Everyone Told Me To Play... Arkham Asylum & Arkham City
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0:00 Arkham Asylum
2:18 Stealth
4:04 Difficulty and Combat
10:21 Issues
11:56 Misc
14:46 Arkham City
15:20 Getting Around
16:37 Combat and New Abilities
19:07 Enemy Types
20:16 Freeflow and Focus
21:40 More Combat
24:01 Issues
26:10 Story and Bosses 
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So fun fact when you cape stun an enemy and jumping on them while in mid air you have a opportunity to change your direction and hop on a different enemy !! That should help u when someone is coming up and is about to hit you
If I was able to make a batman/robocop crossover would you see it?
Trigger witch.
That was the name of the game I wanted you to try. But I don't know if it's on anything else than PS4. I think 🤔 I called the game something else before.
There's a solution to your "jump over stun takedown" problem: if you press attack in the direction of another enemy during the attack, Batman actually jumps over to that other enemy and lands on him instead. This move is called the "directed aerial attack". During this attack , you actually do get i-frames, as long as you launch yourself to the second enemy before anyone hits you. This mechanic is not explicitly brought up in the game, unless you go look up the move list, but it's immensely useful.
Yeah people have been telling me about it. The problem is since I'm not expecting the aerial attack I don't realize it's happening until it's too late. My reactions are a bit slow.
@@underthemayo Yeah, I can get that. It's just a matter of getting used to. Once you do, though, you don't really even want to do the regular aerial strike because the redirect does the same thing but is much safer.
Oh, one more note: as an exception, when doing the regular aerial strike on shield guys, other enemies will not attack you.
25:39 You can actually skip the slow mo if you press A. I remember also getting bored of it and just trying to skip it and it worked
I wish I'd known that
If you're in the freeze boss fight after awhile the game gives you the takedowns and most people considered the freeze fight the best of all four games
Ra's fight is better
@@dasolemnvizitah4473 I did say most people and that's your opinion
'Hard' in Asylum and 'hard' in City are both different. Hard in Asylum removes all the on-screen indicators for counter attacks, so you'll have to pay attention to the enemy animations. It's very fun and feels like an easier Sifu, and i highly recommend it. Hard in City doesn't remove on-screen indicators for counters.
Yeah, you'd have to play NG+ to remove indicators in City
@@Fedor_Kisliakov wow. I might have to repaly city.... Thanks!
Is it fun to play without indicators though? The tells for attacks seem really bad.
@@night1952 it is fun in City but really annoying tô fight bane and deathstroke in original kind of breaks the game
If sifu had actual fighting instead of wing chun nonsense, and actual physics on the enemies
13:00 "I would love to see a Batman game completely in this camera style"
You'll probably like Arkham Origins Blackgate since it's sort of like a Metroidvania game and not a 3rd person Action-Rhythm game like the main games are
I dont think he would like this game because this one has some big issues.
But Blackgate isn’t good at all though
If Origins Blackgate wasn't awful, maybe
Yeah - just finished Blackgate myself - it was ok with similarities to the Arkham games but pretty flawed with possibly the worst map system I’ve ever seen. Not sure if Mayo would like it but I’d be curious to see!
or Batman NES game by Sunsoft!
Now let's see
Is he going to love the batmobile?
Or absolutely despise it?
He'll like its optional parts and hate the mandatory parts
@@38WorksGr8 what optional parts
Despise
he will like it at first and then get annoyed by it, the truck/car chases were fun its the drone stuff that gets annoying for me
10/10 what were they thinking + Abel in a Batsuit
Arkham Knight is the single most pristine videogame ever brought to market. It was at least 15 years ahead of its time
Fr i replayed all 4 arkham games recently and goddddamn, arkham knight has its issues but it still looks better than most games released today, and the gameplay is just fucking mint.
Great gameplay & graphics but the story is pretty messy, not awful, but definitely a step down from City.
I thought Asylum and City were alright but I loved Arkham Knight. I dont know why, but it appealed to me in a way the others couldnt. Personally I reallg enjoyed all the batmobile sequences and the Cloudburst was my favourite boss battle in the whole trilogy
The 4 mainline Arkham games will always be timeless classics
You can see in developer interviews that they were passion projects, the team had great attention to detail.
Even Origins (the weakest) is quite good
Origin is so slept on. Totally holds up!
