Kenneth Haight
Gold Member
Rocksteady only in name, all soul has gone from this studio. Greed and the culture war has overtaken any rational thinking at Rocksteady.
How did we go from the greatness of the Arkham trilogy to this!
How did we go from the greatness of the Arkham trilogy to this!
BbMajor7th
Member
Surely we're through the looking glass at this point?
N30RYU
Member
Corrected
winjer
Member
Damn. There are more dislikes on that trailer, than people playing the game.
WB and Rocksteady must be proud of such achievement.
BigBeauford
Member
Sometimes, just sometimes a little executive meddling in a studio's decisions is a good thing. Apparently this did not happen.
Bernardougf
Member
I wish I knew when and why exactly investors and producers started to hate money
DonkeyPunchJr
World’s Biggest Weeb
You know, I think that is true at some level. They have a burning hatred for masculinity, traditional gender roles, traditional family structure, traditional heterosexual monogamous relationships, meritocracy, religion, "patriarchy", capitalism, finding meaning in one's life through personal responsibility and sacrifice, etc.
And they want to strip those values out of our culture and replace them with their own "values" or lack thereof: Marxism, postmodernism, intersectionality, diversity, equity (aka equality of outcome) etc.
And now that people are starting to overwhelmingly reject their attempts to force their own ideology into our culture, deep down they are probably thinking "well if they won't accept it, fuck em, let's burn the whole thing down"
Angry_Megalodon
Member
They don't want the money from actual customers but ESG investments and public funding. They operate with the same mindset as a subsidized company, customers don't care anymore. That's why all these companies must disappear, the market needs this bubble to burst asap.
DonkeyPunchJr
World’s Biggest Weeb
It's really Mrs. Freeze. In this alternate universe, they reimagined Mr. Freeze as a lesbian woman.
ViciousAgenda
Member
That downvote ratio 
StreetsofBeige
Member
I wouldnt be surprised. Although, that would be both a monumental feat and also hypocritical.
On one hand, I'm not surprised, since video game employees are often weird right off the bat with a usual ultra left wing stance. But then trying to sink the ship despite whining about keeping jobs and high pay goes against a successful company.
GymWolf
Member
DonkeyPunchJr
World’s Biggest Weeb
I think they know they're fucked and the layoffs are coming any day now. They're just giving a final "fuck you" to the CHUDs while they collect their last few paychecks.
StreetsofBeige
Member
The good 'ol sabotage routine on the way out.
Like the guy who knows he's on the firing line, gets fired, and coworkers need to check his emails and HDD for files so others can continue business. Then they find out the guy deleted everything. Nobody wants to go to IT hoping to recover emails/files from random dates, so whomever is asked to take over has to start from scratch.
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Saber
Newd Member
Its a gender swap lesbian dommed alternative reality version of Mr. Freeze
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SmokedMeat
Gamer™
Wait, wait, wait…this is Mrs Freeze?? I thought Mr Freeze was just a flamboyant Huang Jensen this entire time.
Heaven forbid Mrs Freeze look like an attractive woman. She's gotta be the typical Butch character modeled to the tastes of the developers.
Heaven forbid Mrs Freeze look like an attractive woman. She's gotta be the typical Butch character modeled to the tastes of the developers.
Fermbiz
Gold Member
Bernardougf
Member
But all this money they get from this dei policies are higher than actual big profits??? ... this cant be true.
StreetsofBeige
Member
I dont get it either. Unless the money is a grant or free dev costs on gov or investment company dime, wouldnt the game company also need to sell lots of copies to make back money to pay it back?
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DonkeyPunchJr
World’s Biggest Weeb
LMAO if I had any talent I'd make a version with Mrs. Freeze saying "it is MISSUS"
AgatonSax
Member
The DEI money helps get the game greenlit. Developers get paid for making shit game. Developers say game flopped bcause of racist bigots. Publishers and shareholders too stupid / weak to push back (until recently anyway). Rinse and repeat.
Bernardougf
Member
Maybe throw some bonuses attached to tha game success and %sales .... anyway ... the point remains .. at some point this people stopped caring about maximum profits.. spreading "the message" is the higher priority.
DonkeyPunchJr
World’s Biggest Weeb
Also keep in mind so many of these games started development around 2017 or earlier, and are years behind schedule/over-budget "because of COVID".
You just know so many devs/publishers are shitting themselves seeing bomb after woke bomb + their trailers getting ratio'd to hell.
They've wasted countless millions and years of time and effort under the illusion that "modern audiences" are demanding this shit.
