this is weird there are sections where the remaster is clearly better by a long shot then parts where the original looks better.

The remaster does look much improved, my only problems are that joker looks way too clean and Hugo strange looks like he's wearing a fake glued on beard.

4:29 Crossed Eye Gordon. C'mon.

I can't be the only one who wanted Origins to be in this remaster, right?

Can we appreciate how good the original version looked on PS3/360? I remember playing it for the first time and being blown away by how awesome it looked. Still holds up well to this day.

In my opinion, penguin looks like the most worked on character in the remaster, he looks so real.

9:13 real looking coin, 9:18 more real looking coin, 9:23 EVEN MORE REA... wait wtf

2:44 old version looks so much better

Return to Arkham is pretty much the last Arkham game release

The faces were remastered weirdly. They look cartoonish.

batmans face looks way better in the old version

I know arkham origins wasn't from rocksteady but I still wish they remastered that one too.

Joker is the only thing that looks bad from the update.

Harley looks the best out of most of the updating things, joker looks less detailed for some reason.

I prefer the environment in the return to arkham remaster. I just like the character models and intractables in the original version the most

11:48 AAAAAAHHH

batman and joker look 1,000 times better on the original but the environment and objects look amazing!

anyone else notice how big his mouth is in the remaster

This is honestly the first remaster that I can genuinely say "woah I can actually notice the difference"

Arkham City detective mode looks much better in remastered. There’s no fog.

Remaster looks good to me. Don't know why so many people think it doesn't

The view of Arkham City in the PS4 remastered version is breathtaking!

Great video. I think this one does the remaster a lot more justice than other videos. It looks like some of the character models got a downgrade in the remaster, but all of the environments and lighting look amazing.

The remaster is...well it's not like they didn't try like I mean they've revamping the textures and shadows, lighting effects, and other effects but the problem is the lighting is weird and bipolar, it's either darker in some spots and so bright in some spots while the original understand that even though its dark in the room its movie/video game dark meaning we should see it, I mean for Arkham Knight the way they use lighting is fine but for Asylum and City where the games are more stylized to look like a comic book it's just off, every character has a weird plastic sheen to their face and skin ultimately making it more like a cartoon. Like in 7:09 Hugo Strange on the left face looks so much better his face has defining lines, texture and hair and eyebrows that looks like real hair not ones you buy from a halloween shop.

Jeez. What did they do to you Joker? A Remaster is supposed to be an enhancement of the previous version, not an artistic massacre.

Original - dark and gritty atmosphere,perfected character models with realistic facial expressions and nuances :) Remaster - better environments,lighting effects etc. but shitty cartoonish remodeled and modified character models with lack of expressions and nuances and also 30fps -_-

Batman looks too grumpy in the Remaster

For a remaster those skin textures look way worse.

Rain effects + lighting from the remastered, with character models from the PC version is probably the best combo.

11:51 why does it look like Batman's busting?

There’s something about the original that’s more aesthetically pleasing than the remaster. There’s this hint of this blueish greenish tint that just makes it look more muddy and stylistic rather than bland and realistic.

i have to agree gordon looks much better and realistic on next gen

0:44 they fixed the toilet, great!!!

everyone looks like toys in the new one

2:39 on pc doors close on ps4 open

12:05 Ive seen enough Hentai to know where this is going...

Never before have I seen so many people blinded by nostalgia to actually say that the original looks better.

11:56 batman when joker died and harley is now single:

11:51 HEY LOOK, BRUCE IS SMILING!!!

The remaster looks more like a mod where all the models made brighter and shiner, however, the environment looks fantastic

You forgot WiiU Batman AC version.

Something about the art style changed in the remaster and I don't like it

Original version, Batsuit was made from high quality latex and rubber! Remastered version, EVERYTHING was made from rubber

