Rocksteady - Here's What Happens When You Fire Your Writing Team

[@NikTek]

Rocksteady back then: Villains talking about their complex and evil twisted motives Rocksteady today: Villains talking about how Batman caused long-term mental and emotional damage

[@masrfaker]

he really hit them with that *emotional damage*

[@DuelaDent52]

…aka villains talking about their twisted and complex motivations. Seriously, why are you taking Harley so seriously here? Even she’s clearly not happy about killing Batman here.

[@jhgamermode6538]

Yep its bad-writing at its finest

[@N120Xeno]

I mean given how much Batman beated the shit out of his foes I wouldn’t be surpsurprised if he caused them long term mental and emotional damage lol

[@schwarz8614]

@@DuelaDent52 because its bad. Its complete and utter trash. You have to be both blind and deaf to not see it.

[@minizimi3790]

“Causing long term emotional damage to everyone you knew” . . . Harley, you helped murder a school bus full of children.

[@jimmybuba2683]

Such a girlboss right? 💅

[@CidGuerreiro1234]

I started this game (got if for free) and not even 5 minutes in, Harley had already used the words "capitalism", "gentrification" and "toxic environment".

[@twinzzlers]

​@@CidGuerreiro1234I'd say her maiming a kindergarten was worse lol

[@Dhampire1976]

She helped kidnap and was a big player in torturing Jason Todd as well btw

[@armintor2826]

And then immediately after saying that, she then goes "now its our turn"

[@air-kon]

Congrats, Jared Leto is no longer the worst Joker

[@inframatic]

its so sad thats true

[@Li-Fu7]

I do think this is the new direction for the Joker, though. He seems to be becoming more effeminate and whimsical across different media over time

[@CollideNature]

He's never been

[@4.5th_impact]

​@@Li-Fu7 As bad as this version of joker is he's always been effeminate, he's literally a guy with dyed hair in a purple suit that's gay for a millionaire in a bat fursuit

[@ss-nu3qf]

​@@Li-Fu7 ...have you read any of the comics? Have you seen any of the movies? Nevermind. Don't answer that.

[@MetroXLR]

The fact that Rocksteady's founders' Sefton Hill and Jamie Walker left during SS:KtJL's development to start a new studio with former Rocksteady employees says a lot.

[@karvenman]

Oh shit what's the name

[@MetroXLR]

@@karvenman Hundred Star Games. That's the name of the new studio by the team that created the Arkhamverse.

[@karvenman]

@@MetroXLR thx

[@MetroXLR]

@@karvenman Glad to be helpful. We should keep an eye out for them in the future. They may not be able to make any more Batman games because of IP's, but whatever games they do make should be of high quality.

[@karvenman]

@@MetroXLR it'd be cool to see a ninja game with a similar stealth style

[@SuperAerie]

Writing? All I need is a picture of the HUD, it tells me several thousand words of what kind a game it is.

[@C-MOON-PZV]

That "Elden Ring if Ubisoft made it" meme was supposed to be a joke, not a manual.

[@genesismultiverse4896]

Really the premise told me this would suck a thousand times cause who would want to play a game where you kill your heroes?

[@EsteemedReptile]

The only thing it's missing is clips of family guy and subway surfers

[@MegaManJake]

Literally could have made a "Braniac cloned the JL" storyline, but nooooo. They had to be hyper edgy and make it the REAL League. Just because they die in the comics doesn't mean a whole lot of gamers wanna actually do it in a video game. Evil clones? Heck yeah, I'm down for that though.

[@gibleyman]

"Look at all these BEEG NUMBERS on screen with bright colours everywhere!!!! isn't this exciting?!!"

[@EsteemedReptile]

5:13 This whole sequence is just schizophrenic. The long pauses, the unrelated statements that no-one acknowledges, the flat delivery, the jokes about work benefits, the weird cuts to kid Ivy jumping in place, the way Luthor glitches into frame and awkwardky rubs his chin, the total lack of atmosphere... it's the most bizarre shit I've ever seen in my life.

[@mevans4953]

West coast company ruining our games

[@DuelaDent52]

Minor correction, but Luthor’s “glitching” into frame because he’s a hologram.

[@EsteemedReptile]

@@DuelaDent52 Ah, so he is. Still though.... 😂

[@NikTek]

exactly! one can imagine how the script of this scene would look like Luthor appears and rubs his chin* Silence* Poison Ivy jumps from excitment* Silence/

[@ImperativeGames]

The only explanation is: writers are insane.

[@ExplosiveBurka]

Oh man, the sound of the bullet casing hitting the ground when Harley kills batman with a REVOLVER.. gets me everytime

[@Tellin08]

wow. to think I missed that. good catch.

[@P-P-Panda]

Ik nothing on revolvers could someone explain? I’m curious

[@ExplosiveBurka]

@@P-P-Panda in a pistol like a Glock or a Beretta when you fire a round the spent casing is ejected as a new round is loaded into the chamber so after firing a shot you expect to hear the casing hit the floor or a wall or something. In revolvers the spent casings do not eject- they stay in the gun until you remove them manually

[@DucaCremisi]

​@@ExplosiveBurkaI would add to anyone who doesn't know about guns, that Beretta and Glock aren't weapons but manufacturers, "a Beretta", is relatevely meaningless, but usually used for pistols, like Glock too, even tho there are different types of weapons they produce.

[@ExplosiveBurka]

@@DucaCremisi lmaooo truue

[@ThMrksman]

It's amazing how INSANELY easy it is to tell the two games apart.

[@blessedbow720]

even more shocking that the significantly better looking of them was almost a decade older when the newer one released

[@unseguidordeloptimuszapatilla]

It's like they were more than seven years apart.

[@blessedbow720]

@@unseguidordeloptimuszapatilla problem is that if you asked anyone who didn't know which one was older they would be wrong 90% of the time

[@ML-sc3pt]

​@@blessedbow720I'd get it right but only because I'm aware of how much a cultural decline society is on

[@jofall91]

@@blessedbow720that’s why I’ve always favored art direction over realistic graphics…

[@windwind3170]

Flag: "For the record. I hate this." You and me both, pal. You and me both...

[@negx3933]

It seemed like a self-insert of the few devs there who have no option than to work on this slog ordered by the top brass.

