What do you think of Arkham Origins?

What do you think of Arkham Origins?

bad

Flawed but decent in certain areas.

+Good bosses
+Cool Christmas/winter theme
+Lots of predator rooms
+Decent story
+Bigger than Arkham City

-Poor indoor levels
-Dark Knight and upgrade systems were bad
-Wasted lots of it's characters
-Some glitches

>+Bigger than Arkham City

honestly, I wouldn't call this a positive. It's just Arkham City's map (with everything interesting taken out of it) with another island awkwardly slapped on to the south only connected by a single bridge. It's an absolute nightmare trying to get around quickly and basically forces you to use fast travel.

Arkham Knight was able to make the map bigger without making it tedious, because Rocksteady is a much better developer than WB Montreal.

Great writing, bosses and Campaign.

Bane was GOAT

Freeze DLC was really good


Shit map, open world, gameplay, suits, mechanics and everything else.

All in all a good game to get into Arkhamverse, but the most flawed of them all

just city 1.5 but has actually boss fights that aren't just "hey you want a tank battle right" or "jump out of the way of this charging rhino attack!"

I love that armor you get in the dlc. imo the best looking batsuit in all the games I loved using mods on pc to use it all the time.

I wish there was an equally badass skin for Arkham Knight :(

Underrated and gets too much hate.

This.

Felt really poorly paced in terms of combat

Asylum and City both ease you into it with smaller 1v4 fights, Origins throws groups of 10+ enemies at you really early on and nearly every encounter has one or two of those big brutes that need to be stunned before they can get damaged.

made me feel like I was playing Arkham City on speed and I was already feeling burned out on the formula, I wanted something a bit different

Nobody ever mentions how fucking awesome the detective segments were. I loved those and wish there were even more. The boss fights were pretty fun too and I enjoyed seeing the more aggressive and angry Bruce from his younger days.

the worst entry in the series, easily

City > Asylum > Knight > Origins

I liked it

But I'm Batman fanboy and actually recognized all the characters

Loved the story and bosses like all of the other games, but the map felt empty. There was little to no depth and intriguing atmosphere unlike the other games.

All the games were pretty good aside from Knight which I haven't played and can't rate but Origins is where the quality started to drop and I'm told that drop continued with Knight.

I don't know why those dumb niggers had to get lazy and ruin a good thing.

The Deathstroke and Firefly boss fights were pretty hype.

Basically city 1.5. Sad that multiplayer is dead.

Origins doesn't even exist as far as I'm concerned, literal cashgrab not made by Rocksteady. The official list is

City
Asylum
Knight

And I don't even think Knight was bad, just a little weird with half the game being tank shit

I thought the shock gloves were pretty cool. Good crowd control bat gimmick.

Best combat and second in story thanks to its singular focus imo. Asylum > Knight > Origins > City

City is for plebs, it's sequels and Asylum did everything better.

...snow was cool though

Unironically better than Arkham Knight

It's more that Origins was always supposed to be a semi-cheap additional game. Also Knight is on a new platform.

Allow me to break the ice

How do I get gud?

oh god, i;ve ruined it for me mr. freeze

>Deathstroke fight
>QTE snooze fest

I liked it. The fuck you gonna do about it?

Unironically prefer it over City but, what do I know about judging games. I thought Knight was the best in the series.

Best writing, worst combat.

Let's kick some ice

they were kinda shit though.

>mfw even the official batman arkham series artbook totally ignores Origins

Better than his fight in Arkham Knight

Play it on hard (without counter icons) and go for the no missed counters/no damage achievement. That was the best enemy encounter I've had in the series so far. Including the Freeze fight in AC.

this
but i still like it

We can all agree that

Asylum>City>Origins>Knight

This.

We absolutely can.

However, the actual game Knight did acknowledge Origins several times, and not in a discrediting sort of way either.

I'm on my second playthrough and Jesus fuck how did I ever manage to beat Bane on the roof
I know that at some point I must have beaten him but this time the big guy keeps raping my ass

What are you talking about? Taking control away from me after a boring tank battle and having him lose by getting tackled in a cutscene was literally the best fight of all time!

fuck arkham origins it DOESN'T EXIST TO ME REEEEEEEE

Knight was great. I'm glad I played it after a year of seeing nothing but hate for it, so when I got into it it was already partially fixed, had all DLC and expected a shit game.

Game's biggest flaw, aside from some boss battles being tank battles which was completely shit, is that the story was handled poorly. The jason reveal should have happened like in UTRH, where Batman knows he is Jason right away, and spends the rest of the movie trying to make him understand why he doesn't kill/bring him back to his side. Making Batman not realize something even players who never read a single batman comic book could really undermined the story and made the world's greatest detective look like a fucking amateur

The combat felt a little off compared to City. Batman has all these flashy looong attacks, which wasn't a problem in the Rocksteady games because the thugs would hardly ever attack AFTER you started yours. In Origins they'd do it a lot and some, like the ones with bats, would charge from halfway across the screen and hit you in less time than it takes for you to finish yours.

