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Veotax posted:No, I'm pretty sure that's the intro to the game. They just tacked on the 'PS4 exclusive Scarecrow missions' thing because it was the Sony press conference. That didn't really look anything like the Scarecrow missions from the trailer that was released for them. Yeah I'm pretty sure it's this.
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# ? Jun 16, 2015 16:05 |
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Lotsa hints at planned side missions in that intro, though- and probably some easter egg code thingy in one frame somewhere like the last few. edit: for one thing, one of the newspapers is mentioning a "corporation killer"- some sort of serial killer that I am guessing is Hush. There were a few others, plus generic headlines about things like the Wayne Foundation pledging $300 million to help rebuild the area that Arkham City occupied. (Again, this isn't Crazy Fascist Batman, it's My Day Job is Crime Prevention Social Welfare Batman) Discendo Vox fucked around with this message at 21:58 on Jun 16, 2015 |
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# ? Jun 16, 2015 21:39 |
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Discendo Vox posted:Lotsa hints at planned side missions in that intro, though- and probably some easter egg code thingy in one frame somewhere like the last few. So excited for this, and it will arrive whilst I'm out of the country
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# ? Jun 16, 2015 21:51 |
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FadedReality posted:Someone found a way to get the PS3 exclusive Knightfall DLC working on PC. I'm not sure if linking to a Steam guide with files not even intended to be available on the platform counts as so just go look at the Steam guide for it. Apparently trying to use the Bruce Wayne Initiation skins on the Knightfall challenge maps crashes the game because of how it's implemented but otherwise it appears to work perfectly fine. I can finally live out my dream to beat up mans in the best most gaudy Batman costume ever. In case anyone is overlooking this post, you also get the Adam West skin.
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# ? Jun 16, 2015 21:58 |
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Got to admit this is the first time I'm going to wait a little before getting an Arkham game and see what the reviews say, before jumping in at full price. The more I think about it the less enthused I am with the vehicular and tag-team stuff. Hopefully those features aren't as big a part of the game as I think they are.
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# ? Jun 16, 2015 22:08 |
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Henry Adams is Arkham Night.
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# ? Jun 16, 2015 22:30 |
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In a surprising twist, the Arkham Knight is Black Mask and he usurps the title of main villain from Scarecrow.poptart_fairy posted:Got to admit this is the first time I'm going to wait a little before getting an Arkham game and see what the reviews say, before jumping in at full price. The more I think about it the less enthused I am with the vehicular and tag-team stuff. Hopefully those features aren't as big a part of the game as I think they are. What's wrong with the tag-teaming?
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# ? Jun 16, 2015 22:33 |
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Oh nothing's wrong with it as such, I'm just not really a fan of swapping between characters and the like even if it's just for special abilities - I've got a similar problem getting into party based RPGs as I prefer only have one dude-lady I'm playing as or keeping track of. I may well have misunderstood how the system works here though.
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# ? Jun 16, 2015 22:57 |
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tag-teaming is completely optional. The other character will still be in the fight but from what I've seen it looks like they stay out of your way so they won't ruin your sick combo.
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CharlestonJew posted:tag-teaming is completely optional. The other character will still be in the fight but from what I've seen it looks like they stay out of your way so they won't ruin your sick combo. Which, to me, just begs the question, why do it in the first place? That being said, maybe it works really well in the game. Maybe it flows incredibly well and feels like an elegant extension of the combat system. God knows when they were like "Oh, combat is just two buttons", I thought it was dumb and I was wrong then. But to me, at this moment, it just feels like the shock gloves; an optional add-on that doesn't really add anything. But I also haven't played the game and haven't seen anything of it aside from what's been shown in trailers. And just based on that, right now I feel like it's kinda dumb.
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# ? Jun 16, 2015 23:56 |
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aOuIs3zp9Wc
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Crappy Jack posted:Which, to me, just begs the question, why do it in the first place? If I had to guess, character swapping is additional score/XP potential. Remember, variation bonuses are a thing. Integrating more moves into your combo gets you more points. It stands to reason that if you do each move on a character once, and then swap to the other and use their moveset, it counts as separate things for the purposes of incrementing that bonus.
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# ? Jun 17, 2015 03:52 |
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I can't believe they spoiled some of the game's intro at Sony's E3 thing, but that sequence looked pretty cool and intense. Hopefully there is tons of stuff like that throughout the game.
