Journal of Other Forum Analysis (Volume II, Issue 2)

[Let's Cyber]

Yeah, I'm bitch-eating-crackers maxxxing and I don't give a fuck.

Go off sis 

Fuck these egotistical losers

[Jansen]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/bloomberg-top-%E2%80%98suicide-squad%E2%80%99-developers-say-the-flop-made-them-not-want-to-make-games-anymore.1567537/page-3#post-157369933

Suicide Squad is the most insane TPS since Kid Icarus: Uprising.



Seven characters with a metric ton of unique, bespoke movement and combat tech (and not esoteric stuff, but stuff that's actually practical, improves your speed and survival chances significantly, and maintains insanely fluid animation without looking jank).

 

Enemies, unlike literally every other looter shooter, have proper enemy states (downed, wallsplats, juggles that can be started via sliding into enemies, colliding into enemies via character specific traversal moves, and melee). Even the Arkham mechanics they've repurposed for this game, like the countershot, plays into this and inflicts stun that can be used for followups, with more precise critical counters being rewarded with knockback that can be used for even better followups. This makes enemies engagement more interesting since it doesn't just devolve completely into a numbers game, since fundamental knowledge of enemy interactions and how you can control things actually makes a difference in how you deal with the hordes in the game.



And unlike every movement-centric TPS, like Sunset Overdrive, Warframe, Forspoken, the enemies actually push you to move a ton. It's not a mere suggestion. You'll have crazy moments where you'll have like dozens of movement disabling, sniper laser sights on you at once while you're swinging with PS2 physics based Spider-Man mechanics with Harley Quinn (and the answer is to swing lower and duck into the surrounding city buildings as cover as you pick them off). Grunt enemy numbers reach such massive numbers that they form bullet hell-like bullet masses that you have to deliberately avoid. Tanks/heavy class enemies will shoot giant tracking lasers and do explosive jumps at your position to keep the pressure up, and helicoptors will pelt you with ice bullets that freeze you from above. Your mastery over the movement mechanics isn't just tangential fluff that the game provides no content to test you on, but instead the game is skill-driven enough to where it's actually matters in the core game.



There's obviously a lot of reasons not to like it of course (and I have many annoying gripes with it), but as a TPS it's creme of the crop. Literal Rocksteady magic. Only game I've ever seen that actually has a super overt homage to Vanquish in it's slide animations too, as if the game wasn't already cool enough.

 

[Besticus Maximus]

And unlike every movement-centric TPS, like Sunset Overdrive, Warframe, Forspoken, the enemies actually push you to move a ton. It's not a mere suggestion. You'll have crazy moments

 LLM post, a month of barves from this chud stat

[Greatness Gone]

Despite the ChatGPT powered post, they are kind of right. The combat mechanics in SS are incongruent (in a neat way) with the kind of game it wanted to be, you wouldn’t expect it to play like it does. 

Game is still shitty tho

[BananaBlast]

I hope it continues. Maybe Sony can get hit with another data breach. That'd be fun. They need to see consequences, and if they won't be dissuaded from this path I hope those consequences are devastating.

MOD EDIT: Post reverted

User banned (1 week): Inflammatory commentary

PlanetSmasher chose to say this even after years of crying and getting angry at hackers, data breaches, strikes, unions, employees being violated, etc. etc. Just to say, out of nowhere, he hopes data breaches happen and employees getting personal information leaked. His true colors. 

Fucking miserable two-faced snake.

[HaughtyFrank]

Is Messy just AI posting now?

Ok, so give it to me straight like a pear cider, that's made from 100% pears: Rocksteady devs wanted a break, and so they suggested a MP game, and got overly confident because they're so good at one thing, they could do this new thing too? Then they realised they were too deep over their head, and couldn't abort. So a break could potentially have been another single-player game, like TMNT or Superman, or whatever rumours there have been, that is still in their wheelhouse of talent?

https://www.resetera.com/threads/bloomberg-top-%E2%80%98suicide-squad%E2%80%99-developers-say-the-flop-made-them-not-want-to-make-games-anymore.1567537/post-157369729

[Besticus Maximus]

Then the movie got it wrong. Kara's trauma isn't meant to turn her into an arsehole.

