BKatastrophe
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Arkham Knight is an amazing love letter to Batman that Rocksteady was so in to, that they forgot to make a game out of it.
Arkham Origins is better than Arkham Knight.
Arkham Origins is better than Arkham Knight.
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ViewtifulJC
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Arkham Origins is straight butt cheeks
Freezasaurus
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Hmm....where did I put that list?
Calcium
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I fell off playing that game. I think I'm like ~10% done. I just don't like the Batmobile segments and the game telling me that I have to do things like drive it up onto rooftops (makes perfect sense) to do stuff Batman should be capable of doing without a car just irks me. I'll finish it eventually, but I have no desire to do so at the moment.
Rocksteady liked stealth takedowns so much they decided the batmobile would have to sneak up on tanks. When the game was telling me what to do i was like " are you messing with me?" That and i'm so used to playing Witcher 3 and bloodborne and dodging/rolling around that i end up punching air and jumping to nowhere in batman, i'm finding it hard to go back to that combat system.
This is literally the exact same situation that I'm in.
Tyrant Rave
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I didn't even finish that shit b
LaunchpadMcQ
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Freezasaurus
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I don't know what you guys are talking about. Arkham Knight was a pretty great car combat game.
Fear Itself tie ins!
Avengers #13 - loved this issue, Nothing actually happen but I thought the various interviews with the Avengers about all the shit they had been through during that time (aka all the yearly events) were funny. And Bachalo's art is as always god tier. Super fun issue.
Herc #3 - waste of time. Super bland book with Hercules living in Brooklyn but not actually talking like Hercules so half the fun of the character is gone. A bunch of D listers that escaped from The Raft when Juggy got his hammer ransack Brooklyn and I dont care. At all.
Thunderbolts #158 - Speaking of Juggy getting his hammer, this shows the perspective from the Raft where the Thunderbolts are busy with a zombie attack (lol?) and they miss Juggy going Thule-a powered and blowing up the raft. Love the art and love the weird ass team (Boomerang, Shocker, dat Superior Foes rep, also Man Thing, Ghost, Satana... yeah it's a weird team), actually curious about this Bolts period outside just the tie ins.
Avengers #13 - loved this issue, Nothing actually happen but I thought the various interviews with the Avengers about all the shit they had been through during that time (aka all the yearly events) were funny. And Bachalo's art is as always god tier. Super fun issue.
Herc #3 - waste of time. Super bland book with Hercules living in Brooklyn but not actually talking like Hercules so half the fun of the character is gone. A bunch of D listers that escaped from The Raft when Juggy got his hammer ransack Brooklyn and I dont care. At all.
Thunderbolts #158 - Speaking of Juggy getting his hammer, this shows the perspective from the Raft where the Thunderbolts are busy with a zombie attack (lol?) and they miss Juggy going Thule-a powered and blowing up the raft. Love the art and love the weird ass team (Boomerang, Shocker, dat Superior Foes rep, also Man Thing, Ghost, Satana... yeah it's a weird team), actually curious about this Bolts period outside just the tie ins.
Granted, I'm having a gigantic issue where I buy games and just don't want to play them. I get too hung up on certain things to the point where I probably shouldn't buy many single player games. I'm more into titles like Smite, LoL, Team Fortress 2, CS:GO, H1Z1, Destiny, Borderlands 2, Halo, ect.
I very much so have that PC gamer mindset where it's about quality not quantity.
Spike Spiegel
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Origins never had a "Game of the Year" complete release, did it? I'd probably pick that up on the cheap just to try it even though I was dissatisfied with City.
LaunchpadMcQ
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nah but it's been as cheap as the GOTYs, at least on PC.
TalkingToast
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Dude is not joking. I really wish I skipped that Malekith arc. The first 2 arcs were SO good in God of Thunder !!
Freezasaurus
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I used to always be on the lookout for a new game as soon as I finished the last one, but nowadays I usually just wait for the ones that I'm genuinely interested in, or something I'd been meaning to play but never got around too. Case-in-point, I'm just now playing Telltale's Game of Thrones. I also kind of want to get the God of War III remaster tomorrow, but $40 for an HD remake is pretty lol.
Simply Sarah
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Oh come now, it really wasn't a bad story arc, it just wasn't as good as what comes before or after.
Is that tomorrow? I want that but I have so many I played games it's a waste.
Freezasaurus
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So it's comparitively bad.
Freezasaurus
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That money isn't going to spend itself.
Spike Spiegel
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Malekith arc was fun, like a D&D adventure starring Thor and a motley band of fantasy heroes. And, the ending plays into future arcs and Aaron's long game that's still going on.
Simply Sarah
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I dunno. For some reason people here seem like they'd rather pretend it's nadir of comic stories.
BKatastrophe
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It's an exaggeration, but there's a lot of stuff I just dislike about AK.
-AR challenges. I loved arenas in the first 3 games, and then they did this. I don't know why, and I don't like it.
-Riddler missions have never been more poorly done and I am so sick of them. I hate them at this point, I truly do. They should have just had the Catwoman side mission and be done. That mission line was super fun. The rest is just terrible. Had it just been Catwoman, I would probably like this game a great deal more.
