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New Game Informer Cover Tomorrow [Up: Batman: Arkham Knight website semi-up]
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Uno Venova
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Next gen only, with either Batmobile, or Batplane vehicles would be fantastic.
bad decision, Origins is a great game.
Aquamarine
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#1. Batman: Arkham Asylum
Rocksteady Studios - 2009
#2. Batman: Arkham City
Rocksteady Studios - 2011
#3. Batman: Arkham Origins
Warner Bros. Games Montréal (single-player)
Splash Damage (multiplayer) - 2013
#4. Batman: Arkham Knight
Rocksteady Studios (presumably) - 2014-2015
Domino Theory
Crystal Dynamics
I LOVE the Batman Arkham series, but skipped Origin as well. Not because it didn't seem like a good game, it just came out less than a month before the next gen console launches and I wanted to focus on games for the XB1. I really wish Origins would've come out on the XB1, but this new will have to do.
It's the series name. It's unrealistic to expect them to drop it.
I doubt it
Aquamarine
Member
Not after how Arkham City and Arkham Origins sold.
But Nintendo could always pay for a port...and they seem to have a good relationship with Warner Bros. because Warner Bros. continues to support Wii U with new retail games (LEGO The Hobbit, LEGO The Movie Videogame), so there's a chance.
Some Nobody
Junior Member
...Do you NEED the, New 52 designs? I like them for other characters but for Bats? Eh.
Thaumaturgic Tomato
Member
I got Origins launch week, still haven't finished. I think I stopped right after the beating
. It just kept draining my interest.
Does Arkham Origins ever have anything to do with ARKHAM anything?
Origins aside, Arkhams 1&2 gave me great joy.
I hope this new entry is the finale and we get a totally different stylization for a reboot. Go to Japan and ask those Guilty Gear Xrd artists and animators "How did you do that?"
Bane the final time (I hope final)
Does Arkham Origins ever have anything to do with ARKHAM anything?
Origins aside, Arkhams 1&2 gave me great joy.
I hope this new entry is the finale and we get a totally different stylization for a reboot. Go to Japan and ask those Guilty Gear Xrd artists and animators "How did you do that?"
Rodney McKay
Member
More glitchy than the previous games, or at least worst glitches. Had a game breaking bug where I fell through the environment and the game saved on me so there was no way to continue other than restarting (this was about 6-8 hours in for me).
Also had issues unlocking challenges once they had been performed. I did a stealth area using the 4 types of takedowns required (too me like 3-4 attempts to finally do them without being spotted), but then when I finished the mission it didn't unlock and because the game saved I was unable to try again (this challenge is only possible in like 3 spots in the entire campaign).
Most of the gadgets were just copies from the previous games (being the third game and a prequel, that was disappointing to me at least) and there was only about one new gadget that I actually enjoyed (
Shock Gloves
More nitpicky, but I found that the core combat was tweaked just slightly to the point where I didn't enjoy it as much as the previous games. I think it was the enemy attack speed that was slightly sped up, so you seemed to get more easily punched in the middle of a combo compared to the previous games. But I will admit that the gadget you get later in the game (
the shock gloves
So if I HADN'T hit that game breaking glitch, I'd probably still not have liked it quite as much as the other games, but not bad on it's own. But since I DID hit that glitch, I had much more negative feelings toward it overall. I'm hopeful that if Rocksteady is making the next one they'll avoid the polish issues I had with Origins, and since it'll be their third Batman game I'm also hoping they'll do a better job of mixing things up (like how Arkham City added a new playable character/campaign with Catwoman).
RPGCrazied
Member
Man, Arkham Batman's are getting milked! Can we at least have it on a new engine? I'll only buy it if its by rocksteady, Origins, while okay, was a buggy mess.
Joei
Member
Yeah, I get confused about the people that skipped Origins. Yes, it's a lower quality game than AC, but it has, by far, the best story out of the three and a really interesting cast of characters.
That said, I'm very curious as to what the next game will be like. I think the best one is AA because of its tight focus, though I'm thinking they'll continue to make the game bigger, although that might not be smart. One of the problems I have with AO (though I did like the game) was that it had probably twice as much ground to cover than AC, but it was all so pointless. When I was doing endgame stuff, I was wandering into parts of the city that I was never in during the game, and frankly, had no use post-game. They need to go back to the AA formula and give a game with a tight narrative where the game world slowly enlarges with the story.
I have to admit, these are issues I had with the game as well. What WB did to combat did mess things up a bit. In fact, it altered the combat to the point that I didn't even want to do the challenge rooms, and I 100% them in AA and AC. But the ability you spoilered, man, I loved it. I saw a lot of hate for it in some of the threads here, but I really enjoyed it. One thing I absolutely hated was that they locked abilities behind those in game challenges. I was soooooo pissed about that.
Jean Valjean
Member
Hope Superman makes an appearance. And Batman has to fight him.
