Suicide Squid: Kill the Justice League

Warframe does the same character unlock thing I believe.

It took me a couple of hours to unlock Joker just fannying about blowing things up, there's a vid where you can do it 40 mins.

It's a complete and utter non issue.

I'm sat here with Forbidden West and Dragons Dogma 2 installed on my PC and I love both but I find myself coming back to this of all things. It's so oddly satisfying like power washing.

Funnily enough that's the exact vibe I get from this, especially with Fear Level being doable by doing almost any of the easier missions. I just mindlessly go about doing missions instead of cleaning things. nothing gets cleaning but I'm levelling up squad ranks, Fear tank and battle pass rank all the time.

Just like Phattso, I bought this game during the recent Xbox sale and got it for cheap. I'm echoing his sentiments and I'm enjoying it. Certainly enjoying it a lot more than I did the Gotham Knights game. Shame how easily a game can die if the internet is not prepared to look beyond trigger words like 'Live Service'.

I also picked it up recently and have spent a couple of hours with it so far. I also like what I've played. Looks good, plays well, and each of the four handles differently enough from the rest that it's good fun mixing up who you're playing as.

rocksteady must be shitting bricks

If I was ms or Sony I would just open the doors and take them straight away if that were to happen.

I didn't say anything about buying them, I said take the studio if it's closed. No costs involved.

Ms and Sony own plenty of IP and there was enough good in suicide squad to show there is talent there.

Jason Schreier looks into the behind the scenes on the game, worth a read, the link is about three miles long as it's a gift link from Jason's Twitter as Bloomberg is usually paywalled.

www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2024-06-06/-suicide-squad-warner-bros-s-200-million-flop-haunts-the-gaming-industry?accessToken=eyJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiIsInR5cCI6IkpXVCJ9.eyJzb3VyY2UiOiJTdWJzY3JpYmVyR2lmdGVkQXJ0aWNsZSIsImlhdCI6MTcxNzY3MzY3MywiZXhwIjoxNzE4Mjc4NDczLCJhcnRpY2xlSWQiOiJTRU5QQUlEV0xVNjgwMCIsImJjb25uZWN0SWQiOiJCMUVBQkI5NjQ2QUM0REZFQTJBRkI4MjI1MzgyQTJFQSJ9.yB-HVmx3nZL3rpzfiy_eMucOVRoO4LbwqaSoNNzKNzM

I think while it's easy to blame WB it really does look like Rocksteady management really didn't know what the fuck they were doing. It sounds like Anthem all over again with the not even looking at Destiny as a model. It's baffling.

The thing of it is, though, it's not the structure of Destiny that keeps people coming back (in fact it is loudly, and continuously derided) but the fact that moment-to-moment it's possibly the finest shooter ever made and people will take any excuse to play more and more and more. I lost myself to Destiny 1 and the first couple of years of Destiny 2 *in spite* of the RPG grinding horseshit, not because of it, because the gunplay is fucking sublime.

I'd take it as a point of pride that the creative director(s) at Rocksteady wouldn't want to follow the structural playbook. Just make a good fucking gameplay loop, you loons, and bolt the rest onto it.

Destiny only has the variety of content it has because they fucked story and cutscenes into the sun. It's so bare bones on that front. But Rocksteady are the other way around. So they stapled a less good core loop into a structure built around shallow narratives, and then spent bajillions adding some of the finest cutscenes the gaming world has ever seen. Seriously - the character work in Suicide Squad is off the charts.

But I don't play cutscenes so I'm left with a loop that's mid tier and loot that's mid tier and storytelling that's AAAA. I got value out of the £30 I spent on it in the sale, but there's little reason to go back.

Destiny is the best worst game Ive ever played. Everything about it is absolutely shite except the shooting. Although, tbh, the last expansion didn't really even have that going for it. Everything about it was, at best, boring.