henke on 24/6/2015 at 06:03
I don't know why you'd be sceptical of high review scores for this one. It's Rocksteady doing what they do best, after all. Do you remember Arkham Asylum and Arkham City? Do you remember how good they were? If I didn't have a pile of new games from the Steam sale I'd almost certainly pick this one up(PS4 version, of course).
WingedKagouti on 24/6/2015 at 08:31
Quote Posted by henke
I don't know why you'd be sceptical of high review scores for this one.
I'd be wary of high scores/reviews filled with praise for any game that a site has also run an ad campaign for.
Judith on 24/6/2015 at 08:40
Actually Polygon is a really mixed bunch. At some point they were aiming for some serious game journalism (their editorial or reporting pieces can still be great), but hiring guys like McElroy brothers, who are annoying hipsta-barista-dudebro types, wasn't a great choice. Just check Polygon's YT channel and you'll know what I mean.
henke on 24/6/2015 at 10:00
Hey I like those hipsta-barista-dudebro types! Especially Justin. Just check the Sawbones podcast and you'll know what I mean! Actually he's usually very entertaining on the Quality Control podcast as well.
Ben Kuchera I could do without, but I mostly enjoy the rest of the gang over there.
Judith on 24/6/2015 at 10:20
I find them really annoying and can't stand more than a few seconds of their gibberish. I switched to Eurogamer channel and I feel that's something for me.
Anywho, new Bats looks good, but I'm still tired of B:AC trying to be more like another Ubisoft, the Game, and I'm not yet convinced that this one follows some other pattern.
Thirith on 24/6/2015 at 11:19
Eurogamer seems to be utterly enamoured specifically with the PS4 version, so unless the PC version is massively improved by patches I think this may be one of those rare cases where I'll (eventually) get the console version over the PC one.
Tony_Tarantula on 24/6/2015 at 23:00
Quote Posted by henke
I don't know why you'd be sceptical of high review scores for this one. It's Rocksteady doing what they do best, after all. Do you remember Arkham Asylum and Arkham City? Do you remember how
good they were? If I didn't have a pile of new games from the Steam sale I'd almost certainly pick this one up(PS4 version, of course).
Because I know better by now. Remember, the reason a lot of people got burned on Dragon Age 2 was because they thought the exact same thing about Bioware. At that point they had yet to release a stinker. Similarly the PC versions of Batman games have worked great up until now.
IRT Polygon, I think all that needs to be said about them is that they're the people who are completely serious when they say it's "problematic" that all the people in a game set in a slavic culture, inspired by slavic history and lore, and with a slavic protagonist are slavic instead of black or asian.
froghawk on 25/6/2015 at 02:02
Looks like they thought better of it and removed it from Steam.
I remember Arkham City's PC version got released way later than the console versions, but it worked quite well once it came out. Maybe Rocksteady didn't want to listen to the whining about that again and just tossed it out before it was done? But then, the Mac and Linux versions are delayed until fall, so I don't see any good reason why they couldn't have delayed the PC version in the first place instead of putting out crap then revoking it...
froghawk on 25/6/2015 at 02:20
Valve pulled it from the front page before WB suspended it. Also, the fall 2015 message is just for SteamOS/Mac/Linux - it was also there while the game was still for sale.
To be fair, I remember when I bought Arkham Asylum and couldn't play it at all due to a crash to desktop occurring consistently in the first 3 minutes of the game. I can't remember when it became playable, but this was well after release and it had already been patched up a bit by then.... this whole franchise has a bad history on PC.
