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Sober posted:Isn't Origins just all of Gotham City proper? I'd like to explore most of Gotham. I don't know about that - all I know is it's Arkham City before it was Arkham City + another section of Gotham that's just as large. I think it's still probably just the grittier parts of the place.
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Sober posted:Isn't Origins just all of Gotham City proper? I'd like to explore most of Gotham. No it takes place on one of the small islands of Gotham city, according to one of those E3 videos.
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BreakAtmo posted:I don't know about that - all I know is it's Arkham City before it was Arkham City + another section of Gotham that's just as large. I think it's still probably just the grittier parts of the place. Shalebridge Cradle posted:No it takes place on one of the small islands of Gotham city, according to one of those E3 videos. It's the entire section that gets cordoned off in City + another island across the river, apparently. The AC area is expanded further and has some extra locations like City Hall (not to be confused with the Courthouse... I'm guessing City Hall is on the other side of that wall) and a lot of residential areas. Basically it'll feel like an actual city, plus we'll see a lot of familiar places from AC like the Steel Mill, Amusement Mile, Crime Alley, and the Gotham Museum.
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There are some Batman relevant sales on the US PSN Summer Blast Sale, starting today (7/2):Sony posted:Batman Arkham Asylum (PS3) – Regular Price: $19.99 / Sale Price: $9.99 / PlayStation Plus Price: $5.00 http://blog.us.playstation.com/2013/07/01/psn-summer-blast-hot-discounts-starting-tomorrow/ Namaste fucked around with this message at 07:47 on Jul 2, 2013 |
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Sex_Ferguson posted:The story really should not be a factor considering these games have never done anything special with that. The new parts of Arkham City could be good though, I don't care about it before it was ruined, but adding on to it could be interesting. Hopefully it's just more than one small area with one thing to do. For you maybe. As a pretty casual Batman fan I personally get a kick out of the stories, and especially all the unlockable stuff for the various characters throughout the game.
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Thanks to the Amazon sale the other day, I got both PC Arkham games for $10 (I've beaten the console versions multiple times) A couple things I noticed while replaying the games: - Arkham Asylum holds up really, really well. I know it just came out in 2009, but it's nice to know that it hasn't lost much. - After beating Asylum and going straight to Arkham City, you get a great sense on how much Rocksteady improved the game between iterations. Everything is better: graphics, combat, Riddler challenges, unlockables, the world to play in, etc. - I've spent countless hours playing these Arkham games, and the combat is still as fun as ever. I don't know what developer magic they used to make the combat so addicting, but it's remarkable.
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Faltese Malkin posted:I don't know what developer magic they used to make the combat so addicting, but it's remarkable. Believe it or not, the combat in Batman is actually a holdover from when Rocksteady was trying to make a rhythm game.
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What other games have a similar fighting system? I know of Captain America and the not-very-good Spider-Man had the same basics, but what else? I can only replay Arkham City so many times... including the mediocre Harley Quinn's Revenge.
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Sleeping Dogs has a similar fighting system though the one in the Arkham games is much more fluid. Wei Shen doesn't have any gadgets and combo momentum doesn't really factor in at all, but it's still pretty satisfying. There are also awesome environmental kills like in that old Punisher game for the original Xbox. edit: You can break thug's arms and legs like Batman, and it does the "slo-mo for final badass takedown move" thing like in the Arkham games as well. The Duke fucked around with this message at 05:42 on Jul 8, 2013 |
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Narcissus1916 posted:What other games have a similar fighting system? I know of Captain America and the not-very-good Spider-Man had the same basics, but what else? No other games that I can think of, besides the ones mentioned. Side note: I used to own the Amazing Spider-Man game and I actually enjoyed it. It's got a lot of issues, but it does do a nice job of recreating his abilities. It was cool to swing around New York as Spider-Man and stop crimes, beat up dudes, and collect items/alternate costumes. Also the combat can be fun, albeit a poor man's version of the Rocksteady system. I'm not saying buy it for $50 or anything, but if you ever came across it for super-cheap (like in a Steam sale) it's worth a play.
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Assassin's creed 2 Brotherhood has that really lovely system where you can chain execute people.
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New Assassin Copperhead. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FVO1wz1BN7Q
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I'm really curious to see how the hell they plan to make these assassins interesting in the AC combat system.
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ImpAtom posted:I'm really curious to see how the hell they plan to make these assassins interesting in the AC combat system. Hopefully it means a lot more boss fights in the vein of the Mr. Freeze fight. edit: And by that I mean each fight being tailored to that character's unique style. El Tortuga fucked around with this message at 08:22 on Jul 19, 2013 |
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El Tortuga posted:Hopefully it means a lot more boss fights in the vein of the Mr. Freeze fight. They said they took inspiration from that boss fight.
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Playing Arkham City now and holy poo poo forget Batman just give me a Catwoman game already. She is so much fun to play. Loving the game so far.
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keyframe posted:Playing Arkham City now and holy poo poo forget Batman just give me a Catwoman game already. She is so much fun to play. Loving the game so far. Man, almost everyone is awesome to play as in Arkham City. I am jealous that you're going through AC for the first time, I wish I could do that again. Robin  It's like a non-stop symphony of *KLONK* *KLINK KLONK KLONK*Couldn't quite get into Nightwing though. Dunno why.
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The Arkham series is certainly the surprise hit of the generation. Nothing makes you feel more bad rear end than seeing Batman beat the poo poo out of 30 guys without getting a single hit landed on him. I want a Rocksteady Watchmen game. Now. 
