Think about everything Arkhamverse Batman survived through. So many enemies. So many calamaties. Sacrificing everything to save Gotham and its people.
Only to have his brains blown out a few years later like a sick dog. By fricking Harley Quinn of all people.
Rocksteady went full on Naughty Dog. This trend of pissing on the legacy of our favourite characters needs to be studied.
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It's so funny to me that people think of Arkham Batman/Arkhamverse as a separate entity at all. I just approached AA as a one-off comic story and just smile and nodded at the weird original approaches in the later arkham games like bald Robin.
this. i never really played the arkham games for the story and AA was the only well written one anyway.
they're fun games that capture the feeling of being batman but they rely too much on mystery box bullshit and DCAU nostalgia to have any real substance narratively. also rocksteady is incapable of writing a story without shoving the joker into it. at least WB montreal learned their lesson with origins and kept him out of gotham knights.
>I'm an autistic moron, why isn't everyone else??
Sadly, the original team left years ago.
The game isn't canon to Arkhamverse is it?
it is
WHICH ONE IS IT, DAMNIT!
It 100% is, there's a section in the Hall of Justice that recaps the plot of the Arkham games and everything.
It’s a direct sequel to Arkham Knight.
Does it explain what Arkham Knight's ending was? I still don't understand it.
It's literally just The Dark Knight Returns ending.
Bruce Wayne is found out as Batman.
Batman goes inside Wayne Manor and then hits the nuclear option.
Wayne Manor is destroyed so he won't need to worry about people turning his family legacy into a tourist attraction or discovering his cave and fricking around in it.
Everyone thinks he's dead.
So now he can regroup, rebuild, and in a year or two come back as Batman.
The only added thing different is that they imply Batman may or may not have started using Scarecrow's fear toxin to double down, because now that people know he's Batman, making them fear him is much harder.
Thanks. The shadow monster thing at the end always confused me.
If only you knew how bat things really are
no
can't be, king shark died in assault on arkham and deadshot was white
UMMM sweety, Deadshot is and has always been afroamerican ….
Even when he was having sex with underage minor Terra in The Judas Contract?
Deathstroke
You're thinking of Deathstroke aka Slade
Revitiligo, it's a rare condition.
>and deadshot was white
retconneed whiteshot was an imposter and blackshot is the real one
the imposter is the coon
assault on arkham hasn’t been canon in years
They say it is, but there are way too many retcons and changes to characters.
it is, which makes it even worse
should have been its own universe, no idea why they felt the need to make this a sequel to the arkham games
even with multiverse shit this is supposedly the batman that we played previously that gets killed
literally brought up in the intro, when boomerang says deadshot was white last time and the we wuz tells him to shut up...
They did it so that people would talk about this walking pile of garbage. That’s the only reason why it’s affiliated with the arkhamverse.
I wish that rumor about Batman tells Flash to Flashpoint this universe and it ended up creating the Arkhamverse was true. Sucks as it may be, I much prefer that. This is just rape.
The idea of the Justice League repeatedly resorting to Flashpoints for all their unsalvageable bullshit and forgetting about other heroes who canonically have much more experience with SAFELY mucking with time, like the Time Masters. Or frick, the New Gods. They have Mr. Miracle and Barda on the roster and do absolutely nothing with thme. Remember when the New Gods could casually go back and forth in time with either their technology or their more powerful leaders' raw cosmic power? DC doesn't.
there is an in game museum recounting the story of arkaham series
they even mention how scarecrow gassed gotham and how ivy died, which is why they go find kiddy ivy clone or whatever.
i refuse to accept it so no
White men being heroes is not believable today. We live in a post Drumpf post Brexit world.
White men need to be replaced with more diverse and believable heroes. This process is natural.
Lek
Okay Hershel.
but Black folk cant be heroes. they're all animals
die homosexual israelite
Those who live by the sword....
Batman specifically doesn't kill people. Wdym those who live by the sword? My boy Bruce doesn't deserve this.
Bruce had every chance to hang up the cowl for good and didn't. A bullet to the brain is the only other way his story could end. If it wasn't Harley it was gonna be some other villian or two bit goon who got lucky that does him in
>Batman deserves to be put down like a dog just because he's Batman
I mean, you don't make the series of choices that Batman made and get to be upset that your end was a bloody one. It might have happened under different circumstances, but the logical end of Bruce Wayne's life was always going to be a fight he finally lost.
nah you should instead homosexual
>Go outside.
>Everyone else is on their phone.
Batman didn't kill anyone willingly, homosexual
>soijak
have a nice day
Quite literally though. Last year when I was 18, I tried really hard to go outside and find ways to meet people and make friends with the local youths. I went to a church and a woman literally told me that she had brothers-in-law who were about my age but they were probably at home sleeping or playing Playstation.
Yeah it sucks, but genuinely props to you for going out and giving it a try!
Maybe try some sports group, maybe running, or something else that's not a lot inside.
>19 on Cinemaphile
Dude it's not too late, get off this site while you can.
Maybe I will when I have IRL outlets. I only started using Cinemaphile when I was 17.
Aight.
Just try to hold onto people who you can trust and try to prove to them that they can trust you by making it work as much as possible. That's all any of us can really do nowadays.
>Last year when I was 18
>when I was 18
>was 18
>was
>18
Well time to buy a gun. Been on this site too long.
Go back
Bruce gave his life and sanity time and time again for a city that did nothing but put him through misery for years.
This isn't a just end. It's a mockery.
>Rocksteady went full on Naughty Dog
Joel's death wasn't as dismissive and disrespectful as that tho
I never played either TLOU, but as I understand it, Joel did something pretty monstrous at the end of the first game and his death was the bill coming due for that. Maybe people had some problems with how it was executed but that feels like something that makes sense for that kind of story. This Suicide Squad game feels like a super edgy 'wouldn't it be fricked up if the villains got to kill the heroes' Mark Millar style story. Why anybody would want to play that is fricking beyond me.
It's always OK to kill people who try to cut up little girls.
Cool it with the anti-semitic remarks.
To my understanding, it's a result of a disconnect between Druckmann and some of the others who worked on the first game.
Apparently you're supposed to be mad at Joel because he took Ellie's choice away on whether or not to sacrifice herself like that, but if you look at how the level presents in the original version of the first game, the scientists come off as quack jobs with no idea what they're doing, about to pointlessly kill a child.
thats because the first game puts you in the shoes of Joel, you see the situation like Joel sees it, then in the second game you see it from a different perspective
The games have NEVER been so subjective reality itself changes. The first game
>has numerous documents showing they already killed other immune people for zero progress
>the scientists were on the level of animal doctors
>even if by some miracle they did find a cure. They had no means to manufacture it on a major level let alone distribute it
Plus the game didn’t actually require you to kill any of the scientists or doctors. So plenty of people didn’t, then played the sequel where it’s set in stone that actually Joel just gunned down a bunch of unarmed cowering people for some reason
literally everyone gunned the doctors down with no mercy lol, just like what happened in MW2(2009) always bet on players killing unarmed opponents, they will do it every time
I didn't. I was confused why suddenly Joel was killing everyone and was like, I don't wanna do this. I tried to walk past the doctors because I didn't wanna kill people I felt were just trying to help humanity, and then Joel slit one of their throats.
The point is that Ellie really was an exception to what they did where her existence really did increase the chances of survival even by a little bit. Even if they distributed a certain amount of the cure it would be something that would create benefits in the long run
It was a "The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few or the one" situation but made it more morally fricked up because it involved a child. Joel wasn't even doing it for some noble reason, he just didn't give a frick because Ellie was the only thing keeping him balanced and he brought the efforts to find a cure down to less than 0
>Plus the game didn’t actually require you to kill any of the scientists or doctors. So plenty of people didn’t
absolutely fricking not
If it was really about the “morality” of the decision then surely the most moral thing to do would be for Ellie to have children to pass on her immune genes?
Oh wait she’s a lesbian and that’s more important for some reason. Sexual orientation and women’s sex choices is more important than life or death and the fate of humanity. Bravo druckmann and left wing logic
Zombie apocalypses just turn girls gay, okay? It’s so weird that Clementine from the Telltale Walking Dead games ALSO turned out to be a lesbian. It’s like there’s just a bunch of hacks out there trying to blow our minds in the exact same way.
Joel definately would have killed everyone, he tells the black Firefly that they'll always be hunting him and Ellie if he doesn't.
