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Batman Arkham City |OT| Smashin' Faces, Glidin' Places
- Thread starter Vire
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I swear these Riddler challenges are dumb as fuck.
Whoever at Rocksteady designed this is a piece of shit.
Yeah yeah, I know it's completely optional but I want to complete this game 100%, and there's also like ten different achievements tied to this Riddler fetch quest.
This one on Amusment Mile, you see the trophy in clear sight in a tiny metal maze, problem is there are about a dozen proximity mines inside and your disruptor can only explode two before it has a lengthy recharge process. So you're standing in place for literally over ten minutes just to crawl a few feet. How is this fun in any way whatsoever? It's not.
Yeah yeah, I know it's completely optional but I want to complete this game 100%, and there's also like ten different achievements tied to this Riddler fetch quest.
The Xtortionist
Member
Sean said:
Just disable two of them and run through the rest.
Square Triangle
Member
Sean said:
So you've gotta work for that achievement number. More props to them.
The Antitype
Banned
How in the name of fuck do you complete the Catwoman claw-climb physical challenge? What building in Gotham gives you 8 leaps?
Forget it, just scurried up the ferris wheel.
Forget it, just scurried up the ferris wheel.
crimzonflame
Member
Cant believe I finished the main story so quickly. Good game, but not 10/10. Maybe a 8.5/10. I probably finish a few more sidequests, dont know if I have in me to bother with the Riddler stuff.
BeautifulMemory
Member
I hate the ones with the baton more, always fucks up my comboCheska said:
The Antitype
Banned
Cheska said:
Guys with the fucking knives are the worst, you have to just hold back and Y for like 10 seconds and wait. Annoying as shit.
JohnOfMars
Banned
Baton is sucky, but manageable until one of the dudes with armor picks the baton up. Those guys f*ck me over.The Antitype said:
I'm starting to use the quick-fire ice grenades to immobilize baton & armor guys. Helps a lotto thin the field, so I can give them the special attention they deserve.
Saren is Bad
Member
The Antitype said:
Upgrade counter to takedown when they swipe
The Antitype
Banned
Saren is Bad said:
Oh I have, and I've tried to get it to work, but it just won't. You're supposed to release Y between their slashes right?
I keep trying it and keep getting punished. Now I just evade and use the cape-stun, cause I'm tired of feeling like an idiot.
nismogrendel
Member
The Antitype said:
I think I did that one on the bank. Aim the whip at a gargoyle and you should have enough space to do 8 leaps.
I'm like 90% sure I got that one on the bank.
BeautifulMemory
Member
You ate supposed to release the button in between the slashes. For the sake of combos, I don't use itThe Antitype said:
The Antitype
Banned
Ok, another Catwoman related question.
I'm trying to collect all the trophies of hers that I marked. How do I get back into the Steel Mill using her, since I can't use ice floats?
I'm trying to collect all the trophies of hers that I marked. How do I get back into the Steel Mill using her, since I can't use ice floats?
Lord_Byron28
Member
This is my feeling as well. However, I'd do the sidequests most of them are very top notch(minus the riddler trophy stuff). I wish Rocksteady had focused a little more on the main story and a little less on sidequests though. For some reason a lot of my sidequests that were supposed to go on throughout the game didn't open up or continue until after I finished the game.crimzonflame said:
The Xtortionist
Member
The Antitype said:
The big hole
Why does it seem I've run out of Riddler spies to interrogate? I've got 2 more trophies and 1 more riddle, all in the Industrial sector, yet I haven't seen a Riddler spy in forever. Do they sometimes only show up in specific areas? That hasn't seemed the case before now. I've had some in the far west areas reveal secrets in the far east areas.
Aaronology
Member
Not gonna lie, I probably just spent 10 solid minutes
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gagging/ungagging Harley
If there's no more spies, that means everything they can reveal to you has already been done. So, time to check your map, especially inside the Steel Mill.Luthos said:
That said, I'm not sure this riddle showed up on the map, but it also may have been for Amusement Mile not Industrial, can't remember:
Look out to the sea and the island with Arkham Asylum is there.
