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The Besties

How we got from Batman to Suicide Squad [Resties]

The Besties

The Besties

Leisure, Video Games

4.95K Ratings

🗓️ 23 January 2024

⏱️ 52 minutes

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Summary

When Rocksteady published its entire Batman trilogy within seven years, it became one of the most promising (and prolific) video game studios in the world. But now, seven years since its last major release, Rocksteady has lost its two founders and, seemingly, its creative identity. With its new game Suicide Squad weeks from release, we explain how this developer went from creating the best superhero games of its generation to producing a living game looter shooter. In the back half, Russ shares his thoughts on Cobalt Core. And we have a special survey for listeners at Besties.fan!

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0:00.0

My name is Christopher Thomas Plant.

0:11.0

My name is Russ Frustic.

0:12.0

Welcome to the Resties where the rest of the best discuss the best of the rest.

0:17.5

This week we're talking about a whole bunch of stuff.

0:20.8

We've got an indie video game that y'all have been just cheering. of We're going to be answering a question that I've had, which is, how did Rocksteady, the video game

0:35.8

developer, go from the hit Batman trilogy to Suicide Squad, with the founders of the studio no longer even working at the studio.

0:46.0

In fact, they just this past week opened a new studio.

0:50.0

How the hell did that happen?

0:51.7

We're going to answer that question. But before we do that, we have some very pressing business to get to to find out who is going to get some video game art in their I guess video game Christmas

1:05.8

talking that has not been cleaned up and is still just kind of hanging right

1:10.2

over the mantle waiting to be distributed.

1:15.7

Yeah, to bring people up to speed,

1:18.0

if you're not up to speed, Plant and I

1:20.6

have an annual bet regarding predictions and who gets more predictions right,

1:25.3

wins some sort of prize and this year the prize was video game art.

1:29.4

Now if you listen to the last episode of the rest of the he would know that Chris Plank got two correct.

1:36.7

And I made, I basically had two edge cases and made arguments for why I got to correct.

1:49.0

I think one of them in my

1:55.0

absolute best of trying to sell the point

1:58.0

and then I threw it to good old democracy

2:02.0

to determine whether I had tied Chris Plant or whether I had lost and we left it up to you

2:09.4

the fans in the newsletter.

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