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Kurieg posted:I'd say "Batman Beyond Batmobile" but that would just involve flying over the course ignoring obstacles because it's a loving jet. Too be fair, these course are almost F Zero course, like maybe the Beyond Batmobile has a low energy mode where it's just a hover car.
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mauman posted:I must have missed something here, but why the problem with Timm? Timm is a good artist, but has a reputation for consistent, unneccessary (sometimes quite unpleasant) sexualization of all his female characters, at the expense of other activities. The Ivy/Harley concept didn't come from a place of "let's show a functional relationship"-it's not, even in AK- it came from an "ooh, lesbians" standpoint. Hence the prison shower catfights, innuendo, etc. Timm does this a lot with his female characters, because that's ultimately what they are for him (see also: Batgirl's christmas costume change and the whole idea of Roxy Rocket before it got toned down for release). The things people like about the characters, including Harley, tend to come from other people involved on the projects, or from when he's not involved. Discendo Vox fucked around with this message at 22:51 on Mar 1, 2016 |
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PhazonLink posted:Too be fair, these course are almost F Zero course, like maybe the Beyond Batmobile has a low energy mode where it's just a hover car.
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Acne Rain posted:. Calendar Man's role in Arkham City is pulled pretty much directly from The Long Halloween, and its probably the best way to use the character after the Silver Age. For some reason, I never really liked Tara Strong's take on Harley. Strong is a good actress, but her performance just feels a little....off? Maybe it's the writing. Nolan North is amazing as the Penguin, its one of the best takes on the character yet..
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anilEhilated posted:I'd love to see an Arkham Beyond game, but that particular universe is probably forgotten and as such bad marketing. Well a Batman Beyond skin was one of the advertised pre-order bonuses, but IIRC it was less "Skin tight bodysuit that's offputing when rendered photorealistically" and more like the Christopher Nolan batsuit on steroids. But at least they're still aware of it.
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OldMemes posted:For some reason, I never really liked Tara Strong's take on Harley. Strong is a good actress, but her performance just feels a little....off? Maybe it's the writing. death .cab for qt posted:On an unrelated note to that, I absolutely hate Tara Strong as Harley Quinn. She gets a lot work because she's basically the female Yuri Lowenthal of voice-acting, but she can't do a cutesy voice without slipping into a stupid babyish nasally voice. It's especially bad because I had just rewatched Arkham Asylum that scruffy did a little bit ago, which featured the same actress as Batman: TAS, whereas Tara didn't get the role until Arkham City.
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Man, the Batman Beyond skin for this game is terrible. Pretty much all the other skins are as far as I know pretty faithful recreations, but Rocksteady decided to put their own 'spin' on the Beyond suit. What is this garbage?
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A suit with a mouthguard, that's what. 
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From what I heard Arleen Sorkin was the one who wanted out, doing Harley was hard on her voice and she was already cracking at parts in Arkham City. Veotax posted:Man, the Batman Beyond skin for this game is terrible. Pretty much all the other skins are as far as I know pretty faithful recreations, but Rocksteady decided to put their own 'spin' on the Beyond suit. I like it better than the Beyond suit from City, which just looked weird with Bruce's bulging musculature. It probably shouldn't be flagged as the Batman beyond suit, but independent of that I like the design. Kurieg fucked around with this message at 00:07 on Mar 2, 2016 |
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I wonder why they went with tank turrets being their weak points. I know, realistically speaking they appear to be just an autoloader mechanism and a rudimentary gun shield so it would make sense that they'd be more vulnerable than the presumably armoured hull but it does make the optics weak point kind of superfluous since it's located on top of an already pre-existing weak point that when hit, kills the tank just as fast. If they had the more common in real life set up of the turret having more armour than the hull but kept the optics hole and added some kind of reward to hitting it like an emp blast from shorting electronics or something, you'd have an actual reason to shoot every part of it, the hull for a reliable kill or the turret for a more risky but also more rewarding bonus.
