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[Lionel Mandrake]

Even if the spoiler was more or less wrong, I was annoyed that GAF made it abundantly clear what the spoiler was. They would tag the spoiler itself, but leave references like "That's not funny. That's not...." It was pretty clear what the spoiler was.

 

[RagnarokX]

I wish there was the option to repair the batmans suit after finishing the main story.

WOW this is some crazy shit:



http://uk.ign.com/wikis/batman-arkham-city/Easter_Eggs?objectid=55050

Scroll down.

Interesting.

 

[Mr. Sam]

Just open the sequencer and it should find a hidden terminal you can hack

I got into the boat, but supposedly I can scan the body there and see something scary. Unfortunately, it won't let me scan - or do anything but walk about - once I'm in the boat.

 

[Jintor]

Wow, Arkham is a lot closer to the city on that map than it's represented in AA.

 

[overcast]

I beat all of the Challenges tonight! I just need NG+ now, which I'm sure will be difficult.

Going to go look at the Scarecrow easter egg tonight.

 

[mclem]

Identify the shortest path to the trophy (it should contain something like 3, 4 mines tops), disable two of the mines, ignore the fact that there's one or two left and get the trophy =P That's what I did. Your health will replenish with other trophies and battles anyway.

You never need to deactivate more than two to get to the trophy without taking any damage.

 

[Doomrider]

You never need to deactivate more than two to get to the trophy without taking any damage.

That would make sense, yes. I suppose I didn't use the shortest paths after all! It's all good, though. There's only a few that are protected by mines, anyway, and I already found all the trophies. Thanks.

 

[mclem]

Wow this is fkn retarded. I'm doing the predator expert campaign challenges, and the last challenge of the 3 is top of the world. Well, in top of the world you have to explode a fire extinguisher with a batarang, and then silent takedown the henchmen. Well, there are four modifiers, and one of them disables silent takedowns, so I picked the other three. For some reason on the last map, it activated the final modifier and I couldn't do any silent takedowns, meaning I couldn't get the three ???. So stupid.

Campaign rules: You have to use every modifier across the maps. You can choose the order, but you have to use every single one.

The last map has to use every unused modifier.

 

[mclem]

One thing no-one's commented on: I may have missed something, but more likely it's *something* that's still to come.

When you head into the Arkham City offices in preparation for stopping Protocol 10, there's a scene in a large room where you fight off a *lot* of Tyger guards while Hugo Strange talks to you. Immediately after that scene you enter a manhole and end up back in collapsed Gotham.

Immediately right of the lift there's a door. It's blocked by a sheet of corrugated iron at this point, but you can clearly see it in Detective Mode.

If you come back to that chamber in the postgame, the corrugated iron has gone, and you can get to the door!

...which is locked.

I found a similar door over near the Iceberg Lounge - tricky to get to, but locked. It turned out to be the Riddler's hideout and unlocked once I'd rescued all his hostages.

So... what unlocks the door in the processing centre?

 

[Double D]

My goodness, that last Catwoman section was a chore and a half.

I was having a hell of a time with it until I just blasted out into the middle, quickly did a takedown on the nameless thug on the bridge with TwoFace, then just punched the shit out of him before all the other thugs showed up.

It was one of those moments of pure frustration after I had tried it like 6 times before and it just seemed to work.

 

[Doomrider]

One thing no-one's commented on: I may have missed something, but more likely it's *something* that's still to come.

When you head into the Arkham City offices in preparation for stopping Protocol 10, there's a scene in a large room where you fight off a *lot* of Tyger guards while Hugo Strange talks to you. Immediately after that scene you enter a manhole and end up back in collapsed Gotham.

Immediately right of the lift there's a door. It's blocked by a sheet of corrugated iron at this point, but you can clearly see it in Detective Mode.

If you come back to that chamber in the postgame, the corrugated iron has gone, and you can get to the door!

...which is locked.

I found a similar door over near the Iceberg Lounge - tricky to get to, but locked. It turned out to be the Riddler's hideout and unlocked once I'd rescued all his hostages.

So... what unlocks the door in the processing centre?

