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Kevin’s final line onscreen being “if it has to end, at least I go out like this… being Batman “ There cannot be a more fitting line for Kevin’s send off

Rest In Peace Kevin Conroy.

Oh Origins, they'll never make me hate you🥹 (Rip Kevin Conroy)

1:21:08 "When the mugger or the thief stops to think twice -- THAT is fear. THAT is what i am!" I fucking LOOOOOOOOVE this line. I desperately want to see this line enacted on the big screen.

It’s stunning just how Warner Brothers had the perfect Superhero game series & just botched it completely after Arkham Knight, cancelling multiple projects & leaving us with an awful Suicide Squad live service game.

The arkham Knight isn't supposed to be a mystery. The arkham knight's identity is used to show batman's emotional state. He intentionally asks Alfred to Check out people that he has already arrested, so that there maybe is a possibility that the knight isn't jason. "Batman has rarely let himself ruled by his emotions. Catwoman seems to be able to manipulate batman's feelings, as does the daughter of Rā's al Ghül, Talia. But when Batman encounters the mysterious arkham knight, he ignores, perhaps deliberately, clues to the knight's identity. For if the arkham Knight is who Batman secretly suspects him to be, then that means he has truly failed someone he considers family." Taken from Batman arkham universe the ultimate visual guide

The End of an Era.

Kinda of a shame Paul Dini didn’t come back to write the story Arkham Knight

You're telling me they couldn't find ANY alternate versions of batman EXCEPT this one specific batman?

To me the Arkham series never “fell” because I don’t even consider SSKTJL canon and I replay Asylum, City, and Knight all the time and have a blast every time. Love those games man

Good thing the canon, story, and universe ended with arkham knight. What a great and beautiful wrapped quadrilogy. Rest in peace Kevin Conroy.

That fake crash part had got me good , I was about to hit the console button to restart it when it came back lol

am i the only one that didn’t really mind the use of the batmobile in arkham knight?

Thanks for providing me with something to watch during dinner later...

To me, there can never be a better Batman, Joker, or Harley than what we got out of the animated series and Arkham

Thanks for making these compilations. For some reason, longer videos are more compelling to me so seeing all these combined makes me want to watch them more.

As one Dark Knight’s era ends (Rest in peace Kevin “The Batman” Conroy, a new Dark Knight’s era may rise (Roger Craig Smith)

If only Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League never existed. 😤

Excited to watch this video :)

Yay! Good to see you back here!

Was craving a new retrospective. Thank you. And I always miss Kevin forever 😢

Apparently Paul dini original plan for Arkham night was to have scarecrow and hush be the main villains, but rocksteady fired dini and went with Jeff Johns instead

its good to see more compilations , any excuse to rewatch your videos is welcome 👍 i would love to see that some sort of "ranking all batman games" if you are still interested in it

I have a complicated relationship with Arkham Knight. There are things that I liked, such as the improvement to combat, better gliding, a badass Batsuit that actually looks terrifying, and actually exploring Gotham City instead of a re-skinned Arkham City map like Origins was. (Don't get it twisted, I still love Origins.) But, there's also things that I absolutely hate, like the overabundance of tank battles, the misuse of the Bat Family, the entire story should've been about the League of Assassins' shadow war instead of Scarecrow talking about fear for the 1000th time, and the damn Joker sub-plot is massive plothole. And I still maintain the opinion that the Arkham Knight should've been Damian Wayne instead of Jason Todd.