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# ? Jun 17, 2015 04:12 |
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That E3 footage is great. The GCPD stuff is sick. Also the stuff they showed during the E3 conference is indeed the first four minutes of the game
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# ? Jun 17, 2015 04:12 |
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Hobgoblin2099 posted:
I'm not real clear on what it was about Joker that was stopping villains from working together before. I mean, I understand why they weren't working with Joker, but what would he care about any of the others working together? I thought the fact that all the villains are assholes who can't get along was what was stopping them from working together.
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CuwiKhons posted:I'm not real clear on what it was about Joker that was stopping villains from working together before. I mean, I understand why they weren't working with Joker, but what would he care about any of the others working together? I thought the fact that all the villains are assholes who can't get along was what was stopping them from working together. because the joker would always gently caress things up for personal amusement and/or a chance to kill or gently caress with batman.
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# ? Jun 17, 2015 04:42 |
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CuwiKhons posted:I'm not real clear on what it was about Joker that was stopping villains from working together before. I mean, I understand why they weren't working with Joker, but what would he care about any of the others working together? I thought the fact that all the villains are assholes who can't get along was what was stopping them from working together. If all the villains teamed up and didn't invite Joker he'd get pissed and gently caress them all up If all the villains teamed up and invited Joker he'd gently caress them all up because its funny
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# ? Jun 17, 2015 04:43 |
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Dapper_Swindler posted:because the joker would always gently caress things up for personal amusement and/or a chance to kill or gently caress batman. FTFY
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# ? Jun 17, 2015 04:47 |
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Alright I see your point, but I still find it odd that nobody thought "conflicting personalities" was also at work there. I mean, Penguin and Two-Face spent the entirety of Arkham City trying to kill each other and now I guess they're bros???
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# ? Jun 17, 2015 04:48 |
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I got to play a bit of Akrham at the conference if people want answers to some questions: The "team-up" stuff is only specific missions it seems. You hear about it beforehand and Nightwing or whoever shows up. You get a new Takedown which swaps between characters. The biggest change to predator mode (in the demo) is the fear mechanic being a bit more important. You charge your Fear bar by doing regular takedowns and can use it to use multi-takedowns. There are also now different kinds of predator modes. (The demo one was a bank robbery where your loud takedowns couldn't be heard but the criminals were grabbing money and looting so if you were too slow they got away and you failed.)
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# ? Jun 17, 2015 04:49 |
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CuwiKhons posted:Alright I see your point, but I still find it odd that nobody thought "conflicting personalities" was also at work there. I mean, Penguin and Two-Face spent the entirety of Arkham City trying to kill each other and now I guess they're bros??? It's apparently explained in the tie-in comics. Then again, Harley decided to work with Penguin on a whim and pretty much won him over with a kiss, so there's that.
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# ? Jun 17, 2015 04:51 |
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CuwiKhons posted:Alright I see your point, but I still find it odd that nobody thought "conflicting personalities" was also at work there. I mean, Penguin and Two-Face spent the entirety of Arkham City trying to kill each other and now I guess they're bros??? I assume its "gently caress it, we work together to take advantage of scarecrow's plan and help kill the bat, then once we take over, we can "sort out" our difference"
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# ? Jun 17, 2015 04:51 |
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Fair enough.
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# ? Jun 17, 2015 04:55 |
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in that gameplay demo did Batman just knock out that Riddler informant then immediately run him over with the Batmobile?
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# ? Jun 17, 2015 04:57 |
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Crappy Jack posted:Which, to me, just begs the question, why do it in the first place? Because...it's cool? Is that not the reason for most of it all? Why bother updating the graphics when the game will still play the same regardless? Because it looks cool. Why add the Batmobile? It's cool. I don't think there really needs to be motive behind adding gameplay mechanics besides "it will be fun". Sure this one random guy might not like the idea of fighting along side and switching to Robin, but the minority is getting outvoted in this case.
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# ? Jun 17, 2015 05:05 |
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When do reviews start popping up? To be honest I thought they'd be up by now but maybe they're waiting until E3 news stops dominating the headlines.
