toxicitizen

TC had the right idea. You guys are the worst! I'M LEAVING THE FORUM TOO!

Cooler than Batman? Are you even listening to yourself?! You're not making any sense, man.

Yeah, my friend keeps telling me about it every chance he gets. I'll check it out eventually.

Green Arrow is stupid and only losers like him. You probably like Aquaman too!

Can I at least attack Cowboy, then? What he just said about Batman, that's not okay. I'm pretty sure there are laws in place to prevent this kind of heresy.

Lol. Oh man, I wish I hadn't missed that. Was that guy for real? But uh, yes. Batman, indeed.

He made a thread about leaving? What did it say? I'm assuming it got completely deleted because I can't find it.

I don't know if Goh was joking but it's not like getting him to leave was my goal or anything. It's just hard to get along with someone this obnoxious. I've never seen anyone so delusional about their opinion being right, I'm seriously still considering the possibility that he was trolling. I kinda hope he was...

I won't be grabbing it at launch but it's been on my radar for a few weeks. Looks pretty cool. There's a free browser version if you guys want a sneak peak. http://www.deconstructeam.com/games/gods-will-be-watching/ Haven't taken the time to try it, though. I've no idea how different the new one is supposed to be but I assume it expands on the concept significantly.

Holy shit, what's this? Actual evidence?! But... but you're clearly right! I was heading to bed soon but now I won't be able to sleep until I see your reasoning for why those are all wrong!

How's that crow tasting?

Hahahaha jesus fucking christ, man. No, you are wrong. I've played the game to completion numerous times, both on PS3 and PC, and on the hardest difficulty. Counters do not fucking break combos. Ask anyone. If it does, then that means the combo window has elapsed. A punch would also break it at that point. This is bordering on self-parody, jesus. I seriously hope you've been trolling us all this time. I sincerely do. Because the alternative is just too fucking sad. Oh and look at that, thread merge.

It is and we don't. If you had bothered to look, you'd know it's not specifically about Asylum but about the series as a whole. There's a new game on the way, the thread isn't anywhere near its "natural conclusion". We don't start a new thread whenever someone has a new thought on the series. I'm not sure I follow you there. It's not been discussed by someone else, it's been discussed by everyone else. What makes your opinion deserving of its own thread? Everyone else's goes in the general Arkham thread, so should yours. I wasn't trying to be dick by pointing that out, you know.

Actually, reading your review more attentively, you got one major thing wrong. The bolded is simply false. Countering doesn't break combos, it's basically the core of the combat system. I didn't mention it in my post because I thought it went without saying but the freeflow combat system is probably the biggest reason why the game was popular. It's just fucking tight. The way you seamlessly chain up hits, counters and takedowns, nothing makes you feel like Batman more than demolishing a dozen guys without taking a single hit or breaking combo. If you button-mashed your way through the game, you were doing it wrong.

There's already an Arkham thread http://forum.pressxordie.com/topic/990-batman-arkham-blank/ Might want to search first before starting threads about older games. Chances are it's already been discussed. But to answer your question, I think the game's popularity was a combination of a few factors: 1) Batman is awesome 2) it was the first good Batman game in quite a while 3) the 3D metroidvania structure was semi-novel at the time About 3, keep in mind it's a five years old game by now. It's old enough for other games to have imitated it and improved on the concept. Tomb Raider being a prime example. So while Asylum might not seem very refined by comparison, it laid the foundation pretty well for a new IP. City is definitely the better game, though.

Corpse Party. Oh man, that was actually pretty damn good! The story is really what makes the game. The first couple chapters are kinda slow and are mostly used to set up the mood, premise and characters but once things really got going I was completely hooked. It's not scary at all, which was disappointing since I'd heard otherwise, but it does have its moments. A few of them kinda creepy and even downright disturbing. It was kind of awesome. The gameplay is a bit meh, though. Imagine a point-and-click adventure but played like a 16-bit JRPG. If you've played To The Moon then you have a pretty good idea of what I'm talking about. It works, not much else to say about it. One thing worth mentioning is that every chapter has one true ending and a bunch of bad ones. This being a Japanese game, I got a bit worried early on that getting those true endings would involve some obscure or convoluted bullshit that would make progression a pain in the ass without a walkthrough. Fortunately, that wasn't the case. I ended up "accidentally" getting the true endings on the first 3 chapters. Most of the bad ones were linked to very clear failure scenarios, i.e. there is a bad thing in here that wants to kill you: do not let it kill you. I did save myself into an unwinnable situation in chapter 3 or 4 but it was at the very beginning of the chapter so I only lost about 30 mins of playtime. Replaying it while skipping all the text was a very minor annoyance. The only really bad one was the final chapter. I literally just spent all night on it because 2-3 hours in I realized I was locked into a bad ending path. I'd made a separate save an hour earlier because I had a hunch I'd made a bad call but that just lead to me wasting another hour. Turns out I'd made a mistake even earlier and had locked myself out of getting a necessary item. That one kinda sucked. But yeah, really enjoyed this one. Story is great. Maybe use a spoiler-free guide for chapter 5.

