General Gaming Thread

[Super Buu]

Been playing Arkham Asylum for a while now and, although the rest remains to be seen, my interest has been held pretty firmly the whole way through. More and more I've been playing games which I think are 'good', but which had the potential to be really great if the developers just spent a bit more time on it. So it's a breath of fresh air to play a game of this overall quality and polish. You can tell that the designers weren't just trying to make a successful game here, they really wanted to make it as good as it could be.

So far it seems they've managed to keep the gameplay varied enough between platforming, exploration, stealth, regular combat and more creative boss stuff without any of those aspects feeling like they're letting the game down. I think most people have probably played a game where, say, the combat is good but there are crappy tacked on stealth/driving sections which are just a chore to play. Here, it feels like every part was given the same amount of love. I also have a fetish for grappling hooks and have been waiting far too long for the Metroid series to expand the grapple beam functionality to "works on most things", so having that was another plus point for me.