5 Things Batman Arkham Origins Did Right 

My favourite things about origins 1. How they portrayed bane. They got him perfect. He was big and brawny but also smart and menacing. 2. The Christmas setting. It felt so cool and went really well. It's hard to explain why but It linked so well especially that Carol of the bells joker theme, perfection. 3. I know he's not Mark, but Troy Baker as the joker. Man what a performance, if Mark doesn't want to do the role again they have to her Troy back. 4. The boss battles, especially that deathstroke, copperhead and bane one. 5. I loved the various modes there was to the main story, new game plus, I am the Knight etc. I'm a guy who loves challenges so having to complete the game without dying or failing any missions was very stressful but fun to do.

The cut scenes in origins were one of my favourite things

Roger Craig Smith played an excellent young Kevin Conroy batman love that suit

My Favorite things about Origins .... 1. Going to the Bat-cave anytime you wanted to. And talking to alfred face to face. 2. Boss Fights ...REAL boss fights Like Bane and Firefly . 3. Crime Scene Investigation in the game. 4.Challenge Maps that took place outside of Gotham and His training Before he became Batman 5. Cold Cold Heart Mr Freeze DLC. You to see what happened to Mr Freeze and Nora . And the fact that you could actually go inside Wayne Manor .

Arkham asylum is my favorite batman game but they really need to remaster origins it's such an underrated game

I like how when you talk to Alfred you get “Alfred’s wisdom” and a lot of XP.

It did The deathstroke boss fight correct, and the deadshot one was actually fun for me

I loved and still do love Origins. Once people take off the rose tinted glasses, the game honestly did some things better than Knight.

In my opinion, the artstyle is more interesting than the rest of the series. I hope it's refined and reimplemented in the new Arkham game by WB Montreal.

I think it's great to see someone who loves this series so much and has good things and bad things to say about each of them.

I absolutely love the costume and prefer way more this than the robotic one we’ve got in knight

This is still my favourite Arkham game. good points raised here, the multiplayer was a great idea. If anything I would have preferred the gadgets and resources were a bit more lo-tech and semi-realistic, to show Batman is really learning

My favorite things about Arkham Origins 5. The Christmas setting. Now while it is one of the many games out there that revolves around Christmas this game really nails it. There are games like Spiderman Miles Morales that are set around it, but I don't count them as a Christmas games because they don't happen at Christmas they just revolve around it. This game gets it right. It feels like Christmas looks like Christmas and has good vibes going off. 4. The music. This game has one of my favorite soundtracks ever. It has music that can be played around Christmas time but also all year around. 3. The Batcave is one of the coolest things about this game. It has a lot of cool stuff with the computer that Alfred uses and a Arkham Asylum batmobile easter egg (I don't really count Arkham Origins as canon tho). It also has a bit of a Nolan influence with the tunnel that has the elevator by it. Also the training simulator is very cool and the suit compartment is awesome. It just seems to come out of the ground and looks so cool. 2. The boss battles. This game does have some very epic boss battles. Now I do hear that the best boss battle in the game is the Deathstroke boss battle i disagree. Mainly because there is a boss battle I like more. It is the Bane boss battles. I like the ones where you battle Bane himself but I really like the Bane stealth mission. You have to use grates and vents and multiple other ways to take down Bane all in a 15 minuet timer. It is one of the most creepy for me because if you get caught you are thrown around like there is no tomorrow. 1. The voice acting. While it is not Kevin Conroy as Batman or Mark Hamill as the Joker both Roger Craig Smith and Troy Baker did a good job. They set the mood and while Roger's Batman voice is not as awesome as Adam West's jk. I meant to say Kevin's, Rodger still did a very good job. I also appreciate the madness of the Joker that Troy Baker brought in for his joker. That was all 5 of mine lol sorry this list was so long but i enjoyed watching the video and telling what my favorite things about Arkham Origins is :). Have a good day!

