Batman: Arkham City Thread
02-02-12, 12:24 AM
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Re: Batman: Arkham City Thread
I've been going through the challenges now and I'm trying to learn how to chain combos and keep everything going. I think my highest combo was around 40...still trying to get to 50 for that achievement. Once I started linking quick gadgets in and learned the disarm special move, it got a lot more fun.
02-02-12, 09:40 AM
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Re: Batman: Arkham City Thread
I've been going through the challenges now and I'm trying to learn how to chain combos and keep everything going. I think my highest combo was around 40...still trying to get to 50 for that achievement. Once I started linking quick gadgets in and learned the disarm special move, it got a lot more fun.
My highest combo was over 100. Any fight with the hammer bros is easy to get high combos since those guys take so much abuse before falling. Stun them with the bat swarm special, then do the rapid fire beat down, bat swarm stun again when they are beginning to wake, rapid fire beat down, rinse and repeat and you keep the hammer bro in perpetual stunlock and can easily get a 30 hit combo on him alone before he finally falls.
What? If you are button mashing, you are definitely playing wrong. The game blatantly teaches you how to play properly with combos. Button mashing is what separates the good players from the crappy players. The Arkham series is incredibly easy to learn how to combo properly. Heaven help you if you ever decide to play an actual difficult game like Ninja Gaiden that requires you to not button mash. You won't get past the second level in Ninja Gaiden if you button mash.
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02-02-12, 09:56 AM
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Re: Batman: Arkham City Thread
You can play the main game without learning combos and have a blast. Sure I learned the basics, but learning more than that isn't required. I'll take your word on AC being tougher than AA, but as I said I didn't have any problems on hard in the first game.
I don't care about games with complex combo systems that require an infinite amount of memorization. The challenge maps do nothing for me.
02-02-12, 09:57 AM
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Re: Batman: Arkham City Thread
What? If you are button mashing, you are definitely playing wrong. The game blatantly teaches you how to play properly with combos. Button mashing is what separates the good players from the crappy players. The Arkham series is incredibly easy to learn how to combo properly. Heaven help you if you ever decide to play an actual difficult game like Ninja Gaiden that requires you to not button mash. You won't get past the second level in Ninja Gaiden if you button mash.
The issue is not the combos. I've beaten the game on New+ button mashing. The issue is that you CAN do that by button mashing. I can get 20+ combos all game long, variation bonuses, etc. But the fact that you can get through it button mashing is the problem. Not that you should.
I beat Gaiden too, it's much much much harder than City. City is very easy, and way too repetitive. I preferred Asylum much more.
02-02-12, 09:58 AM
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Re: Batman: Arkham City Thread
Yeah, combos are so fun. If you are just button mashing your way through the game, you are literally missing half the fun. Go play an old arcade game like Double Dragon if you want to button mash.
What? If you are button mashing, you are definitely playing wrong. The game blatantly teaches you how to play properly with combos. Button mashing is what separates the good players from the crappy players.
What? If you are button mashing, you are definitely playing wrong. The game blatantly teaches you how to play properly with combos. Button mashing is what separates the good players from the crappy players.
Arkham certainly uses combos to its advantage. However, to insunate that somebody has to play the game which is a fairly open world game in any way besides the way they want to is silly at best.
Edit: Double Dragon takes some skill too, at least it did in the arcade before it got ported over to console. Just a note
02-02-12, 10:12 AM
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Re: Batman: Arkham City Thread
There is definitely a right and wrong way to play games. Like the stealth genre for example. Some people will try to blaze through them Rambo style, and still manage to succeed. Yet that is the wrong way to play. You are missing the entire point of playing a stealth game if you Rambo it. Just go play a billion other FPS games if you want to Rambo.
The Arkham series gives a lot of tutorials on how to properly use combos. There really is no reason to therefore not to learn how to play. By button mashing you are literally telling the game to go screw itself and ignoring everything it tries to teach you.
The "real" Batman would never button mash. He's the goddamn Batman and you better respect.
The Arkham series gives a lot of tutorials on how to properly use combos. There really is no reason to therefore not to learn how to play. By button mashing you are literally telling the game to go screw itself and ignoring everything it tries to teach you.
The "real" Batman would never button mash. He's the goddamn Batman and you better respect.
