BATMAN ARKHAM ASYLUM (Zero Punctuation)
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- Опубликовано: 20 июл 2011
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This week, Zero Punctuation reviews Batman Arkham Asylum.
Fast-talking Ben "Yahtzee" Croshaw reviews a new game each week in this animated series that combines informed critique with cutting humor. Watch the next episode of Zero Punctuation a week early, only on The Escapist.
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He's right. Whenever I fucked up during a stealth section, I'd just tell myself "I did that on purpose. Yeah. I'm Batman!"
Same. Sometimes I got caught when sneaking on someone and I just Batclaw disarm him, KO both of them and grapple away. "That was my plan all along".
The commissioner has a big red bat-phone for day time emergencies.
"It's perfectly fine" - Yahtzee.
Now THATS something you want on the back of your game's case
In my opinion, the fact that, for the most part, none of the major characters in the Batman universe have any actual superpowers is why that universe is so interesting.
Ra's is centuries old, Poison Ivy can manipulate plants, and Scarecrow/Bane's drugs are basically technobabble.
GSSAGE7
Yeah, but they're still just chemicals. Even in Ra's case, i think. Poison Ivy i'm not very familiar with.
Ra's Al Ghul is immortal, Poison Ivy has the power to manipulate plant life, Bane has super strength because of the serum. Not everything has to be realistic to be interesting. Batman himself isn't realistic in the slightest aside from him not having super powers.
Trug0d Just chemicals? Superpowers caused by pseudoscience are still superpowers.
That being said, I know what you mean. Batman universe is very low-powered in scale of superhero comics and that makes it interesting, I agree.
JboneDRS Batman isn't realistic by sheer virtue of his being able to walk in a straight line after the amount of bone-crunching punch-ups he gets himself into. For that matter, the Joker has a skull made of iron.
If they wanted to make Batman realistic, there would be 18 issues of Bruce Wayne's physical therapy between every issue of actual fighting. But then only chiropractors would read it.
I now have an image of Batman busting down a door, opening his mouth to say something, and then forgetting what it was he wanted and forced to awkwardly leaving the room. And I will never unsee that.
I personally found the Killer Croc bit to be quite tense -- probably because I couldn't figure out how to not get eaten right away...
But you fight bane and the titan henchmen before that and they go down in the exact same way
I felt stupid when the death screen pointed out I was supposed to do what Bats did in the cutscene.
I got a bit cocky with the Detect-o-vision and left it on during a fight with Poison Ivy, only to fail repeatedly because winning the fight relied on shooting her when her not-at-all suggestively-shaped flower fortress/beast opened to reveal her in all her pants-wearing vulnerability, an event that could only be seen if using regular vision.
+NinjaGidget Plants don't have body heat, so of course detective vision won't work. Even then she still is a hard boss.
+Troll Breaker Plants do give off a modicum of heat.
NinjaGidget The tech must isolate plant heat then, since it never picks up trees and grass.
To be fair, you can do VERY slight damage if you hit her pod when it's closed.
It actually explains how Batman's Batarang knocks Croc down. It is programmed to trigger his shock collar, which is how the Asylum keeps him in line.
It's still boring and dumb
PUNCHING THINGS SOLVES EVERYTHING
+butter samuri Ask Saitama
+Krwzprtt ONE PUNCH!!!!!
The Loneliest Rocket no no your doing it wrong.
Watch me
*ahem*
ONE PUUUUUUIIUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUNNNNNNNNNNCH!!!!!!!!!!!
I know. My gf is never late cooking my lunch.
"Give up, Harley! Don't make me give you the Bat-Spank!"
Or better, the Bat-Spunk.
I have enjoyed Batman for years and when Arkham Asylum came out it was like a dream come true. I was stealthing around putting beat downs on criminals and facing off with Batman's colorful Rogues gallery. Great stuff.
I was disappointed when I first met Bane and had to fight him. Is this the rival of batman in strength and wits? My initial thoughts were that he was unstable after all those experiments done to him but even then he should have been a better boss fight.
