X-Ray Vision Mode To Be Toned Down In Batman Sequel

I finally played through Arkham Asylum and this is good news to me!

After I beat this game I layed heavily into the hand-to-hand challenges, where in, you don't need detective mode, so I had a few hours of very great graphics, and butt kicking.. Although Joker eventually becomes annoying, and so do gun cases.
I hope in this one, when you batarang the guns, they break, because the goons just nonchalantly picking them back up was a pain, no matter how fast you are.
I also would have liked, after doing the Riddler trials, to get to punch him in the face.. Even as a one shot boss hater, Riddler would deserve it, and I'd understand... Batman is Batman afterall.

Glad they are doing less because it was a pain in the ass finding all the clues etc but the game was a awesome game

Great news.

Do it up like Splinter Cell: Conviction and have the screen go blurry when you try to move with it on.

The game had an amazing art direction, but I too had it on most of the time due to the tactical advantages of always seeing your enemies.

Rather than take away the functionality of the ability, couldn't that mode just be made pretty?  If the problem is purely cosmetic, it seems like a fine solution.

On the other hand, playing the entire game with "special vision on" sounds like there was an unhealthy design decision somewhere along the way, especially if that mode isn't as pretty.

" Sounds like a good idea.  "

I don't know, I personally would turn it on to figure out the situation and then turn it off immediately before I executed my plan. I can see why they are doing this though and if they make it cooler, well, more power to them. I only hope the second one is even more awesome than the first.

As long as it conveys the same information then nice. I didn't abuse it that much though.

They could just make it something that lasts x seconds with y cooldown time and solve this.

good, those sort of things annoy me, same with eagle vision in assassins creed.

I finally figured out my problem with Brad's articles. 
 
It's that they're all pulled off the GameSpot feed, only I get them in the morning there and in the evening here. 

I didn't use it that much.  I found it distracting.

 "want to cry a little bit." Haha, love this guy already.  
 
@gosukiller said:

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Good news. It was the path of least resistance so I abused it during my first playthrough which sucked since it was an eyesore with it on.
 
They could always balance it so you can't use gadgets while on... but still an eyesore.

I hear that in BatmanBatmanBatman, the entire game is played in Detective Mode, but you have an option to overlay Detective Mode Detective Mode over your Detective Mode.

" Holy fuck. People spent the majority of the game playing in detective mode? The Arkham Asylum I played on the PC looked so good that I made sure to only use it when I really had to. "

Personally,  I always found the combat a lot harder with the detective vision on.  IT seemed harder to tell when people were about to strike.

Not that it's in the same league as Batman, but Wolverine had the same issue.  Playing with Feral Senses on just made it easier (and gave an achievement).  Enemies were easier to see and secrets were vastly more visible.  And it made the game look way worse than Detective Vision did.  At least Detective Vision looked cool in its own way.
 
In both cases its a design failure.  Making the player pick between utility and art.  They should make it so you give some gameplay up to use DV.  Like you walk at 1/4 speed.  You'll still flip it on all the time to scope things out.  But you won't live in it. 

people played most of the game in that mode? the hell? i only did it when i really needed it, so its fine by me if they tone it down.

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Detective Mode was hell of handy, that's for sure, but basically for the reasons that made that man cry, I made myself leave it off most of the time, unless I was unsure if there were dudes nearby or I was especially confused as to what to do next.

I like the idea of using it as an augmented reality. Where you might get highlights of someone around a corner in your vision, without blanking out the entire screen in blue and red.

I always felt that detective vision should have had a timer on it in the first game, or just been a pulse or something...it was too easy to just leave it on.

I'm interested in how they'll alert you to enemies around the corners now.  X-ray very much simplified the game when it came to that aspect, and limiting it very much might give the sequel's enemies a monster closet feel.
Can you imagine doing an isolation-and-haunt section without x-ray mission? memorization wasn't necessary in BMAA.
Well, I think BMAA was good enough that I can give these guys the benefit of the doubt. Probably yelling enemies or something along the line.

I think its a good thing actually.  I played the majority of the game with it on, and while it was awesome and useful, whenever I turned it off and relished in the beauty of the game, it made me regret having to turn it back on.  But damn, it helped a ton

Every time I play the game I tend to use it less and less.  Keeping it off does help the framerate, and I do love all the texture details. The most difficult thug rooms are fairly industrial looking, so in those cases I choose god-damn-badassery.  Gun toting hoodlums soaked in the fear of a vigilante that can see through walls and come from any direction... delicious.
 
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I tried not to play with Detective Mode on too much, since I really loved the game's look. But it was too useful at times, so I abused it a bit (especially on my run around to 100% the Riddler stuff).
 
Good to hear that they're toning it down a bit, since hopefully it'll make the game more challenging. But what the hell does "augmented reality" mean?

I abused it on my first playthrough for sure. My subsequent ones though I mostly just used it in predator areas and tried to make myself consciously use it less. Any streamlining they do to allow you to still get the benefits of detective mode without having to sacrifice the art design would be a welcome change.

Yeah I always struggled with detective mode. 

It worked so well and looked cool in and of itself, but I really found that I had to constantly force myself to turn it off to appreciate how incredible the game looked without it.

Love the people coming in saying "Huh, I never used it anyway". Like the guy saying "Yeah I love Twilight too" just to get the girl. 
I am two sided about this: 
- They could implement it so it's more streamlined and gives us the same enjoyment as before 
- They force you to not use it and therefore makes the game less enjoyable. 

I think I had that on for near enough the entire game so I can see why it would be changed. The big problem for me though were that near enough all the other visors were useless besides for the one contextual setting for them. Pointless and gamey.

I barely used Detective mode, unless I was stuck for options that I could see in the normal graphics. That game was far too good looking to play the whole thing in detective mode.
 
The fact that it gave me headaches after a couple of minutes didn't help much either.

Fine by me. I only used it when necessary.

" This is kind of a bummer. One of the parts I enjoyed about detective mode was not having to worry about it running out. "

" This is sad news. Less options is exactly the opposite of what i look for in sequels. "

" This is sad news. Less options is exactly the opposite of what i look for in sequels. "

Good news.  I tried to turn it off whenever I could, but the mode was just far too useful.. It gave you an almost necessary edge in combat, and even when you knew there were no enemies around, it had to be used to find clues to progress the story or secrets.  There was literally no reason to have it off, besides appreciating the games art direction.  Very glad they're fixing this.

Good. Even on my second playthrough, I found myself always having detective mode on.

I had to force myself out of Detective mode sometimes.  It was useful enough that it was handier to always have on instead of keep flipping on and off.  But whenever I got into a new area, or didn't have a lot of fighting to do, I had to remember to look at the beautiful lighting and design that could only be seen through normal vision.

Holy fuck. People spent the majority of the game playing in detective mode? The Arkham Asylum I played on the PC looked so good that I made sure to only use it when I really had to.