Rocksteady teases Suicide Squad game

[The handsome tard]

Even the selection of the members could be better. King Shark is an AquaMan villain but he is nowhere to be seen. Deadshot and Harley are two Batman villains so cut one of them. You can keep Capt Boomerang since he is a Flash villain.

There needed to be at least a Batman villain, Superman Villain, Wonder Woman Villain and a Flash villain. With the last one we got Boomerang, even tho maybe Capt Cold would be better (he does have a more sympathetic attitude even). Batman could either be Harley or Deadshot (or hell Deathstroke), personally I would go with the latter but we all know the former is sadly way too popular. A Superman Villain could be many, Metallo maybe? Livewire? Maybe a version of Toyman even? And Wonder Woman villains could maybe be Cheetah, Giganta, Dr Poison and etc.

That way you have villains with personal history with most members of the team and that would help with dialogue and character introductions. And hell, maybe half of the squad could be female just so no one can throw the mysogeny card.

You can also do unique things with these villains, like taking advantage of Cheetah's speed (maybe she is the only one that somewhat keep up with Flash...which is kind of canon to the comics) or Giganta's size shifting (wide reaching heavy attacks but not very mobile, could possibly serve as a temporary platform for characters to jump off of). Captain Cold could focus on creating ice constructions and barriers. Metallo can be a mostly offensive character with the focus on energy attacks.

You HAVE options and you can and should make them stand out with their unique powers rather than just resort to different variations of pew pew pew.

Something else needs to be pointed out. We already have reformed criminal superheroes who decided to become unlikely heroes. Plastic Man, for instance, or Booster Gold.

New VG proposal: Booster Gold Saves the Justice League--a story about how former a criminal ends up saving the JLA from Brainiac's mind control.

I would love to see the whole thing narrated by him and it would make sense since he comes from the future

Booster Gold is also actually kind of funny at times since he has some of that Johnny Bravo energy. He has a huge ego but he ultimately means well.

To be fair to Conroy he was pretty private about being gay. He stated that he didn't feel like being gay was what defined him. It was that he was a voice for a hero for several generations of children. He would only talk about being gay if it was brought up, otherwise he would mostly talk about being the voice for Batman or his other voice work. Shows a stark difference between his generation and today's generation who believe that your sexuality is what defines you. Not your personality or work.

I never minded Kevin being gay because he really kept that to himself and he never really went on any Twitter tantrums as far as I know. He always seemed to treat everyone, co-workers to fans, with respect, even if they had different opinions. He legit enjoyed being Batman and you can feel the passion in it. The closest thing to his sexuality that his work ever got was a DC Pride Month story where he spoke about voicing Batman for the first time, how he was able to relate to hiding an aspect of yourself and that helped him craft the voice we all know.

He was just a fine actor and person that happened to be gay and knew that didnt make him special in any way but his work did.

Sort of reminds me how many old school LGBTQ members despise modern LGBTQ

"So, let's take a master sharpshooter, a crazy Australian with a fondness for knives, boomerangs, and boomerang knives, Harley Quinn, and a giant shark and have them kill the Justice League."

And nobody at Rocksteady or WB thought this was a terrible idea? You could have easily kept Braniac around and made it so these guys were on a suicide mission into his secret lair while the Justice League is out there fighting off his armies. We've got The Dirty Dozen after all. Just treat them like the psychopaths they are and have them constantly bicker and snipe at each other, Deadshot being the pragmatic team leader who really doesn't want to piss off Waller but hates who he is saddled with, Boomerang there because he wants to start knoifing people, Harley for the same reason, and King Shark all "Hurr durr I want a steak".

Maybe a Justice League game with the SS being in a DLC that shows them doing something smaller but essential in the background of the main story that ultimately aids the league in coming out ontop. No one will know they helped but the league members visit them in their cells to drop a thanks, which they appreciate it deep down.

Flash: Hopefully when you guys leave prison, you wont give us a reason to put you back inside there.
Capt. Boomerang: HA! 50/50!
Flash: Will be waiting for ya either way it goes, Boom.