***** Yeah I suspected so, but that doesn't excuse the poor boss battle, it wasn't poor just because it was bane and we know what bane is and what he's capable of, but it was because it wasn't designed good enough, but I give them a pass because it was their first try, plus they improved a lot with the example of the Mr freeze boss battle (which I hear is very good but I haven't played that game yet).
"OOH EDGY", I laughed so hard when he said that
The most interesting that Batman gets to me is when his actions somehow don't appeal to the other members of the Justice Leauge (for example, his contingency plans) and he always makes up the best justifications for doing so. It's once again reffering to his almost frustrating OP'ness, but it IS still interesting to hear what excuse someone has for planning to kill his best friends 'just in case'
Robin, get the shark-repellant bat spray!
0:45 - Even better is the bit at the beginning where Oldman and Curnen are surveying the crime scene like it's 'The Wire', and then he shows up.
4:10 And yet you will go on to make an entire series out of drunkenly judging box art, and we will love you for it.
Stay petty my friends. XD
UlithiumDragon he did lol
My favorite part is when it deletes your save file and I break the game in half.
It took me 10 years, but my favorite thing is to beat a game, then find your video on it and say, "heh, yeah."
How DO they signal batman when they need him during the day? They don't. He shows up on his own.
he uses his detective vision to see the bat symbol.
ThePCguy17 That must really hurt his eyes, more than half a minute of having it on, my eyes BURN!
Alexander Pedersen I've cleared entire rooms without turning it off. More helpful than Superman's visions.
Batman only works at night, he sleeps during the day or attends meetings at Wayne Enterprises, that's why Arkham Asylum, Arkham City and Arkham Origins all take place over one night.
Batman doesn't come out during the day. If he did, the lower half of his face would be tan.
"Quite Good" That means fucking amazing with this guy
It is mainly modern batman who is uninteresting; back in the old comics he was actually cool because he wasn't the replaceable violent brute with gadgets that he is today. Sure he didn't have the super high tech stuff that he would have nowadays (like the iGod microscopic 56 H), but he actually used his head, he used the fabled detective skills he is supposed to have but that you never see him using in today's batman comics because he has a very convenient computer to do all that crap for him while he bludgeons the Joker to the edge of death and then throws him off of a building that Joker will still somehow manage to survive the fall from and be in perfect health. Heck, although less action and violence was in them, the old dc comics and even the old marvel comics were better because not only did dc have more interesting characters that weren't one trick ponies that could only use superpowers, a green ring, or gadgets that do the thinking for them but the characters would use real world science and facts for things, heck I learned more about the human brain from those comics than I did from my damn anatomy class and we basically drove right past that subject in the class. Old marvel comics were also better because they didn't have these massive epics of lengthy storylines and sometimes very convoluted plots, they actually went over a lot more than just that stuff or gave you a good story. I can only really base this around the buttloads of Thor and X-men comics I read, but Thor was more like a cool story with a cool hero doing cool things and that was all it needed to be. X-men and even the avengers sometimes went over more social issues like racial discrimination (or rather racism) and even split personality disorder (which I find falls into the category of a social issue for the people around you and your social life in addition to being a mental issue for you)
Panda Funkey I disagree with you.
Pussymaster 69 You opinion is acceptable and I really don't care one way or the other, but with a username and profile pick like that you're definitely a troll or a child and I have to say; BEST. TROLLER. NAME. EVER.
Panda Funkey My name is completely irrelevant right now but ok.
Panda Funkey Also, nice grammer mate ;)
Pussymaster 69 The l8 t8 the gr8 m8 of sl8.
Im seeing the videos in sequence and after seeing the Wolfenstein review my Brain tirelessly tries to find the rhymes in this review. This is really fucking with my head!
I've been reading all of the comments like you would a Limerick, fucking hell. That review has fucked my mind.
Batman enemies are NOT gang leaders in Gimp suit with no powers whatsoever. Scarecrow's gas brought Superman to his knees, Bane tosses boulders with ease, Solomon Grundy is a zombie hulk, Joker is just fucking Joker.