Not only that but one of the scientists tries to stab you with a scalpel if you don't shoot him and Joel is forced to kill him in self defense
>I never played either TLOU
Then your opinion is meaningless
The whole "was Joel right to possibly doom humanity to save Ellie" thing was a smokescreen for the actual issue: that the Fireflies went full moron and reneged on their deal, took all of Joel's supplies, took Ellie without providing payment, then sent him off to presumably die in the wilderness. Even if Ellie didn't exist at all, Joel would have been in the absolute moral right to extract payment from them by force and the Fireflies deserved exactly the retribution they received for their abject stupidity in the face of what was an absolutely gargantuan undertaking on the part of a mere paid mercenary.
lmao yeah people forgot about how fireflies stole joel's stuff, decide to not pay him and tried to kick him out
Druckmann was a giant homosexualy moron who wanted to retcon the game so Joel deserved it and thus giving Abbie a moral justification to cave his skull in with a golf club, so the second game literally rewrites that entire scene and casts the Fireflies, a band of psychotic thugs larping as freedom fighters while killing and looting, as a group of clean, noble, organized, purpose-driven heroes, who were mercilessly gunned down by evil murderhobo Joel who acted like a savage animal and doomed the whole world because the Fireflies were the only people on the entire planet who could save everyone...
Just ignore all the killing and ransacking they did for the entire first game, and the fact that they pointlessly killed every other immune person they captured, and the way they treated Joel and Ellie, and really just don't play the games or pay attention to the story. Just accept Neil Druckmann as the Lord and Savior of the games industry and cry when he tells you to cry.
Remember Druckmann on the red carpet to the TLOU show and no one cared?
It's funny that he's part of the tribe and he pandered to the leftoids in Hellywood and they still didn't even recognize him.
Fricking hilarious. He thought he was going to be rubbing elbows with Hollywood elites, only to find out nobody gives a shit about him outside his bubble he built. And we got to see it in real time.
Oh well
Videogames may be the most profitable medium out there but they're still seen as glorified children's toys by the entertainment industry at large
KWAB
Oh yeah.....frick that Joel guy. Frick him for trying as much as he could to save his surrogate daughter, an innocent little girl, from morons who were most likely only going to use her for their own personal benefit (in the beginning of the game its established the Fireflies are only dying out because of their war with FEDRA for control over the populace), without asking for her or his consent, without letting them see each other one last time, without giving him his due payment for even doing the job in the first place, without even offering him back up his own bag of supplies to even survive on his own on the outside, and without even waiting a bit to perform any conductive tests or wait to even see if there would be any more immune people in the near future before deciding to just kill her at random.
But yeah no, frick Joel for doing the only sensible thing that literally anybody, especially anybody who's a parent, would've done.
It really was actually. Made him make very moronic choices just to get him killed.
>made decisions that only looked bad in hindsight because the player knew more things than Joel did
>somehow this is Joel's fault
only media illiterate morons hated TLOU2
homosexual, he literally gave anyway his name when he LITERALLY used fake names for years for safety. It was moronic.
Sounds gay, gonna ignore it and play the old games instead.
Non-canon fanfic trash, ignored. You can pretend it counts if you like, I won't.
Remember when Ellie refused to give away her name to that cannibal guy the first time that they met?
Who do you think taught her that? Santa Claus?
You're the worst type of person: a moron that is pretending to be smart. The kind of person that could be handed dog shit on a plate and, if some cook tells him it's a delectable meal, will throw it between his lips without a seconds hesitation because how could they be wrong?
only troonys like TLOU
The game is literally called, “Kill the Justice League.” What did you expect?
For them to send off the most widely accepted beloved and profitably successful JL member with respect????
If the others dont't get good deaths, why should he?
I for one love seeing batshit take the L. Cry more
>supergay
He is the only good DC character, the rest doesn't matter
Frick off gays
Why shouldn't any of them get good deaths? They're fricking heroes, jackass. All of them.
There is no such thing as a good death.
Spoilers: these people who have invaded conventional men's spaces and franchises HATE normal, masculine men and things we love. They have no talent, except to grift their way into getting idiots to give them jobs in spaces they hate. In case you haven't notice, EVERYTHING, every franchise guys loved since the 80's has been intentionally invaded and destroyed by these dysfunctional people. They hate us.
The same people complaining about their male safe spaces being crowded in on also cheer on trannies in women's spaces. You shouldn't feel any pity for them.
but the thing is how to we get rid of these homosexuals i think its high time for a real war
the problem is no one wanted this shit to begin with
It was, killing the Fireflies was made out to be the worse atrocity in history and if only Abby's good ole dad got to split Ellie's brain while she was alive then the zombie cure would be found. Complete bullshit glorifying a terrorist group that spread the zombie virus through their attacks on the remnants of the USA government.
Based Joel for wiping out all those pinko pussies at the end.
Joel's death is worse. He's beaten mercilessly as his surrogate daughter is begging for his life and right after he's gone, and I kid you not, the director's self-insert steps up and spits on his face.
There's a reason people use Naughty Dog now as the template for absolute shit writing.
Joel has a more violent death, yeah, but it's very important to the story and treated as impactful.
Batman's death is unceremonious and that's the most offensive part.
You could consider it worse that at least with Batman, he was forgotten after even though he should've never even went out that way.
With Joel, you literally get to watch him being narratively painted as the absolute bad guy of the story, as the relationship he so desperately tried to hold onto with Ellie crumbles apart because of a stupid fricking retcon and writing decision.
At least Bruce wasn't treated as the villain of the story, especially after all the good we saw him do, after he was unceremoniously killed.
True
And later he fricks the killer
The gayest sodomizing scene ever.
Manny spit on Joel, then gets his head blown off by Tommy. Owen was the one who fricked Abby.
It was, though. To this day I'm fricking annoyed at TLOU2 and how moronic the whole game was
They're all equally as disrespectful. This shit is meant to demoralize men.
You can kill off Important characters and not make it stupid or disrespectful.
Didn't he out himself as Bruce Wayne at the end of Arkham Knight? How the actual frick is he still able to be Batman when his biggest secret is public knowledge?
So you never read DKR?
bruce looks like he scarfed down a shit ton of pasta
How would YOU have handled this scene if you're so smart, anon?
it is literally impossible for anyone on the earth to come up with something more moronic than what we got
>batman kills himself because he has contingency plan for himself
even this is less moronic
If Arkham Bats has to die
>make the killer Joker, Bane, or even Damian instead of Harley
>send Bruce out in a blaze for Conroy's last act
>make it relevant to the story instead of a dumb sideact
I’m fine with Harley getting the kill shot, I just wish he said something along the lines of “No, I always assumed my end would be at the end of a gun held by a nobody” because all in all the story of the game was worthless and the fights look like shit.
>I just wish he said something along the lines of “No, I always assumed my end would be at the end of a gun held by a nobody” because all in all the story of the game was worthless and the fights look like shit.
But that would be desrepctful with LE HARLEYLERINA QUINNRINA! Feminists won't allow that.
That AU Joker that's lame and shows up is actually just a Joker from an alternate universe where all men have Caesar Romero mustaches but everything else is identical to the rest of the Arkham Setting. Mustache Joker assumes this Batman is his Batman.
And then, voiced by Mark Hamill, The Joker kills Batman, downright offended at what Braniac has done to his boy. Turning him all lame and shaving his mustache and ruining the punch line by making him kill in the lamest way possible.
Then King Shark, Boomerang, and Deadshot are instantly killed by Superman when he shows up right after Bruce is killed, because it's fricking Superman why the frick did he even fly away they were RIGHT THERE COME ON BRANIAC I KNOW YOU'RE A 12TH LEVEL INTELLECT BEING WRITTEN BY A 1ST LEVEL INTELLECT BUT THAT'S GOTTA EVEN OUT TO A 6 C'MON MAN
Mustache Joker and Harley then get away. Harley, in an act of desperation, tries to hide from Superman by disguising herself as herself, wearing the old classic Harley outfit and getting her figure back.
Then they're joined by two other Jokers, one that looks like Jared Leto and one that looks like Jack Nicholson. It's not explained where they came from because Batman just died and isn't there to explain it. Harley is too busy creamer herself over three Mr. J's to care.
The Three Joker's and Harley are the new team for the rest of the game, who call themselves The Squad That Laughs, and then snap Superman out of his brainwashing by tricking him into killing Lois Lane.
Then Superman, enraged, punches Brainiac so hard that time reverses by about a year, Superman is now ready for Braniac, the Justice League isn't dead, and the stress of a now aware Superman putting shit loads of pressure on her and her Task Force X causes Amanda Waller to put on 150lbs.
What I wrote isn't as bad as what they wrote and you fricking know it. Doesn't that just piss you off?
BRAVO
Bravo Nolan.
Not make the Batman in this game be Bruce Wayne, make it either Dick or Tim inheriting the Batman role being evil. Then having it reveal that a still alive or older or even just dying Bruce Wayne being the one to help Amanda Waller develop ways to stop or kill the Justice League. Have Bruce sacrifice himself in some stupid but fan-servicey way that sends the character off with a bang.
