The Boundless Mediocrity of Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League
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I still want to make the Arkham Knight video. I got one more trip to the aslume left in me.
Please Mr Whitelight, make a video on Batman: Arkham Knight 🙏
Appreciate the hyper light drifter music
30:20 The issue here isn't actually that the ring takes off (it is meant to do that, seeking out the next Lantern), it's that Shark is able to wear and use it at all prior to it going away. The moment GL died, the ring would not let someone walk up and pick it off his corpse.
no
The outro 😭😭😭😭😭😭😭
You gotta give props to how creatively they actually kill the Justice League. Batman was shot with a gun. Flash was taken out with a gun. Green Lantern died from a bullet wound from a gun. And Superman was shot with a gun.
Underrated comment
what can i say gun is op 😂
💪🔫
Everyone knows that supermans biggest weakness are guns. Especially pink ones.
Superman: Faster than a speeding bullet.
Also Superman: Standing in place while being shot at.
Their creativity could parallel even Imagine Dragons
Suicide Squad Kill Rocksteady
🤓☝️Eh-actualy, it would be "Suicide Squad: Kill the Rocksteady"🕴
@@Vini_31 eh-actuality they had it right the first time 🤓👍
You forgot the "ed" after kill
Yah won’t be long now. Wait for the word
Warner Bros Kills Rocksteady
The visual clutter makes it look like a fake game they'd show for a second in a TV with the actor mashing the controller randomly. I guess that's what WB excecs think game actually look like...
Exactly...gotta admit i have like 27 hours on the game and completed the story (which is pure dogshit btw, seemed like it was written by a 14 y.o DC fan as a "fanfiction", could go on a rant about it). And even tho there were times where the traversal and combat werent too bad...my god the visual clutter. When you are in a bigger fight it looks like the game is straight up tryna give you an epileptic shock, the fucking colors everywhere.
But WB exec had nothing to do with this. This is ALL Rocksteady. This all their failure. This all the choices THEY made. Just as Anthem was Bioware's failure.
Stop giving the blame to higher ups when the corruption is in the studio and dev level.
Doubt the excecs have much care in how cluttered the ui and abilities should look.
I loved seeing the guy playing a fighting game on a pro level being mocked because it looked fake.
What a brilliant comparison. I think of that snippet in the GTA V story where Jimmy is playing an FPS and Michael destroys the TV.
dont forget, when they killed Batman, a casing hits the floor.... from a revolver which is impossible....
he reloaded real quick for the style points
Are you serious?
Really. WTF were they smoking.
For those who don't know, when a revolver is fired, the cartridge case stays in it's chamber, and has to be removed, usually by pushing the ejector rod.
Cringe fr
That's nitpicking
If "Boundless Mediocrity of ___" is now a series, it's one of my favourites now.
It’s the perfect lunch break series. Which of course is the highest honor j can bestow on a CZcams
I really love when Whitelight drops one of these.
@@alexwright5419 Remember when we were kids and didn't have to spend most of our waking hours working
might as well be a series, we're not running out of mediocre games any time soon
i was gonna call it lazy titling, but saying that to Whitelight's videos is one hell of an insult.
nothing staggeringly bad about his videos, his commentary is nice, the jokes are pretty good but not forced or repetitive, and he doesnt just come up with random excuses to call a game mediocre, while hiding its actual positive traits.
Whitelight's criterion for choosing which game to make a video on:
"Can I fit a Spiderman Web of Shadows reference into this?"
That's it.
He loves all 19 inches of venom
4:54
youd think his name ment Prototype.
Oh yeah, I remember when he made Web of Shadows references in his Gotham Knights, Far Cry 6 and Darksiders videos lmao.
I do very much HATE games that make damage be super inflated. Like have weapons do 100k damage but it so happens that everyone has like 1 billion hit points, so it’s just a big number for the sake of a big number, trying to make it look more powerful despite the fact it’s not, bc if you divided everything, you could get small and understandable numbers pretty quickly
this☝️
Big numbers should represent huge consequences unless you're an idle game.
They THINK you associate big numbers with big damage, like a mind trick they're playing on you.
They're insulting your intelligence.
@@user-s8jb3qb6y It's the video game interface equivalent of jingling keys at you.
It's to necessitate constantly replacing your gear every time you level up.