Absolute state of ShillmanLives if he's simping not just for this piece of shit but Starfield as well.

He lost a LOT of his cred with those two vids and I wonder if he is internally panicking.

The Shill bucks might not have been worth it, G.

I feel like this is a get-of-jail free card for the writers. They're being racist, but because they're projecting those sentiment through a black character, they think they're in the clear.

They are unintentionally being realistic, lol.

 

[PaladinBoo]

I wonder what the Metacritic score is.

 

[Cheeseknife]

I wonder what the Metacritic score is.
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Too bad we can't keep an constant guage on it, like a speedometer in a car, at the top of the thread.

 

[Rome's rightful successor]

The fact that Amanda Waller doesn't die in this game.

 

[Mr.Miyagi]

There needed to be at least a Batman villain, Superman Villain, Wonder Woman Villain and a Flash villain. With the last one we got Boomerang, even tho maybe Capt Cold would be better (he does have a more sympathetic attitude even). Batman could either be Harley or Deadshot (or hell Deathstroke), personally I would go with the latter but we all know the former is sadly way too popular. A Superman Villain could be many, Metallo maybe? Livewire? Maybe a version of Toyman even? And Wonder Woman villains could maybe be Cheetah, Giganta, Dr Poison and etc.

That way you have villains with personal history with most members of the team and that would help with dialogue and character introductions. And hell, maybe half of the squad could be female just so no one can throw the mysogeny card.

It wouldn't have saved the game, but it sure would have made the cast more interesting. I mean, if they wanted to go for the erudite animal bruiser, why not somebody like Gorilla Grodd? I'd take Grodd, Livewire, Cheetah, and Deathstroke over Harley and Captain Boomerang any day. As you said, these guys who have interesting abilities could actually use them in the game to make traversing the city and fighting enemies more engaging. But I guess that's too much work the devs, not to mention whatever bullshit they're stuck with when it comes to it being IP-bound to the movies and all.

 

[Cheeseknife]

The fact that Amanda Waller doesn't die in this game.

She constantly looks like her head is about to explode through her eyeballs, though.

 

[Get the rope Macaulay!]

It is almost like the nu-Rocksteady never saw that Batman Animated Series episode "Lock-Up" which shows how much Batman does care about people, even his rouges gallery, and wants them to get better. However, we are dealing with a generation of writers who have been utterly buck broken by their communist professors and believe anybody that is rich and fights back against mentally ill criminals that kill people are agents of Satan.

funny you should bring up that episode, here's a quote about the Travis Bickle inspired villian...

Later, in his home, Bolton watches an unflattering news report on him by Summer Gleeson, and includes the "liberal" media in his list of targets.

By all accounts Sweetbaby is running because the writers of the DCAU walked. mocking a "tough on crime" guy who's only crime is noticing how the same assholes get to leave and wreck havoc on the city time after time is the sort of thing people on the farms would expect a shithead writer to include in this very video game yet it was written by the "best" writers bats ever got. It just proves that if this game came out in 1992 instead of now. Even with Paul Dini writing; we'd still have the same faggotry.

Debra Wilson is genuinely great.

i agree, its just too bad no one tries to give her better writing, she was one of the best on madtv, let her play an aggressive bimbo like most of the non-impression characters she did on that show, it would guarantee the internet loving her

 

[PaladinBoo]

i agree, its just too bad no one tries to give her better writing, she was one of the best on madtv, let her play an aggressive bimbo like most of the non-impression characters she did on that show, it would guarantee the internet loving her

Her best role was Oprah. I laugh my ass off every time I see this.

 

[Get the rope Macaulay!]

To be fair to Conroy he was pretty private about being gay. He stated that he didn't feel like being gay was what defined him.

to be fair, Conroy probably wasn't open about being gay because it was the fucking 90s/2000s and ellen got canceled for coming out of the closet and it was considered a brave move when she got to voice a character in finding nemo years later.