02-02-12, 10:37 AM
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Re: Batman: Arkham City Thread
Heck my wife played the first game purely for the Riddler challenges. She doesn't even like the action aspect all that much and only does it enough to get to the next set of Riddler challenges. Maybe she should go back to playing CSI and Carmen Sandiego?
It is screwed up logic to insunate a right or wrong way to play a game. There are better ways to play, but right and wrong is BS.
One last example, in Skyrim...I play primarily a thief type character. But, I'm in heavy armor. Why? *shrug*...but it works, especially with the right perks. Maybe I should be in Light Armor, but its the way I chose to play it for right now.
02-02-12, 11:45 AM
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Re: Batman: Arkham City Thread
You are all wrong! AC is a Super Mario Bros style platformer. Batman would totally play it that way, bang your mom and then drink all your Mt. Dew!
02-02-12, 12:08 PM
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Re: Batman: Arkham City Thread
Dick Grayson probably would. He is more of a pimp than Bruce ever was. Bruce just mostly acts like a playboy, but Dick is a playboy. He banged Barbara and then immediately afterward tells her he is engaged to Starfire.
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02-03-12, 09:21 AM
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Re: Batman: Arkham City Thread
Getting static directions/hints off
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Last night I played a game for the first time since changing out our TV; about 3 weeks. I ended up getting a Panasonic Plasma and so far about 45 hrs in to it. When I played Batman last night, the fast grapple directions of ..."+, + (hold) to fast grapple" would not go off no matter where or what I did. When I went to ground or climbed over a wall it stayed on in the middle or moved to the side. There was also some hint under the compass/direction meter that was related to this.
I'm a bit paranoid about having anything static for now. Maybe I wasn't concerned or noticed before but does this not go away?
Hello
Last night I played a game for the first time since changing out our TV; about 3 weeks. I ended up getting a Panasonic Plasma and so far about 45 hrs in to it. When I played Batman last night, the fast grapple directions of ..."+, + (hold) to fast grapple" would not go off no matter where or what I did. When I went to ground or climbed over a wall it stayed on in the middle or moved to the side. There was also some hint under the compass/direction meter that was related to this.
I'm a bit paranoid about having anything static for now. Maybe I wasn't concerned or noticed before but does this not go away?
02-03-12, 01:24 PM
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Re: Batman: Arkham City Thread
I guess burn-in. And that's not normal. You should check the AVS forums for your TV model, but my guess is that your TV may be defective.
02-03-12, 02:03 PM
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Re: Batman: Arkham City Thread
Sounds like a bug in the game, and he's afraid of burn in if that message is always there.
It shows up still even after quitting/restarting the game?
It shows up still even after quitting/restarting the game?
02-03-12, 02:42 PM
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Re: Batman: Arkham City Thread
I play on a Panasonic plasma as well. Sometimes there is image retention after playing games, but it goes away. I don't think you have to worry about burn-in, Buzz.
02-03-12, 03:21 PM
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Re: Batman: Arkham City Thread
Getting static directions/hints off
Hello
Last night I played a game for the first time since changing out our TV; about 3 weeks. I ended up getting a Panasonic Plasma and so far about 45 hrs in to it. When I played Batman last night, the fast grapple directions of ..."+, + (hold) to fast grapple" would not go off no matter where or what I did. When I went to ground or climbed over a wall it stayed on in the middle or moved to the side. There was also some hint under the compass/direction meter that was related to this.
I'm a bit paranoid about having anything static for now. Maybe I wasn't concerned or noticed before but does this not go away?
Hello
Last night I played a game for the first time since changing out our TV; about 3 weeks. I ended up getting a Panasonic Plasma and so far about 45 hrs in to it. When I played Batman last night, the fast grapple directions of ..."+, + (hold) to fast grapple" would not go off no matter where or what I did. When I went to ground or climbed over a wall it stayed on in the middle or moved to the side. There was also some hint under the compass/direction meter that was related to this.
I'm a bit paranoid about having anything static for now. Maybe I wasn't concerned or noticed before but does this not go away?
02-03-12, 04:41 PM
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Re: Batman: Arkham City Thread
Well thanks guys. I'll do it again tonight and see but I just don't why that one item/hint is always there. It's like when you get a new upgrade, you get the tips and it'll be on the main screen for awhile and then go away.