Yahtzee didn't say all of his enemies are such. Some are loonier the the loony toons, others are just shoved in the asylum because they don't really have a prison in Gotham, the Riddler is an example. Anyways, Scarecrow, Bane, and Joker have no powers; two of them use chemicals to give them an edge while the other just shanks you while laughing. Grundy goes into the super power/paranormal category of villains.
Poison Ivy falls in between Grundy's and Bane's categories depending on what Batman you look at. Batman: the Animated Series version of Ivy is in the using chemicals part where The Batman series she falls in between because chemicals caused her powers.
Black Mask is in the gang leader category which also includes those who use tech or ingenuity(pretty much in the chemical category.) Some other examples are Riddler, Firefly, and Deathstroke.
So in summary Yahtzee's comment on Batman's enemies was justified by the fact that a majority of our favorite caped crusader's villains have no superpowers.
Shadow_Plays Lex Luthor is human, but that doesn't stop him from waging war on alien gods. Deathsrtoke is more of a Captain America if he was bad. It's just that Gotham needs multiple teams of heroes(Batman family, Birds of Prey and the Outsiders) just to keep it under control. It's like the time Batman "died" after killing Darkseid(yet another example of how human heroes and villains aren't just bank robbers and street levelers). Both Batman AND superman couldn't stop the joker from escaping that time he killed Jason. Deathsroke half the League on his own and Nowadays, Black Mask even has mind-control powers from his mask.
You somewhat ignored most of what I said so I will capitalize the idea. NOT ALL OF BATMAN'S ABILITIES ARE JUST BANK ROBBERS AND WHAT NOT. Also Darkseid is more on the line of a Superman villain. Deathstroke to my knowledge had not gone through a procedure like Captain America went through so I don't see the comparison that well. Also Joker is still a mortal that has no special powers. Now I have little knowledge of DC or Marvel comics, but I assume the Black Mask's mask itself gives him the mind control ability, not him having it as a semi-natural power.
Shadow_Plays Darkseid is more of a Universal villain than a Superman villain. Deathsrtoke IS a super soldier/ mercenary/ assassin. It's even in his bio in Arkham origins. "Military experiment". Yes, black mask's power is from his mask. i never said it was natural.
Pffffffffffffffffft, Scarecrow brought Superman to his knees? Yeah, okay, and Batman slapped Superman so hard he cried(!) xD
If there is an Arkham Remastered and if it were possible, Asylum should be given a proper NG+ and maybe have skins included.
Ya and micro transactions and dlc and lengthened QuickTime events and preorders full priced!
Michael Mitchell is there any other game with a proper NG+ aside from dark souls?
+Michael Mitchell NO! JUST LEAVE IT THE WAY IT WAS, WITH JUST A GRAPHICAL UPGRADE!
+Michael Mitchell If they can't get Arkham Knight right, what makes you think they'll be able to do a remake?
+Alex Gregory Borderlands did it quite well in my opinion
He didn't mention the part about the bullshit need sign in to Windows Live thingy if you're playing on PC.
There's another reason why you wouldn't want to turn off the detective vision: when you can see through walls, it becomes kinda tricky to judge whether you're actually in front of a wall. This can be a problem from time to time.
"i guess you cant call it bat-vision, that would just be a black screen"
*knee slap*
AAAAAAAAAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA XD
+Zyad48 - The Warrior of Evil I think it would actually be a blurry as hell screen where everything is way, WAAAAY too bright.
Thesaurus Rex thats almost worse XD
"Batman is always the least character in everything he's in." Pretty much.
Bruce Deliso No, I'm actually right about this.
+Bruce Deliso Yeah, I've been reading comics for many years now, which is enough to know that Batman is the least interesting character in everything he's in.
Bruce Deliso It's not untrue at all. It doesn't matter if the concept is good or bad, the important thing is the execution, and in Batman it's terrible.
Bruce Deliso Sure, but I'm right anyway.
Bruce Deliso Or maybe Batman has no depth to begin with, whoever plays him. You can like him, there's nothing wrong with that, but that is how things are, regardless of how you feel about it.
i've heard good things about the arkham games apparently rocksteady did a pretty good job i wonder though if i'm gonna add any of them to the bucket list
The reason you'd want to turn Detective Vision off is because when you can see through walls, sometimes it's kinda tricky to judge if there's actually a wall in front of you or not.