It's basically like this: hallways, corridors, and crumbling broken walls and floors have amazing updates in the remaster. Colors and shading effects have been massively improved. In a weird way, things look better up close rather than further away, which is weird because it's usually the other way around. Lighting effects from fires shining on walls and such are more subtle and to me work more realistically, not to mention how well fire and explosions look themselves. The biggest issues are obviously the character models. Somehow Batman's face looks very unnerving in Asylum, yet they have it looking better in City. Why they didn't just use the same model for both games, I will never know. The worst character model from both is easily Hugo Strange. The skin textures are not as good, the reflection in his glasses is too clear and should be more subtle, his clothing somehow less texture, and yeah... I don't want to talk about his hair. It's like that old toy where you use the magnet to put facial hair on the picture. It gets weirder though, because then you have clearly better character models like Catwoman. I don't think there is a single downside to her new look. If I had to nitpick, maybe it'd be that her lipstick is way brighter in color. Honestly though, the skin is smoother, and the suit looks like Arkham Knight. Penguin looks much better too, his glass bottle is much clearer and looks very realistic, his skin textures are done much better, he has some noticeable stubble, and his suit looks amazing. I think the downside would probably be the same as all the other characters, that being his hair kinda looks glued on. Then there are some mixed bags like Two Face. His scarred side seems to have more detail put into it while not as much was put into his non- scarred side. His suit is better textured, but again his hair is crap. Kinda ironic that Two Face is done half better and half worse than PC. Joker is tough for me. They took out a lot of detail to simplify his look, and I honestly don't mind it. I think he looks closer to his look in Knight, and he just seems more intimidating to look at. If you pause the video during the death cut scene, just staring at the two side by side it was more unnerving to look at the remaster, and not in a bad "that looks awful" way. With him being the Joker, I feel like adding more color worked better for him too. It also blends better between pre rendered cut scene to gameplay. The only other visual negative I can think of is the water effects. Not like rain, but the textures for the water surrounding both of the islands is better looking and more detailed on PC, despite having less movement with waves. In the case of frame rate and performance (which this video didn't show off), this is probably how I'd recommend this package: If you are a pc gamer, you won't be getting your 60 frames. You already have a visually stunning game, and you probably don't want to sacrifice frames for a mixed bag in visuals. If you are going from PS3/ 360 to PS4/One, I believe the original games were already at 30 frames, and even with some issues with character models, I still think that there is enough there that is an improvement to visuals that you should go out and get it, maybe at a lowered price. Both games as of the recent patch are both 30fps locked, and they are much closer to the design of Knight now. That is also another added bonus that you can now have all Rocksteady titles on the PS4 including the VR game.

11:53 - Bruce is f****ng smiling!

The biggest complaint I have is that Return to Arkham loses a lot of the fun coloring the original had. Like, a lot of the large splashes of blues and reds and greens have been removed to make the games look more realistic. Which makes it look less comic book-y.

The settings look amazing. The only things I don’t like are some of the character models and the lighting in the buildings. It doesn’t feel as creepy as the original because there are more bright lights and the faces on certain characters.

The textures in the original Arkham games are starting to show their age, especially since they a have a muddy look to them. I still enjoy both versions, even though they each have their flaws, but I'm very thankful to just be able to play these amazing games filled with childhood memories on my trusty PS4.

8:30 There's a ton of aliasing on his jaw in the next gen version when he puts on the hood.

Amazing how a few minor tweaks on shaders can improve the overall visuals. Arkham City is one of the greatest games of all time in my not-so-humble opinion and it certainly deserved a facelift.

The hair in the remasters pisses me off. It's totally demastered. The lighting lacks harmony with the theme of the originals in some cases.

Why's everything brighter in the remaster.

I’ve seen a lot of people complain about this. But, honestly, I think it’s cool to see two nostalgic and awesome games getting remastered.

4:29 Gordon looks so weird in Return to Arkham. Like a weird sex doll. The old version also didn't look very realistic, but it fitted the style of the game much better.

Even today, there quality differences are so inconsistent. Sometimes the remaster looks on par or better than the originals, and other times they look like much much worse. It reminds me a lot when Resident Evil 4 was released on modern consoles, yeah it looks a bit cleaner and brighter but that in lines the problem. When it's brighter, the lil imperfections in the graphics really show because in the original, they didn't need to put in as much detail because the resolution masks it. The same thing happens here, where the brighter aesthetic not only brings up the graphical shortcomings more, but doesn't do the gothic comic book-y style any favors either.

Certainly some texture elements in the update that look slicker, like the rain and viewing distance. But from videos I've seen I still prefer the green hue and darker tone of the original. May pick it up when it's on offer though.

I genuinely got an ad for Return to Arkham.

The new Version looks amazing. We know that by now but the problem is it runs like shit. Looks like you'll need PS4 Pro and Xbox One Scorpio to play it since this mess of a framerate is not even locked. Looks like for now the PC Version is still the best. 60fps over 20-40 mess.

1:17 the guard looks like a cars character the way he moved his head

I think the penguin looks really good in the remaster. 7:47

Parts of the PS4/Xbox One version do look better, but I prefer the character models of the original

Remaster is better but batman and joker both look a little weird

The graphics are better in the remaster but the light change to green was a fail. it looses personality without the blue light

4:56 funny how they turned light into shadow

I don't care how it looks, I'm just happy they remastered two of my favorite games. Although I've been hearing there's framerate problems, I hope they fix that.

