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Genderswapping Mr. Freeze despite the fact that a female ice themed character named Killer Frost already exists is like if they raceswapped Hal Jordan in the next Green Lantern project despite John Stewart existing...
@@Cristopher.CWell Nora is actually Mrs Freeze in other comics. They could have made this character Nora. But then how are they going to turn Mr Freeze into a lesbian if they do that?
@@LittleBigPlanetian Bro, they don't give a shit about that. King Shark looked *completely* different in the Arkhamverse before this game and had his head blown off.
@@nagger8216 yeah, its always been obvious they just dropped the "its canon to the arkham games!" as an easy marketing strat, but it just ended up backfiring completely, because it seems like they mostly had the films and other pieces of media in mind when making this game, rather than any of the arkham games
I don't even think the hate for MS Freeze is about the gender, but rather how BORING THEY DID IT. Like okay, make her MS Freeze BUT not a girl Victoria Fries BUT WHY NOT MAKE HER NORA?!?! I MEAN?!??! YOU HAVE NORA UNFROZEN AT THE END OF THE ARKHAM SERIES?!? WHY NOT DO A MULTIVERSE WHERE SHE SURVIVES?! YOU ALREADY HAVE HER AS A FAN FAVORITE Ughhh it's so BORING. There's a SUPER badass TOY they made a COMIC FOR based on MR Freeze surviving in a DIVING SUIT. A TOY COMPANY MADE A BETTER ALTERNATIVE VERSION THAN A AAA STUDIO
What baffles me even more is Mr. freeze doesn't even use conventional guns, he uses his freeze ray in like every version of himself. So why make a genderbent version that doesn't use that signature gun? It's like taking away Batman's utility belt or Captain boomerang's boomerang.
Might be because people like *them* genuinely believe knowing the lore or having actually read the comics is a (and I'm not kidding either) "red flag".
@@jessekoepp3928 eww... Reminds me of the halo show... WTF is wrong with actually using source material nowadays? It's not like it saw the foundation of everything or anything.
Well she does appear in the comics , 2005 in detective comics dont remember the issue. She has ice powers. Now i still dont think she was a good pick AT ALL . But as for them adding her because they dont read comics doesnt hold up, she IS a comic character, granted she looks WAY different. She looks awful in the game
@Dr.Kiwi934 she is a comic character. Shes a terrible choice for the game but she is very much a character from detective comics starting back in 2019. She looks nothing like this DEI nonsense though, she looks pretty cool in the comics
You know what I just realized, FOR A SUICIDE SQUAD GAME THATS AGAINST THE JUSTICE LEAGUE, THERE SURE IS ALOT OF ONLY BATMAN VILLAINS AND NO SUPERMAN, WONDERWOMAN, OR FLASH VILLAINS IN THE SQUAD (Besides Boomerang) (Literally Killer Frost and Captain Cold are right there)
@@Morfe02 it’s as repetitive as you want it to be. There’s easily 12+hrs of story here with some fun/cool cutscenes, and an awesome world that has some pretty fun traversal mechanics. UA-camrs hate the game just to hate it. Hell even Luke said he only makes these vids bc they get a lot of views. He goes into these vids with a negative mindset, so every little thing that annoys him will be amplified. But if you go in with an open mind the game is actually pretty fun!
At the very least, Mrs. Freeze could have been Nora Fries instead of Victor Fries. If they wanted to push it, they could have also added that Nora came out of her sleep, froze herself, and help her husband find a cure as well / both survived the brainiac battle of their world but got separated because of brainiac. (They keep the same trope of “lost loved one”as presented in the game)
"Seriously, wait! We brought The Flash back! He's alive, see he's alive... hey! Please look...He's alive. He was cloned. You fought his clone!" *Nobody looks back, they keep on walking*
@@dragondude9637correction flash wasn’t a clone brainiac brought him back to life story wise I wanna know what braniac is gonna do when the leauge decides to kill him
Who wanted these loser b-lister villains anyway? Why couldn’t it have been a bloody Batman Arkham game? Because sweet baby Inc and the idiots at Warner brothers, that’s why. Warner bros. have been trying to push these glorified diversity hire villains for years and nobody likes them.
@@HynotamaI don't think most people have a problem with the characters since they've been in several movies/comics over the years (especially Harley and Deadshot). The issue was just the game itself.
It's not "slimy" to leave when you're given no choice but to abandon your morals to lead a team making a terrible game no one wants to make. Rocksteady corporate are the "slimy" ones.
Agreed. I got the feeling from other reporting that the devs were being forced to make this game by corporate. So, I don't blame them for walking away.
My understanding is that Luke found it slimy that the corpo guy used the guys leaving as an excuse why the game is bad. Them leaving wasn't what he refered to as "slimy".
Agreed. Folk have every right to leave a job. Heck most devs only stay at an average at 3 years at any given company. It's a given nowadays that people will eventually leave
They usually make Mr. Freeze look like an intimidating cool nerd. Why can't Mrs. Freeze look intimidating? She just gives off "We have Mei from Overwatch at home" vibes. At least the Arkham outfit fixes that, I guess. But that just means needing to pay more money.
Game dev here. I'll tell you why they didn't do the ice as actual platforms that other people can ride on. Right now the ice only exists as a VFX. It's not even there as a physical thing. And the "ice path ability" just fixes her movement in a specific way. As in her movement gets locked by a code to follow a specific path and ice exists as vfx. Think of it like she's riding a hover board with ice vfx. That's why the ice melts as fast as it does. Doing what you want would've required the ice path and her movement to be two independent systems that interact with one other. So coding wise her ice path would've been one thing that she lays down as an environmental interactable object, and then her riding on that ice path would've been a separate "incident". Benefit would be that you can then use that same "incident" and apply that to other characters that also use the ice path. But that's not what they did. However, there is a game that actually did do it correctly. It's called spellbreak. It's now shut down but in spell break the frost class could shoot an ice arrow that would freeze everything beneath it and every party member that got on the ice would get a massive speed boost. But that requires your characters to not exist in isolation in the game world. But in suicide squad all characters exist in isolation where their abilities don't actually interact with each others at all. And making the ice platform thing for "Mrs freeze" when you don't have an existing framework where characters abilities can interact with each other would've taken much more effort than the game is worth. Idk if I did good job of explaining it or not if anyone has any doubts feel free to ask and I'll explain further via edits. I posted this comment originally on his second channel but i thought it would help here too.
Bro I played Spellbreak when it first released and I may not like battle Royales, but the concept actually had a ton of potential, and I kind of liked how chaotic the late game would get because of how the mechanics were structured. That's a good game for developers to learn from
It's like, step by step they went to every aspect of the game and were like "what would our audience want here? What could we do to make this game enjoyable? Let's do the complete opposite of that! 😀"
@@AngelOfDæth_4it was made by devs who had no idea to make these types of games. Never looked at ones that was successful and ones that didn't,to know what to do and what not to do and things they can improve on that successful live services games have trouble in. Instead they pretty much went into the basics and thought about what they would want mostly and what they think is cool. I'm really convinced this game is made for certain people on the devs team and not for the players they wanted to play this. They wouldn't be here had they played the avengers game completely because this game follows in the same footsteps beat for beat
It's incredibly sad because the game isn't nearly as bad as people say it is. It's indefinitely worth ATLEAST 30$, and that's pre-season 2 launch... There's more now. The combat alone carries the game, even if people nitpick the story.
@@warmanreaper The game in it's entirety is utter dogshit, it has no redeeming qualities, people are not nitpicking at literal autism. It would not be worth it even if the game was free
What makes this AT LEAST 20x dumber on their part is that DC literally already had a Female Ice Villain that fans love in Killer Frost, but NO they just have to do a friggin Gender Swap of a beloved character
would require way too much work to program for this ungodly money sink. If Black Manta was in the game he'd just have a jetpack that shoots pressurized water lmao
@@KaaneDragonShinobi *sigh* What could have been! I was thinking we were getting something between the Arkham games and the Payday games. Then I heard the words ‘live service’! Black Manta I would imagine, would just make water jets if he wanted, like how the character that freezes the air can just do that. Something about the hydrogen in the air explanation.
@@MaxCanonStunner Even better. I mostly said that because of the whole dumb alternate universe theme going on with Jonkler but yeah, an actual member of the Suicide Squad would have been nice too.