-Batmobile stealth sequences.
-AO had better boss battles by far and I really liked the challenge missions and the story.
All I could think whilst playing AK was "man, I really love Arkham City."
That's not good. I'll finish the Riddler missions, and do any of the side episodes (Harley, Red Hood, Batgirl, etc) but then I'm done. I probably won't go back to this game, and it's because of Riddler and the Batmobile. Seriously. Granted, there are a lot of really fun and enjoyable moments of this game, but the Riddler and the heavy Batmobile push take a lot out of me and makes the game significantly less enjoyable.
That being said, it did undo the damage AO had done to me by rekindling my love for Batman. I now want to read Batman stories again.
Freezasaurus
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I never played Origins, but I find it pretty impressive that a game can make someone lose interest in an iconic character.
BKatastrophe
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At the time it had come out, I had gotten sick of WB's hard push for Batman. It seemed like way too much Batman stuff had come out, and AO burned me out. It's not solely AO's fault, it just happened to be the straw that broke my camel back
Shin Johnpv
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I find it hard to buy OHCs of ongoings that i'm currently reading, this is mainly due to having 7 volumes of Invincible and not wanting to rebuy them in OHC anymore after reading the floppies even though i like the series. So far the one i'm leaning towards is Manhattan Projects is because that's practically over and i liked the first 25 issues a lot.
Batmobile is the worst thing to happen to that franchise.
Finished it in one day and have no interest in touching it again because of the ridic tank BS.
Edit: osjedi is my gametag for PSN and X1 if anyone wants to add me.
Manhattan Projects is fucking amazing and you need to read it ASAP!
Ohhhhh i read it, i'm talking about buying OHCs of things i'm currently buying and reading in the flop format. Rebuying.
BKatastrophe
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I don't dislike the Batmobile: I dislike the frequency and saturation of it. The stealth sequences are awful, and the fact that the
fight is a tank fight is the dumbest bullshit ever. The racing challenges and combat sections are fun. Some of the puzzle solving is really creative, but fuck literally all the rest.
THERE'S TOO MUCH.
In comics news, I've been reading Lemire's Green Arrow run. Really digging it.
Deathstroke
THERE'S TOO MUCH.
In comics news, I've been reading Lemire's Green Arrow run. Really digging it.
Coriolanus
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and the completely evil bog standard human CEO legit tried to have a go at Logan with a bowie knife.
welp, shit arc is over. Here's hoping you're correct, ed.
my name is ed
Banned
and the completely evil bog standard human CEO legit tried to have a go at Logan with a bowie knife.
welp, shit arc is over. Here's hoping you're correct, ed.
haha yeah
Im not sure who that artist is in the page you've posted
but it shows the same problems that I see in a lot of capes comics in that the characters rarely seem to be actually expressing what they're saying
that guy should have a shit eating grin as he's saying 'I'm so turned on right now, I can hardly stand it.'
as stoic as he is drawn, he could be saying any hundred of other things.
Freezasaurus
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Okay, I think that's going in my IST order this week. Also, was Katana's solo book any good?
TheDarkKnight774
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DCs CMX sale this week surprised me. It's a cyborg sale! Which means it's really a teen Titan sale since he's not one to have a lot of solo work over the years. But you can get Johns Teen Titan run and a lot of classic Wolfman & Perez teen titan books on sale
https://www.comixology.com/Cyborg-Sale/page/7398?ref=c2l0ZS9pbmRleC90YWJsZXQvbGFyZ2VDYXJvdXNlbA
https://www.comixology.com/Cyborg-Sale/page/7398?ref=c2l0ZS9pbmRleC90YWJsZXQvbGFyZ2VDYXJvdXNlbA
ElBoxyBrown
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You can get jumped with an opinion like that homie. Protect ya neck.
Yes, kinda. Hellboy and the BPRD: 1952.
There's a few oneshots coming under the 1953 header later this year, and then from what I gather this will be an ongoing version beginning in February.
Freezasaurus
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That's a pretty good segment, bro. Keep going.
TheDarkKnight774
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Why bother. He'll hate it anyway
TheDarkKnight774
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He mirrors Lands devolution. Just not as extreme. Land used to be pretty good
I really like some parts of the story so far, namely
Joker popping up everywhere, i like how the sidequests are in the city like the speaker killer things and the bat guy who scared me when i first saw him. What happened to Oracle was a kick to the side of the leg.
Freezasaurus
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At least he'll witness its glory, and in the end, know it was he that was wrong.
You won't like those either.
Discotheque
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Discotheque
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it follows is a cool little john carpenter homage about STD's
and ex machina is one of the best movies of the year. enjoy man.
Hi!! Never really read comics up until right before Arkham Knight came out on PS4. Decided to read a few volumes of Batman. Read through Volumes 1-5 of the new 52, but heard that volume 6 is kinda a jumbled mess if you don't read any other related comics (Batman inc and such). But now I'm in the mood for more! Where should I begin?
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