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  Whoa...Too each his own opinion to be sure...but i respectfully disagree!! In a day and age where every ... : RSalads
  • agree! : ketsyn
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    I definitely loved the game, which is why i wanted to start with the restaurant comparison. It's a terrif... : AndrewYoon
    • I thought it did a decent job introducing newcomers to the gadgets and combat techniques. Thats basically : Prozium
    • I actually thought that was an exceedingly well written review. I think the analogy holds and indeed was... : sevogajre
    • One person's opinion, but as much as I love Batman, I couldn't even bring myself to finish the first game... : GigiLeCheshire
  • ellipses! : Sexpansion Pack
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  What is with the AR missions? I had little trouble with them. As for the side missions, I think they wer... : ketsyn
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    I'm cool with the no scores thing, it has been the Shacknews way for a long time. Plenty of sites that d... : MaxPete82
    • OK, maybe "taken seriously" is the wrong phrasing, but if they want more people to actually read the revi : ketsyn
  • No. Scores mean nothing these days. I've read plenty of articles (see: any IGN review) that hammers the g... : TylerJSmith
  • We take reviews very seriously, which is why you're seeing this review now. Warner Bros elected to not gi... : Garnett Lee
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  Man this review is so wrong it makes me tear up a little. :`( : mwasher
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    This is the most accurate review I've read, and I am a fan of Arkham City. To me Arkham City is a bett... : wickoattack
    • Bit of a run-on sentence at the end there.. : wickoattack
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    The game is gorgeous, certainly, but Andrew pretty much hit the nail on the head with this review. It's b... : TylerJSmith
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      Asylum is much better, in terms of a focused story and a superb linear quest. City works better as a sat... : OzzieMejia
      • That's very true. I'm not sure how I would have felt had Rocksteady just up and copied the Asylum formula... : TylerJSmith
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  Some of the comments in this review reminded me of this. http://www.hiwiller.com/2010/04/29/if-mario-was... : daggot
  • it's funny 'cause it's true : ketsyn
  • I agreed with your statement until you mentioned Out Of This World... and then I REALLY agreed with your ... : jeffcox111
  • Another good contemporary example would be Dark Souls and Demon's Souls. Those games are pretty much all... : sevogajre
• Ok got a question regarding : Your utility belt too is nearly filled right from the start, fully empoweri : chadg033
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  I guess it's like skipping Star Wars ANH and starting at Empire then bitching you don't know wtf is going... : grandmasterlee
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    I am so confused by this post : Begawkiness
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      did you read the article? He is complaining you are a bit lost if you didn't play the Arkham Asylum, thu... : grandmasterlee
      • Oh derp moment on my end, sorry. : Begawkiness
  • oops sorry for the "dumbfuck" comment, that was out of line. I sperg out a bit when people don't suck ba... : grandmasterlee
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  While I believe even good games need their flaws pointed out, this review does rather read as if the sequ... : Dallyapok
  • This review reads more like an internet commenter disappointed in an expansion pack for AA. The whole ton... : Entity
• I was 70% through the game (plus a shitload of side quest stuff) on 360 when it decided to delete my save... : pokerman33
• Wow! Okay then. I played both. Finished Arkham City yesterday and immediately started a new game. I c... : Sxio
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  This is just a bad review. It is the worse review of arkham city I have seen so far. I know it's an opini... : dedon0707
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    ^^^ My brain feels like it's been slammed against a brick wall just looking at this. : ManiacalMoose
    • a brick wall of text! : Topsiderover
    • Seriously, it's as if dedon0707 has never even heard of the concept of a paragraph. Jesus. : singlespace
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  fuck this shit, where is valcan : Alpha Class Android
  • Still waiting for the PC release I imagine. : Topsiderover
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  The restaurant metaphor sucks. =\ : grendel
  • Yeah that was my first reaction so I quit reading. : freshyk
• It's really rare that a Shacknews review runs so counter to my own experience with a game. I found the fi... : Pfunk2k2
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  You really should have edited out the restaurant metaphor. It isn't apt, doesn't add to your point and ma... : sharpie
  • Feels like the Arkham City review was an excuse to wedge in the restaurant metaphor, rather than necessar... : MeestaNob
• If I were trying to decide if I wanted this game or not based on this review I would not find ANY help wh... : moco300
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  What a strange review. Of course it's important to talk about a game's flaws, but there isn't really muc... : Sapiens
  • yeah just a little blurb at the end : bolneze
• You should probably start writing at ign or something : jingletard
• TLDR: "This restaurant isn't THAT great...but don't get me wrong, it's still great." (wtf?¿? ) : squeakychimp
• I don't usually do this, but I felt this was a rather poorly written review. The restaurant metaphor felt... : The Grolar Bear
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  Wow.. Reading this it, sounds like the reviewer didn't even play through the whole game and just listed r... : shad0w1979
  • Agreed. The game is much better than its predecessor and the review doesn't do it any justice. : DRFUCKYOUALL
• a review this is not. : doomed
• Yikes, I've never seen a review on the Shack bashed this hard... I've read comments regarding issues wit... : ImageOmega
• Best line in the whole review, "In an era of four hour copy-paste campaigns...". I applaud you Mr. Yoon. : SerratedDrums
• It's a review based on your opinion, i get that but... this is ridiculous. First, what was with the rest... : Dustinian