Like I said, there was no script today, so I more than likely forgot to talk about a few things. If there is something I didn't mention, ask, and I'll try my best to respond :)
I have never seen someone walk the razors-edge to try to criticize something while trying not too. The word you are looking for is "bad" try using it, but I understand want to stay in Rocksteady's good grace.
@@Nerbit13098 Arkham Knight was disappointing. Gotham Knights was a mistake. Suicide Squad is an insult. You can like a bad game, however liking a bad game doesn't make it good.
I honestly believe if they'd have just kept the Arkham style of stealth for the boss fights, make the Justice League one shot you if they see you and force you to use your brain to actually do damage
Gotham knights was a repackaged version of the batman beyond style game rocksteady was on early development on. It focused on the bat family and took place after arkham knight. WB games and their non-human demon CEO's canned that game and forced the assets and concepts over to WB Montreal, force throated live service mechanics down the game and told Montreal to do with what they can with a terrible foundation. Suicide squad got made after the same Demon CEO's cancelled the superman game and mad the leadership at rocksteady leave.
Even if this isn't the actual JLA, it's still bad writing. Them being clones or other universe versions is just the "It was all a dream!" Of comic books.
I have only seen bits and pieces of gameplay of this game from other people, but 32:10 made me chuckle at "Superman's blow has Crazed you", like your character accidentally snorted a bunch of cocaine from Superman's secret stash.
From what I've heard the all time peak player count for this game, at least for Steam, was less than that of the Avengers game. And also the player count has already dropped for this. And loads of folks are going back to Arkham Knight as its count has gone up. In a few months this game will be forgotten about no doubt.
@09Kromerman There's probably better ways to word this, but I get what you mean. That being said, across five or so different videos + comment sections I've looked at , this is the only comment I've seen reference anything like this. :v
@@WaddleDee45I was literally just thinking that. This looks like what you would see the “gamer son” playing as the main character dad goes in to talk to them. It has some neat eye catching moments, but like, still feels slightly off.
SPOILERS FOR MORTAL KOMBAT 1 MENTIONED BELOW. The current obsession with the multiverse is honestly driving me mad. The concept has existed in comics and media as a whole for decades but with Disney pushing it to the forefront it's getting shoehorned into everything. Mortal Kombat 1 for example had a great first half and then the multiverse was revealed which makes everything redundant. No battle has any consequence, no character has any reason for you to like them. There are infinite versions which render it all meaningless. This game could have been good. There was no reason to set it within the Arkhamverse other than having groundwork to include familiar characters with zero storytelling. It's lazy writing that's become all too popular now. This could have been a Saint's Row 3/4 type ride with gameplay and story equally as fun and ridiculous but no, by crudely stitching this game to the preestablished history of the Arkham series we're left with a jarring mismatch between games.
You are correct. It currently has 4,000 players on Steam and less than 3000 viewers on Twitch. Its DoA People are making bets on Servers going down before Anthem / Avengers servers were pulled down.
@@RedAlpha101 The game only suffers from: - terrible writing - annoying characters - cluttered user interface - empty open world - utterly disrespectful treatment of legacy characters - repetetive gameplay and mission design - loot boxes - always online single player - weak final boss - need I go on? The game's garbage.
@@Manjustman_25806I actually like that. "Suicide Squad: Kill The Franchise" is clever. Good enough to be a video title criticizing the game in fact. Edit: Just noticed Nerbit already did that, but that just proves my point. The jokes practically write themselves, folks.
I always find it annoying when someone says "X thing killed the franchise" and then the franchise itself is literally fine lol. Suicide Squad isn't good, but it's not a franchise killer, at least not yet. People said the same thing about TLOU 2, and we still got an award-winning show and two remakes lol.
13 Seasons is bloody optimistic. Collectively that's like making an entirely new game. I don't like this trend of having a game's story end on nothing and then saying, "Don't worry we'll patch the rest of the story in across the next few years!" Baldur's Gate 3 has a main story made of three massive acts, which after nearly 200 hours I finally finished (I like to explore literally everything my first time playing a game) and other than some additional epilogue stuff they added in a patch, the story is was complete on launch.
Season 1 has two Boss RESKIN fights. Literally it’s Superman & Green Lantern boss fights “bUt nOw iTs bRaiNiAc vErSiOnS” 😂 And a new playable character the Jonkler (aka they/them Joker from alternate universe thats masking his insecurities) to go back out and play the same 3 mission types over and over and over to collect loot you can’t put into your Vault/Safe/Storage because the game doesn’t have a storage. A looter shooter with no storage. SMH 🤦 Also season 2 comes with new microtransactions for cosmetics you won’t have access to in a year when servers shut down
Better Ideas instead of a sucide squad game - Batman Beyond Arkham - Arkhamverse Superman Game - A Flash video game - Damian Wayne Game - Deathstroke Video Game
-God of war style wonder woman game - Green arrow game - Blue and Gold (Booster Gold and Blue Beetle) co-op game - Infamous inspired Static game -Fire Emblem style turn based teen titans game - DC Universe Online 2
It would be the same people behind it. The good people left Rocksteady years ago. The new people also worked together with some weird identitarian race obsessed company (Sweet Baby Inc)
@@autobotstarscream765 NES games rarely had stories outside of what was in the game manual. Storage space on cartridges was very limited and it was more important to put that storage to use making the game systems than on dialogue.
@asturias0267 Yeah, and the stuff in the manuals could get pretty out there (remember when Mega Man lived in "Monsteropolis" instead of Texas and the reason ? Blocks gave you power-ups in Super Mario Bros. when you hit them was because you were releasing Toads trapped inside?), but rarely as screwy as modern entertainment that the squirrel is saying to apply "an 8-bit mindset" to.
It’s actually done more good than bad because all of this is elseworld which literally needed the multiverse if that didn’t exist we wouldn’t have gotten the games prior to SS.
When i first heard of it, i thought it was gonna be an open world beat em up like the Arkham series. Disappointed to hear it was gonna be a looter shooter, and the disappointment went deeper when i heard it'll be live service. Rocksteady, what happened to you?!
The sad truth is Warner Brothers probably forced them to make a live service game, like theybhave been trying there best to add microtransactions to all of their games and it sucks
@@EchoDoctrineI'm sick of underdeveloped live service slop, I hated Destiny, avengers because they felt like nothing but a infinite money hole to be dumped into. I'm just tired of every game nowadays being a live service.
@@leviticusprime4904 the treadmill gets extremely old, get a weapon/armor, they nerf it, few months/later its back with new/more perks, repeat rinse. Its just not fun anymore for me. I went back this weekend and replayed Arkham games and remembered classic gaming. There’s just other stuff nowadays than an old 1-100 battlepass and loot that gives .30% more damage to frozen enemies I’ve already beaten 10000 times.
It's like a bad 90's adventure game where you get to watch the game happen in a tiny part of the screen because the HUD is somehow more important than the gameplay
Here's what frustrates me. So much of the unnecessary crap is additive. If the devs wanted to make a $60 game where you have high-mobility ultraviolence like modern DOOM, where you're bouncing around the arena and maintaining this super-high-speed gameplay, set in a DC universe with some hyped-up suicide squad vs the Justice Lords and Brainiac, that would be AWESOME. Ditch the microtransactions. Ditch the live-service. Ditch the Arkham continuity.
Problem is that the stuff you want to ditch is the exact same stuff the bean counters at the parent company want. Microtransactions generate money even after the game is bought, live service models keep people playing longer (meaning more microtransaction purchases), and tying a game into a popular existing franchise just makes it that much cheaper and easier to market. They get told that this sort of stuff is the best way to maximize their ridiculously high investments, so they keep demand that their developers put it in the game. And they’re going to keep doing so until people stop falling for it.
@@1ManRandom But the thing is, these features can be added in ONCE THE GAME DOES WELL. You KNOW when Baldur's gate has DLC, they could introduce microtransactions and people wouldn't lose their minds. They can bring in a DLC where Arkham universe gets invaded. They can create a live service gameplay like "Fight the Void" where users will have weekly/monthly quests. A well-received game is its own advertisement for future projects.
@@Metrion77 I… agree? Not on the Baldur’s Gate thing. I doubt those DLC examples would be particularly well received, as the game would need to be almost completely reworked to work well with either, to the point of changing the very essence of the game. The last sentence is true, though. It’s a shame that most publishers and developers don’t want to wait that long to see a return on their investment.
