Batman: Arkham Knight

henke on 10/1/2016 at 21:12

HOLY PLOT TWIST BATMAN

I figured out who the Arkham Knight was just before he revealed himself. I was like NO wait it's- NO! OH MY GAAAAAWWWWD! What a great twist. And the bossfight in the tunnel was great too.

Zerker on 10/1/2016 at 22:11

Considering you didn't actually tell us his identity, I'm not sure why you spoilered that.

henke on 11/1/2016 at 06:31

Just to be really super spoiler free. I go the extra mile, baby. I won't even tell you what it is I'm not spoiling for you!

froghawk on 11/1/2016 at 07:45

That twist was incredibly obvious from the start to everyone well acquainted with the comics. And it doesn't make a lot of sense - they should have just made a red hood game instead of all the militia nonsense in a personal story.

Also I have a GTX 750 and can't run the game anywhere near native resolution with every single setting turned to low or off, so no. But they did add the missing rain effects back in with the last patch...

242 on 11/1/2016 at 10:20

I accidentally read a spoiler about identity of Arkham Knight on another forum, and even before playing I knew that it was ---------------Robin------------------. But still, I didn't know which one, and ultimately I was wrong, I was sure it was ---------------------Tim Drake-------------------.

And yeah, the game is ultra slick and looks gorgeous on PS4. Finished it (120%) a few days ago after playing for more than a month. I even got 3 stars in all AR challenges, which was kind of hard, there were some really difficult ones (especially batmobile battle and hybrid), but far from impossible after some training. Will replay on NG+ after some time to get 240% :) The best in the series for me.

WingedKagouti on 11/1/2016 at 10:50

Quote Posted by 242

Dick/Nightwing wouldn't have made any kind of sense, especially since he's actually running around as Nightwing at the same time. Tim/Red Robin didn't have that much antagonism towards Batman, especially not to the point of wanting to make Batman kill anyone. Stephanie/Spoiler would just have made things very weird. Damian Wayne could have been an option, but Talia's death in City messed that up.

Jason Todd is the only Robin who would make sense as Arkham Knight, his general attitude before his death and his attitude towards Batman after being resurrected make him the logical pick for a Robin who would act like the Arkham Knight.

Also, from the gameplay I've seen the actual person is heavily telegraphed a couple of hours in advance (depending on how you tackle things of course) in some of the hallucination cutscenes with the Joker.

henke on 15/1/2016 at 06:28

Finished Arkham Knight a couple nights ago. Well, the first ending at least. Working on the second now, but don't think I'll bother with all the Riddler stuff and tie up every loose end get the final ending. Anyway, first ending: great stuff! Loved how the Batman and Joker storyline finished. Arkham Knight meanwhile seemingly just gets forgotten about? Hopefully we get a bit more closure on him in the second ending.

froghawk on 15/1/2016 at 17:36

I think what irritated me about that is that the Arkham City story got derailed and ultimately ended up being entirely about the joker, which is fine except for the fact they basically failed to explore Hugo Strange, who was supposed to be the main villain. I felt like the story was supposed to be about him and was just getting started in your first encounter with him - then he dies in the same encounter and the game ends shortly after. The whole thing felt very truncated.

I thought this time around they would avoid derailing the story and forgetting about the main antagonist in lieu of the joker because the joker was dead - but no, they managed to find a way to make the same mistake AGAIN. I love the Joker, but he doesn't need to be the focus of every story. Scarecrow is an interesting villain and there was lots to explore there, but they just used him as a plot device to bring out the joker instead, while forgetting about Arkham Knight entirely. I just wish they could focus on the stories the game begins telling instead of getting derailed by the joker every time.

henke on 15/1/2016 at 19:33

I'd probably be ticked off about yet another Batman game focusing so much on the Joker if it wasn't so well done.

Initiated Knightfall Protocoll tonight. Not gonna bother with 100% this just to get find out more about how the story ended. I'm guessing the only thing you get from 100%-ing is finding out that Batman survived that explosion and is sitting on a beach in Honolulu sippin' on a fancy straw drink?

Instead I just bought the Catwoman DLC. The other character-based mission DLCs do look tempting as well, as does the 60's Batmobile, but I think perhaps I'll wait for a sale and get the Season pass on the cheap somewhere down the line.

froghawk on 15/1/2016 at 20:05

I youtubed the real ending and it doesn't really make any sense. Definitely not worth doing all those challenges for

Also be warned that all of the DLC is SHORT