@@user-wc1cc1pu1jWell I understand why some people would do that, mainly because of gameplay, the lore in asylum is absolutely insane. Every little thing in asylum is too good.
Definitely. I grew up with these games. Got Arkham asylum back in 2008 after it had only been out for about a week. It’s my least favorite now. It’s the birth of everything we’ve come to love from this franchise, but damn, it really is the birth. The boss fights are god awful besides poison Ivy. Asylum’s atmosphere and charm don’t outshine the later more epic stories and plot lines the franchise gets into for me. And origins came out when I was tired of the Arkham series, needed a break, there weren’t any other games out at the time that I wanted so I got it. I was pleasantly surprised. It really piggy backed off of what came before, with origins open world easily being my least favorite to explore out of origins, city, and knight. But from an evolving the franchise standpoint, origins really focuses on the bosses and turns up the notch from city. Those boss fights are the best in the series, and they alone make the game much more enjoyable if you’re going to play through them all. The story is surprisingly epic as well, and with it also being the only game to show the actual bat cave, it’s a must to play along with the others. The voice actors not only did amazing as joker and Batman, but the fact that they changed the actors and that this is years before the other games make it work really well. Arkham Knight is the definitive Batman experience. In no other game will you have all the gadgets down the Batmobile. The graphics still look like a game that was made recently. The gameplay mechanics, from everything that returns from the previous games to the wide array of new additions, are refined to a level of quality beyond the other games. The boss fights unfortunately took a major hit, with some enemies being brought down in extremely anticlimactic ways. The whole namesake of the game was a red herring just to introduce a character that was already established, along with the lie that rocksteady said the character was completely original to the Arkhamverse. And then there’s City, which is absolutely perfect in every way. Batmobile won’t be shoved down your throat to where even the boss fights suffer. Here, there’s no Batmobile, and the map is perfectly sized for on foot, grappling, and gliding only. Everything from asylum comes back and is done bigger and better. Quick fire gadgets, riddler trophies actually lead to riddler side missions, a story that weaves its way around many villains, boss fights that are unique throughout, and the first game to introduce multiple side missions that could be tackled at any time. Side missions that culminated in Batman crossing path with another of his iconic rogues gallery. Arkham City was just absolute genius. Didn’t rely on the previous games like origins, took what asylum did and blew it out of the water, and managed to take all the right risks with that unlike Knight. My ranking is 4. Asylum 3. Origins 2. Knight 1. City
Arkham Asylum literally revolutionized combat in ALL third person action games, not just the superhero genre. If it weren’t for Rocksteady outdoing themselves (twice) I’m confident it would still be considered one of the best video games of all time
I really hate it when people dismiss games just because they're old. I've recently been playing through the Devil May Cry series for the first time. Some of those games are over 20 years old and, except for the second one, they're all fantastic.
Thankfully tons of folk still replay the classics and adore them. Though as far opinion’s go I’ll always have a hard time agreeing with TH-camr critics who claim Arkham Knight is a garbage video game Simply for some of its flaws
@@bullymaguire3385 I hope you mean REMASTER IT because remaking often includes changing all the cutscenes and the story and voice cast and I don’t want that for origins the cutscenes are what makes that game for me
I think Arkham Knight is the most underrated because the open world is by far more amazing than anything we’ve seen before in the series, and is one of the best open worlds of all time, it is just perfect. And I know this is just based on when the games were released but the graphics are A LOT better than the other games. But also the nightwing suit probably balances out all of that with how bad it was so…🤷♂️
@Sabiq16 literally how lol, each island has its own distinct style and contains a bunch of detail, so much it wouldnt surprise me if there were things no one has noticed akin to seeing man-bat early in the story
@@Knighthawk_ I don't disagree with you about that. The map has a lot of detail and diveristy but I expected it too bee more like the background of arkham city if you remember. Please search on youtube "gotham city retrospective" if you want to see an analyzation of the map.
Tbh i love Arkham knight the most out of all 4 games but definitely atmosphere at asylum and boss fights at origins have it's own thing that makes those games so good.
