Batman Arkham City Discussion

The game is almost upon us! This is my anticipated game of the fall. Unlike the BF3 nuts and the Skyrim fanatics, Batman is the game I've been looking forward to.

NA October 18, 2011[2]
AUS October 19, 2011[2]
EU October 21, 2011[3]
JP November 23, 2011[4]

Oh yeah, North American for October 22nd, Europe 25th.

Some Updates:

Batman Arkham City's PhysX does not have any features exclusive to Nvidia. All PhysX features will also be available on CPU. Any marketing sham that has been provided is Nvidia marketing sham.

Batman Arkham City is a Windows Title, that is a given, it's going to be on Windows... But it will not be a GFWL title!

 

Their marketing ploy worked - I'm getting it for console systems now ;(

Oh well, this game is going to rule

 

Oh I am so buying this game. If it's anything like AA, we're going to see a huge, massive hit.

Mr. Mysterious

 

I preferred Batman AA over the movies as well.

 

oh yeah - Rocksteadys Batman plots have completely annihilated the movie plots...especially if finished all the side quests (ie the scarab one).

 

FYI, I believe the pc version is delay until November:
Batman: Arkham City PC delayed until November | Joystiq

 

They want to make sure every part of Harley Quinn is Perfect

 

9.5 from IGN "must play"

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I am on my third play through of Arkham Asylum and still enjoying every minute. I will be buying Arkham City for the PC without a doubt. There is no way in hell I will be impatient and buy it for that Xbox 360 sitting alone in a bag somewhere. By the sounds of it, Arkham City will have a lot more replayability and the fact that it has a more open world design to it is simply excellent. I think this one will be a huge hit and will be a game you will replay many times.

 

i thought cristopher nolan and his batman movies were a work of genius- until i played arkham asylum.
now i watch them again and they just seem ok, especially batman begins with the scarecrow- that looked so friggin lame compared to the game.

 

Agreed. Christopher Nolan still hasn't been able to get that same feeling of unstoppable awesome that the game did. I've told people the only time I've seen Batman as I think he is in my mind of a powerful superhero so far has been Batman AA. A popular question is, what superhero would you be. I'm almost tempted to say, my answer would be Batman in AA

 

does batman AC only allow the cool physics effects on nvidia cards? i'm thinking about it, but probably will pass if i can't run it with the bells on whistles on a high end ati part.

 

How can you say the Dark Knight wasn't awesome?? BLASPHEMY.

 

Physx is only available for nvidia gpus. So yes, if AC is an nvidia title like the first one, you'll need an nvidia card which supports Physx hardware acceleration.
Like Alice Madness Returns as an example.

 

I really liked Batman AA, and with this being an open world game i think it is going to be rather good

 

This thread convinced me to get Batman AA Now to wait for the some Steam sale

 

Yeah i can strongly recommend playing through batman AA, its such a great game IMO

 

Forgot to mention. This one sold the new game already . Now just to wait for a few years till it's gonna be 5 Euros

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I don't really feel like paying full price if some of the features are locked for ATI users. I know there are some hacks to make it work on ATI cards, but that's probably not worth it.

In fact, even if it's on sale, I don't know that I'd be comfortable paying the same price as an Nvidia user knowing that the game is feature locked to Nvidia. It's kind of nuts that a game would use PhysX today when Havok is pretty much unilaterally better and supported on all systems.

 

It is kind of lame, but I wouldn't call them "features" so much as "Batman's cape isn't as swooshy without hardware PhysX." You still have PhysX, it's just software instead of run on the GPU.

 

Still can't get out of my head that Harley Quinn is actually a man. Perhaps a little Crying Game is in action.

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HTWingNut as long as she was voiced by the woman, it's good

 

The best rendition of Harley Quinn from any Batman story ever.

I was shocked to find the AA Joker to be even darker and more depraved than Heath Ledger's.

It's a seriously dark game, and apparently AC is going to be even darker....

