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I am loving playing as Nightwing. I love that between Bats, Catwoman, and Nightwing (I don't have Robin yet), they're similar enough where you can apply your skills, but they all feel very different.

One question for him: is X+Y supposed to do anything? Unless I've missed something, whenever I try it, he does this uppercut thing, but the glowing yellow combo number, indicating I can do a takedown, stays glowing.
 
QUOTE=Biojex;3964385]This I have no answer for. I had a mission marker for the church just like every other side mission (besides the Watcher). You may have encountered a glitch.[/QUOTE]

Just read that to get the minimap icon and message from Riddler to go to the church and initiate the E"nigma Conundrum" (riddles, interogation and hostages) you have to try to hack those boxes where he says, "that's not ready yet" quite a few times and he tells you to go there and an icon appears.

I didnt keep hacking them cos it wasn't working and never got the direction to go there :(
 
Just read that to get the minimap icon and message from Riddler to go to the church and initiate the E"nigma Conundrum" (riddles, interogation and hostages) you have to try to hack those boxes where he says, "that's not ready yet" quite a few times and he tells you to go there and an icon appears.

I didnt keep hacking them cos it wasn't working and never got the direction to go there :(

Rather unfortunate :(

I don't remember having to do what you're describing. Very strange.
 
Rather unfortunate :(

I don't remember having to do what you're describing. Very strange.

Well I'm enjoying them now in new game +, i didn't like just the trophies and challenges, i missed the riddles relating to characters, pretty stoked they are in it.

And even more stoked that i can use the DLC costumes in the story mode too
 
Actually, with the first one (right beside the church) I was running all around that building looking for a way in. Probably spent about 10-15 minutes doing that, but I just happened to notice that as I ran past the question mark at one point that an on-screen prompt came up, so I went over and stood in front of it and was like "oooohhhhhhh". Thought it was odd that nothing came up in detective mode or anything, but if someone's just seeing what that side mission is about and could care less about completing it, then yeah that could throw them off easily.


Not me. That whole thing about Protocol 10 and wiping the inmate population out was Ra's goal from the get go. That had nothing to do with Strange covering anything up. Ra's wants to wipe out all of the corruption in the world, and he thinks Gotham is the most corrupt place there is, so using Strange as his puppet to set all that up was how he planned it. He just didn't plan on Strange having a back-up plan if he felt betrayed and wanted to take Ra's out, though. That being Protocol 11.

But all-in-all, this was one of the funnest games I've ever played. You have to go into it wanting to complete all of the side missions or you're not even enjoying half of the experience. I thought they did an excellent job of cramming in so many characters from the Batman universe, without making it seem so crowded. I give it a solid 10/10 and recommend it to anyone. It's by no means a very challenging game, so any level of player can pick it up and feel accomplished after playing it, and I think there's even enough there to keep the hardcore players intrigued. And out of all the games I've played this year, I'd say this was all around the best one by far.

I hate how Ra's never gets the direct "I am the main villian" treatment. Liam Neeson didn't really get it in Batman Begins, and Ra's certainly didn't get it in AC. It feels misleading like Transformers: DOTM did when they said Shockwave was the main villian when he really didn't do s#!+.

BATMAN: ARKHAM HOLOCAUST

That sounds disturbingly good.
 
finnally getting to play this one and really loving it thus far hoping i can get some long gaming sessions today to tear through it.
 
I am loving playing as Nightwing. I love that between Bats, Catwoman, and Nightwing (I don't have Robin yet), they're similar enough where you can apply your skills, but they all feel very different.

One question for him: is X+Y supposed to do anything? Unless I've missed something, whenever I try it, he does this uppercut thing, but the glowing yellow combo number, indicating I can do a takedown, stays glowing.

I don't think it does. Catwoman doesn't have a move for that combo either does she?
 
I don't think it does. Catwoman doesn't have a move for that combo either does she?

I haven't done her challenges yet, and don't recall using that combo in the game.

Although I did try this combo again after posting, and it did take away the glowing yellow. It seems like the move might be trying to do something, maybe it's not a direct attack move or something.

And I don't know if it's because I beat all of Batman's challenges and have gotten very used to how to maximize points, or if Nightwing is just that badass, but his combat challenges seemed to go MUCH more smoothly.
 
Batman: Arkham 3 needs

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Alot more of
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And
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And
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AND OF COURSE The guy who can certainly kick the s#!+ out of Batman
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I want to see them wrap this up with a 3rd installment, followed by a Batman Beyond game set in a Tech Noir Blade Runner inspired Gotham, and spinning off of the whole Joker's son thing, and follow that up with a kick-*** Superman game.
 