Crazy how we went from something so incredible like Batman Arkham knight, that was so ahead of it’s time for gameplay and graphical fidelity, and still holds up beautifully to this day, even better than games newer than it, idk why this game was made, when it was being developed through times where live service games were FLOPPING, only cod, fortnite, 2k/nfl are doing fine cuz they are established franchises, and Fortnite did something so unique, but this game is something nobody wanted, why WB made rocksteady develop this game is just a mystery we won’t know, just tragic.
Fortnite’s only “unique” idea was dumped in the toilet after ripping off pubg. Maybe stick to mainstream games and stop commenting on actually unique games.
ill never understand choosing to gender swap Mr. Freeze. Killer Frost is a Female Ice Based DC villain. You can even make Killer Frost gay, no one of any import will give a shit if you make Killer Frost Gay. But to work extra hard to change a character unnecessarily is just baffling.
No, its totally logical. You're just thinking of taste, design and fun. But in order to get the right amount of esg points, you gotta do what you gotta do. If they don't get enough points, they lose their loans. Thats why he's now an asian woman lesbian. Thats a triple bonus. And its why every game is doing it. Passing up free money is illogical.
That's part of the problem, though, gamers are still fine with ESG, just so long as it suits your taste. They are actually using a two-tier method, where they make extremely ESG-laden games -- like this game -- that people recoil at, but then they roll out stuff like TLOU or Hogwarts and everyone laps it up. Basically, the extremism of games like SS: KTJL is so far left that people still accept ESG implementations when they're rolled out softly in games like Hogwarts or Spider-Man 2.
It's simple. It's because they hired Sweet Baby Inc., and they are LITERALLY paid to say things like "how about gender swapping Mr. Freeze? That will go very well with MODERN AUDIENCES". So they have to listen to them and implement their ideas, even if they don't make sense.
I'll definitely play or buy anything from Sefton Hill and his team's new studio. But I won't buy or play a single game from rocksteady anymore. Due to the fact that half of the studio got replaced by a "consulting group" that "helped" make this game.
The skin at 10:56 is based on Mr. Freeze's costume from when he was originally introduced back in the late 50's, when he was known as Mr. Zero. It did not look good back then, and it does not look good now.
You know, to a degree, the idea of encountering multiverse versions of characters we know who are different from the ones we are familiar with on paper sounds like it could work. The problem in my opinion is what they chose to do with their multiverse versions of the characters. We got Angsty teen joker and Mrs Freeze, when instead we could have had ideas that were much more off the wall. Here are some off the top of my head: A Black Manta who became the legitimate king of Atlantis until his version of Brainiac destroyed it. A Joker/Scarecrow hybrid character that alternates between using fear and laughing gas. (Maybe have an air of mystery by making it unclear which half came first, the joker or scarecrow?) A Mirror Master who was formerly enslaved by his Brainiac and only managed to escape by hiding in the mirror world. Now he’s a vengeful ronnin type character who is gurellia warfaring his way across the multiverse. I bet anyone could come up with more creative options than what we got, and that’s just sad. They could have gone absolutely bonkers with the alternate versions of these characters, and instead we got this. (Side note, does anyone else have more ideas for some multiverse variants? I would love to hear some more ideas).
@@Thorn_416 Indeed! From what I have been hearing the money has started to dry up. Also, the initial research that seemed to validate the DEI frenzy - which purported to show that companies with more diverse boards have higher rates of returns - has not been replicated and independent analyses show that there is no correlation. So, the DEI frenzy seems to be fading.
Okay, so you say Black manta would’ve some cool moves if he was added to the game but… the only thing that makes the characters different from each other is their traversal which I’d you can see the pattern, it’s not related to the character. Black manta like any other character would just be a skin. One of the biggest problem of this game and one I don’t see many people talk about it’s the core gameplay that doesn’t let the character shine with the own abilities. Making the suicide strike an special unique ability RELATED to the character would had been a great start, like letting Deadshot see through walls and bounce his bullets, let borrmerang throw a boomerang, use one of Harley’s multiple gadgets or let Shark eat an enemy. I mean… there is so much ideas I have of changes I would’ve made to the game and still keeping basic and core ideas of the game.
The whole thing is a just a dumbed down Borderlands, without any of the fun. No way to specialise no unique abilities. They could have easily had different classes with each character, harley using her pop gun revolver and her mallet, shark being a tanky brawler who can throw things, captain boomerang using his boomerangs with each one adding effects, deadshot has snipers and pistols making him more basic but give him interesting abilities. For the add ons Joker has his cane and bang bang bang revolver or acid flower (hell, make a special accuracy move that uses the comically long barreled one), Mr/Mrs freeze using their cryothermal gun that has mid range freeze beam and close range heat blast (yes Mr freeze uses heat weapons as well, weird).
It should not work with guns only for the characters who use them. Captain Boomerang without using the boomerang as his main weapon. Harley Quinn a bat or a mallet.
The biggest issue with anything you said is saying how Rocksteady are talented developers and you are disappointed they took this route when the people who made previous games great left the studio seeing the writing on the wall years ago.
Yep, they left seeing how it was going to go wasnt a "slimey" thing to do as he put it. In fact, most would have done the same thing, going down the same route.
@@Dae... exactly if you saw the ship sinking and you couldnt do anything about it, the best and most realistic option is to leave. There isnt really a legal obligation to stay and jeopardize their careers for the rest of the studio if the others did not want to abandon the project.
@@dr_diddy Wrong, the men were not the problem. Sweet baby stink and all of the DEI activists are the problem. The two men left because they saw the shitshow coming and wanted no part of it. They wanted to make a great follow up game for the Arkamverse, but because of WB's greed and the activists autism, they had to make a live service instead. There is nobody left at Rocksteady who are actually devs, or were part of the OG crew who wrote the prior games, it's just newbies brought on with 0 clue, or activists who can't fucking code or write
@@dr_diddy uhh...you got it completely backwards. those "two men" are the ones who put the company on the map with amazing games. They were essentially pushed out and the current developers are the ones who took the game in rhis direction. If the same team who made Arkham worked on this, it would have been great. But no....we got a bunch of untalented DEI hires that ruined it.
Rocksteady from the past is a different comapany. Almost the entire staff changed. It´s like being in London 30 years ago people would get surprised about this shithole today.
Larian Studios, creators of Baldurs Gate 3 is twice as big as developer of this game. I also don't like the game, but it doesn't make dumb arguments right.
Lots has happened these last few months and I’ve pretty much given up video games, have absolutely no energy for them for some reason. But something always compels me to come back to this circus to see just how much worse it gets.
Bro has been on the frontlines, giving us content on this trainwreck so we don’t have to pay for it. Everyone say thank you Luke cause he’s a legend for this
Bro has been on the frontlines, bashing a game that's REALLY not that bad lol. It's not a perfect game by any means and it does get repetitive, but as far as superhero games go, it's got one of the most fun and creative types of gameplay. Please give games an actual, unbiased try before bashing them just because everyone else is doing it. Or if you don't, at least have the decency of not saying a game is bad because someone online says so.
nah he's milking this shit like with starfield and redfall. concord is probably next. I'm not defending any of these games but you're really naive if you think he's doing it as a noble gesture lol
That is _shockingly_ bad... Honest to God, WTF has to go through your head in order to force you PAST his wife and be like - "Ya know wut, we're leaving that bish on ice!"
@JimBobe The elseworld thing is not an excuse. They could've just as easily made an elseworld where Nora becomes the supervillain instead of genderswapping victor.
They coulda added Killer Frost, a Meta Human with Ice Powers. (She's the archenemy of Firestorm) OR EVEN CAPTAIN COLD. Frost has Ice Powers and Cap has a Frost Gun and that could worked. Or Deathstroke, Bane, Black Manta, Black Spider, Peacemaker, or even Red Hood or Lady Shiva. But no. We get a Gender Bent Tubi version of Mr. Freeze. What the hell man..........