Conroy would have known pretty fucking well that being an open gay and a childrens entertainer would have been as impossible having superpowers. the young don't seem to realize how many people weren't allowed to come out even with how obvious it was because of how strong the conservatives were back then. And if we're being honest, you can tell even from today with how limited their roles are that being openly gay will fuck you over in entertainment. From then on out you can't play anything beyond a comic relief. There's a reason even fucking Kevin Spacey had to transparently hide his sexuality well into the 2010s.

i'm sure you can count the number of out gay voice actors the kiwifarms likes on one hand

Her best role was Oprah. I laugh my ass off every time I see this.

another great point, this bitch can pull off a fucking fat suit. the fact that these kikes didn't just tell her to do an oprah impression the entire game shows how evil they are. If Suicide squad came out a dozen or more years ago with the same cast they'd 100% be making her an oprah parody. theres no reason she couldn't have looked like that in the game.

 

[The handsome tard]

It wouldn't have saved the game, but it sure would have made the cast more interesting. I mean, if they wanted to go for the erudite animal bruiser, why not somebody like Gorilla Grodd? I'd take Grodd, Livewire, Cheetah, and Deathstroke over Harley and Captain Boomerang any day. As you said, these guys who have interesting abilities could actually use them in the game to make traversing the city and fighting enemies more engaging. But I guess that's too much work the devs, not to mention whatever bullshit they're stuck with when it comes to it being IP-bound to the movies and all.

I can imagine Livewire playing a bit like Infamous, Deathstroke playing similarly to his Origins self except more offensively focused, Grodd being a mixture of brawn but also psychic powers (like throwing enemies around or even turning them temporarly into allies), Cheetah's moves focus on quick strikes and maybe "bleeding" status effects.

Again, its fun to imagine gameplay centered around various villains of DC but then it gets sad once you imagine modern Rocksteady would somehow convert all of that into gunplay somehow.

 

[Basic Blond Boy]

 

[Rome's rightful successor]

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No, no, no. She's strong and empowah Harley that doesn't need no Joker.

 

[Commander X]

My expression every time I see a cutscene from this game:

 

[Quarterback Rex Grossman]

to be fair, Conroy probably wasn't open about being gay because it was the fucking 90s/2000s and ellen got canceled for coming out of the closet and it was considered a brave move when she got to voice a character in finding nemo years later.

This is why zoomies are disliked. Ellen's "sitcom" got cancelled two seasons after she came out because it was shit and she turned it into a soapbox for lgb propaganda, like that damn episode where Mr. Selfridge wakes up in a world where everyone is gay and being straight is the weird thing. Goddamn, nephew. She was a shit-ass comedian who should have vanished into the mist of history before lucking out and reviving her career. She was never cancelled as a human being, and the '90s and 2000s were not the dark ages where gays were hunted for sport. Fuck sake. We even had color tv then.

 

[Get the rope Macaulay!]

wo seasons after she came out because it was shit and she turned it into a soapbox for lgb propaganda,

outside of her having female love interests how was it a soap box and do you consider every show with straight love interests SS propaganda?

She was never cancelled as a human being, and the '90s and 2000s were not the dark ages where gays were hunted for sport.

tell that to matthew shepard. Also if you notice you quoted the wrong part. if you really wanted to prove me wrong you would have named your 6 favorite openly gay voice actors. i'm sure you have at least that many right?

 

[Love Machine]

Especially with how they treated Superman. Joe is a massive Superman fan and he was already skeptical of the game given that the trailers made it clear that Superman will be a villain. A trope he is tired of. I have a feeling that he is going to fanboy rage at this game, which, good. This game deserve all the hate it gets and then some. I hope he directs some of that hate to WB for being fucking brain dead retards thinking they can make Suicide Squad be the new Guardians. Hopefully this game will be the final nail in their attempts at shoving these characters down our throat's.

Joe is a superman fan? I never would have guessed that. What is like into the all star stuff or something?

