Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League vs Gotham Knights - Battle of the Arkham Off-shoots

Which Arkham Off-shoot Was Better


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Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
Which of these two Arkham Off-shoots did you enjoy more and briefly, why?

Neither is not an option. 😇




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This is quite a hard one. I enjoyed both games enough to finish them but I can admit neither game is anything above average.

Gotham Knights has the better open world, missions and side content.

Whilst Suicide Squad has the better gameplay (especially combat) and is more fun to play.

Almost everything else in both games isn't good to say the least, story in both is especially bad.

Both are pretty much the definition of a 6/10 game.

If I had to play one again I would choose Gotham Knights so purely on that alone I'll pick that one.
 
Im waiting for the final update for Suicide Squad before I dive in with my friend. We played Gotham Knights a year ago or so and my opinion of it was that it was trash, more specifically I gave it a 5.7/10. Im curious to see Suicide Squad with my friend. At the very least we'll laugh at how bad it is but might also surprise us. Who knows.
 
Gotham Knights was awful but I actually finished Suicide Squad after I turned on unlimited ammo, grenades, and unlimited jet pack. I thought it was a good time especially the Superman boss fight.
 
Gotham Knights is lacking in terms of mission/combat variety and doesn't compare favorably to the Arkham series, but it really isn't a bad game at all. It works best in co op which functions exactly how you would want (scaling, progress saving, drop in/out).

It is a poster child "7/10 game", but I'd argue it's really more like a 7.9/10.
 
Gotham Knights is actually a perfectly solid game once you get past the fact that it has absolutely nothing to do with the Arkham series at all.

Suicide Squad is in turn, a horrific insult to the Arkham franchise, of which I personally consider it to be completely separate from that universe, or a very weird, very stupid Elseworlds off shoot of the Arkham universe.

Arkham Shadow is a proper Arkham game; Kill the Justice League is a writhing mass of horrible ideas, lack of cohesive direction, and gross mismanagement.
 
If you played one of them that could be okay but if you can accurately make the comparison you have problems !
 
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It's basically an Arkham game with Batgirl
Never got the hate for it other then the online multiplayer.
 
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Only suicide squad is an "arkham offshoot" since it's a direct sequel, gotham knights has literally nothing to do with the arkham games or universe and is its own thing entirely.
 
This is like choosing between food poisoning and stomach flu.
Gotham Knight has phenomenal combat and is a straight up single player game. you can ignore coop.

Suicide Squad is a gaas trash shooter with some decent combat which gets old really fast because you just fight the same enemies over and over again.

try Gotham Knight and play it like a combat RPg. there are four characters and they are each given an insane amount of customization. they all play completely different from each other too. you could literally play the 10-15 hour campaign 4 times and have fun because all four characters are different and fun to play.
 
Gotham Knights was a very average, but enjoyable game. I beat it and did not regret any of the time I spent on it.
 
I actually liked Gotham Knights. It looked good tho the city was devoid of life which was a shame. Story was serviceable. Suicide Squad was just a fucking slog to play. I couldn't even finish it. Maybe with the influx of new players I just might.
 
Played both, knights was the better game but not by far.

Suicide had the best traversal but i prefer the combat in knights.
 
Gotham knights is way better but is still really weak compared to Arkham trilogy ( plus origins)

Also gutted the way they miss used the Court of Owls.... It could have been so good and epic and the beginning of a new trilogy.......really pissed off 😭
 
I've avoided both games, even when I had Game Pass and technically was able to play Gotham Knights "for free". I'd rather spend my time replaying the older games (already done that with Asylum and City).

By the way, Suicide Squad will be in base PS+ in January, they are getting very desperate very fast. ;)
 
To be honest I'd play a whole new franchise of Batgirl after playing just as her character in GK, a game which was a bit too heavily maligned for some reason. Her fight moves were genuinely well done and she looks really good performing them. The character actually felt mechanically polished to me, and after modding in a faster batbike I enjoyed the game as the solid 6.5 it is. Remember that Wolverine game from years ago? It's that level of enjoyable.

I'll never play Suicide Squad, but mainly because I always thought it sounded shite ever since first announced. I don't like these characters.
 
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i actually enjoyed and finished Gotham Knights, its not even close

got Suicide squad for £4 during holiday sales, barely played an hour, its so bad and not satisfying in any way
 
I somehow beat Suicide Squad. At the time I guess it kind of scratched some kind of Crackdown itch I missed or something. Or there was really nothing new to play at the time.

Gotham Knights I just couldn't get through when I tried it. It just felt like such a hollow Arkham game.
 
I bought Gotham Knights for $10 on some PlayStation store sale.

I got Suicide Squad free a while ago. When Amazon gave it away I think?

I played 40 minutes of SS and beat Gotham. Neither was great, but Gotham was at least somewhat entertaining. SS was pure ass cheeks.
 
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I got them both to review at launch. I felt that the Gotham Knights were painful to play. Moving around the city felt awful, the 30 fps on console bothered me and although the characters and story were intriguing, the open world stuff was terrible.
The gameplay was alright, but the presence of several women enemies (like in prison at the beginning of the game, I think), including the giant ones, felt so fucking weird. The mission design was right for the proper "levels," though. I didn't like having to change characters and level them up individually. I wish the game had only one character, like all the other Batman games.

Suicide Squad had solid traversals, the gameplay was fun, and I liked the characters' banter overall. There was plenty to dislike (the enemies and the lack of variety, repetitive missions, the whole live service thing), but it was more enjoyable for me than AK.

I also had higher expectations for Arkham Knight whereas I didn't really care for SS, which I imagine played a part in making me appreciate the latter over the former.
 
Gotham Knight has phenomenal combat and is a straight up single player game. you can ignore coop.
Disagree. The writing is a GAAS tip-off if you've ever seen one. All of the character interactions take place at the Bellfry, and no one has significantly different missions. The stealth and traversal is absolutely terrible as a result of each character needing to be effective in each mission and the open world.
 
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I felt like I got the £4 worth of enjoyment out of Gotham Knights that it cost me on CDKeys a while back, I think I'm actually owed something for playing Suicide Squad even tho was one of Epics freebies
 
Def gotham knights which is not saying much either. I dropped suicide squad during its tutorial of each character.
 
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Couldn't last through Suicide Squad for more than an hour or two.
Finished Gotham Knights and thought it was solid all around, lots of fun in Co-op.
It's one of those 7/10 games that reaches towards an 8/10 but never quite touches it. Overall still quite good.
Suicide Squad is a mess, the combat is a mess, the enemies are a mess, everything about it feels cheap, kinda like they tried to shoehorn a hero shooter into it (the kinda game I don't touch with a 10 foot pole, as it feels it's for dopamine junkies with millisecond attention spans).
 
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