1. The good ol' "character only lost because they were fighting the mind control from the inside and weren't at their 100% fighting capacity" justification
2. Don't make Batman die like a b***h to Harley. Have him join the protagonists after he breaks free from mind control and do a noble self-sacrifice later on would've worked better.
3. No direct confrontation. I think copypasting Mr. Freeze boss fight could've worked.
Doesn't save anything and is kind of cliche but still better than what Rocksteady shat out.
I legit thought that was Melvin the brother of the Joker
Seeing he looks like Doug Walker, which was brought up by Doug himself, I really can’t blame you.
I would've had Harley actually show fricking remorse over it. She doesn't crack a joke, she doesn't mock Batman. She solemnly thanks him for helping her out of what the Joker did to her and setting her on a path to redemption.
That, or have Batman overcome the brainwashing and sacrifice himself to stop Brainiac.
Why? Arkhamverse Harley fricking hates him.
I don't see why Harley would, if she's Arkham Harley which she doesn't see feel like at all, she would genuinely despise Batman with every fiber of her being
>The ridiculousness of Harley being the one that gets him makes Bruce break out of mind control
>Tells them that he's always had contingency plans for this exact scenario and promises to get them all out alive because he doesn't believe in killing; even if its them
>Has Harley graze him so it still looks like she killed him
>When Superman shows up, Batman fires Red Kyrptonite at him; specifically one that makes a duplicate of himself.
>The duplicate takes the brainwashing with it and the Squad kills Duperman
>Supes takes Batman elsewhere so they can regroup
>The Squad still fights and kills Brainiac
>Before they go into the multiverse, Superman and Batman rework the bombs to where a new League member can teleport to there location and help them (aka; the next game will let you summon a superhero to do a big AOE attack)
Bruce shows incredible willpower in all the Arkham Games. Just have him resist Brainiac long enough so that he can sacrifice himself to give the Squad a chance against Brainiac.
Is Catwoman in the game? Have her do it, she'd be way more respectful and remorseful over having to kill him.
Literally just have anyone who cares about him do it.
Bold of you to assume I would have let the game get this far into production.
Tim Drake shows up, he survived his encounter with batman and he gets to kill him
for a split second have batman turn his eyes normal and he says "I'm proud of you son"
Honestly it'd be more fitting for it to be Jason, considering how much time he spent trying to kill Bruce.
Easy.
>Be me, Rocksteady executive
>Someone comes up with a GAAS Suicide Squad game
>Fire them out of the company Batcannon
>Get back to work on the Superman game
>Rocksteady went full on Naughty Dog. This trend of pissing on the legacy of our favourite characters needs to be studied.
it's already been studied, just not ~~*officially*~~. It's what happens when you let israelites and spiteful women, simp manchildren and gays in charge of things.
Yessir.
Why does this happen so much
Because you lost the Culture War.
>lost
No they were handed the reigns, if men fought back women would complain and scream but they would have to compete to actually win which as you can see by their performance would never happen
It's a reflection of how women work in nature
>Men have something that seems valueless
>Women think it's dumb, mock and scorn them for it
>Men make the seemingly valueless thing valuable
>Women swoop in, glom on and try to manipulate their way into the thing now that they see value in it
>Simps let them in because it's the only way they can get female attention when competing against superior men
>Once in, women set about taking total control of the thing, making it all about them, their insatiable need for attention and their special princess complexes
>Inevitably drive men who don't fit their mold out or bow down, bring more women in, insist that the thing was always about them or at least that it's better now that it's about them
Of course it is
I would have imagined this to be a shocking but forgettable scene had things been "fixed" multiversially by then. Kinda like the little bumpers when you get killed in-game and you get mocked a bit. But from what I hear this is it, which is too cynical even from the company that killed Robin (twice)
am i misremembering something? doesnt batman die at the end of Knight? or retire and someone else became a new batman in like the bonus ending?
The way this scene was staged makes me think it was originally written as a staged execution by the Squad to fake Batman's death, so they'd have a secret ally for when they inevitably turn on Amanda Waller and go rogue.
Judging by the leaks, though, that's not what happens.
>was originally written as a staged execution by the Squad to fake Batman's death, so they'd have a secret ally for when they inevitably turn on Amanda Waller and go rogue
No that's literally what happens except because they want to milk this game and it's a GaaS you won't see any of it until future content drops
This scene perfectly encapsulates modern Western culture.
>Men who built and protected civilization are demonized and put down like a rabid dog by the mentally ill people they uplifted in the past
When China takes over, we will all ask "what went wrong?"
>When China takes over, we will all ask "what went wrong?"
China ain't taking over shit.
Just a general worldwide decline into barbarity.
China doesn’t need to take over when the west is killing itself. Same way utopian countries just don’t have replacement level fertility rates. Import tons of Arabs and blacks. Then act shocked they aren’t acting the same or have the same values as white Europeans
China has its own demographic bomb to worry about.
There will be no more global superpowers in the new chaos .
But Black birthrates have stagnated?
If you mean in the states, it's because (believe it or not) most of them are going through the same "can't afford kids because it takes two jobs to afford rent" that everyone else is going through.
I thought it was because blacks get the most abortions.
You... genuinely believe that 41.6 million people are having so many abortions that they aren't actually to properly sustain their population with new births?
Well despite making up 13% of the population...
Never understood this. Wouldn't that make crime almost non-existent; especially since they commit most of it on themselves?
I believe a black guy killing another black guy is still a crime, anon.
But it’s the most helpful contribution they make to the societies they’re shipped enmass to ruin…
That's not the kind of crime people who pull out the 13/50 stuff care about, though.
He just believes whatever he needs to believe to be racist
Its 2024 mate.
Times are changing.
chinks are the ones who infiltrated society i. the first place.
its really them who started this dei shit
If you started consuming more News than you do Batman media maybe you'd stop trying to read the tea leaves of societal shifts in Batman media, you illiterate caveman witch doctor moron.
>STOP SPEAKING THE TRUTH, CONSOOOOM THE NEWS!
Why? All modern "news" is "GOP bad, Democrats good" propaganda at this point. You're just mad your ideology is clearly degrading Western society but you're too indoctrinated to break from your neo-religion and thus you attack me instead for telling the truth. Must hurt knowing you're unironically paving the way for fascists to squash you like the bug you are.
You could have just called him a spear chucker
Crack open an actual book sometime, you holier than thou homosexual. The truth is always reflected in the cultural flotsam at the time. Noticing trends in capeshit is just as valid as reading whatever college journal that is pushing for folks to be respelled as folx or whatever stupid shit it is this week.
the news is one of the biggest cancers on society homosexual
>China takes over
You a stupid homie. At best china is agitating social tensions here in the US.
I don't think you're wrong. Lately it's been in vogue for the male characters who have sacrificed and suffered for those they care for to be disrespected and put down tragically. It's no longer thematic, it's just annoying.
>This scene perfectly encapsulates modern Western culture.
Meds
>one game where you're reminded that he's still just a human under that mask and that a bullet to the head is still a bullet to the head
/Thread
Also it's nice to see Batman being evil and not only Superman
...they killed Batman because Lex Luthor gave them what they wanted and he was worthless to them in their efforts to save the world.
The world is literally saved thanks to the work of a white man using his lessers to do his work and kill his long time nemesis.
You guys realize that all the Deaths in this are fake outs and that they slowly comeback throughout story content drops right?
Also yeah the premise of this game being set in the arkhamverse is still fricking stupid.
>story content drops
God games are such rancid shit these days
>it's okay they'll patch it later
So not only is it a generic shooter with terrible writing, it's a generic shooter that costs full price and isn't even sold complete after 8 years of development? Wow anon, you sure sold me.
>slowly comeback throughout story content drops right?
That's worse
Nah frick you to games as service bullshit.
Yeah, because post-launch story and """""content""""" drops went so well when Avengers did it
Batman's gay as frick, it's about damn time he got knocked down a peg, and seeing all of his self inserting fanboys seethe makes it all the better
nah you are gay as frick homosexual
Fun Fact but the "indefinite delay" this game went through was to strip out as much GaaS shit from it as possible until Zslav stepped in and wanted WB games to lean into the GaaS shit more so months of work went out the window
Games as Service is pretty much played out.
This is 100% deserved, Batkeks talk big but when their Hero loses his plot armor and dies like the dog he is they cry and shit themselves as if they where victims.
DC had been sucking Batman's wiener for years, it's time someone humbled him a bit
nah the only one who is sucking wiener is you homosexual
>Batman styles on everyone for years CUZ HE BATMAN
>everybody just shrugs and goes with it because he's DC's golden goose and he can't look bad, ever
>one shitty game where you're reminded that he's still just a human under that mask and that a bullet to the head is still a bullet to the head
>THIS IS AN OUTRAGE! HE WOULD HAVE HAD EIGHT CONTINGENCIES IN CASE SOMEONE SHOT HIM IN THE FACE!
