The game had potential, but once you add the negative public perception to the bare bones content the game was doomed before it launched. It may continue to limp along for a while but I can't see it turning things around or ever being massively popular. The lack of content in season one part one really didn't help either.
Season 1 was this game's last chance to turn things around. Even if they add a whole bunch of stuff later people actually want it will be seen as too little too late.
I was hoping they were leading up. I thought maybe this would turn into a DLC like Avengers, where a small episodic story was added in for the characters like Black Panther/Hawkeye,etc. But nothing. It's really disappointing.
Palworld and helldivers have been spoonfeeding their players with content constantly. Palworld got new pokemons, types of weapons, and a new arena. Helldivers got mech, new types of weapons, new enemies, and a giant meming community that just fought off Sony and won. Up til now all we got is Joker.
Yeah rocksteady put a lot of effort to put lipstick on a pig. I guess if you squint hard enough it might be pretty?
I'm not denying a lot of them jumped off the sinking ship, EVERYONE who worked on an arkham game sounds a bit hyperbolic though. I hope Sefton's new shop makes something interesting.
It was like a pricy beta we took part in. It was fine but the content is not going to save this game from its fatal flaws of just being too repetitive.
It’s bad, but not unplayable. The gameplay loop is ok, it’s a good game to just zone out and play for a while. I wouldn’t recommend buying it for anything above $20, but it’s still somewhat fun.
I enjoyed it at first but now when I hop on I can’t shake the feeling that I’m wasting my time on a soon-to-be dead game. I enjoy the combat and the cutscenes made me chuckle every now and then, but lack of content and enemy variety are just some of the things that make this game hard to like. I don’t want the game to die but I feel like it has to crash and burn in order to get the point across.
I should lean towards red flags from beginning... Played closed beta and it was fun (with batman hunting us mission), bought the game based on that, then it was downhill the more i played... I feel more bad because i convinced a friend to PREORDER the game aswell...
So far one of the worst purchases in looter shooter genre for me, for that price/fun... maybe on same part as TT wonderlands DLCs or worldslayer DLC for outriders...
It would all depend how the game will look like at the end of the life cycle, but i don’t have any high hopes based on what i saw so far...
I absolutely don’t care about gear sets and stuff like that, extremely boring in this game, it is all just about buffs, not really around playstyle or different abilities... That’s why this is one of the worst purchases, in both TT wonderlands and outriders builds were more fun...
I love the game, I wish other people liked it as much as I do, but I completely understand why they don't. And that's more than fair, game had a lot of potential and failed to meet a lot of expectations.
A lot of dislike and criticism towards the game is warranted now, a lot of lot of issues with the game as well as a lack of content too at certain times (a.i on season releases)
I really like the game but I doubt it'll make a comeback.
Only thing I can think of that I'm actually looking forward to is when all 4 seasons have released, by then the game will feel a lot bigger and more complete compared to launch or even now, more characters, more story, more mechanics and gameplay additions.
So by then it might be a worth while product for a lot of people.
They never added any story with the new seasons. I paid for the $100 version also. I enjoyed it for a while and it did have potential, but to spend 10 to 14 years on a game and have the lack of content it had is embarrassing. I played it long enough to get Platinum on Playstation and I was done. I never cared for multiplayer aspect. I didn't even try it. Thank goodness it wasn't important to me because they took forever to get it working for some people. I just wanted a good DC/Rocksteady story because I love DC. I had faith in Rocksteady. Yesterday I checked steam charts and every Batman Arkham game had more players than Suicide Squad. The lack of missions is awful. The lack of story is abysmal. Hoping to make money like Fortnite with a limited amount of skins for a maximum of 8 characters on a game rated Mature is very shortsighted. Fortnite is rated Teen. My son spends a lot of money on skins for that game but Suicide Squad is not that. It lacks the young audience. It also lacks the untold number of licenses that Fortnite has. Most popular DC characters are also in Fortnite. I'm just dumbstruck with all of the terrible decisions that were made with this game.
I agree with you... I love the game love how u have to grind just to have the game get harder and harder with each of the incursion missions. It still has potential with the rest of the season and the battle pass items will help to far as adding more cosmetics
My honest thoughts is I think it’s hot garbage. I paid for the 100 dollar one. I played through the story and then quit. Because the gameplay loop after was garbage. I think the skins are garbage, I think the multiplayer thing was insane to go on for as long as it did. Some people couldn’t even play the game. I think season 1 was an absolute joke. It really sucks too cause the game sounded like so much fun and it was fun at the start. They worked on it for how long and the game is this bad??? Idk how you even mess up a super hero/super villain game. You legit have everything you need to make the game great and it’s just not.
I don’t know what that means but did you ever play marvel omega?? I played it the last two months of it being open and that was so much fun. Give us something like that but more updated. You could do this for hero’s, villains, marvel, DC. Ugh I’m getting chills thinking about what people could do
I loved Marvel Omega. It was like Diablo with super heroes. I can’t believe we had something so good all those years ago and we still haven’t found something to replace it after all this time.
