Arkham City came out 12 years ago today

[The Ichi]

And since I forgot to when it turned 10, I'm making a thread.

Still the best superhero game to be released and one of the best overall games that decade. Will probably get it when it releases on Switch to 100% it again.

[Lizuka #BLM]

I kind of prefer Asylum but City is still pretty damn great.

Funny story, I bought the collector's edition of City, got to looking through the art book in the car on the way back... and promptly got a nose bleed.

[Kalmia]

City is my favorite of the Arkham games (with Asylum a close second.) I replayed it early last year and it still holds up.

[Display Name]

Definitely in my top ten favorite games of all time.

[Mighty Attack Tribble]

Damn good game, but getting all those Riddler trophies broke me.

[Perd]

Absolutely love this and Asylum. The inverted takedown is one of the most satisfying tactics in all of gaming.

[CMWaters]

Need to actually get around to beating City (personal issues).

...also still hoping that sometime in the near future we get a game for Superman as good as at least the first to Arkham games were for Batman. It's trickier I know given Superman's powers and such, but I still want it.

[Lizuka #BLM]

Oct 18, 2023 13:58:02 GMT -5 CMWaters said:

Need to actually get around to beating City (personal issues).

...also still hoping that sometime in the near future we get a game for Superman as good as at least the first to Arkham games were for Batman. It's trickier I know given Superman's powers and such, but I still want it.

Really I think the ideal way to make a Superman game would be to completely abandon the idea of standard game design and just instead hardcore rip off Shadow of the Colossus. And I say that when I really don't remotely like that game or its design philosophy, just feels like centering the game entirely around boss fights is the best way to make it feel like a Superman game.

[Mike Strike]

Oct 18, 2023 13:58:02 GMT -5 CMWaters said:

Need to actually get around to beating City (personal issues).

...also still hoping that sometime in the near future we get a game for Superman as good as at least the first to Arkham games were for Batman. It's trickier I know given Superman's powers and such, but I still want it.

Considering the 2 studios making Arkham ended doing Gotham Knights & Suicide Squad, methinks we ain't getting a Superman game anytime soon.

[Lizuka #BLM]

Oct 18, 2023 14:17:13 GMT -5 Mike Strike said:

Oct 18, 2023 13:58:02 GMT -5 CMWaters said:

Need to actually get around to beating City (personal issues).

...also still hoping that sometime in the near future we get a game for Superman as good as at least the first to Arkham games were for Batman. It's trickier I know given Superman's powers and such, but I still want it.

Considering the 2 studios making Arkham ended doing Gotham Knights & Suicide Squad, methinks we ain't getting a Superman game anytime soon.

Is at least possible one might happen given that Wonder Woman game's allegedly still in the works.

[Mecca]

Oct 18, 2023 14:17:13 GMT -5 Mike Strike said:

Oct 18, 2023 13:58:02 GMT -5 CMWaters said:

Need to actually get around to beating City (personal issues).

...also still hoping that sometime in the near future we get a game for Superman as good as at least the first to Arkham games were for Batman. It's trickier I know given Superman's powers and such, but I still want it.

Considering the 2 studios making Arkham ended doing Gotham Knights & Suicide Squad, methinks we ain't getting a Superman game anytime soon.

That Gotham Knights game is terrible.

[Kalmia]

Gotham Knights is pretty bad but I had an absolute blast playing it. I even got the platinum trophy for it (which you can only do if you play a new game plus so I played it twice)

[chrom]

Oct 18, 2023 13:58:02 GMT -5 CMWaters said:

Need to actually get around to beating City (personal issues).

...also still hoping that sometime in the near future we get a game for Superman as good as at least the first to Arkham games were for Batman. It's trickier I know given Superman's powers and such, but I still want it.

I think one way to limit Superman's powers for a game would be for Darkseid or Brainiac to cover the world with light of a red sun at the beginning, thus making Superman be limited to gliding instead of flying, he could only lift up small cars instead of ships and can't use heat vision or freeze breath. As the game progresses, he regains all his powers

[Mecca]

Oct 18, 2023 14:57:44 GMT -5 Kalmia said:

Gotham Knights is pretty bad but I had an absolute blast playing it. I even got the platinum trophy for it (which you can only do if you play a new game plus so I played it twice)

Are you a platinum hunter?

[CMWaters]

Oct 18, 2023 14:04:25 GMT -5 Lizuka #BLM said:

Oct 18, 2023 13:58:02 GMT -5 CMWaters said:

Need to actually get around to beating City (personal issues).

...also still hoping that sometime in the near future we get a game for Superman as good as at least the first to Arkham games were for Batman. It's trickier I know given Superman's powers and such, but I still want it.

Really I think the ideal way to make a Superman game would be to completely abandon the idea of standard game design and just instead hardcore rip off Shadow of the Colossus. And I say that when I really don't remotely like that game or its design philosophy, just feels like centering the game entirely around boss fights is the best way to make it feel like a Superman game.

Mix that with the one good thing from the old "Superman Returns" game and make the lifebar the city's health and you may be on to something.

[darbus alan]

I preferred Asylum's Zelda-ish world design to City's open world Gotham. But City was still a fine game.

[Kalmia]

Oct 18, 2023 15:03:22 GMT -5 Mecca said:

Oct 18, 2023 14:57:44 GMT -5 Kalmia said:

Gotham Knights is pretty bad but I had an absolute blast playing it. I even got the platinum trophy for it (which you can only do if you play a new game plus so I played it twice)

Are you a platinum hunter?

Not on purpose. If I get near the end of a game and notice I'm only missing a couple then I'll put in the effort but I'm not someone who's going to replay a game seven times on different difficulties to get them. I didn't need to finish the second play through on Gotham Knights, I just needed to get far enough in to level up a few more times and take down some specific enemies.

[Mecca]

Oct 18, 2023 15:33:56 GMT -5 Kalmia said:

Oct 18, 2023 15:03:22 GMT -5 Mecca said:

Are you a platinum hunter?

Not on purpose. If I get near the end of a game and notice I'm only missing a couple then I'll put in the effort but I'm not someone who's going to replay a game seven times on different difficulties to get them. I didn't need to finish the second play through on Gotham Knights, I just needed to get far enough in to level up a few more times and take down some specific enemies.

Ah I can be at times, I have 36 of them.

[Kalmia]

Oct 18, 2023 15:35:19 GMT -5 Mecca said:

Oct 18, 2023 15:33:56 GMT -5 Kalmia said:

Not on purpose. If I get near the end of a game and notice I'm only missing a couple then I'll put in the effort but I'm not someone who's going to replay a game seven times on different difficulties to get them. I didn't need to finish the second play through on Gotham Knights, I just needed to get far enough in to level up a few more times and take down some specific enemies.

Ah I can be at times, I have 36 of them.

I have five, lmao.

[CMWaters]

Oct 18, 2023 14:04:25 GMT -5 Lizuka #BLM said:

Oct 18, 2023 13:58:02 GMT -5 CMWaters said:

Need to actually get around to beating City (personal issues).

...also still hoping that sometime in the near future we get a game for Superman as good as at least the first to Arkham games were for Batman. It's trickier I know given Superman's powers and such, but I still want it.

Really I think the ideal way to make a Superman game would be to completely abandon the idea of standard game design and just instead hardcore rip off Shadow of the Colossus. And I say that when I really don't remotely like that game or its design philosophy, just feels like centering the game entirely around boss fights is the best way to make it feel like a Superman game.

Thinking about this, perhaps mix this with the boss fights from Sonic Frontier where you play as Super Sonic in them and you'd be on to something.