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Sunning posted:Assuming this isn't homicidal Tim Burton Batman, I have to wonder if Rocksteady will even let you run over enemies since Batman usually knocks people out. Or they could place convenient roadblocks/tank traps/narrow alleys near places with enemies which force Batman to leave his car and beat people up on foot. What I am expecting is something like they showed in the trailer: There are enemy areas. When driving through them you get a button prompt to leap out and start fighting, otherwise they scatter/dive out of the way. I don't think they'll let you drive over dudes and I hope to god they don't mandate you hop out of the Batcar every time you encounter an enemy.
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Mar 4, 2014 22:15
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^^^ I hope there's a button to summon your Batmobile and slam it into whatever the Titan-mook equivalent is. EvilTobaccoExec posted:Might have missed it, are there going to be civilians now? The excerpt from GI above said the city's been evacuated. Origins had curfew, now Knight has a city-wide evacuation. I don't know why anyone lives in Gotham.
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Mar 4, 2014 22:16
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Glad that this is at least Rocksteady's last Batman game. It sucks to see good developers tied to one franchise. Hopefully the jump to next-gen did them so good, and they can give this game some more variety other than cosmetic differences.
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bonds0097 posted:The excerpt from GI above said the city's been evacuated. Origins had curfew, now Knight has a city-wide evacuation. I don't know why anyone lives in Gotham. Job opportunities Henchmen have a huge turnover rate
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bonds0097 posted:^^^ I hope there's a button to summon your Batmobile and slam it into whatever the Titan-mook equivalent is.
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Robot_Rumpus posted:The funny part is that I could totally believe that happened in the comics. Or as people who buy a lot of them seem to refer to them as, 'books'. hiddenriverninja posted:Didn't this happen in a Spider-Man book? Whether he intended it or not this is almost exactly KAMANDI: The Last Boy on Earth.  
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I am looking forward to this and have reasonable amounts of faith that Rocksteady will do the franchise justice again.  Azubah posted:I generally felt awful for some of the goons after environment takedowns in Sleeping Dogs, I can only assume Batman realized he wasn't being a big enough rear end in a top hat until he saw it happen there.  "
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bonds0097 posted:^^^ I hope there's a button to summon your Batmobile and slam it into whatever the Titan-mook equivalent is. The summers are just wonderful. Alternately; living almost anywhere else in the DC universe is an even worse option and out of the variety of places I could reside Gotham is one of the safer. Commissar Ken posted:Whether he intended it or not this is almost exactly KAMANDI: The Last Boy on Earth. I absolutely did. Does anybody have the incredible map of that universe?
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MMAgCh posted:"…what do you mean, I can slam a car door shut on a thug's skull? Push his face into a table saw?! See, what I want is for Rocksteady to check out Voltion's take on The Punisher and go from there.
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bonds0097 posted:The excerpt from GI above said the city's been evacuated. Origins had curfew, now Knight has a city-wide evacuation. I don't know why anyone lives in Gotham. Batman hangs out there and he's so cool! Sure you gotta deal with someone poisoning/freezing/evaporating/being a gator and swimming on/stealing the water supply every other tuesday, and a part of a city being overrun by villains every couple of days, plus the times Darkseid decides to start his invasion there and all the banks being moneyholes, but hey, you get to see Batman from your window every now and then.
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ArmyOfMidgets posted:but hey, you get to see Batman from your window every now and then. And at the end of the day, that's what people stay for.
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Mar 4, 2014 22:25
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Can I... can I play this now....? 
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Jerusalem posted:Can I... can I play this now....? October's not that far, right?
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I'm probably alone in this, but I'm really disappointed at the lack of multiplayer. It's rough around the edges, but Origin's multiplayer was a fantastic idea and despite some issues still pretty fun in execution, easily the most entertaining part of Origins to me. I'd have loved to see the new game revisit is and try to iron out some of the problems with it, even if it was SplashDamage developing the multiplayer again.
