Rocksteady teases Suicide Squad game

[anustart76]

has anyone touched on how this game makes the arkham games... weird?... as superman, the flash, green lantern, or wonder woman should've intervened in genocidal events

That's actually kind of easy to explain away, though I don't know how they wrote the League in this game, so it might not fit, but more or less, Batman would have been considered a legendary hero by the others, who don't want to mess with his turf, out of respect. Smaller characters were involved in Gotham events, like Black Canary and Huntress, I think (though never in-game).

This isn't a new concept either; there's an issue from the No Man's Land arc of Batman, where Superman comes in, tries to help, and fails miserably because he just doesn't understand Gotham as well as Batman.

why the hell did they attach this to the arkhamverse at all?

Marketing, of course. Some suit thought "hey your old games made money, if we say it's part of those, it'll sell tons of money!"

The Killing Joke film

Wasn't that more Brian Azzarello's doing?

Margot Harley

Look, if they hadn't purposely tried to make Margot Robbie less sexy as Harley Quinn, I wouldn't even mind her in the role.

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A good voice for Batman, you mean. But I'd expect a "good man" would have more sense than to give his voice to the character in this game.

I doubt he knew what the game was going to become in the end. He just knew he was going to get to play a villainous Batman.
It's convenient he's a little too dead to tell the story of how it all went down.

I have bee seeing Twitts like this all day, what do you think? paid shills? bots? consoomers?

>y'all
YOU WILL NEVER BE A NIGGER, KAREN

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

Not to defend these retards, but killing off Amanda Waller is like killing off the Kingpin. It's just better to keep her alive so she can keep making messes in the background.

I like joe. Sure he's naive and liberal, but he represents the honest normie. When something is crap he doesn't hold back.

My litmus test for these Youtubers nowadays is what they think of JonTron. I know they used to be friendly, but no idea if Joe's distanced himself in recent years.

 

[Cheeseknife]

It's convenient he's a little too dead to tell the story of how it all went down.

Would Conroy have even courted the drama, though? I know Hamill did when he reprised Luke Skywalker. In which case, I'd expect Conroy would just side with Rocksteady since burning bridges is never a good policy.

 

[Local Degenerate]

@anustart76 It pisses me off that niggers are trying to claim y'all.

Fucking chimps steal everything, even your language.

 

[starborn427614]

By the way, for anybody curious, the budget for this game is 400 million! Hogwarts Legacy, a game that WB was willing to write off because "TERF author bad! Modern audience don't like her!" was made on a budget of 150 million. WB was so delusional that they thought a game where you play as obnoxious, irredeemable, queer, quirky, pieces of Redditor shit would do better then fucking Harry Potter. If I was David Zaslav I would fire everybody in WB who greenlit this and thought the Suicide Squad would be a bigger and better brand than Harry Potter.

D'you have a source on that? Not that I can't believe financial bloat in this day and age, but even Insomniac's Spider-Man 2 didn't go above 300 and I'd argue it had way more unique systems to deal with than Suicide Squad does.

 

[TV's Adam West]

I didn't even know Conroy was gay until today, in fact. This completely recolors how I'm going to look at anything voiced by Conroy. Fuck.

Shut the fuck up, nigger.

 

[Cheeseknife]

D'you have a source on that? Not that I can't believe financial bloat in this day and age, but even Insomniac's Spider-Man 2 didn't go above 300 and I'd argue it had way more unique systems to deal with than Suicide Squad does.

Is there a website that tracks how much it costs to make various video games?

Shut the fuck up, nigger.

He won't suck your dick now that he's dead, faggot.

 

[TV's Adam West]

I got a free key for the suicide squad game from a coworker. Played for about an hour.
The movement is fun, actually.
It sits somewhere between Spiderman PS2 and Sunset Overdrive. Honestly, the movement kinda steals the show for me. I like doing weird ass parkour shit in between sniping and taking potshots.
I'm playing as captain boomer and honestly, I like him.
As for people saying this game disrespects Batman, I don't see it in my time. The first thing that happened is he fucking destroys all of us, then we get a Jack Rider cameo where we jack off the nostalgia that is the Arkham Games.
Rick Flag is gay now, so there's that.
Got a few genuine laughs, too.
Deadshot getting his ass beat by Wonder Woman and him responding with
"and I got my daughter a wonder woman shirt last Christmas" was amusing.

I'd like Bane as a playable character, but I doubt I'll play it solo without my coworker.

Ill say this, I was hoping for a dumpster fire and was disappointed.
It's an okay game, fun for a few hours at least, and I got it for free.