 

Harley Quinn isn't a man. They had a male mocap actor for the animation. That doesn't really mean anything. They could have had a man build the animations manually instead of using a mocap actor. Would that have changed your opinion? Mocap is just one piece of the puzzle. Many men and women were likely responsible for the construction of Harley Quinn, who is a female character through and through.

 

I can't believe we don't have system requirements yet. They don't seem to be giving much thought to the PC crowd.

 

Well it's running on the same unreal engine as AA, just a newer revised version. I don't think it's going to be that demanding, it should run fine with small tweaks.

 

I thought she looked familiar - so similar to vampire masquerade bloodlines:



Good history on progression of Harley Quinn: http://blog.newsarama.com/2011/07/08/agent-of-s-t-y-l-e-the-high-end-fashion-of-harley-quinn/

 

^ LOL I wonder if they meant to copy off Harley Quinn from another game. :O

 

Oh I'm not concerned about it, especially not for my system. It's just the principle of the thing. Just weeks before release, that should be out there, so people looking forward to it know whether they can even run it.

 

Hardly. Harley Quinn has always been portrayed as a sassy school girl type. And the blonde girl with two pig tails is CLASSIC school girl imagery. That's like someone saying OMG there is a clown with white face paint. They must be copying from the Joker.

 

^^ Agreed..she's already in my fantasies! LOL

Mr. Mysterious

 

Really, did you see my other link going through the history of Harley Quinn? She's pretty much always had that jester like outfit. At least my memories of her in comics were like that too.



In any case I like their rendition of her in the AA game. Very nice, can't complain.

 

Any word on a Steam launch for this? Enjoyed the first one but haven't found this one on Steam yet.

 

She wasn't always like that. Pretty sure she became Joker's assistant when she was still a school girl. Anyway, I've always thought she had the attitude of a sassy school girl with too many ways and opportunities to hurt.

Still the image that Batman AC went with still stands. It's a classic image of a school girl with the two pony tails IMO. It's not copying off of Vampire Masquerade whichseems to me a catholic school girl outfit, how creative

 

She was the Joker's Psychologist while he was in Arkham Asylum, it's part of her back story in the animated series (Where she first appeared) and is also mentioned when you collect her trophy/figure in Batman: Arkham Asylum.

 

Her name is Harlequin, for goodness sake. Moving away from motley might be a good look for her, but it's definitely a step away from her roots.

 

No, it really is Harley Quinn, but it is meant to be a play on the word harlequin
Harley Quinn - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

As a point of interest DC has 4 characters named harlequin
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Harlequin_(comics)

 

Yeah just a few post up on the offical DC comic it says Harley Quinn

 

Sorry, that wasn't meant to be literal - I was referring to the fact that her name was based on the word harlequin and thus the harlequin/motley motif is the appropriate one for her. Still, many long-lived pop culture icons eventually lose their roots, so maybe this is just one step in that direction for Harley Quinn...

 

Isn't the PC version coming out in November?

 

It's never too early to start discussing what is going to be an amazing game like Batman: Arkham City

Mr. Mysterious

 

I finished Rage. I think I'll replay Batman AA while I wait for Arkham City

 

yes nov 8. . . . . . . .

 

Nov 15 for PC according to Steam and Amazon.

 

And as everyone probably knows, if you own arkham asylum, you get 20% off for the preorder of AC. Do not know how long the offer lasts.

 

I agree Was just asking if that was right.

Thanks guys looking forward to this game!

 

Its very tempting to go buy the console version since its already out, but we all know that eye candy would be extremely better on PC.

 

The eye candy is pretty good on the 360 as is.

Also, the game's awesome.

 

Damn i want this game, it looks so wickedly awesome :O I love the character designs in these batman games, they really nailed it!

 

It looks great on PS3, I originally got it for 360 but it kept crashing...probably due to my 360 being fairly old. I was going to wait for PC but I felt like I would be rushing the game because of Skyrim (which comes out 11-11-11).