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So I was going through Arkham City again, to finish all the sidequests that the game locked me out of after I beat it, and uh, there's a trophy for going to Calendar mans cell 12 specific days throughout the year? Excuse me?
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Austrian mook posted:So I was going through Arkham City again, to finish all the sidequests that the game locked me out of after I beat it, and uh, there's a trophy for going to Calendar mans cell 12 specific days throughout the year? Excuse me? If I remember it correctly, you can just change the date on your console/pc to the days that are marked on the calendar next to his cell and get it that way.
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Apr 27, 2014 20:48
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nekoxid posted:If I remember it correctly, you can just change the date on your console/pc to the days that are marked on the calendar next to his cell and get it that way. that's such a pain in the rear end though. Also, do you need to tic the Killer Croc easter egg to get 100%?
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Apr 27, 2014 20:51
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Austrian mook posted:Do you need to tic the Killer Croc easter egg to get 100%? No. You'll get the same percentage from completing a riddle associated with him.
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Apr 27, 2014 21:16
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Austrian mook posted:that's such a pain in the rear end though. Boy, is it ever. Prepare yourself for around an hour or so of dicking around with system settings and suffering through the game loading from scratch every time, should you do that. I'm sure I've spent afternoons in worse ways, but I'll be hosed if I can remember how right now.
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Apr 28, 2014 05:15
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Blade_of_tyshalle posted:Boy, is it ever. Prepare yourself for around an hour or so of dicking around with system settings and suffering through the game loading from scratch every time, should you do that. I'm sure I've spent afternoons in worse ways, but I'll be hosed if I can remember how right now. I did this achievement about 2 weeks ago. I would walk outside the courthouse, quit to menu, alt tab and change system clock, alt tab back into game and load my save, visit calandar man to hear the story, and repeat. Took maybe 30 mins for all of them? I was surprised how quick I was able to do it as I had been holding off completing that achievement for some time.
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Apr 28, 2014 05:38
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At that point, why don't you just SAM it? You're cheating anyways.
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Apr 28, 2014 05:55
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A Fancy 400 lbs posted:At that point, why don't you just SAM it? You're cheating anyways. I have a PS3. 
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Apr 28, 2014 05:57
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Please don't do achievements if they are unfun. It is bad for everyone.
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Apr 28, 2014 06:00
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ImpAtom posted:Please don't do achievements if they are unfun. It is bad for everyone. But I have to get plat
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Apr 28, 2014 06:14
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Austrian mook posted:I have a PS3. Yeah, but anyone who's alt-tabbing out like Keeku is clearly on PC.
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Apr 28, 2014 06:15
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The Anarky tags in CCH are the nadir of collectibles in the series. It's like they looked at the Riddler stuff was fun in Arkham Asylum and deliberately ignored all of the lessons learnt. No tracking? Check. No benefits til you've got the lot? Check. Only visible in Detective Mode? Check. No real logic to their placement? Check. Even the main game got most of those right (although making them only visible in Detective Mode was kinda poo poo).
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Apr 28, 2014 08:37
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A Fancy 400 lbs posted:At that point, why don't you just SAM it? You're cheating anyways. I don't know why I need to explain this: I was doing it to actually listen to what Calandar Man had to say too. Doctor Spaceman posted:The Anarky tags in CCH are the nadir of collectibles in the series. It's like they looked at the Riddler stuff was fun in Arkham Asylum and deliberately ignored all of the lessons learnt. I couldn't agree with you more, but incase you need it I posted this map a couple pages back: http://imgur.com/ZUrvr6U Keeku fucked around with this message at 10:05 on Apr 28, 2014 |
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Apr 28, 2014 09:45
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Yeah, I don't really care about cheevo chasing, I did that so I could listen to Calendar Man's macabre stories about various holidays 
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Apr 28, 2014 13:06
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Doctor Spaceman posted:The Anarky tags in CCH are the nadir of collectibles in the series. It's like they looked at the Riddler stuff was fun in Arkham Asylum and deliberately ignored all of the lessons learnt. 
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Apr 28, 2014 15:01
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Beat Cold, Cold Heart over the weekend and thought it was pretty good. I liked how Arkham Origins takes place on Christmas Eve and now Cold, Cold Heart takes place 5 days later on New Year's Eve. Batcave trashed and mansion burned in one week, that's a pretty lovely week. Not quite sure I understand how glowing hot metal gauntlets are as effective at incapacitating people as taser gloves but at least it's different. v  vWhat does collecting all of the Anarky tags get you?
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Apr 28, 2014 16:23
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AngryBooch posted:What does collecting all of the Anarky tags get you? Quickfire Thermal Batarang and the charge time for heating batarangs is now instantaneous.