Two things I find amusing: 1) The two characters added to the game so far have been dead in the Arkham Canon for years, so there's a good reason for them to NOT be there. 2) No Killer Frost? She's a woman and has ice powers, yet not inclusion in this trainwreck? Ok, Rocksteady, whatever you say.... Adendum: They are using the "Elseworlds" concept for two reasons (I bet): To bring in whoever they want in whatever style they want and go "multiverse"! And second, to rez the Justice League because of course they're going to do that. (I can't wait to hear the excuse of "Batman has throat damage, so he sounds different" to excuse Kevin's eventual replacement.... Or Ai, probably that if they're REEEAAALY desperate).
22:00 I get the feeling that they started work on a motion cutscene, had it framed and boarded out, but the animations were still wonky. Then a manager came in and said, "We're cutting this to an 8 hour budget. Make it work". And so they just took screenshots that didn't betray the unfinished animations, and took the remaining 7 hours off.
It's a stupid design, but you and I wear clothes for insulation. She could be using them exactly because of that. If she wants to keep her body heat (negative degrees), she will need to use insulated clothes. Still an awful design.
10:34 Sooo this game essentially is incapable of doing something that Genshin impact of all games mastered and added as a core mode of transportation in the game with the first free character (I mean Ice Bridging). Love to see it.
The founders of Rocksteady didn't abandon their team, they left when WB was taking control and making demands, they knew this game was a failure from the get go, so they left and from what I've read took a lot of their best employees with them to start a new company.
Well they did abandon the team, being in charge of the main story, direction and leading development of this game and leaving the studio before the game is due to come out is certainly abandoning the team. All the backlash is directed to the game design, story and direction which the co founder of Rocksteady that left, was in charge of. No excuses for them putting their team in the gutter along with the game.
@@parcadia7717 You see the nonsense that WB (their boss) made this game into and you dont understand why they abandoned ship? I wouldnt have wanted my resume to be stained by this garbage either. Smart move on Sefton's part
Read the report, they were fully aware of all the terrible decisions THEY made and then left at the last second to let everyone else deal with it, pussy behaviour. Especially Sefton, who was ONE HUNDRED PERCENT responsible for the writing.
7:49 I had the same reaction when I saw that the brainiac fight for this season was exactly the same as the previous one. They changed the colors of a few things and literally nothing else. It was the exact same Superman brainiac fight that they used as the final boss last season. They changed the color of the little incubator pillars from yellow to purple and the counter shot star from yellow to blue and that’s it. LAZY!
This game just makes me want an open world xmen game and like not just relegated to NYC but throw in Krakoa, sentinel bases in random areas, etc where we can traverse as storm, iceman, beast, wolvie whatever that would be so badass
Tbh I've been wanting a game like that for the longest. Only instead of playing as an established character we can create our own with our own move/power set.
Thanks for the explanation! I've been playing DRG lately, and one of my favorite parts about it is the class synergy. In SS, all I see are four players doing their own thing in one massive playing field. No interactions between characters. Idk if there actually is, and if there are please tell me, but so far I think they are doing co-op the bare minimum
Bruh... The fact that they went with "Mrs. Freeze" (srsly shaken by how stupid that is) instead of the scarecrow (OR THAT EVIL THING, OMFG) is worse than my sentence structure. What in the actual hot dog buttered butt !@#$ is going on over there? Seriously, I never paid for the game and I want to demand answers for how they're treating their players...
@@glitchknitter422 The problem is that SSKTJL isn't using NORA, they just gender swapped Mr Freeze and called it a day (I guess also made her a lesbian, because reasons)
@@JovaTheHuttlobo seems like the type to just hang around with the suicide squad because it seemed fun lol, Waller couldn't contain him but he'd just be tagging along for the whole game
Before the game even came out I have been saying, it doesn't matter what characters they add if they all use guns. That's the problem at the core, the foundation, THE ROOT!
I mean think of this idea. Suicide squad members for the most part are villains turned by ARGUS. Now imagine at the beginning of each season a big name member in the comics decides to go to that city because of all the chaos that is going on. Waller then sends a new recruit in this case a lesser known member of suicide squad to help defeat big named villain to then recruit to defeat another form of Brainiac. So in this case for season 2 since its ice themed. Bring in Captain Cold or Killer Frost to stop Mr Freeze in his Iceberg shaped lair, adds a whole new level to the map, different enemy types. Maybe add some gimmicks like forming melee weapons out of the ice like a giant ice hammer or some shit, or hell even add some fire things for weaknesses. Then 2 new characters are playable to defeat the newer form of Braniac. I mean I'm not a game designer, but are designers running out of creative things to do, is technology holding them back, or is it the corporations running these studios? I'm not saying my idea is a great one, but from what I have seen on this game, said idea is kind of a "layup".
The problem is Rocksteady WAS able to make something better than this years ago, but whether they’re still able to is a big maybe. I fear this is similar to Arkane Austin/Redfall where the project no one wanted to make led to massive brain drain and the core talent that made the studio truly special has left.
I agree with most of the gameplay I personally like her design for one the redness around her eyes is quite brilliant and I hope future versions of Mr freeze have them as well because they're meant to look like after you've cried for long time. And I've know some people mentioned about how buff she is besides the fact that in the comics there is plain versions of Mr freeze where he wears a giant suit of armour. But if you watch her anime video you can see that she just started walking out in her spare time and she genetically modified herself to become stronger most likely to carry around heavy equipment
People have said it already but if they really wanted to do Mrs Freeze wouldnt it have been a better and cooler idea to istead role swap Victor and Nora so that he is the one frozen instead
Would've been cool if they did more Arkham characters for the seasonal characters, also my first thought for a cool character to add for the seasonal model would've been Doomsday. They've already shown they can do bigger models why not try cooler stuff instead of having boring variants of older characters that have no ties to anything we know.
@@65fireredliterally, katana is an asian female character actually part of the suicide squad yet somehow genderbent race-swapped mr.freeze was the final pick
21:38 I've been trying in vain to find a specific painting or mural that this is copying... or is this meant to be more of a generic reference? I'd say this is heresy, but I guess they're all villains? Still weird.
Peacemaker would have been absolutely fitting, I don’t know how Deathstroke hasnt made it in the game. Way before we even saw gameplay people were clamoring their hopes to play him
Mrs. Freeze exists in the comics, being revived by Lex and Mr. freeze with the same ice thing and containment suit The only new thing the game did was make her the genderswapped version of Mr. Freeze instead of Nora
And do you know the worst part? It gets worse!!! We are going to have a female version of deadshot, a character that already exists in the game!!! And it's funny when a non Batman game have so much Batman villains!!!
So with this fact that Flash is alive, does it imply that the leaks that there were about seasons 1 to 4 are true? The reboot is coming with Flash traveling to the past
When you really think about it… Mr. Freeze/mrs. freeze wouldn’t even NEED A GUN! THEY GOT THE FEEZE GUN! That’s like the best gun anybody could ever have! When freeze blasts his enemies with his freeze gun, it’s game over!! A cool idea to have freeze be in the game on paper, but actually doing it doesn’t make sense considering that they have an OP weapon!
i wonder if there's some sort of malicious compliance going on at rocksteady. "you want the joker to be changed? well okay, here you go. just like you ****ing asked."
Remember how WB Montreal took the Arkham City map, tweaked and expanded it and built Arkham Origins on it? Surely recycling this Metropolis map for a single player Superman game would be something to look at. It would speed up development and allow a lot of the work the devs put into this game to actually go towards something people want.
While the characters that were added suck I can’t say I agree with your suggestions. Scarecrow has never been a member of the Suicide Squad and the Batman Who Laughs is one of the least liked characters created in the last ten years so I don’t think either of those would be great options
Not saying it's worth $10 but to be fair that "trash bag" outfit is his og outfit from his first appearance in the 50's. So it's a cannon comic accurate suit.
WHY did they make Ms. Freeze so UGLY. I get that making female characters that are attractive in games is controversial (somehow..) but my God! Im a woman, genuinely feel repulsed by this ogre of a design. Nora Fries from Arkham Knight was a beautiful woman. Nothing crazy, she didnt have a face full of makeup or a revealing outfit. She was just her, a normal woman. That LOOKS FEMININE. What happened?!?!?