There's a great moment in the comic that acts as a metaphor for Kara's character, as Ruthye lists all the powers Supergirl has and observes that those powers were not of action but of restraint - she doesn't shoot lasers out of her eyes or fly faster than a speeding bullet, she holds back her heat vision so she can see you and slows herself down so she can walk beside you. Ruthye suggests that every day Kara suppresses the forces churning inside of her, all the energy of a dead world constantly demanding to be released. It's a great metaphor for the pain she carries with her and is constantly suppressing.

Kara is the sort of person who will go on a huge detour just to teach some kid she only just met to not curse the universe for what she lost and throw her life away in search of revenge and to instead seek justice and see the good in the universe. Yeah she swears a lot and she drinks a lot and she's all too happy to accommodate people when they approach her and ask her to punch them in the face but she's still a hero. She saves people all the time, even when they probably don't deserve it - like Krem.

[BananaBlast]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/why-women-criticise-sexualised-character-designs-ot3-make-her-look-more-corpulent-more-stuffed-where-the-eyes-cant-escape.275780/page-544#post-157371466

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Oh clicky, stop pretending as if you don't like it 

[Polident]

I find it funny anyone is like, "Oh shit, I should exercise and read now that Playstation is going all digital" as if that isn't something you should have been doing the entire time.

Unironically, if you’re a video game autist, the fundamentals of progressive overload weight training should already make sense to you. You’re literally keeping a log of your stats and seeing numbers go up week to week. 

Business idea (do not steal) put an iPad at the lat pull down station with cutscenes of anime teenagers complaining about god. Replace lb/kg with lvl. Convince them Taco Bell causes stat debuffs.

[Orange Juice Box]

I've got people asking for the Nothing Loud and Planetsmasher lore.  What is the dossier file named again?

[Taco Bell Tower]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/why-women-criticise-sexualised-character-designs-ot3-make-her-look-more-corpulent-more-stuffed-where-the-eyes-cant-escape.275780/page-544#post-157371466

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Oh clicky, stop pretending like you don't like it 

No BNWO no like for Clicky

[Propagandhim]

if you can find me one woman on earth that doesn't like 2B or Nier Automata, i shall open unto you the gates of wealth so vast that kings and forgotten saints would weep to behold it.  That ass gets a pass.

[BIONIC]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/has-anyone-elses-character-preference-changed-as-they-got-older.1567558/

Hi guys!
When I was younger (up until around 25-30), I always preferred playing as male characters and I don't remember ever choosing a female character. For example, I finished Mass Effect 1&2 three times each, and every time I played as male Shepard.
But for some unknown reason, that changed as I got older. From Assassin's Creed Odyssey and Immortals Fenyx Rising to Baldur's Gate 3 and Soulslike games, I've found myself enjoying playing as female characters too, sometimes even more than male characters.
It's not a big deal, but I'm curious: Am I the only one, or has this happened to other gamers as well?

Egg thread

[Let's Cyber]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/til-mark-wahlberg-committed-multiple-violent-hate-crimes-in-his-past.1567711/#post-157378537

To be clear this was when he was a teeanger and he did face consequences. He went to court and did time in jail. As far as I know he hasn't done anything hateful or criminal in ages. So, I mean, yes people know about it but he has seemingly turned his life around so most folks are not going to be upset.

WRONG. We don't believe in rehabilitation for rich white dudes. 

Sit down and listen, sweetie, and you might learn something. Though to be clear, it's NOT my job to educate you. 

https://www.resetera.com/threads/til-mark-wahlberg-committed-multiple-violent-hate-crimes-in-his-past.1567711/#post-157384324

Funny how crackers always get the benefit of the doubt.

Yep, repeatedly calling a Black person beautiful Black body and wanting them dead is just normal dumb kid shit. Terrorizing Vietnamese people is just normal dumb kid shit. Mmhmmm. The infantilizing of white people is a sight to behold. Just don't know better no matter what age they are I guess.

I knew right from wrong when I was much younger than 15. I certainly didn't go around terrorizing people nor did it ever cross my mind.

[Uncle]

Anyway, that's awesome you spent your day beating some 12 year old with a shiny Ponyta

[Boredfrom]

Funny how crackers always get the benefit of the doubt.