Yeah, you'll also notice 3 small iron bars at the bottom of the door, which is something unique to that door, if I'm not mistaken. Could this be where Strange's closet (the one with the secret panel) is?

Also, right after you enter the Processing Center, on your right there should be a screen. Can you recognize that room? I can't, and I really want to know what it's all about.

 

[mclem]

I was having a hell of a time with it until I just blasted out into the middle, quickly did a takedown on the nameless thug on the bridge with TwoFace, then just punched the shit out of him before all the other thugs showed up.

It was one of those moments of pure frustration after I had tried it like 6 times before and it just seemed to work.

I slowly realised that there were *always* five thugs around, no matter how many I took down (about fifteen on my 'best' go!). Once I realised that they were infinitely respawning, it was simple enough to take down Two-Face.

Didn't like that puzzle, though, because there's not a lot to tell you that slowly picking off the thugs isn't the right way to go. You have to think in a 'gamey' sense to work out what to do.

 

[LiK]

People had trouble with Two-Face? I just took down all thugs except for last guy next to Two-Face and then when I took him out I beat up Two-Face. I knew more guys were coming so I took him out just to get rid of him. Was surprised it ended the level automatically.

 

[Jintor]

I slowly realised that there were *always* five thugs around, no matter how many I took down (about fifteen on my 'best' go!). Once I realised that they were infinitely respawning, it was simple enough to take down Two-Face.

Didn't like that puzzle, though, because there's not a lot to tell you that slowly picking off the thugs isn't the right way to go. You have to think in a 'gamey' sense to work out what to do.

Orrrrrrrrrrrr you pick them off without alerting any of them.

 

[badcrumble]

All you really need to do to take Two-Face out is do two or three pounce attacks on him when he's not being guarded, using the gargoyles to escape so you don't get hurt too badly.

 

[Yen]

Just got trolled by the Catwoman alternate ending. Haha.

 

[JJBro One]

How are you supposed to see calendarman after the courthouse has been barricaded from the explosion?

 

[GekigangerV]

How are you supposed to see calendarman after the courthouse has been barricaded from the explosion?

There is a back door.

(Protip: It's in the back)

 

[BruiserBear]

People had trouble with Two-Face? I just took down all thugs except for last guy next to Two-Face and then when I took him out I beat up Two-Face. I knew more guys were coming so I took him out just to get rid of him. Was surprised it ended the level automatically.

Yeah, that took me like 30 seconds on the normal difficulty setting.

 

[Mr. Sam]

I likely made it difficult for myself, but I found Catwoman a whole lot more difficult to control than Batman. If I could climb up on a gargoyle or not seemed entirely arbitrary.

 

[LiK]

I likely made it difficult for myself, but I found Catwoman a whole lot more difficult to control than Batman. If I could climb up on a gargoyle or not seemed entirely arbitrary.

Catwoman made everything easier when it came to stealth in that level, imo. Walking around on the ceilings for silent takedowns in the lower floor was much easier than Batman.

 

[Mr. Sam]

Well, I ended up pouncing on Two Face, running, pouncing on Two Face, running, etc. etc. so I wouldn't know. I was just desperately trying to climb the damn walls and not get hit by that dumbass grenade launcher.

 

[TangoAlphaLima]

Didn't like that puzzle, though, because there's not a lot to tell you that slowly picking off the thugs isn't the right way to go. You have to think in a 'gamey' sense to work out what to do.

After the first time you fail it and die, there's a tip on the Game Over screen telling you that Two Face's guards respawn.

It took me probably 3 tries (mostly because I hadn't fully upgraded Catwoman's ballistic armor, ugh), but I ended up just using pounce on Two Face when he was alone, then getting away ASAP. Probably not the quickest way to beat him, but it worked.

 

[MetatronM]

I slowly realised that there were *always* five thugs around, no matter how many I took down (about fifteen on my 'best' go!). Once I realised that they were infinitely respawning, it was simple enough to take down Two-Face.

Didn't like that puzzle, though, because there's not a lot to tell you that slowly picking off the thugs isn't the right way to go. You have to think in a 'gamey' sense to work out what to do.

Didn't the game say outright "Two-Face will continuously call for reinforcements?"