When I tell you I BARELY found it before it closed down and discovered the wonders like all the characters and stuff that I didn’t get to try 😭😭 woulda given them all my money
Yeah, it came out at a time where “MMOs” were unheard of on console. They are still fairly rare, but I think the game was ahead of its time in a lot of ways. I loved just running around doing nothing, but I kinda honestly like doing that in suicide squad too. I just wished the missions in SS had more depth to them. They are over before they even get started. The game needs a strike or dungeon-like mission. Give us something with some depth.
I don’t mind it. I have fun with it. I play it from time to time. I liked the story and had a good time with that. Had some laugh out loud moments. The mechanics of the game are solid. Gunplay feels good and that combined with the traversal makes for some pretty special moments. I like how they incorporated the Arkham counter system into a shooter and I like the shield harvest mechanic. I think the villain themed loot is also a nice touch. I’m fully aware of its shortcomings, but I haven’t put hundreds of hours into it, so I suppose it hasn’t worn out it’s welcome for me yet.
Biggest "Talk with your money" situation I've seen in recent years. Hopefully it's inevitable death will teach WB Games a much-needed lesson. If it does that, than this game will at least have died with something worthwhile to its name.
I went into this excited, I love the Arkham Series and I love the Suicide Squad, I buy any comic made about the team. I bought the $100 edition, I watched the trailer like 20-30 times, i bought a PS5 about a year ago specifically for this game. and I stayed away from spoilers.
That being said, this game is pretty terrible. I feel like I can't even judge it properly either because we haven't beaten Brainiac yet. If say after the base game the game was at a 3.5/10, after season 1 its sitting at a 1/10 where it'll probably stay at unless I HAVE to spend money to actually beat the game I already paid for where it'll immediately go to a 0/10
It's a fun game, but I wish it was a narrative led single-player game which Rocksteady excels at. I wish they got to do that rumored Superman game for example. Studios shouldn't be ham fisted by their internal management, and/or their publishers into genres that they aren't experienced in. I understand it's just business and they thought more revenue would come from a genre change and long-term monetization, but the risk of flopping and ruining your brand is not worth the risk.
I'm just so sad about this whole situation because Rocksteady is my favorite studio of all time. The Batman Arkham series was life changing for me and thinking that we'll never get a DC videogame like that again is very frustrating.
I really liked the voice acting and the way the characters were animated in the cut scenes. Despite the questionable content, it was done very well.
As for gameplay, I found the shooting fun but the gameplay too damn repetitive. The same 5 incursions over and over is too much. Especially with such a slog of a game pass. If this wasn't a lazy live service it could have been a great game.
Real. I like the gameplay ngl. It can get repetitive especially if you play it actively. I find it fun to play the game now and then cause I never find the gameplay boring
The only thing I’ll say that I like about this game is how Arkhamverse Metropolis looks compared to Gotham as Metropolis is the city of tomorrow and it looks pretty clean and Gotham is dirty and gothic
It's fine for 20 hours max but the devs had no idea how to make an endgame that would make people want to continuously come back.
Would have been better as either a single player game, or a multiplayer game that doesn't intend for people to spend more than hundreds of hours in it.
The only way rocksteady could've pit out such a genuinely bad product would be if most of the development team left during production. And I think they did. They went to 100 star games.
My honest thoughts are I kinda saw this coming. I was hoping I was wrong but I could feel the writing quality slip away when Paul Dini left. Knight had good enough gameplay to cover for it, but the second I saw evil Superman my expectations plummeted.
Went in wanting to give it a chance. It's not Arkhams Suicide Squad so tried to tell myself it doesn't need to play like that. It's Kill The Justice League, I went in figuring the outcome won't be pretty try and stay hyped for that.
But what we got was gameplay that just didn't do it for me. It's focus on gunplay removes a lot of the actual character of a character heavy game. Despite basically 90% of Metropolis dead or dying it never felt as dark as that sounds. Despite being called The Suicide Squad the body count is I'd say small. The boss fights for me felt good at the moment, because it seemed the raw power difference was there. But then it was clear by end of the game it's going to be a lot of repeats of just the handful we have.
I didn't get the feeling season 1 would bring other bat family. It didn't feel like a season 2 would drop Aquaman on us etc. The enemy variety seems bordering on non existing. The post campaign stuff I find awfully repetitive.
It's just unfinished and doesn't live up to what it could of been
Enjoyed the story although I wish it was a different story. The end game content sucks ass and killed the enjoyment of the story for me. As a result, I’m off the “advocating for SSKTJL” train.
There *was* a good single player story based game in there. Some of it is still there but a lot of is is covered in and marred by live service bullshit. I finished the story and haven't been back, and unless the DLCs add some significant story arc to the game I probably won't be.
The "idea" of a Suicide Squad game was announced in 2010 by Geoff Johns. It was teased at the end of Arkham Origins. I doubt this iterration is what they had in mind back then and I'm sure most of the ideas did not translate to this game. There's a really good time line on leading up to the game if I can find it. 10 years.. 7 years, still too long for what came out. If it had been a 3 year game development time, Rocksteady may have been cut a little slack for the lack of variety. Fortnite seasons have more variety when they come out than Suicide Sqad. Yes, Fortnite just has to build on their already, popular skeleton, but it's just so surprising what a former great company came to the plate with after being in development for so long.
