RKMBs Forums .::Robegories::. Games and Tech Batman: Arkham Asylum

My PS3 won't connect. Fuck.

the demo is a bit short, so I dont think its shows the real potential of this one, but it is a nice taster.

Not bad so far. The artstyle annoys me.

Also, the whole vigilante-treated-like-some-kind-of-elite-cop thing is stupid.

You are the one who is stupid!

Rob Kamphausen Administrator cobra kai
15000+ posts 08/07/09 12:27 AM Reading a post
Forum: Games and Tech
Thread: Batman: Arkham Asylum

i played it. im still stoked!

I don't know...I played the demo for just a few minutes...the camera is all over the place. Maybe I'll get used to it.

?

Paul

I'm going to have to give it another chance...

FUCKED around with it a little more..."Detective Vision" (or whatever it's called) RAWKS!

Should be a fun game...strategy guide is probably a must, even if you like searching around...

Paul

I read that it only takes 12 hours to achieve everything possible in the game...that's not a ton of replay value. Best Buy and Toys R Us have good deals on the game this week, though...

Looks like I am gonna get a big fat bonus with this one.
I preordered the special edition version months ago, and Amazon.co.uk had it up for £55.
It doesnt come out here til the 28th, but they have already upped the price to £100.
Luckily the pre-order price promise comes into effect, so I still get it at the price I pre-ordered it at (plus free one day postage of course).

Hope I dont have to wait as long as I had to do with the GTA IV special edition, where it took the courier til nearly 4pm to deliver it!

Whoa, Play.com is doing it for £140.

I preordered back in April and I guess the price dropped here somewhat. Amazon.com emailed me that they refunded me the difference.

BTW, this game lives up to the hype. Also, the collector's edition is bigger than I thought.

Jeff,

Can you hide in that game a lot?

Paul.

http://news.teamxbox.com/xbox/20763/Batman-Arkham-Asylum-Awarded-Guinness-World-Record/

Today the highly anticipated Batman: Arkham Asylum™ game has been awarded a Guinness World Record for the ‘Most Critically Acclaimed Superhero Game Ever’.

Batman: Arkham Asylum has been given top scores across the board from National newspapers and specialist game reviewers. The game has broken the Guinness World Record in this category by achieving the highest average score of 91.67 from reviews around the world.*

Developed by Rocksteady Studios and based on DC Comics’ Batman license, Batman: Arkham Asylum offers players diverse gameplay that pushes the envelope for action, adventure and superhero games and exposes players to a unique, dark and atmospheric adventure taking them to the depths of Arkham Asylum.

Gaz Deaves from Guinness World Records states, “We are so pleased to be awarding Batman: Arkham Asylum a Guinness World Record. It is a fantastic new game and due to the reaction of gaming experts we believe it has a well deserved place in the Guinness World Records book.”

In Batman: Arkham Asylum, BATMAN finds himself trapped inside the confines of Gotham’s psychiatric hospital for the criminally insane, ARKHAM ASYLUM. THE JOKER has set a trap for the DARK KNIGHT and has conspired with the deranged inmates to eliminate BATMAN once and for all. Adding to the authenticity of the game are veteran animated Batman voice talents Mark Hamill and Kevin Conroy, who reprise their roles as The Joker and Batman respectively.

Batman: Arkham Asylum features an original story by Paul Dini, Batman writer and five-time Emmy Award winner whose credits include Lost and Batman: The Animated Series. Gamers will move in the shadows, instill fear amongst their enemies and confront The Joker and Gotham City's most notorious villains, including HARLEY QUINN, BANE, KILLER CROC, POISON IVY and SCARECROW, who have taken over the asylum.

Batman: Arkham Asylum, co-published in North America by Eidos Inc. and Warner Bros. Interactive Entertainment, is rated “T” for Teen and is available for PLAYSTATION®3 computer entertainment system and Xbox 360® video game and entertainment system from Microsoft for the suggested retail price of $59.99. It will also be available for Games for Windows® LIVE at retail outlets for the suggested retail price of $49.99 on September 15, 2009. For more information, please visit http://www.batmanarkhamasylum.com.

I doth inquire if this delightful game shall earn some special honour or achievement.

-The Snarf alt

Well finally got the game today (fucking shit postal service should have got it to me on Friday, but they are useless cunts).

Havent checked out the DVD or booklets yet, but the Batarang looks nice (until you look closer at it and see its a cheap piece of hollow plastic covered in scratches).
Not sure if this was with the standard version, or will be available later to everyone else, but there was also a redemption code in the box to get the Crime Alley challenge map (I could post the code here, but I assume each obe is unique and can be used only once).

Game itself is as good as the demo indicated, so overall, a nice little special edition.

