Why Batman Arkham Knight Is Awesome ... But Flawed
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Batman: Arkham Knight is one of the coolest superhero games ever made and it still holds up today, even years after its initial release. The game has outstanding combat, an awesome story, and a lot more... but it also has some MAJOR flaws.
Chapters:
0:00 - The Roleplaying Problem
3:46 - Story & Joker
7:44 - Sponsor
8:48 - Immersion
9:59 - Gotham City
12:04 - The Games Biggest Flaws
17:20 - Side Missions
20:05 - Ending
23:52 - Non-Euclidean Geometry
25:36 - Combat
28:12 - Characters
29:25 - Little Things
31:11 - Conclusion
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On this channel, I like to cover games that have failed, games that have died, nostalgic stuff, and games that are awesome. In today's video, we review Batman: Arkham Knight after 30 hours of gameplay and 100% completion.
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Nah.. he sprints but not awkwardly, Batman can't be awkward. In game, you need to sprint a lot, unless you purposefully walk and don't mind the time it takes to get to from point A to point B.
badass rewarding combat system? Devil May Cry, Ninja Gaiden, Bayonetta, God of War, Monster Hunter, Breath of Wild, Marvel vs Capcom, Guilty Gear, Third Srike, etc. As much as like the Arkham series, it has the most mindnumbingly boring combat system of any series I've played. It's like a game of catch. There's nothing going on under the hood.
@@incognito6033 You listed fighting games in the same list as devil may cry lol. You have to be stupid if you think they’re the same thing.
Arkham knight would’ve been a masterpiece to end the trilogy if the boss battles were as solid as the previous two instalments and not too much emphasis on the usage of the bat-mobile , I get it’s an extension of batman but it’s being used a little too much in everything.
The combat was the best part about the game despite its predictable story and the exploration of gotham was amazing
I wish the batmobile was normal and it was more about car chases and puzzle solving with different enemy weapons there was not enough puzzles in arkham knight. Lol
Boss fights weren't good in either previous games. They always boiled down to a simple gimmick that once you learned it, it was a cake walk. Best boss out of the first two was Freeze. If you want decent bosses play Origins
@@godfrey4461 it's hard to make good boss fights when I replayed orgins I just bitched out all the bosses and beat them fast as fuck like that dumb bitch copperhead thought I couldn't tell which was the real one
@@godfrey4461 Beating Deathstroke flawlessly on I am the Knight mode is the most rewarding thing in the franchise.
The Batmobile was fun but really some sections could've easily been cut and I didn't like how at least 3 side missions were Tank battles
Nice thing about the hallucinations: Joker appears literally everywhere.
Even turning billboards and statues into his image without the game outright telling you.
One time they are normal, you turn the camera and look again and they are suddenly changed.
You have to find those out yourself as there are no loadingscreens or hints that it happened.
That was a very cool feature -- the unexpected and fleeting nature of the hallucinations really captures the self-doubt and confusion of slowly losing your mind. Or... so I've heard... totally not personal experience... 🤫
Yeah everytime I hop back in I still find him appearing in new spots and sometimes it makes me feel like I'm going crazy. I remember one of the gargoyles (I think it was a gargoyle or maybe just a regular statue) on a building changed to the Joker as I was gliding by and I could've sworn that wasn't possible cos I've only seen him on 2D images like billboards. Spent a good 5-10 minutes staring at it hoping it'd change back so I could be sure I wasn't just seeing things. I found out much later that it was but the fact that they had me legitimately questioning what I just saw in that moment really hammers home the concept of Joker infesting your psyche. Very cool feature and one of the most memorable gaming moments I've had.
Say what you want about Origins, but it has the best bosses in the Arkham series. Imagine you having a fast paced, high reflex fight with Slade just to play Arkham Knight and find out that he has a tank.
He was so rushed into the game that he even has the same suit, and at the timeline Arkham Knight is ten years after Origins.
I like Arkham origins my problems with it was the black mask joker twist and a Harvey dent not having story dlc and the story feeling kinda of short.
It was honestly so disappointing when I saw how downgraded the boss fights were. Deathstroke being a tank battle, Hush being a QuickTime event, Firefly being reduced to a petty car chase, and the Arkham knight himself being nothing more than a glorified Predator section. After such banger fights in the last 3 games it was a shame rocksteady didn’t quite hit the bar they could have.
