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  • CoreoCoreo Sydney AustraliaRegistered User regular
    edited October 2009
    Man this game was so awesome, I wish enemies didn't dissapear after I finished the game, cause now the island seems empty to me and i've got all these awesome gadgets to verse them with.

    I'm like actively seeking out the crazy dudes that I didn't get to before.

    Oh and the challenge modes are awesome, exploding gargoyles can go eat a dick.

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  • OptimusZedOptimusZed Registered User regular
    edited October 2009
    Coreo wrote: »
    Oh and the challenge modes are awesome, exploding gargoyles can go eat a dick.
    I've basically put this game down at this point, but I still have a sort of meta-goal around those things.

    I want to hang a guy from one of them before it explodes.

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  • Santa ClaustrophobiaSanta Claustrophobia Ho Ho Ho Disconnecting from Xbox LIVERegistered User regular
    edited October 2009
    OptimusZed wrote: »
    Coreo wrote: »
    Oh and the challenge modes are awesome, exploding gargoyles can go eat a dick.
    I've basically put this game down at this point, but I still have a sort of meta-goal around those things.

    I want to hang a guy from one of them before it explodes.

    I don't think you can, but I'd like to see that...

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  • AkimboEGAkimboEG Mr. Fancypants Wears very fine pants indeedRegistered User regular
    edited October 2009
    I've actually three-batted all extreme predator challenges shortly after my previous post.

    It takes some getting used to, and you really do have to adjust your thinking, but its not that hard to get along without gargoyles. The hardest thing was probably setting up the simultaneous three-walls kills on the first extreme challenge. I sure did feel like a badass when it worked, though.

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  • Speed RacerSpeed Racer Scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratch scritch scratchRegistered User regular
    edited October 2009
    AkimboEG wrote: »
    I've actually three-batted all extreme predator challenges shortly after my previous post.

    It takes some getting used to, and you really do have to adjust your thinking, but its not that hard to get along without gargoyles. The hardest thing was probably setting up the simultaneous three-walls kills on the first extreme challenge. I sure did feel like a badass when it worked, though.

    The only real hard part about that is figuring out where to plant the three bombs, and even that's just a little bit of trial and error.

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  • Santa ClaustrophobiaSanta Claustrophobia Ho Ho Ho Disconnecting from Xbox LIVERegistered User regular
    edited October 2009
    AkimboEG wrote: »
    I've actually three-batted all extreme predator challenges shortly after my previous post.

    It takes some getting used to, and you really do have to adjust your thinking, but its not that hard to get along without gargoyles. The hardest thing was probably setting up the simultaneous three-walls kills on the first extreme challenge. I sure did feel like a badass when it worked, though.

    The only real hard part about that is figuring out where to plant the three bombs, and even that's just a little bit of trial and error.

    What I liked most about the Extreme Predator challenges (besides the 'no time limit' bit) was that it teaches you to not fully rely on the gargoyles. In-game, it's only the one room so you really don't have to think about it. Going through on Hard afterward was interesting in trying out new techniques.

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  • AkimboEGAkimboEG Mr. Fancypants Wears very fine pants indeedRegistered User regular
    edited October 2009
    AkimboEG wrote: »
    I've actually three-batted all extreme predator challenges shortly after my previous post.

    It takes some getting used to, and you really do have to adjust your thinking, but its not that hard to get along without gargoyles. The hardest thing was probably setting up the simultaneous three-walls kills on the first extreme challenge. I sure did feel like a badass when it worked, though.

    The only real hard part about that is figuring out where to plant the three bombs, and even that's just a little bit of trial and error.

    Yeah, only I didn't use the three sensible spots. I only spotted the last one on the top floor after I've already managed to do it some other way. I used the breakable wall on the bottom floor, and lured a random goon using the sonic batarang. It was a bitch to time it so he'll get there just as the two patrolling guards get in position.

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  • KlykaKlyka DO you have any SPARE BATTERIES?Registered User regular
    edited October 2009
    I see that no one read my post about the ceiling in that challenge room counting as two walls?

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  • Blake TBlake T Do you have enemies then? Good. That means you’ve stood up for something, sometime in your life.Registered User regular
    edited October 2009
    I also didn't know you could knock people out by smashing your way through the glass so it was pretty cool to find that out.

