Batman Arkham Games

The Scarecrow stuff isnt all that impressive considering Psychomantis did it nearly a decade prior

>>376487512
I agree 100%
Nice to read someone who does not spout the same city meme

>>376487712
Yeah. I liked City, but it wasn't *that* good. Asylum I beat 4 times. It's not really a big thing but I even bothered to beat it on hard, I remember feeling pretty good about it because the game tells you that hard mode should only be played by pros

>>376487512
>asylum best one
fucking sewer man

>>376488071
Hey now, the sewers weren't that bad, and that's the place where the Killer Croc encounter happens

Shame that it wasn't a real boss though

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>>376487512

There was a thread already, dear OP, but since this is my favorite series of all time, i'm fine with it.

>inb4 play more games, you casual
Sorry /v/, my autistic love for this series don't let me.

Reposting my ranking: City > Knight > Asylum > Origins > Blackgate > VR

>>376490581
I never actually played Blackgate, just wasn't interested in it

>tfw I pre-ordered Origins and bought it day one

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>>376490959
When i was a consolefag i preordered City and got pic related, p good

>>376491096
that's nice

I never actually finished the Arkham City DLC, I just couldn't bother because I had already watched a lets play of it

>>376490959

As the huge Bamham fan i am, i liked it, except for:

>the fact that 2D movement makes the stealth scenarios boring, no place for improvisation.
>some very shit bossfights, even for the series standards

>>376490581

I remember these pictures. Someone was doing some real good shit with the CGI models but I forget the artists name. BEAUTIFUL. I MEAN FUCKING BEAUTIFUL SHIT.

>>376491743

You mean porn, right?.

>>376491675
Yeah, it was the game being mostly 2D that turned me off

>>376492007

Believe it or not, no. They were like, just visual landscapes. Fuck it. Gonna go look for it, maybe the website is out there still with some keywords.

We had a whole thread about it last year that shit was fucking nnmph. Landscapes, some in character models as well. Just beautiful. Absolutely. Gotta be seen.

>>376492478

Try to find it man, i'm in for everything from Bamham.

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>>376487512

Agreed with your assessment.

>>376490581

>but since this is my favorite series of all time

Same here. I don't give a fuck if people don't like the series. It's pretty well done for what it is. One of the only series that I can literally sit and play through and never get tired of it. It's just a great experience.

>>376487512
I enjoyed City more but I realize Arkham is better, it's just that I always wanted to fly as Batman.

>>376492627

http://deadendthrills.com/gallery/?gid=136

Found it.

>>376492960

Also I made a mistake. All that's been done here are screenshots. Nothing's been enhanced or what not.

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I loved origins because it has no magic bullshit like poison ivy or harry potter.

Tons of brawling and predator rooms.

Many boss fights where you go hand to hand with villains and fuck them up.

Just beating the shit out of people.

Arkham Knight had much less magic, which was good. But there was too much batmobile and story. Not enough fights or predator rooms.

>>376493089
Say what you will about Knight, but that game looked fucking beautiful

>>376487512
I'd prefer them to refine metroidvania aspect of Asylum instead of going for open world meme. The series completely lost me after City

>>376493216
Well, the series is over now though. But I agree
>>376493143
Origins was fun, just my least favourite of the series

>>376487512
City > Knight (minus tank batmobile) > Asylum >>>>>>>>>>> Knight

>>376490581
fun fact: the batgirl DLC is made by the guys behind Origins

Set aside the amazing worlds, characters, stories, all the trimmings, and they are still top of the line action games; and predator mode is still the best stealth/puzzle game of the 7th generation.

>>376495954
I agree, the stealth bits were really fucking good

I enjoyed Asylum, City, and Knight even with some of the drawbacks each game had (Asylum having less refined combat and bullshit enemies, City with its crappy DLC and some annoying bits here and there with level design, Knight with the Batmobile tank fights and the actual Arkham Knight being kinda stupid).

I also loved a lot of the final interactions you had with people in Knight (especially if you wait to capture a villain until after you revealed your identity) and it touched something we do not always see in Batman that often.

Origins was a buggy copy and paste job of City that was a disappointment and I hated playing it.

Asylum was fantastic
City was fantastic
Origins was fantastic
Knight was a fucking disaster

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>>376487512
Asylum and City is tossup whether you like linear or open world approach more, but both are fucking good games. In fact I think all Arkham games are good, even if Origins was marred by being just "more City" and Knight was pretty horrendous at launch on PC. You basically can't go wrong with an of the,, but Asylum is the actually different one structurally.

