The only thing I *don't* like about this demo is how tight the camera is on batman. It's mildly nauseating / disorienting and can be hard to keep track of what is going on around him.
Every aspect of the gameplay is a lot of fun. I'm looking forward to playing the full release.
The only thing I *don't* like about this demo is how tight the camera is on batman. It's mildly nauseating / disorienting and can be hard to keep track of what is going on around him.
Every aspect of the gameplay is a lot of fun. I'm looking forward to playing the full release.
I like the over the shoulder camera, although I can see it working better in widescreen than in 4:3.
One very, VERY nice touch though is that if you rotate the camera without moving (at least in the PC version) the camera pans around a stationary Batman, so you can see him brood/pose/look off into the distance dramatically.
I didn't start paying attention to this game until the demo came out.
I know Quinn is different in the game than from the way she originally looked; but I guess I interpreted what was said to mean that they had one outfit in this game, and then changed it to the current one...?
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Oh I see. People don't like the Quinn in the game because she doesn't look like how she is "supposed to look?" Bah.
Well he said right before that he's never seen TAS.
And Harley Quinn was created specifically for TAS.
She's been around in the comics ever since though, so she's about as established as a lot of the other villains/characters (including the ones that the shitty movies fucked up). Expecting her to be sultry and sophisticated is like expecting Riddler to be an angry brawler...
I didn't start paying attention to this game until the demo came out.
I know Quinn is different in the game than from the way she originally looked; but I guess I interpreted what was said to mean that they had one outfit in this game, and then changed it to the current one...?
edit:
Oh I see. People don't like the Quinn in the game because she doesn't look like how she is "supposed to look?" Bah.
I just find it a horrible character design period. Then again, except for a few exceptions, I find the entire art of the game to be horrid.
...Harley Quinn...sultry and sophisticated? Do you...do you not have any prior knowledge of the character?
Not really. I wrote Batman off a long time ago, I was pretty much overdosed right after the first Tim Burton movie came out. It wasn't until Batman Begins that I became interested again.
Fantastic use of the UE3. Looked fantastic, ran super smooth (I still thought it was a prerendered cinematic untill I was actually in control :shock:) and it didn't feel like I was playing a UT mod or tc like most games that use the UE do.
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Well he said right before that he's never seen TAS.
And Harley Quinn was created specifically for TAS.
She's been around in the comics ever since though, so she's about as established as a lot of the other villains/characters (including the ones that the shitty movies fucked up). Expecting her to be sultry and sophisticated is like expecting Riddler to be an angry brawler...
Look at her bio in-game again. It took a LONG fucking time for her to show up in the comics after being introduced in TAS. What's scary is that I really can't picture the Joker without her anymore.
(Ledger in the nurse's outfit is close enough for that to not count to the above hyperbole.)
Also, I can kinda/sorta see when the game goes from cinematic to actual gameplay, as some of the effects disappear.
I wonder if the cinematics/animations will change when you knock out all the cameras and monitors. After all, you can destroy the cameras, so that has to be some kind of thing in the game -- these guys had to have played Portal, after all.
Remember that episode when Harley, Ivy, and Livewire team up? Ivy and Livewire use explosive seeds and electricity to steal money from ATMs, while Harley wails on one with a massive mallet for 3 minutes.
Wasn't that her shtick for that whole episode? A mallet at really unnecessary moments?
The only thing I *don't* like about this demo is how tight the camera is on batman. It's mildly nauseating / disorienting and can be hard to keep track of what is going on around him.
Every aspect of the gameplay is a lot of fun. I'm looking forward to playing the full release.
I like the over the shoulder camera, although I can see it working better in widescreen than in 4:3.
One very, VERY nice touch though is that if you rotate the camera without moving (at least in the PC version) the camera pans around a stationary Batman, so you can see him brood/pose/look off into the distance dramatically.
Played it on a widescreen 1080p set. It's just too tight when running down narrow corridors and such. The camera wasn't so bad that it turned me off of the game, it will just keep me playing for shorter amounts of time. Otherwise I'll get a nasty headache- it's happened with other games with bad cameras like Ghostbusters or Shadow of the Colossus.
Oh well. Fun demo regardless!
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The only thing I *don't* like about this demo is how tight the camera is on batman. It's mildly nauseating / disorienting and can be hard to keep track of what is going on around him.
Every aspect of the gameplay is a lot of fun. I'm looking forward to playing the full release.
I like the over the shoulder camera, although I can see it working better in widescreen than in 4:3.
One very, VERY nice touch though is that if you rotate the camera without moving (at least in the PC version) the camera pans around a stationary Batman, so you can see him brood/pose/look off into the distance dramatically.
Played it on a widescreen 1080p set. It's just too tight when running down narrow corridors and such. The camera wasn't so bad that it turned me off of the game, it will just keep me playing for shorter amounts of time. Otherwise I'll get a nasty headache- it's happened with other games with bad cameras like Ghostbusters or Shadow of the Colossus.
Oh well. Fun demo regardless!
