I live in Chicago myself, and it's weird, despite the fact that this is a huge city, there really don't seem to be all that many non-chain video game stores around. Certainly nothing like New York.
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Batman: Arkham Knight - Review Thread
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I live in Chicago myself, and it's weird, despite the fact that this is a huge city, there really don't seem to be all that many non-chain video game stores around. Certainly nothing like New York.
Immediate impressions:
Game is gorgeous. Rain and lighting is pure eye candy in the city. Seems like every single car on the road is a bad guy...and there's an absurd amount of them. So far I don't really like that. Combat feels somehow meatier than previous games. Like Batman has more momentum than before.
Game is gorgeous. Rain and lighting is pure eye candy in the city. Seems like every single car on the road is a bad guy...and there's an absurd amount of them. So far I don't really like that. Combat feels somehow meatier than previous games. Like Batman has more momentum than before.
I played an hour or two earlier today. Seems fantastic. Far better than City and i'm hugely inpressed by the story too, so let's see if this beats out Origins. (Also watch out everyone, this game's story is REALLY easy to spoil.)
I even had a couple of 'Arkham Asylum' moments, where I felt perfectly and quintessentially 'the bat'. The feels!
Cant wait to play more. Also love the revamped skill tree and the combat is hugely improved- to what it should have always been... I spent at least an hour of t first session just swooping about beating up bad guys. This is all ive ever really wanted from a batman game and it's delivering it more than Origins ever did.
From what i've played i really enjoy the batmobile, too. I love that Tank Mode is a button HOLD not a button TOGGLE. This really hammers home that you can pop into battle mode, fire off a few shots, then tear away in drive mode an instant later. Tamk mode should just be brief use. Let's hope the game doesnt force too much shooting
The car gunfights feel a bit uncanny - not because Bats is shooting a lot, but because it actually feels like a really good car combat game like Twisted Metal or something - not a good Batman game. The mechanic feels like it's just invading the game.
It makes perfect sense all the cars left are baddies.
I even had a couple of 'Arkham Asylum' moments, where I felt perfectly and quintessentially 'the bat'. The feels!
Cant wait to play more. Also love the revamped skill tree and the combat is hugely improved- to what it should have always been... I spent at least an hour of t first session just swooping about beating up bad guys. This is all ive ever really wanted from a batman game and it's delivering it more than Origins ever did.
From what i've played i really enjoy the batmobile, too. I love that Tank Mode is a button HOLD not a button TOGGLE. This really hammers home that you can pop into battle mode, fire off a few shots, then tear away in drive mode an instant later. Tamk mode should just be brief use. Let's hope the game doesnt force too much shooting
The car gunfights feel a bit uncanny - not because Bats is shooting a lot, but because it actually feels like a really good car combat game like Twisted Metal or something - not a good Batman game. The mechanic feels like it's just invading the game.
Almost every non-bad guy in the city leaves at the beginning of the game.
No, I would not expect the keys until release. At the very least not until Steam's general preload is live.
Big Chungus
Member
id really like to buy this but i have no idea if it'll run well on my pc
i5-4670k
8gb memory
amd r7 265
i5-4670k
8gb memory
amd r7 265
Then get it on a console. Easy.
He might not have one.
Corpsepyre
Banned
That GPU could be the issue.
I agree it makes sense I just really dislike the sheer amount of cars.
i7 4770k
16GB RAM
HD 7970 3GB
My GPU might not be up to stuff, but I'll be able to run it pretty solid.
EDIT: Actually, my 7970 should be more than enough. But for some reason system requirements is telling me it's not good enough for the recommended specs.
BouncyFrag
Member
Does AK have ng+ like in the other titles?
Preload isn't live anywhere besides Xbox IIRC.
Received this morning, been enjoying it so far. Not really played much of the other Batman games so can't compare. Only complaint is Batmobile combat feels meh and forced.
Also the 1.01 (Day one) patch was 3.6GB but I just turned on my PS4 to play again and its downloading another patch which is the same size
Also the 1.01 (Day one) patch was 3.6GB but I just turned on my PS4 to play again and its downloading another patch which is the same size
UnrealEck
Member
Depends on what you mean by 'well'.
