Due to silly behaviour at stag dos and London Comic Con recently, I'm pretty skint at the moment and can't afford to do too much, and I'm also riddled with some kind of summer snot AIDS. So this weekend I spent nearly 17 hours playing videogames that I've already played. Nope, not talking about New Super Luigi -- can't afford that, and I'm probably not going to buy it (unless I hear it's awesome)...
I've played Arkham City's story to completion on 360 and OnLive already, and I already thought that the Arkham games were among my very favourites of the PS360 generation. In fact, aside from some of Nintendo's GBA SNES ports, this game qualifies as the only time I've
ever double or triple dipped on a game. Over Saturday and Sunday I spent 15 hours and 16 minutes playing the Wii U version. Story mode done, harley's revenge done, just the Riddler Challenge medals and a few balloons to pop and I'm still only 71% done. What other games have that kind of value? It's fuckin insane. I can't wait for Arkham Origins and Blackgate!
it's an underrated port too. Unlocked frame rate is a bit bizarre and was the cause of review complaints that might have put people off... it dips a little in the biggest fights, but not always and not horribly or detrimentally so. It actually exceeds 60fps in some indoor circumstances, looking like you're playing in fast forward - Benny hill style. Its like running ZSNES with FPS-lock turned off. Having played some other third party games I have a good bit of respect for how WB Montreal handled it and got it out for launch actually -- all the gamepad stuff is nice. If you see this cheap and feel like revisiting, do it.
Also picked up Mighty Switch Force 2 (3DS) and some of the Mega Man games recently, Mega Man 2 was kicking my ass, but I think I've found a correct-ish sort of order... come this Friday (pay day) I can finally dive into the Last of Us!