A police commissioner and his state's district attorney converse on a roof to figure out how to stop the crime plaguing the streets of the city... when out steps some nutjob in a costume sporting pointy ears and an oversized cape. Neither of the two men are sure, but one might suspect he's been hiding in the shadows since sundown waiting for his chance to make a cool entrance.
Regardless, this strange figure purports to have an answer to your mob problem. No worries, he says--he's got a plane, some really weird looking belt, and a lot of free time on his hands. He'll get their squealer all the way from Hong Kong and be back for breakfast. He's got this!
Both officials, uncertain of his mental stability yet impressed by the extent of his resources -- I mean, geez, look at the detail on his costume, he's gotta be rich, right? -- decide to roll with it. If all goes well, they've got an informant. If not... well, at least they won't be taken to this "Bat-Man's" basement to wear his creepy sidekick costume.
God, you too Yahtzee?
Okay, something that everyone needs to know is that, despite the popular saying "Blind as a bat". Bats are NOT blind. They can see fine.
I'm sorry, this is a little nit-picky, but it is one of my pet peeves, so I have to point it out.
I feel you, Most bats have fully functioning eyes and some bats have both eyes and echo location! (and in most cases of having both if i remember correctly the bats eyes are better!)
Literally every urban myth Yahtzee gets wrong. Don't worry about it.
see my problem with batman games and movies is he's meant to be smart you know more then just punching but they just make it seem like all he does is punch thing, sure he does that a well but he also uses him brain not just brawn, i mean this is the guy came up with ways to beat basically every superhero in case they turn evil
Movies ok, but for video games that not as much fun
+KidSnivy69 I beg to differ, I love strategy games and figuring out an awesome plan to beat people sounds just as engaging if not more than punching people.
Musicstarnc glad to see someone agrees with me on this topic
Musicstarnc You realize this is still a superhero and like it or not fighting is a size-able part of it
see i don't mind the fighting but i feel like they should add more mystery and let him be a detective
Same here, Freeze is among my favorite of the boss fights. It challenged me to find new and creative ways to take down an enemy.
Right, because using the Paint Bucket tool is sooo creative.
0:35 *Um, actually*, whether or not you believe Jesus Christ was the son of God, it’s widely excepted that he was an actual historical figure. It’s just his abilities i.e. walking on water that are up for debate
He was a hippie who was followed by whores and fishermen, not exactly the smartest or honest type. He probably walked on the shallow part of a lake while everyone was drunk, and then the myth was born. He claimed to be the son of god, and all he had to do to get out of it was admit he wasn't and the romans would've given him community service or something. He continued to admit it, so the romans said fuck it, he was tried by the jews and crucified, which wasn't such a rare punishment at the time, especially if they want to make an example of a cult leader.
It's widely accepted that a Jew called Jesus was executed by the Romans in the 1st century. Many of the other events of his life *are* up for debate. We don't know they're true (even the mundane ones) just because the gospels say so.
Yep. The Jewish Pharisees and Romans who hated him and the things he said both corroborate his existance and ministry. Not to mention his apostles founded councils of bishops which is the formula the Catholic Church has followed for 2000 years to this day.
It's very weird that people will gladly accept history and science that predates Christianity, but anything that's verifiable about Christianity suddenly doesn't count.
@@zabaothBro are you trying to discount Jesus? Yes his disciples were fishermen and tax collectors, lowly members of society, but that was intentional on his part. "Whoever exalts himself will be humbled, and whoever humbles himself will be exalted." That time he shared a meal with prostitutes was to show the religious leaders that they were being callous and cruel, not paying attention to the people who needed help most. It's like the core thing he was known for, taking care of the abandoned and the sick.
He frequently outsmarted the Pharisees who played mindgames with him, quizzing him on Jewish law trying to trap him in hypocrisy only for him to turn their words against them, such as when they asked him if they should execute a woman who was found cheating on her husband. Jesus sat back and said, "He who is without sin can cast the first stone." Everyone walked away in shame, and the woman was spared.