This is my favorite Arkham game. Arkham City has the best story of them overall, but I always find myself replaying Origins due to everything just combined is just a fun experience for me

I played it again a month ago; it’s a solid, good game. I love the dynamic between Alfred and Batman and how Batman learns to rely on his allies. Watching Batman earn Gordon’s respect is cool too.

For me 5. The cutscenes 4. The Christmas setting 3. The batcave 2. The boss battles 1. Batman's younger, darker, more brutal nature

I love this game! The music is fantastic

You forgot the shock gloves that are sooo OP that I missed it so much when playing Arkham knight XD

Cold, Cold Heart was one of my favourite Arkham DLC out of all of the games.

Im gonna say that City was the best one ,Knight most advanced with amazing gameplay and graphics but Origins is still my fav :)

I know the upload time hasn't been super consistent! Had to go back and repurchase this game since I was having issues with it on my pc (along with working other day jobs). Hope you all enjoy and let me know what you think!

I like the soundtrack in this game. 3:26 I like the introduction to the assassins. It’s a great summary and it gets me hyped. I like that getting every extortion data rewards you with a room holding a prototype riddler trophy. (Most people hate the riddler collectathon but I love it)

I definitely agree with you on what you said. Though, I'd like to add that the music sets up the setting pretty well. In fact, when Christmas comes around, I made it a tradition to play through Arkham Origins, just to set the vibes.

I liked the multiplayer in Arkham orings I loved the story and the one in cold cold heart I loved the writing and boss fights

I would like to see some batsuit customization in the next BatMan game ..

It is so underrated. Also the boss fights were really good.

My favorite things that this game did over the others, even Knight, were the boss fights and being able to turn off Barman's "spidey-sense" from the get-go. Additionally, having an enemy that counters your counters was something Knight sorely lacked.

Someone who actually said something good about the multiplayer? Lol but honestly I thought it was pretty cool for a side thing, and I hope it returns someday

The Firefly bossfight is probably my second favorite boss fight in the Arkham series. Also, the sequence where you are playing through Joker's mindscape was brilliant. I love that Harley thought he was flirting with her when he was actually thinking about Batman, implying that the Joker, in his own twisted way, is in love with Batman.

I loved the story the most out of all the games because it gave me that crime thriller feel (especially with the Lacey towers murders and royal hotel segment). Also I think I’m in the minority that got legitimately excited by the joker twist halfway through the game because it was pulled off really well and fit the story.

Maybe the multiplayer should have been Joker gang vs Black Mask gang instead of Joker gang vs Bane gang, it would also fit to the main story

I adore Origins. Very underrated and misunderstood game. My top fives (in no order): 1) Batcave and Alfred 2) I really liked the CSI investigations 3) Boss fights are some of the best - Deathstroke of course but also Firefly, Copperhead, Bane in the hotel / roof felt epic, and finally the battle with Bane in the prison. I even liked the Electrocutioner fight for the lols 4) The design of the new areas was great - Lacey Towers, the hotel... it all felt like real places. Resultantly I also liked the redesigned map! It felt more real than City or Knight for me... 5) The Joker - like everybody else I was 'sigh, Joker AGAIN' but actually it was the best ways you could present him here. His scenes with Harley are great but little things like his being saved by Bruce, then trying to kill himself just to get a rise... it's amazing. I've got a lot more mind but that's the five I love most.

One of my complaints with the game is continuity, for example the scenes in which Harley Quinn is counselling Joker for the first time in Origins is completely different to the same event in the Arkham Asylum interview tapes.

I think that with Crime Scene Investigation, they could have added certain evidence types that you would have to go back to the Batcave to analyze.

My top 5 1. The portrayal of bane, he was smart, scary and bad ass. That scene when he rips Batman out of the elevator ceiling was the smartest shit. 2. Best boss fights in the entire game, each one was so unique. 3. Cutscenes and writing in general. So many scenes came off as genius or powerful. The scene with the heart monitor on babe was really clever, the serene where Bruce and Alfred have an argument over what Batman does each night. 4. Roger Craig Smith. He was amazing as a young Batman, smart yet not as wise and much more emotional. 5. The story. In my opinion the story was almost if nort just as good as city. The plot twist with joker was great, the ending was amazing and the interactions with each boss was well paced and interesting.

