Gotta give this sub props as some of the old threads gave me the perspective needed to push through certain segments of each installment. Purchased a little momento for myself to celebrate pushing through.
Or are they more original?
Google says the first game is based on "Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth" a 1989 graphic novel that explored the mysterious and mystical history of the asylum. "Arkham Knight" seems like an adaptation of both "The Killing Joke" and "Under the Red Hood".
I haven't been able to determine if "City" and "Origins" are based on any comics, though maybe Origins very loosely follows Bane's original storyline.
(Batman: Arkham City) I am here for the past 10 minutes because I can't equip the cryptographic sequencer. This is the mission where I have to save Mr. Freeze.
Credit to Clownpuncher139 for finding this
This isn't a critque because I can't put my finger on it, but I just can't get into the story. It feels like it should be better written than city, because it actually has things like character development and is able to put characters like Bane at center stage, but at the end it feels kinda self indulgent. Like it's telling a worse verison of much better stories I have read in the past.
Compared to the first two games which were shallower in nature but felt newish and highlighted the rogues dynamics in a way that felt engaging.Or Shadows which actually blows me away because it's a fullstop good story, like insanely good story, orgins just kinda never impresses me.
I want a game with arkham style combat with these xray frames now and shoutout to xslainx on tiktok
I’ve played the 4 main titles fairly extensively as well as consumed a lot of Batman media in general so my knowledge on the lore is pretty decent. My answers will be restricted to the Arkham Universe only though in order to stay on topic.
This is an old concept I’ve used in some of my favourite series (Overlord and Black Clover) and it’s really fun engaging with other fans of the series. I’ve looked through the rules and it doesn’t seem to violate any. I’ll make sure every question is answered, in detail.
This one’s more for the original fans & ppl who followed along with the releases as they came out. I’ve been replaying Knight lately, & just restarted City.
I’ve noticed each time I play Knight, I love the details & feel it has some nods to the OG aesthetic (the gothic, metal architecture, swirly railings, etc).
And I’ve noticed each time I replay City, I’m surprised by how much more condensed it feels & how colorful & comicy it is. Ik Knight leaned into much heavier realism, but it’s almost jarring when you play them back to back & see how different they look.
Which made me wonder: were fans who played as the games were released/followed along patiently, disappointed when Knight came out? I personally love the insane detailing of it, but at the same time I could see fans being disappointed had they been following along since the beginning (2009), because Knight feels like an entire genre shift, ngl. I love it, but it’s almost hard to imagine it’s the same series.
**EDIT**: Do any of you wish they kept the aesthetic of City/Asylum instead of the hyper realism?
Sooo... does this technically make LEGO Batman: Legacy of the Dark Knight a Batman: Arkham game?
What if, instead of Bane showing up out of nowhere and only reappearing as a cutscene possibility, Bane took over at the end of the game, similar to Origins? Maybe have him take Joker's place as "Jack White," funding the Titan project.
Joker surrenders too easily, frees all the inmates, Batman finds Bane in the medical facility, and he disappears most of the game. They then find out that Bane wanted to be transferred to Arkham Asylum, to find Young's notes and the secret lab in the garden. He allowed Young to use him to facilitate the development of Venom, and reveals himself late in the game. The battle following Gordon's rescue would be unchanged.
Bane would also take Joker's place as the final boss, but in this version, the floor collapses into the original Joker fight — the stealth boss fight that got scrapped for the atrocity they gave us.
It would be similar to what happened in City — Bane appears innocuously in relation to Titan, then reappears at the end of the game in Joker's place, dosing himself with Titan (no need for Batman saving Gordon then rejecting the cure), then, like Grundy's fight, Batman drops into the Titan Joker stealth boss immediately following the action-oriented Bane fight. The mechanics would resemble the TN-1 Bane fight from origins.
Plot: Bane revealed initially just like in Asylum → While investigating Young, Batman finds out she had a benefactor, "Jack White" (Bane insteadvof Joker) → Batman finds goons looking for Young's notes, and learns about the secret lab somehow (probably not Harley in this version, though he technically knew at that point) → Bane in lab, revealed to be Young's benefactor, two-Titan thug fight like in Asylum → Bane doses himself at the end of the game, same as Joker did (minus kidnapping Gordon again), Batman fights and defeats him.
Gameplay: Medical facility fight → Asylum Bane fight → Bane unleashes two Titan thugs in the secret lab → released Asylum Titan Joker fight (combat encounter with Titan Bane substituted) → Scrapped predator encounter Titan Joker fight with TN-1 Bane mechanics, or similar.