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I honestly don't remember people finding this game "bad". Almost all the reviews I saw called it a masterpiece.

I honestly love this game, yeah, the batmobile is WAY overused but the game is still really fun and it still looks absolutely incredible to boot, it is a gorgeous game and an absolute marvel :)

After the dumpster fire of Gotham knights, I think everyone realized how harsh they were on Arkham knight

I wasn't plugged into gaming media back in 2015, so finding out this game wasn't well received baffled me. Loved this game from the get go and have replayed it the most out of the Arkham series.

Arkham Knight was never bad. It just had too many batmobile segments.

Ummm what? Arkham knight looks better than probably 95 percent of games nowadays it was never bad. Is the story pretty predictable? Of course. Did the batmobile combat overstay it’s welcome? Yes. But the gameplay is smooth as but, incredible voice acting, and the game looks BEAUTIFUL.

My problem was always that I loved the gameplay, but felt there were too many puzzles involving the Batmobile and tank battles throughout the story. 2/3 twisted metal matches with the titular villains as boss battles (plus death stroke being one as well) is the epitome of my issues with the game.

I remember my main issue with this game was the Batmobile while in combat mode. Yes it was cool and plays very well but it became so repetitive. They made so many mandatory missions involving combat mode with the Batmobile and I got sick of it. So much so that I always choose Arkham Asylum or Arkham City over this

I think what hurt AK was the over-reliance on the Batmobile and Joker. The car itself is fine, and if there were alternate ways to doing the related sidequests that the player could unlock then it wouldn't have been an issue. Joker is a different issue, because his involvement is heavily reliant on retcons. 1. The Joker Infected. In Arkham City, when Oracle confirms that hundreds were infected from transfusions tainted with Joker's blood and would die within hours. This happens while Batman is leaving Wonder City, so the player can't miss it. The HQR DLC later confirms those people were cured, even adding a line about "known victims" as set up for the Joker Infected. Knight then says that the tainted blood was recovered, that Batman is still infected, and only four other people were exposed with no explanation for why they didn't die. A line explaining how Batman is still infected comes from the Hallucination!Joker while in free roam, so it's very easy to miss that plot detail. In fact, this game would've been better it dropped the entire Joker Infected subplot and just let us have Robin helping us during Free Roam instead of one time in the story and the challenge maps. 2. Retconning Batman's infection was pointless as once Batman's exposed to Fear Toxin, all the Hallucination!Joker scenes could've been attributed to the toxin alone. Even the subplot about Joker taking over Batman's mind could've been done differently. In Asylum, we briefly play as Joker in the third Scarecrow sequence and, in City, Strange suggests Batman is hiding a "true self" beneath his persona. Both games say that Batman is burying powerful, dark emotions. Even the comics have established that Batman has a back-up personality called the "Batman of Zurr En Arr." There is more then enough precedence to just make the Hallucination!Joker a split personality, born of those suppressed feelings taking shape and breaking free thanks to the Fear Toxin preying on Batman's fears and other issues. For me personally, and others I'm sure, I hate this retcon because it cheated us of our victory of curing Batman in Arkham City, that now this says that he was never cured, and that the plot point of "Batman needs to cure himself" was still in play when it didn't need to be done again and felt lazy as a result. 3. Predictable as it would've been, Ra's Al Ghul should've been the Arkham Knight, driven to revenge against Batman over the loss of his daughter. By making Jason Todd the Arkham Knight, driven to revenge against Batman after being tortured by Joker, the story adds an uncomfortable revelation: that even though the game treats the whole night as the unavoidable result of Batman's war on crime, it might've been avoided if Batman killed the Joker before the events of Arkham Asylum. This could've been acknowledged, with Batman realizing that he could've tried moving Gotham's insane to a different facility than Arkham Asylum and change the status quo while keeping to his moral code. Arkham Knight has the best gameplay in the series, with only a few changes from being perfect. I like this game, but the story is easily the weakest, and it keeps me from playing more often.

I personally love everything about knight, and it’s my favorite of the series.

It’s not bad and very replayable. Love the different Batmobiles you can choose.

Arkham Knight is not bad at all it’s a great and beautiful game. It’s just the weakest of the trilogy story wise but gameplay wise it’s the best just the Batmobile was overused. But I loved it the first time I played it and the last time I replayed it.

