Twice now I shot at the sky,because the RB icon just vanishes a second and I guess the game actually hooks me in space or something lol and my screen turns completly black,can't even go to the dashboard or anything,I have to shut the 360 down...thank god it auto saves pretty often...
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Batman: Arkham Origins |OT| Justice from the head of Prototype And Hulk: UD
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I really like the game, I'd probably give it an 8.5/10, if it weren't for the bugs (PS3 version). It can be so glitchy at times that it really feels more like a 7. I was in a predator situation and the last remaining thug (the one I had to interrogate) got himself stuck inside of a wall. I can live with weirdness, but it happened 3 times in a row!
I would restart, complete the scenerio, and there he'd b,e back in the wall. I wish it was my fault, but unfortunately it was just janky. He finally figured out how not to get stuck in the wall on the fourth attempt, after I wasted a good deal of time and lost respect for AO's testers. I've also been in stealth situations where Batman became functionally invisible. I looked normal, moved normal, but none of the enemies could detect me. I breezed through the situation with this convenient invisibiity glitch. I haven't played a game with this many Superman 64 moments in quite some time.
I would restart, complete the scenerio, and there he'd b,e back in the wall. I wish it was my fault, but unfortunately it was just janky. He finally figured out how not to get stuck in the wall on the fourth attempt, after I wasted a good deal of time and lost respect for AO's testers. I've also been in stealth situations where Batman became functionally invisible. I looked normal, moved normal, but none of the enemies could detect me. I breezed through the situation with this convenient invisibiity glitch. I haven't played a game with this many Superman 64 moments in quite some time.
doniewhalberg
Member
No bother. Specifically the menu restart, not jsut chucking yourself in the river. I was trying that for 5 minutes to no avail. I think it's to do with the wall detonating, the object is supposed to fall onto the water. If it doesn't or gets stuck, that's when it screws you.
And yea, I agree with others. I think the story is brilliant, lvoe the new voice actors, the writing, I'm perfectly happy with *more arkham city* gameplay this time around, but the buggyness is the game's biggest detractor.
How in the heck do you get this enigma data thingamabob?
GRAPPLING HOOK!
bryanee
Member
Didn't work for me.
Oh i see there is ice covering the data thingy, ok then make a glue platform jump on it, use the explosion gel and then get the data thingy?
krameriffic
Member
Finished. Not bad, but not my favorite in the series.
I think it plays to his moody persona. I'm about an hour in and I've had a little chuckle when Alfred has called him out on his shenanigans twice. Once where head said he had to stick to the most important task but said he knew he was going to do both anyway and when he said
kids will be expecting Santa Claus prattling on their roof not a bat man. To which Batman replied "I don't prattle" like a pouty teenager
Gozer the Gozerian
Member
Aw man more games need a Christmas-y motif in their music, this shit is awesome
AHA-Lambda
Member
Just had another glitch, not a game breaking one but a spoilery one.
My synopsis age on the menu just filled to 90% and showed me things I've not seen yet and so I've spoiled some details, watch out for that one guys.
Questions regarding the spoiler details below, don't look unless you've finished.
My synopsis age on the menu just filled to 90% and showed me things I've not seen yet and so I've spoiled some details, watch out for that one guys.
Questions regarding the spoiler details below, don't look unless you've finished.
Does Alfred die? That doesn't make any sense he's in Arkahm City, right?
Nervous Sausage
Member
Quick question about the PC version. When running the game fullscreen, my 2nd monitor next to me goes fully black so I can't watch anything while playing. Is there a way to play borderless window mode? Or to somehow turn off the exclusive fullscreen so that I can see my other monitor while playing?
krameriffic
Member
I just realized that I finished the game without ever unlocking the disarm and destroy skill. Fucking dumbass unlock system in this game. I get it about an hour into a playthrough of City.
Funchameleon
Banned
Not every area is amazing, but some of the areas in this game are the best looking UE3 interiors I've ever seen, and this is one of them.
Yeah this was annoying. So many of the combat's core features are locked away behind the side quests.
krameriffic
Member
This is completely untrue.
You can silent takedown him 4 times on hard and win the fight. I did silent, vent, silent, silent to win the fight.
The vast majority of your gadgets do nothing to him, the area isn't a big enough playground like the Freeze room was, and you don't have as many options to evade him if he sees you.
They should make it clear which sidequests they are behind. They don't tell you what you get until you start the sidequest, which was fine with the ones that started as part of the main quest, but the disarm and destroy... I don't know where it is.
WUT? where did you find that? someone open it!!
Not my photo. Part of the collector's edition.
WARNING SPOILERS!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ssIDIGzkrbU&feature=youtu.be&t=1m
Holy crap, this is pretty awesome.
Duuude :/
Funchameleon
Banned
The upgrades locked behind sidequests are on the "waynetech upgrades" screen, or whatever it's called, and they tell you where they come from. Destroy weapons comes from the fighting gangs sidequest, I think
Funchameleon
Banned
I knew that plot point before release. It's not a huge deal, believe me
Same here, well it is kind of a huge deal i'd say but the scene is so well made it's a blast to watch it.
btw. Crub, don't worry it's not the ending or something, it's pretty early in the game and doesn't really ruin anything I'd say.
krameriffic
Member
I know where they are. But they appear as grey boxes until you accept the sidequest in question.
PoweredBySoy
Banned
Grrrr.
PC version. Anybody else have this bug in the Burnley Comm tower where you can't climb into this air duct? It basically means I can't unlock the Burnley tower.
edit: apparently so. Gdamn it, I need to finish this game before BF4 hits.
