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Post by knightrider01 on Jun 26, 2015 19:58:36 GMT -5
While not the exact same thing Batman Beyond: ROTJ did have a character literally turning into the Joker like a werewolf. Maybe its an inspiration from that. Sure but that atleast had some good comic book science mumbo jumbo to explain it. It just seems weird that this one chick gets Joker blood and nothing else and becomes a Joker clone. (She's the worst too.) to be honest I haven't played the game yet still trying to beat Witcher 3 which so far Im not even close.
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Post by Friday Night SmackOwn on Jun 26, 2015 21:59:49 GMT -5
While not the exact same thing Batman Beyond: ROTJ did have a character literally turning into the Joker like a werewolf. Maybe its an inspiration from that. Sure but that atleast had some good comic book science mumbo jumbo to explain it. It just seems weird that this one chick gets Joker blood and nothing else and becomes a Joker clone. (She's the worst too.) And at least there, the person becoming Joker wasn't an unexpected case and had every good reason of becoming him in the future (the real Joker did torture the character in question into becoming a mini-version, if memory serves).
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Post by A Platypus Rave is Correct on Jun 26, 2015 22:02:40 GMT -5
I only started playing a little while ago but... Batman is bad at this whole secret identity thing... I mean when talking to Oracle he has Barbara's picture shown on holographic screen that's visible from both sides and alternates between calling her Oracle and Barbara
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Post by simplydurhamcalling on Jun 27, 2015 13:29:26 GMT -5
f*** it, I'm going in, I'm already 50 trophies down, only 200 to go!
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Post by mo on Jun 27, 2015 14:23:58 GMT -5
Finished the main story and loved it. Working on the side missions now, go all of the Riddler trophies in Asylum and City but not Origins, gonna go for it this time around. Some thoughts on the main story: {Spoiler}{Spoiler}{Spoiler}I had assumed early on that The Arkham Knight was Jason Todd when he called him "old man" in one the early missions. That seemed like something that someone that knew him well would call him.
I thought The Joker was well done, especially the final hallucination. Nice to hear Conroy do the "I AM VENGEANCE..." schtick again.
Not sure if I like the ending too much more that I think about it, didn't get the 100% and probably won't do it either. I want to be able to free roam once I finish everything still and I'm not sure if you can do that or not after the Knightfall Protocol.
Also, those cobra tanks can kiss my ass.
Also, I marked huge for the appearance of {Spoiler}{Spoiler}{Spoiler}Professor Pyg It never crossed my mind that he may be in the game and I thought they captured the character well.
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Post by Confused Mark Wahlberg on Jun 27, 2015 17:38:22 GMT -5
This Batmobile stuff is just annoying as hell. And I like the idea of being a (somewhat) lone vigilante, but here you have about 5 people to help you out of any jam, including 'Deus Ex' Fox who just happens to finishing a gadget that you need at the time. I hate to quote myself, but I can't stress enough how much better that game is with the alternate tank controls. I haven't had much issue with the Batmobile since I changed them. And the game gets a lot better after the first couple hours.
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Post by simplydurhamcalling on Jun 27, 2015 18:56:40 GMT -5
This Batmobile stuff is just annoying as hell. And I like the idea of being a (somewhat) lone vigilante, but here you have about 5 people to help you out of any jam, including 'Deus Ex' Fox who just happens to finishing a gadget that you need at the time. I hate to quote myself, but I can't stress enough how much better that game is with the alternate tank controls. I haven't had much issue with the Batmobile since I changed them. And the game gets a lot better after the first couple hours. Agreed on both counts, I wasn't really feeling it for the first hour or so, having now completed it I can safely say I love the game.
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Post by A Platypus Rave is Correct on Jun 27, 2015 19:27:39 GMT -5
Alright people finding it better as it goes along helsp me cause yeah I'm not feeling it currently.
I have had no problems controlling the Batmobile though...
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Post by mo on Jun 27, 2015 20:43:50 GMT -5
One side mission I found disappointing {Spoiler}The Hush mission, bit of a letdown after Arkham City
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Post by Von Wagner's Brownies on Jun 27, 2015 23:58:48 GMT -5
Just 100% it today, all in all a pretty good game. {Spoiler}BTW f*** the cloudburster stealth bullshit mission, especially in Knightmare difficulty.
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Post by Jedi-El of Tomorrow on Jun 28, 2015 0:02:21 GMT -5
Haven't made it very far, but I'd like to say, being able to use Nightwing in an Arkham game would have been awesome enough, but being able to use Batman and Nightwing switching between characters to take out 20 thugs, is more amazing than I thought it could be.
On the other hand, the Harley DLC was massively disappointing, way way too short.
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Post by Perd on Jun 28, 2015 0:09:06 GMT -5
Glad to see you guys are enjoying it for the most part. My cousin is letting me borrow his PS4 after he completes the game. Theses days, I just don't play enough video games to justify spending the money on a new console. Fortunately I have awesome cousins.
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Post by clifford on Jun 28, 2015 13:14:46 GMT -5
Haven't made it very far, but I'd like to say, being able to use Nightwing in an Arkham game would have been awesome enough, but being able to use Batman and Nightwing switching between characters to take out 20 thugs, is more amazing than I thought it could be. On the other hand, the Harley DLC was massively disappointing, way way too short. I played it the other night with the intention of just trying it out to get a feel for it. Finished the whole thing in 20 minutes. I hope the other DLC story packs are longer, the season pass was a waste of money if they aren't.
