Batman: Arkham Knight vs Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League Video Comparison

Batman: Arkham Knight is considered by many as one of the best-looking games that Rocksteady released. And, since Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League is now out, YouTube’s ‘NikTek’ shared a comparison video between them.

[crazyCoconuts]

OK. I guess I should now give up hope for this game. I read somewhere someone saying the graphics were great. Man that just.... @#$!!

[YourMommySpoils]

Thank God we didn't buy this.

[Christopher]

There's a massive amount of cherry picking here to make Suicide Squad look bad here. The person is purposefully playing the game poorly. And it's definitely downgraded in the PS5 capture, because it doesn't look that bad.

Look, there's enough to 'hate on' in the game as it is, people don't need to play poorly to make it look even worse to make a point.

This is a dumb comparison. This is a combo shooter being compared to a combo battler but they showed nothing of what makes Suicide Squad its own game.

[Stanjara]

OMG you are defending Suicide squad... actually I'm not surprised.
Game is garbage, disrespecting OG Dc characters.
Should I explain, no. You already know my stance.

[TheEnigma313]

sounds like copium

[staticall]

@Christopher
While i agree overall with your point about cherrypicking (play poorly, if that was actually the case), i think that comparing melee system was useful, because:
1. It shows how undercooked the melee system feels/looks (starting from 2:50, the player tried to start a combo and instead, it was just a mess, hits not registering, enemies flying all over the place - those 2 attacks at 3:10 should've been a hit);
2. Highlights the worse looking animations for melee system and overall lack of them (hence the inclusion of AR challenge section from Harley Quinn DLC for Arkham Knight).

Before you'll say that it's not important in a coop looter-shooter, consider this:
- they (Rocksteady) have added a melee system and Harley Quinn (known for her melee and acrobatics in previous games and in DC overall) to the game;
- they decided to make the melee system as basic as possible. Yet, they know how to make it better, they have the experience of doing so, but decided it's not worth the time and/or money.

If they would've spent more time with it and shown some care, this would not be seen as another reason to dislike the game. But now it just shows the lack of passion from them, which is disheartening, in my opinion, coming from Rocksteady.

[Christopher]

***1. It shows how undercooked the melee system feels/looks ***

It's not a melee game, though... Heck, Deadshot's melee is gauntlet guns. The only reason you melee is to 1. pick up shield buffs after shooting in the leg or 2. to pop them up for higher chance at crit shots.

***2. Highlights the worse looking animations for melee system***

No, again, it doesn't. I have no clue how they got that singular animation off over and over, but it's not great but it's also not that and I never saw Harley do that animation in my short gameplay. They didn't show any other melee animations, just that one shitty one they repeated over and over.

Having said that, I'm not saying they're 'great' only that they're not as bad as they made it out to be with cherry-picked gameplay.

*** Before you'll say that it's not important in a coop looter-shooter, consider this: ***

It's important to rate a game based on what it is. One is a shooter, one is a battler (melee focus). Even more, Squicide is a rapid traversal/shooter game, but they showed absolutely none of that in good taste, only really shit traversal from Harley and nothing about jumping around the battlefield from roof to roof shooting.

***OMG you are defending Suicide squad... actually I'm not surprised. ***

I'm just not defending crap comparisons that aren't at all done in good faith. You can enjoy being ignorant in your opinion if you wish.

[blitz0623]

True on most points but remember that they are still 9 years apart

[crazyCoconuts]

Just in terms of visuals, I checked out since other YouTube videos, presumably 4K, and the graphics looked really bland. Like the lighting seems so basic and textures look bland. Draw distance looks good, and in the daylight it looks ok at best imo

[bunt-custardly]

Actually, agreeing with you here Christopher. In addition there are totally different moods and art styles for each game. Can't wait to play SSKTJL on Gamepass PC soon!

[YourMommySpoils]

Contradicting yourself, saying you're not impressed with Sony's recent State of Play, yet you're defending this which looks way worst than any of the games shown.

[VincentVanBro]

Good God! Suicide Squad looks like shit!

[TheEnigma313]

wth, this is Chares Barkley "turrable"

[DrDoomer]

the fukk happened to that studio? DAMN!!

[NoFanBoy]

"For a modern gaming audience" RIP the corpse of Rocksteady.

[tbagmonster]

they kill batman at the end, f this game.

[XBManiac]

This seems to be what happens when you fire part of the team, leave some of the best artist go and get some unknown localized "devs" to fill what the main team can't get to.