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HenessyHero posted:Why the gently caress am I better at this game when there's no counter icons? https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X69NCLxwLEY Let the force flow through you.
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HenessyHero posted:Why the gently caress am I better at this game when there's no counter icons? It's likely that the lack of focus on counter icons encourages broader awareness, and massive sequence bias- you've already had a whole game's worth of practice once you start icon-less fights.
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Dec 6, 2013 06:25
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The only place where the icons really make a difference for me is the ninjas, because sometimes you can block and sometimes you have to blade dodge, so I just jump around a lot. That, and the Deathstroke fight/ martial artists, where it took me a while to realize you wait for it to go slow-motion before countering.
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Dec 6, 2013 06:27
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Hey, I just beat this game. I had a ton of fun with Arkham Origins, I was ready to write it off as being a good but tiresome Batman sequel. But I don't know, I think I like this one just as much as Asylum. I think it's a little weird that I have beaten the game but I never saw two of the other assassins (outside cutscenes), but I really liked the wide range of events that happened. It feels to me like Origins takes advantage of the open world better than City did.
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Dec 6, 2013 06:30
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Jurgan posted:The only place where the icons really make a difference for me is the ninjas, because sometimes you can block and sometimes you have to blade dodge, so I just jump around a lot. That, and the Deathstroke fight/ martial artists, where it took me a while to realize you wait for it to go slow-motion before countering. Oh and I guess WB Montreal wanted to make us think more about gadget use by failing us out of the combo when a batarang or something hits a shield enemy but in the rare instance where I batarang a mook as he picks up a shield, it will knock him down as it hits him from behind but it fails me out of my combo anyway. The only time it doesn't fail out is during a powered gadget attack or something whereas in AC if I throw all three 'rangs at a shielded mook my multiplier just stays there waiting to go up. Thanks a bunch guys! 
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Dec 6, 2013 07:36
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Discendo Vox posted:It's likely that the lack of focus on counter icons encourages broader awareness, and massive sequence bias- you've already had a whole game's worth of practice once you start icon-less fights. I had just wrapped up all the combat in the training room before diving in, that's what I was comparing it to. You're probably right about the broader awareness though. Counter icons are a false crutch.
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Dec 6, 2013 07:45
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Heroic Yoshimitsu posted:I think it's a little weird that I have beaten the game but I never saw two of the other assassins (outside cutscenes), but I really liked the wide range of events that happened. Two of the assassins need you to go to a particular location/interact with a particular thing to kick them off. For Shiva, after you leave the bank there'll be the sound of a crying baby and an apparently abandoned baby carriage in the middle of the street you need to investigate. For Deadshot, Alfred will report at some point in the game picking up an SOS signal. If you go to the location, a police helicopter tries to arrest you and is shot down. You reconstruct the crime scene and figure out it was Deadshot, find his radio frequency and he goads you to go back to the bank to rescue a hostage he has taken. As far as I recall, every other assassin is encountered just by playing the game's main storyline.
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Dec 6, 2013 12:31
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How does the Batman One Million skin unlock? I signed up for the WB thing, verified, and restarted the game but it's not turning up. Bug or feature?
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Dec 6, 2013 12:40
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I just got origins a day or two ago and played a bit on day 1. When I tried to play it yesterday, as soon as the "Press Start" screen pops up my xbox crashes with streaks of white snow down the screen. Is this a known issue or is my xbox headed out? 
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Dec 6, 2013 15:26
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Daryl Surat posted:The effect is certainly neat, but there's not really a gameplay aspect in which you, the player, are "solving" anything. Batman says "I should look at that thing" until you look at that thing, at which point the crime scene reconstruction assembles a highly elaborate series of events which Batman narrates based on minimal evidence. I will accept this because it's the Bat-computer, but the most "detective work" required of the player is to rewind the point at which you can see the object in question go flying off to some location, and by this I mean "the red line the computer draws for you." For the previous games this was easy to accept, but now that they've drawn much more attention to the crime solving aspects in Origins it's harder to overlook. Everyone saying how brilliant the Lacey Towers part was, did I miss something or did Batman go all Adrian Monk and somehow deduce that the Joker, a man he had never met and had only recently even heard of, was behind the whole thing due to finding a couple of loving jacks lying on the ground?