What kills me about Mrs Freeze is that there are two other whole ass Ice women they could've used; Killer Frost and Ice. Ice, especially, would've been good narratively because she could be looking for her partner and want to use Brainiac to hop universes looking for Fire. Im tired of Batman who Laughs. Owlman is better. Jason Todd is better. Thomas Wayne is better
Adding Owlman as a character seems like a legitimately good idea. It would be the closest the have to the Original Arkham Batman, and his cynical, fatalistic but still well-reasoned commentary on the story would be pretty cool and stand out since none of the current characters are smart. This takes for granted the writers could put in the effort or even be capable to do him justice, though, which I doubt.
I haven’t played the Arkham games (I would like to at some point) but I remember hearing that Mr. Freeze was in one of the games, I don’t know if he was a boss or just a short cutscene appearance but I feel like it could’ve been cool if they had Mr. Freeze FROM the Arkham games, I have ZERO idea how they fumble things SO BADLY (Also apparently there were other (better) ice villains THAT THEY COULD’VE USED, Complete insanity)
10:56 (for video reference). Thank you for noting this - I had to look this up as well before I saw your comment. While it's nice to have these "deep cuts", maybe the game should have some explanation about what the heck they are...? I imagine most people aren't going to do research about these random costume variations.
Explaining it's an old costume that DC ditched because it looked shitty really doesn't matter. It being a reference does not make it good. They could have kept the color scheme and made the outfit still look good.
Literally using Captain Cold, Killer Frost or even a original character/some other overlooked villain would've been better than whatever Mrs. Freeze is supposed to be
It's like the looked for every possible corner to stub their toes on lol And when they couldn't find one, they built one just to ensure something got stubbed.
Honestly i'm even positively surprised (in a way): I expected that everything besides the Joker and Deathstroke - the only characters that were known before - would just be the most basic things they could do. Like characters that are so close to the existing ones they could take almost everything from them. This is at least a tiny little bit more work put into it. But not much of course. The ice-map? Yeah, that's exactly what i expected. Let's see what the next "great" season will bring ...
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will you be looking at seasons 3 and 4 of the game?
they didnt bypass if you keep the story alive. you seem like a reasonable guy and gaming journalism suits you
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The fact that rocksteady is going to ruin the next hogwarts legacy is just depressing to me.
Genderswapping Mr. Freeze despite the fact that a female ice themed character named Killer Frost already exists is like if they raceswapped Hal Jordan in the next Green Lantern project despite John Stewart existing...
Don't give WB ideas.
Theyll do it. Forgetting a character they own wouldnt be the dumbest thing theyve done
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they did it just to have Nora as a wife
@@Cristopher.C They could have gone with Norman lol
@@Cristopher.CWell Nora is actually Mrs Freeze in other comics. They could have made this character Nora. But then how are they going to turn Mr Freeze into a lesbian if they do that?
I’m so confused, Killer Frost is RIGHT THERE
SHE WAS ACTUALLY IN THE SUICIDE SQUAD BEFORE
She died though (probably), so they have an excuse to not use her. Though considering this is an Elseworlds Freeze...
@@LittleBigPlanetian Bro, they don't give a shit about that. King Shark looked *completely* different in the Arkhamverse before this game and had his head blown off.
@@nagger8216 yeah, its always been obvious they just dropped the "its canon to the arkham games!" as an easy marketing strat, but it just ended up backfiring completely, because it seems like they mostly had the films and other pieces of media in mind when making this game, rather than any of the arkham games
Nah we good, I don't want to see her look like a Karen
@@LittleBigPlanetianJoker died but he came back based on another universe, so why cant they do that with Frost?
Season 2: Less Squad, More Suicide
Made me chuckle
Not cool at all
sometimes the internet just produces wonderfully witty insults like these and I am grateful for it.
@@Familytube90”erm not cool at all mister 🤓👆”
😂
I don't even think the hate for MS Freeze is about the gender, but rather how BORING THEY DID IT.
Like okay, make her MS Freeze BUT not a girl Victoria Fries BUT WHY NOT MAKE HER NORA?!?! I MEAN?!??! YOU HAVE NORA UNFROZEN AT THE END OF THE ARKHAM SERIES?!? WHY NOT DO A MULTIVERSE WHERE SHE SURVIVES?! YOU ALREADY HAVE HER AS A FAN FAVORITE
Ughhh it's so BORING. There's a SUPER badass TOY they made a COMIC FOR based on MR Freeze surviving in a DIVING SUIT. A TOY COMPANY MADE A BETTER ALTERNATIVE VERSION THAN A AAA STUDIO
Yeah that was like "Huh?" Why not give her a husband if you're already swapping her.
@@XanKreigor Not enough DEI/twitter brownie points if they did that.
Because that idea is actually somewhat interesting to be explored, so we can’t be havin none o dat!
It's not even Nora? Yikes.
So, whats the lore behind this "Miss Freeze"? Is it just a gender swap with no change to the lore?
What baffles me even more is Mr. freeze doesn't even use conventional guns, he uses his freeze ray in like every version of himself. So why make a genderbent version that doesn't use that signature gun? It's like taking away Batman's utility belt or Captain boomerang's boomerang.
Might be because people like *them* genuinely believe knowing the lore or having actually read the comics is a (and I'm not kidding either) "red flag".
@@jessekoepp3928 eww... Reminds me of the halo show... WTF is wrong with actually using source material nowadays? It's not like it saw the foundation of everything or anything.
*they/them Freeze
Well she does appear in the comics , 2005 in detective comics dont remember the issue. She has ice powers. Now i still dont think she was a good pick AT ALL . But as for them adding her because they dont read comics doesnt hold up, she IS a comic character, granted she looks WAY different. She looks awful in the game
@Dr.Kiwi934 she is a comic character. Shes a terrible choice for the game but she is very much a character from detective comics starting back in 2019. She looks nothing like this DEI nonsense though, she looks pretty cool in the comics
You know what I just realized, FOR A SUICIDE SQUAD GAME THATS AGAINST THE JUSTICE LEAGUE, THERE SURE IS ALOT OF ONLY BATMAN VILLAINS AND NO SUPERMAN, WONDERWOMAN, OR FLASH VILLAINS IN THE SQUAD
(Besides Boomerang)
(Literally Killer Frost and Captain Cold are right there)
And the next two villains will be Deathstroke and Deadshot's daughter, so that's all four DLC characters being Batman or Batman related villains.
Imagine using someone like livewire mirror master cheetah or someone else these characters are way more unique than these idiots
Well, to be fair King Shark started as a Superboy villain
what fascinates me about this game is that I've never seen even a single frame of gameplay that looks fun in any way
Its actually pretty fun. But ofc no one here has actually played the game
@@JimBobeis pretty repetitive in all ways
Is not even THAT fun and i play Warframe
@@JimBobe a lot of fun for 300 people at a time
@@grimklang Yea it’s unfortunate. So many people decided not to try the game out because of youtubers like this 🤡
@@Morfe02 it’s as repetitive as you want it to be. There’s easily 12+hrs of story here with some fun/cool cutscenes, and an awesome world that has some pretty fun traversal mechanics.
UA-camrs hate the game just to hate it. Hell even Luke said he only makes these vids bc they get a lot of views.
He goes into these vids with a negative mindset, so every little thing that annoys him will be amplified. But if you go in with an open mind the game is actually pretty fun!
At the very least, Mrs. Freeze could have been Nora Fries instead of Victor Fries.
If they wanted to push it, they could have also added that Nora came out of her sleep, froze herself, and help her husband find a cure as well / both survived the brainiac battle of their world but got separated because of brainiac. (They keep the same trope of “lost loved one”as presented in the game)
That is actually a good idea though
But then you couldn't sell a pride skin
"Guys wait... Wait don't leave!! Look! We have lesbian Mr. Freeze!"
*People continue walking*
"Seriously, wait! We brought The Flash back! He's alive, see he's alive... hey! Please look...He's alive. He was cloned. You fought his clone!"
*Nobody looks back, they keep on walking*
@@dragondude9637correction flash wasn’t a clone brainiac brought him back to life story wise I wanna know what braniac is gonna do when the leauge decides to kill him
I can imagine this as a Family Guy or South Park scene
Exactly, that's why we're walking away
Lesbian Mrs. Freeze looks like she contributes to the DV statistics among that community.
Paid cosmetics in a game that is sold for full price should be illegal.
Why couldn’t it have been an arkham style game about the suicide squad? Who tf wanted this?
