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Title: Batman: Arkham City
Post by: Demitri on October 15, 2011, 04:38:20 am: Would just like to say that I have had my PC version pre-ordered for forever and a day and have been recently emailed by the retailer telling me that release date has been put back to 10th Nov, whereas my brother who has his pre-ordered for PS3 get his on 21st Oct. Not a happy bunny!

Apart from that I'm pretty excited about this game. First one was tremendous!
Title: Re: Batman: Arkham City
Post by: Mongoose on October 15, 2011, 02:58:56 pm: Man I am so pumped for this.
Title: Re: Batman: Arkham City
Post by: General Battuta on October 17, 2011, 11:00:57 pm: I don't think any game has ever made a faster transition from 'this is a brilliant game made by geniuses' to 'holy ****, I am going to uninstall this and drown my hard drive in bleach' than Arkham Asylum. Let's hope City sticks to point the first
Title: Re: Batman: Arkham City
Post by: Ravenholme on October 17, 2011, 11:13:20 pm: Quote from: General Battuta on October 17, 2011, 11:00:57 pm
I don't think any game has ever made a faster transition from 'this is a brilliant game made by geniuses' to 'holy ****, I am going to uninstall this and drown my hard drive in bleach' than Arkham Asylum. Let's hope City sticks to point the first

I didn't find it that bad, but it did go majorly downhill around halfway through.
Title: Re: Batman: Arkham City
Post by: NGTM-1R on October 17, 2011, 11:28:25 pm: Quote from: General Battuta on October 17, 2011, 11:00:57 pm
I don't think any game has ever made a faster transition from 'this is a brilliant game made by geniuses' to 'holy ****, I am going to uninstall this and drown my hard drive in bleach' than Arkham Asylum. Let's hope City sticks to point the first

Get out. You haven't lived until you've gotten to the Party. 40 basic mooks and endless freeflow
Title: Re: Batman: Arkham City
Post by: Ravenholme on October 17, 2011, 11:36:54 pm: Quote from: NGTM-1R on October 17, 2011, 11:28:25 pm
Quote from: General Battuta on October 17, 2011, 11:00:57 pm
I don't think any game has ever made a faster transition from 'this is a brilliant game made by geniuses' to 'holy ****, I am going to uninstall this and drown my hard drive in bleach' than Arkham Asylum. Let's hope City sticks to point the first

Get out. You haven't lived until you've gotten to the Party. 40 basic mooks and endless freeflow

That's a point, but there were parts where it became a real slog. It's just that there were enough quality set pieces in the later half to keep me going.
Title: Re: Batman: Arkham City
Post by: General Battuta on October 17, 2011, 11:37:23 pm: Quote from: NGTM-1R on October 17, 2011, 11:28:25 pm
Quote from: General Battuta on October 17, 2011, 11:00:57 pm
I don't think any game has ever made a faster transition from 'this is a brilliant game made by geniuses' to 'holy ****, I am going to uninstall this and drown my hard drive in bleach' than Arkham Asylum. Let's hope City sticks to point the first

Get out. You haven't lived until you've gotten to the Party. 40 basic mooks and endless freeflow

I've beaten the entire game more than once, you're leaping to conclusions here (the ending was **** but at least there were goons to beat up)

The game veering sharply from brilliant to **** does not preclude it from veering back or to any intermediate point in between
Title: Re: Batman: Arkham City
Post by: NGTM-1R on October 17, 2011, 11:52:56 pm: Quote from: General Battuta on October 17, 2011, 11:37:23 pm
The game veering sharply from brilliant to **** does not preclude it from veering back or to any intermediate point in between

True. I will never forgive it for the high-security inmates and the crappy controls for dealing with non-basic enemies but much like my recent completion of Alpha Protocol it's faults are outweighed by its successes.
Title: Re: Batman: Arkham City
Post by: General Battuta on October 17, 2011, 11:56:21 pm: Quote from: NGTM-1R on October 17, 2011, 11:52:56 pm
Quote from: General Battuta on October 17, 2011, 11:37:23 pm
The game veering sharply from brilliant to **** does not preclude it from veering back or to any intermediate point in between

True. I will never forgive it for the high-security inmates and the crappy controls for dealing with non-basic enemies but much like my recent completion of Alpha Protocol it's faults are outweighed by its successes.

This I can wholeheartedly concur with, it is a great game.
Title: Re: Batman: Arkham City
Post by: MP-Ryan on October 18, 2011, 11:55:09 am: Quote from: NGTM-1R on October 17, 2011, 11:52:56 pm
Quote from: General Battuta on October 17, 2011, 11:37:23 pm
The game veering sharply from brilliant to **** does not preclude it from veering back or to any intermediate point in between

True. I will never forgive it for the high-security inmates and the crappy controls for dealing with non-basic enemies but much like my recent completion of Alpha Protocol it's faults are outweighed by its successes.

I think the main problem was the control issue. I played it on PC (mouse/keyboard), and the controls just didn't lend themselves to free-flow combat that required anything more onerous than attack/block.

That said, there were only two things that really irked me about the game: fighting the skeletons Scarecrow threw at you in that weird non-standard perspective (we have just spent a whole game getting used to a particular combat style and camera angle, and now you change that for a single sequence?), and the final boss fight (le crap).

