Recent Video Game Purchases

Batman: Arkham City (PS3)

Gears Of War 3 and Afro Samurai were my last ones.

GoW3 and Crysis for the Xbox.

The Legend of Zelda: Skyward Sword.

Saints Row The Third and Doom 3 (PC)

Powerslave/Exhumed from GOG

since it goes through DOS, just use a source port for it.

Black Friday sale on PS4, decided to pick up Doom: Eternal. I had already beaten Doom 2016 and enjoyed it a lot.

Only about a half hour into this one and it already seems a lot different. The graphics are more cartoony compared to Doom 2016.

Originally posted by Impediment
Batman: Arkham City (PS3)

Is it better than Arkham Asylum? I finally got around to playing AA recently (PS3 as well) and enjoyed it immensely. Some of those trophies related to combat challenges are really difficult to acquire though and I've basically already given-up on them and moved on to other games.

Fighting games just aren't my strong suit. Yeah, I know there is a lot more than just fighting in AA but I was mainly referring to the combat challenges part of the game.

I watched some You Tube videos of people playing the challenges (was trying to get some tips or insight into ways to beat them) and I was amazed at how good some players are at them. I can't imagine the hours of practice they put into the game to get that good.

Lol...is Arkham City better.

City is the best Arkham game.

Originally posted by Kazenji
Lol...is Arkham City better.

I'll take that as a yes, Arkham City is much better, at least in your opinion.

That also tends to be the majority opinion I've heard on other websites and You Tube as well. Though I have heard the occasional "Arkham Asylum is my favorite Arkham game" before too.

Originally posted by eThneoLgrRnae
I'll take that as a yes, Arkham City is much better, at least in your opinion.

That also tends to be the majority opinion I've heard on other websites and You Tube as well. Though I have heard the occasional "Arkham Asylum is my favorite Arkham game" before too.

Yeah it is a much better game

also it received lots of awards too if that kinda thing sways you.

Yeah, I would also vote City as being the superior game. The gameplay, the visuals etc, were all upgraded from Asylum.

Asylum does have a tighter, more focused narrative though, so if you like that in a story, then you may enjoy Asylum more in that sense.

City is an open world-ish version of Asylum....
The first game is a pure Metroid style game.

Both are fantastic but it also depends on how much you like open world games.
However, I recently replayed Asylum, while still great...it's not as complex as the next 3 games. Fantastic starting point.

But Rocksteady nailed the open world Metroid style gameplay extremely well in City. They could of gone the route of just a typical open world game but it's unquie gameplay moments and open world scripted events that bring it to life. I remember going down in the sewers and seeing Wonder City. It was so cool an unexpected. And they nailed the Riddler trophies with the open world too. Sometimes a smaller map can do wonders for a type of game like this.

A lot of games are no longer available online. PAC-MAN Museum was pulled from Steam, meaning if I want to play Super PAC Man or PAC-MAN Arrangement I have to pull out the Xbox.

Ditto Space Invaders Infinity Gene. And I can't get Galaga Legions DX at all, never having bought it.