Arkham Knight's Disappointing Gameplay 

A quote from TheRussianBadger, “ If you don’t like the Bat-mobile, you better start liking the bat-mobile”

I hated that instead of a boss battle with Deathstroke we got... A TANK BATTLE!!!!!

Whoever played the Riddler was waiting for that role their whole life

I've said from the start that they should have used the character switching mechanic as their big gameplay evolution instead of the Bat tank. Imagine Nightwing, Robin, and Catwoman having a substantial role in the primary narrative as well as gameplay. Working together as a team to solve puzzles and follow clues. Imagine Arkham Knight getting to interact with Nightwing and Robin.

I don't have a problem with it being Jason, but I HATED how telegraphed it was. I also hate how much they water down his motivations. Jason actually had some dimension and a legitimate argument against Batman in the Under the Red Hood film. Here, it all just boils down to a shallow, contrived revenge plot. Moreover, why wouldn't Jason have just put manned tanks in the city instead of drones? He KNOWS Batman won't kill, so wouldn't that make things way harder for him?

"Next you'll be including a cheat button that lets players skip the puzzles incase they get too hard for everyone!" _Looks at Spider-Man_

If you think about it, the rocksteady arkham trilogy has the same reception as the Nolan batman trilogy. The first installment was spot on and launched its trilogy, the second vastly improved on its predecessor and is considered to be the best, and the third while not being bad is seen as sort of a let down

I went into character bio and saw Arkham night and Jason tod were 6 ft 200 lb and I was like aihgggggt

being ran over by the batmobile: best case sceneario: never being able to walk again. worst case scenario: closed casket funeral.

Be honest tho Jokers dialogue is funny if anything he's good for comic relief!

"Arkham Knight takes the gameplay ideas we loved from previous games" Shows batman teabagging an unconscious thug

**batman arrives at the orphanage** " WHAT'S UP IM HERE TO STOCK UP ON ROBINS"

the only thing i hate about this game is the arkham knight's identity was predictable and THERE IS NO FREE ROAM FOR ALL THOSE CHARACTERS WE BOUGHT

I will never understand why arkham origins is so hated.

Kid: daddy I need to pee Godzillamendoza: DO IT IN THE TANK!

I dont think the batmobile was inherently bad but they forced you in it too much. Along with the major disappointments of the boss battles and painfully obviously identity of the Arkham knight. Are what dragged this game down. They did polish the mechanics really nicely though.

Story wise and mission wise it was the worst. But the suits were amazing, the combat was spectacular, the graphics were amazing too and the batmobile was very well designed. But goddamn there were way too many tank battles, I wish they never thought of adding a tank mode to the batmobile.

I loved the Batmobile, but God did most of the game revolve around it. And I miss the boss fights where you actually fight the villain, like in past games with Batman vs Bane or Batman vs Deathstroke. We literally fight Arkham Knight twice in the Batmobile before the third time we just sneak around and hippity hoppity grab onto him on the balcony.

Should've called it Batman: War of the tanks.

The batmobile would have been fine if it was just another option for transportation. When I first played I thought the batmobile was pretty cool to drive around in. The problem is that it's the bat tank not the batmobile.

You know it's bad when the best boss fight in the game is riddler

While I agree it isn't perfect, especially when it comes to the predictable story, you have to give credit to the largest, most dense Gotham, a perfected combat and predator system, and c'mon, battle mode was annoying but just driving around Gotham with the Batmobile was pretty cool. I also think they perfected gliding.

what I want from a Batman game: the ability to free roam as other characters or DLC thats free roam centered them. LET ME BE AZRAEL OR RED HOOD FFS

I can't stop imagining how Batman felt like when he found out that he was gonna have to fight Deathstroke in a tank. Huh. Maybe that's why he decided to quit being Batman. He probably lost the will to do anything after that.