Even if you're not Christian or religious, he's widely accepted to be a good man who did good things.
Watching this in biology is not a good idea
2:18 nice recovery
The funny part of detective vision; most people don't turn it off. They run through the whole game with it on.
Jesus is real.
i think the make a run button because when you jump off a roof or high ledge its also the button to glide.
i wish i could see ben's collection of games, it must be enormous
2:20 best line ever! xD
I love how in the end credits it looks like batman is gaping massively, or maybe had his lower jaw removed.
Outro answer: the Batphone
i like how the majority of these were uploaded on the same day
I keep clicking the little settings wheel and then I'm like oh yeah...
Is it just me, or does yahtzee's depiction of Batman look like he has a giant smile on his face?
"Trouser Tightening Elegance"
Now there's a quote you can put on the box.
I think Asylum really did fuck up by not having detective vision on a timer or recharge, or at least having more occasions that would bring you out of it. They tried to tackle the issue of always having detective vision on in Knight, but IMO they didn't do enough.
I see they cut the Heath Ledger joke.
Oh man I love your videos :D
I love how the warden is voice acted by the same guy who voice acted the rabbit from foster's home for imaginary friends.
i dont know why but i found that first sentence to be resoundingly hilarious
The start button isn't so common now, it's the options button instead.
The Bat-phone of course! ;D
halfway though this video the LOUDEST FUCKING HELICOPTER flew over my house and i couldn't hear a word Yahtzee was saying!
Pretty good actually! Yahtzee really has a way of getting me into a talkative mood!
It seems your correct I did some looking up on it. Well out with the old in with the new.
3:39 THANK YOU YAHTZEE!!! THANK YOU!!!
Yes it does
The Killer Croc fight was the hardest for me because I didn't know you were supposed to use the bat-a-rang and that's the ONLY way to win. Silly me, I was using all the logical tactics (stealth, zip line, etc) instead.
thanks for the video
The other problem with having Detective vision always on is that you don't know when you walking aimlessly into walls.
"And no-one BATS an eye"?
That cat part was funny and sad at the same time.
Thanks for the inspiration! :D
4:12 little did he know...
Forgiveness and Love (Unless you belong to ANY OTHER CREED)
Thank you for having the same knowledge as me. :)
I lost it at "Flasher of the night"
That's what makes these videos fun,
I love how Yahtzee predicted or inspired something from or for Arkham City
and don't forget they have all the original voice actors from the animated series!
Remember what the Joker said in the Dark Knight: "When the chips are down, these 'civilized' people, they'll eat each other."
"press x for bat spank omg lolololol
7 years ago and I just played it .
Commissioner Gordon calls up batman by using the red phone. ADAM WEST!
Same here. Actually, I'm doing a narrated english essay in ZP format.
It's recorded in a 320 by 240 window so it might look like 360p, but then again it's mainly not.
*huggles and squeezes* you're just TOO CUTE
2:19 Oh I see what you did there..
Wow never heard that one before.
Except that one time on every other video on YT.
To answer your riddle, they use the Bat-phone!
at 4:41 you say: "riddle me this:how they signal batman when they need him during the day?"
the answer: simple! they use the red batphone
I feel like hearing him bitch about team mates would be highly hilarious.
man even if they didnt, youd think they might make an exception at 20,000 murders, 92 jail breaks, 70000 assaults, 200 assassination attempts, and all from a single man
the bat spank, i actually laughed out loud
I'm writing an essay and I come here for inspiration.
It also means interesting in swedish too!
You know, The Darkness II somewhat tries that as well, Jackie is the dark and scary yet they put you through some "scary" ride thing... XD
These videos are funny to watch even with the sound off.
Croc was terrifying
Hello, welcome to youtube.
I wrote a review of a movie for my film and lit class, and I got an A. My professor said it was brilliant and that I shoud be a critic.
All I have to say is, thank you Yahtzee
@BASArtemis92 I love that you asked such a question! XD
yes
Bat Anti-Shark spray.
Makes sharks explode. No punching required :D
Also, from your earlier comment, Lyra is a background character. You would have had to, I dont know, maybe look it up to know that was her name?