As a nerd, I was so happy that they included the comic book story about Aaron Cash losing his hand on guard duty from comics into the game. The game is so full of these little nudges that even some comic readers had forgotten and made us burst out of nostalgia.
@@StratEdgyProductions I just started playing Arkham Knight yesterday again, 'cause I never finished it. And now I think that it's because this magic is missing. Paul Dinis touch is missing, and now we have a bland Arkham Knight as a villain (whos identity is pretty obvious) and everything else feels pretty copy-pasted from the previous games.
Asylum is such a great game, it's a shame the design process that produced this game likely will never be used again in the current AAA climate. I wonder if we'll get a good indie or AA successor with a unique IP one of these days.
I remember back on the 360 version of this, you could play your own music through the Xbox music player while playing the game. I played through the combat challenges for an unhealthy amount of hours with the Mortal Kombat theme in the background. Good stuff as always, Strat. Thank you for the consistently excellent work!
This game is a perfect example of sometimes, all you need is to perfect a premise to make a great game. It's not the most complex story, it's not the deepest combat system, it's not the best investigation or stealth game, but every aspect is perfectly executed for Batman, with a story that knows exactly what it is, a Batman story, and it's glorious. I replayed the entire series last year and this video makes me want to do it again!
First time I played this game was when my dad was fixing some lady's computer. She let me play her son's PS3. This was the game I played. She said that she was selling the PS3 and games because her son had moved out and didn't want them. She gave me this game because she could see how much fun I was having. My dad had a PS3 and I would play this whenever I was able to play his PS3. I've since bought it on Steam and of course on Switch when it came out. An awesome game that happily paid for twice. Definitely scared other devs from even trying to make a Batman game
That scarecrow scene is such an incredible, quintessential batman moment that I havent played this game in years and still had it memorized word for word.
54:45 fun fact about the map trophies, they're rotating in a perfect figure 8. If you watch and see the center of the pattern, that's where the trophy is. It's not an approximation, it just throws you off a little bit.
I remember when this game was coming out, the developers were saying that it explicate took place within the continuity of the comic books. That this was the same Batman and world as what was in the mainline DC canon. It wasn't until Arkham City that they walked that back and started saying this was an an alternate universe so that they'd have the creative freedom to do whatever they wanted with the story.
This feels like you REALLY wanted to make this video, it's exactly why I subbed to you in the first place after watching your TES videos. A passionate man talking about games he loves. I love this kind of content.
I legitimately just finished a playthrough with all riddler stuff just last week when I had the sudden desire to go through the whole Arkham series once again, then this pops up in my recommendations? The serendipity is truly amazing.
Someone else mentioned this but even if the games dont sell well, they likely make their money before a single copy sells through ESG payouts from Blackrock or governments.
There is a more simple answer in terms of economic incentives if loans are based on certain rule sets such as esg scores then companies are pushed economically to do those things. And of course since its money focused some companies will do it by hiring the cheapest dei companies like sbi because when you go cheap you get the lowest rung of humanity such as racist like sbi,black girl gamers etc. they are hired cheaply to tick a box for greater gains.
Funny you bring up the Batman WB cartoon, I just found out Studio Ghibli had animated a mechanical spider episode for the show. Think about that, a Japanese company working for a western TV show not *really* known for animating machines (now at least) animating machines.
@@StratEdgyProductions 'The GHIBLI Batman' by STEVEM Start the video at 3:31 The guy is pretty obnoxious, but it's like walking into an abandoned house and there's an open safe with one golden coin in it.
It's fascinating how little the industry appreaciates and respects writers as they are the reason why anything works. You don't have a movie without a screenplay. You don't have a video game without a design doc. You don't have a painting without having some verbalizations of an idea in your brain. You don't have a book without words. Writing is basically your entire plan for the project, it's the place where you can fix all your problems in the cheapest way possible. If these companies would hire 5 freelance writers for 2 months to write every single detail out for the game, from story to game design to random clutter, they could save so much money in iteration costs as everybody would know what they were doing at all times and diverging from the design doc would only happen if the scope turns out to be too much or some feature being too complex or bugged out to work. But good writers can fix a lot of those problems already in the planning phase. And I am talking about GOOD writers, not Sweet Baby Inc type "consultants" with 0 proof or validity on the quality of their work. Imagine if these companies would rather consult ACTUAL good writers instead of whatever shady corporate money leeching scheme some consultation firm has come up with.
15:15 I've never wanted or "needed" to see myself in media. At least not in the way that they mean (skin color, gender, sexuality). I just want interesting characters to do interesting things
This video brought me way back. I remember beating Asylum and I wasn’t very into gaming news at the time but I did pay attention and wad excited for City. I actually bought the trilogy a few days ago because of this video on Series X. Finished Asylum last night and found all the Riddler trophies. Can’t wait to start Asylum again.
My thing against Sweet Baby is them ganging up on a guy for making a steam curation page. That's all he did. He made a steam curation page that uses publicly-available information to make a list of games that Sweet Baby worked on. Yes, it was a negative list, but that amounts to "I don't like this company, here's a list of what they've worked on...." Then they leaned on their buddies in the press and tried to paint him as some misogynist chudmeister who hates [insert whatever minority group you like the most]. One of the SBI employees straight up called for people to mass report his steam account to try and get him banned. I don't know or care if they genuinely believe their side of the story, or if it's all a propaganda piece to protect their business; either way they're a bunch of scummy people.
It's a classic case of "rules for thee but not for me". Remember, THEY'RE allowed to use publicly available information to defame you, get your fired, or otherwise screw with you, but the moment you, the regular average citizen, do it against them YOU'RE a racist/bigoted monster.
It's that cult like mentality where they try and brow beat others in submission. Only this time they included greater society into the cult. Funny, these people think they are counterculture, but those on the counterculture side are usually not backed by big corpo and the law.
If you look at the actual curation page, the guy is some loli-defender that really likes Japanese media that s3xualizes underaged girls. He literally is the kind of jackass to whine about Miles Morales and say "He's not Spiderman".
I am sad that the Arkham games ended up like the way they did. Being turned into a mediocre looter shooter wasn't the thing I thought would befall this series, but I can't say I care much about Kill the Justice League. It doesn't look very fun.
There was this moment in mgsv where i resorted to picking off enemies one by one with rifles and drainage grates, and the subtitles showed someone panickng, freaking out, begging and etc. I THOUGHT it was the enemy soldiers and i thought it was the coolest shit that they realized how hopeless the situation was and were losing their shit in the pauses between kills. Turns out it was just a hostage npc giving dialogue to help you find him.
