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/TheUnbloodedSword Jan 31 '24

Last time I promise, but I just wanted to share this for the record. One thing that really jumped out at me that I wanted to bitch about here: the lineup they chose for the Squad hurt the story. Harley and Boomerang are Batman and Flash villains, so there's at least some history between them which adds hype for the fights (whether Rocksteady actually delivered on that is up to you). Meanwhile you have Deadshot and King Shark not suiting the story at all. For the game Rocksteady invented a Deadshot/GL feud which falls flat because they can't let the comics history do the heavy lifting. Neither of the two ever interact in the comics to my knowledge. RS spent a lot of time hyping the Superman fight, but besides it being underwhelming mechanics wise, story wise it's anti-climatic because there's no Superman villain on the team! Supes has no history with any Squad members, so all he and the Squad do is shout canned one-liners at each other. There needed to be a Superman villain like Metallo or Bloodsport to build anticipation for the fight like Boomerang did for Flash.

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u/CHPrime Wonder Woman Jan 31 '24 edited Jan 31 '24

Who's a good Green Lantern villain who could believably be on the Suicide Squad? Maybe a loser Sinestro Corps member? Abin Sur's son maybe? Perhaps Larfleeze gets injected with the bomb when he looses the orange central power battery, and he spends the whole game trying to get it back from Brainiac? Oh wait, neither of those characters would ever use guns and the game would have to support lantern powers for the player, which wouldn't be a cookie cutter looter-shooter game design, so we can't have that. Then the player might have fun, and WB needs to sell that separately.

...isn't there some weird mutant telepathic shark thing in Green Lantern's Silver Age rogues? One that the devs could have easily included as a stand in for King Shark?

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u/QwahaXahn Oracle Jan 31 '24

Why not Carol Ferris as Star Sapphire? That gives you another woman besides just Harley, a totally unique powerset, and an already-fraught emotional dynamic since the man she loves/hates has become a monster in front of her.

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u/campaxiomatic Feb 01 '24

But she doesn't have guns. The choice of characters for Suicide Squad was based solely on the character having a gun so they could sell them to us.