 

[Local Degenerate]

This right here sums it up perfectly. It's basically the exact same issue I had with the Star Wars sequel trilogy killing off beloved characters.

I actually didn't really care that Luke became a bitter jaded asshole and died. It's the HOW and WHY. The idea itself isn't a bad one it's how it's handled.
The entire problem with how Batman goes out in this game is there is no emotional weight or depth to it at all. The same could go for the rest of the Justice League but Batman especially since we've been playing as him for pretty much every other game set in this particular universe.

When you kill off a beloved character you can't just go "Bam! Oops, guess they're dead now... Anyway." it really just shows that the developers didn't give a single shit and didn't care enough to actually write an engaging death scene. Hell it borders on spiteful as others in this thread have pointed out.

I'm no writer so I can't fix the scene for them but the thing I'm replying to is probably the closest thing I could think of. It definitely would've been more meaningful and emotional than just executing him like a dog. And hell it even gives Harley actual character development.

Shame this isn't what we got. Imagine what it could've been.

" Y'know Bats... I thought this is what I always would've wanted. "

" But it's not... is it? "

"... No.... "

So, I AM a writer, and I love little challenges like this. To make it more fun, I'm not going to look up a single thing on this game. Context, to make it more hilarious: I have played a few hours of the first Arkham game, I've never read a single comic in my life (No offense to you who do, it's more of a price value thing for me), and I've only really ever seen reviews on JLA episodes/comic stuff. In short, I probably have about as much JLA knowledge as the entirety of Sweet Baby combined. I know the JL was mind controlled or something, but that's about it. I'm also going to try to write it generally in the style these modern writers think is 'funny'. Sweary 'strong' wahamn and meta commentary and all, but actually make it not eye bleeding.

Ready your puzzle pieces gentlemen, but I'm too interested in the challenge not to try. Feel free to ignore this autism.

Spoiler: in which Degenerate decides to give writing a Batman death scene a shot.

At the end of the level, the SS enters a wide room or a warehouse, Batman standing in an elevated position, divided by a waist high metal railing, back to them.

Harley: Well, if it isn't the Batman. It's over, Bruce. We're here to finally do what Mistah J has always wanted to...

Batman sighs, reaching out and rubbing his hand along the railing, He turns, walking along the railing.

Shark: Can he hear us?

Harley: Yeah, he can, he just likes to be dramatic.

Batman finally turns to the SS, looking over them.

Batman: For 20* years, I've tried my best to make the world a better place. I've stopped criminals, saved children, saved the world a few times, but it never seems to change. Time after time, I put monsters like you in cages, only for you to break out, and start the whole thing over again. And then Joker forced my hand. For the first time, I killed someone. And do you know what happened, Harleen?

Harley: You cracked like a walnut?

Batman: His madness stopped. No more laughing gas. No more attacks to demand my attention.

Batman pauses, camera focuses on his hand as he grips the railing in his fist.

Batman: No more dead parents in alleyways.

Batman grips tight enough to bend the railing.

Batman: I'm starting to realize that I might have been wrong, all these years. There's no helping you animals. The only thing I can do to help you is to give you a quick death you don't see coming.

The lights go out, plunging the arena in darkness. A small circle of light remains, and the SS cluster into it.

Boomerang: Ah shit, what now!?

Harley: Shut up! This is what he does. He makes ya all scared, then he strikes. Stick to the light, be careful, and DON'T let him get behind you.

The boss fight starts. (Note: If I had to design this as well, it'd be a sort of 'survival horror lite' experience of wandering through dark areas as Batman stalks you, taking pot shots with his gadgets while you try to turn the lights back on)

Boss fight ends, Batman is bleeding from multiple wounds, staggers back, falls to a knee. Harley approaches.

Harley: Shit, Bats, what did they do to ya?

Batman grits his teeth, spits out blood, before looking up, his eyes hardened. The fight has kicked his adrenaline up, and the pain has given him enough focus to fight off the mind control. He gives a plot dump, explaining the brainwashing. At the end...