The argument about City's story being nothing but a fetch quest is certainly a weak one. I'd like to give my reasons for it being my least favorite story in the franchise (despite still really enjoying it). Batman as a character is completely stagnant, undergoing no introspection or development, while also being far too emotionless. Batman should be stoic but it's far too much in City, especially compared to the others. In Asylum he has caring banter with Oracle and even chuckles occasionally and he shows genuine care for Gordon. In Knight he practically cries when he thinks Oracle dies, and the plot basically revolves around his fear of failing the people he loves. I think Origins doesn't even need to be mentioned it does this aspect so well. But in City he's basically a statue. His coldness towards Robin doesn't feel like protectiveness he just comes off as uncaring. He has a stronger reaction to Hugo Strange's death than Talia's. The plot of the cure isn't the best but the only thing about it that actually bother's me is that Hugo Strange is reduced to a complete non threat. Once Bruce is infected there is ZERO investigation of Protocol 10 until Sharp is arrested, when scaling Wonder Tower Strange doesn't do anything to make good on his threat at the beginning of "if you try to stop me, everyone will know your secret," and then he's just gone after being revealed to be a lacky for Ra's. It's not that I think the story is bad at all, I still greatly enjoy it, but I much prefer Bruce's characterization in every other game and I would've preferred more focus on the Protocol 10 mystery than just the cure. Man that was an essay, sorry lol.
I say strange got arrogant by the end everything of his went according to plan he's been manipulating everyone playing catwoman and two face against each other, ratting out Gordon's undercover team, giving freeze to penguin manipulating quincy sharp using Mad Hatter etc. He kept batman off his tail and from investigating protocol 10 until it was literally 20 minutes away and by then it was too late. In the opening he says "I assume you thought yourself untouchable well as you can see no one is untouchable" By the time you are about to apprehend him he ironically says "I am untouchable" all of his successes got to his head and it became his downfall. Even Ras Al Ghul calls him out on it. "you've proven that batman is better than you" batman never got arrogant
@@baki484 and like that's exactly what happened, but I feel like it kinda undermines his "cold and calculating" thing. And they could've just avoided it by making that final stealth section similar to the one in Asylum in the Botanical gardens where you need to sneak past everyone to get to the guy in the control room first. Strange assumes Batman fell off the tower once his people lost sight of him, which means until you take out the first guy in the top room he thinks you're no longer a threat. If you had to sneak past the guards, silent takedown Strange, and THEN the rest of them, that would have solved that issue in my eyes
@@jacobcenter7374 When he thinks batman has fallen of the tower is just a showing of the sheer arrogance going to his head even after taking out the guard and batman is literally standing right there without a door separating. Even as you unlock the door you realize he's nervous when you scan him. At that point hes trying to convince himself that his plan isn't unraveling. Riddler calls him out on his insecurities and how he feels unworthy. In a way his failure was foreshadowed. Then there he lunatics from arkham Asylum being his handy work on top of their disposal in wonder city. The reveal of batman's identity was something he planned to do after the work was done with batman beaten and broken. But I wish the final stealth room was us taking everyone out with him noticing And he didn't make good on "if you try to stop I guarantee everyone will know your secret".
I enjoyed playing all four of the games, but I've replayed Knight the most and consider it my favorite. I remember feeling genuinely upset that Barbara had died, and was replaying the scene in my head. Then it hit me that Joker moved the gun, and out loud I exclaimed "Joker moved the gun!" and confused my Mom who had no idea what I was talking about. also Knight turns 10 next year and that makes me feel old.
@@bullymaguire3385tbh Asylum is the only one that can be considered "clunky" City and Origins brought the combat up a few notches and Knight kept that ball rollin til the end
Asylum 8/10 Pro: Best atmosphere Con: Worst graphics (it still looks pretty good. It’s just the newer ones look more better so not too big of a critique). City 10/10 Pro: Best Story Con: Worst intro (not the biggest fan of the beginning prison scene but it’s not too long so it can be easily brushed aside). Origins 9/10 Pro: Best Boss Fights (Deathstroke and 1st Bane boss were the best Fights in any Arkham game and I’ll stand by that). Con: worst runtime (feels very short compared to the other 3). Knight 8/10 Pro: Best Graphics/World design Con: Worst Boss fights (Deathstroke deserved the Origins treatment for him in this game not some Tank BS) Suicide Squad: KTJL 3/10 Pro: best looking Justice League team Con: Worst Story Ever! Arkham Shadow (to be determined) Pro: (to be determined) Con: it’s on freaking Meta Quest of all things!