Who wanted these loser b-lister villains anyway? Why couldn’t it have been a bloody Batman Arkham game? Because sweet baby Inc and the idiots at Warner brothers, that’s why. Warner bros. have been trying to push these glorified diversity hire villains for years and nobody likes them.
@@HynotamaI don't think most people have a problem with the characters since they've been in several movies/comics over the years (especially Harley and Deadshot). The issue was just the game itself.
@@SRFAA i think this particular iteration of the characters is part of the problem, but that is still unique to this game
Like the arkham origins multiplayer
@@SRFAAMore specifically people have a problem with these versions who are all parodies of the actual characters.
The "trash bag" outfit is a reference to the first appearance of Mr. Freeze in the comics but not 10 dollars worth
Why gender swap mister Freeze when DC already has a female villain with ice powers? Her name is Killer Frost and she was in the first Injustice game.
There's no time!
She was even in the Arkham Asylum prequel animated movie.
shes also been known to be part of the suicide squad
Because then they don't get to CHANGE Mr. Freeze into a lesbian asian lady, that's why.
Because it wouldn’t check off the DEI requirement they imposed on themselves.
It's not "slimy" to leave when you're given no choice but to abandon your morals to lead a team making a terrible game no one wants to make. Rocksteady corporate are the "slimy" ones.
Agreed. I got the feeling from other reporting that the devs were being forced to make this game by corporate. So, I don't blame them for walking away.
Seriously most out of touch thing I've ever heard when he said that.
My understanding is that Luke found it slimy that the corpo guy used the guys leaving as an excuse why the game is bad. Them leaving wasn't what he refered to as "slimy".
Agreed. Folk have every right to leave a job. Heck most devs only stay at an average at 3 years at any given company. It's a given nowadays that people will eventually leave
You can’t save rotting meant
Best to leave it and let the wolves have it then get sick by it
I have to keep reminding myself that all of this is supposed to be in the arkham universe... Which is wild to me.
It isn't. Don't give an inch to these freaks. Don't let them take a thing and ruin it. This game doesn't exists and isn't canon to Arkham.
There is no sucide squad in arkham universe
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(creepy hypnosis like in avatar the last airbender)
Shouldn’t that be something you try to forget not remember?
Don't remind yourself. Resist it. That's like me reminding myself that Disney Star Wars is canon.... No, I refuse.
wdym "this is supposed to be in the arkham universe"?
Yeah, right. What are you gonna say next? That theres a "Pacific Rim 2"?
Lol. Lmao even
They usually make Mr. Freeze look like an intimidating cool nerd. Why can't Mrs. Freeze look intimidating? She just gives off "We have Mei from Overwatch at home" vibes.
At least the Arkham outfit fixes that, I guess. But that just means needing to pay more money.
MegaMan rules 😎
Honestly she gives me Karen vibes. Would definitely ask to speak to the manager.
Game dev here. I'll tell you why they didn't do the ice as actual platforms that other people can ride on. Right now the ice only exists as a VFX. It's not even there as a physical thing. And the "ice path ability" just fixes her movement in a specific way. As in her movement gets locked by a code to follow a specific path and ice exists as vfx. Think of it like she's riding a hover board with ice vfx. That's why the ice melts as fast as it does.
Doing what you want would've required the ice path and her movement to be two independent systems that interact with one other. So coding wise her ice path would've been one thing that she lays down as an environmental interactable object, and then her riding on that ice path would've been a separate "incident". Benefit would be that you can then use that same "incident" and apply that to other characters that also use the ice path. But that's not what they did.
However, there is a game that actually did do it correctly. It's called spellbreak. It's now shut down but in spell break the frost class could shoot an ice arrow that would freeze everything beneath it and every party member that got on the ice would get a massive speed boost. But that requires your characters to not exist in isolation in the game world. But in suicide squad all characters exist in isolation where their abilities don't actually interact with each others at all. And making the ice platform thing for "Mrs freeze" when you don't have an existing framework where characters abilities can interact with each other would've taken much more effort than the game is worth.
Idk if I did good job of explaining it or not if anyone has any doubts feel free to ask and I'll explain further via edits.
I posted this comment originally on his second channel but i thought it would help here too.
Thanku for the explenation
Thanks for the explanation!
Thanks! Good to know!
Bro I played Spellbreak when it first released and I may not like battle Royales, but the concept actually had a ton of potential, and I kind of liked how chaotic the late game would get because of how the mechanics were structured. That's a good game for developers to learn from
@@USERsubject0 Ikr. I hope someday i can make a game that captures the spirit of spellbreak, cuz that game really does mean something special to me
The new Rocksteady team is just asking to be in witness protection, they keep destroying what the old team did
It's sad because I see so many ways this game could have been good but everywhere I look the developer made the wrong decision
It's like, step by step they went to every aspect of the game and were like "what would our audience want here? What could we do to make this game enjoyable? Let's do the complete opposite of that! 😀"
@@AngelOfDæth_4it was made by devs who had no idea to make these types of games. Never looked at ones that was successful and ones that didn't,to know what to do and what not to do and things they can improve on that successful live services games have trouble in. Instead they pretty much went into the basics and thought about what they would want mostly and what they think is cool. I'm really convinced this game is made for certain people on the devs team and not for the players they wanted to play this. They wouldn't be here had they played the avengers game completely because this game follows in the same footsteps beat for beat
It's incredibly sad because the game isn't nearly as bad as people say it is. It's indefinitely worth ATLEAST 30$, and that's pre-season 2 launch... There's more now.
The combat alone carries the game, even if people nitpick the story.
Impossible 😂@@warmanreaper
@@warmanreaper The game in it's entirety is utter dogshit, it has no redeeming qualities, people are not nitpicking at literal autism. It would not be worth it even if the game was free
What makes this AT LEAST 20x dumber on their part is that DC literally already had a Female Ice Villain that fans love in Killer Frost, but NO they just have to do a friggin Gender Swap of a beloved character
no lmao, this isnt the same rocksteady. This is a ship of Theseus situation and the old guard left in bits and pieces a long time ago
Black Manta would be a great character to add as his version of Metropolis would be flooded which would change up the traversal.
would require way too much work to program for this ungodly money sink. If Black Manta was in the game he'd just have a jetpack that shoots pressurized water lmao
@@KaaneDragonShinobi *sigh* What could have been! I was thinking we were getting something between the Arkham games and the Payday games. Then I heard the words ‘live service’!
Black Manta I would imagine, would just make water jets if he wanted, like how the character that freezes the air can just do that. Something about the hydrogen in the air explanation.
So they genderswapped Mr. Freeze instead of... I dunno... using some sort of alternate universe where Nora is the one with the Freeze suit?
Or even use Killer Frost
@@MaxCanonStunner Even better. I mostly said that because of the whole dumb alternate universe theme going on with Jonkler but yeah, an actual member of the Suicide Squad would have been nice too.
Crazy how we went from something so incredible like Batman Arkham knight, that was so ahead of it’s time for gameplay and graphical fidelity, and still holds up beautifully to this day, even better than games newer than it, idk why this game was made, when it was being developed through times where live service games were FLOPPING, only cod, fortnite, 2k/nfl are doing fine cuz they are established franchises, and Fortnite did something so unique, but this game is something nobody wanted, why WB made rocksteady develop this game is just a mystery we won’t know, just tragic.
Fortnite’s only “unique” idea was dumped in the toilet after ripping off pubg. Maybe stick to mainstream games and stop commenting on actually unique games.
ill never understand choosing to gender swap Mr. Freeze. Killer Frost is a Female Ice Based DC villain. You can even make Killer Frost gay, no one of any import will give a shit if you make Killer Frost Gay. But to work extra hard to change a character unnecessarily is just baffling.
Stop it with your logic. You're scaring them
The developers have access to any and all DC characters. They've just never heard of her lol
No, its totally logical. You're just thinking of taste, design and fun. But in order to get the right amount of esg points, you gotta do what you gotta do. If they don't get enough points, they lose their loans. Thats why he's now an asian woman lesbian.
Thats a triple bonus.
And its why every game is doing it. Passing up free money is illogical.
