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whowhatwhere posted:......... Yeah, I like the idea of a bigger, different environment to kick the asses of Batman villains in, but that premise is hilariously absurd. Give the worst violent offenders an entire city to run loose in, what could possibly go wrong?
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SpaceBees posted:Batman and Catwoman are obviously teaming up in this one (in more then one way I would love a mode with Catwoman trying to steal X or get to X location with Batman trying to stop her
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), so some sort of co-op mode where one person is Batman and the other person is Catwoman would be loving awesome, especially because they would have completely different fighting styles.
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Directorman posted:I would love a mode with Catwoman trying to steal X or get to X location with Batman trying to stop her I don't follow DC comics much but isn't Catwoman basically good? I mean she was never really evil and I think at one point she actually joins the Batman team. Plus, you know, Bruce was totally plowing her. Basically I'm sure its going to be co-op and not competitive multiplayer.
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SpaceBees posted:I don't follow DC comics much but isn't Catwoman basically good? I mean she was never really evil and I think at one point she actually joins the Batman team. Plus, you know, Bruce was totally plowing her. Yeah, she's a good "guy". Still would be cool.
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SpaceBees posted:I don't follow DC comics much but isn't Catwoman basically good? I mean she was never really evil and I think at one point she actually joins the Batman team. Plus, you know, Bruce was totally plowing her.
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| # ? Aug 11, 2010 01:04 |
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Hopefully we'll be getting some visible suit upgrades this time. While the old Batsuit was adequate, I kinda hoped it would have atleast evolved a bit more.
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Batham posted:Hopefully we'll be getting some visible suit upgrades this time. We got visible and persistent suit damage. That was pretty sweet. And you unlocked the Armored Suit after beating the game. AngryBooch fucked around with this message at Aug 11, 2010 around 01:38 |
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Only thing I thought was particularly dumb about the first Batman was that he had to keep going back to his loving batcave to pick up gadgets. One of the hallmarks of the character is that he ALWAYS has on hand whatever tools are needed for whatever situation. It was a poorly scripted excuse to stagger gadgets. Hope Batman doesn't forget his loving cowl and has to run back home to get it! More likely he'll be all "oh poo poo I should have brought my grappling hook thing uh hey alfred get in the batwing and drop it off at this location on the complete opposite end of the city so I have to backtrack through everything I've done so far." I'M NOT SAYING I HATE THE GAME YOU loving PANSIES But it's a dumb excuse to stagger gadgets. Something more credible would be to have him construct them, finding bits across the city, or hell just let Batman get jumped by a gang in the beginning and when he wakes up he's lost all his dumb toys! No wait, combine the two ideas: he gets his poo poo stolen, the thugs break them apart and stash them and Batman's gotta track them down. There. I can see that happening. That's something WAY less dumb than "oops forgot my cape."
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It's been a while since I played, but I felt like the trips back to the Batcave were well-justified. He didn't have a supercomputer to analyze the new strain of Venom with and it would be impractical to carry around, so back he goes. Better grab this gadget, might need it later. What do you know, a high-up grate/distant fragile wall, glad I grabbed this. I do feel like having the Batwing drop off the line launcher instead of, you know, flying Batman around was a little weak, but hey. Zipline. hammeredspace posted:Hope Batman doesn't forget his loving cowl and has to run back home to get it! That would actually make a decent plot twist. Something rips his cowl off and he needs to stealth back to a Batcave entrance without getting his identity revealed. Bonus points if he has to improvise a disguise for a boss fight. Suddenly, BAGMAN.
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hammeredspace posted:But it's a dumb excuse to stagger gadgets. Something more credible would be to have him construct them, finding bits across the city, or hell just let Batman get jumped by a gang in the beginning and when he wakes up he's lost all his dumb toys! No wait, combine the two ideas: he gets his poo poo stolen, the thugs break them apart and stash them and Batman's gotta track them down. Not only is this even more out of character than what happened in the game, it's already been done by Metroid Prime 2. I really like that cowl idea.