Origins is still the most underrated because I still see it get more hate than the other three games. Ive seen more people say origins sucks than any other arkham game🤦♂️ smh. Even though origins has the best cutscenes, best boss battles, and is just arguably the most enjoyable to play. Orgins will always be number one to me 🤷♂️
@@Bugplanet8840 ive honestly never seen city get hate. I'm not saying it doesn't happen btw. I'm saying that I've personally never seen it happen. The most I've seen is people say it's kinda overrated but I've def seen origins and Knight get spat on
I think Batman Arkham Asylum isn’t given enough credit perhaps? It was an unbelievable foundation for The Arkham Series, and it was a brilliant game! Sure, it didn’t have the most advanced combat or mechanics like we now have in Batman Arkham Knight, but I think its atmosphere was unmatched. It also brings back so many memories, and so much nostalgia. And respectfully, nostalgia is a hard feeling to beat as it’s such an awesome feeling that is universal for all videogamers!
As a retrogamer, I'm kinda shocked Asylum is considered so outdated for "today standards". What would people think if they play PS1 or Nintendo 64's classics? 😧
Arkham City is easily the most overrated, Arkham Origins is easily the most underrated, Arkham Knight is easily the most overhated, and Arkham asylum is just Arkham asylum
Imo knight is the most underrated. People make it seem way worse than it is (main point being the Batmobile) when you don’t even use it as much as people drag it on to seem.
The potential is still wasted. The driving mechanics feel clunky, and all you really do with it is copy and paste tank battles that require no thought or strategy. Yeah, you don’t use the Batmobile a ton, but when the only times you do use it are boring, then people make a big deal out of it
Knight is overhated. It easily has the best combat and gameplay in the series. The story has some problems but it’s still good. People cried for the Batmobile and then get mad when it’s a key part of the game
I’ve never hated the Batmobile so I really never understood why people hated the sections so much is all seems well designed and fun to use so I don’t get bothered
Origins is getting overrated. I only see people saying it's the best gameplay wise, better than any of them etc. Going in blind, I think Asylum is the most underappreciated as of now.
Absolutely It’s just people that first Arkham game was Origins. Absolutely fucking no one that played Arkham Knight first would say Origins had the best gameplay. I’d say origins has the least balanced gameplay with close to zero improvements
I like how he discredits The criticisms towards Arkham City by saying they're vague and are stupid. But then proceeds to not give any real reasons of why those criticisms can't be applied to the game.
The part about Batman Arkham city being a goose chase I somewhat agree with when doing the whole penguin part, go to this jammer then the next then the next then everything inside
@@YouScareMe1 Yeah but it's definitely most prominent in City and Origins. Find out about protocol 10, Save Catwoman to find out more about protocol 10, find where the joker attempted to shoot Catwoman, completely abandon investigating protocol 10 to go after the joker. Get infected with joker's blood and go to the GCPD and find Freeze. Freeze isn't there so go to the museum. The museum is locked so go around the city and the subway system to destroy jammers. Go into the museum to get Freeze. Get sidetracked by a hostage situation. Save Freeze and the hostages, but then have to chase a ninja. Which leads you to Ras al ghul, which leads to you once again going to the GCPD to talk to Freeze. But then the cure gets taken, So you go back to the steel mill to get it back. And then after basically being forgotten since like the first hour of the game, Protocol 10 actually happens.
