What Went Wrong with Suicide Squad

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  • Опубліковано 29 вер 2024
  • / roa_music1031rocksteady's Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League isn't exactly proving universally popular. This is an unfortunate turn of events, as the pivot away from a tight single-player narrative to a broader, live service inspired multiplayer appears to be an attempt to make a game that appeals to everyone.
    In various interviews, staff at Rocksteady have spoken about how Kill the Justice League is intended as a game to entertain groups of friends who enjoy playing with each other (while also bickering a fair amount and teasing each other). At the same time, Rocksteady developers have also described how they've tried to get as much of their familiar storytelling into the game as possible.
    This balancing act is difficult to do in any game, and it's not a surprise that Rocksteady hasn't managed to make a game that wins over any given audience, with fans of live service titles feeling that cutscenes get in the way of the action, and fans of Rocksteady's Arkham games feeling like the magic has been diluted with a new focus on multiplayer, low-stakes gameplay.
    Having filmed this video last week, I almost didn't finish it. I worried that the zeitgeist might have moved on beyond Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League, I worried that my take wouldn't be well received and that my production values aren't great. I've got some new lights, and I'm still getting the hang of how to use them.
    Linky to hotcyder's video on Suicide Squad: • I Didn't Like Suicide ...
    Ultimately I'm glad I persevered with this video. Even if it doesn't end up being hugely popular, I feel like this was a good learning opportunity for me personally, and I feel like I'm closer to understanding how to make the kinds of videos I want to make in future.
    Lots of love,
    Matthew (Kotor)
    Sources for this video:
    gb.readly.com/...
    comicbook.com/...
    seekingalpha.c...
    podbay.fm/p/ko...
    ja...
    www.gamesindus...
    Music by Roa: / roa_music1031

КОМЕНТАРІ • 60

  • @weshuiz1325
    @weshuiz1325 7 місяців тому +50

    - server issues
    - generic looter shooter
    - live service
    - bosses are flawed
    - over priced
    These are common topics people had

    • @RyutheWeredragon
      @RyutheWeredragon 7 місяців тому +12

      lack of understanding the characters.

    • @77wolfblade
      @77wolfblade 7 місяців тому +8

      Horrible writing, undoing previous character's goals and achievements.

  • @317GUY
    @317GUY 5 місяців тому

    Every thing

  • @MisteRRYouTuby
    @MisteRRYouTuby 7 місяців тому +45

    The moral of the story: SOMETIMES, it’s best to leave things as they are, then continue to possibly make things worse.

  • @JJ_R
    @JJ_R 7 місяців тому +33

    Kevin Conroy’s final role as Batman: [Dies]

    • @MisteRRYouTuby
      @MisteRRYouTuby 7 місяців тому +7

      I believe it was part Three of Crisis of Infinite Earths… But this one still stings.

    • @superthorc6894
      @superthorc6894 7 місяців тому +1

      Not really but definitely last role as Arkham Batman now

    • @midi5467
      @midi5467 7 місяців тому +1

      To be fair... it's in the game's title

    • @HOTD108_
      @HOTD108_ 7 місяців тому +5

      ​@@midi5467Oh well that voids all criticisms then 🙄

  • @grahamgilmore42
    @grahamgilmore42 7 місяців тому +4

    Silver lining: Because I’m so disinterested in Suicide Squad, I’ve started a replay of Arkham Asylum and it’s a fun nostalgia trip.
    (Though if you’re enjoying Suicide Squad, then that’s cool too)

  • @rd-um4sp
    @rd-um4sp 7 місяців тому +3

    Hey, Zaslav! (or any CEO, really): There can be *no* infinite growth since most human resources are finite. Specially time. Please think about long term and sustainable
    "lalalala infinite growth! next quarter profit! next year bonus! lalalala"

  • @KudaGeatsune3821
    @KudaGeatsune3821 7 місяців тому +10

    What didn't go wrong with suicide squad would be the better question in my opinion

  • @Aphelia.
    @Aphelia. 7 місяців тому +3

    wow the subtitles are VERY different from your actual words

  • @backupchannel8865
    @backupchannel8865 7 місяців тому +4

    Two things: Bad gameplay and bad story.