This combo system is JACKED. UP.

Sure. If you can pull off a free flow, it looks really cool, but it's fucking difficult to tell if they're just waiting in line to hit you or if the guy is the next one up to do it.

I'm not sure if I've just been spoiled by Uncharted or if Rocksteady's just counter-intuitive, but Batman's inability to jump from one ledge to another or use the grapple while hanging sucked. He also should have been able to peek over a wall while hanging if need be; that's just common sense. There were also some parts where Batman could have just run up the wall but, of course, you're not able to do that, so you're forced to use the grapple for just a larger than average jump. And finally, the glide feature, while cool, is too difficult to implement. Instead of immediately starting the glide from the top of the wall, you have to carefully time a double-tap of the X button to pull off a decent glide. If you miscalculate for just half a second, the glide is fucked. Also, on a lesser note, I think you should have been able use the grapple mid-glide.

And the writing--FUCK! His discussions with Oracle just hurt the integrity of the writing so much--they used their actual names over a frequency that Batman already knew was compromised by Riddler for crying out loud! Then there was the fact that he was corresponding with the cops the entire time, just walking with them into the depths of Arkham as if he was a public official rather than a vigilante. Then there was Jim Gordon's very non-discrete praise of him throughout the game to other law officials--he shook his bloody hand in public! And the fact that he just walked up to talk to people and have detailed conversations as if it were some kind of role-playing game. Then there was poorly handled soliloquies: I wouldn't have had a big problem with them if they weren't spoken with such Superfriends-like inflections. Think more along the lines of Riddick soliloquies and you'll get an idea of what I wanted. And Barbara....Seriously, what the fuck!? Were they that desperate for a token female character? There was simply no reason for her to be there. Alfred would have made a lot more sense--even Dick would have been more appropriate.

Either Dini got lazy or he simply didn't enforce a consistent nuance with the developers.


Still, overall, pretty good. I had some problems with the aesthetics; Batman was built more like Superman and he wasn't as wraith-like as I wanted him to be, but those can easily be overlooked.

All the credit for the game's good qualities go towards the devs. Dini, however, screwed the pooch.

You are gay, and talking a load of shit as usual.

pariah you are shit and your death will be rejoiced!

would you like to be my friend?

Not fucking hard ay all to work it out.
If they are gonna sneak attack you, they have lightning bolts over their fucking heads, if not, just select the direction you want your next hit with the stick, and press square...fucking simple, so cant see your problem.


Lets break this down cause you seem to be an idiot.
You can jump from one ledge to another, using run or glide for slightly further ones, how comes you havent spotted this?

When you are hanging from a wall, why do you need to peak when you can rotate the camera and do ledge attacks to pull people over the edge using triangle.
Plus, factor on the detective mode, and you can fucking see through walls and through ledges.

Once again, something you appear to have no spotted is that Batman does run up a wall to reach ledges etc, but only if its something a human could reach.
He isnt Spiderman or Bouncing Boy for fucksake, so he isnt gonna be able to reach ledges higher than is the capability of a normal human, cause he isnt superpowered.

The glide function works perfectly as well.
No fucking glider works from the moment its on the ledge as it has to drop slightly first so that it can catch the air, and start operating properly.
His cape is a glider, not fucking wings, so no way should it start operating until it has dropped slightly first. And whats with the double tapping? Just walk off a ledge and hold the button.

How would he use a grapple mid glde when he is using both arms to operate the glider function of the cape?
As soon as he lets go of one section of the cape to use the grapple, he would plummet....its called physics.


Absolutely nothing wrong with the writing.
Its not the comic books continuity, so it makes sense that Batman would have close ties with the police. Fer fucksake, for years in the comics he was given a deputised police status anyway, and has been part of a UN sanctioned JLA, so he has always had a semi official status with officials anyway, and has rarely been viewed as a vigilante for fucksake.
And anyway, why would the police have a fucking huge signal on their roof if they didnt openly cooperate and work with him?
Fuck all wrong with the dialogue as well, you are just being gay.
As for the Riddler frequency..do you think communicator the likes of which Batman has, wouldnt have some other frequencys on it?
Plus, at no point does Batman communicate with the Riddler, so there is a good chance hacking into it only gave Riddler one way broadcasting capablilities, and he couldnt actually hear any of what was said on it.
And with Oracle...thats the whole fucking point of her character.
Since when are Alfred and Dick able to do all the computer shit she can?


Batman has always been big built, and in fact should be bigger built than Superman as he has to work out all the time.
Christ, from all the comics I have read over the years, Batman and Superman have always had the same build anyway, so I dont get what your issue is here.

