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[–] [email protected] 61 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Maybe if they put real effort into these fucking things. It's not like the genre is dead, the Spider-Man games show you can make excellent third person superhero brawlers. It's because they make these soulless cash grabs with questionable writing and abysmal DLC.

[–] [email protected] 36 points 10 months ago (3 children)

Well the painful kicker here is that this is by Rocksteady. The guys who made the amazing Arkham games. They threw away their roots for this. Like wtf are they doing??

[–] [email protected] 28 points 10 months ago (1 children)

I guarantee like none of the people responsible for making the Arkham games what they were were still working at the company when Suicide Squad started development.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 10 months ago

Exactly. Rocksteady was bought by WB. Therefore, it no longer exists, except as a name.

Companies don't die. They just get bought and disappear into the corporate blob of flesh.

[–] [email protected] 8 points 10 months ago

Suicide. Rocksteady is committing suicide.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 10 months ago

Exactly. They really laid the modern groundwork on what this genre is, but instead of getting out of the hole they buried themselves in the foundation.

[–] [email protected] 29 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Always online, live service, Denuvo, and characters that are not remotely faithful to their source material abilities...?

Hard pass four times over.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago (1 children)

You forgot that the gameplay is also shit

[–] [email protected] 2 points 10 months ago

And that. The list of "nopes" is so long I missed the most obvious one!

[–] [email protected] 9 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Is this day 1 before or after they recalled the game due to game breaking bugs?

[–] MrScottyTay 3 points 10 months ago (1 children)

That recall happened for the "beta" I believe

[–] [email protected] 11 points 10 months ago

Not really the beta, the idiots who paid 100 bucks to play early

[–] Voroxpete 6 points 10 months ago (1 children)

The "What Happened?" episode for this game is going to be juicy as fuck. I gotta imagine Matt is already working on the script.

[–] T0RB1T 1 points 10 months ago (1 children)

Mr. McMuscles always seems to get his hands on the most interesting details. I look forward to every release he makes.

[–] Voroxpete 2 points 10 months ago

Matt McMuscles is one of those rare examples of an independent "Internet journalist" who actually does real fucking journalism. Like, the dude puts in a fuck ton of work cultivating sources, digging up the story, putting all the pieces together. Actual proper investigative journalism.

And then he presents it all as a cartoon skeleton.

Truly we are in the weirdest timeline.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago (1 children)

This game doesn't have soul.

[–] [email protected] 5 points 10 months ago

Even if it did everyone is playing Palworld.

[–] [email protected] 4 points 10 months ago* (last edited 10 months ago)

I dont mind, tired of the same superhero stuff over and over.