@@1ManRandom What blows my mind is that even if the DLC isn't particularly well received, it's post-review phase. If you release a great game and then port in money making techniques after your game has its 8s and 9s and 10s, or after it gets GOTY, then you can pull a skyrim and add the creation club. You can pull a league of legends and start adding buyable skins a year later. You can pull a WoW and add weekly and daily quests in DLC 3 or 4. Especially because the fans who are playing the game WOULD want to pay more to unlock more content, or show off to the other fans.
It says so much that a game with a playable character named Captain Boomerang doesn't use boomerangs as a primary weapon. The fact that the boomerangs are used for movement but are really just flash powers doesn't help much.
@@thejirenplayerofalltime8981 read his last sentence again, comprehending it this time. and yes, captain boomerang does indeed use boomerangs with multiple builds and different playstyles around it
I agree, but given how Nerbit describes his gameplay style, he’s meant to play like a boomerang; get in, do damage, get out. It’s. Not an excuse, but it seems like there was intent behind that design choice
I think the thing that really sums this game up for me is how gross it felt when they had the whole tribute for Conroy at the end just to smash cut to all the season plans and extra content right after. Just didn’t sit right with me, especially after what a joke Batman was treated as throughout the game.
Wow, this alone would make me disavow the game even if it was a 10/10 GOTY. Sad people are defending this scam of a game, at least Days Gone shut down ASAP. This scam will keep going sadly.
I don't mind not having another Arkham game. What saddens is that in another universe we could've have a Rocksteady Superman, Flash, WW, Greenlanter games. But instead we got... This.
as far as the end boss fight (Didnt play the game, just going off of your description) it feels really weird that if they were doing the "Transform into other boss from earlier" final boss, that they woudnt have braniac transform into all the bosses from earlier, like 1 phase as the flash, 1 as batman, etc.
Exactly, as soon as I saw him turn into flash I was disappointed hut figured okay he is gonna work his way up through the league... but no, he just anyi-climactically face plants like all the others once you deplete his health bar
I was immediately put off the gane just by the UI and premise. A friend of mine has been hounding me to try it out. This helped solidify my choice to skip it. Sounds like five hours of fun sandwiched in a thirty hour grind, like trying to get geared in Destiny without any of the payoff the Raids and Crucible.
The UI is still possibly the most horrifying thing I 've ever seen in a video game. I've seen legit terrible low budget games with better UI than this.
"Storys can just end" I feel like this is a common theme across a lot of different areas. Actual story writers would probably agree with you but I think it's the big bossmen, stockholders just want everything squeezed for every penny atm and when it dries up, trash the studio.
I can say with 100% certainty that some of the people who were going to actually make the game raised objections to this, and the people at the top told them to shut up Fortnite is popular so we're doing a live service game now.
Those people left too. Two of the top Rocksteady founders quit and are making 100 Star Studios (i think thats the studio name) Also credits on this game compared to Batman Arkham games hardly any same names. Alot of people left studio. They didn’t want to make this trash.
@@firmak2 its been weird since the game came out, with in a hour of it going live it had a 3,000 reviews for a very positive score with many of the reviews saying crap like "its fun" and "i like it" that a bot would post
Barbara did become Batgirl again with the New 52 onwards, where it’s explained she got very experimental surgery on her spine, so there was even precedent for it in the comics! And I agree that game series should be allowed to end, and for its flaws the Arkham-series had a proper arc.
I have a sneaking feeling like the devs wanted to make this, got about 30% through, realized it was never going to be good, and just phoned in the other 70% of it because they have shareholders to worry about. AAA gaming is dead.
All you have to do to transform this into a normal challenge run video is just imagine Nerbit saying: “And that’s why we’re here to find out, can you beat Suicide Squad without losing your sanity?”
Haven't played the game (and never will, honestly) but I've been seeing Captain Boomerang doing the "look back, turn back horrified" bit on TikTok and it's always very funny.
The fake Justice League thing is probably gonna be the plot of the future seasons to try and win people back, but... it's hard to recover from such a bad first impression
The game is called kill the justice league. If you thought you weren’t then it’s on you for being illiterate. I imagine the introduction of the multiverse was exactly the reason for that but between the backlash and Kevin being to dead to do any more voice work idk how it’s gonna go
@@creed8712Bro fr! The name was a red flag from the beginning! It's an interesting concept, but a sudden one because we never got to experience a Justice League in this universe.
So big Superman fan here big misconception with Kryptonite although it is his weakness it takes time to drain him completely so if he’s stabbed with it in the chest like he was his super regeneration will protect him before it can kill him. And if he’s serious and angry like he was in this game he can still kill you while weakened. Doesn’t make this game any better but still it is lore accurate to Superman. The gold kryptonite like they used later on would kill Superman if stabbed in the heart that being said none of them should have been able to hit him considering how stupid fast he is Plot Armor in this game is fucking bananas
If we want to be generous we could say the heros are such chumps because they’re fighting from the inside and want the release of death. But I doubt the devs were thinking about that just shoot flash lol!
The thing I love most about the scene where Harley nonchalantly executes Arkham Batman is that she does so with what is very obviously a revolver... yet a second after she fires you can magically hear the sound of a bullet casing bouncing across the floor. That's not how a Revolver work, how do you fuck that up in 2024?? Did the sound team fall asleep at the wheel?? I guess this game really is just an example of complete incompetence all the way down to the foundations. :l
I'm not even the biggest Batman fan but Arkham Batman voiced by Kevin Conroy being killed unceremoniously to further the oversaturation of Harley Quinn in modern media sure is a thing that I find irritating.
One genre I find does escort missions reasonably well is spaceship games, especially if they have you in a small fighter. But they usually have allied ships helping you along, and sometimes the ship you're escorting has a small number of point defense guns as well. I thought we might be in for some... not outdated, but certainly vintage game design when I saw the red laser pointer snipers. The game genuinely looks like a series of mechanics smooshed together that learned the wrong lessons from various open world games and from Borderlands. Live service game? Ugh, even if I was interested, that's a hard no from me on that point alone, let alone the horrible pointless rank system. I'm out of the loop when it comes to superhero media, but this seems like they wanted to make a game where you play as the supervillains, but were afraid of having the playable characters actually carry out villainous actions, other than killing brainwashed superheroes. If you're going to say "Here, play as a supervillain," drop the pretext and let the player be a supervillain. At least I have another thing to point to when i get asked why I want smaller games now.
The Suicide Sqaud is a team of d to c list villains (mostly) who are forced onto missions by a woman called Amanda Waller. They usually have arcs where they become heroes, and probably die, but this game gave them litteraly no character development
@@twinzzlers I didn't know that was the point of the team; I thought it was just an edgy supervillain team name. We can chalk this up to my lack of comics/superhero knowledge in general. I can see the concept being interesting, and based on what I saw from the review, there's a lot of potential in a heroic Captain Boomerang. But they botched it enough to make it feel like they still wanted a villain game, rather than a "Villains become heroes" game. Either way, thanks for the info.
@@crabman3144From what I understand, they straddle the line between being anti-heroes and anti-villains, with how heinous individual members are tending to vary depending on the storyline and writer.
Totally unexpected, I have not played it...but I am sure this review will confirm all the things I expected 😂 Hope you are well man! Thank also for actually acknowledging that Ashley is not that bad 😊 but yeah escort missions should go the way of the grave ❤
Something unimportant that really bugs me is the riddler stuff in this game. The dude is entirely characterized by his ego, with his challenges intended to prove he is intellectually superior to his target. The hell does he have to prove to these four dumbasses? Half of the gags with them are about how stupid they are!
The sad part is a Suicide Squad game in the Arkhamverse could've worked if they went with a Rainbow Six meets Hitman meets Arkham style where you have to infiltrate different facilities to take out or extract targets and depending on your play style, terrain and mission you plan a different course of attack and you can switch on the fly or coordinate allies to attack or distract. Imagine a mission where the VIP has to be extracted on a boat you infiltrate with Harley all dolled up to pass patrols, you notice the VIP is drunk with a single guard you have Deadshot or Peacemaker or Bloodshot in overwatch and he can take the guard out or you can have King Shark swim up pull the VIP into the water extracting him or you can have Harley Honeypot him back to the extraction zone. Anything wouldve been more interesting then another live service lootershooter.
While some don’t like reviews, I do enjoy my favorite content creators giving their thoughts on things such as this, applauding good games, bemoaning bad games, etc. very welcomed! *now where is the baldur gate 3 challenge run*
Wonder Woman wraps Captain Boomerang in the Lasso of Truth, which as its name suggests, means you cannot lie while it's on you. On the second or so question, he tells a flat-out lie. He tells a lie...when, by all accounts, he shouldn't be able to.