I do actually agree with the criticisms of City's story after a recent playthrough... The story starts off extremely interesting with Protocol 10, but then is almost completely abandoned for chasing Joker's cure instead. It's a wild goose chase with not much character growth in it. It has a phenomenal ending, and still incredibly solid gameplay and graphics, but yeah the plot is barebones until Protocol 10 actually comes into effect towards the end. I've come around to Knight recently. It's my new favorite Arkham game despite its many flaws. The raw gameplay is just that insanely good and massively improved over the other 3. I only replayed the first 3 games once, but with Knight, I've beaten it on every save file.
Im sorry but I disagree with everything you said yes the story has it problems but u are giving knight too much credit knight has way more problems than city like deathstroke,hush,joker and joker blood plot,scarecrow getting shafed from more joker,boss battles and Jason todd
damn... this video basically sumarized what i think about the whole underrated conversation to perfection. what an amazing video, keep up the good work man
@@nathanadams7595 Arkham Shadow is just that, with RGC too! I know it's a VR exclusive but the devs care about the Arkhamverse WAYYYY more than rocksteady and they even have freeflow combat!
Knight was my favorite just the fact how the adventure went out and the nostalgia of the game and it just really feels good playing it and it’s scary like in killer crocs layer but that’s my favorite one
Jeez. If I was going to make a list of the things wrong with the Batman Arkam City storyline it wouldn't be ANY of those. If I had to make a complaint it'd be, 1) Arkham city is an extremely stupid idea. I know that mind control was involved, but no one would give up prime real estate in new york city to turn it into a prison. It had a museum and an active steel mill for pity sakes! 2) The idea that Hugo strange would as he said make more Arkham cities in "Keystone" and "bludhaven when it basically failed within like a month or however long it was operating for to the point they needed to introduce protocol 10. It felt like the most contrived possible way they could have made a game where batman runs around in town and there's no civilians to worry about. 3) I have mixed feelings about the joker actually dying. On the one hand it's nice that there actually was a death and someone didn't just come back from the dead as common in comic book stories, but the Joker? Especially when he died 3 feet from a Lazarus pit. Ultimately I love the series and it became a useful plot element in arkham knight, but it still felt like such a gut punch.
Gotham City does isn’t supposed to be part of New York, despite one of NYC’s nicknames being “Gotham”…if I remember correctly Gotham is supposed to be in New Jersey
Yea it makes no sense how Hugo thought he could open up other Arkham cities when the first one went terribly, literally no one would let him make another Arkham city
City is THE MOST overrated Arkham game. The Ra's Al-Ghul being the mastermind plot twist is trash. Who the hell is Hugo Strange? Not even the Top 10 of Batman's rogues gallery. Not to mention Hugo Strange is lame, and he did nothing consequential with his knowledge on who Batman is. You cannot even defend Arkham City's story. You have no argument, only vague things like "...details, plot twist, worldbuilding...". Um, elaborate? "Nope, I refuse to" Arkham City's story criticism is justified. Mr. Freeze's boss fight is ULTRA overrated. I cannot see how I can genuinely enjoy the fight for my next playthroughs other than the first. The fight is all substance and no style. Even Mr. Freeze and Batman made a remark on how formulaic the boss fight is. Deathstroke boss fight in Arkham Origins is so much better. It has style. Honestly, unironically, I think people who say Arkham City is their best game only say that because of nostalgia. Ask every other person what the definitive Batman Arkham experience is, and they will say Arkham Knight.