That's part of the problem, though, gamers are still fine with ESG, just so long as it suits your taste. They are actually using a two-tier method, where they make extremely ESG-laden games -- like this game -- that people recoil at, but then they roll out stuff like TLOU or Hogwarts and everyone laps it up. Basically, the extremism of games like SS: KTJL is so far left that people still accept ESG implementations when they're rolled out softly in games like Hogwarts or Spider-Man 2.
It's simple. It's because they hired Sweet Baby Inc., and they are LITERALLY paid to say things like "how about gender swapping Mr. Freeze? That will go very well with MODERN AUDIENCES". So they have to listen to them and implement their ideas, even if they don't make sense.
I'll definitely play or buy anything from Sefton Hill and his team's new studio. But I won't buy or play a single game from rocksteady anymore. Due to the fact that half of the studio got replaced by a "consulting group" that "helped" make this game.
The skin at 10:56 is based on Mr. Freeze's costume from when he was originally introduced back in the late 50's, when he was known as Mr. Zero.
It did not look good back then, and it does not look good now.
Batman the animated series was the best thing that ever happened to him
I was about to comment this. It is a nice throwback, but it should not be $1, let alone $10
She looks like a bad Saitama cosplay😂
@@TheJanissary90 That's what I thought lol
Was looking for this comment. Probably the only thing I actually like about the character 😂
You know, to a degree, the idea of encountering multiverse versions of characters we know who are different from the ones we are familiar with on paper sounds like it could work. The problem in my opinion is what they chose to do with their multiverse versions of the characters. We got Angsty teen joker and Mrs Freeze, when instead we could have had ideas that were much more off the wall.
Here are some off the top of my head:
A Black Manta who became the legitimate king of Atlantis until his version of Brainiac destroyed it.
A Joker/Scarecrow hybrid character that alternates between using fear and laughing gas. (Maybe have an air of mystery by making it unclear which half came first, the joker or scarecrow?)
A Mirror Master who was formerly enslaved by his Brainiac and only managed to escape by hiding in the mirror world. Now he’s a vengeful ronnin type character who is gurellia warfaring his way across the multiverse.
I bet anyone could come up with more creative options than what we got, and that’s just sad. They could have gone absolutely bonkers with the alternate versions of these characters, and instead we got this.
(Side note, does anyone else have more ideas for some multiverse variants? I would love to hear some more ideas).
“This game wasn’t made for you”
“Ok then who was this made for if not people that play video games?
It’s made for the 295 people who play it.
That’s the modern audience. Maybe they’re all billionaires.
@@Tatian4191😂😂😂 lol
It is made to receive DEI based capital funding from Blackrock and woke critics.
@@memeticisthopefully with another year or two of this soulless type of bullshit flopping, they'll give up
@@Thorn_416 Indeed! From what I have been hearing the money has started to dry up. Also, the initial research that seemed to validate the DEI frenzy - which purported to show that companies with more diverse boards have higher rates of returns - has not been replicated and independent analyses show that there is no correlation. So, the DEI frenzy seems to be fading.
Can't say it's slimy to walk away from a project that won't listen, change, adapt.
Okay, so you say Black manta would’ve some cool moves if he was added to the game but… the only thing that makes the characters different from each other is their traversal which I’d you can see the pattern, it’s not related to the character. Black manta like any other character would just be a skin. One of the biggest problem of this game and one I don’t see many people talk about it’s the core gameplay that doesn’t let the character shine with the own abilities. Making the suicide strike an special unique ability RELATED to the character would had been a great start, like letting Deadshot see through walls and bounce his bullets, let borrmerang throw a boomerang, use one of Harley’s multiple gadgets or let Shark eat an enemy. I mean… there is so much ideas I have of changes I would’ve made to the game and still keeping basic and core ideas of the game.
The whole thing is a just a dumbed down Borderlands, without any of the fun. No way to specialise no unique abilities. They could have easily had different classes with each character, harley using her pop gun revolver and her mallet, shark being a tanky brawler who can throw things, captain boomerang using his boomerangs with each one adding effects, deadshot has snipers and pistols making him more basic but give him interesting abilities. For the add ons Joker has his cane and bang bang bang revolver or acid flower (hell, make a special accuracy move that uses the comically long barreled one), Mr/Mrs freeze using their cryothermal gun that has mid range freeze beam and close range heat blast (yes Mr freeze uses heat weapons as well, weird).
Yeah the whipe.think is just lazy, in game okay, design and characters. Like you have the MULTIVERSE and they barely play with the idea.
Yeah they all just shoot guns😅 like who’s bright idea was it to use superhero’s with unique abilities, just to have them all shoot guns😂so goofy
@@darkrai2007This game could’ve been fun if they at least had their actual abilities. Someone need to be fired
It should not work with guns only for the characters who use them. Captain Boomerang without using the boomerang as his main weapon. Harley Quinn a bat or a mallet.
mirror master, deathstroke, clayface, black manta > and if u wanted a female ice character so bad just use killer frost
none of these would be better actually because they'd all play like shit
The biggest issue with anything you said is saying how Rocksteady are talented developers and you are disappointed they took this route when the people who made previous games great left the studio seeing the writing on the wall years ago.
Yep, they left seeing how it was going to go wasnt a "slimey" thing to do as he put it. In fact, most would have done the same thing, going down the same route.
it's sad seeing that 2 men basically destroyed the studio for 10 years.
The current devs are basically stuck finishing a game the leads abandoned.
@@Dae... exactly if you saw the ship sinking and you couldnt do anything about it, the best and most realistic option is to leave. There isnt really a legal obligation to stay and jeopardize their careers for the rest of the studio if the others did not want to abandon the project.
@@dr_diddy Wrong, the men were not the problem. Sweet baby stink and all of the DEI activists are the problem. The two men left because they saw the shitshow coming and wanted no part of it. They wanted to make a great follow up game for the Arkamverse, but because of WB's greed and the activists autism, they had to make a live service instead.
There is nobody left at Rocksteady who are actually devs, or were part of the OG crew who wrote the prior games, it's just newbies brought on with 0 clue, or activists who can't fucking code or write
@@dr_diddy uhh...you got it completely backwards. those "two men" are the ones who put the company on the map with amazing games. They were essentially pushed out and the current developers are the ones who took the game in rhis direction. If the same team who made Arkham worked on this, it would have been great. But no....we got a bunch of untalented DEI hires that ruined it.
Rocksteady from the past is a different comapany. Almost the entire staff changed. It´s like being in London 30 years ago people would get surprised about this shithole today.
These big companies have become so tone-deaf over the years. Especially when it comes to popular media.
It genuinely seems like the higher-ups are stuck in their own bubble.
Larian Studios, creators of Baldurs Gate 3 is twice as big as developer of this game. I also don't like the game, but it doesn't make dumb arguments right.
Lots has happened these last few months and I’ve pretty much given up video games, have absolutely no energy for them for some reason. But something always compels me to come back to this circus to see just how much worse it gets.
Bro has been on the frontlines, giving us content on this trainwreck so we don’t have to pay for it. Everyone say thank you Luke cause he’s a legend for this
Thank you Luke!
not really since he’s been making all the other overly positive and biased sponsored videos promoting games left and right lately
Im the trenches taking grenades for us
Bro has been on the frontlines, bashing a game that's REALLY not that bad lol. It's not a perfect game by any means and it does get repetitive, but as far as superhero games go, it's got one of the most fun and creative types of gameplay.
Please give games an actual, unbiased try before bashing them just because everyone else is doing it. Or if you don't, at least have the decency of not saying a game is bad because someone online says so.
nah he's milking this shit like with starfield and redfall. concord is probably next. I'm not defending any of these games but you're really naive if you think he's doing it as a noble gesture lol
I appreciate you taking the bullet for us and solely funding all these DEI games.
Wait so this is female Mr freeze??? I thought it would be his wife for something. Damn that's even worse 😂😂😂
That is _shockingly_ bad...
Honest to God, WTF has to go through your head in order to force you PAST his wife and be like -
"Ya know wut, we're leaving that bish on ice!"
Its the elseworld…. They’re the different version of our universe’s superheros….
fr if they wanna do NORAs Mrs freeze im down, this is like a gender swap of victor, so odd
@@TheBsmith97 It’s the Elseworld’s version of Mr. Freeze… just like how Joker from season 1 is not our version of the joker
@JimBobe The elseworld thing is not an excuse. They could've just as easily made an elseworld where Nora becomes the supervillain instead of genderswapping victor.