Its because the gameplay is more refined in City (but too bloated in Knight). This is the only one I 100% out of the whole series, and I did 3 times. Once on the ps3 back in the day, again when I bought it on steam and a final time after steam added achievements and windows live died and took my achievements
On the note of diversity making more money- as somebody, for better or worse, somewhat involved in that aspect of business, it both does and doesn't make more. I, specifically, work in the film industry where this sort of thing is a bit more obvious and easy to mine data for than it may be for other industries, but I'd imagine it's the same for gaming and basically everything else. So, on one hand, it does help with money- specifically due to investors. Several years ago investors changed their tune to be more in line with what's typically advertised as ESG, so the studios I'm a part of made changes accordingly. We saw a MASSIVE increase... from our investors. However, these past three years or so we've been barely making a profit as that increased investment can no longer keep up with the loss from actual moviegoers, or rather the lack of moviegoers. So even when it does help... well, it doesn't really help anymore. Now, on the other hand, it doesn't help because the whole "people like to see themselves in media" is blatantly false. Our data, and the data from essentially every other country on the planet with movie theaters show people of color overwhelmingly choose the movie with an advertise white or white-adjacent cast when given the choice that or alternatives. That's the common data trend here in the US, Canada, the UK, and Germany where I do most of my business. We don't even really need to look at the data for Asian or Middle Eastern audiences where a white cast is so drastically preferred that even pirated movies featuring them completely overshadow any natively produced content. While pro-diversity beliefs are relatively young in a business sense (and I guess politically too, depending on the arguments you want to make), they're already outdated. They help purely with investors, not putting butts in seats. And that trend is only increasing. The only reason it seems like that's not true is because it's largely being propped up by businesses that seem "too large to fail", and even those are starting to flounder (cough cough, Disney, all of Hollywood, increasingly the gaming industry, etc). I'm all for treating people equally and giving everyone equal opportunities for things where it makes sense, but I absolutely denounce that doing things like putting one of every race into your cast actually makes a product sell better- because it objectively doesn't.
I remember not knowing much about this game as a kid, but then I saw it at a Best Buy being a demo and I fucking NEEDED this game. The gameplay just looked too good
If he plays Arkham City, I hope the thumbnail is the “Why can’t I hold all these limes” guy with Batman’s face holding riddler trophies. I thought 240 was a lot, I forgot they added 200 more for Arkham City.
AAA games are an absolute shitshow. The only AAA game I have purchased since 2016 is Baldur's Gate 3. I have no idea why people keep buying overpriced shovelware.
I'm not even sure what AAA games are. Largely I just buy cheaper older games with the odd big title again bought later. Like this one here. But I have a massive collection of Batman videogames. Not all of them because some go for absurd amounts like the 2nd NES Sunsoft title but.. I've got a good dozen plus going back to the 2nd one made on the ol C64. (The very first is an isometric puzzle platformer for the Spectrum and Amstrad. Computers so garbage they functionally never left Europe. They kinda tried to bring out the Speccy in the us but it got laughed at and died instantly.)
@@CaptainRufus I feel you are being a little hard on the Speccy, for many of us it was our introduction to computer games and computers in general, my brother taught himself basic coding on it. Most importantly it was affordable.
@@StratEdgyProductions My comment won't post with the link. Here's the quote: In the panel, Belair is discussing the importance of writing consultancy and inclusion, and when discussing AAA developers she had this to say: “If you’re a creative working in AAA which I did for many, many years: put this stuff up to your higher-ups. And if they don’t see the value in what you’re asking for when you ask for consultancy, when you ask for research: go have a coffee with your marketing team and just terrify them with the possibility if they don’t give you what you want.”
@StratEdgyProductions it's the cdc talk, "representation as innovation." 25~ min in. I'd suggest watching thing for context and I can not tldr it very well. But she directly advises terrifying the marketing department to get what she wants done. Her word choice. I have more nuanced thoughts but at work. Will follow up
@@basition ruclips.net/video/GfMsxjWgUbI/видео.html You sort of removed the context for this quote, because she's saying you terrify them with the prospect that there could be public backlash if you do something culturally insensitive. This is the Corpo-talk bullshit that I was talking about. The big eraser that comes in to censor voices because they are deathly afraid of losing money. I have yet to hear anyone argue in a convincing way that all this shit doesn't just boil down to making more money. This didn't convince me for shit. I've worked with people like this. They have to convince people to revert creative choices, or in other words, kill their babies, and sometimes they have to use fear to do that... So they don't lose MONEY. Sorry guys. I'm not convinced.
To be honest, I don't think that people who say the backtracking is bad even have a point. I completed the entire game blind in under a day, including challenges. Sure I'm somewhat experienced with these types of games, but I also completely fumbled, missing multiple riddler maps in plain sight.
I feel like this game's combat system was heavily inspired by earlier Assassin's Creed games. Oh, also Assassin's Creed games had the detective mode as well (was called eagle vision in AC). Additionally, AC games also had a tool system, and opponents armed with firearms who could just waste you if you tried to go against them head on. So, I think it was AC series which inspired all these systems in all these different games.
Strat i know the long videos sometimes aint the most popular, but when you talk about game design it is genuinely interesting. Keep em coming when ya feel em. On another note, are you a chad mount and blade warband enjoyer? Idk you seem the type. Its limited and janky design and the amazing work that modders do make a man think about pulling the pin and study game design
Great timing for this to come out at the same time as a This Is How You Don't Play of DSP somehow missing or misinterpreting every single thing you love about Arkham Asylum. This was the perfect palate-cleanser.
Strat it's good to have you back and sounding so energized about a game you love. 10 out of 10 video the opening discussion about how foolish modern money counting excecs drain talent from games was excellent
"Inclusivity" = upping a company's ESG score. ESG score = a score that determines how much Blackrock & other WEF-associated investment corporations are are willing to invest in a company. That's all you need to know... Once you understand this, it all starts to make sense...
I finished both Arkham Asylum and Arkham City last month and boy does Arkham Asylum holds up so perfectly. It might not be a perfect game, but nothing comes closer to capturing the eerie atmosphere of Arkham Asylum within the game.
