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You know what'd be a great character arc for Bane in Arkham Knight? If he got over his Venom/TITAN addiction and just fought Batman with his normal strength.
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They kind of borked Bane in this series I thought, isn't he just a weak old man without it?
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Apr 1, 2014 01:31
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I think that's only when he's completely drained of it.
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Apr 1, 2014 02:15
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Ravenicus posted:They kind of borked Bane in this series I thought, isn't he just a weak old man without it? Bane isn't actively using venom in AO until he actively turns the system on during the first bossfight. He's already at superstrength levels due to his long-term exposue to the stuf. Weak, shriveled Bane in AA is the result of the exposure to TN-1 and the extended Titan precursor experiments. Bane has been borked in just about every depiction in every medium. It doesn't help that the original version of the character in the comics is and has always been Gary Stu: the villain.
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Apr 1, 2014 02:54
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Hobgoblin2099 posted:You know what'd be a great character arc for Bane in Arkham Knight? If he got over his Venom/TITAN addiction and just fought Batman with his normal strength. Jesus Christ I thought City's ears were bad
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Apr 1, 2014 03:04
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Ok, one thing I hope doesn't make a return in Arkham Knight, though it probably will? AR Challenges. gently caress AR Challenges. They sucked in City, they suck in Origins, and they sucked in Superman 64.
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Apr 1, 2014 03:20
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Why does Batman fly through those AR rings, anyway? What is the purpose? Do they help him practice his gliding or something?
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Apr 1, 2014 03:31
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Hobgoblin2099 posted:Why does Batman fly through those AR rings, anyway? What is the purpose? Do they help him practice his gliding or something? Yes, it's specifically gliding training. Alfred radios him about it.
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Apr 1, 2014 03:34
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Hobgoblin2099 posted:Why does Batman fly through those AR rings, anyway? What is the purpose? Do they help him practice his gliding or something? Bruce is a high functioning autistic like Ulillillia and the AR rings are part of his mind game.
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Apr 1, 2014 03:36
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catlord posted:Ok, one thing I hope doesn't make a return in Arkham Knight, though it probably will? AR Challenges. gently caress AR Challenges. They sucked in City, they suck in Origins, and they sucked in Superman 64. They've already described the Batmobile racing challenges that are going to annoy and frustrate me to no end. yay.
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Apr 1, 2014 03:49
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Hobgoblin2099 posted:Why does Batman fly through those AR rings, anyway? What is the purpose? Do they help him practice his gliding or something? They help the player practice theirs. I know after I completed the AR challenges I found fine control of gliding throughout the rest of the game far, far easier.
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Apr 1, 2014 03:50
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Hobgoblin2099 posted:Why does Batman fly through those AR rings, anyway? What is the purpose? Do they help him practice his gliding or something? They were just referencing beloved superhero games of the past. 
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Apr 1, 2014 04:09
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gently caress that AR training in Amusement Mile/The Steel Mill. You know the one. You had to hit the tunnel just right. I don't even remember the payoff for beating the second round. Must have been really worth it.  E: For as awesome the reward for the first round is, you'd think you'd get something for that second round. What were they thinking? Mogomra fucked around with this message at 04:18 on Apr 1, 2014 |
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Apr 1, 2014 04:09
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Mogomra posted:gently caress that AR training in Amusement Mile/The Steel Mill. You know the one. You had to hit the tunnel just right. I don't even remember the payoff for beating the second round. Must have been really worth it. There is no reward. Just the knowledge that you're batnificent.
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Apr 1, 2014 04:11
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And you always finally get that one when you've just loving given up and aren't even really trying anymore.
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Apr 1, 2014 04:13
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You get a character trophy of the Batwing in addition to the achievement for doing all the AR drills.
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Apr 1, 2014 04:38
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Jerusalem posted:They help the player practice theirs. I know after I completed the AR challenges I found fine control of gliding throughout the rest of the game far, far easier. The problem with this being, of course, that precision gliding is rarely if ever needed for 99.9% of any part of the game, ever.