Like, come on. I know idiots are baiting, but there are a lot of Batgays out there that get legitimately upset when he takes an L.
This is arkhamverse batman, storywise this is like shitting on a book and call it a masterpiece
Just cause I want the character humbled more frequently doesn't mean I want the character to get a undignified death.
did you see the one where he slips, hits his head and then falls off a roof and dies
Listen, I would be fine if anyone
ANYONE
Style on Batman except Harley Quinn, who has the most poorly justified reasons ever for being somehow a threat even to mooks
Harley is just girl Batman.
That in itself isn't a problem, everyone loves Lady Shiva and some people love Cass too. The problem is how poorly justified her being Girl Batman is. She never trained with the League of Shadows, doesn't have a millionaire fortune's worth of gadgets (and no, random Joker gadgets don't count) and isn't the pinnacle of fitness.
If Harley wasn't plot armoured so hard even I could beat her in a fight.
>Lady Shiva
Now there's a name only people who read comics would recognize
>finally have a story where Batman is evil along with the rest of the Justice League except Wonder Woman instead of being the last remaining good guy
>make it canon to the Arkham universe for some ungodly reason
>also it's Kevin's last role as Batman
>Rocksteady went full on Naughty Dog
Batman getting shot is moronic but Joel 100% had it coming you crybaby homosexual
Insanely stupid thing to act mad about
Does suck Conroys last performance was in a bad game
>Does suck Conroys last performance was in a bad game
You hate to see it.
Hopefully that BTAS revival comes out soon, we need a better send-off.
uh anon, he died 2 years ago, there are no lines he recorded for it they're getting a new actor.
guess ill repost it here since homies still whining when its already been revealed he is like wolverine now due to brainiac testing on him and he literally heals back from that
The fricker already healed from a prion disease through sheer willpower or some impossibly dumb horseshit like that, I can see this stupid shit happening.
homie, Batman should NEVER be like Wolverine.
Batman is Batman. Wolverine is Wolverine.
Fricking imbred moron.
seriously? i wonder if that's in response to the leaks.
two more weeks buddy
no it was always in the plans. Look at the seasons planned they literally have supes and stewart to come back. Its also clear after all the seasons are done they cure them or some shit once all brainiacs have been murked ontop of that sound clip of flash being revived floating around
Where is this mentioned?
I probably missed it since I skimmed a video of the cutscenes/incidental dialogue, but the closest I've seen to that is Brainiac creating clones (?) of the Justice League after Superman dies.
brainiac has given every league member a healing factor so they regen after a while. Batman will get right back up after his headshot to go hunt the league or is cured from it. There is a cutscene of speaking on the flash resurecting floating around and a bunch of other plot leaks surrounding the next seasons as they come back. Only one to be dead DEAD is wonder woman
and?.. the game is still fricking garbage
disgraceful Rocksteady
Even Gotham Knights did a better job.
Gotham Knights had Batgirl and she was awesome.
Suicide Squad is forcing fricking Harley Quinn on me.
(nice trips)
>Gotham Knights had Batgirl and she was awesome.
Costume sucked and her voice was grating. The real star was Jason Todd.
>needs to be studied
What is their to study about leftists fetishizing iconoclasm and deconstruction? Broad as an Ocean, shallow as a puddle. They're c**ts who yas queened a sacred comic cow. This isn't rocket science.
One one hand, sucks that it was Conroy's last performance, I grew up watching JLU.
On the other, good to see self-insert batfans getting a taste of their own medicine.
>Waah my favorite character was turned villain and used to prop up the characters the story is centered around
Yeah it sucks, doesn't it?
You say this like most people don't hate MUH EVIL SUPERMAN too.
At least with Injustice it was just an excuse to have a fighting game. The plot never mattered unless you were autistic.
This game just made Superman, Batman, AND The Flash turn evil, and then had Wonder Woman job.
This doesn't exist for anybody.
The fricking RWBY specials treated these characters better.
>The fricking RWBY specials
The fricking WHAT
Comic book media relies on shitty outrage bait. Do not fall for it. Do not hatebuy.
Perfectly sums up this dogshit era of popular culture
Shitty game aside, are these good costumes for the Justice League?
Ehhhhh, Flash is literally Ezra Miller and John Stewart's costume looks like Marvel made it.
>Ehhhhh, Flash is literally Ezra Miller
Are you blind? They look nothing alike. In fact I actually kinda prefer the game costume more than the movie. And I know the game Flash doesn't have an insufferable butthole in it
Flash and WW look like shit, GL and Supes look good, Batman looks whatever
I'm just going to keep playing Spider-Man.
Is there some kind of Flash/time travel/asspull that undoes all of this at the end?
No.
Do normies think Tim Drake actually matters as a character?
Rocksteady shoves him in everything.
Nobody wants to play as a child, so Damian is out.
Dick is known as Nightwing to anyone under the age of 40.
Everyone associates Jason with Red Hood. The only memorable thing he ever did as Robin was get beaten to death with a crowbar by The Joker.
So that leaves Tim if you want Robin in your video game.
The only time Tim was remotely interesting is when his character was bad ended in Beyond.
Would rather have Carrie Kelley than Tim tbh
>Would rather have Carrie Kelley
But then everyone would claim Batman is a chomo.
>Would rather have Carrie Kelley than Tim tbh
What, no love for Cass or Steph?
>So that leaves Tim if you want Robin in your video game.
but Arkhamverse Tim isn't Tim at all
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Holy shit all the bosses in this game look like dogshit it was the one thing I thought would atleast be good and devs made a big deal on hwo epic they would be but all these look uninspired
QUESTION! Shouldn't John's ring fly off his finger due to the mind control/Brainiac infection? I thought that rings had a protocol for compromised users since they're self-aware?
Yeah, a ring powered by willpower would obviously be useless in the hands of someone who has no will of their own. But what makes you think anyone involved in this game knows that? The fact is that they wanted a green lantern fight, so you got one.
Also if I'm not mistaken The Guardians are well aware of Brainiac The Collector, and have such safeguards to keep their tech out of his databanks
why are his eyes purple?
Because he, like the entire Justice League, is under Brainiac's mind control
Couldn't they just kill Brainiac then?
Anon it's The Suicide Squad. What the frick are they supposed to do against BRAINIAC THE WORLD COLLECTOR? Oh yeah, a baseball bat and a gun are going to go great against a 12th level intellect....
idk, how they beat the flash, green lantern, batman, and Superman in the game?
Plot contrivances mostly. But a serious answer
>Mind controlled JLA members are usually nerfed
>Captain Boomerang is an expert fighting The Flash after years of experience, same goes with Harley vs Batman
>Wonder Woman is helping them, and even uses The Lasso of Truth to purge Flash of his mind control I believe
how the frick did Wonder Woman some how not get Mind Controlled?
Did Branic just go, lol woman, and ignore her?
>and even uses The Lasso of Truth to purge Flash of his mind control I believe
I know this from some of the tv commercials but it's only temporary right?
No that's legit, and has a comic precedent I believe. Wonder Woman's lasso of truth is the reason why she's not infected. Mind control is essentially a "lie", and magic will trump alien tech. The truth is kind of Diana's whole bag.
>Wonder Woman's lasso of truth is the reason why she's not infected. Mind control is essentially a "lie", and magic will trump alien tech.
That's stupid but whatever I guess.
Hey I didn't say it was consistent, but I buy it being an application for the magic lasso
So why couldn’t Green Lantern will power his way out of mind control?
Magic is always bullshit also do magical heroes like Fate, Zatanna and Etrigan show up?
Boomerang is an expert fighting The Flash after years of experience, same goes with Harley vs Batman
Every encounter Harley has had with Batman in the Arkhamverse ended up with her flat on her ass after one smack to the forehead.
yeah but that ass though
Tbf who else would they pull from Batman's rogues gallery who isn't either dead, retired, useless or too unhinged to be of any help?
They had nuDeadshot
Experience in getting her ass handed to her yea.
I'll give you an example
>"Bats never hits you head on. He'll kill the lights, throw in a stun grenade, one time he even rigged a truck to plow through our last hideout. By the time we pulled murphy from the drivers seat, he took out 4 of us when we weren't lookin!"
Hey she's got some experience, and has a basic level knowledge on how he operates
>idk, how they beat the flash, green lantern, batman, and Superman in the game?
By circle strafing until enough damage numbers indicated the death cutscene could be played
They've got +2.4% crit rate and a 7% chance to proc the fart gas debuff on their epic 248 gear score assault rifle with the rare preorder bonus Golden Burrito Weapon skin, my dude!
