Suicide Squid: Kill the Justice League

They broadly speaking feel similar, so if you don't get on with the core shooting gameplay it does change up much. There's defend points, rescue hostages, return pickups from enemies, defend plants which charge up and afflict enemies, and a vehicle assault thing I really like. Most of these also come with modifiers like grenade kills only, critical hits only etc. In the open world there's also contracts to do, Riddler races, Riddler puzzles and Riddler trophies.

One thing I've noticed with the loot side is there isn't much power creep on it so far. Different weapons have different strengths and weaknesses, but they sort of balance out. I'm about a third of the way through the story and still using the Black Mask weapons, and loot I'm getting now is all just trade offs.

Oof sensitive

The moment to moment fighting and the traversal skills are so fucking fun. There's a real learning curve to each character, King Shark feels easiest to me at the moment so I'm sticking with him for now.

I did see some streamers playing via twitch yesterday, well for about a minute or two, there was so much colour and hud/screen furniture going off I couldn't concentrate on the actual gameplay!

Speaking of DC does anyone recommend playing Batman origins (backwards com on xboxX)I bought the "remastered" trilogy, having completed the brilliant AA, never giving AC or AK enough time. I thought it might be good to start with O, I do know it is not by rocksteady.

I liked Origins, even if it kinda felt like a rehash. Boss battles were the highlight though, much better than what Asylum and City mustered.

Which ones that?

Wasn't Deadshot an absolute load of shit in Oranges?

Mr. Freeze ftw in City. Loved the dialogue during that fight.

Ahh right, that was a good boss. The shittest was the Deathstroke one for Arkham Knight, you know a pretty cool assassin to fight against and it ends up being a batmobile tank fight.

Comparing it to today's open world bloat, I'd say City is actually pretty tight. There's a lot of indoor sections, more than you'd think.

A reasonably positive (7/10) review from Push Square:

www.pushsquare.com/reviews/ps5/suicide-squad-kill-the-justice-league

“Getting toward the end of the Suicide Squad campaign and man, this totally blows. What a colossal disappointment by (almost) every metric. My only hope is that this will be the last time we see a scenario like this - a talented, single player focused studio utterly wasted on the live service golden goose chase. Please let this mark the end of that era.”

Skill Up is not a fan.

That lines up with my feelings for the most part. I think I like it more than they did but they pick out similar strengths and weaknesses that I would.

One minor quality of life thing I like is you can set your AI squad to auto-equip stuff, so if you have a main you can focus on their equipment and let your team deal with theirs. Other similar games I've played needed a lot more micromanaging that side of things. It's optional though, you can disable it.

He was reasonably positive in his preview but it looks like his concerns about the game outweighed the stuff he thought was interesting. People need to stop chasing that destiny money as the market already has it's leaders and you need to be exceptional to even dent it. Devs will never be able to produce enough content to keep players happy long term and even the best game in the genre can't do it.

Hopefully it gives WB a bit of a bloody nose so they can revealuate a bit. Their pricing in games like MK and then chasing the live service model are so detached from what most gamers want and I hope they learn that. Ironically their biggest success in recent times with a single player story driven game.

IGN uploading the games end cutscene is pretty petty. Sure they haven't done that before? especially for a game that officially releases today.