Origins was a little janky, and I think that, combined with the different cast and the fact that it wasn't Rocksteady, caused a lot of people to treat it like the black sheep. But I thoroughly enjoyed that game. It's honestly my second favorite behind City.
3*
I truely wish you had continued Asylum. While Killer Croc boss fight isn't hard it is full of atomsphere.
Yeah it’s like a horror section, I think he would enjoy it
Ivy is also pretty cool and the encounter before Joker is the best combat arena in the game.
@@davidivaskovic yeah but the final boss itself was a total disappointment.
I go back to this games every year or two. They are kind of an annual tradition for me
The 62x combo is something I’m proud to see. Hopefully my still unpublished video has indeed contributed to the understanding of Freeflow and yes, you were accurate about Freeflow Focus. That made me smile.
As a Batman fan since The Animated Series, I’d an immediate connection with the characters and voice actors. I don’t blame anybody like you for not being as interested.
I look forward seeing how you’ll approach Arkham Knight since it has one giant elephant in the room but I would suggest putting the series down for a few weeks. Getting burned out isn’t a good idea. Origins has a similar section to Asylum’s Scarecrow that involves a character you may have seen in City. I’ll not say the name to avoid direct spoilers. Origins is the lesser game for the amount of bugs, annoying gating of the abilities and insane restrictions to unlock some of the stuff unless you really want to engage in the small missions. Avoid Blackgate at all costs because it isn’t just a Metroidvania, it’s a poorly executed one (by some of the key members of Metroid Prime Trilogy which is mindboggling).
Holy shit, some of them did Metroid Prime? How did they mess up that bad? That's like a bad joke.
Wish you've finished Asylum. It doesn't change the formula much until the end, aside from a few boss battles and encounters but it's a solid story overall (I'm guessing you didn't like the pacing, not the plot itself) and it makes you appreciate what they did in the sequels. Regardless, great video.
I'm glad you're enjoying Arkham City. One of my favorite games of all time. A quick tip, you can cancel the slow motion finishing moves by pretty pressing A.
You gotta love those famous fan favourite characters like Simon Grundy and Russia gul XD.
Its kinda cool that they use characters that arent that much popular tho
I think you would have enjoyed the Poison Ivy boss fight in Arkham Asylum since its very punishing and you have to manage the flower monster vines and the police thugs at the same time. The Killer Croc sequence is also quite tense, being trapped with a predator in the sewers. Not to mention the most challenging combat and stealth sections yet to come in the main campaign. And so close to the ending... You kinda missed out.
Yeah it's cause I put the game down for a couple days and when I came back I just couldn't get into it again.
@@underthemayothat can happen. I’d say try it again in a few months on hard mode.
If you loved the combat in this game you'll go crazy for the combat in Arkham Knight. You get more moves and options than ever before, and imo it was the best game in the series. Will you like the Batmobile as much? I'm looking forward to your take on that one
Arkham Knight is the definitive Batman experience.
Knight turned visceral actual fighting into dumb acrobatics straight out of anime
Regarding the Mr. Freeze fight, if you wait long enough, a page detailing every possible takedown you can perform on him will become available. On Easy, this becomes accessible from the start.
That's cool, i appreciate the failsafe. Silent hill games have that too.
“Real God of War…”
Ha ha. I see what you did there
Suicide Squad Kill the Justice League? What's that? That doesn't exits. 😊
The notifications are bugged on PC if your FPS is too high or if you have to many cpu cores to play with and no one knows what triggers it 🤣
Glad you have enjoyed it. Arkham Asylum was the first game I have platinumed back on PS3. Still remember like it was yesterday. I am 16 or 17, It is 3 a.m., I am tired, but I have only one challenge to complete: the combat arena with the electric floor. After countless attempts, I finally beat it, the notification pops up, and I go to sleep. Good times)
"I love a stealth game where you are encouraged for being stealthy". You'll love Splinter Cell and Thief. I find Arkham's stealth to be a little basic but it does have enemies be more afraid of you the more the sections go on so at the very least it does a good job at doing the thing Batman I feel should do more often like how he was using guerilla tactics on armed thugs in Batman Begins.
Your description of the combat I agree with, people often call it too basic, but for me it enters the realm of being just challenging enough, it has far more going for it than say Zelda combat does and Zelda gets praised like no tomorrow.
