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Batman: Arkham Asylum |OT| Steroids 'n Counters
- Thread starter DrBo42
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Dammit! My piece o' shit 360 gave me an E71 error when I was going to finish this game off. It happened right after a damn automatic update too. 
Gonna have to live a couple months without the 360 since I just paid to get my Wii repaired after a summer hiatus.
Doesn't really bother me since Batman is the only game I would be playing for the rest of the year; what bothers me is that Batman is the only game I would have played for the rest of the year and now I cant finish it...
Gonna have to live a couple months without the 360 since I just paid to get my Wii repaired after a summer hiatus. Doesn't really bother me since Batman is the only game I would be playing for the rest of the year; what bothers me is that Batman is the only game I would have played for the rest of the year and now I cant finish it...
jrricky said:Dammit! My piece o' shit 360 gave me an E71 error when I was going to finish this game off. It happened right after a damn automatic update too.
Doesn't really bother me since Batman is the only game I would be playing for the rest of the year; what bothers me is that Batman is the only game I would have played for the rest of the year and now I cant finish it...
it's just fear gas!
MisterAnderson
Member
Dirtyshubb said:
To save time play the game on hard mode. But then again you will have to play the game twice anyway to get all of the trophies (because there are good and evil trophies) so if you want start off on normal go ahead. Hard mode wasn't particularly difficult for me, though.
Working on my next (evil) play through, skipping the extra side mission to do all the story ones. The hardest trophy is not hard at all it's just tedious and it involves collecting every blast shard in the city and there are 350 of them if I remember correctly.... I need like 7 more.
Son of Godzilla
Banned
Comic makes no sense, you can't even use your gadgets hanging upside down.
Pay... to repair a 360... ? I dun understand.jrricky said:Dammit! My piece o' shit 360 gave me an E71 error when I was going to finish this game off. It happened right after a damn automatic update too.
Doesn't really bother me since Batman is the only game I would be playing for the rest of the year; what bothers me is that Batman is the only game I would have played for the rest of the year and now I cant finish it...
SpeedingUptoStop
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Batarangs!Son of Godzilla said:
KuwabaraTheMan
Banned
Got this for the PC yesterday, and I've been loving the hell out of this. I knew I would ever since the demo came out, but man is this game awesome. This is everything that every licensed game ever made should have been. It's a beautiful love letter to the Batman mythos that treats everything with respect, manages to recreate the experience and make the player feel like they actually are Batman (no easy feat), and above all it's just a damn awesome game. Rocksteady really did an amazing job with this.
Buckethead
Banned
I've been playing this game so much I start seeing the real world in Detective Mode.
+ Tons of variety/Gameplay
+ Great feel to weapons
+ Boss Fights
+ Physics
+ Scarecrow
+ Mark Hamill
- Last Boss Fight
- Too many villains
- Detective Mode
- Kevin Conroy sucked at times
The game is pretty darn good looking but you have to use DM so much you miss out on it. I would have preferred something like ODST which is like a 50% overlay and outlines. That way you could see more of the prettiness.
Would have preferred less villains so they could have allowed for more Joker time and have a better build to each, but what the hell. It was still awesome.
Also, doing the combat challenges and good lord are they hard. Need Silver + Gold and the 40x Combo then we're 1000g for this baby.
+ Tons of variety/Gameplay
+ Great feel to weapons
+ Boss Fights
+ Physics
+ Scarecrow
+ Mark Hamill
- Last Boss Fight
- Too many villains
- Detective Mode
- Kevin Conroy sucked at times
The game is pretty darn good looking but you have to use DM so much you miss out on it. I would have preferred something like ODST which is like a 50% overlay and outlines. That way you could see more of the prettiness.
Would have preferred less villains so they could have allowed for more Joker time and have a better build to each, but what the hell. It was still awesome.
Also, doing the combat challenges and good lord are they hard. Need Silver + Gold and the 40x Combo then we're 1000g for this baby.
The new challenge maps are a little underwhelming. I can't really complain, considering that they're free, but I do hope to get something more significant before they stop adding DLC to the same, even if I have to pay for it. Also, I hope that Rocksteady will make a few more Joker maps, playing as the Clown Prince is a blast but I've already beaten all the maps quite a few times.
I really like the two new maps this week, much better than last week's IMO. The predator map isn't all that difficult, anytime I don't need to go on youtube and follow someone's walk through is an A+ in my book, and the combat challenge is a nice version of shock and awe. Really enjoyed the new ones and I got my Silver trophy for the predator challenges. I don't think I'll ever get it for the combat ones though.
I hope there is more DLC this year, I really would love a costume pack for story and challenge mode.
I hope there is more DLC this year, I really would love a costume pack for story and challenge mode.