It feels like the executives at WB don't understand that they can't force us to like live service and when they release a game that fails only developers suffer the consequences . It is a toxic cycle that needs to end
Executives in general. But no, they fire the devs and the CEOs get bomuses that would feed small cities for years
How many cynical, incompetent cash grabs is it going to take to bankrupt WB? That’s the only kind of consequence they would respond to, but it will never happen.
these developers are also stupid developers and they deserve to lose their jobs
WB is apparently trying to get an award for being the dumbest company in the planet
@@penedrador A tale as old as life
Why did Cocksteady make a looter shooter that's always online? Are they stupid?
They fired most of their White and Asian males and replaced them with danger hairs and alphabet types. Stupid decisions ensued as they do.
maybe devs spending 7 years in the aslume caused stupid brain and infected the game
It's not rocksteady, it's their moronic WB superiors. Great idea to blame the people who have no choice in the matter
@@herrschneider5310 no choice 😂😂😂😂
@@sheepfly of course, wtf do you think happens when WB says "develop a live service game" and Rocksteady says "no" 🤣 did you ever work in your life?
Visual diarrhea
The combat footage legitimately hurts my head
I literally feel sick watching the video. No way this was QA tested
I think this is a first video game in my life that legitimatelly is giving me a headache just by looking at screen.
Damn right, the clutter in the screen actually made me nauseous.
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looking at this terrible epilepsy-inducing UI reminds me of the Elden Ring minimal UI "controversy". The laughable attempt of "experts" to defend stuff like this.
This UI looks exactly the same as the elden ring ubisoft meme ui lmao
I had to pause this video multiple times/just listen to the audio due to the headache and overwhelm the ui was giving me. Shit like this misses ALL the marks of UI/UX design.
I remember most the Arkham games keeping it minimal. You don't see health at full. There's only a handful of counter marks. Such a shame.
@@QuickQuips Arkham Knight UI is so well designed that your queue for "shit i am dying" is a beeping sound that gets faster when you are one shot away from death. That's good design, not this Fortnite-esque bloat that also gives people like me over-stimulation headaches
@@Ralirits funny you say that cause fortnite has an way better UI than this lmao
"Let's all laugh at an industry that never learns anything tee hee hee"
Why not
Teeheehee!!!
And cue the laugh 40:15
@EXiLExJD I'm not sure if this is sarcasm, but yeah, I WILL laugh at and avoid soulless live service slob (unless it's Deep Rock Galactic, the only good, moral and ethical live service)
Zero Punctuation is awful and was boring for much of its run.
Now, Fully Ramblomatic??? That's a good show.
The fact that rocksteady wasted so many years on this game when they could have been developing a worthy successor to the arkham series is honestly one of the most unfortunate things to come out of this whole situation.
They had the frigging rights to the justice league. We could have gotten the Flash, Superman, Green Lantern... but no.
Suicide squad is never a worthy successor to the arkham series. If I have to choose I probably have to pick spiderman. Not wolverine or this wonder woman game.
I mean, I'm sure they wanted to do something different for once rather than burning themselves out. It's just that this wasn't it.
You want.. another spiderman game instead of something unique? I mean jfc i LOVE the spiderman games (the 20 year old ones too) but we need something different lmao@@nemesisprime4501
There was a Batman Beyond game in the pipeline once. Now it's just concept screenshots and questions.
That “Is there a lore reason? Is he stupid?” hit me like a truck lmao
What a vomit of a UI. And I am not even THAT old, only 32 y/o and I simply cannot look at that mess.
Im 27 and I get annoyed thinking about it.
I’m 24 and I feel genuinely sick
this was one of the first things i noticed when i first saw gameplay of this game. Just thought to myself "wtf is this mess?, no thanks"
33 and that UI gives me a migraine just looking at it.
im 19 and i rather listen to nails on chalkboard for hour than to glance at this fucking ui
I can BARELY look at the screen, how is that playable lmao
I think this should have been a Wonder Woman game instead. It would be far more interesting to see Diana struggle with the fact she has to stop & probably kill the same people she called friends , family. The people who built something great in order to protect the innocent sadly now gone. It makes sense matchup wise for her to be able to fight the league. Then after the end maybe Diana is the leader of a new league.
I heard a similar idea somewhere else where Batman was the only one not controlled, so he had to use his contingencies to free his friends. That would’ve been a really cool game, figuring out how to subdue the Justice League and fight with your brain.