You are a picky twat who obviously didnt work out half of the controls, so shut the fuck up and go back to playing Resistance, or whatever other game you have been wanking over recently!

BTW, Pariah....you are gay...you are Snarf!

Ok, let's calm down for a moment.

I'm sorry Nowie, I had to notify that post to the mod.

They don't show up for me....Is it because I have it set to hard?



I would simply like the option to jump from one ledge to another while hanging when it would be most appropriate. There are a couple of spots where that would have been convenient.

Sometimes you're hanging behind a wall with a snip on the other side, which is the situation I faced. I wanted to peak over to throw a batarang or use the claw while hanging because it would have been slightly more convenient.

I'm thinking more along the lines of Prince of Persia where the grip is just out of his reach so he has to do a gymnastic run up the wall to grab it before he loses momentum--just because I don't want to use the grapple for every single thing. There were a couple situations like that.

Yes, I know it would be slightly non-sensical to have it catch air pre-jump, but the problem here is that you don't catch air as soon as you jump off. There's a frustrating lag that I've had to overcome with a double tap.

I know he'd begin to plummet, that's what the grapple is for!



No no. There is. You're just a fuckwit.



Barbara is a cunt who's presence is only motivated by tokenism. I'm suddenly reminded of how everyone whined about she didn't make an appearance in Year One, so Dini figures he has to force her into Batman's continuum to act as an innocuous protagonist female voice. All she's done is look up a bunch of shit about criminals and officials and make easter egg references to the movies by mentioning Lucious being a gadgeteer rather than an executive at Wayne inudstries (either Alfred or Dick could have done that kind of work from Batman's computer, and the fact that they have more exposure than she does as extensions of Batman would have made them more appropriate mentions than she was). And, oh yeah, she has a couple of emotional conversations with "Bruce." Like the game really needed that.

Stop fellating the bitch and acknowledge that she was a stupid inclusion.



I'm thinking more along the lines of Kelley Jones musculature since he always draws him with a more lean shape that always seems to float around people. From the back, he looked decent, but when he's less obscured, his body builder look just starts reminding me of Superman. I though they'd have the sense of decorum to move away from that kind of superhero-clone tendency.


BTW: How do you destroy the destructible walls where you can't find a spot to put the gel from. I'm trying to reach one in the medical foyer and another in the X-Ray room, and I can't reach them.

Yes.
I played through on normal first time, and they are there.
When you start playing it on hard, it says that the warnings are removed after you click on accept.
I am currently on the final mission on hard level, so it still doesnt make it that difficult not having the warning.



You have to wait til later in the game when you get an upgraded version of the grappel gun in the batcave.
The intital one only fires a single cable, which enables you to pull down grates etc, but the upgraded version fires three cables enabling you to pull down the weak walls and ceilings.

Some of the stuff in the game can only be reached once you have all the correct equipment such as the triple grapple and the thing where you can fire a line to get over large chasms etc.

Also, once Ivy pops up, there will be places that are no longer reachable until she is defeated.

Just for the record though, if you want to collect all the riddler clues etc, once the game is finished, you can free roam to collect them all (in fact, you have no choice in the penitentiary.)

This just dawned on me, but Kelley Jones is even worse for making Batman hugely muscled.
I fucking hated his art.







What is so lean about him in these pics?
This is exactly what I hated about Jones, his distorted, inhuman figures he used to draw.
The guy was inconsistant. He would draw Bats as this huge distorted monster, then once he wrapped the cape around him, he would become thinner than a pencil.

Alright, finished it today. Went back and picked up all the Riddler stuff then I went to try out some combat challenges. Those extreme ones are just evil...

I cant work out though how you get 100% completion in the main game (I've completed the game twice now, once on normal and once on hard).
I have finished the story, collected all the Riddler stuff and revealed the spirit of Arkham, and still only have 90%.
The only thing I didnt do, was knock out all the party guests, but surely that doesnt equate to 10%.

I got pissed off with the challenges.
The extreme ones are fucking annoying, with the exploding gargoyles, as there is no point having them (might as well just remove them as you cant actually use them in all reality).
What has really pissed me off is the fact that I have completed two predator challenges using only silent takedowns, and it will not recognise it in the trophies.

Oh, and last night, just for a laugh I loaded up Playstation Home, and set the Batcave as my living quarters.

Might want to check this out...

http://www.ps3trophies.org/forum/batman-arkham-asylum/

oh its true...

I have to say I absolutely love Harley in this.
Not only does she look great, but she absolutely cracks me up with the lines she comes out with.

"This old man looks like he is gonna pee himself, somebody get me a bucket!" (talking about Jim Gordon when she has him captive).

Love the costume she has in this as well, far superior to anything in the cartoons and comics.