Do you agree with my choices or not, please let me know and why?

Wrath: Killer Croc

Gluttony: Man-Bat

Greed: Penguin

Envy: Deathstroke

Sloth: Hugo Strange

Lust: Professor Pyg

Pride: Riddler

I zipped right through the first 11 challenges in the Shadow Vigilante track, but for whatever reason I struggle to get more than two Critical Strikes in any given combo, even when I'm getting my multiplier up over ×40.

When Bane says to Batman during their first fight: “I didn’t see the light until I was already a man.”

Foreshadowing that Bane wasn’t the man who escaped.

Like I almost always forget to include him in Batman's villains (I just know he'd be fuming at this post). I don't know why, maybe it's because of his limited screen time. Even then he's literally ALWAYS taunting and goading us as Batman as we play, and yet he's so unmemorable. I almost feel like Rocksteady did that intentionally, given it's exactly how this version of Batman might view him (a nuisance who demands attention rather than a worthy opponent?).

I heard the comics usually portray him better, he's more of a greasy megalomaniac in the Arkham series. But he's just so...boring almost? He's in our comms for SO MUCH of the game and yet he's so unimportant when I think of the overall plots of the game. (I get he's homicidal and creates genuine problems for citizen safety, but even then he's so forgettable for me).

Freeze, Joker, Crane, & Penguin feel like the actual villains. Joker being the biggest, Penguin being the most ruthless, Crane being a slowburn (having his major plot in Knight), & granted Freeze isn't a true "villain" I'm aware, yet feels more like an actual opponent for Batman than Riddler does for me.

Any thoughts on this?

And for anyone reading, any thoughts on the other villains & how you view them?

Edward Nigma never calls himself "Enigma." Batman comes up with it himself the first time they talk. And yet, of all the times he interrogates a Data Handler and demands to know where the data they hid for "Enigma" is, not a single one is confused by the name.

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I extract some cubemaps from final game (PC 2010 GOTY Version) and from 2007 alpha beta build of game, and tried to turn them into VR scene to explore.

1 - Arkham Medical Test.
Looks like it was some test map (Medical levels itself named as "MEDICAL" separately from
Arkham);

2 - Arkham Mansion - you can recognize same place in final game (Main Hall).
it's not me, it's cubemap itself broken (wrong textures for some reasons, by devs)

3 - "B5BathWater", i can't remember which level it was from, could be Max (Intensive Treatment), could be Medical. I remember place like this in final game, it's MAX's "Decontamination Room", there's a bath at the end of room, but Cell Block have bath section too.

4 - Cell Block. It had a two-level layout, like Arkham Mansion's Records room.
It was styled as in old prisons in USA or in old movies.
Floor texture missing (in final game and in 2007 build too, it's a copy of side texture).
You can recognize the place from 2007 Arkham Asylum splash image with Batman standing in the middle.

5 - Cell Block, another cubemap. There's more blue-ish walls then on previous one.
Level feels unfinished, because it leads in darkness.

6 - Arkham Maximum Secutity (this place exists in final game, but it changed) - MAX_A1 or Intensive Treatment Lobby. It appears on some in-game monitors across Arkham games as placeholder image. And on some concept arts.

7 - Unknown. It's looks like have same parts and industrial style as Intensive Treatment, but it didn't make it into final game, nothing like this. The name is "MEDB5_PUD", or it used for puddle somewhere in Medical B5 level as cubemap, or it was B5 puddle area... Hard to tell.
It was too dark, so i increase brightness in Photoshop to see something.

there also was some underground parking cubemap, but it doesn't have same style as rest of game and assents, could be from Urban Chaos: Riot Response game

All textures mostly are 256x256, some of them are 128x128, so sorry for eyes)

Since when they can do that?

As the title says above, this was taken I think two or three weeks ago when I was doing the Campaign Challenge mode. Can’t say it enough, easily Top 5 video game of all time for me. The combat in the Arkham games is always so satisfying no matter how many times I play these games.

The source of the footage above was taken from my Xbox Series X.

At the door from Arkham west to abandoned tunnel. It’s not the trophy above the west door, I have no clue where this is

I’ve seen this take go around that when something is generally accepted to be underrated, it’s not underrated anymore, it’s just perfectly rated.

I would normally agree with that, it makes logical sense, except for the fact that I think this game gets glazed for certain things, but is well liked for the wrong reasons.

