More games need to add this. I am getting so annoyed these days with all those start up movies.
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Batman: Arkham Origins |OT| Justice from the head of Prototype And Hulk: UD
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More games need to add this. I am getting so annoyed these days with all those start up movies.
Applesauce
Boom! Bitch-slapped!
If it's the one I am thinking of - the one you throw out of a small opening like an eyeball - it is directly next to Batman's right. You have to throw it out, reverse it, and shoot it at the fuse box to Batman's right.
Man this game really bombards a lot of messages on your screen at once and leaves each one up for about 2 seconds.
Character trophy unlocked!
Profile data unlocked
Combat data blah blah blah 750xp x2 for doing good B+ YOU DID OK!
Find your new objective
All that and like 2 more things all at once just now. Had a hard time keeping track of all that while the game is still active.
You have a much smaller window to use it now than in past games.
Character trophy unlocked!
Profile data unlocked
Combat data blah blah blah 750xp x2 for doing good B+ YOU DID OK!
Find your new objective
All that and like 2 more things all at once just now. Had a hard time keeping track of all that while the game is still active.
You have a much smaller window to use it now than in past games.
Leon Belmont
Member
But it's displayed on the "Properties under the DLC Tab" on Steam or not?
Thanks for your answer
doniewhalberg
Member
Nah it's not displayed there on mine, it's just a part of the game, no separate download or anything. No worries man, hate when I ask a Q and nothing, I even appreciate a "I don't know" but when you get nothing, you've got no idea if anyone saw it or not haha.
It's too small a window. So many times I have pressed attack when there were no warnings up and before I have even landed the hit I have been punched first.
It's incredibly frustrating. City's timings were bloody perfect.
This was one of my biggest issues with Arkham Asylum when it first came out. It really stood out to me as beating you over the head with the carrot instead of letting me just feel the stick from time to time. I thought AC went overboard with complex controls and, as a result, there were control hints on the screen like almost constantly. AO feels a little better but I'm still used to seeing L1 + X + R1 wait X X X to USE BATARANG
jacksepticeye
Member
Just did the
fight
Don't really see why people are praising it so much, it felt a bit repetitive and tedious. It starts off really cool though but is terribly anti climactic
Deathstroke
Don't really see why people are praising it so much, it felt a bit repetitive and tedious. It starts off really cool though but is terribly anti climactic
Leon Belmont
Member
I really really appreciate your answer bro I thought that I was missing the DLC, but as you said it's not displayed, and you're right I hate when I ask a question and nobody answer it too, but there's a lot of nice fellow gaffers who helps others!
Well once again, thank you for your help my fellow gaffer
Spring-Loaded
Member
Don't know why there aren't in-game options to turn that crap off. I want to crouch at the edge of a rooftop without the button/key prompt for "drop down" popping up throughout the entire game.
jacksepticeye
Member
It's not that it's a small window, it's that you can't stop mid combat for counters as easily anymore, if you launch into some attacks and try to counter it won't work, you have to get more of a rhythm with your button presses rather than just mashing buttons all the time
I thought it was weird at first too but now I'm chaining things together much better after getting a feel for it
First two phases were cool. Third made it almost impossible to hit him without doing the same counter sequence over and over.
Which was funny since my main strategy ended up being "get critical hit upgrade, fly across the room to hit everyone, use a few other moves if necessary." This worked fantastic outside of the Harley Quinn DLC.
... Though that may not hold up on Hard.
You can turn of hints in options. Of course that turns of counter indicators too.
SJRB
Gold Member
Permanently A
Junior Member
When or where do I unlock the
(spoiler for the name of one of the Most Wanted).
Do you just get it naturally progressing through the story? I want Disarm and Destroy already.
Bird missions
Do you just get it naturally progressing through the story? I want Disarm and Destroy already.
Which made playing the game on hard for the first time very interesting. Especially boss fights.
Man I feel ya, I had to start over 3 times now due to random things no longer working in the game hindering the progression of the story, I mean wtf!!!
I'm on 360 btw.
Spring-Loaded
Member
It still leaves those contextual controls on the screen last I checked. It just doesn't have the ones describing how to do critical strikes or knife dodges, and those stop showing up after successfully completing them a few times, I believe.
This happened to me last night, welcome to the club.
chickdigger802
Banned
Curious what your thoughts of this game. Most of the open world stuff is pretty much AssCreed ubisoft game design.
I agree, this is the strong-point of the Arkham games for me, even over the combat. Batman is a detective so doing detective work using gadgets to analyze a scene is so awesome.
But I am also glad it 'holds your hand' a little, if it didn't, we'd be bitching about being stuck and can't solve crimes.
Take Ubisoft game design + add more satisfying core mechanics + better characterization and general writing. It kinda works but I still prefer the level design of AA.
Can a fellow gaffer make a cool batman avatar for me pretty please!
This. This so much!
jacksepticeye
Member
Agreed and then it just.... ends.
Spring-Loaded
Member
When will a Batman game have appropriately scare-able enemies? The ambient chatter would have you believe Batman is still viewed as a myth or a monster, yet enemies make light-hearted jokes while you fight them and they run toward you every time.
