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Steve2911 posted:Now that I've hit the post-game wrap up/collectible hunting section I remember why I never like doing this in open world games. It's so drat lonely existing in a static world for so long after the story it's telling has been told. The main thing keeping me going at this point is the new thug dialogue, but even that's already started repeating itself. I know the feeling, and this is why I'm trying to save at least a couple side missions for the post-game. I'm nearing the end of the story, in the tunnels after the cloudburst and I wanted something to do other than hunting collectibles and listening to goon chatter. Although the goon chatter in this one is just great. I overheard a gay militia soldier talk about how his better half thinks he's on a business trip  Even so, there are probably tons of easter eggs and visual details I haven't seen yet, and I'm still blown away by the art design for Gotham. The slums, the decayed Gothic architecture, the sleek neon-filled skyscrapers like something out of Blade Runner. It's just so drat good and is a treat to glide or drive through. It actually lived up to the concept art. MeatwadIsGod fucked around with this message at 08:40 on Jul 6, 2015 |
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Something I didn't notice until replaying Arkham Asylum just now (spoilers for the end of this game): The container that Batman locks mind-Joker away in at the end of the game is the same holding cell as the very first titan container guy in Arkham Asylum. It even slides away behind the big doors in the same manner. Neat callback.
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Jul 6, 2015 08:41
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ayn rand hand job posted:Just wait. Is there an upgrade I need for the remote hacking device? Because I have it and did the airship sections, and I'm still unable to hack the sentry guns. I'm talking about the turret thing that scans the ground... like in the terminal velocity predator challenge map.
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Jul 6, 2015 09:04
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Narcissus1916 posted:Is there an upgrade I need for the remote hacking device? Because I have it and did the airship sections, and I'm still unable to hack the sentry guns. I'm talking about the turret thing that scans the ground... like in the terminal velocity predator challenge map.
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Jul 6, 2015 09:07
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Sober posted:It's the remote hacking tool (the thing you use to "crack" passwords). It's one button click to work. That lets you blind the turrets. If you want to use the disruptor I believe it only works on undeployed turrets and does something with the person trying to deploy it instead, or maybe forces it to explode or something when its set up. I never really used it. It's really good because they announce when they're setting up a turret and they take a bit of time to get it and take it where they want. It's basically a free takedown.
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Jul 6, 2015 09:13
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Huh. Maybe I just need to play more main missions or something... because I'm not getting any option to blind turrets. I can use the remote hacker on an exploding barrel thing on terminal velocity, but it doesn't respond to turrets at all. I did the airship part and now need to go to Lucius Fox to track roots. Hopefully that'll be the answer.
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Jul 6, 2015 09:29
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Rei_ posted:My game broke in the final stretch and made a cutscene really funny since it looks like Batman's just totally lost his mind and is carrying an imaginary Barbara into the GCPD Happened to me and decided to reload, fixed it.
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Jul 6, 2015 10:04
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Steve2911 posted:Now that I've hit the post-game wrap up/collectible hunting section I remember why I never like doing this in open world games. It's so drat lonely existing in a static world for so long after the story it's telling has been told. The main thing keeping me going at this point is the new thug dialogue, but even that's already started repeating itself. Yeah, I'm thinking of just jumping into NG+ and going for the second half of the Riddler trophies to tie in with Knightfall 100% trophies. The city just feels...bland without militia patrols and stuff.
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Jul 6, 2015 11:21
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Nvm about the sentry guns. Just had to play more of the story. Just stumbled upon one of my favorite gadgets in the studio. If you don't find it yourself, does the game eventually send you to get it for the main story or riddles?
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Jul 6, 2015 11:31
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Narcissus1916 posted:Nvm about the sentry guns. Just had to play more of the story. The game never tells you about it. I didn't find it until I looked it up online for solving some riddles post-game.
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Jul 6, 2015 11:35
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Narcissus1916 posted:Nvm about the sentry guns. Just had to play more of the story. It's such a good weapon for taking down rear end in a top hat militia dudes (shock/shield) too. It sucks they make it so easy to miss.
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Jul 6, 2015 12:27
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It will never not be funny setting up everyone's equipment to explode or overload and watch them shock themselves.
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Jul 6, 2015 12:28
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poptart_fairy posted:It will never not be funny setting up everyone's equipment to explode or overload and watch them shock themselves. "I've got a signal!" BZZZZZ
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Jul 6, 2015 13:34
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So, if you're like me, you spent a lot of time trying to find Riddler informants, getting angrier and angrier at why there just WEREN'T ANY RIDDLER INFORMANTS. I eventually figured it out - for reasons unknown, the spawning of new green dudes is tied in with taking out other goons. If you simply fly around the island, circling and looking for them, new ones don't spawn. If you hop in the Batmobile, and make sure to ram random cars/people, they pop constantly. I have no idea why it was done this way, I spent as much time hunting for informants as I did solving riddles.  ALSO, the Subway tunnel trophies count as Founder's Island trophies. So if you're like "where are the goons to give me Founder's Island trophies", then make sure you don't have any left in the subway.
