Doc Samson
Superhero Psychiatrist
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I'm not talking about superhero games in general. I'm talking about this game franchise. The Arkham series. Many people justifiably feel AK isn't of the quality and standard set by the previous games. No misdirection there.
Nobody had unrealistic expectations for this game that I saw. Nobody's complaints here centered on people expecting or wishing for the impossible or the unreasonable. Things like turning over half the game into a tedious driving game, dull side missions, lack of boss fights, weak story and poor plot twist etc are all reasonable and valid complaints.
You're entitled to feel however you feel about it, so am I (we've done this dance a time or two already). IMO, the boss fights were largely unimaginative in AC (and AA for that matter) outside of Mr. Freeze and I found them to be tedious and unnecessary and some of the weakest parts of the previous games even though I could tolerate it. Hence why I like their absence. I also think the side missions are much better than any of the previous games by and large as well. Don't even get me started on the AC story and plot twists there either. So, for you, this didn't live up to the "franchise" IMO there wasn't much to live up to in terms of AC. AA was the first proper Batman game ever created, so in certain regards it gets a pass for some of it's shortcomings, but that ending wasn't particularly good either.
You don't see many people praise Arkham City's story. I think it's the weakest of the four games. The story not the game itself as a whole.
You should look around. I've seen quite a few people say that they enjoyed AC as a game and as a story. I'm not just talking about in this forum either, I'm talking about in life.
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