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[FoxMcChief]

This industry is fucking retarded.

 

[FubukiJ]

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.

and people will try to tell you with a straight face that "gaming has never been better!"

Yeah, maybe games from China. Western AAA games industry is on life support barring a few massive hits like Baldurs Gate 3, GTA6, and your too big to fail cod/fifa games.

 

[Tokio Blues]

They should make this games:

DC. For warner.

1. Batman (Arkham universe, old bruce)
2. Superman (take birthright as an example)
3. Gotham Central (action, thriller, detective style)

Marvel

1. Daredevil (grounded, linear, action adventure)
2. The punisher


Its not that hard.

 

[Camreezie]

WB and Ubisoft neck a neck this gen for taking Ls holy shit

 

[lh032]

I'll play a wonder women game if it looks like Stella blade kind of sexy theme , but we all know it won't .

 

[CrustyBritches]

"I don't think anybody actually likes Captain America."

You guys know nothing about anything when it comes to capes.

A Captain America VR game in the vein of the recent Batman Arkham game would be great and way more affordable to develop.

 

[ProtoByte]

Lord of the Rings, Terminator, Matrix, Police Academy, Mad Max...

It's not like WB are lacking for cool IPs. The only interesting IP DC has is Constantine.

Okay, so Monolith spent the entirety of last gen on LOTR.
Terminator is a zombie franchise and would not sell to the same extent. It's barely still popular in film.
Matrix?? Lmao
Mad Max isn't a franchise that you can endlessly milk. Honestly, I don't think it's that interesting at all.

I know it pisses off haters, but capeshit is here to stay. You might find Constantine more interesting than anything else DC related, but I know for a fact that a great Wonder Woman, Superman, Flash or Green Lantern game would sell way better than anything Constantine.

 

[DonkeyPunchJr]

Shogo 2 please

lol any time I see the name Monolith, first thing I wonder is “is this the Shogo Monolith or the Xenosaga Monolith?”

 

[{insert code here}]

Sounds like a grift if you ask me. 100M+ with zero return.

 

[JerryinSoCal]

I know they say the reason it's hard to make a superman game is that he's OP, well why not just let us be OP? Superman has enemies that can kill him but the whole game doesn't have to be fighting for your life lol. I think Superman would be a far more interesting game than Wonder Woman.

 

[jason10mm]

I know they say the reason it's hard to make a superman game is that he's OP, well why not just let us be OP? Superman has enemies that can kill him but the whole game doesn't have to be fighting for your life lol. I think Superman would be a far more interesting game than Wonder Woman.

The superman game where metropolis was the health bar was a good one. He's OP bit its the city he cares about.

 

[peronmls]

Can we get something new and interesting? Tired of super hero anything.

 

[ProtoByte]

Can we get something new and interesting? Tired of super hero anything.

It's no more trodden ground than fantasy anything, sci-fi anything, post apocalyptic anything, etc.

 

[SirKicksalot]

It's been 84 years and I'm still waiting for my fucking Matrix Lego game.

 

[Jesb]

Who even asked for this. The shit that gets green lit.

 

[Hudo]

Okay, so Monolith spent the entirety of last gen on LOTR.
Terminator is a zombie franchise and would not sell to the same extent. It's barely still popular in film.
Matrix?? Lmao
Mad Max isn't a franchise that you can endlessly milk. Honestly, I don't think it's that interesting at all.

I know it pisses off haters, but capeshit is here to stay. You might find Constantine more interesting than anything else DC related, but I know for a fact that a great Wonder Woman, Superman, Flash or Green Lantern game would sell way better than anything Constantine.

Well, it makes it easier to ignore for me, at least. Shame, though. Monolith are a pretty good dev. I remember No One Lives Forever 2 and Tron 2.0. Both great games.

 

[xrnzaaas]

Give her big tits and I might play it

Best I can do is a square jaw.

 

[GnomeChimpsky]

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!"

I wonder if they will keep that scene in the game...

 

[marquimvfs]

All that money won't laundry by itself.

 

[simpatico]

Does Monolith still have its core talent intact? Fucking hell they were one of my all-time favorite devs. The original announcement for this game cut me deep. I knew for a fact this would happen. What a waste. History will teach future generations that shoveling comic book slop to adults was the beginning of the end for the West. And I like comic books as comic books! Hell, even a once-in-a-while animated show. But making it the crown jewel of Western art, well, we see how it worked out.

