Batman: Arkham Knight
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http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkuD0Inb9Gs"]Official Batman: Arkham Knight Announce Trailer - "Father to Son" - YouTube[/ame]
http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2014/03/04/bak-debut-trailer-90348602352.aspx
http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2014/03/04/april-cover-revealed-2014-1039752374.aspx
Pretty amazing CGI trailer, if the games anything like that, we're in for a winner.
I disliked Origins, hope this brings back the best bits of Arkham Asylum and City.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NkuD0Inb9Gs"]Official Batman: Arkham Knight Announce Trailer - "Father to Son" - YouTube[/ame]http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2014/03/04/bak-debut-trailer-90348602352.aspx
http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2014/03/04/april-cover-revealed-2014-1039752374.aspx
Pretty amazing CGI trailer, if the games anything like that, we're in for a winner.
I disliked Origins, hope this brings back the best bits of Arkham Asylum and City.
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Then you stick on city surveillance. Joker's running around outside again, laughing like a nutcase.
Batman: "FFS"
The new batmobile design is interesting. I like it, except for the exposed brake disks/calipers. Seems like a dumb idea to keep them exposed like that.
Big fan of Rockstready's tight work on this franchise so I'm down with it
Not a comics fan then, I'm guessing?
Nah dude I was just messing, am actually looking forward to it, also love comics
Who? Never heard of them :poly117:
There's been some odd developer quotes about the "Gotham Knight" not being Batman, but a separate character developed by Rocksteady. Given that Batman is clearly in the game from the trailer, I'm imagining someone else doing their own vigilante work that Batman needs to hunt down.
I'm kinda with Torch on this one. While the Batman games have been great, I think it's really about time they made a significant change as we've been doing roughly the same thing in more or less the same setting for 3 games now. I had my fingers crossed for the Silver Age game that's been rumoured for a while. Or a resurrection of Day 1's Gotham by Gaslight.
Or Wrath, Prometheus, Hush, Owlman (the Thomas Wayne Jr. version)
More here:
http://imgur.com/a/W9h0p#qzDNdZi
http://imgur.com/a/MfWn7
Just get it on pc! All the Arkhams so far have turned out really well on the pc. Usually nvidia does something fancy to "up the ante" over the consoles.
I also don't think the Xbox and Playstation will just randomly die and gamers would lose all of their downloaded content. My guess is that console gaming will be transformed into a more "universal" medium in the sense that you'll be able to play console games on devices other than your actual console. The Playstation Now service for example, will allow you to play Playstation games from any Playstation platform on a huge amount of devices. I'm sure Microsoft will eventually counter this as well with some kind of alternative.
As for choosing a platform, it's important to always look at the other games available as well, then make a decision from there. I see a lot of people jump on the PC bandwagon that build powerful rigs but end up only playing League of Legends or Dota 2. Similarly, I've seen people purchase a PS3 solely to play The Last of Us.
Only a bit disappointed they didn't go UE4 on this one, would've been the proper way to kick-start the UE4 era, don't you think?
Also I second the idea of having either red hood in the game or having a standalone game of his own, it'd be bloody awesome.
Looks awesome!
Royalties for UDK =25%
Royalties for UE4 = 5%
Go watch any major CG movie from the last decade and it's obvious video games are very very behind the times.
Even now, stuff like global illumination and ray tracing can't be done in real time. That's a long way from stagnating.
Does this mean all video games are bad? No. I have a 3DS and can mostly tolerate the PS2/Gamecube graphics. Would I want every game to look like PS2 graphics if there's more power available? Never.
The source asset quality is, however, right next to movie quality. It's now common to build 20-50 million poly sculpts for ingame characters, using the same tools that a VFX studio has (I think even Mari is getting looked into at some studios). It's just that the result has to be 'compressed' to work well enough in real time.
It's also common to use 3D scanning, performance capture, and we're starting to see some more complex realtime cloth physics as well.
http://www.gamespot.com/articles/batman-arkham-knight-voluntarily-being-taken-off-s/1100-6428434/
So far, I've really been enjoying this on the PS4. The fighting has some awesome new moves/counters, I really enjoy moving around the city now, and the batmobile is pretty awesome.
I think my only 'complaint' is I don't like how they configured the 'battlemode' controls for the batmobile. I'd rather press a button, and have it stay in battlemode, until I press it again (or drop out on acceleration). On the PS4, L2 is commonly 'brakes', for most driving configurations; not square. So, whenever I want to stop, it goes into battlemode instead.
I was thinking, as I typed, that I forgot to look into options. I actually just want the button changed (which hopefully is an option). I just assume that holding the square (if I swapped with L2), would be a pain, and that's why they chose L2. If toggle is an option too though, maybe I can switch buttons, and enable toggle. I'll check tonight.
In the internet there are several comparisons and the PC version lacks AO, and too many effects we already had in Batman Arkham Origins.
It's a shame, but well, another bad story that will be written in the history of PC videogames.
it's apparently by design: http://community.wbgames.com/t5/Support-for-PC/June-23-Update-on-PC-Performance-PLEASE-READ-FIRST/m-p/572903#U572903
"Expected: 30fps (capped). The Recommended Spec is intended to deliver an experience on par with the current generation of gaming platforms."
da faq ? why. That defeats the entire purpose of buying it on the PC. I buy games on PC to be superior is visual fidelity and fps then on console
This game is up there with the other two Rocksteady games, although Asylum will forever by my favourite because of it's linear nature. I did like the more darker story in Arkham Knight though.
I think the game suffers somewhat because of the batmobile taking such a huge role in the game, the city feels dead and empty. I think having the batmobile missions has separate missions would have worked better.
The PC version is pretty much a mess at the moment and makes some of the missions unplayable because of the stutters when driving. Good luck doing those firefly missions with the game stuttering at every turn.
Had to reduce all the gfx options on numerous missions involving the batmobile to reduce the stuttering.
The Harley DLC actually runs a lot better than the main game, which takes place outside of the open world which makes me think the stuttering is related to streaming.
Game is full of issues and bugs at the moment, despite the game being great itself. It's hard to recommend on PC. I don't know how this could be released in that state it has been. Hopefully this gets fixed and the missing effects are added.
As far as I know, they had nothing to do with Arkham City. They only did Origins, and that game was also a mess. Apparently, they (Iron Galaxy) have a very poor track record and have mainly dealt with ios and console games.
The original question remains...why would Warner Bros in their right mind right to outsource the development of the PC version of a Rocksteady game? It reeks of big publisher incompetence. Also given all the advertising I am seeing around LA, its clear they put more money on tossing up adverts on every corner than making sure the game is actually good on the PC.
It is also obvious they knew about the lack of quality taking place, since the only review codes (and "coincidentally" advertising on social media) given out was only for the PS4 version. Deal with Sony perhaps?
This is why some people really start hating consoles, because they have this kind of negative effect when mixed with big publishers who have a skewed business sense.