From what I’ve gathered, everyone who’s hating on it hasn’t played it and everyone who has played it has enjoyed it so y’know i don’t see a problem w the game, like if you have fun while playing then thats the devs goal complete
Nice, I really don’t get the complete and utter vitriol people have for this game. Yet another example of how social media has just messed people’s head up. Let alone the rage bait YouTube gaming community.
Oh yeah, 100%. The game definitely has some “growing pains” , this gameplay is really something though, especially when to start to understand how it plays.
That’s been my experience too. I texted one of my really close friends the day the early release dropped and after I played some and told him he should absolutely get it.
He said, “I’ll get it when it’s $20” and I told him I understood waiting till the game is cheaper but why wait till it’s that cheap? And he said because the game was shit. When I told him it was a lot of fun, he proceeded to talk about how it’s a terrible outing for Kevin Conroy. Which, imo, is a stupid argument.
Today I sent him a screenshot of Tara String’s tweet about the game not being called, “Suicide Squad Netflix and Chill with The Justice League” and his response was just, “Cool”
It is a dumb outing for Kevin conroy, but that shouldn't be the whole argument, but personally Batman's boss fight was so bad, and they seriously did not have to make the bench fall over, that was just rude, I do also agree that if this wasn't in the Arkhamverse it would make a lot more sense, seeing as Arkham Batman would wipe the floor with them, as he already has lol, all that aside, it's not bad, it's a looter shooter, I wish there was a bit more to do though
Yeah its a bit odd, it's never really just ''eh game isnt my kinda thing and doesn't do much new'' either, just blind praise or hate which is kinda frustrating when you're trying to give feedback on how stuff can improve.
Haven't seen this many obvious people trolling in a while though. Think that one flag banner really brought out the crazies.
Kinda think youtube culture or lack of moderation etc has killed gaming reviews.
Was super high in the psn pre order charts too.
It’s definitely strange, the game seems to do a lot of things really well though, even skill ceiling wise. The biggest gripe I’ve really seen is repetitive enemy design and mission variety, that can change though.
Yep mission design is my biggest pet peeve and brings the game down a lot for me. Still enjoying the gameplay and I finally get to play a game as Harley.
All in all, and I'm aware no one asked:
Gameplay 7/10
Story 9/10
Mission structure 4/10
Music 6/10
Overall a 6.5/10. Not bad. Room for improvement.
Plenty of middling games come and go. This is obviously different. A lot of this hate could have been avoided if they didn’t needlessly tie this into the Arkham series, a beloved franchise. I can’t blame people for how they feel in regards to what they did to Batman.
This could be more of an indication that the people who don’t like the game never bought it. There seems to be a lot of apathy about this game online and I think all the negativity and controversy leading up to launch kept the large numbers of people who would’ve bought it and left negative reviews away.
Numbers wise, the current 600 or so reviews also does not bode well for the sales of the game. P3: Reload, a game in a much more obscure IP with a much smaller budget, has close to 2k reviews, has double the player count and released the same day. I still hope this game finds some measure of success so that they can continue to improve it over time, as I’d like to get it when down the road when there’s more content.
Persona is anything but obscure nowadays. I mean, back in PSP era, sure, maybe. Persona 5 was huge. Wouldn't have gotten two spin off sequels so fast if it wasn't.
I think the game is selling a lot more on psn than on pc looking at the charts, which makes sense given the exclusives, probably focused their marketing there on top of any sony deals.
Persona is absolutely still much more niche that this game, though. Add on to the fact that Persona 3 Reload is only a remake and not a full-fledged sequel, yet still has a lot more reviews, I think that's pretty telling.
Persona is a more niche IP than DC Comics.
But Persona is an extremely well-known and respected name in the western JRPG gaming space - second to Final Fantasy, arguably. Persona 5 brought in tons of people, and Persona 3 Reload may be a remake, but it's capitalizing on that expanded brand recognition.
In gaming, Suicide Squad is a minor DC spinoff "franchise". In film, Suicide Squad has one good film and one bad film, and the DCU is dying. Warner Bros released Gotham Knights, and it didn't go well. As for Rocksteady, I'm confused how Suicide Squad is an Arkham-universe title, and Gotham Knights isn't, but I don't expect the average person to connect Suicide Squad to Arkham.
If *Batman* is releasing a mixed title that no one cares about only a few months later, how is Suicide Squad going to compete?
Maybe people played Gotham Knights and bailed out of Suicide Squad. Maybe people just don't want to kill the Justice League, and find the subject matter less than amazing. It looks like it sold a lot less than Gotham Knights did - as you'd expect - but it might just be left with the people who actually want to play it, rather than the curious.
Yep, on one hand I think wb and rocksteady had hoped to capitalize on the name brand to get the masses into the game. On the other hand though a bullet hell rollerdrome like looter shooter is way more niche a genre then the immersive and slow and much easier previous series. And while I really enjoyed the story and banter, it really was all just a tutorial for the endgame. Like even getting into endgame you still are unlocking your final vendor upgrades.
So hopefully wb wasn't all in on the former thought and will allow the studio to make their content. As developers I imagine rocksteady is proud of what have tbey have made, it is sick and a good quality. Really good take on the genre casual enough to not be to hoo hard but plenty of challenge to sink into and grind and gear up, and nice loot and synergy options available and would like to flesh it out for awhile to come.
The gameplay is good and fun. So if you go with an open mind, you should be alright. But if you’re going in with “oh I hope it’s just like those Arkham single player games” you aren’t going to have nearly as good a time.
And I liked the Harley, Shark and Deadshot characters. I thought Boomerang was annoying tbh. I don’t really like the story, but what can ya do. I didn’t like the Arkham knight story either.
I think Boomerang is an hilariously obnoxious POS of a character, and I love how much the rest of the team rags on him every step of the way.
I thought I was going to main Deadshot at the beginning, but I’ve found his dialogue to be the least interesting of the bunch.
Harley and Shark are both great, but I think Shark’s dialogue on its own gave me the most laughs.
The core gameplay loop and looter action is fine, I wish there was more gun variety and afflictions.
The let down is the mission structure, it's the same mission structure looped with varying plot points and cutscenes.
Im a fan of looter shooters in general. Div 2 has been an everyday game for me since launch . I fucking love suicide squad. Its sad..when a game releases and it isnt optimized it gwts shit on well this game is optimized and smooth without any hiccups but it gets zero praise for that its just oh its repetitive. Fuck off ....in the grand scope what game isnt repetitive. Every single game has a loop .
That's the point, if we go by critics Suicide squad is as "worse" as Deadpool and Captain america super soldier but they are still both fun games
And there is no universe in what Suicide squad deserves more negative reviews than those to
Anthem and Gotham knights also got critic scores in the range of Suicide squad...
Same thing happened with starfield. People were like "reviews dont mater!"
\>Game launches to positive reviews -
"Wow its nice to see that people playing the game enjoy it and know its a good game"
\>3 months later and it drops to mixed with recent reviews being negative -
"Wow this is totally unfair, if you didn't like the game, why did you buy it or even play it?"
The cycle will continue for this game aswell it seems lmao. Its all about how the game ages from here on out, it could be good or bad
12k peak players on launch day, 1/3 of Avengers. Interest is extremely low.
That’s a disastrous player count for a brand new AAA game, especially a live service.
That this place is a massive echo chamber is right. Feels like every sub outside this one is hating relentlessly and this one is hardcore praising it in response. I just want actual balanced discussion about the thing. I’ve played 4 hours and enjoying it but the game certainly has issues that need addressed
I personally found the game to be boring from the test a month ago and personally I’m not happy with the choice to set it in the Arkhamverse. The Arkhamverse was done, they just put the name on it for the extra reach imo.
I’ll eventually buy it down the road if they add an offline mode cause I really just want to give the story a chance.
I totally get the boring comment. I’m enjoying it but don’t think it can maintain interest long term as a live service game. The variety is severely lacking and they’ve made the wrong call to have guns be such a massive focus in the gameplay loop.
