Batman: Arkham Origins

[Jick]

Spoiler

This (fan-made) pic makes me want a Batman Beyond game!

That's a really nice cover.

 

[Boom]

The game just glitches into giving me Rank 15 of Shadow Vigilante.

That's one way to do it .

 

[Fans of Reilly]

I just got this game

1- I do not understand the need to change the controls and flip R1&R2 and L1&L2

2- Seriously the UI is Bad compared With City

 

[Mister J]

I played through Cold, Cold Heart yesterday and loved for the most part. Great characterization on Freeze and I enjoyed running around Wayne Manor. Very befitting ending.

Still, given all the chatter on the police scanner and the recovery of the cryodrill (which struck as more of a 'go fetch' exercise than anything), I thought helping free up some of the city areas would be a part of the game. Seems like that would have been a good opportunity to further Batman's relationship with Gordon, as well as the city. I really just wanted to **** up all the nice with my shiny new suit... which is still shiny and new because it didn't get ripped to ****ing shreds in the course of the game.

I just got this game

1- I do not understand the need to change the controls and flip R1&R2 and L1&L2

2- Seriously the UI is Bad compared With City

Caused me all kinds of issues at the beginning. I ruined a number of predator attacks by flinging a Batarang when I was trying to use Detective Mode.

 

[SlamAdams]

Just played through the game again. I forgot about the awesome playable Joker/dream logic version of Killing Joke level.

 

[jonathancrane]

I have been replaying Cold, Cold Heart and have been enjoying it. Love the XE suit.

 

[Mister J]

I had a blast with the Dark Knight Challenges, but a repainted alt of the default skin was a bit underwhelming. If that wasn't enough, it's battle damaged too. Come on.

Boy, when you really hone in on the fight tactics, you can really hand Slade his ass. Even on the greater difficulties.

 

[Tron Bonne]

So, I finally got around the playing this one. Was out of the country when it first released, so I missed it. Ending up shooting myself in the foot a little; got the Wii U versions since it was $10 cheaper than the 360 version. I knew that it lacked online stuff, which I made no issue with since I don't have Live anyway, but wasn't aware they had stopped releasing DLC right before the Mr. Freeze thing came out. Oh well, partly my fault for not doing my research.

As far as I how I felt about the game: I'm going to go ahead and post story SPOILERS. At this point, I figure this has been out long enough that I don't need to black out or SPOILER tag anything, so I am going to post SPOILERS, so don't read the rest of this statement if you don't want to read SPOILERs.

SPOILERS!

Okay, well, anyway. I seem to vaguely recall people saying the combat system seemed off in this one compared to the other two games. It's been quite a while since I played either Asylum or City, but it really didn't feel much different to me. Still the same fun, free flow combat that I've come to like from the series.

I didn't run into any major bugs, either, which I know was a major issue. Guess there's been a patch or something. I ran into some slow down when fighting big groups, but I'm pretty sure I had that happen to me in Asylum and City, too, so it was no big. The only big glitch I encountered was once in the Blackgate sewers Batman constantly repeated a line about having to increase the water level to precede, even after I did it. Had to reset then, because it got annoying.

Story-wise, I really enjoyed this until the third act at Blackgate. I didn't have a huge issue with Joker being in it and playing a bigger role, since this wold technically be the first meeting of the two, but it should've stopped when Joker had his section in Blackgate. I mean, they even let Black Mask escape, so it seemed the obvious route was to have the rest of game be about him trying to return to power with the Joker out of the way. They could've had their Joker jack-off feast, and then still gave enough credit to other villains without having him completely overwhelming the narrative. But they chose to go the rather boring route of having the Joker yet again be the big bad, along with a ****** final boss fight that just regurgitated the same stuff that had already been said in Joker's dream section. Disappointing in that regard, definitely.

But, having said that, I did enjoy how the game handled all the characters. I give a lot of credit to WB Montreal for revising the characterization for Bane, which I felt was always a big botch on the part of the Asylum. Outside the disappointing direction the story took in the end, it was enjoyable regardless. If anything, I think it did a better job of handling a huge cast of characters than City did, which I think tended to feel rather unfocused and all over the place, especially near the end.

