Suicide Squad

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I figured out why I hated Suicide Squad so much; it was like watching a superhero themed RPG, played by all of the most annoying players ever:

First of all, they all decided to play neutral/evil characters, despite the DM announcing a superhero themed game with a heroic plot. DM allows it for some reason, attempts to tweak the setup to allow it on the fly by making them beaten supervillains working for reduced prison sentences.

Deadshot is the one player actually attempting to take it seriously, even going so far as to give his character a back story. He tries his best, but he's not that good at improvising dialogue, so he winds up throwing out cheesy one liners that totally kill whatever atmosphere they've managed to cultivate.

Flag is the buddy of the DM's that doesn't really play, but agreed to play the PC with the relationship with the BBEG to give the plot a hook, but only if he could play a "normal" guy as a character cause he thinks the rest of the group is a bunch of nerds.

Harley Quinn is the only girl at the table. Not actually there to play, just interested in getting attention from the male players by playing a really sexual character, but also acts like a total loon to keep them from getting any ideas that she's genuinely interested in them.

Joker is the NPC the DM invented on the fly to try and keep Harley's player invested in the game. She doesn't care, and he winds up being a total mess of a character with all of the subtlety of a dump truck.

El Diablo is the guy who refuses to do anything to contribute to the success of the party in combat, because of reasons involving his character being tragic and edgy. When the others call him out, he shrugs and says, "It's just what my character would do."

Killer Croc is the guy browsing 4chan on his phone the whole time, looking up only to roll for an attack and say, "Uh, yeah, I, uh...I'm a lizard guy. I eat people." before going back to his phone.

Slipknot was the guy who tries to break the setting by going against the plot for no reason. DM kills him out of frustration, the player gets pissed and goes home.

Captain Boomerang is actually a pretty decently built character, but his player gives him a pink unicorn fetish and an Australian accent to piss off the DM. Keeps bringing it up at weird times.

Katana is that weird guy who's SUPER into anime. Insists on playing a girl, and got all of his attributes from some weird Asian themed rulebook he ordered online from Europe that is actually for a different game. Again, DM allows it for some reason. Refuses to speak English during any roleplay.

The entire plot of the movie, from the Enchantress easily stealing the idol with her brother in it from Viola Davis, to the bland generic minions, to the evil sexy wiggling before the final battle, to every superhero movie cliché, is the DM trying out that homebrew game he wrote that he was super excited about, then realizing as it goes on that he is actually woefully unprepared and the party is not working with him, so he proceeds to phone it in and just get it to be over with so he can go write Version 2.

The soundtrack is the DM's iPod on shuffle in the background. Is actually the MVP of the game.
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YMS gave it a 2/10.

He also gave Unfriended a 2/10.

That's a pretty shit film then.
 
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ramsey said:
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I'm new to superhero films as I was never really a fan when I was a child, so this is probably why I liked the film. No, it wasn't the best but from what I saw I thought it was mediocrely good enough to get a + from me. But on the other hand, if I was to grow up watching every single one I can see why this can be seen as "shit". It's the same as Fallout 4. Every new player to the franchise thought it was amazing, but in reality for the veteran players it was absolute trash.
 
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I dunno, I'm a "veteran" of fallout and I think all the games are shit.

Sacrifice gameplay for story, or story for gameplay.

haters will rate me dumb
 
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I've been a comic book fan since I was 4, and to me, the movie was great. Sure, the plot was a bit cheesy but they nailed the characters - the final battle could have been better, but still, I'd give it a 8/10. I had fun and there were a lot of comic book easter eggs.
 
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i liked it, and i think people who complain about it are retarded

then again i didnt see any trailers or pay attention to hype, like you all probably should at this point because hype has ruined too many films
 
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bubblegum said:
I dunno, I'm a "veteran" of fallout and I think all the games are shit.

Sacrifice gameplay for story, or story for gameplay.

haters will rate me dumb
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did u ever play new vegas
 
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bubblegum said:
I dunno, I'm a "veteran" of fallout and I think all the games are shit.

Sacrifice gameplay for story, or story for gameplay.

haters will rate me dumb
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dk if you played original fallouts, but rated cardboard cube because
Grau said:
did u ever play new vegas
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new vegas had what was stellar gameplay at the time and had a morally ambiguous choice based story that didn't suck balls. biased view alert because i did voice acting for it but i don't think it's fair write off the entire series as shit because as they came out they were pretty revolutionary in terms of rpg quality
 
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