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Yvonmukluk posted:God dammit, I was just imagining how it might work. Like Cassandra Cain as Batgirl DC: "Who? We don't remember that person, all we could hear after New 52 was people whining about Stephanie."
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TCat posted:DC: "Who? We don't remember that person, all we could hear after New 52 was people whining about Stephanie." Actually she exists again now! 
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Mar 3, 2016 18:12
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Aithon posted:Alfred the desk-worker is still pretty great. I'd love to see a game about Alfred the master hacker where you just remotely open doors, operate ridiculously complex mechanisms, hack the world and generally are mission control to Batman. Major_JF posted:Have a top down blueprint map where you can control light and alarms and doors and so on. Any action takes an amount of time do the hacking but the hacking just happens with a single click. Also have first person views of the fighters to get clues, information to get information, faster hacks see areas not on the blueprints, or just watch them fight.. Also have rainbow six style path mapping that you can change with the characters doing the leading/talking with the ground crew getting annoyed if you send them back and forth too many times. This is describing the Decker/Hacker gameplay of the "perfect" Shadowrun MMO.
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It's probably just my "That is totally Jason Todd, unless they're setting it up to be a sort of 'Ah HA! You thought it was Jason Todd but it was someone with a completely different body type!' kinda twist" thought developing into a prejudice, but I was actually kind of expecting them to throw off the entire expectation at the confrontation there. A-Knight starts monologuing, saying "You're thinking 'Who the hell is this guy?'", and it would be a pretty decent World's Greatest Detective response to say "Actually, I was thinking how disappointed I am in you, Jason." Just cut the head off the burgeoning mystery, do something actually surprising. Still, "I'm deciding which of you my car should shoot first" is a pretty decent response too.
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Mar 3, 2016 22:49
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An example of the really nice design in this game: one of the Knight's men is always positioned between them and the car so that the Knight themselves can't be hit by the first round. Things I wish were in this game: being able to rescue the workers who die if you go for them before scanning the plant. Discendo Vox fucked around with this message at 23:12 on Mar 3, 2016 |
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Mar 3, 2016 23:08
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WFGuy posted:It's probably just my "That is totally Jason Todd, unless they're setting it up to be a sort of 'Ah HA! You thought it was Jason Todd but it was someone with a completely different body type!' kinda twist" thought developing into a prejudice, but I was actually kind of expecting them to throw off the entire expectation at the confrontation there. A-Knight starts monologuing, saying "You're thinking 'Who the hell is this guy?'", and it would be a pretty decent World's Greatest Detective response to say "Actually, I was thinking how disappointed I am in you, Jason." Just cut the head off the burgeoning mystery, do something actually surprising. You know, this is a missed opportunity to humanize Batman. Oracle: Bruce, the Knight has to be Batman: (interrupting) He was a son to me, I hope we're wrong Oracle: Are you ever wrong? Bats: I might be. What happened to Jason in this continuity? Death by Joker?
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Mar 4, 2016 00:39
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He's never been mentioned before, iirc.
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Mar 4, 2016 00:48
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Yvonmukluk posted:Actually she exists again now! Huh...news to me. Good for her! I kinda like her better than "super duper hip with the kids" Stephenie. Omobono posted:You know, this is a missed opportunity to humanize Batman. Yeah he got crowbarred.
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Mar 4, 2016 00:53
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fractalairduct posted:He's never been mentioned before, iirc. Joker says "Didn't I kill you already?" to Tim Drake during Joker's Carnival in Arkham City. There was also a line about "It looks like you could use a new sidekick" in Asylum, with no other mention of Robin in that game, though that was eventually retconned since Tim Drake was apparently active during that time period.
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TCat posted:Yeah he got crowbarred. But he survived! So he can't be the Arkham Knight.  
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Mar 4, 2016 01:34
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Waffleman_ posted:Didn't realize Spawn was in Gotham. Wouldn't be the first time https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spawn/Batman
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TCat posted:Yeah he got crowbarred. And blowed up.
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After having seen the Asylum and City LPs I am going through the Arkham Origins LP and for whatever reason, episode 9 will not load for me at all. The two videos before and after work just fine except for that one. Is there something you can do about that?