I just grabbed the trilogy on a deep steam sale! I loved City growing up and beat Knight but never got a chance to play Asylum. Had such a blast beating it. Super excited to see you drop a vid on this! Love your stuff man
One of the problems with Joker as a character is there are two distinctly different versions of him portrayed. There's The Clown Prince (who is usually the more whimsical, jokey character we're not meant to take as seriously) and then there's the version that's closer to Heath's portrayal. You never know depending on the writer which version of him you're going to get. More often it's somewhere in between. There's also the fact they argued he's "super" sane. To get around the fact he has like 60 different orgin stories and no one knows which one is the real one. So he's basically whatever the hell any given writer wants him to be, as the Foil to Bats. He was also only supposed to be a one off, originally. So that tells you something about the massive popularity (and over saturation) of this character. The key to it IS the mystery, and the "unpredictability." * Also, which wife? I'm pretty sure Gordan's had at least two of them so far. - Razorfist has explained this = Most companies start going under financially, look to Blackrock to be bailed out, and THEN get heavily into the "wokeness" crap. You're not wrong; but Blackrock's pocketbook does help the denting they'd receive otherwise. They probably do lose money out of hand, but they get it back in write offs thanks to Blackrock. So they keep doing it, because as yet, there's LESS consequence. Though Blackrock's influence eventually erodes good will enough with most core audiences of the franchises that were the draw to make their money in the first place that they do not stop the company's eventual bleeding out. They just prolong it. Unreasonably. Diversity isn't bad per say, so long as merit is also followed. Diversity for the sake of nothing but diversity, won't get you anywhere at the end of the day with 99% of your audience.
Your point at 15:00 is half true. Inclusion is done to avoid costs of things like bad press and avoiding the well connected people who run in clusion centered companies. Its profit motivated like paying racketeers
Batman does not kill the Joker in The Dark Knight Returns comic. He paralysis him from the neck down. Joker then proceeds to snap his own neck, making it look like Batman had done it. Joker's final words were something along the lines of "It doesn't matter if I couldn't get you to break your rule. You came close enough. The GCPD will kill you for this."
Personally, my issues with SBI are: that they tried to completely ban that guy from Steam, removing his access from all of his games that he bought because he made a group using publicly available information so people can make informed purchases and; They have absolutely no business being involved with the process of game development. If you look at the credits of what the people who work for and founded SBI did before SBI, you'll see that they haven't done shit, just some incredibly minor writing. One of the founders did marketing for Sleeping Dogs, a game which, as far as I'm aware, had very poor marketing. So it's basically his fault there isn't a Sleeping Dogs 2; Finally, their press powerpoint presentations are really fucking weird, like they call their employees "babies" and the companies they -financially intimidate- work with "babies".
Sometimes the joker is portrayed like hes largely harmless, like hes just a goofy guy who incidentally causes harm, but he is genuinely evil and totally psychotic
0:52 Ghostbusters lightning in a bottle - I understand your RLM reference. The Arkham series might be one of the most influential series in gaming and I feel like it never gets the credit it deserves. I mean that Hogwarts Legacy game is literally just a reskinned Arkham game, right down to the minigames being the same, just a new coat of paint on it. Would love to see you do all the games, even Origins.
@@StratEdgyProductionsOrigins has the best Boss fights in the franchise. City has the best aesthetics (it still has the quintessential Batman theme for my tastes). The Batmobile drags Knight down a bit
@@StratEdgyProductions City is peak for sure, I think everyone agrees on that. Origins is the red-headed step child but it's not a bad game at all. I love it's set up and take on Batman being more aggressive and angry, not to mention the boss fights might be some of the best in all the games. Knight is personally my favorite, you mention the writing of the plot isn't as strong in this video, and I agree, but I think it explores the character of Batman and what that means extremely well. Also, just wanna mention I agree with your take of brain drain and corporate greed as the causes for the lack of quality. Rocksteady got delt a bad hand for Suicide Squad and it was annoying seeing everyone say it was cause of the inclusive stuff when it was clearly because of the live service elements that Warner Bros forced onto them. Now they're doubling down on it, I pray for Rocksteady man
Regarding the SBI issue. It's one thing to be inclusive. That's fine on paper, and you're right, the more people you try to involve, the more money you'll make, ideally. The issue is that they've soured their message with literal hatred and racism against straight white men. (And just "gamers" in general".) The larger issue isn't that they want a piece of the action, as it were, they want to control the game. The whole woke ideology always results in consuming a medium and corrupting it until there's nothing good left. We've seen it as far back as Mass Effect Andromeda.
It's been a while since I last played any of the Arkham games, but I remember the last time I replayed Arkham Asylum I went through the extra effort of exploring the map in-between every 'major' story event. Sometimes you'd find thugs in out of the way locations that the game wouldn't direct you toward until later in the story, & they'd have thug banter that you wouldn't have heard otherwise or they'd be discussing the job that Joker sent them to do. Similarly, if you double back & check up on surviving Arkham staff sometimes they'd have something new to say during different parts of the story. Probably wasn't worth the tedium of re-exploring the map like a dozen times, but still cool. Also during that part where you track down Gordon's pipe residue, you can see him sitting around the corner behind the electric barrier if you use detective vision. The little details, brah. Good vid.
Disney profits: Disney gross profit for the twelve months ending December 31, 2023 was $30.533B, a 8.29% increase year-over-year. Disney annual gross profit for 2023 was $29.697B, a 4.86% increase from 2022. Disney annual gross profit for 2022 was $28.321B, a 27.07% increase from 2021. Disney annual gross profit for 2021 was $22.287B, a 3.62% increase from 2020. That's an ever increasing profit margin if I've ever seen one. And yes, that is Billions with a B.
Does anyone remember Pitfall: The Lost Expedition? Another metrovania game where you unlocked new tools and abilities that unlocked new areas of interests including previous areas, giving you an incentive to backtrack and discover what you missed? Loved that game and it made me love this system.
To Dishonored's credit, you also have a limited amount of runes, meaning taking the XRay power leaves you with that many less runes to spend on powers that actually do stuff. It's a power I used religiously in my first playthrough, but now I never touch.
Value isnt defined by the amount of work or labor put into a product, it is determined mostly by how much people want said product, and partially how scarce said product may or may not be Toriyama was also a major player on Blue Dragon, but that game didnt sell nearly as well as CT and isnt even half as well regarded
I didn't say that he's the ONLY reason it was good, I said that every person on the team is responsible for some percentage of the value, and some contribute more to that value than others. Supply and demand doesn't apply when the supply is potentially and essentially limitless. They can print as many copies of a game as the public demands, and the prices of NEW games don't go up or down based on the supply. Used games do, but not NEW. The market keeps the prices steady. I think you are referring to commodities.
