Batman™: Arkham Origins

Batman™: Arkham Origins

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itzDerrio Dec 15, 2024 @ 8:29am
Best Arkham Game
it’s almost christmas & this needs to go on sale so more people can experience this criminally underrated, slept-on masterpiece. Imagine taking arkham city and giving it a better story, better missions, better bosses, better gameplay & better character versions , that’s pretty much with this is - what city should’ve been
Originally posted by Zaichi:
i'll never understand the "hate" the game initially got. i got into the franchise only after Knight came out (even though i wanted to play it since the first time i saw City) so i was out of the loop with the comparison between the games, but i did know that City was everyone's favourite and Origins everyone's least favourite.

i played all 4 in order so my experience and opinion of the franchise steadily grew, but once i was done with them all i realized my favourite and least favourite games weren't what everyone's were. Origins stood out among them all for way too many reasons and it was the only one i kept wanting to return to. and i do, every december.

the entire Arkham franchise is great, from start to finish, each game bringing something new to the table, but i'll forever prefer Origins above the other 3 because it does everything better than the rest.
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jamesomnifield Dec 15, 2024 @ 9:21am 
Masterpiece? LMAO
This game turned everything good about Arkham City into ♥♥♥♥.
itzDerrio Dec 15, 2024 @ 10:45am 
Originally posted by jameshetfield:
Masterpiece? LMAO
This game turned everything good about Arkham City into ♥♥♥♥.

then why are you here, lmfao 🤣🤣🤣 arkham city aged worse than origins . there’s no reason to play it anymore , everything about it has been outdone

open world ? arkham knight
gameplay ? arkham knight
story ? origins
bosses ? origins

atleast asylum has the unique spooky atmosphere and linearity. city has NOTHING 💀💀
jamesomnifield Dec 15, 2024 @ 11:18am 
Originally posted by itzDerrio:
Originally posted by jameshetfield:
Masterpiece? LMAO
This game turned everything good about Arkham City into ♥♥♥♥.

then why are you here, lmfao 🤣🤣🤣 arkham city aged worse than origins . there’s no reason to play it anymore , everything about it has been outdone

open world ? arkham knight
gameplay ? arkham knight
story ? origins
bosses ? origins

atleast asylum has the unique spooky atmosphere and linearity. city has NOTHING 💀💀
Boss and Story Origins? Don't make me laugh kid.
the story of origins is very simple next to arkham city. okay, it's not a bad story, but it offers a very average story. it can't even compete with arkham city as a boss battle. the only good boss battle in origins is the deathstroke boss battle. it is already made up of the assets of the Ras al ghul boss battle in Arkham City.

You probably met the Arkham series late. so you don't know much about the series.
itzDerrio Dec 15, 2024 @ 4:51pm 
Originally posted by jameshetfield:
Originally posted by itzDerrio:

then why are you here, lmfao 🤣🤣🤣 arkham city aged worse than origins . there’s no reason to play it anymore , everything about it has been outdone

open world ? arkham knight
gameplay ? arkham knight
story ? origins
bosses ? origins

atleast asylum has the unique spooky atmosphere and linearity. city has NOTHING 💀💀
Boss and Story Origins? Don't make me laugh kid.
the story of origins is very simple next to arkham city. okay, it's not a bad story, but it offers a very average story. it can't even compete with arkham city as a boss battle. the only good boss battle in origins is the deathstroke boss battle. it is already made up of the assets of the Ras al ghul boss battle in Arkham City.

You probably met the Arkham series late. so you don't know much about the series.


arkham city was the first game i played, and i enjoyed it . guess what ? i played origins last because of the reception it had. when i finally played it i couldn’t believe how wrong people were about this game . but gamers tend to have a knack for hating good games and overrating the **** out of mediocre ones.
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gps Dec 15, 2024 @ 10:41pm 
Then why can't you accept there are people that prefer the one and others prefer the other?
Why do you have to convince everyone Origins is the best and anyone who thinks different "mad"? That's what you basically write in the other thread - all people who don't prefer Origins over City are mad! That's trolling:

Originally posted by itzDerrio:
when people actually prefer origins over city it drives people mad

I already blocked you and can keep on doing so, but I am once again trying to appeal to your reason and sanity, because this is getting really annoying. It makes being here on the forums unfun.
You write you actually liked City but got triggered when you saw people constantly hating on Origins. However here on the forums YOU are the one constantly hating on City. Not sure you're aware of it, but it's true. Here the same happens: if you constantly hate on City and the other Rocksteady games (whenever anyone says anything even remotely negative about Origins), people will start to defend them. Inevitable. And you are the one unable to cope with that backlash...