 

[KungFucius]

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.

Um Wonder Woman is a hot female lead. I'd play it if they get her ass right. I mean character right.

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

Exactly why they are giving it a go. If they were smart they would have tried to make a game like the first Arkham. A smaller Metroidvania that would kind of feel like a Castlevania with the whip. I can see there being a challenge getting it right though if they are doing open world.

 

[Mobilemofo]

Nobody asked for a wonder women game. Nobody. Majority of players who play these sort of games are male. Most males wouldn't choose wonder women as a character. It's not rocket science. Idiots.

 

[Mister Wolf]

Um Wonder Woman is a hot female lead. I'd play it if they get her ass right. I mean character right.



Exactly why they are giving it a go. If they were smart they would have tried to make a game like the first Arkham. A smaller Metroidvania that would kind of feel like a Castlevania with the whip. I can see there being a challenge getting it right though if they are doing open world.

They also should have fan service will all her different costumes from the cartoons, comics, and movies throughout the decades.

 

[Autistic_Pancake]

I'd buy a game called "Wonder Woman" only if it plays like a GTA clone where all your missions are about taking dicks of the entire city.

 

[Unknown Soldier]

I'm starting to think that Hogwarts Legacy was a lucky fluke and in reality WB Games is going to be shut down sooner rather than later because they are doing nothing but burning money releasing one big budget flop after another

 

[hinch7]

Um Wonder Woman is a hot female lead. I'd play it if they get her ass right. I mean character right.



Exactly why they are giving it a go. If they were smart they would have tried to make a game like the first Arkham. A smaller Metroidvania that would kind of feel like a Castlevania with the whip. I can see there being a challenge getting it right though if they are doing open world.

Considering how woke WB and DC side of their business has become the last several years. I have my doubts. Would be a nice surprise to break status quo though.

I still don't know.. there's barely any talk for this game and I can't see any excitement for this, but from a select few WW and comic fans that are actually excited for a prospect of a WW game. Even with Monolith Productions working on it and they somehow did a 180 and made her a sex symbol and strong heroine that she was once was; this just seems like something that is destined to fail.

 

[samoilaaa]

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.

i think they did scrap it because of the tides changing

i believe that they wanted to make a game with this strong woman beating up only male bad guys and having all kinds of line how men are evil and keeping women from reaching their true potential ( same as spider man 2 mary jane dialog ) but now that this kind of stuff doesnt catch the eye of the public anymore ( it never did but there was money coming in for it ) they are now making an batman single player game again

 

[DonkeyPunchJr]

i think they did scrap it because of the tides changing

i believe that they wanted to make a game with this strong woman beating up only male bad guys and having all kinds of line how men are evil and keeping women from reaching their true potential ( same as spider man 2 mary jane dialog ) but now that this kind of stuff doesnt catch the eye of the public anymore ( it never did but there was money coming in for it ) they are now making an batman single player game again

This game is being made by Monolith.

Rocksteady is supposedly already making a single player Batman game.

But yeah I bet that is exactly what they were planning for Wonder Woman, some “Modern Audiences” strong female protagonist game where all the men are assholes, idiots, or meek soy losers who get bossed around by the stunning and brave girlboss.

 

[samoilaaa]

This game is being made by Monolith.

Rocksteady is supposedly already making a single player Batman game.

But yeah I bet that is exactly what they were planning for Wonder Woman, some “Modern Audiences” strong female protagonist game where all the men are assholes, idiots, or meek soy losers who get bossed around by the stunning and brave girlboss.

is monolith the one that did middle earth games ?

 

[DonkeyPunchJr]

is monolith the one that did middle earth games ?

Yup. This Wonder Woman game was supposed to be using the same Nemesis system but now it sounds like that was scrapped.

 

[Kacho]

Monolith has always been one of my top 5 devs. Sad that those days might be over.

 

[Bradamante3D]

a video game based on Wonder Woman, has struggled to coalesce, according to people familiar with the project

How hard can it be to make a Wonder Woman game?

Say what you will about Ubisoft, but at least they are getting their samey climb the tower games out the door and on shelves.

 

[Achelexus]

Lol. How has it cost 100 million and is still years from release

Overinflated budgets are the biggest problem in the western AAA industry right now. This is why we have been seeing a ridiculous amount of lay-offs since 2023. They're desperate to try to cut costs.

