Batman: Arkham Asylum and Arkham City

http://www.gamefly.com/

and i'm sure britishers have something similar

don't be so sure, we don't even have taco bell

blockbusterdotcom

£27 is a good price, considering people pay £10 for 2 hours of entertainment at the Cinema.

I'd buy it for £27 and hope to trade it in for £10, thus costing you £17.

Its a fun game, and I'm not sure it'll hit under £20 till next summer.

I also have a spare US special edition for cheaps if any britishers are interested. (unwanted prize)

lol, yeah. Just finished it. The ending to the collection stuff is pretty cool. Now I just need 3 medals on every challenge stage... (I may not get perfect knight.)

Why you always gotta make me feel inadequate, Mordy?

I got 3 medals on one of the combat challenges, but the others are brutal. The prowler stuff is much easier.

I feel so small right now.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=D2KOeYhBRUs

Finished it last knight(!), and my one tip is when you are fighting both Titans & normal guys, ignore the normal guys and just concentrate on running away from the titans and then getting them to charge through the crowd of normal guys. and when you are on the Titans back, use that to plough into the normal guys.

the End battle wasn't great but I hate to get stuck on the end of game boss for weeks so the straightforward fight was actually quite welcome.

Overall I think it was worth the hype and need to knuckle down and get the challenge trophies.

£17.99 delivered on gamestation.co.uk... not worth trying to figure out how to rent when you can get it that cheap!

Arkham Asylum sequel confirmed, video doesn't give much away but will totally be looking forward to this.

Arkham Has Moved

Wait are they really calling it Arkham Asylum 2? Why not make another Batman game with a new location?

It doesn't have a title yet, people are just calling it AA2 for now. Judging by the video they are moving the action to Gotham itself, at least certain parts of it.

So Dini, Conroy, Hamill (if Joker's in it) are involved?

arkham asylum 2 is an anagram of mark hamill is in it

some leee level analysis of trailer:

http://www.gametrailers.com/video/gt-pop-block-batman-arkham/60076

I resemble that comment, jerkface.

ok wow. what a great game - just finished it, and it is prob going to get my #1 spot for the year.

I just finished this too (well, the main story), on Monday night. Really is a great game, and I still have lots of the challenges to do before I consider it 'finished' proper. The final battle left me a little bitter, as it was a bit rubbish though (I generally hate boss battles anyway).

Unless my two 3-hour train journeys this weekend get me deep into Zelda I reckon it could be the only contender for the top spot for me.

in the week since finishing it, this really slid down the scale for me - partially because i am not getting into the challenges really, and partially because i have like zero interest in replaying the main game, which is a problem

Finally got round to ordering this - £17.99 at play.com. I'm aiming to hoover up a good <£20 game at least once a month this year to avoid my PS3 becoming a stupidly expensive DVD player.

Status: awaiting stock

bastards :(

okay I played the demo of this over the weekend and WOW THIS IS SORT OF TOTALLY MY TYPE OF SHIT

Still waiting. Fuck a play.com.

That's play.com all over these days. I had "awaiting stock" on three different items for 6 weeks each in the run up to christmas, before I cancelled them all and went to HMV instead.

hi dere - u should play this.

it is insane how much fun it is to hang upside-down from a gargoyle and wait

also, is it cheating to play the whole game in detective mode?

no but i found i switched between both cuz it's sort of easier to take in the geography with it off

I have gotten to Bane. Holy shit this game is fantastic. The Scarecrow level was like OMG

i beat it well before finishing coint and plick. It's a winner alright. Finished with the full riddle and greatest detective achievement; still sorta tempted to go for perfect knight.

Trying to get all the combat challenges but then gave up because I realised only 15 year olds have the time and skill to get 50000 on any of the levels.

I was once that 15 year old but many moons have passed since then.

For realz, you guys are making me feel old.

Still waiting. Fuck a play.com.

― inoffensive alterna-poppage (onimo), Tuesday, 26 January 2010 16:56 Bookmark Suggest Ban Permalink

Seriously

finally picked this up for cheapish over the weekend and yes it owns sensationally. definitely would have placed over Uncharted 2 in my C&P ballot, although I guess I haven't gotten to the alleged most infuriating sections yet. I did get stuck for an embarrassingly long time on the first Riddler challenge though.

being in detective mode is not very conducive to solving the first Riddler challenge, tbf

I have actually been trying to resist detective mode as much as possible since it does seem slightly game-breaking (although IRL Batman would probably have detective mode on constantly for that very reason).

Are there notable differences between the PS3 and 360 versions of this? I've been waiting ages for the PS3 one and now the 360 one's going cheap and is in stock.

PS3 version has levels where you can play as the joker i think?

btw guess who downloaded the levels where you can play as the Joker over the weekend? ^_^

Thanks jjj, guess I'll just wait and wait and wait.

The Joker levels are for the online challenges, right?

16/01/2010 Batman: Arkham Asylum (PlayStation3)

£17.99
Posted: 26/02/2010

Better be worth the wait!

btw it is

beating up a room full of bad guys NEVER GETS OLD; this is also the first game where I've really wanted to counter attacks because the fight animation is so rad

Yep, this game is so great. I got it over the weekend. OTM about the temptation to stay in Detective Mode all the time and Scarecrow levels being super cool. Really started to love the combat once I got the rhythm of it.

Questions: I'm guessing there are a lot of hidden areas/Riddler stuff I can't get to until I have X amount of Metroid-style upgrades (say, to get those explodable walls that are above the ground), so I probably shouldn't try to get all that stuff until much later in the game and backtrack then? I'm still picking up a lot but at the end of each chapter I always wonder if I should head back.

Also, at least on PC, I'm encountering some weird control quirks I had to patch out in the .inis since I'm using a PS2 controller (inverted analog stick stuff - most annoying that Evade works opposite the way it's supposed to and can't be fixed) but the weirdest thing is that the D-pad gadget selecting stuff doesn't work right, I can't pick any gadget that's on a diagonal axis (like the Crytographer) and sadly have to reach for the keyboard when this happens. Anyone else encounter this?

I really have to say that the rendition of Scarecrow in this game is like one of the scariest fucking things ever, like it really makes him worthy of being a main Batman villain.

also holy shit at that Szasz interview tapes

yeah theres a bunch of riddler shit that you cant get until you get more gadgets.

xp LOVE the interview tapes, they scratch the same kind of extra-narrative itch the Bioshock audio diaries did

I've played through the first couple of levels and I'm loving this. Combat has a great feel to it, detective mode is aces, atmosphere is spot on. Want all the extra abilties and gadgets now!

I finally picked this up last weekend for PS3 and whaaao. I realize now how long it's been since I've played a third-person action game as I've died quite a few times, but I'm getting back into it.

Kind of disappointed that I didn't find anything really special in the mini-Batcave on the island.