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ImpAtom posted:If he counters your attack you can re-counter it if you wait for the right moment. I just YouTubed this to make sure and I swear you're just going to have to believe me when I say this didn't happen in my copy of the game. Sorry. Radical 90s Wizard posted:Sometimes people just need to admit when they're loving bad at a game. Eat a dick, dude. I'm not claiming to be MLG pro but I like to imagine I'm at least competent.
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My big issue with combat in Origins is that some of the fights take place in very cramped quarters and I keep getting hit by enemies that I can't see. Fighting a camera isn't as much fun as fighting a gang of Gotham thugs.
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poptart_fairy posted:Does the Freeze DLC add any new challenges, etc, or is it just a dollop of story? Hobgoblin2099 posted:Honestly, I think the Mr. Freeze DLC was pretty great. If anything, I was disappointed because it was a bit too short and the pacing was a bit odd at times.
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Jun 23, 2014 05:00
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I'm going to be the dissenting voice and say that I didn't even finish the Mr. Freeze DLC because it was just a boring rehash of the first TAS episode he was in. It added nothing new on any level. Unless you're really jonesing for more of Origin's combat, I wouldn't recommend it.
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The Origins DLC is thoroughly unoriginal in content and gameplay, but I enjoyed it.Die Laughing posted:Arkham Origins has the best costumes. The true metric these games should be judged by. Adam West, Knightfall, and Batman 1,000,000? Love it. Yeah, it had the Bat-urshanka from Red Son. I guess there were other costumes too, but I'm not sure how they could compete.
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Jun 23, 2014 05:26
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Hobgoblin2099 posted:Concussion Grenades are pretty garbage for the most part from what I can tell. This just seems to be another detriment to them. They were also not explained well. Alfred suggests you use them so that you won't have to beat up the cops quite as badly, but all they do is stun; you still have to beat them up. So I spent a lot of time trying to stun them into submission with the grenades until I realized that wouldn't work.
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Jun 23, 2014 05:32
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Silly Alfred. You and your unhelpful advice.
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Finally got around to finishing Blackgate. It's okay. Has a few good ideas, but it comes across as a bit bland an empty for the most part.
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Having beat Harley Quinn's Revenge yesterday, I can say while I enjoyed playing as Robin, his stealth segment is hot garbage. Wow. It was even worse than the Two-Face boss segment in Catwoman's DLC. His combat's neat, though. EDIT: VVV I recently finished doing all 440 challenges. 400 of Batman's, 40 of Catwoman's. I don't even like playing as Catwoman. I did it because I'm loving insane. EDIT X2: Blade_of_tyshalle posted:Are you kidding? The new map is like 200 times the size of Asylum. There will be so many Riddler trophies, to collect them all will be like the en masse counter frenzy from the Ra's fight. I really want to see this now. kalonZombie fucked around with this message at 03:37 on Jun 26, 2014 |
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Jun 26, 2014 03:20
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Kinda hoping that if there's Riddler Trophies/Gubbins/Whatever (and I'm sure there will be) in Arkham Knight, they dial it back a bit. Arkham Asylum was perfect on riddler poo poo, City had way way way WAY too much of it. 400 trophies to finish the sidequest? Hell no I'm not doing that.
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Jun 26, 2014 03:33
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Are you kidding? The new map is like 200 times the size of Asylum. There will be so many Riddler trophies, to collect them all will be like the en masse counter frenzy from the Ra's fight.
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Jun 26, 2014 03:35
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Blade_of_tyshalle posted:Are you kidding? The new map is like 200 times the size of Asylum. There will be so many Riddler trophies, to collect them all will be like the en masse counter frenzy from the Ra's fight. Look man I'm just hoping Rocksteady will have the sense to realize that just because you CAN do a thing doesn't mean it's a good idea  Also, huh, Steam is convinced that I don't own Arkham City and won't let me buy Harley Quinn's Revenge. That's uh...that's interesting.