I want to see them wrap this up with a 3rd installment, followed by a Batman Beyond game set in a Tech Noir Blade Runner inspired Gotham, and spinning off of the whole Joker's son thing, and follow that up with a kick-*** Superman game.

I'd rather have a Bat-family game where the main characters are Nightwing, Red Robin, Robin, and Batgirl (Barbara able to walk again) so they can get more spotlight. I think jumping to beyond just for jokers son is not a wise choice. You'd abandon many of Batman best current villians for characters like Blight, Inque and the joker gang?
 
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Beyond wouldn't take the place of the current canon anyway, it's be a spin-off.

Villains wise i'd say Shriek

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Inque

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Curare

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Mister Freeze

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Stalker

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Batman: Arkham 3 needs

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Alot more of
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And
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And
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AND OF COURSE The guy who can certainly kick the s#!+ out of Batman
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This is a great list, Todd's Red hood would be great for a tense personal storyline.

If they aren't ready for Gotham City (which i think they could be) they could go for Gotham District, Gotham Harbour, Gotham Central etc...
 
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I desperately want Nightwing, Red Hood and Deathstroke to have major roles, since Black Mask and Hush are practically guaranteed to have significant parts. I keep thinking about Deathstroke in a boss battle though. Batman can't exactly beat him 1 on 1. I guess they could let you fight him for a bit, and then have a cut-scene where Batman, Nightwing, and Robin jump him to take him down like they did in infinite crisis. otherwise, this would happen

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This kinda makes me wish they put Deathstroke in The Dark Knight Rises instead of Bane. I don't care if he's a Titans villian mainly. He'd be a far better opponent that Bane.
 
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I've heard the "Batman Beyond" idea a lot ... and, honestly, I think it is a monumentally terrible idea. It would very likely kill the Arkham video game franchise.

Batman Beyond is an old, canceled cartoon that most people have never seen. To the general public, Bruce Wayne is the only Batman. End of story. Having McGinnis -- who most people have never heard of and don't care about -- replace Wayne in an Arkham game would be like that MGS game where they had that other guy instead of Snake.

To release a game with a Batman nobody knows and villains nobody's heard of, in a Gotham nobody would recognize, would undermine everything that made Arkham Asylum and Arkham City great. These are great Batman games because of their mastery of the core of the Batman mythology. They're grounded in the reality of the Batman universe, and they make you feel like Batman. To abandon that core mythology for a silly fanboy spinoff would be the death knell ... it wouldn't feel like Batman, it wouldn't be the Batman everyone knows, and it wouldn't be set in the Batman universe that is so popular. Lousy idea.

SnakeDoc
 
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I desperately want Nightwing, Red Hood and Deathstroke to have major roles, since Black Mask and Hush are practically guaranteed to have significant parts. I keep thinking about Deathstroke in a boss battle though. Batman can't exactly beat him 1 on 1. I guess they could let you fight him for a bit, and then have a cut-scene where Batman, Nightwing, and Robin jump him to take him down like they did in infinite crisis. otherwise, this would happen

This kinda makes me wish they put Deathstroke in The Dark Knight Rises instead of Bane. I don't care if he's a Titans villian mainly. He'd be a far better opponent that Bane.

I think having Nightwing, Hush, Robin and Red Hood in major roles would be good. I wouldn't mind seeing Deathstroke in a Robin or Nightwing side mission.

A combination of "No Mans Land" and "Bruce Wayne: Fugitive" storylines wouldn't be a bad way to take you into the full Gotham City. Use the Hush/ Bruce Wayne thing to have Wayne indicted or convicted of murder. Reignite the Penguin vs. Two Face gang war ... maybe get Black Mask involved with a third group. Have a "Battle for the Cowl" thing with Red Hood, Nightwing and Hush trying to take the mantle from Bruce while he's in captivity during a portion of the game. A larger full-Gotham gang war would get more of the Bat Family involved in smaller missions ... though Batman still needs to be 80% of the game. Not sure how Scarecrow fits with that -- maybe he could contribute to the No Man's Land thing, like he did with The Narrows in Batman Begins. Having all the remaining civilians (in an evacuated Gotham) semi-possessed would be a good reason to have Batman be required to subdue individual civilians in Gotham City.

Though I've expressed my distaste for a Batman Beyond idea ... if they're hellbent on a semi-futuristic thing, I think a The Dark Knight Returns concept would be much better than Beyond.

SnakeDoc
 
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If they did something like the recent Spider-man games where you could play as different Batmen, that might be a way to get Beyond off the ground before giving it a bigger role/game.
 
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