"Oh shit! The hostages!" That had me laughing and replaying that moment for 5 minutes

I agree entirely. I think the reason it's the worst one is because they got rid of Paul Dini (the writer for the excellent first two), so the quality in the writing dipped significantly. The first two Arkham games are made for die hard fans (while also being great for casuals). Arkham Knight is the opposite; it's made for casual fans. We all knew it was Jason the minute he spoke. They also didn't take advantage of having him. They could've given us iconic moments between Bruce and Jason, but there's no real closure between them, which is stupid. However, Rocksteady totally gets the dynamic between Batman and Joker. Everything about Joker fearing he'll be forgotten is fucking spot on. But at the same time, he shouldn't have been in this game so we can get something fresh.

The fact that this review acknowledges the combat system being improved upon from Spiderman two is the best.

Ah anyone who remembers the original thumbnail and title gets a food🍉🍉🍰🍿🎂 And also turkey sandwiches for all, paid for by Robert Cortez

I strongly think that the first half of the game was pretty strong. There was a fairly good balance between using the car and the classic Batman stuff we all love.

I honestly think the peak of what a superhero game should look like is Arkham city. Good plot, open world, great characterization, and just an all around good game.

"Those guys will be fine, it was a NON lethal crushing" 😂😂😂

"and I'll save those hostages" Two seconds later "Aw shit, the hostages!"

I agree with this. I didn't like the batmobile, the getting the ending is a pain in the ass, and the riddler puzzles and races were the worst things to happen to the arkham games.

It was one of my favorite ps4 games, the graphics immediately blew me away

I like the game. I would love it if they didn't force the Batmobile down our throats, especially in the climax

I wish Paul Dini did the story then the game would have probably been a lot better even with the batmobile and boss fights

4:00 lol FINALLY someone besides me noticed that spiderman 2 really started the combat system the arkham games use today.

Despite Arkham Origins being buggy at the beginning, I liked it very much. I liked the atmosphere, the right amount of expansion upon core mechanics, it was just good enjoyable fun for me. Ah, even the bug with not being able to get in one of the Riddler towers was kind of fun, because you had to use a very hard bug exploit to bypass this bug. I don't know, it's just very Riddler-y.

It's sort of unrelated to the video but I just got to the part where you talk about the stealth. I think the Mr Freeze fight in whichever one it was (can't remember if Asylum or City, sorry!) was an absolute highlight. It was probably my age at the time but it was SUCH a scary fight when I was like "heh heh I'll just blow him up from behind the three conveniently placed walls" but then he suddenly informs you "I won't fall for that again" and I was like wait WHAT and the sense of dread just got worse and worse as I exhausted the takedown options. Brilliant! The first villain that made you feel helpless and it was so good for that ice cold atmosphere.

"What can I say that hasn't been said already?" *Says everything that's been said already*

“Nothing makes sense, everyone suddenly decides to act like a moron.” Are you sure Netherrealm Studios didn’t write this game’s story?

enjoyed the graphics really good graphics but the short dlc ,force to over use the batmobile ,the lack of good boss fights (deadstroke one over all) idk man , it was a good game nonetheless but it wasn't the game everyone was expecting. If this was the first Batman arkham game it would've gotten such high praise but this game had to compete against its 2 past ones which led to high expectations but in the end of the day it's still a very fun game to play

Great job Rocksteady, you took Redhood, gave him a new motivation, gave him a new name and pretended he was a new a mysterious character when he's still the same as he's always been. The Arkham Knight being Jason Todd is the EXACT same thing as him being Redhood despite the whole he didn't actually die. If Rocksteady wanted Redhood in the game they could've make Damian the Arkham Knight, take out the tank bomb sidemission, and replace it with Batman and Redhood trying to take down Deathstroke.

*’If you don’t like the Batmobile, you better start liking the Batmobile.’* -RussianBadger

My dad's favorite Batman villain is The Riddler and his favorite iteration of Batman is Batfleck's, so those two skits you that you did made him laugh so hard that he literally ROFL'd. XD

Arkham Knight made me appreciate Arkham Origins.