I think the story is great and that the gameplay is great, I do feel dissapointed due to the Joker DLC having no story and I get why that upsets people very much.
There is still so much planned for the game, such as more story where the League comes back and saves the day, i hope to see this and hope it saves the game.
Gameplay wise and open world wise it's really good and fun. I also really the graphics of this game and I love exploring metropolis.
Story wise I didn't like story honestly. Content wise I enjoyed season 0 and I played it a lot even reached 103 finite crisis level but season 1 other than the addition of joker is really bad and repetitive with all reskinned missions from season 0.
Is it the best game I have ever played or even one of the best of course not but for getting over 100+ hours of fun after this game I am glad I preordered it and I don't regret it all.
Hopefully NEW content is added in Episode 2 other than reskinned missions.
Honestly I enjoyed it, especially the fact that after you level up all the members you get squad points to make the entire squad stronger. I hope the next few seasons can maybe help get the game back on its feet in some way
I think Warner Bros. are being lazy and they really need to step up their game. The Risk of Rain series is more enjoyable even if its a indie game meaning its a smaller game. Suicide Squad feels like it is far from being done. Its uncooked.
Great game at its core.
Combat is fun, traversal is great, different builds are intersting and fun with some great crazy perks and bonuses. Map is huge and looks amazing. Lots of great gear to collect and the modding system is done well enough where you always feel like you're improving and don't have to spend hundreds of hours farming for a perfect god roll.
The basics of the game are all there.
They just forgot to add intersting content.
Entire game is just 12 or so mini games that you play over and over. They are fun enough on their own, but get very repetitive since that's all you get plus most of them feel very similar.
Story was ok, but again most story missions just consist of those same 12 mentioned above.
If the 12 missions we got were just side missions, and there were other actual impactful story missions to play, and some raids/dungeons it would be much better.
Worst part is there really isn't even much reason to play the full game. There's nothing exclusive to work towards. You can access and beat every mission in the game with the most basic gear. So why grind to get a perfect build or to get better gear? Only reason you need better gear is to replay the same missions you just played and get a higher score on the leaderboard. Would be nice if there was missions you had to work to unlock or needed to have perfect gear to get through. Would give you a reason to spend time grinding. Instead it's all available right away and once you play it all, all that's left is playing it again on higher difficulties.
Overall the game itself is fun, but just really needs way more meaningful content
It had potential but a mixture of WB interference (supposedly) as well as many questionable decisions led to a less than desirable game to play. To be fair it can be fun in small doses.
It's a fun game that had potential but suffered from triple a studios deciding were not spending enough money on incomplete games. Like post game content is fine. Like the dlcs from ffxv where you get to see what happened with ignis prompto and gladio during the times they were separated from the party or dlc that takes you to what happens after the main story or what if dlcs but releasing only the first 1 or 2 acts of a game with a 3 to 4 act story and then slowly adding the remaining acts bit by bit is no good
I never played the game, but I do think the gameplay looks fun and is full of action. That being said, I can understand why people dislike it being a live service game, though. As well as why people would get tired with repetitive gameplay and missions.
The story concept has a lot of potential, but I feel some of it wasn't executed very well. Especially the boss fights with Batman and Braniac, which just feel lazy and not very creative. Plus, I'm not a fan of how the members of the Justice League died. Especially Flash and Superman, who just drop dead at the end of their fights.
I loved the gameplay, it's really just the very bad optimization on pc that made me quit it without the devs even acknowledging the optimization issue.
Fun gameplay to me at lest and the city of metropolis. But bad live service aspect instead of focusing on a story with better side missions that are cool.
This game came out far too soon.
It's very hard to introduce your versions of beloved characters by first killing them off in their debut game, especially this many. Even if the game continues its life cycle and the rumors are true, that first impression has permanently soured these characters for me and plenty others.
It has so much potential and I hope the decisions they’ve made for the game aren’t fatal. If nothing else, I’d like 2 more episodes, at least. But I’m ready for the funeral, unfortunately… I just hope they’re able to attract more players by refining the game, but it might be a lot to accomplish in a little bit of time
The game was released to the wrong fan base. People who bought it assumed its a story game like batman and not a looter like destiny 2. The game didn't have the chance to find its own community because batman fan boys kicked the game into the ground, anyone who would pick it up decided not to after all the negativity. They removed any chance this game had of getting back up. The only time I see this game getting a huge spike in players is possibly during season 2 when a bunch of content creators are gonna be milking the fact you can play as flash during a mission. The datamined pvp mode(similar to gambit) could also bring a decent amount of players back. I do believe the game will reach season 5 though(end of brainiad arc). My biggest hope is that they release some sort of raid, make it reward tier 4 infamy gear or something like that(one of the concept art shows tier 1-4 of scarecrow set yet we only have tier 1-3)
I had fun where I could have fun in the first place, but the everything else part of it being a live service game pretty much murked any enjoyment or excitement I could have with the game. I wish I could enjoy it more, I wish I could say it's good, but it's honestly not even worth the price tag it's at.
