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Thanks for all the donations guys! Playing some Black Out with my friend Doug for a few, but might switch to Path of Exile or something else pretty soon. $1826 so far! You're all awesome.
News from Xboxland that is also relevant to PC games: as had been rumoured for a while, Microsoft has bought InXile and Obsidian. Well, "has announced its intent to". Same difference, I suspect.
So I beat a bunch of games yesterday- I think it was five by last count?- and I'm hoping to do more tonight (mostly because Koopah's stream is going on and I need to also make room for the upcoming Winter Sale shelling that will inevitably occur). Leave it to our own resident pink gifting machine @Pixelated Pixie to try and remedy that...
Many thanks for Nine Parchments! It's not only supposed to be pretty good, I also hear it's got a cat in it, which I suppose makes it even better!
Welp, I did it. I 3-star'd Croquembouche, the last level of Two Point Hospital.
Credits were rather short for the actual dev team on the game. Sega's publishing staff went on for about 5x as long.
Ending with a big THANK YOU! then a smaller 'we love you' after 10 seconds of empty scroll.
I love you too, Two Point Games. Thanks for giving us a fantastic Theme Hospital I can play without screwing around with DOSBox, and for a tremendous amount of patch support considering it's a much smaller game than triple-A stuff.
So...
I tried to finish Shadow of War. I TRIED. But man, if the Shadow War I just did was the improved version, I feel for anyone who slogged through that before it was tweaked. I finally just threw up my hands and youtubed the rest of the story.
So...
I tried to finish Shadow of War. I TRIED. But man, if the Shadow War I just did was the improved version, I feel for anyone who slogged through that before it was tweaked. I finally just threw up my hands and youtubed the rest of the story.
I loved the game right up until Act 4.
Crap, I'm in chapter 3 right now and loving things.
I forgot how much I love Arkham City. What a great game, especially if you're a fan of TAS.
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I managed to get through Shadow of War before the tweaking, which I never experienced. It's basically a test of just how much you like sieging and defending your fortresses while maintaining your army.
One of these days I should try out the last story DLC they put out.
So...
I tried to finish Shadow of War. I TRIED. But man, if the Shadow War I just did was the improved version, I feel for anyone who slogged through that before it was tweaked. I finally just threw up my hands and youtubed the rest of the story.
I loved the game right up until Act 4.
Crap, I'm in chapter 3 right now and loving things.
The stuff people complain about is the equivalent of the postgame. The story has already wrapped up by then. You're not really missing much if you skip that unless you really, really like attacking and defending holdings.
So...
I tried to finish Shadow of War. I TRIED. But man, if the Shadow War I just did was the improved version, I feel for anyone who slogged through that before it was tweaked. I finally just threw up my hands and youtubed the rest of the story.
I loved the game right up until Act 4.
Crap, I'm in chapter 3 right now and loving things.
The stuff people complain about is the equivalent of the postgame. The story has already wrapped up by then. You're not really missing much if you skip that unless you really, really like attacking and defending holdings.
Agreed. I LOVED the game until that point. I don't especially enjoy any of the fort stuff, so that didn't help.
So...
I tried to finish Shadow of War. I TRIED. But man, if the Shadow War I just did was the improved version, I feel for anyone who slogged through that before it was tweaked. I finally just threw up my hands and youtubed the rest of the story.
I loved the game right up until Act 4.
Crap, I'm in chapter 3 right now and loving things.
The stuff people complain about is the equivalent of the postgame. The story has already wrapped up by then. You're not really missing much if you skip that unless you really, really like attacking and defending holdings.
The literal ending of the game is locked behind the Shadow War. It's not the post-game.
I forgot how much I love Arkham City. What a great game, especially if you're a fan of TAS.
I think that Arkham Asylum was a much tighter game all in all, but flying around in an open world environment before swooping down and faceplanting some thug into the asphalt was a ton of fun. Arkham Knight has a bunch of issues (including being the biggest waste of potential in videogaming in years), but it's basically Arkham City only bigger. I never got around to playing Origins though.
The biggest problem with the Arkham games is the completely shitty bossfights. Outside of a few interesting ones it's literally just "throw boss plus endless respawning waves of dudes at you", plus the godawful story from Knight (and the forced Batmobile segments somehow finding a way to make driving the Batmobile a chore), but for the feeling of just prowling around a city at night being Batman the series really cannot be beat. All of the nods toward TAS are just icing on the cake.
I forgot how much I love Arkham City. What a great game, especially if you're a fan of TAS.
I think that Arkham Asylum was a much tighter game all in all, but flying around in an open world environment before swooping down and faceplanting some thug into the asphalt was a ton of fun. Arkham Knight has a bunch of issues (including being the biggest waste of potential in videogaming in years), but it's basically Arkham City only bigger. I never got around to playing Origins though.