 

[TheWatcherofWatchers]

I know bringing up inconstancies in comic media and the hero's inaction with events tied to their universe is somewhat pointless, especially in this scenario, but has anyone touched on how this game makes the arkham games... weird?... as superman, the flash, green lantern, or wonder woman should've intervened in genocidal events. Better yet, why the hell did they attach this to the arkhamverse at all? Is there any sort of article from the lead writer or a writer about why? Other than there being batman, and the intro shot of the cars riding into arkham asylum being stolen from the arkham asylum game, there's nothing important used or referenced from what I saw. The game gets shit wrong constantly, like poison ivy and harley. Why didn't they just make it an independent universe, and instead of killing the justice league, the suicide squad saves them, showing the heros that they're good deep down or some gooey heartwarming shit. Maybe rocksteady could've made more games based on superman, the flash, green lantern, or wonder woman too. Why are they stupid, and why do they hate money?

In regards to the justice league not getting involved, it's not that weird. Not only do these heroes typically stay in their own city, the events that transpired in all the arkham games are pretty damn short. Asylum and Origins timespan is one night while City and Knight's timespan is a whole ass day.

A game of some sort involving the Silver Age Suicide Squad would be more interesting to me than the current super-edgy iteration starring in KTJL. A band of soldiers and scientists fighting giant monsters or the 80s spy thriller version of the Squad are much more interesting than whatever's been done with the current version.

Putting Harley Quinn on the team was a big mistake. Suicide squad in current times feels more like another standard hero/villain team that make it out alive at the end of the day when they were originally just a bunch of c-listers fodder slapped together so that you don't knnow who will live in the end.

 

[The Snail]

has anyone touched on how this game makes the arkham games... weird?... as superman, the flash, green lantern, or wonder woman should've intervened in genocidal events

anustart76​

That's actually kind of easy to explain away, though I don't know how they wrote the League in this game, so it might not fit, but more or less, Batman would have been considered a legendary hero by the others, who don't want to mess with his turf, out of respect. Smaller characters were involved in Gotham events, like Black Canary and Huntress, I think (though never in-game).

This isn't a new concept either; there's an issue from the No Man's Land arc of Batman, where Superman comes in, tries to help, and fails miserably because he just doesn't understand Gotham as well as Batman.

I understand you're not defending it, and purely trying to make sense of it. The game itself doesn't seem to establish the mutual hero-city respect sort of thing (and it's not deserving of being given that benefit anyway), but even if it were, it would still be so horribly stupid. The whole city of Gotham is taken over in Arkham Knight, with giga-nigga teir criminals roaming free and butchering people. Point being they should've never connected this game to the arkhamverse. I'm just going to do the same as everyone (or what I hope they do) and see this game as never ever in forever never cannon.

 

[PaladinBoo]

D'you have a source on that? Not that I can't believe financial bloat in this day and age, but even Insomniac's Spider-Man 2 didn't go above 300 and I'd argue it had way more unique systems to deal with than Suicide Squad does.

That is a rumor that many game journalists and gaming YouTubers have said on Twitter. Rocksteady and WB are being awfully hushed about the budget leading to the rumor perhaps having some grain of truth. Zaslav and the WB executives are retarded. They all thought that this game was going to be the next big thing. As such they threw all the money they had on this game. 400 million is not shocking to me. They probably thought that this game would get over a billion dollars in its first year of release and be a money maker like Fortnite. The delusion.

Also, a YouTuber named Rubicon mentioned that many of the positive reviews on Steam are actually negative with reviews such as; "Nice job Rocksteady you idiots.", "Fun but not 70 dollars worth.", "Nice job ruining the Justice League", "Wait for discount", "Sweet Baby Inc. ruins another company". It seems that many of the positive reviews are trolls. When your game is so bad that the positive reviews are trolling you.

 

[‘84 Fuckerbird Trans Man]

If its budget is 400 million, then I don't see where it all went. Can't help but wonder how much the leeches from Sweet Baby Inc took.

 

[Commander X]

Really, though if you are going to make a Suicide Squad game it’s time to bring out the DC encyclopedia and see which C-, D-list super villains should die for Amanda Waller’s plans.

Also, I don't see this Suicide Squad or any other really going up against the Justice League with it's roster full of heavy hitters. Or even any of the rosters of any different iterations of the JLA (the line-up has varied much over the years, and not just during the whole Justice League International era).

Like maybe if the Suicide Squad was asked to take out this very specific iteration of the JLA I would at least be like, "uh, OK, maybe, a very reserved mmmmmmmmmmmaybe. What are you Squaders going to do about Firestorm, though?"

 

[Sinner's Sandwich]

Really, though if you are going to make a Suicide Squad game it’s time to bring out the DC encyclopedia and see which C-, D-list super villains should die for Amanda Waller’s plans.

Also, I don't see this Suicide Squad or any other really going up against the Justice League with it's roster full of heavy hitters. Or even any of the rosters of any different iterations of the JLA (the line-up has varied much over the years, and not just during the whole Justice League International era).

Like maybe if the Suicide Squad was asked to take out this very specific iteration of the JLA I would at least be like, "uh, OK, maybe, a very reserved mmmmmmmmmmmaybe. What are you Squaders going to do about Firestorm, though?"