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Post by 1 Free Moon-Down with Burger on Jun 28, 2015 16:31:11 GMT -5
Haven't made it very far, but I'd like to say, being able to use Nightwing in an Arkham game would have been awesome enough, but being able to use Batman and Nightwing switching between characters to take out 20 thugs, is more amazing than I thought it could be. On the other hand, the Harley DLC was massively disappointing, way way too short. I played it the other night with the intention of just trying it out to get a feel for it. Finished the whole thing in 20 minutes. I hope the other DLC story packs are longer, the season pass was a waste of money if they aren't. With a 40 dollar price tag. I would hope that those DLC packs are longer. Or there are like 15 of them.
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Post by Blindkarevik on Jun 28, 2015 19:57:25 GMT -5
I hate the fact I can't multitask. Last night I was doing a Riddler puzzle with the Batmobile while catching up with a friend on Xbox Live I haven't spoken with in a few months. Since I'm trying to divide my attention between two things equally, I ended up making Batman into the most inept superhero of all time, all while Riddler points it out.
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Post by 1 Free Moon-Down with Burger on Jun 28, 2015 20:27:26 GMT -5
About done with the game and Im honestly a bit disappointed. Besides the batmobile clunkiness it just feels like a blah game. All of the assassins creed 'do this same thing 10 times' missions and whatnot.
I dunno. I feel like the bigger the series got the more it lost its charm.
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Post by Goldenbane on Jun 29, 2015 1:03:11 GMT -5
About done with the game and Im honestly a bit disappointed. Besides the batmobile clunkiness it just feels like a blah game. All of the assassins creed 'do this same thing 10 times' missions and whatnot. I dunno. I feel like the bigger the series got the more it lost its charm. I feel like it lost some of the truly scary bits that, for me, made Arkham City and Asylum so scary. Spoilers coming, so please beware. {Spoiler}For example, in Asylum you run across all those dead people posed in various ways. Even though you beat up the guy who did that, those bodies are always there...and always just creepy. In Arkham City you have a similar murder mystery going on. Then Knights comes along and once again you have a murder mystery...but it's lost all of it's charm...worse yet, for me, when I found out who was behind it, I was massively disappointed and not scared at all. The guy made zero sense to me...and I guess that's supposed to be "scary" and "crazy" but it felt like finding a serial killer and finding out his motives were "The pickles were rising up against the dirty socks, and dice had to roll 20!" Crazy, yeah, but also really stupid. Also, with how massive Arkham knight is, you're unlikely to ever randomly run across the bodies ever again, unlike in Asylum. Not to mention, there was something extremely creepy to me about the mannequins with the tv heads in Asylum. You'd enter the room, Joker would talk to you, and you'd leave...but if you entered too many times, you just got the Joker replay of him laughing over and over and over again. Knight kinda had something like that with Harley's love shrine to Joker, but the effect is ruined when, it never changes, and goofy ghost Joker is making wacky wise cracks about it.
Arkham Knight had lots of good jump scares that got me a number of times (running into Manbat the first time almost made me crap my pants...and Ghost Joker got me a time or three as well), but a lot of the vehicle combat annoyed me, especially the bosses. I always hated games where the boss has a vehicle made of ada-f***ing-mantium except for one teeny tiny place that's almost impossible to hit, but also has godly one hit, one kill, weapons, blah blah blah. I found myself asking more than once...where the hell did Jason Todd come up with all the money to buy this stuff, and why isn't Batman's car just like it if not way better? Of all the things in this game, besides running around for the Riddler, the Arkham Knight's giant drill and Arkham Knight's special tank have had me tearing out my hair the most.
I prayed night and day that we wouldn't have to do the Riddler's stuff again. Asylum it wasn't so bad because it was such a small area, but City was out right obnoxious with the riddles...and frankly, many of the jumps I just couldn't do, so I never completed it. In Knight they aren't...too bad...so far...but I'd really rather just have the race courses, maybe a few "scan this thing and solve the talky riddles" and then fight Riddler. I really hate collecting all that crap, and I can't believe it was so popular that they put it in all three games. Do people really love collecting those trophies that much?
EDIT: Also kinda bummed they didn't give us any closure on Calendar man. Yeah, I know Hush was kind of hurried, as was Azreal, but I was okay with that. I would have liked to fight Calendar man, and his stuff probably would have given me the chills I so desire...more than dumb ass Pyg, that's for sure.
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Post by 1 Free Moon-Down with Burger on Jun 29, 2015 8:46:37 GMT -5
Oh don't get me started on the stealth boss battle with the batmobile.
Kinda bummed that through all three games from Rocksteady the Mr.Freeze boss battle is the only thing that came close to being a really fun and engaging boss fight.
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Post by Joker on Jun 29, 2015 9:20:22 GMT -5
Been playing Arkham Knight for a fair bit now. For the most part I am enjoying it even the Batmobile now that I have altered the controls so reverse break is the left trigger.
But something has been off about it and I just figured out what it is. Scarecrows voice. It is completely different from Arkham Asylum, he just doesn't have that slightly off balance sound in this, he is too normal.
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Post by Mackenzie Gorn on Jun 29, 2015 12:35:46 GMT -5
Thanks for the spoiler man.
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