[@genesismultiverse4896]

​@@negx3933 probaby those who wanted to work on the superman game but instead had to work on this piece of one more day

[@CrusadiaIX]

“The deductibles are hell” is the only line from that travesty of a scene that made me chuckle. Is Flag /ourguy/?

[@nagger8216]

@@genesismultiverse4896 Man, can you have imagined if we got that Arkhamverse Superman game instead? Like, all that shit the museum talked about, him saving Bruce after the events of Arkham Knight, honestly sound great. Why the fuck didn't we get a game about that?

[@bigbubble4282]

“I hate this” “This is your team?” “Suicide Squad - fuck you” Even the in-game characters hate this game.

[@civilprotection3114]

Realize OG Batman took 4 doses of nightmare serum, or what ever Scarecrow calls it, and remained sane, didn’t succumb to it. Absolute Badass right there.

[@M1sterBruh]

damn you couldn’t do a quick google search to avoid looking like you’ve never seen anything batman related?

[@minisculex3]

Batman didnt took 4 dose of nightmare, the first or 2 dose helped joker to take over batman and took at least 2 dose of it before the fear nightmare helped batman to take over his body again

[@Zwd934]

@@minisculex3 arkham asylum, as scarecrow said “ How are you doing this? You've ingested enough toxins to drive 10 men insane” and every time we go back to scarecrows world is every time we’re exposed to the toxin.

[@garrettsattem4799]

It’s called fear toxin.

[@toxas3063]

Fear Toxin is the name

[@Reverse-Goku]

Never forget that we got this instead of a Batman Beyond Arkham game.

[@Ch4osKing66]

Wait WHAT!?!?!?!

[@mr.awesome6011]

If there is one thing that will bring me back into comic characters/ superheroes, it would be Batman Beyond. Sadly, we know how they would just make it these days so my point is already moot😞

[@p1553d0f]

Probably for the best. Considering it would have been the same writers working on it.

[@genesismultiverse4896]

And a superman game

[@Sewersyrup]

Batman beyond was being planned by rocksteady, supposed to set Damian as future bats. That got canned in favor of Gotham knights. Then the superman game got canned in favor of junksquad: kill wb game division. There were also talks about using Shadow of War Nemesis system in the game. But ofc these incompetent clowns would never deliver the goods.

[@joywritr]

If they insisted on making a female Freeze, why the heck didn't they just swap them and make the original Nora the one trying to save Victor in this universe? edited again: You know what, none of us like this, but I think we have different reasons for doing so. I'll make a point not to comment on these sorts of discussions again.

[@FreakTesticals]

You think they care?

[@ZomgZomg007]

because, put a chick in it..and make her lame and gay

[@dinsdag6juli2010]

Because the of double intersectional minority buff for freeze resistance obviously smh my head

[@PanaehaliTut]

That is not enough. They wanted her to be Asian. Lesbian. Deep voice. And looking like a man. Its never enough.

[@PrecursorOrb1]

Nora Freeze: “you think what I do is a fruitless endeavour? To save the man that I love? I will not let him suffer, I will not let him die!” Batman: “even if you do cure Victor, how long will you have?” Nora Freeze: “as long as he’s in there, all the time in the world”

[@ChompDude]

"What happened here?" That is a FANTASTIC question, _Mrs._ Freeze.

[@paparoxo3606]

What's the trend nowadays with "writers" making fun of everything that came before (and was better)? It seems like some kind of resentment. They should be thankful to work in an amazing franchise like the Arkham series and respect its legacy.

[@dylansharp8471]

Trend?

[@akashvishwanath1159]

​@@dylansharp8471 yes it's literally everywhere from shows to movies and games. These new writers, who have absolutely no skill and have only gotten the job because they're some sort of minority or LGBT person, think that they are better than the old writers who cared about actually telling a story. These new writers just want to push their agenda and undermine the older ones by calling them bigots and what not.

[@Finn-nb2in]

@@akashvishwanath1159Take the Halo show for example, the writers for that never even played the games or read any of the deep lore.

[@StevenZephyc]

Because a lot of literature critics nowadays are how bad the old things arm, especially among critical theories. The results being a bunch of college graduates with no idea about expressing an idea subtly, only how to lay them out like textbooks.

[@ChkthDeats]

It's called "irreverent". It's a casual, mocking tone meant to appeal to a teenage generation when most of us are at our most callous. Some like it, some don't. Most people enjoy it but get really sick of it after they see it enough, and it's done very much on-the-nose these days.

[@AthifArif-g4t]

If Arkham Joker met SSKTJL Joker, well let’s just say him torturing Jason Todd for a year would look like nothing in comparison to what he’d to this imposter

[@paolo9038]

So true

[@dialexthesmoreeater7687]

Nah fr ss joker wouldnt survive like 3 minutes with arkham joker

[@Dat_Jonx]

"You're not funny!" *shoots*

[@MulayimSert1]

​@@dialexthesmoreeater7687 Oh no, it's quite contrary. He would survive. Arkham Joker would never ever let ssktjl Joker die. Never.

[@Hybrid225]

He’s not even gonna be an imposter he’s just gonna be a Joke to him

[@lakhiceyb7731]

now everyone writes an apology letter to Arkham origins

[@channel5980]

Most Arkham fans have loved Origins for years now.

[@Berserk096-z6v]

Always loved it, used to play the hell out of the Multiplayer mode, it is my second favorite Arkham game easily

[@SuperXzm]

I AM sorry.

[@mitchnewland4916]

I like the story and the boss fights in Arkham Origins but the game should have been fixed it’s still broken. Their is a part near at the end of the game where you can break the game and loss so much progress

[@nidavelliir]

God the downgrade is insane, WHAT WERE THEY THINKING

[@genesismultiverse4896]

And now i imagine the avgn fatalities on them

[@gregwilliams4926]

They weren't, its like a cancer that slowly spreads without treatment. Along with PRONOUNS!

