• chemical_cutthroat@lemmy.world
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    11 months ago

    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.

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      11 months ago

      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??

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        11 months ago

        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.

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          11 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.

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        11 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.

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    11 months ago

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

    Hard pass four times over.

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    11 months ago

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

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    11 months ago

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

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      11 months ago

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

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        11 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.

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    11 months ago

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