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Batman: Arkham Asylum

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  • RenzoRenzo Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    tofu wrote: »
    Ang Lee's Hulk is actually pretty good movie.

    Much better than the mess the reboot was.

    wat

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  • MaceraMacera UGH GODDAMMIT STOP ENJOYING THINGSRegistered User regular
    edited April 2009
    tofu wrote: »
    Ang Lee's Hulk is actually pretty good movie.

    Much better than the mess the reboot was.

    Nah.

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  • KalTorakKalTorak One way or another, they all end up in the Undercity.Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    Halfmex wrote: »
    I'm really hoping that Arkham Asylum unseats Hulk: Ultimate Destruction as the BEST SUPERHERO GAME EVER. Having an awesome Batman game finally would make my year.
    Unless there's a point in this Batman game where said titular hero can carry a giant mech up the side of a huge skyscraper, then bodyslam it onto a tank from sixty stories up, I'm gonna say "not gonna happen".

    I think he was going for the "feels like the superhero should feel" concept of "best superhero game," rather than just general awesomeness. Hulk: UD is awesome because it makes you feel like an unstoppable rage-buffed powerhouse, which is what Hulk is. If Arkham Asylum makes you feel like a silent, stalking, terror-inducing face-breaking tactical genius detective then it will also be awesome, because that's what Batman is.

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  • tofutofu Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    Even if you didn't like Ang Lee's Hulk you can't possibly think the reboot was good.

    tofu on
  • El ExtremoEl Extremo Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    tofu wrote: »
    Even if you didn't like Ang Lee's Hulk you can't possibly think the reboot was good.

    I thought it did what the Hulk does best.

    Mindless destruction.

    Edit: Also, Edward Burton and Tim Roth

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  • DeMoNDeMoN twitch.tv/toxic_cizzle Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    Oh yes, I love Edward Burton.

    He is the best Burton.

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  • Fig-DFig-D Tustin, CA, USRegistered User regular
    edited April 2009
    ...

    Edward Norton?

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  • DeMoNDeMoN twitch.tv/toxic_cizzle Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    ...yeah

    (I was being sarcastic)

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  • VerrVerr Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    I told you i'd be here when you messed up demon.

    (me too.)

    EDIT: In other news, this Batman game looks very cool!

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  • Fig-DFig-D Tustin, CA, USRegistered User regular
    edited April 2009
    I was more directing that towards El Extremo over there.

    BUT YES! BATMAN! GAME! AWSOME YES? YES! MY PARENTS ARE DEAD! I'M THE GOD DAMN BATMAN! FACE BUTTONS! (So on and so forth.)

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  • noir_bloodnoir_blood Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    While this game looks good, I can't help but look at Assasin's Creed 2 and just wish they would have reskinned that to fit Batman.

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  • BloodySlothBloodySloth Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    noir_blood wrote: »
    While this game looks good, I can't help but look at Assasin's Creed 2 and just wish they would have reskinned that to fit Batman.

    Seriously, sporadically throughout my playthrough of Assassin's Creed, I would just pretend I was playing a Batman game.

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  • DarkWarriorDarkWarrior __BANNED USERS regular
    edited April 2009
    You're right, why play a tight, contained, well-written/voiced Batman game when we can play a boring Batman game with 9 easy bosses and 3 repeatable sub-missions.

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  • HtownHtown Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    tofu wrote: »
    Even if you didn't like Ang Lee's Hulk you can't possibly think the reboot was good.

    What? yes it was.

    It wasn't the greatest thing to ever hit film, but it was a good, solid action movie.

    also, the best part in EITHER Hulk film is still the Hulk vs. tanks/military fight in the Ang Lee movie, though the newer movie was better overall.

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  • DeMoNDeMoN twitch.tv/toxic_cizzle Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    Htown wrote: »
    tofu wrote: »
    Even if you didn't like Ang Lee's Hulk you can't possibly think the reboot was good.

    What? yes it was.

    It wasn't the greatest thing to ever hit film, but it was a good, solid action movie.

    also, the best part in EITHER Hulk film is still the Hulk vs. tanks/military fight in the Ang Lee movie, though the newer movie was better overall.

    You are correct sir.

    That fight is and will always be epic.

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  • BloodySlothBloodySloth Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    That whole
    "Hulk throws tank across the fucking desert but the soldiers inside still crawl out completely unharmed"
    thing is painfully lame, though.

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  • tofutofu Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    Htown wrote: »
    tofu wrote: »
    Even if you didn't like Ang Lee's Hulk you can't possibly think the reboot was good.

    What? yes it was.