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Apr 28, 2014 19:27
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Keeku posted:I don't know why I need to explain this: I was doing it to actually listen to what Calandar Man had to say too. Thanks for the guide! Not being able to use the XE suit in Challenge Mode is kind of weak. Not to mention not having the suits from Arkham City available in Challenge Mode despite being in multiplayer?
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Apr 28, 2014 19:38
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Hobgoblin2099 posted:Quickfire Thermal Batarang and the charge time for heating batarangs is now instantaneous.
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Apr 28, 2014 20:13
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Hobgoblin2099 posted:Quickfire Thermal Batarang and the charge time for heating batarangs is now instantaneous. No, that's stopping the riots. Tags get you "Enhanced Thermal Gloves"...though I have no idea what that means.
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Apr 28, 2014 20:14
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Doctor Spaceman posted:The Anarky tags in CCH are the nadir of collectibles in the series. It's like they looked at the Riddler stuff was fun in Arkham Asylum and deliberately ignored all of the lessons learnt.
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Apr 28, 2014 20:56
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Mr. Freeze has a normal human 90 bpm heart rate in CCH. They forgot or didn't notice that in Arkham City, he has less than 10 bpm.
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Apr 28, 2014 20:59
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Dr Christmas posted:Mr. Freeze has a normal human 90 bpm heart rate in CCH. They forgot or didn't notice that in Arkham City, he has less than 10 bpm. Maybe his heart is getting progressively slower as he freezes solid over time.
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Apr 28, 2014 21:02
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Dr Christmas posted:Mr. Freeze has a normal human 90 bpm heart rate in CCH. They forgot or didn't notice that in Arkham City, he has less than 10 bpm. Keep in mind that City is a number of years after his accident whereas Origins is a month or two afterwards at best.
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Apr 29, 2014 00:53
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Hobgoblin2099 posted:Keep in mind that City is a number of years after his accident whereas Origins is a month or two afterwards at best. Origins is immediately afterwards, to the point that they haven't even cleaned up the crime scene where Fries became Freeze yet.
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Apr 29, 2014 01:15
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Was it Huntington's disease in the show? I don't remember them ever mentioning what disease she had in the show, but I think they made up one for the movie Batman and Robin? I actually had a patient with Huntington's disease once.
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Apr 29, 2014 03:25
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Yeah, they made up something for Batman and Robin because Alfred had it too. McGuffin's Syndrome, or something close to it.Sober posted:The only lesson they truly learned from HQR was not to boot you back to the main menu and let you actually go after the collectibles. Too bad all the Anarky tags are poo poo tier, like AC1 flags. At least label all the important Gotham landmarks so I can at least know where to look for them. Yeah, overall CCH improved on a bunch of HQR stuff, it's just that the collectibles annoyed me. The Riddler stuff in Asylum is probably the best set of collectible stuff I've seen in a game; I liked City's switch to focusing more on acrobatic / gadget feats, but the Riddles were a great character-based way of giving backstory.
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Apr 29, 2014 05:12
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Doctor Spaceman posted:Yeah, they made up something for Batman and Robin because Alfred had it too. McGuffin's Syndrome, or something close to it. MacGregor's Syndrome. Arrow recently had an episode where, hilariously, the Clock King was referenced as dying from it.
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Apr 29, 2014 15:39
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BAV made a video of most/all the Easter Eggs in CCH. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z7deucDlmwE I never realized it before, but considering how Nigma becomes a straight villain in the remaining games in the series, this is the closest we have in the games to the reformed Detective Riddler.
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Apr 29, 2014 15:41
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Reformed rear end in a top hat detective Riddler, struggling to handle his own mental illnesses and the fact that everybody in the city hates him even when he's trying to help, is my favorite Riddler. But the hyper-aggressive and uncommonly violent version of Riddler they've presented in the Arkham universe would never be able to make that transition anyway. I wish they'd explain how Riddler went from the guy in Origins who ultimately wanted to help Gotham, if in a kind of lovely way, to the guy in Arkham City who is murdering rescue workers just because gently caress you.
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Apr 29, 2014 15:54
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If I had to guess, it probably stems from his inferiority complex. His interview tapes in Arkham Asylum reveal that as a child he was unable to solve puzzles without cheating. In Origins, he is "cheating" by illegally tapping people's devices and such while Batman is able to uncover the truth on his own. Nigma would probably get jealous over that and decide to make a crime Batman couldn't solve, only to end up getting caught and developing an obsession with Batman that begins to pave the way for his career in supervillainy. Or something to that effect.
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Apr 29, 2014 15:57
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How good is Cold, Cold Heart? I played the Initiation campaign last night and was rather disappointed by it, I'm hoping CCH provides a lot more in the way of actual level structure and a good boss fight (Maybe?).
