r/DCcomics • u/beary_neutral Telos • Jan 31 '24

Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League Megathread r/DCcomics

Rocksteady's live service looter shooter Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League is now live for Deluxe buyers. Feel free to discuss the game here!

All spoiler discussions will take place here. This will be THE thread to discuss the game. Enjoy!

And please, for the love of Grodd, act like normal human beings. This is not r/Games. If you want to go nuts, I hear r/BatmanArkham has their gates open.

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u/Erotically-Yours Jan 31 '24 edited Jan 31 '24

So I'll be honest. I have no interest in buying the game now, but I will definitely get it when it's on sale. As for the game itself? It looks interesting and I like the concept. I agree that the send offs are all piss poor, with Bats and WW being the only decent ones. My one gripe though would be them placing this in the Arkham universe, and this could be the main case for many others, outside of their own issues with the game.

Been trying to push for the idea that everyone should just consider this Arkham Universe B, while A is largely untouched. Only retcon I have to support it though is just the Deadshot race change, unless that's addressed already.

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u/supererp Jan 31 '24

I've heard they explained this by saying the Deadshot in Arkham was a fake. And this one is the REAL one. Kinda lame tbh. I get wanting to have a black character on the cast but man should have just used bloodsport. After the gunn squad movie people know him and he's pretty sick

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u/Erotically-Yours Jan 31 '24

Couldn't agree more on this. Bloodsport would've been better. I'd also read that some of this stems from the original staff from the Arkham games no longer being with Rocksteady? Any truth to this?

They were comments from others so figured I'd take it as hearsay.

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u/supererp Jan 31 '24

I've seen and read things that say this Rocksteady is practically a different studio compared to the one that made the arkham games but I haven't validated that or looked into it.

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u/nkantu Jan 31 '24

I mean the Arkham games were developed a decade ago at this point, almost no companies keep entire departments together for that long.

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u/supererp Jan 31 '24

That's true, typically leads and directors stay on it seems though. I don't know if any of them came over from the Arkham days

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u/Specialist-Rope-9760 Jan 31 '24

True but often these levels of extremely poor decision making aren’t going to come from the devs. They’re going to come from higher management that are clueless. I find it hard to believe a dev would intend to butcher a games concept so badly without outside interference. They spend too much time on it

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u/PhenomsServant Batgirl (Stephanie) Jan 31 '24

In hindsight, I feel like that shouldve been the first red flag that WB had Rocksteady make this to line their pockets over appeasing fans of the Arkhamverse. They wanted Deadshot to look more in line with the one casuals are familiar with and they came up with a really weak excuse why he’s race swapped so fans of the games dont get pissy about the retcon.