Honestly really enjoyed this format of video, it was nice to just hear your thoughts and opinions on the game and direction of the series as a whole despite not even being slightly invest in said series myself
I've been thinking about making a video on my own for a review of this game, and as of writing this comment, I have 2 and a half days playtime in the game. I have so many problems with this game, but also so many positive things to say. And I like this video of yours, by the way, great job!
I'm fairly certain that Gizmo's missions, and Poison Ivy's for that matter, are ultimately to make the final Brainiac fight(s) easier. Both Ivy's plants and Gizmo's cars will show up in Brainiac's arena, and the more missions you do the stronger their support will be. The more of Ivy's missions you do, the wider the variety of Affliction Spores will show up, and Afflicted enemies will hurt Brainiac when he tries to heal himself. Doing Gizmo's missions makes the cars stronger, so when they're phased in they deal more damage and last longer for use against Brainiac.
@@yofwill In fairness, there are going to be 12 more Brainiac variant boss fights. So it's not going entirely to waste on a single boss fight. But yeah, it is pretty lame all things considered.
@@DeuxisWasTaken You'd be surprised. Fallout 76 and EA's Battlefront II both had disastrous launches and both survived to become good (or at least somewhat good) games in their own rights.
@@K2niarDneKThat's not entirely untrue, but I really don't know if anyone gives enough of a damn about this game to stick with it. Battlefront 2 had the star wars IP behind it which significantly helped, and FO76... Well TBH I have no idea why anyone stuck around for that, aside from sunk cost when people pre-ordered the thing... I just get the impression that Suicide squad has totally bombed on it's release, and I don't think WB will see any point in sticking with it for the long haul. People didn't like the story, and most people weren't really that into the gameplay either. I don't know what WB could even bring to the table to get people interested.
Honestly, can we consider Elizabeth an escort quest? She's literally never threatened in gameplay, unlike Ashley or the girl from ICO, and she's massively helpful to Booker. I admit the plot is an escort quest, but it doesn't feel like it at all from a gameplay perspective to me.
@@NJoCaulfield Escort missions don't necessarily mean they need to be stopped via a health bar. Overwatch has an escort mission in the form of moving a payload.
@@AlexiaHoardwingFair, but Elizabeth is only being escorted in the sense of the story. Even with your Overwatch comparison, you still are required to protect the payload from the enemy team to make progress. There is never a time in BioShock Infinite where you risk losing progress because of Elizabeth, is more what I mean.
Games like this are doomed to fail since the superhero genre in general has outlived its welcome - Marvel Multiverse and whatever you wish to call DC has seen to that. Throw in the fact that the only live service game worth playing (outside of MMORPGs) is Destiny 2, and even Bungy know it's time to call it on that.
Bioshock Infinite also was good Escort Missions. Elizabeth just tearing holes in the fabric of reality was a good mechanic, and she doesn't get caught at all so you just have to focus on the main fighting.
I'd argue that because you can't lose it's not an escort mission. Otherwise I'd say that all the lego games are great escort missions since you always have someone following you around and needing you to make a path for them but they never die and you never fail. Not saying there's a problem with how bioshock infinite or lego did it just that it's not really a traditional escort mission.
@@FormalGibble I get this idea, but Bioshock Infinite is still relatively traditional. LEGO is for drop-in drop-out co-op, Bioshock was single-player. You don't play as Elizabeth, she does her own thing, but in and out of combat, Elizabeth helps you out. Gives you supplies, opens tears as I said, and even gives you allies by summoning turrets or robots. Plus, you can still lose. Dying sets you back, although thankfully nothing tied to Elizabeth will kill you.
9:15 you know the places someone really close to you does in front of you in Infamous second son? That background looks kinda like that, but reskinned. Like they used an open source asset.
The reason for Deadshot being black to match his Suicide Squad counterpart is stupid and makes Batman look like an idiot for not realizing the Deadshot from all the Arkham games end the assault in Arkham animated movies was it imposter
It was barely mentioned, but I still want to comment on the RE4 part. I agree. I didn't find Ashley bad at all in the original. I felt like I was doing my job. Anytime I could, I simply had her camp out in a dumpster till I cleared the area. When that wasn't an option, I just had to play a bit more intelligently i.e. hit and run tactics. I haven't finished RE4R yet so I can't say for sure, but it feels like the enemies just SWARM you now, ESPECIALLY in The Castle area, compared to RE4. Feels like that makes it way harder to take care of Ashley since you're being jumped by 20 to 40 enemies every 11 steps, unlike the original (I'm exaggerating, barely, don't have a cow). Virtually everyone but me complains about Ashley in RE4, yet no one else but me feels RE4R has a swarming issue? I'd say I'm surprised, but that would be a lie. I'm used to being the odd one out.
So I went HARD on RE4make last year (and also last week), and I will agree that enemies are far more numerous and therefore more threatening to Ashley. However, because of the changes to Ashley's survivability; she does not have a health bar and only exists in three states (normal, wounded, captured) before you get a game over. Her AI also has a tendency to get in the way when you have to make sharp turns or quick maneuvers. It's far from the game's biggest problem (that would be the absolutely BS stun and health scaling on later chapters and higher difficulties), but I agree with you as a long time RE4 Stan that Ashley in RE4make has prpblems, despite them being arguably less frustrating than her simply dying outright all the time by jumping in the way of my knife.
@@NJoCaulfield 🤝 Anytime I failed Ashley, it was my own fault. Except for one time. It was after saving Ashley from the giant drill. I was busting open boxes with my knife. Ashley was actually behind me...but because of the layout of the boxes, as I was turning and slashing them, I clipped Ashley and she died. My jaw almost dropped. Lol
33:00 little comment on this Oracle was paralysed by joker in Gotham knights, she’s wearing some sort of brace that allows her to walk, you can see it under her shirt in some scenes, it’s never mentioned physically but her role as oracle is a few times
Brainiac 13 is a specific brainiac who came from the future to the year 2000 in Superman Y2K and was a featured villain of the Loeb/McGuinness era. Also the main villain of the Xbox Man of Steel game. He replaced Metropolis with its thousand years in the future version for a time, and Lex Luthor traded his baby daughter to brainiac for control of it's future technology. This paid off in Our Worlds at War, a war between Earth Apokolips and others which pretty much put an end to B13.
I want to say, I'm a DC comic book nerd, and this game failed on so many levels. It feels like the people writing the story don't actual know the material they work with. Also, Batman TAS was my childhood, still sad about Kevin Conroy's passing. RIP
Nerdbit I have a challenge idea for you: Can you beat Fallout New Vegas as John Rambo? Goals: - Join up with the NCR as a commando; Rambo was trained to be the very best soldier there is. Not only does this make the most sense given it's military background, but while Rambo definitely distrusts the government, he would view the NCR as the lesser of evils when compared to House and Caesar's Legion. Also, he lacks the ambition to take over New Vegas for himself, so no Yes Man run. - Build an arsenal of guns and make one kill with each of them; Rambo is capable of using any and every firearm there is (as the movies clearly show), so having at least one of every recognizable firearm in his inventory that has one kill with them showcases his proficiency. Ideally, use the weapons of your enemies against them. - Get every hand-to-hand technique; Rambo is practically a weapon himself, so any move that makes his fists deadlier is a must. Restrictions: - Interact with as few people as possible; Rambo is not a social guy whatsoever, so you should avoid large groups of people and find ways to complete quests without engaging in dialogue. The only people you are allowed to talk with are those in the NCR military (grunts, officers, etc.) as they are the only people who can truly understand Rambo. Hell, General Oliver can be your discount Colonal Trautman. If you need to talk to someone else in order to build up your character that is NOT NCR, make up for it by killing them stealthfully afterwards. - Arrive in towns ONLY at night - If you need to get to a necessary location, do so by strange routes. - Live off the land as much as possible; your food and healing supplies must come from hunting wildlife or hunting the greatest game of all: Man Armor/Clothing: - Stick with either a merc grunt outfit to get that rugged GI soldier look or the variant of the basic powder ganger armor that makes you shirtless. - Have a mullet and wear Jessup's Bandana at all times. No exceptions. - Your only armor upgrade should be the Gecko armor because killing a bunch of geckos and making armor with their hides is definitely something he would do. Weapons: - A combat knife or a bowie knife (Chance's Knife is ok) - A 5.56 Light Machine Gun (your Going Guns Blazing option) - A compound bow (Your default weapon of choice. Invest in specialty arrows like explosive when needed. Note that this requires Xilandro's B42 Bow mod, which I will provide a link to) - Hand to Hand While Rambo can use practically any firearm he can get his hands on (ignoring the fact that you've got an arsenal of them in your backpack), he would primarily travel light if he had the choice to. In Metal Gear Solid terms, treat it like its OSP. Build: - Do your best to use gurellia tactics. Ambush who you can with mines or run and gun style tactics. The good news is, you don't always have to be stealthy. There's a reason "Going Rambo" is commonly used. When all else fails. Start blasting baby. - Commando perk is a MUST. No exceptions. And that's it. Hope you have fun with it! Xilandro's B42 Bow mod: www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/mods/79786 The Reddit post that gave me this idea: www.reddit.com/r/fnv/comments/15jatf0/john_rambo_build/
The partical effects/hud/whatever is truly egregious. It covers the screen all the time in your gameplay footage. Like whats even the point of half of it? The damage numbers are pretty irrelevant when health bars are also there, plus they overlap and disappear fast. Its so much visual clutter and useless noise. Then theres that Bane looking mask thing that keeps popping up on your back and blocking the camera, and the screen keeps zooming in and out. If I played this game it would really frustrate me.