@@ShadowbannedAccount I'm sorry but I disagree with everything you said ra al ghul plot twist was Great unlike arkham knight. "hugo strange is so lame" so what it good to learn more batman villains than the joker if Arkham city criticism is justified then Arkham knight criticism is also justified and how mr freeze fight is overrated Mr freeze fight always Keep you on your toes since you can't do the same moves twice everyone in the community always praises Mr freeze for in creative yeah deathstroke from Arkham origins is good I can't lie but Mr freeze always be better anyway it u opinion about that. no not always about nostalgia people generally like it that the gameplay and story I think that your worst take ever. Only maybe some people may say batman Arkham knight makes a definitive batman Arkham experience but all that just your headcanon the real answer would be Arkham asylum or origins
arkham origins is the soul reason i play batman arkham games it what started the love i had for the games then comes asylum which had the most of the edge of the chair feel for me then city which gave the feeling of lost hope and the need for batman to save the city then comes arkham knight which i loved so much and still to this day go back too i don't know if u will agree but origins is a very underrated game just cuz there's glitches and kind of the same mechanics doesn't mean it has the same story and i think everyone should give it a try and i love all of the arkham games since to me the all have their own story feel and mechanics
I know Asylum is aged but I played it for the first time last year and I had such an amazing time and couldn’t wait to continue the series. I’ve played games where I didn’t play in its heyday and/or not on its original console so while I recognize the history, I can’t get into it like I wanted. But that wasn’t the case here, I was having so much fun with Asylum. Definitely a favorite now. That said, I went into Origins expecting the worst since I saw so many talk poorly of it. And instead I ended up absolutely loving it. It shows how important it is to play for yourself to find how a game impacts you or doesn’t. as I too played it for 1st time last year I never experienced the rough start and I didn’t have too many issues with glitching in general fortunately. The story and cutscenes had me hooked and now it’s one of my favorite games ever. I doubt it’ll ever be remastered but if it was I’d buy it in a heartbeat.
Asylum, City, Origins and Knight are all fantastic games. I'm harsh on a lot of media. I'll be the first to absolutely shit on something if I don't like it or it's not up to my standards. But I absolutely love the Arkham games. They're all good. Some flaws yes, I'm not going to say anything is 100% perfect, but I absolutely adore the Arkham games. Even many years later they're all still fully fun and playable. I recently went through and played all 4 again but in chronological order and it was awesome.
glad that someone finally came out and said that the batmobile was well designed and implemented into AK. The driving was incredibly smooth, the tank fights especially after full upgrades were so much fun, and the eject boost are so much fun to run at full speed with the nitro boost
@@Bugplanet8840 origins copy pasted everything good from city. Deathstroke boss fight copied straight from city's Ra's al ghul. City has better boss fights with mr freeze, al ghul, mad hatter, and the jokers funhouse.
In all honesty, my favorite of the entire series is Batman Arkham ORIGINS. That's right. Origins is my favorite, for 3 main reasons. 1) The best interpretation of Bane in any Medium. Bane is not just a physical powerhouse, he's also a cunning and disciplined mind. On top of that, not only is he a cunning brute, he is also a legitimate leader. Someone who both has the ability to lead but also the ability to inspire his men to be the best THEY can be. Top Notch. 2) Deathstroke. 3) IT has the best combat. Yeah, I mean it. It has the best combat of any of the games. It took what arkham city did and added to it. We got brutes and armored brutes, Venom users and best of all martial artists that were such an interesting change of pace for the fights. Arkham Knight removed the venom users, and the martial artists, and the their version of brutes was much worse. They also removed armored thugs entirely, which made both combat and predator challenges less challenging and fun, which is unforgivable. All they added in return was medics who could revive and add the electric shielding to certain enemies. Although I liked it, it really didn't change the way you fight in any meaningful way. You just have to use Batclaw a bit more often to stop the electricity, and it really doesn't take much effort to stop a guy from reviving another guy. A very marginal threat increase.
I agree with all your points. While some people hated the martial artists, I found them quite a fun add that made combat more involved for experienced players. Though, I believe Knight and Origins had different approaches towards gameplay. Origins clearly preferred difficulty while Knight prioritized being in a flow state and didn't push difficulty as much as Origins. While we could debate which is better, I believe both achieved what they wanted to do quite well.
So… 1) is doing one villain right 2) I really disagree, Deathstroke was a bitch in the game. Does nothing impressive and gets taken down by a rookie Batman in ONE fight, in one of the easiest fights in the Arkham series 3) this is so wrong. It has the most unbalanced combat. I’d added nothing that made the combat more fun. The new enemies are nothing special and The electric gloves is just a “win button” that removes any and all challenge from the game. In what universe does it have a better combat then Arkham Knigbt
@@agrainofrice2424 In what universe is Arkham Origins difficult? The shock gloves legit removes ALL challenge from the game. It’s by far the easiest Arkham gsme
City was overrated to me. I replayed the trilogy n everything in city kind of blended in to me. Story was kind of all over the place as well. I liked asylum the best since it had that claustrophobic feel and a certain horror element. Knight was fun except for the Batmobile. I actually haven’t even finished knight because of it.
