Batman: Arkham Knight

Or Prometheus.

Joker is like the Vince Mc Mahon of the Arkham Universe.

"IT WAS ME BATMAN! IT WAS ME ALL ALONG BATMAN!"

The Joker's brother, Jokur.

I wasn't ready for this announcement.

EDIT:

• Since Harley Quinn is playable now, does that sound like a good chance for her classic outfit to become a DLC outfit?
• So far, they actually made the Batmobile sound really awesome. Keeping my fingers crossed that they don't include any stupid timed race challenges for it. Using the Batmobile for Takedowns is just great.
• ROCKSTEADY IZ BACK. WHOOO! SUK IT MONTREAL. -breaths-
• Harley Quinn looks like a total Bad Ass in that cinematic. Yeah, Harley Quinn's Revenge happened, but still, she wasn't that murderbatic in Asylum or City.
• Hurray, no multiplayer. Rocksteady, you are a godsend.

The only thing I need now is for Kevin Conroy to voice Batman again and I'll have this pre-ordered. I was really hoping they'd go into a Batman Beyond storyline, but this sounds good regardless.

edited 4th Mar '14 4:24:44 PM by FOFD

I believe Conroy hinted that he was working on something new related to the Bat, so it's probably this.

I do believe Conroy is confirmed to return.

Best get that pre-order ready then, FOFD.

I'm tickled. I'm tickled pink. I'm tickled pinker than pink.

In context of the franchise, the Arkham Knight makes most sense for it to be quincy sharp, perhaps physically augmented with some new version of Venom/TN 1. We've had three games of him already wanting to assume the mantle of Amadeus Arkham to cleanse gotham. The asylum failed, the city failed, but Batman has been getting things done. Makes sense that he would think "Okay, new plan: like Batman, but more lethal."

So are we going to finally explore an alive Gotham City with people in it to protect and such, or are we going to get another freak storm that conveniently forces every single person except the specific bad guys we happen to be hunting down off the streets?

Also, more side-missions and things going on in Gotham to deal with. I both liked how Origins designed its side-missions and disliked the way most of them were handled - especially how like half of them were just bleed offs from the main plot, and one or two of the others were just "go here, fight thugs."

I really liked the side crime-scene investigations, and hope they get more depth here.

edited 4th Mar '14 6:46:50 PM by KnownUnknown

The city has been evacuated because the Scarecrow has planted bombs filled with Fear Toxin around the city.

The only traffic you will find are mob cars and police cars.

Hey, what are your thoughts about this idea:

At the very end of the game Batman dies.

It would be a great way to close the franchise, and be the only way they could top The Joker's death in Arkham City.

edited 4th Mar '14 6:50:55 PM by Jinbo71

I don't want side missions or random encounters that involve superheroic past-times like stopping a robbery or helping some random dude not get punched in the face. I was fine with City and the eerie Zsasz Payphone and the Hush missions.

But since the city's supposed to be big, and wide enough for the Batmobile to drive in, there's probably going to be a section early on where you ride through a populated Gotham before the crap hits the fan. But I don't want it to be like Bioshock Infinite where one moment you have citizens walking around, then a bunch of spooks show up and the streets are deserted for the rest of the game.

Ah, okay then.

edited 4th Mar '14 6:57:12 PM by FOFD

Probably not gonna happen, especially if WB Games wants to continue the series, even into the present. Honestly, I wouldn't even be surprised if it turned out that the Joker isn't dead and is involved somehow.

Thread Hop.

I just saw the trailer out of boredom, and I am reminded of a certain other trailer.

Here's 24 screeshots of the game and some concept art:

http://imgur.com/a/W9h0p#MeUqfE9

Does anyone have an alternate link for the official trailer? Because it doesn't want to load right now (my guess is that the bandwidth is being sucked up by all the views).

Well, I'm disappointed that we're playing in an effectively-dead-with-some-exceptions Gotham again, but I'm still hype. Everyone looks a lot better - the redesigns are really working for all the villains.

Is that a different VA for Scarecrow, or is his voice just distorted? I really liked his first actor.

Crap, between this and Infamous: Second Son, I'm going to have to get a PS 4 before the year is out.

I'll be honest, I'm really rather bothered by the trailer.

Which, I'm comparing to the Arkham City one. Arkham City's first trailer established the premise of Arkham on a city scale and the Joker dying and etc, which we know are the dominating plotlines of the second game. We got the sense of where this game was taking us with villains, locations, and plot.

This one... We have an establishment of villains; Harley (Who is in her Arkham Asylum Nurse garb? Why? I liked Biker Chick better and I still want Jester, like they had in the concept art of Asylum), Two-Face, and Penguin. But, I didn't catch any hints of who else is joining the lineup?

Locations... Rather generic since the video is literally just Batman fighting Villains on a city street, no where in particular.

And, the plot, we get some hints of it with people running from the city, but we have nothing concrete to what exactly is going on.

For example, from Arkham City's trailer, I can define Arkham City as being Asylum's sequel, but on an open-world scale and the plot is about the Joker being ill and the ramifications of locking an entire section of the city into an asylum.

Arkham Knight... I'm running into the same issue of Origins in that... I'm finding myself defining it by "Oh, Its the sequel/prequel to City/Asylum." rather than anything else. Its not defining itself as its own thing yet.

Before someone says it, I know and understand that its only been announced, but City, when it was announced, very quickly defined itself as something very different, but not too different from its predecessor.

The Arkham Knight is a going to be an actual Character. Also did you not hear Scarecrows speech at the Start. All the villains are working for him.

Scarecrow never says the others are working for him, he just threatens the city.

Scarecrow turns out to be The Joker in disguise

Seriously though, the whole bit about Thomas Wayne's will makes me wonder if the Wayne legacy is going to come under jeopardy somehow during the game. With Hush somewhere out there pretending to be Bruce, I wouldn't put it past the game to maybe have Bruce lose his holdings on Wayne Enterprises or something and need to regain them.

edited 5th Mar '14 12:29:42 AM by KnownUnknown

The "Father to Son" title of the trailer REALLY bothered me considering they completely pulled out (if you'll excuse the crude pun) of the Joker's son plotline. If they hadn't thrown that plotline out and actually done something with it, maybe I would think differently about the trailer.

And, ok, Scarecrow is making thrats to the city. Big whoop? EVERY Villain makes threats to the City. Batman Begins. Dark Knight. Dark Knight Rises. They all have a villain; Ghul, Joker, and Bane spesifically, making a speach-threat to Gotham's safety. What I'm trying to get at is that, while Arkham City's trailer established the premise very quickly (abit, in shorthand/sans dialogue), Arkham Knight's hasn't established anything further than a Batman Video Game.

Let me think of how to phrase this differently... Ok, if I were to view this trailer sans the Arkham Logo and the newscoverage of an Arkham Sequel, I would think this is simply a trailer for Batman in-general rather than the conclusion to a three-part Batman series.

And, sure, Arkham Knight is going to be a villain. Is any of this established in the trailer? No. And, as far as I'm aware, we don't know really anything about the Arkham Knight so the premise of what exactly is happening here has yet to be established.

Its like saying the second Harry Potter is where Harry goes for his second year of school, instead of it being where the Chamber of Secrets is opened and a monster begins attacking students. One says "We're a sequel" the other says "Here's our premise". Ya dig?

I'm not saying its BAD, as the animation is pretty good (though, not as eye catching as that Batman in the rain from City, but that can come later) but certainly impressive since announcement trailers typicaly aren't that polished. I'm merely aprehensive after Origins sort of just halted the plot.

The Arkham knight is really "Bruce Wayne"