Your arguments explaining why City is better are sound and it could be because I played on normal so it never forced me to use the options like you claim to here. I do think the Insomniac Spider-Man games are better for letting you switch the difficulty whenever you want, but fair enough.
I prefer Asylum's pacing mainly because of the fact that it never had a level as horribly padded out as the Penguin mission which is so padded and boring, I would've quit the game the first time through. You got to do so many objectives within objectives just to get to Cobblepot, I am making a big deal out of this but this part feels so much longer than I am describing. Asylum never really had any of these things.
That and I was also annoyed by how many gun enemies I would accidentally bump into because I didn't have detective mode on at all times.
I disagree on the ending to City, I found it pretty good and it was probably one of the better moments of Batman getting rid of a villain while maintaining his "pacism" ideals. I am sort of a Batman fan all though honestly the superhero's practice of pacifism I just actively scoff at now but off topic.
I do think you are right when praising City's gadget use, I sort of feel like Arkham Origins did it better since it never had any levels as horribly padded as the mission with Cobblepot.
Arkham Knight has the best stealth and combat in the series with all that said, just that the game is let down by so many other things like why is the Batmobile a tank instead of being used for just chases only?
Good video I'd say, I disagree on some parts but you made your points well enough.
THIEF!
We are not gonna talk about the absolute bastardization of Joker and Bane's character in Asylum.
@danielgeronimo5538 and Batman he's not even funny in this game
@@GangsterFrankensteinComputerIf you're trying to be sarcastic and calling Batman a childish character, it ain't exactly looking amusing
@@danielgeronimo5538
Joker was fine, Bane was pretty bad but Paul Dini hates Bane so this ain't surprising.
I also want to add my favourite skill to unlock is the Dive Bomb move because it's so ridiculous that it's supposed to be a non-lethal takedown (because Batman never kills) but you begin the attack from above while gliding then locking to a target and diving straight to them building momentum, then hitting the target's neck with your forearms. That's a lot of force to break a neck.
Reminds me of the moment in Arkharm Knight, where batman begins shoo-I mean "pacifing" thugs on the batmobile.
27:19 the general consensus is that this fight is a masterpiece of a boss battle and I agree I like that he doesn't fall for the same trick if you do something once you cannot use it against him again. It feels like something straight out of metal gear solid in a good way. It felt really weird when you said you were mixed on it because I definitely thought it would be a boss battle you would love. Especially since you like when games make you use everything at your disposal and when they encourage you to be creative
I'm only mixed because I wasn't good enough to figure it all out on my own. But that's because I played hard mode first where the requirements are so high. If I had played normal first and then hard, I would have figured him out all on my own I think. So I think the fight itself is great. Just my experience was brought down a little by my own lack of knowledge.
@@underthemayoThis level of introspection is why we love watching you Mayo, not many other creators would have had the heart to admit that.
The Mr. Freeze fight was fun on normal difficulty. I remember not running out of ways to do takedowns on him if I just kept exploring different parts of the room while keeping him at a distance.
The shield guy double jump stun attack frustrated me a lot.
If you get tired of the slow mo takedowns, you can skip it by pressing any buttons I think.
Digging the Batman NES theme background music, Arkham games will always be timeless. I come back and play through the entire series every 2 years or so.
I recommend playing Origins before Knight. I also recommend completing Knight, because the campaign has some truly incredible fights.
FreeFlow Focus is the mechanic that I love most; Learning to use it appropriately, going super fast in challenges and then cashing it in for gadgets.
It's super fun to use partly because it still requires knowledge of routes for enemies. You still have to know who to go for, and you still need to keep in mind how to not get hit. It's super fun in the Joker challenge, where you can rack up an insane combo, but you still have to be mindful of how to use it. I much prefer this over cashing it in for gadgets, but it's still useful in certain circumstances.
been waiting for this video for AGES. love you mayo!!!
I actually just played Arkham City on PC and I don't remember the popups being an issue. The riddler ones would come up but disappear after a few seconds and I don't remember tutorial popups being much of an issue
25:00 channeling your inner AVGN I see, also you owe us a quick 5 minute video about your thoughts on nightwing and robin
Hell yeah. One of my favorite creators playing some of my favorite games. Glad to hear such high praise for the core gameplay!
also for the mr freeze takedowns. there is
silent takedown
ledge takedown
take down from above
line launcher
magnets with electric gun
window take downs
freeze gun jammer
glidekicks
drop attack's
exploding walls
electrifying the pool of water in the middle of the room.
plus if you use the obvious strategies first like the grate the ledge and the glass ceiling he will freeze them making you use more of your stealth tools which is a really good choice to make you use more clever stealth techniques.
