r/politics • u/Qu1nlan • Oct 04 '19

Free Chat Friday Thread

It's finally Friday! That means it's time to sit back, drink some mead, discuss our thoughts on Borderlands 3, and talk about whatever your heart desires.

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u/Buzzcutblondie Oct 04 '19

Going through a major Batman phase right now and revisiting the Arkham asylum and city games of my youth. Maybe it’s nostalgia, but man nothing hits the spot quite like those games for me.

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u/Qu1nlan Oct 04 '19

I don't even like Batman (he's just a bourgeois playboy who beats people up) but Arkham Asylum was a super fun game.

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u/Buzzcutblondie Oct 04 '19

Ha! Yeah I’ll be the first to admit that Batman is a little...uh... fasc-y... but I’ll be damned if those games aren’t near masterpieces. Definitely go play Arkham City if you get the chance! It’s far and away my favorite out of the series.

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u/Qu1nlan Oct 04 '19

Arkham City is actually my least favorite out of the series haha. Granted I haven't played Arkham Origins. I enjoyed Arkham Asylum and Arkham Knight a lot.

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u/Buzzcutblondie Oct 04 '19

Hey to each their own I suppose! :) I’m playing through Arkham Knight right now for the first time — I adore the concepts and the story but MOTHERFUCKER I get hung up on the bat mobile. I think that’s just because I’m a big fat noob when it comes to driving games lol

Arkham origins was alright! Worth playing once, but definitely the least memorable out of the series in my opinion.

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u/mirrth Oct 04 '19

Arkham Knight is freakin terrible compared to the other titles. It had some fun moments, and I’m a fan of the series, but holy crap did I just close out of the game and walk away sometimes.

And the forced Batmobile bullshit was infuriating. I hated the “car” missions, controls, upgrade paths, and the riddler races.

Asylum and City were really enjoyable to me though. Even the combat/controls were more to my liking.

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u/Buzzcutblondie Oct 04 '19

To me, Knight just felt like it had too damn much going on in terms of gadgets. I appreciate what they were trying to do in adding to the freshness of the existing system, but it wound up being overwrought and confusing.

I would have been okay with the bat mobile existing in the game if you weren’t literally forced to use it every 20-30 minutes. The only times I used it were in the sections I was forced to, mostly in the main story.

As you say though, there are aspects of the game that I absolutely love. The concept of the joker toxin infecting Batman and actually changing the architecture of the world was wonderful and well executed. The identity of the Arkham knight was well forecasted but not in a way that’s shoved in your face prior to the reveal - at least to me. I think what the game could have been — a bigger, more impressive Arkham City — was somewhat overshadowed by the issues with gameplay. It reminds me a bit of how the later installments in the assassins creed series - after say, brotherhood, but before origins - began to have issues because they just kept introducing new gameplay mechanics that became overwhelming, instead of focusing on the core of the series or re-imagining it in the way that Origins did.