Mike86

I actually didn't have too much of an issue with the Cloudburst Tank itself. Having to deal with all those fucking Cobras was more annoying. It seemed like every time I'd find one two more were right there to kill me. It was just dumb luck that I finally got them all. Took me a bunch of tries though. I haven't beaten the whole main storyline but am pretty close.

A couple comments I'd like to mention that are spoilers.

DthRdrX

Took me about 3 days to finish but I have the first ending.

What I like:



What I don't like:


I accidentally found a room that contained

Hokeyboy

OK I'm at the point where

... and I'm ready to kick a pigeon. I'm loving so much about the game, but these idiotic Mario Go-Kart challenges are fucking ridiculous.

Mike86

foxdvd

Well finished...

My god has a game ever fallen apart so much as this game? I really enjoyed it at the beginning. I even liked the tank combat...all of it (even when fighting 50 tanks) Half way through I would have easily given the game a solid 9...

Not a big fan of the races, but even though they sort of sucked, they were never bad enough to take away from the game. The fights with the Arkham Knight were garbage. Boring...long...stupid garbage. I can not believe they thought these were good? The ending was shit. The story just would not end. The mind fuck stuff was not nearly as cool as they thought it was...I mean holy shit that was a bad final 1/3rd of a game.

Story just kept jumping the shark....

Final score is a 6. Frustrations far outweighed the good that was in this game. At its core it is an amazing game, but has WAY to many problems.

Biggest disappointment in a LONG time.

kgrogers1979

Yeah, I thought the ending was shit too.

Ending spoilers:



Honestly, I would rank the series best to worst like this:
Asylum... 9.5 out of 10
City... 9 out of 10
Knight and Origins being tied for last... both 7 out 10

Knight was very disappointing. The Batmobile was disappointing. The identity of Arkham Knight was disappointing. The ending was disappointing. Disappointing is the one word that sums up the game best.

foxdvd

Maybe I am being a little mean on it...it probably deserves a 7..but I agree with everything you say. As a fan of Batman since the early 80's when I got hooked on the comics, I hate seeing so many fuck you moments to fans.

Also, I guess to get the true ending I have to spend 5 hours collecting Riddle trophies? I just can't do it...and I hate they put that behind such crap.

Also spoiler on the ending

starseed1981

Agree with this 100%

Solid Snake

Knight is better than Origins. Especially at release. They fucked up Origins so bad at release.

fumanstan

While i'm not as down or disappointed as you guys, the comments about the writing reminded me of reading this on Wikipedia a few days ago.

Obviously most Batman fans know of Dini, so also not a huge surprise that the story wasn't as strong without him.

Mike86

I guess I'm mostly satisfied with the game thus far. I just got to the "first ending" and am at 80%. The ending shown was interesting but definitely not satisfying and doesn't put much closure on the game and I have to say that I'm not a fan of having to get 100% to get the true ending. At this point I want to get there on my own and not just search for the ending.

Mike86

The funny thing is I've actually had more issues with this game freezing than I did with Arkham Origins. I've had to shut down fully at least five times (playing on X-Box One) and have had a couple weird glitches.

Sgtsnake

Finally took out the cloud burst tank and the Arkhma Knight

Now off to finish off scarecrow

kgrogers1979

Sgtsnake

Ha Ha I didn't think it was....Guess I have to finish it up

slop101

Yeah, there's a lot of bullshit in the game where you have to read the developers' minds as to what you're supposed to do next, and you can only really do just one thing - it's very linear for an "open world" game. I wish they gave us more freedom.

DthRdrX

What I thought about the ending(s):

kgrogers1979

Solid Snake

Jesus... you guys must not be good w/ visual cues. The game clearly directs to that thing. It was ridiculously obvious what to do with him.

Dan

damn, some of the side missions are fucking hard. There was one particular "bomb defusing" mission that I probably repeated like 20 times. And one where you have to take out a bunch of guys at the top of the hospital... I'm still working on that one. I may just give up on trying to 100% this game for the full ending. I'm just so sick of the Batmobile at this point (I didn't hate it throughout the main campaign, but these side missions are something else).

foxdvd

I am usually just fine with clues in games...

boredsilly

I think it's best to think of this Batman as another take on Batman, because there definitely was enough stuff in the game that felt out of character to me as well. This Batman looks like Batman, smells like Batman, acts a lot like Batman, but he just feels like he's not the standard Batman.

slop101

That's the problem - I'm trying to come up with my own way of approaching something, you know, like how most open world games work, but here, they shoehorn you into only doing it one way. They put you in a spot where you assume there's multiple routes/solutions, when there's really only one specific way trough the given situation. It's pretty frustrating after playing Witcher 3 and other true open world games that give you actual choice, rather than the illusion of choice that they give you here.

maxfisher

I'm at 72% completion and probably still have a little ways to go on the story, as I just took out the cloudburst tank. Things may turn around, but I'm pretty sure this is going to go down as my least favorite Arkham. The Batmobile is shit. There are moments where it's really fun and I don't mind the tank mode like most do, but it's too inconsistent to enjoy. One minute I'll be racing around, taking corners with ease and having no issues steering and then all of a sudden it's like I'm driving on ice and fishtailing all over the place.

The glitches have been pretty bad too. I've gotten stuck in the environment multiple times. One time I tried to grapple out and it locked my PS4 up entirely to the point I had to unplug it and restart. Had the same thing happen during a chase with an APC. I've never had that happen on my PS4. Both times, I exited out to the home screen and chose to quit the app, which did nothing and if I went back into the game, it was just on the frozen screen. Then I tried putting the PS4 to sleep and the console lights looked like it went to sleep, but it output the frozen screen from Arkham to my projector and wouldn't wake back up.

I've also had lots of other minor glitches throughout. I'm still not able to solve a riddle at Poison Ivy's spot. I scanned everything in that area before giving up and looking on YouTube, only to find there's supposed to be a flower to scan that's missing from my game.

I'll definitely still finish the story and will likely at least attempt 100% for the true ending, but I'm hoping to get that wrapped up this week so I can trade it in while the value's still decent. It's not a game I'll have any interest in revisiting.

davidh777

Totally legit question.

I'm sure I've read The Secret of Barry Allen--not sure about Rogue War. Wally West is Kid Flash for me.