Need of a Batman Next-Gen Game

[Joker's Lackey]

Ideas.

* Open ended world much like GTA. But the scope Spidey games have had, where you can go from street level to rooftops.
* It should be the start of a new franchise with new story lines, it would based on the comics/movies not connected to the comics/movies like ULT. Spidey or the other Spidey games.
* Don't know about the Assassin Creed engine. Bats doesn't free run, he usually uses his grapple gun to scale buildings, he rarely climbs.
* Unlockables. Should be tons, like famous Comic/Movie Batsuits.
* Random Crimes like the Spidey games should occur.
* I would like the Fighting engine for Jet Li's Rise to Honour but slightly tweaked to allow easy gadgets/items usage.
* Would use the B:TAS voices for the characters, but get Jim Lee or Andy Kubert to be the game designers.

more to follow.

 

[Brainiac 8]

^ To add to your ideas here:

* Like you said, BTAS voice actors...which means Mark Hamill as the Joker!
* Batcave acting as your main hub, with many things to do: invent new gadgets, museum of Batman history, training arena.
* Use gadgets and surrounding turrain to sneak in the shadows and cause distractions/fear for the criminals.

It would be an awesome Batman game.

 

[GL1]

Since, we seem to heading this way, and I don't think opening a new thread would be warranted. What would make a good Batman game? How would you design it?

A) Useful detective work involving collecting and relating clues in puzzle like fashion and stealth gameplay managing shadow, darkness and villain attention (cones of vision like Metal Gear)
B) Deep immersion into the mythos
C) Free Roam through Gotham, as stated many, many times before
D) Combat System designed for quickly dispatching crowds in close combat, that integrates well with the stealth system
E) Fun and diversionary driving, dramatic simple grappling/swinging.
F) Gameplay, outside of either fighting or detectiving through the missions would involve a set of dramatic villain encounters. Each boss fight would be epic and would serve as the masterpieces and most compelling aspects of the game.

 

[Matt Mortem]

In a Batman game I'd want to see an open ended Gotham, a versatile, satisfying combat system, they need to somehow integrate detective elements to it, I'd like to see a large game with the majority of the Rogues gallery given a fair amount of attention, but not enough to detract from the story. Story is important....really important

 

[Mario_Galaxy]

I'd like for them to do something similar to XML where you have flashback missions in really retro costumes.

 

[shadowdog]

Ideas.

* Open ended world much like GTA. But the scope Spidey games have had, where you can go from street level to rooftops.
* It should be the start of a new franchise with new story lines, it would based on the comics/movies not connected to the comics/movies like ULT. Spidey or the other Spidey games.
* Don't know about the Assassin Creed engine. Bats doesn't free run, he usually uses his grapple gun to scale buildings, he rarely climbs.
* Unlockables. Should be tons, like famous Comic/Movie Batsuits.
* Random Crimes like the Spidey games should occur.
* I would like the Fighting engine for Jet Li's Rise to Honour but slightly tweaked to allow easy gadgets/items usage.* Would use the B:TAS voices for the characters, but get Jim Lee or Andy Kubert to be the game designers.

more to follow.

I like that idea, that game had a great fighting engine, I really liked playing it!

 

[0neDisturbedSOB]

Aren't they coming out with a Dark Knight game at the end of the year to coincide with the release of the DVD?

 

[shadowdog]

it's still up in the air, there have been leaks but no actual confirmation

 

[Jericho]

* Random Crimes like the Spidey games should occur.

I'm not sure I'd cite Spiderman games as example. They went from so-so in Spiderman 2 to utter crap with the last one.

True Crime NYC would be a better example. They really had the right idea and it's a shame they haven't brought the series, done properly, to the current generation. The game suffered from lack of power and being forced to release it before it was ready.

 

[Timstuff]

BTW did anyone else think that Assassins Creed felt like batman?

I thought it felt like being caught in a continual time loop where I was forced to repeat a training mission 10,000 times.

 

[ChrisBaleBatman]

Meh, I liked it.

I think the game serves as a nice template for anyone who wants to make a Zorro game.

Jumping on rooftops, scaling buildings and being agile, escaping hordes of soliders, riding horse, sword fights with 10 or more eniemies.

 

[Joker]

AC is a case of a great idea with piss poor execution. If it had more missions, with more variance, it would have been great. Hell, just ditch all the investigation stuff and give me 50 more unique assassination missions.