City is still the best and I hope the rumors that the quart of owls is the next villain in the new game this would be amazing hopefully it comes out

The story felt so uninspired. Every time there's a "shocking" development to it, my reaction was just "ok". Then played on.

23:11 *Meanwhile at Insomniac.* "I HAVE GREAT IDEA!"

I want a Batman game like Origins again. During Christmas. Things that would be cool to see -Optional Batmobile just to get around that isn't forced -Batboat -Bat-Cycle or whatever the motorcycle -Going from Batmobile to Motorcycle like in The Dark Knight - Batcave, wayne manor, ad any other property he owns - Cool garage where you can own multiple cars that you can buy - Better Batmobile physics - More rooms - More boat fights (Like the penguin mission in Origins) And a small cameo of a different hero.

your opinion isn't as unpopular as you think here

Here what I think Asylum: best atmosphere and great starting point City: takes everything from asylum make it better with some adjustments Origins: best bosses and story in my opinion at least Knight:alright but too much batmobile

“If I was too positive, the review would sound biased and boring.” *cough* Evan’s Spider-Man PS4 review *cough*

I agree with the Batmobile being a little too central to the games events, but to say it nullifies all of the groundwork Batman does is simply untrue. Batman does just as much detective work in this game as others. Ultimately I enjoyed the game and it's story, probably one of my favorite games to this date. Who cares that they made Jason Todd the Arkham Knight? It was still a fun story and fun build up, not to mention having the Joker show up everywhere and giving Mark Hamill's commentary on everything. Come on, you CAN'T say that wasn't a great aspect of the game.

20:40 Did Nightwing just RKO Killer Crock? I don't remember doing that before, lol.

Imagine if arkham knight: didnt have tank mode and a good story, bro we d have a masterpiece of a game

"Naturally I sucked at this in the 4th grade." I think I was like 6 or 7 and it took me so long to beat this game

I liked it. I just wish there was things to do after the story and the ability to play other characters in free roam.

You need to make more comedy skits. The riddler one was hilarious. I lost it at Batman saying "Ah shit, the hostages!" XD

Arkham Asylum was inspired by Batman Begins game.

Wait.. Barb looked at Joker.. And Joker looked at her.. Then she looked at Bruce like.. " You don't see dat?" By that logic BARB is dead.. Just like in Stranger Things...

An Arkham Knight reveiw DO IT IN THE TANK!!!!!

When oracle says “kidnap me” I don’t know if she’s giving a threat or asking to be kidnapped and tortured again as it’s more interesting than the tank battles

This game has some maddening elements like the over-reliance on the tank and the obvious identity of the titular Knight, but it’s still my favourite of the series. It just does so much well and refines what was done before.

Oh, and you mentioning inFAMOUS gives me hope for a review one day, in the far future.

Why is the completely unexplained and random "Scarecrow eating shit" running gag so fucking hilarious?

That real life riddler race track is where I died watching the video

This has aged...oddly. All the complaints are still valid and yet seem almost petty by todays downward spiral of WB games.

23:11 yeah in the movie studio mission where you have to type in a passcode from looking at a security camera if you get it wrong enough times then Batman will just rip the keypad out and puzzle solved

0:06 what did he just say

I love Arkham knight and although I wasn’t initially disappointed I prefer the story for city and rlly missed the boss battles. Tbh the batmobile might’ve been overused but I think they did use it less than the main combat mainly.

If they just made the antagonist Prometheus the whole story would have worked so much better

Overall, I enjoyed Arkham Origins more than Knight. Don't get me wrong, AK was fun to play at times, but it's story was an overall disappointment. The batmobile was definitely overused and it's controls were shit. The Riddler challenges were stupid especially with the batmobile. The fact that the plot conveniently had all the citizens of Gotham evacuated just so the whole map looks more like a brighter Arkham City.... Lame! And of course the build up to the supposed rematch with Deathstroke ended up being ANOTHER tank battle which was exactly like the one we did with Arkham Knight in a previous mission before that. *smh*

the batmobile should be used in combat only when fighting big bulky bosses ala bane, killer croc etc.