This makes me want to get return to Arkham on Xbox one even though I already have the originals on Xbox 360

Overall if you haven't played these games before or if you don't currently own complete copies of these games then yeah this is probably the best way to play these games as of now, but some things look noticably worse, like they put a generic color filter and upscaled everything without accounting for the smaller artistic nuances, basically it broadly looks better but some shadows and the coloration of objects and such can look undeniably worse

how to preserve a game's horror-inspired art style according to virtuos studios: 1. warmer colours 2. brighter lights 3. remove all dust from the air 4. remove all signs of blur, because it's important in horror films to see exactly what's coming next ????????

Lighting on character models seems off in the newer versions

I don't like how they changed the color palette in arkham city,i prefer the blue one.And the game was made to represent batman's vision of the world,but they changed that, and the consequence is a massive change in the feel of the game.i know it might seem stupid to you but to me its really a big deal,this is my favorite game on the ps3 and i wanted to buy this remaster to play arkham asylum,but being aware they changed so much on city i don't want to buy it because i want to have the original feel of the game.

6:50 - we see Catwoman's elaborate, natural skin texture and realistic lighting in the room, followed by... green swamp soap with a doll's face in the remaster. Adore.

The environment looks way better. The lightning, the color contrast, the rain and dust effects, etc. But the character models are worse in the remaster. Batman has a weird looking frown, Joker looks too clean and saturated, Hugo’s beard looks fake and glued-on, etc.

Gordon has his face changed completely lol

Am I the only one who thinks the remastered version looks better than the original?

I feel like the arkham city suit''s cape and cowl are more grey than they should be. On the PS3 the suit looks amazing.

why is cobblepot the only one who looks genuinely improved and not super squeaky unrealistically clean?

I like all of them 🤷🏻‍♂️ It's not like any of it looks 'bad' by any means, and I honestly could care less if it's 30 or 60 fps. Great games.

Think I might pick up the remastered anyway. I don't have my old console anymore, and I'm not socially inept enough to have a gaming PC. So i'll buy it on next gen, mainly for the enjoyment of playing two games i loved! And for $25 for two games, not gonna break the bank!

Wow. The leather effect on Catwoman looks really neat. At least here I can actually tell the difference. Most remasters look fairly similar to the original.

2:47 Original Joker's face looks much better

Who else thinks that this game looks like they rushed it and only made it for more money

bought return to arkham love it like back in the days, but really feel those 30 frames

4:26 jim looks like he has just hit that good weed

1:18 The guard Batman 😧 🗿

the original artistic design was better than the new remastered versions .

I admire them trying to bring the past alive and remaster it, just with some areas it’s been done poorly and some it looks really good. The OG’s will always be supreme but I see that they were trying their best to improve it as much as possible but maybe we’ll eventually get a remaster that ACTUALLY compliments the older ones instead of making it look wack but I’m only hoping lol

7:44 penguin next gen look clean

i felt like the rick and morty theme song was about to play at the beginning there

PC is hands down the best version. it still has the same OG visuals but much better textures

Return to Arkham looks great....but why the fuck wasn't it 60fps?

5:05 & 6:47 The most distracting thing about the remastered edition is the fact that all the green-eyed characters have glowing eyes.

original: crank the textures, add some spice and don't forget to mention some good old fashion love remaster: DEEEM BEWWBIES

These games looked really good for back then

2:43 tf happened to Batman's lips in the remaster?

Origins absolutely belongs with Return to Arkham. Such a criminally under rated game. It's dark. Gritty. Dark atmosphere. It's belongs right up there with the other 3 games. It's my 2nd favorite after City.

Awesome comparison. I just got an Xbox 360 version for $2 yesterday so I can compare all 3 versions for myself now. I like the console remaster for its environmental and weather effects and the more authentic leather look of the Batman's and Catwoman's suit. The AA setting outside looks better as well while inside I prefer the PC version.

11:50 - We'll bang, Ok? Batman Version

They need to fix the 30fps cap on ps4 and xbox one

The visual is really clean on the Xbox One version, great work from Rocksteady

5:34 shows how realistic, true and smooth graphics PS4 version is easily delivering compared to the washed-out and jaggy-edged graphics the PS3 is hardly trying to produce ! This has nothing to do to respect or disrespect to PS3 but that's only the difference the new gen of consoles have come to make.