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Steve2911 posted:Now that I've hit the post-game wrap up/collectible hunting section I remember why I never like doing this in open world games. It's so drat lonely existing in a static world for so long after the story it's telling has been told. The main thing keeping me going at this point is the new thug dialogue, but even that's already started repeating itself. I felt like that was pretty much exactly how I felt, though. Everything was done, Gotham was saved, Batman was finished. Naturally, New Game Plus helped alleviate that for a while though. The only thing that I really lucked into finding was one of Azrael's batfires, because it was blending in with the surrounding neon lights. The riddler stuff is really very easy, but they did manage to throw in some that actually made you stop and look around and try to think it through. There seemed like a pretty good ratio of "grab random trophies" and actual brain teasers. Honestly though, the secret to finding collectables is to just beat the gently caress out of every Riddler goon you find, glide around the city (sometimes with detective mode on), and examine landmarks. The game makes it seem like there's so many buildings and poo poo, but look at the 3d map and you can tell that the actual important landmarks are kinda scarce. If all else fails, the police helicopters will point you in the right way. The final scene, weird as it is, isn't the reason I'd say to collect the riddler poo poo. Fighting his Riddler mech is one of the more gratifying moments in the game, and then the short scene with Catwoman afterward was one of the more moving cutscenes. Like a batpunch in the heart, the same way the Penguin stuff ends with Bruce saying goodbye to Dick. As for Arkham Origins, literally the worst thing I can say about it is that it basically rips off most of Arkham City's content, even down to reskinning predator maps as different places. But, Arkham City is loving awesome, and I was more than happy to replay THAT game multiple times, so the option to replay basically the same thing but with a different coat of paint was worth it to me. It's the least inspired of the series, but it's still good (even if I just hear Chris Redfield Batman every time he talks). You can almost think of it as a stand alone expansion for Arkham City. I've been trying to finish all the challenges, but gently caress David vs. Goliath. I've gotten to 4 tanks, and then I gently caress up...which incidentally is the exact same problem I have with the vulcan gun perfect shot achievement on the tank sensors...
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Jul 6, 2015 14:46
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Anyone found a consistent way of hanging from the police helicopters? In detective vision is says they're a good place to hang, but you can't grapple to them while you're gliding, and if you just try to glide into them you get turned away, I think maybe one time I was able to grapple up to one from the roof of a building but I was just trying it again for several minutes and it didn't want to give it to me.
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Jul 6, 2015 15:55
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DarthBlingBling posted:Yes, don't use specialist software or wrappers for your DS4. AK has DS4 support built it, so just plug in the pad and play. I tried this, and while the initial game screen prompts "X" to start instead of XBone's "A", the game doesn't take accept any of the input except from the trackpad because it thinks it's mouse movement. Is there anything special I need to do or something I'm missing? I connect the DS4 via Bluetooth to my PC.
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Jul 6, 2015 15:57
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The answer to What if Rocksteady made a Superman game is always going to be Smallville. Start out in the hay fields as Superman unlocks his power set and enters Metropolis. By the end of the game you're probably full Superman and you really would run into problems on how to do a sequel after that. Also that rumor that Rocksteady was going to do an Aquaman game is actually really cool if you stop and visualize what they could do with the ocean
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Jul 6, 2015 16:12
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Make it Silver Age Superman where your biggest threat is nib nose Lois Lane trying to uncover your identity. You progress through the game building an army of Superman robots and using Super Ventriloquism to throw her off your trail. The final boss is Pat Boone.
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Jul 6, 2015 16:26
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Saint Freak posted:Make it Silver Age Superman where your biggest threat is nib nose Lois Lane trying to uncover your identity. You progress through the game building an army of Superman robots and using Super Ventriloquism to throw her off your trail. The final boss is Pat Boone.  Also, I didn't even realize you could hang from the helicopters in AK since I never saw a prompt. redbackground fucked around with this message at 16:35 on Jul 6, 2015 |
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Jul 6, 2015 16:30
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Aquasnake posted:Anyone found a consistent way of hanging from the police helicopters? In detective vision is says they're a good place to hang, but you can't grapple to them while you're gliding, and if you just try to glide into them you get turned away, I think maybe one time I was able to grapple up to one from the roof of a building but I was just trying it again for several minutes and it didn't want to give it to me. I managed to grapple onto one once. Only one time. If there's any special trick to it, I've yet to find it. I've tried it from the ground, I've tried it from the rooftops, I've tried it while gliding, but as far as I can tell, it's just hosed.
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Jul 6, 2015 16:34
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I've also managed it literally once. Maybe that's your lot.
