Arkham Asylum got everything about the gameplay completely right, but it had the shittiest possible writing and dialogue for a AAA game. I don't expect anything particularly good from a Superhero game in general, but they went to the effort of getting all of these voice actors together and make a big stink about it being some great Batman-centric effort, but it was just trite and stupid. The sequel was worse.
I'm playing Final Fantasy XII because I had the sudden urge to. Holy crap, why didn't anyone tell me about this game? Lots of fun so far, pretty straightforward gameplay and the story is fairly interesting. I always find the naming Scheme that Square Enix puts into their games that take place in Ivalice (FF Tactics, Tactics Advance, Tactics Advance A:2 Grimoire of the long title, War of The Lions, all that garbage) sound kind of like curses or just dirty words. Basch. Vaan. Kyte. Ramza. Ritz. Hores (personal favourite). I have a bit of a hard time looking past the fact that every human is a well-toned super handsome fair haired person with perfect skin and the face of a 14 years old girl who speak with gravelly voices and talk about war. There's a lizard man played by John Dimaggio who makes up for many of these faults, and the gameplay itself is just excellent. I just have a hard time looking at any of these people without thinking I've stepped into the uncanny valley. They don't look like people any more. They look like Final Fantasy characters. This has been happening since X and it's lazy as hell.
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