Batman: Arkham Knight is back on PC... yay?

[owsf2000]

According to PC Gamer, The PC port of the latest batman game that was yanked from Steam due to being such a buggy unplayable mess for the majority of PC gamers, is finally back on Steam

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[kane_magus]

Yeah, I saw the Steam release email. I just shrugged, closed the email, and went back to doing other things, and pretty much completely forgot/ignored the news, until I saw your post here just now.

Maybe when the full game (i.e. the game plus all of the inevitable DLC, including what is already out there now and whatever else they may decide to shit out later, after the six month period of the Season Pass has expired) is all bundled together for $5 in a few years, then maybe I'll look into it again. Maybe. But $49.99 for the base game (i.e. the version with all the DLC shit chopped out of it) and $89.99 (!!!) for the "Premium Edition" (which "Includes 2 items: Batman™: Arkham Knight, Batman™: Arkham Knight Season Pass" according to Steam) is still way too rich for my blood.

And, no, as you say, none of that DLC is apparently being given away in this so-called "deal" with the previous games which, yes, I already own (except for Blackgate which I don't give a shit about) so, yes, this "deal" means exactly jack and shit to me.

Here's the DLC, according to the Steam page:

Downloadable Content For This Game
$39.99 Batman™: Arkham Knight Season Pass
$6.99 A Matter of Family
$1.99 Harley Quinn Story Pack
$1.99 Red Hood Story Pack
$1.99 Prototype Batmobile Skin
$1.99 Batman Classic TV Series Batmobile Pack
$0.99 1st Appearance Batman Skin
$1.99 Bat-Family Skin Pack
$1.99 1989 Movie Batmobile Pack
$1.99 Crime Fighter Challenge Pack #1
$1.99 Crime Fighter Challenge Pack #2
$1.99 Crime Fighter Challenge Pack #3
$1.99 GCPD Lockdown
$1.99 2008 Tumbler Batmobile Pack
$0.99 1970s Batman Themed Batmobile Skin
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$70.85 Total

So, yeah, I don't know if all that other extraneous bullshit is included in the "Season Pass" or not, but if it isn't, then the DLC costs more than the game does. If it is included, then the DLC "only" costs about the same fucking price as the fucking game itself (i.e. $39.99 for "just" the Season Pass, when the base game itself costs $49.99). Just to note again, however, that the Season Pass apparently claims to only cover up to six months after release (by which I assume that means the original release back in June), so any DLC they release after that period, I can only assume will not be covered by the Season Pass and will have to be bought separately.

[owsf2000]

If they mean the same thing that Project Diva F 2nd did, then the "6 months" refers to how long it will take all the DLC associated with the season pass to slow-drip out. Make no mistake that odds are all that DLC is probably already completed - as was the case in Project Diva where they had 6 months to slowdrip out 100+ dollars of DLC that had already been released in japan iirc (japan got the game about a full year I believe before NA as per the usual with these games.)

It might or might not mean all the DLC will be released by then however.

Odds are the DLC you see above is part of the season pass - it's just the portion that's been slowdripped out already since june. This of course assumes they're not totally morally bankrupt of course.

[kane_magus]

It makes me wonder if all of this DLC isn't actually the other meaning of DLC, i.e. Disc Locked Content, as opposed to the usual meaning, i.e. Downloadable Content. (If it is, though, I figure it would have already been sniffed out by now, and I haven't heard anything about it for this particular game. But then, you know how very little I bother with video game news these days overall, so that's not saying much. ¬_¬) As far as a digital download from Steam or wherever would be concerned, however, I suppose that issue is already a matter of six of one half a dozen of the other. *shrug*

This is, of course, assuming that all of Arkham Knight is even on the physical disc to begin with, as opposed to mostly or completely not on the disc at all, as is the case with Metal Gear or Minecraft Story Mode or whatever else.

At this point, I can pretty much only assume that it's necessarily going to be one of those extremes or the other, given how badly the modern video game industry behaves in general these days. ¬_¬

[kane_magus]

Looks like at least some of that shit is indeed already in the files of the PC version, apparently.

[owsf2000]

Unless they re-issue discs for the PC version, odds are there's lots of the newly released game not on the disc. After all some of the things wrong with the original PC release included missing assets iirc.