Batman: Arkham Asylum

In my experience, the variation and moves give you quite a bit.

I know I don't use the Batclaw if there's a room full of people; I usually save it for toward the end.

Generally I like to dash around doing strikes with a throw and takedown for good measure to gain some time. I use evade a lot usually to open up my options and such. Ground Pounds are hugely helpful, but can be dangerous if there's a lot of guys; try to do them on downed enemies that are a ways away; Batman will do this nice Palpatine-like spiral move in mid-air to reach enemies that are far off. This usually gives you time to gather yourself and counter anything incoming.

Once I see I have 3 or 4 enemies left, I use the evade and pop over them, situate myself nicely and use the Batclaw to reel a few in; it's about x25 for each enemy you hit who's effected by the Batclaw. Usually if someone gets up, I pop a Batarang at him and finish him off with a Ground Pound.

Useful information: the quick Batarang is useless unless you have a decent combo (x4 or more) going; if you throw it without said combo, it won't knock them down, only knock them off balance.

 

Holy frick this game looks amazing and is fun!

 

It is. One of the best SP action games I've played in a long time.

 

Definitely a candidate for Game of the Year.

 

I want Harley

 

Join the club.

 

Yeah they really sexed her up, whats the rating on this game anyways? Must have been pushing M

 

The green question marks and foot prints and foreign poetry painted on the Riddler's cell in the Asylum was originally blood red in pre-release screenshots, so Rocksteady must have had to scale back on some things to keep from getting an M rating.

 

I recall the screenshots. It makes me wonder how the game would have turned out had Rocksteady gone for an M, or just not cared what they got.

 

The game copped an M in Australia, but then, our OFLC sees fit to ban L4D2, and originally Fallout 3 for having Morphine called Morphine, instead of a made up name


Also, I read back a few pages ago someone talking about the hands coming out of the water at the very end of the game. Do you think this varies depending on what difficulty you played the game on? I played Normal and my ending had Scarecrow

 

It is apparently. I played on easy and it was Killer Croc's hand that grabbed the box of Titan.

 

I played normal and it was ... Bane.


I found I don't care at all to do the combat challenges. I hate fighting. It's not a bad system, I just don't wanna fight, no matter how satisfying it is to walk away nonchalantly from a pile of uncosncious inmates

Love the sneaky ones though. I'm not particularly fast, especially when the medals require the bastards to be in very specific places. Especially explosive walls. Extreme Silent Knight is just cruel. And the extreme Sewer one sounds easier than the regular one

 

It's completely random. I've seen 4 and 5 page threads of people with the same percentage complete on the same difficulty getting different endings.

It's completely random, to my knowledge.

 

Well, my two cents. I got this game last week, played it through on Normal, grabbed all Riddler challenges and played through all non-campaign challenges I've cared to play. Best Batman game ever? Indubitably. GOTY? Not so fast, kids. It's too early to say at this point. The game is hardly perfect anyways. It's fun, yeah, but once I beat the story, I honestly couldn't care to beat it on Hard (especially considering how excruciating certain moments were playing on Normal). That leaves the challenges, and quite frankly they just don't do it for me in order to keep the game forever.

Well, ODST comes out tomorrow. Guess Arkham will help ease the pain at the cash register...

 

I doubt ODST will be game of the year. I doubt Batman will be game of the year.

So far, we still have a lot of games coming out...Borderlands chief among them (in my book).

If I had to guess on Game of the Year thus far? I'd hand it to Uncharted 2. But my hands down pick for GOTY is MW2. As in "don't be dense, this is pretty obvious," the game looks utterly mind blowing.

 

It's completely random. I've seen 4 and 5 page threads of people with the same percentage complete on the same difficulty getting different endings.

Funny, because I've played on normal, then hard and the responses above match my playthroughs. I've never seen Croc's hand, and the first play through on normal I saw Bane's hand. Then on my hard playthrough, I saw Scarecrow's hand.

 

Can anyone tell me how to solve the large question marks that are painted on walls and floors? Whenever I scan them I'm told the puzzle is only partially solved.

 

You have to align the bottom and top parts of the question mark perfectly on your screen. Having them off center doesn't cut it, unfortunately.

 

Prey in the Darkness DLC tomorrow

It's available on PSN and XBL.

EDIT: Wow, nevermind. Worth Playing reports that it'll be available on PSN and XBL in Europe, but only on PSN in America. This makes no sense whatsoever.

 

Well, that's pretty stupid. Makes no sense. Time to break out the ol' European LIVE account.

That is funny. I've never seen any reports that match, anywhere. Not on here, not on IGN, not on the Eidos forums. All the threads I've seen about them all seem to differ and lend weight that it's random. My friend beat it on Normal and got Croc's hand, I beat it on Normal and got Bane's. My same friend recently beat it on Hard and got Bane's hand, I beat it on Hard and got Scarecrow. Unless people are lying for the sake of discussion, but that would be pretty stupid.

 

In Batman Arkham Asylum, when I encountered the Scarecrow, I thought he looked kind of like Freddy Krueger. Wouldn't you all agree? Other than that, I think this was one of the best Batman video games ever.

 

I beat it on normal and saw Scarecrow's hand.

 

Which lends weight to the fact that it's random.

Also, to all who are bummed the new maps aren't for 360 US accounts...don't be. I used my EU account to grab the new maps and they're very underwhelming.

 

This is on special on Steam at the moment, only 25 bucks!

I bought it as a gift for my brother who's been waiting for a price drop since August. Doing my part to spread the awesomeness of this game.

 

Yeah, I have this game. I bought it when it came out. Beat it once on medium or one step up. it was fun. I haven't played it in a while because my XBox is all ####### up, not reading discs, so I basically have to hope a game reads well enough to install, so I can play it, but I'll get a new system some time soon, and being that I've only played it once, it'll be fun to go through again.

Good game.