They coulda added Killer Frost, a Meta Human with Ice Powers. (She's the archenemy of Firestorm) OR EVEN CAPTAIN COLD. Frost has Ice Powers and Cap has a Frost Gun and that could worked.
Or Deathstroke, Bane, Black Manta, Black Spider, Peacemaker, or even Red Hood or Lady Shiva.
But no.
We get a Gender Bent Tubi version of Mr. Freeze.
What the hell man..........
Two things I find amusing:
1) The two characters added to the game so far have been dead in the Arkham Canon for years, so there's a good reason for them to NOT be there.
2) No Killer Frost? She's a woman and has ice powers, yet not inclusion in this trainwreck? Ok, Rocksteady, whatever you say....
Adendum: They are using the "Elseworlds" concept for two reasons (I bet): To bring in whoever they want in whatever style they want and go "multiverse"! And second, to rez the Justice League because of course they're going to do that. (I can't wait to hear the excuse of "Batman has throat damage, so he sounds different" to excuse Kevin's eventual replacement.... Or Ai, probably that if they're REEEAAALY desperate).
GREAT STANCE on the reasons why keep making these videos luke. Keep it up my man. As a game dev and gaming customer I enjoy your work !
22:00 I get the feeling that they started work on a motion cutscene, had it framed and boarded out, but the animations were still wonky. Then a manager came in and said, "We're cutting this to an 8 hour budget. Make it work". And so they just took screenshots that didn't betray the unfinished animations, and took the remaining 7 hours off.
My first thought when I heard “Mrs. Freeze” was Nora trying to help Victor and she became Freeze. But no, they just made a Female Lesbian Freeze
Tell me why Freeze needs fur around her collar when she needs to stay cold?
They same reason she’s using a gun instead of the freeze ray
It's a stupid design, but you and I wear clothes for insulation. She could be using them exactly because of that. If she wants to keep her body heat (negative degrees), she will need to use insulated clothes.
Still an awful design.
@@ricardosnowbacks6404 you enjoying the game man? Hows the update feeling?
@@ParanoidBobby I did not play it.
I as just trying speak of the science.
Are you assuming her cold tolerance you coldist
10:34 Sooo this game essentially is incapable of doing something that Genshin impact of all games mastered and added as a core mode of transportation in the game with the first free character (I mean Ice Bridging). Love to see it.
Modern audiences are super excited to play mrs freeze all 8 of them
Well, you can be sure they're writing a tweet about gamers' homophobia and misogyny right now.
To be fair, the red and yellow outfit is essentially Mr Freeze’s first appearance
The founders of Rocksteady didn't abandon their team, they left when WB was taking control and making demands, they knew this game was a failure from the get go, so they left and from what I've read took a lot of their best employees with them to start a new company.
Well they did abandon the team, being in charge of the main story, direction and leading development of this game and leaving the studio before the game is due to come out is certainly abandoning the team. All the backlash is directed to the game design, story and direction which the co founder of Rocksteady that left, was in charge of. No excuses for them putting their team in the gutter along with the game.
@@parcadia7717 They may have been "in charge" of the studio, but they still had to obey the demands of the suits at WB.
@@parcadia7717 You see the nonsense that WB (their boss) made this game into and you dont understand why they abandoned ship?
I wouldnt have wanted my resume to be stained by this garbage either. Smart move on Sefton's part
Read the report, they were fully aware of all the terrible decisions THEY made and then left at the last second to let everyone else deal with it, pussy behaviour. Especially Sefton, who was ONE HUNDRED PERCENT responsible for the writing.
And i heard they are collaborati ng with Xbox to publish their new game. Fascinating
7:49 I had the same reaction when I saw that the brainiac fight for this season was exactly the same as the previous one. They changed the colors of a few things and literally nothing else. It was the exact same Superman brainiac fight that they used as the final boss last season. They changed the color of the little incubator pillars from yellow to purple and the counter shot star from yellow to blue and that’s it. LAZY!
This game just makes me want an open world xmen game and like not just relegated to NYC but throw in Krakoa, sentinel bases in random areas, etc where we can traverse as storm, iceman, beast, wolvie whatever that would be so badass
Tbh I've been wanting a game like that for the longest. Only instead of playing as an established character we can create our own with our own move/power set.
I'm glad you mentioned the tutorial tips, i was wondering why tf they were on the screen the whole video🤣
Just for the record, if someone gender swapped a female character and turned them into a male, the whole internet would go absolutely ape shit
We saw that with Nexus mods and BG3. It's literally the same concept but because it's gender swapping to male it's bannable.
Or when they turned black panther into a white guy 😂😂😂
@Macheako well, it would be only fair. They blackwash European gods..
10 mfs on Twitter is not “the whole internet”
@@darianstarfrog oh bro I thought it was funny af 🤣❤️ lol
Thanks for the explanation! I've been playing DRG lately, and one of my favorite parts about it is the class synergy. In SS, all I see are four players doing their own thing in one massive playing field. No interactions between characters. Idk if there actually is, and if there are please tell me, but so far I think they are doing co-op the bare minimum
Honestly the “dumpster freezer” joke was so bad that it wrapped back around to being hilarious 😆
Bruh... The fact that they went with "Mrs. Freeze" (srsly shaken by how stupid that is) instead of the scarecrow (OR THAT EVIL THING, OMFG) is worse than my sentence structure.
What in the actual hot dog buttered butt !@#$ is going on over there?
Seriously, I never paid for the game and I want to demand answers for how they're treating their players...
Nora first took the moniker Mrs Freeze in the Year Of The Villain arc in 2019
@@glitchknitter422 The problem is that SSKTJL isn't using NORA, they just gender swapped Mr Freeze and called it a day (I guess also made her a lesbian, because reasons)
10:58 That outfit is probably referencing the 1st version of Mr Freeze, Mr Zero. If it were a free skin, it would have been a cool reference
How is DC not using Lobo, the freaking MAIN MAN of the DC universe. It's beyond me, especially after success Deadpool had.
They are waiting for the movie release, and then they'll release a quickly developed, poorly done game.
To be fair Lobo would never be in the Suicide Squad cuz Waller wouldn’t be able to contain him
@@JovaTheHuttlobo seems like the type to just hang around with the suicide squad because it seemed fun lol, Waller couldn't contain him but he'd just be tagging along for the whole game
@@Subpar1O1 yea I could see him helping them out for fun or some form of compensation
I’m sorry??? It’s not even Nora Fries who has canonically taken on the Freeze mantle?Saving that till the end was a Shyamalan twist. Lol. Insane.
Before the game even came out I have been saying, it doesn't matter what characters they add if they all use guns. That's the problem at the core, the foundation, THE ROOT!
I mean think of this idea. Suicide squad members for the most part are villains turned by ARGUS. Now imagine at the beginning of each season a big name member in the comics decides to go to that city because of all the chaos that is going on. Waller then sends a new recruit in this case a lesser known member of suicide squad to help defeat big named villain to then recruit to defeat another form of Brainiac. So in this case for season 2 since its ice themed. Bring in Captain Cold or Killer Frost to stop Mr Freeze in his Iceberg shaped lair, adds a whole new level to the map, different enemy types. Maybe add some gimmicks like forming melee weapons out of the ice like a giant ice hammer or some shit, or hell even add some fire things for weaknesses. Then 2 new characters are playable to defeat the newer form of Braniac. I mean I'm not a game designer, but are designers running out of creative things to do, is technology holding them back, or is it the corporations running these studios? I'm not saying my idea is a great one, but from what I have seen on this game, said idea is kind of a "layup".
The problem is Rocksteady WAS able to make something better than this years ago, but whether they’re still able to is a big maybe. I fear this is similar to Arkane Austin/Redfall where the project no one wanted to make led to massive brain drain and the core talent that made the studio truly special has left.
I agree with most of the gameplay I personally like her design for one the redness around her eyes is quite brilliant and I hope future versions of Mr freeze have them as well because they're meant to look like after you've cried for long time.
And I've know some people mentioned about how buff she is besides the fact that in the comics there is plain versions of Mr freeze where he wears a giant suit of armour.