@@StratEdgyProductions Hence why I said "partially" how scarce it is. There are many contexts in which the supply side is largely irrelevant to a product's value, but the value will still be determined by whether or not there is enough demand for a given product at the price level it is being sold at. Take the Suicide Squad game. They placed it at $70 on release, but due to the fact that consumers did not value the game at that price, it was quickly put on sale for $35, with the publishers attempting to find an equilibrium where price level incurs enough demand to turn a profit. Also, the only reason Toriyama's presence brought value to CT is because consumers subjectively value his presence. The value of the individual laborer on a given product is still determined by the subjective perceptions of the consumers
Doctor Cassidy, the doctor we hear initially talking to Zsasz was never killed by him. It's confirmed that she was saved by Batman at the last second, and we can even see her during the events of Arkham Asylum. In fact, most doctors we hear in the tapes can be seen at one point in the game.
35:20 another solution would have been to require cartridges to use the grapple gun. Then the use of the gargoyles would have weight to each use as it expends a resource.
Have you watched the new fallout show? I was looking for videos from content creators that really enjoyed FO 1&2 that talk about it, and you were the first person that came to mind. I’d love to hear your take!
I have such a vivid memory of this game for having only played it once on release (to 100% albeit). My MAIN memory of playing it, however, was just how OP that inverted takedown was lol
To be fair, Spider-Man already had elements of Arkham's combat system prior to the Arkham games. That said, it was more focused on DMC style combo strings. Also Arkham pretty much directly lifted Detective Mode from Spider-Man 3's Spider-Sense.
2:00 I think the chain goes like this Burton films inspire Animated Series this leads to the comics getting darker than they were but they had been allowed to get dark again since the 70s. This game is inspired mostly by BTAS but that was allowed to be the way it was because of the Burton movie 6:00 Correction in DKR he snapped his neck PARALYZING him but not killing, this pissed of Joker enough to twist his neck the rest of the way effectively making it a suicide 14:30 Strat doesn't know what ESG is 2:00:00 Ok on Jokers character everyone hated the "I cut off my face BATMAN" story so using that as a hallmark of his character doesn't exactly land. It hasn't "always been stated" that there are multiple Jokers the three Jokers thing is some new bullshit to explain away his radically differing Characterization over the years
Just wanna drop this in here. Everyone's favorite Spiderman 2 movie tie-in video game came out 5 years ish before Arkham asylum and had very similar combat styles in terms of the spidy sense warning thing.
The main problem with Detective Mode is that there's no downside to using it constantly, quite the opposite, so I found myself playing the game with it on more than off. Why wouldn't I want to know all the enemy forces and their weaknesses before I start an encounter?
I think the problem with "AAA" games is instead of smaller investors, studios, etc everything has been swallowed by huge corporations, that like you said, need to squeeze substantially more and more profit out of each project. Not only that, but the bigger the organization the more inept it's run, just look at the government or Google. The other issue is they are trying to make games for everyone, giving them a larger market, but all it seems to be accomplishing is enraging everyone. Games are unique, & we all like different genres, settings, stories, etc by making a game and forcing everything into it, you just make a game no one wants. Everything is made by spreadsheet instead someone actually having a story to tell, which is why they all feel/look/sound the same. I mean look at Forspoken, Atlas Fallen, & I can't remember the other one, but they look so similar! They all have the same color scheme, a sand/desert setting magic talking bracelets/gloves, etc it's uncanny how similar they are, it's like they were all cheating off of each other. Places like Sweet Baby disgust me, they are just parasites on the industry.
Oh a I agree Arkham Asylum & City are absolutely incredible. I remember thinking years ago that these are almost perfect video games. Everything works so well together, and you can feel the care the devs put into it. Shame Rocksteady went to absolute hell, but that's usually what happens after success unfortunately.
I've been playing Spider-Man PS4 again recently and I forgot how much it just wholesale takes from the Batman Arkham series. The one thing it's missing though is the parry button.
As a nerd, I was so happy that they included the comic book story about Aaron Cash losing his hand on guard duty from comics into the game. The game is so full of these little nudges that even some comic readers had forgotten and made us burst out of nostalgia.
There's so many little touches in this game that it makes the world feel so genuine.
@@StratEdgyProductions I just started playing Arkham Knight yesterday again, 'cause I never finished it. And now I think that it's because this magic is missing. Paul Dinis touch is missing, and now we have a bland Arkham Knight as a villain (whos identity is pretty obvious) and everything else feels pretty copy-pasted from the previous games.
@@Sensenoi6 You can absolutely feel Paul Dini's absence.
Asylum is such a great game, it's a shame the design process that produced this game likely will never be used again in the current AAA climate. I wonder if we'll get a good indie or AA successor with a unique IP one of these days.
try scar above, it's an indie take on the formular
They basically disguised a metroidvania game as a Batman game to boost sales and it worked
Throwbacks to the best of the mid-late 2000s are surely on the way, if not already are, in a bigger way.
I remember back on the 360 version of this, you could play your own music through the Xbox music player while playing the game. I played through the combat challenges for an unhealthy amount of hours with the Mortal Kombat theme in the background. Good stuff as always, Strat. Thank you for the consistently excellent work!
I can't believe i never did that. Thats awesome.
Joker working at DMV is peak horror
Because it will teach him a thing or two?
Alexa play DMV by Primus.
This game is a perfect example of sometimes, all you need is to perfect a premise to make a great game.
It's not the most complex story, it's not the deepest combat system, it's not the best investigation or stealth game, but every aspect is perfectly executed for Batman, with a story that knows exactly what it is, a Batman story, and it's glorious. I replayed the entire series last year and this video makes me want to do it again!
First time I played this game was when my dad was fixing some lady's computer. She let me play her son's PS3. This was the game I played. She said that she was selling the PS3 and games because her son had moved out and didn't want them. She gave me this game because she could see how much fun I was having. My dad had a PS3 and I would play this whenever I was able to play his PS3. I've since bought it on Steam and of course on Switch when it came out. An awesome game that happily paid for twice. Definitely scared other devs from even trying to make a Batman game
That's a awesome story :)
That scarecrow scene is such an incredible, quintessential batman moment that I havent played this game in years and still had it memorized word for word.
54:45 fun fact about the map trophies, they're rotating in a perfect figure 8. If you watch and see the center of the pattern, that's where the trophy is. It's not an approximation, it just throws you off a little bit.
I was wondering what the pattern was
I remember when this game was coming out, the developers were saying that it explicate took place within the continuity of the comic books. That this was the same Batman and world as what was in the mainline DC canon. It wasn't until Arkham City that they walked that back and started saying this was an an alternate universe so that they'd have the creative freedom to do whatever they wanted with the story.
This feels like you REALLY wanted to make this video, it's exactly why I subbed to you in the first place after watching your TES videos. A passionate man talking about games he loves. I love this kind of content.
