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RareAcumen posted:Yeah I know, I'm just bustin' your chops about trying to make his blindness significant in some way. Daredevil's superpower is being able to see. Barring something on television or on a billboard, he can tell what it is. Sometimes this includes colors. You could do something interesting with that visually, and I assume the comics have done so. Neutral colors everywhere except where he can detect it by other means. So old paint in a room would be gray but food would be vivid and blood would be a striking contrast.
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Bruceski posted:You could do something interesting with that visually, and I assume the comics have done so. Neutral colors everywhere except where he can detect it by other means. So old paint in a room would be gray but food would be vivid and blood would be a striking contrast. I'm not visualizing this very well, all that comes to mind is Madworld.
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This here is a game I'd love to see: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7bd4OeguMpI
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Mar 16, 2016 06:14
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Honestly, I just want a Superman Origins game. Progress the powers he has in the game similarly to the powers he gains over the time span of the comics--Starts off just leaping tall buildings with a single bound, can shrug off bullets to a certain extent, can punch dudes super hard, just wants to be a hero, but eventually becomes the Superman we all know and love over the course of the story. I mean, that's how a lot of superhero empowerment games work, you start off with nothing and then become unstoppable. Plus, the thought of eventually overcoming your jump/double-jump/super-jump with a dramatic lead-up in the second-act climax that results in literal flight is pretty loving good overall, and could easily be made into a great moment. The hardest part is just knowing when to make Superman appropriately Super, instead of just throwing a flying demigod at the player with a health bar made up of Metropolis' overall well-being.
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I thought of a good one - Deadman. There have been games centred around possession before (2000's Messiah springs to mind), but yeah, I can see that working.
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Arglebargle III posted:An Iron Man game with suit-designing, suit combat, and Tony Stark adventure/conversation as three core gameplay elements would be amazing. Holy crap. Like a Deus Ex title with a more expansive skill tree, constant respecs, and more brawl/arcade style combat. A Thor/Hercules game based on the comics would be fun as hell. Something like a light-hearted God Of War reimagined as a buddy comedy - Hercules as the boisterous bruiser, Thor as the straight man, with the pair of them beating up myths and legends for, essentially, shits and giggles.
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I've got a tickle in the back of my throat and nose, which is really annoying and might affect my voice commentary. Luckily I have already done videos in advance. A Real Scorcher/PolsyNew character(s): Firefly New stories: Keep Your Friends Close, Taking Out The Trash
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Mar 16, 2016 18:09
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I've said it before but I'll keep saying it: (Arkham, no idea about comics) Firefly is awesome. You can just tell he's enjoying his job so much and Crispin Freeman is doing a great job with that voice.
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Mar 16, 2016 18:15
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Two things about Firefly in this game: 1. You have mid-air gadgets, but don't have an aerial boss fight with him.  2. He says you only beat him once, but there are posters of him being wanted strewn around in Arkham Asylum, which undoubtedly means Batman had to have dealt with him more than once. Interestingly enough, Crispin Freeman seems to be giving Firefly a damaged voice this time around, as though his burns have gotten worse.
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Mar 16, 2016 18:32
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Firefly is fun. He clearly enjoys what he does. On his voice getting more damaged what with all the gasps in his speech. He is not even wearing his Flameproof suit anymore so likely his condition has gotten worse. (Plus the dude really likes to talk)
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Mar 16, 2016 18:35
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Hobgoblin2099 posted:1. You have mid-air gadgets, but don't have an aerial boss fight with him. Honestly I'm just glad they brought him back since they seem to avoid Origins as much as possible.
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Mar 16, 2016 18:38
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Really the only problem with Catwoman's combat is that they didn't really give it any depth. If they actually put the effort into creating distinctive combat for each character and put that in a setting that you could call them in to any section of the game after earning them, such as a Battle for the Cowl/Batman Inc. game, Rocksteady could learn from what mostly went wrong with the AK challenge maps. Also there is something beautiful in the idea of Joker being batman's wingman for his weird relationships. "Come on, Bruce. You have to start thinking about the future. If you don't make a little Wayne that you and some woman don't horrifically die in front of, who will be the next Batman?!"
