Batman: Arkham Knight
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Pros
- Overall I think it's still phenomenal so I'm curious to hear why you will never play it again
- Arkham Knight: Loved the Asylum and City (I actually liked Asylum a little more).
Cons
- Arkham Knight *should* have been the best, but the story lets it down big time, even though the gameplay and graphics are fantastic to this day.
- Yes having replayed Arkham Asylum and City (I'll never play Knight again), then decided to replay Origins, and whilst I really liked it, I immediately recognised the same thing as you.
- I played the final entry of the Arkham series for 13 hours and found it very flawed. An excessive amount of side content, padding in the main plot, finnicky combat, and having too much Batmobile gameplay. They made a lot of control chang...
- Atleast Knight tried tho. That one was a decent but very flawed attempt at good cohesive storytelling.
- Knight: the best sections of Arkham knight is close to the standard of Arkham City and Arkham Asylum, the worst sections of Arkham Knight is worse than the worst of Arkham Origins
Sentiment
2 positive (18%) · 7 mixed (64%) · 2 negative (18%)
Trust + time weighted score: +3% · raw score 0%
What redditors said (10 of 11)
Arkham Knight *should* have been the best, but the story lets it down big time, even though the gameplay and graphics are fantastic to this day.
Overall I think it's still phenomenal so I'm curious to hear why you will never play it again
Yes having replayed Arkham Asylum and City (I'll never play Knight again), then decided to replay Origins, and whilst I really liked it, I immediately recognised the same thing as you.
I played the final entry of the Arkham series for 13 hours and found it very flawed. An excessive amount of side content, padding in the main plot, finnicky combat, and having too much Batmobile gameplay. They made a lot of control changes for keyboard and mouse from the other games I couldn't adapt to, so even though the combat and stealth segments were improved they felt much worse to play all the way through. Lastly, I’ll say I enjoyed the plot, but it was stretched way too thin to last the whole game.
I played the final entry of the Arkham series for 13 hours and found it very flawed. An excessive amount of side content, padding in the main plot, finnicky combat, and having too much Batmobile gameplay. ... even though the combat and stealth segments were improved they felt much worse to play all the way through.
Atleast Knight tried tho. That one was a decent but very flawed attempt at good cohesive storytelling.
Knight: the best sections of Arkham knight is close to the standard of Arkham City and Arkham Asylum, the worst sections of Arkham Knight is worse than the worst of Arkham Origins
Arkham Knight: Loved the Asylum and City (I actually liked Asylum a little more).
This game is absolutely stunning in its lighting, art direction and graphical fidelity. ... Unpopular opinion, but it doesn’t have my favourite gameplay in the series. I found combat more frustrating with the new enemy types, while stealth feels slow and imbalanced ... The Batmobile is of course very overused with tons of tank battles which get stale after some time. The story is also disappointing with nonsensical moments and underwhelming villains.
This game is absolutely stunning in its lighting, art direction and graphical fidelity. ... Unpopular opinion, but it doesn’t have my favourite gameplay in the series. I found combat more frustrating with the new enemy types, while stealth feels slow and imbalanced ... The story is also disappointing with nonsensical moments and underwhelming villains.
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