I legitimately just finished a playthrough with all riddler stuff just last week when I had the sudden desire to go through the whole Arkham series once again, then this pops up in my recommendations? The serendipity is truly amazing.
Its how algorithms work.
Someone else mentioned this but even if the games dont sell well, they likely make their money before a single copy sells through ESG payouts from Blackrock or governments.
www.gsb.stanford.edu/insights/does-it-pay-link-executive-compensation-esg-goals
@@StratEdgyProductionsthanks for sharing.
As long as business can use other people's retirements to pay executives to push ESG, it will continue. But that money isn't infinite.
There is a more simple answer in terms of economic incentives if loans are based on certain rule sets such as esg scores then companies are pushed economically to do those things. And of course since its money focused some companies will do it by hiring the cheapest dei companies like sbi because when you go cheap you get the lowest rung of humanity such as racist like sbi,black girl gamers etc. they are hired cheaply to tick a box for greater gains.
@@braydoxastora5584 To bad its back firing on them because when people find out ESG is been use it taints the company.
Funny you bring up the Batman WB cartoon, I just found out Studio Ghibli had animated a mechanical spider episode for the show.
Think about that, a Japanese company working for a western TV show not *really* known for animating machines (now at least) animating machines.
Is there a link somewhere on youtube to this? I would love to see what they did.
@@StratEdgyProductionsJust look up Ghibli Batman someone made a video about it
@StratEdgyProductions this is the only thing I could find ruclips.net/video/A7RslmcyYno/видео.htmlsi=LrdzgigJHh6H7-bd
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'The GHIBLI Batman' by STEVEM
Start the video at 3:31
The guy is pretty obnoxious, but it's like walking into an abandoned house and there's an open safe with one golden coin in it.
Wasn't the series animated by an anime studio to begin with?
Also, don't sleep on Ghibli's mechanical designs.
I wasn't expecting another vid so soon ❤
It's fascinating how little the industry appreaciates and respects writers as they are the reason why anything works. You don't have a movie without a screenplay. You don't have a video game without a design doc. You don't have a painting without having some verbalizations of an idea in your brain. You don't have a book without words.
Writing is basically your entire plan for the project, it's the place where you can fix all your problems in the cheapest way possible. If these companies would hire 5 freelance writers for 2 months to write every single detail out for the game, from story to game design to random clutter, they could save so much money in iteration costs as everybody would know what they were doing at all times and diverging from the design doc would only happen if the scope turns out to be too much or some feature being too complex or bugged out to work.
But good writers can fix a lot of those problems already in the planning phase. And I am talking about GOOD writers, not Sweet Baby Inc type "consultants" with 0 proof or validity on the quality of their work. Imagine if these companies would rather consult ACTUAL good writers instead of whatever shady corporate money leeching scheme some consultation firm has come up with.
15:15 I've never wanted or "needed" to see myself in media. At least not in the way that they mean (skin color, gender, sexuality). I just want interesting characters to do interesting things
This video brought me way back. I remember beating Asylum and I wasn’t very into gaming news at the time but I did pay attention and wad excited for City. I actually bought the trilogy a few days ago because of this video on Series X. Finished Asylum last night and found all the Riddler trophies. Can’t wait to start Asylum again.
Your content is always top notch! Asylum was my favorite since I played it as a kid and you did a great job covering exactly why it was.
Man FINALLY!! i check your channel once a week
I hope you enjoy it :)
My thing against Sweet Baby is them ganging up on a guy for making a steam curation page. That's all he did. He made a steam curation page that uses publicly-available information to make a list of games that Sweet Baby worked on. Yes, it was a negative list, but that amounts to "I don't like this company, here's a list of what they've worked on...."
Then they leaned on their buddies in the press and tried to paint him as some misogynist chudmeister who hates [insert whatever minority group you like the most]. One of the SBI employees straight up called for people to mass report his steam account to try and get him banned. I don't know or care if they genuinely believe their side of the story, or if it's all a propaganda piece to protect their business; either way they're a bunch of scummy people.
It's a classic case of "rules for thee but not for me". Remember, THEY'RE allowed to use publicly available information to defame you, get your fired, or otherwise screw with you, but the moment you, the regular average citizen, do it against them YOU'RE a racist/bigoted monster.
It's that cult like mentality where they try and brow beat others in submission. Only this time they included greater society into the cult.
Funny, these people think they are counterculture, but those on the counterculture side are usually not backed by big corpo and the law.
If you look at the actual curation page, the guy is some loli-defender that really likes Japanese media that s3xualizes underaged girls. He literally is the kind of jackass to whine about Miles Morales and say "He's not Spiderman".
I am sad that the Arkham games ended up like the way they did. Being turned into a mediocre looter shooter wasn't the thing I thought would befall this series, but I can't say I care much about Kill the Justice League. It doesn't look very fun.
There was this moment in mgsv where i resorted to picking off enemies one by one with rifles and drainage grates, and the subtitles showed someone panickng, freaking out, begging and etc. I THOUGHT it was the enemy soldiers and i thought it was the coolest shit that they realized how hopeless the situation was and were losing their shit in the pauses between kills.
Turns out it was just a hostage npc giving dialogue to help you find him.
1:13:30 So you would think, but you can actually meet the doctor that Zsasz tried to kill, and a tie-in comic shows that Batman saved her.
This thumbnail hurts my brain. Veryu good.
I was so excited when you hinted this in your ESO video.
I always hated how this games seems over shadowed by its sequels.
Honestly, I prefer this game GREATLY over the Arkham City game. But, I played it a long time ago, and a revisit might change my mind on that.
Its because the gameplay is more refined in City (but too bloated in Knight). This is the only one I 100% out of the whole series, and I did 3 times. Once on the ps3 back in the day, again when I bought it on steam and a final time after steam added achievements and windows live died and took my achievements
On the note of diversity making more money- as somebody, for better or worse, somewhat involved in that aspect of business, it both does and doesn't make more. I, specifically, work in the film industry where this sort of thing is a bit more obvious and easy to mine data for than it may be for other industries, but I'd imagine it's the same for gaming and basically everything else. So, on one hand, it does help with money- specifically due to investors. Several years ago investors changed their tune to be more in line with what's typically advertised as ESG, so the studios I'm a part of made changes accordingly. We saw a MASSIVE increase... from our investors. However, these past three years or so we've been barely making a profit as that increased investment can no longer keep up with the loss from actual moviegoers, or rather the lack of moviegoers. So even when it does help... well, it doesn't really help anymore. Now, on the other hand, it doesn't help because the whole "people like to see themselves in media" is blatantly false. Our data, and the data from essentially every other country on the planet with movie theaters show people of color overwhelmingly choose the movie with an advertise white or white-adjacent cast when given the choice that or alternatives. That's the common data trend here in the US, Canada, the UK, and Germany where I do most of my business. We don't even really need to look at the data for Asian or Middle Eastern audiences where a white cast is so drastically preferred that even pirated movies featuring them completely overshadow any natively produced content.
