Posted on 09/01/2015 at 11:54 AM
| Filed Under Blogs
Firstly: I'm glad you enjoy the game. I don't want to take that away from you and I don't want to get spoilerific here as to why the story doesn't work and is stupid and dumb. But...
The sidequests are shit. They're all anticlimactic and most offer no real story or insight into the villains you're chasing after. You fight them a few times and then they're in jail without so much as a conversation between them and batman. The ones that don't fall into this mould are ruined by pacing, since most sidequests are multi tiered and require you to progress through the story more to unlock the next chapter, which is stupid as shit.
Thirdly, the open world is a problem. Arkham Asylum was fucking awesome, and ever since it moved to open world it's been downhill. And the graphics? Honestly I didn't think they were that great. Especially after playing The Witcher 3.
Sure, Arkham Knight has the best combat in the series. Too bad you spend 60% of the game in the fucking batmobile so you barely get to experience it.
Arkham city had a better story. Asylum has a bad story with some admittedly fucking awesome moments.
In closing, there is an excellent game in here somewhere but it's buried under a mountain of shit.
I look forward to our inevitable screaming match of a podcast :)