Batman: Arkham City - Page 12

Yeah, the Harley's Revenge DLC was very, very disappointing.

Ugh, and I hated the Steel Mill location.  Too fucking confusing.  Guess I'll skip this then.  I've gone about 1/4 of the way through the + game, although I haven't been picking it up as much recently since I finished everything else.  And I guess I just suck at the side Riddler mission things.  I can never get all the "trophies" in each one.  Especially when you're supposed to get like 24,000 points in the fighting portions.

Thanks for the critiques, I was wondering about this but this helps me wait on this until it's on sale for half off. It doesn't sound like it's worth 800 MS points but for 400 I think it does.

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Originally Posted by Martianman 

Ugh, and I hated the Steel Mill location.  Too fucking confusing.  Guess I'll skip this then.  I've gone about 1/4 of the way through the + game, although I haven't been picking it up as much recently since I finished everything else.  And I guess I just suck at the side Riddler mission things.  I can never get all the "trophies" in each one.  Especially when you're supposed to get like 24,000 points in the fighting portions.

24k is actually easy, the 70 or so k needed for the later ones is a bitch. If you're having trouble though, just stick to basics in the fight, don't use the takedowns as that will slow you down from that fast mode you get when you get enough hits. So just try the normal attacks, the dodge and the counter, if you focus on those three things you should do pretty well. Also, to get your hit count up, stun an enemy and jack him up but you can get hit while doing that so be prepared to counter but after that you can go right back to smacking the stunned guy.

Well this seemed pretty cool and there was some good atmosphere, but the first level I played, the Steel Mill, was glum and interminable and I soon wanted to get back out on the streets flying around, fighting crime, being the god damned Batman. Instead it seemed like I was trapped, with a series of frustrating puzzles and the ever annoying Harley Quinn's voice screeching in the background.

I borrowed the game and I think I'm just going to have to return it, and get it out again when I have more patience. It looks like there's a great game in there somewhere, but I'd rather skip this Steel Mill kind of stuff.

The game's great, it's just that the world is the annoying combination of "GRIM AND BADASS BATMAN" and "Cartoony Batman" that never gels well whatsoever.

I really did just pull a Homer and imagine some better world and storyline while playing it.

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Originally Posted by LaurenOrtega 

The game's great, it's just that the world is the annoying combination of "GRIM AND BADASS BATMAN" and "Cartoony Batman" that never gels well whatsoever.

 

 

I really did just pull a Homer and imagine some better world and storyline while playing it.

When I was tooling around the city I kept imagining myself in the Narrows, hanging out on rooftops, tossing spare gadgets to Joffrey or something.

The gameplay mechanics are a thing of beauty, and for scattered moments--Victor Zsasz, The Penguin, the League of Shadows, The Mad Hatter, the Monarch Theater easter egg, and the very, very ending[The Joker's death, and how fucking creepy the song sung over the credits is]--it's brilliant.

Time is being far less kind to the rest of the game as it has been to Asylum, outside of the boss fights.

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Originally Posted by Justin Clark 

The gameplay mechanics are a thing of beauty, and for scattered moments--Victor Zsasz, The Penguin, the League of Shadows, The Mad Hatter, the Monarch Theater easter egg, and the very, very ending[The Joker's death, and how fucking creepy the song sung over the credits is]--it's brilliant.

Time is being far less kind to the rest of the game as it has been to Asylum, outside of the boss fights.

Maybe you need to play the first game before you can get a hang on City, but I found many of the mechanics slightly too fussy, and for me it was hard to switch weapons in the midst of a fight, pull off combos, ETC.

I hated the ending part SO SO SO much.

But it was DARK, GRITTY, and REALISTIC. What, do you think Batman is for children or something?

Yes.

Just so we're all on the same page, the ending shows that Batman was secretly in love with the Joker, right?  Because that's what I got out of it.

Pretty much.

He evidently cares more for the guy who's killed one of his sidekicks than the woman who(depending on continuity) CARRIED HIS CHILD!

Given what we see from earlier in the game, he doesn't care all that much about his sidekicks either.  I doubt he cares that much about his child as well.

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Originally Posted by Justin Clark 

The gameplay mechanics are a thing of beauty, and for scattered moments--Victor Zsasz, The Penguin, the League of Shadows, The Mad Hatter, the Monarch Theater easter egg, and the very, very ending[The Joker's death, and how fucking creepy the song sung over the credits is]--it's brilliant.

Time is being far less kind to the rest of the game as it has been to Asylum, outside of the boss fights.

I don't know if I'd agree with that.  I just played through the game for a second time and had a better experience than my first runthrough.  Both storylines are very silly by the end, but I was much more interested in Arkham City's finale than Arkham Asylum's.

I'm also much better with City's combat system (for reasons I'm not sure of).  I struggled to put long combos together in the first game, but this time around I could pull off 40+ runs with a variety of enemy types at will.

The game is really a pitch-perfect example of everything that's wrong with some aspects of modern day Batman.

I never finished this (wasn't there a glut of great games when this was released?), and now I'm afraid I'd have to start the damn thing over again just to re-learn how everything works, thus losing the twenty-or-so hours I'd already put into it. Sigh.

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Originally Posted by LaurenOrtega 

The game is really a pitch-perfect example of everything that's wrong with some aspects of modern day Batman.

It's dark, gritty, and a bit childish and stupid?  Yeah -- it's the excellent Animated Series trying to be Frank Miller.

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Originally Posted by LaurenOrtega 

The game is really a pitch-perfect example of everything that's wrong with some aspects of modern day Batman.

Which is ironic, since Nolan's grim 'n gritty Batman is a much nicer guy than Arkham City Batman.

He really is.

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Originally Posted by neoolong 

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Which is ironic, since Nolan's grim 'n gritty Batman is a much nicer guy than Arkham City Batman.

Arkham City Batman is a fucking douche. Sure, it's sometimes warranted, but he's a douche all the same.

As someone who really dislikes how obnoxious Batman can be about his no-kill policy, I wasn't a fan of the ending either.

Believe me the sarcasm can't get any more close to the truth.