Which Arkham game is the best?

[RUBRDUCKY1175]

Mine is Arkham City what is yours? Please tell me

[doomedSniper]

Escrito originalmente por EbonHawk:

Escrito originalmente por doomedSniper:

Arkham Knight for me because it is the only game in the whole franchise that is beatdown compatible. I am into beatdowns, so its my fav. game in the series.

All of them except Asylum have beatdowns in them.

Yes Arkham City has that feature, but it can't produce the intensity/effectiveness of the combination of Critical Beatdown and Throw counter together. This is exclusive only in Arkham Knight.

[バニラ]

My favourite one is Arkham Asylum, but they are all awesome!

[EbonHawk]

Escrito originalmente por doomedSniper:

Escrito originalmente por EbonHawk:

All of them except Asylum have beatdowns in them.

Yes Arkham City has that feature, but it can't produce the intensity/effectiveness of the combination of Critical Beatdown and Throw counter together. This is exclusive only in Arkham Knight.

Now you're splittin' hairs. But to each their own. It's all beatdowns to me.

[dunkelheit95]

1) Arkham Knight - has the most refined gameplay, best graphics, most fun side missions. Main story is decent. Just-right amount of Riddler content.
2) Arkham City - solid amount of comics-related content, theme-park like design is both a blessing and a curse. Great variety in skins and challenge maps. An excessive amount of Riddler trophies.
3) Arkham Asylum - a decent but overrated main story, solid locale. Dated/outclassed gameplay and horrid boss fights. Fun and easy to get 100%
4) Arkham Origins - a good main story with fun and challenging boss fights - let down by tedious and frustratingly boring map design and lack of any interesting side content.

[Raz'Hikel]

Asylum has the best pacing, Origins has the best bosses, City has the best story and Knight has the best gameplay

[loganjamesalex]

Arkham Knight is objectively the best. Most fans of the series got worn out of the combat system by the time it released but if you can look at each game independently without bias and compare them, Arkham Knight is better, it's got all the mechanics from the previous games but only builds/improves on them. It will always be my favorite in the series.

[MASTAN]

Escrito originalmente por loganjamesalex:

Arkham Knight is objectively the best. Most fans of the series got worn out of the combat system by the time it released but if you can look at each game independently without bias and compare them, Arkham Knight is better, it's got all the mechanics from the previous games but only builds/improves on them. It will always be my favorite in the series.

All the mechanics? How absence of the unique boss battles is an improvement?

[EbonHawk]

Escrito originalmente por loganjamesalex:

Arkham Knight is objectively the best. Most fans of the series got worn out of the combat system by the time it released but if you can look at each game independently without bias and compare them, Arkham Knight is better, it's got all the mechanics from the previous games but only builds/improves on them. It will always be my favorite in the series.

I objectively refute that statement. I felt like the combat (Batman specifically) was less responsive than in City, and Origins was somewhere in between the two. (Asylum was just as good combat-responsive-wise as City.)

[halbermensch999]

City. Although it doesn't have many challenges and is quote short compared to Knight

Knight is overall too easy and has the problem of doing way too many things with too few buttons.

[dunkelheit95]

Escrito originalmente por MASTAN:

Escrito originalmente por loganjamesalex:

Arkham Knight is objectively the best. Most fans of the series got worn out of the combat system by the time it released but if you can look at each game independently without bias and compare them, Arkham Knight is better, it's got all the mechanics from the previous games but only builds/improves on them. It will always be my favorite in the series.

All the mechanics? How absence of the unique boss battles is an improvement?

It's not like the boss battles in the previous games were all that great in the first place.

[Dante_Alcatraz]

Knight

[Devsman]

Escrito originalmente por dunkelheit95:

Escrito originalmente por MASTAN:

All the mechanics? How absence of the unique boss battles is an improvement?

It's not like the boss battles in the previous games were all that great in the first place.

City and Origins had some decent ones. A couple of lazy ones too, but none remotely as lazy as Knight's.

[Smokedice]

Arkham Knight truly is the best experience, but it feels like a game you have to build up to...like I don't recommend playing Arkham Knight if you haven't beat Asylum or especially Arkham City, that one is so good

[loganjamesalex]

Escrito originalmente por EbonHawk:

I objectively refute that statement. I felt like the combat (Batman specifically) was less responsive than in City, and Origins was somewhere in between the two. (Asylum was just as good combat-responsive-wise as City.)

The combat in Asylum is garbage compared to the sequels. So unresponsive and Batman can only attack goons that are within like a meter of him. It was the first Akham game I played back when it was new on my Xbox 360 and I 100%ed the story but when I got it here on Steam I couldn't even play it cause the combat is so much worse than the three that come after. I've played Origins and City all the way through here on Steam and didn't have any issues with the combat like that but I wouldn't never say their combat is better thank Arkham Knight's. They definitely worked on refining the free-flow combat after City.

In Arkham Knight Batman responds so fast you can often get away with just attacking a goon instead of countering even after the counter symbol is up. He can attack goons like 10 meters away if you just point the analog at them and press attack. The quickfire gadgets are so responsive and you can use them in almost all puzzles that would have you take out the gadget and aim it instead.

Maybe because you start with gadgets from the previous games in Arkham Knight but you still need to spend Waynetech points to unlock the same moves you had with those gadgets in previous games you would feel that Batman specifically was not responding the way you expect. However by the time he has all his combat moves unlocked he has all the moves your muscle memory remembers using and then some. (I especially like picking up a knocked over goon straight into a beat down, I don't even think you have to level up for that one but it's new afaik).

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All the mechanics? How absence of the unique boss battles is an improvement?

It's funny that you chose that wording, cause for the most part the boss battles are still unique. In fact they are so unique that they are completely unlike the previous games. Two-Face capture is unique, Arkham Knight capture is unique, Penguin's capture is unique, Firefly's capture is unique, Man-Bats capture is unique, etc. . .

I'm gonna guess your real issue is not the lack of uniqueness but the fact that most of them aren't what could be traditionally called "boss battles" and if they all were that would make them really not unique at all. Yes there are a couple like the Cloudburst tank fight being almost identical to the Deathstroke tank fight but if they were all "boss battles" there would end up being similarities like that even more (and the two tanks do have differences in how they are fought). Riddler is a decent boss battle for you but less than 10% of players have made it that far so you might not have played it either.

Also the DLC helps a tiny bit, the Iceberg Lounge AR for example where you need to survive almost 10 minutes before fighting Killer Croc as well as the fight with Killer Croc in the main game.

[EbonHawk]

Knight plays better now but was pretty horrible right after launch tho.

I still prefer the fighting and gameplay of City & Origins over Knight.