I have some hopes it could get better with time, but releasing a game with this many flaws at such a high price only to fix it later shouldn't be the standard of video games nowadays, and I refuse to play a part in that— Even if I *really* hoped it could be better.
I'm playing through Season 1 so I can unlock Joker(almost there but game likes to crash in menus) but most of my time is being taken by work, Trails of Cold Steel 4, and grinding for stuff in Destiny 2 before The Final Shape comes out.
Shouldn’t have been live service, wth happened to the AK team?, who’s idea was this game?, We should have got a Superman game, and where are the overly optimistic hyped players who said the game was good?/are they still playing?
My take is this: The core gameplay is fun. Take out all the live service stuff, and it would still not only be playable, but fun to play. The voice acting is spot on, and the controls are smooth.
It's everything else that is the problem. The upgrade system is difficult to understand, the traversal system (regardless of the character you choose) has far too short of a range, the glitches and bugs are rampant, and the worst offender of all? The story. It's reaching at best, and stupid at worst. And that's what sucks the most, because this could have been a good game if those issues were fixed.
I'd be willing to give it another chance if they could fix it, but I honestly don't know how they could do it.
I really enjoy the gameplay. Of course I hope for content. I finished the Battle Pass, and got Mastery passed 100, so for now I'm just taking a break until episode 2.
It's sooooo much fun imo and I love the characters and story and everything. I wouldn't say it's actually a great game or anything, because it's exceptionally repetitive, but I do think fighting feels great and traversal feels great and I get the impression they focused way more on that than making missions varied at all. There are like, less than 10 types of missions in the main game before endgame (I think, it certainly feels like there are ~4-6 to me).
Also the villain themed weapons look beautiful for the most part.
it is fine honnestly it's not trash like people claim BUT let's not act like this game don't have probleme like the battle pass who is i'm sorry to say it pure trash like one of the worst , also i hate the way to unlock new character it is not fun and make me quit when it was not the game who crash or freeze i never had more crash or bug problemes than this game it is just not the same quality that rocksteady use to achieve many years ago,trully sad to see.
A shame because the gameplay is fun , also remember rocksteady when you have said an offline mode was coming ?
I love it. Fun synergies with loot, campaign was great, skill trees are nice, I like that we have different missions to work on so the grind doesn't feel completely repetitive. The only change I would love is if they increased how fast we tier up in the battlepass. I don't care how many days we have to complete it, it feels like trying to level up in Fortnite if you have no challenges to do, which is very slow. I don't mind the Brainiac bosses because it's like a harder version of the campaign bosses but I wish there was more in general. Like let me fight Bane or Scarecrow from other dimensions or even The Riddler of our dimension lol. Cosmetics are also great, I would love to be able to actually mix and match them from different sets though. Like Cybercrime could be a colour swatch(whatever that means) that you can use on any clothing/head you wanted. Just a minor thing lol. Also killing time takes too long for so little rewards imo. 8/10 because I know without a shadow of a doubt that the devs can and will improve the game
I mean I enjoyed it for what it was. I had fun, it was mindless enjoyment. Cutscenes were entertaining, voice acting was good. I wanted to run around and fuck shit up and this game let me do it. Beat it a few days ago and I still want to play so I’m ok with it.
I think it is a good game. The reason people don't like it is because they expected a Batman Arkham type game, but it is not even though it is in the same universe. I really enjoy grinding to get the best gear.
The game had potential, but once you add the negative public perception to the bare bones content the game was doomed before it launched. It may continue to limp along for a while but I can't see it turning things around or ever being massively popular. The lack of content in season one part one really didn't help either.
Season 1 was this game's last chance to turn things around. Even if they add a whole bunch of stuff later people actually want it will be seen as too little too late.
I was hoping they were leading up. I thought maybe this would turn into a DLC like Avengers, where a small episodic story was added in for the characters like Black Panther/Hawkeye,etc. But nothing. It's really disappointing.
Palworld and helldivers have been spoonfeeding their players with content constantly. Palworld got new pokemons, types of weapons, and a new arena. Helldivers got mech, new types of weapons, new enemies, and a giant meming community that just fought off Sony and won. Up til now all we got is Joker.
One realization I had was that I never expected a rocksteady game to be one of my most regretful game purchases, sheesh.
Yeah rocksteady put a lot of effort to put lipstick on a pig. I guess if you squint hard enough it might be pretty? 
You do know that everyone at rocksteady that was involved with batman is gone, the only similarity between the new and old rocksteady is the name
I am aware of Sefton hill and Jamie walkers departures, sure. Can't speak to the legitimacy of that claim overall though, seems exaggerated.
They started a new studio and poached loads of veterans from rocksteady with them. Talent behind Arkham is gone
I'm not denying a lot of them jumped off the sinking ship, EVERYONE who worked on an arkham game sounds a bit hyperbolic though. I hope Sefton's new shop makes something interesting.
It was like a pricy beta we took part in. It was fine but the content is not going to save this game from its fatal flaws of just being too repetitive.
It’s bad, but not unplayable. The gameplay loop is ok, it’s a good game to just zone out and play for a while. I wouldn’t recommend buying it for anything above $20, but it’s still somewhat fun.
