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IM crosspost: OMG BATMAN.
Aug. 7th, 2009 08:17 amI played the Batman: Arkham Asylum demo! Jeremy had the bad luck of IMing me right after I was done. I ranted.
Gordy: And yeah, I had my nose buried in the Batman: Arkham Asylum demo until literally -one minute- before you paged.
Gordy: IMed. Whatever.
Jeremy: Heh. How is it? I'm not sure about some of the character designs, but everything I have heard points to Awesome.
Gordy: It is 100% amazing. The character designs -are- kind of weird... particularly Dark Knight style Harley Quinn, who is HOLY CRIPES -TITS- incarnate.
Jeremy: I saw that they gave Harley her offtime "I want to look like jailbait even though I'm clearly not" pigtails from the TV series in her on-duty costume.
Gordy: But the game -itself- is amazing. Pop up into the rafters, bungee down and suspend some screaming thug by his ankles and drop him in the middle of his friends. Their condition upgrades to "Nervous" and they start looking in the rafters. But Batman isn't UP there. He's down under the floor tiles. And while three guys are looking up, he can reduce them to -one- guy. Who becomes "Terrified" when he thinks to look around and sees himself in the middle of a pile of unconscious people. So he starts jittering around the room and firing wildly into corners.
Gordy: Which means he is entirely unprepared to take a batarang upside the head from down a dark hallway and get knocked over long enough to be KO'd.
Jeremy: Holy crap! A comprehensive Morale system? Why is it 2009 and this is the first time such a thing has appeared in a Batman game?
Gordy: I have no idea, but I am ALL for it.
Gordy: I'm told that later on, it starts affecting other stuff. But I'm not sure what, because the demo is structured like "Beat up five guys in melee. Beat up five more guys in melee. Learn how to sneak around. Punch out this dude. Storyline. Now have a stealth playground. Okay, demo's over."
Gordy: Luckily, both the "stealth playground" stuff and the melee combat stuff is good. Bonus points for knocking someone over and then knocking them out so they don't get up. Double-bonus points for being in the middle of a melee combo and just taking three seconds to just absent-mindedly kick the guy sneaking up behind you before returning attention to the one in front.
Gordy: ...Uh. I was gonna make a LJ post about this. Mind if I just cut/paste this conversation there?
Jeremy: Feel free
Gordy: Thankyou.
Gordy: Didn't mean to rant. I'm just kinda SUPER HYPE about this, in a way I wasn't when I was just watching trailers.
Gordy: And yeah, I had my nose buried in the Batman: Arkham Asylum demo until literally -one minute- before you paged.
Gordy: IMed. Whatever.
Jeremy: Heh. How is it? I'm not sure about some of the character designs, but everything I have heard points to Awesome.
Gordy: It is 100% amazing. The character designs -are- kind of weird... particularly Dark Knight style Harley Quinn, who is HOLY CRIPES -TITS- incarnate.
Jeremy: I saw that they gave Harley her offtime "I want to look like jailbait even though I'm clearly not" pigtails from the TV series in her on-duty costume.
Gordy: But the game -itself- is amazing. Pop up into the rafters, bungee down and suspend some screaming thug by his ankles and drop him in the middle of his friends. Their condition upgrades to "Nervous" and they start looking in the rafters. But Batman isn't UP there. He's down under the floor tiles. And while three guys are looking up, he can reduce them to -one- guy. Who becomes "Terrified" when he thinks to look around and sees himself in the middle of a pile of unconscious people. So he starts jittering around the room and firing wildly into corners.
Gordy: Which means he is entirely unprepared to take a batarang upside the head from down a dark hallway and get knocked over long enough to be KO'd.
Jeremy: Holy crap! A comprehensive Morale system? Why is it 2009 and this is the first time such a thing has appeared in a Batman game?
Gordy: I have no idea, but I am ALL for it.
Gordy: I'm told that later on, it starts affecting other stuff. But I'm not sure what, because the demo is structured like "Beat up five guys in melee. Beat up five more guys in melee. Learn how to sneak around. Punch out this dude. Storyline. Now have a stealth playground. Okay, demo's over."
Gordy: Luckily, both the "stealth playground" stuff and the melee combat stuff is good. Bonus points for knocking someone over and then knocking them out so they don't get up. Double-bonus points for being in the middle of a melee combo and just taking three seconds to just absent-mindedly kick the guy sneaking up behind you before returning attention to the one in front.
Gordy: ...Uh. I was gonna make a LJ post about this. Mind if I just cut/paste this conversation there?
Jeremy: Feel free
Gordy: Thankyou.
Gordy: Didn't mean to rant. I'm just kinda SUPER HYPE about this, in a way I wasn't when I was just watching trailers.
