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Suicide Squad: nobody likes it
- Thread starter .Pennywise
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OmegaSupreme
advanced basic bitch
Looks bad and op should feel bad for liking it.
Mr Reasonable
Completely Unreasonable
This is it.
Batman? Everyone loves it.
Superman? People like this.
Wonder Woman and Aquaman? People are ok with this.
Shazam? Black Adam? Green Lantern? Most people have no idea who they are. You may as well just make new characters with an interesting story, in fact you'd be better off doing that. I don't really understand why they can't make new IP rather than having to use stuff nobody seems to have cared about or even heard of for decades.
I might have it wrong and all the marvel characters were similarly broadly unknown, before marvel started pumping out movies every 30 seconds, but I don't think that is the case.
What's crazy is that in terms of games, we haven't had a Batman game* since 2015, and that's the one character that is definitely 100% something people want. Yet within a year we'll get 2 games that are adjacent to Batman, Gotham Knights and now this.
Why not just make a good Batman game that people want? Because it doesn't expand the universe? So make something that does expand the universe but nobody wants?
*Ignoring Telltale/rerelease/vr
Scotty W
Member
I have always felt this about the films. Why would anyone watch this? There seems to be such an unnatural drive to make them popular.
TrebleShot
Member
No idea terrible movies too.
RainblowDash462
Member
Why couldn’t they make a game based off the latest Aquaman movie? People including myself actually enjoyed that one.
.Pennywise
Member
Me and all 10% of us!
Hendrick's
If only my penis was as big as my GamerScore!
So did they make it a shooter just so it would be easier to sell us crap skins for our guns?
hyperbertha
Member
I just noticed during the well lit sections (daytime) it legit looks like an early ps4 title. And the physics of the characters while they are airborne, its like they forgot to animate leg movement or something. It just feels so off. And what's with the cinematography and camera angles in the cutscenes? It just feels so amateur, like a homemade cutscene mod or something you'd see for Skyrim.
Goddess Zelda
Member
No thanks fam, I'm good.
Flutta
My tears. Exclusive to gamepass. Forever.
They deserve every slap they can get for making this abomination. If it were up to me a would ban every studio for even trying to feed this poison to the public.
LIFE TIME BAN!!!
Umbasaborne
Member
Sure, just like they did with avengers which is shutting down
TheUndeadGamer
Member
Gojiira
Member
Tbf its not just this dev, Aloy is fugly, Lara has been getting worse etc. It makes it even worse when promotional and concept art has them actually hot looking. Aloy is perfect example of this.
semiconscious
Member
this! so much this! why in the hell even bother developing games based on properties/characters that most people either don't know or care about? in what way is doing so 'smart'?...
NewYork214
Member
Feel like people are hating on this way too quick. I'll give it a shot if some of my friends are down. I haven't seen enough to hate it yet
It being a 3rd person shooter was jarring but fuck it. Maybe it's fun to play.
It being a 3rd person shooter was jarring but fuck it. Maybe it's fun to play.
Kokoloko85
Member
Seriously imagining spending years on this cast of characters out of all the things you could Bring….
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The first one was dire. I thought the second one was pretty good. It also spawned the Peacemaker TV show, which was excellent.
Scotty W
Member
I suspect they want to normalize this kind of culture.
sachos
Member
I voted "Out" not because of the gameplay they showed but because of the forced online single player bullshit. If its end up being bad then easy skip, if it ends up being actually good i may end up buying it in the future during a big discount mostly treating it like a really cheap rental since i don't have faith in those servers staying online for too long. But honestly being smart i shouldnt really support this shit practices.
this its so sad
Rei dos Vermes
Member
Every time I see an action game with health bars and bullet sponge enemies I run away like the Devil runs from the cross. It's sad that the studio which brought us the Arkham games made this generic crap.
StreetsofBeige
Member
It like one part Lost Planet. But instead of orange blobs to shoot at, you shoot purple ones.
Pasta la Vista
Member
It looks terrible to me but yeah I guess if you were a fan of Crackdown, it seems to be going for that combined with a looter shooter.
The environments look bad, bunch of purple"corruption" or whatever. Shoot the big purple weak spot, dodge lasers, upgrade guns and armor etc.
I feel like I already know the gameplay loop and I'm already bored with it.
The environments look bad, bunch of purple"corruption" or whatever. Shoot the big purple weak spot, dodge lasers, upgrade guns and armor etc.
I feel like I already know the gameplay loop and I'm already bored with it.
Northeastmonk
Member
I was a big Arkham fan. They had my support all the way to Arkham Knight. This side stuff isn’t for me. I wasn’t a fan of the Suicide Squad to begin with. It’s not as entertaining as Batman was. They sucked the life out of Batman, so we got a game where he’s dead from another studio and a game with a bunch of obscure heroes. It’s a sucky situation and the excitement for me isn’t there.
It’s weird how they decide to make games based off these characters. There’s a ton of ideas out there and we get this odd wedge out of the brand. It’s like being stuck with the Avengers for ten years.
It’s weird how they decide to make games based off these characters. There’s a ton of ideas out there and we get this odd wedge out of the brand. It’s like being stuck with the Avengers for ten years.