[@petrasixz4306]

BrainRot Woke Mental Filth. It can't create original greatness only ruin great work made by better men

[@genesismultiverse4896]

@@gregwilliams4926 so the frank miller thing

[@dominique8662]

Women. That's all they were thinking about

[@LieutenantTheJackal]

Just noticed this: Harley kills Batman with a Revolver and they played a sound like a casing was ejected. In case you don’t know, Revolvers keep the empty casing in the cylinder until they are pushed out by the ejector during a reload. They played a sound like it automatically ejected the casing, on a weapon that doesn’t do that. It’s not that big of a deal, it’s not like it’s the mistake of the year but it feels funny when I think about it.

[@Neoventus500]

Also batmans suit is supposed to be kevlar or bulletproof right?

[@datdankdj8264]

@@Neoventus500 actually, this suit was made of titanium. A metal that’s known for being amongst other things, bulletproof

[@joshuarichard1892]

@@datdankdj8264 Playing Devil's advocate here: To kill him through it she'd just have to aim through like... the eye socket which I'm sure Harley would be accurate enough to.

[@datdankdj8264]

@@joshuarichard1892 she was aiming for the forehead

[@mansgotplans]

Pretty sure it’s a weapon skin or some crap

[@noneedtoknow-yv2tu]

In a alternate timeline rn we all happily playing rocksteady's superman and batman beyond game. We. Were. Robbed.

[@DogeZzzz]

My headcanon is that this game is just a dream in Harley Quinn's head and the entire story of the Arkham universe ended with Knight

[@OgblookTheWise]

Got knocked out so bad she hallucinated this entire scenario

[@ultron_sigma]

I agree

[@Adityarm.08]

The only reasonable explanation of this mess.

[@zaloon148]

Yall are the same people who hated knight and will be praising this game in 10 years lmao

[@ultron_sigma]

@@zaloon148 doubtful. Knight was shortly appreciated. Suicide squad just gets worse

[@Darren-lb3rx]

You go from the joker, to the Twinkler

[@RuthlessToothless88]

The Giggler😂

[@Chados.]

The Jonkler

[@thrusttheconehead5369]

The Diddler

[@preking1269]

The Jinkler

[@hardboiled2987]

The Fiddler

[@its3amagain.]

6:01 This woman is everywhere. It starts to get annoying. There are literally 8 billion people on this planet and video games are giving you the opportunity to create whatever face you want and they are casting her for every second video game I played. Suicide Squad, Jedi Fallen Order/Survivor, The Wolfenstein games and many more I luckily forgot. If you watch a movie with her for 2 hours. Fine. But you are playing a single game for 20-30 hours with her face. This is getting out of hand.

[@drs.8609]

​@IChaseIKZbin Which means you only played good games at this point Debra Wilson Nothing against her but she is reverse Samuel L Jackson When Samuel L Jackson appears you know you will be enjoying GOOD SHIT When she appears you know that you're losing your time

[@Llama_charmer]

@@drs.8609 I dunno what else shes in but Fallen order is good, i mean not because of her, shes arguably forgettable but still

[@cabnbeeschurgr]

It could be something to do with the digital rights to her likeness. In a similar vein, Keanu Reeves has had his digital likeness used in many things since he was (I believe) the first actor to have it copyrighted due to his role in the Matrix.

[@Headsquasher93]

Nora in Arkham Knight - treated like an actual human being that is integral to Mr. Freeze's entire character Nora in Suicide Squad - treated like a fucking theme park attraction

[@DuelaDent52]

It’s *almost* like they’re bad guys.

[@1SpicyMeataball]

@DuelaDent52 It's almost like it's a sh*t game.

[@genesismultiverse4896]

@@DuelaDent52 yeah I just don't know why oh wait *yes I do I hate this game I hate I hate ihateitihateithateitihateIHATEITIHATEITIHATEITIHATEITGRAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!* (having a mental breakdown because of pure rage)

[@RandomizedYoutuber012]

@@genesismultiverse4896your not alone buddy

[@genesismultiverse4896]

@@RandomizedKZbinr012 sorry it's just the fact people thought it would be good even tho the biggest reason why it'll suck is you kill your heroes also we could've gotten a superman game

[@Tomberculosis-q1i]

How did a single horse d l c armor lead all this....

[@everia_games]

Greed

[@crypto66]

The players allowed it.

[@paolo9038]

There are no players in this game. It has between 500 and 50 players

[@paulw5039]

@@paolo9038 That's the baffling part. That these companies keep hiring people who sabotage their product and lose them money. It's like the CEOs and managers of these companies were all off sick the day they taught business at business school.

[@dialexthesmoreeater7687]

@@crypto66what players

[@Pain-vm9iq]

What gets me every time in the Batman cutscene (besides the blatant disrespect for the franchise and character) is the slowed down sound of the casing hitting the ground… from a revolver.

[@TheCutiePatrol]

This is like the glorious performance we got from Heath Ledger in Dark Knight and then how Suicide Squad gave us Jared Leto lol.

[@micaholson1052]

No, this is far worse than that. Jared Leroy was bad due to the writing. This is just bad altogether.

[@TheCutiePatrol]

@@micaholson1052 the suicide squad movie was bad altogether though, his performance was heavily criticised too.

[@ja1815]

Don't insult Jared Leto like that.

[@TheCutiePatrol]

@@ja1815 not my fault he was shit in suicide squad, blame the writers, directors and producers, they're the ones who made him look that bad on screen lol. Also, this wasn't an attack on Jared Leto, I don't think he's a bad actor as he is in some of my favourite movies. But you people, insanity! Not everything he is in has to be good, you are allowed to critique him. I bet you're also one of these people who would be insulted if we spoke about the cult as if it's serious, OK for you all to joke about but it's real and people like you prove it, just go away, simple.

[@donutkillerassassin]

Jared Leto honestly was decent, apart from the terrible fashion choices. He clearly appreciated the significance of the role.

[@lomo1407]

Joker then: creepy and scary Joker now: just some edgy teen impersonates Joker but bad af

[@micahfurlow2624]

Jonker vs the Twinkler

[@Cat-mx2mn]

Joker: I am now completely being a jokes.

[@witchfindergeneral9971]

1:26 "You've been toxic and abusive, and quite frankly problematic, big yikes, not okay, Batman"

[@SuperXzm]

"and then she unalives him with a chungus bulletino"

[@fabriziopinna]

"You either die a hero or live long enough to see yourself become the villain"

[@ReigoVassal]

You die as badass crazy clown or live long enough to become giggler

[@DontKnowDontCare6.9]

You either repeat something endlessly from Two Face in the Dark Knight movie or become pretentious.