I literally have been spamming "escort missions in 2024" in the comments for all the suicide squad videos. Thank you for mentioning this. In the 2000's, escort missions were already dated.
Question, can we see “Can you beat [Fallout Game] as the Vault Boy?” You have 10 in every stat, but are limited to using guns that the vault boy uses in promotional material. You have to do everything related to Vault-Tec, and have to max out all skills. Could make for a fun run.
This is probably one of the busiest GUIs I’ve ever seen… why is there so much random crap on screen all at the same time?! How is anyone supposed to keep track of any of that, especially during the intended playstyle which is super fast paced?
I just choose to completely separate the Arkham games from all other batman games in my head cannon; I will never allow those dumbasses to ruin anything about my literal childhood.
So about Superman and kryptonite. He actually grows a somewhat immunity to it the older he gets. So if this was like an older version of Superman, That Wonder Woman threw into a chest of kryptonite then at the very least it would probably weaken him but if it's a younger Superman then yeah he should be dead.
@ 8:15 Gizmo is a kinda obscure charackter, he is from the villain team the fearsome Five, and the where a lame villain team in the 70/80, the ussualy fought and lost against the Teen titans/Titans and later in the 2000 the fought and lost against the Outsiders, and Gizmo was shot by Dr. Silvana and was dead for some time, but he was revived 2008 in the Birds of Prey series.
If it weren't aiming to be a looter shooter, it could have maybe been a decent game. I say that because the movement looks great, if they focused more on exploration, discovery, finding unique/varied things for yourself, it might have been compelling. Maybe they should have made it more of a base liberation kinda thing, like just cause 3, the objectives/gameplay in that wasn't necessarily that varied either, but I loved the traversal in that game. How could you then justify live service? Maybe an expanding map, or just a changing map, you go back and a location you've been to before is now completely different, so there's a good reason to go back to places (but you have to canvas an area and find these new spots).
Like I said, there was no script today, so I more than likely forgot to talk about a few things. If there is something I didn't mention, ask, and I'll try my best to respond :)
You did great 👍 liked your review ❤
I have never seen someone walk the razors-edge to try to criticize something while trying not too. The word you are looking for is "bad" try using it, but I understand want to stay in Rocksteady's good grace.
@Darkcide-tl7kl it's not bad it's disappointing. Like I said, I enjoyed Boomerangs gameplay. It's just everything else that didn't sit right with me
@@Nerbit13098 Arkham Knight was disappointing. Gotham Knights was a mistake. Suicide Squad is an insult. You can like a bad game, however liking a bad game doesn't make it good.
I honestly believe if they'd have just kept the Arkham style of stealth for the boss fights, make the Justice League one shot you if they see you and force you to use your brain to actually do damage
Deadshot is limited to what guns he can use…
Deadshot… whose super power is ostensibly *gun* can’t use all the guns…
This guy brought a dictionary for this one, I didn't know Ostensibly was even a word.
Summing it up as “did Gotham Knights and Suicide Squad get mixed up” is almost exactly how I feel.
Gotham knights was a repackaged version of the batman beyond style game rocksteady was on early development on. It focused on the bat family and took place after arkham knight. WB games and their non-human demon CEO's canned that game and forced the assets and concepts over to WB Montreal, force throated live service mechanics down the game and told Montreal to do with what they can with a terrible foundation. Suicide squad got made after the same Demon CEO's cancelled the superman game and mad the leadership at rocksteady leave.
Even if this isn't the actual JLA, it's still bad writing. Them being clones or other universe versions is just the "It was all a dream!" Of comic books.
Meanwhile, in the other universe:
"Mommy, where's Batman?"
"The Brainiac of another universe took him away from us forever to kill him for V-Bucks."
Can you kill the Justice League as Abraham Lincoln.
Why not Osama bin Laden
Four score and seven years ago
Underrated Comment 😂
Not yet!
But I'm sure the mods will fix it!🤔
At this point, you can pretty much "KtJL" with frickin Hornswoggle, Will Smith, Lizzo and Logan Paul.
The Kevin Conroy tribute got ruined for a friend of mine with sudden loot rewards showing up during it.
There’s a metaphor there
Indeed. Completely distasteful/disrespectful on their part. :(
One of the rewards that can Drop is the "Mystery Illness" 💀💀💀
YEAH GO SUPERMAN, ah fuck its superman
Honestly the best line in the whole game lmao
That and king sharks green lantern
GO GET HIM FLASH!
@@smittywerbenjagermanjensen4737 I did like that line 😂
Harley, "step on me next" 💀
I have only seen bits and pieces of gameplay of this game from other people, but 32:10 made me chuckle at "Superman's blow has Crazed you", like your character accidentally snorted a bunch of cocaine from Superman's secret stash.
You know Clark must do some amazing drugs if he's entirely unaffected by cocaine.
That hybrid Kryptonian kush
Snowflame was something this game desperately needed.
This is outside the norm for your videos, but I love it. I wouldn't mind seeing more of your reviews.
Might be controversial, but I want this to fail the same way Marvel Avengers did. This needs to be a lesson.
From what I've heard the all time peak player count for this game, at least for Steam, was less than that of the Avengers game. And also the player count has already dropped for this. And loads of folks are going back to Arkham Knight as its count has gone up. In a few months this game will be forgotten about no doubt.
@@09Kromerman All these valid things to complain about and you chose to be homophobic.
Nice.
@@louisvaught2495 HOW is that Homophobic? God forbid any type of dislike comes your way
@@nathanieljohnson5430 Again, of all the complaints to focus on, that was the one you chose.
@09Kromerman There's probably better ways to word this, but I get what you mean. That being said, across five or so different videos + comment sections I've looked at , this is the only comment I've seen reference anything like this. :v
This looks like Video Game: The Video Game. It has no identity at all.
It's identity is "we hate what came before and want to ruin it"
@@Puroboi8894more like bland toast: the video game
It looks like a fake video game you'd see someone playing in a movie.
@@WaddleDee45I was literally just thinking that. This looks like what you would see the “gamer son” playing as the main character dad goes in to talk to them. It has some neat eye catching moments, but like, still feels slightly off.
@@Puroboi8894dont switch up when batman and the league return… which is confirmed:)
SPOILERS FOR MORTAL KOMBAT 1 MENTIONED BELOW.
The current obsession with the multiverse is honestly driving me mad. The concept has existed in comics and media as a whole for decades but with Disney pushing it to the forefront it's getting shoehorned into everything. Mortal Kombat 1 for example had a great first half and then the multiverse was revealed which makes everything redundant. No battle has any consequence, no character has any reason for you to like them. There are infinite versions which render it all meaningless. This game could have been good. There was no reason to set it within the Arkhamverse other than having groundwork to include familiar characters with zero storytelling. It's lazy writing that's become all too popular now. This could have been a Saint's Row 3/4 type ride with gameplay and story equally as fun and ridiculous but no, by crudely stitching this game to the preestablished history of the Arkham series we're left with a jarring mismatch between games.
its just an excuse to bring in characters that got booted out down the line. ex. Cassie Cage.
From what I heard, Suicide Squad had *FEWER* sales than Marvel's Avengers, and look at how that game turned out
You are correct. It currently has 4,000 players on Steam and less than 3000 viewers on Twitch. Its DoA
People are making bets on Servers going down before Anthem / Avengers servers were pulled down.
