Death of a Game: Suicide Squad - Kill the Justice League

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A game that was dead from the start.

Suicide Squad: Kill the Arkham Legacy

They really thought people were going to grind this trash for hours and hours, then buy skins lmao

Poison Ivy's iconic Ice-Elemental Fire Axe...

You cannot kill what was always dead

Idk how the writers of this game thought killing off Arkham Batman and the JL was a good idea. It's was so obviously going to be received poorly by everyone especially by Arkham fans. It's like shooting your foot off and then expecting to be able to run afterwards.

The fastest DOAG BTW was The Day Before. It came out December 7 while the Death of a Game came out 17 days later on the 24th. This was almost 3 months from its release back in February.

Someone should do a wellness check on that Destructoid reviewer. Calling this game "well-written" is just not a thing healthy people say.

This game came out on life support.

This is the fastest crash out in history and it's crazy Rocksteady thought they could give us this game, say its in the Arkham verse which we dominated over three games, and then they disrespect the very hero we loved. Honestly good riddance to this game, it doesn't exist in my mind. Long live the Arkham Trilogy.

Its so funny that the Joker was supposed to be their ace in the hole and then he had genuinely one of my least favourite Joker designs I have ever seen

Meanwhile, at D.C. Comics: INVEST IN MORE LIVE-SERVICE GAMES!!!

I'm really not even sure why they thought this was a good idea. In what world is the ideal next step for your superhero universe to A) Shoot Batman in the face, and B) introduce the whole Justice League ten minutes before they all get brainwashed into being evil and then kill them?

"Studio that specializes in single-player, story-driven games is forced to make a soulless live-service cash-grab" is getting waaaaaay too common these days.

This one is rather depressing... Not only because of this being Kevin Conroy's last role, but also the fact that this may very well torpedo Rocksteady's reputation for good, all that talent, such an amazing take on the DC universe, and... They decided to attach this cancer to it... I think the worst part is that this one is taking the worst aspects of the live service slop: Turning everything into a chore, hoping to turn this one game into a lifestyle game, or worse, a job... When this stuff starts to feel like a job, like you gotta plan your day around not missing the timed stuff or grinding for whatever crumbs of slop they are willing to give you, it's the moment whatever fun this game could be died in its tracks.

"The writing is good, excellent even" journalists are useless

I don't know how WB are going to continue the Arkham Verse after this. They killed off a lot of their potential main characters, and if they say its all just multiverse stuff then what was the point in killing them anyway? It was a terrible idea to begin with, and Rocksteady will be forever tarnished. I bet they could have made a good superman game instead, but instead we get this rubbish. What a waste of 9 years in between Arkham Knight and this.

In regards to Kevin Conroy in this game: I suspect that he actually wanted to do this, mainly because lots of actors love getting to do alternate takes of characters they've done before (stretching creative muscles, so to speak.) However, the attachment isn't just to Conroy: this was the Batman fans had played as for 3 epic games, and a fourth good game in 'Origins'. There was nothing Epic about this death: it's just putting him out of his misery. That, just, HURTS. Thankfully, it looks like this isn't Conroy's last hurrah: he's listed as being in "Crisis of Infinite Earths, part 3". Hopefully, that will be the sendoff he deserves.

I honestly can't believe how much Rocksteady dropped the ball on Suicide Squad, All they needed to do is make an Arkham game from the villains perspective and everyone would have loved it! But as the old saying goes, Reputations take a lifetime to build, but seconds to destroy.