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Apr 1, 2014 04:42
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Phylodox posted:And you always finally get that one when you've just loving given up and aren't even really trying anymore. I can't remember the specifics, but that's actually for a reason- the difficulty of that challenge is that you only need to fight the azimuth autocorrect a tiny amount to even out inside the tunnel.
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Apr 1, 2014 05:14
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precision posted:The problem with this being, of course, that precision gliding is rarely if ever needed for 99.9% of any part of the game, ever. 90 percent of the cool poo poo you can do isn't needed. You can also get by the combat sections just mashing square and triangle, but then you aren't really Batman.  The one at the steel mill was a bit much though.
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Apr 1, 2014 05:53
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precision posted:The problem with this being, of course, that precision gliding is rarely if ever needed for 99.9% of any part of the game, ever. Batman prepares for everything no matter how unlikely he is to use it. You think that Adam West carried that Bat Shark Repellant around for the hell of it?
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Apr 1, 2014 06:06
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Minor-ish Arkham Knight Plot Spoiler: Despite my efforts to try and avoid media about it, there's a Guardian article about Arkham Knight which mentions Arkham Knight takes place 12 years after Arkham City. This is definitely not something I was expecting and hopefully will provide an opportunity for some great characterization.
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Apr 1, 2014 15:12
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MeatwadIsGod posted:Minor-ish Arkham Knight Plot Spoiler: Despite my efforts to try and avoid media about it, there's a Guardian article about Arkham Knight which mentions Arkham Knight takes place 12 years after Arkham City. This is definitely not something I was expecting and hopefully will provide an opportunity for some great characterization.
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Apr 1, 2014 15:15
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redbackground posted:Except that Sefton Hill has been shown on camera saying it takes place only one year later. Derp. I haven't watched any video or interviews. Either the Guardian writer wrote "years" when they meant to write "months" or I just got April fooled.  Guardian
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Apr 1, 2014 15:21
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MeatwadIsGod posted:Either the Guardian writer wrote "years" when they meant to write "months"
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Apr 1, 2014 15:39
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Yay more snowy Gotham.
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Apr 1, 2014 17:47
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If they have Origins' snow physics I'd be happy with that. Drop kicking a goon and watching them displace snow as they get shunted across a rooftop was wonderful.
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Apr 1, 2014 17:52
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Isn't Blackgate Deluxe out today? I looked at Steam and its still not there.
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Apr 1, 2014 18:35
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Trickjaw posted:Isn't Blackgate Deluxe out today? I looked at Steam and its still not there. http://store.steampowered.com/app/267490/?snr=1_4_4__106_1 It says pre-purchase, but it also says it's out today. April Fool's?
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Apr 1, 2014 18:36
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I was thinking it was waiting for America to fully wake up (In UK here)
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Apr 1, 2014 18:44
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Trickjaw posted:I was thinking it was waiting for America to fully wake up (In UK here) Steam usually rolls over about 13h00 EST...but, I dunno, maybe they made a mistake like that time DuckTales came out and it didn't go up for sale for some people right away?
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Apr 1, 2014 18:48
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I honestly thought the game coming out on the PC was the April Fools joke. 
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Apr 1, 2014 21:06
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I have watched a few videos of it, and not sold. They are selling it for £15 in the UK, so its not exactly a top hole offering. They should have just chucked it in with the GOTY version, which has to be coming soon.