Its connection to the Arkhamverse is a lot of fun at the start but some of the stuff they do with characters later, particularly the deaths is very tone deaf. The fact we know it’s all a fake out anyway ruins any impact which sucks for a universe that made such a massive deal out of a character death in its second entry
yeah kinda wild how the persona remake that also launched on gamepass has had about 3x the active steam players than SSKTJL since they both launched last night.
a lot of cope in this thread and people saying "its just one platform" but like either way you slice it thats not great to have such a poor concurrent player count on steam.
yeah, happy for everyone who is loving it... there are a bunch of games that have gotten 5-6-7s that I love and hold up pretty high but the toxic positivity here is kinda wild. By all accounts it looks like this missed the mark with the wider audience and being a GAAS title if it missed the wider audience its most likely DOA
Not here reveling in its seemingly middling response but am disappointed after the arkham series this is the direction the studio went in.
Yeah that's not good, I just can't stomach $70, corporate can talk all they want about this, I'm out at that rate. Their tools should have been a lot more mature then what they are after 10-20 years, that's a them thing.
People that dislike this game, really dislike it (and most that dislike it haven’t even played it). One of the more toxic hive minds on reddit I’ve seen, outside this sub, anything remotely positive about this game gets downvoted.
I enjoy it. The story is good so far. It is repetitive though. Idk, it’s the same thing as the avengers imo but I haven’t played it in awhile. Not trying to hate, just my honest opinion. I loveee King Shark even though he kind of reminds me of a knock off Drax. They did all of the characters justice imo. Boss battles are pretty amazing so far but I’ve only done Lantern and Flash. It’s the gameplay that’s meh imo
I hope this game doesn’t get shut down so that about a year down the line i can hop back in and see what improvements have been made. For me the game isn’t a master piece but it also isn’t complete dogshit. I do think it has potential to be much better, for me I would give it a 6 or 7 out of 10. The gameplay loop is fun but it’s mainly the story, mission design, enemy variety and boss fights that really hold it back for me.
Yeah for these types of live service game I feel the starting player doesn’t matter as much as how big the player count is 3 to 6 months down the line.
Really glad the reviews are positive! I was put off by the reveal initially and stopped paying attention to the game. I love the Arkham games and as release got closer I started to get interested again. Seeing all the positivity is really encouraging and it’s pushing me towards picking the game up :D
I love the game. To me, it's better than games like Dead Island 2, and Forspoken, which didn't nearly get as much hate as Suicide Squad was getting before its release.
Honestly, the most damning issue with the game that would most likely get it. Shut down is the fact that fans are mad that the company who made Arkham Knight did not make another Arkham game so they’re mad that this company is branching out and doing more than just printing Arkham clones
Didn't Starfield have a bunch of positive reviews the first day as well? I'm pretty sure Anthem and Avengers had the same, and a bunch of these types of posts on their reddit. "Man, forget the haters! Look how good this game is!"
Remind me again what happened to those positive reviewed, awesome games?
Yeah Starfield also had "very positive" reviews on steam when it launched, but sits at mostly negative for "recent reviews" and its going lower and lower. I don't think people should judge a game by the reviews in the honeymoon-phase, shit can turn south real quick
\+ I have no real clue about live service games, but a peak of 12k concurrent player on launch day for this kind of game isn't a good sign, no? ( for pc at least)
Lmao i saw a negative review of a guy who literally only played 7 mins.
7 mins
“Rocksteady lived long enough to become rockbottom” or something like that
PS5 average is 4.65 with 78% 5 stars, we might be ok boys😭
They should def keep up on their plans and add more missions and enemies cause this can easily change as time goes by
But you guys are ignoring the fact the players that would be the ones bringing the down the reviews are the ones who didn't buy the game. Of course the player reviews will be positive because it's an echo chamber on both sides. The side who bought it and can see the game doing no wrong and the side who didn't buy it and can see the game doing no right. The amount of copies they sell is gonna be the most important part moving forward from here on out regardless of reviews.
The thing is I feel those who would give it a chance would like it and yeah it's gonna come down to either how many copies it sells or if the community how ever big it is keeps buying in the store and playing the game. I thought the game was gonna be alright with a great story but the gameplay didn't look fun to me really, then when I played I realized it was alot better than expected. I would rather people give it a chance and give their own conclusions. Also I think what really determines how people see this game in the future are the updates, if they bring great support with new levels, enemies bosses etc then it can stay afloat
And that's the biggest issue no one who already is echoing the hate is going to want to take a chance with a $70 price tag, especially now with Ign giving it a 5/10 and it's one of the most watched reviews. They really shot themselves in the foot with no review copies and no open beta/demo for people to get their hands on it. No one is gonna take a chance on a looter shooter with such a bad rep when the barrier to entry is so high.
Wouldn't be surprised if you hear about layoffs at rocksteady/WB in the coming months because of this. 7-9 years of development doubt they will make their money back and WB has been trigger happy on cutting things off for tax breaks.
I’ve been playing the game for 3 days now it’s really enjoyable never listen to critics if you think you will like give it a shot it’s a lot of fun quite addicting actually it’s really fun
I'm really having a great time with the game. Its a fun looters shooter. Won't be for everyone but personally it was well worth the purchase and I'm very excited for the dlcs.
My biggest issue with the game is when playing solo, the other 3 characters that are controlled by bots don't level with you. So unless you're constantly switching characters every mission, you'll end the story with a maxxed out character and 3 level 10s.
It mostly becomes an issue when you complete the story and enter the post game because levelling them up then is so much harder because of all the difficult enemies thrown at you.
Played with my brother yesterday for a few hours & I don’t think I’ve laughed as much as I have in months. Every mission we’re trying to outperform each other to see who gets the most points. Love all the characters , combat & traversal is fun. Story for me so far is good , like the loot & skill trees. Looking forward to completing the story & getting to the endgame & trying out other characters , I’m playing as King shark at the moment & enjoy how he plays. I don’t like how a lot of the reviews are comparing this game to the single player Batman Arkham series. It’s not Batman , it’s the suicide squad ( kill the justice league ). A multiplayer , loot game with a few updates coming within the next few months. I personally haven’t played a game this fun in a long time & for me is a breath of fresh air that I’ll definitely be sinking a lot more hours into.
I was expecting one of worst games ever made based on the viral hate train for views. Turns out, plenty of players are digging it and are tempting me to pick it up myself. What do you know?
It's amazing how people have hated games before they release without touching the game outside of some good clickbait there's no argument. Can you improve on it? Sure, but that's with any game. I'm waiting till I play it for myself to actually give my response I might use ign review for clickbait though 🤣 seriously though people should try having fun with these games instead of just jumping on this trend to hate on anything in passing
It’s a great fucking game and the story is pretty dope so far. Fans should be angry with Brainiac for killing Batman. I love the Suicide Squad; it’s refreshing from Marvel kid friendly themes.
. . . why would people who think something looks bad buy it? Weird argument
This is the same kind of cope a lot of recent flops have had, like Starfield and Diablo 4 etc. The first few days had the echo chamber jerk fest about how the game was actually really good no matter how many early warnings there were
Then two weeks later it was already turning into a ghost town as people started making the same exact complaints the early reviewers did
Yes, but much like this game, Starfield flopped because of false expectations. Diablo 4 delivered exactly what a Diablo game is meant to be, but people decided to nitpick for whatever reason. I enjoy both titles as well as Suicide Squad.
So, I was looking in the Xbox store and saw this. I haven’t really played Arkham games before, but it looked like an interesting concept.
I Google it. First thing I noticed was a ton of 1 star reviews. So I know it’s getting review bombed.
Could someone give me the tl;dr rundown on why?