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Dareon posted:Bonus points if he has to improvise a disguise for a boss fight. Suddenly, BAGMAN. Ehh, it's been done.  Also, the reason Batman used the line launcher instead of the Batplane is that the Batplane doesn't manoeuvre well inside buildings.
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I honestly don't remember any ridiculous "whoops, I forgot my cape" scenes in Arkham Asylum. He began with all his iconic stuff and got shiny upgrades as the game progressed from pre-planned stashes. That seems pretty iconic Batman to me. Hell, they had the Line Launcher just flat-out dropped to you instead of making you trek back to get it or anything.
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| # ? Aug 11, 2010 01:57 |
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If he had control of the bat-plane or whatever the entire time he should have just cut his losses and bat-carpetbombed the place before it got out of hand.
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Yodzilla posted:If he had control of the bat-plane or whatever the entire time he should have just cut his losses and bat-carpetbombed the place before it got out of hand. Thereby causing a lot of coll-bat-eral damage
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gently caress this is making me re-install. *BONUS EDIT* If they have Games for Windows Live shipping with this game again I'm not buying it. I'm sick of all the bullshit that comes along with GFWL. loving sick of it.
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haveblue posted:Not only is this even more out of character than what happened in the game, it's already been done by Metroid Prime 2. ImpAtom posted:He began with all his iconic stuff and got shiny upgrades as the game progressed from pre-planned stashes. That seems pretty iconic Batman to me. He has to go back to the loving cave twice to grab his poo poo. Why wouldn't he just nab all his stuff on the first trip there, if he's too drat lax to carry it on him in the first place? I understand why they did it for the GAME, but thematically, for the sake of narrative, it's loving dumb. hammeredspace fucked around with this message at Aug 11, 2010 around 02:28 |
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hammeredspace posted:He has to go back to the loving cave twice to grab his poo poo. Why wouldn't he just nab all his stuff on the first trip there, if he's too drat lax to carry it on him in the first place? He has to identify the Venom compound the first time and start synthesizing an antidote. He picks up the antidote the second time. I'm probably wrong on this but I know there are story reasons for visiting the super computer/chemistry lab twice. Batman's not simply going back for specific gadgets he forgot or whatever. AngryBooch fucked around with this message at Aug 11, 2010 around 02:36 |
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hammeredspace posted:He has to go back to the loving cave twice to grab his poo poo. Why wouldn't he just nab all his stuff on the first trip there, if he's too drat lax to carry it on him in the first place? Didn't both his trips back to the cave coincide with him needing to use the computer, and he just grabs a gadget while he's there? I admit it's been a while since I played, so I could be misremembering. The closest I remember to weird is "Well, why didn't he grab the Super Batclaw first," but that seems like a minor complaint at best.
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| # ? Aug 11, 2010 02:50 |
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Plus Batman probably has literally hundreds of different gadgets in every bat cave. How would he know exactly what he needs at any time? He can't just bring it all.
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| # ? Aug 11, 2010 03:04 |
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Of course he can. He just chooses not to because he's Batman and if he has the opportunity to MacGuyver his way out of a situation he's going to do it. 
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| # ? Aug 11, 2010 03:10 |
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The super-batclaw doesn't seem to be its own gadget so much as Batman getting pissed off and jury-rigging two other batclaws to the sides of his grapnel gun, with exposed wiring and all. Shooting three grapple-claws out of the same gun probably seemed like overkill until he had to deal with all those plants and titan-monsters and poo poo. Also, the line gun seems a little redundant when you already have the grapple-gun. Wouldn't surprise me if it ends up incorporated into the grapple-gun in the second game. Seems like he had all the gear nearby anyways, and you never really had to do a ton of backtracking to get it. What's there to complain about?
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hammeredspace posted:If you're going to play this game then name single thing that Arkham Asylum did that was original. "I understand why they did it for the GAME, but thematically, for the sake of narrative, it's loving dumb" *Suggests Batman get jumped by thugs who scatter his poo poo everywhere as an alternative*
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RagnarokAngel posted:Plus Batman probably has literally hundreds of different gadgets in every bat cave. How would he know exactly what he needs at any time? He can't just bring it all.  He has to pick just the right times to bring out the bat-dalek.