@@EchoDoctrine I'm one of the people making bets, lol.
Good.
Hopefully they can at least salvage the Arkham universe by declaring this a fever dream that never happened.
We may not agree on how good origins was but at least we can agree suicide kill the franchise is garbage
Anytime someone replaces a part of a videogame title I immediately cringe lol.
And no it's not garbage. Mid? Definitely. But not garbage.
@@RedAlpha101as a person who adores the Arkham franchise, like it is a game series that is my GTA yes it is garbage
@@RedAlpha101 The game only suffers from:
- terrible writing
- annoying characters
- cluttered user interface
- empty open world
- utterly disrespectful treatment of legacy characters
- repetetive gameplay and mission design
- loot boxes
- always online single player
- weak final boss
- need I go on?
The game's garbage.
@@Manjustman_25806I actually like that. "Suicide Squad: Kill The Franchise" is clever. Good enough to be a video title criticizing the game in fact.
Edit: Just noticed Nerbit already did that, but that just proves my point. The jokes practically write themselves, folks.
I always find it annoying when someone says "X thing killed the franchise" and then the franchise itself is literally fine lol. Suicide Squad isn't good, but it's not a franchise killer, at least not yet. People said the same thing about TLOU 2, and we still got an award-winning show and two remakes lol.
"You got Fortnite in my Devil May Cry"
"You got Devil May Cry in my Fortnite"
"I'm officer Suicide Squad, what seems to be the problem."
13 Seasons is bloody optimistic. Collectively that's like making an entirely new game. I don't like this trend of having a game's story end on nothing and then saying, "Don't worry we'll patch the rest of the story in across the next few years!"
Baldur's Gate 3 has a main story made of three massive acts, which after nearly 200 hours I finally finished (I like to explore literally everything my first time playing a game) and other than some additional epilogue stuff they added in a patch, the story is was complete on launch.
> the story was complete on launch
if you ignore the years long early access, yeah
@@VioletRMwellllllll yea, that’s why it’s early 😂
@@VioletRMAt least the game was improved and had a LOT more content on full release, unlike certain other early access games
@VioletRM That's why they said "on launch" though.
Season 1 has two Boss RESKIN fights. Literally it’s Superman & Green Lantern boss fights “bUt nOw iTs bRaiNiAc vErSiOnS” 😂
And a new playable character the Jonkler (aka they/them Joker from alternate universe thats masking his insecurities) to go back out and play the same 3 mission types over and over and over to collect loot you can’t put into your Vault/Safe/Storage because the game doesn’t have a storage. A looter shooter with no storage. SMH 🤦
Also season 2 comes with new microtransactions for cosmetics you won’t have access to in a year when servers shut down
Better Ideas instead of a sucide squad game
- Batman Beyond Arkham
- Arkhamverse Superman Game
- A Flash video game
- Damian Wayne Game
- Deathstroke Video Game
-God of war style wonder woman game
- Green arrow game
- Blue and Gold (Booster Gold and Blue Beetle) co-op game
- Infamous inspired Static game
-Fire Emblem style turn based teen titans game
- DC Universe Online 2
@@The_Glazer infamous inspired static game would be so fuckin good PLEASE
The Batman Beyond Arkham game was gonna be a Damian game
@@The_Glazerthey could probably make a baller Predator game
It would be the same people behind it. The good people left Rocksteady years ago.
The new people also worked together with some weird identitarian race obsessed company (Sweet Baby Inc)
Jesus Christ wtf is that HUD?
Looks like one of those UbiSoft UI Parodies
The Multiverse revolution and its consequences have done irreversible damage to games and shows/movies
an 8-bit mindset is required
@@squirrelsyrup1921I don't remember NES games having stories this stupid or convoluted. 😂
@@autobotstarscream765 NES games rarely had stories outside of what was in the game manual. Storage space on cartridges was very limited and it was more important to put that storage to use making the game systems than on dialogue.
@asturias0267 Yeah, and the stuff in the manuals could get pretty out there (remember when Mega Man lived in "Monsteropolis" instead of Texas and the reason ? Blocks gave you power-ups in Super Mario Bros. when you hit them was because you were releasing Toads trapped inside?), but rarely as screwy as modern entertainment that the squirrel is saying to apply "an 8-bit mindset" to.
It’s actually done more good than bad because all of this is elseworld which literally needed the multiverse if that didn’t exist we wouldn’t have gotten the games prior to SS.
When i first heard of it, i thought it was gonna be an open world beat em up like the Arkham series. Disappointed to hear it was gonna be a looter shooter, and the disappointment went deeper when i heard it'll be live service.
Rocksteady, what happened to you?!
The sad truth is Warner Brothers probably forced them to make a live service game, like theybhave been trying there best to add microtransactions to all of their games and it sucks
The studio heads left years ago when WB forced them to make this turd, most of old Rocksteady left.
Same thing that happened to all the great developers. Their masters acted like they couldn't be touched and could do what they wanted.
@@Nerbit13098 Its mostly that the good devs all left by now. Two of the Founders started a new company recently
@@daskampffredchenOh? What's the name, I'm going to be keeping an eye on the things they make
It is just absolute insanity that this would somehow have anything whatsoever to do with the Arkham games lol
The hud of suicide squad hurts my eyes
The entire game hurts my eyes.
@@EchoDoctrineI'm sick of underdeveloped live service slop, I hated Destiny, avengers because they felt like nothing but a infinite money hole to be dumped into. I'm just tired of every game nowadays being a live service.
@@leviticusprime4904 the treadmill gets extremely old, get a weapon/armor, they nerf it, few months/later its back with new/more perks, repeat rinse.
Its just not fun anymore for me. I went back this weekend and replayed Arkham games and remembered classic gaming. There’s just other stuff nowadays than an old 1-100 battlepass and loot that gives .30% more damage to frozen enemies I’ve already beaten 10000 times.
God, it really reminds me of those memes where they shove as many UI elements onto a screen as possible
It's like a bad 90's adventure game where you get to watch the game happen in a tiny part of the screen because the HUD is somehow more important than the gameplay
Here's what frustrates me. So much of the unnecessary crap is additive. If the devs wanted to make a $60 game where you have high-mobility ultraviolence like modern DOOM, where you're bouncing around the arena and maintaining this super-high-speed gameplay, set in a DC universe with some hyped-up suicide squad vs the Justice Lords and Brainiac, that would be AWESOME. Ditch the microtransactions. Ditch the live-service. Ditch the Arkham continuity.
Problem is that the stuff you want to ditch is the exact same stuff the bean counters at the parent company want. Microtransactions generate money even after the game is bought, live service models keep people playing longer (meaning more microtransaction purchases), and tying a game into a popular existing franchise just makes it that much cheaper and easier to market. They get told that this sort of stuff is the best way to maximize their ridiculously high investments, so they keep demand that their developers put it in the game. And they’re going to keep doing so until people stop falling for it.
@@1ManRandom But the thing is, these features can be added in ONCE THE GAME DOES WELL.
You KNOW when Baldur's gate has DLC, they could introduce microtransactions and people wouldn't lose their minds. They can bring in a DLC where Arkham universe gets invaded. They can create a live service gameplay like "Fight the Void" where users will have weekly/monthly quests.
A well-received game is its own advertisement for future projects.
@@Metrion77 I… agree? Not on the Baldur’s Gate thing. I doubt those DLC examples would be particularly well received, as the game would need to be almost completely reworked to work well with either, to the point of changing the very essence of the game. The last sentence is true, though. It’s a shame that most publishers and developers don’t want to wait that long to see a return on their investment.
@@1ManRandom What blows my mind is that even if the DLC isn't particularly well received, it's post-review phase.
If you release a great game and then port in money making techniques after your game has its 8s and 9s and 10s, or after it gets GOTY, then you can pull a skyrim and add the creation club. You can pull a league of legends and start adding buyable skins a year later. You can pull a WoW and add weekly and daily quests in DLC 3 or 4.
Especially because the fans who are playing the game WOULD want to pay more to unlock more content, or show off to the other fans.
It says so much that a game with a playable character named Captain Boomerang doesn't use boomerangs as a primary weapon. The fact that the boomerangs are used for movement but are really just flash powers doesn't help much.
you want him to angle himself to become a boomerang or something??
