WindScar said:
Hello fellow Escapees.
Recently, I have seen what is going on with Arkham City, and I have decided not to buy it.
(1)I was a huge fan of the original game, it was great and I felt real joy when City was announced, but now I see that they are doing just about everything to the game that I hate.
(2)They demand pre-ordering from diffrent places for the diffrent skins. I.E you would have to pre-order it from 6 diffrent places to get all the costumes
(3)And as if that wasn't bad enough for me, they also said that if you bought it used, you would have to pay to unlock Catwoman as a playable character.
I don't know about you guys, but this business model speaks only "CASH NOW, DO EVERYTHING TO GET IT" to me, and I despise it. I will be buying it used, just because it's my own personal "FUCK YOU!" to the business model.
Thoughts?
(1) Were you a big Batman fan or just a big fan of the first game? Either way games are changing every time they make a sequel, if they don't we get POS games like Gears.
(2) It was a marketing gimmick and it does NOT affect the game what so ever. Honestly, that is a really piss poor excuse not to get a game. So your character looks different when you play but game-play itself is the same...if you REALLY need to have all the skins you might want to talk to someone about your obsession issue. HUGE FANATICS would have an issue with this yes, but that is about 3% of people to my knowledge.
(3) And? Many games have done this, story wise there is nothing changed since you are buying BATMAN Arkham City, so you still play as BATMAN and follow BATMAN's story. Just some achievements (means nothing to me, over hyped marketing gimmick now) may not be unlocked but it is one of the few things companies do that I approve to make players buy a game new. Want this special weapon/character or see a new area that adds 2 hours of gameplay? Buy the game new, want it but bought it used? Pay for it.
My opinion...you are over reacting to something that is really nothing. Buy it new, buy it used, if you are just buying it for Catwomen spend the extra $5 currently to get it new and have her in it...I really didn't care much about having her in it but then again I am not a big fan of either one. Just an interesting game with a decent story to it.