[The answer is "yes, it did," hence why I'm asking the question.]

 

[SuicidalSteve]

UK GAF Arkham City on PC for £14.95....Holy Savings Batman

 

[JJBro One]

I don't understand the calendarman stuff. Is he just telling stories or are there actual missions you have to do?

 

[LiK]

I don't understand the calendarman stuff. Is he just telling stories or are there actual missions you have to do?

Stories

 

[bubnbob]

I don't understand the calendarman stuff. Is he just telling stories or are there actual missions you have to do?

He just tells a story on how he kills people. The end.

 

[Mr. Sam]

I don't understand the calendarman stuff. Is he just telling stories or are there actual missions you have to do?

Just stories. But you get an achievement if you listen to them all. Eh? Eh?

 

[IzzyF3]

That reminds me it's Halloween. I better turn the game on to listen to his story. I'll probably cheat the calendar when I decide to go for the platinum, but I'll go along with the game's intended delivery of Calendarman's stories for now.

 

[LAUGHTREY]

Interesting.

Eh, that is reaching. Especially considering that Arkham City is on an island on the northern part of Gotham, so it'd be the top island on that map. But I highly doubt they are going off of that map.

 

[exarkun]

I have a friend who took delight in spoiling almost everything in this game. He knew that I had only played about two hours of it, but proceeded to tell me about the ending, freeze, harley quinn, etc.

dunno if I should be mad or not. Though he did invite me over and was like, "have you seen this part?" when I had clearly not and still have not gotten there. It was when Bats was poisoned and going through some trials? Dunno what that is about yet.

 

[LAUGHTREY]

I have a friend who took delight in spoiling almost everything in this game. He knew that I had only played about two hours of it, but proceeded to tell me about the ending, freeze, harley quinn, etc.

dunno if I should be mad or not. Though he did invite me over and was like, "have you seen this part?" when I had clearly not and still have not gotten there. It was when Bats was poisoned and going through some trials? Dunno what that is about yet.

cool story bro.


I just looked through that IGN article, there's a lot of people that are flipping at the "hints of a next game". Well, duh there's going to be a next game, this game sells like crazy. These hints for the next game don't mean dick though. Arkham Asylum had a bunch of hints towards the next game and it was only one that actually had anything to do with AC and no one even found it. The titan getting off the island turned out to be nothing, the random villain grabbing onto the titan at the end of the first game meant nothing except at most, a cool easter egg in this game. Right at the end of the game Batman goes off to foil two-face robbing a bank, so people are looking waaay too far into these things, 95% of them won't mean diddly squat in the next game.

The Azrael storyline and the Hush storyline are cool, but him saying he's going to take care of it tomorrow doesn't mean anything. Of course he is, he's friggen Batman. Batman doesn't just go on one adventure and then call it a day, he's constantly out there doing shit. Doesn't mean they're hinting at a sequel.

The whole Hush thing was kinda funny too. In the comics he always knew Bruce was Batman, and in this he doesn't seem to have a clue. You'd think someone who studied Bruce Waynes face would recognize the bit Batman has showing.

 

[Mr. Sam]

The whole Hush thing was kinda funny too. In the comics he always knew Bruce was Batman, and in this he doesn't seem to have a clue. You'd think someone who studied Bruce Waynes face would recognize the bit Batman has showing.

Not if you're wearing the Batman Beyond skin!

 

[neojubei]

How do i unlock the DLC skin in the main game? Don't understand why this is such a difficult question that not even google can answer.

 

[Korosenai]

Just bought the Batman: Year One graphic novel earlier today. My god that was awesome. I recommend it to everyone here.

 

[steadfast]

How do i unlock the DLC skin in the main game? Don't understand why this is such a difficult question that not even google can answer.

You have to complete the game once with the regular skin first. You can use your DLC skins afterwards.

 

[LAUGHTREY]

Not if you're wearing the Batman Beyond skin!

Good point.

 

[overcast]

Just bought the Batman: Year One graphic novel earlier today. My god that was awesome. I recommend it to everyone here.

I need to read this badly.

 

[Square Triangle]

Just bought the Batman: Year One graphic novel earlier today. My god that was awesome. I recommend it to everyone here.