Keep in mind, 2 years ago we saw Harley beat Starro by poking its eye with the help of rats.
If we had good writers, the Suicide Squad would've been fodderized in 5 different stories at this point.
You're right, but people are angry because it's Kevin Conroy's last role.
Did she shoot him in his head?
Isn't his suit bulletproof or something?
frick off bigot, a smart woman wrote that and she cant be wrong
nah you frick off that women is a moron and she should kill herself
Why do people have this moronic idea that bulletproof means "immune to bullets"?
Comics and Cartoons
He's got a point though. Batman's armor is meant to be strongest in the cowl and the chest, specifically against common firearms. Then again, I could believe Batman sacrificing armor for the sake of speed. Putting himself in a position for point blank gunfire would be seen as a failure on his part.
I dont know, I still say his cowl should absorb most of the impact. Hell of a headache though
Except even the games show that getting shot fricks him up badly. Shit, one of the first things that happens in City is Two Face laying him out flat with a gunshot to the chest, and Two Face did that with what looked like a regular handgun. I can believe what is basically a handcannon blasting straight through his cowl point-blank.
Anon body armor prevents penetration of the flesh, but still knocks the wind out of you. That's how kevlar works. Even in BvS when Batman gets point blank shot in the noggin it rang his bell a bit. I already addressed that too in my post if you check it again. I said I'd believe Batman having armor to save his life in such a situation, but acknowledge the blowback
People think bulletproof vests are magic because of Hollywood but you are still getting hit by something going close to or faster than the speed of sound
Exactly. Which I acknowledge, but also have a little leeway considering this is DC tech.
I'm aware of that, I was refuting you saying anon had a point about his armor since his armor clearly has limits and they're not really beyond what we're currently capable of, and almost always ends up getting torn and broken to shit in the games through various means.
And for frick sakes, nobody confuse me for trying to defend this shitty game, just clearing the air.
I’m just saying shooting him in the head with a normal gun is probably one of the weaker excuses to kill Bruce off.
bulletproof is not the same as bullet resistant anon if the comic says bulletproof then thats immune if it's resistant then it's not immune but I don't know about batman so I don't know if his armor proof or resistant
Yes
The people who make this crap now aren't fans of the comics, they never read any of the older stuff or even the newer slop. They're vandalizing the generation of creators that came before them for the sake of their Woke egos.
>Only to have his brains blown out a few years later like a sick dog. By fricking Harley Quinn of all people.
Not just that, but to have her gloat about it first and pretend like she was doing the world a favor and getting even. They framed it like Harley was justified and that Batman was just a petty little b***h. It's supposed to be triumphant that Harley got to shoot him dead. You're supposed to cheer and clap that the girlboss shot the stupid white man who punches people instead of doing community service and giving poor people all his money. That's why he goes out on a wet fart quip and a big shiteating grin on Harley's face.
has the ending leaked yet?
The whole story was leaked months ago.
Can't believe no-one's pointed out the dogshit writing here.
>Harley shoots him
>plot bullshit shows up
>"Looks like you had the last laugh after all, Bats."
I genuinely couldn't think of a more predictable quip if I tried. Everything about this is goddamn maddening. From the tired writing to the game itself being GaaS slop to this mess being Kevin's final performance; it's like the game was engineered to be as infuriating as possible.
Wondy is the most inconsistent A list character in all of comics
sometimes she trades blows with superman
sometimes she can be taken out by a bullet
This is why the penetration weakness is a valid fan theory
Doesn't she have to be possible to defeat with bullets to justify her bullet deflecting?
IIRC there was a story a few years ago where some bullet shrapnel nicked her neck and she almost died. Not the bullet, but the fricking shrapnel.
So the lesson here is that if Superman or Batman need to stop her they should sharpen their nails.
It's moronic, but it's an established vulnerability. The person that can slug it out with Superman will die to some thug with a kitchen knife if she's caught off guard.
I mean, she fights Cheetah on the regular.
Wonder Jobber, lamest capeshit character ever.
Why on earth would this guy think it's smart to pull out a regular gun and shoot a guy that's publicly known to be functionally invincible?
in dc comic everyone is a stupid moron
>Why does a Black person shoot first and thinks about his actions second?
Americans have been pondering this question for 40 years now, anon.
guy looks like hes on crack
Can we stop and appreciate how awesome Assault on Arkham was?
Sure
hell to pay was really good too.
Who gives a shit? Videogames are for morons
>Who gives a shit? Videogames are for morons
Where do you think you are?
Some homosexual browsing Cinemaphile saying video games are for morons is no different than some guy who fricks horses saying a chick who gets railed by dogs is a degenerate zoophile.
Pretty much, yeah.
If your still holding your breath for Big Slop to make something even worth pirating you're probably moronic.
The same goes for comics and movies.
ah you are one of those homosexuals. literally have a nice day
Just watching a couple of cutscenes on YouTube and is just bad, forced jokes that don't land everywhere, unlikable protagonists, Harley touching Floyd's butt as a joke, the whole squad looking at the camera like idiots. Even the boss fights look generic as frick, not even the fear gas one was noteworthy, just a big demon batman throwing telegraph projectiles from a distance. This game is not even worth watching a playtrough, just mediocre trash.
People give zero fricks about this game, like ZERO FRICKS. All you had to see was 1 minute of gameplayand the style to say "frick it I'm out".
>This trend of pissing on the legacy of our favourite characters needs to be studied.
Just like the trend of overreacting so hard about fictional stories instead of like... I dunno... get fricked. Buy a coffee. Anything. DO SOMETHING!
Nah, frick off.
Humans are storytellers. We've been thriving on stories for as long as we've had fricking language. Before we even wrote shit down, we passed stories down through spoken word.
Being able to invest in a story is human nature. Fictional or otherwise. Expressing your dissatisfaction when your time investment was fricking wasted in the end is a normal human reaction. So when you find out the version of that character you liked who had a completed narrative is dragged back out just to be humiliated for no reason and spit on, then "Wow, that's shit and this game is shit. I'm not buying this. Frick them" is reasonable.
So don't be one of those obnoxious, condescending "It's just fiction none of it matters go outside touch some grass" homosexuals. It's disingenuous and it makes you look like a nihilistic piece of shit with a superiority complex because he's, like, so above it all.
Normal humans do not shit their pants at a non-serious juvenile narrative.
Okay. So then what?
We just say
>The narrative doesn't matter. I'll just buy this thing anyway even though I don't like it.
On what planet do you live on where it's not okay to say no, I don't like this thing they did, and I will not be buying the product because of it.
How I would approach a Suicide Squad game
>Splinter Cell/Bourne Conspiracy type of story with a capeshit flavor. No over the top "SAVE THE WORLD" bullshit.
>more glowie shit, less reddit humor
>either go off a "Nyssa fricking dies" ending of Arkham Knight with Ra's as the main villain or just use Vandal Savage
>NO HARLEY QUINN
>this wouldn't make mon--
Neither would this.
Every single man counterpart of the justice league dies in shameful, disrespectful and downright stupid ways, but Diana gets a commendable death full of emotion, and heroic sacrifice?!?
Mind you, they literally just taunted Batman and shot him on a fricking park bench then walked off. No emotion, no sacrifice, nothing clever, nothing. Flash? The devlopers didn't even care to give him a death CUTSCENE. Green Lantern, the dude who can summon ANYTHING HE CAN IMAGINE...killed by deadshot with a bullet. Superman they shoot him down then casually walk over his corpse, don’t even show his face, crack mcu jokes and jeer at him, then high five and go “awright we kicked that loser’s ass!”
Then meanwhile their ugly israelite diana sacrifices herself heroically stabbing and depowering Superman in combat, only dies because Clark faked like he broke the mindcontrol and she hugged him, they all yell and fight to defend her screaming at Superman that she’s “one of them” (even though they’ve barely even interacted), then they all cry and hug her in her dying moments and hold a candlelight vigil and speak about how she died just like how she lived: the greatest of us all while Harley cradles her body turning into ashes and weeps like it’s the body of Christ.
This game is wokeshit made by israelites for queers.
I didn't really care about the game, but you seem like a psychopath who needs to be put down, so I'm glad you're seething.
jesus christ have sex oh wait you wont
He's not going to stay dead and if you believe he is and will be then you'se moronic.
I always knew my man Captain Boomerang had a big dick and it becoming canon makes me happy. I dig BoomerangxFlash porn.
Do they show his dick?
I'm trans btw
That's good to know, too bad no one fricking asked about you or your axe wound
> This trend of pissing on the legacy of our favourite characters needs to be studied.