See. Me, I actually love Origins, I would recommend anyone to play it and said so many, many, many times. I just don't think it's the "bestestest" ever. And there are some flaws I can't deny or make unseen. And that alone seems enough to have made me your enemy. Which I am definitely not. I just don't like constantly being put into the "mad City-fanboys" corner.
NBOX21 Dec 16, 2024 @ 10:48am 
Originally posted by jameshetfield:
Boss and Story Origins? Don't make me laugh kid.
the story of origins is very simple next to arkham city. okay, it's not a bad story, but it offers a very average story. it can't even compete with arkham city as a boss battle. the only good boss battle in origins is the deathstroke boss battle. it is already made up of the assets of the Ras al ghul boss battle in Arkham City.

You probably met the Arkham series late. so you don't know much about the series.
Those that think Origins' bosses were bad either never played Asylum or haven't played it in such a long time that they forgot what that game's bosses were like.

Nearly all of Asylum's bosses (except for Killer Croc and Poison Ivy) are just rehashes of the Bane fight from early on in the game including the final boss, whereas every single boss in the other games feels different from the rest in some way. Come to think of it, I can't recall a single boss in Asylum that utilises stealth in any way unlike every other Arkham game. :bane:

While sure, fighting Deathstroke in Arkham Origins shares some similarities to the Ra's Al Guhl fight from Arkham City, mainly their jump attacks requiring you to mash the counter button that both bosses share, the two bosses outside of that feel completely different when compared to each other and both are good for their own reasons. :deathstroke:

Even when Origins had you fight Bane twice, the second encounter at the end of the game felt so drastically different it felt like its own thing and plays unlike any other in the series. The only bad boss in Origins was the Electrocutioner who goes down with a single button press, but that I always thought of more as an intentional joke played off for laughs than it was trying to be a proper boss fight. :tyger:
$2 Hero Dec 19, 2024 @ 5:36pm 
I tried it but compared to Knight I felt slow af. Do I get to upgrade my suit so I can fly around faster? I also loved the car in Knight and joker puzzles. Besides story is there enough here to pull me through?
itzDerrio Dec 19, 2024 @ 8:03pm 
Originally posted by Pinche Caballo:
I tried it but compared to Knight I felt slow af. Do I get to upgrade my suit so I can fly around faster? I also loved the car in Knight and joker puzzles. Besides story is there enough here to pull me through?

the grapple gets upgraded but that’s it.
all the games feels slower compared to knight though so that’s kind of a weird complaint
Crimsongz Dec 19, 2024 @ 8:20pm 
Masterpiece lol it has so many glitches. It prevented me from being able to continue the story so I have to restart.
Last edited by Crimsongz; Dec 19, 2024 @ 8:21pm
itzDerrio Dec 19, 2024 @ 9:59pm 
Originally posted by Crimsongz:
Masterpiece lol it has so many glitches. It prevented me from being able to continue the story so I have to restart.

unlucky for you then.
gps Dec 19, 2024 @ 10:40pm 
Originally posted by Pinche Caballo:
I tried it but compared to Knight I felt slow af. Do I get to upgrade my suit so I can fly around faster? I also loved the car in Knight and joker puzzles. Besides story is there enough here to pull me through?