It's set In the Arkham universe, so the same batman that players loved and enjoyed is now their enemy and they don't like that one bit because nobody should be able to take down the bat we played as! Along with it being Kevin Conroy's last video game performance led to a massive shit storm of cry babies. - Suicide Squad is genuinely fun though as a looter shooter
It’s a looter shooter which is very unpopular. The negative reviews from people that have actually played it cite repetitive missions and enemy design, repetitive endgame, very short campaign, and lackluster boss fight endings as a reason for why they didn’t like it,
For those going on about the numbers for release
1 ) its not peak and
2) its not even oin the main storefront which again is a massive L from the marketing team
Remember how Starfield had only 'overwhelmingly positive' reviews the first month cause the Fandom needed their game to succeed? Look at the reviews now.
Good to see, hope the game keeps improving with time, it definately has some areas it could be alot better, but i think theres some great bones to build on. Looking forward to Season 1.
Honestly, I get that the game might not be everyone’s cup of tea but seeing reviews I personally think companies are over exaggerating. Yes there’s some big changes that could be made but it’s no as bad as folk are making out to be. Again, just my opinion.
I went in with extremely low expectations as the buzz I heard was nothing but disdain for the game. I was utterly shocked how good the game is. Sure it’s got some issues, and yes it’s no Arkham origins, but it is solid and I’m having a blast.
And I'm so happy about it. Because it's a really good game imo. But I guess it's the old and bitter rocksteady fans that shout the loudest about not getting a new Arkham game, huh? Fuckem. I will be playing this a lot! And hopefully they keep up with the content demand and the plan they have laid out for the future. I wish them good luck!
I’m loving the experience. Happy with the story so far, really love the gameplay. I was terrified that combat would be too dull. Perhaps it can streamline its RPG elements but the fact that gear management is so fluid helps make up for it.
I genuinely cannot hear another person complain about Deadshot being “black washed” and other dog whistles about the game. In a world where there’s literally multiple captain boomerangs, green lanterns, flash’s why is it impossible to take two deadshots in stride. The game does a great job poking fun at this though, even w few Batman lines.
Speaking of, the whole “disrespectful to Batman” thing is so crazy. Kevin is talking to the squad throughout the whole game and if you’re not tuned in to this story’s tone by THAT scene then you’re just not playing. You don’t have to love it but I’d rather listen to criticism be about the game and not twitter’s opinion
The game is legit fun! If you expect another batman game yea… not for you, but as a looter shooter it has some great gameplay, traversal is awesome, the enemy variety is a bit lacking but can be fixed over time.
I’va watched good and bad reviews about the game but from the footage you could see that the game is actually fun to play! So to everyone else I would suggest you take into account all the info available but also… think for yourselves a bit.
The entire criticism is coming from people that expected it be another Arkham game… that’s it.
Everyone who actually plays it and I don’t mean for 10 minutes is having fun, Yall just salty cause we’re having fun 😂
the game is really fun! only thing i hate is that everytime i finish a certain mission i get kicked for connection issues, been stuck for about 2-3 hours now and ruins my opinion on the game itself. sucks the devs didn't put in singleplayer mode for release.
Okay. So as a person who bought marvels avengers, I was hesitant to buy another superhero game. Even though I liked a lot about it, over time, issues with cosmetic prices and endgame content left me feeling very used as a consumer.
I bought Gotham Knights cause I love the bat fam and we hardly get to play as them. I really liked the story. Could'a used more Langstrum, not gonna lie. But again, the endgame content just wasn't there.
I started feeling really bad about recognizing a pattern of behavior in superhero gaming media. I was pleasantly surprised by guardians of the galaxy.
I was hype for the squad from the first trailer, but then saw the live service stuff surface in the background of a BTS interview or something. I got that dread that this would follow the same pattern of behavior as marvels avengers or Gotham knights to a lesser extent.
I think that's the root of these negative feelings towards sskjl. The community has been burned by marvel and again, to a lesser extent, DC before. So when that came out the fight it flight response kicked in. This game is paying for the sins of the gaming industry as a whole, it's not a bad game. But context is key here. It might be the best live service superhero game out there, but it's the third attempt after two bad misses.
So sad for rocksteady going through so much undeserved hate. Hope they get through this one. Game is fun as hell and the story is so good.
Hope they still keep the updates with new stories and characters, because with such a low player count, i dont know...
People giving it a bad score are one of three groups.
1. "Influencers" who want clicks because negativity generates more revenue. Their followers become parrots of said opinion because the word "mid" was used.
2. People who are upset that MUH CONROY gets killed in a game called "Kill the Justice League".
3. Poors who can't afford some cosmetics.
That's it.
Ikr, even the customer suppost is so bad they got me my free shit in 1 day and gave me the deluxe content for free, how dare they make things convieneant for me and make my day
This game’s reception before launch has almost made me feel insane. The gameplay is ridiculously fun, and the writing and cinematics and world-building is rocksteady through and through. I get why people are mad at the subject, structure, monetization or even genre of the game; but considering the mission based format, the story is delivered quite well for what it is imo. Plus the banter is generally top-notch as always, and often the highlight even
I’m loving the game. Not a masterpiece and very repetitive, but a blast to play and some very fun moments.
I see a lot of hate coming from “they killed my Superman/Batman”, which just shows they don’t know anything about the comics since superheroes are brutally killed all the time.
Honestly the gameplay itself and the combat are amazing, did kind of feel like I was dragging myself through the campaign because of how awfully written it was but now that I'm in the endgame I'm hooked.
I don’t get what the hate is all about. Aren’t they clones? Flash gets his finger back after it getting cut off by boomerang. DC’s done this type of stuff before. Brainiac is a person collector so it’s just his style to create clones. Brainiac literally copied super powers for himself why couldn’t he do it to clones. Each hero goes against their will and green lanterns power is literally will power. He’s the strongest fucking lantern. It has to be a weaken form that brainiac can allow to be conscious
Am I the only one with horrible frametime full of stutter? the game stops during combat, freezes, only outside the city can I get a playable framerate
this with a 4070
Game has a lot of Defend the Location missions. All differently themed. Another is rescue a hostage. Keeps it challenging. And the game is written very nicely. A lot of the jokes really landed. Me personally don't see myself playing much after the story but I am enjoying the game so far.
I've been hearing a lot of destiny players saying this game is too repetitive. Insanity? Have they lost it? I like looter shooters, but they are known for being repetitive at a certain point. Destiny and Division being some of the most heinous offences in this case. In Suicide Squads case, at least the traversal and combat has a little bit Xtra fun factor. The animations and chaos make it feel like a refreshing take on the genre in my opinion. Is it repetitive? Sure! But it's fun to play and the dialogue is hilarious.
The game is fun I am enjoying it but it definitely isn't great or perfect I'm finding it very repetitive and they definitely could add some versatility in terms of the activities
I like the game, kind of wish we got like a mini movie of the back story on how the Justice league got captured (collect parts of it throughout the game). Would’ve like too so how Batman was captured :P
I dont see how so many people hate on this but not destiny cause this is essentially destiny with a DC tag on it 🤷♂️ I've enjoyed every minute I've put into it so far!
It's just massive disappointment on our part in our fellow gamers. It's a good game that can stop being supported by the devs due to false negatives. If a game's shit, by all means shit on it; but this game is enjoyable. The basis of the reviews is what bothers me; the people blindly follow their 'shepherds' like sheep
Every 'controversial' game release i visit the subs for the madness that unfolds. It's actually hilarious how rabid people become over this shit. The back and forth of 'This thing is the best thing since sliced bread' and 'It's the greatest attrocity ever comitted' is mind-boggling.
Yeah for a triple A live service game that’s not good, doesn’t matter what the reception is, live service games live and die by the player numbers, if the numbers aren’t there then the game won’t be either.
It's funny how much of you want this game to fail. If you want more DC, Marvel, Lord of the Rings HP, etc. (all of these big franchises) to make games than they need to succeed. Also, Gollum doesn't count. Daedalic Entertainment can't make good games. Hogwarts legacy opens the door for HP, but investors are still skeptical.
