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    Batman: Arkham City

    Game » consists of 23 releases. Released Oct 18, 2011

    When Gotham City's slums have been transformed into a secluded super-prison, it's up to Batman to uncover its conspiracy in the sequel to 2009's Batman: Arkham Asylum.

    Beat without countering

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    After having played Remember Me i wondered if it were possible to beat Arkham City without doing any counters. I'm sure there are some specific areas where you're forced to counter but I was just a bit curious. And no i don't think Remember Me even comes close to any of the batman games, but this is a very sensible community, doubt anyone would resort to saying such a thing.

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    I did it for the first one because I missed the tool tip about countering. I just dodged most of the time.

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    Easily done, you can even afford to take a lot of hits before being in any real danger of dying.

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    #4  Edited By Maajin

    @the_laughing_man said:

    I did it for the first one because I missed the tool tip about countering. I just dodged most of the time.

    Oh my god! That sounds terrible. Were you able to enjoy it?

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    @maajin said:

    @the_laughing_man said:

    I did it for the first one because I missed the tool tip about countering. I just dodged most of the time.

    Oh my god! That sounds terrible. Were you able to enjoy it?

    IM THE FUCKING BATMAN I DONT NEED TO COUNTER!

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    #6  Edited By Levio

    I played Asylum dodging instead of countering. It's slower, but since the dodge makes you invincible, it's actually easier.

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    @maajin said:

    @the_laughing_man said:

    I did it for the first one because I missed the tool tip about countering. I just dodged most of the time.

    Oh my god! That sounds terrible. Were you able to enjoy it?

    I think its perfectly viable. The dodging over an enemy acts as a stun anyways.

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    #8  Edited By The_Laughing_Man

    @maajin said:

    @the_laughing_man said:

    I did it for the first one because I missed the tool tip about countering. I just dodged most of the time.

    Oh my god! That sounds terrible. Were you able to enjoy it?

    I think its perfectly viable. The dodging over an enemy acts as a stun anyways.

    No. I just treated the counter indication as a dodge indication.

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    I only countered a few times, and I did just fine with it. And hey, I'm truly awful at video games, so that should give you an idea of its necessity.

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    That sounds rather easy considering how much more integral and fast the dodge/flip is by comparison to the counter.

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    #11  Edited By Maajin

    @demoskinos said:

    @maajin said:

    @the_laughing_man said:

    I did it for the first one because I missed the tool tip about countering. I just dodged most of the time.

    Oh my god! That sounds terrible. Were you able to enjoy it?

    I think its perfectly viable. The dodging over an enemy acts as a stun anyways.

    No. I just treated the counter indication as a dodge indication.

    Someone should wrie a horror novel about that.

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    #12  Edited By Duminakan89

    @maajin said:
    @the_laughing_man said:

    @demoskinos said:

    @maajin said:

    @the_laughing_man said:

    I did it for the first one because I missed the tool tip about countering. I just dodged most of the time.

    Oh my god! That sounds terrible. Were you able to enjoy it?

    I think its perfectly viable. The dodging over an enemy acts as a stun anyways.

    No. I just treated the counter indication as a dodge indication.

    Someone should wrie a horror novel about that.

    LOL Contact Stephen King ASAP.

    I ask because I thought about setting creative challenges for myself in some of the games I have that i'd like to revisit.

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    Man, that game would be tedious without countering, I don't know how you could have fun.

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    @maajin said:
    @the_laughing_man said:

    @demoskinos said:

    @maajin said:

    @the_laughing_man said:

    I did it for the first one because I missed the tool tip about countering. I just dodged most of the time.

    Oh my god! That sounds terrible. Were you able to enjoy it?

    I think its perfectly viable. The dodging over an enemy acts as a stun anyways.

    No. I just treated the counter indication as a dodge indication.

    Someone should wrie a horror novel about that.

    LOL Contact Stephen King ASAP.

    I ask because I thought about setting creative challenges for myself in some of the games I have that i'd like to revisit.

    Alone in the Dark without blinking.

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    What is the fun in that?

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    @duminakan89 said:

    @maajin said:
    @the_laughing_man said:

    @demoskinos said:

    @maajin said:

    @the_laughing_man said:

    I did it for the first one because I missed the tool tip about countering. I just dodged most of the time.