The repeated Riddler Challenge complete (assuming you didn't die before it saved having completed the challenge) and the blade takedown tutorial staying up there were glitches. I've played this on PC and not encountered these, but there are a lot of random glitches in Arkham City that are on the PC. Audio not playing and previous audio replaying can also happen sometimes.
Arkham knight is the best in the series imo . The story is so personal and dark and grim
It’s still badly written and has dumb character choices
@apexsmokepacker you don't actually know what "bad writing" is
@@i_love_musique333
Yeah I do, shoehorning Jason Todd with no proper build up and making him a generic global terrorist and not having him face any consequences for his actions is bad writing
This dude did way worse than Professor Pyg who’s a literal serial killer
Hey Mayo. Think you’ll take a look at helldivers 2?
Also, I played AA over and over again when it first came out, so, thank you for the unexpected burst of fond nostalgia 💛
At the time these games came out, I wasn't exposed to Unreal Engine yet.
When I saw the demo for Arkham Asylum on ps3 at Best Buy, I was shocked how great the graphics looked.
Then I was amazed at how fun the gameplay was in Arkham City. The Arham series holds a special place in my heart
Mr. Freeze is generally considered the best boss fight. I recommend Arkham Origins. It's mostly more Arkham City but with a better story. It's a little buggy though. But it has some of the best fights in the entire series, like Deathstroke, Bane, and Firefly. It also has a new spin on Detective mode that Knight borrows a total of one time.
I’m sorry but ya’ll overrating Origins story way too much
It starts off as a Batman vs Assassins story but all the sudden it’s all about Batman vs the Joker for a third time (but I did like the chemistry)
Bane is badass but we never see what he means by he waited to kill Batman for so long. Like he says to him “I’ve waited this for a long time, with your death. I’ll find peace”
Half of the assassins were practically wasted
Deathstroke has a cool boss fight but he gets beaten and is later forgotten
Shiva & Deadshot are reduced to side villains.
Firefly, like deathstroke, was cool but he was set up as a plot device to prevent Batman from saving Alfred.
The highlight of the game was Batman and Alfred’s relationship.
It’s a decent story but you guys are giving it too much credit
@@apexsmokepackerBut it's the best story we could get at least in this universe. It's not like City itself wastes a lot of Hugo Strange and Ra's Al Ghul for the sake of Joker and Batman again, Asylum feels like a kiddy version of the darker Serious House on Serious Earth and Knight though it had good ideas feels a little janky in the execution overall, especially when Scarecrow turns into this generic "I'm gonna blow up Gotham" kind of motivation and not much else aside from his dope design.
Origins is not like the best Batman story ever, it's not Long Halloween, Year One, or No Man's Land or even the Dark Knight Returns. But when you put it side by side with the rest of the Arkham series, it's the closest we can get to experiencing something as a very good Batman series. Besides though it retconned some Asylum audio tapes, Joker's monologue is among the best established so far, and makes up more than enough for him hijacking the plot. Oh and Mr. Freeze's story was cool too in other ways.
Perhaps people do overrate Origins. And it's not perfect, it's still weighed down by a lot of narrative choices that plagues Arkham games. But considering the material they are given, damn man you gotta give WB Games Montreal some credit for putting out their best. The fact that they tried again in Gotham Knights despite the game being such an absolute dumpster fire.
@@danielgeronimo5538
City didn’t waste anyone, it told the story the developers wanted to tell. Everyone had their position to the plot and the stakes were Batman and a bunch of people dying. Hilarious how you say that as if origins didn’t waste black mask and half of the assasins for another Batman vs joker story as if it that wasn’t gonna be a sour taste in people’s mouths after joker just died
Asylum kiddy? Sure, when I think of kiddie, I think of seeing corpses, blood, torture sections 😂
Knight was just trash so we can agree on that
Without Batman and the Alfred moments in origins, it be the same as the others.
City is the best story objectively, cry about it
@@apexsmokepackerLike how? Hugo Strange and Ra's was sidelined even when their side of things was a lot more interesting. City is not bad, but it isn't a masterpiece either. The main mystery of the plot is put aside for a long fetch quest with only the simple message of how far Batman would go to save even his greatest enemy. While that's a good angle to work with it feels like a long stretch and roundabout fetch quest unlike the beat for beat mystery solving of Origins.