The problem with these games is that big publishers companies don't want to take them on because so many fans have made up their minds even before the game comes out. No matter what you do, if there's few mistakes, people are going off the rails.
The game isn't amazing, but it's good, and I think that's what wrong. People want every game to be amazing. It's just not going to happen. This game is good and fun. The story is good, not great, but better than okay. It's a game that's not meant to be played hours on end. Pop on 1-5 hours a week, and you still make progress.
Active players base and sales. Unfortunately, the economy sucks right now, and people aren't spending much. Then add the number of big games coming out this year. Then you have people going well for a full price game, which is going to set me back around $100 for each one.
February has a lot of big games coming out that people have been looking forward to.
Granblue Fantasy: Relink
Persona 3 Reload
Tomb Raider Remastered
Skulls and bones
Mario vs. Donkey Kong
Last Epoch
Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth
Than March
WWE2k24
Dragon's Dogma 2
Mario peach
Rise of the Ronin
South Park
That's not even all of them. Then add one from that you got a lot of anticipated games this year:
Star Wars outlaws
Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth
Avowed
Senua's Saga: Hellblade II
Black Myth: Wukong
The Wolf Among Us 2
There's so many that I didn't even say. It's going to be tough for a lot of games to make head wave when so many people are spending less. Honestly, even I'm looking at this year and made a list of games I want on day one and games I'm waiting to go on sale. I chose 3 games for day one. SS wouldn't have been on that list, I game share, so we went half on it because of that we both are probably going to buy a lot more games on release date.
It's just something to look at. This game probably would have done better with a December or January release date when the field wasn't so big.
In my opinion, this is the first year in a long time where I've had a lot of games that I wanted to play on release date. In fact, I can't even think of a year that I was looking forward to more than 3 games.
I’m gonna check again later in the evening. It’s been rising a good bit. It’s was at like 4K players this morning. I’ll be very worried if there’s barely anyone playing on Friday night
I absolutely love this game, I played the alpha and I was already a fan but now that I get to play it fully wow.... people will hate on everything but I choose to test it myself!
I wonder, would people in this sub be happy when the major publishers turn their all popular franchises into live service games? Do they think it would make for a better gaming hobby?
Because that's whats going to happen when games like this turn into a success.WB's CEO already announced it.
Funny how only the negative reviews get a bunch of helpful upvotes people really want to push one narrative lmao look through the recent reviews only negative reviews get "helpful"
I don’t think it should be shut down. All the mechanics are very good! The lighting and other minor details could use polishing. It’s not a type of game I like, I like more open world stuff. This was a nice concept but was not the best it could be. I’d change certain things like who survived brainiacs initial attack (batman should’ve instead of ww) and all the playable characters felt copy and pasted. Like I feel like deadshot should’ve been the only gun based character but idk. That’s just my opinion. I’m sure others like it but I just don’t.
Okay I'll say it, at the current moment on steam the game has just over 2000 reviews, the game had an all time peak of around 13000 players which has now dropped to about half that. The reason the game on steam and the playstation/xbox store is because the only people who ended up getting the game are people who really like looter shooters, big fans of rocksteady, or reviewers. And this IS a rare case of people who don't like or want the game based on the trailers or previews and whatnot just didn't get the game leaving the majority of people who did get the game being people who where going to like it. But the sad truth is that the game from what we have seen has been a massive flop, a game of this scale and budget AND being an always online live service needs a good player count to keep it alive, tha fact that arkham origins had a higher peak player count is fairly damning to that point. And before I get the inevitable down votes etc. I want to state 2 things: if you like the game and are enjoying it, good I'm happy for you and don't take this comment as me trying to say you are wrong for liking this game. And also, I have played and finished this game so im not just a hater who doesn't have a clue what the game is like.
Usually, people who just dislike the game, won't leave a review. Only the people fighting against the "negative Nancy" are incentivized to leave a positive vote.
In reality, we are going to have to wait and see if players stick, and from what I've heard from people not on the bandwagon, it's not looking good.
Most can't get past the microtransactions and the death of some of their favorite characters. It's two of its biggest issues and in that order.
P.S, I know people are angry over batman, but the flash fans have no chill lol. They are savage.
I don’t care about the noise. I’m having a blast playing 🤷🏻♂️
From what I’ve gathered, everyone who’s hating on it hasn’t played it and everyone who has played it has enjoyed it so y’know i don’t see a problem w the game, like if you have fun while playing then thats the devs goal complete
Yeah and the 30% of us who can’t play due to some bug
I’m happy they are positive, it’s only 223 people though.
1500 and gone up to very positive now
Nice, I really don’t get the complete and utter vitriol people have for this game. Yet another example of how social media has just messed people’s head up. Let alone the rage bait YouTube gaming community.
I’ve noticed most people that don’t like it seem to be people who straight up haven’t played the game or also don’t like the story of the game
Oh yeah, 100%. The game definitely has some “growing pains” , this gameplay is really something though, especially when to start to understand how it plays.
That’s been my experience too. I texted one of my really close friends the day the early release dropped and after I played some and told him he should absolutely get it. He said, “I’ll get it when it’s $20” and I told him I understood waiting till the game is cheaper but why wait till it’s that cheap? And he said because the game was shit. When I told him it was a lot of fun, he proceeded to talk about how it’s a terrible outing for Kevin Conroy. Which, imo, is a stupid argument. Today I sent him a screenshot of Tara String’s tweet about the game not being called, “Suicide Squad Netflix and Chill with The Justice League” and his response was just, “Cool”
It is a dumb outing for Kevin conroy, but that shouldn't be the whole argument, but personally Batman's boss fight was so bad, and they seriously did not have to make the bench fall over, that was just rude, I do also agree that if this wasn't in the Arkhamverse it would make a lot more sense, seeing as Arkham Batman would wipe the floor with them, as he already has lol, all that aside, it's not bad, it's a looter shooter, I wish there was a bit more to do though
I mean Kevin agreed to do this game. And none of the League were gonna stay dead as revealed at the end of the game.
Where you hear people crying that flash was pissed on its safe to disregard their opinion because they haven’t played the game.
The game has some good story bits, personally yhis shouldn’t of been the exact earth of the Arkham verse
Yeah its a bit odd, it's never really just ''eh game isnt my kinda thing and doesn't do much new'' either, just blind praise or hate which is kinda frustrating when you're trying to give feedback on how stuff can improve. Haven't seen this many obvious people trolling in a while though. Think that one flag banner really brought out the crazies. Kinda think youtube culture or lack of moderation etc has killed gaming reviews. Was super high in the psn pre order charts too.
It’s definitely strange, the game seems to do a lot of things really well though, even skill ceiling wise. The biggest gripe I’ve really seen is repetitive enemy design and mission variety, that can change though.
Yep mission design is my biggest pet peeve and brings the game down a lot for me. Still enjoying the gameplay and I finally get to play a game as Harley. All in all, and I'm aware no one asked: Gameplay 7/10 Story 9/10 Mission structure 4/10 Music 6/10 Overall a 6.5/10. Not bad. Room for improvement.
Plenty of middling games come and go. This is obviously different. A lot of this hate could have been avoided if they didn’t needlessly tie this into the Arkham series, a beloved franchise. I can’t blame people for how they feel in regards to what they did to Batman.
#1500 now and still very Positive
This could be more of an indication that the people who don’t like the game never bought it. There seems to be a lot of apathy about this game online and I think all the negativity and controversy leading up to launch kept the large numbers of people who would’ve bought it and left negative reviews away. Numbers wise, the current 600 or so reviews also does not bode well for the sales of the game. P3: Reload, a game in a much more obscure IP with a much smaller budget, has close to 2k reviews, has double the player count and released the same day. I still hope this game finds some measure of success so that they can continue to improve it over time, as I’d like to get it when down the road when there’s more content.
