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I don't really know what you mean by "Cartoonier", but this is really more down to simple advances in technology more than anything else.
I can't really think of any neon lights anywhere, and don't know what you mean by "playground structures" either. I personally think all of the games look great, but AK is clearly a more detailed world. However, taht comes down more to improved texture quality and post processing effects more than actual environmental complexity. If you could see the flat untextured base world you'd be surprised as just how little detail there actually is.
Toon Catwoman:
http://i.imgur.com/MsdK4QM.jpg
New Catwoman:
http://i.imgur.com/pYEK61n.jpg
Toon Batman:
http://i.imgur.com/uUdlngR.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/GEdXhWk.jpg
New Batman:
http://i.imgur.com/N5f3VYS.jpg
http://i.imgur.com/qjp2bfO.jpg
It's not just the graphics. The bodies are less exaggerated.
I mean that it's full of colorful lights, modern buildings, craploads of grappable platforms and confusing street plans. It’s not old, dense and vertical enough to be Gotham City. This doesn't look like Gotham:
http://i.imgur.com/WDDAW2c.jpg
Personal opinion and it's good that there are different ones. For me, Asylum has the best immersive visuals and setting.
AK doesn't fail capturing the look of Gotham. A dense built city, urban buildings and streets, mixed with gothic skyscrapers and gargoyles decorating them. Outdated technology with the sidenote "give that thing a good beat and it will work" (like grandpa said), power lightens up because of an overloaded or malfuntioned capacitator. The streets aren't well liten up but with lightflooding sources here and there. There are tons of details, more in AC, capturing the immersion of Gotham.
No, because as I already said, the art styles are ~PROBABLY~ influenced far more by technical capabilities and limitations far more than anything else. What was "top notch" in 2011 when AC was released in obsolete garbage today.
The AK models are CLEARLY far more details and defined. You'd need to be blind to not see that, but that doesn't change the fact that a preference for one over the other is still nothing more than opinion.
So were AA, AC and AO.
Not really. The whole series takes place only over the course of roughly a decade. Arkham Aslyum's architecture was more "classic" purely because the Asylum itself is old. That has nothing to do with anything else but creating a style that fit the setting.
I don't really see what this has to do with the art itself. That again, was a technical limitation.
Have you ever even BEEN to a real city? They ARE a confusing mish mash of street plans, and that's because MOST cities evolved over a very long period of time (100's of years) to become what they are today.
Yes it is, according to fictional history it was founded in 1635. ITts ridiculously old..
opinion.
Clearly the game designers disagree with you. Yes, there are always going to be certain elements needed to make it "Feel" like Gotham, but you need to remember that this is a FICTIONAL city. (based on the ACTUAL New York, including borrowing it's nickname!).
That said, if i remember correctly, that screenshot is on Miagani Island which is CLEARLY new construction that's still going on at the time the game takes place.
AK looks better, you might like AC graphics but thats a different matter
And down here in 'Muricaland we call Canada "Canadia", but I prefer "Canuckland".
That's the most famous, but there's no shortage of nicknames for NYC/Manhattan. "The Capital of the World", "The City that Never sleeps", "The City so nice they named it twice", "Empire city", "Gotham". Most of us NY Natives just call it "The City" Though.
it's definitely NOT a coincidence that Gotham is heavily based off the older sections of NYC (which includes, but is NOT limited to Manhattan Island)
But don't take my word for it, ask google, that ♥♥♥♥♥ knows everything :)
Nolan is known for his prefer for practical effects (that whole plane hijacking scene was completely practical. they really did that crap.) so that's more of a result of practual location purposes more than anything else.
If by "Far Eastern" You really mean East Coast America, that's not an accident, the fictional Gotham City is located in New Jersey not terribly far from New York or Metropolis (which moves around depending on who's writing the story. In the new movies Metropolis and Gotham are sister cities located across the Bay from each other, much like the real life San Francisco and Oakland).
Gotham City also has buildings of importance but because it's 4 times as big, they are not as frequent and are more spread out. So spread out, you can actually spot both AC and Wayne Manor in the distance in AK. So it makes sense for AC to be more visually impressive since it's smaller.
That being said, I love Chinatown and the movie studios in AK.