My gripe is and always has been the lack of boss fight quality like we had in Asylum and especially City. Most boss fights being tank fights should be a crime. Everything else was fine to great, but the boss fights bothered me.

The tanks became tedious after a while especially the last tank that hunts you down but it was the usage of the batmobile in some of the riddler challenges that really pissed me off. Other than that though, a brilliant game & still better than majority of the games that came out this year.

Honestly at launch, I was so taken back by how integral the Batmobile is to the game, that I bounced off of it. I went back about 4 years later and gave it another chance only to realize that I was wrong and that even though it could be used a little less, the Batmobile is actually awesome and it’s a great game. Still one of the best looking too. Crazy that it ran on a base ps4z

I honestly think this game is a masterpiece and pays perfect respects to the franchise, animated series and Kevin Conroy. Tank stuff is a little much sometimes but I'll never forget jumping from a building and catching the bat creature that was flying around it, just like in the animated series. The destruction, graphics, sound, open world, all of it in my opinion holds up and creates such an incredible batman experience.

The problem with knight is if you don’t like the Batmobile the game is damn near unplayable

It’s actually amazing. They just missed so many opportunities with various characters like deathstroke.

Batman Arkham knight is phenomenal game! It's 8 years old and still looks amazing and the open world is so much fun to explore. Yeah the batmobile gets a little tedious and you can see the story twist from a mile away but it's one of my favorite games. I remember playing it for 16 hours straight the week it came out.

Wasn't people's problem with the batmobile that instead of typical hand to hand combat against bosses like red hood or desthstroke it was a tank boss fight?

I view the Arkham trilogy as a look into what would the end of Batman's career look like and I love that approach cuz they did it so well and in a satisfying way. My only gripe is that some boss fights shouldve been more unique, like why are we fighting Deathstroke in a tank? At least give us a hand to hand fight in addition to the tank fight.

It’s my favorite of the entire Arkham series. I know a lot of people complained about the bat mobile but I mean I think the reason they had so much of it in the game was because people had been hounding them for years about it. Ever since the first game people were like this is dope but give us the bat mobile so they finally gave it to us but when they did all the sudden people went from begging for it to oh now this is too much batmobile lol. There really isn’t that many tank sections it’s mostly the riddler stuff that uses a lot of it.

My biggest gripe with the game is how few, meaningful villain encounters there were. This game focused so much on environmental puzzles with the car and cared very little about real, intense boss encounters. Most of them were relegated to brief appearances in repetitive side missions. audiovisually, the game is an absolute dream come true.

One thing that annoys me is because the batmobile was such a focus, they had to make the streets abnormally huge and wide. Makes the city feel less real and less claustrophobic. I liked the tight alleyways and streets of City much better. Could have done without the batmobile completely tbh.

Bad? It is a goddamn masterpiece. It may be not liked that much comparing to it’s predecessors but the amount of work the developer put into that game earned my admiration.

There is a reason, out of all of the Arkham games, this is the one I’ve played the most. Yes, the storytelling has problems & yes, SOME, keyword SOME, of the Batmobile sections for me, were very much a drag. Specifically the Cobra Tank sections. HATE those! But even with all of that, at the end of the day, it’s a hella fun game to play! Which is what really matters when it comes to a video game. If you’re having fun playing it, that’s all that matters.

Iirc, there was a moment where people had guessed who Arkham Knight would be, and the devs responded by saying "nah it's not him it's actually a new character." Then it wound up being the character we all knew it was anyway.

I loved this game. Combat, puzzles, story, gadgets all amazing. Really came down to whether or not you liked the Batmobile, which I did. The tanks challenges and race tracks were really awesome. 10/10 game. I’m looking forward to this trilogy on switch.

As someone who has played each of these games from Arkham Asylum to Gotham Knights, is the new changes they tried. Namely the Batmobile, it was cool, but it felt like a bit much. (Which is a shame because at least they tried to do something new and interesting). We went from having to wait for a while to get explosive gel and being stuck in the tight corridors of the Asylum; to having a tank to take out enemies and can go wherever we want from the beginning of the game.

Replacing boss battles with tank boss battles is where this game fumbled for me

Cant lie, it's genuinely my favourite of the series, the suits and bat mobiles in the game just add so much to the experience especially the nolan suit & batflecks

If only the Batmobile segments were skippable then I could actually bear replaying it

Didn’t realize it was considered bad. Played though it and loved it.

