That's an easy conundrum to solve. Batman Arkham Knight and Marvel's Spider-Man are made by talented developers with PASSION for what they're doing. Guardians of the Galaxy 3 and The Batman were made by talented directors with PASSION for what they're doing.
Drek like Marvel's Avengers and Suicide Squad: Kill the Franchise were made by inept developers with executives trying to create a money maker before a good game. All the other recent Disney, Marvel ...
It's as long as it takes to kill a universally acclaimed franchise and beloved character.
I can't believe the idiots left at Rocksteady had a winning concept here and decided to go with this garbage that no one polled outside of an insane asylum would want.
They literally had the perfect stepping stone from Arkham Knight. With Batman presumed dead and in hiding, he'd have been missed by Braniac's control along with Wonder Woman who is immune. Batman and Wonder Woman (playable character in certain segments) have to take down the Justice League. They c...
@raWfodog Great comment. I can't believe that after all the plot points people had an issue with in The Last of Us 2, the basic character motivations have to actually be explained to this lot when it's the most unambiguous and well presented part of the early narrative. I must have missed the part in the ending of The Last of Us Part 1 where Joel was killing the evil child slavers who stole Ellie and not the Fireflies who desperately believed Ellie was the cure to save humanity.
I disagree, binary choices like this have been done to death before. We don't need multiple endings to our narratives unless we're playing RPGs. Naughty Dog told their story and I respect that.
@DuckOnQuack35 Wow, you either don't remember the first game or you have an extremely limited narrative scope and played the second game half asleep. The surgeon pulled a knife on Joel because he barged into the room with a gun and it was obvious to anyone with half a brain cell that he was there to take Ellie. In the Fireflies' minds, she was their hope to save humanity. At this point Joel had killed dozens of Fireflies who genuinely believed they were saving the world with a cure. J...
Let's not also forget how daring Naughty Dog were to put you in the shoes of the person who killed Joel, and force you to play as her during moments like fighting Ellie. The game constantly put you in situations where you almost didn't want to progress with the story and I found it excellent. It's a rare game that actually makes you feel or be hesitant about what you're doing, whereas in any other revenge tale you wouldn't think, stop or pause for a second before you kill ...
I think you missed the point of the ending. The point was that revenge had cost Abbey and Ellie everything. This wasn't about their catharsis or completion of their revenge. It was that by the end Ellie realised that nothing was going to fix how she felt or give her back what she lost, the absolute pointlessness of all the death and bloodshed and loss culminated in a moment where she physically could not continue with it anymore or bring herself to end it with her revenge. Abbey and Ellie...
Maybe because it has 50% less sales and players.
@Foxtrot Aside from the ridiculous notion that an imposter could possess Deadshot's skill, let's also take a moment to appreciate how the world's greatest detective missed the fact that Deadshot wasn't black when he fought him in Arkham City.
I don't think the developer gave it as much thought as you have beyond "uh duh Will Smith is famous, and he's black, and Suicide Squad the movie was a success, and Will Smith is black, so let's make Dea...
Let's be honest, this garbage is only tied to the Arkhamverse for marketing purposes. It's far more likely to screw up the amazing story set in that universe than it is to do it any justice. This entire project is cynical in the same way that Metal Gear Survive was - the only difference is that Rocksteady Studios somehow dragged themselves to hell. I can see the 6 and 7 review scores now.
Hard to fathom after God of War has just put out New Game+ and Valhalla completely free.
Hope people vote with their wallets, because this is just another lame, pathetic attempt to monetize something that is always free, and we should not tolerate it.
I'm happy to pay, but not for standard features that I get elsewhere by default on plenty of better games than this.
I still cannot believe that the studio that reinvigorated superheroes in gaming, delivered the three best comic games of all time, that made Arkham Knight, which is STILL graphically and technically impressive today eight years later, ended up making this utter garbage.
I can just see the lukewarm "oh but it's fun with friends" reviews now and I want to cringe.
This is BS. The PS4 Pro was an interative upgrade and didn't stop a single game from running on the base model, including cross-gen PS5 releases. But much like any gaming PC, older hardware gets left behind and starts to limp at some point. Consoles are now giving players more options than they ever did to cater to those who want higher fidelity, ray tracing, performance or whatever else. The PS5 Pro will be an interative upgrade much like the PS4 Pro was and will simply unlock higher per...
I saw this last night and immediately knew it was the Steam community trolling and I laughed hard. Good one!
What is so hard to understand for them?
Bad Company 2 is one of the best and most memorable games in the series because:
- It was class-based (duh)
- Heavy focus on squads
- Substance over map size or gimmicks
- Fantastic and realistic gun play
- Well designed maps
- Destructible environments (why has this been minimised so hard in the series? You could demolish buildings in bad company 2 with some well placed C4
Foxtrot, whilst there are valid reasons to have concerns about Naughty Dog, the problem with many of your opinions is that you're holding unrealistic viewpoints about them that could also be applied to other Sony Studios.
Sucker Punch have two games, Infamous and Ghost of Tsushima, which came out in 2020. That's since the PS3 generation. Santa Monica has God of War only, and it took them five years to release God of War (2018) after Ascension and then almost four ye...
The media frenzy around Naughty Dog is because they can't seem to leave TLOU alone and Factions has been cancelled, however looking at their release calender shows:
Uncharted 4 (2016)
Uncharted: Lost Legacy (2017)
The Last of Us Part 2 (2020)
The Last of Us Part 1 Remake (2022)
The Last of Us Part 2 Remastered (2024)
Unannounced single player IP (TBA)
Clearly, Naughty Dog has been busy and their projects ar...
This is so me as well. I'm finally getting through my backlog while things are quieter over the festive period, but with my kids always on my TV and my work schedule I cannot wait for my Portal to arrive in February. It's on pre-order.
More than that there are so many games like Persona 5 or Immortals Fenyx Rising or Judgement that require a lot of hours or short burst games like Mega Man 11 in my backlog, but these don't need the big screen TV experience and I ...
You can think my idea is trash, no problem for me really and I whole heartedly invite you to pitch an alternative which I'm sure will be better than Suicide Squad: Kill the Arkhamverse. Hey, how about a Justice League game? They had them all here. But for some reason people are obsessed with making DC heroes turn evil or crapping all over Batman - even Kevin Conroy's first ever appearance in live action in the Arrowverse as the character disrespected the hell out of him, but at least ...