Wasn't this meant to tie in/capitalize off of the better Suicune Squad movie tho? Since it did so well? I think the idea of playing as the Suicune Squad is really cool, the idea of them killing the Justice League is cool, but there was no way they could execute it without seeming ridiculous...like someone said about the first SS movie, it's ridiculous to expect this group to defeat world ending threats, they weren't created to do that, keep it smaller in scope.
Plus yknow all the other issues with the game.
I do like the idea of one member of the JL going against their family and friends but personally wouldn't want to play that...kinda too dark for my tastes but definitely a better story idea then this.
Mediocrity is too positive of a word. More like "a complete and utter disaster"
Nah mediocrity is the best way to describe it. There's fun to be had, but it doesnt grab like a live service should, and there are many fatal flaws amongst the story, visual clarity, buildcrafting, activities, and so on.
@@sauceinmyface9302 as far as gameplay it’s mediocre the story is less than mediocre it’s bad
@@sauceinmyface9302if my town got hit by a flood saved my favorite cafe that i used to visit but not anymore because they become boring because they always serve the same coffee over and over again i will still call it a disaster. Not a complete one but a disaster nonetheless.
"An unmitigated disaster"
Picard
Then why waste precious lifetime talking about it?
30:00 Nah. Co-op isn't an excuse. If a 10yo MMO like FFXIV can create well paced raids for 24 people that tell good stories, a modern game should be able to accommodate to 4 people controlling preestablished characters. Otherwise, nothing is stopping them from making those missions single player only.
This could have been an easy win in terms of narrative, and they did everything to avoid making the right decisions. It's a shame that the devs ar Rocksteady will be the ones to pay for the consequences instead of the people who decided to transform the idea into this lifeless live service.
The High Moon Transformers games had coop too (at least War for Cybertron had it), and they had pretty epic storylines.
@@leithaziz2716I miss that series what happened to it was unfair
There's a good saying that I like to quote, but can't for the life of me remember who said it first. "Even playing with shit's fun with friends. You're still playing with shit, though."
@@mortemtyrannus8813 It MIGHT have been Yahtzee (back in his Zero Punctuation days) who said it when reviewing one of the many terrible multiplayer games he's reviewed but then I feel like that saying has been around for as long as this 'live service' trend has been going on for.
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It's the anti-video game.
A boring, meaningless marathon of cheap stimulation with a skin mask of your favorite things that you've already seen millions of times.
All the effort only serves to guide you to a store for you to put more money into a facade that pretends to care about you.
It's literally the Happy Box from Mother 3.
I'd rather get struck by lightning than play this slop.
The fact that they tried to tie this shit to the Arkham games is laughable. They really thought they could get away with that shit.
I get the feeling that shit is gonna be retconned completely in the future.
@@luketfer No doubt about that.
@@luketfer Not with all the ESG money floating around.
Especially with deadshot. Are we supposed to believe that there was an imposter deadshot running around for a decade and Batman never mentions it either out loud or in his notes?
"Meh" is already off the mark, it's abysmal
It's really not. People really wanted to be abysmal- it's mainly just mediocre with a gaming community really wanting to hate it
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 im crying
@@zyphonwhite9853it is really that bad
It looks fun, man. Why are people so cynical! It's just a game! 😭
@@zyphonwhite9853 The gameplay is mediocre, the game as a whole is fucking hot garbage
"You just have to wait for the battlepass to drop, I swear that'll fix the issues"
sometime stuff like that make me hate No Man's Sky, because of the game able to revive after all the backlash that many people cling to that excuse for a broken game
Man, I am not prone to epilepsy or headaches from visual stimuli, but this game gets me every time I watch footage of it. It's ridiculous.
The worst part is that WB Games also released Hogwarts Legacy, the highest-selling game of 2023 (even beating that year's Call of Duty), and they still somehow learned the wrong lesson from SS:KTJL and are doubling down on cheap-to-make, heavily monetized live-service games.
Agreed. Even with all the controversy with Rowling (which is a whole can of worms is all I’ll say), it still sold insanely well. Same with Baldur’s Gate 3. Both sold insanely well. WB is taking away the wrong lesson
I'll give you a worse reality: It's not SS:KTJL that gave them the wrong lesson, it was Helldivers 2, they saw the game go viral and now more than ever they want a slice of that success.
They way corporations think, they are probably just blaming the IP for their failure and not their "games as a service" model. So instead of continuing making single player games like Hogwart's Legacy, turn them into a live-service game until one turns a profit.
