re: Batman: Arkham Origins ***RELEASE DATE APPROACHING 10.25.2013****

Does this game have multiplayer?

ETA: Nm

This game was almost exactly what it needed to be.

the timing and spacing on the combat is a little off. I do not know why they would tweek even the smallest thing. Though the combat is still great, it is maddening they even touched it. The concussion grenade is pretty useless.

Love the story, voice acting, character design, etc...

Game is really buggy.

Awesome open world is empty. I know it is christmas eve and there is a city wide curfew. I still hoped to see SOME citizens, SOME vehicles driving around...

effing LOVED the Bane fight...both of them. I was really underwhelmed by the deathstroke fight. I think they could have done more with enigma. A riddler trophy? that's what I get for all of that?

The campaign maps were not done well. They just never had the right balance and mix of enemies and when you add the timing tweek in the combat it isn't even fun.


8/10...I think this game was scored a tad too low by the reviews but it is still a worthy entry.

Rocksteady, your turn.

I was dying to complain about the timing on combat counters. NO ONE HERE COMPLAINED

It is a catch 22 with most of the complaints. You have to have open world...there is no arguing that. You did the asylum. you did arkham city, but it is so empty. On the flip side, they populate it and frick it up, then everyone is complaining that they didn't need to mess with anything.

I still love this game. OML was right about AC a few years ago. They blew their wad and it is going to take an incredible effort to improve on that game, but with 4-5 years, I am splooging at the thought of what rocksteady is going to do.

That is mostly what I didn't like.

-campaign maps (the ones where you fight, not the predator maps)

-empty world

-really buggy, but nothing that will drive you crazy.

-combat timing and the way the enemies space out is out of sync a bit, but I would list the combat as the strength of this game still

-I loved the new detective mode, though next time I hope it puts the burden on me a little to actually do some detective work. I know that is challenging

-Character design is perfect- Batman and bane in particular

-boss fights are awesome though nothing will beat the mr. freeze boss fight ( I play on the hardest difficulty. I know in AC you only had to get freeze a few times on normal, but on hard you have to get him a number of ways) The first bane fight is very challenging

-story is great though there is an early, predictable hitch that I think OML explained well.

-side missions are actually an improvement over AC

-origins brings back the massive interiors of asylum though neither AC or Origins does it quite as well.

-like the previous two game, you feel like batman and it feels goooood

This is an AC continuation in the presentation, gameplay, etc...

I love Arkham and AC the same. They are two completely different games IMO even though they are exactly the same, if that makes sense.

This is just more of the same, but that is exactly what it should be. WB Montreal isn't a capable studio, so they basically did a copy and paste which is perfect because if they tried to do their own thing it would have been a massive dud.

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The combat timing didn't bother me at all for some reason.

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I've noticed it, but it's not a game killer. I'm hoping to put some serious time into this game in the next few days. I haven't even finished the GCPD yet.

AC was a prison so it had prisoners

Gotham is a city. It should have citizens. It's not a huge deal for me, but it is something that could've been better

I say this and I am on "I am the night mode"

No, I thought before I opened the game that it would be awesome if black mask hires 8 assassins but the joker comes out of nowhere. Is he going for the bounty? Is he just crazy? I thought the assasin story line would play straight but the joker and other "super criminals" would reveal themselves as the bigger threat

But it would've at least been better to have joker as someone in play for the $50 mil

Still, love the story. Love jokers end scenario. Bane is a star villain in this game and IMO, could've been a larger focal point

Heath ledger's joker doesn't

The joker definitely does


Well, even Heath's joker got lau for a lot of money. Even if he burned it