This was the first game I played when I got my PS4. I didn’t love the storyline, (because of my own expectations) and I was meh on the Batmobile stuff. But coming back to it this year, knowing what the story was going into it, and having the experience of driving the Batmobile before, it felt good just zipping around, the city in it, similar to how good it feels to swing around New York with Spidey. And the stuff with Joker and Scarecrow at the end might put it over the top as my favorite in the trilogy. And even the graphics hold up after all this time. RIP to the GOAT Kevin Conroy 🖤💛🩶

The timing on this video is so perfect. I’m working through the Arkham rn trying to get platinum for all games. Started with Origins but have to go back and tighten things up there. Arkham Asylum next and 100% that was cake! City on the other hand about broke me. Soooo much time. I just got the trophy yesterday!!! Now I’m look at Knight hesitant to play it. It’s the only one in the series I haven’t touched!!! Let’s see if by the end of the video I’m ready to start this bad boy!

My only issue with Arkham knight is they replaced 90% of boss fights with tank battles which were fun but I wanted more classic Arkham city boss fights

This game was never called trash. If I remember correct it launched very unoptimized for PC and had major performance issues but that’s all. It came out the same year as Fallout 4, Witcher 3, battlefront, siege, MGS5, etc. was just a packed year and got overshadowed quick.

This was the reason I bought an Xbox One and the first game I bought for it. I played the heck out of it and got 240%. I recently bought it again on playstation and did it all again. Fantastic game with the best gameplay in the series.

This is definitely my favorite Batman Arkham games, the gameplay are so fun & addictive lol that makes me want to get the Full Knightfall Protocol ending on my first playthrough cuz it's fun af

Wanna know my one and only complaint about Arkham Knight? The Riddler challenges. I miss the head scratcher riddles that made me look at 'em from different perspectives. Other than that, this is the ultimate Batman game to me. I love it, I don't have the same complaints about the story or the Batmobile as everyone else, I love the small nods to Origins and it's one of my favorite games of the past generation and a helluva conclusion to one of my favorite series.

The only criticism I remember about this game is how bad the PC port was at launch. And that it used the Batmobile a bit too much. But I don't think anyone says it's a bad game.

Arkham Knight is my favourite in the trilogy easily for the gameplay perfection. It runs and works so smooth. The graphics are still so good. The rain affects and neon colors of the buildings are still amazing to this day. I think the only things I found to be annoying was the overuse of batmobile. But I still loved the gameplay for it. And secondly the weaker villain but that was because it was so obvious otherwise the story and the designs and everything was great.

I’ve played through this game 3 or 4 times. I think it has the best story to all of them, maybe tied with City but I didn’t like Dr Strange at all. The gameplay is by far the best in the series. I initially didn’t mind the Batmobile sequences, I feel the same way now. It feels to me pretty 50/50 Batmobile and on foot gameplay to me

Nice to know that the autographed poster that i got from Tara strong is from Arkham knight

Nice touch playing a remix of Catwoman's Theme from Matt Reeves' Batman ❤

Dude! I agree with you on Novigrad in the Witcher 3. It’s my personal favorite game and I agree. Every time I replay the game I speed through Novigrad.

Still has the best jump scare in video game history

I wanted Joker to be dead in all aspects but no Rocksteady was so dumb and made him back in knight in the stupid joker mental plot

First game i ever played on ps4 . I remember i got the bundle with ps4 at GameStop after work on midnight. I was awed by the opening with joker. Awesome memories

i don't think the game is bad, the only complaint i've heard about it was the batmobile being overused and even then it's far from the worst

Arkham knight was never bad. Sure the story wasnt as good as city and the excessive use of batmobile really did hurt some of the game's pacing. But the combat, graphics, voice acting, environments, good side missions and the ending really make up for the mistakes.

It’s crazy i just started playing this again and you make a video on it.

Arkham Knight was the game that made me say “oh shit, I need a next gen console”. I loved the game from the beginning, and live everyone else, the tank combat is way too overused

Loved arkham knight biggest complaint is the cloudburst tank battle. I think a hand to hand fight across rooftops woulda been cool

Honestly i didn't really mind how much the batmobile is used but what really bothered me was how bad the Deathstroke boss fight was

AK was the first digital game I bought and downloaded when I first got my ps4!!!! There was a psn sale going on at that time!!!

