Batman: Arkham Knight Is a Mess

Many people out there seem to be enjoying the game - with the exception of the poor PC master race (God bless their souls) - But there are also some that are not so happy. Allow me to pour my heart out here - this will mostly be in my opinion, so keep that in mind (AND SPOILERS):

This game is a MESS - there is so much false or misleading advertising with this game - it is ridiculous. Let me list some examples; as well as some other grievances:

1. They talked about the Arkham Knights character being new when their fans had already guessed who it was. They even said chief creative officer: Geoff Johns was working on the character - almost strengthening their assurance that it was a new character.

2. They talked about challenge maps being bigger and badder than ever, then gave us those watered down AR challenges

3. They said the Joker was 'dead dead dead,' but really he just lost his body. He has the most lines in this game than ever before.

4. They continued to show in-game screenshots and clips in trailers that were missing in the game. They even said they held nothing back from the game.

5. NVIDIA lied about their PC port where only 12 people were doing the port - and most likely under a strict deadline

6. NVIDIA lied about Batman running on 60 fps via GAMEWORKS by using PC footage that lagged so bad that they needed to speed it up by 2x to makes it look normal, as well as falsify the claim of it running at true 60 fps and in engine.

7. They hyped up pre-order DLC for a year straight that wasn't even made by Rocksteady and was barely 10-15 minutes long. It took me longer to download it then to beat it. The pre-order description on Amazon said there would be challenge maps for Harley's DLC. There were none.

8. The game was described to have all the villains return and team up to kill Batman. Majority of them were repetitive side missions with barely any significant story for the main plot.

9. The bat-mobile is forced upon you majority of the game to fight hordes of drones. It gets really ridiculous where you need to use it for every little thing such as riddles or supplying power to a building.

10. The story itself had barely any definite ending for the 'finale' of the franchise

11. Boss fights were drones or one button take-downs, or just completely uninspired thugs with a health bar.

12. They said Arkham Knight could take Batman H2H, yet no boss fight in H2H. Only in another TANK fight can you defeat him.

13. Absurdly overpriced DLC season pass. I admit I don't know the content in the package so this point falls flat. But they still have set a new precedent of a huge price for this pass for a single player game.

14. Leaderboards were broken for a week after launch.

15. Announcing the limited and collecter's edition were not ready to be sent out only a WEEK or so before launch.

Unbelievable how much faults can be attributed to a single game and their greedy publisher. And I'm sure I may be forgetting one or two.

I also want to talk about how this game doesn't even hold a candle to the love and creativity and care that it's predecessors had. Look at the Hush mission. It was a 3 minute sequence where all you had to do was press triangle/Y and you take him down. An absolute letdown when acknowledging the mean game he talked up in Arkham City. How about good ol' Two Face? Yup same thing, do 4 repetitive side-missions and take him out like a regular thug. Penguin y'say? Clear the room - arm the explosive - rinse and repeat until you get the option to press the take-down button on him. Man Bat? Just fly into him and you're done. DEATHSTROKE? Another repetitive TANK fight? Harley? Press Y/triangle for take-down. THE F-ING ARKHAM KNIGHT? TWO DAMNED TANK/BAT-MOBILE FIGHTS...and a tag-your-it fight. Then not even a single fight for Scarecrow...Good game Rocksteady.

Don't get me wrong this game is probably the best Batman simulator we have. The tone is there, the aesthetic is there. The ton of easter eggs are there. But it's just not good enough. I'm sorry but I think this is the worst Batman game they gave us - even Origins was better than this, glitches aside. This was even supposed to be a finale - yet there is nothing definitive of the ending for any character here. It is upsetting really. I haven't touched the game in about 2 days, which is sad considering this was my most anticipated game for like two years.

I'm done with my rant, thanks for reading if you made it this far. Please tell me what your opinion is of this game.

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