PC version. Anybody else have this bug in the Burnley Comm tower where you can't climb into this air duct? It basically means I can't unlock the Burnley tower.
edit: apparently so. Gdamn it, I need to finish this game before BF4 hits.
Have the same problem; this game is realllllly buggy.
Yeah it's a bug, just restart the level. It's really not a big deal imo if you can't fast travel from there.
It really is not, in my playthrough this was pretty much the only bug i've discovered. Oh and one in
Mad Hatter's mission with the stupid flower
ElRenoRaven
Member
Yup. Everyone is. Appears that the vent is bugged. I haven't seen anyone yet say they can get into the vent. This is a pretty game breaking bug. That's the one thing I don't like about this game. The bugs seem a lot nastier then in past games. The crashes at a couple points and things like that just really should not have been missed. I had nothing remotely that bad in the previous games.
PoweredBySoy
Banned
Is that all it affects then? I mean, I assume it'll prevent me from completing the Enigma quest line - but I'm okay with that for now.
Yup, you can always come back if they fixed it but for now just ignore that tower.
I just tried walking through a door and the entire screen went black. Couldn't see anything but Batman himself. Restarted from checkpoint and now all he does is fall through darkness forever and I can't do a thing.
14 hours of play and I can't do anything anymore. Pretty f*cked now. Shame, I was enjoying this immensely.
14 hours of play and I can't do anything anymore. Pretty f*cked now. Shame, I was enjoying this immensely.
Scarecrow is just fucking with you.
Well ok, that sucks :/ guess I was just lucky not getting any of these nasty glitches/bugs then.
Nervous Sausage
Member
I need help again! Just did the first
mission and at the very end I'm stuck holding a remote controlled batarang but I can't move or throw it, so I'm stuck at this bit. I'm convinced it's a glitch since I had a progress halting glitch earlier, but restarted checkpoint does nothing to fix this one. Maybe I'm missing something obvious, I hope so.
EDIT: Never mind, I just had to hold down the right bumper while aiming at the target, I have hints turned off so that's probably why I had no idea what to do.
Madhatter
EDIT: Never mind, I just had to hold down the right bumper while aiming at the target, I have hints turned off so that's probably why I had no idea what to do.
ViewtifulJC
Banned
The whole synopsis unlocked early and it spoiled some things, oops
what a buggy ass game
what a buggy ass game
I almost stopped playing at this point, telling myself to just wait for the patch(es). Or that maybe I was doing something wrong, this is
E. Nigma
As my third Batman game, the combat and dull world just isn't doing it for me. Might consider skipping the sidequests and just finishing the main story.
I am so bad at this game. I've beaten the previous games on hard but this one seems a lot more difficult. Seems like I have to counter even more frequently too. Really enjoying it, just have to get back into the groove of combat I guess.
I just got to Penguin's
. There was a predator section before this (with two snipers), and detective mode didn't tell me how many enemies were in the area. Is this a bug?
Also had a bug where gameplay was just a black screen except the menu/pause screen. Restarting fixed that. Definitely a buggy game.
I just got to Penguin's
ship area
Also had a bug where gameplay was just a black screen except the menu/pause screen. Restarting fixed that. Definitely a buggy game.
VanquishUK
Member
The boss fights in this game are amazing, characters are amazing, cutscenes are amazing, music is amazing.
I love this game!
EDIT: I also love how they've made combat significantly harder than previous instalments!
I love this game!
EDIT: I also love how they've made combat significantly harder than previous instalments!
Just a couple of hours in - quite good for the most part. As many have said, though, it lacks refinement. When the counter prompt appears, sometimes my button press doesn't register. I've started mashing to counter, which I hate doing.
Also, the game froze up right after a boss fight, so I had to reboot the 360 and do the fight over again.
Then there's one of my biggest pet peeves - bodies make no sound when they impact the ground or other surfaces, which drives me crazy. Asylum had nice "thuds" that really gave bodies weight and mass, but that sound was gone in City for some reason and is still gone here. 200+ pounds of thug hitting the ground as dead weight should make a sound, dammit!
Also, the game froze up right after a boss fight, so I had to reboot the 360 and do the fight over again.
Then there's one of my biggest pet peeves - bodies make no sound when they impact the ground or other surfaces, which drives me crazy. Asylum had nice "thuds" that really gave bodies weight and mass, but that sound was gone in City for some reason and is still gone here. 200+ pounds of thug hitting the ground as dead weight should make a sound, dammit!
AHA-Lambda
Member
Same I got that too.
Ok who ever though Tracy's lines of dialog were acceptable should go take a long hard look in the mirror. It's about an accurate representation of the affable cockney dialect as Dick van Dyke in Marry Poppins, christ Nick Cotton's son in East Enders was more convincing. I'm half creasing up with laughter and half cringing in despair.
ViewtifulJC
Banned
RIGHT PROPA NAUHGTY
AHA-Lambda
Member
Yeah that was seriously cringe worthy >_<
Monkeylord
Member
I'm really having trouble adjusting to the combat. It's much faster than the previous 2 games, and absolutely necessary to counter a TON.
I'm in Gotham PD at the mo, and just realised that despite choosing Normal, my save file says I'm playing on Hard. That probably isn't helping, lol.
I'm in Gotham PD at the mo, and just realised that despite choosing Normal, my save file says I'm playing on Hard. That probably isn't helping, lol.
They just did some little things but threw me completely off when I started playing it.
Like AA and AC I started on hard without counter hints (sadly AC didn't let you do that from the start) but have since turned the hints back on.
The enemies are a lot more aggressive, coupled with the fact that the stun and evade mechanics have been tweaked so they are not overpowered as hell anymore, I died more in this already than in AA and AC combined.