Yep, repeatedly calling a Black person beautiful Black body and wanting them dead is just normal dumb kid shit. Terrorizing Vietnamese people is just normal dumb kid shit. Mmhmmm. The infantilizing of white people is a sight to behold. Just don't know better no matter what age they are I guess.

I knew right from wrong when I was much younger than 15. I certainly didn't go around terrorizing people nor did it ever cross my mind.

Weren’t you defending a young murderer because “race”? 

I know is ERA, but how dare you to act all almighty after that?

[Potato]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/has-anyone-elses-character-preference-changed-as-they-got-older.1567558/

Hi guys!
When I was younger (up until around 25-30), I always preferred playing as male characters and I don't remember ever choosing a female character. For example, I finished Mass Effect 1&2 three times each, and every time I played as male Shepard.
But for some unknown reason, that changed as I got older. From Assassin's Creed Odyssey and Immortals Fenyx Rising to Baldur's Gate 3 and Soulslike games, I've found myself enjoying playing as female characters too, sometimes even more than male characters.
It's not a big deal, but I'm curious: Am I the only one, or has this happened to other gamers as well?

Egg thread

That's a troll laying groundwork for some trans armour down the track

[Potato]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/til-mark-wahlberg-committed-multiple-violent-hate-crimes-in-his-past.1567711/#post-157378537

To be clear this was when he was a teeanger and he did face consequences. He went to court and did time in jail. As far as I know he hasn't done anything hateful or criminal in ages. So, I mean, yes people know about it but he has seemingly turned his life around so most folks are not going to be upset.

WRONG. We don't believe in rehabilitation for rich white dudes. 

Sit down and listen, sweetie, and you might learn something. Though to be clear, it's NOT my job to educate you. 

https://www.resetera.com/threads/til-mark-wahlberg-committed-multiple-violent-hate-crimes-in-his-past.1567711/#post-157384324

Funny how crackers always get the benefit of the doubt.

Yep, repeatedly calling a Black person beautiful Black body and wanting them dead is just normal dumb kid shit. Terrorizing Vietnamese people is just normal dumb kid shit. Mmhmmm. The infantilizing of white people is a sight to behold. Just don't know better no matter what age they are I guess.

I knew right from wrong when I was much younger than 15. I certainly didn't go around terrorizing people nor did it ever cross my mind.

What, you never caused a little bit of chaos?

[Boredfrom]

https://www.resetera.com/threads/why-women-criticise-sexualised-character-designs-ot3-make-her-look-more-corpulent-more-stuffed-where-the-eyes-cant-escape.275780/page-544#post-157371466

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Oh clicky, stop pretending like you don't like it 

Should reinstall Azur Lane again. (Too many IronBlood events)

[Greatness Gone]

>playing gacha 

Spoiler:  (click to show)(click to hide)

I’ve been mildly addicted to ZZZ ever since it launched on Steam help me

[Boredfrom]

I’m surprised that ERA thinks that Sony didn’t plan this.  

I think the real mistake they are making is not reassuring everyone that the PSN service and store are going to get better or at least not being a shit show to use. They don’t need it, obviously being a walled garden, but may as well do it so they don’t fuck all the goodwill from the PS4 era.

[BIONIC]

>playing gacha 

Spoiler:  (click to show)(click to hide)

I’ve been mildly addicted to ZZZ ever since it launched on Steam help me

Egg post

[benji]

It was definitely underrated. It had a few giant missteps though, which rendered it DOA.

IMO one of these is that "Suicide Squad" just isn't a tenable brand, especially for a mass market product. No normal people are going to buy a product with the word "suicide" in the title.

Warner Bros repeatedly kicking themselves for not thinking of "Unalive Unit: K*ll the Justice League"

hehe

Not a tenable brand for a mass market project, meanwhile the movie made $750 million four years before the game was announced which almost certainly is what convinced them to do it.

SinnyIndonesian going hard in the paint in that thread against anyone who speaks against the game:

People hated the game simply for existing, and as seen in this thread some are completely unable to accept its very premise. People would have complained. You're underestimating how petty people are.