[@Daigta0001]

@@ReigoVassalthat one joke is straight to asylum 💀🔥🔥🔥

[@Gaelthegoblinoid]

@@DontKnowDontCare6.9 you either die as a sped or you start eating glue

[@IndranilBose-f6v]

Robert Downey Jr. Became Both Right now 😂😂. Died a hero as Iron Man and Reborn as a villain aka Dr.Doom in the upcoming Avengers doomsday movie

[@Peanut-Butter-Banana-Rama]

If they are trying to hurt me, they have accomplished just that.

[@thorexthedemigod5928]

This was the biggest stab in the back. We put trust in Rocksteady and this is what we get

[@Iamasimplecreature]

I guess you could say………………………….they caused long term emotional damage to everyone they knew……………

[@Tokmurok]

Stay strong homie. 😭

[@alienPear]

The video looks like a compilation of "final scene vs bloopers"

[@Zarroxius]

3:17 HE DID THE JONK FACE

[@joenathan8594]

live and in front of us

[@Bryan-T]

Mental and emotional damage!

[@FreakTesticals]

Yes, HARLEY QUINN the villain feels sad that she was stopped from killing people, a true victim

[@Parlimant_Strifey]

that pretty much sums up these new writers. Their victimhood psychosis is leaking.

[@NikTek]

Says Harley Quinn that did numerous horrific crimes with Joker

[@edu7979]

i love how they just completely butchered the characters from the actual arkham games in shitsquad kill your franchise

[@genesismultiverse4896]

@@FreakTesticals who else who is unlucky enough to play would just put Harley in place so she can die

[@TtotheCizzel]

The new Harley transition to the old one made me sad. Its like remember Christmas as a child vs the stress of Christmas as an adult

[@genesismultiverse4896]

@@TtotheCizzel more like enjoying a cartoon as a kid and then seeing a horrific butch of it aka teen titans

[@prid3971]

​@@genesismultiverse4896 isnt it the other way around?

[@genesismultiverse4896]

@@prid3971 basically seeing something you love being butchered

[@Cyclone9227]

@@genesismultiverse4896She became Dylan Mulvaney

[@genesismultiverse4896]

@@Cyclone9227 who?

[@mushroomandonions4462]

I miss how sincere Harley Quinn used to be, like in the show. Sure most of the time she was just out of her mind, but Batman really did try to help her and she'd be sweet to him. It's just sad to see that compassion be absent in both characters in most recent renditions.

[@user-lb9xw4xf2q]

I finally figured it out. There are two possibilities of how things turned out like SSKTJL: - Arkham City had that bad alternate ending where Catwoman left instead of saving Batman. We all played Arkham Knight wrong with the new game being an elaborate bad ending. - Other theory is that we've all been dosed by fear toxin. It's the only logical way to explain how KTJL turned out worse than we feared.

[@strongerthanever2039]

Didn't batman die when Catwoman left?

[@oldoutlet6946]

All of this is a product of a hallucination via the fear serum that Batman was injected with by Scarecrow. Except it didn't make him afraid, it just pissed him off a bit. Hence why it appeared to not have much effect.

[@MarvinPowell1]

Then there's the actual real answer: None of this shit is canon. It never happened in the Arkhamverse.

[@user-lb9xw4xf2q]

@@strongerthanever2039 Yes. He remained pinned under the rubble, so was killed by the bombardment during Protocol 10. And the Joker also escaped, leading a massive riot into Gotham, since most of the inmates got out before being killed by the helicopters and missiles from the tower.

[@user-lb9xw4xf2q]

@@MarvinPowell1 I fear that's wishful thinking considering all of the direct references to the previous games. I guess there is the argument that it was just some different universe that happened to have the same history as the Arkhamverse until the Brainiac invasion.

[@fish_and-chips]

1:31 didn’t you torture Jason Todd?

[@Harithdrawsstuff]

Exactly, idk wtf rocksteady was doing with this shit

[@solaireofastora5999]

Could've made something interesting. Like make it be Mr. Freeze's daughter where she's trying to save her dad from dying and ended up repeating the same cycle Mr. Freeze did

[@sebastianpijov8708]

Pretty sure that is genetically and biologically impossible, except if Nora was pregnant before she was frozen. Which now that I think about it, may actually have potential.

[@Dankmemeslover69]

@@sebastianpijov8708 imagine the outrage if they made Freeze get a little frisky with Nora when she was frozen resulting in that child.

[@bcoz7264]

Nah. That would be almost as dumb as this.

[@genesismultiverse4896]

​@Dankmemeslover69 and now it takes the sympathy out of mr freeze

[@samuelhunter4631]

​@@sebastianpijov8708 Could be they just had a child before Nora was frozen. Of course, that would make Freeze a deadbeat

[@sideswipebl]

Superhero media where anyone unironically says "punchin' bad guys!" is sort of garbage by default. Also holy shit Hamill is so damn good at Joker. EDIT Holy fuck the latter half of this vid is CRAZY. Seeing what SS:KTJL cutscenes actually look like first-hand is almost surreal. It's what you'd expect from people who have never written or directed anything before in their entire life, except these are like huge multi-million dollar game productions. Like, imagine being the person who purposefully wrote that protein bar line at the very end, and thinking, "yes, people will laugh at this, because it is funny."

[@mrksimka1159]

Yeah it feels like being at home in Tommy Wiseau film. Yet it’s official product not made by independent dude😂

[@NikTek]

exactly, insert action figure joke* people will definitely laugh at this

[@Parlimant_Strifey]

that was a joke at the end? Thought that was just some annoying character that they made annoying.

[@dylansharp8471]

"Superhero media where anyone unironically says "punchin' bad guys!" is sort of garbage by default" What now?

[@ThisAdamGuy]

​@@Parlimant_Strifeythat's what these people think comedy is now

[@rdgcury]

6:08 summarizes what I feel about the new Rocksteady.

