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Of course, those same industry leaders will not face any real consequences for the shitshow they created.

Anyway, also bad for players. Possibly less games overall and what games do release be generally safer and more predatory.
Speak for yourself; I got plenty of old games to play!
 
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I knew there would be more playable villains, but FFS they butchered Joker here
I think the saddest thing about Suicide Squad is that even though this is clearly live service garbage, Rocksteady put in a ton of work into it.

Everything about this game screams like an "EXPLOIT THE INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY" directive from the higher ups. The only reason Joker is from the multiverse is because they insist on cramming this game into the Arkhamverse. So now Rocksteady has to jump through hoops to get DC's most recognizable villain in the game, because that will drive up engagement.

The game has such a great concept in theory, and yet every other decision serves to restrict its potential. We can kill the Justice League! Except now no one wants to because that would mean killing everyone's favorite Batman. We can play as a diverse set of villains! Except they all just use guns and every playable villain so far has been done to death. We can explore the DC universe like never before! Except everything is shackled to existing Arkham lore (the thing with the black Deadshot is mind numbingly stupid).

I am beyond excited to see another live service attempt crash and burn, but I never wanted to see devs as talented as Rocksteady waste almost a decade of their work on something like this.

Hell, maybe they might even actually pull this off. But even that is a loss, but no matter how good of a live service it is, it's still a live service. Rocksteady's time is better spent on literally anything else.
 

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Whatever, just wash your hands.
Nice, I loved that game on pc. Really the only bad part was that despite having 4 characters who play differently. You do the same stages with each character when you play it. I really hope they added at least a couple more character specific stages. Even the story implies that not every character should be playing all the stages.
 

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Nice, I loved that game on pc. Really the only bad part was that despite having 4 characters who play differently. You do the same stages with each character when you play it. I really hope they added at least a couple more character specific stages. Even the story implies that not every character should be playing all the stages.
They probably didn't have enough budget or time to make characters specific levels for the first game. I don't see that as a huge issue so long as a character's all places with a sequel if they do have characters specific levels, I'm not going to mind either way so long as the characters are good and the level design facilitates them.
 

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They probably didn't have enough budget or time to make characters specific levels for the first game. I don't see that as a huge issue so long as a character's all places with a sequel if they do have characters specific levels, I'm not going to mind either way so long as the characters are good and the level design facilitates them.
Well, all the characters work on the levels. Its not like in the first game where playing as Millia was really rough after her specific stages since she was slower and jumped so much different then the other two characters. Although, I still haven't beaten it with Neera since playing through the same stages 4 times in a row gets kinda tedious. They are good stages but... yeah.
 
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Anyway, have some news, rumors and other tidbits.

Three former Ubisoft executives to go on trial for psychological and sexual harassment.
Don't have an English source, and this one's also behind a paywall, but here's an excerpt
Three years after the initial accusations were made, the Bobigny public prosecutor's office has upheld the charges against the French publisher's former No. 2 and his former right-hand man, among others. A hearing is scheduled for early February to set the trial date.

Speaking of Ubisoft, they'll be shutting down servers for a number of games tomorrow, including Assassin's Creed 2 and Ghost Recon Future Soldier

Some rumors/leaks, both also in French, but in short: Death Stranding 2 will be called Death Stranding 2 - On The Beach. Official announcement rumored to be within 15 days. Until Dawn will get a rerelease on PS5 and PC. Unclear whether remaster or full remake. Announcement also to be within 15 days.

Inti Creates teases what looks like a Mega Man Battle Network-like game (but with deck building?)
 

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Anyway, have some news, rumors and other tidbits.

Three former Ubisoft executives to go on trial for psychological and sexual harassment.
Don't have an English source, and this one's also behind a paywall, but here's an excerpt



Speaking of Ubisoft, they'll be shutting down servers for a number of games tomorrow, including Assassin's Creed 2 and Ghost Recon Future Soldier

Some rumors/leaks, both also in French, but in short: Death Stranding 2 will be called Death Stranding 2 - On The Beach. Official announcement rumored to be within 15 days. Until Dawn will get a rerelease on PS5 and PC. Unclear whether remaster or full remake. Announcement also to be within 15 days.

Inti Creates teases what looks like a Mega Man Battle Network-like game (but with deck building?)
Battle Network always had deck building. You collected all the powers, but could only run so many at once in your active deck.
 

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Am I so out of touch? No it's the bloggers that are wrong!
You know, they could've just kept their heads low and quietly fade int obscurity. But no, they just had to say something, and it's the dumbest thing ever
 
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You know, they could've just kept their heads low and quietly fade int obscurity. But no, they just had to say something, and it's the dumbest thing ever
As has been demonstrated extensively over the past years, grifters often seem to display a victim complex
 

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Translators worked on the game longer then their version is going to be available.

Healthy industry
Just long enough to FOMO weebs into laying down sweet sweet cashola for a chance at a jpeg of their favorite waifu before they disappear into the ether forever
 
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Just long enough to FOMO weebs into laying down sweet sweet cashola for a chance at a jpeg of their favorite waifu before they disappear into the ether forever
You would think these people would be better off just buying official merchandise, paying for commissions from fan artists, or just buy t-shirts of the stuff from Amazon or redbubble. Any of those are much cheaper, higher quality, and long-lasting than some game that's not going to even be around for a full year. They are literally going for the most desperate of people here.
 

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