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1. M.U.S.H.A. 2. Ion Fury 3. Thunder Force II 4. Guardians of the Galaxy 5. Inscryption 6. Elden Ring 7. Gran Turismo 7 8. Sekiro: Shadows Die Twice 9. Kirby and the Forgotten Land 10. Deathloop 11. LEGO Star Wars: The Skywalker Saga 12. Klonoa: Door to Phantomile 13. Dark Souls II: Scholar of the First Sin 14. Dark Souls 3 15. Helltaker 16. Doom Eternal: The Ancient Gods Part 1 & 2 I love how the combat in this game demands basically giving everything you have, but god it can feel exhausting at times. Final boss of the DLC was super sick.
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ArfJason posted:i like city more because despite being a lot more disjointed, it lets you use every gadget as a quickfire attack to use in combat, and the riddles implement more lateral thinking use of your gadgets, and theres a billion more riddles, which were my favorite part of asylum. some of them are some trivial bs like grappling it to take it but a bunch of others are really neat little puzzles. loved that poo poo. the story is stupid crap tho lol That sounds cool. I did like that City keeps your gadgets from the end of Asylum available from the off. Looking forward to 100% Asylum so I can dig in with City this weekend. I think the Riddler mysteries are exactly what I want in a collectible hint. Finding a map that gives you approximate locations only. Then having to figure out if it’s a trophy or you need to examine something. The ones where you need to line up a question mark are particularly good
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Jun 15, 2022 10:57
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Yeah i always like perspective tricks and some riddler ones are cool. Another thing is that i have never given a single solitary poo poo about batman before and having all the riddles about bits of batman lore was cool cause i didnt know the answer instantly from knowing all that context and had to piece it all together in the moment by looking carefully, and it actually got me curious enough about some of it. since theres so much of it, it also makes the world seem a lot larger and more lively than the game really is This applies to asylum and city but obv i liked it in city more
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Jun 15, 2022 12:18
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Like did you even know batman had a villain called calendar man whose gimmick is killing on holidays? loving calendar man?? I bet he comes from those early years where there was like brick man or rainbow man or w/e, but you make him the bad guy from se7en crossed with hannibal and yeha its still a dumb gimmick stupid but it really works in there, and really makes it all seem a lot more grander
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Jun 15, 2022 12:22
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ArfJason posted:Like did you even know batman had a villain called calendar man whose gimmick is killing on holidays? loving calendar man?? he's actually a major character in the late 80s when they tried to make things all grimdark, lmao.
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Jun 15, 2022 13:06
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I'm on my phone or I would find the image where Batman is yelling "we have to stop the KGBeast from assassinating President Ronald Reagan!!"
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Jun 15, 2022 13:08
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I'd been playing some of all three Arkham games testing them because I thought the achievements in the xbox one "remakes" were busted, and the combat is definitely clunkier in Asylum. I loaded up a Catwoman challenge room in Knight and within a few tries remembering how to play I was able to easily put up a 100+ combo, now I'm in the middle of Asylum getting like 8 combos. Enemies aren't as patient and are happy to interrupt you during longer animations, in the later two games they pulled back on that and allow you to use the longer animations more to queue up actions in your head. It's pretty interesting to play them back to back like that. The thing about the knife guys is a good note on how they changed the combat over time.
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Jun 15, 2022 13:35
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ArfJason posted:Like did you even know batman had a villain called calendar man whose gimmick is killing on holidays? loving calendar man?? In the long Halloween comic book I’m reading at the minute there is a second calendar based mass murderer lol I also like how Asylum characterises riddler as obsessed with riddles and beating Batman but also a total moron. His answer to the classic sphinx riddle is “a baby whose legs you cut off”. A later one has a childhood logic contest he won by cheating in after years of his dad calling him a moron
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Jun 15, 2022 13:41
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the riddler basically just wants to play games and win them by cheating but of course Batman is smarter so he always ends up outside saying "riddle me THIS, garbage bin!" and breaking his foot.