@@ballsweat5578he wants him to use boomerangs as weapons. goober. how do you not comprehend that? 😭
@@thejirenplayerofalltime8981 read his last sentence again, comprehending it this time. and yes, captain boomerang does indeed use boomerangs with multiple builds and different playstyles around it
@@ballsweat5578the last sentence just mentions that the boomerangs in game are used for movement and it looks like flashes powers
I agree, but given how Nerbit describes his gameplay style, he’s meant to play like a boomerang; get in, do damage, get out. It’s. Not an excuse, but it seems like there was intent behind that design choice
I think the thing that really sums this game up for me is how gross it felt when they had the whole tribute for Conroy at the end just to smash cut to all the season plans and extra content right after. Just didn’t sit right with me, especially after what a joke Batman was treated as throughout the game.
Wow, this alone would make me disavow the game even if it was a 10/10 GOTY. Sad people are defending this scam of a game, at least Days Gone shut down ASAP. This scam will keep going sadly.
@@davidreese5730 Game sucks, but is hardly a scam
Be happy to know this isn't the "last" time we will hear kevin's voice. He had voice batman for upcoming two animation projects before his passing
@@davidreese5730 what? But I can still play Days Gone????
@zerobolt9506 I think he meant "the Day Before"
I don't mind not having another Arkham game. What saddens is that in another universe we could've have a Rocksteady Superman, Flash, WW, Greenlanter games. But instead we got... This.
Wonderwoman is getting a game but from Monolith (the Middle earth game devs) featuring a Nemesis system.
Yeah now it's gonna be at least another 10 years before we ever see a superman game
It should've just been a Wonder Woman game
Watching the gameplay is kinda off putting imo. There's so many flashing colors and the HUD looks so cluttered.
as far as the end boss fight (Didnt play the game, just going off of your description) it feels really weird that if they were doing the "Transform into other boss from earlier" final boss, that they woudnt have braniac transform into all the bosses from earlier, like 1 phase as the flash, 1 as batman, etc.
Exactly, as soon as I saw him turn into flash I was disappointed hut figured okay he is gonna work his way up through the league... but no, he just anyi-climactically face plants like all the others once you deplete his health bar
The other 13 brainiacs are going to recycle the other bosses lmao
@YoshiTheyosh123 yeah... as soon as I saw that, among other things with the Joker update, I just uninstalled the game lmao
Should have had azreal Batman
This game contains...Poison Ivy?
"I told you to go to your cell"
As a child, i think idk
@@TheSoulreaper6000and there are people complaining the child isn't sexualized
@@insomniagobrrr5542 excuse me, but what?
@@insomniagobrrr5542 I fuckin hate this planet
@@insomniagobrrr5542 Jesus Christ what the hell is wrong with people?
I was immediately put off the gane just by the UI and premise. A friend of mine has been hounding me to try it out. This helped solidify my choice to skip it. Sounds like five hours of fun sandwiched in a thirty hour grind, like trying to get geared in Destiny without any of the payoff the Raids and Crucible.
Or like trying to play Destiny without any DLC. You aren’t given much and the little you do have just becomes tedious at best and a chore at worst
The UI is still possibly the most horrifying thing I 've ever seen in a video game. I've seen legit terrible low budget games with better UI than this.
Because Unity/Unreal Engine default HUDs are designed to be clear, if generic.
This is a custom-made abomination that they paid actual artists for.
Those artists clearly don’t play video games :(
"Storys can just end" I feel like this is a common theme across a lot of different areas. Actual story writers would probably agree with you but I think it's the big bossmen, stockholders just want everything squeezed for every penny atm and when it dries up, trash the studio.
I can say with 100% certainty that some of the people who were going to actually make the game raised objections to this, and the people at the top told them to shut up Fortnite is popular so we're doing a live service game now.
Those people left too. Two of the top Rocksteady founders quit and are making 100 Star Studios (i think thats the studio name)
Also credits on this game compared to Batman Arkham games hardly any same names. Alot of people left studio. They didn’t want to make this trash.
@@EchoDoctrine good to know, i look forward to their content
disappointed in Steam and the fuckery going on with the user review scores
Whats wrong with them?
@@firmak2mass shilling, memes and morons who think funny dialogue in the first 3 hours makes it worthy of a positive review
@@firmak2 its been weird since the game came out, with in a hour of it going live it had a 3,000 reviews for a very positive score with many of the reviews saying crap like "its fun" and "i like it" that a bot would post
@@Sleepy.Time. It makes sense when you realize that Valve and Rocksteady are both clients of Sweet Baby inc.
@@ExValeFor That's just Steam reviews in general. Well, that and mass hate for some games.
Barbara did become Batgirl again with the New 52 onwards, where it’s explained she got very experimental surgery on her spine, so there was even precedent for it in the comics!
And I agree that game series should be allowed to end, and for its flaws the Arkham-series had a proper arc.
I have a sneaking feeling like the devs wanted to make this, got about 30% through, realized it was never going to be good, and just phoned in the other 70% of it because they have shareholders to worry about.
AAA gaming is dead.
All you have to do to transform this into a normal challenge run video is just imagine Nerbit saying:
“And that’s why we’re here to find out, can you beat Suicide Squad without losing your sanity?”
I'd absolutely love a Damian Wayne game, particularly if they leant into the Batman of Bethlehem stuff and made it apocalyptic
Honestly, seeing this just makes me want to replay the classic Arkham games again.
R.I.P. Arkham series.
Haven't played the game (and never will, honestly) but I've been seeing Captain Boomerang doing the "look back, turn back horrified" bit on TikTok and it's always very funny.
The thumbnail says it all, thats true art - unlike suicide liveservice: kill the franchise
The fake Justice League thing is probably gonna be the plot of the future seasons to try and win people back, but... it's hard to recover from such a bad first impression
The game is called kill the justice league. If you thought you weren’t then it’s on you for being illiterate.
I imagine the introduction of the multiverse was exactly the reason for that but between the backlash and Kevin being to dead to do any more voice work idk how it’s gonna go
Not gonna work. Its too late. They literally “pissed on” people heroes. Its over.
@@creed8712 The Game is called Big Pile of Sh1t so what did you expect XD
@@daskampffredchen like I said. Reading is hard for you guys, and we’ve known about this game for years
@@creed8712Bro fr! The name was a red flag from the beginning! It's an interesting concept, but a sudden one because we never got to experience a Justice League in this universe.
Woah wait..Gizmo from the Teen Titans is in this game!? Oh great, i just really hope they leave Teen Titans alone.
So big Superman fan here big misconception with Kryptonite although it is his weakness it takes time to drain him completely so if he’s stabbed with it in the chest like he was his super regeneration will protect him before it can kill him. And if he’s serious and angry like he was in this game he can still kill you while weakened. Doesn’t make this game any better but still it is lore accurate to Superman. The gold kryptonite like they used later on would kill Superman if stabbed in the heart that being said none of them should have been able to hit him considering how stupid fast he is Plot Armor in this game is fucking bananas
If we want to be generous we could say the heros are such chumps because they’re fighting from the inside and want the release of death. But I doubt the devs were thinking about that just shoot flash lol!
The thing I love most about the scene where Harley nonchalantly executes Arkham Batman is that she does so with what is very obviously a revolver... yet a second after she fires you can magically hear the sound of a bullet casing bouncing across the floor. That's not how a Revolver work, how do you fuck that up in 2024?? Did the sound team fall asleep at the wheel??
I guess this game really is just an example of complete incompetence all the way down to the foundations. :l
Have i become an old man or is there way to much shit on the screen?
How much of that shit has actual value, and how much is just fugly window dressing?
The UI is just really bad. Way too much visual clutter.
I'm not even the biggest Batman fan but Arkham Batman voiced by Kevin Conroy being killed unceremoniously to further the oversaturation of Harley Quinn in modern media sure is a thing that I find irritating.
You know something went wrong when Da Nerbit gets serious
“You either die a hero, or you live long enough to see yourself become the villain”
Harvey dent
One genre I find does escort missions reasonably well is spaceship games, especially if they have you in a small fighter. But they usually have allied ships helping you along, and sometimes the ship you're escorting has a small number of point defense guns as well.
I thought we might be in for some... not outdated, but certainly vintage game design when I saw the red laser pointer snipers. The game genuinely looks like a series of mechanics smooshed together that learned the wrong lessons from various open world games and from Borderlands.
Live service game? Ugh, even if I was interested, that's a hard no from me on that point alone, let alone the horrible pointless rank system.
I'm out of the loop when it comes to superhero media, but this seems like they wanted to make a game where you play as the supervillains, but were afraid of having the playable characters actually carry out villainous actions, other than killing brainwashed superheroes. If you're going to say "Here, play as a supervillain," drop the pretext and let the player be a supervillain.