While pro-diversity beliefs are relatively young in a business sense (and I guess politically too, depending on the arguments you want to make), they're already outdated. They help purely with investors, not putting butts in seats. And that trend is only increasing. The only reason it seems like that's not true is because it's largely being propped up by businesses that seem "too large to fail", and even those are starting to flounder (cough cough, Disney, all of Hollywood, increasingly the gaming industry, etc). I'm all for treating people equally and giving everyone equal opportunities for things where it makes sense, but I absolutely denounce that doing things like putting one of every race into your cast actually makes a product sell better- because it objectively doesn't.
27:51 Look at that ragdoll shmoovin!
Finally, someone who appreciates the riddler trophies, always one of my favourite parts of these games
I remember not knowing much about this game as a kid, but then I saw it at a Best Buy being a demo and I fucking NEEDED this game. The gameplay just looked too good
If he plays Arkham City, I hope the thumbnail is the “Why can’t I hold all these limes” guy with Batman’s face holding riddler trophies. I thought 240 was a lot, I forgot they added 200 more for Arkham City.
Nice, nice, vid from Strat!
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Just a minor nitpick but Assassins creed is the original mold for this system. Eagle vision came before detective mode
AAA games are an absolute shitshow. The only AAA game I have purchased since 2016 is Baldur's Gate 3. I have no idea why people keep buying overpriced shovelware.
Hmmm, when was the last AAA game I bought. Let's see... Hah, right... Starfield. No wait, I didn't buy that. A friend bought it. Diablo 4... Oh god...
I'm not even sure what AAA games are. Largely I just buy cheaper older games with the odd big title again bought later. Like this one here. But I have a massive collection of Batman videogames. Not all of them because some go for absurd amounts like the 2nd NES Sunsoft title but.. I've got a good dozen plus going back to the 2nd one made on the ol C64. (The very first is an isometric puzzle platformer for the Spectrum and Amstrad. Computers so garbage they functionally never left Europe. They kinda tried to bring out the Speccy in the us but it got laughed at and died instantly.)
@@CaptainRufus I feel you are being a little hard on the Speccy, for many of us it was our introduction to computer games and computers in general, my brother taught himself basic coding on it. Most importantly it was affordable.
On the sweet baby thing their ceo basically said her strategy to get things done was to go to the money people and scare them
"Nice game, be a shame if people said you were a bigot"
Source? Because I would love to read about that, being the anti-corpo I am.
@@StratEdgyProductions My comment won't post with the link. Here's the quote:
In the panel, Belair is discussing the importance of writing consultancy and inclusion, and when discussing AAA developers she had this to say:
“If you’re a creative working in AAA which I did for many, many years: put this stuff up to your higher-ups.
And if they don’t see the value in what you’re asking for when you ask for consultancy, when you ask for research: go have a coffee with your marketing team and just terrify them with the possibility if they don’t give you what you want.”
@StratEdgyProductions it's the cdc talk, "representation as innovation." 25~ min in. I'd suggest watching thing for context and I can not tldr it very well. But she directly advises terrifying the marketing department to get what she wants done.
Her word choice.
I have more nuanced thoughts but at work. Will follow up
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You sort of removed the context for this quote, because she's saying you terrify them with the prospect that there could be public backlash if you do something culturally insensitive. This is the Corpo-talk bullshit that I was talking about. The big eraser that comes in to censor voices because they are deathly afraid of losing money. I have yet to hear anyone argue in a convincing way that all this shit doesn't just boil down to making more money. This didn't convince me for shit. I've worked with people like this. They have to convince people to revert creative choices, or in other words, kill their babies, and sometimes they have to use fear to do that... So they don't lose MONEY. Sorry guys. I'm not convinced.
To be honest, I don't think that people who say the backtracking is bad even have a point. I completed the entire game blind in under a day, including challenges. Sure I'm somewhat experienced with these types of games, but I also completely fumbled, missing multiple riddler maps in plain sight.
1:20:41 solid pun. Saying greatful just as bats is kicking a grate open
Oh, i was waiting for this one
Love your video, don't ever stop ❤️
1:15:55 and according to SS:KTJL she's also a chemist, despite the fact that she's a psychiatrist.
omg yes new Strat vid. Your commentaries and analyses are just the best!
inclusion part completely disregards social scoring .
I feel like this game's combat system was heavily inspired by earlier Assassin's Creed games. Oh, also Assassin's Creed games had the detective mode as well (was called eagle vision in AC). Additionally, AC games also had a tool system, and opponents armed with firearms who could just waste you if you tried to go against them head on. So, I think it was AC series which inspired all these systems in all these different games.
Strat i know the long videos sometimes aint the most popular, but when you talk about game design it is genuinely interesting. Keep em coming when ya feel em.
On another note, are you a chad mount and blade warband enjoyer? Idk you seem the type. Its limited and janky design and the amazing work that modders do make a man think about pulling the pin and study game design
I own them, I haven't played them yet. Hoping to do a video at some point.
Great timing for this to come out at the same time as a This Is How You Don't Play of DSP somehow missing or misinterpreting every single thing you love about Arkham Asylum. This was the perfect palate-cleanser.
Flapjacks was a cultured reference.
Strat it's good to have you back and sounding so energized about a game you love. 10 out of 10 video the opening discussion about how foolish modern money counting excecs drain talent from games was excellent
"Inclusivity" = upping a company's ESG score.
ESG score = a score that determines how much Blackrock & other WEF-associated investment corporations are are willing to invest in a company.
That's all you need to know...
Once you understand this, it all starts to make sense...
I finished both Arkham Asylum and Arkham City last month and boy does Arkham Asylum holds up so perfectly. It might not be a perfect game, but nothing comes closer to capturing the eerie atmosphere of Arkham Asylum within the game.
Good timing. Doing yearly arkham replay now.
You should make a video talking about comic books. The parts in this video when you do are fascinating
I just grabbed the trilogy on a deep steam sale! I loved City growing up and beat Knight but never got a chance to play Asylum. Had such a blast beating it.