I don't get the love for the Slade battle, especially seeing as it's just a fucking reskinned Ras fight.
Origins battle was pretty good and I despised how he constantly teases you that he improved a lot,only to one shot him with a punch
"He was so rushed into the game that he even has the same suit"
That wouldn't surprise me,the guy appears right after you beat the Arkham Knight and takes control of the Militia
@@indianaliam1 its rlly not that similar bruh
I agree with you. The tanks got really boring really quick, and there's way wayyyyy too many of them. And just when you think you're done, the game throws in more tank encounters
Tbh on my first playthru the tanks and just batmobile part was awesome for me, only on my second play thru it got very boring
I enjoyed the batmobile combat and the batmobile as a whole I just wish the combat encounters were interesting and have less tank battles
Yeah they tried a bit too hard to add a bunch of stuff you can do with the batmobile it like with death stroke 🤦♂️
Dont get me started on Deathstroke, i was hoping to fight him, mano e mano but NOOOOOOOO, they had to make him another tank fight
It's way better than marvels Spiderman ps4. And definitely has more to offer.
I heard that originally it wasn’t gonna be another Joker centric storyline and Hush was actually supposed to be connected to the main plot. As much as I love hearing Mark Hamhil do his thing as Mr. J, I kinda would’ve liked to have seen that plot explored instead....assuming it was true.
Arkham city sets that up perfectly. it seemed really obvious that scarecrow, azrael, and hush were supposed to take the front stage. wish I could peek into the parallel universe where that happened
@@chungus1149 Same here. That would’ve been amazing.
You are all talking bs, the story in Arkham Knight is amazing, one thing that folks still didn't realize how everything tied up perfectly, just one example the game start in first person and ends in first person, and not in Batman suit.
Joker shouldn't have even been in the game
@@cornicula7554Story way better than City’s
To summarize the gameplay, this is what Honest Game Trailers once said:
"They said Batman could become anything. So he became a tank"
Damn right
"Why? Because I'm BATMAN, that's why!"
If you mix in the side missions, the tank battles aren't as annoying. People exaggerate how bad the batmobile is. It's not as fun as Batman punching people, but it's not that bad
I think people just didn’t care for for always doing tank battles
It's not in the spirit of Batman at all, but I really like blasting things with a giant gun, so I can't complain. Reminds me of the old arcade games I played 40 years ago.
It’s terrible especially with the riddler side missions I beat the game but the Batmobile is overused
Nah, it's bad, especially when you realize they wasted a lot of time and resources on implementing tank battles that no one really asked for instead of focusing on what really made arkham games amazing, they could have made so that you can free roam with other characters, like in city with catwoman, having their own side and main missions, but nah, just fill the game with tanks and call it a day.
I love this game. It was the first game I played on my computer after I upgraded my GPU to a 1070. I don't mind the batmobile sections at all, I think it's fun to control.
They were pushing it a bit with those tank battles, but overall it was cool driving that thing.
I still can't understand choices they made for some of those "boss battles".
Honestly, they were pitiful in most cases.
There are, like, 3 good boss encounters in the entire trilogy.
@@bmsuperstar1 I can guess your three (ra al ghoul, mr freeze, death stroke) but you seriously sleeping on that electrocutioner
@@GingeryGinger that electrocutioner fight was groundbreaking, cant stop playing the whole fight in my head! Better than any dark souls boss fight
@@FoxySeth it was quite the shocking fight, I agree.
The tank battles were way easier on keyboard/mouse, I noticed a lot of my friends who played on console struggled with those sections more, which made the game worse for them.
I honestly love the slowness and specificity of Red Dead Redemption 2. It feels like a epic journey that not many other games have accomplished.
Having said this, it makes complete sense if people aren't a fan of it.
Rdr2 could have been a great TV show
But as a game?
It's trash
@@RobertEdwinHouse9 You should add "in my opinion".
@@MultiKamil97 no
Actually working on 100% the game too! The most annoying thing for me was the amount of riddler challenges, and when you’re going for 100% sometimes you don’t get objective markers so I had to look up the locations to progress. So what could’ve taken me 10-15 mins took me 45 mins.
riddler takes a while
@@shadowmomochiuchiha6839 seriously! 243 trophies I remember correctly.