I'm having dejavu...swear to God this had a different thumbnail and titles...

Honestly, if they simply hadn't made the Batmobile a literal tank, and just toned it down a bit, at least that aspect would have been better. Even in regards to other batmobile versions in the past, this was the most intense/overwhelming death machine I've ever seen in a Batman universe...and the Tumbler batmobile was literally an armored military vehicle so that's saying something.

I agree with the majority of your points, however John Noble is a great Scarecrow imo. Anyways, Arkham Knight was just a cash grab for rocksteady. Soon as Paul Dini dropped out, it was doomed in terms of story

I would have preferred Arkham city as the ending because joker dies and it explained everything. So many people died of

The boss fights in this game were a big waste of potential and the batmobile was overused to a certain extent, but the combat, stealth and gameplay were executed pretty well. Mainly when you're not in the batmobile of course.

10:50 I can only imagine what passing drivers where thinking 😂

This guy, this is what keeps me from pulling the trigger... And the fact that I'm not suicidal.

Game would have been great without the bat mobile and associated missions.

AND IF YOU HAVE TO USE THE BATHROOM! DO IT IN THE TANK!- Wait... Nvm.. Wrong tank.

As a HUGE batman fanatic, I appreciate you bringing up the overall lameness of the BatTank. It wasn't fun after the 100th time requiring it and not being able to use 1989 batmobile through whole thing, or BTAS batmobile.

What’s worse the hush battle where you press one button and win or the slade battle where you fight a tank instead of slade

Arkham origins was my favorite. Go ahead and attack me lmao

You know what, after a few years after it came out. I was happy with the game, but it does has flaws in compression to city and asylum. Most of these were due to the batmoblie but oh well.

I recently tried playing this game, but it was bad. Uninstalled. The previous ones are far superior.

Some of the fighting was cool, but I hated having the use the Batmobile for everything. I would rather glide around the city like you could do in Asylum and City.

Just a quick feedback on your statement on whether or not Rocksteady forgot about Warden Sharp being possessed in Arkham Asylum, it is actually explained in City that Strange was manipulating him through mind control tactics he obtained from Mad Hatter to convince him to give Strange more control over the prison system, you can find further details in the bio audio logs you obtain from doing the riddler trophies and collectibles.

This was undoubtedly the best one combat wise

And then there’s me who actually likes the tank battles

Am i the only one who feels like this is Kevin Conroy's worst performance? He came off overly stoic and believe it or not overly Batman compared to Orgins where the weight of the world was on Batman and you felt it. In his animated performances he's a lot more subtle and conveys more emotion. In AK, from watching Barbara die to finding out about Jason Todd and dealing with the effects of the Toxin his reactions are really dry and flat, there's was no sense of stress, grief, anger or that he was being pushed to the edge, driving that tank all night must really calm him down

AK was had several problems. 1) Plot-hole filled writing. This script was badly in need of Paul Dini to write it. 2) It relied far too much on the Batmobile which is sad because I really enjoyed it but it should have been used better. 3) The art-style and character designs being hyper realistic made this game lose its comic book charm to make it "grounded". 4) Despite being billed as the "final" _Arkham_ game, very few characters got a proper send-off that respected their history. 5) The Arkham Knight identity was way to predictable and really should have been his own character instead of *SPOILER*. 6) While the cinematography is beautiful, it does try too hard to be grand and epic instead of being fun and interesting.

Awesome. Great job.

if there was way less batmobile the tagline "be the batman" would actually mean something

This review did make me take a new view on Arkham Knight and all of its flaws. And that Riddler parody with the bike was hilarious

I’m years late but I’m finally getting to playing “Knight”. I miss Paul Dini. That is all. (Also Rocksteady way overestimated how fun they thought the Batmobile would be)

Really loved what you did with this Xaiver; teased us for it feels like months for a 52 minute review split into two episodes. This was fantastic!