Biggest flop of 2024? Might be too early to tell yet, but it’s not a bad bet.
RIP Rocksteady
Unfortunately for Suicide Squad, once the fun story bits end, you’re left with a much less inspired combat system, and an open world that’s filled with tedious tasks.
Oh look, a more focused game would be better. Who would have thought.
The only thing they take from a flop is that people don’t like the suicide squad
100% of my excitement for this game died the second it was revealed to be a live service.
I remember when they announced that Fallout 76 wouldn’t have any NPCs. Instant pass. I cannot recall another moment that would cause me to drop any possibility of playing a game more than that.
This whole situation with Suicide Squad reminds me of that, and it’s not like Suicide Squad has the name draw like a franchise like Fallout.
I feel the same way too.
I can’t wait to not buy and then turn around and see the massive chunk of change it makes in its first week so three months later they can announce the service is being taken offline making it unplayable so all that’s left of the game is “Suicide Squad 4k All cutscenes!” YouTube videos.
This is fine… /s
For me Arkham Knight was also not a super great game mechanics wise and some odd tonal story takes, I was wondering why the nation wouldn’t send the army to just nuke such a place. But what did make it an outstanding experience was the whole atmosphere. The city looked and felt exactly like when I visited a Batman real life set. It oozed “Batman” from every possible angle any minute of my playtime. Voice acting, set pieces, everything was screaming, this is exactly as much Batman as it can get. Now, we are left with the okay-ish mechanics and seemingly none of the heart what sold the experience. But I will wait for the release to give Suicide Squad a chance before dismantling it into obscurity.
Its interesting to hear that you didnt find the mechanics satisfactory. I’ve always felt that Knight had the best iteration of both combat and predator mechanics (the ability to consistently freeflow onto enemies lying on the ground without dropping your combo is neat, and so is the fear multi-takedown and disruptor shenanigans). Knight’s primary failing in my opinion is that it made all of these good gameplay upgrades…and then made 75% of the game batmobile tank sections which were all shit.
I actually really enjoyed the game, but with the mechanics I felt there were situations were the controls were overloaded and my character did often things he shouldn’t. I think the DLC with the funfair?, showed it the most. Some of the invisible snap points were mapped poorly. I don’t remember all the details by this point, but it was slightly janky. When the mechanics did work as intended it was great.
I love the controls in Knight, when I was playing I knew all the quick shortcuts for the gadgets, was properly countering three at a time including holding direction towards each enemy when counting and everything it was bliss. Are you sure you just weren’t a little unfamiliar with them? Because I remember then being meticulous.
God I can’t believe they shoved the batmobile in there and put such a focus on it, it really detracted from the rest of the game.