@@rgbtrashcan9148 it takes about 5 to 10 hours to collect them all theres litarally no way to collect them faster
@@shadowmomochiuchiha6839 sheesh. And that’s probably moving quickly through it
@@rgbtrashcan9148 ive completed those games over 20 times riddler is a pain in the ass
This video came out at the perfect time because I just 100% completed the game yesterday
"Catching Riddler is a lot of fun."
Yes, but actually, no.
Punching Riddler in the face a bunch after he sent you after 243 goddamn puzzles, riddles, trophies, and whatever else is a lot of fun.
26:52 when I was playing this scene I had literally no clue what to do, I kept going up and down and all around and joker kept giving me different hints and I had no clue what to do still and then he said something along the lines of “enough with the unspecific hints use the bat mobile” or something like that.
Also another thing you forgot to mention was that sequence when you fight a bunch of jokers, I think it can hypothetically go on forever and it’s really just terrible rng, it took me 45 minutes to find him.
Batman Arkham knight is my favorite game of all time I think it’s almost perfect the tank fights are fine to me except for deathstokes it dumb the only part that runs me the wrong way parts of the story and how they ended hush’s story
You should play more games my dude
@@lolltaylorI play lots of games. it’s just that I love this game. Actually the other game he mentions in this video rdr2 is my second favorite game ever I love that game. One of the reasons Batman Arkham knight is my all time favorite game is because Batman is my favorite super hero and one my favorite characters, Sorry that I have a opinion about a game.
@@lolltaylor Kinda rude of you considering he simply stated what he did and didn't like about a video game, care to tell us what games you think are SO much better?
This was my first ever game I 100% it was the summer before hs started and I was so pumped it came out , I will always come back to this game
my one problem with the arkham games is what bug where batmans right arm being soo much bigger than the left when your in photo mode
Not sure if this is unpopular but I actually liked the drill boss fight. By itself that is. If it was one of the only batmobile sections it would be better. But on its own it's not bad.
I agree
its the best batmobile part imo
I had a back injury when I got this game. Batman's freedom of movement (more than anything I had played before) was such a relief from being stuck in a chair for days at a time. That alone left me with good memories of it, even without taking the other virtues into account.
I’m not gonna lie, I still play both games at least once a year, and the same reason was keeping me from coming back to Red Dead 2, but I embraced the slowness, I like the realism, which basically comes down to just a matter of opinion. I most definitely respect yours, I have mine, and there’s nothing wrong with that! Awesome video and keep up the fantastic work man, you earned my subscription 🤘🏻😎🎶
thank you!
My feelings on this game are... complex. It's my least-favorite Arkham game, yet it's probably the one I go back to the most. It has phenomenal graphics, especially for 2015, but it's in service of a giant mess. It has the absolute least-inspired villain interactions outside of the main story, and is far too Battank-centric, but I can't ever get enough of finding newer and faster ways to take town watchtowers and street checkpoints. It'd be difficult to imagine a mechanic that would make me feel less like Batman than driving around in a tank fighting other tanks, but I do enjoy the Campaign for Disarmament missions at the more-difficult ends.
It has--by FAR, imo--the least-interesting Riddler trophy placement, but my mind still wants to memorize every last one's location so I can find them without ever opening the map like I do with the other games (the Miagani destructible shields are the WORST for my memory, for some reason).
The absence of things that made City so much fun (from the expected Campaign Challenges to the removal of Nightwing's wrist darts) makes the extracurricular stuff more of a "it's also there, I guess" than integral to the experience, but what IS there is integrated into the game so tightly that you don't even need to leave the single player campaign to play them.
But worst of all, it is not, and I mean not AT ALL, the conclusion to this series I would've wanted from a story perspective. (Wasn't really asking for a massive conclusion at all, honestly; could've had twenty games in this world and been just fine with all of them). And Origins did boss battles so much better that the almost completely-interactiveless side missions almost feel like a direct insult to both my expectations and the characters they threw into the game. It's Arkham City that made me love Hush, and then Knight makes it feel like they forgot they needed to wrap up a storyline (that reportedly was setting up Dini's intent to make him a primary antagonist of this game before Hill decided he wanted to spearhead the story himself). Manbat feels like a glorified Easter Egg, I'm STILL pissed that Prometheus was supposed to be part of the Season of Infamy pack and then they just...didn't, and Deathstroke's battle being a regurgitation of the Cloudburst fight feels like one last slap in the face before the game is over.