I was re-playing the Arkham Trilogy for the umpteenth time and a thought occurred to me: the biggest villain in Rocksteady's trilogy of games is not Ra's al Ghul, Scarecrow or even the Joker. It's Dr. Penelope Young. Were it not for her ambition and for blindly accepting money from Jack White without properly vetting him when, even Batman states that "Jack White" is a known alias of the Joker, not to mention the fact that she'd been torturing and draining Bane of the venom (which most likely wasn't even pure after he injected himself with TN-1) in his body to secretly create Titan, the chain of events, which ultimately lead to Batman's downfall would never have been set into motion. If she didn't renege on the deal with the Joker, he'd have had no reason to set fire to Blackgate to have his crew moved to Arkham or to get captured himself to retrieve the formula. Batman wouldn't have stopped him, and he'd not have ODed on Titan, and poisoned his blood. When Arkham City opened, which likely happened far sooner than Hugo Strange and Ra's al Ghul would have expected after the events at the Asylum, Joker wouldn't have ever been able to ship his poisoned blood to area hospitals and to poison Batman. Then, in Arkham Knight, the 4 infected with the Joker's blood wouldn't have fed into Batman's fears of becoming the Joker himself (after he effectively cured himself from the Titan/Joker blood), which only grew stronger after being hit with the Scarecrow's worst fear toxin he'd ever concocted. Batman's growing irrationality and inability to think properly thereafter ultimately lead to him making the stupidest mistakes in his entire (Arkham) career, and bring about his own downfall. What makes Dr. Young such an unwitting, albeit insidious villain in the franchise is that she was the one villain Batman never stopped. Batman went up against 8 assassins. He apprehended Mr. Freeze. He stopped Titan Joker, shut down Arkham City, reformed the Arkham Knight (inasmuch as he no longer had the desire to employ a militia and to destroy Gotham City to get to Batman) and he stopped the Scarecrow. Meanwhile, Dr. Young produced Titan under his and everyone else's noses, while he was looking away, pursuing all the "good" villains. By the time the Joker kills her, it's far too late for anything to be done. Without her, Batman would never have "died." I bring this up because it was an observation of mine and I've never really seen anyone do a video about her. Granted, she's not a villain in the conventional sense, or even a particularly bad person. But, it wasn't the police who brought down Al Capone, but the IRS. In the Arkhamverse, it's not the "good" villains who brought down the Bat, but an Arkham doctor.

I think the whole consensus from the fans is KTJL is that’s not canon and best to make it stay that way. Honestly hoping to see Arkham Shadow when it comes out, the interviews from the fans with the creators you can actually feel the passion for the series and their game. Do I have high expectations for said game, no. Don’t have the console and not going to hype itself for me. What no do expect that it will definitely be better than KTJL which isn’t that hard, but I’m happy to explore more of a post Origin’s Batman in this game.

WOAH NEW SONIC VIDEO?! I just binged ur whole playlist im pretty excited now. (Ur videos are better than johnnys btw)

WOW !!!! This took a lot of work to make this video.

Gave me something to Edit to, Thank You

I also had the thought where I was like, oh, why didn't they just fill the tanks with people. But on a recent playthrough I realized the whole plan was for the scarecrow toxin to cover the whole city and the goons had designated safe areas to wait it out in. The tanks were unmanned because they planned to basically go underground so they would need the tanks unmanned in the meantime, was part of the plan the whole time

Unironically great concept here: Batman Beyond Arkham.

Thank goodness he didn't include Kill the Justice League

Really need to replay Origins!

You convinced me, I will try the game.

Arkham Knight is the only game I went to a midnight launch at Gamestop for. Over 1000 hours in this game and nowhere done with it yet

There's a few batman lines from various media that have always stuck with me. Arkham 1 and 2 are great games, but the line that will always stick with me is from city when protocol 10 is active and batman wants to leave to save Talia, but Alfred stops him. "Batman must save Gotham."

I played AA in 2011. Like Borderlands, there was so much I didn't play for ages on 360 even though it was my main console from 08 til 16. What a game trilogy. I never played Origins but Blackgate was a lot of fun

Bro cooked a massive one

Rest in piece Kevin Conroy gone but never forgotten

1:41:00 the random Ace attorney Investigations 2: Miles Edgeworth music caught me off guard

The way I found this game was browsing in Best Buy and liking the demo games which is crazy back then and I knew I had to get that game 7/12/24

I dont understand why rocksteady didnt let paul dini cook , i admit that hush isnt my favorite batman villain but I trust paul , he gave us good stuff with batman the animated series along with the first two games . I guess this serves as a lesson of how sucess can get to someone's head and make them think that they can do no wrong.

Warner Bros must be allergic to money I mean it’s been so many years and still haven’t gotten a Batman beyond Arkham game

The only thing I didn't like about Arkham Knight was the Arkham Knight boss fight. I felt everything was fine. The bosses fights were all varied and different, better combat, movement, you weren't in the Batmobile as long as people said. However, I do prefer the atmosphere of Arkham Asylum more.

I miss the Old Days.

In Arkham asylum you can also change the trajectory of the zip line when already using it

The arkham series were the best of my childhood, I never had played the first game though. Should I try it?

Man sounds like an IGN reviewer for the amount of times he says “feel like Batman.”