At least I have another thing to point to when i get asked why I want smaller games now.
The Suicide Sqaud is a team of d to c list villains (mostly) who are forced onto missions by a woman called Amanda Waller. They usually have arcs where they become heroes, and probably die, but this game gave them litteraly no character development
@@twinzzlers I didn't know that was the point of the team; I thought it was just an edgy supervillain team name. We can chalk this up to my lack of comics/superhero knowledge in general. I can see the concept being interesting, and based on what I saw from the review, there's a lot of potential in a heroic Captain Boomerang.
But they botched it enough to make it feel like they still wanted a villain game, rather than a "Villains become heroes" game.
Either way, thanks for the info.
@@crabman3144 You're welcome, I recommend that you watch The Suicide Squad (the one made by James Gunn), it's really good
@@crabman3144From what I understand, they straddle the line between being anti-heroes and anti-villains, with how heinous individual members are tending to vary depending on the storyline and writer.
The fact that the touching tribute to Kevin Conroy is immediately followed by the next season crap is a slap in the face.
How to unite the Batman fan base with one crappy game: speed run.
Totally unexpected, I have not played it...but I am sure this review will confirm all the things I expected 😂
Hope you are well man!
Thank also for actually acknowledging that Ashley is not that bad 😊 but yeah escort missions should go the way of the grave ❤
Something unimportant that really bugs me is the riddler stuff in this game. The dude is entirely characterized by his ego, with his challenges intended to prove he is intellectually superior to his target.
The hell does he have to prove to these four dumbasses? Half of the gags with them are about how stupid they are!
The sad part is a Suicide Squad game in the Arkhamverse could've worked if they went with a Rainbow Six meets Hitman meets Arkham style where you have to infiltrate different facilities to take out or extract targets and depending on your play style, terrain and mission you plan a different course of attack and you can switch on the fly or coordinate allies to attack or distract. Imagine a mission where the VIP has to be extracted on a boat you infiltrate with Harley all dolled up to pass patrols, you notice the VIP is drunk with a single guard you have Deadshot or Peacemaker or Bloodshot in overwatch and he can take the guard out or you can have King Shark swim up pull the VIP into the water extracting him or you can have Harley Honeypot him back to the extraction zone. Anything wouldve been more interesting then another live service lootershooter.
While some don’t like reviews, I do enjoy my favorite content creators giving their thoughts on things such as this, applauding good games, bemoaning bad games, etc. very welcomed! *now where is the baldur gate 3 challenge run*
Wonder Woman wraps Captain Boomerang in the Lasso of Truth, which as its name suggests, means you cannot lie while it's on you. On the second or so question, he tells a flat-out lie.
He tells a lie...when, by all accounts, he shouldn't be able to.
They did Batman so god damn dirty in this game....
This is how it happened. THIS IS HOW THE BATMAN DIED?!?
I finally understand why Anakin killed not just the men, but the women and children too.
Gizmo is fairly well known mostly because he was part of HIVE, a team of primary antagonists in the Teen Titans cartoon
Honestly really enjoyed this format of video, it was nice to just hear your thoughts and opinions on the game and direction of the series as a whole despite not even being slightly invest in said series myself
Not your usual Nerbit, but it was great to hear your unedited opinion! Wouldn't mind seeing more like this :)
I've been thinking about making a video on my own for a review of this game, and as of writing this comment, I have 2 and a half days playtime in the game. I have so many problems with this game, but also so many positive things to say. And I like this video of yours, by the way, great job!
I hate the positives in this game, cuz it shows the devs cared enough about it and that it could have been great.
Fortnite 2: Canadian healthcare squad
Fuck. This. Game (allegedly)
I'm fairly certain that Gizmo's missions, and Poison Ivy's for that matter, are ultimately to make the final Brainiac fight(s) easier. Both Ivy's plants and Gizmo's cars will show up in Brainiac's arena, and the more missions you do the stronger their support will be.
The more of Ivy's missions you do, the wider the variety of Affliction Spores will show up, and Afflicted enemies will hurt Brainiac when he tries to heal himself. Doing Gizmo's missions makes the cars stronger, so when they're phased in they deal more damage and last longer for use against Brainiac.
WOW! That's incredibly lame.
@@yofwill In fairness, there are going to be 12 more Brainiac variant boss fights. So it's not going entirely to waste on a single boss fight.
But yeah, it is pretty lame all things considered.
@@K2niarDneK at this point it'll be a miracle if 1 more Brainiac variant boss fight gets implemented
@@DeuxisWasTaken You'd be surprised. Fallout 76 and EA's Battlefront II both had disastrous launches and both survived to become good (or at least somewhat good) games in their own rights.
@@K2niarDneKThat's not entirely untrue, but I really don't know if anyone gives enough of a damn about this game to stick with it.
Battlefront 2 had the star wars IP behind it which significantly helped, and FO76... Well TBH I have no idea why anyone stuck around for that, aside from sunk cost when people pre-ordered the thing...
I just get the impression that Suicide squad has totally bombed on it's release, and I don't think WB will see any point in sticking with it for the long haul.
People didn't like the story, and most people weren't really that into the gameplay either. I don't know what WB could even bring to the table to get people interested.
Godzilla is attacking the generator!
Also another game that did escort right was Bioshock infinite.
One of my favorite games. Hey Nerbit! Can you beat BioShock Infinite with only the Skyhook? Lol
Honestly, can we consider Elizabeth an escort quest? She's literally never threatened in gameplay, unlike Ashley or the girl from ICO, and she's massively helpful to Booker. I admit the plot is an escort quest, but it doesn't feel like it at all from a gameplay perspective to me.
@@NJoCaulfield Escort missions don't necessarily mean they need to be stopped via a health bar. Overwatch has an escort mission in the form of moving a payload.
@@AlexiaHoardwingFair, but Elizabeth is only being escorted in the sense of the story. Even with your Overwatch comparison, you still are required to protect the payload from the enemy team to make progress. There is never a time in BioShock Infinite where you risk losing progress because of Elizabeth, is more what I mean.
Elizabeth was more like an extra external powerup though.
Can you beat Suicide Squad without losing your mind?
Where's the black mountain shortcut
Black mountain.
@@NINE93THREE that tracks
Games like this are doomed to fail since the superhero genre in general has outlived its welcome - Marvel Multiverse and whatever you wish to call DC has seen to that. Throw in the fact that the only live service game worth playing (outside of MMORPGs) is Destiny 2, and even Bungy know it's time to call it on that.
Bioshock Infinite also was good Escort Missions. Elizabeth just tearing holes in the fabric of reality was a good mechanic, and she doesn't get caught at all so you just have to focus on the main fighting.
I'd argue that because you can't lose it's not an escort mission. Otherwise I'd say that all the lego games are great escort missions since you always have someone following you around and needing you to make a path for them but they never die and you never fail. Not saying there's a problem with how bioshock infinite or lego did it just that it's not really a traditional escort mission.
@FormalGibble And id argue that they are escort missions. What you call traditional I call annoying and should be avoided at all costs
@@FormalGibble I get this idea, but Bioshock Infinite is still relatively traditional. LEGO is for drop-in drop-out co-op, Bioshock was single-player. You don't play as Elizabeth, she does her own thing, but in and out of combat, Elizabeth helps you out. Gives you supplies, opens tears as I said, and even gives you allies by summoning turrets or robots. Plus, you can still lose. Dying sets you back, although thankfully nothing tied to Elizabeth will kill you.
9:15 you know the places someone really close to you does in front of you in Infamous second son? That background looks kinda like that, but reskinned. Like they used an open source asset.
The reason for Deadshot being black to match his Suicide Squad counterpart is stupid and makes Batman look like an idiot for not realizing the Deadshot from all the Arkham games end the assault in Arkham animated movies was it imposter
They literally stole the Mandarin twist from the MCU.
Hey Nerbit, since you mentioned a specific game, "Can you beat Incredible Hulk Ultimate Destruction without taking damage?"
Be shocked if they even get 3 seasons out of this, much less 13.
It’s nice to see a review from you, I really like this style of video, just a very honest opinion of a game you’ve actually put time into.