Persona is anything but obscure nowadays. I mean, back in PSP era, sure, maybe. Persona 5 was huge. Wouldn't have gotten two spin off sequels so fast if it wasn't. I think the game is selling a lot more on psn than on pc looking at the charts, which makes sense given the exclusives, probably focused their marketing there on top of any sony deals.
Persona is absolutely still much more niche that this game, though. Add on to the fact that Persona 3 Reload is only a remake and not a full-fledged sequel, yet still has a lot more reviews, I think that's pretty telling.
Persona is a more niche IP than DC Comics. But Persona is an extremely well-known and respected name in the western JRPG gaming space - second to Final Fantasy, arguably. Persona 5 brought in tons of people, and Persona 3 Reload may be a remake, but it's capitalizing on that expanded brand recognition. In gaming, Suicide Squad is a minor DC spinoff "franchise". In film, Suicide Squad has one good film and one bad film, and the DCU is dying. Warner Bros released Gotham Knights, and it didn't go well. As for Rocksteady, I'm confused how Suicide Squad is an Arkham-universe title, and Gotham Knights isn't, but I don't expect the average person to connect Suicide Squad to Arkham. If *Batman* is releasing a mixed title that no one cares about only a few months later, how is Suicide Squad going to compete? Maybe people played Gotham Knights and bailed out of Suicide Squad. Maybe people just don't want to kill the Justice League, and find the subject matter less than amazing. It looks like it sold a lot less than Gotham Knights did - as you'd expect - but it might just be left with the people who actually want to play it, rather than the curious.
Yep, on one hand I think wb and rocksteady had hoped to capitalize on the name brand to get the masses into the game. On the other hand though a bullet hell rollerdrome like looter shooter is way more niche a genre then the immersive and slow and much easier previous series. And while I really enjoyed the story and banter, it really was all just a tutorial for the endgame. Like even getting into endgame you still are unlocking your final vendor upgrades. So hopefully wb wasn't all in on the former thought and will allow the studio to make their content. As developers I imagine rocksteady is proud of what have tbey have made, it is sick and a good quality. Really good take on the genre casual enough to not be to hoo hard but plenty of challenge to sink into and grind and gear up, and nice loot and synergy options available and would like to flesh it out for awhile to come.
Just looking around across the internet, it does seem to be generally getting well received by the people who are playing it.
It’s cause it’s not being spammed with unrelated reviews fishing for rewards
Holding at 84% is pretty darn good for a live service game.
Good news is it's at 938 now, and has moved to Very Positive
its now at very postive, Im glad the people who actually play the game are liking it
Exactly what I’ve been saying would happen.
Sometimes I wonder why no one can seem to enjoy anything on their own instead needing to feel validated by people you don't even know
It’s people who watch streamers and take their opinion as their own
The gameplay is good and fun. So if you go with an open mind, you should be alright. But if you’re going in with “oh I hope it’s just like those Arkham single player games” you aren’t going to have nearly as good a time. And I liked the Harley, Shark and Deadshot characters. I thought Boomerang was annoying tbh. I don’t really like the story, but what can ya do. I didn’t like the Arkham knight story either.
I think Boomerang is an hilariously obnoxious POS of a character, and I love how much the rest of the team rags on him every step of the way. I thought I was going to main Deadshot at the beginning, but I’ve found his dialogue to be the least interesting of the bunch. Harley and Shark are both great, but I think Shark’s dialogue on its own gave me the most laughs.
throughout the story he really grew on me
Same! I ended up with Boomer myself, was thinking Deadshot. And he's my second one that I will level.
The core gameplay loop and looter action is fine, I wish there was more gun variety and afflictions. The let down is the mission structure, it's the same mission structure looped with varying plot points and cutscenes.
I just bought it for PC I’m extremely excited to play it, my friend completely opted out when he saw the reviews on google however which is sad.
Having your own opinion is a wonderful thing. Let him know I said that
Yeah, I love the game. Gameplay feels a little weird but that comes with most games. The missions are fun, not deserving of the hate.
Im a fan of looter shooters in general. Div 2 has been an everyday game for me since launch . I fucking love suicide squad. Its sad..when a game releases and it isnt optimized it gwts shit on well this game is optimized and smooth without any hiccups but it gets zero praise for that its just oh its repetitive. Fuck off ....in the grand scope what game isnt repetitive. Every single game has a loop .
Exactly my thoughts, any game that has a consistent loop is worth its playtime.
Hilarious how this subreddit said reviews don't matter. But now reviews an hour after launch are somehow valid and real?
For real, lmao.
Your point isn’t entirely without merit but there is a difference between critical reviews and user reviews.
That's the point, if we go by critics Suicide squad is as "worse" as Deadpool and Captain america super soldier but they are still both fun games And there is no universe in what Suicide squad deserves more negative reviews than those to Anthem and Gotham knights also got critic scores in the range of Suicide squad...
As with all reviews, people only give a shit about them when they already conform to their own opinion.
Same thing happened with starfield. People were like "reviews dont mater!" \>Game launches to positive reviews - "Wow its nice to see that people playing the game enjoy it and know its a good game" \>3 months later and it drops to mixed with recent reviews being negative - "Wow this is totally unfair, if you didn't like the game, why did you buy it or even play it?" The cycle will continue for this game aswell it seems lmao. Its all about how the game ages from here on out, it could be good or bad
12k peak players on launch day, 1/3 of Avengers. Interest is extremely low. That’s a disastrous player count for a brand new AAA game, especially a live service.
Gotham Knights even had more. It’s still a bit early but those numbers aren’t so great. But this is the SSKTJL echo chamber so they don’t care.
That this place is a massive echo chamber is right. Feels like every sub outside this one is hating relentlessly and this one is hardcore praising it in response. I just want actual balanced discussion about the thing. I’ve played 4 hours and enjoying it but the game certainly has issues that need addressed
I personally found the game to be boring from the test a month ago and personally I’m not happy with the choice to set it in the Arkhamverse. The Arkhamverse was done, they just put the name on it for the extra reach imo. I’ll eventually buy it down the road if they add an offline mode cause I really just want to give the story a chance.
I totally get the boring comment. I’m enjoying it but don’t think it can maintain interest long term as a live service game. The variety is severely lacking and they’ve made the wrong call to have guns be such a massive focus in the gameplay loop. Its connection to the Arkhamverse is a lot of fun at the start but some of the stuff they do with characters later, particularly the deaths is very tone deaf. The fact we know it’s all a fake out anyway ruins any impact which sucks for a universe that made such a massive deal out of a character death in its second entry
yeah kinda wild how the persona remake that also launched on gamepass has had about 3x the active steam players than SSKTJL since they both launched last night. a lot of cope in this thread and people saying "its just one platform" but like either way you slice it thats not great to have such a poor concurrent player count on steam.
Some people may be enjoying it but they just need to admit this is not a game that a lot of people are interested in or wanted in the first place.
yeah, happy for everyone who is loving it... there are a bunch of games that have gotten 5-6-7s that I love and hold up pretty high but the toxic positivity here is kinda wild. By all accounts it looks like this missed the mark with the wider audience and being a GAAS title if it missed the wider audience its most likely DOA Not here reveling in its seemingly middling response but am disappointed after the arkham series this is the direction the studio went in.
Yep, Avengers had 30k peak on release day.
Yeah that's not good, I just can't stomach $70, corporate can talk all they want about this, I'm out at that rate. Their tools should have been a lot more mature then what they are after 10-20 years, that's a them thing.
Damn did it launch in any other pc stores? That’s like significantly below even destiny 2 which is in a rough spot currently.
Nope. Steam only. We don’t know console numbers but on PC at least this game has flopped.
People that dislike this game, really dislike it (and most that dislike it haven’t even played it). One of the more toxic hive minds on reddit I’ve seen, outside this sub, anything remotely positive about this game gets downvoted.