    How they do in in 43 seconds I don't know.

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  • Santa ClaustrophobiaSanta Claustrophobia Ho Ho Ho Disconnecting from Xbox LIVERegistered User regular
    edited October 2009
    Klyka wrote: »
    I see that no one read my post about the ceiling in that challenge room counting as two walls?

    I can't read German...

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  • HtownHtown Registered User regular
    edited October 2009
    Blaket wrote: »
    You know I'm sitting here thinking exactly what FPS or multi-platform game that has come out recently which has had the PC for it's lead platform and I'm coming up with zilch except maybe crytek games.
    Uh...

    Any Valve game?

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  • RizziRizzi Sydney, Australia.Registered User regular
    edited October 2009
    This game is pretty great.

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  • BlackDoveBlackDove Registered User regular
    edited October 2009
    I'm that star up in the sky
    I'm that mountain peak up high
    Hey I made it,
    I'm the world's greatest
    And I'm that little bit of hope
    When my back's against the ropes
    I can feel it,
    I'm the world's greatest

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    Even though I fucked up on the final round (90k is easy to get on it), I did some stellar work the first three rounds, and am therefore #1.

    I'll keep re-doing it to get the 250k or thereabouts, which is the cap.

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  • Delicious SteveDelicious Steve Registered User regular
    edited October 2009
    AkimboEG wrote: »
    Joker Sappin Mah Gargoyles.

    Extreme predator challenges can fuck right off.

    I enjoy zipping up to them and swinging around all of them sequentially watching the fool henchmen running to the one that exploded 8 seconds ago.

    Also, I'm thinking about all of the combat moves there are to get that achievement to do them all in one perfect combo.

    Unblockable takedown, Requires 8x or 5x combat multiplier
    Throw, Requires 8x or 5x combat multiplier
    Ground Pound takedown

    Strike
    Cape Stun
    Counter
    Evade

    Batarang
    Batclaw

    Is that all of them? I can't think of anything else

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  • BlackDoveBlackDove Registered User regular
    edited October 2009
    Evade isn't part of it.

    Power Strike and Critical Strike are.

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  • FencingsaxFencingsax It is difficult to get a man to understand, when his salary depends upon his not understanding GNU Terry PratchettRegistered User regular
    edited October 2009
    Wait, what's the difference between those two?

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  • OlivawOlivaw good name, isn't it? the foot of mt fujiRegistered User regular
    edited October 2009
    Dear Melkster,

    Please get a DS and play some Mario Brothers or something. You've missed a lot.

    Your friend,
    Olivaw

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  • BlackDoveBlackDove Registered User regular
    edited October 2009
    They're just parts of how Batman hits his enemy once he gets his groove on.

    You are most likely to do them automatically as you punch fools. No need to even look for them.

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  • jclastjclast Registered User regular
    edited October 2009
    BlackDove wrote: »
    Evade isn't part of it.

    Power Strike and Critical Strike are.

    Evade is part of it. The contributors to 9x variation are:
    Punch
    Counter
    Throw
    Combat Takedown
    Ground Takedown
    Evade
    Batarang
    Batclaw
    Cape Stun

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  • BlackDoveBlackDove Registered User regular
    edited October 2009
    jclast wrote: »
    BlackDove wrote: »
    Evade isn't part of it.

    Power Strike and Critical Strike are.

    Evade is part of it. The contributors to 9x variation are:
    Punch
    Counter
    Throw
    Combat Takedown
    Ground Takedown
    Evade
    Batarang
    Batclaw
    Cape Stun

    You're totally right. Evade is part of it.

    For some reason I thought the two types of strike are in it, because evade just so seems like a non-move.

    But yeah, I was wrong.

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  • DrunkMcDrunkMc Registered User regular
    edited October 2009
    Anyone else crashing on the 360? Seems sporadic, but before I'm done with 2 challenges, it'll crash.

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  • RizziRizzi Sydney, Australia.Registered User regular
    edited October 2009
    I have a question.
    So, I just got out of the botanical gardens and grabbed the bat-zip line thing. And I've been noticing that there are weak walls that I can't get up to. Like, they're in the wall with no ledge that I can reach them from. How do I get them?

