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

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

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

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

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

"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_

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 will never understand why arkham origins is so hated.

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?

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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.

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

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

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

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.

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.

Arkham Asylum was inspired by Batman Begins game.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

From my point of view, Batman Arkham Knight was the real definition of “sometimes less, is more”

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.

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.

This was undoubtedly the best one combat wise

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

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

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

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.

"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

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.

Totally agree the bat mobile is used way to much in the game

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

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

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

0:06 what did he just say

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)

your opinion isn't as unpopular as you think here

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.

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

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.

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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

I like how in the arkham games you can be as clever as you want while fighting mobs of people, specially in this one since there's a lot of weapons. You don't have to resort to punches and kicks only.

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

Arkham Knight made me appreciate Arkham Origins.

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.

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

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

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.

I love just how hard Rocksteady was trying to hide the fact that the AK was Jason. Lying before the game’s release, playing off everyone’s suspicions, even _having his reveal disable the built-in DVR systems for the Xbox and PlayStation._ I also love how much they try to make it so that it seems like Batman doesn’t kill. For example, at the start of the game after you take out the Militia Vehicle (this can only be done on NG+ cuz you can’t access Battle Mode this early in NG) and push it into the water before the guy gets out, you get a game over because you killed someone.

This dude sounds like cosmonaut variety hour LMAO

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

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

It's been a year and half but how about that Bat bulge am I right?

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

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...

I still love this game, wheres my batmobile?

As Jeremyjahns said "The Batmobile is like sex. It's really fun when it's not being forced on you."

Awesome. Great job.

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

Well technically you only spend about a an hour or two in total in the Batmobile but it still felt tedious, even more since you have to fight big villains in it

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.

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

I honestly believe that this game is amazing because of its story. The gameplay can get repetitive with the Batmobile and the identity of the Arkham Knight everyone saw a mile away. The story slows down a lot because of the re-introduction of the Joker, but that was the point. The story was meant to close the relationship between Batman and the Joker. This game’s story has a deeper meaning to it that nobody seems to see

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