I fail to see how it leaves a sour taste in the mouth with Joker's death even though it's actually one of the best takes on the character by far. Origins elevated his and Batman's dynamics which in a way made his return in Knight despite being so contrived at least bearable.
Yes, Origins wasted half of the assassins, but remember when I said that it suffers from the things that weighed down Arkham Games? That's because Arkham games are so insistent in putting so many eggs in one basket and Origins is no different. Funny how you say that I don't admit that, when I clearly did.
I dunno why you're getting so defensive over City. And absolutely refutes its flaws despite being so obvious. And then you're gonna go and tell someone who has a different opinion to "go cry about it".
Wouldn't that mean it's you who's overrating something?
Oh and where is the Blood? All I see are grinning corpses, that's not half as grim as the one you'd see in Serious House in Serious Earth. Not even the body horror of the Titan can compare.
@@danielgeronimo5538
It really wasn’t, what would Hugo Strange do as the focus of the story? Have guards send Tyger guards to find Batman. Have Ra’s trap Batman with his assasins? That’s your idea for an interesting story for City. 😂
Because Joker literally died the game prior, we already know what Batman and Joker’s relationship was. Yes it was well performed It wasn’t elevated, they just explained how they met. We already know Batman’s relationship with the Joker. We actually see it ourselves in the first 2 games. Jesus
You didn’t say anytging, you were slurping off Origins
And it has blood, Some blood in crime scenes. The game has intense violence all throughout. This includes torture, fistfighting and gun violence. However none of it is graphic and not any worse than in the Batman movies.
I don’t get why you’re comparing a Batman game to another game when they’re not the same. I’m sorry you’re an edgelord who’s hard for guts in every game he wants
13:13 There is a 2.5d Batman platformer "Batman: Arkham Origins Blackgate". It's not very good.
I always love you playing my childhood games
'real god of war...' mayo takes every chance to take a shot at 2018 and Ragnarok, I love it.
I don't want any new viewers confused about what I'm talking about.
I have never seen that notification bug, but on PC, I did experience an audio bug where you could only hear the background but not the voice when any of the characters were talking.
Yeah I'm not sure about the notifications thing. I don't remember them.
Look forward to the next entries!!! I could understand skipping Origins, but it probably has the best suite of boss fights out of all the games, and perhaps the story would be less outlandish for you to grasp onto, so might be interesting to hop onto in the future (though made by different studio and I hear has some quirks in combat mechanics that are felt more on harder difficulties than I played it). Arkham Knight was a great game, though mileage may vary with the prominence of the Batmobile and how much you enjoy it overall, the combat mechanics were really polished up to a great level.
I eagerly wonder and await to see whether this will lead you to try Shadow of Mordor or Spider-Man games later on.
You can actually skip the slow mo on the last guy
How?
@@underthemayo I remember spamming the spacebar(maybe it could be any button, but I don't have the game installed to test that theory) and it just cuts to regular speed again. Idk what the equivalent is on the controller
@@inferior3199it's the button A on the controller
in regards to the cinematic slowmo ending to fights.. you can skip those when they happen by pressing X and it returns to a normal camera angle
Do I hear the SNES batman soundtrack in the background?
4:09 I love that combo takedown number one favourite in my books
I appreciate your honesty in saying you didn’t beat asylum or found the story all that interesting. I love these games, but it’s completely fine if someone doesn’t like them. Different strokes for different folks.
Yeah sometimes it triggers people and they comment how horrible I am for not finishing it or whatever. But I think my audience appreciates my openness about when something holds my attention or not.
Completely reasonable if people expect that the game was beat at the very least. Not necessarily completed 100%, and no he's not wrong for not beating it. But idk man, at the same this is what comes with being a RUclipsr, we're not all going to sing one man's praises. Bro's gonna have to roll with the punches because the audience isn't always agreeable. Especially considering most of them probably actually played it through. Just saying
@@mre1561I learned ages ago that I don't need to beat games if I'm not feeling it. I remember playing Deathloop and wanting to give up on it because I hated it. But I continued because people were giving me shit for not finishing games. So, I stuck with it to the end and it was torture. I regret that decision and I won't repeat the mistake. I'll beat games when they keep my attention (like City) and I'll stop playing when they don't (like Arkham). I'll be honest about it, and people can feel how they want.