Yea at first the overstaying of the batmobile killed it for me. I played it once and never again. But now years later, I find myself going back to it and I'm really enjoying it. I find it very fun now.

They should have went straight to Batman Beyond after Arkham Knight.

This game was always solid IMO. But what hurts it for me is the insanely excessive riddler trophies, the forced in riddler trophies with the Batmobile, the lack of real boss battles, the excessive Batmobile combat situations against the enemy tanks/vehicles that conveniently don’t have people in them or they blow up and the enemies ‘live’ somehow. I always considered it an 8/10 game. Still feel that way. But it looks even better now with the disaster that’s about to drop with Suicide Squad Kill the Justice League.

Still have yet to play this game, but I do want to give it a try. Thanks for your insights!

Don’t remember anyone saying this was bad. This is a case of the PC port disaster being conflated with the actual content of the game.

I loved this game but it was buggy as hell, at least around release. There was a cutscene where a main character gets killed but their character model was invisible so I thought it was some sort of hallucination at first. Really ruined the impact of that moment for me.

After seeing this pop up I can personally tell you that this was a classic.

This Series bro, Has been the most interesting , Fantastic, Intriguing series I have ever played. I remember beating the hell out of people in City, Getting scared front the environment in asylum, Loving the ferocious pace in origins, and the gameplay in knight. These games were and are my childhood. Love em you will too.

This is still my favorite Arkham game idc. The combat is at its best, the city is at its best, the story is flawed but gripping and it's got some great side missions. The Batmobile is also still pretty fun, if a little overused. Biggest downside of it for me is the boss fights but I don't think this series is known for its great boss fights anyway.

Bad? At worst the batmobile sequences can sometimes be tedious but everything else is A+

It was so nice of Rocksteady to try and remake Gotham City Racer.

Arkham Knight is considered bad? That's news to me. I am playing for the first time through right now and have almost beat it, and I think it is great. 8.5/10 at least.

I just wish Jason Todd went all Garth Ennis Punisher on Joker and everybody that assisted Joker

I loved the manbat and professor pyg interactions randomly throughout the city. Gave good creepy atmosphere.

I still can’t believe that we’ll probably never get to see a Rocksteady quality Superman game because some suit was hungry for some looter shooter Battle Pass money. Crazy waste of talent imo

That Rocksteady Superman game should not have been shelved. Hurts my soul, we could get a rocksteady superman game. Live services are hurting game development. We couldve been getting a sequel superman game, with the time SSKTJL has taken. Bad part is about it, is that the game still might not be done, even once it out.

Arkham knight was the reason I actually got a xbox one finally. I remember playing the hell out of it that when I finally finished it I pulled a all nighter and had a blast !!!

The rain is such a turn off when it comes to visuals for me in this game. It's so distracting

It was always a great game, I think one of the biggest problems is people just didn't like how much time was spent with the batmobile. For me the biggest issue is if i'm remembering right, too many boss fights were batmobile based. And a few of them, especially a few fights against the arkham knight, felt a bit out of place.

It was just too many Batmobile focused section is why many didn’t like it. I think your wires are crossed on that one. Some sections over stayed it’s welcome and some was short. I completely understand rocksteady was proud of the gameplay mechanics of the Batmobile but it was too much

The tank battles are still painstaking to complete. The boss battles are still a dissapointing, and story still lacks cohesiveness. Combat, traversal, graphics, Gotham, and the atmosphere are still peak though.

The fact that we could have gotten a rocksteady superman game but the fucking suits shut it down and forced them to make a game that will undoubtedly fail makes me sick to my stomach....

Arkham Origins needs a remaster i still get on my PS3 to play it

I’ve always loved this game since release. It was the first game I bought on pc back in 2021.

still waiting for a solo Flash/Green Arrow Game

I think my biggest issues is the over use of the batmobile. But i love the story.

I find it funny when people use the "you spend 50 percent of the game in the Batmobile" yet you literally don't spend more than 30 percent of game play using the car if you get the knightfall protocol and finish dlc packs 💀

Bad? I've just gone back to replay it and it's fucking brilliant! Compared to the absolute crap that gets put out these days, this is a masterpiece!

I was very disappointed the first time I played it when I found out that the real ending was locked behind 100% completion, at least they partially fixed it afterwards. That said, the rest of the game is fine, not great. It definitely has the best gameplay in the series though (I never had an issue with the batmobile, except for how they turned Death Stroke into a batmobile boss fight), but I'm mixed when it comes to the story. I personally prefer Origins as the finale for the trilogy, as unpopular of an option as it might be.

