DonkeyPunchJr
World’s Biggest Weeb
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Wonder Woman game has already cost $100 million; “years away from release, if it ever makes it to market”
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Bloomberg article is behind paywall but most of the relevant stuff is in that Reddit post.
RagnarokIV
Battlebus imprisoning me \m/ >.< \m/
Spoiler: it won't make it to market.
But here's a better joke:
Superman is flying past Wonder Woman's house, he sees that she's just gotten into bed. He thinks "I'm the fastest person in the world - I can fly in there, have my way with her and fly out in the blink of an eye". Nobody would ever know.
So he does exactly that and flies away smirking to himself feeling relieved.
Wonder woman says out loud "Did you just feel a draft?" Invisible man answers "No, but my asshole is hurting!"
But here's a better joke:
Superman is flying past Wonder Woman's house, he sees that she's just gotten into bed. He thinks "I'm the fastest person in the world - I can fly in there, have my way with her and fly out in the blink of an eye". Nobody would ever know.
So he does exactly that and flies away smirking to himself feeling relieved.
Wonder woman says out loud "Did you just feel a draft?" Invisible man answers "No, but my asshole is hurting!"
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hinch7
Member
They should just scrap it. Nobody asked for a Wonder Women game. Its one of those franchises nobody cares for, just like Suicide Squad.
So daft instead of making more Arkham games with Batman (which are popular) they make some random shit no one cares for. Could've had a Batman Beyond or whatever (there's so much content there to cover) but nope WW and trash GaaS lol.
So daft instead of making more Arkham games with Batman (which are popular) they make some random shit no one cares for. Could've had a Batman Beyond or whatever (there's so much content there to cover) but nope WW and trash GaaS lol.
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VulcanRaven
Member
They should be making a Superman and new Arkham game.
Interfectum
Member
RIP
intheinbetween
Member
I hope at least 90+ million went to create a Gal Gadot life-like character 
PeteBull
Member
If its made by western dev, then very likely wonderwoman will be unsufferable bossbiatch feminist to the bone.
I wouldnt mind playing wonderwoman game, if it was setting like og wonderwoman series from the 70s.
DannyDanger
Member
Ehh, Wonder Woman has always been a favorite. That amazonian sex appeal for men. And a strong female for women.
And it had a little momentum with the movies at the time, even tho the second movie squandered most of that. A non woke story and some Arkham combat with lasso elements could have been decent
vaibhavpisal
Member
Playing through Suicide Squad right now.
Enjoying it.
Enjoying it.
Black_Stride
do not tempt fate do not contrain Wonder Woman's thighs do not do not
Still years plural away?
Wasn't the teaser like 3 years ago.
Shadow of Mordor and Shadow of War were 4 years apart.
This game should be ready for release next year with only polish delaying to 2027 if need be.
Wasn't the teaser like 3 years ago.
Shadow of Mordor and Shadow of War were 4 years apart.
This game should be ready for release next year with only polish delaying to 2027 if need be.
Firestartah
Banned
Bros this industry is in shambles. No really. Everywhere you look, layoffs, games delayed and overbudgeted to the point where theres no way they will make a profit.
People dont know how to make good games anymore, and they dont know how to lead teams that make them. And thats not even getting into the agenda pushing. They dont even know how to optimize them anymore, they barely look better than shit from the start of PS4 (The Order 1886 or Batman Arkham Knight for example) but they require 5 times the power to have a playable fps.
I dont recognize this industry anymore.
People dont know how to make good games anymore, and they dont know how to lead teams that make them. And thats not even getting into the agenda pushing. They dont even know how to optimize them anymore, they barely look better than shit from the start of PS4 (The Order 1886 or Batman Arkham Knight for example) but they require 5 times the power to have a playable fps.
I dont recognize this industry anymore.
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DonkeyPunchJr
World’s Biggest Weeb
It’s honestly pretty shocking. Used to be that the movie or game industry once in a while would release some long delayed big budget turd and we’d all have a good laugh.
But now it’s like every major publisher has multiple of these going on simultaneously. Just a colossal failure to deliver on time and to understand what their audience actually wants.
DonkeyPunchJr
World’s Biggest Weeb
Didn’t play it but I thought Suicide Squad KtJL was supposed to take place in an alternate reality anyway (one where Mr Freeze is a butch lesbian woman who looks like a man LMAO)
VulcanRaven
Member
They should really lower the budgets.
phant0m
Member
Too many cooks in the kitchen, and too corporate.
Go watch behind the scenes docs on YT from the mid 00’s (or even earlier). It’s all just a bunch of nerds making shit they think is cool. The Gears of War 2 one is great - they even call Rod [Fergusson, producer] a “walking HR violation”.
If you read Masters of Doom, there’s a section where John Romero describes the team putting porn on full blast trying to distract/get a rise out of Carmack while he’s working on the engine. He remains unphased.
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Agent_4Seven
Tears of Nintendo
Knowing what Monolith did after NOLF and F.E.A.R. and what kind of a waste of time and talent it end up being even not considering MTs and WB involvement....
Just fuckin' kill it with blue fire, sell all the studios, close cursed and rotten WB gaming division and let people make games they really wanna make. Period.
Just fuckin' kill it with blue fire, sell all the studios, close cursed and rotten WB gaming division and let people make games they really wanna make. Period.
