Batman: Arkham Origins

Just finished it, pretty good. Great way to do an origin story. Wish I could finish the side-quest stuff, stupid bugs. Hopefully that's patched before I stop caring. Guess I could try to redo it in new-game plus, but meh.

And now onto the Vita version!

So, can't finish the Enigma line of stuff since Bird's sidemission is bugged for me and I can't get a couple of the datapacks since they are in an area unlocked by doing his side shit, awesome.

RobXIII_sl said:

I can't seem to consistently do a drop attack on someone if I'm already gliding. If I'm already on the side of the building I just hold down the button, easy peasy. But I can't seem to master doing it while in the air =\

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Yea, this is similar for me, in the same way that Dandai states.

Eventually I just started doing dive bombs as that was far easier. It seems to me in order to do the glide kick accurately you need to not be actively gliding (IE not holding space) but leaping off of a building or at the apex of a starting glide. For example, if I really feel like I need to do a glide kick to initiate a fight, then I'll just batclaw onto something nearby and hit space to do the rapid acceleration, then when I am at the very top of the jump I will hit glide kick. It'll enter you into a glide itself and you'll execute it.

Review: Batman: Arkham Origins - Destructoid

I normally find Jim Sterling annoying at best, but after getting about halfway through this game his review sums up my thoughts on it perfectly. 3.5/10 is a little harsh, but I definitely wouldn't give it more than a 5.

Anyone that gives the game a 5 is an asshat.

A 3.5 should get you booted out of videogame journalism.

Only bad part of the game is the bugs, which doesn't effect the main storyline that much since you can just restart from last checkpoint.
Yeah it sucks for the Sandbox missions, but it will get patched.

The obvious bugs are far from being the only bad thing about this game. The whole thing is a recycled mess with a story and city-design that makes no sense at all if you stop to think about it for two seconds and, even worse, the combat is clunky and glitchy where it was perfectly smooth in Rocksteady's games. I'm sure the game-breaking bugs will be patched, but I don't have much faith in WB Montreal fixing anything beyond that.

I personally thought the story was fantastic. It's a great origin story for how Arkham Asylum came to be as it is. The entirety of the Joker stuff as soon as you start the Hotel is amazing.

The way they slightly changed the feel of the combat really screwed up my enjoyment of that part of the game for sure though. Just that tiny tweak broke the fuck out of the flow of it.

I'd still give the game a 7, just on the strength of the story, but yeah, they totally fucked some shit up.

To put this in to perspective. This guy rated ARMY OF TWO: CALL OF JUAREZ a 4. So he's saying this game was worse than that piece of shit. He has no credibility.

Jim Sterling's reviews are pretty much *all over the place*. The dude gave Ragnarok Odyssey on the Vita a 9/10. Now, I have not played that game yet, but it sure as fuck doesn't look like a 9 to me.

He also gave RE6 a 3 and Deadly Premonition a 10, so he can't be all bad.

Fuck scores anyway, that's just metacritic bullshit. I can't begin to count the number of reviews I've read that shit all over a game and then gave it an 8+, or conversely, praised nearly everything about a game and then dumped a 6.5 on it. It's the text of his review that I agree 100% with.

RE6 a 10? lol...

Kaige_sl said:

My Deadshot side mission is bugged, somehow finished him with a silent takedown and it messed up. So basically its just the hostage on his knees with an empty bank. So much for finishing that one.

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Just have to do restart. Did the same thing for me, killed him from 50% health with a batclaw. Just restarted and it worked fine.

The dude's just begging for views basically by numbering the game so low. It's no where near what you would rate other games as a 3.5. I wouldn't say it's as fun as Arkham City, but then against I'd also rank Arkham City as probably the best game in this genre of video games.

Vorph_sl said:

He also gave RE6 a 3 and Deadly Premonition a 10.

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Araxen_sl said:

RE6 a 10? lol...

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reading ftw

Played New Game Plus up through Penguin's Ship.

Do not want. It was frustrating and obnoxious. The shitty combat tweaks they did that make the regular first Story mode feel off and irksome make NG+ a completely unenjoyable chore.

Anybody having issues with Shadow Vigilante: Rank 12?Perform 20 critical strikes in one free flow combo?I swear I've got 70+ crit combo's going before, but no dice. Am I missing something?

Tauntworth_sl said:

Anybody having issues with Shadow Vigilante: Rank 12?Perform 20 critical strikes in one free flow combo?I swear I've got 70+ crit combo's going before, but no dice. Am I missing something?

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Do you have the Critical Strikes upgrade from Shiva? Counter Crits don't count.

Sean_sl said:

Played New Game Plus up through Penguin's Ship.

Do not want. It was frustrating and obnoxious. The shitty combat tweaks they did that make the regular first Story mode feel off and irksome make NG+ a completely unenjoyable chore.

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I played some of it, I really don't even notice the difference to be completely honest. The only annoying thing is the knife fuckers, I usually bust out a combo/destroy on them right off the start though.