It's not "whatabout-ing" when it's true. You're just in denial about it.
Characters that in the comics have been shown to be using firearms in mission, are using firearms! While also still using their own unique attributes, like Boomer still having his boomerangs in his moveset, or King Shark still using his physicality. Oh, the horror. Let's face it, some people just won't look past the very premise of the game. Just look at you, when told that the characters still play uniquely and faithfully to the comics in the game, all you can do is still bring up the guns. The guns argument is used to argue that the characters don't play uniquely and they all feel the same, but considering that's not actually the case, it's not actually about the guns, is it?

I'm defending it because the arguments against it have been weak and not at all reflective of the actual game. It's just excuses upon excuses to justify their decision to not like it. Because people can't just not like a game and move on, they have to feel justified about it for some reason.

[Boredfrom]

Nintendies white washing Key Cards: 

When Nintendo follows the trend, hope you choke on those.

[benji]

people saying "lol lol but PC has been digital forever" I think are missing the difference on walled garden consoles

on PC you can fuck around with the files, dive in, extract textures, mod the thing, figure out how to pirate it

consoles are locked down, it's the worst of all worlds

people tolerate digital on PC because they can fuck with it if they want

PCs also have multiple store fronts and bundle deals and shit. If Sony wants to ream its customers for GTA6 then it can do that and you just have to bend over and take it.

The DRM on consoles is the console itself. Which the console makers intend to obsolete and almost never support transition of the old material to the new because the bulk of the market does not care about this. "Digital only" threatens the console gamer because it's not "digital only", it's physical, to the console.

It doesn't even really exist on the PC, which is truly digital only and has always been. And the PC also eventually becomes the means to circumvent the console itself. The PC market isn't remotely like the console one, the console types on Era are under the impression the console market is mostly made up of them like during the SNES/Genesis days rather than the mass market gamer who is very different from them.

The console types on Era have no grounds to complain, they buy these games new at release anyway, their loyalty is to the console platform. They're upset because they think this will harm their consoles while also making things harder on themselves. They're constantly throwing fits about streaming price increases as if they were the "last straw" and were mad at the mass market acceptance of GamePass and Sony titles on PC too. They're upset because they keep learning that Sony (or whoever) actually isn't their friend. It's like Sony doesn't even care about all they've done for them or how they're in this together.

[Chumbawumbafan69]

I have something to admit. I didn't think the Suicide Squad game was that bad.

[Uncle]

Nintendies white washing Key Cards: 

When Nintendo follows the trend, hope you choke on those.

seems like a decent solution though, or at least better than the alternative, which never really has to end other than if manufacturing cost is prohibitive?

- still physical artifacts you can collect
- still physical boxes in stores which acts as its own marketing while shopping ("ooh mom I want that one")
- still can be traded, sold, lent to others without issue
- doesn't need to store the game if storage media is too expensive, even as a digital key it retains value until the storefront shuts down

nintendo's just the only one able to do this in a way that makes sense because they haven't been disc-based for a decade and always have had one foot in cartridges

the other consoles don't have a "key slot" nor the motivation/means to add one, optical discs make very poor license keys

[Uncle]

I have something to admit. I didn't think the Suicide Squad game was that bad.

I hate that kevin conroy's last performance was to be disrespected to his face and shot to death by harley quinn

and I hate that it wasn't just suicide squad...kevin conroy's only physical appearance as bruce wayne was as a washed up alt universe evil version of himself who gets defeated by shitty batwoman on the CW's embarrassing crisis on infinite earths

guy couldn't catch a break

[Boredfrom]

He wasn't acting the the departed, he was just being himself

Edit, I was thinking about Matt Damon, always confuse those two.

https://www.resetera.com/threads/til-mark-wahlberg-committed-multiple-violent-hate-crimes-in-his-past.1567711/page-2#post-157388959

[Boredfrom]

I have something to admit. I didn't think the Suicide Squad game was that bad.

I hate that kevin conroy's last performance was to be disrespected to his face and shot to death by harley quinn

and I hate that it wasn't just suicide squad...kevin conroy's only physical appearance as bruce wayne was as a washed up alt universe evil version of himself who gets defeated by shitty batwoman on the CW's embarrassing crisis on infinite earths

guy couldn't catch a break

I also hate actors acting.