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You can use the shockwave on the test of strength towers?! That... would have saved me an awful lot of time. Speaking of time, on that first challenge map when you got down to two goons and said you couldn't take them out because they were staying together. Does the (future gadget)disrupter not work on the invincible guy, or did you just forget it or avoid it so it would be fresh for the main story?
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FoolyCharged posted:You can use the shockwave on the test of strength towers?! That... would have saved me an awful lot of time. Kind of forgot I had it, honestly. I'm not as used to playing as Robin/Nightwing, so I frequently forget what they've got as far as gadgets goes. But that would definitely have done the trick. Discendo Vox posted:After seeing your impressive performances in the challenge rooms so far, and knowing that you're not going to upload every single permutation (though the stealth rooms/campaigns are different between characters), I figure you might as well challenge yourself. Can you do the last level of stealth campaign, and that one DLC combat room, as catwoman? I'll play your game, you rat. When I upload those, it'll be as Catwoman. Not sure which DLC combat you're talking about, but I assume it's the long one.
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FoolyCharged posted:You can use the shockwave on the test of strength towers?! That... would have saved me an awful lot of time.
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Nov 16, 2014 11:04
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I'm fairly sure that it's impossible to get one in the Industrial District without it.
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Nov 16, 2014 11:07
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I love how all the enemies will politely wait for Batman when he's on the phone. They do block picking up the phone at the start if around though, and it gets irritating when they keep running up while you're trying to pick up (and then of course the stupid phone stops ringing right after the fight because of course it does *sigh*). I see you tagged one of my nemesis trophies, the "dive down from on high hard enough onto the pad and shockwave" ones. Judging the right location to start going down to hit the pad from high enough was always a pain for me. That second one you mentioned reduced me to massive profanity trying to get everything to work right. The fact Batman seemed to like to stumble off the pad when he hit when I controlled him (and you need to stay on the pad and throw a Batarang to actually finish it) was the icing on the cake that made me decide I am required to ball-punch whoever designed them if I ever meet them in real life (had similar "stumble off the pad" issues with the line launcher pads, too). But, amazingly enough, I actually finished the campaign and all the bonus stuff. Still debating if I'm going to screw with all the campaign and challenge room stuff, but at least Arkham City itself is clear. Not bad considering I never finished the game when it came out thanks to the frustration from various things.
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Nov 16, 2014 11:13
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You do use the vantage points in predator rooms an awful lot. Which is understandable because they're super-useful, but it might be nice to see you do some of the predator challenges while making more use of the other stealth options. I always liked to do that, since the rooms become a lot more tense when you're using the grates, vents and terrain to hide you instead of just swinging around in the rafters from pounce to pounce.
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Nov 16, 2014 12:26
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dscruffy1 posted:
The good guys, everyone!
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Campaign Challenge: Search and Destroy
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Gothsheep posted:You do use the vantage points in predator rooms an awful lot. Which is understandable because they're super-useful, but it might be nice to see you do some of the predator challenges while making more use of the other stealth options. I always liked to do that, since the rooms become a lot more tense when you're using the grates, vents and terrain to hide you instead of just swinging around in the rafters from pounce to pounce.
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I choose to believe that Batman gets some of Riddler's questions wrong on purpose at times, just to piss him off.  On other notes, I kinda like the new Penguin in this game. The glass bottle monocle is a bit much, though. And I can't help but wonder why Batman pissed off Zsasz on the phone when he said that he has hostages and when he's trying to triangulate his location. Blueberry Pancakes fucked around with this message at 15:19 on Nov 16, 2014 |
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Nov 16, 2014 12:32
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What happens if you disrupt a guy shooting at a vantage point before he breaks it?
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I think it either breaks anyway or you manage to preserve it. I've been pretty quick about taking some of those guys out when they do it, but I've still had instances where one of my vantage points was still broken.
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Nov 16, 2014 15:56
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dscruffy1 posted:I'm fairly sure that it's impossible to get one in the Industrial District without it. It's quite possible I popped the shockwave out of boredom during my 5 billion attempts at it.
