Oh man, I hated that every thug seemed to have the exact same voice and kept repeating the same boring catchphrases over and over and over and over again. A little variety would have been nice. Give them more lines, give them different voice actors, give them all slightly different appearances (seriously, every thug looked exactly the same)...make them seem like they are all different people. Maybe female thugs weren't included because Rocksteady were worried people would claim violence against women or something, but IMO the lack of female thugs (and political prisoners) was really noticeable. I mean, really? There are no female criminals in Gotham except Harley, Ivy and Catwoman? I call bullshit.

I didn't mind the boss fights. But I hated that the same thugs and Titan monsters were thrown at us during some of the fights. That was just lazy, imo.

As for Huge Strange...I didn't mind that he wasn't in the game much. He still came across as a fairly intimidating villain. But I WAS a bit disappointed that the whole "Huge Strange knows Batman is Bruce Wayne" plot seemed to be completely forgotten about after the intro cutscene. I never got the impression that there was much of a threat that Strange would reveal Batman's identity to the world. Especially since he kept sending out that damn helicopter to kill Batman. Why would you threaten Batman by saying you know his identity, then try to kill him? Wouldn't that defeat the point of knowing his identity in the first place?

I definitely agree that Hugo Strange should have had a bigger role. He felt too much like Sauron from Lord of the Rings, you could feel his presence in the game but barely ever saw him.

I agree. I also felt that some of the characters shouldve had a bigger role. Why did Robin appear in only 1 cutscene? It also wouldve been nice to see Two-Face a little more. Same thing with Hugo Strange.

The boss fights and combat in general was too easy for me. Maybe thats because i kinda mastered it in Arkham Asylum.

Wow I thought for the most part the boss fights were excellent, and varied. As for the navigation, I never once got lost, just kept following the bat symbols. My only complaint is how they kind of directed the female characters towards the horney 14 yr old market. There is a difference between titillation and full on going over board and I think it would be a better game if the sexy was a bit more subtle. That being said the game is freaking fantastic!

I'm not sure why anyone would have any trouble figuring out where to go next considering the map tends to have all the information you would need.

The read was interesting as it pointed out several flaws of many games. They go into such great details over certain aspects, but then the "repeating" background characters get stagnant really fast. As someone above already pointed out they just needed to add a handful of voices with 1 or 2 extra voice actors to those background characters.

I do agree with the people that posted above about not liking "nik picking" articles to a point, but this article was not all about nik picking, it was more stating that the game was very good and that it COULD have been one of the best games of the year and in his opinion these are the small things they overlooked. Yes he it dividing it down to the small things, but not cutting the game up completely. He states that game is great but those were just the things that could have put it over the top!

Oh, and as for the Bat Signal pointing the way you should go, perhaps that was an oversight on some players part. I know I would have missed it for a while myself.