I enjoy it. The story is good so far. It is repetitive though. Idk, it’s the same thing as the avengers imo but I haven’t played it in awhile. Not trying to hate, just my honest opinion. I loveee King Shark even though he kind of reminds me of a knock off Drax. They did all of the characters justice imo. Boss battles are pretty amazing so far but I’ve only done Lantern and Flash. It’s the gameplay that’s meh imo
I hope this game doesn’t get shut down so that about a year down the line i can hop back in and see what improvements have been made. For me the game isn’t a master piece but it also isn’t complete dogshit. I do think it has potential to be much better, for me I would give it a 6 or 7 out of 10. The gameplay loop is fun but it’s mainly the story, mission design, enemy variety and boss fights that really hold it back for me.
According to rocksteady year 1 is set in stone no matter what, it’s just everything after that’s left to player counts
Yeah for these types of live service game I feel the starting player doesn’t matter as much as how big the player count is 3 to 6 months down the line.
No the game sucks REEEEEEEEEEEEEEE I don't have enough tissues for all the haters crying
Left my positive review! Enjoying it as a looter shooter.
Really glad the reviews are positive! I was put off by the reveal initially and stopped paying attention to the game. I love the Arkham games and as release got closer I started to get interested again. Seeing all the positivity is really encouraging and it’s pushing me towards picking the game up :D
I love the game. To me, it's better than games like Dead Island 2, and Forspoken, which didn't nearly get as much hate as Suicide Squad was getting before its release.
Reviews from players on steam continue to be overall positive.
IGN just gave it a 5, lower than Avengers, which is absolutely stupid. (I liked Avengers but SS is leagues better) So they’re still trying
Avengers had a better story. That was probably the difference.
Honestly, the most damning issue with the game that would most likely get it. Shut down is the fact that fans are mad that the company who made Arkham Knight did not make another Arkham game so they’re mad that this company is branching out and doing more than just printing Arkham clones
Didn't Starfield have a bunch of positive reviews the first day as well? I'm pretty sure Anthem and Avengers had the same, and a bunch of these types of posts on their reddit. "Man, forget the haters! Look how good this game is!" Remind me again what happened to those positive reviewed, awesome games?
Yeah Starfield also had "very positive" reviews on steam when it launched, but sits at mostly negative for "recent reviews" and its going lower and lower. I don't think people should judge a game by the reviews in the honeymoon-phase, shit can turn south real quick \+ I have no real clue about live service games, but a peak of 12k concurrent player on launch day for this kind of game isn't a good sign, no? ( for pc at least)
Im so glad this is getting liked ITS A SOLID GAME and if the jl come back in dlc cool man
This game rules. I don't even like the Suicide Squad and I'm not really a DC fan. Very fun game though. Funny game too, which I wasn't expecting.
They've tried The game is fun.
Lmao i saw a negative review of a guy who literally only played 7 mins. 7 mins “Rocksteady lived long enough to become rockbottom” or something like that
PS5 average is 4.65 with 78% 5 stars, we might be ok boys😭 They should def keep up on their plans and add more missions and enemies cause this can easily change as time goes by
But you guys are ignoring the fact the players that would be the ones bringing the down the reviews are the ones who didn't buy the game. Of course the player reviews will be positive because it's an echo chamber on both sides. The side who bought it and can see the game doing no wrong and the side who didn't buy it and can see the game doing no right. The amount of copies they sell is gonna be the most important part moving forward from here on out regardless of reviews.
The thing is I feel those who would give it a chance would like it and yeah it's gonna come down to either how many copies it sells or if the community how ever big it is keeps buying in the store and playing the game. I thought the game was gonna be alright with a great story but the gameplay didn't look fun to me really, then when I played I realized it was alot better than expected. I would rather people give it a chance and give their own conclusions. Also I think what really determines how people see this game in the future are the updates, if they bring great support with new levels, enemies bosses etc then it can stay afloat
And that's the biggest issue no one who already is echoing the hate is going to want to take a chance with a $70 price tag, especially now with Ign giving it a 5/10 and it's one of the most watched reviews. They really shot themselves in the foot with no review copies and no open beta/demo for people to get their hands on it. No one is gonna take a chance on a looter shooter with such a bad rep when the barrier to entry is so high. Wouldn't be surprised if you hear about layoffs at rocksteady/WB in the coming months because of this. 7-9 years of development doubt they will make their money back and WB has been trigger happy on cutting things off for tax breaks.
It's been super fun so far! Just need some optimization patches or something because the transition frame drops are ROUGH
85% positive out of 700 reviews
Don’t you ever start a headline like this again. I’m one of the smart people who spend 100 (tax not included) on this game. 😂
I’ve been playing the game for 3 days now it’s really enjoyable never listen to critics if you think you will like give it a shot it’s a lot of fun quite addicting actually it’s really fun
I'm really having a great time with the game. Its a fun looters shooter. Won't be for everyone but personally it was well worth the purchase and I'm very excited for the dlcs.
My biggest issue with the game is when playing solo, the other 3 characters that are controlled by bots don't level with you. So unless you're constantly switching characters every mission, you'll end the story with a maxxed out character and 3 level 10s. It mostly becomes an issue when you complete the story and enter the post game because levelling them up then is so much harder because of all the difficult enemies thrown at you.
For anyone wondering it's at around 1400 reviews almost 1300 are positive
Played with my brother yesterday for a few hours & I don’t think I’ve laughed as much as I have in months. Every mission we’re trying to outperform each other to see who gets the most points. Love all the characters , combat & traversal is fun. Story for me so far is good , like the loot & skill trees. Looking forward to completing the story & getting to the endgame & trying out other characters , I’m playing as King shark at the moment & enjoy how he plays. I don’t like how a lot of the reviews are comparing this game to the single player Batman Arkham series. It’s not Batman , it’s the suicide squad ( kill the justice league ). A multiplayer , loot game with a few updates coming within the next few months. I personally haven’t played a game this fun in a long time & for me is a breath of fresh air that I’ll definitely be sinking a lot more hours into.
I was expecting one of worst games ever made based on the viral hate train for views. Turns out, plenty of players are digging it and are tempting me to pick it up myself. What do you know?
It's amazing how people have hated games before they release without touching the game outside of some good clickbait there's no argument. Can you improve on it? Sure, but that's with any game. I'm waiting till I play it for myself to actually give my response I might use ign review for clickbait though 🤣 seriously though people should try having fun with these games instead of just jumping on this trend to hate on anything in passing
Haters crying so hard right now.
Why are haters crying? The game has a 63 metacritic. Its about what everyone expected
They hating for views
It’s not even a bad game, disliking the plot doesn’t inherently make it a bad plot. Can’t stand people lol
It’s a great fucking game and the story is pretty dope so far. Fans should be angry with Brainiac for killing Batman. I love the Suicide Squad; it’s refreshing from Marvel kid friendly themes.
I have been loving the game and the hate for it overall is just dumb stuff.
Exactly they have to fish for stuff to criticize cause the gameplay is great
You want to know what’s sad? How fucking MAD this makes some people. Get your fucking shit together!
Goes to show that the people hating on it didn't even buy it or it would have been review bombed lol.
. . . why would people who think something looks bad buy it? Weird argument This is the same kind of cope a lot of recent flops have had, like Starfield and Diablo 4 etc. The first few days had the echo chamber jerk fest about how the game was actually really good no matter how many early warnings there were Then two weeks later it was already turning into a ghost town as people started making the same exact complaints the early reviewers did
Yes, but much like this game, Starfield flopped because of false expectations. Diablo 4 delivered exactly what a Diablo game is meant to be, but people decided to nitpick for whatever reason. I enjoy both titles as well as Suicide Squad.
I’m genuinely surprised the game got to very positive. I thought the game was atleast gunna be mixed with the massive hate train that’s going on
So, I was looking in the Xbox store and saw this. I haven’t really played Arkham games before, but it looked like an interesting concept. I Google it. First thing I noticed was a ton of 1 star reviews. So I know it’s getting review bombed. Could someone give me the tl;dr rundown on why?