  • @naciabell7903
    @naciabell7903 7 місяців тому +1

    Honeslty. This game has a lot of problems. The boss figths have interesting ideas but just feel plain stupid given how every preivous scene sets up how easily each hero can overpower the squad. The story is fine for the most part if a bit dumb, and the gameplay is fun enouph, but repetative as there isn't anything to spice it up/change or improve it past what you get at the start. Even hhe skill trees feel a bit tacked on as they don't really change how you play.
    But if you ask me, most of the games issues stem from the decicion not to make this a live service, but a looter shooter. This was an incredibly bad decicion in my book for one reason. It made the game desgined around fighting the random enemies and minions. And NOT around the boss fights. And that's a huge issue.
    This games combat systems and mechanics are NOT desgined for boss fights at ALL. It's desgined for frantic, chaotic shoot outs. Not boss fights against super powered indiivduals. They can't create interesting mehanics or gameplay moments, beacuse the whole thing is desinged around guns and moving from place to place and shooting things.
    How would you make a boss fight against batman work? He's just a human being in a batsuit. He can't use his gadgets to disable our guns or we can't even fight. He can't sneak around and ambush us beacuse we have no means to counter that. He can't jump down and punch us, beacuse we have no melee combos or mechanics beyond the basic attack.
    This extends to the whole game. Looter shooters generally don't have very good boss fights outside of borderlands and this game proves why.
    Rather than building itslef around each characters unique gimmick and skll set, eveyone just shoots and gets around the city diffrently. THAT is a huge problem and explains why each boss fight feels so dumb. There is nothing they can acutally DO with this combat system.
    Functionally, let's think about this. How is Joker going to play any diffrent to deathstroke? Or Mr/Nora Freeze in future content? He moves around the citty diffrently? What else? What is the point of new playable characters if they all play the same at the end of the day and don't have anything to truly make them unique comabt wise?

  • @Cyrribrae
    @Cyrribrae 7 місяців тому +1

    I clearly haven't watched this channel in a while. I was not prepared for FACE.

  • @midi5467
    @midi5467 7 місяців тому +5

    I honestly just think it's time to boycott everything WB until their leadership is ousted. Zaslav especially must go

  • @sirdubs27
    @sirdubs27 7 місяців тому +32

    Hiring Sweet Baby Inc for "narrative consulting" didn't help.

    • @Speederzzz
      @Speederzzz 7 місяців тому +3

      Lol. Lmao

    • @Bareq_99
      @Bareq_99 6 місяців тому +3

      It's vwey telling that you specifically chose that part to criticize

  • @WarmLillie
    @WarmLillie 7 місяців тому +1

    I guess you can say SS has taken a beaten, not death row like many other games but hard time?
    I seen gameplay of the vid, cutscenes, and seems nice with a few kinks.
    To me it strange to me because it has alot Justice League, the skins those characters parody don’t help.
    I am not only a Pokemon, Bayonetta, Zelda but DC fan. Not rocksteady.
    The game seems built for a 4-player game especially with some the fights and some the Arkham Series.
    The game had it prime time to come out…
    NGL I feel like speedrun thought games sometimes to keep up the time when I am most motivated to play is with others.
    I rather play Splatoon with Friends than lonely Pokémon SV without DLC.

  • @M567dk
    @M567dk 7 місяців тому +1

    Nice job with this video and great usage of the titles of these chapters named after DC comics storylines. Keep up your amazing work on future videos.

  • @darryljack6612
    @darryljack6612 7 місяців тому +5

    I thought the Palworld video won the poll?

    • @Big-Mic7878
      @Big-Mic7878 7 місяців тому

      Maybe more info popped up during that time? I'm sure we'll get it eventually.
      Well worth the wait I'm sure⏳

    • @Msp0309
      @Msp0309 7 місяців тому +1

      check the description, explains why it was made

  • @keyblader007
    @keyblader007 7 місяців тому

    I am at a point in my life where I am unable and undesired to play video games online with friends for awhile. So as a huge Arkham fan I hate everything about this game. I'm not usually that guy but I won't even try this crap. Spider-Man continues the formula Arkham succeeded on and 2 was amazing (pun somewhat intended).

  • @minakoarisato1506
    @minakoarisato1506 7 місяців тому +1

    No one likes the Joel treatment

  • @navyblues6661
    @navyblues6661 7 місяців тому +1

    Subtitles are broken

  • @googamp32
    @googamp32 7 місяців тому +6

    Suicide Squad just isn't a viable IP. It failed twice as a movie, and it's already failed as a video game. The fact that they literally pissed on Kevin Conroy's memory also didn't help.