I was waiting for the PC version but last night I finally said fuck it and decided to just get it off PSN instead. Then today XSEED announced it's coming out on Steam next week. I hadn't bought it yet and considered waiting but my desire to play it on Vita won out over my preference to own things on Steam. I'll probably just double dip the PC version when it goes on sale, like I did with the Ys games.

The Wolf Among Us. Finally got around to playing episodes 4 and 5. They were good but the 2-3 months wait really killed the story's momentum for me. Don't think I'll be jumping into a Telltale game before it's over again. So, I guess that means I'll be waiting a bit longer before starting Walking Dead S2. Overall, I liked Wolf a lot more than Walking Dead. That's not to say that it was necessarily better in any particular way, though. I just liked everything about it a lot more. The world, story and characters were more interesting to me and I just loved the more colorful visual style. Wouldn't mind getting a season 2.

I keep hearing that but I got it without even trying and it wasn't over multiple playthroughs either. I guess I just got really lucky somehow?

They're summaries really. Every so often he may mutter a single word. That is it. Nah, it's pretty much the same thing. Occasionally, someone will ask you something and you'll get to choose between two replies but they're never voiced. To be honest, I barely even noticed he had a VA. I'm not sure he ever makes a single sound outside of battle grunts and shouts. Maybe the occasional one word line like "Right!" or whatever during cutscenes but I really couldn't say for sure. Yeah, from what I heard Celceta is most similar to Seven. And it's six party members in total. I've only played I, II, Oath and now Celceta and I'd rank them in the reverse order I played them (so Celceta > Oath > II > I). I just grabbed Origin on Steam so I'll be adding it to the list soon enough. Here's hoping XSEED releases Ark at some point because I hear the PSP version is abysmal and I don't really feel like hunting down the PS2 version. Also, forgot to mention but I hear Celceta is getting a PC version in China and I really hope it gets localized. The Vita version suffers from some framerate issues and a resolution bump couldn't hurt either.

Ys: Memories of Celceta. I was recently reading a thread about the series on NeoGAF and people started ranking the Ys games in order of preference. I was kinda shocked by how low Celceta was ranked. Most people ranked it at the very bottom, just above Ys I & II, while Oath in Felghana was closer to the top. I haven't played them all yet but so far Celceta is my favorite by far. The story still isn't all that great but I thought it was more interesting and better developed. The overall presentation was also a lot better, especially the character models. I really preferred the more realistically proportioned ones here compared to the chibi style of Felghana. There's also party members that you can control and just significantly more content overall. It took me about 30 hours but I spent a few hours on side stuff and trophies so it's probably closer to 20-25, which is still twice as long as the previous games. It was a bit on the easy side but I just had more fun with one. I'll definitely be giving it a replay down the line and probably go for the platinum.

Holy shit, man. That's some pretty hardcore delusion you've got going on right there. After the last few threads, I honestly couldn't be bothered to read or get into this one. But after skimming the last couple pages, and based on past experience "debating" with you, I expect it went a little bit like this: your "rebuttals" were little more than opinions backed by absolutely nothing and you ignored or dismissed actual evidence and proper arguments when they refuted your own claims. That's simply not how a debate works. You expect us to just accept your word as gospel because... ?

Cowboy, show some respect! The man has a genius-level IQ and has studied at not one, not two but three universities! (I mean, it's not four but, you know...) He is clearly our intellectual superior and we should consider ourselves lucky that he even deems us worth of receiving his wisdom. Now apologize to Elder TC!

Unlike you, I try not to talk out of my ass. That's just the initial kickstarter, do your research right. They're still taking donations. Notice how it says accomplished next to the 48 millions stretch goal? And they're already 34% of the way towards 49. If fans are willing to throw AAA-levels of money to fund a project then yeah, I'd say that qualifies as massive interest. What's your definition?