[@wisgarus]

I would blame Warner. Maybe if Rocksteady got to develop the game they actually wanted to and had the skillset to make, they would make a great game. But WB was the one pushing for Suicide Squad, for multiplayer gameplay and for the live service bs, which brought the whole unfinished story and multiverse mess among other things. Still, I do like that while the whole is a mess, you can see that all the individual artists tried their best: the animators, the character designers, I'm sure even the writers. It doesn't mesh well together, but that's because the game was being tugged by the neck on a leash instead of directed.

[@locdogg86]

I hope it bothers them the rest of their lives that this was Kevin conroys last performance

[@vanndymaywho1910]

At least Crisis on Infinite Earths part three had him delivered a better send off than going out on a bad joke.

[@locdogg86]

@@vanndymaywho1910 true atleast we have that

[@dylansharp8471]

They didn't know Kevin would do. And Kevin was perfectly fine and had fun with this role.

[@lcmiracle]

@@dylansharp8471 According to a bunch of liars who worships that MURDERER ZOEY QUINN.

[@Mrhouse-k1x]

​@@dylansharp8471because he got paid

[@trevorp8124]

I swear to God, the modern gaming industry is in some kind of competition for who can do the least flattering photorealistic depiction of Deborah Wilson.

[@markopujic660]

Like Cere and Amanda?

[@markopujic660]

I mean there's also Grýla but they don't look alike much.

She looks like a burnt match in real life. Not really hard.

[@JonesyCreations]

I knew i recognised her from some other hyper realistic game

[@chaseguymon3086]

This. I feel 100% like this.

[@AtomicF640]

I fucking love how Mr. freeze trust Batman so much, because he knows that Batman wants to help him, even if it means beating him up sometimes he knows that Batman wants to help save him and his wife, and that's epic, and then it gets all shitted on by suicide squad.

[@Shinu_Pain]

I think it was more so that Batman made him realise that he was most likely being strung along. "if you trust them, Victor, take your shot", which he didn't. When Batman says he will do something, he keeps his word, and so Freeze knew he could trust him, even if they don't see eye to eye. That and he didn't really have any other option.

[@vergil5O5]

Here what happens when you KILL your writing team

[@leoneabacchio2090]

Man it's so sad... that the devil could cry

[@D-Ender2]

​@@leoneabacchio2090indeed. It feels like my soul sucked into the Golden Wind

[@ParrotPentester]

@@leoneabacchio2090 The devil would be laughing because we're all angry.

[@irwinhiker5917]

​@@ParrotPentester devil may cry

[@averyepicguy]

devil did cry

[@Xfushion2]

Fun fact: Arkham Knight was developed using the Unreal Engine 3, by then Unreal Engine 4 was the AAA industry standard and not only that game matches and surpasses it's contemporaries visually but even to this day it gives Unreal Engine 5 games the run for their money. That last one also happens to be the engine Kill the Justice League runs and despite being on (at this time) the most cutting edge iteration of Epic Game's software it somehow looks not only worse that Knight but also Arkham City and I'll even argue Asylum. Point is that is not only the writers but also the devs that made Rocksteady the beast that it once was are long gone.

[@Randomyoutuber403]

i'd say suicide squad looks like arkham origins not too bad but not good

[@jacobhargiss3839]

Honestly, I thought they used unreal engine 4. They really made that engine put in the work and squeezed every drop of preformance out of it. No wonder the pc port took so long to fix.

[@_MaZTeR_]

Cutting edge game engine can't fix shitty writing and art style

[@duckthemightyknight364]

4:06 AND THE CROWD GOES SILENT 🗣🗣🗣

[@ettertarten]

3:20 Literally Jack Sparrow's manneurisms and behavior. Minus the good dialogue and the charisma of Johny Depp. They couldn't even steal shit right

[@TheYodelingViking]

Badly written Johnny Charisma as Giggler

[@fatuusdottore]

I see it. It's so bad.

[@psycoskunk9145]

Harley: “Causing long term mental and emotional damage with everything you do!” Also Harley: “EEEEEEE!!! Yeah, Puddin’!!! Tie me up to this thermonuclear bomb and drop me from a skyscraper! We’ll teach that one guy who accidentally called you The Riddler by accident that one time 30 years ago!!! 😃”

[@agentepolaris4914]

To be fair that sounds kinky

[@squashiy]

Accurate 👌

[@realperson9104]

3:17 this looks awfully familiar

[@jettjarnaginreviews4702]

Jonkler

[@tomato4737]

Live reaction

[@angelorack3742]

Joker reveal in arkham origins

[@moondoor9031]

"Mental and emotional damage..." This isn't the same Harley who along with the Joker k*lled a lot of kids and switch they body parts?

[@DuelaDent52]

She’s a hypocrite trying to get a rise out of her mortal enemy, what a shocker.

[@Keram-io8hv]

That was Harley in toxic relationship, now she changed and is far better

[@StickyFinguz]

​@DuelaDent52 what brand of copium do you buy?

[@dum5247]

@@Keram-io8hvdefense of SSKTJL will not be tolerated

[@holyshitcomedy5530]

@@Keram-io8hvgimme a break lol

[@johnnyboy90528]

I feel like the characters reacting awkwardly to the Joker's jokes could've worked really well, if the Joker was written like... well... the Joker.

[@STBill]

Merit Vs Diversity.

[@OopisDoopis]

Diversity™

[@phantazem9381]

2:07 i love the dead pan humopr of him talking about his blood. clever play on words man. perfect joker personality right there

[@Rœmu-s4t]

Definitely one of the better Arkham joker dialogue, it's a genuinely funny joke that's also a setup for the blood transfusion punch line.

[@retek107]

I actually lol'd at that part when I first played the game.

[@fau3058]

yeah that cutscene is one of my favorites in videogames mark hamills voice acting gives me the biggest goosebumps its incredible

[@Gold_Cruise]

Rocksteady: We need a female ice villain Killer Frost: Oh cool. i can do that Rocksteady: Hmmm i wonder where we could get a female ice based villain Killer Frost: I'm right here Rocksteady: Man if only we had an ice based villain Killer Frost: I AM RIGHT HERE, HELLO? Rocksteady: Oh We've got it! Killer Frost: Finally Rocksteady: Mrs. Freeze! Killer Frost: ... Fuck you

[@darthnox8286]

Also love how it wasn't even Nora like someone suggested. It's just genderbent Mr. Freeze. This was the easiest thing in the world to write, and they somehow failed.