    It wasn't the greatest thing to ever hit film, but it was a good, solid action movie.

    also, the best part in EITHER Hulk film is still the Hulk vs. tanks/military fight in the Ang Lee movie, though the newer movie was better overall.

    Passable at best as an action film, certainly not a good movie.

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  • SaigaSaiga Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    Man. This thread is getting derailed more than the monorail at the end of Batman Begins.

    Anyways, pre-ordering the special edition probably.

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  • noir_bloodnoir_blood Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    Saiga wrote: »
    Man. This thread is getting derailed more than the monorail at the end of Batman Begins.

    Man, the monorail episode in the Simpsons is still pretty damn funny.

    Is there a chance the tracks will break? Not in your life my hindu friend!

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  • CarcharodontosaurusCarcharodontosaurus Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    noir_blood wrote: »
    Saiga wrote: »
    Man. This thread is getting derailed more than the monorail at the end of Batman Begins.

    Man, the monorail episode in the Simpsons is still pretty damn funny.

    Is there a chance the tracks will bend? Not in your life my hindu friend!

    ...

    As long as this doesn't have preposterously high system requirements, I'm going to enjoy making goons crap their pants in terror.

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  • Delta AssaultDelta Assault Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    noir_blood wrote: »
    Saiga wrote: »
    Man. This thread is getting derailed more than the monorail at the end of Batman Begins.

    Man, the monorail episode in the Simpsons is still pretty damn funny.

    Is there a chance the tracks will bend? Not in your life my hindu friend!

    ...

    As long as this doesn't have preposterously high system requirements, I'm going to enjoy making goons crap their pants in terror.

    For a second there, I actually thought you meant this would have multiplayer. And somethingawful people would be playing.

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  • OlivawOlivaw good name, isn't it? the foot of mt fujiRegistered User regular
    edited April 2009
    A Batman game with multiplayer in which one of you is Batman and the rest are heavily armed, trigger happy thugs would be just about the most imbalanced game ever created

    It would be pretty fun though

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  • RenzoRenzo Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    Olivaw wrote: »
    A Batman game with multiplayer in which one of you is Batman and the rest are heavily armed, trigger happy thugs would be just about the most imbalanced game ever created

    It would be pretty fun though

    And it would give the 'thug' players an excuse to say typical henchman stuff like, "It's the bat! Kill him!"

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  • Delta AssaultDelta Assault Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    Olivaw wrote: »
    A Batman game with multiplayer in which one of you is Batman and the rest are heavily armed, trigger happy thugs would be just about the most imbalanced game ever created

    It would be pretty fun though

    It'd be pretty similar to Splinter Cell multiplayer.

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  • BloodySlothBloodySloth Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    Olivaw wrote: »
    A Batman game with multiplayer in which one of you is Batman and the rest are heavily armed, trigger happy thugs would be just about the most imbalanced game ever created

    It would be pretty fun though

    It'd be pretty similar to Splinter Cell multiplayer.

    And The Hidden, an old HL2 mod with a bunch of heavily armed soldiers vs. one invisible guy with a knife.

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  • EinEin CaliforniaRegistered User regular
    edited April 2009
    Olivaw wrote: »
    A Batman game with multiplayer in which one of you is Batman and the rest are heavily armed, trigger happy thugs would be just about the most imbalanced game ever created

    It would be pretty fun though

    It'd be pretty similar to Splinter Cell multiplayer.

    And The Hidden, an old HL2 mod with a bunch of heavily armed soldiers vs. one invisible guy with a knife.

    NERF BATARANGS

    GRAPPLE IS OP

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  • tofutofu Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    I think the new Riddick game has the exact same mode.

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  • CronusCronus Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    Olivaw wrote: »
    A Batman game with multiplayer in which one of you is Batman and the rest are heavily armed, trigger happy thugs would be just about the most imbalanced game ever created

    It would be pretty fun though

    It'd be pretty similar to Splinter Cell multiplayer.

    And The Hidden, an old HL2 mod with a bunch of heavily armed soldiers vs. one invisible guy with a knife.

    OMG. I forgot about that mod. Best Half-Life 2 mod ever. Multiplayer where you get to play as a thug against 1 person playing batman would be fantastic. Perhaps an expansion or a sequel?

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  • Unco-ordinatedUnco-ordinated NZRegistered User regular
    edited April 2009
    Fig-D wrote: »
    I would actually say that yes, Spider-Man 2 wasn't aiming to be a good film. The Dark Knight was trying to be a good film, and succeeded, but Spider-Man 2 was trying to be a comic book on the big screen, and it also succeeded.

    I never get it when people say this. It's like when people say that The Dark Knight isn't a comic book movie, as if comic books can't be well written or realistic. They're mostly made by people that've never read the comic and have no clue that there have actually been a LOT of realistic takes on Batman.

