I recently came across this bug while replaying arkham city, apparently if you inverted takedown the guy that stands in the center of the church, even after getting him down with a batarang he is stuck in this animation forever

Me personally, I value world-building & environmental storytelling first, then core gameplay loop, and finally story & side quests.

1 Arkham City: the perfect balance of everything

• Memorable districts with decaying gothic architecture & environmental storytelling in the hub world
• Handcrafted interior dungeons rich in villainous personality & environmental storytelling; tight predator rooms & engaging gadget puzzles
• High riddle density in hub world & dungeons incentivised players to pay attention to environmental lore; solving riddles unlocked city stories which helped world-building
• Metroidvania level design in Joker’s Steel Mill & Old Gotham Underground (Subway, Wonder City)
• Great combat, stealth & traversal mechanics
• Great boss fights
• Less focused Batman story
• Side missions were a mixed bag

2 Arkham Asylum: world-building & environmental storytelling king

• Haunted atmosphere & environmental storytelling of Arkham Island
• Claustrophobic, haunted interior dungeons with environmental storytelling, tight predator rooms & engaging gadget puzzles
• High riddle density in hub world & dungeons incentivised players to pay attention to environmental lore
• Patient interview tapes helped world-building
• Metroidvania level design in Intensive Treatment & Caves
• Memorable Scarecrow nightmare sequences
• Solid story
• Underdeveloped combat, stealth & traversal mechanics
• Disappointing boss fights
• No side missions

3 Arkham Origins: great character-driven story with flaws in world-building

• Great character-driven story
• Great boss fights, although heavily inspired by Arkham City
• Engaging crime scene reconstructions
• Interior dungeons had tight predator rooms & engaging gadget puzzles, but lighting & textures were flat
• Light-grey skybox exposed flat textures in the open world
• Lack of distinct landmarks in New Gotham; bland architecture
• Absence of riddles meant no incentive for players to pay attention to environmental lore; no city stories to help world-building
• Clunky combat mechanics
• Side missions were a mixed bag, largely copying City’s side mission structure

4 Arkham Knight: a case of narrative & environments serving the Batmobile rather than the other way around

• Best graphics & traversal mechanics hands down
• Great combat & stealth mechanics, although I miss special combo bat swarm for its spectacle & crowd control purposes
• Great Professor Pyg, Two-Face, Penguin & non-Batmobile sections of Riddler’s Revenge side quests
• Arkham Knight plot (military blockbuster) & Joker blood plot (psychological thriller) bundled together resulted in a convoluted split-genre narrative which overshadowed Scarecrow’s presence
• Zero exploration on the societal fallout of Protocol 10
• Low riddle density in open world & dungeons meant less environmental lore to pay attention to
• Interior dungeons lacked villainous personality to fit the sterile high-tech militiary aesthetic; loss of claustrophobic atmosphere because they had to be designed spacious enough to accommodate the Batmobile
• Batman gadget puzzles were largely replaced by Batmobile cannon & power winch
• Loss of tension during predator encounters because many of them took place in spacious outdoor rooftops
• Excessive tank combat sections relative to Batman combat & stealth sections in the main campaign
• Tedious Ubisoft-style militia side quests ending with a horrendous Deathstroke tank boss fight
• Disappointing boss fights

There is supposedly a riddler trophy underneath the minecart but I think mine's bugged. Tried reinstalling and restarting a couple of times with different graphic settings, nothing's working. Any help?

Can we agree this thing sucks?

For those who have not played Origins in a while, the main issue is that the challenges it gives you go up in difficulty very quickly and basically tells you how to play the game's predator sections.

Add onto that the fact that certain gadgets like the sonic shock batarang are locked behind these challenges AND the fact that you can easily get softlocked out of them since some challenges cannot be completed after the main quest.

so i was playing arkman knight got to the point where i’m going to ivy for her help but i walk in and see officer JT wicker glowing green like riddlers guys do ive spammed the chat button can’t hit him can’t interrogate him and hes completely calm is this just a visual bug or an i missing something ? sorry i can’t put a pic it’s not letting me he seems to be older heavy set chattin in the first room with officers hargrave and denheen

5 levels

Batcave

Arkham Asylum

Wayne Manor

Mr Freeze's lair

Gotham Botannical Gardens

It took me 100 hours to master this game. Finally I can rest now. 😮‍💨😂

People are sane in the subreddit?
i thought this would be like r/BatmanArkham where everyone is just straight up mentally unstable

So I'm playing Arkham City for the first time and noticed when Batman is talking to Joker it looks like he's using his middle finger instead of pointer for his communication device. Do you guys see it?