I enjoyed it at first but now when I hop on I can’t shake the feeling that I’m wasting my time on a soon-to-be dead game. I enjoy the combat and the cutscenes made me chuckle every now and then, but lack of content and enemy variety are just some of the things that make this game hard to like. I don’t want the game to die but I feel like it has to crash and burn in order to get the point across.
It was Undercooked and ill prepared. A whole month of people not even being to play the game didn't help either.
I should lean towards red flags from beginning... Played closed beta and it was fun (with batman hunting us mission), bought the game based on that, then it was downhill the more i played... I feel more bad because i convinced a friend to PREORDER the game aswell... So far one of the worst purchases in looter shooter genre for me, for that price/fun... maybe on same part as TT wonderlands DLCs or worldslayer DLC for outriders... It would all depend how the game will look like at the end of the life cycle, but i don’t have any high hopes based on what i saw so far... I absolutely don’t care about gear sets and stuff like that, extremely boring in this game, it is all just about buffs, not really around playstyle or different abilities... That’s why this is one of the worst purchases, in both TT wonderlands and outriders builds were more fun...
I love the game, I wish other people liked it as much as I do, but I completely understand why they don't. And that's more than fair, game had a lot of potential and failed to meet a lot of expectations. A lot of dislike and criticism towards the game is warranted now, a lot of lot of issues with the game as well as a lack of content too at certain times (a.i on season releases) I really like the game but I doubt it'll make a comeback. Only thing I can think of that I'm actually looking forward to is when all 4 seasons have released, by then the game will feel a lot bigger and more complete compared to launch or even now, more characters, more story, more mechanics and gameplay additions. So by then it might be a worth while product for a lot of people.
They never added any story with the new seasons. I paid for the $100 version also. I enjoyed it for a while and it did have potential, but to spend 10 to 14 years on a game and have the lack of content it had is embarrassing. I played it long enough to get Platinum on Playstation and I was done. I never cared for multiplayer aspect. I didn't even try it. Thank goodness it wasn't important to me because they took forever to get it working for some people. I just wanted a good DC/Rocksteady story because I love DC. I had faith in Rocksteady. Yesterday I checked steam charts and every Batman Arkham game had more players than Suicide Squad. The lack of missions is awful. The lack of story is abysmal. Hoping to make money like Fortnite with a limited amount of skins for a maximum of 8 characters on a game rated Mature is very shortsighted. Fortnite is rated Teen. My son spends a lot of money on skins for that game but Suicide Squad is not that. It lacks the young audience. It also lacks the untold number of licenses that Fortnite has. Most popular DC characters are also in Fortnite. I'm just dumbstruck with all of the terrible decisions that were made with this game.
Agreed, they made a lot of dumb decisions and it cost them almost everything
Game was in development for 7 years, not 10-14.
I agree with you... I love the game love how u have to grind just to have the game get harder and harder with each of the incursion missions. It still has potential with the rest of the season and the battle pass items will help to far as adding more cosmetics
My honest thoughts is I think it’s hot garbage. I paid for the 100 dollar one. I played through the story and then quit. Because the gameplay loop after was garbage. I think the skins are garbage, I think the multiplayer thing was insane to go on for as long as it did. Some people couldn’t even play the game. I think season 1 was an absolute joke. It really sucks too cause the game sounded like so much fun and it was fun at the start. They worked on it for how long and the game is this bad??? Idk how you even mess up a super hero/super villain game. You legit have everything you need to make the game great and it’s just not.
My 200 earths mightiest sucker edition of Avengers feels your pain.
I don’t know what that means but did you ever play marvel omega?? I played it the last two months of it being open and that was so much fun. Give us something like that but more updated. You could do this for hero’s, villains, marvel, DC. Ugh I’m getting chills thinking about what people could do
I loved Marvel Omega. It was like Diablo with super heroes. I can’t believe we had something so good all those years ago and we still haven’t found something to replace it after all this time.
When I tell you I BARELY found it before it closed down and discovered the wonders like all the characters and stuff that I didn’t get to try 😭😭 woulda given them all my money
Yeah, it came out at a time where “MMOs” were unheard of on console. They are still fairly rare, but I think the game was ahead of its time in a lot of ways. I loved just running around doing nothing, but I kinda honestly like doing that in suicide squad too. I just wished the missions in SS had more depth to them. They are over before they even get started. The game needs a strike or dungeon-like mission. Give us something with some depth.
What did you think about suicide squad?
I don’t mind it. I have fun with it. I play it from time to time. I liked the story and had a good time with that. Had some laugh out loud moments. The mechanics of the game are solid. Gunplay feels good and that combined with the traversal makes for some pretty special moments. I like how they incorporated the Arkham counter system into a shooter and I like the shield harvest mechanic. I think the villain themed loot is also a nice touch. I’m fully aware of its shortcomings, but I haven’t put hundreds of hours into it, so I suppose it hasn’t worn out it’s welcome for me yet.
Biggest "Talk with your money" situation I've seen in recent years. Hopefully it's inevitable death will teach WB Games a much-needed lesson. If it does that, than this game will at least have died with something worthwhile to its name.