ProtoByte
Member
Another point: Why is it that all of these group superhero games severely underutilize the characters? With Marvel, it makes slightly more sense because they're licensing out to 3rd parties; the more characters you want to use, rhe more expensive the licensing.
There's no excuse for this or Gotham Knights though, because they're all developed under WB. Where the hell is Green Arrow? Blue Beetle? Huntress or Black Canary? Fucking Elongated Man be more feasible for the lames in the Suicide Squad to fight as opposed to Superman and John Stewart Green Lantern.
There's no excuse for this or Gotham Knights though, because they're all developed under WB. Where the hell is Green Arrow? Blue Beetle? Huntress or Black Canary? Fucking Elongated Man be more feasible for the lames in the Suicide Squad to fight as opposed to Superman and John Stewart Green Lantern.
Kadve
Member
For me its the idea. I don't like playing as a villain as that tends to be their entire character. And the modern suicide squad in particular have a reputation of being insufferable.
Also the entire premise of the game screams lazy. The Suicide Squad being sent in to kill brainiac who has brainwashed the justice league, ok? At least Gotham Knights presented us with some mystery regarding what had happened to Batman. I can pretty much figure out this entire plot from the premise alone which gives me no actual motivation to care about these C and B listers.
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NightmareFarm
Member
I don't get whats so bad about it. Do gamers only want soulsborne and TLOU nowadays?
Spaceman292
Member
Asked and answered your own question
Moses85
Member
PS+ or FTP
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SkeletonQuays
Member
If it came out and people were obsessed with it because of how fun it is and it somehow changes to formula for GaaS and it's not invasive maybe... but that's not gonna happen. Lets be real.
.Pennywise
Member
Ar¢tos
Member
*sigh*
Yes, all we want is soulborne and TLOU.
The complaints on this thread have nothing to do with the shallow approach to story, constant character chatter, old and tired gameplay, full price game with battle pass (and possibly mtx) and so many other little things.
NightmareFarm
Member
>shallow approach to story
It's not a story focused game, it's a game focused game. Mario games have a shallow story, so what? Not every game needs to have deep storytelling.
>constant character chatter
That's just the comedic tone of the game. Doesn't make it bad.
>old and tired gameplay
How? This looks nothing like most games that have released in the past couple years.
>(and possibly mtx)
Non issue. Don't buy them then.
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Shubh_C63
Member
I have been REALLY looking forward to this game and I gotta admit I would still play it only and ONLY for the story. I want to see what approach they will take on boss fights.
So deep discounts and sales probably. Otherwise, huge disappointment from Rocksteady. Won't even put 10% of the time I had put in Arkham City or in Knight.
So deep discounts and sales probably. Otherwise, huge disappointment from Rocksteady. Won't even put 10% of the time I had put in Arkham City or in Knight.
Jack Package
Member
I hope we get a leaker telling us just what the hell happened to Rocksteady since Arkham Knight was finished. There were rumours of Superman and Justice League, and talk of Warner forcing the gaas model on them during development of Suicide Squad. It must be a fascinating tale.
TheInfamousKira
Reseterror Resettler
It has nothing to do with dev or gameplay for me, really. I just don't really enjoy The Superhero genre, be it DC or Marvel. Spidey and Batman are the exceptions, and even then, it mostly extends to see 1-3 movies in a Trilogy, I obsess over way too many things as is, if I fell into the trap of comic books and related media and merchandise, it would be like Robin Williams popping out of Jumanji
Kataploom
Member
I honestly feel bad for devs, actually, but too many flops on this industry recently for those pursuing the GaaS dream and the many single player success should tell them boards to stfo and attend their actual audience... It's like they're trying so hard to go after mobile native users but on consoles, then they should do mobile games, console games may like some GaaS but the sheer volume of these will prefer their single player stuff, see A Plague Tale, Doom reboots, Sony first party games, Jedi Fallen Order, most Nintendo games, etc. Those are the experiences most of us are expecting to have on console, it's not surprising to see people being so reactionary to GaaS models on consoles, it's they're too tired already..Damn boy, everyone loved the trailer it seemsimagine being the dev and going to check the YouTube trailer and everyone is shiting on it. You get immediately emotionally broken.
The Cockatrice
Member
I'm assuming you're still very young or your tastes are dreadful. In any case, congrats on being a minority!
fart town usa
Member
I was really surprised to hear John Linneman's take on this game during the most recent DF direct. Basically channeled what Gaf has been saying.
Got it cued up in the video.
Got it cued up in the video.
Yes, pretty much.
Floaty combat is what reviewers normally use to describe bad gameplay so there's already a negative opinion formed. Visceral weighted combat is what they normally use to describe good combat like in Elden ring.
I'm starting to think people are starting to get over DC and marvel. People are starting to grow oit of it, however the new generation might actually love it.
I just a boomer that no longer knows what is cool.
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ChorizoPicozo
Member
Lol not young and my tastes are superb. Again this reminds me of Crackdown which I loved. The free movement and traversal looks fun. People's expectations are way off. It's the Suicide Squad. They don't have cool powers or anything for us to play with so they resort to guns and technology. This looks more fun than Avengers and Gaurdians of the Galaxy to me. Story atleast has my interest. It's not often you get to kill the heroes.I'm assuming you're still very young or your tastes are dreadful. In any case, congrats on being a minority!
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