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Veotax posted:Man, the Batman Beyond skin for this game is terrible. Pretty much all the other skins are as far as I know pretty faithful recreations, but Rocksteady decided to put their own 'spin' on the Beyond suit. Batman Beyond Good Taste In Character Design
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Kurieg posted:I like it better than the Beyond suit from City, which just looked weird with Bruce's bulging musculature. Isn't that how it looked in the pilot of Beyond?
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Really, any proper Beyond skin would have to replace Alfred with Grouchy Old Man Wayne as well.
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Yes but in Beyond's art style you couldn't count the muscles on his torso or see the veins on his arms. It looks more like Bruce got hit by the Venom Symbiote than he's wearing a costume, and something just seems... off, about his head, like it's slightly too big? I don't know. If I were them I would have smoothed out the muscle definition some and gotten rid of that weird hexagon pattern they've got going on too. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=upF7buAngDU Kurieg fucked around with this message at 00:36 on Mar 2, 2016 |
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I'm glad the Replica from F.E.A.R. were able to find new employment as Scarecrow's militia henchmen.
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Man, a proper Batman Beyond game would rock. Cyberpunk Batman? Hell, just envision a good boss fight against Inque. One of the most agile shapeshifters I've ever seen animated. Also, they killed off Mr. Freeze, but in the best/most tragic way. 
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A little late, but I wanted to say thanks for the LP, scruffy. I enjoyed the other Arkham LPs even though I'd played the games already. This one? Apparently my controller was broken just enough that every other game worked fine but the Batmobile wouldn't get up to full speed. The opening chase sequence? Took forever since I went at about the same speed as the military vehicle. Didn't realize what was happening until I got to that first Riddler race and the Batmobile wouldn't stick to the wall, even with the afterburner. Even after figuring out the problem, it'd really soured me on the game as a whole and I never went back. Looking forward to seeing whether that was a good decision, and what I missed either way.
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Speedball posted:Man, a proper Batman Beyond game would rock. Cyberpunk Batman? Hell, just envision a good boss fight against Inque. One of the most agile shapeshifters I've ever seen animated. For some reason I'm imagining something similar to the Laughing Octopus fight from MGS4.
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They'd need to make Inque the best boss fight in the game. I think Terry beat her on his own exactly once in the entire series.
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First time Bruce froze her, second time she got distracted by the guy she inqued, third time her daughter injected her with a solvent, fourth time Superman splattered her into chunks. So, he's beat her on his own exactly never. That's one of the things I liked about Beyond, even though he was strong enough to benchpress an armored car, so were half of the people he fought, requiring him to think his way out of fights. Still Terry killed a lot of people.
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Those people fell on their own sword. Terry did nothing wrong. Dont OD on animal DNA. A Beyond Game is worth it if we get to see Mad Stan.
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Veotax posted:Man, the Batman Beyond skin for this game is terrible. Pretty much all the other skins are as far as I know pretty faithful recreations, but Rocksteady decided to put their own 'spin' on the Beyond suit. Clearly, what this game needs is Nomura Batman  
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I would like to play a Platinum Games Batman game very much and I did not realize I had this want until just now.
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CJacobs posted:I would like to play a Platinum Games Batman game very much and I did not realize I had this want until just now. Really, I can't think of a series I enjoy where I would NOT enjoy a Platinum take on it.
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I'd love a Batman Beyond game myself, though I imagine it would be hard to mesh Arkhams gameplay style with the abilities that the Bat-Suit in that series had (cloaking device, jet boots, etc).
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Brovstin posted:I'd love a Batman Beyond game myself, though I imagine It would be hard to mesh Arkhams gameplay style with the abilities that the Bat-Suit in that series had (cloaking device, jet boots, etc). CJacobs posted:Platinum Games
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CJacobs posted:Platinum Games
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Kurieg posted:First time Bruce froze her, second time she got distracted by the guy she inqued, third time her daughter injected her with a solvent, fourth time Superman splattered her into chunks. So, he's beat her on his own exactly never. The second time around he beat Inque. Aaron happened to be there, though, so he got the Electric Batarang out of her before Terry could apprehend her. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NHf79BhJ7gc
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So, I'm one of the "lucky" PC guys - Lucky in that I heard about all the problems with the PC version before I wasted my money (A lesson learned from the last MK game). I had heard about the major plot spoiler, but wasn't too disappointed that I couldn't play this game. And then I saw the themed vehicle races. Are there actual themed Bat-costumes to go with the Batmobiles?
