#249

Wasn’t part of the reason it got quite a negative reaction when it was launched down to poor PC performance and people lost their shit that it wasn’t made by Rocksteady? Not as bad as when Knight launched but I’m sure I remember loads of complaints about dodgy frame rates and the like.

I love the Arkham series - best on-screen version of Batman there’s been IMO. Diminishing returns from the absolute perfection of Asylum, but even Knight was a good base game with an interesting story. Sadly the batmobile bits weren’t great. And those tank fights were :grimacing:

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#250

OH BOY CANT WAIT TO SEE MY NEXT TARGETS TO TAKE OUT WITH CLEVER BAT TACTICS!!!

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What do you mean I have to deal with tanks in a wave based formation again!!! THE STREETS ARE TOO NARROW ALFRED!!! ALFREEED!!"! DONT U HANG UP ON ME… fuck sake

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#251

Also fuck the explanation of ‘dont worry batman, these are remote controlled tanks… we can blow these up’

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#252

didn’t really like Origins myself, but that was because I replayed City to get the platinum trophy and only finished that a few days before Origins came out. given half of the map is the same iirc then it dragged a bit. my bad tbh.

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#253

Seriously, what were they thinking?

ROCKSTEADY: “We’ve got one of the best, most-free-flowing combat systems ever.”
BEBOP: “What else?”
ROCKSTEADY: “A super-fun predator system with loads of gadgets!”
BEBOP: "And…?
ROCKSTEADY: “A big city to explore, a great rogue’s gallery and one of the most iconic superheroes ever.”
BEBOP: “Uh-huh.”
ROCKSTEADY: “Detective mode?”
BEBOP: “…”
ROCKSTEADY: “um… Atari Jaguar standard tank-game?”
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#254

The poor PC port didn’t help but the console versions got a lukewarm reception too. I think mostly it was down to it being too similar to City and too soon after it. And yeah it not being done by the main team didn’t help - it felt like they were trying to make an annual franchise out of it and people weren’t down with that. Which was kinda understandable - if I didn’t come to it much later I might have felt a bit of Bat fatigue. But on it’s own merits it’s really good.

So much about Knight annoyed me. They clearly spent too much money and time on the Batmobile not to use it constantly.

“Riddle me this Batman - can you drive really fast?”
“That’s…not a riddle Ed.”
“Like…really fast.”
“You’re not even trying are you?”
“Just get in the car Batman.”

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#255

Oh christ I’d forgotten about those driving Riddler challenges.

"I’VE BUILT A FIENDISH OBSTACLE COURSE FOR YOU TO TACKLE IN THE CAR THAT YOU ARE CONVENIENTLY DRIVING! THREE LAPS SHOULD DO IT! HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!

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#256

You know what I want in my Batman game? Slow Vehicle platforming segments

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#257

“I will once and for all prove I am smarter than Batman! Frustrating race courses somehow built beneath Gotham by the Riddler: fucking loads. By Batman: presumably none. Suck it Batface!”

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#258

Miyamoto should be taking notes for the next Mario game.

#259

Mario as a tank > Batman as a tank

Mario Odysee proved this

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#260

I would pay good money for a game where batman took control of a tank by throwing his cowl at it.

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#261

Oh great, Blizzard reveal that Soldier 76 is Gay in an overwatch short and I now get to watch a bunch of right wing privileged gamers cry

#262

I wouldn’t mind if we could have just one gruff shooty game man who wasn’t gay. Just one.

Sadly we may never see a straight white angry gun shooter in games. We certainly won’t see several in that very same game. What a world.

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#263

I should’ve said Bi-Sexual

Its probably because hes the call of duty guy in their game that it probably hit a nerve with a certain part of the uhhhm demographic

#264

Tbh I think Blizzard went too far by demanding that every straight man who picks him go out and touch a penis.

There’s probably a discussion to be had about how they seem to decide this stuff at random and whether it counts as tokenism but hey representation is cool and I do love that they picked the Gamerbro bait guy to be bi. It’s like they figured they’d get shit for having a non-straight character anyway, may as well go for maximum irkage.

#265

ahhh! i missed this!

you can translate the page, interview with art jensen, a few clues about the new playdead game.

for me, inside is one of those works of art that push certain emotional buttons i don’t have the language to adequately describe. i harp on about that studio a lot but inside is probably in my top 3 or 4 games of this gen. this incredible mixture of sadness and darkness and horror. can’t wait for this next one.

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#266

Very much excited for residential nastiness the second version two

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#267

resident evil would have been a great title for a 90s gangsta rap album

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#268

as well as those mentioned above i’m also spottin:

virginia, hitman, d*** s***s, pony island, doom 2016, aladdin, uridium (probably), dino crisis 1, inside, observer, mgs5, superhot, ass creed… black flag???, galaxians, donkey kong & donkey kong country, shovel knight, asteroids, the evil within

and… some fighting game or other, toad from mario games look it’s toad, something that looks like ghosts n goblins but i’m pretty sure they’ve done that already, some rhythm game, some other others i should probably recognise idk

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