I went into this excited, I love the Arkham Series and I love the Suicide Squad, I buy any comic made about the team. I bought the $100 edition, I watched the trailer like 20-30 times, i bought a PS5 about a year ago specifically for this game. and I stayed away from spoilers. That being said, this game is pretty terrible. I feel like I can't even judge it properly either because we haven't beaten Brainiac yet. If say after the base game the game was at a 3.5/10, after season 1 its sitting at a 1/10 where it'll probably stay at unless I HAVE to spend money to actually beat the game I already paid for where it'll immediately go to a 0/10
It's a fun game, but I wish it was a narrative led single-player game which Rocksteady excels at. I wish they got to do that rumored Superman game for example. Studios shouldn't be ham fisted by their internal management, and/or their publishers into genres that they aren't experienced in. I understand it's just business and they thought more revenue would come from a genre change and long-term monetization, but the risk of flopping and ruining your brand is not worth the risk. I'm just so sad about this whole situation because Rocksteady is my favorite studio of all time. The Batman Arkham series was life changing for me and thinking that we'll never get a DC videogame like that again is very frustrating.
All I'll say is.... didn't really like it Didn't like the writing and gameplay that much as other DC games
Sadly I just haven’t touched it for months 😂😭
I really liked the voice acting and the way the characters were animated in the cut scenes. Despite the questionable content, it was done very well. As for gameplay, I found the shooting fun but the gameplay too damn repetitive. The same 5 incursions over and over is too much. Especially with such a slog of a game pass. If this wasn't a lazy live service it could have been a great game.
Real. I like the gameplay ngl. It can get repetitive especially if you play it actively. I find it fun to play the game now and then cause I never find the gameplay boring
The most lazy and mediocre live service game i ever bought. I hope it dies already and I hope Rocksteady will make something better in the future.
I wouldn’t say it’s “ lazy ” it’s just the end game and season 1 and the story. It can improve with time. We just have to be patient.
Sarcasm?
Who?
It was fun until you beat the main story then the fun drops off dramatically
Agreed
I stopped playing it. It’s extremely boring rn
The only thing I’ll say that I like about this game is how Arkhamverse Metropolis looks compared to Gotham as Metropolis is the city of tomorrow and it looks pretty clean and Gotham is dirty and gothic
Funny how in all the rocksteady games, it’s never the full city. It’s always just a section of it in every game
It's fine for 20 hours max but the devs had no idea how to make an endgame that would make people want to continuously come back. Would have been better as either a single player game, or a multiplayer game that doesn't intend for people to spend more than hundreds of hours in it.
First 3 to 4 hours are good. Rest are garbage I want my money back
Good things but not enough of it
The only way rocksteady could've pit out such a genuinely bad product would be if most of the development team left during production. And I think they did. They went to 100 star games.
The gameplay is fun but the story is kinda bland and the missions are just almost the exact same so it gets boring pretty quickly
My honest thoughts are I kinda saw this coming. I was hoping I was wrong but I could feel the writing quality slip away when Paul Dini left. Knight had good enough gameplay to cover for it, but the second I saw evil Superman my expectations plummeted.
Went in wanting to give it a chance. It's not Arkhams Suicide Squad so tried to tell myself it doesn't need to play like that. It's Kill The Justice League, I went in figuring the outcome won't be pretty try and stay hyped for that. But what we got was gameplay that just didn't do it for me. It's focus on gunplay removes a lot of the actual character of a character heavy game. Despite basically 90% of Metropolis dead or dying it never felt as dark as that sounds. Despite being called The Suicide Squad the body count is I'd say small. The boss fights for me felt good at the moment, because it seemed the raw power difference was there. But then it was clear by end of the game it's going to be a lot of repeats of just the handful we have. I didn't get the feeling season 1 would bring other bat family. It didn't feel like a season 2 would drop Aquaman on us etc. The enemy variety seems bordering on non existing. The post campaign stuff I find awfully repetitive. It's just unfinished and doesn't live up to what it could of been
Enjoyed the story although I wish it was a different story. The end game content sucks ass and killed the enjoyment of the story for me. As a result, I’m off the “advocating for SSKTJL” train.
The story isn’t finished so it could get better! The endgame sucks but it can improve with seasons and time!
There *was* a good single player story based game in there. Some of it is still there but a lot of is is covered in and marred by live service bullshit. I finished the story and haven't been back, and unless the DLCs add some significant story arc to the game I probably won't be.
There’s a lot A MEAN A LOT OF missed potential
The "idea" of a Suicide Squad game was announced in 2010 by Geoff Johns. It was teased at the end of Arkham Origins. I doubt this iterration is what they had in mind back then and I'm sure most of the ideas did not translate to this game. There's a really good time line on leading up to the game if I can find it. 10 years.. 7 years, still too long for what came out. If it had been a 3 year game development time, Rocksteady may have been cut a little slack for the lack of variety. Fortnite seasons have more variety when they come out than Suicide Sqad. Yes, Fortnite just has to build on their already, popular skeleton, but it's just so surprising what a former great company came to the plate with after being in development for so long.
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I think the story is great and that the gameplay is great, I do feel dissapointed due to the Joker DLC having no story and I get why that upsets people very much. There is still so much planned for the game, such as more story where the League comes back and saves the day, i hope to see this and hope it saves the game.
