Arkham Asylum
So I took a risk considering comic books and tie-in franchises really aren't my thing and picked up the PC version. Just finished playing it there and i'm very very impressed. I could go on but it's all stuff that's been gushingly said a thousand times before, but I gotta mention Marc Hamill as the Joker, absolutely brilliant!
Anyone else here play it, and what'd you all think of it? I'd really like to see if anyone disliked it actually :eek:
Anyone else here play it, and what'd you all think of it? I'd really like to see if anyone disliked it actually :eek:
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I think the only thing that's missing is an Adam West mode. Bright blue cloth suit, bright environments, onomatopoeic signs, The Batusi... I'd be on cloud 9.
Also,
he made a nice review on batman arkham.
personally its just an overbloated console actioner.. with nothing special, and steath not really working like it should, whats the point when your powers are so limited you only have a few options.. death from above or death from floor fighting.. whooot..
this game seemed to try to hard to focus in all areas that it lacked fullness in any one area, and instead just became another popin generic game much like assasins creed 1..
whoot to the pointless upgrades and running about to find pointless things (esp on pc where achievements dont exist like 360)
Well they do actually, it runs on Games For Windows Live, which is esentially Xbox live, gives gamerpoints and everything exactly like on Xbox
bottom line..
its not bad but its still a port with tons of issues in gameplay and visuals. mainly shadows.
course i have seen worse ports, and this is at least playable.but GOTY? hell no lol
Yet outside of that: this title went a long way to appeasing the comics fan within me. All of the subtle nods to villains such as Calendar Man, Black Mask, The Mad Hatter went a long way and added a real sense of depth to the Asylum and its history. And of course - the voice cast.
Adventure games always had a life of there own, action games suck. In the earlier days at least Lucas Arts did something original with games like Rebel Assault.
Arkham Asylum is more like Metroid if it were a beat-em-up, I don't know what all that stuff about FPS games has to do with it.
I have stories man! I don't know I rant, I'm just bored of a lot of things in life right now so bored that I went from classic rock and classical music to rap and I'm even bored or porn...and so many other things. I love adventure games, can't wait to see more of them. I'm waiting for AVS2
Back on topic , I just feel like The FPS inspired second person shooters eventually and everything just went down hill from there. Not really but I strive to be coherent in some way here, I don't know why my hate for FPS came up, even though I'd play Wolfenstein and Prey because of who is behind those projects. Hell I'd even play DOOM 4 just to go OOOOW, AWEEEEE but over all even the most dated adventure games are still my favorites.
Wolf 3D because it didn't take itself too seriously and was fun didn't date too bad either.
what is it with you?
interesting way of describing it :P
pretty accurate too XD
Bwah? Have you even seen this game before? It's not a shooter at all, first-person or otherwise. Enemies get knocked out, not killed. And it certainly isn't like Halo or Doom.
I'm still working through the challenge maps.
But the game mixed every element of batman for the last 70 years, and being a huge batman fan it's somthing that I was glued to for about week.
That and I couldn't get over the fact kevin conroy, and Mark Hamil were the voices, yeah it made me feel like a kid again.
Everyone's throwing up mighty praise for it, but from the demo I'd say it's just a pretty game that's actually mediocre. Still, getting the game. Hopefully I won't be dissapointed.
You have just been NEGATIVE CREEP'D.
The story really drives the game, it's like a bog-standard idea put pulled off brilliantly, the gameplay just makes you feel like you're Batman. I've no idea of your personal tastes, but i'd put good money on you enjoying it
at least in batman you CAN and will die, unless you play on easyyyyyy
the gameplay makes you feel like batman? wahh.... ive tried doing many things and unless you are in what the game feels is the right spot you cant do dives on people or whatnot, you must just glide, there is no independent JUMP button so you just walk off edges HOPING he jumps not climbs or just falls in sneak mode instead of a glide.
the cap when out takes 80% of the screen, xray vision is on 90% of the time destroying detail but really why not wear it...
id wait if you plan on paying for it, play it on a friends console NOT THE PC first..
this game was never ever ever meant for the pc, sickens me how PCs get the ports now and it used to be the other way around for many years.
TOOKiguy, believe yourself and that demo.. its just MEDIOCRE.. not bad in any sense, but far to consolish and the story,? ooooook... seems they just crammed everyone in one place and said LET LOOSE...
thats not genius thats called running out of ideas lol
newwwww gaaaaaaaameeee
and btw was negative creep'ed referring to nirvana? love that song
Correct, for it would be impossible to glide kick someone directly below you and dropping down without the glide would result in batman with his kneecaps coming out of his skull
Correct, no independent jump button, you run towards a ledge, he glides if you hold the run button, if there's somewhere he can jump to and you direct him to he jumps to it, you want him to drop don't hold it at all, simple.
Yeah whatever Yahtzee
I never played it on a console but i'd no problems with the PC port besides the the odd minor graphical glitch which were few and far between
For one final sting, I hate that song
im not offended like that.
when you glide, it does take up 80% of the screen.. not when walking XD
the ?? about the story and craming everyone in... you do realize this was a comic series...im hoping you do anyway.. the persons responsible did great justice to bringing the COMIC aspect back from a serious standpoint.. i personally never thought batman should be serious like the new movie... never was the joker meant to be this way.. though RIP.. he played it well..
but besides the point.. it had no real base.. you take said villian into known trap.. you know its all a trap.. just swarm the place with swats or whatnot from your lil gal on the com. easy pie.
you meet up with like 3 officers in the field randomly in places.. only to come back and find them vanished or dead somehow..
scenes change and items change depending on events.. IE triggers.. this is insane in a fighting game.. its like saying you cant combine the pen and the paper until you find out what you want to copy by looking at it.
