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Gotham Knights revealed by WB

kruis

Exposing the sinister cartel of retailers who allow companies to pay for advertising space.
Welcome to the reason this game will sell less than half of any of the Arkham titles.

Characters like Robin and Batgirl really aren't that popular. Looking at some of the responses there are people who have no idea who Batgirl is. Give the general public the choice between playing just as Batman or playing as Robin/Batgirl/Nightwing/etc and 98% of them will choose Batman every time.
 

SCB3

Member
Characters like Robin and Batgirl really aren't that popular. Looking at some of the responses there are people who have no idea who Batgirl is. Give the general public the choice between playing just as Batman or playing as Robin/Batgirl/Nightwing/etc and 98% of them will choose Batman every time.


It doesn't help that they keep changing who Batwoman is or what her origin story is to be fair

I actually liked the look of this and wanna main Nightwing,
 

BlackM1st

Banned
It should still look and run significantly better on the PS5 and XSX. Batman: Arkham Knight looks and runs significantly better on my PC (which has a 1080Ti) than it did on my base PS4.
FPS and resolution. Nothing more I guess. Engine just can't jump over itself. (Funny thing is, iirc somehow AK run better on ps4 when it released and had better rain effects lol)
 

Silent Duck

Member
Not the Batmanless Batman game I was hoping for.

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BoxFresh123

Member
Think Sony have marketing deals in place for this?

The press release only makes note of PS Plus but nothing of Live Gold?

Unless they know something about Gold given that it's coming 2021.
 

kruis

Exposing the sinister cartel of retailers who allow companies to pay for advertising space.
I'm impressed. I felt we got the first real gameplay of a nextgen game (besides Ratchet and Clank).

Really? The loading sections (opening doors, pushing through a crevice) were very noticeable in the gameplay demo.
 

Dick Jones

Gold Member
This is going to suck for Sony. They spent all that development money on fast SSD so PS5 games could get rid of hidden loading time workarounds like elevators and now this game needs to be wheelchair accessible for Batgirl. Bullshit. /s

After repeated viewings, no just no. I dont understand how this was signed off on. Pity as the thirst was there. I may try another round of the Arkham series.
 

mcjmetroid

Member
People are totally overreacting to the no batman news.

I think he will be there maybe later in the game but also donkey Kong country 2 and 3 didn't have donkey Kong in them and they were better than the original game.
 

Dacon

Banned
Characters like Robin and Batgirl really aren't that popular. Looking at some of the responses there are people who have no idea who Batgirl is. Give the general public the choice between playing just as Batman or playing as Robin/Batgirl/Nightwing/etc and 98% of them will choose Batman every time.


Well, if the sales of some of their books are anything to go off of they never really caught on for mainstream audiences, even though Cassandra Cain Batgirl had a pretty good run. Probably because she was cooler.
 

Evangelion Unit-01

Master Chief
Game looked interesting.

Gameplay: Need to see more on level system before I make a judgement; it could be a new interesting addition. While I understand people's concern, I can't really see the game going the Division route; I don't think thats what they are going for. I hope/think it is going to be a more traditional. I'm thinking/hoping for GTA V style w/ co-op and a RPG-lite progression system.

Graphics/Art: Art direction looks pretty solid overall. Nothing will ever come close to TAS but the art deco look for Gotham was nice. Costumes were both hit and miss. Overall curious to see what this game looks like in a year's time.

Story: On one hand I am absolutely up to play as Batgirl, Robin, Red Hood, and Nightwing. On the other hand I was hoping for a slow burn Batman vs. Court of Owls detective story. Something like that could be really cool. Play up the mystery, add some spooky atmosphere, make it feel like you are always being stalked. Batman's enemies are scared of the dark corners of the city; turn it around and make the dark corners of the city scary for Batman. That being said, I fully expect Batman to show up for the last third of the game in some form of plot twist.

Overall, I am very interested. I want to see more of the gameplay/leveling system. Damien, Catwoman, Azrael, Cassandra Cain, and Huntress could all be unique and interesting DLC additions. Fully expecting we will be playing as Batman for the final third of the game. Very interested in seeing more.
 
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Larxia

Member
I don't really understand some of the complaints here.
I really loved how in Arkham Knights (with DLCs) you had so many characters to play with for the different challenges, and since that, I always thought it would be great for a next batverse game to be like that, a game in the batman universe but with different playable characters to make things a bit different, not something centered only around batman.
I'm scared of the rpg element, leveling system etc, but I'm happy with the multi heroes choices, and the characters available are great.
Batgirl is a different character than Batwoman btw, and she's great.
 

IDappa

Member
Looks cool, have to see more though. I find it weird they have 4 characters but coop is only 2 player?. Not a big thing really as I'd probably play by myself anyway.

Is it just me or was that woman's villians scream very loud at 3:40 compared to everyone else. I don't know why Devs do this I had a huge problem with it in bf 5 just woman constantly screaming it's so jarring..
 

GhostOfTsu

Banned
So today I learned that XP levels and HP bar, both gaming staples since the beginning of time in all genres, are now devil GAAS shit even in a single-player game with optional Coop. The new lootbox. Outrage videos coming soon from fat fucks on Youtube.

Gamers are their own worst enemy.
 

dottme

Member
So today I learned that XP levels and HP bar, both gaming staples since the beginning of time in all genres, are now devil GAAS shit even in a single-player game with optional Coop. The new lootbox. Outrage videos coming soon from fat fucks on Youtube.

Gamers are their own worst enemy.
People are worried because of how they are used now. They are used to slow down you progress and to try to push you to buy MTX too often.
If you take me 10~20 years bar, seeing a health bar was just an indication of how far I am to kill the boss. Now it probably means that I have either to grind a level or to buy some XP pack.
I have some good feeling with this game but I can understand why some people are worried.
 
Looks good. The boss fight with Mr. Freeze looks uninspiring(typical buddy mash up) compared to the one in Batman Arkham City. Sucks not to play as Batman. I'm intrigued non the less.
 

Sub_Level

wants to fuck an Asian grill.
I know this is separate from the Arkhamverse, but I always figured the next Batman game was gonna focus on the other bat family members. Arkham Knight's post release content largely focused on them.

Anyways I'm excited. Yallah.
 

Kagey K

Banned
I wonder what would have happened if they ditched the Gotham theme and done something based off DC Super Hero Girls or the Adult Swim Harley Quinn Universe instead.

As interesting as this game looks either of those could have been just as good (IMO)
 
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Not 60fps? Meh.

Not sure about the level/stats crap. Does every game have to have that now? Like Avengers and this?

I hope it's fun, they need to find a way to make the combat feel fresh again. To me it needs to feel more freeform, technical, and less reliant on the auto counter/rthythm deal.

Also the characters need to feel very different not like reskins with all the same hook traversal stuff and just different combat animations. They kinda chose a boring bunch of heroes. Robin and Batgirl look nice enough.
Why not have levels/stats? Not having that is boring IMO, yes I'm being serious, it gives you something to work towards and offers replayability... more gamey. I love RPG gameplay and this sets up a lot of gameplay elements that boring, samey action adventure shooting galleries can't.
 

Yoboman

Member
Hope Tom Holland is getting some money for his likeness

Also why are they showing it in such a poor state? That frame rate is atrocious
 
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