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I think I'm gonna wait for the GOTY edition going on a Steam Sale. It's inevitable for this to get a bunch of DLC and it gives me more time to upgrade the gently caress out of my PC.
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Barudak posted:I absolutely did. Does anybody have the incredible map of that universe? gently caress yes I do.  Every single territory name would make an amazing band name. "Ello' ello' yeah we're the Kangarat Murder Society." Barudak posted:The summers are just wonderful. Right? Imagine you're just sitting there reaching over for your remote and Superman smashes right through it and your couch and out the other side because Doomsday fuckoff punched him through your apartment. There's no way your insurance is covering anything. At least with Gotham you might luck out and be kidnapped by Kite Man or the Film Freak and it's just an annoyance until his face is punched in. Commissar Ken fucked around with this message at 22:34 on Mar 4, 2014 |
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MAD-HOLE Country of the Screamers never fails to make my day.
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I want to live in the Orangutan Surfing Civilization
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Commissar Ken posted:Right? Imagine you're just sitting there reaching over for your remote and Superman smashes right through it and your couch and out the other side because Doomsday fuckoff punched him through your apartment. There's no way your insurance is covering anything. At least with Gotham you might luck out and be kidnapped by Kite Man or the Film Freak and it's just an annoyance until his face is punched in. Most of the time in Gotham unless you hold a particularly interesting job you're probably just going to get mugged as the worst crime you'll face. In Metropolis you'd be lucky not to get mind-obliterated by an alien parasite or have your life force stolen from your body every time you go to the grocery store. If you don't have a retirement home in Strange Fire Area you are missing out.
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ArmyOfMidgets posted:I want to live in the Orangutan Surfing Civilization Kangarat Murder Society would have been a good name for my high school punk band.
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Excels posted:So much for that no-kill run, Batman. It's going to suck for the one thug he runs into that decided to use a metal bat. 
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TechnoSyndrome posted:I'm probably alone in this, but I'm really disappointed at the lack of multiplayer. It's rough around the edges, but Origin's multiplayer was a fantastic idea and despite some issues still pretty fun in execution, easily the most entertaining part of Origins to me. I'd have loved to see the new game revisit is and try to iron out some of the problems with it, even if it was SplashDamage developing the multiplayer again. I'm of two minds on this. It's good that Rocksteady has a very clear goal in mind making the game and doesn't want multiplayer getting in the way of a solid single player experience, and good on WB for not mandating Rocksteady tack something on they aren't comfortable with. However, the Batman series has so much multiplayer potential and I hope it's something whatever dev takes over the series next (WB Montreal probably) explores. After Arkham Knight comes out and there's a full size Gotham City created to build upon I hope we get a GTA style street level crime game. GTA Online is a good starting point in terms of game style; let players build their own character and choose a villain to hench for (each with their own in-game perks) and carry out missions and robberies to work their way up the food chain while players who choose the hero roles roam around the city as Batman and Robin stopping crimes in progress and arresting criminals. Or hell, just keep it simple and expand upon Invisible Predator Online, or as I like to call it 'Henchman Dressup Simulator'. 
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Hobgoblin2099 posted:It's going to suck for the one thug he runs into that decided to use a metal bat. really, why do crooks even bother anymore It'd be cathartic to just swoop down one time and have the whole gang of 20+ thugs utterly disperse on sight with every man running away as if for life.
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The only thing that's disappointing is no civilians and another one-long-night plot. One of these years WBIE, is going to take the engine here and just do Batman's Creed open world instead.
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I'm glad there is no multiplayer since it means I get to clear out every achievement in the game like I did for Asylum and City 
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HenessyHero posted:really, why do crooks even bother anymore Apparently 50 people can fit on-screen now, right? I'd like to see Batman jump down in front of a crowd that size, have them all stare at him, before running screaming in the other direction.