 

[Boneless]

Why would anyone want to play wonderwoman? Warner Bros is really doing it to themselves...

 

[Boneless]

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.

With all due respect, but this whole 'industry is in shambles' would do well as a bullshit Jason Shreier clickbait article. The industry is booming, more gamers, more hours played and thus more companies trying to capitalise on it. Layoffs are tech industry wide, not just in gaming due to rising staff cost and other factors.

There are loads of great games, more than ever. The market is much easier to penetrate for smaller developers. If the large companies fail to make a hit, the need to game does not go down, it will shift. This also means that though layoffs can be disrupting for an employee, there will be tons of other gaming companies benefitting from failure and opening up vacancies as they need development resources to craft for the increased demand.

 

[Tams]

I'll play a wonder women game if it looks like Stella blade kind of sexy theme , but we all know it won't .

Best Grok can do, I'm afraid.

 

[Firestartah]

With all due respect, but this whole 'industry is in shambles' would do well as a bullshit Jason Shreier clickbait article. The industry is booming, more gamers, more hours played and thus more companies trying to capitalise on it. Layoffs are tech industry wide, not just in gaming due to rising staff cost and other factors.

There are loads of great games, more than ever. The market is much easier to penetrate for smaller developers. If the large companies fail to make a hit, the need to game does not go down, it will shift. This also means that though layoffs can be disrupting for an employee, there will be tons of other gaming companies benefitting from failure and opening up vacancies as they need development resources to craft for the increased demand.

The industry is booming mainly due to mobile games and the top 5 gaas games, not because traditional AAA Singleplayer games are doing great. Since I dont care about gaas or mobile games, yes, for me the industry is in shambles.

And regarding loads of great games, dunno, which ones...overrated stuff like Sony sad dad simulators ? Alan Wake 2 which was praised but it is worse than 1st and lost the fun and charm of that game? The endless remakes and remasters cause they are either out of ideas or so risk averse they cant greenlight something else? The many games that are in endless dev like the new Bioshock by Cloud Chamber announced in 2019 and nothing else since then ?

Nah.

 

[YeulEmeralda]

That is a lot of money to spend on a woman. Very high maintenance.

 

[intbal]

I'll play a wonder women game if it looks like Stella blade kind of sexy theme , but we all know it won't .

Somewhere in this neighborhood?

 

[SmokedMeat]

Shitty greed driven practices by clueless management.

I don’t get what’s so difficult about a Wonder Woman game, unless the focus has been on monetization over gameplay.

 

[TheChumpNation]

Ironically, you could spend less than $100m today developing a Stellar Blade clone starring Wonder Woman, with a similar "visual aesthetic" and you'd definitely turn a profit.

But we all know this would have been a Wonder Woman game made with a specific hostility towards straight men, dooming it on release if it even makes it that far (it won't).

 

[Sooner]

They need to modernize the character for today's audiences. Shorten her hair. Change it to a bright blue or purple. Have her put on 40-50 pounds. Throw in a few facial piercings. And change the title to "Wonder Body Type B".

 

[Goalus]

And nothing of value was lost.

 

[GigaBowser]

30 jarpanese mens could make better game for 10 millions

 

[Hero of Spielberg]

Does any other industry actively spend 100s of millions of dollars on shit that their customers repeatedly tell them they don’t want?

It’s baffling

 

[Bernardougf]

Does any other industry actively spend 100s of millions of dollars on shit that their customers repeatedly tell them they don’t want?

It’s baffling

Disney is definitely awaiting for you to hold their beer

 

[Puscifer]

TES VI, Mass Effect 5, and now Wonder Woman. Am I missing any? This trend of announcing games 5 to 10 years before they realistically release has got to fucking stop.

Dude the AAA Game Industry is actually fucked if it takes this long to make games now.

I said it before and I'll say it again. I understand they expanded the game and all but the fact it took as long to remake Silent Hill 2 that it did to make Silent Hill 2-4 told me how cooked this industry is

 

[Men_in_Boxes]

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!"

Nominated for NeoGAF Post of the Year 2025.

 

[Hero of Spielberg]

Disney is definitely awaiting for you to hold their beer

Very true. I think I’ve just pushed Disney / Star Wars out of my mind now.

 

[Effigenius]

Wasn't Wonderwoman dead in Suicide Squad along side with Robin?

They gonna revive her or act like Suicide Squad never existed?

If nobody bought it or played it, did it exist?