Just Chat 4

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Batman fan: Suicide Squad: KTJL isn't canon to the Arkhamverse
Me: Sefton Hill literally said it was tho

[Haunter 360]

Dangit I keep forgetting to TLCR gaaaah

I honestly feel the same there TW on the 20 years stuff. I always feel like I'm busy, yet never getting anywhere at the same time somehow? It's frustrating. And then it creeps up in my subconscious and I keep finding myself back in college or secondary school in my dreams. Weirdness.

As for the Arkham Suice Squad stuff, eh - KTJL doesn't really carry the tone of the Arkham games.The Arkham stuff just seems sorta... Stapled on? Like how they called Bioshock Infinite a Bioshock game, when it was an action shooter rather than a horror survival. I think the Arkhamverse stuff was attached in the interest of just kinda hooking in the fans - The fact they had an entirely different Deadshot, and had to paste on some sorta lazy explanation for the discrepancy is telling, I think originally it wasn't going to be Arkhamverse at all.

Officially of course, it's Arkhamverse, but I don't think the fans are out of line for veto-ing that.

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True but this is in a versus debate situation so it was more "Who wins? Batman from Gotham Knights or Batman from KTJL" "That's Arkhamverse Batman so he wins" "No he doesn't and your biased"

Also yeah, I feel like there's this thing I need to address and I can't move on till I address it but I'm too afraid to do so because well you know once you say it you can't unsay it. You just have to own it and move forward.

Also Bioshock's got Hades from Ghost Story which is made by Ken Levine and there's that rumour of Bioshock Isolation which should harken back to an atmosphere more in line with the first two games. I think Infinite was more a reaction to Bioshock's fame than trying to make a Bioshock game. You know, also just gonna say I hated the attempt to tie Infinite into the first game.

I know Bioshock 1 had some sci-fi elements but it went too meta with the tonics being stolen from Rapture and then Elizabeth ending up setting up the first game was just weird. Instead of making Infinite better it made Bioshock 1 less interesting.

[Haunter 360]

The thing is, Bioshock Infinite was fully capable of being a Bioshock sequel - Early concept art and trailers captured that feeling, and the Comstock House section was totally on-point. However, they just sorted... Backtracked and side-tracked as if embarassed to be an eerie survival game, even though that's exactly what people had been wanting.

The crossover elemens were odd, and pretty scuffed in places - Vigors were especially out of place, since like, there's this massive civil war happening, and the only people who think to use bottled superpowers are you, that one guy in the Hall of Heroes, and the Crow Racists? Heck, if I was in a life-or-death struggle for my house, you know I'd be downing a drink to summon swarms of attack crows in an instant, to heck with long-term health concerns. Of course, them's the breaks of a game spending too long in development hell.

The Burial At Sea games, personally, I enjoyed, simply because it felt more like Bioshock. You weren't an invincible bulletproof double-healthbar'd protagonist, you were collecting multiple weapons to balance, and of course, Splicers are much better enemies in every way. Yeah, not as good as the original, but it had some good scenes - The 'interrogation' scene was actually brilliant.

Also, as an aside, dang - Rooster Teeth. That's the end of an era right there.

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I've got high hopes for Hades being a good successor to Bioshock and the rumoured Bioshock: Isolation sounds like it has the right atmosphere for a Bioshock title.

[Haunter 360]

Gaaaah I didn't know I hadn't visited in so long, dangit!
Need to stay on top of this.

And, hopefully! Recently been running my sister through the Bioshock games, she is enjoying it. And agrees that the first game is definitely better than Bioshock Infinite X3
World needs more Bioshock-level games, for certainties.

[Haunter 360]

As an aside, juuust in the process of getting over a lil' case of the 2020 plague. The symptoms of the newest variant really seem to vary wildly though, all I got was dehydration a sore throat, aaaaand 12-hour sleeping shifts. Weirdly I was still able to run TTRPG sessions somehow, but that shiz is all text-writing, wouldn't have managed if I ever did that stuff via voicechat or in-person.


As an aside to an aside, uh, shooould we like... Set up a TLCR Discord server? Just as a means of continued communication for when Proboards eventually shuts down or something X3

[Haunter 360]

Oh hey - Turned up exactly one month later, to the day!
I'm gonna try to reconnect with that whole Facebook thing, maybe update the pic or soooomething.

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I think a discord server would be cool. I've already got a Discord account for the Death Battle Wiki so that could be fun to give a go.

[Haunter 360]

AAAA crud sorry I totally didn't realise I hadn't visited in so long! My bad, got super disorganised.
Lemme juuuuuuuuuuuuuust set up that Discord now real quicklyyy.

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Hey sorry I missed your discord invite Haunter