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John Murdoch posted:Arkham Knight has its issues, but it's honestly pretty dang good. I don't think it's bad, but I've tried a few times and I consistently hit a point where my interest just kind of dwindles away and I wander off to something else. I don't even think the batmobile stuff is the worst thing ever, it mostly feels like it was an unnecessary system jammed into a game that didn't really need it - like, why would I ever bother to careen around Gotham's narrow, convoluted streets when I could get anywhere much more easily Batmanning around?
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Considering that AK is the most Modern Open World Game-y of the bunch (even with Origins having Ubisoft towers, the horror, the horror) and has some pacing wonkiness on top (like how much it pushes the Batmobile early on) I can certainly imagine not being able to stick with it.Vandar posted:I like Arkham Knight a bunch except for the stealth Batmobile sections and the tunnels where you fight the Knight in the Batmobile, which is where I quit playing. I should get back and try to power through that section. Pretty much, yeah. It felt like they could've stood to cut down the car stuff just a smidge to make room for more of the incredibly polished melee combat and actually-good-this-time predator sections. I am a weirdo who actually kinda likes the Batmobile combat...but I fully realize it doesn't fit Batman very well.
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Arkham Knight is a good game overall (especially with the additional sidequests fleshing out its story) it is just that the car gets in the way more often than not. If you just ignore it until you need it the game is a lot more fun.
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So... what do you think about the batmobile stuff?
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Black Mesa: In the course of your duties as Gordon Freeman, you're required to turn on the world's most gigantic fan. That's not the little thing - the little thing is how well the sound of it is attenuated the next room over.
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Playing through Black Mesa now myself, thought it was cute how you reach a cache of items in the Lambda reactor by climbing on top of a No Access sign. Also,  Edit: xen revamp is living up to the hype. Some nice smaller touches: - jump pads send you to a set location, so less getting lost or random dumb deaths - long jump module makes you immune to fall damage - long jump is set up as a double jump in the air instead of a duck-jump from the ground, which feels a lot more reliable and controllable. yook has a new favorite as of 08:55 on Feb 4, 2021 |
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Feb 4, 2021 07:21
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CJacobs posted:In a similar vein, Doom Eternal's graphics presets start with the usual 'Low/Mid/High/Ultra', but if you have the extra horsepower you can set individual settings to 'Nightmare' all the way up to 'Ultra Nightmare' to really push the engine as far as it can go. ULTRA NIGHTMARE shadows looks really crisp! Really love the smoothness of ULTRA NIGHTMARE anti aliasing too. Just a big fan of cranking all my performance settings up to ULTRA NIGHTMARE. In Unreal Tournament 2k3/2k4 (maybe 99 but I never tried) if you maxed the graphics out it would play the “Holy poo poo!” Multi kill sound bite.
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Feb 4, 2021 07:24
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I remember a lot of the batmobile content being optional, so just getting to the end is pretty fun but 100%ing all the challenges would make you want to kill yourself
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Feb 4, 2021 07:38
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The 100 percent completion ending is also a hell of letdown.
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Ugly In The Morning posted:In Unreal Tournament 2k3/2k4 (maybe 99 but I never tried) if you maxed the graphics out it would play the “Holy poo poo!” Multi kill sound bite. Doom 2016 gives you an achievement for this, congratulating your setup.
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Feb 4, 2021 10:20
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haveblue posted:I remember a lot of the batmobile content being optional, so just getting to the end is pretty fun but 100%ing all the challenges would make you want to kill yourself You need to solve almost 250 Riddler puzzles to take him down. He can go on his little rampage in his mech suit for all I care
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Feb 4, 2021 11:10
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yook posted:- long jump is set up as a double jump in the air instead of a duck-jump from the ground, which feels a lot more reliable and controllable. It is better, but I always liked that Half-Life's long jump was a homage to Mario 64.
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Feb 4, 2021 11:49
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The Batmobile's bad reputation is deserved. It controls alright and it's fun as a novelty, but in the end it's shoved into a lot of (mandatory) story missions and a huge percentage of optional side content/challenges so people disliking the car for having to use it more often than they want to is absolutely valid.
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Feb 4, 2021 12:51
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The good innovation in Arkham Knight is the fear takedown (you can instantly take down three people, but it's loud and needs a recharge), imo. Predator mode had gotten pretty staid, and getting to switch it up with an instant multi-takedown was a neat idea!
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Feb 4, 2021 12:53
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I quite liked driving around in the Batmobile and non-lethally running over people at 180 mph, but all the shooty tank bits were just miserable.
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I hate the batmobile because a bug during one of the batmobile boss fights made the game unfinishable.
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Feb 4, 2021 14:43
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The next Arkham game should give you a special ending for purposely avoiding the Riddler trophies, and at the end of the game he just gets so frustrated and pissed off at being ignored he gives himself up. Call the achievement for doing so "Green Balls."
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That's the only way you win against the Riddler: by refusing to put up with any of his bullshit.