I love these games, so im glad that you had a good time with them, Mayo. Im a huge Batman fan, so i love the story, but i wouldnt have loved thek without the complex combat systems and in depth stealth. These games made me feel like Batman. -Lovechild
Nice touch with the music of the NES batman game in the background
Awesome vid man🤘 will also say, when you get around to playing DMC3 I'd recommend getting a switch & downloading it cause that's the only ver that allows you to switch styles & weapons on the fly.
1990s Batman Animated Series is the definitive version of Batman and Joker. DC live action movies doesn’t do the characters the justice they deserve
@25:15 there's actually move i think the game doesn't tell you about that pretty much solves this problem, it's called directed aerial attack: you basically initiate an aerial attack and then input directional movement plus the attack button, Batman will hop off of that enemy and land on whichever anemy you targeted, so you can target approaching aggressors to avoid getting hit.
Cool t-bag at 04:42
Shame you stopped asylum right before the Croc boss fight. Not that the campain after is that different, but the Croc fight is, in my opinion, of the highlights of the series and one of the best horror boss fights ever.
I've played these games so many times, the combat is just second nature in any difficulty. Glad to hear that you liked combo system and stealth. I still prefer Asylum over City because of its darker atmosphere. There's an early scene in Asylum, where you go into a locker room, one light on, the other flickering. Jack Ryders on the radio discussing the Asylums takeover. Just had this off feeling, even though nothing will be there.
I wonder if you would like the Sniper Elite games, kinda jank before 4, but they where fun and the "stealthy" style of the game by using ambient sounds to mask your rifle shoots and traps to get enemies was very nice. There was more but no spoiler.
Finally happy for this ❤
The air attack can actually be redirected mid animation onto another enemy to avoid getting hit.
What happens is that I don't even realize I'm doing the hop over attack until it's too late.
This video got me to finally finish arkham city. I always started it after an arkham asylum playthrough and had batman fatigue lol. But now I just went to city and started it and just beat it. Too bad you didn't finish asylum I still really like asylum since I played it first and when it came out...wow it was amazing back then.
I like to add that if you use the aerial attack and move the L3 stick Batman will redirect the jump into another enemie which is so good especially to knockoff a shield dude at the end of the room
27:53 to be fair if you wait long enough orcale will just give you all the options and where and when to use them
24:10 such a weird thing. That pop up thing never happened to me, it was pretty clean for me. Maybe that's s glitch that could die on a reinstall, but who knows.
Interesting videos, let's see what you think of Origins and Knight whenever you get to play them.
I am wondering when designing the game what idea came first the cape stun or the stun baton enemy.
Just beat these games now that long ago. The text issue is def a bug. Not sure how you can remedy it.
I saw that you were online playing these and was wondering when this review would come out . My favourite parts of these games were the stealth mechanics as it reminded me of the Manhunt games , I primarily play these games with the Phsyx graphical option enabled as they highly contribute to the visual presentation as particle and props fly around while doing combat , these too contribute to the game aging so well . I'm pretty sure you'll not like the third game in the series as it's got a lot of boring parts . Great review Mayo .
Doesn't scanning mr freeze give you a list of all possible attacks?
Wow, awesome video Mayo. I'm interested to know since you talked about challenge and combos so much, have you ever came around to those arenas in Sifu?
I've recently managed to beat all of them with 3 stars, it was so much fun. Golden stars don't think I can get yet though.
I played all the arenas when the first arena update launched
how well did you finish them? did you grind all 3 stars? @@underthemayo
@@djukafox yeah I went 3 everywhere I could.
nice
Arkham city blew me away when it came out I loved it!
Oh, the first Devil May Cry ? Wise.
You may even end up on the Hideki Kamiya binge and actually make a video on *The Wonderful 101: Remastered* eventually :)
You'd probably like Shadow of Mordor if you like these. It's very similar but much more open and has the great WWE nemesis system
If he'll ever try Arkham Knight, I have a strong feeling it will end up same as Asylum. "I got bored".
Because combat is already awesome, and city is already awesome, and story is already... existing, so what else can you add on top?