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Jun 15, 2022 13:49
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elf help book posted:I'd been playing some of all three Arkham games testing them because I thought the achievements in the xbox one "remakes" were busted, and the combat is definitely clunkier in Asylum. I loaded up a Catwoman challenge room in Knight and within a few tries remembering how to play I was able to easily put up a 100+ combo, now I'm in the middle of Asylum getting like 8 combos. Enemies aren't as patient and are happy to interrupt you during longer animations, in the later two games they pulled back on that and allow you to use the longer animations more to queue up actions in your head. It's pretty interesting to play them back to back like that. I think the combat is 90% there in Asylum and the enemy AI is definitely part of that missing 10%. It's very uncommon an enemy lines up an attack when I am just exiting the takedown animation but it does happen. What I find more common an issue is when there are too many enemies nearby after a takedown. You should expect an attack to counter but they all decide to step back instead. I think this is because only one enemy can attack at a time in Asylum due to Batman being limited to single counters. It means losing a combo if you wait for a counter or alternatively deciding to attack and being interrupted. That leads into one of the other gaps in the combat I've found a bit of a bother. I understand they are doing all the animations dynamically and it's super impressive how good it looks. It's still a pain when some of Batman's moves take twice as long as others. Often the best move is to attack into someone running at you rather than wait for a counter. This generally works fine but it sucks to get interrupted because Batman decided to to a triple spin kick vs a throat punch. To be fair though I don't think these issues really matter much outside of the harder rounds of combat challenges.They're definitely something I'd like to see improve in later games and it sounds like they do. I only played two combat encounters in City before deciding to return and 100% Asylum but they were much faster paced. Mooks reliably sprinted at Batman and you could always rely on a guy to be attacking you instead of every single dude in kissing distance awkwardly shuffling their feet and backing off.
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Jun 15, 2022 14:00
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Bicyclops posted:the riddler basically just wants to play games and win them by cheating but of course Batman is smarter so he always ends up outside saying "riddle me THIS, garbage bin!" and breaking his foot. He calls you throughout going from “that one was easy to find” to screaming that “you must be cheating” towards the end. One of the last ones I found was a super out in the open one I somehow missed and he called to say “how did you find that! It was practically invisible” lol
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Jun 15, 2022 14:02
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EmmyOk posted:I think the combat is 90% there in Asylum and the enemy AI is definitely part of that missing 10%. It's very uncommon an enemy lines up an attack when I am just exiting the takedown animation but it does happen. What I find more common an issue is when there are too many enemies nearby after a takedown. You should expect an attack to counter but they all decide to step back instead. I think this is because only one enemy can attack at a time in Asylum due to Batman being limited to single counters. It means losing a combo if you wait for a counter or alternatively deciding to attack and being interrupted. lol yes two guys just standing there waiting juuuuust about to attack
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Jun 15, 2022 14:06
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I ended up reading arkham asylum and long halloween specifically cause of these games lol. Also making the riddler jigsaw and his entire motivation being that he wants to prove to you that hes smarter and he resorts to exasperated cheating is cool. Theres a riddle in city where the little minigame is rigged and you gotta figure out to disarm some poo poo beforehand by scanning with detective mode and i really wish they did that more, cause it gets the point across really well. Man what a great bunch of games. I should play knight but it seems like its bloated to hell
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Jun 15, 2022 14:08
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knight is a seriously great game, they had combat 100% locked down, the car stuff is fun and works well to add variety that an "open world" game needs to keep you going the plot feels like a giant tribute to every big batman story of the 90s and 00s, taking parts of all of them
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Jun 15, 2022 14:12
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elf help book posted:knight is a seriously great game, they had combat 100% locked down, the car stuff is fun and works well to add variety that an "open world" game needs to keep you going i really like knight the more i think about it after my playthrough. i did feel a bit overwhelmed by the amount of combat options it gives you with quick attacks all tied to your gadgets, and the amount of specific counterattacks you need to do to different bad guy types but it felt like the next and last logical step the combat system could be pushed to.
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Jun 15, 2022 14:36
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Knight is good. Hell I even like Origins
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Jun 15, 2022 14:36
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Nutmeg posted:i really like knight the more i think about it after my playthrough. i did feel a bit overwhelmed by the amount of combat options it gives you with quick attacks all tied to your gadgets, and the amount of specific counterattacks you need to do to different bad guy types but it felt like the next and last logical step the combat system could be pushed to. i was gonna joke the next and last logical step is swapping out characters on the fly mid combo like bayonetta weapons but then i remembered knight does that in some scenes as well
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Jun 15, 2022 14:58
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Being able to destroy weapons when you take down their users would be cool. Flying across the screen to hit a guy just as he bends down to pick up a dropped cattle prod and instantly stun me ftl
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Jun 15, 2022 15:43
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8. Batman: Arkham City Yep, pretty much a clear improvement on Asylum. Combat animations are gold and Riddler challenges real addictive. 9. A Hat in Time Forgot this was on my list until I purchased Psychonauts 2. It has the feel of an amateur game in a lot of ways, but still highly amusing and well worth playing.
