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Giant Bomb #14 | I'll Never Forget This!
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Glitchesarecool
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you cannot taint the rich and deep lore of batman
It was that, and the claim that they did their testing at 720P. Really? That's the image they have of the PC audience in their mind? People less concerned about resolution than console players?
It's astonishing, especially because the two major spoilers in Arkham Knight are
THE FUCKING JOKER IS FUCKING BACK AFUCKINGGAIN
RepairmanJack
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Speaking of spoilers:Anyone feel like spoiling Arkham Knight for me? Not interested enough to play the game, just want to know who the Knight is.
Jason Todd or Gordon?(long shot, but a couple things I saw made me think it was possible)
Fantastapotamus
Wrong about commas, wrong about everything
Blood Borne is still just "another one" of those games. Like, I think the game is amazing but it still feels like "just" another Souls game. Which is why I'm kinda not looking forward to Dark Souls 3. Putting out a Souls-like every year destroys the vibe for me.
The former. And the game is not that subtle about it.
Here is a big spoiler: THE STORY IN ARKHAM KNIGHT IS NOT THAT GREAT. This is actually the weakest story of all the games, simply because 75% of the missions didn't take place in any interesting environments but instead you were just doing what you do all the time in the open world. I miss the carefully constructed rooms and set-pieces of Arkham Asylum....
stump sock
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lol really? I know nothing about the game and that's who I thought it was
good thing they went to such extremes to keep that a secret
CoolBatteryCharge
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I have all of those games except for the Raidou and DDS games because of how often they go on sale lol
Glitchesarecool
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Shit if it had been the latter that would have been a fucking amazing story.
RepairmanJack
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Thanks.
Kind of a bummer tbh, thought that was the only way it could go immediately on first reveal of the game.
Well the stuff in the quick look and a couple other things made me think it was possible.
Plus with the new spin on the batman comics we kind of have a precedent of Gordon being more involved, so why not just a different angle on it? Thought it would have made sense and been interesting.
Freedom = $1.05
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In the podcast thread, I took a guess and got it right on my first try. From what I could gather, it's pretty obvious that it's
a former Robin, likely Todd. And the story is basically just Rocksteady's version of the Red Hood storyline.
I mean, I don't know how anyone wouldn't guess that almost immediately but I suppose there are folks who are more oblivious than I am.
Wow these games are never on sale. How novel
Glitchesarecool
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Considering there's a whole section bashing your face in to the identity of the person about midway through the game, and then waiting to near the final act to do the BIG REVEAL, you would have to be pretty oblivious.
stump sock
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Fantastapotamus
Wrong about commas, wrong about everything
I don't know this person since I don't read comics because I'm super cool, but at some point the game is VERY aggressively telling you who that person is, making it incredibly obvious that there is more to him/her. Like, very, very, very obvious. Like painfully "oh my god, please let the main character come to very obvious conclusion already" obvious.
Antiwhippy
the holder of the trombone
I'm going to guess that there are a good number of people playing the arkham games where they've only consumed batman media from the games and the films.
BreezyLimbo
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I kinda dislike Austin in the Sunset quick look. He just sounds like an apologist for the game.
While the identity of the Knight WAS obvious, there were really only three options given the plot of the games:
. The first choice was obvious and the middle choice would have been awful. Third one would have been cool though.
Re: Patrick's article - I'd be shocked if Dave Lang or any other prominent Iron Galaxy were a source for him. Given their position in the industry, they NEED to maintain good relations with major publishers and be good, or at least quiet, soldiers.
Jason Todd, the Joker, and Talia
Re: Patrick's article - I'd be shocked if Dave Lang or any other prominent Iron Galaxy were a source for him. Given their position in the industry, they NEED to maintain good relations with major publishers and be good, or at least quiet, soldiers.
Fantastapotamus
Wrong about commas, wrong about everything
It feels like a lot of people are willing to overlook a lot of obvious flaws with this game simply because it's "different". With that said, I didn't feel like Austin sounded that apologetic in the QL.
I had to look up who
Talia
Weird, since he said himself that he didn't like it in the Beastcast
Glitchesarecool
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Nope, one of the worst parts of that game.