But in general, an immensely entertaining game. I loved the exploration aspects of it, particularly.
Title: Re: Batman: Arkham City
Post by: Mongoose on October 18, 2011, 04:10:57 pm: I enjoyed the game enough to go out of my way to earn every blessed achievement in it, at least. You want to really get frustrated with the controls? Try going for the highest medal rankings in all of those combat challenges. A couple of those took years off my life. :p
Title: Re: Batman: Arkham City
Post by: Mikes on October 19, 2011, 05:23:43 am: If they would finally remove securom from Arkam Asylum I'd buy it.
Title: Re: Batman: Arkham City
Post by: General Battuta on October 19, 2011, 01:39:56 pm: Gonna 100% Arkham Asylum after work ungh I am the night
Title: Re: Batman: Arkham City
Post by: NGTM-1R on October 19, 2011, 03:00:18 pm: I'd have to restart it.

****.
Title: Re: Batman: Arkham City
Post by: General Battuta on October 19, 2011, 03:10:40 pm: Quote from: NGTM-1R on October 19, 2011, 03:00:18 pm
I'd have to restart it.

****.

Why is this
Title: Re: Batman: Arkham City
Post by: NGTM-1R on October 19, 2011, 03:14:10 pm: My computer has been reformatted and I don't believe it is Steam Cloud.
Title: Re: Batman: Arkham City
Post by: rhettro on October 19, 2011, 05:34:13 pm: I loved the first one from start to finish, played it on my 360 though. Arkham City should be in my mailbox when I get home today. :)
Title: Re: Batman: Arkham City
Post by: Scotty on October 19, 2011, 05:34:44 pm: I've been told I look hilariously similar to Doctor Strange, just not bald.

Halloween costume pending.
Title: Re: Batman: Arkham City
Post by: Lucika on October 21, 2011, 10:39:50 am: The ending: wow.

Spoiler:
I am not that much of a comic follower (only apart from Linkara's stuff) but I love such bold approaches. Not gonna state more just yet, not even with spoiler tags.
Title: Re: Batman: Arkham City
Post by: General Battuta on October 21, 2011, 10:42:11 am: 100%

UNGH

Are you retarded or something

who the hell do you think I am
Title: Re: Batman: Arkham City
Post by: Mongoose on October 21, 2011, 04:26:20 pm: The goddamn Battman.
Title: Re: Batman: Arkham City
Post by: TrashMan on October 22, 2011, 04:09:03 am: I loved Arkham Asylum. Very, very good game. Except the end.. It left me going "WTF?????" WILLPOWER DON'T WORK THAT WAY!!!!
Title: Re: Batman: Arkham City
Post by: MP-Ryan on October 22, 2011, 11:53:18 am: Quote from: TrashMan on October 22, 2011, 04:09:03 am
I loved Arkham Asylum. Very, very good game. Except the end.. It left me going "WTF?????" WILLPOWER DON'T WORK THAT WAY!!!!

Wait wait, you're criticizing a comic game that has a man "genetically-mutated" into a gigantic croc, a man that can take the form of any other, a woman that controls plants because of something-something-DNA-something, a guy that can render you psychotic with a aerosol and a potato sack, and ordinary thugs transformed into superhumans by injection of some compound that subsequently breaks several physical and biological laws because it mischaracterized what can be done by sheer willpower alone? Sorry, dude, but

:wakka: :wakka: :wakka: :wakka:
Title: Re: Batman: Arkham City
Post by: TrashMan on October 23, 2011, 05:16:25 am: Since when is a genetic mutation redicolous? Killer croc is one of the least outragous super-villans out there.

Scarecrow? What's so outrageous about a guy with hypnotic/madening drugs?

So, yes.
Title: Re: Batman: Arkham City
Post by: General Battuta on October 23, 2011, 09:37:22 am: Quote from: TrashMan on October 23, 2011, 05:16:25 am
Since when is a genetic mutation redicolous? Killer croc is one of the least outragous super-villans out there.

You are about to get MP-Ryan'd like a mofo
Title: Re: Batman: Arkham City
Post by: Fury on October 24, 2011, 12:57:19 am: Quote from: General Battuta on October 17, 2011, 11:00:57 pm
I don't think any game has ever made a faster transition from 'this is a brilliant game made by geniuses' to 'holy ****, I am going to uninstall this and drown my hard drive in bleach' than Arkham Asylum. Let's hope City sticks to point the first
Sorta agree, not to that extent though. It really went downhill in the last half of the game and the final fight was ridiculous. I really really hope Arkham City does better because I have it preordered.
Title: Re: Batman: Arkham City
Post by: MP-Ryan on October 24, 2011, 10:43:32 am: Quote from: General Battuta on October 23, 2011, 09:37:22 am
Quote from: TrashMan on October 23, 2011, 05:16:25 am
Since when is a genetic mutation redicolous? Killer croc is one of the least outragous super-villans out there.

You are about to get MP-Ryan'd like a mofo

This actually made me chuckle. Nah, I made my point on the others, I'm too lazy to play professor this morning. :P