Agreed. It really makes you wonder who is in charge over there though to approve this. The higher ups are either part of that crowd or are completely clueless.
LordCBH
Member
havoc00
Member
>Replace Mr. Freeze with his genderbent equivalent
>as if that wasn't subtle enough, completely cover her in LGBT symbolism
We get it. You support the gays and the trannies. WE GET IT
Connificent
Al Pachinko, Konami President
This has got to be a parody right
SJRB
Gold Member
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DonkeyPunchJr
World’s Biggest Weeb
Just posting the full picture in case you only saw the preview and missed those fabulous pants.
DonkeyPunchJr
World’s Biggest Weeb
Hahahaha love the ketchup + mustard color. Is this alternate-universe butch lesbian Ronald McDonald?If you guys like those skins, probably will like this one as well.
It's just missing the red nose and clown wig.
I think they're jealous that Concord characters are hogging all the attention.
Lokaum D+
Member
WB take on Saitama ?If you guys like those skins, probably will like this one as well.
It's just missing the red nose and clown wig.
TheUsual
Gold Member
Mrs. Freeze looks like she has 5 o'clock shadow going on there.If you guys like those skins, probably will like this one as well.
It's just missing the red nose and clown wig.
Danjin44
The nicest person on this forum
Lokaum D+
Member
Pray that WB never make a game based on the animeYou dare compare Saitama to this shit!!
winjer
Member
If you guys like those skins, probably will like this one as well.
It's just missing the red nose and clown wig.
Someone got paid to make that thing. And someone approved it.
Rocksteady truly is rotten from the inside.
TheAtomicPile
Member
If you guys like those skins, probably will like this one as well.
It's just missing the red nose and clown wig.
This is normally the point in forum discourse were someone has to point out that this is based on the original Mr Freeze design from the 50s when he was known as Mr Zero.
You know, because doing old stuff again automatically makes it good, even if it sucks.
StreetsofBeige
Member
Probably mix of lots of factors:
- DEI/political people who funnel to media jobs because they cant get a job elsewhere. It's pretty hard to be a weird political person pushing an agenda selling cars, working at a bank, or installing air conditioners. Most jobs and products have zero feature set involving DEI or politics, but people can still get hired due to hiring quotas. Its a matter of whether their personal politics make it to the end product. Most dont or cant. But games, TV shows, movies it can
- Ignorant bosses, running a company that does zero business analysis and testing. Just do whatever they want and pray it sells. I've said this a million times, I am 100% confident most studios dont do any testing. And I'm not talking beta tests or QA tests, but actual consumer interest testing. It's like a guy has a game idea on a napkin he thinks is the best thing ever and that's going to be it. Well, turns out his idea was stupid, took 5 years and cost $50M to make
- Probably the usual stupid copycat strategy video game companies do...... If COD and Fortnite can have tons of crazy mtx and be successful, why cant our game?
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Saber
Newd Member
The skin still looks like Ronald Mcdonalds without the red nose and wig though.
And it's not like they have any sense making references when this is not Mister Freeze at all. I could understand Joker since he is basically the same, but this is a gender swap Miss Freeze from another dimension lol
Ceadeus
Member
how do you do to see thumbs down? I miss the function
StreetsofBeige
Member
Looking at the pics, I never knew Mrs Freeze was Asian.
MonkD
Member
Finally. I've been waiting for this since we first found the secret room in Asylum. That's where they first alluded to this
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winjer
Member
You need an browser extension such as Return "YouTube Dislike"
Ceadeus
Member
So cool! That's great ahahYou need an browser extension such as Return "YouTube Dislike"
Lunarorbit
Member
That's the perfect word, tasteless. I really have a hard time believing gay people actually came up with this design.Every character has a Pride-themed skin and they're all insanely tasteless.
Yeah...
I know the hyper/neon colors have been in for a while but it's a parody to think this is how LGBT wanna be expressed in media. Sure there are over the top gay designs but the vast majority of this demographic doesn't make a travesty out of fashion like this.
It's super pandering to just wrap characters in gay pride flags. It's a caricature.
FunkMiller
Banned
My mate absolutely hates how everything to do with being gay automatically seems to require rainbow flags and camp shit. He finds it incredibly reductive, and not a little homophobic against people like him who are gay, but not camp in the slightest. It's like only ever depicting black people as gangster rappers, or Chinese people wearing paddy field hats.
This shit is largely done by straight people who think they are being the saviours of the oppressed - by selling every dumb fucking stereotype imaginable.
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