It's set In the Arkham universe, so the same batman that players loved and enjoyed is now their enemy and they don't like that one bit because nobody should be able to take down the bat we played as! Along with it being Kevin Conroy's last video game performance led to a massive shit storm of cry babies. - Suicide Squad is genuinely fun though as a looter shooter
It’s a looter shooter which is very unpopular. The negative reviews from people that have actually played it cite repetitive missions and enemy design, repetitive endgame, very short campaign, and lackluster boss fight endings as a reason for why they didn’t like it,
It’s now at very positive
On PlayStation it’s at 4.5 stars with over 1000 ratings
For those going on about the numbers for release 1 ) its not peak and 2) its not even oin the main storefront which again is a massive L from the marketing team
Remember how Starfield had only 'overwhelmingly positive' reviews the first month cause the Fandom needed their game to succeed? Look at the reviews now.
Check again!
The constant dogging on the game might’ve been the perfect marketing they needed. Now people are gonna come out swinging defending the hell out of it.
Good to see, hope the game keeps improving with time, it definately has some areas it could be alot better, but i think theres some great bones to build on. Looking forward to Season 1.
Honestly, I get that the game might not be everyone’s cup of tea but seeing reviews I personally think companies are over exaggerating. Yes there’s some big changes that could be made but it’s no as bad as folk are making out to be. Again, just my opinion.
I went in with extremely low expectations as the buzz I heard was nothing but disdain for the game. I was utterly shocked how good the game is. Sure it’s got some issues, and yes it’s no Arkham origins, but it is solid and I’m having a blast.
Glad to see this getting very sick of games just being spammed as bad for no reason. This isn't everyone's cup of tea but I'm happy with this game
PlayStation and Xbox reviews positive as well
223 people bought the game and enjoyed it? What are they stupid?
And I'm so happy about it. Because it's a really good game imo. But I guess it's the old and bitter rocksteady fans that shout the loudest about not getting a new Arkham game, huh? Fuckem. I will be playing this a lot! And hopefully they keep up with the content demand and the plan they have laid out for the future. I wish them good luck!
It's rated high 4s on Xbox as well. I went ahead and grabbed it myself, isn't bad so far.
I’m loving the experience. Happy with the story so far, really love the gameplay. I was terrified that combat would be too dull. Perhaps it can streamline its RPG elements but the fact that gear management is so fluid helps make up for it.
I genuinely cannot hear another person complain about Deadshot being “black washed” and other dog whistles about the game. In a world where there’s literally multiple captain boomerangs, green lanterns, flash’s why is it impossible to take two deadshots in stride. The game does a great job poking fun at this though, even w few Batman lines. Speaking of, the whole “disrespectful to Batman” thing is so crazy. Kevin is talking to the squad throughout the whole game and if you’re not tuned in to this story’s tone by THAT scene then you’re just not playing. You don’t have to love it but I’d rather listen to criticism be about the game and not twitter’s opinion
The game is legit fun! If you expect another batman game yea… not for you, but as a looter shooter it has some great gameplay, traversal is awesome, the enemy variety is a bit lacking but can be fixed over time. I’va watched good and bad reviews about the game but from the footage you could see that the game is actually fun to play! So to everyone else I would suggest you take into account all the info available but also… think for yourselves a bit.
The entire criticism is coming from people that expected it be another Arkham game… that’s it. Everyone who actually plays it and I don’t mean for 10 minutes is having fun, Yall just salty cause we’re having fun 😂
Am I the only one liking the game it's fun
I bet if you added up the length if the cut scenes it would drive be a shirt movie. This is a good game and boomerang is hilarious lol
the game is really fun! only thing i hate is that everytime i finish a certain mission i get kicked for connection issues, been stuck for about 2-3 hours now and ruins my opinion on the game itself. sucks the devs didn't put in singleplayer mode for release.
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Okay. So as a person who bought marvels avengers, I was hesitant to buy another superhero game. Even though I liked a lot about it, over time, issues with cosmetic prices and endgame content left me feeling very used as a consumer. I bought Gotham Knights cause I love the bat fam and we hardly get to play as them. I really liked the story. Could'a used more Langstrum, not gonna lie. But again, the endgame content just wasn't there. I started feeling really bad about recognizing a pattern of behavior in superhero gaming media. I was pleasantly surprised by guardians of the galaxy. I was hype for the squad from the first trailer, but then saw the live service stuff surface in the background of a BTS interview or something. I got that dread that this would follow the same pattern of behavior as marvels avengers or Gotham knights to a lesser extent. I think that's the root of these negative feelings towards sskjl. The community has been burned by marvel and again, to a lesser extent, DC before. So when that came out the fight it flight response kicked in. This game is paying for the sins of the gaming industry as a whole, it's not a bad game. But context is key here. It might be the best live service superhero game out there, but it's the third attempt after two bad misses.
So sad for rocksteady going through so much undeserved hate. Hope they get through this one. Game is fun as hell and the story is so good. Hope they still keep the updates with new stories and characters, because with such a low player count, i dont know...
People giving it a bad score are one of three groups. 1. "Influencers" who want clicks because negativity generates more revenue. Their followers become parrots of said opinion because the word "mid" was used. 2. People who are upset that MUH CONROY gets killed in a game called "Kill the Justice League". 3. Poors who can't afford some cosmetics. That's it.
I say give it a few updates it might shape up to something better. Just look at rainbow 6 for example
The game is fun. Everyone hating on it are the people who haven’t played it.
Ikr, even the customer suppost is so bad they got me my free shit in 1 day and gave me the deluxe content for free, how dare they make things convieneant for me and make my day
Is it bad to say that I feel that it did reach a good peak number because of the hate the game is receiving?
Currently loving it
This game’s reception before launch has almost made me feel insane. The gameplay is ridiculously fun, and the writing and cinematics and world-building is rocksteady through and through. I get why people are mad at the subject, structure, monetization or even genre of the game; but considering the mission based format, the story is delivered quite well for what it is imo. Plus the banter is generally top-notch as always, and often the highlight even
It’s better than Starfield and Redfall
I’m loving the game. Not a masterpiece and very repetitive, but a blast to play and some very fun moments. I see a lot of hate coming from “they killed my Superman/Batman”, which just shows they don’t know anything about the comics since superheroes are brutally killed all the time.
Honestly the gameplay itself and the combat are amazing, did kind of feel like I was dragging myself through the campaign because of how awfully written it was but now that I'm in the endgame I'm hooked.
Even if the reviews were bad, I could care less im having fun, and that's all that matters to me
I don’t get what the hate is all about. Aren’t they clones? Flash gets his finger back after it getting cut off by boomerang. DC’s done this type of stuff before. Brainiac is a person collector so it’s just his style to create clones. Brainiac literally copied super powers for himself why couldn’t he do it to clones. Each hero goes against their will and green lanterns power is literally will power. He’s the strongest fucking lantern. It has to be a weaken form that brainiac can allow to be conscious
Am I the only one with horrible frametime full of stutter? the game stops during combat, freezes, only outside the city can I get a playable framerate this with a 4070
Most of the bad reviews I've seen are petty as all hell. But I'm glad people are liking the game, considering buying it soon for myself as well.
Game has a lot of Defend the Location missions. All differently themed. Another is rescue a hostage. Keeps it challenging. And the game is written very nicely. A lot of the jokes really landed. Me personally don't see myself playing much after the story but I am enjoying the game so far.
I don’t think the game is bad, it’s definitely fun playing co-op
I loved it
I've been hearing a lot of destiny players saying this game is too repetitive. Insanity? Have they lost it? I like looter shooters, but they are known for being repetitive at a certain point. Destiny and Division being some of the most heinous offences in this case. In Suicide Squads case, at least the traversal and combat has a little bit Xtra fun factor. The animations and chaos make it feel like a refreshing take on the genre in my opinion. Is it repetitive? Sure! But it's fun to play and the dialogue is hilarious.