And there are large swaths of the game which irritate the hell out of me whenever I replay this game. Things that were great the first time through, but kill the pacing even by the first time you play New Game+. Everything up to the destruction of Ace Chemicals is a slog, and it gets worse with every playthrough. Knowing that the ending gambit starting with Batman turning himself in to Scarecrow is coming makes me hesitate to pick the game up again even when I proactively want to play around with other parts of the game I always enjoy, like taking down the Militia's occupation. No matter how many times I play through this game (and it's several times a year since its release), I see more wasted opportunities than anything else. It's frustrating as hell for someone like me, who lives and breathes these kinds of games, and these kinds of games seem more and more rare.
[Oh, and just one sidenote, if I may. Your comparison to AC: Unity's map of Paris is, I feel, a bit misjudged. People talk about feeling overwhelmed by everything on the map in that game, but it's mostly a visual illusion. If you were to mark the location of every activity in Arkham Knight the way Unity did, the map of Gotham wouldn't look much different. They just did a better job of not making you feel they threw you straight into the deep end.]
Arkham Knight is arguably the best Arkham game along with Arkham City in my opinion
I remember one day coming home and a game informer of this came in the mail and I was so excited. This game is literally the only reason I own a PlayStation 4.
Firefly fight had potential,like after the 2nd time Batman should of grapneled him and got wiped around the city for a bit dodging buildings and structures. Deathstroke should went hand to hand after the tank battle, Redhood should been more of an up n up fight.
We should have hunted down Zsaz again.
lmaoo i forgot he uses the batmobile tire as interrogation. rocksteady definitely managed to convey Bats ruthlessness for sure.
Something I would like to point out about the outpost at 27:00, I think the point was originally to understand that you can't just rush in and to figure out you can actually jump over the barrier with your battank using the little hill at the base of the tower.
Didn't figure it out myself until my 5th playthrough though, as the upgrades disruptor works too even if it's much more difficult.
One thing I wished you mentioned about the hallucinations are the random thing in map that become “jokerified” then when you turn and look back they become normal like the billboards
Maybe because I'm a cargirl, but I really like the batmobile in this game. Going to redownload it now!!
some of the combat in this game got so difficult for me that i worked out i could jump off the side of the building where the enemies were, glide around the other side, grapple up to the edge and then use detective mode to isolate lone enemies and use silent takedown on them one by one until there were enough enemies taken down to go in and fight it out with them. the police rooftop was a bit like this, and there was one rooftop fortification that i just found inpossible so did that method to pass it.
I personally love the forced slowness in red dead 2, It definitely helps immerse you but I can definitely see where you are coming from, great video btw!
Having the different types of enemies that you have to take out in different ways is good. It makes you have to take them out in a different way. You can't be beating up a brute if there's an electric guy out a shield guy there that will hit you. It's about BEING Batman. He's not gonna jump down and beat up everyone randomly. He's gonna figure out who he has to take out first
I’ve played this game 8 times over the last 4 years and have 240% the game. I should probably feel ashamed, but I don’t. It’s such an amazing game.
idk when it came out it felt so cool asf the commercials were cool asf and it was sold out everywhere i had to go to 4 different stores to find it in stock
The challenge maps in this game were amazing, my favorite part of the Batmobile was the race tracks that gave tribute to the 60’s tv series and the Tim Burton Batman movies.
So glad I found your channel, these videos are so interesting even if I have never played the games
That Cloudburst Tank is the bane of my existence. I dread it every time I do a new play-through.
27:50, when you pick up a bat or pipe from the ground you can hit riot shield and night stick enemies
The scene where Batman breaks the Joker's neck is a reference to, possibly, two things, (1) The comic, "Batman, The Killing Joke" where he and joker fight until joker is basically already dead, so Joker tells one last joke.....that actually makes Batman LAUGH. And while he's laughing, he breaks jokers neck. (2) It could also be a reference to the DC Dark Multiverse origin story for The Batman Who Laughs. That one is pretty dark and brutal, and I'm saying that taking into consideration how dark and brutal the regular DC Multiverse could be at times
I wasn’t annoyed by the batmobile at all. All the things you were annoyed at because you were already sick of the batmobile, I loved because I never minded the batmobile.
