OL wrote: Also, since I'm apparently in a bit of a Batman/DC mood, I was thinking about Arkham Origins earlier and how I never got around to playing the Mr. Freeze DLC they put out, titled Cold Cold Heart.
Unlike most people, Origins was my favorite of the initial three Arkham games to be released. The other games were great, sure, but they always struck me with this really "videogame-y" vibe, the way their stories were basically just big excuses to cram as many villains and references in as possible. That kind of thing always feels a little forced to me, even if the writer was someone as fun as Paul Dini. Origins, meanwhile, felt a helluva lot more focused in its story, more like something that would legitimately work in the comics. There are lots of villains, sure, but they're mainly obscure ones, and they all actually factor into the plot in some essential way, rather than just being there for fanboy giggles. Really underrated game that a lot of people seem to ignore just because it isn't a Rocksteady game.
Anyway, was intending to just get the DLC and play that, but I got all wrapped up in the main game once again, so I figure I'll go through that first. Goddamn blast so far, even having playing it before.
I do have to say though, it's a terrible, terrible shame that the upcoming Return to Arkham pack is only going to include Arkham Asylum and Arkham City, but skip this one entirely. Though I love it, Origins is the one entry with more technical problems than the others, and really could use a nice remastering on PS4.
Anyway, I guess I should finally get Arkham Knight after this. It's down to about 20 bucks at most places anyway.
I'm in the camp with those who didn't like
Arkham Origins, not because it wasn't made by Rocksteady (it wouldn't have made the slightest bit of difference who made it so long as it was a good game), but because it felt like a quick cash-in 'til
Arkham Knight. I got the game at launch, and I was actually really enjoying myself for the twelve or so hours I was able to put into it... and then my save file corrupted and I refused to play it again until they patched it, which they did about a month or so later. Started a whole new game, was really enjoying it once again, but then it just started to drag and seem tacky with very little substance outside of being a generic open world with Batman as the main character. I hated what they did with the Joker, too, turning him from the evil, twisted motherfucker with an ambiguous and mysterious background that he was in the previous two games into nothing more than a theatrical assassin. There was no reason for him to be in the game outside of the fact that he just
had to be in there because it's Batman, even though there are a whole group of other assassins from the rogues gallery after him. Completely agree that it's very comic book-ish; I think that works in its favour.
Arkham Knight is great (and a technical marvel, too), but I'd have to place it at #3 out of the four.
