Warner Bros Discovery highlighted the continued strong performance of Hogwarts Legacy and the underperformance of Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League.
Hanzala from eXputer: "As if being a vain live service wasn't enough, Rocksteady's Suicide Squad continues to ruin iconic characters, and I've had enough of it."
To this day I can't believe this is the same studio the brought us those fantastic batman games. The arkham trilogy
Say it was some multiverse bullshit and make a new Batman game in the “real” timeline and let’s forget this!
Why it matters: The genre has stagnated and settled because video game budgets have risen to astronomical levels. Therefore, developers play it safe, with creativity and innovation suffering at the end of the day.
Most gaming genres are creatively lacking at this point. Publishers want to make 'safe games' that are based on previously successful games with little risk.
Today the executives and marketers have too much control over which games are made. 'Corporate games' are an immediate turn off for me, they are a waste of money, but more importantly, my time.
I hate how shareholders or whatever make the decisions more than the developers. They should go back to the time when developers made the game they wanted to make, when it wasn't just based on quotas and all that other business jargon.
“Marvel’s Avengers”, “Gotham Knights”, and “Sucidie Squad: Kill the Justice League” all suffered from prioritizing micro-transactions over gameplay. Those online stores had very creative skins to sell you.
It's funny cause I been playing gotham knights and really enjoying it for what it is I'm glad it's not really bad like suicide squad, if they released a couple more updates for the game it woulda turned out even better but the mfs just gave up
This could be said about AAA gaming as a whole but I'll just stick to this topic. I thinkk a great way to spice up super hero games would be to link up with the japanese developers. Many cool games could come out of this. A deadpool game from team ninja, wolverine/xmen 97 game from capcom, Cable game from Platinum, Invincible fighitng game from arcsys, batman or red hood game from RGG. Giving these very popular IP games with the crazy fast paced combat japanese devs are known for sounds like a great idea to me. Just look at what capcom gave us with the marvel VS games and what Platinum did with transformers devastation
Very hard to screw up a comic book game seeing how these fictional characters are filled with creativity.
That's why I hope we get another infamous game, they stayed true to the roots all 3 games. Most devs nowadays are afraid to offend grown ass people who barely even know what right buttons to press while trying to play a certain game lmfao. Risks were taken when making Gow2018&ragnarok, spiderman 2018 and the sequel. Also risks are being taken whole wolverine is in development. Look at where they are now tho all are great titles and I'm sure wolverine will be lit but I'm surprised at the lack of super heroe games, thoroughly made good ones that is. I also think there are others who want to make some good heroe games but upper management like NO WE NEED GAAS GAMES AND ONLINE SERVICE GAMES NOW! Lmao
Luigi's Mansion 2 HD still performing well.
The platform breakdowns really show how irrelevant xbox has come for selling software.
1 Hogwarts Legacy Switch 41%, PS5 26%, PS4 24%, Xbox 5%
2 EA Sports FC 24 Switch 34%, PS5 28%, PS4 26%, Xbox 12%
Yea, you can see why some developers and publishers are increasingly starting to skip XBox all together. Unless you're in a small minority of successful and highly played Gamepass games, you're pretty much taking a payout on your game just to rot and die on the service.
Not that surprising, the Switch has some killer exclusive titles, so people have to own a Switch to play them.
At this point, this is just funny
WB is the only one doing the surprised Pikachu face lol I didn't see many positive hopes for this game ever since they dropped the first gameplay footage. Should've cancelled it all together right at that moment
The moment Kill The Justice League was shown to not be single player, it was never going to be purchased by me. Shame that Rocksteady went that route.
I just hope WB plucks out that wild hare they have up their a** for GaaS. Like, how many f*cking times do you have to fail before it gets through your thick skull? At this point it almost feels like defiance and they won’t stop until consumers finally give in and splurge on microtransactions and praise an unfinished, anemic, shell of a game with a grind-hard gameplay loop that the only way to not lose your mind is to pay to make the grind easier.