What's with the hate?

[Rose]

I noticed this game has even more hate than the other origins game. Why?

[voiceofreason467]

Probably because WB Montreal decided to give the fingers to gamers and they're incredibly jaded over it due to the fact that they refuse to patch game breaking bugs.

[Deadlylag]

Because the game is very annoying. Some of the boss fight are plain stupid.

[Chris P. Bacon]

Outdated visuals, some of the textures wants to go back to 1999.
Models are low poly and not very well made, for example batman's arms clip thru his cape.
Sluggish mechanics that makes combat slow and unresponsible.
Too many functions assigned to one key - don't try to start to run near elevators.
Ridiculous amount of backtracking. Majority of game is running aroud places you've already been to. Places are empty as enemies do not respawn. You will do that even more after accqiring equipment updates required to reach collectible from a room you've been 10 times to already.
Way too many collectibles. Developers tried hard to extend gameplay time.
Plain stupid in most cases detective mode: You have to scan every thing you can interact with, even if purpose of interaction is obvious.
Bugs. During my chase after catwoman (very begining of the game) I managed to get stuck inside a wall. Also encountered infamous lighthouse bug where you have to reload game to be able to progress.
No manual saves, only checkpoints. Enjoy watching unnecessary unskipable cutscenes over and over.
Overall it's rushed cellphone port that doesn't offer any fun gameplay or interesting story.

[Rose]

Originally posted by dankont:

Outdated visuals, some of the textures wants to go back to 1999.
Models are low poly and not very well made, for example batman's arms clip thru his cape.
Sluggish mechanics that makes combat slow and unresponsible.
Too many functions assigned to one key - don't try to start to run near elevators.
Ridiculous amount of backtracking. Majority of game is running aroud places you've already been to. Places are empty as enemies do not respawn. You will do that even more after accqiring equipment updates required to reach collectible from a room you've been 10 times to already.
Way too many collectibles. Developers tried hard to extend gameplay time.
Plain stupid in most cases detective mode: You have to scan every thing you can interact with, even if purpose of interaction is obvious.
Bugs. During my chase after catwoman (very begining of the game) I managed to get stuck inside a wall. Also encountered infamous lighthouse bug where you have to reload game to be able to progress.
No manual saves, only chekpoints. Enjoy watching unnecessary unskipable cutscenes over and over.
Overall it's rushed cellphone port that doesn't offer any fun gameplay or interesting story.

You do realize this was a handheld game first right?

[Chris P. Bacon]

I am fully aware of that. Why the question?

[voiceofreason467]

Originally posted by dankont:

I am fully aware of that. Why the question?

Well it sounds like you just hate handheld games.

[Deadlylag]

Personally I don't have a problem visually nor do I have a problem with collectables. The problem I had was annoying boss fights like the Penguin which I never had a problem in any Batman Arkham games. The action animation take too long to set up, ie grappling hook. Combine with a bad targeting system and stealth it is frustrating.

[scjay]

It's a lazy antiquated design. The controls are cumsy if they exist at all. To say that it's a POOR attempt at game design would be an overstatement (at least that would sugest an attempt was made).
1999?? Activision was developing games with more depth than this piece of crap in 1999

[voiceofreason467]

Originally posted by SCjay:

It's a lazy antiquated design. The controls are cumsy if they exist at all. To say that it's a POOR attempt at game design would be an overstatement (at least that would sugest an attempt was made).
1999?? Activision was developing games with more depth than this piece of crap in 1999

Um... not my opinion but okay.

[Chris P. Bacon]

Originally posted by voiceofreason467:

Well it sounds like you just hate handheld games.

I just hate badly designed games and lazy ports, like Batman™: Arkham Origins Blackgate - Deluxe Edition.

If something was good on handled it doesn't mean it will be good on PC, where quality standards are different. Developers should be aware of that and work more if they want to release their products on more advanced platforms.

[voiceofreason467]

Originally posted by dankont:

Originally posted by voiceofreason467:

Well it sounds like you just hate handheld games.

I just hate badly designed games and lazy ports, like Batman™: Arkham Origins Blackgate - Deluxe Edition.

If something was good on handled it doesn't mean it will be good on PC, where quality standards are different. Developers should be aware of that and work more if they want to release their products on more advanced platforms.

So you just don't like pc ports then.

[Chris P. Bacon]

Either you have problems with reading or coming to conclusions.

[Lonely FireWolf]

Originally posted by dankont:

Originally posted by voiceofreason467:

Well it sounds like you just hate handheld games.

I just hate badly designed games and lazy ports, like Batman™: Arkham Origins Blackgate - Deluxe Edition.

If something was good on handled it doesn't mean it will be good on PC, where quality standards are different. Developers should be aware of that and work more if they want to release their products on more advanced platforms.

I totally agree with you, this game is piece of crap.

[Contra]

Its because the game is 2D whereas the original series was 3D. People dont like change.
Oh and this is a port from the nintendo 3DS.
As you could probably tell, those two dont mix together.

[Sun_S]

Originally posted by dankont:

Enjoy watching unnecessary unskipable cutscenes over and over.

ESC key to skip cutscenes. Hit it shortly after the beginning of the cutscene.