>>376495954
>dat feel when responsible for both bamham combat and "detective mode" which became staples for many games to copy

Not sure how I feel about that, but Arkham Asylum blew my mind just how damn good it was. Both as a video game and Batman material.

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>>376493143
I actually think Origins had the tightest combat in a sense enemies were rather aggressive and didn't just wait around for you to pummel one guy, which automatically translated to you having to use more gadgets and be aggressive yourself. This was also what people whined about because it made the game too difficult or something. I don't agree with bosses because they were severely underused and mainly just there for marketing purposes.

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>tfw platinum

>>376487512

In what world did Asylum have great bosses?

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>>376497736
>mfw even MP in Origins was fun provided you could find people for it

Shame it died. Also, fuck everyone who would quit the moment they didn't get to play as Batman or Robin.

Meh... Arkham Knight was the best for me. I'm a grafix whore, so the real looking atmosphere and gritty looking thugs made the experience feel more live and real.

And I loved the all around scale of the game. Gliding through the skies and seeing the big ass cities and skylines from a distance made me feel like I was Batman.

burger tier games, all of them, nothing more but nothing less

Still enjoyable but very consciously low-brow oriented.

Being mass produced product for normies made by normies it focuses on what normies like and continue to improve on what little expectations their audience asks of them.

I enjoyed all 4 games and rank them all around the same -- hamburgers.

I bought Arkham Knight with all the DLC for like 25 Ausbucks the other week and thoroughly enjoyed it.

>>376487512
Knight disappointed me compared to the "leaks" and Origins might as well not count as part of the series it was so shit but Asylum and City make a perfect diad of a series. I should replay these soon but I don't want to wear them out on myself.

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Did anyone catch the game last night?

>>376497951
Bane, Poison Ivy, both were great

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>>376498814

>tfw playing this on 360
>scared as fuck I got the RROD

>>376498987
The game effectively bamboozled you

>>376497952
was it? I got the game too late to try it out. thanks a bunch for peer-to-peer setup, warner bros.

>>376500383
The MP was really fun, but it took fucking ages to find a match, even day one

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Asylum > Origins > City > Knight

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>>376501059
>Origins better than City

Idk, outside Asylum I never really got into them, although I have played City, Origins, and Knight to an extent as well.

The combat is cool and all, but it makes Batman too superhuman-like and not as much Batman. Gadgets should play a role against heavily outnumbering non-gun guys as well, and not just as special moves like they do in the games.

Outside of Asylum, the stories were kinda shit. Weird asspull explanations everywhere like the decision for Arkham City to even be a thing. Not to mention weird little inconsistencies with established things like Batman should never be able to stand toe to toe against Deathstroke and win but it's a thing in Origins. Also the handling of the Batmobile in Knight and how he "runs people over." Oh and while Asylum was passable, I am personally disappointed that the villains weren't as stylish nor as nuanced as their counterparts from the same story.

Though my actual biggest gripe with the gameplay is that there's all this extra stuff for the player to do, but most of it is kinda tedious. It's like a less shit version of a Ubisoft game. Particularly got bad with the open world games since that's where stuff like the Riddler puzzles made less sense and more tedious.

City is my personal favorite but Asylum definitely had the wow factor when it first came out as well as best atmosphere in the seres. Knight is a piece of shit and I never played Origins but bought it on sale recently so I'll play it at some point.

I dislike what this game did to western games though. Specifically the "detective vision" that seems to find its way into nearly every western release nowadays.

>>376502672
Detective vision was fine in the Arkham games, but the impact it had on western games in general was awful. People just can't seem to come up with original ideas anymore

>>376502672
>>376503370
> Detective Vision
> not Samus' Visors

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>>376487512
I just installed Arkham Knight, what am I in for /v/

>That mini Bat cave in Asylum
>That Batcave stealth map in City
>That full size Batcave in Origins
>No Batcave in Knight
Fuck you Rocksteady

>>376505089
Driving
Lots, and lots of driving
Also good luck getting it to work if you're on PC

>>376488071
back in the day i thought i was gonna have a heart attack at that part. come to think of it i was pretty scared of this game

I downloaded Asylum on a whim knowing nothing of universe besides old movies I watched long ago and animated series, and this shit was so fucking tight I couldn't believe it. It was fun, cool, and character designs were nice.
It does have it's problems, like fighting system is very simple. True, on hard mooks can actually hit you, but it requires very little effort to become good at comboing entire fights into one prolonged jump across arena.
Also, for some reason, "finishing" Killer Croc blew me out of the fucking water, maybe even more than Scarecrow scene.