It really does. I don’t get why these millennial writers insist on doing this shit in everything. Is it a form of rebellion against nostalgia stuff? If so, then the studios pushing the nostalgia angle need to crack the whip harder or let these idiots do their “original ideas”.
"The Shadow that bred them can only mock, it cannot make: not real new things of its own."
I doubt they're that evil, they're just stupid and too lazy to actually delve into the characters on more than a skin-deep level. A lot of writers that do this seem more interested in deconstructing the public PERCEPTION of the character, rather than the character themselves, because most of their "deconstructions" are aimed at the jokes people make about the cliches of the characters, and as a result end up saying the exact same things that have been said for decades about them only with far more cynicism and shit heaped onto the character in question. It doesn't take a genius to recognize why every single new generation thinks that Bruce punching out bad guys instead of donating to charity is some kind of big epic callout "gotcha!" zinger moment when he's literally been doing precisely that for over 50 goddamn years since the 80s.
It’s an old thing
>odysseus meats achilles in the underworld and he’s now a depressed cuck shadow of himself
>dante meets half the heroes of world
history in the underworld and now they’re depressed cuck shadows of themselves
>king arthur dies a literal cuck, depressed and a shadow of his former self
>siegfried dies like a b***h
>frodo becomes a depressed emo who can’t enjoy the shire anymore
You're also forgetting that Japanese media is to blame since they shit on everything and people eat it up. Need it be reminded the most famous version of King Arthur is a woman who got dicked by a Japanese highschooler.
the most famous version of arthur is malory’s arthur. but yes japs love subverting western history too
The Multiverse is now canon in the Arkhamverse. I'm pretty sure KTJL is set in a alternate timeline from the Arkhamverse games, with the divergence being that; What if Deadshot was a black man? Which leads to the events of the game and yet again proves; Black folk ruin everything.
So if you want the timeline where Deadshot was born white, then then you're all gucci until Arkham Knight.
You're coping so fricking hard man
This game is a chronological sequel to Knight, and Rocksteady couldn't have been more explicit about that
Only a Real White Man has the skill and smarts to take on another Real White Man in combat.
I'm just saying, if the devs are going to go with moronic multiverse bullshit (therefore, by nature; there will always be a universe where the moronic shit in KTJL doesn't happen) that removes ALL stakes and seriousness from the story; then just don't even acknowledge it exists. Because by the 'rules' of the multiverse then whatever happens in the game doesn't even matter cuz hurr durr multiverse.
Why did rocksteady insist so fricking much to make this canon to the Arkham verse games? Fricking hell
I remember this game was announced at the same time as Gotham Knights. One is a game about the Suicide Squad fighting the Justice League, the other is a game where Batman is dead and his kids have to protect Gotham without him.
I wonder which one of the two should be a sequel to Arkham Knight and developed by Rocksteady?
I don't think the story of Gotham Knights would make much sense in the Arkhamverse. Unless you retcon 80% of Arkham Knight out of existance.
I don't even know what the story in that game was like. I just mean the concept, if it had been built from the ground up as an Arkham Knight sequel. It's the only type of sequel that even makes sense for that game. Playing as Robin, Nightwing, Red Hood and Catwoman (and/or a non-Barbara Bat-female), protecting Gotham after Bruce and Alfred "died", but occasionally getting clues that they might still be around. With classic Arkham gameplay and at least decent writing. Could be pretty good.
Why not? Just keep the Knightfall protocol ending, age up Barabra and Tim up, have Jason be recruited after a few missions but have him give up on killing. Keep Batman gone.
>have Jason be recruited after a few missions but have him give up on killing
Jason without Bruce could be good or very bad. Dunno if you were planning on him being younger, but it would be interesting to have Dick's first act as Batman, before he assumes the role, to be Jason's mentor and guiding hand.
Its a clone, relax dude.
boo hoo hoo
You guys ever think about how Arkham origins set up the existence of Cassandra Cain in the arkhamverse with Shiva and references to David and then it never went anywhere…i think about it a lot
I don't think about Cassandra Cain at all.
🙁
>Wonder Woman dies, someone who AFAIK Harley Quinn barely knows in this canon
>she is deeply saddened by this
>Batman dies, someone who she knew quite well and actually wanted her to become a better person
>"bye bats lol"
I feel like, if this game really wanted to be funny, they'd lean into that in a more comedic fashion.
I dunno, have the Squad reminisce about Wonder Woman in a way that clearly didn't happen or King Shark wishing he was her nemesis or how she inspired him or something.
>Anon, that sounds like shit
Yeah, but this game's writing isn't a high bar.
They at least could've made it funny, like Harley is sobbing and in a funeral dress, saying how she'll miss b-man, reminisce about all the times he's kicked her ass, she tells him she'll take care of the robins and all his money, then she finally picks up her mallet and take him out Gallagher style.
Here’s how you do it
>Harley crying like she’s putting down old yeller, an out of his mind Batman with no help in breaking the mind control
>Big speech saying she’ll miss the fun times they’ve had, and how she appreciates how he saw the good in him
>Speech cut off by Deadshot putting one between Batman’s eyes
>Harley flips out, Deadshot says they have a schedule as the world is ending
Comedy is timing
Batman destroyed her life and killed the Joker
How is her reaction to Bats OOC?
I thought this was reformed Harley? By now, she should get over him. Also, Joker killed the Joker in the game, remember?
This Harley never went through that character arc
>harley has a reason to be mad at Batman who wasn’t even responsible for her abusives partners death, which she is free from
Is rocksteady telling us that women like her are better off in a relationship where they are dominated
>Batman has saved my life countless times before but I’ll stab him in the arm and make him drop the only thing that will keep me alive anyways.
lol, its a fricking videogame.
"Oh no, not bing bing wahoo! How could this happen?"
Do you think WB will double down and own up to the treatment Batman was given considering this was Kevin’s last role, or will they knee jerk to fix this/damage control the situation?
Dying to the ugliest and most moronic version of Harley? That's rough.
Everyday I wonder if it's even okay to like Superheroes anymore the more shit like this gets pumped out on a daily basis.
What did I ever to to them?
Any other news?
>Rocksteady went full on Naughty Dog.
I still think dying by a frickin sports item is a lot worse.
Yeah, it's going to bomb.
After this and Gotham Knights, do you think we may have been too harsh on Arkham Knight?
No. It deserves the criticism. I just hope WB branches out from non Batman games like Flash or Green Arrow
>suicide squad kill the justice league
>actually just 4 memebers
>one member is their team mate
>the other 2 don’t show up
The game can’t even do the one thing it set out to do right
I remember that something similar happened with Gow 3, when you didn't even face half of the gods of Olympus.
God of War 3 has you fight the most gods of any entry. Only Ragnarok comes close.
A lot of gods were alrady dead by then, many by Kratos hand no less. Besides, Kratos’s beef was against the Olympian gods, Zeus specifically, and only killed those who stood between him and his revenge. It was never about wiping out the entire pantheon. With that in mind, like the other anon said, Kratos did kill a lot of Gods in that game, plus a Titan or two.
Maybe this should have been part of the tax write-offs, eh Zaslav?
>favourite
opinion discarded
I mean they can always pull some bullshit to resurrect him but still laughable that this is the way Arkham Batman goes out.
Holy shit this game is hot fricking mess.
The entire premise of this game is flawed.
They already have Diana resisting the mind control thanks to her lasso, they should just have GL also resist and have an adventure with the two of them as starting characters, little by little fighting other JL members and slowly freeing them from mind control and unlocking them as playable characters
They really just push the Suicide Squad so much it's unreal.
One of these days I want them to live up to their name and die
Trying to recapture the magic from the Ostrander run. Same reason we keep getting shitty pushes for Teen Titans, "Year One" stories, "One Bad Day" one-shots, "Rebirth" as a company wide line, etc.
>Trying to recapture the magic from the Ostrander run.
If they really wanted to, they'd drop the "save the world" bullshit and focus on glowie shit instead, yet here we are.
>Every other JL member dies like fricking dogs, getting executed and being mocked about it.
>She's the only one who died heroically and everyone is sad about it.
I fricking hate women so much.
It was written by the same plague bearers of other Triple A games. Sweet Baby Inc.
Seriously though why are they like this?
They were conditioned in school thar they're victims of Patriarchy so if they get media attention it has to be used to give men the middle finger.
She dies heroically but she lived stupidly.
She repeatedly refused to work with Waller or consider killing her former team, and her mercy ended up getting a lot of people killed.
I did like her design though, shame the character till her dying breathe was a moron
But then you won't have a Looter-Shooter, anon.
WB wants their GAAS!
Can't have that; you gotta have your grim and dirty killer anti-heroes who say FRICK be the stars. That's what happens when the only DCEU movie that sold well was The Suicide Squad.