What I like about Arkham Knight compared to Arkham Asylum in Arkham city is the free flow combat is so visceral compared to the previous Arkham games it really looks like Batman is beating the ever loving crap out of the goons. He goes up against and it’s just so fun to watch and execute, a combo.

When this game came out I was in the 3rd grade. Me: ouuuuch! My adult hood…

I like this video. Side note: You say “the game is made for” a lot but then complain how it plays on PC… I find this interesting.

To this day, I think the inverted takedown icon in Asylum looks like a spoon.

The introduction of asylum beats the entire game

Really good compilation, huge fan of the editing to make the whole thing flow as well as one big video

I can't believe we haven't had armored edition ported to the switch, that seems like a no-brainer.

To add to the point about Blackgate. There's legitimately good Metroidavanias on the 3DS.

No.. this can't be happening again. I'm filing a restraining order.

Played all of these at launch (minus Origins which I've had on my backlog forever) and all of them were excellent even if a bit flawed. Asylum was one of the most incredible games of it's year, 2009, where I felt that generation of consoles finally started to realize their full potential. I remember City coming out right before Uncharted 3 so that I managed to finish both of them despite real life getting more and more hectic, speaks a lot to their quality. I legit only got Knight because a friend of mine got a free code with their new graphics card and didn't have an interest in it, the launch was rough but my system played it fine thankfully. I never 100%ed any of the games but have always had the urge to give it a try, even if my age it's a very tall order.

That’s that new 52 type timeline 1:15:06

can you do a the batman (2004) retrospective.?

The remaster of this game also runs in 60fps in consoles

considering the series ended with Arkham knight and that was excellent and there were absolutely no other games that had the same batman again there was never a fall.

Back in April I got the Arkham collection for a $5.99 PSN sale. Played asylum and city and loved them so much to the point where I bought the original versions for PS3. Despite return to Arkham being my first time playing the games I actually like the og graphics more and deleted return to Arkham off my PS5 mainly because it took up way too much space 70GB total combined. In May I got a PS3 copy of origins off Amazon for like $24 and liked it but the lack of polish overall made it not as good as the first two. And Arkham Knight which I started and finished in June. I completely understand the disappointment but I loved it and so far is my favorite Arkham game mainly because the gameplay felt like it was at its peak just playing the game felt amazing and very polished. I actually like what they did with the Batmobile and kinda liked the tank battles but I feel like how much you like the game will depend on how much one likes or tolerates the Batmobile and the story but despite its flaws I even liked the story. After playing all of the main Arkham games I can proudly say that I’m an Arkham fan though I’m not very interested in Arkham Shadow given that I’m not into V.R. games so I haven’t been following it much. Sorry for typing a whole paragraph😂 doubt anyone will read this.

It's not over people, new game coming this year. Arkham Batman should be amazing in VR. A full length game with stealth, combat, detective areas and traversal.

I would love these games if they weren't stuck on 30 fps on consoles

Was this also planned with mayo ?

@1:00:00 true, but at least Joker didn't get shot by Joker Jr.

There's a PC mod to play the special Asylum content! No need to compromise!

Kevin Conroy n Adam West Rest Up

11:43😂

2:14:52 My thoughts on the live service superhero games are this. The concept of them works well ON PAPER because they (and this is an odd comparison) feel like a less-cartoony version of the Lego superhero games with a lesser emphasis on puzzles. HOWEVER, in practice they just become an excuse for publishers (and movie studios in the case of The Avengers game) to charge exorbitant prices for cosmetic items. Looking back at The Avengers game, for example, *I* FEEL that most people wouldn’t necessarily mind paying maybe $5.00 for the Captain America: The Winter Soldier costume for Captain America; but it was outrageous that you had to pay an upwards of maybe $10.00 for it (although that has been nullified because in the game’s last update, Crystal Dynamics made all the cosmetics available to everyone for free).

Its so sad seeing these kind of videos with titles relating to rocksteady's downfall , i cant belive this franchise turned into this . I remember back in batman arkham city days where after the reveal that you can play as catwoman , robin and nightwing , the fandom saw the possibility of rocksteady being in charge of a dc universe game franchise. I personally thought that we would get a teen tians game after arkham knight , just a way to test the waters on playing as a metahuman before we get to the superman game that everybody was begging for .

I miss his voice.