Super excited to see you drop a vid on this! Love your stuff man
One of the problems with Joker as a character is there are two distinctly different versions of him portrayed. There's The Clown Prince (who is usually the more whimsical, jokey character we're not meant to take as seriously) and then there's the version that's closer to Heath's portrayal. You never know depending on the writer which version of him you're going to get. More often it's somewhere in between. There's also the fact they argued he's "super" sane. To get around the fact he has like 60 different orgin stories and no one knows which one is the real one. So he's basically whatever the hell any given writer wants him to be, as the Foil to Bats. He was also only supposed to be a one off, originally. So that tells you something about the massive popularity (and over saturation) of this character. The key to it IS the mystery, and the "unpredictability."
* Also, which wife? I'm pretty sure Gordan's had at least two of them so far.
- Razorfist has explained this = Most companies start going under financially, look to Blackrock to be bailed out, and THEN get heavily into the "wokeness" crap. You're not wrong; but Blackrock's pocketbook does help the denting they'd receive otherwise. They probably do lose money out of hand, but they get it back in write offs thanks to Blackrock. So they keep doing it, because as yet, there's LESS consequence. Though Blackrock's influence eventually erodes good will enough with most core audiences of the franchises that were the draw to make their money in the first place that they do not stop the company's eventual bleeding out. They just prolong it. Unreasonably. Diversity isn't bad per say, so long as merit is also followed. Diversity for the sake of nothing but diversity, won't get you anywhere at the end of the day with 99% of your audience.
Your point at 15:00 is half true. Inclusion is done to avoid costs of things like bad press and avoiding the well connected people who run in clusion centered companies. Its profit motivated like paying racketeers
Batman does not kill the Joker in The Dark Knight Returns comic. He paralysis him from the neck down. Joker then proceeds to snap his own neck, making it look like Batman had done it. Joker's final words were something along the lines of "It doesn't matter if I couldn't get you to break your rule. You came close enough. The GCPD will kill you for this."
Personally, my issues with SBI are: that they tried to completely ban that guy from Steam, removing his access from all of his games that he bought because he made a group using publicly available information so people can make informed purchases and;
They have absolutely no business being involved with the process of game development. If you look at the credits of what the people who work for and founded SBI did before SBI, you'll see that they haven't done shit, just some incredibly minor writing. One of the founders did marketing for Sleeping Dogs, a game which, as far as I'm aware, had very poor marketing. So it's basically his fault there isn't a Sleeping Dogs 2;
Finally, their press powerpoint presentations are really fucking weird, like they call their employees "babies" and the companies they -financially intimidate- work with "babies".
Sometimes the joker is portrayed like hes largely harmless, like hes just a goofy guy who incidentally causes harm, but he is genuinely evil and totally psychotic
I think i NEED a Batman game built like a mix between the Arkham series and the Soulsborne formula.
"you cheated fatman!!"
closed captions going hard as always.. such a great game, thank you!!
Man with the bloodlines 2 news I can't help but with like we are headed down the same path as with this series. Another excellent video!
0:52 Ghostbusters lightning in a bottle - I understand your RLM reference. The Arkham series might be one of the most influential series in gaming and I feel like it never gets the credit it deserves. I mean that Hogwarts Legacy game is literally just a reskinned Arkham game, right down to the minigames being the same, just a new coat of paint on it. Would love to see you do all the games, even Origins.
I've only played through half of City, and none of Origins and Knight, so I would love to do those vids too.
@@StratEdgyProductionsOrigins has the best Boss fights in the franchise. City has the best aesthetics (it still has the quintessential Batman theme for my tastes). The Batmobile drags Knight down a bit
@@StratEdgyProductions City is peak for sure, I think everyone agrees on that. Origins is the red-headed step child but it's not a bad game at all. I love it's set up and take on Batman being more aggressive and angry, not to mention the boss fights might be some of the best in all the games. Knight is personally my favorite, you mention the writing of the plot isn't as strong in this video, and I agree, but I think it explores the character of Batman and what that means extremely well.
Also, just wanna mention I agree with your take of brain drain and corporate greed as the causes for the lack of quality. Rocksteady got delt a bad hand for Suicide Squad and it was annoying seeing everyone say it was cause of the inclusive stuff when it was clearly because of the live service elements that Warner Bros forced onto them. Now they're doubling down on it, I pray for Rocksteady man
I remember being severly disappointed by the baned-joker boss fight.
Great video! Gonna go play this for the first time because of this video!
Regarding the SBI issue. It's one thing to be inclusive. That's fine on paper, and you're right, the more people you try to involve, the more money you'll make, ideally.
The issue is that they've soured their message with literal hatred and racism against straight white men. (And just "gamers" in general".) The larger issue isn't that they want a piece of the action, as it were, they want to control the game. The whole woke ideology always results in consuming a medium and corrupting it until there's nothing good left. We've seen it as far back as Mass Effect Andromeda.
there will be no gamer gate 2 SBI is bullshit stop falling for it you clown.
This is why people call you a baby online
@@kakizakichannel actually nobody does, but thanks for playing.
White Lives Splatter
@@kakizakichanneldeath threat's lol
It's been a while since I last played any of the Arkham games, but I remember the last time I replayed Arkham Asylum I went through the extra effort of exploring the map in-between every 'major' story event. Sometimes you'd find thugs in out of the way locations that the game wouldn't direct you toward until later in the story, & they'd have thug banter that you wouldn't have heard otherwise or they'd be discussing the job that Joker sent them to do. Similarly, if you double back & check up on surviving Arkham staff sometimes they'd have something new to say during different parts of the story. Probably wasn't worth the tedium of re-exploring the map like a dozen times, but still cool. Also during that part where you track down Gordon's pipe residue, you can see him sitting around the corner behind the electric barrier if you use detective vision.
The little details, brah. Good vid.
Bro what about Marvel? What about disney? They lose millions and do the same thing over and over. Ubisoft?
Disney profits:
Disney gross profit for the twelve months ending December 31, 2023 was $30.533B, a 8.29% increase year-over-year.
Disney annual gross profit for 2023 was $29.697B, a 4.86% increase from 2022.
Disney annual gross profit for 2022 was $28.321B, a 27.07% increase from 2021.
Disney annual gross profit for 2021 was $22.287B, a 3.62% increase from 2020.
That's an ever increasing profit margin if I've ever seen one. And yes, that is Billions with a B.
7:14 these aren’t canon. And don’t really make sense. Joker is the way he is bc his mind was ruined by chemicals.
Yeah but sometimes it’s shown that he was evil before the chemicals. The acid was just made it worse
Does anyone remember Pitfall: The Lost Expedition? Another metrovania game where you unlocked new tools and abilities that unlocked new areas of interests including previous areas, giving you an incentive to backtrack and discover what you missed? Loved that game and it made me love this system.