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Kal-L posted:But he survived! So he can't be the Arkham Knight.
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Kal-L posted:But he survived! So he can't be the Arkham Knight. Pictured: Batman holding a man who is most definitely alive, as evidenced by all the blood
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CJacobs posted:Pictured: Batman holding a man who is most definitely alive, as evidenced by all the blood It's still on him, they can push it back in. That's how blood works, right?
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Bruceski posted:It's still on him, they can push it back in. That's how blood works, right? It's how mine does so I'd hope so!
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Thunderfinger posted:After having seen the Asylum and City LPs I am going through the Arkham Origins LP and for whatever reason, episode 9 will not load for me at all. The two videos before and after work just fine except for that one. Is there something you can do about that? I'll see if I can reupload a copy of it. No promises though!
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Another game where you play as a "mission control" of sorts is Experience 112. Although it is reported to be rather janky.
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CJacobs posted:Pictured: Batman holding a man who is most definitely alive, as evidenced by all the blood If he is still bleeding he is still alive
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Pretty much everyone who's played this game before knows exactly where this episode is going to end. The Predictable Cliffhanger/PolsyRace 4: 1966 - Batcave Set/Polsy This race is PRETTY HARD YOU GUYS. Took me about half an hour of attempts to get this run. Thunderfinger posted:After having seen the Asylum and City LPs I am going through the Arkham Origins LP and for whatever reason, episode 9 will not load for me at all. The two videos before and after work just fine except for that one. Is there something you can do about that? I uploaded a copy here. Give it a shot! Otherwise I'm not sure what else I can do.
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dscruffy1 posted:This race is PRETTY HARD YOU GUYS. Took me about half an hour of attempts to get this run. I can see why you say that holy hell, some of those targets were incredible dick moves. So close to the three star point and you got like six or seven 2 second clocks. So I didn't see it asked before but what effect does powersliding have on your timer? It goes green while you're doing it but I couldn't see any noticeable effect on the timer?
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Mar 4, 2016 18:41
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IBlameRoadSuess posted:So I didn't see it asked before but what effect does powersliding have on your timer? It goes green while you're doing it but I couldn't see any noticeable effect on the timer? So the timer actually slows down while you're in powerslide. Sometimes it will just flash because it's a really quick tap of the brake but if you're actually drifting it's slower. The last curve in the first 1966 race is a good example for that. e: I think it slows it down around half time, maybe even a third. One second in powerslide slowdown is about 3 realtime seconds. dscruffy1 fucked around with this message at 19:04 on Mar 4, 2016 |
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dscruffy1 posted:So the timer actually slows down while you're in powerslide. Sometimes it will just flash because it's a really quick tap of the brake but if you're actually drifting it's slower. The last curve in the first 1966 race is a good example for that. Yeah rewatching some of the other races I can definitely see that. It definitely helps get race times down. Guess I'll have to learn to drift if I want to do good at any of the races in the game  Also, having played the game up to the next major Riddler intervention, you are right, I knew exactly where you were gonna cut the video.
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So that thug mentioned that all the villains pooled their money for Scarecrow and the Arkham Knight's army - that's what I'm talking about when I say this whole thing really feels like a last stand for the villains. They're putting everything they've got into this and if it fails? There's nothing left. All the villains feel desperate and angry, and I think they're scared. It's never really made clear exactly why Gotham's assorted criminals all decided that yep, this was the plan they were willing to lay down their money on and it was time to finally unite and end it all, but I've got a guess and I think it's because of Joker. It's mentioned in the opening of the game that there's been very little crime since Joker's death in AC, even though everyone in the city was bracing for a huge power struggle. Nobody but Batman was there when Joker died and nobody knows how it happened. Now all the villains knew he was sick and they could just assume he died because of that, but Harley and Freeze at the very least both knew there was a cure, Batman had it, and Joker either didn't get it or he did get it and died anyway. Batman doesn't kill and the villains know that but what if he changed his mind? What if he did deliberately let Joker die or even killed him directly? They just don't know and they're scared that maybe Batman is finally willing to use lethal measures - and if Scarecrow is good at nothing else, it's playing on people's fears. This is pretty much the last thread of the plot that I genuinely love.