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hinch7
Member
Yeah I don't really care for that just the IP isn't very interesting. WW or Diana is just a bland and boring character *shrug*
As above yeah not really interested. Like most WB movies they ruined the sequels but even then they weren't great movies. I enjoyed BvS combat scenes but most of the DC movies were mid or just flat out terrible. I couldn't even get through WW 1984. That film bored me to tears. Most people just skipped DC stuff outside of Batman because at least those films are consistent and have a hero/heroine and franchise that's somewhat interesting.
Not sure why they would go all in from the terrible reception of the movies and bombas in the box office. Same with the SS franchise. You have to ask why pour millions into a project when the initial reception is a collective meh
465K views in three years for a trailer for a big AAA game is TERRIBLE.
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Sebastian1295
Member
No one asked for a wonder woman game to begin with. Wonder woman has the personality of a brick wall and is uninteresting just like superman. I'd rather have seen a game based off of a villain and doing a villain origin story.
Firestartah
Banned
it all adds up, too much money involved, too many people so instead of people you actually need you go into DEI and representation and since those people are clueless they provide the one thing they know, pushing social shit, GPU manufacturer schemes to push the latest shit even though games barely look better now than Arkham Knight from 10years ago (yea that was 2015)....its clown world.
Solarstrike
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Sentenza
Member
What's GENUINELY weird to me is that these failures always seem to come as a surprise to these studios and the suits in charge, when more often than not as a "final user" a first glance at the early concept is all it takes to establish that "Yeah, not really interested. This will be a bargain bin purchase AT BEST and more likely a pass".
Now, to be clear I don't pretend to have the pulse of the entire market and that my opinions reflect the ones of everyone else (in fact I have a personal fondness for a lot of niche shit), but still... I usually don't struggle to identify quickly which upcoming titles will be the big sellers/breakthrough hits, which ones are more risky and need to be budgeted accordingly and which ones simply have little or no appeal.
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RCX
Member
When will these people learn not to announce shit that doesn't even exist? All it does is create impatience and aggravation from your customers which will soon be directed right back at the devs.
Hollywood is a fucking mess in so many ways but one of their better habits is announcing movies reasonably close to release and then actually releasing them when they say they're going to.
If all you have is a cgi trailer or, god forbid, a fucking title JPG, then just shut the fuck up until you have something real to show. Ideally 12-15 months before you genuinely know its going to be ready.
Hollywood is a fucking mess in so many ways but one of their better habits is announcing movies reasonably close to release and then actually releasing them when they say they're going to.
If all you have is a cgi trailer or, god forbid, a fucking title JPG, then just shut the fuck up until you have something real to show. Ideally 12-15 months before you genuinely know its going to be ready.
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Sentenza
Member
Then again a shitty teaser with a logo and some random music isn't exactly hype-building material unless you are called GTA.
Evil Calvin
Afraid of Boobs
Who asked for a Wonder Woman game?
1st movie was just ok. Second one sucked and that was years ago. Character is really kind of meh and even the comics aren't popular. This will flop.....if it ever comes out.
1st movie was just ok. Second one sucked and that was years ago. Character is really kind of meh and even the comics aren't popular. This will flop.....if it ever comes out.
phant0m
Member
Don’t forget designing for MTX/GaaS/maximum engagement.
For the major pubs, success is measure by MAU, not sales. Continuous revenue is the name of the game across all for-profit business in the west now (thus the subscriptions for everything)
Evil Calvin
Afraid of Boobs
I mean....Suicide Squad game.......who greenlit a game featuring almost ZERO characters with any super powers? Geezus.....should have just made a JLA game instead.
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DonkeyPunchJr
World’s Biggest Weeb
This game is being made by Monolith (Shadows of Mordor/Shadows of War). Rocksteady is supposedly going to make another single player Batman game, but that is also years away.
Generic
Member
She is one of the most recognizable pop culture characters ever, a Wonder Woman game is about time.
hinch7
Member
I mean if it was Arkham game that would get a few million, no doubt. Metroid Prime 4 got 4.1M from a similar teaser with just a splash screen and logo. Point is no one care for WW, as mainstream goes anyways.
Miyazaki’s Slave
Gold Member
I knew that joke immediately...then remembered when a guy in my 6th grade class had to stand at the chalk board and read the paper that he had been passing around. Mrs. McGuire made him say "behind" (pronounced bee-hined) instead of butt-hole....so funny
Crazy how your brain triggers instant recall like that.
Anyway thanks for the chuckle!
Fbh
Member
WB have all this valuable IP and talented devs, and somehow they have figured out a way to fuck it all up again and again.
Hogwarts Legacy has been about the only thing they did right, but they'll probably find a way to fuck up the sequel too.
It has been in development for several years. They still have to pay salaries, rent, utilities, etc even if they have nothing to show for it.
Hogwarts Legacy has been about the only thing they did right, but they'll probably find a way to fuck up the sequel too.
Lol. How has it cost 100 million and is still years from release
It has been in development for several years. They still have to pay salaries, rent, utilities, etc even if they have nothing to show for it.
StereoVsn
Gold Member
And due to above, diminishing returns both in graphics and designs, their customers are fine with playing older games.
There are a ton of titles from last 10+ years that do not look far off from modern ones and are much cheaper.
The whole situation is dumb as shit.
Edit: As far as current disaster goes alongside Suicide Squad, why couldn’t we just have a proper Justice League game? That could even have some GaaS elements if WB really wanted.
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