The Batmobile isn't in the game for as much as people say. It's like literally less than 20% of the game
The overuse of the Batmobile is one of the greatest exaggerations in videogame history; funny thing is, if really they would have toned it down, reduced only to a mobility vehicle or even removed, we will have complains about how is underused/why isn’t in the game.
Knight is one of the only games, if not the only game I've ever purposefully 100% (other than Riddler Trophies, you can't get my to do that) because it's just so much fun, the details Rocksteady put in are incredible
imagine a batman game with mechanics like splintcell, not the speed control, but like the stealth mechanics, hiding in the shadows, split jump. would be so cool. like imagine shooting lights out with batarangs
this is one of my favorite games i’ve ever played, and i honestly love the batmobile, but the arkham night tank “boss battles” sucked, and the slade side mission boss battle is the most disappointing thing i’ve seen in any game ever, especially after the incredible boss battle with the same character in arkham origins a few years prior
brb gonna binge watch your channel real quick :)
They screwed up death stroke fight.
I feel like this game was super ahead of it’s time… I hated it the first time I played it due to the car aspect, they threw in too much, and though I feel there is a ton of unnecessary car play, it is so much better than I remembered it
[27:22] Yes you're on keyboard and mouse (It's the same for controller) but what you're saying is a hassle, isn't a hassle, it makes sense, (Middle mouse button; to Cape Stun, Pressing Space twice to jump on top of him, and then Left Click to go to redirect to another person) that's you're problem, not the game's.
The only thing i really hate about the combat is the camera angle, seriously its so disorienting especially how it likes to flip flop between enemies and breaking your combo
I’m probably going on 30 play throughs, half normal, half knightmare, and I still haven’t mastered the combos. They’re pretty fickle for sure. I can’t imagine trying them on mouse and keyboard, and I always preferred playing games on my PC.
I too have issues with AK, but it’s still a fun play overall. The hard parts are now fairly easy for me, but that doesn’t mean it’s no longer challenging, it just means over time you catch on to what you need to do. There are so many ways to play the different scenarios that it’s mostly still fun to play them. How some players master AK is beyond me considering all the ways you can approach the scenarios.
All in all it’s a good time - issues aside. Cussing and wanting to scream at the devs for making certain challenges too fucking hard is all part of it. lol 🤣
I agree with the Batmobile - I personally didn’t have any major issues with it.
My 30 year old brother who’s only gotten back into gaming in late 2020 ( he’s still very much a casual ) and he loved the first 2 Arkham games, but with Arkham Knight, he just couldn’t get on with the Batmobile.
fun fact: at the start where you incinerate Joker, I thought you had to spam X (I was playing on a Ps4) instead of hold X so it took me 30 minutes to get past that part
my biggest gripe with knight is the batmobile bosses except the drill, and some of the batmobile sections couldve been a little shorter. i dont hate the batmobiles inclusions however. also the arkham knight was a bit to moody for my liking, a more sinister revenge wouldve fit better imo. but overall the gameplay was the best of the series (combat/stealth), the story was decent, and the graphics were amazing.
Idk why but I’ve never had any issue with any of the batmobile sections, nor did I find mouse and keyboard uncomfortable or clunky, idk I found the batmobile combat sections to be really fun and the chase scenes only bothered me when I forgot I had an afterburner
Was an amazing game!! DLC was great too. Might actually give it a replay soon!!
I really didnt mind the batmobile use so much. I like the idea of batman using his unstoppable vehicle to take down the militia like a sidekick itself. My single biggest problem with the Batmobile. Is the cobra tanks, and the 2 boss battles with arkham knight and deathstroke. If those 2 boss battles would have been more hand to hand. Or have arkham knight and batman fight across rooftops. And have a hand to hand rematch with Slade.
If it werent for those 2 specific boss battles. I wouldn't mind it much. Even cobra tanks alone arent too bad
What Arkham Knight did right:
- Gliding, hand-to-hand combat and predator were perfected.