the pc port.. as you know it is a port.. has major memory leaks, as well as glitches dealing with physx textures.. if you turn physx off or dont have it, it just looks.. like well crap.. shadows are or are not in places they should be and the atmosphere looks unclear even on the highest settings. (proof of console again and bad conversion in coding.)
check some resource monitors for the memory leaks... its only a few of the levels that have them.. i assume patches will address this.. as they are evident as heck
-common you know you love yahtzee, he makes me pee myself and thats saying alot.. sorry about the bad MI review again but, its something telltale should watch and address in future games!! seriously jake if you read this, watch that review
as for the jumping and being in the right position.. you misunderstand..
ive been right near an enemy.. right above him.. 3-4 feet, and i cant attack him without first GLIDING or moving to the exact trigger point that allows the glide KICK to show up.. (which it does in a console fashion)
and not having a button for jump is sick and sad.. making me feel like im in the army wearing an 80lb pack.. no you should NOT have to jump by walking near a ledge quickly.. thats just bad programing again.. and no jump button for combos? jump KICK.. jump PUNCH.. only special moves use these and dont allow you to actually jump yourself just by chance of combos raised.
hope i covered everything..
as yahtzee says.. which i agree with.. its not a bad game.. at all.. just not that great.. but somehow it works enough for me to say, its worth a play.. but common game of the year?
The game's so misleadingly long, I thought I've been coming to the end for ages now, but I keep having more thrown at me. I must be near the end now, it seems like just me, the Joker, and a couple of those fast-moving lunatics left now.
Its a fun game, the gameplay works well enough for me to get immersed into that whole superhero thing and either jump headlong into a group of ten enemies and start cracking skulls, or stealthily take out each enemy one by one and watch as the heartbeats on the others goes from calm to nervous to terrified as they fire into the air not knowing where I am... I love the Joker's commentary on these bits: "Looks like there's only two of you left! I bet you're dying to know which one of you is going to be next. I know I am!", etc etc.
The worst part is the boss fights. They're, well, boss fights. When was the last time you saw a good boss fight? The way you deal with Killer Croc is fun, but the Scarecrow platform moments (though the build-up to the first one I found quite spine-chilling) and the Poison Ivy boss fight just beat cliches long supposed to be dead.
Still, an enjoyable game all round.
Considering this game came from like nowhere, from a studio no one cared about, published by Eidos, etc, it just kind of surprised people really at how good it is and how much, well, I'll be honest, Geeky it is too, haha.
Ah right, I thought you were just completley hating on it and I couldn't get my head round it. We could go back and forth for ages but we'll agree to disagree cos it's getting late over here. I was dissapointed with a lot of the boss fights all the same though for what its worth
DK was just .. to dark... and this makes it like .. well,. combining the comedy of monty python with the workings of Sam Raimi
boss fights omg dont get me started.. and side dodge and hit.. and side dodge and hit.. wooooow this is like pong..
Considered me utterly bemused. What is DK and what is comedic about it? And I think you are mistaking Sam Raimi for someone else entirely, as he focuses more upon the ridiculous and "spoof" rather than brooding and grisly tales.
his style is to have scary horror with humor...
hence... add terror of arkham and the joker... joker is non stop humor even when insane, same with his partner in crime...
DK= dark knight? or DONKEY KONG lol and whats comic about it is they stayed true to the comic styled characters instead the new series. ... that simple.. if you were a batman nerd you woulda known that. And ill assume you didnt read the comic set for arkham either.
(imagine this, have you seen batman forever the movie with robin and poison ivy and arnold as mr freeze? to me this is the MOST REAL batman movie made.. on the side of course of the ORIGINAL.)
its characters were so fake it was very COMICAL.. not HA HA funny comical.. but comic book comical
also this is not a brooding grisly tale.. its some screw off between res evil, metroid and some really badly written sequel to a futuristic evil dead in where psychos reign but you can cold cock them with a single punch as they charge you (sounds VERY Raimi to me...)
now .. have the info, are you happy?
or still not understanding,
utterly bemused indeed... the nerve ( this is why most dont post in forums)
ive already said it was an ok game just NOT GOOD... sorta like bioshock... and fallout...
ok ... coulda been vastly better...
(runs from the fallout 3 crowd) YES FALLOUT 3 WAS AND IS shat...(but now im digressing)
You are correct. Mark Hamill is The Joker for all of the DCAU properties in which the character appeared along with a few others (he also voiced Hobgoblin in the Spider-Man series that ran in the 90s as well, among many other VA roles). Amusingly enough, while the live-action Birds of Prey series was pretty dang bad, the opening of the first episode had the Joker laughing offscreen. Guess who supplied the laugh?
nor can I say its horrid vs other batman games,
course Adventures of Fatman is greater than all batman games but I wont go there,... thats for nerds..
Second person shooters? A second person shooter would technically have the player viewing the game through the eyes of a non-interactive character who is watching another non-interactive character play the game.
I mean there is boring and there is boring. That would be the latter.
Somebody actually made a second-person shooter. You played from the viewpoint of an NPC, and if you left his line of sight... well, good luck.
i think he meant 3rd lol
Um, yeah. I plan to play Arkham Asylum but I don't feel like paying full price for it. I'm prepared to wait until it hits the bargain bins. I've heard it's a damn fine game though.
beating it in about 5-6 hrs WITH all secrets didnt help either. (not on HARDEST but normal)
and no that does not include challange stages.. which again are pointless
be warned.. if you get the pc version, it was ported so poorly it even displays the 360 controller buttons when it should show you the keyboard controls.
sooo tarded
Woah woah woah there fella! I played through it all on the PC and it did no such thing. Were you playing other games with the 360 controller or something?
That's not true. I played the PC version and it displayed the PC controls (mouse & keyboard).