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Nov 16, 2014 15:59
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I really like how all the playable characters play differently. Is Nightwing only usable in challenge runs?
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On reading Pammy's story, I'm still trying to figure out what constitutes as "misusing" her plants. Is it just buying them as a peace offering to the person you wronged? Is it not following the care instructions? I mean, I know Ivy is a bit touchy when it comes to treating plants right, but I wonder why she decided to open a flower shop in the first place if she wasn't going to be happy with the way people treated them. As for Zsasz, I think as long as he's pissed at Batman, he might be less likely to turn his attention to the hostages. Or something.
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Nov 16, 2014 16:43
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Nihilarian posted:I really like how all the playable characters play differently. Unfortunately yes. He's the only 1 of the 4 playable characters to not have any sort of sandbox gameplay. I had hoped that Dick would get his turn in Origins, but....well that game was built to let me down.
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Nov 16, 2014 17:12
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I still can't get over the fact that they named Nightwing's batarang-equivalent a "Wing-Ding".
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Now that's what I call a killer font.
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Kobanya posted:On reading Pammy's story, I'm still trying to figure out what constitutes as "misusing" her plants. Is it just buying them as a peace offering to the person you wronged? Is it not following the care instructions? I mean, I know Ivy is a bit touchy when it comes to treating plants right, but I wonder why she decided to open a flower shop in the first place if she wasn't going to be happy with the way people treated them. Going by the in-game story, she appears to have been pissed that the guy was using them to try and smooth over his adultery. Maybe she considered that to be a really scummy way to use her babies? Would've made a lot more sense if she went off on someone who mistreated the flowers themselves, though. One more entry for the "Poison Ivy is really badly characterized in this game" file.
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Alien Arcana posted:Going by the in-game story, she appears to have been pissed that the guy was using them to try and smooth over his adultery. Maybe she considered that to be a really scummy way to use her babies? She's also, remember, bat-poo poo insane.
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Nov 16, 2014 19:49
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Ivy doesn't just really like plants, she also kind of despises people. She really would only find happiness if she moved into the middle of nowhere by herself. And even then she would likely find problems with the animals. I know one comic implied she moved from Gotham and went to live with Swamp Thing, seeing as he would be one of the few beings in existence who she could relate too.
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Onmi posted:I know one comic implied she moved from Gotham and went to live with Swamp Thing, seeing as he would be one of the few beings in existence who she could relate too. I think that was BTAS. She moved in with him (though he was still human at the time) and just studied botany in the wilderness, leaving behind a plant clone to keep Harley company and distract Batman.
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Hobgoblin2099 posted:I think that was BTAS. She moved in with him (though he was still human at the time) and just studied botany in the wilderness, leaving behind a plant clone to keep Harley company and distract Batman. I always like comic stories that have possible "endings" for characters. Obviously nobody wants comic characters to "end"--but it's nice to see what could possibly be endings for them. I could see Ivy living in peace in such an environment. It's kind of like some of the "what if" comics, like in a world where Batman has died and Damian Wayne becomes the new, more murderous, Batman who still maintains peace in Gotham in his own way. Batman RIP also demonstrated an "end" for the Joker, given that as soon as Batman was "killed" by Darkseid, Joker straight up vanished.
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Technowolf posted:I still can't get over the fact that they named Nightwing's batarang-equivalent a "Wing-Ding". I'd never noticed it but that is hilarious. I guess if Batman has batarangs and Robin has birdarangs (no really, Robin has birdarangs), Nightwing is either stuck with night-arangs or coming up with another dumb name.
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TwoPair posted:I'd never noticed it but that is hilarious. I guess if Batman has batarangs and Robin has birdarangs (no really, Robin has birdarangs), Nightwing is either stuck with night-arangs or coming up with another dumb name. Wing-dings just seems like a dick joke. All the best Nightwing comics revolve around dick jokes.
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TwoPair posted:No really, Robin has birdarangs Still better than Wing Ding.