Bruh the arkham series is the best game

Does anyone miss Kevin Conroy?

Arleen was the best Harley imo. Controversies with Tara aside, I already never liked her Harley. Tbh I'm glad we're getting more VAs doing Harley, even if I don't like every new take I hear I'd prefer it than hear the same voice in EVERYTHING.

Eyy

I played the origins multiplayer. It was an asynchronous multiplayer game. Think dead by day light with guns only batman and robin have to sneak attack. It was kinda bleh especially since asynchronous multiplayer is very hard to balance. It also felt laggy and sluggish as the crooks.

saddens me to see the fall of the franchise this should have never happened arkham should have ended with knight no gotham knights no suicide squad nothing it was a huge disrespect to fans to batman to kevin conroy to people who made comics and they had the balls to use arkham games on steam to make their wretched announcement

To be fair, in my eyes, the tru Arkham series never went down. But when a company tries to continue a franchise by connecting a new game with the older one, and fail, that’s where misconceptions begin. Honestly they should’ve just let Arkham Batman alone and branched off into a different timeline. Why did they have to do that anyways? Batman’s journey in the Arkham universe had a good ending. Leave him be!

I never play arkam series ❤😂🎉🎉😢🥞🥞🥥🫒😗😗 19:40

It’s pretty sad how far Rocksteady has fallen, like look at Suicide Squad game graphics compared to Arkham Knight.

Joker doesn't appear in Arkham Knight. Batmans idea of the Joker appears as a representation of his subconscious mind. Big difference

I genuinely miss fighting lots of ninja's and martial artist in Arkham Knight.

Suicide Squad is so out of place. Literally the Arkham Series was about the warfare between Batman and Joker and that ended with Knight. They even did a call back to previous Arkham games in the credits of Knight. There is no fall of the Arkham Series because the story was already complete. Also the amount of plot holes and the completely changed character designs disconnects suicide squad completely despite them saying it’s connected.

Kevin Conroy will always be Batman

What fall?

Suicide Squad was a mistake, a big mistake

Arkham could have gone with the Damian Batman instead of the suicide squad game.i would’ve like a Nightwing or Catwoman Arkham spinoff Game. or another Batman Arkham game with focus on Batman fighting the suicide squad members in boss fights. or a justice league Arkham game would be good.

it sounds like the story elements of the Mr Freeze fight could have been fixed if say Harley infected Freeze with fear gas making him aggressive and causes him to fight Batman, causing a distraction for her to steal the cure

2:14:55 Yeah that’s not really a conspiracy theory. There’s a video from GDC 2019 that shows Kim Belair, the co-founder of SBI, flat out admitting that SBI intimidates devs into including DEI content, even if including said content would make the story of the game worse. Also considering the report came from Jason Schreier, the guy who admitted that he knew about all the toxic stuff going on at Blizzard and chose not to say anything until he could capitalize on it, I wouldn’t trust anything that dude says at face value.

Free flow combat was actually done in AC first.

That SS Harley Quinn in the thumbnail is basically a downgraded version of her Arkham version..

Arkham city is my favorite of the Arkham games I enjoyed origins. But best graphics is Arkham knight but dislike boss battles.

It'll only fall when the mainline games unfortunately get delisted due to copyright and licensing expirations... and believe me, we shall do our best in preventing such bull. No more Spec Ops: The Lines, The Chronicles of Riddick: Escapes from Butcher Bays/Assaults on Dark Athena, Need for Speed: Undergrounds and Most Wanted 2005s, The Lord of the Rings: Battle for Middle-earths, and other unfortunate gems lost by an outdated concept.

Not gonna lie I think Paul Dini leaving hurt the franchise it just wasn't the same. I wish he stayed on I wanted to see what his version of Arkham Knight would've been. It's a shame what happened to the Arkhamverse it could've been great but Rocksteady wasted their potential. World's Finest or Justice League would've made more sense than Suicide Squad if they wanted to continue the Arkhamverse. I don't know what Rocksteady was thinking but never let them cook again.

The rise and fall 😂😂 there was no fall it's ended with Knight

Origins has better history than asylum and city

Suicide squad sweet baby dei was the worst game to ever touch the series that makes me so sad but the good news is, it can easily be ignored I mean you have four great games asylum,City, origin, Knight and one decent one for the 3DS/Vita black gate at least in comparison to suicide squad.