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[mckmas8808]

Sweet, Baby!

Don't blame them. This is on Rocksteady and WB.

 

[mckmas8808]

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.

How is this possible? So what were the REAL RockSteady guys working on?

 

[MiguelItUp]

Don't blame them. This is on Rocksteady and WB.

Exactly. Sweet Baby is a consulting studio, they're hired to do work. It's not like they just force themselves in and change everything against the developer and publisher's will.

The game was just poorly handled for various reasons, and I'm sure WB forced way too much which is what caused RS folks to abandon ship. Who can blame them for that?

 

[Reizo Ryuu]

How is this possible? So what were the REAL RockSteady guys working on?

There was a post in another topic that showed most of the leads were in fact the same as from arkham knight at least.

 

[tkscz]

How is this possible? So what were the REAL RockSteady guys working on?

From what others here and everywhere else have said, nothing because they aren't at RockSteady anymore. It's one of the reasons this game took so long to release. The only thing we don't know is why. Most people assume it's from execs from Warner coming in and wanting more and more changes to fit the GaaS model and they didn't want that so they left, but that part is rumors. The team that worked on Gotham Knights are the ones that finished this.

There was a post in another topic that showed most of the leads were in fact the same as from arkham knight at least.

I must've missed that post. What were their lead positions?

 

[nush]

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.

Making videogames crash is kinda on brand for Warner Brothers.

 

[Lokaum D+]

Don't blame them. This is on Rocksteady and WB.

can i blame both ?

 

[DonkeyPunchJr]

can i blame both ?

That’s so unfair! Don’t blame “we take a shit in the ground beef Inc.”, instead you should blame Burger King for buying their meat from “we take a shit in the ground beef Inc”!!!!

Don’t you get it? This is a very important distinction.

 

[Reizo Ryuu]

I must've missed that post. What were their lead positions?

I found the post

 

[MiguelItUp]

Thanks for the update. Still interesting.



We got some low IQ posters on GAF lately. So a dev works on a game for 9 years and you actually think Sweet Baby, Inc. is why it's so bad? Really man? I swear, you guys and your Woke-Card have gotten annoying. Next, WOKE is going to be the blame for cancer lol!!!

Yeah, I'd agree that SBI has some bizarre focus on things that really shouldn't be so strong handed or SO on the forefront. But they're not man handling people's projects. The SBI thread that exists is full of some hysterical takes. I get people hate them because "woke", but they're a consultation studio first and foremost. They just appear to have a variety of practices that they offer. How Suicide Squad was handled by SBI is anyone's guess, it's all up to the devs and pubs and how much of their services they want to use.

 

[Warnen]

I’ve lost hope since Anthem, flying around was so much fun but fucked up everything else. No one wants a new one of these games they already have ones they play.

 

[tkscz]

I found the post

Thanks for that, looks like the founders were the ones who left during development.

 

[Caffeine]

It just didnt hit with me I played it for a few hours and uninstalled it. If you removed the ip I would believe this was agents of mayhem 2. Terrible sequel to the arkham trilogy.

 

[Tangerine]

This baby ain't too sweet.

 

[Lokaum D+]

That’s so unfair! Don’t blame “we take a shit in the ground beef Inc.”, instead you should blame Burger King for buying their meat from “we take a shit in the ground beef Inc”!!!!

Don’t you get it? This is a very important distinction.

yeah i get it, i ll stop blaming game companies that do shit games and start blaming customers since they are the ones buying "this shit beef", thanks

 

[scoobidoo112]

What, you guys aren't excited to fight 12 more variations of Brainiac in a game that gets repetitive after the first 4 hours?

 

[Lokaum D+]

What, you guys aren't excited to fight 12 more variations of Brainiac in a game that gets repetitive after the first 4 hours?

in the last season they ll announce that the heroes who were killed were actually evil clones made by brainiacc and the next missions will be to save the heroes, and kill the remaining brainiacs, this is the only way to maintain player engagement for this game.

 

[Denorion]

The fact that Helldivers 2 came after this to massive sucess must just rub salt in the wound
As in, there was a massive market interested in a co-op tps, and SuSq failed to capitalize on that

 

[Exede]

At least Anthem had good gameplay... The loot loop was garbage though

 

[mckmas8808]

The fact that Helldivers 2 came after this to massive sucess must just rub salt in the wound
As in, there was a massive market interested in a co-op tps, and SuSq failed to capitalize on that

It also is a statement to the industry that there's no need to force your SP devs to make a GAAS game.