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Apr 29, 2014 16:18
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In the comics it was always kind of up in the air (and by that I mean it depended on the writer) if Eddie actually cheated at the puzzles or if he was abused so badly by his father afterwards that he convinced himself he must have. That said, I can totally buy the Arkham universe version of Riddler being a loving cheater because he does it in the drat game. I lost the shell game four times because it didn't even occur to me to use detective vision because it didn't occur to me that Riddler would ever cheat at his own game. The animated universe version of him would have been outraged. That said, I don't know that I'd call what he was doing in Origin's "cheating". Bats isn't a guy who's above a little wiretapping when it suits him. I dunno. The timespan between Origins and City is pretty vast so I guess over the years he just became more and more of a violent bastard, but going back to play City after having played Origins made them feel like entirely different characters. It's probably just a case of differing writers since Riddler was totally a vicious rear end in a top hat in the Asylum interview tapes. Maybe Warner Bros. Montreal didn't get the memo.
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Orgia Carnaval posted:How good is Cold, Cold Heart? I played the Initiation campaign last night and was rather disappointed by it, I'm hoping CCH provides a lot more in the way of actual level structure and a good boss fight (Maybe?). It does, it's a little mini campaign basically with some new twists thrown at you.
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Orgia Carnaval posted:How good is Cold, Cold Heart? I played the Initiation campaign last night and was rather disappointed by it, I'm hoping CCH provides a lot more in the way of actual level structure and a good boss fight (Maybe?). I bought the season pass for supercheap, so I didn't pay much at all for it, but it's solid DLC. The combat seemed more like how it plays in the challenge rooms than the main game (PC, KB/M setup), so that was also a big plus. redbackground fucked around with this message at 16:27 on Apr 29, 2014 |
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Apr 29, 2014 16:25
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In my opinion it sucks that Batman Arkham Knight will only be for the PS4, XBox One and PC. Why leave the people that have the Xbox 360 and PS3 out in the cold? Just make a disk for the Xbox 360 and PS3. Sony and Rocksteady would profit greatly from it. Opinions?
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Apr 29, 2014 16:30
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CaptainMidnight posted:In my opinion it sucks that Batman Arkham Knight will only be for the PS4, XBox One and PC. Why leave the people that have the Xbox 360 and PS3 out in the cold? Just make a disk for the Xbox 360 and PS3. Sony and Rocksteady would profit greatly from it. Opinions? In order to make the game scalable across that much hardware, they have to basically bring the next-gen versions down. While the graphical update is huge, I'd be shocked if there wasn't a ton of streaming in the next areas of the city that requires more RAM and whatnot. It's been a long enough time that I'm ready for them to stop having to hold games back. At some point you gotta upgrade, PC gamers have been living like this for years. Besides, it'll make Sony WAY more money in the long run if Rocksteady makes an incentive out of buying more PS4s. That's the win/win right there, Sony sells more consoles because people really want to play the next Batman game.
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CaptainMidnight posted:In my opinion it sucks that Batman Arkham Knight will only be for the PS4, XBox One and PC. Why leave the people that have the Xbox 360 and PS3 out in the cold? Just make a disk for the Xbox 360 and PS3. Sony and Rocksteady would profit greatly from it. Opinions? There isn't a button on Rocksteady's Game Design UI that says 'print XBOX 360' disk they're refusing to push. Xbox 360 and PS3 have different architectures from PC, PS4 and Xbox One. It is non-trivial to port your codebase to another platform. On top of what Crappy Jack is talking about where the game itself is not built for the hardware limitations of the older platforms. In my opinion it sucks that they are not printing disks for the Atari, NES, SNES, and Commodore 64. Sony and Rocksteady would profit greatly from it. Opinions?
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CaptainMidnight posted:In my opinion it sucks that Batman Arkham Knight will only be for the PS4, XBox One and PC. Why leave the people that have the Xbox 360 and PS3 out in the cold? Just make a disk for the Xbox 360 and PS3. Sony and Rocksteady would profit greatly from it. Opinions? redbackground fucked around with this message at 17:08 on Apr 29, 2014 |
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BreakAtmo posted:MacGregor's Syndrome. Arrow recently had an episode where, hilariously, the Clock King was referenced as dying from it. Wasn't it Clock King's wife that was dying from it, which gave him a sort of Mr. Freeze vibe? CaptainMidnight posted:In my opinion it sucks that Batman Arkham Knight will only be for the PS4, XBox One and PC. Why leave the people that have the Xbox 360 and PS3 out in the cold? Just make a disk for the Xbox 360 and PS3. Sony and Rocksteady would profit greatly from it. Opinions? I love reading about the Arkham games in this thread, though I haven't played any of them yet because I'm still waiting for them to finally release PS2 versions.
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