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You know, if all the Joker is going to do this game is being a sarcastic commenter I'm actually warming up to the idea, since he's actually being funny, in a  way, and he's not actively hijacking (Jokerjacking) the plot.I fear that they'll try to have this plotline go somewhere though, with the inevitable Jokerjack.
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Crabtree posted:Really the only problem with Catwoman's combat is that they didn't really give it any depth. That and the fact that Catwoman can still do her kiss takedown on Riddler's robots.
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Omobono posted:You know, if all the Joker is going to do this game is being a sarcastic commenter I'm actually warming up to the idea, since he's actually being funny, in a I'm against it myself. This game seems to have more Joker than the games that starred a living Joker since at least he was sequestered to the mainplot instead of also showing up in side missions to poo poo up Riddler/Manbat/etc's 15 minutes. I might be biased though since they could have frontloaded the Joker content nearer to the revelation but, man, I'm not at all confident in this series' ability to moderate its use of the Joker.
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Hobgoblin2099 posted:2. He says you only beat him once, but there are posters of him being wanted strewn around in Arkham Asylum, which undoubtedly means Batman had to have dealt with him more than once. Arkham Asylum is probably only semi canon now, it wasn't supposed to take place in it's own universe originally. The game is filled with references that are later contradicted by the later games (Hush has a character profile for example when his first appearance in-universe is in City).
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Veotax posted:The marketing for Origins said that it took place five years before Asylum, which is really hard to swallow. Having Bruce be on his third Robin in just five years seems a bit much (while Jason hasn't been directly mentioned, there is a line from Joker in the visitor room in Asylum that mentions him killing a Robin). But there is a line of dialogue later on in one of the sidequests that retcons Origins as having happened ten years before Knight, which is a little easier to buy. Not as bad as the New 52, where he went through four. But only one Batgirl.
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Asylum feels very much like 'another Batman story' than its own seperate universe. The only thing that really affected the sequels was Titian, and the Joker's use of it. If the story had been told in a comic, it wouldn't have affected the status quo, they'd be able to go back to normal afterwards with a few handwaves to explain away why Joker is back to normal after. I can imagine the plot of the first game being a story arc in Batman or Dectective comics or something. Like in a solication it would be: -Detective Comics # 745 - 'Night at the Asylum' Part Six - With Titan running through his and the Joker's veins, can Batman defeat a monster, while resisting becoming one himself? - Also, what is the secret of the 'Arkham City' and what shocking consequences will it have for the Dark Knight? - The exciting conclusion to 'Night at the Asylum' ! AUG 2009 $2.99 35 Pages Or something like that. And as much as Catwoman getting kidnapped might be a bit uninspired, her unimpressed responses to it are hilarious, and fit the character really well.
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OldMemes posted:Asylum feels very much like 'another Batman story' than its own seperate universe. The only thing that really affected the sequels was Titian, and the Joker's use of it. If the story had been told in a comic, it wouldn't have affected the status quo, they'd be able to go back to normal afterwards with a few handwaves to explain away why Joker is back to normal after. Hehehe, funnily enough, exactly this has happened, in The Batman. He had an associated hair malfunction there too. 
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OldMemes posted:Asylum feels very much like 'another Batman story' than its own seperate universe. The only thing that really affected the sequels was Titian, and the Joker's use of it. If the story had been told in a comic, it wouldn't have affected the status quo, they'd be able to go back to normal afterwards with a few handwaves to explain away why Joker is back to normal after. You can also see this in the illustrations of characters that wouldn't appear in person until City, like Riddler and Penguin, and they're pretty much just their comic versions rather than what they've been defined as in the Arkham series.
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JamieTheD posted:Hehehe, funnily enough, exactly this has happened, in The Batman. He had an associated hair malfunction there too.