    Oh my god! That sounds terrible. Were you able to enjoy it?

    I think its perfectly viable. The dodging over an enemy acts as a stun anyways.

    No. I just treated the counter indication as a dodge indication.

    Someone should wrie a horror novel about that.

    LOL Contact Stephen King ASAP.

    I ask because I thought about setting creative challenges for myself in some of the games I have that i'd like to revisit.

    Alone in the Dark without blinking.

    If you mean the movie, then that is literally impossible.

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    #17  Edited By Duminakan89
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    @the_laughing_man said:

    @duminakan89 said:

    @maajin said:
    @the_laughing_man said:

    @demoskinos said:

    @maajin said:

    @the_laughing_man said:

    I did it for the first one because I missed the tool tip about countering. I just dodged most of the time.

    Oh my god! That sounds terrible. Were you able to enjoy it?

    I think its perfectly viable. The dodging over an enemy acts as a stun anyways.

    No. I just treated the counter indication as a dodge indication.

    Someone should wrie a horror novel about that.

    LOL Contact Stephen King ASAP.

    I ask because I thought about setting creative challenges for myself in some of the games I have that i'd like to revisit.

    Alone in the Dark without blinking.

    If you mean the movie, then that is literally impossible.

    The game. The new one. THE XBOX one. Not the PS3 release with the fixes...

    I have a S rank in Alone in the Dark.

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    @duminakan89 said:

    @maajin said:
    @the_laughing_man said:

    @demoskinos said:

    @maajin said:

    @the_laughing_man said:

    I did it for the first one because I missed the tool tip about countering. I just dodged most of the time.

    Oh my god! That sounds terrible. Were you able to enjoy it?

    I think its perfectly viable. The dodging over an enemy acts as a stun anyways.

    No. I just treated the counter indication as a dodge indication.

    Someone should wrie a horror novel about that.

    LOL Contact Stephen King ASAP.

    I ask because I thought about setting creative challenges for myself in some of the games I have that i'd like to revisit.

    Alone in the Dark without blinking.

    Alone in the Dark period.

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    #20  Edited By Duminakan89

    @duminakan89 said:

    @the_laughing_man said:

    @duminakan89 said:

    @maajin said:
    @the_laughing_man said:

    @demoskinos said:

    @maajin said:

    @the_laughing_man said:

    I did it for the first one because I missed the tool tip about countering. I just dodged most of the time.

    Oh my god! That sounds terrible. Were you able to enjoy it?

    I think its perfectly viable. The dodging over an enemy acts as a stun anyways.

    No. I just treated the counter indication as a dodge indication.

    Someone should wrie a horror novel about that.

    LOL Contact Stephen King ASAP.

    I ask because I thought about setting creative challenges for myself in some of the games I have that i'd like to revisit.

    Alone in the Dark without blinking.

    If you mean the movie, then that is literally impossible.

    The game. The new one. THE XBOX one. Not the PS3 release with the fixes...

    I have a S rank in Alone in the Dark.

    I'd need to record myself so people would believe I didn't blink.

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    #21  Edited By The_Laughing_Man

    @the_laughing_man said:

    @duminakan89 said:

    @the_laughing_man said:

    @duminakan89 said:

    @maajin said:
    @the_laughing_man said:

    @demoskinos said:

    @maajin said:

    @the_laughing_man said:

    I did it for the first one because I missed the tool tip about countering. I just dodged most of the time.

    Oh my god! That sounds terrible. Were you able to enjoy it?

    I think its perfectly viable. The dodging over an enemy acts as a stun anyways.

    No. I just treated the counter indication as a dodge indication.

    Someone should wrie a horror novel about that.

    LOL Contact Stephen King ASAP.

    I ask because I thought about setting creative challenges for myself in some of the games I have that i'd like to revisit.

    Alone in the Dark without blinking.

    If you mean the movie, then that is literally impossible.

    The game. The new one. THE XBOX one. Not the PS3 release with the fixes...

    I have a S rank in Alone in the Dark.

    I'd need to record myself so people would believe I didn't blink.

    Blinking is a ingame action....