To Dishonored's credit, you also have a limited amount of runes, meaning taking the XRay power leaves you with that many less runes to spend on powers that actually do stuff. It's a power I used religiously in my first playthrough, but now I never touch.
This was so well done. I subbed
Value isnt defined by the amount of work or labor put into a product, it is determined mostly by how much people want said product, and partially how scarce said product may or may not be
Toriyama was also a major player on Blue Dragon, but that game didnt sell nearly as well as CT and isnt even half as well regarded
I didn't say that he's the ONLY reason it was good, I said that every person on the team is responsible for some percentage of the value, and some contribute more to that value than others. Supply and demand doesn't apply when the supply is potentially and essentially limitless. They can print as many copies of a game as the public demands, and the prices of NEW games don't go up or down based on the supply. Used games do, but not NEW. The market keeps the prices steady. I think you are referring to commodities.
@@StratEdgyProductions Hence why I said "partially" how scarce it is. There are many contexts in which the supply side is largely irrelevant to a product's value, but the value will still be determined by whether or not there is enough demand for a given product at the price level it is being sold at.
Take the Suicide Squad game. They placed it at $70 on release, but due to the fact that consumers did not value the game at that price, it was quickly put on sale for $35, with the publishers attempting to find an equilibrium where price level incurs enough demand to turn a profit.
Also, the only reason Toriyama's presence brought value to CT is because consumers subjectively value his presence. The value of the individual laborer on a given product is still determined by the subjective perceptions of the consumers
Doctor Cassidy, the doctor we hear initially talking to Zsasz was never killed by him. It's confirmed that she was saved by Batman at the last second, and we can even see her during the events of Arkham Asylum. In fact, most doctors we hear in the tapes can be seen at one point in the game.
35:20 another solution would have been to require cartridges to use the grapple gun. Then the use of the gargoyles would have weight to each use as it expends a resource.
I remember the christmas I got my PS3, Arkham Asylum, and Black Ops. That was when I first truly got into game storytelling
Have you watched the new fallout show? I was looking for videos from content creators that really enjoyed FO 1&2 that talk about it, and you were the first person that came to mind. I’d love to hear your take!
I have such a vivid memory of this game for having only played it once on release (to 100% albeit).
My MAIN memory of playing it, however, was just how OP that inverted takedown was lol
Great vid as always!
To be fair, Spider-Man already had elements of Arkham's combat system prior to the Arkham games. That said, it was more focused on DMC style combo strings. Also Arkham pretty much directly lifted Detective Mode from Spider-Man 3's Spider-Sense.
Never thought I'd ever see spaghet meme in the wild again. Thank you, kind sir
6:58 I had no idea this existed and it made me laugh so hard.
And we began to rock.... steady. Steady rocking all night long.
I literally finished the game yesterday, what perfect timing!
2:00 I think the chain goes like this Burton films inspire Animated Series this leads to the comics getting darker than they were but they had been allowed to get dark again since the 70s. This game is inspired mostly by BTAS but that was allowed to be the way it was because of the Burton movie
6:00 Correction in DKR he snapped his neck PARALYZING him but not killing, this pissed of Joker enough to twist his neck the rest of the way effectively making it a suicide
14:30 Strat doesn't know what ESG is
2:00:00 Ok on Jokers character everyone hated the "I cut off my face BATMAN" story so using that as a hallmark of his character doesn't exactly land. It hasn't "always been stated" that there are multiple Jokers the three Jokers thing is some new bullshit to explain away his radically differing Characterization over the years
Just wanna drop this in here. Everyone's favorite Spiderman 2 movie tie-in video game came out 5 years ish before Arkham asylum and had very similar combat styles in terms of the spidy sense warning thing.
The main problem with Detective Mode is that there's no downside to using it constantly, quite the opposite, so I found myself playing the game with it on more than off. Why wouldn't I want to know all the enemy forces and their weaknesses before I start an encounter?
Me: Strat-Edgy, tell me a bedtime story
Strat-Edgy:
I think the problem with "AAA" games is instead of smaller investors, studios, etc everything has been swallowed by huge corporations, that like you said, need to squeeze substantially more and more profit out of each project. Not only that, but the bigger the organization the more inept it's run, just look at the government or Google. The other issue is they are trying to make games for everyone, giving them a larger market, but all it seems to be accomplishing is enraging everyone. Games are unique, & we all like different genres, settings, stories, etc by making a game and forcing everything into it, you just make a game no one wants. Everything is made by spreadsheet instead someone actually having a story to tell, which is why they all feel/look/sound the same. I mean look at Forspoken, Atlas Fallen, & I can't remember the other one, but they look so similar! They all have the same color scheme, a sand/desert setting magic talking bracelets/gloves, etc it's uncanny how similar they are, it's like they were all cheating off of each other. Places like Sweet Baby disgust me, they are just parasites on the industry.
Oh a I agree Arkham Asylum & City are absolutely incredible. I remember thinking years ago that these are almost perfect video games. Everything works so well together, and you can feel the care the devs put into it. Shame Rocksteady went to absolute hell, but that's usually what happens after success unfortunately.
I like that anime pfp users are seen as deranged, it gives me certain expectations
Great video man :D
Yeah for me the only big annoyance with combat was imprecision of enemy targeting as well as inconsistency in how "sticky" Batman can be to enemies
That Doctor in Zsaz's patient tapes actually survived. That was Dr. Cassidy, the redheaded doctor you rescue in the medical ward.
31:04 certified Caesars Legion Tactics
I've been playing Spider-Man PS4 again recently and I forgot how much it just wholesale takes from the Batman Arkham series. The one thing it's missing though is the parry button.
When I first played Arkham, I couldn't help but think how the basic Combat suited Spider-Man more. Batman even has Spider Sense in it
God I remember when this game came out. My dad let me take a day out of school to play it all day
Is there a lore reason for Strat posting this video?
Strat is a Man
Man: Arkham
Oh hell do you think there's a connection?
28:40 I heard your pastor-vibrato there mister, they definitely Belieeeeve.
Lol, fuck that was funny
Great video. Asylum is my favorite in the series and I consider it to be a masterpiece. ❤
Nice, this should be an enjoyable couple of hours! Thank you😊
I've never played this game but I have one question: who the fuck puts gargoyles on the inside of a warehouse? Like seriously
Bruce used his fiscal influence to mandate grotesques via the building codes.
Daddy Strat blessing us with another feature length banger 🙏
It's been a long time since I played Asylum but man I had a great time with it.