No spoilers: Arkham City
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trinityvixenI am roughly three hours of game play into Batman: Arkham City (which you shouldn't read as me actually getting far, since I'm reeeeally bad at video games), and I have some thoughts.
-I wish I could play as Bruce Wayne. But Bruce Wayne doing Batman-esque things. You get to start the game as Bruce. (This is not a spoiler as it is literally the first thing you see in the game.) Not only does that mean I get to spend time with Kevin Conroy's nuanced and underpraised performance of Bruce Wayne versus his equally good but widely celebrated (and thus not in need of further fluffing) Batman, but you also get to see Bruce Wayne be awesome. Something happened at the end of the first part as Bruce Wayne that I will not spoil, but I did it and cried out, unironically, "LIKE A BOSS." It was so awesome that![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
moonlightalice and I both roared with laughter and approval. Bruce Wayne kicks wholesale ass, and it would be really fucking funny--and fun!--to play the whole game as him.
-The sexism thing? Really sucks. Every two-bit hood in the game that I've run into so far has been talking about a) how hot Harley Quinn is and b) how she's hot enough to want to fuck despite being crazy as a shithouse rat. It's really gross. And Catwoman...sigh. Folks, can we not agree that Catwoman is sexy? We agree on that, right? She's a smart and sexy woman who saunters around purring in a skin-tight catsuit. We get that she is sexy. Does she have to have said catsuit open to her solar plexus? Does she have to walk like she's got some degenerative hip disease that forces her gait one meter sideways with each step so that we can see she has a badonk-a-donk ass? Do we? Really?
-I have no idea what's going on. I don't get the Arkham City thing, period. I heard the game was going to be called Arkham City and I got confused because isn't it just Gotham City? They explain it--sort of--but not really and GAAAH I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT IS GOING ON OR WHY.
-I wish I could play as Bruce Wayne. But Bruce Wayne doing Batman-esque things. You get to start the game as Bruce. (This is not a spoiler as it is literally the first thing you see in the game.) Not only does that mean I get to spend time with Kevin Conroy's nuanced and underpraised performance of Bruce Wayne versus his equally good but widely celebrated (and thus not in need of further fluffing) Batman, but you also get to see Bruce Wayne be awesome. Something happened at the end of the first part as Bruce Wayne that I will not spoil, but I did it and cried out, unironically, "LIKE A BOSS." It was so awesome that
moonlightalice and I both roared with laughter and approval. Bruce Wayne kicks wholesale ass, and it would be really fucking funny--and fun!--to play the whole game as him.-The sexism thing? Really sucks. Every two-bit hood in the game that I've run into so far has been talking about a) how hot Harley Quinn is and b) how she's hot enough to want to fuck despite being crazy as a shithouse rat. It's really gross. And Catwoman...sigh. Folks, can we not agree that Catwoman is sexy? We agree on that, right? She's a smart and sexy woman who saunters around purring in a skin-tight catsuit. We get that she is sexy. Does she have to have said catsuit open to her solar plexus? Does she have to walk like she's got some degenerative hip disease that forces her gait one meter sideways with each step so that we can see she has a badonk-a-donk ass? Do we? Really?
-I have no idea what's going on. I don't get the Arkham City thing, period. I heard the game was going to be called Arkham City and I got confused because isn't it just Gotham City? They explain it--sort of--but not really and GAAAH I HAVE NO IDEA WHAT IS GOING ON OR WHY.
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Date: 2011-10-25 04:14 am (UTC)Your thoughts are my thoughts. I LOVED getting to start the game as Kevin Conroy Bruce. Oh, man. It should have lasted longer. And I love how Gotham looks. So many little call-outs to BTAS (like the blimps!) that make me happy – and the snow.
But yeah, I could do without the neanderthal comments from the thugs; they grate. As for the female character designs... they're at least less exaggerated than the comic art they're based on. Heh. Did you play Arkham Asylum?
I haven't played much more than an hour of the game, since I agreed to let Luke plow through first. I plan on sitting down and taking my time with it after I beat Uncharted 3 next week (as that one will take me a maximum of three days).
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Date: 2011-10-25 02:24 pm (UTC)I don't understand why we have to be all "Bitch, bitch, bitch" about things. People are trying to say, from comments I've seen, that that's just what you call women to be mean. If we were being mean about men, you'd call them douchebags, and no one's getting upset about that, blah blah blah. Except that the "bitch"es flying around are about how these assholes would like to hit those bitches and rape them (not an exaggeration! actual lines of dialogue: "I can't believe Catwoman can stay here. Some of these guys haven't seen a woman in a long time."). It's super, super gross.
I also don't think the costumes fix issues I have with the comics costumes. I mean, Catwoman's costume is exactly the same, from what I can see, but for some reason she's got to have her shirt mostly undone. Totally unnecessary. Harley's redesign is less offensive as it is stupid (her perverted doctor's uniform was both better for the character and more interesting). Ivy's is whatever--it reveals as much skin as any of her outfits ever have.
I did play Arkham Asylum, and I loved it, aside from the fighting aspect, at which I am still lamentably bad.