@@Indigo_1001 nah origins is not the worst The story mode was great The combat & stealth was challenging which is what Batman games should be & the boss fights were hard I mean the electrocutioner boss fight took me about 4 days
I’ll admit that Arkham Asylum is my least favorite of the Arkham series, but I do not think the game should be criticized for having gameplay that isn’t as good as it sequels and prequel. It was the first of the series so of course it’s going to have the least evolved gameplay the fact that holds up so well today despite showing its age is a testament to how great the game actually is.
I said in a previous comment that it has aged horribly especially with the sequels and prequel, but I did also mention, how it feels to be a chore to go through for me personally
Slightly related since boss fights for brought up, but does anyone else wish there was a boss rush mode in the Arkham games where you could replay all the boss fights? I would love to fight, death stroke, and see how much I’ve improved as a player without having to create an entirely new saved file. Plus, I imagine it would be useful for the sake of recording gameplay.
ALL BATMOBILE DLC SHOULD BE FREE!!! ESPECIALLY SINCE YA XANT USE MOVIE ONES IN MAIN STORY!!! (HOW CAN THEY NOT HAVE BATTLE MODE?! THEYRE BATMOBILES!!!!!!!!!)
It honestly still amazes me to this day that rocksteady was able to not only perfect car traversal in their first attempt at a vehicle in a game, but they also were able to completely implement an entirely different version of the batmobile (combat mode).
I feel like people not fully understanding whats happening in Knight with the Titan isn't a valid criticism, its like skipping to season 3 of a show like Breaking Bad or the The Walking Dead with no knowledge of what happened before and complaining about being confused, you have to at least play through Asylum City and Knight to get the full story, Origins is more disconnected so you could skip it but its definitely worth playing too
it doesnt mean if ppl dont understand the story because they didnt play the other parts of the franchise that its bad.lets take gow ragnarok for example a lot of stuf from previous games was in the story and not really explained and new players to the gow franchise didnt understand it. does it mean it was bad? no of course thats the reason why its a franchise and not just one game cuz it takes more time to show it and explain it.
I feel like I kept hearing “no one mentions this good thing” in the Arkham knight section. But I’ve heard a lot of people mention those good things. I definitely agree that Arkham knight’s bat mobile is over hated, but I feel like it does get a lot of the credit it deserves
The part about Batman Arkham city being a goose chase I somewhat agree with when doing the whole penguin part, go to this jammer then the next then the next then everything inside
i love Arkham Knight because the batmobile And The bat suits you can wear i didn't forgot The batmobile skins so the story and the bosses And enemies and yes side missions is the cherry on the pie of this game.
I can't stand people complaining how much batmobile is used in knight. Someone online calculated it to be 20% of the game which is a minimal ammount. It is insane to complain about it because as stated it isn't used that much and driving/fighting with the batmobile is amazing
It probably wouldn’t feel like that if they added more variety to the Batmobile. Most of the time, it’s either one of those boring tank battles that require no amount of skill, and are all copy pastes, or it’s a puzzle which can vary wildly in terms of fun.
you wont pick city, you probably wont pick origins, so between asylum and knight i'll say asylum is the one you end up picking (haven't watched the video yet)
Have never heard of asylums combat being outdated. The only praise I ever really hear is from people who love both city and asylum but have a problem with either origins or knight. I always hear Mr freeze or the ending in city. Or for asylum, how it revolutionised modern combat or how they remember when they thought their game "crashed". Final placement of asylum is crazy
I'm sorry but I've never once heard any criticisms towards asylum for being outdated. Like did you see three comments on TH-cam and decide that's a common opinion?