The story sure is the highlight of Origins. It's cinematic with good acting, many "Year One" and "Killing Joke" vibes. Also don't forget about the "Cold Cold Heart" expansion which is really good.
And it's the perfect game for the Christmas season. There's not better time to play it... ;)
That's the problem with playing the Arkham games out of release order. It's hard to go back from City to Asylum and also from Knight to City/Origins once you get accustomed to the gameplay updates... ;)
NBOX21 Dec 20, 2024 @ 1:39am 
Originally posted by Crimsongz:
Masterpiece lol it has so many glitches. It prevented me from being able to continue the story so I have to restart.
I ran into quite a few glitches myself, but even in the worst case scenario where the elevator in the Sionis Steel Mill failed to work properly preventing story progression, a simple restart fixed it for me. Glitches from my experience harmed the game, but didn't ruin it entirely. :anarky:

And yeah, there are other glitches as well including one where I fell outside of the game map altogether while trying to do a takedown on an enemy, requiring a restart to fix it.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3304503658
Killer Croc in particular gives this game a bad first impression because of a major glitch where he turns invisible during the fight though this doesn't always happen. :croc:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3299035664
That said, I've played games that were far buggier than this and I've also played more polished games that I enjoyed far less (case in point, Arkham Origins Blackgate). :Blackgate_Emoticon:
gps Dec 20, 2024 @ 2:13am 
Originally posted by NBOX21:
I ran into quite a few glitches myself, but even in the worst case scenario where the elevator in the Sionis Steel Mill failed to work properly preventing story progression, a simple restart fixed it for me. Glitches from my experience harmed the game, but didn't ruin it entirely. :anarky:

Yeah, but you can't deny there's a lot of badly designed and/or broken stuff going on with the "Dark Knight System", especially the "Worst Nightmare" path.
Biggest problem is that some of the stuff is missable. Most players do (I mean miss it) in their first playthrough and only notice when they don't have the sonic shock Batarang for challenge maps.
Even then most people will probably need a detailed guide to be able to do it in one playthrough.
Also some of the ranks are bugged (Gotham Protector 15, Shadow Vigilante 15), some can be cheesed through easily, if you know how to (Worst Nightmare 7, Shadow Vigilante 15)...
And even on top of all that nonsense, whenever you advance a rank you really have to make sure the game saved at least twice after doing the rank - because otherwise you might return to the game next time and find out your hard earned rank actually did not save properly and is gone again, and now you're beyond the point where it can be done. So without a backup - it's back to square 1...
I can understand people who never bothered to play anything but the story saying this is the greatest Arkham game ever - but once you've navigated successfully through all that sh..t - then maybe your goodwill towards the game may lower a little bit... ;)
Crimsongz Dec 20, 2024 @ 2:45am 
Originally posted by NBOX21:
Originally posted by Crimsongz:
Masterpiece lol it has so many glitches. It prevented me from being able to continue the story so I have to restart.
I ran into quite a few glitches myself, but even in the worst case scenario where the elevator in the Sionis Steel Mill failed to work properly preventing story progression, a simple restart fixed it for me. Glitches from my experience harmed the game, but didn't ruin it entirely. :anarky:

And yeah, there are other glitches as well including one where I fell outside of the game map altogether while trying to do a takedown on an enemy, requiring a restart to fix it.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3304503658
Killer Croc in particular gives this game a bad first impression because of a major glitch where he turns invisible during the fight though this doesn't always happen. :croc:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3299035664
That said, I've played games that were far buggier than this and I've also played more polished games that I enjoyed far less (case in point, Arkham Origins Blackgate). :Blackgate_Emoticon:
Me I simply can’t continue as when I load in, everything is in white and invisible walls. Never saw a glitch as bad as this one. :( Even when I restart to the last checkpoint.
Crimsongz Dec 20, 2024 @ 2:49am 
Originally posted by Crimsongz:
Originally posted by NBOX21:
I ran into quite a few glitches myself, but even in the worst case scenario where the elevator in the Sionis Steel Mill failed to work properly preventing story progression, a simple restart fixed it for me. Glitches from my experience harmed the game, but didn't ruin it entirely. :anarky:

And yeah, there are other glitches as well including one where I fell outside of the game map altogether while trying to do a takedown on an enemy, requiring a restart to fix it.
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3304503658
Killer Croc in particular gives this game a bad first impression because of a major glitch where he turns invisible during the fight though this doesn't always happen. :croc:
https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3299035664
That said, I've played games that were far buggier than this and I've also played more polished games that I enjoyed far less (case in point, Arkham Origins Blackgate). :Blackgate_Emoticon:
Me I simply can’t continue on my previous save file. When I load in, everything is invisible except the fog. Never saw a glitch as bad as this one. :( Even when I restart to the last checkpoint.
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