[@glennbiff]

@@darthnox8286 No they actually succeded. You see, they needed a butch lesbian just for the sake of forcing woke garbage on the players. That's why they threw logic out the window. I guess you can thank Sweet baby inc for that.

[@corporatecapitalism]

@@glennbiffit’s ragebait my guy you are feeding them do not fall for it I beg of you

[@gotouchgrass-l1b]

True

[@brucewayne1777]

​@@glennbiff "Everything I don't like is woke."

[@Pichufan172]

3:45 "I killed my team because I TRULY cared about them" "I care about you that much, too" Ngl this line isn't even that bad.

[@TheLittleHenry]

You right, it's not... but what kills it is his face

[@N03_03]

Friendly reminder that this Harley has canonically killed children in the ArkhamVerse. She has no right to take the moral high ground and lecture Batman, of all people, about “long-term emotional damage” clone or not.

[@DuelaDent52]

Do you think we’re supposed to side with her in her game over screens? Why would you think we’re supposed to side with her here when almost everything about the scene is screaming “YOU SHOULD FEEL BAD” right down to the sad Arkham motif that plays when he’s shot? At the same time, it’s not exactly *in*accurate given the psychological effects him faking his death and going underground for years would have done to his family.

[@jacobhargiss3839]

​@@DuelaDent52 the writers absolutely were going for the audience to side with Harley. They were trying their hardest to make her into some sort of victim in that scene so we dont feel bad that we, the player, just freaking killed the protagonist of many of our favorite game franchise.

[@DuelaDent52]

@@jacobhargiss3839 No, they weren’t. Just look at the way the thing is framed. Just look at how the non-corrupted Batman is portrayed in the game. Just listen to the sad Arkham leitmotif that plays when he’s shot, the way she says that even when he’s evil he’s still too good and how she chuckles at the irony that he would have wanted it to end this way. You’re meant to feel sad that Batman is dead (or at least that he looks dead).

[@EthanMiller-k9z]

@@DuelaDent52well the twitter feminist clearly want you to admire Harley over batman cuz Batman is a rich white man and

[@EthanMiller-k9z]

@@DuelaDent52they killed him, joked about going after superman and proceeded on without any regard for batman. Oh and Kevin conroy’s eulogy was stapled between a awkward cutscene and a loot box celebration with the character joking around. If they cared they would have broken him out of the brainwash. All of the justice league members were humiliated except Wonder Woman. Wonder Woman was the favourite and not the main star of the arkhamverse

[@mranderson4469]

I feel like Batman died with Kevin Conroy Its so sad 😭

[@subtleconditioning32]

That’s so true

[@subtleconditioning32]

That’s so true

[@genesismultiverse4896]

@@mranderson4469 and I bet his ghost hunts them

[@conscripthornet4430]

We still have his cameo in Crisis on infinite earths part 3 and the mark hamill kevin conroy duo in multiversus.

[@executionart8134]

That's not joker That's clown 💀💀

[@Vikturus22]

The original Arkham trilogy is a masterpiece in not only gaming but story telling. I have 100% all 4 (including origins) and loved each one!

[@lorenzocassaro3054]

The quality of its writing can be debatable, but yeah. It was way better than whatever the f*ck this is.

[@onlytwogenders420]

Arkham Asylum was the one I played, and I really enjoyed it.

[@ssebasgoo]

​@@onlytwogenders420You're lucky. Play the others man. Arkham city and Arkham knight are worth to discover in 2024.

[@genesismultiverse4896]

@@Vikturus22 technically quadrilogy there is also origins

[@genesismultiverse4896]

@@ssebasgoo also origins and assylum

[@feeble_goblin3764]

1:41 you can hear the shell casing of the REVOLVER clatter on the floor. Would be a nitpick in most cases but it just goes to show how little they cared imo

[@Theunamedchannel000antiwoke]

Exactly

[@lilshawty2605]

People who never actually shot a gun making a game about guns.

[@AnekoF90]

For those people, all guns work the same way.

[@gabrielruiz5474]

Tbf most people wouldn’t know that so I doubt it really matters

[@TheApoke]

I thought it was jingling bells, because she's a jester

[@DearestAda]

I honestly would have loved seeing Nora as the one trying to save Victor and having him being cryogenically frozen. It would've been a breathe of fresh air, having it as a "reverse damsel in distress" scenario. Because we always see men in movies going through hell and back for the woman they love but almost never the other way around.

[@casperryborg4869]

Thats because no one wanna see that. Men wanna feel useful and prove their worth to their partner. Women wanna feel safe and be able to count on their man when it matters. What you're describing will go against our basic instinct and thus feel weird and wrong. This is of course assuming you aren't one of those freaks that push their nature down as hard as possible.

[@bloozism]

that's not the joker, that's the giggler

[@genesismultiverse4896]

@@bloozism no it's bizzaro joker

[@jordanhunter3375]

Sure it's not just Earth 1210 Jared Leto?

[@genesismultiverse4896]

@@jordanhunter3375 actually makes a lot of sense

[@dkpolice2010]

The jinkler

[@AdamTucher]

It’s the Jerker

[@JaimeIsJaime]

That first scene from Joker's POV gives me chills. It's so awkward to see the same studio re-adapt such good material into mediocre writing and poor character choices just to fill the script with poor-taste "cool" jokes.

[@ImperativeGames]

Studios don't exist and don't make games. People do. If you fire competent people and replace them with woke garbage activists...

[@A-Warthog-cc1wm]

Instead of the joker, we got the comedian.

[@genesismultiverse4896]

*2:39* joker: rocksteady are going to make a horrible game where the suicide squad kills you and im worse than jerod leto we got to kill them Batman: why should i help you? Joker: (shows the scene) Batman: lets do it

[@paolo9038]

It's hard to believe that SS:KTJL is part of the arkamverse, this game is worse than garbage

[@Mandalore_ultimate]

There was no reason to make this part of the Arkham Universe besides to piss everyone off.

