nope, they clearly state cosmetics on pass. It would be a really bad look for marvel to give away characters free with avengers and suicide squad charge for them... think about it
Stated in a behind the scenes interview that the season pass is strictly for cosmetics, DLC characters will likely be just that, something separate from the battle pass you'll have to pay for.
All these years of great Batman games, and they produce Suicide Squad: Arkham Knights with Guns edition. The gunplay looks so mediocre, the travel mechanics look okay, but it just screams pass.
I'm hoping it's more of a Guardain's of the Galaxy sleep hit, than an Arkham Knight fail, but I don't see it right now. It's a shame because Rocksteady is probably the best developer at WB, clearly be finding a solution to the sub-30fps lies Arkham Knights stated, and yet they're doing what looks like Mediocre Mid Multiplayer.
I would have much rather they went with something like Constantine as a new trilogy, which could have slowly introduced more Justice League characters, for a JL Game or something.
Can we please stop convoluting gear and player progression with like 10 skill trees, crafting everything, and giving you new gear literally ever 30secs. I'd like to play a game instead of spending most of my time in menus
This just looks meh to me. Very co-op focussed and the gameplay just doesn't look that engaging, looks a bit generic, disappointing after the excellent arkham series games.
"We offer a battle pass that only contains cosmetic Items" + "If you like rpg elements" + "If you want to play as a badass"
All I saw were DC-skinned villains shooting at purple blobs with "Scaled enemy health" for 20s+ & the justification behind the annoyingly shit health enemies will have will be the playercount, count me out.
Since this first got revealed I've been looking forward to the title and with each new promo, it's looking like more and more this is my kinda game! Day one purchase here. Can't wait to dive in!
It looks better than Arkham Knights (low bar), but worse than Arkham City (launched on ps3).
Idc if they can quantify all of the improvements from that classic to this 8-years of effort…. Some games, like MGS games, age well because of their design choices. And, the other side of that coin, some games don’t look impressive on arrival because the parts don’t mesh in an impactful way.
The animations are expressive, but choppy. The scale is big, but it looks easy and repetitive. And I didn’t really want a party brawler from RockSteady, and the lack of any apparent depth to the combat makes me feel like they didn’t want to make it either (but GaaS might make more money than a classic single player game).
Somewhere, pixels and technical horsepower are being wasted.
After the incredible Arkham trilogy, this just looks terrible. I can't believe how bland it looked, all four characters seemed to play almost identically. Not much better than Gotham Knights. And it seems to continues DC's trend of assassinating its own heroes, this time literally.
Someone needs to explain to me how it took Rocksteady 8+ years to release two mediocre-to-bad games in Gotham Knight and Suicide Squid that look worse both graphics and gameplay wise.
We got one of the greatest gaming trilogies with the Batman: Arkham series in less time than that (2009 to 2015).
Not really sure how I feel about this honestly. I mean from what I'm seeing it doesn't want to make me wait and buy it. Not sure how they have gotten so far away from the combat that made all the batman games good. It's as if someone new has joined the team and said "let's go a different direction in combat" and nobody dared to question it.
This must be why Sefton Hill, Rocksteady's co-founder, left the company. Too much interference from WB pushing for another Destiny game most likely. Hopefully this game sells poorly so publishers understand this is not what gamers want.
Funny enough this game was mentioned along side Mortal Kombat 12 as having " ambitious launch projections" which is going to be a rude awakening for the company. Avengers and Gotham Knights were a precursor of what to expect for this game, and it's going to be brutal.
I do hope they make good on the promise for new characters. Killer Frost; based off her powers alone, would be fun and perhaps they'll add Katana, I'm disappointed to not see her in the initial line up.
Additional playable characters incoming, I assume via Season Pass/Battle Pass?
I don’t know what to feel…
Can we please stop convoluting gear and player progression with like 10 skill trees, crafting everything, and giving you new gear literally ever 30secs. I'd like to play a game instead of spending most of my time in menus
This has the same vibe as Redfall, looks like a multiplayer focused game but isn't meant to be (according to devs).
This just looks meh to me. Very co-op focussed and the gameplay just doesn't look that engaging, looks a bit generic, disappointing after the excellent arkham series games.