 

[Geddy Lee's Fee and See]

I don't even care about capeshit anymore and that Batman death pisses me off.

At it's worst, Starfield was incompetent. I never once felt like it was made with contempt for its players. But this? Jesus Christ. This is how people who gave a shit about TLOU2 felt, huh?

Starfield was just Bethesda's incompetence turned up to 12. It's shit but I do think they wanted to mae a good game, but again it's DEI Bethesda working under Microshaft. This is just malicious as fuck.

 

[ZMOT]

Between this, the movies' fandom tearing itself apart over Snyder, and the comics' readership collapsing since arguably New52 and definitely Rebirth so continuity and thus stakes in them don't matter anymore.... it's been a hellvua decade (fine, dozen) years for DC to utterly flush itself down the toilet in terms of cultural relevance, huh?

man I'd kill for wildstorm games, but since they got bought by DC they going down the drain too.

 

[anustart76]

I’ve heard the cope from people online saying “oh, the heroes will be back in DLC expansions!”, but if that’s true, then we either killed clones or alt-universe versions of the heroes

My guess is if they get around to it before they can the whole thing like Anthem and Avengers, these will be the real ones, and the DLC ones that come back will be alternate universe versions, like what they're doing with Joker. They'll probably be lame and gay too, like they're doing with Joker.

 

[Fartificial Insmelligence]

My guess is if they get around to it before they can the whole thing like Anthem and Avengers, these will be the real ones, and the DLC ones that come back will be alternate universe versions, like what they're doing with Joker. They'll probably be lame and gay too, like they're doing with Joker.

Probably, maybe they even intended for it to introduce a patchwork-multiverse version of the League with conveniently younger voices (so they could hire cheaper actors, dontcha know!) and thus a whole new franchise could be spun from it, but the way things are going I’d be amazed if people are playing this by the end of the of June, at the latest.

 

[Love Is Blue]

Probably, maybe they even intended for it to introduce a patchwork-multiverse version of the League with conveniently younger voices (so they could hire cheaper actors, dontcha know!) and thus a whole new franchise could be spun from it, but the way things are going I’d be amazed if people are playing this by the end of the of June, at the latest.

WB, Hire This man!

 

[Kulee Baba]

What’s even worse is that they do, in fact, kill every Leaguer by emptying their guns into them! I get shooting Supes with a Kryptonite bullet or something (even though regular K does fuck-all in this universe apparently), but you couldn’t have made something more unique to kill Flash and GL? Hell, they just KO Batman, tie him up and then Harley just puts a bullet in his dome!

That’s the only choice they could make, because the genius idea guys said “We gotta have 4 player MP just like Avengers.” Harley Quinn should in a game designed around her would be an Assassin’s Creed style stealth parkour game, but she’s shooting guns. King Shark (based on James Gunn’s movie) should just be a giant brawler eating people, but he’s shooting guns. Nothing is designed around the a single character.

The Guardians of the Galaxy Eidos game is so much better than this. You only played as Star Lord, it’s like a streamlined Mass Effect. It works its fun and had charm. A solid 7/10 I felt like the studio had fun making that game and most of all I felt they valued my time. Easily worth $20.

Y’know Warner Bros has one of the most beloved IP’s that’s ever existed. I would have loved a Harley Quinn action game with a light “Your choices matter” branching story to promote replay value. Like do you just always remain faithful to The Joker even if he wants to poison Gotham’s water supply? Or do you partner up with Poison Ivy who might have some more firm moral code but really she’s just out there to make a giant man eating Venus Flytrap? Just the concept of missions like infighting with Two-Face and Penguin would be so much fun.

As for them potentially bringing in the proper Justice League how would that even work in the limited structure of the game? Will Suicide Squad Batman be shooting guns? It’s just impossible to have The Flash or Superman in such a game.

 

[Dr. Ricearoni]

My god, the final boss is literally just a Flash palette swap. They couldn't even be bothered to finish the game with a unique boss fight.

 

[Would]

This is going to be the game that kills Rocksteady isn't it?

You're acting like Rocksteady didn't want this the moment they hired Sweet Baby.
The Max Payne reboots have no chance, lmao.

Ayer originally designed 2016 to be a dark and serious film, but WB warped it within the editing department pre-release. At the time, DC films were criticized for being to dark thanks to BVS, causing a mad dash at WB to course correct on SS and Justice League.

I'm still lowkey miffed they never released the Todd McFarlane line of figures for Suicide Squad they teased in 2014.


Oh yeah, the game sucks lol.

 

[PaladinBoo]

When they kill Flash, Boomerang pisses on his corpse and he has a big dick.

That’s the joke.

https://x.com/buggy_con/status/1752134624862732780

Everything about this game is just so mean spirited. The Flash was one of the most compassionate members of the Justice League. Going out of his way to help his rouges gallery turn their life around for the better and improve themselves. He even tried to help Captain Boomerang change for the better. This is how they treat him and the other male heroes in the Justice League. Also, I noticed that they used the Jon Stewart version of the Green Lantern. This game is just Sweet Baby Inc. and Grant K. Roberts "Fuck You chads" to fans of the 2000's Justice League. Millennial writers with chips on their shoulders can not help themselves in ruining beloved characters in order to prop themselves and their lame anti-heroes up.

 

[CAPTAIN HAPPY]

My god, the final boss is literally just a Flash palette swap. They couldn't even be bothered to finish the game with a unique boss fight.

This is some of the most insulting shit I've ever seen.