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If Sweet Baby was involved these characters would all talk about their pronouns and sexualities instead of their superhero names

 

[PaladinBoo]

If its budget is 400 million, then I don't see where it all went. Can't help but wonder how much the leeches from Sweet Baby Inc took.

My guess would be advertisement. WB spent a lot of money on ads for this hunk of shit. They spent a lot of money getting Streamers and Twitch Thots to advertise this game. This would explain a lot of defense that we are seeing for Suicide Squad. My guess is that they probably spent 250 mil on the game but 150 mill on advertisement.

 

[TheAmbiguousLurker]

The whole city of Gotham is taken over in Arkham Knight, with giga-nigga teir criminals roaming free and butchering people. Point being they should've never connected this game to the arkhamverse.

To be fair, City and Knight already had shit like Thugs alluding to Superman and the Flash; other super heroes did exist before Suicide Squad.

 

[The Snail]

Really, though if you are going to make a Suicide Squad game it’s time to bring out the DC encyclopedia and see which C-, D-list super villains should die for Amanda Waller’s plans.

Also, I don't see this Suicide Squad or any other really going up against the Justice League with it's roster full of heavy hitters. Or even any of the rosters of any different iterations of the JLA (the line-up has varied much over the years, and not just during the whole Justice League International era).

Like maybe if the Suicide Squad was asked to take out this very specific iteration of the JLA I would at least be like, "uh, OK, maybe, a very reserved mmmmmmmmmmmaybe. What are you Squaders going to do about Firestorm, though?"

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Batman: Assault on Arkham did it best. The scuffed, psychotic and anti-social fucked up villians struggling to work together, and intentionally or unintentionally killing themselves or others out of selfishness. Even when together, they're even able to stand up to A proper powerless hero like batman, let alone killing 3 of the most powerful beings known to human and alien kind. A game with a consistent and cohesive universe would've made one or two of the JL iterations members the main boss(es), if anything.

And for firestorm, maybe frost could give him a slurpee, if you know what I mean.

 

[Asian tech support]

for anybody curious, the budget for this game is 400 million!

Holy shit! If that's the actual figure, there's no way this doesn't end up as a flop for the ages. That's like Sony movie game slop tier.

 

[Kane lives in death]

I wanted to do some math to see how much in the hole rocksteady might be:

https://steamdb.info/app/315210/charts/

This link has a bunch of sale estimations on steam, the higher of all of them being 77k sales (and it cant be much higher, the 24h peak is only 13.400 players on steamcharts).
If you are generous and asume everyone bought the expensive version, that would be 7.700.000 dollars in income.
Multiply by 3 for the console versions and you have an income of 23 millions, and thats before steam/microsoft/sony gets their cut, so its probably less than 20 millions in income.
It will rise some more this week, even the website says so, but probably not by that much, the release day and release weekend already came.

And thats taking the most favorable sale estimation in there, and asuming everyone paid 100 dollars in buying that garbage.

Even if the game has a "reasonable" 100 million budget, it would still be a disaster(imo it cant be lower than that, rocksteady is a AAA studio in a first world country who has not released anything in over 8 years, and they have been advertising this shit everywhere). With this they are still at least 80 million in the hole.
But if the estimates of an absurd 200-400 million budget is true... well in that case we might have one of the biggest game bombs of all time.

Im sure my autistic method of counting income isnt anywhere near perfect, but it shows that even giving the benefit of the doubt to rocksteady in multiple ways they are nowhere near close to breaking even, lets hope they follow volition into the grave.

 

[Basic Blond Boy]

If its budget is 400 million, then I don't see where it all went. Can't help but wonder how much the leeches from Sweet Baby Inc took.

Just a reminder….

This game has been in development since 2010. As of currently we know this much from rumors.

• The game was developed by WB Montreal after Arkham Origins, but plans fell through and the prototype was scrapped. WB Montreal would also have a Damian Wayne/Batman Beyond project that was in development before getting scrapped and pivoting to Gotham Knights.
• Rocksteady, allegedly, worked on a Superman game that at least got decently far into the concept stage, likely even demo, before being scrapped.
• Production was an obvious hell as many heads of the company left throughout, likely causing a loss of leadership and delays.
• WB got bought out by Discovery, which meant a change of leadship throughout the company, which would obviously shake things up. Add in James Gunn and his huge change of leadership to DC as a whole.

This game is climbing off the backs of multiple failed projects and sweeping leadership changes. It was announced nearly a decade and a half ago, and we are really surprised it is costing so much. It seems like a project Warner refuses to kill as they keep sinking too much coin into it, much like the Flash movie of last year.

 

[Miriam Margoyles]

The deaths of each JL member aren't even impressive enough to be shocking. You shoot at them a lot, they're on their back and then they're gone. No head explosions, no Flash turning to dust from running too fast, no Green Lantern turning his ring on himself, nothing. There's just a complete lack of imagination.

I, unironically, would love a sweary, ultraviolent game based on The Boys (comic, rather than the TV show - but let's face it, that'll never happen) where you kill superheroes in cool, imaginative, shocking ways just like that.