There was definitely an in-between game feel to it. Nothing was really new, outside the shock gloves, and there definitely wasn't the huge step up in scope from Asylum to City, but still a great game with a ton of content.

 

[Havok83]

I havent played it yet but tempted to before Arkham Knight comes out. Im not really playing anything now so may give it a go

 

[TheVileOne]

The Shock Gloves were really taken from the Wii U edition of Arkham City, which WB Montreal developed.

 

[Tron Bonne]

Wasn't aware of that.

 

[Doc Ock]

Well, the series is over after AK, so a reboot would just mean more Batman games. I would be down with that. t:

Yeah, I really hope Arkham Knight is the end to the Arkham games and a new Batman series can be done by WB Montreal. The Arkhamverse can continue in animated and comic form, over saturation is too common with gaming these days and I don't want the Arkham series to fall prey to that.

 

[SlamAdams]

I really wouldn't mind if continuity continued past Arkham Knight, but they need to stop leaning on the "Arkham" part. I feel like they could just as easily do a Batman 5 and call it something else using the sandbox map they have in place already. I really like the map they cam up with, there is definitely more use to get out of it and a plenty big roster of baddies, allies, storylines, and gadgets to feature.

 

[Tron Bonne]

I wouldn't mind an Arkham Origins 2 or something that picked up on what happened with Black Mask after he escaped, unless that's something that Rocksteady may address with Knight. My only fear there is I'm sure it'd be just be an excuse to bring Joker into the forefront again.

 

[SlamAdams]

I really wouldn't care if Joker was in every game tbh

 

[Tron Bonne]

It wouldn't bother me that much as long as he wasn't the big bad in every game. It especially felt forced in Origins, since his arc seemed clearly over when he got to Blackgate.

 

[SlamAdams]

Disagree, the origin of their "relationship" was probably my favorite part of the game.

 

[Jick]

I wouldn't mind an Arkham Origins 2 or something that picked up on what happened with Black Mask after he escaped, unless that's something that Rocksteady may address with Knight.

Actually, that is something you'll resolve in Origins. Just do his side mission and you'll meet him once again.

 

[Broseph44]

I wouldn't mind an Arkham Origins 2 or something that picked up on what happened with Black Mask after he escaped, unless that's something that Rocksteady may address with Knight. My only fear there is I'm sure it'd be just be an excuse to bring Joker into the forefront again.

Yeah as the person above said, it's a side mission and already resolved in Origins.

 

[Tron Bonne]

Oh really? I hadn't done the side stuff much. Well, that's very disappointing. They really threw away a lot of potential there.

Disagree, the origin of their "relationship" was probably my favorite part of the game.

It was probably the best part, but it was pretty much resolved when Joker got caught. They've easily moved the Firefly fight and reshuffled the Bane one somewhat, and that could've been an end, especially with how that was all explored in Asylum and City to varying degrees. It was very tacked on, and the last boss fight with Joker was very weak, just regurgitated stuff that was given to us in a much better way earlier in the game.

 

[SlamAdams]

I didn't think so

 

[dude stannis]

I'm replaying Origins too. Fun little tidbit, during the police station level, I zoomed in on newspapers and they where all dated December 21 - 23 19--, meaning AO took place in the 90's and way more than five years before Asylum.

 

[Two-Face]

Did you read where it says "Harvey Dent elected Gotham DA" I thought it was a nice touch. If they Origins 2 I want Harvey Dent becoming Two-Face or maybe DLC relaese would be good.

 

[Joe Von Zombie]

Any news on that Suicide Squad game?

 

[SlamAdams]

Did you read where it says "Harvey Dent elected Gotham DA" I thought it was a nice touch. If they Origins 2 I want Harvey Dent becoming Two-Face or maybe DLC relaese would be good.

Yea, I was sort of hoping for that in the last game. The assassins weren't just targetting Bats but also Gordon and Dent because they had their little team up. I'd also like to see Barbara getting injured and becoming Oracle. an origin of Robin, an intro of Catwoman, etc.