Batman: Arkham Origins - Part 5

[The Joker]

Beat this just a while ago. It's easily the best of the 3. Best gameplay, best story, best music, and best characters. The ending is really great. All the voice actors really knock it out of the park. Just phenomenal my second favorite game of the year.right behind Bioshock Infinite. 9/10. Can't wait to hop into the combat challenges. My favorite part of these games

Delighted to hear this

Spoiler

Does Joker have a good reason for impersonating Black Mask and setting 8 assassins after Batman?

 

[TheVileOne]

Plus, why would The Joker hire 8 assassins when he can't live without Batman?

It makes no sense...

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Batman has never met Joker before the events of this game.

 

[zenith16]

Which means a Bane in A3 will be more of the gargantuan kind? ughhhh say it ain't so.

Well, I hope he isn't in A3. With this game, I'll have had enough.

There's no one to supply or more to it I should say force it on him with it any more . Unless he himself knows how to make just from having it in his body. Otherwise they shouldn't bother with it any more.

 

[MrWayne]

I'm really digging Banes look in this one, to see him any different now in this Arkham universe would be a step back IMO... Unless he's wearing the Hardy mask

 

[zenith16]

We'll see what happen's then .....

 

[antsman41]

A3 will be a ghost Joker making all of the villains dress up and act like him.

Batman will fight roughly 13 Jokers.

 

[BrollySupersj]

Hm...having seen the big spoiler cut scene....

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As lame as it is, was nicely done I suppose. Joker really ****ed up Sionis, and he poisoned this one girl who just laughed to death. I got the impression Joker was just parading around as Black Mask for fun. Like he was in a play.

 

[dude stannis]

Which means a Bane in A3 will be more of the gargantuan kind? ughhhh say it ain't so.

Not necessarily. He could have gone cold turkey by that point.

 

[DarthDorranceBane]

 

[MrWayne]

Not necessarily. He could have gone cold turkey by that point.

I would hope rocksteady is taking notes and paying attention to a lot of the consensus on these things.. There's a very small minority that actually likes that AA/AC Bane model.

On the topic of Bane, I'm also enjoying the voicing of him in AO and looking forward to using him in multiplayer. Would be sweet to actually be able to use him in game as well.

 

[jacobed]

Delighted to hear this

Spoiler

Does Joker have a good reason for impersonating Black Mask and setting 8 assassins after Batman?

Spoiler

he mostly does it for the money and use the assassins as a distraction for Batman as he does his bomb stuff. Also that spoiler where the picture comes from is only 4 hours into the game, it's not some shocking ending. It appears about 1/3 of the way through it and it is the first time Batman meets the Joker

 

[ChrisBaleBatman]

I know I'm preaching to the choir here but with 3 games in and tons of skins later... I still can't wrap my head around why haven't they ever put any of the Burton or Nolan suits in any of these games.

With just one more day left, I'll reserve my opinions on everything else till I play this thing. But I'm willing to bet I love it... spoiler and all, I'm willing to bet most of us will.

Yeah. The first game was understandable, there weren't any skins really. But, there not being any in Arkham City bugged.

There being a Thrillkiller skin...a tpb I, and just a handful of people, probably read and only dug for reasons other than Bruce Wayne/Batman in it, is kinda driving me crazy.

It seems like a no brainer. Especially considering we're getting an Adam West skin.

I mean...****.

I suspect it has something to do with the rights/not wanting to pay to license them.

I'm thinking that has to be the case. But, then again...how were they able to get the Adam West skin?

Far as I know, the Adam West era Batman has always been the most legally murky Batman because it was done together with FOX, which is why we've still haven't gotten a boxset release of the old tv series. I think I've heard it may never actually happen, because you've gotta basically get both WB and FOX to agree to come together and work something out without one trying to screw over the other one.

There's gotta be a rights issue, but if they were able to work it out with the old 60's tv show era you'd think they'd be able to do the same with the movies WB made in house.

 

[John Locke]

Wait what? There's a TDK skin and a Batman Begins skin in the iOS? I hope you didn't mean Batman Beyond. Not a Fan lol

Closest I'll ever come to playing those suits are in the ps2 Batman Begins and the iOS TDKR games

Well there is a suit called the Dark Knight suit and it looks like a combo of the TDK suit and the Arkham suit. (And there is a Beyond suit as well)

 

[Broseph44]

Spoiler

he mostly does it for the money and use the assassins as a distraction for Batman as he does his bomb stuff. Also that spoiler where the picture comes from is only 4 hours into the game, it's not some shocking ending. It appears about 1/3 of the way through it and it is the first time Batman meets the Joker

Hey jacobed I don't mind being spoiled. In tags could you give a good run down of the whole

Spoiler

joker/black mask thing. How much of black mask in the game is actually roman Sionis etc.

 

[jacobed]

Hey jacobed I don't mind being spoiled. In tags could you give a good run down of the whole

Spoiler

joker/black mask thing. How much of black mask in the game is actually roman Sionis etc.

Spoiler

I've been trying to figure that out myself. Just thinking back on it. I believe just about everything is the Joker. When Sionis wears the mask it just covers his face while when Joker is impersonating him, it's a full on head mold. Joker captures him very early on so I believe it's all Joker. I would also like to say that he isn't a known villain yet so that also feeds into his desire to do what he does. And once again this revelation comes very early into the game. Basically closes out act 1.

 

[Broseph44]

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I've been trying to figure that out myself. Just thinking back on it. I believe just about everything is the Joker. When Sionis wears the mask it just covers his face while when Joker is impersonating him, it's a full on head mold. Joker captures him very early on so I believe it's all Joker. I would also like to say that he isn't a known villain yet so that also feeds into his desire to do what he does. And once again this revelation comes very early into the game. Basically closes out act 1.

Spoiler

when I heard this twist it didn't bother me at all, and it sounds like it plays out nicely anyway. One thing I was curious about was can you tell a distinct difference in the voice or roman as black mask and joker as black mask

 

[Iceman]

Beat this just a while ago. It's easily the best of the 3. Best gameplay, best story, best music, and best characters. The ending is really great. All the voice actors really knock it out of the park. Just phenomenal my second favorite game of the year.right behind Bioshock Infinite. 9/10. Can't wait to hop into the combat challenges. My favorite part of these games

Excellent!

 

[jacobed]

Spoiler

when I heard this twist it didn't bother me at all, and it sounds like it plays out nicely anyway. One thing I was curious about was can you tell a distinct difference in the voice or roman as black mask and joker as black mask

Spoiler

i thought the fact that it came so early helps it big time. If they used it as an end game twist than it would have been laughable. There's no difference that I noticed but now that I think about it, you barely hear the actual Black Mask. I don't know it's something to look for on my second play through. I didn't read the spoiler before playing and blew my mind in a good way.

 

[Shikamaru]

Jacobed, how is the new detective mode?

 

[jacobed]

It's mostly the same except for a few circumstances where you're trying to figure out a crime. Those are pretty cool segments and have a fun Sherlock Holmes type of reward where he explains how it went down.

 

[Bruce Malone]

How big would you say the game world is? Is it very noticeable from how big AC was?

 

[jacobed]

I'd say so yeah. They say it's twice the size of Ac and it does definitely feel like it. It's cool seeing the ac map but not run down also the new Gotham is awesome

 

[Broseph44]

Was the Bats vs Deathstroke battle as epic as I'm imagining it to be?t:

 

[jacobed]

Yeah it's pretty awesome very cinematic

 

[BrollySupersj]

Yeah it's pretty awesome very cinematic

I was reading it was just a lot of QTEs. That true?