Batman Arkham City - Thread

Pretty gutted this wont be out before BF3... chances are I will not play this for a while.

But its going to be great, picked up a steam code off a pal for £18 so cant complain :)
 
CaptainRAVE said:
This is getting released on the 11th? Well that is a fail, Skyrim for me everytime :)

Will wait til this is £15 or less - already been going for £18 on here :D
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If you're patient you can get one of the bay for around that price, some of the vouchers go for more than boxed copies simply because they are on Steam. I paid £18 for mine, which is still going to be cheaper than the £29.99 it will no doubt be when it finally appears on Steam.

It's strange to have a game activated and waiting to unlock and download on Steam even though the game doesn't even have a store page.
 
Can't see why this isn't getting a simultaneous release with the console versions, it would have slotted in nicely between the release of 'Rage' and the next high profile releases BF3, Skyrim, MW3 etc. Surely lumping its release in with the big 3 will badly affect sales, would have been a nice stop gap for us too, as there's not much out until the aforementioned.:(
 
smit101 said:
Can't see why this isn't getting a simultaneous release with the console versions, it would have slotted in nicely between the release of 'Rage' and the next high profile releases BF3, Skyrim, MW3 etc. Surely lumping its release in with the big 3 will badly affect sales, would have been a nice stop gap for us too, as there's not much out until the aforementioned.:(
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Not really, Batman sales will hold its own against all the others just as much as they will. Not everyone likes online shooters at all, big chunk of people will pass on bf3 and mw3 and go straight for Batman and Skyrim. Some of us have them all on pre-order, like me :) This is a "Big" release as well
 
voorhees1979 said:
Not really, Batman sales will hold its own against all the others just as much as they will. Not everyone likes online shooters at all, big chunk of people will pass on bf3 and mw3 and go straight for Batman and Skyrim. Some of us have them all on pre-order, like me :) This is a "Big" release as well
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Well said, everyone's making out that BF3 will be the game that EVERYONE will play, non stop. I'm getting it but as soon as MW3 is out BF3 is going to collect dust.. Then when my I get my pc at christmas it's batman skyrim rage dead island etc, bf3 isn't everyones favourite game :P
 
barmyllama said:
If you're patient you can get one of the bay for around that price, some of the vouchers go for more than boxed copies simply because they are on Steam. I paid £18 for mine, which is still going to be cheaper than the £29.99 it will no doubt be when it finally appears on Steam.

It's strange to have a game activated and waiting to unlock and download on Steam even though the game doesn't even have a store page.
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^^ Good point, didnt notice how many were popping up on the bay!
 
smit101 said:
Can't see why this isn't getting a simultaneous release with the console versions, it would have slotted in nicely between the release of 'Rage' and the next high profile releases BF3, Skyrim, MW3 etc. Surely lumping its release in with the big 3 will badly affect sales, would have been a nice stop gap for us too, as there's not much out until the aforementioned.:(
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Simple Reason is : PIRACY, they want to shift as much as they can on the consoles first and then release it on PC, if they released it at the same time some people who have a good pc and a console. May not bother buying it for console and just download it.
 
WB Games just confirmed 18th Nov UK 15th Nov US. Some new screenshots check out the stunning LOD on Jokers face obviously full DX11 screenies!

http://www.pcgamer.com/2011/10/18/b...set-for-november-18-new-screenshots-swoop-in/

Console launch is not going as smoothly as it should some of the pre-order DLC is corrupt so at least it gives them time to sort this out for PC!! But I think the real reason is purely piracy concerns........
 
Ah well, mibbe they are trying to get some distance between BF3 and MW3 incase this release on PC gets lost in the middle, would be nice to know an official reason though

Still looking forward to it
 
I have the game serial code sat on my desk (it came with my GTX 570) and we PC Gamers have to wait longer to play it while the console gamers get to play it on release, *sigh*. I can only imagine the delay is further tweaking for the PC (I hope). It feels like such a tease having the serial code and knowing I have to wait longer.:(
 
AWPC said:
WB Games just confirmed 18th Nov UK 15th Nov US. Some new screenshots check out the stunning LOD on Jokers face obviously full DX11 screenies!

http://www.pcgamer.com/2011/10/18/b...set-for-november-18-new-screenshots-swoop-in/

Console launch is not going as smoothly as it should some of the pre-order DLC is corrupt so at least it gives them time to sort this out for PC!! But I think the real reason is purely piracy concerns........
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I dont get the whole piracy thing. Batman was out to download for xbox about 3-4 days ago, pretty much every game is a week early on consoles. So in fact piracy is just the same on consoles, if not worse because people either flash the consoles drive, or gets a friend to do it. Then all they have to do is burn this image and play it. Baffles me this whole PC piracy when consoles seems to be worse.
 
HeHe...Got my copy for "Free"...:cool: Comes free from nVidia, with the purchase of a GTX 560 and above...;) Just bought new Gaming rig with X2 3gb GTX 580 ... Nice!!! ;)

Swifty
 
It looks like the devs have tailored the game specific to each platform so that -

the Steam version (and hence why the nVidia keys are working) will use Steamworks but with SecuROM DRM,
the retail version is going to use Games for Windows Live (this won't register on Steam) and
the OnLive version is specific to that with OnLive achievements.

That's rather good news.
 
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ic1male said:
It looks like the devs have tailored the game specific to each platform so that -

the Steam version (and hence why the nVidia keys are working) will use Steamworks but with SecuROM DRM,
the retail version is going to use Games for Windows Live (this won't register on Steam) and
the OnLive version is specific to that with OnLive achievements.

That's rather good news.
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Source?

Im sure the steam version uses GFWL
 
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