    Anyway, a lot of games seem to have 1 vs many multiplayer modes, I don't see how it wouldn't work in Batman. They'd probably need to lower the brightness level for the thugs, so you could actually sneak around in the shadows but it should be fine.

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  • Delta AssaultDelta Assault Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    They'd probably need to lower the brightness level for the thugs, so you could actually sneak around in the shadows but it should be fine.

    Yea, that was the problem with Splinter Cell multiplayer. The lighting wasn't quite dark enough, so the spies just ran around like crazy and abused smoke grenades.

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  • CarcharodontosaurusCarcharodontosaurus Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    noir_blood wrote: »
    Saiga wrote: »
    Man. This thread is getting derailed more than the monorail at the end of Batman Begins.

    Man, the monorail episode in the Simpsons is still pretty damn funny.

    Is there a chance the tracks will bend? Not in your life my hindu friend!

    ...

    As long as this doesn't have preposterously high system requirements, I'm going to enjoy making goons crap their pants in terror.

    For a second there, I actually thought you meant this would have multiplayer. And somethingawful people would be playing.

    :lol: No, I meant the huge burly bastards that enforce the Joker's control over Arkham Asylum.

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  • OlivawOlivaw good name, isn't it? the foot of mt fujiRegistered User regular
    edited April 2009
    noir_blood wrote: »
    Saiga wrote: »
    Man. This thread is getting derailed more than the monorail at the end of Batman Begins.

    Man, the monorail episode in the Simpsons is still pretty damn funny.

    Is there a chance the tracks will bend? Not in your life my hindu friend!

    ...

    As long as this doesn't have preposterously high system requirements, I'm going to enjoy making goons crap their pants in terror.

    For a second there, I actually thought you meant this would have multiplayer. And somethingawful people would be playing.

    :lol: No, I meant the huge burly bastards that enforce the Joker's control over Arkham Asylum.

    So, somethingawful people then

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  • Delta AssaultDelta Assault Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    Olivaw wrote: »
    noir_blood wrote: »
    Saiga wrote: »
    Man. This thread is getting derailed more than the monorail at the end of Batman Begins.

    Man, the monorail episode in the Simpsons is still pretty damn funny.

    Is there a chance the tracks will bend? Not in your life my hindu friend!

    ...

    As long as this doesn't have preposterously high system requirements, I'm going to enjoy making goons crap their pants in terror.

    For a second there, I actually thought you meant this would have multiplayer. And somethingawful people would be playing.

    :lol: No, I meant the huge burly bastards that enforce the Joker's control over Arkham Asylum.

    So, somethingawful people then

    *rim shot*

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  • SJSJ College. Forever.Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    God I wish I could enforce the Joker's control over Arkham. Then I'd get to meet Batman!

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  • OlivawOlivaw good name, isn't it? the foot of mt fujiRegistered User regular
    edited April 2009
    SJ wrote: »
    God I wish I could enforce the Joker's control over Arkham. Then I'd get to meet Batman!

    Maybe that's why the Joker still gets lots of henchmen even though he's been captured and recaptured numerous times

    "Well this whole criminal enterprise is doomed to failure and you might kill me for no reason at a moment's notice, but on the other hand, I might get to meet Batman!"

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  • CarcharodontosaurusCarcharodontosaurus Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    SJ wrote: »
    God I wish I could enforce the Joker's control over Arkham. Then I'd get stealthily knocked out by Batman!

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  • Delta AssaultDelta Assault Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    That's what happens when you choose to fight crime by never ever killing.

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  • I needed anime to post.I needed anime to post. boom Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    Hm. My first viewing of the new Harley Quinn.

    On one hand, I regret seeing the cartoonish innocence that characterized her - an innate creation from her saturday morning roots - vanish like so.

    On the other hand is my dong.

    I needed anime to post. on
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  • Delta AssaultDelta Assault Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    Hm. My first viewing of the new Harley Quinn.

    On one hand, I regret seeing the cartoonish innocence that characterized her - an innate creation from her saturday morning roots - vanish like so.

    On the other hand is my dong.

    I'm pretty surprised. You thought Harley Quinn had some sort of cartoonish innocence?

    I always thought of her as that character getting abused and fucked by the psychotic clown murderer. That's not cartoonish innocence.

    Let's not kid ourselves, she was a romantic interest for The Joker, the worst serial killer in all of Gotham. If that's not disturbing, I don't know what is.

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  • I needed anime to post.I needed anime to post. boom Registered User regular
    edited April 2009
    I was a younger man once. I saw clowns!

    I needed anime to post. on
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