Well, a damn batmobile, which in whole playthrough takes more time to control than Batman himself. Drive around on batmobile, open paths for batmobile, solve Riddler puzles on batmobile, fight endless waves of annoying drones on batmobile, investigate crimes on batmobile, FIGHT THE GOD DAMN DEATHSTROKE on batmobile, by shooting his stupid super tank, instead of intense melee combat with him face to face... and so on, so on, so on.
Honestly, I don't even remember if there were any combat system or enemy variety improvements in this game. All I remember is batmobile.
Combat was improved on in Knight, it's faster, smoother, Batmans animations were all changed for less random slow attacks.
More of same but also there was an addition of environmental take downs.
neven fishing arkham night but man is the batmobile such a awesome concept, and its so waiting to be made into a full game, my only problem with it is that you can only dodge bullets in the tank mode.
@@aoooso6000you can dodge with regular bat mobile by pressing x with the direction you want to dodge toward
@@wolfuii4171 i know but that dodge only work in car chases or against the arkham night tank boss, drones well always hit you in "race mode"
Can we talk about the fact that Rocksteady figured out seperate camera styles for different situations a decade before big brains at S*nta M*nica decided to only make one for GOW2018
Don't get me started on post battle XP differences which they also didn't include in that game LOL
SAME XP FOR EVERYONE! EVERYBODY WINS!
So if I recall correctly, in the Mr. Freeze fight, there are 13 ways you can damage him, which cannot be repeated each time...my first time through on hard I didn't have too much trouble but NG+ requires 11/13. Holy fuuf.
Sadly his fight is the highlight of all the games. None of them get better.
I would put Deathstroke and Copperhead's fight alongside Freeze. Beyond that honestly there isn't anything remarkable from Arkham's roster of bosses. Such a shame since its systems requires critical thinking under combat pressure. You don't see that often in games in the modern era
Glad you liked it, is a favorite thrilogy of mine
I recently remembered I bought these games a while ago and played them all. Had a good time, so I’m glad I played.
Nice to know you're delving deepeer into the DMC series. I personally have never played DMC 1 but ive heard great things about it. Dmc 2 is an abomination.
Eventually, you can try DMC 3 which was a game changer for the series.
you should play the dishonored series. really deep and dynamic gameplay with a very uniquely sylized world
I have a video on dishonored's opening level
1:33 THIS
Graphics technologically from 2009 can still look good!
Now, look at the technological bloat of modern graphics, which require more and more graphical processing power and memory - both storage and RAM - to play properly, even though, aside from some details or effects like shadows and lighting, the visible improvement of graphics becomes smaller and less noticeable, while requiring more and more work and resources. Normalise late PS3 graphics!
So PS3 graphics are better?
That's a flawed approach to graphical standards when it all comes down to presentation and execution. Old Rocksteady always knew how to maximize and optimize their use of the Unreal Engine to its fullest potential. It's why Arkham Knight looks as good as it does despite being released in the PS4 era and it still looks clean in a lower end hardware like the Switch. It's the same logic in how sometimes Sprite 2D still looks more detailed than 3D models and you will see more refined details that otherwise doesn't stand out as good in modern interpretations. Like room details of RE2 being lost in translation with the remake.
It's not the PS3 graphics that needs to be normalized. It's the idea that devs need to stop undercutting working on refining graphical details and presenting their work a lot better than just focusing on textures. It's why games like Half-Life 2 still looks as good while Cyberpunk 2077 is so miserable.
An interesting fact on the animations side: when Arkham Asylum came out, Unreal Engine didn't yet have internal cloth physics, so the dev team at Rocksteady put a dedicated animation designer to implement the whole library Batman's cape animations, in order for it to look natural in all contexts.
Also, the combat system *does* have animation canceling, but only in very specific context: you can cancel any stage of regular attacks into a parry counter when parrying is available. For comparison, Arkham Origins doesn't have this feature, and its fighting system (despite visual similarity) feels completely atrocious due to the constant flow breaks.
I am pretty sure you can't cancel punches in Arkham Asylum, and it's much better for it, same with Origins. There isn't too much point in timing your punches, when you can always just cancel them into a counter.
@@ttaylor7604 it's why it's so tactical and rewarding, you have to commit to stuff. You can get by kinda, by playing simply, but you'll get more out of it by actually engaging the different systems
Yeah I tested it before making the video. You can't cancel attacks into parry.