[@carlissou]

they can try to say it belongs to it but it doesn't magically make it part of it if you see what I mean Their story is so garbage you really need to force yourself to find the connections between arkham knight and this besides few easy quotes to make Quinn say like "hey you remember this moment"

[@tedtheodore5715]

Its not, its not part of the arkhamverse, only a moron would take the word of people who wrote something like THIS

[@Dankmemeslover69]

They can say it's connected but you might as well call it a fanfiction since it wasn't written by the same people that made the original trilogy.

[@Soup-man]

Just pretend that it isn't. That's what I do with Disney Star Wars

[@TheHaigisawsome]

Shame they couldn’t get Doug Walker to reprise his role as Melvin brother of the Joker

[@vanndymaywho1910]

I think he would make this less cringe, at least Doug has some self awareness that his performances are campy

[@Ezio999Auditore]

Underrated. It’s why it went to shit.

[@ResurrectTheChainsmoker]

Damn. That's a deep cut.

[@Tuberculosis_Man]

Sploopity sploosh

[@lucamckenn5932]

​@@vanndymaywho1910dont be so sure. According to the channel awesome leaks, doug has on numerous occasions compared himself to steven speilberg. Post channel awesome anniversary films. Guy thinks hes speilberg lol. Lmao, even.

[@catgamer1000official]

3:29 aw hell nah they’ve done zestified the joker

[@noneedtoknow-yv2tu]

Arkham asylum Joker:"me in a thong", Arkham city sitting on batman's lap and "get your cute little ass to movie Theatre now!?" Arkham origins:"come on baby beat me til your knuckles bleed" Arkham Knight:"me stuck deep inside you" they didn't "zestify" shit. They kept Joker's fruityness consistent if anything. Cope harder.

[@NicolasFarias-cc9rj]

​@@noneedtoknow-yv2tu I can't believe you're just picking some random lines (quotes that are actually funny instead of whatever gay crap this new "joker" is supposed to be) from arkham's joker to justify this garbage. This "joker" is nothing more than a pathetic excuse compared to mark hamill's joker...and he's just one of the many things that make this game a disgrace to the arkham franchise.

[@stanleysmith7551]

The writer for the Arkham games was Paul Dini, a professional who co-created Batman TAS and was the main writer for Detective Comics in the mid to late 2000's. Of course some woke undergrad with 0 writing skills using chat GPT can't hold a candle to him.

[@swordsman1137]

In Arkham Knight they didn't have Paul Dini to write the story, but it still end up good. Not as great as 2 previous games but still good.

[@Paragon-qx3jd]

the story was written by the same guys who wrote knight, so honestly the story checks out

[@lingricen8077]

Wait, are we pretending that the writing of the Arkham trilogy was good? Guys, stop deluding yourselves, its better than this Gen-Z crap but it was far from good in general.

[@lorenzocassaro3054]

You had to ruin it all by blaming it on "wokes". 🙄 The f*ck does wokeness have to do with KTJL's Joker being an uncharismatic creep?!

[@lorenzocassaro3054]

​@@lingricen8077People praising the Mr.Freeze plotline in Arkham Kmight without realizing it's exactly the same from Arkham City, but with actually some form of closure.

[@datguy8460]

after arkham, it seemed like no iteration of joker in any media could actually replicate an authentic joker vibe. mk11 joker im sure is the closest but even tho held him back with the designs on it. idk why its so hard just to make a likeable joker these days

[@datdankdj8264]

Joker’s not supposed to be “likable”, my only issue with Hamill’s joker is his lines always crack me up and are comedy gold. Batman always tells Joker his jokes are never funny, but Hamill’s jokes are almost always funny. A joker who’s jokes are more creepy than funny would be John DiMaggio’s joker from Under the Red Hood

[@StyrianInvader]

@@datdankdj8264 The "He iS nOt SuPpOsEd tO Be LiKaBLE" is the dumbest counter argument ever. People like Heath's Joker for his performance and him being just an intresting character, not because he is a sweet fucking person or some shit.

[@MrKostable]

Well I liked joker on telltale games' batman: the enemy within

[@datdankdj8264]

@@MrKostable yeah but he don’t become Joker until season two…

[@BigJonB36]

@@MrKostable The only sympathetic Joker, except maybe Phoenix's

[@Boredaf1]

Its also the art director. Look how bright the suicide squad game is. Anyone who has an idea of how gotham may be like, its not this.

[@Space_Cowboy777]

They legit made freeze the stereotypical rude lesbian. Complete with terrible pride skin.

[@ImperativeGames]

"Put a chick in it and make her lame and gay".

[@mr.knewyork5843]

They made him Asian too 💀 he's SUPPOSED TO BE CAUSIAN and this is coming from a brown man

[@Cleverconveyence]

I heard heard lesbian freeze and I was like oh hell yeah. The sort of unhinged save her at all costs sort of ethos fits perfectly with the character. I even kind of liked the character design. But this just feels... It's like the representation equivalent of an unironed pride flag. Wasted.

[@EinBienenliebhaber]

She feels like they asked ChatGPT to generate “female Dr. Frezee” and DIRECTLY noted down what was written by the AI as the final product.

[@vedji1857]

I’m pro lgbt as they come and I hate it.

[@Maed0605]

Joker in suicide looks and sounds disgusting.

[@Colonel_Locke]

Tbf he looks disgusting in NORMAL Arkhamverse games, but totally in a good way.

[@alpacawithouthat987]

He doesn't look or sound like the Joker. He looks and sounds like a bad cosplay of the Joker

[@dum5247]

@@alpacawithouthat987the Twinkler

[@G700myDr1nk]

The diddler

[@RobotMusic10110]

"Oh, Bats... If you had the guts for that kind of fun, we'd have Arkham 6 by now."

[@dongexpander]

I don't understand why the "modernized" characters always have to be as annoying and unlikeable as possible. The dialogue in the Mrs. Freeze cutscene is bad, but Toyman's and Poison Ivy's dialogue is just plain fucking horrid.

[@dokuganryu1565]

'Cause they're written by annoying and unlikeable people.

[@thehman2271]

I can’t explain it, but Mark Hamill’s Joker is the best video game villain I can think of: it’s when he says “I shipped blood samples to Hospitals all over the city” that gets me, maybe because it’s the perfect setup for “save 10 Hospitals in under 10 mins” but IDK.

