http://www.ign.com/articles/2013/02/12/new-batman-arkham-game-coming-this-year
Apparently a new Arkham game has been confirmed through a Warner Bros. investors call.
"And we also have a strong games release this year, which will include the next release in the Batman Arkham franchise," he says. "So all in all, we expect Warners to post another very strong year in 2013. And with a little luck, the year should be as good or maybe even a little bit better than 2012."
That is a quote from the call.
Good news to me, Arkham City was one of the best games to come out in recent times, and I don't just say that because I'm a huge Batman fan either.
Batman Arkham World.
Let's go.
ROCKSTEADY WILL NOT BE DEVELOPING. http://www.vg247.com/2013/02/12/new-batman-arkham-due-in-2013-warner-financials-suggest-rumour/
well, this game's chances of being good just plummeted
There goes my interest.
Ugh. I'm going to hold a little hope that it will still come out good, but I'm not getting my hopes too high without Rocksteady.
So long as the game maintains the aspects that people enjoyed about the first two games while building on top of that this could be great or better than Arkham City.
I kinda wish that the sequel would have reintroduced the general audience to the Batman Beyond universe and
! have Terry fighting the Joker's son in a dark futuristic environment
Yeahhhhhh no. Especially afte ther last Batman Beyond game.
I've often wondered about that myself; seems like being supported by people who only want you there so the world can end in fire (with you going to Hell in the process) would be somewhat off-putting
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Yeahhhhhh no. Especially afte ther last Batman Beyond game.
That doesn't really mean anything. Batman games ranged from terrible to average at best before the Arkham stuff came around.
But considering Rocksteady won't be involved and neither will Paul Dini, I guess you're on to something…
Rocksteady is working on a Silver Age Batman game; my dream would be fore them to work on a Beyond game after that.
I kinda wish that the sequel would have reintroduced the general audience to the Batman Beyond universe and
! have Terry fighting the Joker's son in a dark futuristic environment
That sounds awesome to me!
I would rather Rocksteady did a Superman game. We're due one of those being good.
After so much failure one wonders if such a feat would even be possible.
I have to say I wouldn't be very interested in it. I could never bring myself to like Superman. He's too… perfect.
Not to mention Batman has a better setup for a more varied gameplay. He has the benefit of being both a super hero (that can get seriously hurt), a detective at times (problem solving scenes), and James Bond-esque gadget guy (hence varied tools, equipment and so on). Also he has a more compelling setting in my opinion. The whole dark gotham city just looks so damn cool in a video game (and movies…and television). Pretty much Batman is easier to make a game for.
Superman on the other hand is too straight forward as a super hero. He is all powerful, can fly, shoot lasers, etc... But that's all he has going for him. We COULD have him going around as Clark Kent and doing some "news oriented activities", but then look how the NES fared in trying to include Clark Kent sessions into a game.
I don't feel like going into the "Superman is more interesting than most people assume" rant again.
But he is. He's just mishandled a lot of the time and perceived badly.
Personally, I got bored REEEEEAL fast in the Arkham games of grappling lining to the top of a statue, kicking open ventilation grates, and switching to detective mode every 10 seconds.
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I don't feel like going into the "Superman is more interesting than most people assume" rant again.
But he is. He's just mishandled a lot of the time and perceived badly.
Personally, I got bored REEEEEAL fast in the Arkham games of grappling lining to the top of a statue, kicking open ventilation grates, and switching to detective mode every 10 seconds.
This.
While I really love the Arkham series and think those games are kind of must haves on the PS3 I am annoyed to use the detective mode so often.
You can't really enjoy the beauty of the game in detective mode.
I only ever used detective mode if I needed to find a riddler trophy or if a mission required it (like when following a forensic trail)
Yeah and Arkham City had 400 of them so ….
http://mynintendonews.com/2013/03/28/batman-arkham-origins-to-be-shown-at-e3/
Arkham Next might be at E3.
I guess this is the right thread…? Anyways the next game is Batman: Arkham Origins, it'll be released on all current gen systems (including Wii-U) and will not be developed by Rocksteady.
http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2013/04/09/may-cover-revealed-batman-arkham-origins.aspx
I guess this is the right thread…? Anyways the next game is Batman: Arkham Origins, it'll be released on all current gen systems (including Wii-U) and will not be developed by Rocksteady.
http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2013/04/09/may-cover-revealed-batman-arkham-origins.aspx
My hopes aren't exactly high, and I won't be picking it up on launch (unless the reviews are amazing), but if the reviews are decent I'll give it a rent.
Oh dayuum Deathstroke is in it. My hopes just went high again.
I guess this is the right thread…? Anyways the next game is Batman: Arkham Origins, it'll be released on all current gen systems (including Wii-U) and will not be developed by Rocksteady.
http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2013/04/09/may-cover-revealed-batman-arkham-origins.aspx
My interest died right there.
WB montreal are doing it. According to Wiki they had a hand in City for the Wii U. Which is…..ok I guess. Hopefully they've learnt on how to improve and it runs a bit better.
Asdide from that I dunno what these guys have done. Some cartoon network game it seems.
I will give it a chance I think it could be really good.
I'm glad they decided to go for a lesser known villain as a main antagonist… but Black Mask? Really? Well, I can't say it will be worse than the way they handled Strange in City.
The details sound pretty good. Even though Rocksteady aren't developing, doesn't WB games here have all their resources available? If so, I don't think we have too much to worry about gameplay-wise… right?