The business model with live service games is put out 20 and hope 1 sticks, that 1 will make up the losses of all the others. It's like a corporate game of chicken with bankruptcy
@@Roler42how did WB see helldivers success months before it released I wonder
29:49 asumle is leaking
I’ve never opened the comments so fast in my life, the second I see aslume meme I must find fellow jonklers. Are you stupid?
Is there a lore reason for Harley no longer being thicc?
@@lebastion7104 is she stipid?
@@lebastion7104The jonkler took her thick, i am gay for him
Why did Cocksteady make Man die by only a gun? Are they stupid?
First Monty, now Whitelight. A double bill of disappointed fans
Who’s Monty? Haven’t heard of them but if they’re similar to
White light I’d like to check them out
@@captainbighead Monty Zander. They do go hand in hand with high quality, well edited game deconstruction with a proper amount of snark thown in. Great double feature.
This!!! As soon as I finished with Monty's video, i noticed Whitelight's freshly uploaded, a perfect double feature.
I love his other videos, but I couldn't sit through Monty's video myself. It felt like a lengthy spread of spite for the game that I can already gleam from 20 other video titles on my feed and I'd much prefer Whitelight's more neutral take on the matter.
@TewbBelrog there's a reason for that that Monty gets to, given his experience with the endgame and the Joker update
I swear this game looks like the video game equivalent of something a casino would have. Brightly colored explosions and flashing surfaces everywhere, particle effects, numbers going up and taking up more screen space as they get bigger. Bars filling up, constant changes everywhere in general. All to overload your brain and distract you that you wasted your money on that shit. Well I guess it's on theme with it being live service I give them that.
It's honestly impressive how many IP's mindless companies have bungled up recently. So many they could have ridden out and printed money, instead they decided to change everything people liked for zero reason.
What IPs?
@@dylansharp8471 Marvel's Avengers comes to mind.
On some level i could have seen this becoming a good sales game, a game where you and your mates play when its heavily discounted, but its connection to the arkham verse and the disrespect that it does to those games basically makes that imppsoible
not even that is worth it
better coop games exist than this predatory monetization game
"It's Anthem." (Patreon credits)
Thats an insult to Anthem. At least Anthem didnt ruin a pre-established universe.
@@chaosinc.382 But it DID ruin a pre-established developer.
Instead of giving a game to Superman, Flash, GL, or just the League in general after YEARS of fans begging for them, we instead get a disrespectful mess of a half baked looter shooter.
Let’s not forget WB pushing an IP that WB seems so set to make a hit despite constant misses. A live service JL game could’ve been more tolerable, but instead we get another attempt of WB wanting to push a team that’s basically just an outlet for Harley Quinn at this point. They are so allergic to good ideas and making money, it’s fucking astounding.
Soooo, the game is 70 dollars and then you pay some more to progress in the story and unluck customizable?
And it won't be playable 5 years from now because it's entirely online and they'll shut down the servers when there's nobody left to play.
Truly the future of the game industry, those narrative driven solo game have no chance.
The UI reminds me of two things:
1) The type of UI a bunch of complete amateurs might make, either as a hobby project or as a minor element in a movie background.
2) That bit from Ready Player One where the bad guy talks about how much of the screen real estate they can use before inducing seizures.
Just finished a job interview that went very well, and Whitelight posted a new video. Made my week
Good luck homie.
Good luck mate
Congrats homie.
You got this brother
congrats buddy
Elden Ring currently has 50k players. Suicide Squad currently has 649 players. Even Armored Core 6, which is a niche game, has more people playing it than Suicide Squad.
Elden Ring DLC release date basically forced numerous developers to delay their stuff by one week. Final Fantasy 14 delayed their expansion early access by one week expressely because they didn't want to compete with the DLC, as did, IIRC, the new Persona game. People saw what happened to the new Horizon game (first one released same week as Tears of the Kingdom, the second one released the same time as Elden Ring, both taking the open world in different directions and establishing a 'new standard' that made the Ubisoft 'climb tower, reveal map, free outpost' gameplay look as tired and dated as it is) and decided it really isn't worth repeating that.
@@luketfer by... The first, and the second, horizon, do you mean forbidden West and... I assume a dlc for forbidden West? Or something else? Bc iirc the original zero dawn doesn't match those time frames, right?
