Posted on 02/14/2016 at 12:00 PM
| Filed Under Feature
If you start with with the beginning of the New 52 Batman you will be fine. Snyder spends the first 12 issues establishing the Court of Owls, which is a totally new addition to the Batman universe, while helping you understand some of the "Bat Family" workings. The weird thing about the New 52 is that everything was started fresh except for Green Lantern and Batman, which makes the continuity kind of wonky. But the Joker doesn't show up until after the Court of Owls stuff, and it's one of the better takes on the character.
Do you feel like you see a lot of cutscenes these days? I feel like a lot of video game storytelling is now done in engine, and with audio logs and such that you can ignore if you want. I'm not saying that I want to go back to PS2 RPG days where you wouldn't control a character until 30 minutes into the game, but I find myself missing true cutscenes.
What you want from GTA is what I've been begging for pretty much since 3. When I thought it was going to be like Shenmue with actual named characters I thought it would be awesome if you could find some high-level mob moss just doing his business and assassinate him to take over. It would be super hard to do, but if you could it would change the game. True emergent gameplay right there. Also, the concept of having an overall notoriety that is separate from your wanted level would be really cool. Imagine going shopping and getting noticed by a beat cop. What do you do in that situation?
We have a facebook page, but it is dead. I've been thinking of resurrecting it, but first I want to iron out the audio problems we've been having.