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Sex_Ferguson posted:I would like to hear some more of Smith as Batman and Baker as Joker before I really pass any judgment on the quality of voice, but it's not like it's hard to give Batman and Joker good voices. So many voices could fit either character since they're interpretable in many different ways and it's pretty rare you find a bad voice for either. What I wanna hear is who they got to voice Deathstroke because it changes like every game he's in. First it's Patrick Seitz in MKvsDC, then Larry Grimm in Arkham City Lockdown, then JG Hertzler in Injustice and I'm positive they're gonna get another guy for this game too. HOLY poo poo! They got General Martok to play Deathstroke, and I didn't even notice? How could I not recognize that voice until now?!
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keyframe posted:Playing Arkham City now and holy poo poo forget Batman just give me a Catwoman game already. She is so much fun to play. Loving the game so far. I'd like one too, so long as they take out all the pseudo (and direct) constant barrage of rape threats every fight.
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fivegears4reverse posted:Robin Robin is my favorite character to use in the brawler maps. Catwoman's climbing feels off to me whenever I switch to her. Copperhead looks like they wanted to have Catwoman as a boss. That's not a bad idea.
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So are they really not going to do Xbox exclusive skins? My friend preordered anyway, hoping Xbox gets something decent like PS3 is getting, but I couldn't give him any answer, and neither could Gamestop.
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keyframe posted:Playing Arkham City now and holy poo poo forget Batman just give me a Catwoman game already. She is so much fun to play. Loving the game so far. I updated the OP with more media, a section on the setting, and Chris Sims's response to Blackgate.
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ToastyPotato posted:So are they really not going to do Xbox exclusive skins? My friend preordered anyway, hoping Xbox gets something decent like PS3 is getting, but I couldn't give him any answer, and neither could Gamestop. PS3 has gotten exclusive content that the Xbox didn't get in both of the previous games, so I don't know if I'd expect any different here.
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Klungar posted:PS3 has gotten exclusive content that the Xbox didn't get in both of the previous games, so I don't know if I'd expect any different here. They got the Joker maps in Asylum, and they're getting some costumes in this, what did PS3 players get for City?
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PS3 didn't have anything exclusive in Arkham City.
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MonsterEnvy posted:New Assassin Copperhead. drat, the new guy they have playing Batman really does a good Kevin Conroy impression.
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Calling Copperhead as the Glass Joe of the 8 bosses.
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jscolon2.0 posted:Calling Copperhead as the Glass Joe of the 8 bosses. So the first one? Or the most easy to beat?
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MonsterEnvy posted:So the first one? Or the most easy to beat? Yes.
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jscolon2.0 posted:Calling Copperhead as the Glass Joe of the 8 bosses. It's Copperhead. Dude used to get the poo poo kicked out of him by the Elongated Man. Reboot or not, that's not exactly a wild leap.
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I remember him from the Justice League cartoon were he was part of pretty much every villain team in the show. He would lose fights due to outsmarting himself. For example grabbing on to Hawkgirl when he realized his newest team was going to lose and ordering her to fly him to safe place or he would kill her. She just flew up into the air and when he threatened to kill her she pointed out that if he did so he would fall a few hundred feet and splat on the ground.
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Some news Black mask is playable. http://www.arkhamverse.com/news/wp-content/uploads/2013/07/playasblackmask.png Also his Mask is a pre order bonus.
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MonsterEnvy posted:Some news Black mask is playable. That link isn't working for me.
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I just hope they keep the controls as simple as they have been for the first two games. I love that fighting is mostly based around timing your attacks rather than remembering some rote fighting game-esque pattern of button mashes to simply punch a guy. My biggest fear is that some dev will get the idea that making the fighting system more complex will somehow improve the game.
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MonsterEnvy posted:I remember him from the Justice League cartoon were he was part of pretty much every villain team in the show. He would lose fights due to outsmarting himself. For example grabbing on to Hawkgirl when he realized his newest team was going to lose and ordering her to fly him to safe place or he would kill her. She just flew up into the air and when he threatened to kill her she pointed out that if he did so he would fall a few hundred feet and splat on the ground. Like you said it seemed like he was in every villain team-up the show ever did, but he always contributed nothing except maybe little distractions here and there. Like he would jump on Batmans back and bite him but its not like you were supposed to think Batman was in any danger whatsoever. They had a few villains like that over the years that were just there pretty much to be mocked. They had Goldface around for a while and used him to make Luthor look badass but thats about it.
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DFu4ever posted:I just hope they keep the controls as simple as they have been for the first two games. I love that fighting is mostly based around timing your attacks rather than remembering some rote fighting game-esque pattern of button mashes to simply punch a guy. My biggest fear is that some dev will get the idea that making the fighting system more complex will somehow improve the game. It would, so long as you don't change the punch, stun, run/dodge, counter, and quick gadgets. Add in a new throw move or some thing as a new combination of buttons and it's fine. Just don't gently caress with the basics when you add to it.
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All I'd really like for them to do is move Detective Vision to like one of the L3/R3 Left Stick/Right Stick buttons on a console controller and use that button for something else. If you turned it into a modifier button or something you could add a whole bunch of extra moves without screwing up the combat.
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Epi Lepi posted:That link isn't working for me.  Here is a better version of the image anyway
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revised ad:   [Source of both] DFu4ever posted:I just hope they keep the controls as simple as they have been for the first two games. I love that fighting is mostly based around timing your attacks rather than remembering some rote fighting game-esque pattern of button mashes to simply punch a guy. My biggest fear is that some dev will get the idea that making the fighting system more complex will somehow improve the game. "...it was apparent that the combat, stealth, and gadget selection remain unchanged." It would appear that Bullock is going to show up in some way, as well. redbackground fucked around with this message at 18:27 on Jul 26, 2013 |
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