MiniBossBattle
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I get the feeling is his critiquing with kid gloves more than apologist. Instead of finding the stupid (like the Harry Potter Quicklook) and celebrating it, they talk about it like you praise/comment a child's drawing which somehow feels worse.
The Quicklook was simply boring.
BreezyLimbo
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Yeah, that's a good way of putting it. He threw softballs at it.
Sleeping Lesson
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I can always identify him by the utter drivel he's always spewing.
Just kidding Jimmy
Jeevesmeister
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Yeah, Austin was super soft on Sunset and how insufferably that protagonist is written, also totally not seeing how broken it is - i.e. around 10:30 when Austin is wondering how information is relayed to the protagionist they comment on later - it shows up either way but you're supposed to get it digging through the environment, but if you don't the game proceeds with the assumption you did.
Also you can "complete" it by standing in the elevator and forcing the story to proceed and skip wandering around a poorly rendered environment using default Unity shaders with the occasional fade out to white.
Also you can "complete" it by standing in the elevator and forcing the story to proceed and skip wandering around a poorly rendered environment using default Unity shaders with the occasional fade out to white.
TheBaronOfNA
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To be fair, the lore is rich as hell.
There are probably 5-10 users who have that avatar. It's confusing
Fantastapotamus
Wrong about commas, wrong about everything
Go play your Calls of Duty and let us adults enjoy this mature entertainment for adults
I'm kidding in case that wasn't obvious
Which one?>
Fantastapotamus
Wrong about commas, wrong about everything
I was so close. So close.
Somewhat related to this: I love how enraged Jeff still gets when talking about Sega Fans.
Freedom = $1.05
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when you dont have avatars on you have to look at someone's username and judge accordingly.
maybe you folks need to stop taking shortcuts in life
maybe you folks need to stop taking shortcuts in life
Infinite Justice
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Which all the more hilarious since he was a Genesis fan in the early days.
TheBaronOfNA
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I just dislike the ending about checking his article about Public funding as this QL didn't make a good case as even Alex sounded a little mad when it ended with another set of mundane tasks.
I don't mind the softballs otherwise as they had interesting opinions about this kind of games even if their tone sounded like this game not even in the same level of Going Home.
Ah but avatars makes everyone so much more livelier when I read their posts.
I was a Nintendo kid and don't pull any punches these days when it comes to them and their fans. You can only hope people grow out of that weird mentality.
RepairmanJack
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Man, I loved Gone Home and typically really like this type of game, but this Sunset game looks very uninteresting.
Edit: I don't think Austin is being apologetic of the game, but this more seems like a 30 min podcast for Austin to talk. Not saying it's a bad thing, but the game seems to come in to play very little so far half way in.
Edit: I don't think Austin is being apologetic of the game, but this more seems like a 30 min podcast for Austin to talk. Not saying it's a bad thing, but the game seems to come in to play very little so far half way in.
it's stupid, but imagine how many sales fall through because a story gets spoiled and doesn't meet what fans would "deem worthy of their cash".
it's a very real part of game development. That's why QA departments in house do such huge business with contractors.
lol. I saw that one and rolled my eyes at it and the remembered that this one would be back now that e3 is done. forgot to subscribe.
TheBaronOfNA
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Same.
Oh no of course you don't want your game spoiled. But that's no reason to refuse to work with an outside contractor for stuff like PC Compat. I've dealt with PC Compat contractors for years and never got any story leaks on my games. That's why you have NDAs and rock solid contracts with those guys.
stump sock
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yeah, I mean, god, video games aren't national security or anything, if you can trust national security secrets with contractors surely there are ways to find QA businesses that can keep their mouths shut
Jimmyfenix
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people have good taste confirmed
Chance Hale
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I feel like the the reveal of the Arkham Knight and its execution is a lot less obvious if you aren't familiar with Batman lore which I assume many of the players of the series aren't given it's become such a big franchise. The "in your face" section in the middle of the game is necessary for people who don't have the context of the Batman universe. Otherwise once you found out who the Knight is you'd just be like "Who the fuck is that?""
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