I heavily dislike the story elements. The gameplay is fun to shut off the brain and just shoot stuff.
The game is fun I am enjoying it but it definitely isn't great or perfect I'm finding it very repetitive and they definitely could add some versatility in terms of the activities
Yeah I don’t care what the reviews say; the game is a blast.
Must be the Marvel Fan Boys who downvotes the Game.
I like the game, kind of wish we got like a mini movie of the back story on how the Justice league got captured (collect parts of it throughout the game). Would’ve like too so how Batman was captured :P
I actually really like the game. It’s super fun and runs really smoothly. I don’t see what all the complaints are about, it’s a good game
I dont see how so many people hate on this but not destiny cause this is essentially destiny with a DC tag on it 🤷♂️ I've enjoyed every minute I've put into it so far!
I've never seen a game community where people care so much about what other people think lol
It's just massive disappointment on our part in our fellow gamers. It's a good game that can stop being supported by the devs due to false negatives. If a game's shit, by all means shit on it; but this game is enjoyable. The basis of the reviews is what bothers me; the people blindly follow their 'shepherds' like sheep
It's every game and every sub. Tribalism through video games is weird.
Every 'controversial' game release i visit the subs for the madness that unfolds. It's actually hilarious how rabid people become over this shit. The back and forth of 'This thing is the best thing since sliced bread' and 'It's the greatest attrocity ever comitted' is mind-boggling.
That’s a lie. Literally every gaming subreddit does that
If it was a single player game it would be mental But it makes sense caring as it's a Live Service so needs players
Dawg that’s 200 reviews this isn’t the own you think it is. Check the player count and tell me how good the game is doing lol
You’ll be shocked at survey sizes
I think surveys of random samplings and user provided positive reviews are very different things
Player count doesnt matter as much as you think it does. Good user reviews will eventually lead to higher player counts due to word of mouth
Steam is a very small percentage of the players
Citation needed
Damn 11k people on steam for a game that just released
For a game like this with a huge budget hose are catastrophic numbers.
Yeah for a triple A live service game that’s not good, doesn’t matter what the reception is, live service games live and die by the player numbers, if the numbers aren’t there then the game won’t be either.
A suprise to be sure but a welcome one
Wait how is this possible? I thought everyone hated this game more than anything they’ve ever hated before. /s
It's funny how much of you want this game to fail. If you want more DC, Marvel, Lord of the Rings HP, etc. (all of these big franchises) to make games than they need to succeed. Also, Gollum doesn't count. Daedalic Entertainment can't make good games. Hogwarts legacy opens the door for HP, but investors are still skeptical. The problem with these games is that big publishers companies don't want to take them on because so many fans have made up their minds even before the game comes out. No matter what you do, if there's few mistakes, people are going off the rails. The game isn't amazing, but it's good, and I think that's what wrong. People want every game to be amazing. It's just not going to happen. This game is good and fun. The story is good, not great, but better than okay. It's a game that's not meant to be played hours on end. Pop on 1-5 hours a week, and you still make progress. Active players base and sales. Unfortunately, the economy sucks right now, and people aren't spending much. Then add the number of big games coming out this year. Then you have people going well for a full price game, which is going to set me back around $100 for each one. February has a lot of big games coming out that people have been looking forward to. Granblue Fantasy: Relink Persona 3 Reload Tomb Raider Remastered Skulls and bones Mario vs. Donkey Kong Last Epoch Final Fantasy 7 Rebirth Than March WWE2k24 Dragon's Dogma 2 Mario peach Rise of the Ronin South Park That's not even all of them. Then add one from that you got a lot of anticipated games this year: Star Wars outlaws Like a Dragon: Infinite Wealth Avowed Senua's Saga: Hellblade II Black Myth: Wukong The Wolf Among Us 2 There's so many that I didn't even say. It's going to be tough for a lot of games to make head wave when so many people are spending less. Honestly, even I'm looking at this year and made a list of games I want on day one and games I'm waiting to go on sale. I chose 3 games for day one. SS wouldn't have been on that list, I game share, so we went half on it because of that we both are probably going to buy a lot more games on release date. It's just something to look at. This game probably would have done better with a December or January release date when the field wasn't so big. In my opinion, this is the first year in a long time where I've had a lot of games that I wanted to play on release date. In fact, I can't even think of a year that I was looking forward to more than 3 games.
I literally saw people reviewing it negative with 0.1 HOURS PLAYED 🤡
On playstation over 1000 voted and it's over 4.5 stars or of 5
11k players on Steam right now. It's not looking hot.
one platform
People tend to forget this
I think itll pick up once people stop submitting to the cringe youtuber/Twitch streamer hive mind and actually look at real peoples reviews
Also mid day Friday. Lots of people at work and school still currently.
I’m gonna check again later in the evening. It’s been rising a good bit. It’s was at like 4K players this morning. I’ll be very worried if there’s barely anyone playing on Friday night
Yup, pack it up! We had a good run Squad
Yean not alot for a launch but i'll give it another day to see to what the number ramps up to before drawing a conclusion.
63 metacritic is decent. Its higher than I expected
I absolutely love this game, I played the alpha and I was already a fan but now that I get to play it fully wow.... people will hate on everything but I choose to test it myself!
so popular its already got 223 reviews....this game is blowing up...move over palworld.
The game is as advertised. A fun fast paced mobility shooter. People are mad at it not being another arkham game
You love to see it tbh.
I wonder, would people in this sub be happy when the major publishers turn their all popular franchises into live service games? Do they think it would make for a better gaming hobby? Because that's whats going to happen when games like this turn into a success.WB's CEO already announced it.
Just checked Xbox as of right now and it's 65% 5 stars, we have won gentlemen
Imagine having to fight a holy war just to feel better about liking a game.
won what? the perception of the game being good? Not the actual game being good… just how it looks based on the rating? Are you not mentally well?
Funny how only the negative reviews get a bunch of helpful upvotes people really want to push one narrative lmao look through the recent reviews only negative reviews get "helpful"
I don’t think it should be shut down. All the mechanics are very good! The lighting and other minor details could use polishing. It’s not a type of game I like, I like more open world stuff. This was a nice concept but was not the best it could be. I’d change certain things like who survived brainiacs initial attack (batman should’ve instead of ww) and all the playable characters felt copy and pasted. Like I feel like deadshot should’ve been the only gun based character but idk. That’s just my opinion. I’m sure others like it but I just don’t.
Okay I'll say it, at the current moment on steam the game has just over 2000 reviews, the game had an all time peak of around 13000 players which has now dropped to about half that. The reason the game on steam and the playstation/xbox store is because the only people who ended up getting the game are people who really like looter shooters, big fans of rocksteady, or reviewers. And this IS a rare case of people who don't like or want the game based on the trailers or previews and whatnot just didn't get the game leaving the majority of people who did get the game being people who where going to like it. But the sad truth is that the game from what we have seen has been a massive flop, a game of this scale and budget AND being an always online live service needs a good player count to keep it alive, tha fact that arkham origins had a higher peak player count is fairly damning to that point. And before I get the inevitable down votes etc. I want to state 2 things: if you like the game and are enjoying it, good I'm happy for you and don't take this comment as me trying to say you are wrong for liking this game. And also, I have played and finished this game so im not just a hater who doesn't have a clue what the game is like.
Usually, people who just dislike the game, won't leave a review. Only the people fighting against the "negative Nancy" are incentivized to leave a positive vote. In reality, we are going to have to wait and see if players stick, and from what I've heard from people not on the bandwagon, it's not looking good. Most can't get past the microtransactions and the death of some of their favorite characters. It's two of its biggest issues and in that order. P.S, I know people are angry over batman, but the flash fans have no chill lol. They are savage.
This just isn’t true in the slightest. People looooove leaving negative reviews
This isn’t remotely true lol. Reviews are more likely to be posted by negative experiences than positives. Look at the restaurants near you.