Not trying to contradict, just a bit confused.
honestly speaking, I have personally never seen a game with such a busy UI. Everytime I see footage of this game I am in awe of how much is happening on screen
Persona 3 Reload was the superior Suicide Squad release of Q1 2024
Just started, and you've already made me realize how dissonant all it is. "Easy anti-cheat stopped working" why though??? Why do we need DenuvoDRM AND Easy Anti-Cheat? It's a mostly solo game about being a normal dude flying around killing minions until you fight a boss. If this was 2008, I'd be flabbergasted to find out the game had no cheat codes for infinite ammo, or the best guns, or infinite money.
Gaming today is such a soulless husk of the way it used to be. Cheating used to be expected! If this game was never online, they wouldn't need either software and the game would run like 35% better at base.
What a waste of effort it was, making this game.
The gameplay is worse that saints row 3/4 with none of the soul
Unrelated to the game, but that lofi hiphop cover of Light of the Seven at the beginning SLAPS
That's what it is? I knew I'd heard that tune before.
The premise of this game is nonsensical. Ignoring the silly defences for the story and writing (clone theory, “DLC will fix it all,” though it did nothing of the sort, and other defences made to cover up the horrid writing capabilities at Rocksteady) this premise is not realistic to the characters and the world they inhabit.
Braniac is one of the smartest lifeforms to exist. Letting the Joker escape his ship in the DLC when the League could not, is nonsensical.
Batman is a master tactician, experienced martial artist, psychologically powerful, and the peak of raw human capacity. The Squad is one shark with a large firearm, one man with many firearms, another man with one boomerang and a firearm, and one lady with a blunt weapon and firearm.
I do not believe that they would win against the Batman, let alone any other League member alone. In fact, Wonder Woman completely dismantled them all in a cutscene. This is shown to us, yet they have us believe that Superman, The Flash, and Green Lantern could not possibly won against them. Ah, but how could I forget the magic “win against League member,” buttons?
Speaking of that Wonder Woman cutscene, having Wonder Woman be the one to live seems strange considering that we have Batman as the perfect character to fill that mentor role for the delinquent Squad.
Even any “positives,” of graphical fidelity or voice acting can be combatted. The voice acting is admittedly grating for Harley (an already overused and ruined character) and Boomerang (stereotype for Australians, but stereotypes matter little for him in their eyes) and the fidelity may be very nice, but the city is not exactly wondrous to see. The ship in the background is just that: background. There is so much set dressing, but the play never uses the setting or props. It feels like a badly made sitcom.
This game is the epitome of whatever is wrong with writing, performance, shallowness, monetisation, and characterisation within modern gaming.
Everything woke turns to shit - Donald J Trump
Yeah but comic book power levels are made up monkey shit anyway. Batman's physical strength and intelligence are wildly inconsistent because obviously, he can only be as smart and strong as the story demands. The appeal of the Kill The Justice League concept is contriving an interesting way for low level villains to beat these guys. The problem isn't the contrivance, it's that the solutions they picked were boring as fuck. Make King Shark drink smart people juice that makes him a 12th level intellect even beyond Braniac or some shit. Make Harley get bitten by a legally distinct radioactive Spider. Give Captain Boomerang Toon Force from being friends with Mr.Mxtyplyx. I don't care if you piss on the Flash, just make the moment actually funny.
@@BobtheX agree to disagree on the contrivances.
But I 100% agree that the methods were faulty. Even if I disliked the premise, I do think with creativity and genuine care it could work, but this game shows a lack of genuine care across the board.
@@juliushall8499
What?
"Ignoring the silly defences for the story and writing (clone theory, “DLC will fix it all,” though it did nothing of the sort, and other defences made to cover up the horrid writing capabilities at Rocksteady)"
What now?
Another common white light W.
Also I have never seen someone with a more accurate take then thatboyaquas take in the outro, cause I do think my ten year old, mega arkham fan looking ass, would have been pissed off at this game.
sheied him from this crap-show's existence lol
@@devanduraipragash6106 I was talking about myself as a ten year old but I can see where the misconception is coming from
I don't think I've experienced nausea from trying to watch gameplay before, you've given me a new experience
29:48
Just casually slipping that in there, makes me feel like a sleeper agent awakening whenever I hear those words.
We will never escape the aslum.
Hi, DC mythos/lore expert here. There *is* a reason why Batman doesn't kill the squad when he meets them:
He's stupid.
