Speaking only for myself, my dream Arkham co-op game doesn’t have health bars to chip away at on regular grunt enemies, crafting, being able to skip Predator play entirely to fight your way through encounters with gun toting enemies, or skill trees (which, to be fair, is just a guess based on the dev talking about…

I mean, there’s loot/crafting, health bars on mooks, a Mr. Freeze boss fight that’s all about whittling down a health bar instead of making clever use of the environment, and while it’s certainly POSSIBLE that stealth ala Arkham is possible, it sure didn’t look like it. Don’t get me wrong, the Arkham games had…

Joker wasn’t really the main villain, though. I could be misremembering, but don’t you capture Joker like halfway through Origins, and then Bane is the main focus for the rest of the game?

Listen, I always love a good joke that goes way, way, WAY too long for the sake of a terrible pun. I once nearly got kicked from my WoW guild during a raid for telling a 45 minute joke that ended with a lame pun.

No, Fish seems to be an enormous tool. I’m just saying that he stuck to his convictions, even if they were stupid and petty.

The TR reboots as a whole have great squeezing through tight passages segments, if only because the series also likes to use them as setpieces while Lara’s trying to escape yet another collapsing ruin or cave. And sometimes they’re underwater, which genuinely gets me anxious.

Phil Fish and... that’s about it, at least in video games.

Iron Man looks like Fat Will Riker from, like, Star Trek: Insurrection or something, Cap looks like a middle-aged cosplayer at an NRA convention, Thor looks bland, Hulk looks okay, I guess. Scarlet Widow... there’s something profoundly wrong about her hair. Like, it looks like a shade of red dye that was banned in the…

Yeah. Even the mine defusal tank battles weren’t bad; it’s mostly the stealth tank battles against Arkham Knight and Deathstroke(?) that sucked. Tearing around Gotham in the Batmobile, on the other hand, was an absolute blast.

I know the general consensus on Arkham Knight was pretty cool, but I’ve loved every Arkham game thus far, so I’m psyched for this. I willa dmit, the Suicide Squad was far from my first choice for Rocksteady to tackle - they nailed Batman so well in the Arkham series that I would have loved to see them try their hand…

If it’s in the Arkhamverse (and why wouldn’t it be), Deathstroke was inducted into the Squad at the end of Arkham: Blackgate - which was a legitimately fun Metroidvania, albeit one let down by its more grounded setting.

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Between the weird capitalization and the artificial moon, I was leaning more towards a JRPG city, but that works too.

You could probably get to the end of the game in 8-10 hours if you mostly stick to the main path - though that can be easier said than done, wince you’ll probably wind up going to a lot of side areas naturally in the course of finding your way to where you need to go. I’d still recommend it, though. It’s delightful and…

That’s true, and I wish it’s something more games were willing to do - and something I, personally, was more willing to admit about myself. I got what is, I think, the ‘true’ ending of Hollow Knight, and that’s enough for me. Nightmare Grimm, boss rushes, etc will always be there if I want to come back to it at some…

Generally speaking, if you just get the really good spots on each planet, you should be fine. Eezo, yeah, you always want to get every once of that you can find.

As a MEGA NERD, I’m painting custom cake toppers for my wedding in a couple months, so probably no video gaming for me. If I do, it’ll be to either finish up FInal Fantasy 8, which I think I’m pretty close to the end of, or more Witcher 3 - I’m just finishing a few loose ends in Novigrad before heading to Skellige. I…

Honestly, I think the lack of ‘Press __ to continue’ on loading screens is worse with long load times - I’ve finally gotten around to Witcher 3, and its load times on my Xbone are long enough that I sometimes get up for a minute during them. The other night, I went into the kitchen during a load after dying and had to…

On second thought, I don’t want to escalate an argument, and my original response was unnecessarily confrontational.

Right? It’s genuinely hard for modern people to grasp just how different pre-Enlightenment mindsets were, particularly when it comes to the relationships between rulers and people. And that’s true on both sides of the relationship.