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[Mobilemofo]

Exoprimal launched there and it didn't really help - I had to Google 'Capcom dinosaur game' to get its title as it left that little of an impression.

£25 on PSN now. I totally forgot about it until I saw it on sale.

 

[Kagoshima_Luke]

Not defending the game, but that Forbes article reads like a Gamefaqs post. "I checked steam charts!!1! It do bad!"

 

[Arsic]

The obvious answer is to make Hogwarts Legacy 2 a GAAS title.

You laugh and joke but they will 100% do this.

Season pass, online co op, MTX skins, and boring shit to do once you complete a fun story.

I'd be surprised if HW2 isn't GasS.

 

[StereoVsn]

WB is lucky to have Hogwarts Legacy be the big hit that it was.

Don't worry, they will inevitably f-up the sequel with all the GaaS shit.

Edit: I really should have read the other posts, lol. But yeah, GAF consensus on Hogwarts 2 is clear.

 

[TheUsual]

You know you're in deep shit when your 2nd previous game, which was released in the PS3/X360 era, has more active players than your latest offering.

Arkham City has 1817 active players right now versus 506 players in SS:KtJL on Steam

 

[Ogbert]

Remember the shills who were saying "the game is surprisingly good guys !!"

End game is shit, but the 20 hours leading up to it are the most fun I've had in a super hero game.

 

[GymWolf]

I'm already surprised that it lasted the whole month tbh.

 

[Varteras]

Astute fucking observation there, Paul. You're just in a different league.

 

[Faust]

The game is shit, from beginning to end.

 

[diffusionx]

Paul Tassi should just stop covering Live service games. No way in hell he doesn't suffer from some severe stockholm syndrome. Let Suicide Squad be forgotten, no one cares about it and WB already admitted it being a financial flop, just kill it.

No, I think we should if anything talk about Suicide Squad even more. Eight or nine years of development, total abandonment of what made the studio great, yet trying to market on that name ("no really guyz, it's totally Arkham"), live service shit, sweet baby story, and it dies in a MONTH. It should be a cautionary tale, they did everything wrong, from conception, to design, to implementation, to not listening to fans who said this idea was terrible, to marketing, and it failed. This game probably cost WB in the neighborhood of $200M-$300M. This is one of the biggest flops ever.

 

[MagiusNecros]

Well it can be a flop and good. Both can be true

This is correct. Gameplay is fun but it's a very bad GaaS game. You can clear it in like 10 hours. Lacks incentive for replayability. Unlike big name MMOs, Monster Hunter, Granblue, Deep Rock Galactic, Borderlands, Roguelites and so on and so forth.

 

[semiconscious]

memories of better times:

 

[MiguelItUp]

I enjoyed the beta, presentation is really good and gunplay is satisfying. The big problem is repetitive endgame and subpar story choices, which you wouldn't have known about playing the beta.

Exactly. I was gifted the game and played it to completion. It was honestly more enjoyable than I ever thought it'd be. But so many things just felt messy and not promising. It's such a shame, especially with how long it was in development. The endgame almost doesn't even exist, after the campaign there's really no rhyme or reason to press on.

 

[ElRenoRaven]

The writing was on the wall from the moment 1st gameplay was revealed. The consumer could see it yet apparently the suits at WB couldn't. Shock Shock. Hopefully someday these companies will learn.

 

[DeaDPo0L84]

The only interesting thing this game can offer is a documentary on what exactly occurred for 9 years of development to deliver this turd.

 

[bender]

You laugh and joke.

 

[Herbspiceguy]

The game might go to "elseworld", not the players.

 

[Zheph]

Not defending the game, but that Forbes article reads like a Gamefaqs post. "I checked steam charts!!1! It do bad!"

Paul Tassi for you, massive clown

 

[Ogbert]

Exactly. I was gifted the game and played it to completion. It was honestly more enjoyable than I ever thought it'd be. But so many things just felt messy and not promising. It's such a shame, especially with how long it was in development. The endgame almost doesn't even exist, after the campaign there's really no rhyme or reason to press on.

The endgame is amazingly shit. It's three recycled missions on Lex Luther's level. I got to about Nexus Level 20 and then dropped it.

I expect that when the grisly details are released, we discover that the game was assembled in less than a couple of years following a huge period of development hell.

There's no way the finished game was what they set out to deliver.

