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Fans of Batman: Arkham Asylum - Check this out

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I am waiting for the prices to drop on Batman and Bayonetta before I pick them up.

 

Bayonetta rocks. I liked it even more than Arkham. :cloud9:

 

 

 

Get out! I started paying Bayonetta and didnt think it was that good. I am still going to play it...just put it down which is not a good sign....AA blew Bayonetta away!!! Its a smashing the buttons game. AA was a great story!

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Yep, one of the best overall games of 2009, which is quite a huge accomplishment for a licensed property. Most comic/movie based games are total garbage.

 

Most purely comic-based games are pretty good, but it's the movie-based properties (poised for a quick-development cash-grab) that really suck. Because it has to hit just prior to the movie release, it's usually a case of "here's en existing engine, now slap on some new textures over the next 3 months!" kind of deal.

 

The only recent movie-based game I've liked is Wolverine Origins, and even that wasn't great.

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I am waiting for the prices to drop on Batman and Bayonetta before I pick them up.

 

Bayonetta rocks. I liked it even more than Arkham. :cloud9:

 

 

 

Get out! I started paying Bayonetta and didnt think it was that good. I am still going to play it...just put it down which is not a good sign....AA blew Bayonetta away!!! Its a smashing the buttons game. AA was a great story!

 

Bayonetta isn't for everyone, but the combat system is master-class. As far as straight-up action games go, it's the new king. If you're mashing buttons, you're missing the whole point; kind of like driving a sports car with an automatic transmission. :baiting:

 

The combat system is incredibly deep. To really get the most out of the game and to finish on the higher difficulties requires serious skill.

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Most purely comic-based games are pretty good

 

Maybe as far as playability goes, but when was the last time you saw a comic-based game hang with the big boys of gaming from other genres, in terms of critical reception? Arkham Asylum is the only one I can think of.

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You are like the George Will of video games.

 

Funny thing is, I had little to no interest in gaming from ages 13-25.

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Most purely comic-based games are pretty good

 

Maybe as far as playability goes, but when was the last time you saw a comic-based game hang with the big boys of gaming from other genres, in terms of critical reception? Arkham Asylum is the only one I can think of.

 

The first Marvel Ultimate Alliance got great reviews, Lego Batman was very good, and even the pseudo-comic MK vs. DC was fun, and in fact, other than the somewhat-disappointing MUA2, I can't think of a lot of purely comic-based games for the current generation. They just don't seem to make a lot of them. (shrug)

 

But there are a TON of crappy movie-based comic games for the 360/PS3/Wii/PSP, like Spider-man 3, Hellboy, Watchmen, TMNT, Fantastic Four: ROTS, Iron Man, Superman Returns, The Hulk, X-Men, etc.

 

That's why Wolverine stood out, as it's likely the only "pretty good" comic movie-based game from this generation.

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Most purely comic-based games are pretty good

 

But there are a TON of crappy movie-based comic games for the 360/PS3/Wii/PSP, like The Hulk, etc.

 

 

I broke a controller playing the Hulk on 360. I was actually enjoying it up until the point where you had to beat 4 "iron man's" wearing Stark Industries suits. My first time through, the game locked up after I had beaten two of them - it took about 10 minutes a piece. No big deal, I thought. Rebooted, beat three of them and was within 10 or 12 hits of beating the fourth and it locked up again. Instant controller confetti. :frustrated:

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Most purely comic-based games are pretty good

 

Maybe as far as playability goes, but when was the last time you saw a comic-based game hang with the big boys of gaming from other genres, in terms of critical reception? Arkham Asylum is the only one I can think of.

 

The first Marvel Ultimate Alliance got great reviews, Lego Batman was very good, and even the pseudo-comic MK vs. DC was fun, and in fact, other than the somewhat-disappointing MUA2, I can't think of a lot of purely comic-based games for the current generation. They just don't seem to make a lot of them. (shrug)

 

But there are a TON of crappy movie-based comic games for the 360/PS3/Wii/PSP, like Spider-man 3, Hellboy, Watchmen, TMNT, Fantastic Four: ROTS, Iron Man, Superman Returns, The Hulk, X-Men, etc.

 

That's why Wolverine stood out, as it's likely the only "pretty good" comic movie-based game from this generation.

 

I agree alot with what you say about the movie-based-comic-games.

 

An example would be the Hulk game based off the movie. It had an amazing engine and base to start from (look up "Hulk: Incredible Destruction" for one of the most fun ps2 games), and they totally ruined it with the movie-based game. Same mechanics and new-generation console graphics, but when compared to the previous game, it fell way short.

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The first Marvel Ultimate Alliance got great reviews, Lego Batman was very good, and even the pseudo-comic MK vs. DC was fun, and in fact, other than the somewhat-disappointing MUA2, I can't think of a lot of purely comic-based games for the current generation. They just don't seem to make a lot of them.

 

All true, but as you know in the game industry, it's a big leap to go from double A to triple A. All those games you mentioned fall in the good, but not great category, at least critically. It was quite an accomplishment for Arkham, which was coming from a relatively unknown studio, to get AAA accolades, including game of the year nods. I hope the franchise can maintain its triple A status going forward.

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All true, but as you know in the game industry, it's a big leap to go from double A to triple A. All those games you mentioned fall in the good, but not great category, at least critically. It was quite an accomplishment for Arkham, which was coming from a relatively unknown studio, to get AAA accolades, including game of the year nods. I hope the franchise can maintain its triple A status going forward.

 

Oh I do agree, but I was just stating that there is some pedigree in the NON-movie based comic book games, but it seems that whenever the developers are forced to paste a game engine on a movie property, the results are usually horrific.

 

But give the team some freedom, and the funny book results are usually good.

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