The PSN was down for a while recently (it said maintenance but I'm not sure if it was scheduled) so that could have affected it. It could also be that it doesn't use the full potential download speed while you're actually using the PS4.
I generally prefer digital because I don't have to get up to switch discs. True story.
It's kind of annoying when digital options are more expensive than physical equivalents though. Presumably they must think it's more profitable and it's likely they'd have a decent idea of that but it does seem strange. I guess maybe there are a lot of people as lazy as me that are also much wealthier.
I've been playing a fair bit of Batman: Arkham Knight recently. I'd say that most of my fears were unfounded, Combat and Predator encounters seem to be pretty decent and the enemies have extra move variety to help balance things out a little (sometimes I even remember to use gadgets). I guess it did take a while for there to be more Combat and Predator stuff but once it gets going it's fine. I do occasionally feel that the combat is slightly less precise than in previous games though, it doesn't feel like the game prioritises suitable targets as much as it used to. I also ran into an issue in two separate Predator encounters where restarting the encounter caused there to be less guys than it started with (which was annoying since I was restarting to aim for a perfect score and ended up with much less exp).
The Batmobile is still kind of terrible though. Any challenge involving driving is a nightmare, especially the ones weighted towards actually being able to drive the thing with some degree of precision. Presumably there's a trick to making it work but I only seem to be able to find new and terrifying ways to make it do something stupid. Aside from using the remote for support (which is kind of cool), it very much pulls me out of "being" Batman (especially considering that there's no way the thing could function on a normal day in Gotham given the danger it would pose to civilians). It also lacks both an Emergency Bat-Turn function and a grapple for making sharp turns, which seems like a strange oversight (unless I just missed the tutorial on those). On the plus side, you don't really need the Batmobile to get around since gliding with the upgraded grapple is brilliant.
The Batmobile combat is okay, at least. I kind of like the "gun-kata" style evading of trajectories but I find it's more of a passable diversion than anything particularly worthwhile.
I just recently discovered that there's a "never seen" bonus for Predator encounters. Now I have to choose between bonus experience or leaving one enemy conscious, disabling his gun and then waiting somewhere for him to spot me before taking him out. Tough choice.