I rarely run. Grappling/walking dramatically is so much more fun. I'm sure this'll change in the full game, but for now I just enjoy walking and seeing what detective view shows me.
...Harley Quinn...sultry and sophisticated? Do you...do you not have any prior knowledge of the character?
Not really. I wrote Batman off a long time ago, I was pretty much overdosed right after the first Tim Burton movie came out. It wasn't until Batman Begins that I became interested again.
What would possibly make you think Harley was sultry or sophisticated though? She's in love with the Joker and occasionally has sex with Poison Ivy, bitch is clearly insane.
Athenor: Fair point, though she was featured in the DCAU comics before she was introduced into the DCU proper.
Oh man. Figuring out that you can stun guys with your cape with the middle mouse button has changed everything.
...
I find that I am playing this demo like it is an actual game.
wait, what?
motherfucker...
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Oh man, the lesbian angles between Harley and Ivy are something I've completely forgotten about! ... I wonder if those helped my current views on gender studies develop.
Er. anyways. I wonder if that angle will be played up in the game?
...Harley Quinn...sultry and sophisticated? Do you...do you not have any prior knowledge of the character?
Not really. I wrote Batman off a long time ago, I was pretty much overdosed right after the first Tim Burton movie came out. It wasn't until Batman Begins that I became interested again.
What would possibly make you think Harley was sultry or sophisticated though? She's in love with the Joker and occasionally has sex with Poison Ivy, bitch is clearly insane.
Athenor: Fair point, though she was featured in the DCAU comics before she was introduced into the DCU proper.
you sure you just haven't been reading too much fanfiction?
I can't think of any time where it's been established that Harley and Ivy have actually had sex, or even really truly implied beyond a joke here and there. There are some lesbian undertones, and Ivy is a hedonistic person who would probably do it, but I'm not sure if they're actually lovers.
If anything, Ivy would totally do her but Harley is too wrapped up in her Joker lust to really notice or care.
It's definately been established that Ivy hates Joker, especially when it comes to his treatment of Harley. The triangle between them has always been something I wish BTAS or the comics had explored more.
...Harley Quinn...sultry and sophisticated? Do you...do you not have any prior knowledge of the character?
Not really. I wrote Batman off a long time ago, I was pretty much overdosed right after the first Tim Burton movie came out. It wasn't until Batman Begins that I became interested again.
What would possibly make you think Harley was sultry or sophisticated though? She's in love with the Joker and occasionally has sex with Poison Ivy, bitch is clearly insane.
Athenor: Fair point, though she was featured in the DCAU comics before she was introduced into the DCU proper.
you sure you just haven't been reading too much fanfiction?
if not, i'll totally buy that trade
It's implied both in BTAS and in the comics. I don't think they've explicitly shown anything though, unlike what they've done with other characters (like Renee Montoya).
My favouraite B:AA takedown would probably be the glass one. Though roping an enemy and then cutting him down to fall on another enemy comes close.
someone earlier was wondering how to break the glass in the predator room, basically you need to be standing on the glass above someone, and a take down icon will pop up and that is when you do your thing...pretty cool.
Fantastic use of the UE3. Looked fantastic, ran super smooth (I still thought it was a prerendered cinematic untill I was actually in control :shock:) and it didn't feel like I was playing a UT mod or tc like most games that use the UE do.
It was pretty clear to me what was pre-rendered and what wasn't.
Fantastic use of the UE3. Looked fantastic, ran super smooth (I still thought it was a prerendered cinematic untill I was actually in control :shock:) and it didn't feel like I was playing a UT mod or tc like most games that use the UE do.
It was pretty clear to me what was pre-rendered and what wasn't.
WELL YOU'RE A DUMB AND YOU'RE A... DUMB! A FAT DUMB!
OKAY.
YEAH.
maybe my computer is so badass that one cannot tell between pre-rendered and real time
but probably not
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Also, comic related, I remember reading about a story arc involving Riddler
It sounded super badass and creepy. pretty sure it involved a cometary? Maybe?
I would maybe pick it up if i could remember what it was called. I think mignola may have done a cover or 2 for it.
I read a lot of comics, but batman isn't normally one of them, but I'm just going to make sure it's not Hush is it? Riddler is important to that and it does have a cemetary, or did you actually mean cometary?
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Fantastic use of the UE3. Looked fantastic, ran super smooth (I still thought it was a prerendered cinematic untill I was actually in control :shock:) and it didn't feel like I was playing a UT mod or tc like most games that use the UE do.
It was pretty clear to me what was pre-rendered and what wasn't.
WELL YOU'RE A DUMB AND YOU'RE A... DUMB! A FAT DUMB!
OKAY.
YEAH.
maybe my computer is so badass that one cannot tell between pre-rendered and real time
but probably not
I actually thought the in-game looked better than the pre-rendered. I can't really explain it, but the pre-rendered stuff looked weird.
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I think there is a grate takedown as an upgrade. I remember seeing it in a video and being a bit dumbfounded why I couldn't do it in the demo.
