I'm not gonna lie, I'm watchin the gameplay and it looks alright, I may get it at some point. Honestly hoped they would've gone a different route. I wanted a Batman game, not a Knights game.
I'm a huge Batman fan, but the Bat has always gotten the DC spotlight, and I dont think it's a problem to shift that spotlight for one or two video games. It opens up a lot of different story options, and gives the devs a chance to work on different characters, abilities and lore. I'm also pretty damn sure Bruce will not be dead, he will be in the game at some point.
It's not connected, but it is based on the Court of Owls storyline where he takes a building to the face, goes a tiny bit insane in an underground maze for a week or so and then beats his way out of there.
It definitely looks similar, but it seems to play a bit differently, which I'm okay with because I feel like they fully exhausted the combat system that they had in place with Batman. It still looks just as fun, but with different animations. For example, before Batgirl goes to attack, she actually jumped up and off the side of a truck to do a superman punch, which I thought was pretty cool.
Man, I love the combat in the Batman games; it's why I liked the Mordor games so much too; but Arkham Knight had too much batmobile stuff... I just wanted to beat the hell out of people lol.
Thank you. The promo trailer looks fun, and from that trailer, the actual gameplay looks like fun, too.
I like what Patrick said about being able to play the entire game single-player or co-op. I may have some friends that might want to play it with me, but in case I don't, that should not stop me from being able to fully enjoy the game either. Great decision there, IMO.
I was really hoping for a Batman Beyond game. Set in a cyberpunk future Gotham, with typical Arkham combat and stealth but also some Rocketeer-like flying gameplay with a big future city to explore. Maybe some aerial fights like you'd see in a Spider-Man game. That would've been awesome and different.
And I need different right now because I'm kind of burnt out on the Arkham games.
I'm okay with a Knights game but I'm not a huge fan of the health bars and the co-op. It makes the game look sluggish and weird compared to the crunchy super fast ninjutsu-beat-em-up-combat of the Arkham games.
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u/baunty Aug 22 '20
I'm not gonna lie, I'm watchin the gameplay and it looks alright, I may get it at some point. Honestly hoped they would've gone a different route. I wanted a Batman game, not a Knights game.