- Joker appearing in hallucinations
- Graphics are incredible
- Scarecrow makes a pretty good main villain
What they should have done differently:
- Remove tank battles and just have the batmobile for navigation, chasing thugs in vehicles and Riddler racing maps.
- The Arkham Knight should have been a completely original character instead of Jason Todd. You can't give a new origin story to a classic batman character who already has a great origin story and expect things to go well
- More Combat and Predator Boss Fights
- Bigger role for the Bat-Family and side villains like Two Face, Penguin and Riddler.
I never understood why the boss fight against Two-Face (Troy Baker) couldn't have been at least similar to the Arkhan City version or to the (probably fake) Black Mask fight in the Arkham Knight's Red Hood DLC.
I recently raced my friend who is relatively experienced at the Arkham games vs me who was introduced to the concept of a good story in games back when city came out and have played through the whole series at least once a year. We raced through knight but I gave him about an hour to get ahead of me, I have never had such a satisfying moment as to when I was about to catch him on stage airship with him screaming and running while I simply counted the enemies left in the room as I took them out with the finesse of someone who’s been playing these games since before he understood how to read properly.
When someone says there better at me than me at a game I usually believe them. But once it’s an Arkham game I’m sorry but your fucked.
weird flex but ok
Some comments I have about the Combat section of this video (TL;DR at the end if you want):
- Mixing multiple types of hostiles (sentry, infantry, drone) should not be seen as a hassle, but as a challenge. It discourages brute forcing the combat and forces you to view the battlefield with a wider scope. A perfect example would be the Occupation in Gotham missions that you used as video footage. You aren't supposed to swoop in, press X/Left Mouse Button a couple of times and be done with it. You can use the Remote Hacking Device to shut down one drone, but you can only blind one at a time. You're supposed to find a vantage point with the Batmobile and take out the drones with vulcan rounds, which makes Batman seem a lot more strategic than just going boom boom pow. If you find it a hassle because you're just going in guns blazing, you're doing it wrong.
- Electric enemies do the same thing. In order for the combat to be more than just press X then press Y then press X then press Y over and over, forcing you to pick your enemies mid fight makes it more engaging. The left joystick (or WASD keys) direct Batman's attacks to that direction, so there is some skill involved.
-Shield enemies can actually be cape stunned with Q. The game never tells you that it has a keyboard bind, but it's there by default. I can understand your pain though, I struggled a lot during the beginning.
- If you're feeling overwhelmed by the hordes of enemies, I suggest evading more. Batman is not a 'take every fight no backing down' type character. He picks favourable battles where he has the highest chance of success. For example: there is a taser grunt about to attack, two grunts attacking normally, and another grunt with a blade, all attacking you at the same time. You're supposed to jump over any one of them, dash out again into safety, and resume the fight there. To keep the combo going, you can reengage with a batclaw quickfire, or using batarangs.
- The Special Takedown mechanic (Alt + 1 for keyboard, I forgot the controller binding) has a priority list. From my experience playing, the list goes Brutes > Medics = Riot Shielders = Tasers = Gunmen = Knife > Normal goons. If you have a problem with medics, take them out first. If you have a problem with riot shielders, take them out first.
Now let me describe how I would play out the roof combat sequence:
1. Stack combo on basic goons in order to get special takedowns on the brutes (I almost never use the beat down mechanic)
2. Once they're gone, remove all of the riot shielders out of the equation. Q + Space + Space on the first before moving on
3. Take out the medics. Same process as step 1.
4. Disarm every other enemy. Tasers and knives are hazards to the combo, so just hit them until they're stunned before moving on to the next
5. Have fun. Every enemy is now unarmed. They only do normal attacks, and now I freestyle my combo. Batarangs, batclaws, freeze grenades, the whole nine yards.
TL;DR: These are not supposed to be frustrating mechanics. It's made to discourage brute forcing through the entire game.
meme TL;DR: Get good.
Pretty much agree with all of these points except when it comes to combat and controls--as much as I love Arkham, it doesn't hold a candle to the hack-n-slash insanity of Devil May Cry or Bayonetta, though admittedly those games do have a higher skill barrier for the player to do really cool things.