>Only League member who gets treated with respect is Wonder Woman because she has breasts
Awesome love it
It's almost hilarious how obviously written by women and LGBTs this game is. Every other JL member gets constantly clowned on and treated like shit, Wonder Woman the precious bean of the universe both escapes capture by Brainiac and gets respectfully mourned by the irreverent villains after going out in a heroic blaze of glory.
Here's a better question: How does one bring this to light?
What, you mean to the public circle?
What we are doing now, talking about it, shitting on it, letting it fail.
Granted if it were any higher than this like an article or the news then you’d get the typical “sexist men” remark rather than defending the actual media (Captain Marvel) but constantly pointing out the failures and shallow transparent motives of female content creators can all be visible if simply talked about, because that brings the ball to their court and most of the time they fumble pathetically.
Just never stop doing no matter how small because one other person seeing it brings it to another and a good point doesn’t stop when no one is silent about it.
I guess the "kill Aquaman" tutorial was a fake leak. Who else is safe from this evil?
Superman, Batman, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, and The Flash are the only members of the League in this.
Something tells me Wonder Woman's death is more reverential
Nah, Superman snaps that b***h's neck like she's a Slim Jim. She basically ends up being useless except for exposition that the only way to stop the Justice League IS to kill them.
>Superman snaps that b***h's neck
MoS and its consequences have been a disaster for the Superman franchise
He didn’t snap her neck he just heat visioned her breasts off, but yeah it’s just disgusting in general
But she’s the only one that gets a dignified death that’s actually somewhat mourned, flash LITERALLY gets pissed on by boomerang and is then celebrated for having a big dick
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It is.
She got sad music and even Harley Quinn feels sad about it.
>parents die by the gun
>he dies by the gun
>they’re both rich white elitist and out of touch
Poetry
Should've killed him in an alley... dying where he was born
>The greatest legacy of Phoenix's Joker is that people think the Waynes didn't give a frick about Gotham
>make a cool WW design
>"WW is the one that doesn't get mind controlled"
>Hyped because that means she will be relevant, maybe even a playable character!
>No, she dies a stupid death against Superman. Not helping any JL member with her lasso because... Reasons
>And since she isn't mind controlled she doesn't get a cool boss fight either
Why are these people do bad? Nobody would like this piece of shit.
For Superman fans this is yet another game that shits on their favorite character
For batman fans this is a hate letter
For WW fans this is a huge bait that makes our fav look like an idiot who could solve everything but didn't
And none of these clowns would survive a actual fight with Superman. A mind controlled Supes not just turning Harley into a mist is nuts.
Forget about Superman, GL and Flash would turn the entire Suicide Squad into red mist the second they are aware of their presence.
I know people like their stories about "Non powered people taking on Superheroes" and their "underdogs" but this game sucks at their core conflict because the SS are so outmatched in smarts and strength they shouldn't even be there realistically
Yea the Flash not friction burning Captain Boomerang to a cinder would be horrifying and amazing.
That's been a problem with the modern Suicide Squad since the first movie. THEY AREN'T THAT POWERFUL. These are the villains who can actually be kept in jail and want to do things to reduce or eliminate their sentences. You basically need the Legion of Doom to outright KILL the Justice League.
Ostrander's original run was the best use for the Suicide Squad which was simply running black operations across the globe. I despise how it's just putting them against multiple characters outside of their power level, do they even do military operations anymore?
And he killed Tim.
>Think about everything Arkhamverse Batman survived through. So many enemies. So many calamaties. Sacrificing everything to save Gotham and its people.
>Only to have his brains blown out a few years later like a sick dog. By fricking Harley Quinn of all people.
No, no, think about all those batarangs Batman has thrown. So many enemies. So many Riddler trophies. Years developing that technology.
Only to have the character specifically known for throwing boomerangs use a GUN. Unbelievable.
I'm looking forward to Mr(s) Freeze shooting an AK
Another casualty of a feminist consultant group.
And WB
>WB actually outright refused to give out codes to review outlets
Holy frick, has this even happened for a AAA game before? Just how bad is it?
square enix latina wizard tier or way worse since this one activly tries to ruin a beloved series
I'm still amazed that Forspoken was actually greenlit to begin with and then expected to be successful
Yea that game was shockingly mediocre and felt only made to justify how much they'd spent on that bloated FF15 engine.
Frick Batman
Shut up Joker
What happened?
Shit game is just Superhero murder porn.
I will fricking punch everyone in the face
Kind of insane how much more fun Bloodsport would have been than Deadshot
No one would have been fun, this game was made to be as not fun as possible
If the game isn't fun, why bother?
Money. This is late stage capitalism, baby. It's not about giving you a quality product, it's about doing as little work as possible while siphoning as much money out of your consumers as you can. That's why all anyone ever fricking makes is regurgitated, repetitive live action service garbage
But he has a fun gimmick AND would make sense for this style of game
>Had to do a bunch of retcons because their new lore didn't fit the Arkham lore
>Kill the justice League before they have even been introduced
>Have a bunch of characters with each their own unique fighting style, but then make it a generic looter-shooter and force all of them to use guns
I have zero rational explanation for why they would make this part of the Arkham-verse, besides simply to bank off the name.
But even then, you normally bank off the name to attract people who like the name to begin with, and not to actively do what you can to make them hate the thing you attached the name to.
This shouldn't have been part of the verse. Simple as
Because it’s not made for entertainment purposes anon, it’s just demoralization propaganda. Just feel solace in knowing that this brings Warner that much closer to bankruptcy
Why couldn't they have used an elseworld Justice League like the Justice Lords and whatnot?
>same name
>same secret identity
>same powers
>also has a daughter he loves very much
>nah homie, dis da real Deadshot. Da other one is the sus imposter.
What was Rocksteady's reason for raceswapping Deadshot? Like I know the reason but did they give a PR reason?
They didn't give a reason, but Boomer asks "isn't Deadshot supposed to be white?" At the beginning and there's a white Deadshot from the original hands in the Hall of Justice museum
yeah I know they brush it off in the game but I want an answer from the writers or developers as to why they had to retcon a white character black within the same continuity and not some reboot bullshit.
They clearly don't really care about anything, in case the treatment of the justice League wasn't enough of an indication
Movie synergy even though they could've just had Bloodsport cosplaying as Deadshot and taking his name.
Movie synergy to be closer to Will Smith, that's it. The whole reason this game exists like it does is because it went into development around the time SKWAD did $700m without China and Josstice League bombed, so producers at WB took it to mean that they had to tear down the Justice League in favour of the current new trendy team that people totally love.
Fricking idiots.
If Lantern Corps rings are sentient, why does John still have his? Did Brainiac somehow brainwash it too?
You're officially putting more thought into this than any of the writers
What nobody involved in making this knows that the rings are sentient and choose their wearer?
these developers literally contract out trannies to review and approve scripts and designs. They don't have to read the source material they just have to make sure it fits their propaganda.
Speaking of the writers, how does this company still exist?
Industrial blackmail and claiming unearned success.
They'll claim credit for Alan Wake 2 wheb they had frick all do with the parts of the game people liked and were locked away with the Bright Falls shit so Remedy could protect Alan specifically.
It wanted to see how things turned out
>Man his eyes are awfully purple and he's killing a lot of people
>Maybe there's a good reason for it
I'm just glad I lived during a time when this Woke shit wasn't a thing, so I know what quality is. I'd hate to be a zoomer only to learn what quality was and never had the pleasure to experience it at a younger age. A shame you kids have to deal with this shit, but more than half of my millennial generation went fricking insane. Depressing.
the 6th console generation was woke?
>crisis events
>that Jldark movie
>this
Why does DC love brutaly killing their heroes
>Why does DC love brutaly killing their hero
Not just DC. A superhero dying heroically is unheard of nowadays. Here’s Spider-Man fighting to the very end back in the 90’s during the original 2099 run.
And here’s him dying like a complete jobber in a more recent retelling of days of futures past
>Who lets an angry mob beat them to death
michael myers did
then came back to life like two minutes after and killed them all
This is so stupid. If they’re willing to beat someone to death then they’re not innocent & he should treat them like any other criminal.
Tbqh I think it's because writers nowadays love their subversions and deconstructions
Hell, I'll do you one better.
Remember when the thought of Batman and Superman fighting to the death was the saddest thing ever and showed that the world had finally fallen over the brink?
Happy Birthday showed him fighting to the bitter end too.
Death is an easy way to raise the stakes and impress your audience when it's largely composed of mouthbreathing manchildren and normies who are just pretending to care for clout
Too bad this was written by Woke morons who couldn't pull it off. Maybe instead of putting all of your energy into shitting on Men, make something good.
how come George Newbern isn't Superman in this
They only kept Conroy as a Holdovers from the Arkham series, since this is ostensibly the capstone of those games. It wasn't a DCAU reference, it was an Arkham continuity bit
>homosexual brigade needed the Justice League to fight amongst themselves to actually beat any of them
What a moronic game
I really really really don't care about your live service, lootbox, fortnite knockoff game.