Out of the 4 games this is my ranking: 1. City 2. Origins 3. Knight 4. Asylum A lot of people wouldn’t agree with me on asylum but I just wasn’t a fan of the gadget system and I loved the fact that in origins everyone is afraid of Batman and the boss battles are awesome that’s why it’s second for me. One of the only negative things about origins is the fact that half the map is a bit of a reskin and the gadgets aswell.

People hate on the multiplayer a lot but it really just had bad lobby wait times. Other than that it was great and if it had been polished could have been even better.

I always replayed and rewatched the crime scene investigation ones because I love that side of the game

Can't believe you didn't mentioned the outstanding soundtrack

One thing that I liked about Arkham Origins is the Alfred/Bruce dynamic which was never fully explored in Arkham City or Arkham Knight. One of my favorite moments in the series is when Bruce tried to revive Alfred.

1. Bane is super smart and badass 2. Troy Baker's peformance as The Joker 3. The boss fights are epic 4. I love the Christmas storyline 5. The Multiplayer is fun

Origins is one of my favorite games in the series and I love the boss fights like when you fight joker in black gate at the end

I enjoyed Origins a lot, really underappreciated.

Since I first played it back in 2013, Batman: Arkham Origins has been my personal favorite Batman game. I could go into details on various things I loved about it, from the boss fights, to Bane, to how thoroughly it looked at Batman and the Joker as characters (arguably more so than the other Arkham games), to the new voice actors who absolutely nail who they're emulating while sounding unique, and I guess I just did, but those aren't the main reason. The main reason is that I felt more like Batman in this game than either Asylum or City. The random crimes and murder side quests helped give this game a feeling that this was a typical night for Batman, which neither Asylum or City managed due to the requirements of their stories. There's also the Batcave, and not just because you can actually go to it. Your alternate skins and the challenge maps are accessible from here, which helps make the game feel so much more seamless. It's so satisfying to be in the midst of free roaming, want to use another costume, and go to the Batcave to do so instead of the main menu. What others may call Origins being a glorified expansion pack, I call Origins giving me the most typical night for Batman of the Arkham games, and it will always have that going for it in my opinion.

Keep pumping amazing posts like these and you'll be at the top of the RU-vid 'food chain' in no time.

Great story, was what I loved the most about this game, even the DLC Cold Cold Heart. I nearly lost my head when I saw Bullock at the beginning of the game, loved it. Then finally seeing Bane the way he should be depicted.

i really like your takes and opinion on things. Subscribed!

The art style/direction and graphics were just amazing. Stood out amongst other Xbox 360 games, not that the other Arkham games looked bad per se but it just had such a unique vibe.

Happy birthday Arkham Origins but nothing got Revealed.

Id like a batcave situation, where it actually has like 3 months in around 30 minutes, of you playing as Bruce after breaking a leg or arm or something. Nightwing, Batwoman, or a Robin are on patrol and Bruce has to do things in the batcave to like help them out, like watching cameras, doing research, and just normal Alfred stuff while he heals. Early in the game, setting up the rest.

I would also like to add the soundtrack as a reason to like this game.

I’d love to see a “Things Telltale Batman Did Right/Wrong.” I know it’s not an Arkham game but I still love the story and how it stands out from other Batman stories. (Only if you guys have played/want to play it) I got the idea from the first point you guys made about going back to the Batcave to do research, since that’s something you do in the game

The multiplayer was AWESOME imo, it definetly nedded refining but I sure spent many hours playing online. You got to play as Bane and Joker which was really neat

What I liked about it. - Villains are primarily less known and thus writers were able to re-invent them. Firefly was particularly menacing. - 1960s Batsuit was available. BIFF ZOCK THOONT - Batman himself felt less powerful in combat and that really sold the idea that he ain't so experienced - Batman himself was much more volatile, angry and ruthless - Investigations really told about the detective work Batman does and that must be his bread and butter.

