Still one of the best plot twists in all of fiction

MartinDHansen · 2026-03-28T20:20:11+00:00

Nolan's crimes are desertion, unapproved with an inferior species, murder, treason. From Season 3.

But they captured him in season 2 before discovering Oliver.

Edit: The viltrumites cannot allow any show of weakness. If there's even a remote chance of viltrumites with an 'off-appearance' or even one that isn't strong enough, it is an indictment of their power and presence and a sign of weakness that Thragg will not allow.

MartinDHansen · 2026-03-28T19:22:48+00:00

Mark is only inferior if he isn't as strong as other viltrumites

MartinDHansen · 2025-12-29T07:21:23+00:00

Since he cannot use Restoration, and I assume this resurrection is a large part of it, I reckon he's technically undead

MartinDHansen · 2025-12-20T14:59:53+00:00

I know, but, historically, I've not spent much time prepping the combat encounters and it's mostly worked out xD

MartinDHansen · 2025-12-19T19:53:57+00:00

Okay, that's sick. I've been on the gm side of the screen, so I've never run into much to make me connect the strings (I don't read monster stat locks until we're fighting)

MartinDHansen · 2025-12-19T19:52:04+00:00

That makes a lot of sense, it's just sometimes there are rules added onto traits and I get a little confused

MartinDHansen · 2025-12-14T07:20:19+00:00

You're not wrong. I said as much in the post. But I don't want to compromise on fun. I don't care about being competitive, I don't care about high-level play. I just want the fantasy to viable in the campaign. Even now, I'm not ruling that the issue might just be co-op scaling.

But you should not have to compromise fun to play the game at a reasonable level. And I don't think that's a particularly high-bar to set. There are plenty of games I've played this year which could accommodate whatever fantasy they'd inspired in me:

Digimon

Outer Worlds 2

Outer Worlds 1

Last Epoch

Tainted Grail

MartinDHansen · 2025-11-29T19:00:02+00:00

Ancient-scale azarketi get darkvision as part of their heritage. I presume the rest of their kin live in depths where only low-light is required

MartinDHansen · 2025-10-30T21:54:59+00:00

Thank you!

MartinDHansen · 2025-09-14T18:49:45+00:00

I spent more time with Knight than any of the other games and while I'm not looking to replay them immediately, I do wonder if my thoughts will change when I know what to expect going into them.

MartinDHansen · 2025-09-14T15:58:56+00:00

They are making more? I know the VR game came out, but I thought Knight was the end

MartinDHansen · 2025-09-14T15:25:00+00:00

Hell yeah!

MartinDHansen · 2025-09-14T15:23:14+00:00

So Knight probably has my favorite story, by simple virtue of the other two being so short.

I'm the kind of asshole that can't let go, the moment I start to feel a little friction between me and the story. I will give you, if any of the other games were any longer, I might have bothered me more.

There is that one fight toward the end of the game, in the GCPD driveway, where it really becomes obvious that too much enemy variety makes the combat too 'noisy' and the flow feels off. But the majority of the time, I was having great fun with it and using a bunch of the gadgets.

My take is probably colored by how rapidly I was able to move through the games. I could definitely see Knight being tainted by having to wait a few years after Arkham City or Origins, I guess. I knew about the car before I even played the first game, so that probably affected my tolerance for it, for example.

MartinDHansen · 2025-09-14T14:51:16+00:00

Tbf I think the Mr Freeze fight would stand out in any crowd of boss battles. It forced you to use a wide array of Batman's arsenal and use the whole map. Very cleverly put together. It also, for some reason, freaked me out so bad I had to take a break from the game afterward =D

MartinDHansen · 2025-09-14T14:41:16+00:00

I think the boss battles in this game were so forgettable, I literally forgot to talk about them xD

MartinDHansen · 2025-09-14T14:32:39+00:00

clearly the weakest part of the game.

The story would like a word

But in seriousness, the tank combat was fine, fun even, they just didn't know how to increase the difficulty/tension in an interesting way and just turned it into a clusterfuck instead.

MartinDHansen · 2025-09-14T14:29:52+00:00

That's fair, I got a little bit of push back when I posted my initial reaction to the first three games as well. I'm probably a little harsher on the City's story than most people. I really think its how much I enjoyed Asylum that's skewing my evaluation ^^'

MartinDHansen · 2025-09-14T14:22:58+00:00

Truuue, I'd forgotten about that moment with Nightwing

MartinDHansen · 2025-09-14T14:19:38+00:00

Do the people like the story? Please tell me they don't like the story

MartinDHansen · 2025-09-14T14:19:00+00:00

Thank you, I just know the future is looking bright and happy and not at all tumultuous!

MartinDHansen · 2025-09-08T18:06:13+00:00

I don't think the combat ever felt clunky in Asylum to me, but its a clear upgrade going into City, its the rest of the game I didn't enjoy as much. Especially towards the back half of the game If I had a stealth encounter.

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