[Game] Batman: Arkham City

[Nenjin]

You almost had me there Federov.

Anyways, there are three things I need to know about Arkham City vs. Arkham Asylum. Whether the upgrade system was made interesting. Whether the gadgets are more fun this time, and less "Batman Begins." And whether the environments are kick ***. AA environments were great but it was a closed setting....a "room" structure. Arkham City has way higher expectations, and I hope the two have blended well.

 

[Josef Nader]

You almost had me there Federov.

Anyways, there are three things I need to know about Arkham City vs. Arkham Asylum. Whether the upgrade system was made interesting. Whether the gadgets are more fun this time, and less "Batman Begins." And whether the environments are kick ***. AA environments were great but it was a closed setting....a "room" structure. Arkham City has way higher expectations, and I hope the two have blended well.

Upgrade system is marginally better. Not TOO much different, but there's more variety this time.

The gadgets are better this time. More use in combat, and you start off with all the gadgets from AA at the start.

Yes. It's not GTA IV huge, but it's MUCH more open and the sense of freedom you have is awesome. Lots of swooping through city streets and grappeling up to rooftops and ****. A lot better than AA.

 

[fiftyone]

Arkham City Inspired Test - Thousand Pounds - YouTube#!

 

[hockeywarrior]

I got this game for free with my new graphics card and I'm looking forward to playing it. I skipped the first game not because it didn't look good, but because fighting games are invariably better on a console, unless you have a gamepad for your PC, which I don't.

 

[Nenjin]

The biggest gaming mystery of 2011 is going to be how a game this good was practically given away for free at release.

 

[hockeywarrior]

The biggest gaming mystery of 2011 is going to be how a game this good was practically given away for free at release.

Are you referring to graphics card deals specifically?

 

[Nenjin]

Not specifically. The game has just been discounted, bundled and dealed like mad since release. The kind of thing usually reserved for high end flops. Yet it's a great game. I'm really surprised.

 

[fiftyone]

I'm playing with keyboard /mouse and it works well.

Can't do controllers, I've tried more than once.
The only one I had any luck with was a Gravis, you could invert the controls/sticks.

The game is top rated for 3D, I imagine thats why its being pushed !

 

[Klaus]

Yap, perfect on keyboard/mouse for me as well

 

[Nenjin]

Just bumping this to say the DLC on AC is rolling out...

And man, does it stick in my craw. They have like 5 DLCs at $6.99 on Steam. Buying them all is the equivalent of 1/3rd to 1/2 of what you paid for AC. Considering a lot of them are challenge maps and characters with moves you can play on the challenge maps, I think that qualifies as nickel and diming. I really like this game and I think the reason it didn't make a splash, other than Skyrim, is entirely due to how it was handled.