Check out Manta Sleep here tinyurl.com/bdf5nutt and use code whitelight for 10% off your order. I still want to make the Arkham Knight video. I got one more trip to the aslume left in me.

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.

dont forget, when they killed Batman, a casing hits the floor.... from a revolver which is impossible....

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...

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.

Suicide Squad Kill Rocksteady

If "Boundless Mediocrity of ___" is now a series, it's one of my favourites now.

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

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

Why did Cocksteady make a looter shooter that's always online? Are they stupid?

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.

That “Is there a lore reason? Is he stupid?” hit me like a truck lmao

"Let's all laugh at an industry that never learns anything tee hee hee"

Visual diarrhea

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.

I can BARELY look at the screen, how is that playable 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Mediocrity is too positive of a word. More like "a complete and utter disaster"

"You just have to wait for the battlepass to drop, I swear that'll fix the issues"

29:49 asumle is leaking

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.

"Meh" is already off the mark, it's abysmal

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.

First Monty, now Whitelight. A double bill of disappointed fans

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.

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

"It's Anthem." (Patreon credits)

Persona 3 Reload was the superior Suicide Squad release of Q1 2024

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.

Just finished a job interview that went very well, and Whitelight posted a new video. Made my week

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.

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

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.

Funny how Rocksteady managed to both literally and figuratively shoot Batman in the head

No game has made me lose hope quite like this one

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.

29:48 Just casually slipping that in there, makes me feel like a sleeper agent awakening whenever I hear those words.

Unrelated to the game, but that lofi hiphop cover of Light of the Seven at the beginning SLAPS

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

I don't think I've experienced nausea from trying to watch gameplay before, you've given me a new experience

Idk how anyone can call this shit “mediocre”.

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.

Hi, DC mythos/lore expert here. There *is* a reason why Batman doesn't kill the squad when he meets them: He's stupid.

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.

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 😂

Do you seriously expect me to watch yet another video shitting on suicide squad kill the justice league? Because you’d be right

That was the cleanest ad transition ever

Im struggling to finish this video because of the visual diarrhea. Absolutely insane. Never seen and probably never will see anything like this.

Rocksteady: What if we made a boss fight against Superman, where you kill him with bullets?

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.

29:46 "is there a lore reason he did that? is he stupid?" THATS A BATMAN ARKHAM SUBREDDIT QUOTE

Was definetely hoping you would cover this!

0:43 instant rhythm game end boss PTSD flashbacks.

"Mediocre" is being very generous.

Wow, didn't expect you to be this invested in this game. I'm sorry for your loss, my condolences.

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

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…

Literally the only youtuber that makes the end credits enjoyable. Love ya man. Gonna go binge watch all your stuff again

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.

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.

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

That manta transition was so slick it took me 10 seconds to realise I was listening to an ad lol

"mediocre" is still being way too generous to that failed abortion of a live cervix game.

I HAVE BEEN WAITING FOR THIS :D

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

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.

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...

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!

I love waking up in the morning to a whitelight video on my dayoff

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.

Live Service Games = Future Bargain Bin Games

I like that the only real valid points of positivity amounted to a car without a properly working engine but hey it has a sick paintjob.

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.

Amazing work as always

More like the boundless scrolling of me waiting for another Whitelight video

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.

calling it mediocre is an insult to the word mediocre

People wanted to hate it? No people hated it after playin or watchin the waste of space that is this game...

It's absolutely insane how publishers keep insisting in live-service games when they have the lowest player interest and retention from every kind of game in existence. Yeah, the couple ones that have succeeded have been a big success, but you'd think they'd have figured out by now that those are the exception while all the other ones have been massive losses. It's like wasting $100 a week in taxi fares to reach the other side of the country because you once found a $5 bill on a street in there.

40:22 is one of the most creative, perfectly visualizing thing I think I’ve ever heard on the entirety of KZfaq, and I didn’t expect to find it on a video about the dumb Suicide Squad games breakdown video

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.

Wait, how the hell would a possessed Green Lantern even work? Wouldn't that just be a guy with an inert ring?

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.

whenever whitelight pulls out a random modern meme or reference it feels like if your professor did it

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

HLD's Seed of the crown is my morning alarm, so at 21:11 I woke up for a second time today.

I would love to see a video from you about Helldivers 2.

Love your vids man!

Thank you for the video

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

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 KZfaq.

Web of shadows 4:52