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Post by Dead-Man on Oct 22, 2009 10:53:49 GMT -5
anybody played this Game yet?
it's one of the best Games IMO this year! totally a must for Every Batman fan
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Post by Ben-Ohki on Oct 23, 2009 6:24:44 GMT -5
Yup - I'm in the middle of it now (in fact, just last night Riddler congratulated me on beating over 50% of his puzzles). Not really sure how far I'm through the story mode, however. I'm told the percentage progress is total for all Challenges and puzzles, not just the story - on average most of my friends wind up "beating" the game at about 70%.
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Post by Otaru Ikari on Oct 23, 2009 23:30:34 GMT -5
Moving from gargoyle to gargoyle never gets old, specially fun when an inmate becomes a nervous wreck.
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Post by Ben-Ohki on Oct 30, 2009 7:34:53 GMT -5
I "finished" it last night. A few nights earlier I completed the story mode with only 68% completion. This was to be expected since unlike my friends, I didn't go out of my way to solve riddles until about half-way through. At that point I spent several hours trying to catch up. After clearing the story mode I went back to try t complete all the Riddler's Challenges. I made it up to 84% with only a few Joker Teeth left to find (one was just me being sloppy, the other, after checking a guide on Gamesradar, made me feel not so bad - it was indeed the hardest to find location in the whole game). However, even after fully clearing all the Riddler's Challenges, my rating stayed at 84%... I guess this means I need to qualify in all the "Challenge Mode" trials as well. Boy, I'm going to suck at that. I think it's time for a break.  |
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Post by southpawdragon on Nov 4, 2009 0:39:47 GMT -5
platinum baby.. best game of 2009 for me.
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Post by BaBiLoN on Nov 12, 2009 11:16:29 GMT -5
I played the Batman Games since they were on Nintendo & Sega through the PSX, PS2 and they all sucked. But this one was a Revolutionary Success in the Batman Video games series. Such Graphics,  such actions. Simply WOW, WOW, WOW.  Thanx  |
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Post by krimpov on Nov 13, 2009 3:00:40 GMT -5
I liked the first NES game, by Sunsoft, when I was a kid. But itt felt like they pasted Batman on some game they were developing when they got the rights to it. Fun side-scroller, but it really didn't have much to do with Batman. Felt more like some Ninja Gaiden spin-off than Batman.
I haven't played it in ages, so maybe my memory's playing tricks on me here, but I think the SNES one based on the animated series was quite nice, and the Genesis one too (which was a different game, not a port of the SNES title).
Batman Returns on the SNES was decent, as far as the brawler genre went back then.
But yeah, none of these compare to the awesomeness of Arkham Asylum.
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Post by Ben-Ohki on Nov 13, 2009 8:06:19 GMT -5
I personally recall Batman on Gameboy with fond memories. Yes, it was kind of Ninja Gaiden-like (the primary weapon was a Batarang that you threw and made a return trip). But it was still cool. There were even large sprites of the Batmobile between levels and some bitmap pictures of stills from the movie (1989!) which were surprising because one wouldn't expect to see "photorealistic" elements on the GB... even if it was in 4-shades of black and white.
I think Arkham Asylum works well because unlike those other games, in this game Batman does everything you would imagine he can do. He prowls on rooftops, hangs from gargoyles, gets in serious fist-fights, etc. And it's all relatively intuitive: the game does a lot of the movement for you and all you need to think about in the heat of battle is whether to "strike" or "counter."
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