City felt a little too big. I thought that doing more of everything didn't make game as much better as Rocksteady expected. I liked seeing more characters, but some of them feel like they could use more screen time. Mr. Freeze was really cool, especially his fight - for a game with absolutely lackluster bosses it was fresh, fun and "batman-y".

Origin I haven't played yet, since I am wary of what it brings on the table by being game not made by Rocksteady, and pirate version at release was borking all over at very beginning.

And Knight is too much for my toaster, sadly. And from all screns of characters I see around I feel like I won't like new designs as much as I did in Asylum and City. Do you get to play as Catwoman anywhere after City? Or Robin, or anyone else?

>>376506629
what made the first 2 games special is that they feel comic book like because the character designer was a comic book artist.
knight just reeked of typical overdesigned video game tacticool shit.
origins is a mess. don't bother. it desecrated city by taking all its assets then put it on them.
origins' bosses just reskinned city bosses.

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>>376501638
You're goddamn right boy.
Now I'll admit that from a technical perspective it was buggy and needed a lot of work.
But it was superior
>better detective mode - not just following trails
>actually getting to travel to the Batcave
>VR training actually contributes to game progress, not just an arbitrary challenge mode
>not playing as fucking Catwoman
>villains are introduced and set-up from the beginning of the game and don't just pop up whimsically
>option to follow Dark Knight paths in predator/combat rooms rather than just go the fastest way possible
Though if I'm being fair it does have to lose points for the Joker twist, poor post-game and not going anywhere with the Pinkney subquest. But it's still better than City

>>376507486
origins ruined the continuity

>>376507721
Oh, don't bring continuity into this
Not in a comic-based vidya adaptation series

>>376487512
First game best game

>>376507810
Especially a long running comic franchise that can't even keep its continuities tight. Didn't Bob Kane himself say something about not worrying too much about continuity in Batman?

>>376498280
This. Knight is the Batman simulator I'd been waiting for since I was a kid. Just make sure to use the BvS skin instead of the horrendous default armor skin.

Arkham Knight hands down has the best skins I've ever seen for a game.

Am I the only one who wants a full Catwoman game

>>376508078
There already was one. And it was shit.

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I loved all the batman arkham games. Arkam asylum and city are in my top 10 favorite games of all time. I would have liked arkham knight as much as city if it had boss fights and didn't force the knight protocol collectaton bullshit. I hate ambiguous endings.
>the arkham games had the best Western waifus.

>>376487512
>first played asylum at launch
>didn't do much for me
>play city at launch
>liked it a lot
>go back and replay asylum
>like it more than the first time, still not as much as city
>play origins at launch
>feels like a unpolished, poor man's city, gameplay is still fun

Haven't played Knight yet, but going by the 3 other game, I'm sure I'll find some enjoyment with it.

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This shit looked too good to be real when I played it on PS4.
Have it functioning on PC now and shit like the physically simulated smoke just makes it even better.

>>376497736
I beat origins with 0 upgrades no combat takedowns on "i am the night" while drunk.

Game isn't hard

Arkham Asylum is still a pretty novel game. There aren't many 3D Metroidvanias.

>>376497736
People complained about the buggyness of the combat and the fact that animation cancelling was inconsistent and just poorly done.

how was Return to Arkham guys?

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>>376508447
Bad.

>>376508536
they haven't patched this shit yet? guess i'll play it on pc then

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Playing Arkham Knight at the moment thanks to the 5$ price from 2 days ago.
It's really good. It's pretty amazing how many moves they made, the controls feel great and every mission brings something new.

But there's really too many drone fights, and all the Joker scenes tend to slow down the game even if they're facultative.

I'm getting pretty constant 1080p/60 with everything maxed except the nvidia fog on a 1070, so that's cool, I expected worse.