Also, these games were really intended to be played with a controller. While it still takes some time to get used to, most of the quickfire gadget combos are much easier to do on a controller. Is there a way to map the gadget quickfires to a hotkey on PC? I feel like that should have been an option.
EDIT: Welp, you pointed that out at the very end, I tend to jump the gun.
It's waaay better than those.you kidding me?!
Can you do a “The Long Dark” series?
I like the bat mobile, and actually enjoy the tanks most of the time, but not the cobra tanks. The fan base was begging for the bat mobile, and they delivered, I look at it as that there are three great games with no batmobile and a great Batman game with the batmobile. So I like what they did.
I'm just 5% in and like the game a lot so far. It's a heap of fun and seems a lot to it. The Batmobile? I'd heard mixed reviews on how it's done. Myself? Seemed goofy at first but I've come to like it. It's a wild, indestructible ride and the mechanics work well. It evens the odds for a far too human at times Batman. Good fun. It seems a big, armored spider at times. I like that. I do wish it flew, too. Maybe it does? But I mean a lot. I know Batman kind of "flies" by gliding but in games with large maps I like flying around. The possibilities and potential capabilities of a small plane, 'coptor, or some other device Batman can fly around in seems like a fun idea. Even if just mostly a transportation device sometimes.
Great video I love all the Arkham games will you do videos on the games? I think Origins is great very underrated I’m my opinion tbh if I had to rank the games it would be City,Knight Origins than Asylum. Keep up the good work I hope you’ll make videos of the other video games as well.
Imma be honest I love the slow play In RD2
Great take..... I've been running through ng+ and can't stop playing now
great review, good work!
The riddler challenges that evolve the Batmobile... well, actually I quite enjoyed these.
Lol. Me too. Not gonna lie, one of my favorite things to do is drive around and shoot the hell outta the Crooks 🤣
combat : you can press ONE BUTTON and you will win every fight
graphics: dated
story : ok
gameplay: linear , semi open world , from check point to check point
Arkham knight combat and exploration with Arkham city boss battle and spectacle would be near perfect
I quit playing the game when I had to fight the Arkham Knight's drill thingy. I would spend hours playing the fight, and he'd zap me with his rockets. it got frustrating, glad to know I wasn't the only one. lol
the most immersive (and cruel) thing about arkham knight is that it doesn't really distinguish where missions begin and end due to no loading screens, so it's hard to choose a point to stop playing.
When you think you're only gonna play for an hour and then suddenly its been 4.
I just feel like combat mechanic wise nothing is touching shenmue 1 bc it actually feels more like fighting game mechanics. That being said the combat is few and far between but if you are good that 50 man battle is 🔥
Also, king Ezekiel from the walking dead voices azrael. I thought that was so cool lol
kinda wish we got at least ONE more batman focused game. the bat family is cool and i cant wait to play as them in gotham knights but GOD i just wanna play as the bat again in a new game. obvi his identity has been shown but a prequel could work for me
I think it'd be awesome to see a Dishonored 2 video, I haven't finished it and I haven't even played Dishonored 1, but I love it so far.
Spider man PS4 didn't drop until 2018 it's not right to say this game has the same mechanics as that one moreso the other way around but great video
Exactly
i just beat this game and my main beef with it was dead ass all the batmobile tank fights ... im glad im not alone lmao
lmao yup also was furious with the gcpd rooftop fight
yeah when they brought the second batmobile in i was so straight faced and asking myself really..?
I actually peepeepoo'd my pants during the Joker/Man-Bat jumpscare. Why, why did the devs add that in?
1:43 I'm fucking dead bruh
1:43 is the most hilarious thing I’ve ever seen
I totally agree with the RDR2 point, it’s just not really a game, more of a simulator.
I’d rather take out bad guys as Batman than clip my toenails as Arthur Morgan…
yeah you watched a 32 minute video in less than 10 minutes
@@kowxley1793 The RDR2 part was literally the first minute of the video, I don't need to watch the whole thing before commenting on that.
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Is it really a simulator though? All of those gameplay aspects like taking a bath and crafting at a campfire are all optional. You can play through the entire game without needing to do it. These features were implemented because many people complained that the mission structure of “go there, shoot him, leave, mission complete” was too repetitive and boring. Now that they’ve dialled that down and added alternate gameplay, people still complain about it, even though you’re never forced to do them. Guess you can’t please everyone.
