double nine posted:

So this annoys me: Batman's whole shtick is supposed to be non-lethal - he'll break every bone in your body but you'll live. Whether you want to is another matter entirely.

But those are rockets your vehicle fires, as in explosives and death and carnage and good old ultra-violence. There is no way you don't kill dozens of people this way yet the narrative still tries to shove the bullshit "no kills" down your throat like it's the latest treat. It pisses me off - go non-lethal or just forget the whole "no kills" and go full-hog murder. This middle ground is just annoying.

Psychotic Weasel posted:

It's just like Deus Ex, where you could deal with people using a non-lethal weapon then chuck their unconscious body face down in the water or into a room full of poison gas and all was still fine.

I mean, they were alive when you neutralized them, so everything else doesn't count.

Tasteful Dickpic posted:

A Death of Superman game, where you play all four of the replacements, would be great.

Although that'd just be Spiderman: Shattered Dimensions.

dscruffy1 posted:

Fun fact: they're called Slam Rounds in game!

Anyway it's time to start getting busy (doing sidequests)

A Busy Night/Polsy

New profiles: The Riddler, Jack Ryder, Lucius Fox

FicusArt posted:

Batman like, always comes across as more distractingly infallible than Superman to me. Cause he's super prone to being written as unquestionably stronger than Superheroes, often with other heroes being written as idiots.

Like a badly written Superman story is just a boring story about superman being an dumb unstoppable beat stick, but badly written Batman story will be about like, how everyone, including like all of the Justice League, loves and fears this jerk with expensive toys who is openly hostile to everyone else, and also all of the other superheroes are idiots and if only batman had their powers he'd use them right.

citybeatnik posted:

All Star Superman's a pretty excellent one. Compare that with All Star Batman.

JT Jag posted:

"What would Mom and Dad have thought about this?"

citybeatnik posted:

All Star Batman does have that hilarious bit where Batman meets with Green Lantern, wearing a yellow batsuit while Robin frantically tries to finish painting the last bit of the room yellow and offering GL a drink of lemonaid.

Superman: Birthright's another good one. But I was always the kid that preferred Supes over Bats from the start. For one thing, only one of them helped to destroy the KKK in the actual, non-comic, real world.

Thesaya posted:

I am guessing that there was a reason for painting everything yellow?

anilEhilated posted:

Nightwing is busy elsewhere. IIRC he was in AC so this is apparently a continuity where both of them are still around.

hard counter posted:

Yes - and to be honest even though it's kind of a grating characterization the comics worked decades for that development (both intentionally and unintentionally). From the 80s on Bats went from being a relatively normal hero with some obsessive compulsive tendencies to being a right rear end in a top hat (I think Morrison fixed him a couple years ago though). Bats slowly became darker and meaner after suffering through a venom addiction, losing a robin, a batgirl, getting his back broken, having Gotham face a major earthquake then a contagion back-to-back, getting framed for murder and so on and so on. By the end of it all he was a rather loathsome person.

Yvonmukluk posted:

I'm not talking about the diegetic explanation. I'm talking about why, exactly, the writers decided to put Tim & Barbara together when they could have probably had Dick instead. They could have had Nightwing showin up in Robin's place if they'd wanted.

Waffleman_ posted:

I know there's not gonna be a Lego Batman skin and that makes me sad because Lego Movie Batman was the best movie Batman.

Toes posted:

I'm recalling this from the Justice League cartoon, but wasn't his plan simply to disable, and not to kill, the other members? I'm pretty sure it was a secret there too but it was revealed to the others which is what caused a shitstorm.

IBlameRoadSuess posted:

I personally like the Harley/Ivy thing, along with the way she was portrayed in some of the more recent comics without Joker around, where she actually gets some positive relationships with other people. There was one where she visited someone in the hospital after they had kids? It might have been the injustice comic?

anilEhilated posted:

I'd love to see an Arkham Beyond game, but that particular universe is probably forgotten and as such bad marketing.

RareAcumen posted:

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.



What is this garbage?

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)

Omobono posted:

On the other hand, Bats fearing the Joker? Every single time he was exposed to the toxin in Asylum he fought it off, to the point Scarecrow was actually scared. Bats doesn't fear villains, that's like half the point of Batman.

anilEhilated posted:

I thought so too, but this game actually mostly uses him pretty well (unlike Origins where he pretty much destroys the story).

CuwiKhons posted:

Yep, Joker's interest in Batman starts with Batman saving Joker's life, even after Joker has killed countless people already. The cutscene where Joker is baffled and angry about being saved, where he has a perfect chance to shoot Batman in the head but doesn't because his obsession has just begun, that is my favorite cutscene of this entire game series. I don't like that Joker invaded the plot of Origins when we were promised a Black Mask story, but to their credit, they did Joker very well.

PhazonLink posted:

Things the batsuit will never have:

1)Anti gas.
2) anti hypno/illusion.*

*Comic book science says that video and audio feed/recordings can still get you. Maybe. Depends on the writer. and the power level of the hypno/illusion guy. Same thing with magic based hypno/illusions.

CuwiKhons posted:

Nah, Deadpool was originally a grim and gritty copy of Deathstroke. It wasn't until later writers made him funny that Deadpool was decent.

Waffleman_ posted:

Hey, here's something:

Miller's already planning on a fourth.

Aces High posted:

I can't see Frank Miller writing that because it won't be this https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K2p02DfyzCE

TooMuchAbstraction posted:

I dunno, he needs to come up with some more material. There's only so many ways he can say "I'm smarter than you neener neener" without getting repetitive.

It is true that Scarecrow got sidelined scarily easily (), but I guess that's open-world-with-a-million-sidequest games for you.

Felinoid posted:

If that would work, I guess you can trim it down a bit, but that would (or at least should) probably result in a mistrial if the jury blatantly ignored evidence and an open court confession of guilt. I can't imagine our legal system is so broken that a jury can simply conspire to let a murderer free because they feel like it, without some sort of cover up.