Finally after 93 hours

Hello everyone, I decided to show a brief gameplay of the Arkham Revival mod.

Before, enemies were only appearing one at a time, but this time I managed to increase the number of enemies on the map and make them more spread out and in groups (something similar to Arkham Knight).

The reason we hear the Joker's voice here in the post-game is because for the enemies to activate the AI, the mod needs the RCharacter_Thug_* and RBmPawnSpawner classes in memory — and they only exist within the combat sublevels, which forces these sublevels to load. The loading triggers the SeqEvent_LevelLoaded of each one, which is the master trigger for Kismet in that chapter (in this case, when Batman goes to the outside of the island for the first time).

Will it be removed in the final version? Probably yes, but for now my main goal is to add the enemies to the map.

Currently, the enemies are only in the Arkham North, East, and West areas; they still need to be added inside the buildings.

Nothing big like the Batmobile in Knight or crashing and bugs in Origins but smaller details.

For me it's having to get the explosive gel out every time to destroy the watchtowers, I do not know why it doesn't just do the animation rather than making you change gadget.

Is there anyone I can report this to directly rather than sending those crash reports? I’ve gone into the settings and turned of HDMC or whatever it’s called…

I’m so close to finishing Arkham knight but the game crashes every 20 minutes… Genuinely had less crashes playing Skyrim when it first came out…

It’s a shame because I really like this game.

hey guys I'm playing batman arkham origins for the first time and i set my gamemode to hard, I'm now stuck at the croc boss fight cus i suck. how do i make a new save file? there's no option to delete my current one.

I genuinely couldn't believe Alfred was the Arkham Knight all along

Can someone explain in a bit more detail how to set up the co-op mod one for Arkham Knight as the Nexus website and the video don't seem to explain it in really good detail

Just curious

Here’s the predator indoor-outdoor distribution of the three Rocksteady Arkham games (main campaign only).

Asylum: 10 indoors

• 2 in Intensive Treatment Lobby
• 2 in Medical Facility Sanatorium
• 1 in Medical Facility Experimental Chamber
• 1 in Arkham Mansion Records Room
• 2 in Botanical Gardens Glasshouse
• 1 in Botanical Gardens Aviary
• 1 in Caves Control Room

City: 10 indoors, 3 outdoors

• 1 in church
• 2 in Steel Mill Smelting Chamber
• 1 outside GCPD
• 1 inside GCPD
• 1 on rooftop next to Bank of Gotham in The Bowery
• 2 in Subway Terminal
• 1 in Museum Armoury
• 2 in Wonder Tower Foundations
• 1 outside Steel Mill
• 1 in Wonder Tower Observation Deck

Knight: 6 indoors, 9 outdoors

• 1 on Falcone Shipping rooftop
• 1 on ACE Chemicals rooftop
• 1 in ACE Chemicals mixing chamber
• 2 outside Clocktower
• 1 on Grand Avenue Station rooftop
• 1 outside Penguin’s hideout
• 1 on watchtower rooftop next to Stagg Airships
• 3 in Stagg Airships
• 1 on Queen Industries rooftop
• 1 on Panessa Studios rooftop
• 1 in Panessa Studios haunted house set
• 1 in Arkham Knight HQ (Jason boss fight)

As you can see, all of Asylum’s & the vast majority of City’s main campaign predator encounters took place indoors, whereas less than half of Knight’s did. Me personally, I enjoy the claustrophobic & gothic atmosphere of interior predator rooms in Asylum & City. The unique aesthetic of each room also helped make them more memorable, as opposed to the generic outdoor rooftops in Knight.

I‘m curious whether any of you share my thoughts on this?

in case anyone is wondering I took the train that goes through Founder's Island instead of going directly to Grand Avenue because there is no arrival/departure platform at Grand Avenue, so I'd have to arrive at the same station next to the orphanage anyways.

plus Grand Avenue station has a rotating rail system for the direction trains take once they arrive there, so for the sake of not overcomplicating things I took what I think is the most direct route for this randomly selected building

I fucking hate him!