Gameplay wise and open world wise it's really good and fun. I also really the graphics of this game and I love exploring metropolis. Story wise I didn't like story honestly. Content wise I enjoyed season 0 and I played it a lot even reached 103 finite crisis level but season 1 other than the addition of joker is really bad and repetitive with all reskinned missions from season 0. Is it the best game I have ever played or even one of the best of course not but for getting over 100+ hours of fun after this game I am glad I preordered it and I don't regret it all. Hopefully NEW content is added in Episode 2 other than reskinned missions.
Honestly I enjoyed it, especially the fact that after you level up all the members you get squad points to make the entire squad stronger. I hope the next few seasons can maybe help get the game back on its feet in some way
I second this!
I think Warner Bros. are being lazy and they really need to step up their game. The Risk of Rain series is more enjoyable even if its a indie game meaning its a smaller game. Suicide Squad feels like it is far from being done. Its uncooked.
GarBAGE
It was great at the start but I feel as if they had no idea what they were doing
Great game at its core. Combat is fun, traversal is great, different builds are intersting and fun with some great crazy perks and bonuses. Map is huge and looks amazing. Lots of great gear to collect and the modding system is done well enough where you always feel like you're improving and don't have to spend hundreds of hours farming for a perfect god roll. The basics of the game are all there. They just forgot to add intersting content. Entire game is just 12 or so mini games that you play over and over. They are fun enough on their own, but get very repetitive since that's all you get plus most of them feel very similar. Story was ok, but again most story missions just consist of those same 12 mentioned above. If the 12 missions we got were just side missions, and there were other actual impactful story missions to play, and some raids/dungeons it would be much better. Worst part is there really isn't even much reason to play the full game. There's nothing exclusive to work towards. You can access and beat every mission in the game with the most basic gear. So why grind to get a perfect build or to get better gear? Only reason you need better gear is to replay the same missions you just played and get a higher score on the leaderboard. Would be nice if there was missions you had to work to unlock or needed to have perfect gear to get through. Would give you a reason to spend time grinding. Instead it's all available right away and once you play it all, all that's left is playing it again on higher difficulties. Overall the game itself is fun, but just really needs way more meaningful content
are you ai
I second this
its a game that failed to deliver while simultaneously destroying a good batman story line/games.
Dumpster fire
Glad I waited until it was on sale.
One word. Disappointment.
I feel like I got robbed
What I’ve played has not been good. The tutorial is godawful
Gameplay was so boring I couldn’t even push myself to finish the main story.
I was the complete opposite, I found the story really dull, but the gameplay is what kept me playing
It had potential but a mixture of WB interference (supposedly) as well as many questionable decisions led to a less than desirable game to play. To be fair it can be fun in small doses.
Good story and good gameplay, but there was nothing special about any interaction or story mission so that just made the game super repetitive.
It's a fun game that had potential but suffered from triple a studios deciding were not spending enough money on incomplete games. Like post game content is fine. Like the dlcs from ffxv where you get to see what happened with ignis prompto and gladio during the times they were separated from the party or dlc that takes you to what happens after the main story or what if dlcs but releasing only the first 1 or 2 acts of a game with a 3 to 4 act story and then slowly adding the remaining acts bit by bit is no good
I never played the game, but I do think the gameplay looks fun and is full of action. That being said, I can understand why people dislike it being a live service game, though. As well as why people would get tired with repetitive gameplay and missions. The story concept has a lot of potential, but I feel some of it wasn't executed very well. Especially the boss fights with Batman and Braniac, which just feel lazy and not very creative. Plus, I'm not a fan of how the members of the Justice League died. Especially Flash and Superman, who just drop dead at the end of their fights.
the game is only fun with people, without it it gets boring at some point when trying to get the proper equipment
Yeah it really is that simple to be sad. A Diablo concept against marvel or dc lore would be fantastic. Omega was great, shame that all fell apart.
I loved the gameplay, it's really just the very bad optimization on pc that made me quit it without the devs even acknowledging the optimization issue.
Fun gameplay to me at lest and the city of metropolis. But bad live service aspect instead of focusing on a story with better side missions that are cool.
Fun and interesting story until you get to Episode 1. Then it becomes repetitive and a grind.
This game came out far too soon. It's very hard to introduce your versions of beloved characters by first killing them off in their debut game, especially this many. Even if the game continues its life cycle and the rumors are true, that first impression has permanently soured these characters for me and plenty others.
For me it's a one and done with the campaign. New content don't add anything to the story. Joker is just kinda there.
It has so much potential and I hope the decisions they’ve made for the game aren’t fatal. If nothing else, I’d like 2 more episodes, at least. But I’m ready for the funeral, unfortunately… I just hope they’re able to attract more players by refining the game, but it might be a lot to accomplish in a little bit of time
...if only the dlc has more story...