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Jul 6, 2015 16:45
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I tag helicopters quite a bit but you have to be really close. Like, way closer than you have to be to grapple to anything else.
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Jul 6, 2015 16:46
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What is even the point of grappling to a copter?
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Jul 6, 2015 16:52
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redbackground posted:The challenge levels write themselves:
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Jul 6, 2015 16:58
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ImpAtom posted:What is even the point of grappling to a copter? Well, Mr Freeze will stop yelling at you to get to it.
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Jul 6, 2015 17:00
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ImpAtom posted:What is even the point of grappling to a copter? Its a good vantage point for you to detective mode like, most of the island below you.
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Jul 6, 2015 17:01
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CJacobs posted:Something I didn't notice until replaying Arkham Asylum just now (spoilers for the end of this game): The container that Batman locks mind-Joker away in at the end of the game is the same holding cell as the very first titan container guy in Arkham Asylum. It even slides away behind the big doors in the same manner. Neat callback. I noticed that too! "Extreme Isolation" was the name of that unit, too, apparently it's for their super-super-super nasties that are never allowed out, to the point where it's a cell suspended over a pit.
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Jul 6, 2015 17:04
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///Major Arkham Knight Spoilers \\\ So like when Batman goes to the Clocktower to find Oracle kidnapped, they left her wheelchair behind but when Scarecrow wheels her out on the rooftop she's sitting in it. Did they just double back for it or something?
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Jul 6, 2015 17:07
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Aquasnake posted:Its a good vantage point for you to detective mode like, most of the island below you. Yeah, if you're trying to track down, say, firefighters, you can just hang off a chopper and look below with detective mode until you see a large group of thugs standing around, or listen to what the helicopter radios in so you know what it's looking at. But considering how extremely difficult it is to latch on, you're better off just gliding around at high speed.
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Jul 6, 2015 17:09
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Sinners Sandwich posted:///Major Arkham Knight Spoilers \\\ Maybe Jason got her a new one. Seems like the kind of thing he'd do since he actually seems to like Barbara.
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Jul 6, 2015 17:10
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Nah, it's the exact same one with her backpack and signature DIET SODA
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Jul 6, 2015 17:12
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Doc Morbid posted:I'm surprised they didn't call this Super-Dancing, at least not on this page. Silver Age Superman had a bunch of amazing powers such as Super-Mathematics, Super-Weaving and Super-Landscaping, and Super-Dancing would fit right in. Actually it was called Super Disco Fever. Yes for seriously.
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Brady posted:I tried this, and while the initial game screen prompts "X" to start instead of XBone's "A", the game doesn't take accept any of the input except from the trackpad because it thinks it's mouse movement. I just have mine connected via wire. Perhaps over Bluetooth it's treated differently.
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Saint Freak posted:Actually it was called Super Disco Fever. Yes for seriously.  Incidentally, it's not possible for me to see the words "Disco Fever" without hearing this in my head, so now I'm imagining it in the background of the strip: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hQAHZepqA-E
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Crappy Jack posted:Yeah, if you're trying to track down, say, firefighters, you can just hang off a chopper and look below with detective mode until you see a large group of thugs standing around, or listen to what the helicopter radios in so you know what it's looking at. But considering how extremely difficult it is to latch on, you're better off just gliding around at high speed. There was this group of super well armed thugs harassing this fire fighter that took me so many drat retries to beat last night. Five riot shields, two stun batons and two automated rifles. Fuckers must have been huffing fire extinguishers too with how many they had lying around. How many guys does it even take to gently caress with one fire fighter?
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JackDarko posted:There was this group of super well armed thugs harassing this fire fighter that took me so many drat retries to beat last night. Five riot shields, two stun batons and two automated rifles. Fuckers must have been huffing fire extinguishers too with how many they had lying around. How many guys does it even take to gently caress with one fire fighter? Also, so far (65% or so done, just found Ivy's second "friend"), my favorite Joker moment was when, after beating up a room of mercs, he walks over to one's body and just starts kicking it. It was delightful. redbackground fucked around with this message at 18:19 on Jul 6, 2015 |
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Jul 6, 2015 17:45
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redbackground posted:Because I'm dumb, what was the given point of capturing the fire squad? Just to slow down and distract Batman? I think Gotham is just filled with assholes.
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redbackground posted:Because I'm dumb, what was the in-game, given point of capturing the fire squad? Just to slow down and distract Batman? I think It was implied Firefly set it up to keep them from putting out the firehouse fires. The cheif brought firefly into town in teh first place, but had nothing to do with the kidnapping
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Dogen posted:"I've got a signal!" BZZZZZ I wonder how many variations of WRBLBRLBRLBRLBL the actors put together for those situations. Flytrap posted:I think Gotham is just filled with assholes. Speaking of which I love how goddamn angry regular goons get over the Knight's forces. "This is OUR TOWN to terrorize. I hope Batman does something about them before we kill him!  "
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