Thought for the day – Guns

“I don’t need to be careful anymore! I have a gun!”
– Homer Simpson

I’m going to try and post more, just short things about ideas and criticisms. I owe it to mankind to publish the output of my Mighty Brain.

Batman: Arkham Asylum is the first game in a long while that has made me treat guns with caution. One-on-one against a normal, unarmed opponent Batman will pummel them with impunity, but even a run-of-the-mill goon with a rifle can cause problem if he is allowed to get a good shot. Bats can’t just charge through the hail of bullets and deliver four knuckles-worth of justice, as a salvo will not only take about 1/3 of your health but leave you staggering, making escape more difficult as you hurriedly try to grapple to one of the Asylum’s ubiquitous gargoyles. If you get hit once, it’s going to get harder to avoid being hit again, it really underlines how guns are things that make killing much, much easier, very appropriate for a game where the protagonist has a near pathological hatred of them.