 

[tkscz]

The fact that Helldivers 2 came after this to massive sucess must just rub salt in the wound
As in, there was a massive market interested in a co-op tps, and SuSq failed to capitalize on that

Like I said in the other thread, SSKtJL was created as a GaaS based on what execs believe was popular, HDII was made as a fun multiplayer game that could also be considered a GaaS. It's clear what people will choose but it's also clear what execs who don't play games will think.

Good, move on to something worthwhile instead.

They already moved to Hell Divers 2

 

[Robb]

Good, move on to something worthwhile instead.

 

[semiconscious]

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.

& done. this's all you really need to know. very unfortunate...

 

[Lokaum D+]

This game has Game Pass written all over it.

It dosent worth even my bandwidth

 

[digital_ghost]

I got my free copy from amazon on prime day.

I did my part.

 

[StreetsofBeige]

It dosent worth even my bandwidth

So true. Both gamers and Xbox server bandwidth.

If I was Spencer, offer WB $1 for GP. Better than nothing and maybe WB will scrape up a couple grand in mtx fees

 

[Evil Calvin]

If the server goes offline can you still play the solo stuff?

 

[Deerock71]

SUICIDE SQUAD: KILL THE JUSTICE LEAGUE

JUSTICE LEAGUE:

 

[Saber]

If the server goes offline can you still play the solo stuff?

No. Unless they make a patch allowing offline play(which some say they will), you won't be able to play this game at all if they close the servers.

 

[simpatico]

Anyone who's ever played a console video game could have told you not to even release it. Sure you're already in the hole hundreds of millions, but don't you wish you still had all that money you spent promoting it during launch? All you guys had to do was nothing. Instead of going to work and emailing people and having meetings; just do nothing. It's the most valuable skill you have.

 

[Dorfdad]

It’s not that the game is bad it’s more like the game had no reason to be a live service game and shoehorning it into the space did a disservice to the game and the result has been shown.

Had they just made it a single / multiplayer game and not designed it for live services it may have had a chance at being decent and getting g a sequel now it’s dead jim.

 

[knguyen]

Imagine making a game to make those who don't even buy video games happy.

 

[StereoVsn]

Anyone who's ever played a console video game could have told you not to even release it. Sure you're already in the hole hundreds of millions, but don't you wish you still had all that money you spent promoting it during launch? All you guys had to do was nothing. Instead of going to work and emailing people and having meetings; just do nothing. It's the most valuable skill you have.

They could have just invested $200 mil into ETFs for last 8 years or however long it took, and that would have been a far, far better use of their money, lol.

 

[KimDongHwan]

Who didn’t see this coming besides WB.

Probably they are still thinking "what went wrong?, we gave them what they wanted, pronouns, sensibility to modern audiences, diversity overload, why arent they having fun?"

 

[CoreyFlawless]

Damn. Why PlayStation fans help bring it number one on there store? Don’t have games, so yall don’t mind trying out bad games? Seriously tho, I’m shocked it was that high for any place.

 

[IFireflyl]

Damn. Why PlayStation fans help bring it number one on there store? Don’t have games, so yall don’t mind trying out bad games? Seriously tho, I’m shocked it was that high for any place.

Is that you, Florian?

 

[Ozzie666]

Won't be long until it's sent to die on PSN or Gamepass.

 

[Three]

Most ofForbes articles look like a thread from a videogame forum, sometime pointing the obvios like this one others just beings fanboys.

If it's written by Paul Tassi then probably. It's like he gets his material from forums.

 

[Three]

If the server goes offline can you still play the solo stuff?

No. Unless they make a patch allowing offline play(which some say they will), you won't be able to play this game at all if they close the servers.

It's said to be planned.

Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League Is Getting an Offline Mode After Release, Rocksteady Confirms - IGN

Rocksteady Studios confirmed that Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League is getting an offline story mode sometime after the game releases on February 2, 2024.

www.ign.com

I guess they're just waiting for the off button.

 

[DavidGzz]

I played this since it was free and feel like I lost some gamer cred.