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>>376487512
One thing that really, really pissed me off about Knight was how obviously telegraphed all of the plot points were
>Oh, no! Scarecrow's been manufacturing a new fear compou-
Ace Chemicals
>Batman, you need to interrogate his henchmen to fin-
It's Ace Chemicals dipshit
>By using the information provided by his henchmen and triangulating the trace elements of the compound in the air, we-
IT'S FUCKING ACE CHEMICALS, WHERE THE FUCK ELSE WOULD IT BE IN GOTHAM CITY!?
>He's been making at Ace Chemicals
FUCKING DUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUH

>>376487512
Asylum (9) > City (8.5) > Knight (8) > Origins (7)
Knight would've been the best if they didn't force the batmobile down your throat at every single goddamn mission.
also no Batman TAS batmobile, why rocksteady?

How bad is the stutter in the PC version? Or did they get rid of it?

>In the remake of Arkham City, if you use Detective Vision while fighting ClayfaceJoker, he has a skeleton

How does this make sense? He doesn't have a skeleton so why can you see one

>>376509720
It's a clay skeleton

Asylum (most polished gameplay and concept, only possible complaint is limited scale but that's not a complaint because open world is a meme) > Knight (too much tank but otherwise a more fully realised City) > City (more polished gameplay takes priority but shitty story) > Origins (best story of all the games but story literally doesn't matter, clunkiest gameplay).

>>376487512
The entire series would have improved if Joker had been killed off in Asylum

Asylum was really solid but had some issues, particularly the overuse of tedious brute fights and the stealth, while really good, was improved heavily in later installments. Also the bosses are eh. People claim the Metroidvania structure makes it superior to City but City outright had better puzzles, combat, and stealth.

City is god tier and a step up from Asylum in just about every way mechanically, I'd EASILY say it's the best action-adventure game of last generation, hell it's arguably the best game of last generation period. An honest masterpiece and also probably the best licensed game ever made.

Origins is somewhat underrated, I only played it last year after avoiding it for the longest time and it's decent, the stealth in particular is really challenging and the stealth levels are designed really well. Bosses are mostly QTE shit but the enraged Bane fight is really great. The art direction is fucking gorgeous with all the Christmas lights everywhere, looks phenomenal. Combat feels worse than City and the story is a slap in the face though. Definitely not as bad as its reputation.

I still don't know how to feel about Knight. Imaginary friend Joker is probably the best thing I've ever seen in Batman, the several different Joker successors were great and underused, the 'dungeons' were really cool in it, the Batmobile worked great. Stealth is now easier than ever but also funner than ever. Combat feels worse than Asylum and City again. Bosses absolutely sucked though, all the non-Joker parts of the story sucked, and my god did they overuse the Batmobile. Literally 70% of the game.

I'm still hoping for a Batman Beyond game from Rocksteady. God just imagine what they could do with a Shriek fight.

Asylum > Knight > Origins > City > Blackgate

Arkham City is one of the most overrated games of gen 7, right up there with Fallout 3, Bioshock, Red Dead Redemption, and The Last of Us. There isn't a single thing it does that Origins doesn't handle better and while it doesn't have the overdone and mundane driving sections of Knight, the actual Batman gameplay is a major step behind. What City DOES have is more comic book references than you can shake a stick at, but these are skin-deep. 9/10 things you do in city is go here, now here, now here. Congrats, you caught the villain!

>>376510716
Agreed.
I used to think City was the best but then I played through the franchise again and saw how weightless it was in cokmparison to the others.
Like, they opened up the world, but didn't properly translate the questing to it. As a result nothing you do feels rewarding. And holy fuck is the story dumb.

>>376510716
I'm glad people are starting to come around to how overrated City is.

>>376510523
No fuck batman beyond and the spandex faggotry.

It's a niche series with a smaller fanbase. If they waste time making a game it'll sell much less and investors will feel reluctant to make any more batman games in the future. Fucking us all

>>376510843
The entire Arkham series is overrated, but that doesn't stop City from being the best of the bunch.

>>376510716
But TLOU isn't overrated at all.

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>>376511458
/v/ disagrees

>>376510941
Nah. City fails at what it attempts to do. The switch from metroidvania to sandbox didn't pay off. It's great for 15 minutes them feels pointless

A small thing that is bothering me through Knight is how he needs to call one of his pals for anything that doesn't require punching shit. I've played both Asylum and City at launch so I don't remember if it's just the norm for the series. In this game though, when facing a problem, the solution is either calling Alfred or using the batmobile.

>>376509329
Arkham knight? I'm using a mid-range PC and I only get frame drops when there's a lot of environmental destruction during the driving sections.