[@bruhh368]

1:40 ah yes, a shell casing sound from a revolver, what great attention to detail

[@hideshisface1886]

The writing went so far downhill it ended up at the bottom of Mariana Trench with a shovel and a drill in hand.

[@strongerthanever2039]

Trying to dig into earth's core 😂

[@Blessed_Souls]

this shit pisses me off even more now. Especially seeing the Mr. Freeze moment between Batman. I loved that shit so much and they could have expanded on it in a new game but i guess we’ll never get that.

[@cameodamaneo]

They made Dr Freeze sassy, mildly annoyed, and angry, instead of romantic, depressed, hopeful, and angry. All they kept was the angry part.

[@shophet125]

1:52 it's amazing how much better the older games' models (and lighting/shadows) look than SSKtJL.

[@Polygonlin]

The Fan Fiction "Writers" of Suicide Squad could not make it any clearer how much they HATE Batman. or any Iconic Old School Super Hero. In the words of an ACTUALLY Well Written Joker. They got what they FUCKIN DESERVE!

[@user-lb9xw4xf2q]

I think there has to be a better phrase than "fan fiction," since even when bad, fans actually like the thing they are writing about. Maybe hate-fiction, fanfuction, or cringe-script?

[@spidey5558]

​@@user-lb9xw4xf2q Hate-writing

[@noob4head]

The fact that it was also Kevin Conroy’s last performance as the voice of Batman only makes it even more heartbreaking.

[@Efsaaneh]

Marvelous writing vs marvel tier writing

[@dylansharp8471]

Marvel tier?

[@F1stzz]

@@dylansharp8471 also known as Mid tier

[@heisj-bn1my]

*Phase 4 Marvel*

[@FungalBunghole]

​@@dylansharp8471 you okay?

[@genesismultiverse4896]

@@F1stzz so before 2000s

[@StarRightStarTight]

6:08 I love the perfectly flexible response of “elleraaagh” Luthor makes. Just slap any old dialogue in front of it and use that noise for whatever you want 😂

[@light819]

I still can't unhear the fact that Harley kills Batman with a revolver in ss:ktjl but you hear a bullet casing hit the ground anyway.

[@Jordanpost7]

That’s got to be the worst joker ever made. 3:57.

[@sebastianandresmejiagonzal896]

Surprisingly worse then Jared Leto's Joker.

[@NicolasFarias-cc9rj]

​@@sebastianandresmejiagonzal896 At least jared leto's joker looks actually insane to some degree. This joker looks fruity and pathetic.

[@sebastianandresmejiagonzal896]

Looks like a wanna be gangster with awful jokes.

[@rchaykovskiy]

@@sebastianandresmejiagonzal896nah, he just looks like a clown

[@justuswarren8965]

Nah they took the Trickster out of DBD

[@GrimModding]

Joker in SSKTJL seems more like a random cosplayer at Comic-Con doing his best Joker impression.

[@shafkatridwan4069]

the thing that made the previous batman games better is that when it came to dialogues and cutscenes they focus on 2 or at most 3 characters at a time even when there were dozens of other characters present, no one interrupted and everyone was heard, in the recent games however no one gets a dialogue that's longer than 2 lines which directly affected the story

[@PunisherActual]

I think what hurts the most is I can’t stop thinking about how awesome a Justice League game would be from the original writing team.

[@gorochaan]

Well, at least 350 people on steam are happy about this.

[@ErdnußRiegel6969]

its all of the Modern Audience they wanted

[@alienPear]

The video looks like a compilation of "final scene vs bloopers"

[@Youkai_graphics]

Joker in Batman Arkham Knight : grimy villain Joker in suicide squad : Visual Kei 💀

[@paolo9038]

Sweet baby inc doesn't ruin the games that you like, it destroys them

[@Paragon-qx3jd]

except for Spider-man 2 and GoW Ragnarök apparently

[@kayse_lucky7]

@@Paragon-qx3jd Don't bother mentioning that. They'll count those as outliers and ignore them

[@33connorkenway33]

Both are horrible sbi games​@@Paragon-qx3jd

[@woski736]

@@Paragon-qx3jd spider-man 2 is full of woke shit even though the game is great. Also I hate the new MJ 's face girl is getting uglier and uglier over time which is clearly on purpose. Ragnarok is way more better game in my opinion but you can see sweet baby inc marks on that game as well. I think the problem is not wokeness. I can tolerate some woke stuff and play the game if it's great. Rocksteady is already got overwhelmed by its supervisors and now they have to deal with imposing DEI stuff. As a huge fan of arkham series and rocksteady i'll never buy a game from them anymore and probably switch my focus to the old rocksteady which is hundred star games.

[@ramchristopherpesante4155]

​@@Paragon-qx3jdit's only games that have zero history of succesors like forspoken, saints raw 2021, tales of kenzaru, flintlock,

[@ChannelStowyn]

Why is mr.freeze a 10ft tall amazonian woman

[@sakuradabp6400]

4:42 God, I haven't played the Arkham games but this single moment made me feel something and realize it should have amazing writing

[@Vince120D]

gotta say, you must respect the man he played SSKTJ to make this clip for us. I dont think i can last a second on that game (even for free)

[@DaiMoscv]

Why the new joker looks so wimpy

[@Mrhouse-k1x]

Because he was meant to Be Gay. That's sweet Baby Inc For you

[@rusticbb8]

@@Mrhouse-k1xall jokers are gay

[@biglee3816]

He's gay in garbage game.

[@LHA105]

​@@rusticbb8 good point.

[@Mrhouse-k1x]

@@rusticbb8 Yet all of them are better than The twinkler here. This one right here is just a bad Gay stereotype dressed up as Jared lento.

[@Squallboogie02]

So at 1:30 she shoots Batman with a revolver. Why do I hear a shell casing hit the floor then?

[@ArchangelExile]

Johnny Charisma is more of a Joker than what they gave us in Suicide Squad Kill the Justice League. That was more Leto's _attempt_ at the Joker.

[@Helldive21]

The thumbnail is absolutely perfect! xD

[@Nopal11-v5m]

I am just realized it😂

[@diegobrando7057]

00:24 Batman catches you jaywalking