 

[TrebleShot]

When one of the story twists was that there are 13 versions of brainiac to kill I knew this game was done.

Utter stupidity.

 

[BlueLyria]

Almost as if the game is fucking bad or something

 

[ultrazilla]

via Forbes

Good. Release a shit, broken game and you reap what you sow.

Warner Bros, Rock Steady and anyone else that had a hand in this shit sandwich, keep eating up until you're nice and full.

P.S. When are fellow developers going to call out their peers for releasing shit, broken games which affect the whole industry like what we see happening now
with mass lay offs?!

Blaming everyone BUT THEMSELVES!

 

[recursive]

Sweet, Baby!

 

[Ronin_7]

Who cares

 

[Spyxos]

I am watching Angry Joe review of suicide squad. It is such a shitty game. I think i just watch those 4 Boss fights on youtube.

 

[Freeman76]

Good, serves them right

 

[Braag]

There are people at WB, highly paid individuals, who are making multimillion dollar decisions and they are somehow flabbergasted that this game crashed and burned this hard.

 

[RNG]

 

[Krappadizzle]

 

[Sleepwalker]

I wonder how horrible this game was in the state it was supposed to originally release, before the delay and rework lol

 

[FunkMiller]

But the four paid shills guys who liked it on this forum were sure it was doing okay!

 

[Sleepwalker]

But the four paid shills guys who liked it on this forum were sure it was doing okay!

Haha, there are some posters in here who defend anything comic book related, no matter how terrible.

 

[rkofan87]

good let it burn!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[Northeastmonk]

I don't like Rocksteady for all the reasons this game exists. I liked Rocksteady because they made a kickass Batman series. Gotham Knights and Suicide Squad kill all that excitement for me. I've lost interest in DC for a while. None of the movies or games do it for me. I use to like reading Batman because of the Arkham games. It's kinda sad, but oh well.

 

[OmegaSupreme]

Another gaas failure.

 

[Synless]

Didn't we see this with Anthem a few years back?

That game…. Fuck I wanted it to be good.

 

[winjer]

WB should have canned this game and get a tax return on it. Like they did with a few of their movies.
At least this could have saved some of the losses for the company.

 

[Deerock71]

Sucks for the studio......probably more layoffs incoming.

This would be a best-case scenario.

 

[Freeman76]

Was so obviously going to be the case, they are never going to waste resources on a game that probably 20,000 people play across all platforms. Lets hope this fires a warning shot across the industry

 

[hyperbertha]

So, the squad will not be able to defeat the remaining Brainiac?

Suicide squad lived up to their namesake and suicided.

 

[reektann]

I quickly checked on Twitch the other day to see what was up with the end game people must be on by now.

What on earth ... looks like somebody set up a complete dogshit UI with loads of shitty mods and is running a raid in World of Warcraft.

 

[SmokedMeat]

Someone's curiously missing in this GaaS thread.

 

[tkscz]

from such a talented developer

As others have pointed out, not a single credit name on this game was on ANY of the Arkham games and vise versa. They are Rock Steady in name only.

 

[cormack12]

I mean, everyone knew this was going to fall way below expectations. The IP alone meant the best they could hope for a GotG situation. Someone somewhere signed off on this being worth the risk. And it was so obvious never going to generate reward.

Would they take risks on The Marvels, Shazam or The Eternals? I really don't get the disconnect in the industry sometimes of what publishers/developers are trying to push to players and waste money on.

Red by Ubi is promising even more in depth base and settlement building - who the fuck is interested in that? Just make the games your players want ffs.

 

[Vyse]

That game…. Fuck I wanted it to be good.

Same my friend.

 

[adamsapple]

The notoriously stingy Sony customer support has started offering refunds for the game now. It's joever.

 

[Angry_Megalodon]

The failure of this turd is one of the sweetest stories of this gen.

 

[sloppyjoe_gamer]

Waiting for the WB employees on this board who shilled this game hard to id themselves......

 

[DonkeyPunchJr]

Wonder if we'll get an awesome AI-generated apology letter when they shut it down.

 

[Neon Xenon]

The only interesting thing this game can offer is a documentary on what exactly occurred for 9 years of development to deliver this turd.

Agreed. Suicide Squad: KtJL is one of those clusterfuck productions where the info and stories from behind the scenes are going to be far more interesting than the resulting dumpster fire.