You do not need to pay attention to what you unlock in the skills trees. I did not read one line of any of the weapons or gear upgrades I got. Just equipped it when it made my stats go Up and beat the entire game on the highest difficulty 😅😅😅. That should tell you how much thought really went into this lame combat system. Also speaking of the story every time Deadshot started talking I would literally start falling asleep. It’s a combination of the voice actor and the writing but holy shit I’ve never seen a more boring character in ANYTHING 😂
I was playing Minecraft and watching this vid on the other monitor, the moment you started talking about the Fear Toxin bit and said the words 'spooky voice', I heard a cave noise and about shit myself.
Funny how Rocksteady managed to both literally and figuratively shoot Batman in the head
Was definetely hoping you would cover this!
That was the cleanest ad transition ever
WillieMac tier, even
Im struggling to finish this video because of the visual diarrhea. Absolutely insane. Never seen and probably never will see anything like this.
Whitelight is back! Being caught up on your content is upsetting because instead of back to back multi-hour analysis i have to wait 😭 still happy to see that noti though
0:43 instant rhythm game end boss PTSD flashbacks.
Damn usually don't fall for sponsors but you got me with this one, I have been falling a sleep watching long form factor videos for so long.
Wow, didn't expect you to be this invested in this game. I'm sorry for your loss, my condolences.
Was looking through my recommended and legit said out loud "oh, new Whitelight dropped!" Love this channel, and more importantly, this man's voice haha.
Idk how anyone can call this shit “mediocre”.
pretty much the only game where even video essays about it are hard to look at. Watching that UI at 2x speed almost gave me a seizure
Great video tho, as always!
Literally the only youtuber that makes the end credits enjoyable. Love ya man. Gonna go binge watch all your stuff again
To make a game like this good it would require an approach no multi million $ company would take but also you can't do it without that money backing you, so it's impossible to make honestly.
You couldn’t get me to play this game even if it was free. The visual noise alone makes it unplayable.
I ended up watching a playthrough of the game and I could barely figure out what was happening half the time.
White light, nothing makes me happier than to see a great vid from you about a game that sucked for me. It gives me somthing to look forward to atleast when I play this slop. You are epic, keep on gaming
10:45 this is usually done in horror games, usually done to depower the player and make them pick run or hide more often. It can work to provide a slightly more realism as well as allowing more effective startle moments where a melee enemy just barely breaches your third person view. this of course sucks in quick fps games like this, it's literally meant to slow the player down.
Rocksteady: What if we made a boss fight against Superman, where you kill him with bullets?
I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS :D
That manta transition was so slick it took me 10 seconds to realise I was listening to an ad lol
I’ve been playing Suicide Squad for weeks and it’s so much fun especially with friends.
Dunno why it says “Helldivers 2” on the cover tho…
Yeah Helldivers 2 has scratched the itch of awesome co-op shooter. And I paid $30 less
@@alexwright5419 it's an actual "suicide squad" experience too if you think about it
0:56 holy cow, it took me way too long to even notice the player is kingshark. There is so much cluster on that image.
When i played this game and Batman got hand cannoned I paused the game went and did something completely mundane like emptying my dishwasher. Made a tea and then it hit that they had actually killed off Batman. THEE batman I grew up playing as. I turned off the game. And never played it again
Yup they told everyone it was Arkhamverse Batman just for sales and shock value
"Uuuuuuuh AKSHULLY the game is CALLED Kill the Justice League, so of course we HAD to insult degrade and kill your favorite Batman LOL plot armour NERFED :P"
Cynical terminally online ragebait addicted nitwits made this game, not Rocksteady
Refund that mothafucka
More like the boundless scrolling of me waiting for another Whitelight video
I love how you actually talk about the gameplay and not just about the character assasination.
It feels refreshing and unique.
Assassination?
Imagine this as a single player game, set in this brainiac invasion, where you play as Wonder Woman. I feel like that would have been such a great starting point for a great game.
"Mediocre" is being very generous.