But if you watch her anime video you can see that she just started walking out in her spare time and she genetically modified herself to become stronger most likely to carry around heavy equipment
People have said it already but if they really wanted to do Mrs Freeze wouldnt it have been a better and cooler idea to istead role swap Victor and Nora so that he is the one frozen instead
I think Firefly would be a perfect character for a team like this, not an A list but not some nobody
I'd like to imagine after playing Season 2, Luke went into a small closet and silently cried.
Thank you for your sacrifice
*salute*
Lol sacrifice? It's easy money making videos like this. That's why he did it
@@Julez67s no shit retahrd. It's a joke
@Thorn_416 feeding of hate is a joke? Sound to me like he's talentless.
Reddit humour
Would've been cool if they did more Arkham characters for the seasonal characters, also my first thought for a cool character to add for the seasonal model would've been Doomsday. They've already shown they can do bigger models why not try cooler stuff instead of having boring variants of older characters that have no ties to anything we know.
I'd like to wonder why Mrs. Freeze is Asian... I'm even Korean and I'm baffled why they choose that race for this gender swap character...
Because the original is white and they didn't want that. It's that petty.
@@primalplasma Did they forget Google exists and they could choose a different character altogether?
@@65fireredliterally, katana is an asian female character actually part of the suicide squad yet somehow genderbent race-swapped mr.freeze was the final pick
@@primalplasma"I would do the same thing" pfft
@@primalplasma good thing you're not a game producer
I used to defend the game but its something about knowing the grind never switches up even after the endgame that made me stop playing the game.
The photo of the prayer is a remake of depiction of Christ being taken from the cross…. Don’t know why it’s in suicide squad lol
21:38 I've been trying in vain to find a specific painting or mural that this is copying... or is this meant to be more of a generic reference? I'd say this is heresy, but I guess they're all villains? Still weird.
Bible readers like to make stuff up all the time. Don't worry about facts and logic.
Peacemaker would have been absolutely fitting, I don’t know how Deathstroke hasnt made it in the game. Way before we even saw gameplay people were clamoring their hopes to play him
Mrs. Freeze exists in the comics, being revived by Lex and Mr. freeze with the same ice thing and containment suit
The only new thing the game did was make her the genderswapped version of Mr. Freeze instead of Nora
And do you know the worst part? It gets worse!!! We are going to have a female version of deadshot, a character that already exists in the game!!! And it's funny when a non Batman game have so much Batman villains!!!
One punch man skin
I was looking for this comment, it's so random 😂
One Degree Woman :p
@@sanfransiscon😂😂😂
One Asian Lesbian
So with this fact that Flash is alive, does it imply that the leaks that there were about seasons 1 to 4 are true? The reboot is coming with Flash traveling to the past
it's telling that the biggest selling point for a character is their traversal system
When you really think about it… Mr. Freeze/mrs. freeze wouldn’t even NEED A GUN! THEY GOT THE FEEZE GUN! That’s like the best gun anybody could ever have! When freeze blasts his enemies with his freeze gun, it’s game over!! A cool idea to have freeze be in the game on paper, but actually doing it doesn’t make sense considering that they have an OP weapon!
i wonder if there's some sort of malicious compliance going on at rocksteady. "you want the joker to be changed? well okay, here you go. just like you ****ing asked."
Dude that Cenobite Batman is SICK. Thank you for bringing this to my attention!
Female mr Freeze could be just Hot Killer Frost but they appealing to MODERN AUDIENCES lol
Gender swapped
Race swapped
Uglified
LGBTQIA+
Yup, sure sounds like it is aimed at the myth that is the "modern audience"
Remember how WB Montreal took the Arkham City map, tweaked and expanded it and built Arkham Origins on it? Surely recycling this Metropolis map for a single player Superman game would be something to look at. It would speed up development and allow a lot of the work the devs put into this game to actually go towards something people want.
It amazes me, how your videos have more content than the game itself
While the characters that were added suck I can’t say I agree with your suggestions. Scarecrow has never been a member of the Suicide Squad and the Batman Who Laughs is one of the least liked characters created in the last ten years so I don’t think either of those would be great options
Not saying it's worth $10 but to be fair that "trash bag" outfit is his og outfit from his first appearance in the 50's. So it's a cannon comic accurate suit.
I haven't played the game so I don't know if they've done this to other characters but would this style stick out like a sore thumb?
@@jradk9614 yes, but it still looks AWFUL! Who would buy that?
Why do companies do the opposite of what they know people will want, it's literally self sabotage at this point.
Peacemaker is such a good idea that they NEVER would do it. 😂😂😂
Peacemaker is a white man who loves his country. Sweet Baby Rocksteady would never let that happen.
@DelaV3 The games entire budget would be used just to model him after John Cena.
WHY did they make Ms. Freeze so UGLY. I get that making female characters that are attractive in games is controversial (somehow..) but my God! Im a woman, genuinely feel repulsed by this ogre of a design.
Nora Fries from Arkham Knight was a beautiful woman. Nothing crazy, she didnt have a face full of makeup or a revealing outfit. She was just her, a normal woman. That LOOKS FEMININE. What happened?!?!?
What kills me about Mrs Freeze is that there are two other whole ass Ice women they could've used; Killer Frost and Ice.
Ice, especially, would've been good narratively because she could be looking for her partner and want to use Brainiac to hop universes looking for Fire.
Im tired of Batman who Laughs. Owlman is better. Jason Todd is better. Thomas Wayne is better
Adding Owlman as a character seems like a legitimately good idea. It would be the closest the have to the Original Arkham Batman, and his cynical, fatalistic but still well-reasoned commentary on the story would be pretty cool and stand out since none of the current characters are smart. This takes for granted the writers could put in the effort or even be capable to do him justice, though, which I doubt.
the UI in this game was made for people who need subway surfers gameplay underneath a video theyre watching so they can pay attention.
When I saw the title, my only question that came to mind was: "why!?"
I haven’t played the Arkham games (I would like to at some point) but I remember hearing that Mr. Freeze was in one of the games, I don’t know if he was a boss or just a short cutscene appearance but I feel like it could’ve been cool if they had Mr. Freeze FROM the Arkham games, I have ZERO idea how they fumble things SO BADLY (Also apparently there were other (better) ice villains THAT THEY COULD’VE USED, Complete insanity)
So asking.... Why don't they use Killer Frost? I mean she was in two of the Animated SS movies
Edit: Yeah I confused Killer with Emma
Emma Frost is marvel you are probably referring to killer frost
@@samuelvallejo9486 Yeah that one sorry xd
the fact they added killer frost based weapons means they know her existence too.
You're thinking of the old Rocksteady. These are new people. And you see what they can do. Or rather, can't do.
I'm not defending it, but for context, the mustard-colored skin is a reference to his first appearance in comics where he initially went my Mr. Zero.
10:56 (for video reference). Thank you for noting this - I had to look this up as well before I saw your comment. While it's nice to have these "deep cuts", maybe the game should have some explanation about what the heck they are...? I imagine most people aren't going to do research about these random costume variations.
Explaining it's an old costume that DC ditched because it looked shitty really doesn't matter.
It being a reference does not make it good. They could have kept the color scheme and made the outfit still look good.
@@haku8135he literally said he's not defending it, wtf are you so angry about
@@haku8135 Then what would be the point of adding it?
@@beck_gaming1243 It would be a reference to the original version, but made to be good.
THEY did this before, in the Arkham games. Multiple times.
Literally using Captain Cold, Killer Frost or even a original character/some other overlooked villain would've been better than whatever Mrs. Freeze is supposed to be
It's like the looked for every possible corner to stub their toes on lol And when they couldn't find one, they built one just to ensure something got stubbed.
They keep giving tutorial messages because they don't expect players to remember anything with the lengthy breaks between play sessions
Imagine Mr. Freeze with 2012 Bane’s voice. “You merely adopted a cold heart. I was born with it. Frozen…let it go!”
Honestly i'm even positively surprised (in a way): I expected that everything besides the Joker and Deathstroke - the only characters that were known before - would just be the most basic things they could do. Like characters that are so close to the existing ones they could take almost everything from them.
This is at least a tiny little bit more work put into it. But not much of course. The ice-map? Yeah, that's exactly what i expected. Let's see what the next "great" season will bring ...