It was barely mentioned, but I still want to comment on the RE4 part. I agree. I didn't find Ashley bad at all in the original. I felt like I was doing my job. Anytime I could, I simply had her camp out in a dumpster till I cleared the area. When that wasn't an option, I just had to play a bit more intelligently i.e. hit and run tactics. I haven't finished RE4R yet so I can't say for sure, but it feels like the enemies just SWARM you now, ESPECIALLY in The Castle area, compared to RE4. Feels like that makes it way harder to take care of Ashley since you're being jumped by 20 to 40 enemies every 11 steps, unlike the original (I'm exaggerating, barely, don't have a cow). Virtually everyone but me complains about Ashley in RE4, yet no one else but me feels RE4R has a swarming issue? I'd say I'm surprised, but that would be a lie. I'm used to being the odd one out.
So I went HARD on RE4make last year (and also last week), and I will agree that enemies are far more numerous and therefore more threatening to Ashley. However, because of the changes to Ashley's survivability; she does not have a health bar and only exists in three states (normal, wounded, captured) before you get a game over. Her AI also has a tendency to get in the way when you have to make sharp turns or quick maneuvers. It's far from the game's biggest problem (that would be the absolutely BS stun and health scaling on later chapters and higher difficulties), but I agree with you as a long time RE4 Stan that Ashley in RE4make has prpblems, despite them being arguably less frustrating than her simply dying outright all the time by jumping in the way of my knife.
@@NJoCaulfield 🤝
Anytime I failed Ashley, it was my own fault. Except for one time. It was after saving Ashley from the giant drill. I was busting open boxes with my knife. Ashley was actually behind me...but because of the layout of the boxes, as I was turning and slashing them, I clipped Ashley and she died. My jaw almost dropped. Lol
@@EthonraI've gotta the platinum for it and the DLC and boy, does it still happen to me the exact same way sometimes. Ha ha.
@@NJoCaulfield lol I'll have to be extra careful then.
33:00 little comment on this
Oracle was paralysed by joker in Gotham knights, she’s wearing some sort of brace that allows her to walk, you can see it under her shirt in some scenes, it’s never mentioned physically but her role as oracle is a few times
Brainiac 13 is a specific brainiac who came from the future to the year 2000 in Superman Y2K and was a featured villain of the Loeb/McGuinness era. Also the main villain of the Xbox Man of Steel game. He replaced Metropolis with its thousand years in the future version for a time, and Lex Luthor traded his baby daughter to brainiac for control of it's future technology. This paid off in Our Worlds at War, a war between Earth Apokolips and others which pretty much put an end to B13.
I want to say, I'm a DC comic book nerd, and this game failed on so many levels. It feels like the people writing the story don't actual know the material they work with.
Also, Batman TAS was my childhood, still sad about Kevin Conroy's passing. RIP
Nerdbit I have a challenge idea for you:
Can you beat Fallout New Vegas as John Rambo?
Goals:
- Join up with the NCR as a commando; Rambo was trained to be the very best soldier there is. Not only does this make the most sense given it's military background, but while Rambo definitely distrusts the government, he would view the NCR as the lesser of evils when compared to House and Caesar's Legion. Also, he lacks the ambition to take over New Vegas for himself, so no Yes Man run.
- Build an arsenal of guns and make one kill with each of them; Rambo is capable of using any and every firearm there is (as the movies clearly show), so having at least one of every recognizable firearm in his inventory that has one kill with them showcases his proficiency. Ideally, use the weapons of your enemies against them.
- Get every hand-to-hand technique; Rambo is practically a weapon himself, so any move that makes his fists deadlier is a must.
Restrictions:
- Interact with as few people as possible; Rambo is not a social guy whatsoever, so you should avoid large groups of people and find ways to complete quests without engaging in dialogue. The only people you are allowed to talk with are those in the NCR military (grunts, officers, etc.) as they are the only people who can truly understand Rambo. Hell, General Oliver can be your discount Colonal Trautman. If you need to talk to someone else in order to build up your character that is NOT NCR, make up for it by killing them stealthfully afterwards.
- Arrive in towns ONLY at night
- If you need to get to a necessary location, do so by strange routes.
- Live off the land as much as possible; your food and healing supplies must come from hunting wildlife or hunting the greatest game of all: Man
Armor/Clothing:
- Stick with either a merc grunt outfit to get that rugged GI soldier look or the variant of the basic powder ganger armor that makes you shirtless.
- Have a mullet and wear Jessup's Bandana at all times. No exceptions.
- Your only armor upgrade should be the Gecko armor because killing a bunch of geckos and making armor with their hides is definitely something he would do.
Weapons:
- A combat knife or a bowie knife (Chance's Knife is ok)
- A 5.56 Light Machine Gun (your Going Guns Blazing option)
- A compound bow (Your default weapon of choice. Invest in specialty arrows like explosive when needed. Note that this requires Xilandro's B42 Bow mod, which I will provide a link to)
- Hand to Hand
While Rambo can use practically any firearm he can get his hands on (ignoring the fact that you've got an arsenal of them in your backpack), he would primarily travel light if he had the choice to. In Metal Gear Solid terms, treat it like its OSP.
Build:
- Do your best to use gurellia tactics. Ambush who you can with mines or run and gun style tactics. The good news is, you don't always have to be stealthy. There's a reason "Going Rambo" is commonly used. When all else fails. Start blasting baby.
- Commando perk is a MUST. No exceptions.
And that's it. Hope you have fun with it!
Xilandro's B42 Bow mod: www.nexusmods.com/newvegas/mods/79786
The Reddit post that gave me this idea: www.reddit.com/r/fnv/comments/15jatf0/john_rambo_build/
I think this game was doomed from the start when they went. We're going to make this game live service
And also said that it set in the Arkhamverse of all thing. These 2 combined made for a literal turd that we got.
@@maxelast9213 yep
The partical effects/hud/whatever is truly egregious. It covers the screen all the time in your gameplay footage. Like whats even the point of half of it? The damage numbers are pretty irrelevant when health bars are also there, plus they overlap and disappear fast. Its so much visual clutter and useless noise. Then theres that Bane looking mask thing that keeps popping up on your back and blocking the camera, and the screen keeps zooming in and out. If I played this game it would really frustrate me.
I literally have been spamming "escort missions in 2024" in the comments for all the suicide squad videos. Thank you for mentioning this. In the 2000's, escort missions were already dated.
Question, can we see “Can you beat [Fallout Game] as the Vault Boy?” You have 10 in every stat, but are limited to using guns that the vault boy uses in promotional material. You have to do everything related to Vault-Tec, and have to max out all skills. Could make for a fun run.
Can you beat Skyrim as Batman?
Batman would unironically be a Stealth Archer.
This is probably one of the busiest GUIs I’ve ever seen… why is there so much random crap on screen all at the same time?!
How is anyone supposed to keep track of any of that, especially during the intended playstyle which is super fast paced?
Can you beat Arkham Asylum with out upgrades?
I just choose to completely separate the Arkham games from all other batman games in my head cannon; I will never allow those dumbasses to ruin anything about my literal childhood.
So about Superman and kryptonite. He actually grows a somewhat immunity to it the older he gets. So if this was like an older version of Superman, That Wonder Woman threw into a chest of kryptonite then at the very least it would probably weaken him but if it's a younger Superman then yeah he should be dead.
@ 8:15 Gizmo is a kinda obscure charackter, he is from the villain team the fearsome Five, and the where a lame villain team in the 70/80, the ussualy fought and lost against the Teen titans/Titans and later in the 2000 the fought and lost against the Outsiders, and Gizmo was shot by Dr. Silvana and was dead for some time, but he was revived 2008 in the Birds of Prey series.
7:50 Deep Rock Galactic actually has a really good escort mission
WB Montreal was actually set up to do a Suicide Squad game around the time they were developing Origins, but it didn't get very far.
8:20 Gizmo is that same guy who is a little shitnose in the classic Teen Titans tv show. Haha
As much as I like the challenges I’m also a very big fan of these other kinds of videos you do sometimes, good stuff as always
I knew that game, at least narratively, was going to be trash when I saw SweetBabyInc latched to this.
It feels like the live service aspect caused the game to be heavily knee-capped to have additional content for later.
Ooo new nerbit format
If it weren't aiming to be a looter shooter, it could have maybe been a decent game. I say that because the movement looks great, if they focused more on exploration, discovery, finding unique/varied things for yourself, it might have been compelling. Maybe they should have made it more of a base liberation kinda thing, like just cause 3, the objectives/gameplay in that wasn't necessarily that varied either, but I loved the traversal in that game. How could you then justify live service? Maybe an expanding map, or just a changing map, you go back and a location you've been to before is now completely different, so there's a good reason to go back to places (but you have to canvas an area and find these new spots).
In honor of Mitten Squad - Can you beat Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League without wanting to die?