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# ? Jun 17, 2015 05:19 |
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CharlestonJew posted:in that gameplay demo did Batman just knock out that Riddler informant then immediately run him over with the Batmobile? I think you'll find that he was harmlessly tazed out of the way. But seriously, that guy is dead. Blueberry Pancakes fucked around with this message at 05:41 on Jun 17, 2015 |
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ImpAtom posted:I got to play a bit of Akrham at the conference if people want answers to some questions: Did you get to try the challenge rooms? Is the team-up stuff there, and can you pick and choose what you want from it? (e.g. choosing to go solo or picking one of the four team-ups?)
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# ? Jun 17, 2015 06:22 |
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SonicRulez posted:Because...it's cool? Is that not the reason for most of it all? Why bother updating the graphics when the game will still play the same regardless? Because it looks cool. Why add the Batmobile? It's cool. I don't think there really needs to be motive behind adding gameplay mechanics besides "it will be fun". Sure this one random guy might not like the idea of fighting along side and switching to Robin, but the minority is getting outvoted in this case. Seriously, I'm surprised to see some many people against adding a little character variety to the gameplay. Especially when it's a game based around Batman who's had more side-kicks/partners than any other character in comics.
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# ? Jun 17, 2015 07:48 |
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VolticSurge posted:FTFY LOL!
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# ? Jun 17, 2015 07:57 |
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I'm most surprised that they acknowledged Arkham Origins exists in that video. They talked about the evidence room having stuff from all three previous games!
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# ? Jun 17, 2015 08:37 |
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Someone in the comments on that video said that Firefly says something to the effect of "You'll pay for leaving me on that bridge" during the video, though I couldn't confirm that myself. If that's true, that's weird. You'd think Batman would have fought Firefly more than once.
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# ? Jun 17, 2015 09:04 |
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Hobgoblin2099 posted:Someone in the comments on that video said that Firefly says something to the effect of "You'll pay for leaving me on that bridge" during the video, though I couldn't confirm that myself. Look, that time really stung, ok? He just wanted Bats to carry him off into the sunset like Joker, is that too much to ask?
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# ? Jun 17, 2015 13:29 |
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Pirate Jet posted:Did you get to try the challenge rooms? Is the team-up stuff there, and can you pick and choose what you want from it? (e.g. choosing to go solo or picking one of the four team-ups?) Nope. They tossed you into the open world. The Batmobile is not optional, you need it for missions and solving puzzles, but you still have all of Batman's mobility options including the glide and the super-speed grapple so I actually ended up just flying over most of the drat city when trying to get around. Thug dialogue is now subtitled from a pretty ridiculous distance which is nice. Remote hacking is no longer a minigame. Might be disappointing to people but it was just press-and-go from what I saw. Two-Face, Penguin and I believe Black Mask based sidemissions. Firefly boss fight as people already know. A weird side effect of how they're doing the game is that all the people on the streets are thugs, including the people driving around in lovely town cars or whatever. I saw someone ram into a car and send it skittering before like eight thugs piled out like it was a clown car. It was sort of hilarious honestly.
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# ? Jun 17, 2015 15:57 |
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Hmmm... so I guess they have contrived a different reason for all civilians to be off the streets in this one. Scarecrow gas attack I am guessing
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# ? Jun 17, 2015 16:02 |
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I dunno, that's actually less contrived than the snowstorm. If I knew a terrorist was in the city dropping fear gas bombs everywhere, I'd head for the hills too.
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Bulkiest Toaster posted:Hmmm... so I guess they have contrived a different reason for all civilians to be off the streets in this one. Scarecrow gas attack I am guessing If you look, in some of the videos and probably screenshots, there are street signs lit up with "MANDATORY EVACUATION", so yeah. Exactly.
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# ? Jun 17, 2015 16:13 |
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ImpAtom posted:A weird side effect of how they're doing the game is that all the people on the streets are thugs, including the people driving around in lovely town cars or whatever. I saw someone ram into a car and send it skittering before like eight thugs piled out like it was a clown car. It was sort of hilarious honestly. Joker confirmed.
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# ? Jun 17, 2015 16:19 |
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Is somebody going to make a new thread for release? This one is both pretty chunky and primarily about Origins. We're a week away now so if somebody's got the time and desire, they should probably get hoppin'.
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CuwiKhons posted:Is somebody going to make a new thread for release? This one is both pretty chunky and primarily about Origins. We're a week away now so if somebody's got the time and desire, they should probably get hoppin'. How about you? Are you a bad enough dude to make a new Batman thread?
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