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Probably because the FMV is basically just output from the game engine that's been recorded. Except worse because of the compression artifacts (and much lower resolution depending on your configuration).
I'm sure the only reason they use pre-recorded footage instead of realtime is to mask the load times.
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Every aspect of the gameplay is a lot of fun. I'm looking forward to playing the full release.
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I'm assuming you know what TAS Harley looks like.
Here's Arkham's version
I like the over the shoulder camera, although I can see it working better in widescreen than in 4:3.
One very, VERY nice touch though is that if you rotate the camera without moving (at least in the PC version) the camera pans around a stationary Batman, so you can see him brood/pose/look off into the distance dramatically.
I didn't start paying attention to this game until the demo came out.
I know Quinn is different in the game than from the way she originally looked; but I guess I interpreted what was said to mean that they had one outfit in this game, and then changed it to the current one...?
edit:
Oh I see. People don't like the Quinn in the game because she doesn't look like how she is "supposed to look?" Bah.
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She's been around in the comics ever since though, so she's about as established as a lot of the other villains/characters (including the ones that the shitty movies fucked up). Expecting her to be sultry and sophisticated is like expecting Riddler to be an angry brawler...
I just find it a horrible character design period. Then again, except for a few exceptions, I find the entire art of the game to be horrid.
Not really. I wrote Batman off a long time ago, I was pretty much overdosed right after the first Tim Burton movie came out. It wasn't until Batman Begins that I became interested again.
Too short, too short for such awesomeness.
Fantastic use of the UE3. Looked fantastic, ran super smooth (I still thought it was a prerendered cinematic untill I was actually in control :shock:) and it didn't feel like I was playing a UT mod or tc like most games that use the UE do.
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Look at her bio in-game again. It took a LONG fucking time for her to show up in the comics after being introduced in TAS. What's scary is that I really can't picture the Joker without her anymore.
(Ledger in the nurse's outfit is close enough for that to not count to the above hyperbole.)
Also, I can kinda/sorta see when the game goes from cinematic to actual gameplay, as some of the effects disappear.
I wonder if the cinematics/animations will change when you knock out all the cameras and monitors. After all, you can destroy the cameras, so that has to be some kind of thing in the game -- these guys had to have played Portal, after all.
Okay. This statement made me intrigued and I just watched that episode.
Holy crap. I was expecting many things, but what transpired was absolutely not what I expected.
Played it on a widescreen 1080p set. It's just too tight when running down narrow corridors and such. The camera wasn't so bad that it turned me off of the game, it will just keep me playing for shorter amounts of time. Otherwise I'll get a nasty headache- it's happened with other games with bad cameras like Ghostbusters or Shadow of the Colossus.
Oh well. Fun demo regardless!
I rarely run. Grappling/walking dramatically is so much more fun. I'm sure this'll change in the full game, but for now I just enjoy walking and seeing what detective view shows me.
...
I find that I am playing this demo like it is an actual game.
What would possibly make you think Harley was sultry or sophisticated though? She's in love with the Joker and occasionally has sex with Poison Ivy, bitch is clearly insane.
Athenor: Fair point, though she was featured in the DCAU comics before she was introduced into the DCU proper.
wait, what?
motherfucker...
Er. anyways. I wonder if that angle will be played up in the game?
Anyone else try this yet? I don't want to spoil it, but I really hope there are more chances in the game to pull it off.
you sure you just haven't been reading too much fanfiction?
if not, i'll totally buy that trade
Yes. so fun.
Yeah I'm pretty sure that I've seen some video or screenies with batman moving under those tiles but in a different location.
And you are right, so awesome.
Because imagine pulling goons down into the grate where you choke them unconscious. That would be badass.
If anything, Ivy would totally do her but Harley is too wrapped up in her Joker lust to really notice or care.
It's definately been established that Ivy hates Joker, especially when it comes to his treatment of Harley. The triangle between them has always been something I wish BTAS or the comics had explored more.
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It's implied both in BTAS and in the comics. I don't think they've explicitly shown anything though, unlike what they've done with other characters (like Renee Montoya).
My favouraite B:AA takedown would probably be the glass one. Though roping an enemy and then cutting him down to fall on another enemy comes close.
It sounded super badass and creepy. pretty sure it involved a cometary? Maybe?
I would maybe pick it up if i could remember what it was called. I think mignola may have done a cover or 2 for it.
I would.
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You are what they call the "dissenting opinion".
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Seriously? Jesus.
Seriously.
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It was pretty clear to me what was pre-rendered and what wasn't.
WELL YOU'RE A DUMB AND YOU'RE A... DUMB! A FAT DUMB!
OKAY.
YEAH.
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I read a lot of comics, but batman isn't normally one of them, but I'm just going to make sure it's not Hush is it? Riddler is important to that and it does have a cemetary, or did you actually mean cometary?
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I actually thought the in-game looked better than the pre-rendered. I can't really explain it, but the pre-rendered stuff looked weird.
I'm sure the only reason they use pre-recorded footage instead of realtime is to mask the load times.
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