Yeah man I also love talking to alfraahd

You make BadAss Videos man! 2 things I loved about this game was The Tone! And not only does Bad Guys Attack You! So does GCPD! Loved it!

The big amount of gadgets along with the heavy reliability on crime scene recreation was done im pretty sure because Batman was still just a newbie, and he's relying on these technologies which is pretty cool :))

still waiting for a remaster of it, loved playing it, city is my favourite of the series and this one is my second favorite, loved playing it

I loved this game, played it multiple times. Highly underrated and underappreciated. I'd even say i liked it way more than Knight.

When u realise that the voice of Batman in this game is also the voice of Modern Sonic

The4thSnake made a pretty good analogy of the Arkham timeline and where all the events took place in, so I’d definitely check it out if you haven’t already

...You made me had the thought that going back to the Batcave and being able to reconfigure your utility belt. It'd be an interesting mechanic, to have a lot of different tools that you could put into your belt, but only have limited space.

Thanks for putting some respect on this game's name!

invisible predator mode was actually really good, the tension and moment-to-moment gameplay was unreal from the 3-way fight when you know the heroes are watching you and could drop in any sec while you're fighting the other gang. being able to fight to become the villain was dope too. I wish more people played it, they coulda done more with it like more maps with different villains w new abilities like croc, penguin, and deathstroke but he has some kinda gun instead of how he was in the challenge maps. hope they do some sort of version in the next one and put more work into it. you could come back from a big L if you get the villain, batman and robin had to strategically hit both teams to keep them from beating each other. if anyones trynna squad up reply w your gamertag bc it was hard to find a game when this came out sucks that it was slept on

Why didn't they tease ANYTHING today!? 😡

I got this game on the Wii U (only console I had at the time) as my first Arkham game. It comes with that nostalgia factor most Arkham players get with Asylum, where it was your first and you played it as a kid. I played it at 16, 3 years after release and loved it. Now, I have all 4 games and a PS4 so ya, fully sold on the franchise

If the game was less buggy and was smoother and no screen tearing and temporary freezing from auto save I’d actually really enjoy this game. The optimisation of this game Is very poor compared to the other games

I love how they portrayed Batman and Jokers first meeting and the way it lead to Joker and Harley Quinn's first meeting. When Joker is explaining to Harley how you can tell that when you meet someone that your life is changed forever, and Harley thinks he is referring to her when in fact Joker is talking about Batman. Joker then realizes that he has her in the palm of his hand, and this is the start of their abusive, one-way relationship.

Origins & Knight are my favorites

To me, this game is EASILY the most comic accurate in terms of the actual storylines. You can see trhey ripped out MANY elements straight out of Killing Joke and Year One with Batmans relationships with Joker and Gordon. I even loved how they paid alot of homage to Knightfall with the buildup of Banes character.

The deathstroke fight in Origins is how the fight with Jason in Knight because it could have really hammered in how in tuned that the Knight was with Batman. I feel like the main reasons they were steps ahead of Batman in Knight was mostly due to timing and less of the Knight knowing much about Batman.

I personally love Arkham Origins and the thing I love the most about it is the characterization and especially dynamics between characters. Especially Batman, Alfred, Gordon, Joker and Bane. It feels to me that the characters have the most personality in this game and compared to Asylum and City (Haven't played Knight yet) I really felt the emotional stakes getting higher here in Origins as the game progressed. Of course, another thing I truly loved about Origins are the boss fights. I enjoyed boss fights in Arkham City and the Poison Ivy fight in Asylum but what also made Origins boss fights stand out for me apart from gameplay is that there's a build-up to majority of these fights and it made them even more intense for me. For example, we have entire level dedicated to Firefly and we go from disabling bombs to saving hostages to fighting his goons till we eventually reach the final fight with him which is truly intense in my opinion. We venture through Steel Mill while we know we're being stalked and when we come face-to-face with Copperhead, we then go through a series of hallucinations as we struggle to reach the surface before we get to fight her. When we climb the Royal Hotel in order to get the Joker, we know Bane is waiting for us up there and that we'll likely have to fight him when we reach the top and such. On other hand, as much as I enjoyed fighting Solomon Grundy and Clayface in AC, those two characters appeared out of nowhere in order to provide "final boss fights" for Penguin and the Joker. These small details are what made me love AO boss fights even more. A small detail that I also like is that we see face expressions from Batman in this game, especially anger. That's probably the downside of AA and AC for me where Batman's face expression remains the same for most of the time even when he gets angry. And the last thing I would point out is the soundtrack. I absolutely love Christopher Drake's soundtrack in this game.

