It is even unplayable on 980 and Titan cards. That is quite the feat.

It is even unplayable on 980 and Titan cards. That is quite the feat.

It is even unplayable on 980 and Titan cards. That is quite the feat.
I'm watching Jim Sterling's video on it. It looks unplayable. Cutscenes freeze for a second multiple times, he almost crashed with the Batmobile, because the game stuttered so badly...
The rain effects look quite good, but the game is nowhere near good looking enough to justify being unplayable on 970.
Rocksteady really dropped the ball on this one.
It sounds like AC Unity all over again. How's the console performance?
Oh, and locking a PC game at 30 fps? That's a new low.
I'm glad I don't preorder.
I'm watching Jim Sterling's video on it. It looks unplayable. Cutscenes freeze for a second multiple times, he almost crashed with the Batmobile, because the game stuttered so badly...
The rain effects look quite good, but the game is nowhere near good looking enough to justify being unplayable on 970.
Rocksteady really dropped the ball on this one.
It sounds like AC Unity all over again. How's the console performance?
Oh, and locking a PC game at 30 fps? That's a new low.
I'm glad I don't preorder.
From the reviews i have checked out it seems that the PS4 version is running pretty well. But i noticed PC gamer never recieved a review copy, they even did a piece on it. And wrote a new piece today when the complaints hit.
"We didn't get review code for Batman: Arkham Knight, and now we might know why. " http://www.pcgamer.c...-be-a-disaster/
It is even unplayable on 980 and Titan cards. That is quite the feat.
Jesus....
Toyed with buying this. Sooooo glad I did not! I have a 970 and now I know the game is meant for a more powerful next gen card that's not even available yet! ![]()
Played it for an hour. Here's some basic impressions:
- Fine framerate and minimal tearing on PS4. Odd frame-pacing issues though. Controls are kind of delayed occasionally
- Friggin great graphics
- So, how long is it gonna rain in this campaign? I'm already irritated by it because it makes it look grainy somehow
- Rocksteady's Arkham musical cue returns, yeeeessss!
- Batman looks less expressive than before, but more realistic.
- Artstyle has lost its charm IMO.
- Amazing use of quiet moments inside buildings where you can just go and listen in on conversations and discover secrets.
- Batmobile controls well and all, but it's essentially a third person shooting gallery inside a Batman game, which feels incredibly out of place.
- Batmobile has much more gameplay time than the solid and classic Batman gameplay. Huge bummer.
- Story is initially intriguing. Hope it stays that way.
- Dialogue and prose however is god damn terrible. Paul Dini. Why didn't they get you back!?
EDIT: I see a lot of disappointed PC users. Yeah, holy cow what a mess that PC port is. It turns out Rocksteady outsourced the PC porting to a third party studio whom obviously rushed it to ****. Such a shame because all other Arkham games played gloriously on PC.
They prob sent the contract for PC port development to some Chinese sweat shop studio somewhere in the deep cavern of Shanghai.
I think this game is really good so far, but I think it's clear Rocksteady's glory days are over. It seemed like such a nice studio back in 2011 when I saw their insider videos but I think with AK they've gone more into this "let's make it awesome and cool!" vibe, putting things into the game that seems distasteful (IMO) and then there's the whole PR and business side of things. Their promotional videos are not like the ones back in 2011 where you'd hear about Mark Hamill and Kevin Conroy talk about the Batman IP and their approach to the characters. Instead we got lame VA reels where they'd talk about how good the Batmobile was as if they'd know anything about actually playing the games (you can tell they have no clue) and then there's the DLC extravaganza. Holy ****. I pay 60% of the game's full price for the season pass?? Are you ****** insane?
But yeah, game is good but I find that it doesn't really have the charm and vibe that was in both previous games. I do think it's probably gonna be better than Origins since it hopefully won't just reuse bosses from City and it actually has a detailed Gotham City and new mechanics that has some thought put into them.
Well they are unfornately published by Warner Brothers and they are more evil than EA and Ubisoft combined.
One thing I can really praise about this game is the OST.
Also I really like what they have done with the combat. Much more fluid.
Also loving those Fear takedowns ![]()
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Looks like my preorder got screwed up. Maybe that's a blessing in disguise. I'll hold off a bit.
Iron Galaxy Studios, Chicago, Illinois. Don't know if that's the entire studio team, but the credits name twelve people.
I hope whoever thought asking a CONSOLE studio to create a PC version was a great idea, gets fired.
Iron Galaxy Studios, Chicago, Illinois. Don't know if that's the entire studio team, but the credits name twelve people.
Wow. Suprised they didn't outsource it to the new intern guy.
They would save even more money.
Except not, because thay just ruined their reputation.
PC version stands at 1.6 at Metacritic as of now.
Sure, in a few weeks it will be much higher, but the damage is done.
I wouldn't blame it on WB. Rocksteady chose not to develop the PC port, and it was them who made the decision to outsource it to random 12 guys.
WB is just a publisher - they are probably responsible for all this mess with season passes, preorder bonuses and DLC, but not for a horrible PC port.
The best PC ports are usually the ones that are separately developed away from the console versions, which also means they most likely will enver release within an appropriate window time as that of the console versions (much later that is). See, Alan Wake or GTA V -- Alan Wake should definitely be heralded for having an excellent PC port.
Damn it.

Dear oh dear
This is 2015 FFS. The year when information is spread amongst the masses faster than ever, and the year when Steam introduced REFUNDS. WTF?!?!? Did Warner B really think they can get away with this nonsense?

Dear oh dear
This is 2015 FFS. The year when information is spread amongst the masses faster than ever, and the year when Steam introduced REFUNDS. WTF?!?!? Did Warner B really think they can get away with this nonsense?
Quite evidently so.
We're talking about WB and by extension the old media guard. Those are the same people who frequently denied and ridiculed the influence the internet and its online communities have. They really don't know how the new medium (and videogames in their current form and the gaming community at large belong to that) works and how reactive it has become thanks to online networks.
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To their credit, they actually got Arkham made. And made well. That's better than most old media companies.
edit: I mean, the series as a whole. Not this game particularly.
Besides, unrelated to PC performance, this is the 4th Batman game of Batman doing Batman things, in a Batman city devoid of civilians, speaking in Batman jargon, fighting the same Batman enemies with the same Batman allies in the same Batman fashion.
Asylum was a sleeper hit that no one expected to perform well, and City was when they introduced open-world and brought the series to a new height. My interest just tallied off after that. Warner B's influence and anti-consumer practices just made my decision that much easier.
Well they are unfornately published by Warner Brothers and they are more evil than EA and Ubisoft combined.
Yep they are pretty much Ea except having their hands milking games, movies and tv shows majorly for at least the past twenty years also you might want to keep an eye out if anyone is getting the new mad max game on pc I get away from that and cancel any pc pre order on that
Ending was rubbish, serious?! Alas, I should of expected it.