Tanks were included twice as much as they needed to be and I was so upset with the lack of a truly superior boss battle (deathstroke?)
But the overall story and mechanics felt brilliant and I really liked this game
My brain goes way too hard for rdr2. That game makes me wanna throw my console out of the window
I think Knight is a solid 8/10 while the 3 other Arkhams are all 9 or higher. The problems in Knight were the anti climactic bosses, the excessive focus on side content, and too many combat enemy types. The biggest problem is that all the side content is too good, it feels necessary to do most of it and that destroys the pacing.
The other games you could run in 8-9 hours, but Knight takes like 25 hours (30 with DLC) and there aren't any noteworthy bosses sprinkled in to make you want to keep playing. It's a game that's very prone to burnout because of the long stretches where the story is going nowhere.
I feel like I red dead redemption things like looting boddies is so thing Arthur wouldn't do like looting every body when he does a crime he'd want to be out fast maybe loot a body or two if he is desperate for materials. Same with crafting
In Batman: Arkham Knight the Batmobile is used like about 20% of the game.
The peak of this kind of combat was with the Mad Max game in my opinion. His punches felt extremely powerful, Max felt like a heavy weight fighter.
Let’s not exaggerated: that game is nowhere comparable to AK, and not only for the combat.
Ofcourse it's comparable, it's practically the exact same combat system. Mad max is just more brutal, and i enjoyed that.
I liked both games, but i prefer mad max abit more because of replay value.
There is definitely one game I can think of with more badass combat, Shadow of War. It basically takes everything good about Arkham-style combat, polishes it, and then gives you a generous health bar. That was one thing I disliked about Arkham knight, the health bar felt like it was nonexistent. It felt like I was a glass cannon and it was really annoying to never be able to rely on pure brute force. Also man those 2 tank 'boss fights' really sucked. Overall I love Arkham knight regardless.
Hallucination?
Meanwhile in RDR2.
Arthur at the Bar: Leeeeeennnnnyy!
Bat-mobile was the problem they forced players to use it.If you wanna force player to do it , do it in the cool way ,they could have make scarecrow boss fight with bat-mobile that you are trying to escape something scary and somehow bat-mobile does not responds to your commands half time and you think controller is broken.Joker was unnecessary too, enough with him.Arkham knight turned out to be red hood; which you could have just used red hood and everyone would be okay with it and hyped more even.No batarang variety...give me some explosive, electruciting, sleep gassing,hack even fear gassing batarangs.Batman could have won against scarecrow by using joker's tactics which would be homega and closure for it.
Those batmobile boss fights are the only reason I don't play through the story anymore
Most annoying quest i ever encounter on this game is collecting things from riddler xD
At the end of the scene batman ending he use a modified fear toxin to bring the fear back to arkham, And it will only affect those who expose to fear toxin before(Remember when scarecrow unleashed the toxin chemical to whole city, Yep thats it). How did i come with this theory or explaination. If you play DCOU and choose a controller class. Your character using a modified fear toxin to stunt(scare them) and do damage over time to an enemies.
they gave me deathstroke as a boss. and they put him in a tank. so underwhelming
use joystick for playing better
after gitgut, i can beat all tanks without taking any damages in NG+
tank battles is my favorite after predator variations
people give Cyberpunk 2077 a hard time but it had some great storytelling, especially with the seamless Johnny hallucinations like with the Joker
That’s sponsor transition 💀
I preordered this game at release, mind you at the time this was one of the few games available for ps4, I loved every second until the tank sections. I still have not finished this game because of those but I think I’ll give it a second try
tank sections are a bit overdone but imo its still worth finishing. hope u enjoy it if u revisit it
Batman Arkham knight is a great game..everyone complain about the batmobile sections but im sure if it wasn't included people would've complaint either way which makes it even better + the story and side missions are great but the bosses are kind underwhelming especially the arkham knight (red hood)boss fight..the rest of the gameplay is great nd enjoyable i found myself memorizing the entire map without even knowing it and the true ending got me for the first time go and collect Riddler trophies..the jumpscares sre scary for a not horror game..the fun part is u never stop like cutscenes are there but u wouldn't know cuz the transition is smooth