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Dec 6, 2013 15:40
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Jerusalem posted:Two of the assassins need you to go to a particular location/interact with a particular thing to kick them off. You missed the last part of this that most people miss. She challenges you to find and protect 'an innocent man'. Later on you will hear a cop shouting 'Help me' with no police crime or such alert. Its in the top north east zone on the map if I remember correctly. Head to the building and inside is a guy hanging over electrified water you need to save.
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Silentgoldfish posted:How does the Batman One Million skin unlock? I signed up for the WB thing, verified, and restarted the game but it's not turning up. Bug or feature? I could be mistaken, but I think that one is MP only. So no story mode, no challenge mode.
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Dec 6, 2013 15:51
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raditts posted:Everyone saying how brilliant the Lacey Towers part was, did I miss something or did Batman go all Adrian Monk and somehow deduce that the Joker, a man he had never met and had only recently even heard of, was behind the whole thing due to finding a couple of loving jacks lying on the ground? I don't quite remember, but I think that he saw that Roman's girlfriend sent some texts saying that someone called "The Joker" was coming after them.
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Dec 6, 2013 15:53
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Silentgoldfish posted:How does the Batman One Million skin unlock? I signed up for the WB thing, verified, and restarted the game but it's not turning up. Bug or feature?
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Seventh Arrow posted:I don't quite remember, but I think that he saw that Roman's girlfriend sent some texts saying that someone called "The Joker" was coming after them. You are remembering correctly. That's basically the final piece of the puzzle you need to find before the deductions start.
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Dec 6, 2013 16:34
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Aw, jeez, I think I screwed myself out of the "Worst Nightmare" achievement on the first run. Anywhere you can find propane tanks in the open world?
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Dec 6, 2013 18:15
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Phylodox posted:Aw, jeez, I think I screwed myself out of the "Worst Nightmare" achievement on the first run. Anywhere you can find propane tanks in the open world? Not really, no. Although they don't always appear in predator rooms, either. Where in the game are you? They have one when you first enter the Sionis Steel Mill and another in the GCPD.
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Dec 6, 2013 18:46
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Seventh Arrow posted:Not really, no. Although they don't always appear in predator rooms, either. Where in the game are you? They have one when you first enter the Sionis Steel Mill and another in the GCPD. I've finished the story and I'm in free roam now.
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Dec 6, 2013 19:06
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Dec 6, 2013 19:21
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Please tell me Worst Nightmare progress carries over into New Game+.
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Dec 6, 2013 19:40
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Phylodox posted:Please tell me Worst Nightmare progress carries over into New Game+.
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Trying to finish these Campaign modes in the challenges is going to give me an aneurysm. Why is there no choice to restart with the modifiers you already chose? edit: Oh god there's medals that are impossible to get if you choose the wrong modifiers, found out the hard way when I was balls deep 6 medals in and the final one required a silent takedown (which I had modified to be unable to do) eleven extra elephants fucked around with this message at 23:21 on Dec 6, 2013 |
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FAT WORM OF ERROR posted:Trying to finish these Campaign modes in the challenges is going to give me an aneurysm. Why is there no choice to restart with the modifiers you already chose?
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Dec 7, 2013 00:50
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Aren't the reverse ledge takedowns good enough for that medal?
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HenessyHero posted:Aren't the reverse ledge takedowns good enough for that medal?
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Dec 7, 2013 01:11
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I really wish there was an alternate option for predator rooms that was variation/scoring based instead of "do these three things." It'd probably be hard to work out a good scoring system but it'd be more fun than feeling so locked in.
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ImpAtom posted:I really wish there was an alternate option for predator rooms that was variation/scoring based instead of "do these three things." It'd probably be hard to work out a good scoring system but it'd be more fun than feeling so locked in. But yeah something like max variation, full silent, fully loud, or something would be nice. Almost like how the Worst Nightmare challenges somehow worked out. Except not terribly implemented.
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happyhippy posted:You missed the last part of this that most people miss. I didn't mention it because I didn't think it was actually possible to continue that assassin's storyline without doing that?