Complaining about the batmobile is forgetting about Frank Miller's Dark Knight volume 1, which is the great source for modern Batman, in which in a scene where a thug come behind him with a gun, he think's that he had 3 ways to disarm the guy, 3 ways to kill it, and a single way he could PERMANENTLY cripple the guy, and he chooses to cripple! In another scene in the same sequence he breaks the arm of other thug without hesitation! So complaning about Batman running over thugs or shooting them with riot guns is forgetting how the truly operates.

Arkham Knight is very underrated in my opinion. I think this was the best route in story telling. The Batmobile isnt bad at all because the same people who finally wanted a batmobile inlcuded Arkham game are the same ones complaining it was too much. The story may feel rushed and cluttered, but I still believe this title is far more enjoyable. Especially at the time of 2015, this title is filled with so much DLC that expanded over time, especially Homage to Ben Affleck Batman, Christian Bale, Michael Keaton and even Adam West? It is truly hard to hate this game, especially with Duo combat missions including Nightwing & Robin as in Arkham City were barely playable. I will never understand the slack this game gets, which may be biased as Jason Todds story is one my all time favorite in the Batman world. And seeong the Arkham Knight become Redhood only multiplied my likeness towards the Jason Todd Character. I might add that this games Batman Beyond suits in the main story campaign with animations, is by far one of my most favorite renditions. It was almost as they brought Terry McGiniss' suit brought into real life video game time. Enough of my fanboy, I would definitely have this on my top 3 Arkham games, Arkham City being 1 and the most highly underrated Arkham Origins that WB Games loves to ignore as my 2nd. I loved your take on this as I could not agree with anything you said, This was well worth watch dude.

No it’s great and the series as a whole, including origins, dances circles around the majority of AAA titles that release nowadays.

Of course the internet overreacted and threw a temper tantrum when this didn't end up being exactly like the game they had created in their minds. It's my favorite of the series.

What I disliked about the game most was the lack of boss battles. All the games prior had amazing boss battles wether it was Scarecrow in asylum, Mr. Freeze in city, Deathstroke in Origins & this one didn’t have anything. You had to find all the riddler trophies to get the one & only true boss fight in the game against the riddler. Deathstroke was another tank fight, you sneak up on Arkham knight & disarm him & that was it for that. It seemed like all the budget was for bat mobile puzzles & I think that’s what hurt the game in the end when it could’ve had more creative boss battles.

as someone who never read the comics, the reveal of arkham knight only bothered me cause it felt forced and confusing if anything, and i didn't enjoy the batmobile just for how much of it is required to beat the story or certain encounters, but the combat, the graphics, the acting, those were never bad to me

I wouldn’t say it was bad, I would say it was abit underwhelming

Always liked this game. Only had an issue with Jason being the AK and Joker being shoe horned in again. Gameplay was great and i have played through it a few times

This is one of those games I can reboot once per year and get just as much enjoyment out of it as I did during my first play-through. The Joker’s commentary never gets old.

I found it rather good. There was really only three issiues I had with it. The identity of the Knight was way to obvious. The Batmobile was overused. A not too bigger problem about the game but it was annoying that the Adam West skin was locked to PS but the 66 batmobile, Burt Ward Skin, Julie Newmar skin, and 66 tracks where not.

I played it for the first time last year. It is an amazing game. The dlc is great too. Game looks beautiful, plays great, I love the batmobile (some of this missions with it are the problem). I think the story is amazing honestly. Best open world gotham hands down.

People really hated on the bat tank but i loved it. I liked the idea of the whole city being under hostile takeover and batman actually has to blow some stuff up lol. I enjoyed the racing minigames too. I always called it a skill issue because i never had any problems using the batmobile efficiently, creatively, or stylishly throughout any of my playthroughs. Edit: plus it just looks amazing... when you rocket jump out of it to do takedowns or fly around, you can call in the middle of a fight and it'll run over a shit load of guys, and when you hit pillars and building corners you just bust right through them making it feel powerful.

I played Arkham Knight years after it came out, and I loved it! The Batmobile was overused, but I didn't hate it.

In Arkham Knight the star is not Batman but the Batmobile. So much so that you had to all the challenges in it. Ridiculous.