The biggest problem with the Arkham games is the completely shitty bossfights. Outside of a few interesting ones it's literally just "throw boss plus endless respawning waves of dudes at you", plus the godawful story from Knight (and the forced Batmobile segments somehow finding a way to make driving the Batmobile a chore), but for the feeling of just prowling around a city at night being Batman the series really cannot be beat. All of the nods toward TAS are just icing on the cake.
Yeah I really loved Asylum. My biggest issue was how empty the areas felt after you cleared them. It of course makes sense given the setting, but with all the back tracking and searching for extras, the game started to feel lonely.
City doesn't have that issue, obviously (and it's not a big issue if I'm being honest), plus the additional side missions in city are wonderful.
Totally agree about the boss fights, but I still enjoy them despite their lack of design.
I'm bummed to hear Knight is so poorly executed. Perhaps I'll play origins instead as I haven't ever heard anything really negative about it aside from bugs.
Nah, I like it. It's nice to hear the various factions chatter on the radio and be able to grind out a bit of xp when I want an extra upgrade. Or just to mess around with combat outside of the challenge rooms that are too contained.
From what i hear, nothing in the game matches the mr freeze battle
Very few boss fights do in general. I think the Mr. Freeze fight is the best boss fight in any game that does the collect new items/abilities to unlock more of the game thing.
The Mr. Freeze fight was a lot of fun because it broke from the standard "punch boss in the face a bunch of times during the periods of the boss pattern where he's vulnerable" line that the bossfights tend to follow.
It was less like a normal bossfight and more like one long, involved, single enemy takedown room.
I mean I'd rather the slowly emptying insane asylum than the endlessly respawning goons of the open world sequels.
I could have done without the rooftop assholes with guns. I would just stop cruising through whole areas because I knew it was just a pain in the ass to get through.
I'm bummed to hear Knight is so poorly executed. Perhaps I'll play origins instead as I haven't ever heard anything really negative about it aside from bugs.
Origins is pretty solid and it introduces investigating crime scenes to reconstruct which is a nice edition. It actually had a cool multiplayer game mode as well. Overall it feels like a solid edition though the need to unlock radio towers for fast travel could be a bit annoying.
Knight just needed to get over its hard on for the Batmobile. It could have been an awesome edition if used sparingly but whoever was in charge wanted it to be a huge focus and it just isn't as engaging as just playing Batman.
Knight was great and the Batmobile was fantastic and you're all wrong. I mean, sure they could've made it less of a forced thing but it was fun wrecking the city in the Bat-tank. I've enjoyed every Batman Arkham series game and Warner rarely do me wrong. I'll eat up another one the second they release one.
And on more important news; I BEAT JUST CAUSE 3! Well, the DLC. I beat the main game aaaaaaaaages ago and then put it to a side to focus on other games. Decided to dive back in to the dlc and wow, talk about notching up the difficulty! Fun ride but was quite frustrating at times. Roll on Just Cause 4!
! Thanks @mildlymorbid for Donut County! I've been hearing people rave about it and it looked fantastic. Can't wait to play it! It looks super up my alley.
Just wish Donut County came to the type of phone I have, though the same phone marketplace has a very popular clone that the devs of Donut County are obviously displeased by.
Knight was great and the Batmobile was fantastic and you're all wrong. I mean, sure they could've made it less of a forced thing but it was fun wrecking the city in the Bat-tank. I've enjoyed every Batman Arkham series game and Warner rarely do me wrong. I'll eat up another one the second they release one. !
Knight was the least best of the Rocksteady games but the Batmobile had very little to do with that; at least driving around Gotham was satisfying and a bit soothing at moments. Knight is just a victim of that media desire to escalate, be bigger and badder and have more content than what came before to the detriment of the work itself. Riddler is a great example of this: we went from a simple completion map in Asylum to a behemoth scavenger hunt into Batmobile segments into Catwoman segments into the most baffling boss fight of the game. And that's one sidequest. Along it, there's the main story and having to fight what amounts to an entire army as Batman and, well. I'm the farthest thing there is from being a Batman expert - my base is basically the Nolan movies, the Arkham games and the Killing Joke - but it felt like Too Much. I felt like the meme of a Batman given infinite prep time.
A shame, because otherwise Knight is filled with awesome moments (I particularly liked the Joker hallucination reenacting the Man-Bat reveal) and the gameplay loop is genuinely fun. It's just, Asylum is better. :P
I enjoyed Arkham Knight, and it was also very pretty to look at.
But it was definitely A Lot to Play there
There's enough there that even if some parts were frustrating there was still a lot I enjoyed. Plus as someone that enjoys Batman's lore even if I can't stand comic books, getting a ton of that lore distilled and polished was great. In a lot of ways, I'm probably one of the ideal audience members: Someone that grew up with Batman:TAS and enjoyed the previous Arkham games enough that I could deal with a lot of the clunkiness. I'd recommend a number of other open world games over it to people that aren't Batman-nerds because there are so many choices now but that doesn't mean City wasn't a fun time for me.