Batman: One more thing, Harleen. Kill me. Now.

Harley is taken aback by this.

Harley: Bats...holy shit, are you...

Batman: I lived my entire life by one rule. I don't kill. I don't *ever* want to kill. Don't let me do it, Harley...

Harley takes a moment before nodding and pointing her gun at his head.

Harley: Ya know, I was lying before. Mistah J could've killed you a hundred times over. I think...I think you were somethin' like a friend to him.

Batman nods, closing his eyes. The gunshot goes off, killing him off screen. Harley stands silently, not crying, just standing, back to the camera. Boomerang approaches

Boomerang: Fuckin' hell, you weren't kidding, Turn the lights on and he turns into a right sheila, eh? Guess he was all tal-

Harley puts the gun to his chin, pushing him into a wall.

Harley: You shut the fuck up you Kangaroo fucking piece of shit. You didn't know him, you do not fuckin' talk about him, you got that!?

Boomerang: Yeah! Alright! Jesus!

Harley puts her gun away, storming off screen.

Boomerang: The fucks up with 'er?

The others walk past, Deadshot claps him on the shoulder as he does.

Deadshot: He was a prick, but he was a good man, Boomerang. There's some people you don't need to shit on when they're done.

Boomerang huffs, shrugs, then follows.

Scene close.

This is why zoomies are disliked. Ellen's "sitcom" got cancelled two seasons after she came out because it was shit and she turned it into a soapbox for lgb propaganda, like that damn episode where Mr. Selfridge wakes up in a world where everyone is gay and being straight is the weird thing. Goddamn, nephew. She was a shit-ass comedian who should have vanished into the mist of history before lucking out and reviving her career. She was never cancelled as a human being, and the '90s and 2000s were not the dark ages where gays were hunted for sport. Fuck sake. We even had color tv then.

If anything in the late 90s, gays were celebrated. Just not elevated to minor gods like they are today. I remember Queer eye for the straight guy and Will and Grace.

The 90's were basically the peak of society insofar as equity went. People didn't give a rats ass about skin color, just who you were. When King got his ass beat for being a nigger, the cops got the shit slapped out of them (IIRC), and we all moved on in our lives understanding THOSE guys were cunts. Even though it's common non-nig knowledge not to try to swing on a cop or they'll beat your ass legally.

I still remember Malcom in the God Damn Middle, one of the safest shows you can imagine, making a joke about racial tension, resolving it with the moral of 'don't assume everyone's a racist' for fucks sake.

This idea that niggers having rights and gays not being shot in the streets is a new idea is solely propagated so that the 'current year' can sound better.


On topic of the game, the fact that The Day Before sold 3 times as well will never not be fucking hilarious to me.

 

[Would]

I tell you what. I am really looking forward to angry joe shitting on this. The hate will be real.

Assblasted Alejandro reaps exactly what he sows. I still remember him saying in 2013 that allowing the femcels, terfs, and the rot was a-ok and that "your games are still gonna be ok. Guys, we'll still have our boobies and fan service; it's just that we'll be letting others enjoy gaming as well!"

Enjoy your favorite heroes being sodomized, Jose.

 

[PaladinBoo]

Assblasted Alejandro reaps exactly what he sows. I still remember him saying in 2013 that allowing the femcels, terfs, and the rot was a-ok and that "your games are still gonna be ok. Guys, we'll still have our boobies and fan service; it's just that we'll be letting others enjoy gaming as well!"

Enjoy your favorite heroes being sodomized, Jose.

I hope someone on Twitter or YouTube will remind him of that. He gladly opened the gates to femcels, troons and male feminist soyboys to come in and destroy our hobbies. I hope someone makes a video of Joe watching Superman die at the hands of the Suicide Squad with him having the look of utter defeat and rage. You wanted this Joe. Enjoy watching your childhood hero get killed by the "better heroes".

 

[Would]

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Sweet Baby says they knew Batman better than you, Chud.