 

[Timstuff]

It would be awesome if you could wander around Wayne Manor and look for stuff like in Tomb Raider, but since Wayne Manor hasn't been rebuilt yet in TDK, that won't happen.

 

[StrainedEyes]

AC is a case of a great idea with piss poor execution. If it had more missions, with more variance, it would have been great. Hell, just ditch all the investigation stuff and give me 50 more unique assassination missions.

It was the first of it's kind using a brand new engine. The sequel and anything that Ubisoft makes from now on using that engine and free running will be more rounded.

I loved AC though, I pop it in every once in awhile to run around and get into fights. The graphics are really impressive and free running is endlessly fun.

 

[Hulkfan2008!]

i think AC would be a great base for a tdk game mixed in with a little splinter cell add in some batman begins elements like grapple and glide get some random crimes the floodlight with the bat and other vigilantes like the

Spoiler

batman look a-likes from the tdk movie

you could end up with a good tdk game

 

[ChrisBaleBatman]

I'm easier on AC than most games just because it ****ing tried, ya know? It's pretty unique, and the story is (that's right, I said it) interesting.

I do expect the sequel to be better and have more variety. It just has to.

Batman could use the free-running and scaling. Mix that in with his glider, and grappling hook...that'd make for an interesting way to travel the rooftops all right.

 

[GL1]

It would be awesome if you could wander around Wayne Manor and look for stuff like in Tomb Raider, but since Wayne Manor hasn't been rebuilt yet in TDK, that won't happen.

Screw Wayne Manor... how about Wayne TOWER being your base where you can kinda go anywhere therin and access a bunch of stuff. That'd be hot!

 

[ProjectPat2280]

Batman could use the free-running and scaling. Mix that in with his glider, and grappling hook...that'd make for an interesting way to travel the rooftops all right.

I think thatd be really cool.

 

[Raiden]

I think with the runaway success of TDK, they really missed a gold opportunity to release a game based on the movie. I think they really should make a Batman game that is in a "sandbox" mode, which lets you roam around the Gotham City, and stop crimes as they happen. That would the kind of game I'd like to play.

 

[ProjectPat2280]

I think with the runaway success of TDK, they really missed a gold opportunity to release a game based on the movie. I think they really should make a Batman game that is in a "sandbox" mode, which lets you roam around the Gotham City, and stop crimes as they happen. That would the kind of game I'd like to play.

Well they havent really missed it completely. We all are sure that TDK will be a huge DVD hit so if they time their release to coincide with that, then they can still grab some of that market.

 

[ChrisBaleBatman]

I think they could still grab quite a large part of the market, still.

Have the DVD ad mention the game, and poof. There ya go.

If they miss the DVD boat in December though...then yeah. They missed the opportunity to make loads and loads and loads of cash.

Which is so unlike the gaming industry.

 

[ProjectPat2280]

I think they could still grab quite a large part of the market, still.

Have the DVD ad mention the game, and poof. There ya go.

If they miss the DVD boat in December though...then yeah. They missed the opportunity to make loads and loads and loads of cash.

Which is so unlike the gaming industry.

Yea, if they truly are making this game(which i think they are) then theyll start the advertising shortly to go along side the DVD release. Maybe theyre gonna let this wave die down at the box office only to start it up again with talk of the game and the dvd.

 

[ChrisBaleBatman]

Which isn't a bad plan.

I can only imagine that they were planning to release it with the film, but found out they needed the extra time.

I just think even when you have so much time to make the game, that they'd want to make the film release date. And if that's the way it went down, then it probably was a good thing to not announce the game (would have led to angry fans WANTING a game they KNOW exists).

 

[ProjectPat2280]

Which isn't a bad plan.

I can only imagine that they were planning to release it with the film, but found out they needed the extra time.

I just think even when you have so much time to make the game, that they'd want to make the film release date. And if that's the way it went down, then it probably was a good thing to not announce the game (would have led to angry fans WANTING a game they KNOW exists).

Ya know, I'm not so sure that was the plan. I think if they had originally planned to release in July, word would of got out alot sooner and being that we still have yet to receive any "official" announcement, it almost makes me think that releasing alongside the dvd was the orig plan.

 

[steelio2006]

im startin to doubt that they had a plan of releasing a game based on the movie. we would have heard bout it by now.