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ImpAtom posted:I really wish there was an alternate option for predator rooms that was variation/scoring based instead of "do these three things." It'd probably be hard to work out a good scoring system but it'd be more fun than feeling so locked in. There used to be intimidation bonuses for loving around with guards. I wish they developed the relentlessly terrify mooks aspect a little more for predator rooms.
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Sober posted:Sometimes I just dick around and try new things but I almost always do the medals first. I haven't played it, but the latest Splinter Cell game does something similar, where there are three 'tracks' available: combat, ghost and panther. Combat is like you'd expect, loud guns and big bangs. Ghost is completing objectives without being seen, and possibly without even interacting with guards? Like you can't even knock them out just gotta slip right on by but I'm not sure on that. Panther is similar to the Arkham games, aggressively using stealth to take out enemies. So yeah I think with some tweaking you could get something similar but not exactly the same to that system in Arkham. Maybe throw in some more challenges like hostage takers and whatnot that reward pure stealth or whatever.
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Mazerunner posted:I haven't played it, but the latest Splinter Cell game does something similar, where there are three 'tracks' available: combat, ghost and panther. Combat is full on combat, Ghost is pretty much non-lethal stealth. You can still take guards out, but if it's melee; without the knife. You can also use the Crossbow and the Stungun since both are non lethal. There are also tear gas and sleep gas grenades as well as shock mines. Panther is pretty much lethal stealth. Knife melees and silenced weaponry.
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Yeah, Blacklist is tons of fun but much more leaning in the stealth direction. If you enjoy a full-on stealth game then you really need to play that. I could chew your ear off about how good the AI in that game actually is when you gently caress up and how they react or whatever but it's not really in the same vein as scaring the ever-living daylights out of some random mooks because you are the goddamn Batman, which is half the charm of the Predator sequences. In fact, Splinter Cell (starting with Conviction or Blacklist) leans a bit more towards comboing takedowns of enemies (even if Ghost rewards you waaaay much more than Panther can unless you can combo the poo poo out of the system).Skoll posted:Combat is full on combat, Ghost is pretty much non-lethal stealth. You can still take guards out, but if it's melee; without the knife. You can also use the Crossbow and the Stungun since both are non lethal. There are also tear gas and sleep gas grenades as well as shock mines. It's a drat shame because Origins is really a metric fuckton of combat and the predator sections are good but aren't as excellent as they could be other than the remote claw. Well, the only other thing is that most maps have PAs that 'announce' you have made silent takedowns unless you disable them but that's not that fun and a waste of using a distruptor on a jammer or the last guy to freak him out when his gun fails on him. But back to Predator maps, I wish there was a scored variation that took into account takedown variety, time and all the other stuff like the grading in story mode kinda does. Sober fucked around with this message at 04:04 on Dec 7, 2013 |
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Is there a story mode for the DLC or just challenge maps?
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LongDarkNight posted:Is there a story mode for the DLC or just challenge maps? playing the actual campaign challenge rather than the individual maps gives flavor cut-scenes but nothing so much as a real plot as I understand it.
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FYI there are three different endings to the DLC campaign if you get <9, >9, or all 15 medals.
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I just noticed that if you play the predator maps as Bruce Wayne, there's no intercom announcing that a thug had been taken out. So you're free to go crazy with the silent takedowns, it's like playing with a cheat code or something. Also, there's no way to do quick takedowns on martial arts guys, right?
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It'd be great if one of the future Arkham games added a Boss Rematch/Boss Rush Mode.
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Hobgoblin2099 posted:It'd be great if one of the future Arkham games added a Boss Rematch/Boss Rush Mode. Pretty much every game with boss battles should probably do this.
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Sex_Ferguson posted:Under the Red Hood changed quite a few things from the original story and it's better for that because the original story sucked. On that note, isn't the Joker officially an Arab now? I seem to recall that happening in a Death in the Family.
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Hobgoblin2099 posted:On that note, isn't the Joker officially an Arab now? I seem to recall that happening in a Death in the Family. I think they stripped him of that after trying to kill the entire U.N.
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