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HenessyHero posted:really, why do crooks even bother anymore This is why I love the banter so much. Thug 1: Hey you must be so happy to have escaped from prison! Thug 2: What the hell was I thinking? Now Batman's gonna find me and not only will I be back in prison, I'm probably gonna spend a few months in the infirmary too 
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Megaman's Jockstrap posted:Gotham has been evacuated and only criminals remain I wish there was a solution for allowing free-roaming in populated areas without contrivances like this so we could go around stopping muggers in terrifying ways like Michael Keaton.
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Figured if they can now fit 50ish people onscreen that would mean finally an open world with some civvies, but nope. Oh well. Also gently caress Riddler trophies. Already going through like 700 of them in the last 3 games, just gently caress that poo poo, getting really old.
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MinibarMatchman posted:Figured if they can now fit 50ish people onscreen that would mean finally an open world with some civvies, but nope. Oh well. To be fair, I'm sure this is an accurate representation of how Batman feels.
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Barudak posted:The summers are just wonderful.
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Lumberjack Bonanza posted:To be fair, I'm sure this is an accurate representation of how Batman feels. Yeah, just imagine how Bruce feels knowing that he has to find these things while dealing with Riddler's  all night.The only solace he has is that he'll be able to punch Riddler in the face at the end of the night.
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Sober posted:no civilians Honest question: what value does having civilians provide to an Arkham game?
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Russad posted:Honest question: what value does having civilians provide to an Arkham game? I'm not one who really cares whether civilians are in the game or not, but I would love to hear civilian banter akin to thug banter. More banter in general really, I would play Batman: Arkham Banter. Edit: The hostages in the subway car in Arkham: Origins bickering over whether Batman is here to save them or kill them was pretty great, as an example, even if the one lady apparently commuted from Boston.
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Toady posted:I wish there was a solution for allowing free-roaming in populated areas without contrivances like this so we could go around stopping muggers in terrifying ways like Michael Keaton. Don't the Spider-Man games all do this? The open-world ones anyway. I seem to remember civilians in Amazing Spider-Man and in Spidey 2.
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I hope the movie-makers are taking notes because that is a drat fine Batsuit. Probably my favorite "real world" interpretation. City's was nice, and Origins was too bulky for my taste. I feel like Goldilocks; this one is juuuuuuust right.
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Russad posted:Honest question: what value does having civilians provide to an Arkham game? I'd say none, if this game was like the first and took place on a isolated Island prison. But having a huge open world city filled with just random mooks just feels hollow. At least that's how I felt playing Origins.
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bonds0097 posted:The excerpt from GI above said the city's been evacuated. Origins had curfew, now Knight has a city-wide evacuation. I don't know why anyone lives in Gotham. Origins was "There's a giant loving blizzard going on outside, stay inside. We aren't Atlanta." achillesforever6 posted:Its Bludhaven and Hub City that are considered even more corrupt than Gotham right? Bludhaven's corruption was pretty cancerous, and then it got some Chemo and it's been getting better since it flushed a lot of the problems out. Hub City is probably worse than Gotham. At least there aren't random ninja attacks at the Knights home games.
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Russad posted:Honest question: what value does having civilians provide to an Arkham game? It feels contrived to be Batman in Gotham without Gothamites. I haven't played Origins yet, but while the first two Arkhams nailed the experience of being Batman in so many ways, some things missing were meeting Gordon under the Batsignal, dropping down to save civilians from criminals, and so on. I think the political prisoners in Arkham City were an attempt to add that element. bonds0097 posted:Don't the Spider-Man games all do this? The open-world ones anyway. I seem to remember civilians in Amazing Spider-Man and in Spidey 2. I've never played them. My guess is there isn't a good solution for when the player tries to troll civilians by blocking traffic, walking into people, etc. WB probably wouldn't let Batman be portrayed doing things he wouldn't do. No YouTube videos of rear end in a top hat Batman.
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