Originally posted by Smasandian
I think Origins is the worst of the series.Aslyum is fantastic, AC did something different and Origins is AC 1.5.....with shitty boss fights.
I ****ing hate how Origins world is devoid of anything that makes it memorable. The first two had so many cool little tidbits about the Batman series while Origins has none of that.
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Anyway, of the two games I had more fun with Black Flag. However, I'd recommend just waiting for them to get cheap before buying either. Neither of the games are "must haves" and are merely decent at best.
Originally posted by Smasandian
I think Origins is the worst of the series.Aslyum is fantastic, AC did something different and Origins is AC 1.5.....with shitty boss fights.
I ****ing hate how Origins world is devoid of anything that makes it memorable. The first two had so many cool little tidbits about the Batman series while Origins has none of that.
I really do agree with that last paragraph. It does feel very bland compared to the others.
I don't understand why they tinkered at all with the combat. They made Batman slower, presumably as an attempt to make the game harder, but in reality all it did was make the combat feel more clunky than other games and make it easier to get stuck in animation, which cause the counter button to pretty often do nothing.
The interior scenes are still pretty good. I enjoyed them. The good parts of Origins.
The main city, completely generic. I remember Arkham City environment, they were stellar. The world was filled with memorabilia about Batman. The side missions were excellent, filled with original content. Chasing Zasz down and then infiltrating his hideout while he talks to you and threatens the hostage was great.
In Origins, both the Penguins and Black Masks have identical missions. It screams filler to me. Hell, Deadshot's mission takes place in area that you have already visited once already....
I was wondering why I kept on failing with the counter button. I see the guy, hit Y and I still get pummeled....
Overall, the game is good and fun to play but I don't know if I will ever play it again when the previous two are much better games. The first two games made me feel like Batman, this game makes me feel like that guy in the Dark Knight you pretends to be Batman.
Deadshot was still executed better in Origins than he was in City though, not to mention the design actually looks more like his usual self, as opposed to... what he had on in Arkham City. The Mad Hatter mission in AO was certainly more memorable than the one in AC as well. Those mind-controlled thugs singing that song to you out of nowhere, and then actually being in Hatter's twisted fantasy world, a la Scarecrow...
Some of AO's side missions like Penguins' and Black Mask's were rather filler, I agree, but the others still felt worthwhile enough.
AO's main city being basically Arkham City with some tweaks I can understand since it'd be hard to top the kind of open world-ness that City had, but the whole Christmas theme in AO was kinda.. random. Maybe if they had released the game closer to Christmas instead of in October it would've made sense, but... I don't know. Perhaps they figured Christmas was the time most would get the game?
Have yet to really encounter certain problems with the combat gameplay like countering, but did notice it being kinda harder. Not having as much freedom with the order in which you can choose your upgrades when leveling up (not being able to have critical hits and such until after you got ballistic armor 4.0, for instance) probably contributed to that though.
Overall, despite the game's obvious flaws, still a solid title, and don't feel it deserves as much mean spirited feedback as it's gotten. Can't expect every next game to always top the previous installments. Though I still have yet to completely finish it (almost at the end, I think), AO has pretty much met my expectations of not being as good as City, but better than Asylum, IMO.
Originally posted by Smasandian
The interior scenes are still pretty good. I enjoyed them. The good parts of Origins.The main city, completely generic. I remember Arkham City environment, they were stellar. The world was filled with memorabilia about Batman. The side missions were excellent, filled with original content. Chasing Zasz down and then infiltrating his hideout while he talks to you and threatens the hostage was great.
In Origins, both the Penguins and Black Masks have identical missions. It screams filler to me. Hell, Deadshot's mission takes place in area that you have already visited once already....
I was wondering why I kept on failing with the counter button. I see the guy, hit Y and I still get pummeled....
Overall, the game is good and fun to play but I don't know if I will ever play it again when the previous two are much better games. The first two games made me feel like Batman, this game makes me feel like that guy in the Dark Knight you pretends to be Batman.
I dont know about all that, but i will agree on them downplaying Black Mask
Originally posted by Ridley_Prime
Deadshot was still executed better in Origins than he was in City though, not to mention the design actually looks more like his usual self, as opposed to... what he had on in Arkham City. The Mad Hatter mission in AO was certainly more memorable than the one in AC as well. Those mind-controlled thugs singing that song to you out of nowhere, and then actually being in Hatter's twisted fantasy world, a la Scarecrow...Some of AO's side missions like Penguins' and Black Mask's were rather filler, I agree, but the others still felt worthwhile enough.
AO's main city being basically Arkham City with some tweaks I can understand since it'd be hard to top the kind of open world-ness that City had, but the whole Christmas theme in AO was kinda.. random. Maybe if they had released the game closer to Christmas instead of in October it would've made sense, but... I don't know. Perhaps they figured Christmas was the time most would get the game?
Have yet to really encounter certain problems with the combat gameplay like countering, but did notice it being kinda harder. Not having as much freedom with the order in which you can choose your upgrades when leveling up (not being able to have critical hits and such until after you got ballistic armor 4.0, for instance) probably contributed to that though.
Overall, despite the game's obvious flaws, still a solid title, and don't feel it deserves as much mean spirited feedback as it's gotten. Can't expect every next game to always top the previous installments. Though I still have yet to completely finish it (almost at the end, I think), AO has pretty much met my expectations of not being as good as City, but better than Asylum, IMO.
I don't understand how people can say AO doesn't add anything to the series. While the story is kinda short it sets up the relationship between batman and the joker. It gave me that same feeling that The Dark Knight did when the joker said "I don't want to kill you, you complete me". It didn't advance anything but in a way it really shouldn't. Being a prequel the best it can hope to do is set things up and I feel it did that well enough. I won't say its my favorite of the series though. I give....
AO- 8.5/10 They did a great job. I loved the addition of the Batcave and Alfred. Deathstroke was cool. It still had the feeling the others gave me. The story is a little short though. They could have spent more time on making it a little longer and fixing bugs then trying to add the mutiplayer.
AA-10/10 My favorite. I think its a lot to do with I will always remember it gave me that "IM THE BATMAN!" feeling for the first time.
AC- 10/10 I mean it had practically everything. The only thing I was dissopointed about in this game was that I couldn't patrol Gotham with any of the DLC characters besides Catwoman.
AC4 refined the gameplay that AC3 already had so at least now you're more inclined to get weapon upgrades and counter-kills don't sap all the fun out of the game. Also the addition of taking down forts and boarding ships was added and the world in general felt more open. In addition the collecta-thons are more tolerable and actually do have some value. Besides even if the core gameplay is constant that's not really a bad thing. So AO and AC4 are both even in that regard though AC4 impressed me more.