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Little review of Arkham Blackgate Deluxe so far: (no spoilers and played for about 3-4 hours) I'm a massive Batman fan and bought Arkham Blackgate Deluxe on steam. I had tried it on the 3DS but wasn't too fond of it, but the promise of a better map, graphics and controls (ability to use a 360 controller) drew me into trying the deluxe edition. The game isn't completely terrible, but I have to admit I wouldn't be playing it if it wasn't Batman. The graphics are improved over the 3DS, but don't compete with modern PC graphics. I forgive this because it was a portable game being made available for PC. The map is improved (it was pretty useless in the 3DS) but it's still hard to use and with the screen turning constantly as you go around corners you become pretty disorientated fast. I've spent a fair amount of time completely lost so far, which isn't fun. Honestly they should have made a map which rotates with you. Combat is disappointing. It's close to being okay, but just falls short. It's probably the most disappointing thing in the game for me because it probably wouldn't have taken all that much more effort to make it fantastic. It has the beatdown (cape stun, then mash hit) which works good. Countering is much like the other Arkham games. They even have the ground pound move if the enemy is knocked to the floor. What made it disappointing is there seems to be no special moves (like pressing Y + B, A + B on the 360 controller when your combo gets high). The thing is, the combo count changes color as if it's ready to do a special move, but I couldn't get any special moves to work so I'm presuming they're not in the game. In the other Arkham games once you get your combo high enough, you can point the move stick towards a nearby enemy and hit 'x' to automatically move close to the enemy and hit him. In this game, you will not move far at all, and instead Batman will just kick air (breaking your combo, which doesn't seem to matter except if you're trying to reach the high combo achievements from what I can tell). The predator sections seem reasonably good. They work, and for what was a portable game I'd say they're decent enough. The cutscenes look horrible. They looked bad on the 3DS, and being enlarged for a PC screen does them no favors. I don't know if it's just my taste, but the art looks amateur at best. Unless you're a diehard Batman fan don't buy it for its current steam price. Even then, I'd encourage you to wait for a price drop if you can. If you really want to play it, wait for a steam sale. It would make an okay $5 purchase.
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Maybe a crap April fool, maybe not. http://www.gameranx.com/updates/id/21178/article/batman-arkham-knight-plot-twist-possibly-leaked-demo-audio-discovered/
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Apr 3, 2014 15:38
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I concur with everything Keeku says, with the addendum that playing on hard is a Very Bad Idea. The hit windows aren't given clear cues ingame, so you really need to rely on the counter indicators- which are removed on Hard. The tutorial "boss", which takes two hits, killed me three times before I passed.
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Apr 3, 2014 17:26
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Trickjaw posted:Maybe a crap April fool, maybe not. The Best Buy Tweet clearly typo-wrote "Bruce" instead of "Thomas" as the Tweet talks about driving the Batmobile and protecting the city from villains (i.e., the basic premise of the game) which if actually a "twist" would be something like "LOL you weren't even playing as Bruce Wayne you were playing as Damian even when we called him Bruce gotcha!!!!" Also the site seems shocked that they may have news that this might be Rocksteady's last Batman game, something that has been rock solid fact since early March. Gamejournalism.txt
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It's only their "last" until someone comes along and offers them eight bazillion dollars for another sequel. Unrelatedly I was playing Tomb Raider yesterday and I realized a lot of the stuff in that game is a direct copy of Arkham gameplay, the funniest is Lara has her own Batclaw with rope arrows, and she can even attach it to stuff to pull it off/down, even the animations for it look similar to Batman. Lara Croft would admittedly make a pretty good Batman, though. Excels fucked around with this message at 19:02 on Apr 3, 2014 |
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Apr 3, 2014 18:09
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Excels posted:Lara Croft would admittedly make a pretty good Red Hood, though. I fixed that for you.
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Apr 3, 2014 18:26
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Guys guys. Damien isn't Bruce's only son. Arkham:Beyond confirmed!
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Discendo Vox posted:I concur with everything Keeku says, with the addendum that playing on hard is a Very Bad Idea. The hit windows aren't given clear cues ingame, so you really need to rely on the counter indicators- which are removed on Hard. The tutorial "boss", which takes two hits, killed me three times before I passed. The combat in general is pretty garbage. The one on one bosses are kinda fun but the crowds of goons are a chore. I've had like half my cape attacks whiff for no good reason because there's no visual tell if an enemy is within striking range or not. That said, I beat it this morning and it was a decent enough Metroidvania. Nowhere near Super Metroid/Symphony of the Night/Shadow Complex obviously, but not terrible. Has anyone figured out how to unlock all the Batsuits yet? Four are tied to item pickups and which boss you fight last, but that leaves three or four more. One unlocked after I beat the game but I don't know if that was boss dependent or based on difficulty or what.
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