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Jun 26, 2014 03:38
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Blade_of_tyshalle posted:Are you kidding? The new map is like 200 times the size of Asylum. There will be so many Riddler trophies, to collect them all will be like the en masse counter frenzy from the Ra's fight. Bit of an exaggeration - I believe the official line is 20x the size of Asylum, 5x the size of City.
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Jun 26, 2014 03:43
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I do agree with the Captain though. 400 Riddler challenges was way overkill. Hell, I feel like 240 in Asylum was pushing it. You couldn't go 20 feet in City without tripping over a glowing green trophy surrounded by buttons or levers or whatever. With a city that's the size of a real, honest to god city now, maybe one challenge every couple of blocks.
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As a person who enjoyed the gameplay of Arkham City and enjoys the Riddler as a villain, let me just be the first to say gently caress Riddler in Arkham City. 440 Tropies + all those Riddler Revenge Emblems is just overkill. I want to 100% this game but this (and AR stuff) is killing me.
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Jun 26, 2014 03:59
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kalonZombie posted:I do agree with the Captain though. 400 Riddler challenges was way overkill. Hell, I feel like 240 in Asylum was pushing it. You couldn't go 20 feet in City without tripping over a glowing green trophy surrounded by buttons or levers or whatever. With a city that's the size of a real, honest to god city now, maybe one challenge every couple of blocks. Don't forget that in asylum while there were only officially 240, about 20 of those we're breaking Joker teeth. There really were 300+ collectibles.
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kalonZombie posted:I do agree with the Captain though. 400 Riddler challenges was way overkill. Hell, I feel like 240 in Asylum was pushing it. You couldn't go 20 feet in City without tripping over a glowing green trophy surrounded by buttons or levers or whatever. With a city that's the size of a real, honest to god city now, maybe one challenge every couple of blocks. It goes worse in Origin too. They could cut back a bit on the number of ones that are just single gadget-based unlocks. They're not completely unjustifiable (gives you a reason to explore, makes you appreciate upgrades, etc), but it felt like they starting relying on them more in Origins. E: Asylum had more straight-up "photograph this" riddles, and lining things up. The former were great, because it was a neat way to deliver backstory. And the Joker's Teeth were almost always in groups. Doctor Spaceman fucked around with this message at 04:05 on Jun 26, 2014 |
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Jun 26, 2014 04:02
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I never found the Riddler stuff in Origins as bad as City. Origins was tedious at worst, whereas City was unbelievably obnoxious with some of its things being in the most obscure of locations.
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kalonZombie posted:I do agree with the Captain though. 400 Riddler challenges was way overkill. Hell, I feel like 240 in Asylum was pushing it. You couldn't go 20 feet in City without tripping over a glowing green trophy surrounded by buttons or levers or whatever. With a city that's the size of a real, honest to god city now, maybe one challenge every couple of blocks. I'm not sure why that is a bad thing to be honest. I much prefer "there is something to do pretty much everywhere" to "there is a lot of empty boring space in between interesting things." Arkham City was one of the few games I actually had to motivation to find all the collectibles in and it was because they were heavily populated and (usually) involved doing different things to collect.
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Doctor Spaceman posted:It goes worse in Origin too. There are only like 200 Riddler packs in Origins. I wish they brought back the photograph riddles. Ad yah, each area had like 8 or 9 so packs, 9 maps...
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ImpAtom posted:I'm not sure why that is a bad thing to be honest. I much prefer "there is something to do pretty much everywhere" to "there is a lot of empty boring space in between interesting things." Arkham City was one of the few games I actually had to motivation to find all the collectibles in and it was because they were heavily populated and (usually) involved doing different things to collect. Case in point: L.A. Noir. Don't base your open world around a giant empty city.
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The worst part, for me, about City's Riddler carnival was all the Catwoman ones. I don't have that DLC. I never will, because I refuse to partake of that horrible side-industry and it didn't occur to me to wait for the GotY edition like I do with Bethesda games. There's all these neon red question marks dotting the landscape and I can't do anything with them 
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Blade_of_tyshalle posted:The worst part, for me, about City's Riddler carnival was all the Catwoman ones. I don't have that DLC. I never will, because I refuse to partake of that horrible side-industry and it didn't occur to me to wait for the GotY edition like I do with Bethesda games.