Wasn't the mulitplayer made by Splash Damage, so a separate company anyway? So, it was already a side thing that just didn't really work super well.

Pros: - Batman Arkham Origins is very cinematic driven making it very interesting - Crime Scene Sequences - Addition to new and interesting villains - Portrayal of Bane before TITAN - Boss Battles - Soundtrack - Finally a real battle with the real Joker - Voice Acting - Batman and Gordon relationship - Enigma’s unhealthy obsession of the Batman’s identity (In the secret room when you collect all data packs, you’ll find a clip board of news articles about the Batman. Goes to show how he’ll become more obsessed over time) - Inclusion of the Batwing - Cold Cold Heart DLC (Initiation, Skin Packs) Cons: - The Dark Knight Challenges - In-game crashes and bugs - Enigma’s side mission - Shiva - The new gadgetry (Concussion Grenade, Glue Grenade (liked the freeze grenade more), Electric Shock Gloves) - Overuse of Joker - Lack of textural detail (if you zoom in on any object, it looks lazily meshed with no texture whatsoever)

This was my second favorite game in the series. It took a lot of flack for tacked on mp and an empty city, but it has the best boss fights in the series, bar none, and the script was well penned and the shock gloves rocked!

Cold Cold Heart allowing us to actually go in the manor. So awesome.

Can't believe no ones mentioned this yet but the ability to grapple and then release and glide. That was game changing and it's weird for me to play without it.

Many things happen in this part Arkham verse and I love it, only one I really boring is Boss fight much than half part of game. And I hope so they will develop Multiplayer again. now I think everything on the way to make it better than 2013.

Not to ruin the good mood , but until you do the "What Origins Got Wrong List' , few things I didn't like were... 1. No cut scene of Batman building the Batmobile 2. No tease of Alfred and Bruce going to the circle to see the flying graysons 3.Joker / Black Mask plot twist 4.Batman Meeting Ras Al Ghul for the first time 5. Nygma becoming the Riddler after you get the "First Riddler Trophy"

I love Batman Arkham Origins still playing it on my PS3 one of the most underrated games love the boss fights,story good & the Christmas setting is just great also love the conversations between the criminals some made me laugh 👍

This is one of my favorite games ever! I'll never forget that I actually sold some PS3 games, that were expensive in my conutry, to get Origins on its release weekend. I lost count of how many times I beat back then, but I remember every smile, cheer and fear I felt in that game. I know it's not a masterpiece in gaming, but it was in my life. I had to sell it with my PS3 in a difficult time in my life and I got pissed it wasn't on Return to Arkham years ago (I bought a PS4 only in 2020), but I will someday also buy a PC literally only to buy this game on steam and play it again.

5:00 I thought in knight firefly said something like "...on that bridge 10 years ago"

"And taalking to Aalfraad" lol 1:29 🤣

The cutscenes in origins were amazing the colors and the positioning of batman, looked like they were straight out of comic book pages

“Timmy got his arm broken in twelve places by a urban myth”

Origins is my favorite. I love Batman stories set early in his career and Christmas/NewYears and Batman just go so well together. I think the setting was perfect.

The story in this game is also pretty great. I always loved it. Like the joker twist was great, this series is about batman and the joker, sure it’s a shame about black mask but in a void I think it was a great execution.

I’m going to say something really controversial..... I think this version of Batman is better than the Kevin version. This one has actual emotion instead of him being a blank calm guy. In this version he is actually pissed at the criminals and actually has emotions at times. Also, his suit in the freeze dlc is just badass.

