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[James Sawyer Ford]

Not related to the showcase even though they gave a may date

Sure Jan

 

[Represent.]

9 months of polish should do it well

 

[kyussman]

Good grief.......they aren't seriously going to try and retool the game at this stage,surely.

 

[Rush2112]

How do you polish a bad shooter into a good super hero game in 9 months? You dont.

Irony is that Rocksteady abandoned their style of superhero games for a dead looter shooter genre that is no longer popular. They did all that just for money. Now, theyre left holding their dicks not knowing where to go from here.

Get rekt you greedy fucks.

 

[Elder Legend]

I have a better idea. How about you cancel this piece of doo doo instead and make something else?

 

[Bragr]

They still haven’t put out anything since Arkham Knight (2016) right?

They did an Arkham VR game the year after. But that's it.

This game was supposed to release early last year, so I assume they have been working on this since Arkham Knight in various forms. There were so many rumors about a Superman game, so it makes you wonder if they started working on that, then remade the game into what we see now.

 

[Elder Legend]

They showed gameplay at the Sony event and it was just another "Games as a Service" style shoot and loot game like that awful Avengers game that flopped or the recent Gotham Knights that also failed for the same reason. Not sure why WB keeps trying to push for GaaS, literally no other company is trying it anymore. Destiny(2) are pretty much the only long staying one and I doubt anyone playing that is going to a different game.

This is factually incorrect and is misinformation.

There are plenty of successful GaaS games besides Destiny 2

Fortnite
Warframe
Sea of Thieves
Apex Legends
World of Warcraft
FF 14
Warzone 2
Destiny 2
Hearthstone

Blizzard is also on the verge of releasing Diablo 4 which is being marketed as a GaaS game and so is their next gen survival game Oddysey.

 

[Heisenberg007]

Oh I’m devastated

 

[dorkimoe]

I was looking forward to this. Damn

 

[SJRB]

The Rocksteady dev who’s been working on this piece of shit for 7+ years finding out it’s gonna be another 8 months at the least:

 

[Lucifers Beard]

Throw this garbage in the trash, the only thing they're delaying at this point is that absolute bashing this game is going to get in reviews.

 

[Luipadre]

imagine working on this game for another year, knowing the game will crash and burn at release. Must be fun going into work there

 

[Freeman76]

Scrap the piece of shit and .make Arkham city 2

 

[marjo]

I must be going crazy cause I could swear we had this exact same news (along with the the Jason Schreier tweet) a month or two ago. Maybe I'm psychic?

 

[FearlessBelgian]

 

[Freeman76]

This guy is such a pretentious knob. The already delayed it to polish it twice. This is because they know they fucked up after ppl saw the footage and need to at least try and salvage it.

 

[JusticeForAll]

I really was hoping they would release it so they can start working on something I actually want to play.

 

[Sub_Level]

Imagine if they had worked on a Batman Beyond game instead. Kids woulda loved it and older Arkham/series fans too. Or even a Justice League game. Or Teen Titans. Or Superman. OR ANYTHING OTHER THAN SUICIDE SQUAD: GAAS EDITION. WHO IS THIS FOR?!

 

[Roufianos]

And this shit slips into another year.

Who'd have thought after Arkham City that all we'd have in the next decade was a Batmobile racing game and this donkey dick co-op shooter.

 

[AJUMP23]

Whining on the internet works.

 

[hemo memo]

Oh no

 

[Skyfox]

Suicide squad. Lived up to it's name anyway.

 

[Drizzlehell]

 

[Hugare]

What became of Rocksteady is such a tragedy

Coming out of nowhere with the Arkham series, 2 of the best games of that generation, such promissing studio, and then this

 

[DenchDeckard]

2024 Holy shit

 

[skit_data]

I find it so odd that WB made 2 games that to me comes across as very similar. The safest bet would’ve been to let Rocksteady make a single player game because they’re experienced within that field and (or were) arguably among the best too.
Wouldn’t surprise me if trying to implement multiplayer without prior knowledge of exactly how to design that type of game is the main reason behind the game taking an awful long time to develop.

 

[Astral Dog]

Just make another Batman game or a new IP

 

[Rockondevil]

My disappointment is immeasurable, and my day is ruined.

 

[SantaC]

Forspoken 2.0

 

[rofif]

I don't like studios catering to masses demands.
Do Your thing, release your crap and flop now. You will not save the game from people who dont want to like it.
Delaying forspoken by 10 years would not change peoples opinion.
This rarely works but hey... maybe I am wrong.

 

[AV]

Only so much shitty live service residue they can strip out in 10 months. The core game will still be the core game.

What an absolute mess. 9 year wait for... this.

 

[Arun1910]

No one wanted a more glossy looking Gotham Knights.

I wonder if they'll do a U-Turn on the GAAS mechanics... that's almost a whole year delay.

 

[ozz ex machina]

Just release it and move on. It's going to be dogshit eitherway. Actually shut down rocksteady. Has to be the most abhorrent waste of time and resource I've seen since Anthem.

 

[diffusionx]

This guy is such a pretentious knob. The already delayed it to polish it twice. This is because they know they fucked up after ppl saw the footage and need to at least try and salvage it.

This, the game was delayed into 2023 for polish a year ago: https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/23/...gue-delay-spring-2023-announcement-ps5-xsx-pc

This thing is just a complete disaster.

 

[TransTrender]

Yeah, poop it out, pinch off your losses, and flush it down along with the studio.
'dey skidmarks now

 

[VN1X]

Man, I'm rooting for Rocksteady but it's a shame this has turned out the way it has for them.

 

[TheKratos]

The gameplay needs a complete overhaul. I can't believe Rocksteady went this shit route, hell is this even made by Rocksteady? We already had Gotham Knights. I can take 1 medicore effort in the Batman/DC universe but not two.

 

[Werewolf Jones]

L moment in gaming.

 

[sinnergy]

SP only story driven please. Only thing that can save this .

 

[Iced Arcade]

damn, that's pretty bad.

 

[Setsuna Mudou]

can they do a writeoff like Batgirl?

I wrote it off since the last showcase, they should do likewise and start a good game instead... but sunken cost fallacy is strong...

 

[StreetsofBeige]

First thing to do is get rid of all the purple shit everywhere, including the purple weak spot blobs which looks just like Lost Planet, but that game had orange spots.

 

[Mozzarella]

Its going to be bad anyway lmao.

 

[Saiyan-Rox]

Can't polish a turd

But keep trying

 

[Setsuna Mudou]

This, the game was delayed into 2023 for polish a year ago: https://www.theverge.com/2022/3/23/...gue-delay-spring-2023-announcement-ps5-xsx-pc

This thing is just a complete disaster.

It will be the world's most well polished turd come next year. Still a massive, stinking turd nonetheless...

 

[Saber]

Surprised it wasn't cancelled already. That game screams generic GaaS garbage.

Also I don't think a delay can help this game. You can't fix core bad ideas.

 

[theHFIC]

I feel bad for the devs that they will do all this work to get like a low 70's on Meta/Opencritic.

 

[Fake]

Will not gonna save this game.

 

[ozz ex machina]

SP only story driven please. Only thing that can save this .

You are asking for a completely new game. Would need more than a year delay for that.

 

[ChorizoPicozo]

gone and forgotten.