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death .cab for qt posted:Honestly, I just want a Superman Origins game. Progress the powers he has in the game similarly to the powers he gains over the time span of the comics--Starts off just leaping tall buildings with a single bound, can shrug off bullets to a certain extent, can punch dudes super hard, just wants to be a hero, but eventually becomes the Superman we all know and love over the course of the story. I mean, that's how a lot of superhero empowerment games work, you start off with nothing and then become unstoppable.
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OldMemes posted:And as much as Catwoman getting kidnapped might be a bit uninspired, her unimpressed responses to it are hilarious, and fit the character really well. And, because she's voiced by Grey Delisle, you can totally hear more of Azula bleeding into her voice the more pissed-off she gets.
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That trophy outside the orphanage was bugged. I had to reset my game to get it to work when the game first released. Hobgoblin2099 posted:2. He says you only beat him once, but there are posters of him being wanted strewn around in Arkham Asylum, which undoubtedly means Batman had to have dealt with him more than once. Asylum is definitely only semi-canon at this point. Hardly any of those profiles make sense with the universe they've built since then. Plus there was an eerie lack of Robin mentioning, he didn't even have a profile, and Tim was definitely Robin during those events.
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Folks asked about the advantages of clearing tanks out of areas and thus letting police resume patrols- in addition to letting you get around safer, police patrols will periodically highlight mission objectives (such as serial killer and, I think, Azrael locations) in the islands they have access to.Hobgoblin2099 posted:That and the fact that Catwoman can still do her kiss takedown on Riddler's robots. I believe the animation is actually modified, but not enough that she's not still doing it a bit. On asylum's canonicity, it seems like the profiles are basically completely discarded, but everything that appears ingame is pretty much still accurate.
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The voice acting is excellent. I didn't like Troy Baker's Arkham Knight at first, but he's growing on me - I like the balance between angry and smug he's doing.
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SonicRulez posted:Asylum is definitely only semi-canon at this point. Hardly any of those profiles make sense with the universe they've built since then. Plus there was an eerie lack of Robin mentioning, he didn't even have a profile, and Tim was definitely Robin during those events. Yeah, Joker explicitly says Batman could use a new sidekick in Asylum, which unless you really stretch it to mean "your current Robin sucks, you should get a new one," contradicts the Batgirl DLC in Knight, which has Tim Drake active as Robin while Barbara's still Batgirl. If the DLC had had Nightwing instead, it could be made to work (especially if Knight retconned Origins to 10 years prior instead of 5), but  COMIC BOOKS!
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OldMemes posted:The voice acting is excellent. I didn't like Troy Baker's Arkham Knight at first, but he's growing on me - I like the balance between angry and smug he's doing.
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Is there some comic books backstory I'm not aware of re: the Azrael stuff? It sure seems to come out of left field for this guy to show up and promise to be a good Batman. I mean I know he showed up in City to make some meaninglessly vague prophecies, but if Batman had any reaction to them besides shrugging and ignoring him I don't remember it. He doesn't seem like the sort to trust some shmoe in a cape just on his word, especially since he already has Nightwing and Robin running around.
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He's got the whole Knights Templar aesthetic going on and Bruce appreciates a good aesthetic.
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Mzbundifund posted:Is there some comic books backstory I'm not aware of re: the Azrael stuff? It sure seems to come out of left field for this guy to show up and promise to be a good Batman. I mean I know he showed up in City to make some meaninglessly vague prophecies, but if Batman had any reaction to them besides shrugging and ignoring him I don't remember it. He doesn't seem like the sort to trust some shmoe in a cape just on his word, especially since he already has Nightwing and Robin running around. He was the guy who took over for Batman when Bane broke Batman for the first time in Knightfall. The reasoning behind not using Nightwing or Robin back then was as sketchy as it is now, as one reason he took over was to have a more violent batman in place of bruce as a 90's thing, though I do not remember if it was by parody or in earnest. It was sort of like how Superman got killed and then had four replacements that were each what Superman was not. 