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Jun 15, 2022 16:09
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ArfJason posted:I ended up reading arkham asylum and long halloween specifically cause of these games lol. knight has some cool stuff but yeah, I bounced off of it. I think I will come back to it at some point just because it seems at this point that it'll be the last good game in the series
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Jun 15, 2022 16:12
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EmmyOk posted:Being able to destroy weapons when you take down their users would be cool. Flying across the screen to hit a guy just as he bends down to pick up a dropped cattle prod and instantly stun me ftl They added that ability in City. The animation when you do it to riot shield dudes is really good
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Jun 15, 2022 20:26
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drat, you're all wanting me to give Arkham Origins another go. I played some of AA and all of AC ages ago (I wasn't sold on the combat in AA, but as you guys already mentioned, AC seemed to perfect it) but stopped AO not long after starting, for some reason. I think it was a bit buggy back then. Is it still worth going back to? I remember people disliking it compared to the previous Arkham games
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Jun 16, 2022 01:15
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Origins is fine its just like a giant dlc for City
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Jun 16, 2022 01:17
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elf help book posted:Origins is fine its just like a giant dlc for City Yeah. The story concept is cool and they got Babe’s character right
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Jun 16, 2022 01:24
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Almost finished my platinum, one stealth challenge and one combat challenge left. Boy the final combat challenge stinks though, way too many knife and cattle prod guys and two of the rounds have titans which make your combo basically impossible to raise
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Jun 16, 2022 01:27
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Yeah I gave up on 100% Asylum on Rumble Extreme, lousy titans. Still felt like a badass after 3 starring the electric floor one.
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Jun 16, 2022 01:32
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It’s a very stupid way to do the last challenge. The electric floor one was hard too, I passed it with 5 points lol. Gonna just dodge and then try leave the Titan stunned after it’s first Hp bar and see what happens
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Jun 16, 2022 01:34
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you're going to tear through their asses in city, emmy
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Jun 16, 2022 13:13
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welcome posted:Yeah I gave up on 100% Asylum on Rumble Extreme, lousy titans. Still felt like a badass after 3 starring the electric floor one. It was really difficult, ended up having a nuts first and second rounds somehow and was easy enough to land the plane after that. 
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Jun 16, 2022 18:57
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awesome job
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drat congrats
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Jun 16, 2022 19:00
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EmmyOk posted:It was really difficult, ended up having a nuts first and second rounds somehow and was easy enough to land the plane after that.  probably easier if you land the plane before playing
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Jun 16, 2022 19:01
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Sub-Actuality posted:
lmao but also good work emmy
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Jun 16, 2022 19:01
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Overall I'm glad I went back and did the 100% on Asylum before moving on to City, it left me more appreciative of Asylum than I had been. The Riddler mysteries were a lot of fun and mostly the perfect balance of discoverable for yourself without online guides or being too easy to find. The stealth challenges especially the Extreme ones where Gargoyles were disabled I expected to hate but ended up being very doable and taught me some neat takedowns and other stuff I never knew about. There was one total bullshit one that will go to hell though. The combat challenges I initially liked a lot but by the end the difficulty of them got so high it felt like the combat engine couldn't keep up. Particularly the last one felt like a showcase of all the game's shortcomings rather than an ultimate test of skill requiring every trick you know. Gonna start City tonight, and play it all weekend.
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Jun 16, 2022 19:01
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EmmyOk posted:It was really difficult, ended up having a nuts first and second rounds somehow and was easy enough to land the plane after that. Kickass.
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Jun 16, 2022 19:04
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Fungah! posted:lmao but also good work emmy elf help book posted:awesome job Bicyclops posted:drat congrats Thanks! Sub-Actuality posted:
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Jun 16, 2022 19:04
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Sub-Actuality posted:
lol
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Jun 16, 2022 19:05
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EmmyOk posted:Thanks! lol seriously congrats though that's impressive
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EmmyOk posted:It was really difficult, ended up having a nuts first and second rounds somehow and was easy enough to land the plane after that. drat dude nice
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EmmyOk posted:It was really difficult, ended up having a nuts first and second rounds somehow and was easy enough to land the plane after that. excellent work, welcome to the bat-club
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