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| # ? Aug 11, 2010 03:14 |
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I like Hawkman's harness on the left there. He really does have everything.
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| # ? Aug 11, 2010 03:16 |
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I'd like to be able to play as Nightwing in this one. More acrobatic attacks, less powerful than Batman, but flashier. I suppose they could do that with Catwoman, but I like Dick Grayson more!
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| # ? Aug 11, 2010 03:18 |
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TJO posted:
I'd play the poo poo out of a Planetary game made by Rocksteady.
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| # ? Aug 11, 2010 03:28 |
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raditts posted:Yeah, I like the idea of a bigger, different environment to kick the asses of Batman villains in, but that premise is hilariously absurd. Give the worst violent offenders an entire city to run loose in, what could possibly go wrong? Yea that premise is pretty lovely. Im guessing it plays out a bit better ingame since Hamill was drawn out of retirement since the script was so good
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| # ? Aug 11, 2010 05:13 |
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So basically this is Escape from New York: The Game. Cool.
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| # ? Aug 11, 2010 05:16 |
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quote:-Batman can now taunt his enemies via a button press.
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MTW posted:So basically this is Escape from New York: The Game. Cool. Escape from New York: The Game, WITH BATMAN.
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MTW posted:So basically this is Escape from New York: The Game. Cool. Which reminds me that awhile back I heard they were, in fact, making a Escape from New York game. I wonder what happened to that? Oh well! Gonna play this so HARD.
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| # ? Aug 11, 2010 05:34 |
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I'm going to buy this game just for whatever version of the Scarecrow scene (you know which one I'm talking about) they are putting in this one. I would play a whole game of that. In fact give me more of that.
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They said back on Page 1 that this is based on a Batman Comic. Which comic is it, I would like to read it.JihadforChrist posted:I'm going to buy this game just for whatever version of the Scarecrow scene (you know which one I'm talking about) they are putting in this one. I was so pissed at first when it makes it look like your console broke, but it was such an amazing part of the game. I hope there are more like it this time around. Even the parts where you Walk around the ruins, while he tries to find you were pretty fun. Suran37 fucked around with this message at Aug 11, 2010 around 05:46 |
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doctor 7 posted:Oh my God do we have an "I'm Batman" button finally? Press X to "WHERE IS HE?" Suran37 posted:They said back on Page 1 that this is based on a Batman Comic. Which comic is it, I would like to read it. It's probably based off of No Man's Land. No Man's Land has a similar premise but what causes it is wildly different. Earthquake causes arkham to escape and set up their own city within gotham. It's about as much of an inspiration as Arkham Asylum was based off A Serious House on Serious Earth.
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Suran37 posted:They said back on Page 1 that this is based on a Batman Comic. Which comic is it, I would like to read it. The idea appears to be loosely based on the No Man's Land storyline. It's a lengthy story where Gotham City is destroyed by an earthquake after a whole lot of other bullshit (including, I think, a plague) and the Government just goes "gently caress it" and bombs the bridges, trapping everyone inside where they start building up gangs and such.
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ImpAtom posted:The idea appears to be loosely based on the No Man's Land storyline. It's a lengthy story where Gotham City is destroyed by an earthquake after a whole lot of other bullshit (including, I think, a plague) and the Government just goes "gently caress it" and bombs the bridges, trapping everyone inside where they start building up gangs and such. Maybe this means we get a can of spray paint as one of our gadgets.
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RagnarokAngel posted:It's about as much of an inspiration as Arkham Asylum was based off A Serious House on Serious Earth. How was that one?
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JihadforChrist posted:How was that one? It's brilliant. Read it.
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teekun posted:It's brilliant. Read it.
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JihadforChrist posted:How was that one? It was Grant Morrison. For me, that spells great.
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