Cheska said:
Quick fire Batarangs do the trick with armed thugs in big groups. Freeze blast if it's two of them on a rooftop. I also make use of explosive gel if it gets a bit much. And a quick R1/RB to bail out and regroup. I also do a run and slide and line launcher on occasion.
Freeze blast also helps a lot with common thugs, where one of them is a Riddler spy. Freeze the spy, beat up the thugs, and interrogate frozen spy.
The disruptor was handy
on the way to the movie theatre with all the snipers
NotTheGuyYouKill
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Ezenzer said:
I bet you did.
I hate armed enemies on a combat, being, knives, machine guns... whatever... but
oh god oh god oh god!!!!! It is so satisfying.
And about those riddler trophies. At first I was like "blah, this things are so distracting" but when you start to figure out the different solutions... WOW!!!!!
when you get the breaking weapons move
And about those riddler trophies. At first I was like "blah, this things are so distracting" but when you start to figure out the different solutions... WOW!!!!!
SpeedingUptoStop
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I never got this
move? Atleast I don't think so, it never shows up in my tutorial thing in place of B+AA for shield dudes on 360.
breaking weapons
Square Triangle
Member
You have to buy the upgrade when you level upSpeedingUptoStop said:
Incendiary
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Ezenzer said:
Yup I did that too.
If you know what I mean.
SpeedingUptoStop
will totally Facebook friend you! *giggle* *LOL*
Last I checked, there was still two upgrades that were still blocked for me,Square Triangle said:
though those might've been for the last Freeze thing I just picked up
ilikesanta
Member
I finished the story today, man what a great game. i usually don't like brawlers, but the combat in this game is so good. Loved everything about this game, I only wish it was longer. Well not really with BF3 this week, then UC3, and Skyrim after that.... So it was probably just the right length. Might need to get the DLC when it comes out.
overcast said:
You'll see him throughout the city. Check the rooftops. One of his locations is the building across (north side) of the Ace Chemicals building.
And for an easy trophy/achievement,
throw a remote Batarang at him
SpeedingUptoStop
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Hah, wow, I didn't unlockvixlar said:
Bat swarm
RyanardoDaVinci
Member
Cheska said:Oh wow, thefight is no joke. Having a hard time getting past thatJoker and henchmen
For the hammer guy, do the beatdown on him and jump over him when he swings or when a henchman attacks -- do NOT counter them -- and he'll go down in less than 30sec. The titan is a little more difficult, but you should be in superfocus mode after taking down hammer-dude, so zip around knocking down any thugs with that before attempting the superstun or until you get hit
overcast said:
2nd time I found him he was on a roof just East of the museum; then somewhere around to courthouse, and Ivy's hotel thing, I think. Just glide around with DickMode and look for him standing around.
XANDER CAGE
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overcast said:
Can you get 100% without NG+?
The Xtortionist
Member
BigJiantRobut said:
Nope
100% is 100% in main story, 100% in new game plus, all upgrades, all Riddler's Revenge medals as Batman.
crimzonflame
Member
Is
hinted at or mentioned in the game?
Nightwing
I'm having more fun trophy hunting than I did with the main story itself. The high-pressure
story mode is incompatible with the "hey fart around this open world!" format.
Plus, any time I came across a tricky Riddler trophy I didn't know if I was just truly tricky, or of I didn't have the right gadget yet. Now, knowing that I have the gadgets to get all of them, I'm enjoying myself a lot more.
Only 176 / 440, too.
"Batman is dying"
Plus, any time I came across a tricky Riddler trophy I didn't know if I was just truly tricky, or of I didn't have the right gadget yet. Now, knowing that I have the gadgets to get all of them, I'm enjoying myself a lot more.
Only 176 / 440, too.
Square Triangle
Member
Blizzard said:
Referring to what's in the spoiler tag? Or the entire post? There is nothing spoiled in the post unless you did highlight the spoiler tag.