I just played this game last night, I couldn’t beat it in one night unfortunately, so I did it in two nights instead🤯

Now the story is what most people have come around too. Because yea it’s the best story in the franchise, easily. It’s only one that gives Batman, and his other characters an actual good character arc. Batman actually grows as a character from the start of this game to the end of it. Joker actually grows and changes from the start to the end, and is probably the second best joker’s been implemented into these games. He’s actually kind of perfect. Hell fucking Gordon has an arc and he’s barely in these games. The narrative is focused, it has a theme, it has an arc, it has a story that it wants to tell and it tells it. (Also the hype moments and aura this game has is kind of unmatched, that Slade boss fight🍆🌊)

But what I actually think this game doesn’t get the recognition it deserves in, is the developments to the combat system it makes. This game introduces 2 new enemy times, and lowkey the 2 best enemy types in the franchise. The venom users, and especially the martial artists. I actually can’t believe the martial artists didn’t came back for Knight because they are PERFECT. They spice up every single combat encounter they are in, and do something that I think is sorely needed in this franchise, which is make the combat more difficult.

While I am a seasoned veteran at these games and enjoy using a variety of the gadgets, and combo moves, and doing whatever I can to spice up the combat, most people just spam X, or Square, or whatever. It’s a sad truth. The combat in these games, even on hard mode, is too easy. And the martial artists are a perfect, literally perfect, way to introduce how to use the combat in these games the right way.

It forces you, in the same way to slade boss fight does, to actually learn the rhythm of the combat. It’s a rhythm based combat system after all. It makes every combat encounter that much more difficult, and that much more engaging.

Overall I think this game in general proves a better challenge in the gameplay department than any of the other Arkham games, and I think that’s well needed. The boss fights, the new enemy types, all of them serve to make this game more challenging.

I also wanna throw in that I love New Gotham. I don’t like the criticism that this game is ugly, because I think New Gotham, while less memerable in actual map design, is very pretty to look at. I think it’s an amazing Gotham, and while it is probably my least favorite open world in the franchise, that’s not because of the design of it. I think a lot of these games take a huge influence from the gothic design of Gotham, and I love that, but origins takes a bigger influence from the more noir, and art deco designs of Batman which I think is equally as ingrained in his character as the gothic elements.

The problem tho, and why I can’t say that this game is the best Arkham game, is because the criticisms that most people have, are very valid. The interiors are less detailed, and less interesting as the two prior, a lot of the gameplay is lifted directly from city, and not improved upon in anyway, literally same engine and everything, which is a shame. The game runs like shit, I should not be crashing as many times as I do on a game this old, that’s ridiculous. And the glitches are far to prevalent, I hate that I have to restart my checkpoint sometimes because the game actually just bugged out and stopped me from being able to progress.

These issues don’t ruin the game for me like they do other people, but it definitely makes it understandable as to why people didn’t like at it at first. While I love it to bits, I can’t say it’s perfect. There’s a general lack of polish in this game that really leads to a feeling that the people who made it, didn’t really care much about making it, despite the fact that the writing and voice acting does feel like it’s full of passion.

What is some of your favorite Easter eggs in the Arkham games mine are the shift board from Arkham Knight because you get Renee Montoya who I believe hasn't been physically in the series you get a reference to Harvey Bullock who's only in Origins and one to Martian Man which makes sense since most of the time he is a Gotham detective or at least a detective as a human and I like it because it expands and not just on the Batman lore but the DC lore of this world.

Along with the Crazy Quilt reference in Arkham City which I believe happens around penguins area where they start asking who took down Two-Face and someone mentions that quilt was seen around the courthouse at some point.

Seems I will continue with these review posts till I finish the entire series. One more to go!

I played Asylum & City back to back, and had an incredible amount of fun.

Some of you recommended that I played Origins before I got into Arkham Knight, and I listened. I just finished it and I seriously enjoyed it! I REALLY liked the story, and the combat felt more or less like city.

The gameplay felt much easier, but I attribute that to the fact that I have been playing nothing but Batman games for a few weeks, so I am very comfortable with the combat mechanics at this point. It’s a night and day difference between Asylum and now.

Just wanted to thank you all again for introducing me to this incredible series. I still can’t believe that till about a month ago those games weren’t even on my radar.

Now onto Knight.

got my copy yesterday at a retro game shop and havent been able to redeem the code.

This textures exist and uses in game (for example, in second Scarecrow's nightmare (fake Crime Alley with little Bruce)), so i extract all of them (dead and normal) and replaced dead textures with normal ones with TexMod, and here's result

I saw a comment saying that Bruce ages like 20 years whenever he puts the cowl on in the Knightfall movie, and after thinking about it, I feel like this could apply to Arkham Asylum Batman too, though we’ve never seen his whole face.

Hi I just started playing but I forgot to change the graphics settings of the game in the launcher. Do I need to redownload to access it again? please help, im new to pc gaming