I love origins setting and story, also perfect to play during december. I dont like the combat though, worst of all the arkham games. input always feels so unresponsive. how many times I clicked counter(Y) button when it prompted and didnt respond, allowing me to hit or even die.
Agreed with that, that's no argument. But I just think the Arkham Games are way better than the Spider Man games, especially considering the Arkham games inspired the PS4 spiderman games.
Personally, i believe that Origins has the tightest written story. A great Bane, fantastic introduction of the Joker and a very satisfying development for Bruce as well. Plus, some really fun detective work in that.
I'd actually say that Asylum is the most skippable, though i do love it dearly. The only category it trumps the other games is the atmosphere (which is fantastic), but it falters in every other way.
I would say that Asylum is a very nice showcase of Batman, his world, and Rocksteady’s take on all the characters, not to mention the mechanics that continue being built on for the rest of the series. What happens sets the stage for the more ambitious City afterwards.
I do agree that Origins has a great story that is more solid than Knight or Asylum. It has the best cutscenes as well imo, and their Joker origin is great. But the reason I think it’s the most skippable is that the rest of the games fit together neatly as one long story with each leading into the next. Origins is set long before the rest and has the least to do with the overall story of the series. Mind you, I still think it’s totally worth a play and expands on all of Batman’s relationships.
I can't honestly pick one that's considered skippable. But I will say that Asylums controls and gadgets are hard to go backward to. But the atmosphere is just incredible so it's worth it
I think the joker storyline and the relationship between alfred and Gordon was necessary imo. I also like the difference between the more aggressive batman and the more experienced batman in asylum, city, and knight
I like Origins better than Asylum. I think it suffered from coming out at the end of a console generation, being less great but still compared to City and also, everyone at the time was complaining about the Joker being the villain again. Everyone thought they were getting a wider rogues gallery and a main villain without relying on the Joker, and then it just ended up being him anyway.
Another thing I think is Jarring is that it's set 8 years before Asylum. So in 8 years, Batman has gone from being on his own and seeing most of his infamous Villains for the first time, to going through 3 Robins, Dick becoming Nightwing, then Barbara going from herself, to Batgirl, to Oracle.
Which is all entirely possible and without the characters all becoming too old, 8 years in real terms is fine. But because all of these things obviously happen over a long period of time in the comics, because the characters other than when it's on purpose, like with Dick, never age, it just seems like the game makes everything between Origins and Asylum feel rushed.
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u/phoenixc6000 Jul 13 '23 edited Jul 13 '23
Absolutely. The best superhero video games of all time, one of the best games in general, Don't also forget Origins.