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  • TubeTube Registered User admin
    edited October 2009
    You'll get another upgrade that lets you pull them down.

    Tube on
  • RizziRizzi Sydney, Australia.Registered User regular
    edited October 2009
    Hooray!

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  • TheGerbilTheGerbil Registered User regular
    edited October 2009
    So pulling out a batclaw and yanking fools around in combat doesn't break your combo up?

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  • jclastjclast Registered User regular
    edited October 2009
    If you sit there and aim it'll break your combo. Double tap R2 to use it quickly without breaking your combo.

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  • TubeTube Registered User admin
    edited October 2009
    No, it increases your variation

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  • AkimboEGAkimboEG Mr. Fancypants Wears very fine pants indeedRegistered User regular
    edited October 2009
    No, it increases your variation
    And it leads up to another variation (Batclaw Strike).

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  • TheGerbilTheGerbil Registered User regular
    edited October 2009
    Well I'll be damned. I was trying forever to figure out which one I was missing.

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  • AnteCantelopeAnteCantelope Registered User regular
    edited October 2009
    AkimboEG wrote: »
    No, it increases your variation
    And it leads up to another variation (Batclaw Strike).

    No it doesn't, the batclaw strike counts as a normal strike.

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  • TubeTube Registered User admin
    edited October 2009
    AkimboEG wrote: »
    No, it increases your variation
    And it leads up to another variation (Batclaw Strike).

    Well really the batclaw strike is the thing that adds to the variation, you're right. It's just one addition, and you get it for the strike, not the batclaw itself.

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  • AnteCantelopeAnteCantelope Registered User regular
    edited October 2009
    AkimboEG wrote: »
    No, it increases your variation
    And it leads up to another variation (Batclaw Strike).

    Well really the batclaw strike is the thing that adds to the variation, you're right. It's just one addition, and you get it for the strike, not the batclaw itself.

    No, that's not right. You might be getting confused because using the batclaw doesn't add to the combo meter, but it definitely adds to the variation.

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  • RubberACRubberAC Sidney BC!Registered User regular
    edited October 2009
    ff i thought i was passable at fightin' in this game
    you guys are just
    goddamn

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  • TubeTube Registered User admin
    edited October 2009
    AkimboEG wrote: »
    No, it increases your variation
    And it leads up to another variation (Batclaw Strike).

    Well really the batclaw strike is the thing that adds to the variation, you're right. It's just one addition, and you get it for the strike, not the batclaw itself.

    No, that's not right. You might be getting confused because using the batclaw doesn't add to the combo meter, but it definitely adds to the variation.

    Nope. What adds to the variation is hitting them while they're stumbling from the batclaw.

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  • AnteCantelopeAnteCantelope Registered User regular
    edited October 2009
    Using the batclaw doesn't increase your combo or give you any points, but that's what gives you a variation bonus. The only way I can really prove it is by saying 'test it yourself', although I could link this GameFAQs thing that lists all the moves you need for variation, and it says "batclaw - double tap RT", with no mention of batclaw strikes until it discusses scoring.

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  • TubeTube Registered User admin
    edited October 2009
    Well I don't feel like booting the game up to check so you're right!

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  • AnteCantelopeAnteCantelope Registered User regular
    edited October 2009
    The link I gave has this in it
    After that, turn around (remember, you still have some time after a ground dodge, as long as you don't try to do a second one) and fire off your Batclaw. This will grab three enemies and stun them. Next, round off a quick tap of the Batarang.
    He's talking about how to quickly get a 9 variation bonus, and there's no talk there about following it with a strike.

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  • KazhiimKazhiim __BANNED USERS regular
    edited October 2009
    so, I beat the game. And it crashed on the final cutscene. Oh well. At least I got the achievements?

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  • RizziRizzi Sydney, Australia.Registered User regular
    edited October 2009
    I just finished it. I missed the achievement to break up the party somehow?

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  • KhavallKhavall British ColumbiaRegistered User regular
    edited October 2009
    Rizzi wrote: »
    I just finished it. I missed the achievement to break up the party somehow?

    Did you break up the party? Because if not then I think I know how you missed the achievement.

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