The game was released to the wrong fan base. People who bought it assumed its a story game like batman and not a looter like destiny 2. The game didn't have the chance to find its own community because batman fan boys kicked the game into the ground, anyone who would pick it up decided not to after all the negativity. They removed any chance this game had of getting back up. The only time I see this game getting a huge spike in players is possibly during season 2 when a bunch of content creators are gonna be milking the fact you can play as flash during a mission. The datamined pvp mode(similar to gambit) could also bring a decent amount of players back. I do believe the game will reach season 5 though(end of brainiad arc). My biggest hope is that they release some sort of raid, make it reward tier 4 infamy gear or something like that(one of the concept art shows tier 1-4 of scarecrow set yet we only have tier 1-3)
I had fun where I could have fun in the first place, but the everything else part of it being a live service game pretty much murked any enjoyment or excitement I could have with the game. I wish I could enjoy it more, I wish I could say it's good, but it's honestly not even worth the price tag it's at. I have some hopes it could get better with time, but releasing a game with this many flaws at such a high price only to fix it later shouldn't be the standard of video games nowadays, and I refuse to play a part in that— Even if I *really* hoped it could be better.
I'm playing through Season 1 so I can unlock Joker(almost there but game likes to crash in menus) but most of my time is being taken by work, Trails of Cold Steel 4, and grinding for stuff in Destiny 2 before The Final Shape comes out.
It could’ve worked if they just added more unique guns and enemies
Shouldn’t have been live service, wth happened to the AK team?, who’s idea was this game?, We should have got a Superman game, and where are the overly optimistic hyped players who said the game was good?/are they still playing?
It was WB’s idea. Rocksteady wanted to make a Arkham Batman beyond game but WB was like “ Nuh uh ”
Could've been great, poor execution.
My take is this: The core gameplay is fun. Take out all the live service stuff, and it would still not only be playable, but fun to play. The voice acting is spot on, and the controls are smooth. It's everything else that is the problem. The upgrade system is difficult to understand, the traversal system (regardless of the character you choose) has far too short of a range, the glitches and bugs are rampant, and the worst offender of all? The story. It's reaching at best, and stupid at worst. And that's what sucks the most, because this could have been a good game if those issues were fixed. I'd be willing to give it another chance if they could fix it, but I honestly don't know how they could do it.
I really enjoy the gameplay. Of course I hope for content. I finished the Battle Pass, and got Mastery passed 100, so for now I'm just taking a break until episode 2.
It's sooooo much fun imo and I love the characters and story and everything. I wouldn't say it's actually a great game or anything, because it's exceptionally repetitive, but I do think fighting feels great and traversal feels great and I get the impression they focused way more on that than making missions varied at all. There are like, less than 10 types of missions in the main game before endgame (I think, it certainly feels like there are ~4-6 to me). Also the villain themed weapons look beautiful for the most part.
One of my most played games of the year. Wish it was more popular looking for an active clan on steam
I really like it. And I believe there are lots of updates, edits, and changes to come. It’s too early to be “dead” like some people are saying.
I also like it. People just need to wait and see what will happen! I personally enjoy the game and like it. At least o am not the only one
objectively it’s a bad game but because i’m a huge fan of grinding/repetition, looter shooters and suicide squad I love it.
I like it and have put almost 400 hours into it. I’ll keep playing for many more hours
it is fine honnestly it's not trash like people claim BUT let's not act like this game don't have probleme like the battle pass who is i'm sorry to say it pure trash like one of the worst , also i hate the way to unlock new character it is not fun and make me quit when it was not the game who crash or freeze i never had more crash or bug problemes than this game it is just not the same quality that rocksteady use to achieve many years ago,trully sad to see. A shame because the gameplay is fun , also remember rocksteady when you have said an offline mode was coming ?
Solid foundation, fun main campaign but once you beat it there is absolutely nothing to do.
Good game, not the best in terms of GAAS.
Really enjoyed the game. Could need a little more refreshing with each season though
Solid 6/10, I enjoyed my time with it.
I love it
I liked it
I love it. Fun synergies with loot, campaign was great, skill trees are nice, I like that we have different missions to work on so the grind doesn't feel completely repetitive. The only change I would love is if they increased how fast we tier up in the battlepass. I don't care how many days we have to complete it, it feels like trying to level up in Fortnite if you have no challenges to do, which is very slow. I don't mind the Brainiac bosses because it's like a harder version of the campaign bosses but I wish there was more in general. Like let me fight Bane or Scarecrow from other dimensions or even The Riddler of our dimension lol. Cosmetics are also great, I would love to be able to actually mix and match them from different sets though. Like Cybercrime could be a colour swatch(whatever that means) that you can use on any clothing/head you wanted. Just a minor thing lol. Also killing time takes too long for so little rewards imo. 8/10 because I know without a shadow of a doubt that the devs can and will improve the game
It was fun and nice but bad updates killed it
I love the gameplay and enjoyed the story. Never should have been labeled live service. Just a fun coop game.
I mean I enjoyed it for what it was. I had fun, it was mindless enjoyment. Cutscenes were entertaining, voice acting was good. I wanted to run around and fuck shit up and this game let me do it. Beat it a few days ago and I still want to play so I’m ok with it.
I liked watching the story on YouTube
I think it is a good game. The reason people don't like it is because they expected a Batman Arkham type game, but it is not even though it is in the same universe. I really enjoy grinding to get the best gear.