1. Incredible original levels (GCPD, Gotham Plaza Hotel, Blackgate prison, the Gotham bridge) alot of ppl say it's too similar to the others which is why ign gave it a 6/10 and it's annoys me they overlook these fresh new additions 2. The story - brilliant origin, I'd almost go so far to argue its better than Arkham city (I like both equally) but this is so underrated the cutscenes are spectacular 3. Boss battles - bane, deathstroke and frickin Firefly those fights were amazing 4. Multiplayer - I rolled my eyes when they announced it but it was honestly one of the most fun experiences I've ever had gaming online, so well made its a shame it didn't last 5. DLC great skins, Bruce Wayne origin was fantastic and teh Cold Cold Heart dlc is hands down my favourite batman dlc and Mr freeze story of all time

I remember in the multiplayer you could fly around to places only batman and robin could go to with a "mod menu" you could press with the back and the start button at the same time

My favorite things were the cutscenes, the Christmas setting, Bane, and the bossfight

Your videos have made me dust off my ps3, plug it back in and play origins again.

My most favourite part here that origins did right that I think lacked in Asylum, City and Knight missed: The detective part. You guys mentioned it ofcourse, but I mean, we're talking about the worlds greatest detective here, and detective mode is rarely ever needed unless you want to prove you did a no hit run. In origins, you can actually rely on batmans detective skills without ruining the plot.

I remember in 2013 when the game came out I got the collectors edition for Arkham Origins on 360 and I stayed home from school and fucking played the shit out of it.

Pretty sure Electrocutioner was created specifically for this game as a joke! (And as a source for one of Batman's tools later, sadly abandoned for no clear reason except continuity.) His one boss fight is played entirely for laughs; and he's treated as totally disposable by the Joker. "So, do you have anything else to add, Mr.... Cutioner? I didn't think so..."

I enjoy the martial artist enemies as it stops you from turning off your brain to keep your combo.

Roger Craig Smith and Troy Baker portrayed these characters really well, honestly. If Hamill or Conroy ever step down from the role in future games they should definitely bring in these two. People would argue that it's not Hamill and therefore it sucks, but I honestly think Troy Baker would be my favourite Joker if not for Hamill, and Smith as a younger Bruce Wayne was just amazing, especially the fact that he was more aggressive with criminals compared to the other Arkham games, and Smith portrayed that really well. In terms of The Joker, this isn't even the first time Troy Baker has played him, because he's done Joker voices in Batman cartoons and animated movies, and he doesn't do a bad job at all. The casting all around for this game was just something else. Joker, Bane, Firefly... the list goes on, but overall I think the casting and the characters in general are my favorite thing about this game. It just feels more correct compared to other Arkham games, especially for Bane, and especially considering the fact that these are younger/past versions of each character, and it's just done really well in general. A lot of the designs are better too in my opinion; we can all agree that Bane's design is an improvement, but when you look at someone like The Joker, I actually like this version more than Asylum or City and onward. There are a lot of things about this game that make it underrated but for some reason people choose to trash it because of the minor things that make it mediocre, rather than paying closer attention to the things that make it so great.

I think it's best touch is tying in the asylum to both Ras and Joker. It seems implied based on dialogue that shiva got sharp to act as the front man for Arkham Asylum, all part of ras's quest to save gotham from itself, going back to wonder city, which the city stories tell us was orchestrated by ras and his son dr arcadian. From the public's perspective Arkham Asylum's reopening was justified because of blackgate having 2 breakouts in one night. Joker is the one that did it because joker is the chaos of gotham incarnate. Strange probably did enough investigation and probing into Sharp's mind to learn about Ras, then proposed Arkham City to him, which he'd go along with because the asylums been ineffective for a canonical 10 years. Arkham origins really defined the core of the narrative of these games and then sefton hill botched it with knight going off in a completely different direction.

Origins was my favorite batman arkham game it just portrayed so many characters really well and unlike most people I liked the multiplayer

Origins is my favorite and the Bruce and Alfred argrument scene was incredibly voiced