Booo, I wanted the Great White Shark (Warren White) as the main villain
Still looks pretty promising, considering that Rocksteady isn't behind this, but I'll wait to see a little bit of gameplay though
About the side missions with other villains, I hope there's a lot more than in City. The only one I kinda liked was the Mad Hatter one, but the mission itself was a bore. Better villains, better missions, that's all I want.
Rocksteady not developing Arkham: Origins is no surprise. That was announced back in February, and mentioned one page back.
But considering they're developing the Silver Age Batman game, I take it we won't have any follow-ups on the events in Arkham City left hanging?
! Hush looks like Wayne and went on to do whatever he planned to do, Scarecrow's out there planning something big with fear toxins, Harley's pregnant, Azreal's message about Gotham's fate, and so on.
Would've been nice to see all of those unfold in the next Arkham game.
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- Takes place on Christmas Eve.
- Gotham City itself is the setting for the game.
- Black Mask is the main antagonist who's placed a bounty on Batman's head. They know he's not a very popular villain, but decided to choose him.
- Several super villains are after the bounty.
- A good chunk of the police are in Black Mask's pocket, the rest merely think Batman's a criminal threat.
- They opted to do a prequel as to not step on Rocksteady's toes if they were to do any future titles in the series.
- Rocksteady IS developing a Batman game.
- The same freeflow combat system that was in the Rocksteady games, however Batman is younger and thus not as skilled in combat.
- The Batwing will be a fast-travel option, but not actually be controlled directly.
- Predator mode from the previous games is still there.
- A new Just Cause 2-esque grapple claw to chain enemies and objects together.
- Batman can use this to string up heavy and explosive objects, then sever the line with a batclaw when an enemy is within range.
- The game world is split into two different areas, Old Gotham and New Gotham.
- Map double the size of Arkham City.
- There will be jamming towers throughout the world that'll block the batwing (fast-travel) and various of Batman's gadgets, Batman will have to destroy these towers using all of his means.
- Dynamic side-missions (muggings, police operation, etc).
- Completing these side missions will cause the Police to treat Batman better.
- Additional side-missions allows Batman to go after other super-villains not in the main story.
- Upgrades and leveling system returns.
- Alfred will give Batman additional gadgets if he notices you're having trouble in certain situations.
- Dark Knight system that offers additional tasks that increase in difficulty.
- They want there to be more of a point to the Challenge maps and modes.
- Detective mode puzzles return.
- There's a playable demo that's been shown behind closed doors.
This doesn't sound too bad, and graphically looks identical. Only concerning thing is
- The same freeflow combat system that was in the Rocksteady games, however Batman is younger and thus not as skilled in combat.
Not sure what to think of that. Are they just going to use the same moveset from Arkham Asylum, or possibly a watered down version? Common sense says they wouldn't do something like that, but I'm curious to see what exactly they'll be doing to the combat to make it just as good as it was in City, but without the skilled combat and upgrades.
So what was the point of the Scarecrow boat again.
@Mr.:
Rocksteady not developing Arkham: Origins is no surprise. That was announced back in February, and mentioned one page back.
But considering they're developing the Silver Age Batman game, I take it we won't have any follow-ups on the events in Arkham City left hanging?
! Hush looks like Wayne and went on to do whatever he planned to do, Scarecrow's out there planning something big with fear toxins, Harley's pregnant, Azreal's message about Gotham's fate, and so on.
Would've been nice to see all of those unfold in the next Arkham game.
! You apparently didn't play Harley Quinn's Revenge add on. if you go to the same room you find the pregnancy test in the regular story you'll find a baby crib with a makeshift doll in it and a pregnancy test that reads negative and a box for it that has a warning label that reads "WARNING! May result in false positive". In short Harley is not pregnant
But the rest of it is plausible for a sequel
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! You apparently didn't play Harley Quinn's Revenge add on. if you go to the same room you find the pregnancy test in the regular story you'll find a baby crib with a makeshift doll in it and a pregnancy test that reads negative and a box for it that has a warning label that reads "WARNING! May result in false positive". In short Harley is not pregnant
But the rest of it is plausible for a sequel
I heard that dlc was crap anyways so I didn't bother downloading it, but good to know!
- They opted to do a prequel as to not step on Rocksteady's toes if they were to do any future titles in the series.
- Rocksteady IS developing a Batman game.
Is all this info from the GI issue? Because I REALLY want this to be confirmed… I'd be sad if Rocksteady never came back to the story.
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Well at least it looks like Rocksteady's Batman games and if the details are true,it is worth a shot I guess.
Both Black Mask and Deathstroke in the same game, its to perfect for me!!!
Is all this info from the GI issue? Because I REALLY want this to be confirmed… I'd be sad if Rocksteady never came back to the story.
Don't expect them to follow up on Arkham City's plot threads until the next official sequel. Also it's kind of weird seeing Penguin without the bottle monocle.
Cut him some slack, his parents are dead.
And when you're the "Goddamned" Batman you don't need to smile while you're fucking people up.
That's the only way Batman knows how to smile.
http://mynintendonews.com/2013/04/23/batman-arkham-origins-to-include-multiplayer/
Arkham Origins might include multiplayer
Not sure how I would feel about that.
I can see ways to incorporate multiplayer into the challenge maps. Maybe some sort of race to see who can stealthily subdue more thugs without being detected in a predator map, or something. I could even imagine sabotaging your opponent by throwing a Sonic Batarang right next to him to expose him, or hacking his plastique detonator to ruin his traps, or freeze-grenading a thug he was waiting to take down from above, and stuff like that.
Hey mods, can we get the thread title changed to the game's actual name? Pretty please?
Where's that one photoshop of a bunch of Batman's fighting eachother in Arkham Asylum? I wanted to post it in this situation bad.