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CzarChasm posted:Are there actual themed Bat-costumes to go with the Batmobiles? Why yes. Yes there are. I'll take some screenshots and post them with the next update.
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Stop getting me excited about things that will probably never happen you jerks! 
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 The Bat-Curse of ACE Chemicals/PolsyNew profiles: Arkham Knight Race 3: 2008 - Ashes/Polsy Behold! The title drop! Also uhh the 2008 tracks are kinda meh. 1966 and 1989 for life. Here's a bunch of shots from the showcase, where it points out that some Batmobiles can't be used in story mode since you have to be able to go into tank mode. That also applies to the 2008 Tumbler, which doesn't have a tank mode. Despite looking like it really should. Also I got a screenshot of the BATMAN VS SUPERMAN SKIN which is the 2016 one. 1966 Batman 1966 Robin 1966 Catwoman 1966 Combat Batmobile 1966 Race Batmobile 1989 Batman 1989 Race Batmobile 2016 Batman Classic Harley dscruffy1 fucked around with this message at 18:14 on Mar 2, 2016 |
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dscruffy1 posted:Behold! The title drop! Also uhh the 2008 tracks are kinda meh. 1966 and 1989 for life. Really? I was actually just going to say that I really liked that the track had you bowling through poo poo and breaking through walls because the Tumbler is more of a tank than other Batmobiles. It just feels more powerful. And we also now see why Scarecrow let everyone evacuate - because it doesn't matter. He's got enough fear gas to bomb the whole eastern seaboard so there's nowhere for them to run anyway and getting everyone out of the city makes it that much easier for him to take it over. Scarecrow's plan is actually really good and it's probably the one good part of the story.
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CuwiKhons posted:And we also now see why Scarecrow let everyone evacuate - because it doesn't matter. He's got enough fear gas to bomb the whole eastern seaboard so there's nowhere for them to run anyway and getting everyone out of the city makes it that much easier for him to take it over. Scarecrow's plan is actually really good and it's probably the one good part of the story. If Gotham hadn't given into its fear of a weapon, it wouldn't be under attack by a weapon... I like it.
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CuwiKhons posted:Really? I was actually just going to say that I really liked that the track had you bowling through poo poo and breaking through walls because the Tumbler is more of a tank than other Batmobiles. It just feels more powerful. It might be that I didn't like the 2008 movies as much. Not to mention the music cue of "just keep playing violins frantically" pales in comparison to the other two. There's nothing wrong with the racetrack itself and slamming through stuff is great! But I feel like the other two packs work better.
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It says something that the 1966 Catwoman looks better than the Arkhamverse one.
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It's good to see you, classic Harley. Looking a bit shiny, but I'll take it over generic gothy punky makeup means it's a clown, right? Harley.
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Speedball posted:If Gotham hadn't given into its fear of a weapon, it wouldn't be under attack by a weapon... I like it. Scarecrow's good at plans like there. There was a DCAU tie-in comic where Scarecrow announces to Gotham that he's going to unleash a fear gas that will send everyone into a panic. Not long after, everyone goes into a panic while Batman and Robin go around in gas masks trying to figure out how he's released the new strain. Of course, as it turns out, there is no new strain. Just telling people that he was going to do it was what sent them into a panic in the first place.
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Arkham Knight clearly knows details about Batman's equipment -- weaknesses in his armor, expected weaponry on the Batmobile, etc. This suggests he's a former "inside friend" either turned traitor or mind-controlled (so hey, there's an in for Poison Ivy, right? Or the Mad Hatter!  ). A former Robin seems likely.Part of me really wants him to be Batman's mechanic from that one TAS episode. Too bad Lucius Fox seems to be covering that role in this series.
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