>Justice League was always about hope and unifying against a greater evil
> Decide to make a game where you throw that shit out and kill them
> Every fight is lazy as hell to complement the dog shit gameplay
>every ending is some sort of "YEAH FRICK THE HEROES" moment written by some edgy moron
>The only Woman on the Team doesnt get a boss fight and dies without Harley shitting on her or something because women cant be abused or something
>Game already shilling "ITS A DIFFERENT UNIVERSE" bullshit
>reviewers are saying its like 8 hours long
so this is going to kill Rocksteady isnt it?
>there's 13 Brainiacs
that seems like an awfully low number of parallel universes, they should have made it a cooler number, like 52 or something
52 is not a cool number either, especially not in association with the entire New 52 line.
something to think about
Why am I seeing a frick ton of people online calling it fun?
Dead Internet Theory?
Unfamiliar. Explain
It's just an unnecessarily fancy name for "bots interacting with other bots"
It's already happening on Twitter. 90% of the time when you look at replies to a post they're all bots, usually "I'm the hottest 18 year old on OnlyFans" ones
Paid Tiktokers
It's literal shills/bots, and then mindless NPCs following what the shills are saying and loving it because superheroes.
People everywhere were saying this game looked kinda crap from the moment it was revealed years ago, since pretty much everyone hates the Games-as-a-Service model especially after Sqaure's Avengers sucked. Then the story/audio leaks happened last year and confirmed that the game was definitely going to be shit, so WB kicked their marketing machine into overdrive and suddenly the internet was full of posts and comments saying "I don't get why people are hating on this, the game looks F U N"
As an example, IGN was shitting on the game recently, which is incredibly rare for such a big, safe, uncontroversial reviewer getting a preview a AAA release. Yet since then, on their various social media posts about the game, you can see a ton of comments saying that any negative opinion from them just IGN having a "vendetta" or "being salty". Despite the fact that most every other outlet is also being negative.
>game gets serious for the last 2 minutes
Why do you have a weird obsession shitting on Wonder Woman in every thread relevant to the character?
>They piss on Flash's corpse
Okay they're actively trying to antagonize/shit on fans now, right? That's not quirky fun, this is just mean spirited and stupid
That's what you want though, right? You let the Synder-fans call the shots and now DC thinks all you want is grimdark nonsense theat tries to run away from bright and sunny heroics.
>That's what you want though, right?
No?
>You let the Synder-fans call the shots
WB does what the frick it wants, and the DCEU as a whole was a failure
I may hate the DCEU but Snyder or not, this kind of writing still would've gotten popular.
And it's not just Snyder, but fricking The Boys and Invincible being popular makes shitting on superheroes to be massively popular.
>invincible
Which is a shame, because it has one of my favorite pages in all of superhero comics at the end, but the cartoon is never going to get that far, so it's going to stay "What if Superman and Kryptonians were evil conquerors?" for the next couple of seasons.
It's worse than that.
>Boomer goes to piss on him while Shark is paying respects since Flash saved them from John earlier
>Deadshot stops him, but notices how big his dick is
>Harley salutes his dick
Looked up the scene, and wow they killed the Flash by...shooting him. That is the most uncreative and nonsensical bullshit I've seen. Anyways here's the scene for those curious
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There are not lying
The vast majority of writers for nerd franchises these days seem to have a genuine fricking disdain for their fanbase
And what's wrong with the Perez run?
>No personality
Warrior of truth, a woman capable of loving everyone no matter how depraved, an understanding diplomat seeking to build bridges between those who are different.
You're projecting your own issues onto the character, and working off shit adaptations.
Don't bother. To people like him, "iconic story" means "was adapted into a movie".
>Batman has his brains blown out like a sick dog
>By fricking Harley Quinn of all people
Of fricking course...
Name an iconic Superman or Batman story that was never adapted into a movie, cartoon, or video game.
>Oh it's a Wondergay
You asked me, I provided an answer. You're inferring I have some sort of bias in this argument, blind to character flaws or weaker areas of the source material. Not the case, and I like to think I have a wide spectrum of comic taste. Wonder Woman books do have a problem of writers debating where to take her character, but that's more of a modern issue.
You're demonstrating that you aren't really aware of the material, and instead go off things parroted from twitter or something. Good Wonder Woman books praise shitting on men, and I don't know what you mean about being upset "when a male makes he look bad". Also half your retort is just misc buzzwords.
Is this just an attempt to incite an argument? Because it feels like it. I don't really believe you know much on the subject given what you've said thus far.
What does it feel like being a worse version of guy? At least guy would actually pull out some schizo answer that's "technically" correct.
So you can't refute it? Also yes, the game is shit. That was never in question. Can you stay on topic?
That's not what projection means.
>Is Wonder Wench not in the game?
Oh she is, but the game is shit. We all know that. We're now talking about you and Wonder Woman in general.
So what is lacking in the Perez run in your opinion? Can you please cite examples so I better understand?
So you are unable to provide specific examples or provide anything for this discussion? Also again, not using the term right. You have a strong opinion on the character, so naturally I assume you're at least somewhat familiar with the material. Are you?
>Yeah she's shit.
So could you please elaborate on why you believe the Perez run is bad?
That's an opinion, not an argument. So what can you cite from the run exactly?
That's not the Perez run, and that didn't answer the question. Do you know anything about the material at all? I would assume so given that you have such heated opinions on it. Let's explore that. What can you tell me specifically?
>Rocksteady: This is the last role Kevin Conroy will play as Batman.
>This pops up out of nowhere
Is it damage control?
Almost certainly. When this formally comes out and people beyond the kinds of nerds who browse videogame/comic forums and messageboards get wind of how shit it is, it's going to be an absolute shitstorm.
>Crisis on Infinite Earths 3
Jesus frick there was a 1 & 2? As in, animated not the original comic?
Yeah, the latest and final movies in the Tomorrowverse (The current animated movie universe) are a 3 part Crisis adaptation.
Part 1 came out last month or so.
Oh RIGHT, that thing. I just memoryholed it after they beat the Anti-Monitor not with the avatars of hope or whatever, but using a fricking shrink ray
Guess MCU Ant-Man (both of them) solos the Tomorrowverse
I had no idea they made it.
So... how bad is it?
So they'll kill BTAS Batman next
So you have no ability to answer a simple question?
But that wasn't the question. Should I take your comments as a concession of your ignorance and inability to form an argument?
>Game director Axel Rydby also made it clear that you can complete all of the game and its extra content can be played solo, or in "any group configuration," including a scenario like if "the fourth player in your 4-player squad couldn't make it because they have the audacity to have a life outside of the game." Rydby went on to say that the team doesn't want the game to "feel like a life commitment or be a game where you have to sacrifice a lot to see all the content on offer, or feel like you're not making good progress in the game if you can't play hundreds of hours. We want this game to be generous, both with your time and with all the features we have to offer."
So the director -a gay Swede who was one of the designers on The Division and has never actually directed a game before- is making fun of service titles now? What a disaster.
I asked you to cite from the run, and you're dodging. Are you afraid for some reason?
So you refuse, and admit you have nothing? Spamming is also against the rules, so just be careful.
>Never actually see Robin
>Just his domino mask on the floor in the batcave
Are you okay? You're devolving into bot responses. So can I assume if you post the exact same response, we can take that as a concession?
I thought he died in arkham knight???
You didn't pay attention in Arkham Knight. He faked his death by blowing up the Wayne Manor. With everyone now believing he's dead can fights crime by using Scarecrow's fear toxin.
Oh good. So we can confirm you had nothing, and admit you were wrong. Glad we could clear that up.
Yes we've established you were wrong. Have you realized what's happening by now?
Did I break you? Is that why you keep regressing to nonsense?
Are you on a loop? Prove to me you're not a bot. What's today's date? Your favorite color?
Imagine if the shitstorm over this kills Harley Quinn as a character. Wouldn't that be great? I'm so fricking tired of Harley.
It won't anon she's every basic white girls perfect cosplay and goat. Really I've seen twitter simping for the game and hating on fans for daring to dislike how disrespectful it is and bad and cashgrabby.
>fans dislike the game for how disrespectful, bad, and cashgrabby it is
The fiends!
its videogame anon
videogames are not art
roger ebert said so
roger ebert was a moron
There is not a single Harley Quinn fan who cares about her as a character.
When I got my first paycheck Arkham Asylum was the very first thing I brought, I honestly don't know how I should feel after seeing this.
You should ignore it and not buy the game.
So what?