@@underthemayo Hmm, I certainly remember at least _some_ cases of parry canceling, exactly because it has been the most noticeable gameplay difference between City and Origins for me. Maybe it's even more subtle than it looks (e.g. some kind of internal context which picks attacks with specific animation length, or extends parry window depending on your attack length and/or incoming interrupting attack), so there's some kind of a flow feel that you're always cancelling your animations exactly at the right moment for parries.
If you're more interested in the gameplay side of things than the story then I'd recommend Arkham Knight, it changes some things and addresses some of your issues (such as the shield takedown).
Very similar combat in shadow of war.
I'm glad that you're playing Arkham Asylum, and it's still one of the best licensed Batman games ever made by Rocksteady. This game inspired Insomniac to make Spider-Man. It holds up after 15 years.
Arkham Knight is so fine man, can't wait for u to get to that. Still feels new damn near a decade after release
Difficulty in games should have adopted the Resident Evil 4 strat of dynamically adjusting the challenge thruoghout the game. Or how in MGS V where there's systemic changes in enemy strategy. You head shot too often, they'll wear helmets. Really love that type of design.
You can jump off of a guy you've cape stunned and then jumped on top of to land on someone else.
Think you press run again while you're in the air, and press the direction you want to go
Yeah. By that time it's too late because i don't realize it's happening. Slow reactions.
@@underthemayoOh, and you do get I-frames on it when you only use it against guys with shields. Or, if not i-frames, you won't be attacked by anyone for the duration of the animation.
It's when you use it against anyone else that it gets really frustrating.
You talked about how you would accidently perform and aerial attack and how you would get hit. To avoid this you can input a direction and press attack while batman is in the inital fase of the attack, he will jump and land on someone else and its pretty much impossible to get hit doing this
This issue is since I'm expecting to just hop over, when he's instead going up to do the attack, I don't realize it until it's too late.
@@underthemayo I think we have all been there haha
Eventually you get used to it and use the redirect aerial attack instead to move away or over the enemy, or even drop on the enemy that is trying to attack
Looking forward to your Arkham Knight video 👍
As someone who platted every batman game city was definitely the best game in the series and the story really got me hooked I'm a batman fan though so everyone of the games stories were fun and interesting to me I can the notifications don't pop up like that on console and you definitely would have had a be better time fighting freeze if you finished asylum there are a quite a few times u need to use grates for take downs and that's something you learn in the first game but overall I hope u had a good time playing these games try the comics next specifically the death metal event
I have just finished Arkham Knight few days ago and randomly thought ''what would (insert person here) , (insert person here) , mayo etc. would think'' for some reason. what a coincidence :D
what is the soundtrack used in 0:00-4:00 ?
also in the mister freeze boss fight you can bring up a menu that tell you ways to take him down how did you miss that lol.
I wasn't looking for it lol
also you gonna hate the driving in arkham knight get ready to hate it. its that bad@@underthemayo
Seeing this in 4K/60fps is a game changer! I'm used to playing on console and I think it's 1080p (maybe) and 30fps. That's what really hurt the game for me. After getting used to 60fps and coming back to play Arkham Asylum, it really is jarring and makes the game feel very janky. I'd love to replay this in 4k60.
The consoles ran this game at 720p
Ps3 and xbox 360 weren’t powerful enough to handle 1080p
@@Ye_B0i I'm playing on the PS5
You should probably go check out Doom Eternal soon! It’s a pretty cool fps that came out a few years ago
Mayo in a nut shell
DOOM : why people playing hard difficulty on Doom Eternal at first playthrough and complaining
Arkham : I got frustrated against mr. freeze and play the game on hard at first playthrough
don't mind about it. i am just kidding
Also frustration isn't complaining. It's a good fight.
another mayo banger did not expect u to like it
10:24 *Clears throat* God of war (2018)
Gives a certain perspective, how come Norse GoW fumbled over the shoulder camera that badly?
Arkham series has always had the right balance in showing the action without suffocating you with the camera and provides its own "cinematic" take the way fixed angles do. Norse GoW absolutely refuses to do away with over the shoulder angle and you can't see shit because of limited field of view.
Yeah gow 2018 could have done this camera and not used those fucking tank controls.
Hi Mayo, did you played the demo for "Crow Country"? I think you are going to like it, It's very similar to old school survivor horrors titles, the combat it's a little bit messy for my taste, but I like it a lot, and I think you will problably like it (sorry for bad english)
Thanks for the recommendation
great vid!