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Deleted member 30609
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posted this on the Idle Thumbs forums a few days ago, just some final-ish thoughts on the game:
I finished this earlier today, and really loved it.
I was a little luke-warm toward it during some of the beginning sections, but by the end of it I was understanding the praise the game had been getting.
some of the little touches toward the end of the game really elevated the game from good to great. for instance (minor situational spoiler, not story related),
oh, and maybe I'm alone, but it was nice to see the return of the old-school, pattern-based, boss fight. I could have done without
but otherwise, they were mostly well done.
I get the feeling that this will be one of those games that I enjoy even more upon repeat playthroughs, like, for instance, Half-Life 2. Playing through games that are as well paced as this more than once nearly always makes me appreciate them even more.
I finished this earlier today, and really loved it.
I was a little luke-warm toward it during some of the beginning sections, but by the end of it I was understanding the praise the game had been getting.
some of the little touches toward the end of the game really elevated the game from good to great. for instance (minor situational spoiler, not story related),
I really loved it when the game had you return to intensive care, and complete that room from the demo, except without gargoyles. It really felt like the whole game had been a slow build to something like that, and when the training wheels were effectively removed and I was left to use all the techniques I'd learnt throughout the game without the safety net that was the ever so convenient gargoyles, the excellent design (movement, level design, enemy AI) really shone through.
oh, and maybe I'm alone, but it was nice to see the return of the old-school, pattern-based, boss fight. I could have done without
the constant barrage of Bane clones toward the end of the game,
I get the feeling that this will be one of those games that I enjoy even more upon repeat playthroughs, like, for instance, Half-Life 2. Playing through games that are as well paced as this more than once nearly always makes me appreciate them even more.
Peronthious
Member
SpeedingUptoStop
will totally Facebook friend you! *giggle* *LOL*
My friend explained the result of those Amadeus Arkham recordings....
man, that shit sounds dumb.
man, that shit sounds dumb.
Buckethead
Banned
SpeedingUptoStop said:
Hey captain spoils, you should tag your spoiler. Do you have a spoiler on your car?
On a serious note, how in god's name do you do the combat challenges. I've done 2 but I can't do ones that aren't the 18,000.
Son of Godzilla
Banned
Explaitiate! I didn't feel like doing all the friggin riddler challenges, so I dint.SpeedingUptoStop said:
And in other Batman news: I got The Killing Joke from the library. It kinda sucked. Been too played out lately to make any impact.
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Unconfirmed Member
Buckethead said:
I don't agree with the other negatives you listed, but Kevin Conroy's voice acting did seem pretty bad compared to the rest of the cast especially in the parts where Batman was just thinking to himself.
Buckethead
Banned
Zefah said:
The Negs weren't in general, I just thought they could have been tweaked a bit, e.g.: detective mode. It's an awfully pretty game but you see most of it through the DM which is unfortunate.
But as far as Conroy, it sounds like he was straight reading the script as he delivered some lines at times.
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Deleted member 30609
Unconfirmed Member
just a random thing, but I fucking hate it how UE3 games force you to lock in your graphical settings and key bindings prior to booting up the game. It's so backwards for an engine that is supposed to be so modern and shiny.
Finally got the game today after waiting close to 2 weeks for Amazon's shipping to come through (FedEx SmartPost = fail). Only put in an hour but good fun so far. Don't know if it's just me but there are some lines by Conroy that just don't sound like Batman to me. He's spot on in the confrontations with enemies, but when he's thinking to himself for detective mode, it sometimes sounds like a different person. Might just be me.
I'm also not sure if I'm gonna regret setting the difficulty to normal. I assumed this would let you change difficulties on the fly but just found out you can't. Just at the beginning now so I can hold my own but Batman loses health pretty fast if I'm not paying attention.
I'm also not sure if I'm gonna regret setting the difficulty to normal. I assumed this would let you change difficulties on the fly but just found out you can't. Just at the beginning now so I can hold my own but Batman loses health pretty fast if I'm not paying attention.
67.5k on my first tryDarunia said:
Was ranked 18, dunno anymore. Haven't been able to reach 50k ever since :lolWell I wouldn't change to hsrd then if I were you. Hard id pretty hard, at least if you go that route the very first playthrough (I'd guess). Use counter a lotSlickVic said:
SpeedingUptoStop
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Man, I have no idea how anybody racks up anything more than the like the minimum Bat Rating on any of these combat rooms. I'm going nuts, splitting them up, batclawing them, bataranging them all kinds of shit. I'd probably get a two bat rating on the extreme rooms if i didn't die in the 4th round like everytime. What's my game missing, man?