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BottledBodhisvata posted:Wing-dings just seems like a dick joke. All the best Nightwing comics revolve around dick jokes. It might explain why batman is such a dick to him.
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Waltzing Along posted:It might explain why batman is such a dick to him. And his name too.
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What kind of dick names himself Nightwing?
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Hobgoblin2099 posted:What kind of dick names himself Nightwing? Said the Riddler.
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I'm not gonna call out what they are ahead of time but I will say that Robin does not have Birdarangs. They are called something else.
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I think I heard my favourite grunt insult in the Nightwing rumble segment. One of the grunts says "your mother won't recognize you when we're finished with you" yeah...sorry to disappoint you, guy
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Does anybody else find Dick's face look kinda... odd? I mean, compared to all other character models, he looks like he'd be better placed in Gerry Anderson puppet show.
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It has something to do with his chin. I noticed that too, when he moves around right before the maps start. The top part of his face is fine, but his chin seems to jut out at a weird angle. As for his use of "Wing-Dings", that really just makes me think of snack cakes. I kind of imagine that being a pretty good distraction for the thugs in Arkham City though: "Hey, look, food!" "The hell did those come from? Are those snack cakes?" "Who cares, let's eat 'em!" and then cue getting a bird boot to the face.
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Well, comic book Batman has been known to utilize cakes in the past. In pretty much the described fashion, if I remember those advertisements correctly.
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Hobgoblin2099 posted:What kind of dick names himself Nightwing? Oh, let us travel down the hole of comics stupidity. See, Nightwing is actually a legacy name, referring to the Batman of Krypton. No seriously. Way way way way way back when, Nightwing and Flamebird were two costumed vigilantes that fought crime on Krypton. For a while back in the golden age comics Superman and Jimmy suited up as Nightwing and Flamebird to fight crime in Kandor. Somehow Grayson heard the name and decided to use it. Also yes Nightwing's -arangs are canonically named Wing-Dings in the comics. Knowing Dick he probably named them that way so that his enemies would be distracted by the sheer ludicrousness of the name long enough for him to punch them. Samovar posted:Does anybody else find Dick's face look kinda... odd? I mean, compared to all other character models, he looks like he'd be better placed in Gerry Anderson puppet show. I think it's cause he's mapped onto someone else's model and his head is just modeled wrong for the body. Kurieg fucked around with this message at 15:32 on Nov 17, 2014 |
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Kobanya posted:It has something to do with his chin. I noticed that too, when he moves around right before the maps start. The top part of his face is fine, but his chin seems to jut out at a weird angle. The set-up for a new line of Hostess snack comic-book commercials.
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BottledBodhisvata posted:The set-up for a new line of Hostess snack comic-book commercials. By the way, every time someone wants to complain about something in this game being too gritty. Keep in mind Marvel went and wrote a comic in which a villain came and murdered the Hostess Snack universe Spiderman, and Spiderman and his Amazing Friends. Because gently caress you happiness and joy.
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Has anyone else noticed that Dicks leaping animation seems a little off? There was a bit where he sort of lept to the ground and over a railing parkour style, but both animations looks very similar and something about the whole thing didn't gel very well with me. I'm thinking this DLC was a bit rushed out the door.
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Onmi posted:By the way, every time someone wants to complain about something in this game being too gritty. Keep in mind Marvel went and wrote a comic in which a villain came and murdered the Hostess Snack universe Spiderman, and Spiderman and his Amazing Friends. Because gently caress you happiness and joy. Zeniel posted:Has anyone else noticed that Dicks leaping animation seems a little off? There was a bit where he sort of lept to the ground and over a railing parkour style, but both animations looks very similar and something about the whole thing didn't gel very well with me. I'm thinking this DLC was a bit rushed out the door. Yeah, I'm guessing so. He hasn't even got any dialogue so far as I can tell.
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Yvonmukluk posted:Yeah, I'm guessing so. He hasn't even got any dialogue so far as I can tell. Thugs do get different dialogue in Predator sections though.
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