Rocksteady's long-awaited new game is facing backlash due to its live-service approach. Here's why fans are less than pleased.
Warner Bros. has announced that its WB Games division saw a massive 48% revenue decline following Suicide Squad flop.
WB games had a good thing going but after HBO max and discovery took over they just wanted live service games. They want steady steam of revenue. Just like Sony has a good thing going but they keep trying to make live service games and failing
Nah, they still won't learn. They'll just blame the next live service flop on some bs excuse and layoff more people.
Man...imagine if we got a new batman arkham (or new ip/hero title) game this generation with all the og talent from rocksteady. Instead insane greed got in WBs heads to force this very once taleneted studio to make a filthy generic live service. This is how you kill an amazing well renown studio which unfortunately happens much too often in the game industry.
Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League's true ending offers a slight hope for Rocksteady's future Arkhamverse games.
No, it doesn't. It's not good. It really isn't a good game. Game writers should find a good indy game or something instead of giving bad games positive advertisements.
Well said.
When you basically have to "jk" everyone in a poorly executed and thinly veiled attempt to save face, your story wasn't good. To me, this little fakeout so long after the fact almost makes the entire thing worse.
Paul Tassi: "Sony recently reiterated its commitment to live service games with one big hit last year (Helldivers 2), one big cancellation (The Last of Us Factions) and one big failure (Concord). It’s no great surprise it is continuing down this road, given the way the industry is trending and the limited shelf life of its famed single player games. But it immediately made me think of a game that Sony is allegedly releasing that I have to believe is pre-destined to fail, Fairgame$."
Fairgame$ feels like it's destined to flop out the gate- that initial trailer felt full of that same instantly-dated 'fight The Man with a ragtag team of weirdos' energy that was prevalent in Sega's Hyenas (which they wisely cancelled.) Unlike Marathon I just don't see this standing a chance.
It will definitely flop, missed the boat by a couple of years. Agreed that Marathon has a decent chance of succeeding it looks genuinely good and interesting.
It can't be sustainable having all these expensive GaaS being DOA being balanced by the odd modest success like Helldivers. The aim is to find the new Fortnite or whatever but it's highly unlikely and seems to be a massive waste of money.
Y'know that phrase
About living long enough to see yourself become the villain
We have been bombarded constantly for the last 10-20 years with so much superhero crap, that I just can't get hyped for anything related to superheros anymore... Not superhero movies, not superhero TV shows, not superhero games, not superhero comics...
Rocksteady should have done something different.
I guess over the years all the talent has left Rocksteady who worked on the Arkham games, so this is what we get from... "the rest".
It’s pretty clear, the developers were more or less forced to make a games as a service type game. They’re great at what they do, so it looks great, and will most likely handle really well. But the core of the game is still a gaas type game.
No idea why they decided to go 3rd person shooter style though. All the characters look like they play exactly the same but with a different special move.
I’ll be skipping this one. I wasn’t into it from the get go and I haven’t seen anything to change that. Also I have no idea why WBD thinks the Suicide Squad is a property people are into. I haven’t seen much love from people online for them. Yet they keep trying to make them a thing.
Warner Bros. and their greed is going on.
At first i was thinking maybe it's like unique characters with unique gameplay options (King Shark can swim/move heavy stuff/break stuff, melee fighter; Captain Boomerang can craft/repair stuff, use boomerang, mixed melee and ranged; Deadshot plant explosives/interrogate/snipe, ranged; Harley is nimble, small, can fit into tight places, melee and traps). And you had to use your whole team to kill enemies, solve problems and fight unique bosses. So kinda like Arkham games, but with a team.
Instead, characters only look uniquely (judging from the gameplay trailers) - all they do is shoot and fly, then fly and shoot. And have some banter in between. But don't worry, there's a battle pass and in-game store already implemented!
Disgusting.