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ayn rand hand job posted:There are only like 200 Riddler packs in Origins. Plus the cameras, and the Anarky and Pinkney stuff. Origins had too many collectibles which were too easy to get.
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Hobgoblin2099 posted:As a person who enjoyed the gameplay of Arkham City and enjoys the Riddler as a villain, let me just be the first to say gently caress Riddler in Arkham City. One of his two or three game over screens is the best one in any Arkham game though. The one with the delayed smirk like two seconds after he stops speaking.
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TechnoSyndrome posted:The horrible side-industry of buying games new? No, of dipshit DLC and gatelocking. It's on the disc? Then let me play it! I don't want to sign up to some service or whatever the gently caress they wanted from me. Give me the entire game, I paid for the goddamn thing.
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The catwoman stuff was for people who bought the game new, it wasn't any other kind of DLC. I'd really like to see more, y'know, riddles, and fewer gameplay mechanic puzzles, especially the trivial ones (I really liked the underground deathtraps, those were a nice touch-I suspect more like that were originally planned for AC). Unfortunately, our preview of Riddler's Underground Destruction Derby doesn't bode well for more detective-oriented riddler challenge gameplay. Discendo Vox fucked around with this message at 04:26 on Jun 26, 2014 |
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Blade_of_tyshalle posted:No, of dipshit DLC and gatelocking. It's on the disc? Then let me play it! I don't want to sign up to some service or whatever the gently caress they wanted from me. Give me the entire game, I paid for the goddamn thing. You didn't have to sign up for anything, you just had to redeem your code through Xbox Live/PSN. It was purely an incentive to get people to not buy the game used, and if you didn't actually pay them for your copy I doubt they care what you think.
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Yeah, I gotta say, "gently caress Rockstar for not giving me stuff even though I haven't actually given them any of my money" seems kind of petulant. Why should they owe you anything if you didn't give them anything?
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Can someone point out where I said I didn't pay for the game? You guys are all making some jackass assumptions here.
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Blade_of_tyshalle posted:Can someone point out where I said I didn't pay for the game? You guys are all making some jackass assumptions here. So you paid for the game but didn't install the Catwoman stuff because you didn't want to input a code?
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I don't connect my Xbox to the internet, so it's less "don't feel like" and more "would have to rearrange my apartment to do so". I seriously don't think it's too much to ask that I be given access to the content I paid for without jumping through hoops.
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Blade_of_tyshalle posted:I don't connect my Xbox to the internet, so it's less "don't feel like" and more "would have to rearrange my apartment to do so". I seriously don't think it's too much to ask that I be given access to the content I paid for without jumping through hoops. Having a console or computer capable of being connected to the internet is generally not considered much of a hoop these days, sorry.
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In that case I can sympathize with you, though for what it's worth the Catwoman DLC is a 250+MB download rather than unlocking something off the disk. Do you have one of those old Xboxes that didn't have WiFi built in? I remember the wireless adapter being highway robbery.
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Also the final boss in Blackgate is the worst thing in the series.
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Doctor Spaceman posted:Also the final boss in Blackgate is the worst thing in the series. You should try it as Zombie Batman. Zombie Batman is immune to all damage. Made it kind of funny, actually.
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Yalborap posted:You should try it as Zombie Batman. I did, it was the only way I could beat it. The timing on a bunch of the attacks still felt annoyingly tight, and completely unlike the rest of the game.
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Blade_of_tyshalle posted:I don't connect my Xbox to the internet, so it's less "don't feel like" and more "would have to rearrange my apartment to do so". I seriously don't think it's too much to ask that I be given access to the content I paid for without jumping through hoops. FWIW the Catwoman DLC is basically like playing Batman but not as good and actually frustratingly lovely at times.
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Pros and Cons of Catwoman: Pros: Running isn't loud enough to alert enemies; Catwoman can strike faster than most goons, so countering isn't usually mandatory to keep a combo going. Cons: Lack of gadget variety; slow climbing speed makes traveling/doing predator a chore; almost no health/armor
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