Batman: Arkham City

Ok, all this news looks freaking awesome and I love how the screenshots look (Catwoman...). It's funny that a taunt button wouldn't be such big news in any other game but here it sounds absolutely awesome.

However, I'm not quite sure what to think of the whole 'hoards of mooks' thing. I hated fighting out in the open, my impression of batman has always been this guy in the shadows that no one says yet somehow takes everyone out so in arkham asylum I absolutely loved the predator -stealth sections (the level with the explosives on the gargoyles was my absolute favourite section of the game funnily enough) and so I found fighting a billion mooks in a room was really annoying. In this game if we are fighting hoards of mooks in a room, I hope there are some other options other than run into the open and beat the crap out of everyone.

I like Two-Face's appearance. Especially the no-hair-on-the-burned-side thing like in The Dark Knight. But his suit is weird to me. The half of the suit on the scarred side is burned and is falling apart due to the burning/chemicals. You'd think Harvey would have changed his clothes since the accident...

^Given how psychotic Two-Face, I can imagine him dunking half of every new suit he gets in acid or fire, just for the sake of it.

Hah, Two-Face looks amazing! There's some definite inspiration from The Dark Knight, he looks so gross!

Also, Harley......oh my god, I......wow.............

^^ Yeah, he scars all his suits, or sometimes has them tailor made so they're half one suit half another. In the comics his original suit was barely damaged.

Why does Harley Quinn, who is supposed to be a jester, look like a zombie prostitute?

Because she IS a zombie prostitute?

Because she's unbelievably sexy?

^1000x This. Nurse Harley didn't really do much for me, but leather Harley?...

Idler: Because sex appeal trumps character, apparently.

Why does Harley Quinn, who is supposed to be a jester, look like a zombie prostitute?

Because Joker was was alone and he needed a date. He was taking a walk past the cemetery gate, when he saw a sign that said "for a good time, take a left down at tombstone number eight."

edited 4th Sep '10 7:01:32 PM by LizardBite

If they wanted to sex up Harley (which is probably unnecessary anyway), why didn't they just give her a more revealing jester outfit, rather than making her look like some kind of pasty dominatrix?

That's not Harley. That's Therese from VTM: Bloodlines.

You're about a year late.

Also: I thought that was a sexed-up jester outfit? At least as much as the previous one was a nurse outfit.

What I want to know is why they don't just give her the regular outfit.

I think that is meant to be the regular outfit in the Arkham Asylum universe.

I remember her mentioning her "New look" in one of the opening levels of Arkham Asylum. Plus her character bio had her in the old outfit.

Well, I had to put this somewhere... someone posted this amazing comic on the Arkham Asylum forum a few months ago, and I figured you guys might appreciate it as well.

Is it just me, or does Catwoman look a lot like her Hush incarnation?

^^ Wow, that was actually really sweet!

^^^ DC should hire that man.

Quite a nice artstyle, I'd say.

...I just found out that this is Mark Hamill's last time ever as The Joker.

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edited 10th Sep '10 5:41:38 AM by GabrielGloom

Harley decided to try a new look, probably after playing Silent Hill all day.

The 'new look' at the start of Arkham Asylum was different, in that it was, well, a nurse outfit, meant to go with the asylum environment. The Arkham Asylum look has pants. It's quite clearly meant to be a skimpy jester outfit.

...I just found out that this is Mark Hamill's last time ever as The Joker.

When I first heard that I had 2 questions:

• 1. What's the opposite of And The Fandom Rejoiced?
• 2. Is crying an acceptable response to that news?

edited 10th Sep '10 3:58:40 PM by Malph