Batman: Arkham Origins

[King Ellis]

I was just waxing lyrical about Asylum in the past week over in the General Games thread. Haven't played City yet and no doubt wont for a good while yet. I'd suggest a new game will only drive the price of that one down further so that'd be good for me, but it's already extremely cheap anyway so whatever.

By extension, I wont be playing this one for years. But hey, that Arkham Asylum is pretty damn awesome.

[TKz]

You know what the best part of City was, thinking about it? That fight with Mr. Freeze. That was great. I wish there was a bit more wriggle room for different ways to damage him each time, but it was still awesome.

[EddieRuckus]

Oh the Freeze fight was amazing, really made you stay on your toes. I will say that as much as I enjoyed City that Asylum was better for the open world reasons discussed(my opinion anyway).

[Maxx]

Developer video says the game is set on Christmas Eve, with 8 of the best assassin's in the world teaming up to try to kill Batman. It's also going to have a fully functional Gotham City to explore.

[TKz]

Eh. Honestly, City wasn't a bad game at all, I just lost interest in playing the same thing in a bigger world... so, I'm not really all that excited for this. I feel the same way I did for Uncharted 3, I've had my fill with the first two, I don't really need any more. Still, cool for those that liked City and want more.

[LL!]

Arkham City is fantastic and so is Uncharted 3. TKz is just shit and likes shit Final Fantasy games like XIII. Come on. How can you trust this shit?

[Tyrone]

So they didn't name it Arkham World after all Thought they'd go with a Batman Beyond approach, actually. Probably with...

Major Arkham City spoiler

Harley and Joker's kid all grown up and the new big bad guy against new Bats

Edited April 9, 2013 by Ty123

[TKz]

Arkham City is fantastic and so is Uncharted 3. TKz is just shit and likes shit Final Fantasy games like XIII. Come on. How can you trust this shit?

Well of course the film school guy loves the game that's essentially just a film with a bit of gameplay!

[Cactus Drags]

I thoroughly enjoyed Max Payne, one of the best releases of 2012.

I'm a little concerned that Rocksteady aren't involved, but WB Montreal has been granted full access to the modified Unreal engine that the first two games used, so it might not be anything major to worry about.

[apsham]

So apparently there's going to be a 3DS/Vita game as well called Arkham Origins - Blackgate.

- Warner Bros. wanted to have a 2.5D-style Arkham game in the style of Metroidvania

- The company chose Armature because the studio was familiar with that style of game
- Takes place after the end of Origins
- Set on the isolated island at the Blackgate Penitentiary
- Prison uprising has occurred
- Intro level in Gotham
- Batman goes to Blackgate in order to put a stop to the riot
- 2D animatics with full voices tell the story
- Batman moves through a side-scrolling game world
- He’ll pick up near gear and take on enemies along the way
- Interconnected passages and prison secrets
- Not focused on leveling up abilities like the console games
- Instead, it stays true to the subgenre’s formula
- All of Batman’s improvements came through gear pick-ups and upgrades
- Team wanted to give players more of a sense of collection
- Mostly set along a 2D plane
- Takes full advantage of the visual three-dimensionality of the environments
- Explore, fight, and interact with the foreground abnd background
- Can grapple up to gargoyles on a background balcony while a crowd of armed inmates pass by
- Enemies will go after Batman from all angles
- Go to the foreground or background to tackle a designed foe
- Combat similar to the console Batman games
- Button taps to attack, counter, and use gear are in place
- Freeflow combat system
- Built from the ground up
- Batarang: stun enemies or hit distant objects
- Line launcher: cross wide gaps
- Explosive gel variation: shoot from a launcher onto spots around the screen
- This lets you get involved with entertaining takedowns such as dropping a chandelier on enemies from above
- More gadgets will also be in the game
- Has a version of the predator mode
- Game has a few more layers of feedback
- Ex: can see the sightlines of enemies
- This lets you know if enemies can see you or not
- Same kind of vantage points, floor grates, silent takedowns, glide kicks, weapon use, and breakable walls as in the console games
- Game is split into various sections
- Each can be accessed once you figure out a way inside
- No save rooms
- Modern checkpoint system
- Can manually save whenever you desire
- Can defeat the bosses in any ordder if you find out where you want to go
- “We don’t want you to break the game, but if you can exploit it in a certain way that we haven’t thought of, that’s awesome. So it’s conceivable the players will have abilities that don’t necessarily jibe that great with the boss. We’ve taken some cues from other games where if you have a particular item against a boss, you’ll just rip them a new one, but we don’t tell you what that item is”
- Will have detective mode
- Tap a button and the screen fades into a digitized overlay with detailed info
- Green enemies: enemies haven’t seen you
- Red enemies: enemies are onto your location
- Move a reticle around the screen to focus Batman’s attention
- Can use this to uncover secrets
- Uncover clues and analyze dangerous situations in detective mode

A Batman Metroidvania game? Fuck yeah.

[Tyrone]

Some screens of bad guys

[apsham]

Yeah, I'm officially ten times more pumped for the 3DS game now.

[Cactus Drags]

Hurray Vita games!

[Drock007]

Why a Prequel when there was awesome potenial for wicked Sequel to Arkham City?

[Dan]

Sequel will be next-gen which is better IMO.

[Nick Adams]

A 3DS NON-LEGO BATMAN GAME? Man, so glad for this. I have exactly three games that are 3DS proper that I actually play, and my usual limit for buying a console is ten games that I want. Then again, I've got a fairly large DS library, so I guess that counts? Either way, such it, Sony console exclusives!

[EWB's Best Poster.]

Nick the same games on vita too.

[OctoberRaven]

Arkham City is fantastic and so is Uncharted 3. TKz is just shit and likes shit Final Fantasy games like XIII. Come on. How can you trust this shit?

Well of course the film school guy loves the game that's essentially just a film with a bit of gameplay!

I'm a video game design school guy and I agree with LL, so.

[TKz]

Arkham City is fantastic and so is Uncharted 3. TKz is just shit and likes shit Final Fantasy games like XIII. Come on. How can you trust this shit?

Well of course the film school guy loves the game that's essentially just a film with a bit of gameplay!

I'm a video game design school guy and I agree with LL, so.

Yeah, but you're also ORO. If anything, your agreement hurts his point.

[Nick Adams]

Nick the same games on vita too.

I know it is, but it just seems like Vita has been getting a lot of awesome games while 3DS has a limited library, so it's nice that this isn't Sony exclusive.