What I'd love is for more considerable portion of a future Batman game to be detective work. Less hand-holding with the focus being on figuring out what happened at a given crime-scene. Multi-stage side missions that involve solving standalone crimes could be awesome. I enjoy running around constantly beating the shit out of criminals, but I'd be fine with less straight-forward combat.
What I'd love is for more considerable portion of a future Batman game to be detective work. Less hand-holding with the focus being on figuring out what happened at a given crime-scene. Multi-stage side missions that involve solving standalone crimes could be awesome. I enjoy running around constantly beating the shit out of criminals, but I'd be fine with less straight-forward combat.
Krappadizzle
Member
jacksepticeye
Member
Yeah it shatters the illusion completely every time. "Do you think the bat's real?" and then I drop then and a guy said "Look who it is"
Yeah, seems to be a widespread problem on 360, it's not even worth playing until they patch it.
Unfortunately I agree, playing it 'broken' like this will only lead to frustration.
Can a fellow gaffer make a cool batman avatar for me pretty please!
You have to use it now
chickdigger802
Banned
idk, the collectables and 'destroy x of this' stuff is totally throwaway and seems pointless.
and holy shit shockgloves, pretty op stuff.
btw: anyone know where to get 'disarm and destroy'? Its not in the close combat tree.
brickarts295
Member
Just finished it, got to say apart from the glitches and the frame rate drops this is the best Arkham game out of all of them at least from the story perspective. And this is coming from a guy who hates prequels. Now off to play Blackgate on the vita.
Right now I kind of agree it's a bit much but I'm hoping I'm still in the adjustment period. I probably have 2 hours clocked at most. I do feel like AC's timing was much better.
I wouldn't even have a problem with all the messages if they'd let me read and process them. I can't process 17 messages in 5 seconds and it makes me feel like my mind is going to explode, I'm not a computer. The last thing I was doing was some kind of
Riddler
I don't have enough progress in the story or side stuff yet to comment on that. I pretty much just unlocked the open world stuff after the first broadcast tower and flew around that section of the city taking out random guys. It's still the most fun thing to do in these games and part of the reason why Arkham City was so amazing almost right from the start. I appreciate the freedom to be Batman that AA didn't have, whether it was because of the tight linear areas or the combat groups that had at most 5 or 6 guys in them.
Maybe it's just because I'm still getting used to everything but I'm having a hard time understanding a lot of the changes. The skill tree seems unnecessarily confusing and it seems like a lot of the challenge maps are unlocked right away which I don't like. The gradual progression of unlocking them helped make the Riddler trophies and riddles have some meaning and satisfaction to solving them. I much prefer those or pieces of lore over unlocking concept art or character trophies.
brickarts295 said:
I'm so glad I played that first while I was gone. Such a garbage game that would have soured my good feelings from the main game if I was playing it second.
Just finished this. It absolutely is the best story in an Arkham game, and I even doubt that Conroy and Hamill would have done a better job with the voices. The game does look better than the last one and the city actually works really well. The worst boss fight is at least better than anything from the previous gamed (except for Freeze). The music is great... but you know what, this game is still an 8.
Despite all the improvements in pretty much everything... almost all the changes of the freeflow fighting are for the worse:
-Critical dodge is a terrible mechanic that rewards bad reflexes AND leads to worse animations.
-One upgrade is ridiculously overpowered and trivializes fights against special enemies.
-Glitchier animations, attacks that don't quite connect, bodies getting stuck in geometry/flunged a 100 meters...
Honestly the only good change I can think of are two new enemies that are fairly fun to fight against,
Still, I'm glad I ended up buying this game: Totally worth 35, at least.
Despite all the improvements in pretty much everything... almost all the changes of the freeflow fighting are for the worse:
-Critical dodge is a terrible mechanic that rewards bad reflexes AND leads to worse animations.
-One upgrade is ridiculously overpowered and trivializes fights against special enemies.
-Glitchier animations, attacks that don't quite connect, bodies getting stuck in geometry/flunged a 100 meters...
Honestly the only good change I can think of are two new enemies that are fairly fun to fight against,
Still, I'm glad I ended up buying this game: Totally worth 35, at least.
chickdigger802
Banned
yeah... i'm having a hard time getting a feel of martial artists, sometimes it seems like attack -> evade-> you counter breaks your combo, sometimes it doesn't. Same with there 3 hit combo that you gotta counter 3 times.
yay! its not perfect but it seems to be the most polished version out there.
CrichtonKicks
Member
That doesn't match my experience- Challenge maps only seem to unlock once you've hit that location in the campaign, just like with AC and AA.
No it's not. You can still think City's timings were better, sure, but it's not too small at all. The biggest "issue" (not an issue) is that in this game you have to think better about your moves, since not everything is easily canceled with a counter, you have to commit to quite a few moves if you want to use them.
Again, nothing wrong with thinking City was better in that aspect, but saying the counter window is too small seems like a joke. The parry window in SF III is small, the counter window in Arkham Origins is huge.