Darkflight
Member
Ha, that insanely long grapple looks ridiculous :lolPeronthious said:
SpeedingUptoStop
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I jsut spent an entire round of Shock and Awe just pulling people over the railing with the batclaw. Every single one:lol
Man, Ring Out's should be worth 10x as much as they are. >:-X
Man, Ring Out's should be worth 10x as much as they are. >:-X
Ground pound themSpeedingUptoStop said:
At least in the first & second round. Try to ground pound the last 3 or 4 guys every round with a high combo. If you manage to pound 3 guys with a 30x combo, you get at least 9000 points. In that infinite enemy map, it's entirely possible to pound the first 10+ guys before it gets a pretty sweaty (it's harder when it gets more crowded than that).SpeedingUptoStop
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Aaaah I finally beat Sewer Bat Extreme! Exhilarating! I figured out that I wasn't doing the takedown maneuver (Y+B) in my combos, I didn't even realized that existed. Shit was crazy, they throw a fuck ton of guys at you!
Minamu said:Well I wouldn't change to hsrd then if I were you. Hard id pretty hard, at least if you go that route the very first playthrough (I'd guess). Use counter a lot
Yeah I'd never dream of playing on hard. I can't even remember a game I've beaten on hard except a few campaigns on L4D (and that was definitely with a lot of help from the people I was playing with).
Just finished on normal and my GOTY, but its like after Killer Croc part the game went a bit south, I think its a combination of same enemy fights, too many villian fights, going thru the catacombs again and the next to last fight before the joker seems worthless and did not add anything to the final fight.
It wasn't so bad the second way through though. You can see when enemies attack pretty fast even without the symbols over their heads.SlickVic said:
I think I dreamt about that Killer Croc lair last night, although it was much darker & human skeletons inside the walls :lol There was even a small crocodile looking creature crawling through the walls turning kids insane with his creepy voice :lol It had about 10 layers of bandages & news papers over its body, kinda like Hush, though xD
Man I must done something right this morning.
I beat Sewer Bat extreme with 78k points ending on a 68 hit combo
I beat Jungle Extreme with 55 k
and
I beat Shock and Awe extreme 37k ( after 6 tries lol ) !!!
100% completion!!! Now I just need to beat the game on hard and I'm done!!
I beat Sewer Bat extreme with 78k points ending on a 68 hit combo
I beat Jungle Extreme with 55 k
and
I beat Shock and Awe extreme 37k ( after 6 tries lol ) !!!
100% completion!!! Now I just need to beat the game on hard and I'm done!!
Jonsoncao
Banned
amazon is selling this game for $47 with no tax and free shipping
only $42 with ECA discount
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only $42 with ECA discount
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Finished this game this morning and god dang I love it soooo much. Exploring + Brawler is a perfect combination. Killing the
was quite painful but worked out a system of evading to the back of the room, grapple 3 goons then evading to the other side and punch out the goons that are just standing there, rinse+repeat
Now all that is left is the Challenge Rooms, Finish the game on Hard and defeat a Titan with no batarangs. The latter should be fairly easy!
20 guys outside the party
Now all that is left is the Challenge Rooms, Finish the game on Hard and defeat a Titan with no batarangs. The latter should be fairly easy!
jaundicejuice
Member
I've been playing through Arkham Asylum all damn day, and some of the next/this(?) morning as well, and the game just continues to impress at each and every turn. The combat is so much fun, the encounters with the villains are epic, the layered world that expands with each new ability or item you acquire, the exploration is so rewarding with the Riddler challenges and asylum inmate interviews you can uncover which give you with experience, unlock challenges and are just fucking cool to listen to or read through. Did I mention that the combat that is just so much fun? Fuck man, Rocksteady nailed it. They didn't just make the ultimate Batman or superhero game, they made what is easily one of the best games to come out in a good long while.
I'm just heading towards what I'm guessing is my final encounter with
but I've got to call it a night.
I'm just heading towards what I'm guessing is my final encounter with
Poison Ivy
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Deleted member 30609
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I didn't have a problem with the Croc level, I actually really liked it. It was a pretty simple section, but man, it was tense.
But yeah, the Bane clones toward the end weren't cool. I mean, I dealt with them just fine, but there wasn't anything new or interesting about any of them, other than the addition of enemies, which was more frustrating than anything else.
It wasn't enough to sour my time with the game, though, in fact, until this thread, I hadn't really given it much thought.
But yeah, the Bane clones toward the end weren't cool. I mean, I dealt with them just fine, but there wasn't anything new or interesting about any of them, other than the addition of enemies, which was more frustrating than anything else.
It wasn't enough to sour my time with the game, though, in fact, until this thread, I hadn't really given it much thought.
jaundicejuice
Member
At first I didn't know you could or should toss bat-a-rangs at Killer Croc's collar so I would just turn tail and run every time he popped up out of the water. I liked his section because Killer Croc is this force you can't necessarily stop, just narrowly avoid and stave off. That whole section in the catacombs was just really intense.