NG+, build up your shock gloves. Bat stun him, beat him down, then right away use a takedown, then shock gloves. Without NG+ (you probably won't have the upgrades for the gloves) use the first two. Dodge at the last second, he turns on a dime. Ignore the fodder, he'll trample most of them anyway.

>+Bigger than Arkham City
How is that inherently good? That thinking is why every dev puts bloodless boring open worlds into games

>+Decent story

>look online cause i never encountered him somehow when i played knight
>its a rehash of the arkham knight cloudburst fight

I think it's better than the other Arkham games on some levels.
I loved the dialogue between Bruce and Alfred.
I can't tell whether to love the Joker twist or be annoyed at it. Because Joker had literally been done to death in the games by this point, but damn it if the Joker moments weren't some of the best in gaming!
Bosses were fucking awesome, especially Bane and Firefly.
Dlc that was a great adaption of Heart of Ice.
Actual fight with Deathstroke.
Riddler was still annoying, and this time there was no payoff for completing his mission.
Commissioner Gordon seemed really weird to me, I don't remember him ever trying to go after Batman.
Most of the assassins were bogus side missions or boss fights that ended in one punch (electrocutioner)
Gotta be honest, the map was pretty shite compared to every other game.
All in all, I give it an 8/10, I did enjoy it more than Arkham Knight

Thanks mate.
This would be piss easy if only he didn't turn.

Yeah, no problem. His fights are some of my favourite in the series mainly because it's not a cakewalk.

I can get behind this. Restarted it after a very long time of not playing. Arkham series is my all time favourite and I was disgusted with how bad AK was. Seeing it now and playing the finished product with all the DLC, it's a lot better. You really need to look past the retarded tank sections, but it's a pretty good game overall. Still the weakest of the series in virtually every respect, but no longer dogshit.

I liked it. Its basically Arkham City 2.5 which isnt necessarily a bad thing.

The best thing it did was portray Bane correctly, worst was that it relied on the Joker showing up like usual.

Yeah those really do make up for his shitty portayal in the first two.
I remember laughing my ass off in the end when they just explained it by literally making him retarded.

Why was Ezio Redfield the Hedgehog voicing batman again?

I mean, yeah he did a good job. But i dont understand why Conroy was avaliable.

But darn it, Joker always ends up being great in these games

I thought it was more difficult than city, if it's worth anything

Because Origins starred a younger, more emotional Batman. Same reason for getting Troy Baker as Joker

If with Troy Bakers desperate overacting.

Can he fucking not voice 12 different majot characters in the same franchise please.

Poor bastards had no choice, Rocksteady painted them into a corner. I'm glad they tried at least.

Mark Hamill "quit" and Arkham city was "his last time as the joker".

AA canon
AO bosses
AK joker
AC sandbox

This is canon negros

Why does he do that? Keep saying he's done this time but ends up taking another joker role

Money

Promo stunt
Joker is officially gone since city
The reveal in Knight is glorious

bad. this game runs like shit for me

I beat Knight and loved it so I mean to play through Asylum and Origins to wrap up the series.

Better than Arkham Knight.

Because it wrecks his throat, I imagine he takes a break for a while and forgets how shitty it was.

And money.

wasted potential

i just wanted to play as some of the assassins in challenge mode. also it still ctd's out of nowhere.

winter snow xmas atmosphere was really great though

It wasn't a bad game at all, but it was definitely my least favourite entry in the series. It was basically more of City but worse.

I think the game gets too much praise. Basically the combat system is on the PS3 still full of glitches and I find myself loosing too many combos because the right enemy isn't targeted correctly. Also the stealth sections are still not finished and a lot of times enemies just stay together until you make a move.
I had too many fights disrupted because of a clunky targeting system. Thankfully Montreal had a lot of help from Rocksteady, which lead them to focus on fixing origins rather than making Knight great.
I do love the atmosphere and the designs, but I feel people are just too forgiving.

>loosing too many combos because the right enemy isn't targeted correctly
just goes to show that KB+M accuracy is superior and analog sticks are for plebs

You guys know that Arkham Knight mention stuff that happened in Origins, right? That game, wherever you like it or not, is canon.

In AK, I died my first time seeing the joker, trying to get him into the bat mobile thinking he was alive :'(

Facing Bane on I am the Night mode is great you really feel the music there.

>Play I am the Night Mode
>Make it through most of the game with little to no trouble
>Reach Blackgate Prison
>Miss the jump/glide before facing Joker/Bane and land in the electrified water
I didn't play the game again after that

It's not that bad, it's not like Blackgate which everyone pretends it doesn't exists, this one is merely a low point in the series.

Fucking jump scares. If I wanted to play Resident Evil, I'll play Resident Evil.

>Blackgate
>Oh wow a Metriod-like game made by some of the guys from Retro! How come no one talks about it?
>Read up more about it
Oh..