Take a look at this screen shot here.....
http://www.ign.com/wikis/batman-arkh...op_Protocol_10
Right where @ Glide Kick is....that's where this....+,+ Hold to Fast Grapple is and stays. And right above the Batman logo where to dive ususlly is the directional compass and below it is some hints on what to do when Fast Grappling. I came up behind someone for a sleeper hold and all it did was move to the side while in the middle had the Press Y. Then afterwards it went back to the middle. I'll see again tonight. I'm hoping for a one-one-bug only.
Take a look at this screen shot here.....
http://www.ign.com/wikis/batman-arkh...op_Protocol_10
Right where @ Glide Kick is....that's where this....+,+ Hold to Fast Grapple is and stays. And right above the Batman logo where to dive ususlly is the directional compass and below it is some hints on what to do when Fast Grappling. I came up behind someone for a sleeper hold and all it did was move to the side while in the middle had the Press Y. Then afterwards it went back to the middle. I'll see again tonight. I'm hoping for a one-one-bug only.
02-04-12, 01:27 AM
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Re: Batman: Arkham City Thread
I don't recall "fast grapple", are you talking about the grapple boost? This is the move that basically shoots you up into the air instead of depositing you on top of whatever edge you are grappling.
There is a quick grapple combat move, but it's not double press and hold like the grapple boost. If you hadn't performed the move maybe it was still trying to "teach" you how to do it. I noticed the hints stick around until you did a move, and would even reappear if you fail to perform the right combat moves enough times.
There is a quick grapple combat move, but it's not double press and hold like the grapple boost. If you hadn't performed the move maybe it was still trying to "teach" you how to do it. I noticed the hints stick around until you did a move, and would even reappear if you fail to perform the right combat moves enough times.
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02-04-12, 01:53 AM
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Re: Batman: Arkham City Thread
I finished the main storyline last night. I also finished Catwoman's storyline (I hope they find something more compelling for her to do in the next game). Overall, I enjoyed the game but I have some reservations about the story.
At least one of the those glaring plot holes could have been fixed with story based DLC for Robin and/or Nightwing. Instead we just get more challenge maps.
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At least one of the those glaring plot holes could have been fixed with story based DLC for Robin and/or Nightwing. Instead we just get more challenge maps.
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02-04-12, 11:53 AM
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Re: Batman: Arkham City Thread
I don't recall "fast grapple", are you talking about the grapple boost? This is the move that basically shoots you up into the air instead of depositing you on top of whatever edge you are grappling.
There is a quick grapple combat move, but it's not double press and hold like the grapple boost. If you hadn't performed the move maybe it was still trying to "teach" you how to do it. I noticed the hints stick around until you did a move, and would even reappear if you fail to perform the right combat moves enough times.
There is a quick grapple combat move, but it's not double press and hold like the grapple boost. If you hadn't performed the move maybe it was still trying to "teach" you how to do it. I noticed the hints stick around until you did a move, and would even reappear if you fail to perform the right combat moves enough times.
Idiot Update.....yea, idiot update. I found out I was getting the message on the Grapple Boost becuse I hadn't done it yet. I had just got it (I'm guessing) and didn't use it right awy so it stayed up there until I usd it...DUH!!!
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02-04-12, 04:31 PM
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02-05-12, 07:45 PM
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Re: Batman: Arkham City Thread
I think this is where I'm at; the fighting pit and you have three doors below the balcony. The one on the left is slightly raised and you slide under it. However I cannot find out how or where you charge the remote batarang? I'm on my second pass thru and the two side entrances don't have any electricity anymore. I'm throwing the Batarang threw the top opening of the windows with the bars. I can see the middle room clearly with the trophy in the middle with water but I don't see any juice inthat room or the other (far right).
02-05-12, 08:12 PM
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Re: Batman: Arkham City Thread
If you are looking toward the middle room with the balcony above, it's above the gate to your right. You have to toss the batarang up the balcony and down the steps through the part above the gate. You can figure out the rest from there.
02-08-12, 08:45 AM
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Re: Batman: Arkham City Thread
Thank you Michael and Raul... got it last night