I'll get the GOTY version after a price cut. I just stay one year behind the new ones and they come out just as frequently for me. They'll probably pack in a movie too like last time, in addition to all the DLC. They already have a digital movie bundle with origins on PSN.
Besides ... I just played Blackgate.
Itchy//Tasty
Member
Yeah at the end it's revealed that
Arkham has been closed for many years, and Quincy Sharpe is on the radio using the incident at Blackgate to lobby for the re-opening of the Asylum to give the criminally insane the treatment they need. Hence, Arkham Origins. Also it pretty much sets up for a Suicide Squad game with Waller recruiting Deathstroke in the ending, and Deadshot and Bronze Tiger in the Blackgate spin-off.
A.D. Skinner
Member
I have to agree.
As soon as Sir Conroy leaked that little bit of information...it stood out when he said things like "huge cast, working on it for a while" etc etc.
It is impossible for this to NOT be a Justice League game..impossible.
Not necessarily, no. But something other then the designs they currently have. I'm sick of playing as a batman who looks like he can barely move due to his muscle mass. I get that he needs to be strong, but Arkham batman doesn't look agile at all.
What about
my girl Harley Quinn. She may as well be the leader of the suicide squad. I'd love to play as her.
Rastafarian42
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A suit and build more towards the Origin model would be ideal IMO.
I've got my decade's worth of Batman games pre-ordered already!
Yeah like you say WB seems to be cosy enough with Nintendo for such a crazy thing to happen but the sales have been really poor so it's really doubtful I guess. Even 3DS game under preformed didn't it? I'm guessing this will be PS3/4/360/One/PC.
Itchy//Tasty
Member
Hell, I want King Shark.
Considering that they cancelled the DLC for Arkham Origin and had to refund it, I really doubt it.
Aren't the Lego games release for almost all systems?
FuriousDark
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No Conroy, No Batman
Pharaoh 117
Member
It's not Rocksteady's fault that WB wanted to milk the franchise. They still want to tell the last part of their story.
Well then i got good news for you, Conroy is voicing Batman.
Spring-Loaded
Member
Conroy didn't do that good a job in the first two Arkham games. He's great in other media, but not good in this series, for whatever reason. He probably needs better voice direction. Roger Craig Smith had a much better performance in Origins.
I will never understand this logic of thinking.
Origins easily proved I didn't need Conroy or Hamill to play those characters (although, seriously, Baker's Joker was just a Hamill impression).
Aquamarine
Member
Yeah, but the fact that Warner Bros. is actually releasing new retail games on Wii U in 2014 is a faint sign that they still have faith in them...even if it is only LEGO games.
Origin suit felt like armour around a more agile, thinner batman. But it still ultimately felt like a re-skinning and still looks clumsy. I want a batman who looks strong, but also looks like he could do the moves he does. I just want a different looking batman. Something like the batman begins suit. Where it looks like a guy who's trained to fight. Not a guy who's trained to be bronzed up and enter a mr universe contest. Lol.
SlipperyMoose
Member
Shit i'm still working on Arkham Origins, I beat the first two though. For some reason I am pushing myself through this one.
Glittering Crux
Banned
If Arkham Knight is a reference to Knightfall and the main villain is Azrael, I'm in.
Otherwise, I think I may be done with these games for a while. City was good but not as good as Asylum and the formula was getting old. I played City last December so I'll probably wait 1-2 until I play Origins.
Otherwise, I think I may be done with these games for a while. City was good but not as good as Asylum and the formula was getting old. I played City last December so I'll probably wait 1-2 until I play Origins.
Well, Arkham Origins was kind of a reference to Knightfall since it borrowed a lot of things from the Bane story arc
I really couldn't see Azrael as a main character in the game. He only was important in Knightfall and he's been dead in the comics for a long time iirc
.la1n
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I feel like it may have to do with him being used to playing off other voice actors in television voice roles vs reading lines by himself for video game recording. I only know he mentioned it being the case in Asylum, not sure about City.
BIONIC-ARRRMMM!!
Member
I'm still waiting for an Arkham Origins Ultimate Bad Cover Edition myself. Hopefully for next gen as well.
Vitter.
Member
never get's old!
He was definitely in the same room as Mark Hamill during Arkham City recording, as shown in some behind the scenes footage.
Some of that footage was creepy as fuck. Seeing Hamill BECOME Joker.
Not always. A lot of the times for voice actors, behind the scenes video stuff are scheduled shoots. Something they arrive for specifically and not done during the actual recording of the lines....just done for a video shoot.
NotTheGuyYouKill
Member
I hope the next Arkham is more Origins than it is City in terms of story. Arkham Origins simply nailed the tone, the pacing, the narrative. City became a clusterfuck at the ending.
clutch.as.it.gets.
Member
I think it's time they tie in other DC heros.
Diablohead
Member
I'd like to see Robin segments if they were short like catwoman and the harley quinn dlc were.
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