    • @pokepress
      @pokepress 7 місяців тому

      Is it possible it’s one of those things that pitches well but doesn’t bear out in practice?

    • @darryljack6612
      @darryljack6612 7 місяців тому +2

      I think you might be misremembering things, The first suicide squad movie did make a pretty penny back for WB, it's just that many people werent fans of the movie itself. The second movie is the inverse, but the loss in money could more than be attributed because of covid.

  • @oxsila
    @oxsila 7 місяців тому

    There is so much to love about this game, but my god there is far too much to not love.

  • @That_Lady_Charlie
    @That_Lady_Charlie 7 місяців тому

    the subtitles on this video need fixing.
    A LOT OF FIXING.

  • @fhjunior6183
    @fhjunior6183 7 місяців тому

    Thanks for the vid

  • @nman551
    @nman551 7 місяців тому

    Everything

  • @SunlightGwyn
    @SunlightGwyn 7 місяців тому +6

    What went wrong in three words: Sweet Baby Inc

    • @77wolfblade
      @77wolfblade 7 місяців тому +2

      and esg

    • @Bareq_99
      @Bareq_99 6 місяців тому

      Your kind is pathetic lol
      If anything the writing of might of been one of the few good things in that game

  • @fadinammour5568
    @fadinammour5568 7 місяців тому +1

    Maybe that was 2010s for the superhero genres but now I believe the video game genre might come back in this decade instead of actual video games

  • @AimanCool440
    @AimanCool440 7 місяців тому

    Worst game of 2024

  • @franziskastolz4877
    @franziskastolz4877 3 місяці тому

    - you forogt to mention how Sweet Baby Inc ''sanetized'' the game for a ''modern audience'' (themself)
    and messed with every inch of the game characters and story wise which pushed a lot of D.E.I
    - not to forget that the developers attacked the fans and people are tired of this so they avoid games like those
    - it's by far over priced no one would pay that much for something like that

  • @darkguardian1314
    @darkguardian1314 7 місяців тому +3

    No one is really over super hero films.
    We’re over badly written, agenda filled super hero stories that don’t respect canon.
    When fans try to point this out they disrespected leading to a soft boycott of any releases.
    Punching above their weight….
    Masking insecurities …
    A lot of what Rocksteady is stating are lines from the game.
    So these bits are manufactured PR not for fans but media and investors.

    • @staraptorflock3661
      @staraptorflock3661 7 місяців тому

      They are trying to appeal to the mythical modern audience

  • @medievalops8673
    @medievalops8673 7 місяців тому +10

    It's woke and has completely unoriginal, mediocre gameplay. There ya go.

    • @dustyhistory
      @dustyhistory 7 місяців тому +11

      Could you describe what you mean by that with examples?

    • @banafanafofana6914
      @banafanafofana6914 7 місяців тому +2

      ​@@dustyhistory Wonder Woman doesn't look like a dainty supermodel, duh! It's all part of the agenda! /s seriously tho, waiting for what they Truly mean by woke, its almost like they cant even define what it means and just parrot what they hear from schmox news😂

    • @MechaG
      @MechaG 7 місяців тому

      Probably not​@@dustyhistory

    • @Speederzzz
      @Speederzzz 7 місяців тому +3

      "Woke" okay so you just don't like it lmao

    • @That_Lady_Charlie
      @That_Lady_Charlie 7 місяців тому +3

      >uses "woke" unironically
      >gets opinion thrown away immediately

  • @DongKEKong
    @DongKEKong 7 місяців тому +4

    What went wrong?
    Californians beliefs.

    • @darryljack6612
      @darryljack6612 7 місяців тому +8

      What does that even mean?

    • @That_Lady_Charlie
      @That_Lady_Charlie 7 місяців тому +2

      all you conservative-types share the same list of five "insults," huh

  • @electroshock58
    @electroshock58 7 місяців тому +2

    You needed 19 minutes and 29 seconds to explain why it's lazily developed garbage laced with corporate greed, that shouldn't be played any capacity?
    Seems like a waste of a video.

    • @Speederzzz
      @Speederzzz 7 місяців тому +4

      There is a reason we film car crash tests in slow-motion

  • @jay_mojito
    @jay_mojito 7 місяців тому

    Nothing went wrong its a good game with lots of great content o come..cant wait Rocksteady💯🔥