Yep its great. Heck out the recently released film too. Bruce's voice acting sucks but everythig else is great about it. DC comics films are terrific.

 

[BeautifulMemory]

Yep its great. Heck out the recently released film too. Bruce's voice acting sucks but everythig else is great about it. DC comics films are terrific.

definitely check out the animated film...I kinda wish they would improve on the voice and the look, a bit pacing, but overall it was an excellent homage to the book

 

[overcast]

Yep its great. Heck out the recently released film too. Bruce's voice acting sucks but everythig else is great about it. DC comics films are terrific.

Is it? I'll check it out. How is Under the Red Hood and Gotham Knight?

 

[The Xtortionist]

I beat all of the Challenges tonight! I just need NG+ now, which I'm sure will be difficult.

I died far less on NG+. Tough fights like the museum brawl and Joker/titan/hammer room didn't kill me at all like they did on Normal lol

 

[Korosenai]

Yep its great. Heck out the recently released film too. Bruce's voice acting sucks but everythig else is great about it. DC comics films are terrific.

Watching the movie is what made me want to purchase the graphic novel. The graphic novel was 10x better.

 

[overcast]

I died far less on NG+. Tough fights like the museum brawl and Joker/titan/hammer room didn't kill me at all like they did on Normal lol

That's surprising. You probably just got better over time.

 

[BeautifulMemory]

Watching the movie is what made me want to purchase the graphic novel. The graphic novel was 10x better.

I really think that the movie did itself a disservice by following the comic almost line by line

 

[Lord_Byron28]

cool story bro.


I just looked through that IGN article, there's a lot of people that are flipping at the "hints of a next game". Well, duh there's going to be a next game, this game sells like crazy. These hints for the next game don't mean dick though. Arkham Asylum had a bunch of hints towards the next game and it was only one that actually had anything to do with AC and no one even found it. The titan getting off the island turned out to be nothing, the random villain grabbing onto the titan at the end of the first game meant nothing except at most, a cool easter egg in this game. Right at the end of the game Batman goes off to foil two-face robbing a bank, so people are looking waaay too far into these things, 95% of them won't mean diddly squat in the next game.

The Azrael storyline and the Hush storyline are cool, but him saying he's going to take care of it tomorrow doesn't mean anything. Of course he is, he's friggen Batman. Batman doesn't just go on one adventure and then call it a day, he's constantly out there doing shit. Doesn't mean they're hinting at a sequel.

The whole Hush thing was kinda funny too. In the comics he always knew Bruce was Batman, and in this he doesn't seem to have a clue. You'd think someone who studied Bruce Waynes face would recognize the bit Batman has showing.

While I agree. I think it's rocksteady's way of teasing a sequel. Or roads they are considering. It doesn't mean all of this stuff occurs but I think some hints are more genuine than others. Also Titan getting off the island was addressed in AC with you doing a sidequest destroying the remaining supplies of it that Penguin and Joker were holding onto. I've done a bunch of Riddler challenges but I've yet to complete the hush sidequest so I don't know how it finishes. However, I'd say Azrael's conclusion is incredibly obvious hint towards the next game. I agree with what you're saying that some of the stuff is typical Batman fare but Azrael's prophecy sounded pretty significant and doomsday-ish. I think Harley's pregnancy test could go 50-50 whether they want to follow that storyline or not.

 

[The Xtortionist]

That's surprising. You probably just got better over time.

The game definitely rewards player skill. If you got all the Riddler medals, NG+ should be a breeze : )

 

[overcast]

The game definitely rewards player skill. If you got all the Riddler medals, NG+ should be a breeze : )

Alright, I figured as much. Your avatar is distracting lol

 

[JJBro One]

K I'm kinda confused. The whole time we saw joker except right after batman wakes up from Harley's blow to the head where joker said there's plenty wrong with me, was it clayface? Was clayface the one that gassed batman? Who was the deceased joker? Toward the end boss they flash back to that scene and you see the dead joker getting up, what was that about? Was that joker putting the make up on or was that clayface? If that was clayface then why was he looking like sick joker in the first place? I'm mindfucked right now...