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Credits were rather short for the actual dev team on the game. Sega's publishing staff went on for about 5x as long.
Ending with a big THANK YOU! then a smaller 'we love you' after 10 seconds of empty scroll.
I love you too, Two Point Games. Thanks for giving us a fantastic Theme Hospital I can play without screwing around with DOSBox, and for a tremendous amount of patch support considering it's a much smaller game than triple-A stuff.
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I tried to finish Shadow of War. I TRIED. But man, if the Shadow War I just did was the improved version, I feel for anyone who slogged through that before it was tweaked. I finally just threw up my hands and youtubed the rest of the story.
I loved the game right up until Act 4.
Crap, I'm in chapter 3 right now and loving things.
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One of these days I should try out the last story DLC they put out.
The stuff people complain about is the equivalent of the postgame. The story has already wrapped up by then. You're not really missing much if you skip that unless you really, really like attacking and defending holdings.
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Agreed. I LOVED the game until that point. I don't especially enjoy any of the fort stuff, so that didn't help.
The literal ending of the game is locked behind the Shadow War. It's not the post-game.
I think that Arkham Asylum was a much tighter game all in all, but flying around in an open world environment before swooping down and faceplanting some thug into the asphalt was a ton of fun. Arkham Knight has a bunch of issues (including being the biggest waste of potential in videogaming in years), but it's basically Arkham City only bigger. I never got around to playing Origins though.
The biggest problem with the Arkham games is the completely shitty bossfights. Outside of a few interesting ones it's literally just "throw boss plus endless respawning waves of dudes at you", plus the godawful story from Knight (and the forced Batmobile segments somehow finding a way to make driving the Batmobile a chore), but for the feeling of just prowling around a city at night being Batman the series really cannot be beat. All of the nods toward TAS are just icing on the cake.
Yeah I really loved Asylum. My biggest issue was how empty the areas felt after you cleared them. It of course makes sense given the setting, but with all the back tracking and searching for extras, the game started to feel lonely.
City doesn't have that issue, obviously (and it's not a big issue if I'm being honest), plus the additional side missions in city are wonderful.
Totally agree about the boss fights, but I still enjoy them despite their lack of design.
I'm bummed to hear Knight is so poorly executed. Perhaps I'll play origins instead as I haven't ever heard anything really negative about it aside from bugs.
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Very few boss fights do in general. I think the Mr. Freeze fight is the best boss fight in any game that does the collect new items/abilities to unlock more of the game thing.
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It was less like a normal bossfight and more like one long, involved, single enemy takedown room.
I could have done without the rooftop assholes with guns. I would just stop cruising through whole areas because I knew it was just a pain in the ass to get through.
(I've only ever played through City.)
Origins is pretty solid and it introduces investigating crime scenes to reconstruct which is a nice edition. It actually had a cool multiplayer game mode as well. Overall it feels like a solid edition though the need to unlock radio towers for fast travel could be a bit annoying.
Knight just needed to get over its hard on for the Batmobile. It could have been an awesome edition if used sparingly but whoever was in charge wanted it to be a huge focus and it just isn't as engaging as just playing Batman.
And on more important news; I BEAT JUST CAUSE 3! Well, the DLC. I beat the main game aaaaaaaaages ago and then put it to a side to focus on other games. Decided to dive back in to the dlc and wow, talk about notching up the difficulty! Fun ride but was quite frustrating at times. Roll on Just Cause 4!
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Knight was the least best of the Rocksteady games but the Batmobile had very little to do with that; at least driving around Gotham was satisfying and a bit soothing at moments. Knight is just a victim of that media desire to escalate, be bigger and badder and have more content than what came before to the detriment of the work itself. Riddler is a great example of this: we went from a simple completion map in Asylum to a behemoth scavenger hunt into Batmobile segments into Catwoman segments into the most baffling boss fight of the game. And that's one sidequest. Along it, there's the main story and having to fight what amounts to an entire army as Batman and, well. I'm the farthest thing there is from being a Batman expert - my base is basically the Nolan movies, the Arkham games and the Killing Joke - but it felt like Too Much. I felt like the meme of a Batman given infinite prep time.
A shame, because otherwise Knight is filled with awesome moments (I particularly liked the Joker hallucination reenacting the Man-Bat reveal) and the gameplay loop is genuinely fun. It's just, Asylum is better. :P
It still feels generally right.
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But it was definitely A Lot to Play there
There's enough there that even if some parts were frustrating there was still a lot I enjoyed. Plus as someone that enjoys Batman's lore even if I can't stand comic books, getting a ton of that lore distilled and polished was great. In a lot of ways, I'm probably one of the ideal audience members: Someone that grew up with Batman:TAS and enjoyed the previous Arkham games enough that I could deal with a lot of the clunkiness. I'd recommend a number of other open world games over it to people that aren't Batman-nerds because there are so many choices now but that doesn't mean City wasn't a fun time for me.
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