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SkeletonHero posted:The next Arkham game should give you a special ending for purposely avoiding the Riddler trophies, and at the end of the game he just gets so frustrated and pissed off at being ignored he gives himself up. Call the achievement for doing so "Green Balls." iirc he does actually comment on this in Arkham Knight, that game's version of the Riddler questline gets extremely meta by the end. Something about how he knew you would either pick up all of them or none of them and thus you're playing right into his hands either way. edit: You also can piss him off all the way back in the first game by intentionally getting the opening riddle wrong over and over: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_y637QKQJVA CJacobs has a new favorite as of 15:28 on Feb 4, 2021 |
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CJacobs posted:iirc he does actually comment on this in Arkham Knight, that game's version of the Riddler questline gets extremely meta by the end. Something about how he knew you would either pick up all of them or none of them and thus you're playing right into his hands either way. You can do that in the second game, too. https://youtu.be/ge6WK1Zjlyg?t=1714 Alien Arcana has a new favorite as of 17:13 on Feb 4, 2021 |
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Feb 4, 2021 17:10
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Both of those have nicely demonstrated my problem with these riddles - they're not loving riddles. You literally only need one word from each of them (portrait, instrument) to solve. There's nothing to unpick, it's just a game of hunt the object, but the areas are huge and cluttered and there's nothing in the riddle to actually guide you to the correct location. It's just search around systematically until you find it. At least the perspective puzzles required you to engage with the environment, those were fun.
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Strom Cuzewon posted:Both of those have nicely demonstrated my problem with these riddles - they're not loving riddles. You literally only need one word from each of them (portrait, instrument) to solve. There's nothing to unpick, it's just a game of hunt the object, but the areas are huge and cluttered and there's nothing in the riddle to actually guide you to the correct location. It's just search around systematically until you find it. Yeah, its poo poo from a gameplay perspective, but it fits with the Riddler being a dumb rear end in a top hat who thinks he's way smarter than he actually is.
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I like the first few Arkham games but I didn't like that they never could move away from the Joker. I stopped playing Origin a little after that crime scene analyst and its turns out the criminal is.... THE JOKER. I just didn't have the energy to keep playing after that.
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Strom Cuzewon posted:Both of those have nicely demonstrated my problem with these riddles - they're not loving riddles. You literally only need one word from each of them (portrait, instrument) to solve. There's nothing to unpick, it's just a game of hunt the object, but the areas are huge and cluttered and there's nothing in the riddle to actually guide you to the correct location. It's just search around systematically until you find it. They basically turned "look for our nerdy easter eggs" into gameplay of a sort. Which I honestly didn't mind most of the time, but a lot of them did have the problem of either being the only object in the entire room with noticeable detail or a total needle in a haystack. My least favorite is still probably the Solomon Grundy one in Knight, where it's hidden away in a completely obscure little secret passage of an area that you're really unlikely to come across otherwise.
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ElBrak posted:I like the first few Arkham games but I didn't like that they never could move away from the Joker. I stopped playing Origin a little after that crime scene analyst and its turns out the criminal is.... THE JOKER. I just didn't have the energy to keep playing after that. I think Origins actually did a good job with that after my initial “are you loving kidding me?!” moment with the joker reveal. Plus Bane ends up being the biggest threat anyway, but the Joker stuff actually had a lot of work put into it and they pulled it off.
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Infamous First Light: There are areas of gas all over the city you can dash into to go faster.
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I got Bloodstained off of game pass and the first stage theme sounds very similar to A Whole New World from Aladdin in parts
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Ugly In The Morning posted:I think Origins actually did a good job with that after my initial “are you loving kidding me?!” moment with the joker reveal. Plus Bane ends up being the biggest threat anyway, but the Joker stuff actually had a lot of work put into it and they pulled it off. It would have worked better if Arkham City hadn’t done the exact same thing already.
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In Lollipop Chainsaw you get to drive a combine harvester through a field of hick zombies while Dead or Alive's You Spin Me Round plays.
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My favourite little thing about that game is that James Gunn cowrote it.
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I actually really liked the Riddler trophies in all the Arkham games and got all of them in each one. But then I also did all the question marks in AC Odyssey so I'm aware it's me that's weird. Anyway, I really like that you have a button to let you pet the foxes in Ghost of Tsushima after they lead you to a shrine. Their happy little jump animation afterwards is lovely. Bogmonster has a new favorite as of 20:40 on Feb 5, 2021 |
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Bogmonster posted:Anyway, I really like that you have a button to let you pet the foxes in Ghost if Tsushima after they lead you to a shrine. Their happy little jump animation afterwards is lovely. I just found out you can recruit a cat to your ship in AC:Valhalla and now I'm thinking I picked the wrong game. Kassandra's great and all, but, ship kitty
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Guys, they’re putting Kislev, each of the four Chaos gods, and motherfucking Cathay, which had never had a single official miniature, in the upcoming Total War: Warhammer 3.
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Dr Christmas posted:Guys, they’re putting Kislev, each of the four Chaos gods, and motherfucking Cathay, which had never had a single official miniature, in the upcoming Total War: Warhammer 3. Those are clearly big things. Ban this sick filth
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Yeah they're entire countries what is this
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Here's a little thing: Chaos Dwarves may be coming in Total Warhammer 3. Wait, do their hats make them big things?
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In Fire Emblem 3 Houses the max level fertilizer is pegasus "blessings" 
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No ogors tho which is a strange choice
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exquisite tea posted:The whole experience is what I imagine it must be like to get drunk dialed by aliens. Now that's a story pitch I wanna see.
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That's the Board from Control, kinda
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