Extremely
I'll never understand how the dev teams/parent companies think that pushing out this bare minimum, bland, unfun slop is a good idea after they saw how Avengers was received YEARS ago, and each subsequent version of this formula gets substantially worse somehow
I love waking up in the morning to a whitelight video on my dayoff
I love you content, the editing/ formating your scripts.
iv watched most of your vids of those I've finished all of them but im only 17:16 mins into this an im not going to be able to finish this 1
I’m going to attempt to guess the rest of the story:
The next episode will hint at the possibility that the jl will come back, then next season has the ms freeze thing and a repeat of the Batman fight but different somehow. The next episode will have some sort of new boss fight, mabey a fight with multiple flash clones and then you rescue/revive flash. You will then spend the rest of the seasons up until 4 where you rescue lantern and superman, revive Wonder Woman through some bullshit and then meet deathstroke who will have bumped off some brainiacs of screen because the games dying and now you have to save Batman, deathstroke will not want to do that but be convinced by the idea of getting to be the one to kill him next time, they then save Batman after a corrupted robin boss fight and then finally you fight brainiac and the game implodes on itself and they never update it again.
HLD's Seed of the crown is my morning alarm, so at 21:11 I woke up for a second time today.
Your video has helped put words to feelings of unease that I've have following this games reveal, launch, and subsequent downturn. Sure all the popular red flags are there: Live service, numbers-based progression, spectacle over visual clarity, comedy that I cringe at. But through your video, things like no character arcs and the anti-climatic story about game ending everyone favorite character(s) were things I felt but could not vocalize. Cheers for your media literacy.
I love your videos man you go into such in-depth and intricate critique of any video game. It is truly remarkable you have mastered the art of taking your feelings and putting them into words you are probably the best at making people understand what you’re saying, and what you were feeling, and the fact that you are completely fair absolutely no bias at all makes you an even more remarkable critic than any other I enjoy watching your videos.
the egg on a beef patty thing is a reference to loco moco which is a hawaiian dish which is a fried egg over a hamburger over rice. because shark is hawaiian. you can laugh now
HA
That actually sounds pretty tasty.
Wait, how the hell would a possessed Green Lantern even work? Wouldn't that just be a guy with an inert ring?
Fr, no willpower
I have to say, the quality of writing in your video essays is breathtaking, genuine some of the most articulate and well-refined scripting on CZcams.
40:22 is one of the most creative, perfectly visualizing thing I think I’ve ever heard on the entirety of CZcams, and I didn’t expect to find it on a video about the dumb Suicide Squad games breakdown video
Do you seriously expect me to watch yet another video shitting on suicide squad kill the justice league? Because you’d be right
Hate to say it, but given how much time and money was poured into this, this might be the death of Rocksteady. At the very least I would be really surprised if there weren't layoffs later this year...
One can hope
Mid development of this game was already the death of rocksteady as all the talent left the studio...
Game play of this game always give me such a eyesore, i just have to close my eyes each time because it induces so much nausea. What a mess but great video even tho i couldn't watch half of it xD looking forward to the other content these essays are just so soothing and informative :P
and i hope to see a indie game mash up some time, Hardspace Shipbreaker is just amazing but i doubt a whole video could be done about it just like with Pacific Drive, or Weird West because they are extraction games with a consistent game play loop and story
Hey Whitelight! You got a video for AC6 in the works? Just strikes me as a video I'd rewatch over and over.
If not, looking forward to your next art piece. (Because lets be honest, these videos _are_ art)
Have a good one man. 👍
"mediocre" is still being way too generous to that failed abortion of a live cervix game.
I would love to see a video from you about Helldivers 2.
Amazing work as always
Don't give him money. He oblivious spends it for garbage like deluxe editions of games every knew would be bad.
He most certainly will invest your money in candy
whenever whitelight pulls out a random modern meme or reference it feels like if your professor did it
Live Service Games = Future Bargain Bin Games
Future bargain bin games that you can't play because the always online DRM and servers are shut down.
Calling this game “boundlessly mediocre” is incredibly unfair and downright insulting to all of the things that are mediocre out there.
Probably/Definitely the best transition to an ad ever i literally didn't skip and will probably buy one when my pay comes
They're actually really good, I got the sound/headphone one because I cant sleep without white noise but my gf hates it. Keeps the light out very well too
@@K0RVAA thanks for the info i have trouble sleeping but its mores of a i need to stop using my phone
I came for the immaculately implemented Whitelight ad break and was not disappointed
calling it mediocre is an insult to the word mediocre
Glad to see another review of yours; be it a good game or a bad one, you always bring something I haven't thought of before, so I'm grateful.
Still need to finish this though, at around 11:40 you put some classical music at the background and I went haywire, cause I thought I had opened Hearts of Iron IV but my PC wasn't showing it lmao, need to take my mind off this grand strat game.
Love your vids man!