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What you were thinking of was in fact irony, so you had it the first time. That's not to say that a lot of irony also isn't the result of coincidence. ALSO YEAH OF loving COURSE. I already kinda knew about this, but it still pisses me off. Waffleman_ fucked around with this message at 20:11 on Mar 4, 2016 |
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I think I actually prefer this Scarecrow to the cackling madman of Asylum. In Asylum he was more a jump-scare. In Knight he's more of a slow burn, building up the atmosphere to oppress you. Sure, it doesn't come across that way with the giant TV screens with the standard supervillain speech, but it's far closer than we've gotten before. I liked the idea I saw before about the unsettling fear of uncertainty earlier in the thread, though. That was was more creepy than I think Scarecrow should go for, but it's a terrifying concept nonetheless. EDIT: ^^ Poetic irony, I think. And quite rightly so.
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So, erm...why was Oracle in Gotham, again? Couldn't she have relocated and provided support from Metropolis, or Keystone, or literally any other city not under occupation by Scarecrow's army?
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Yvonmukluk posted:So, erm...why was Oracle in Gotham, again? Couldn't she have relocated and provided support from Metropolis, or Keystone, or literally any other city not under occupation by Scarecrow's army? Well all her stuff is in Gotham i assume and maybe she never set up a operation center in a different city? for some reason?
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Yvonmukluk posted:So, erm...why was Oracle in Gotham, again? Couldn't she have relocated and provided support from Metropolis, or Keystone, or literally any other city not under occupation by Scarecrow's army? Because the plot needed her to be kidnapped. That's honestly the only thing I can think of, because I had the exact same reasoning as you on this. Her physical presence doesn't seem to add anything.
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Yvonmukluk posted:So, erm...why was Oracle in Gotham, again? Couldn't she have relocated and provided support from Metropolis, or Keystone, or literally any other city not under occupation by Scarecrow's army?
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Guess some of the fear gas was leaking into the room, what with the computer telling us the blast radius increased at the end. Gotta hand it to the guys at WB, I had no clue about this cliffhanger going in. Not at all.
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Yvonmukluk posted:So, erm...why was Oracle in Gotham, again? Couldn't she have relocated and provided support from Metropolis, or Keystone, or literally any other city not under occupation by Scarecrow's army? I genuinely thought she'd evacuated and that was why they show the little bit with her dad calling her, and then of course she's still in touch with Batman over Bat Hologram. So yeah, when I saw she was still in the city... I really, really saw this coming. It sucks that the game is being so predictable so far. Speaking of predictable, we all saw this obvious cliffhanger coming and yet I'm still disappointed, game. Really? You couldn't just let it go?
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Speedball posted:Guess some of the fear gas was leaking into the room, what with the computer telling us the blast radius increased at the end. Yeah it's also obvious by the whole "gas erupting into the room" bit, you know with the pipes coming up through the floor I'm glad even while dead the joker can manage to take over a story (or maybe he doesn't i don't know really)
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This might get me some flak but I mostly like what the game does with the cliffhanger. Including the single time in the entirety of the series when he actually made me chuckle.
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This game leans pretty damned hard on Comic Book Science but I do like how the handle the Joker in this. And yeah once the pipes started bursting and the Scarecrow didn't immediately stab Batman in the face Bruce should've realized something was up. mandatory lesbian posted:I'm glad even while dead the joker can manage to take over a story (or maybe he doesn't i don't know really) 
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Due to exposure to super-fear-toxin Batman is gonna end up with Joker hallucinations for the entire rest of the game isn't he
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anilEhilated posted:This might get me some flak but I mostly like what the game does with the cliffhanger. Including the single time in the entirety of the series when he actually made me chuckle. I agree, I think it worked fine. The computer giving an obviously wrong update is a huge clue that batman is starting to hallucinate due to the gas, so when you turn around and there's another obvious hallucination you're primed to understand what's going on.
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JT Jag posted:Due to exposure to super-fear-toxin Batman is gonna end up with Joker hallucinations for the entire rest of the game isn't he Oh, it's much worse than that.
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