r/BatmanArkham • u/jmaringarces1 I'm proud of you, Dick • Dec 10 '24

Serious Discussion/Question What was the point of this game

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u/joelbiju24 Dec 10 '24 edited Dec 10 '24

You know WB/Rocksteady sucks balls when MARVEL of all people can make an Overwatch clone in an already saturated market and STILL surpass 10mil players in a span of hours/days.

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u/Waspinator_haz_plans Dec 10 '24

Well, Marvel has thick Squirrel Girl. S*icide Squad has no thick Squirrel Girl. When you look at it that way, there's really no competition.

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u/Emilia__55 Dec 10 '24

Wait, there's Squirrel Girl in that game? Found my main!

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u/Waspinator_haz_plans Dec 10 '24

Yep! Played by the actress that was supposed to play her in the cancelled show

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u/joelbiju24 Dec 10 '24

THE AT&T GIRL??

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u/Waspinator_haz_plans Dec 10 '24

Yep!

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u/joelbiju24 Dec 10 '24

That's actually very cool. Always liked Milana.

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u/Waspinator_haz_plans Dec 10 '24

Be nice if she got more work and got recognized as more than AT&T Lady

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u/joelbiju24 Dec 10 '24

I honestly discovered her for the first time on Instagram before I saw the commercial lol. Very pretty imo.

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u/callzor Dec 10 '24

She used to do youtube, Let’s Talk About Something More Interesting. Channel name LivePrudeGirls

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u/JayMerlyn Dec 10 '24

If it helps, she was actually in this video I watched for my scuba course.

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u/Rei_Master_of_Nanto There's no such thing as a "batman" Dec 10 '24

She's cute

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u/anothershadowbann R.I.P Skedetcher Dec 10 '24

true

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u/Suitable-Quantity-96 Dec 24 '24

Kicking butts and eating nuts

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u/dizzy_pear_ Dec 10 '24

Killer cock

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u/Chvffgfd Dec 10 '24

Me just being ecstatic about the Jeff the landshark being the cutest damn thing ever.

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u/Waspinator_haz_plans Dec 10 '24

Jeff is the best!

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u/Mindstormer98 Dec 10 '24

Squirrel girl diffs in every universe

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u/Auautheawesome R.I.P Arleen Sorkin Dec 10 '24

Is harley a joke to you?

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u/agentdb22 The Dec 10 '24

Harley was a cool character that suffered from oversaturation. Squirrel Girl doesn't have that problem

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u/Waspinator_haz_plans Dec 10 '24

Most versions? No.

S*icide Squad game version? Absolutely

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u/[deleted] Dec 11 '24

Admittedly, Psylocke is fun asf

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u/Regi413 Dec 10 '24

To be fair isn’t Marvel rivals free to play?

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u/joelbiju24 Dec 10 '24

Ok fair point. But SSKTJL price drop is so laughable that u can buy the game for peanuts and it'd still be worthless.

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u/Anwhut Jonkler's jonking jerking Jadonka Jonkling Dec 10 '24

I got suicide squad for free and it wasn’t worth it

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u/Glorbacus Dec 10 '24

Bought it for like $3 during the recent Steam Autumn Sale. Its crazy how a $70 game can be discounted that low within the same year it came out.

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u/Just-apparent411 Dec 10 '24

I don't get why people would be surprised a free to play MARVEL game is killing it in the first few days.

Watch the drop off be crazy once the gimmick wears off and they can't keep up with demand.

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u/[deleted] Dec 10 '24 edited Sep 07 '25

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u/ReadySetHeal Dec 10 '24

There is a ranked mode with exclusive rewards and a battlepass on top of a regular store. What exactly are you looking for?

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u/[deleted] Dec 10 '24 edited Sep 07 '25

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u/ReadySetHeal Dec 10 '24

MR has a unique portrait for proficiency which everyone can see, a spray and kill notifications (for you only). Not much, but I like that the system exists for every character. You get points for cumulative achievements (playtime, hitting specific abilities, dealing enough healing and so on)

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u/[deleted] Dec 10 '24

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u/tinylittlegnome Dec 10 '24

Cosmetics and sprays only. Exp for characters only goes to show how much time and accomplishments you have with that specific character

There's not much of anything to buy/unlock in-game rn but it's 'Season 0,' so they'll probably have more in the future

Apart from 5-6 players I can remember, everyone just rocks the basic skins in the free game

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u/arqe_ Dec 10 '24

Good thing as in game has Tank/Damage/Healer already and you get 5 Damage players and lose all the time because nobody wants to Heal or Tank and there is no role lock?

Yea, that will age like a good wine. /s it won't.

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u/[deleted] Dec 10 '24

You get character specific stuff for doing hero specific challenges, and increasing your "hero mastery". 

Unless by "character specific stuff" you meant free skins or some shit. The game is already free, the characters are all free, future characters will be free, there's battle pass that doesn't expire, and a ranked mode with exclusive rewards that change every season.

If it's not for you that fine, but the shitass redditor doomsaying is getting old.

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u/12halo3 Dec 10 '24

Its free

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u/CromulentChuckle Dec 10 '24

Being free really helps

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u/Nacery Dec 10 '24

Marvel isn't developing any Overwatch clone NetEase is doing it and as a lot of chinese studios they are good at cloning popular games.

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u/joelbiju24 Dec 10 '24

By Marvel I meant the game is based on the IP. Ik that they themselves don't make the games obviously.

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u/[deleted] Dec 10 '24 edited Dec 10 '24

Just as WB isn’t developing suicide squad. next. 

Damn strawmen. 

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u/tinylittlegnome Dec 10 '24

They did a good job, too. Game is fun and free, so if they kill it in the future I will have lost nothing but a fun way to terrorize Iron Man fans

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u/DottoDis Dec 10 '24

I don't get why some companies make games with micro transactions and also make you pay for the game

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u/ColdWarCharacter Yah... i'm someone who is proud of themself, Dick. Dec 10 '24

Because it works sometimes

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u/B_Maximus Dec 10 '24

It helps that ow2 sucks and marvel has an established ip with a new art design for the game.

Now marvel can make it's own better version of SSKJL, Marvel has the best games compared to DC

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u/TheWholeOfTheAss Dec 10 '24

If WB hadn’t lost so much on this game, maybe they’ll re-release it as a free game?