That PC's got a faster CPU than a PS4, more memory and its graphics processor is probably roughly similar performance.
I'd expect you to get at least PS4-like performance/graphics.
Also the 1.01 (Day one) patch was 3.6GB but I just turned on my PS4 to play again and its downloading another patch which is the same size
I was just coming on here to query this. Downloaded the day 1 patch before and now there's another the same size. I wasn't sure whether to cancel it or not. 7 GB seems excessive to say the least.
Same but I had too.
Yes.
There are definitely a lot of things about it that are shitty.
Like the cliched, unfinished story that betrays its potential; The combat encounters being mostly comprised of boring human enemies, instead of the cool mythical monsters that exist in the game's world; The few times when you do actually get to fight Werewolves, they're some of the most poorly designed sequences in any modern AAA action game, and they're the same rinse and repeat sequence every time. The final boss
is the exact same LAME QTE sequence that you encounter against a weaker Lycan earlier in the game
There's a few more shitty things about it, but I think you get the point. Whether the shitty things about the game make it absolute shit or not comes down to what the player expects out of it.
Ready At Dawn tried to stand on the cinematic third-person shooter pedestal with Naughty Dog, but showed that they were really better off making handheld games with other people's IPs.
Lakerchick4life
Member
Just did the pre order for this game on amazon.com(For the PS4) had 25 bucks to spend so the total came to be 38 dollars..cant wait to get this game..says I would receive it by June 25th which is two days after the game is released I hope I Get it sooner than that how do pre orders usually work when you have amazon prime?
Play them because they are good.
The story in the games has never been great so I would not worry too much about that providing you've consumed some Batman media at all in your life.
It's weird, because they haven't sent me an email or anything, and it still says "Arriving Tuesday" in my order list.
Zen_Arcade
Banned
Can anyone confirm if you can change skins while you're going through the story or not? I want to see what the JL3000 skin looks like in game when I start, but I don't want to be stuck using it through the whole game if I don't like it.
Only 8 rams lol
Not necessary, but I would play them anyway because they're really good.
EroticSushi
Member
Yes you simply go into the Showcase section and pick your skin. It does reload your game though but you can do it at any time.
I searched to see if there was any info but couldn't find anything. Someone's download will probably finish quicker than mine, in-laws have 5mb broadband
(4 hours to go)
godhandiscen
There are millions of whiny 5-year olds on Earth, and I AM THEIR KING.
Any footage of the Xbox One version?
NowhereFaded
Member
Where does this gif originate? Always see it amongst GAF.
matrixman92
Member
i havent heard anything about it...hopefully soon. only have 2 days left
Big Chungus
Member
as long as it looks like the console version, im good
Corpsepyre
Banned
Maybe they should just stick to combat-driven games and leave the shooting to those who can do it justice. Played about 2 hours, and the shooting mechanics were not fun whatsoever. Game looked pretty as fuck, but that was it.
Cave Johnson
Member
That's... a surprisingly low amount of reviews.
Corpsepyre
Banned
Something's up. Just 16 reviews counted over at Metacritic.
You have a share button on your controller and you can't share, come on man!
Quick question. Are there riddler "puzzles", just like in Arkham City? Never seen any of it in the footage so far and those were my favorite part of the game.
A lot of websites did not get review copies till yesterday. The ones who did seemed to have a PS4 debug unit. Heck, PC gaming websites don't have review copies at all. Add E3 madness to that. Expecting to see more coming through next week.
E3's got most of the smaller outlets down for the count. Places like Giant Bomb and Game Trailers are probably still swamped and/or recovering.
Simo
Member
Well probably like mine with release date delivery it's 1 day shipping so it shouldn't ship until Monday?
How the hell are there no twitch streams/vids on youtube yet?
Some YouTube vids have surfaced and then been quickly removed. Just saw a vid that was the opening 30 minutes and then after watching it, it was removed. lol
There seems to be something in place blocking streaming on the PS4 too until release day..
I was just watching one on Twitch, I waited 10 minutes for the streamer to download the patch, he finally started the game and as soon as he got to the main menu it was shut down. Gah!How the hell are there no twitch streams/vids on youtube yet?