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    @duminakan89 said:

    @the_laughing_man said:

    @duminakan89 said:

    @the_laughing_man said:

    @duminakan89 said:

    @maajin said:
    @the_laughing_man said:

    @demoskinos said:

    @maajin said:

    @the_laughing_man said:

    I did it for the first one because I missed the tool tip about countering. I just dodged most of the time.

    Oh my god! That sounds terrible. Were you able to enjoy it?

    I think its perfectly viable. The dodging over an enemy acts as a stun anyways.

    No. I just treated the counter indication as a dodge indication.

    Someone should wrie a horror novel about that.

    LOL Contact Stephen King ASAP.

    I ask because I thought about setting creative challenges for myself in some of the games I have that i'd like to revisit.

    Alone in the Dark without blinking.

    If you mean the movie, then that is literally impossible.

    The game. The new one. THE XBOX one. Not the PS3 release with the fixes...

    I have a S rank in Alone in the Dark.

    I'd need to record myself so people would believe I didn't blink.

    Blinking is a ingame action....

    As in "there's a button to blink".

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    @immortalsaiyan: I mean I'd like to try it, to see if I can do it.

    I liked playing on hard mode because countering is harder to do. I just not one who enjoys limiting my options in game for the sake of a challenge, I enjoying using what is available to me. I bet it would be a challenge, so do it up and see how it goes.

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    @duminakan89: Dodge is much more reliable than countering in Arkham so of course you can; it's even recommended to do the challenge rooms with only minimal use of counters since they're not precisely reliable; though that's much less engaging then trying to use counters to your advantage.

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    @duminakan89: Dodge is much more reliable than countering in Arkham so of course you can; it's even recommended to do the challenge rooms with only minimal use of counters since they're not precisely reliable; though that's much less engaging then trying to use counters to your advantage.

    It's also dead boring. I like playing the challenge maps for points but counters are awesome so I'll still use them.

    But yeah, Dodges are OP in Arkham City. It's very hard to be hit after a dodge by most enemies.

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    @samdrugbringer: Yup, I always used counters and it was much more fun doing so. Should note having done them in reverse order the Arkham Asylum challenge rooms were an absolute joke compared to doing the Arkham City ones + Catwoman; also perfect combo is so damn easy in the first game.

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    @fredchuckdave: Yeah, it's funny going back to AA because after AC everything in the game is pretty much dead simple.

    And Catwoman, ungh. Don't get me started on Catwoman. I still need to do her campaigns (Stupid predator maps without a cape suck) to S rank that game (Not that this site tracks that anymore...)

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    #28  Edited By Fredchuckdave

    @samdrugbringer: Top of the World is basically luck based and takes ~15 minutes to do, though you can reliably kill 3 or 4 guys out of the 8; for the campaigns you'll have pretty shitty conditions for it as well like no Gargoyles/no HP so it really does take forever; you sort of just have to zone out and relax while doing her campaigns or you'll inevitably get extremely irritated. On the bright side if you jump off a balcony on the tower and hit R1 to recover with the whip it looks fucking incredible and feels awesome every time.

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    @duminakan89 said:

    @the_laughing_man said:

    @duminakan89 said:

    @the_laughing_man said:

    @duminakan89 said:

    @maajin said:
    @the_laughing_man said:

    @demoskinos said:

    @maajin said:

    @the_laughing_man said:

    I did it for the first one because I missed the tool tip about countering. I just dodged most of the time.

    Oh my god! That sounds terrible. Were you able to enjoy it?

    I think its perfectly viable. The dodging over an enemy acts as a stun anyways.

    No. I just treated the counter indication as a dodge indication.

    Someone should wrie a horror novel about that.

    LOL Contact Stephen King ASAP.

    I ask because I thought about setting creative challenges for myself in some of the games I have that i'd like to revisit.

    Alone in the Dark without blinking.

    If you mean the movie, then that is literally impossible.

    The game. The new one. THE XBOX one. Not the PS3 release with the fixes...

    I have a S rank in Alone in the Dark.

    I'd need to record myself so people would believe I didn't blink.

    Blinking is a ingame action....

    Lol, i had no idea, never played he game before.

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    Oh word?

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    Considering that dodging (jumping over enemies) is actually safer than countering, yes, it would be possible and probably not very challenging!

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