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Mzbundifund posted:Is there some comic books backstory I'm not aware of re: the Azrael stuff? It sure seems to come out of left field for this guy to show up and promise to be a good Batman. It's almost what happened in the comics when Bruce broke his back. He hands the mantle to this 90s xtreme new guy over nightwing and inevitably comes to regret that decision. In the comics you could argue that Drake wasn't ready yet since he was like 15 and Nightwing already branched off and became his own man, recalling him to be Batman might be a little awkward.
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Acne Rain posted:He was the guy who took over for Batman when Bane broke Batman for the first time in Knightfall. As a note, that was Jean Paul Valley Azrael, while this Azrael is Michael Lane. Admittedly, I don't know much about Lane, but they seem to be merging bits of JPV with his character?
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Acne Rain posted:He was the guy who took over for Batman when Bane broke Batman for the first time in Knightfall. Basically this, but it was a bit more... intense for Jean Paul Valley. Yes, he took over for Batman but the problem was that the programming he got from the Order of St Dumas was a bit too intense for him to weather. Azrael would have been a pretty worthy successor if not for that. He was very brainwashed into his role against fighting evil. Even as he took up the mantle of the Bat he was visited by vision of St Dumas himself urging him on to even more decisive measures against evil. That vision was what made him put on those vicious claw gauntlets that had wrist-mounted batarang launchers. When the cape held him back because of lovely aerodynamics he changed it to long strips of some vaguely cape-like design. All the while "St Dumas" urged him to keep at the whole fight against evil at all costs. Jean Paul became Batman without the whole not killing people thing. It took Bruce a while of both physical and mental recovery before he was able to take on the new Batman. In the end it all came down to stripping Jean Paul of the mantle and cowl to get him to see just how far he'd fallen.
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Acne Rain posted:He was the guy who took over for Batman when Bane broke Batman for the first time in Knightfall. To be more specific, this Azrael is the replacement for the guy who took over for Batman in Knightfall. This one's Michael Lane, not Jean Paul Valley. And Jean Paul Valley? Was pretty much a lesson in why you have your writers talk to each other, because Jean Paul's first storyline (Apart from, y'know, being an origin) was about breaking the mental condition the Order of St. Dumas put on him, and then the whole reason he goes nuts as AzBat? That same conditioning wot he broke. Somehow exacerbated by the suit he designed. For all that it has its good bits, Knightfall... Isn't terribly well written. Then he died, and now he's back, along with Michael Lane in the New 52. They seem to carom between getting duped or hypnotised by some group or other, and breaking out of it, and they come out the worse for it as characters. So I honestly wouldn't be surprised if something like that happened here, because that's what they often do with Azrael. EDIT: Beaten with a slightly different, but no less accurate perspective on the Azrael thing. 
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hard counter posted:In the comics you could argue that Drake wasn't ready yet since he was like 15 and Nightwing already branched off and became his own man, recalling him to be Batman might be a little awkward. Waffleman_ posted:He's got the whole Knights Templar aesthetic going on and Bruce appreciates a good aesthetic.
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I think Bruce was afraid of Dick fighting Bane, too, if I'm not mistaken.
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Vicissitude posted:Also, it's pronounced "peh-dant" not "pee-dant"
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Great Joe posted:You would of let it go if you could of. 
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SonicRulez posted:Giving an in-depth analysis on a game that you haven't completed is a bit ridiculous. SonicRulez posted:Before you declare Oracle as completely useless, you have to see where it goes. And fair bones to Rocksteady, they immediately disprove your point by having Batman go to Lucius for something and he says "This was Oracle's specialty. It's gonna take me some time." And then you have to do a couple sidequests to give him time to work it out. That's not completely revolutionizing gameplay, but it did do what you asked. snograt posted:Any ideas on a superhero that would make a good game character? or A strategy game in which you control a team of heroes and have to choose the right hero(es) for the right mission and pick which missions to take to get the resources you need, like you might send Batman out to investigate a crime scene for clues while the Green Arrow rescues some kidnapped scientists and the Flash keeps the villain and his henchmen busy elsewhere.
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