batman: arkham city (single segment speedrun) w/ full commentary

[brian7becker]

1:49:41 shit! you just missed the ice grenade I think...geez... the shotgun in hard can do a big damage!

[pigeoncoo]

Fantastic video, I actually enjoyed the commentary, kept me watching.

[FirstPlx]

I need help

I use the xbox 360 version for batman

but if i shoot on 25:07 with the elector shooter on the door its dont go open i tryed every thing..

any know why? would be very thankfull if any can help me

[jeremysaint]

@FirstPlx the electro thing can be used three ways. left trigger and b to just shoot it auto target. most of the time this is fine. the other two ways are left trigger and right trigger or left trigger and right bumper. when you aim the elctro thing at a device you will see it tell you what you can do depending on whether you use the bumper or the trigger to shoot it. so in the above example, you would use the left trigger plus right bumper to raise the gate/door thing.

[FirstPlx]

@jeremysaint i think you understand me wrong , same problem i would have in 30:55 i shoot on with the elctro shooter but the door dont go open....

[jeremysaint]

@FirstPlx in that case i dont understand. for both spots, left trigger and b will open the door. in lieu of that aiming manually at the motor thing at the top of the gate and left trigger and right bumper to raise the gate. that is the only way to do it though, so i am really not sure what else i can say.

[jeremysaint]

@FirstPlx hmm, you realize that at 30:55 you have to slide under the open door right? it doesnt go all the way up?

[FirstPlx]

@jeremysaint i watched too another videos normaly should be the door rise slightly, but she does not

I'm really at a loss

[jeremysaint]

@FirstPlx ok to be clear. air manualy at the motor thingy at the top of the door. use left trigger to aim it, right BUMPER to shoot. gate goes up. then walk to door normally and press a to walk though. beyond that i dont know what else to say.

[TheJurn]

If you ever do a speedrun of anything again, don't commentate over it.

[facepoke]

Also sorry for critiquing your commentary more than the run.

[facepoke]

While I do agree with most of what you said, I think the entire video as a whole would've been better without the criticisms. I was really engaged when you would explain some of the tricks and routes then put off when you would suddenly talk about your gripes about the game then lost interest when you spent the last 20 minutes talking about gripes and government instead of the speedrun itself. The commentary felt more like a review by the time it ended. But otherwise it was fun watching.

[jeremysaint]

@facepoke i appreciate the feedback and will take it to heart in my future projects.

[facepoke]

Have you ever figured out what happened at 55:42? I must admit I laughed so hard at your misfortune...now I feel kinda bad about it. :,(

[facepoke]

you can dive through a wall as soon as you blow it up to skip the animation of you shielding from the explosion.

also im only at 48:27 and it's already too amazing! i'll comment more when im deeper into the video

[jeremysaint]

@facepoke get ready to be depressed as i make at least 2 serious and costly mistakes. i figure i lose about 10 mins to the bug and my 2 major errors.

[facepoke]

Are all the small gripes you have about the game from a speedrunner's perspective or just a general opinion because I could see people getting upset about the negatives you point out because of a misconception...

[jeremysaint]

@facepoke hmm, i think i will try to reign that in a bit if i make another run, but first i need to find a way to improve the audio from my mic.

[jeremysaint]

@facepoke my gripes about the game are not from a speedrunners perspective. i really do hate the grundy fight and think it is an embarassment to the concept of boss fights. but that said i think the game is great. a solid 8.5 out of 10

[pwnedTAS]

I'm in full nitpick mode here because the run is really good otherwise!

25:05 you should REC the door while you're still on the gargoyle, I think it's faster.

25:30 sequence break improv ftw!

26:30 I have a video on how to cheese the Mr Hammer fight (recorded on Normal, not sure about Hard); might make up the XP lost skipping the other fight, as you can potentially end Mr. Hammer with a 70x combo.

27:39 how did you manage to skip that cutscene >=(

29:33 what...

31:40 oh wow, I did not know that!

[jeremysaint]

@pwnedTAS i was just looking at your runs actually. specifically, your TAS are very interesting to me. i always love TAS runs, and i really appreciate all the feedback. for a speedrun i cant see trying to take longer on my hammer, and i dont really miss the xp all that much.

[pwnedTAS]

AR training: loving that path you took, it's really fast

22:20 Have you tried Evading just before Alfred/Oracle convos? That sometimes allows you to move forward normally during the start of the convo before reverting to the slow walk

22:45 Auto batarang might hit that switch faster

23:20 Slowmo-cam can be cancelled by pressing A

24:35 Grapnel to the gargoyle left of where you IT'd the guard then glidekick. It takes out the last guy faster and doesn't alert him (on normal, not sure about Hard).

[jeremysaint]

@pwnedTAS at 22:45 that was auto batarang, just apparently not at the right angle.

i really appreciate the tip about cancelling slo mo cam, and will definately try it if i do another speed run.

24:35 i might try your technique of glidekicking, but the few times i tried in my practice it was tricky and i often ended up landing on the woman in the chair.

[facepoke]

Also you should tweet this out while it's popular and has synergy.

[jeremysaint]

@facepoke i dont have a twitter, but if you want to twitter it then cool. really it is not about getting a ton of views, i just wanted to have a record of it somewhere for SDA to check.

[facepoke]

Just throwing it out there; At 1:12 you said Arkham Asylum Instead of Arkham City...REJECT :P

[jeremysaint]

5:51 i actually tried sliding into there a lot, and it never worked. but if you are sure it will work i will try it again.

6:43 i could not skip that conversation. i was mashing b the entire time. i always try to skip that one, hoping that this time will be the time it works.

about riddles, i havent bothered to plot out solving some of the riddles on the way. if i do another speedrun in the future i will probably spend some time planning to solve a couple of the riddles on the way,

[pwnedTAS]

@jeremysaint Sliding works with the right timing. If you watch the first part of my walkthrough video you'll see it in action. Also, it's weird you couldn't get that dialog skip to work, it's never failed for me :/

[jeremysaint]

i had to uninstall my catwoman dlc, as in delete it from the hard drive.  kind of annoying that i could not simply turn it off. i have already completed the game with catwoman, and for that matter 100 percented it, save the stupid challenge maps.

[pwnedTAS]

Now for the real comments. I'll be making more once the comment space runs out

5:51 Even when you're Bruce, you can slide into those crawl spaces, saving a second or two.

6:43 You can skip that conversation by pressing B >_>

8:29 I honestly had no idea you could enter through the balcony that early :O

10:40 what about solving the Riddle there? Easy XP, and it doesn't slow you down much.

13:02 nice tutorial skip!

15:00 I think it MIGHT be possible to dive through the window earlier.

[pwnedTAS]

Before I start watching, just a standard question: did you remove/move over your Catwoman data in order to play this Vanilla, or did you just not buy Catwoman at all?

I'll have better feedback once I finish watching, I promise :)

[facepoke]

AHHHH PROCESS FASTER!!!

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