@@Luke21-xk7uh i wouldnt, when i started playing these games i said that asylum was my favorite, until i played city and it took his place, however hes at my second place forever, knight and origins would never beat him ❤️
This was a VERY interesting video, this had a lot of nuance and interesting perspectives I never considered, especially with the likes of Arkham Knight. I'm a big Sonic fan, so I'd be seriously tempted to try something like this with games people generally talk only negatively about. This seems like an extremely fun thought process and video subject, and I absolutely loved this video. Honestly, I was expecting Asylum to be listed as Most Underrated.
I think the reason people myself included says origins is underrated is because wb doesn't show the game any love leaving it out of every re-release/remaster
Asylum and City were extremely beloved, praised, and even received well. So it's not either one of those two, that leaves origins and knight. I feel like origins has been getting some love recently but so has knight. Why either one of these two games were received poorly is beyond my comprehention.
At the time Origins was released the criticism was about, The bugs, The game running horribly and The Joker being the main antagonist AGAIN. With Knight I think it was because of the Batmobile being overused and The Joker being the main antagonist AGAIN.
Ppl might disagree but arkham city is super overrated, the story is literally 5 hours, the gameply isnt the best Stealth isnt the best The combat isnt the best The pacing is bad The side quests are pretty meh The city is good but the worst city Boss fights arent the best Its a really good game but ppl say its the only good one in the series Origins and knight are realistically are the best Oriģins has the best story Best bossfights 2nd best stealth 2nd best combat 2nd best graphics Arkham knight is great cause it had the best gameplay and the story is good 2nd or 3rd best In my opinion all of the games are great 10/10 for me even asylum
arkham knight is overrated because its all every batman fan talks about, city had unique stealth option, you can say combat wasn't the best that opinion, pacing was not bad. They had unique boss battle that doesn't have the health and you beat the boss.
Arkham origins really is the most important game in the series I feel like the story between the beginning of batman and jokers rivarly is so important to the narrative of the franchise in general and also the boss fights and combat is so so underrated every other Arkham game does not have the "cool" factor that I think is necessary in a Batman game so thats why if it was properly remade to fix it's poor graphics and art style that was absolutely overlooked because of the poor performance it'd be the best in the franchise (also the suit selection is leagues better then the rest of the series in its uniqueness which is what I care most about in cosmetics)
@@alexcleianu185 the story's richer with joker in it because the main plot of the whole series is centered around the toxic relationship Batman and Joker have and it's so interesting especially in this game. The story would not be complete without joker.
@@burrito4 and black mask central. The joker side missions could have been something like black mask crew attack joker( black mask was tracking joker in origins ). Batman saving joker from black mask would have made the story complete and also explain the batman-joker relationship
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I’d like to see that video on the ending of Knight
you forgot blackgate
@@MarioSuper-vx3ip oh yeah
The one with Riddler in it is underrated
Nah the one with Batman in it is more underrated
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The one with bone is underrated
@@cantsuggestareasonablename9101 So not AK then?
I think the fact that everyone thinks a different game is the best tells you a lot about the series
Agreed. I have a definitive ranking, but my highest rated game (City) is a 9/10, and my lowest rated (Knight) is an 8/10, so they're all great.
@crazydud3380 having knight as last is crazy, I would put asylum last
@@user-wc1cc1pu1jWell I understand why some people would do that, mainly because of gameplay, the lore in asylum is absolutely insane. Every little thing in asylum is too good.
@@user-wc1cc1pu1j without Asylum, Knight wouldn’t exist. It’s also way less bloated and respects your time.
Definitely. I grew up with these games. Got Arkham asylum back in 2008 after it had only been out for about a week. It’s my least favorite now. It’s the birth of everything we’ve come to love from this franchise, but damn, it really is the birth. The boss fights are god awful besides poison Ivy. Asylum’s atmosphere and charm don’t outshine the later more epic stories and plot lines the franchise gets into for me. And origins came out when I was tired of the Arkham series, needed a break, there weren’t any other games out at the time that I wanted so I got it. I was pleasantly surprised. It really piggy backed off of what came before, with origins open world easily being my least favorite to explore out of origins, city, and knight. But from an evolving the franchise standpoint, origins really focuses on the bosses and turns up the notch from city. Those boss fights are the best in the series, and they alone make the game much more enjoyable if you’re going to play through them all. The story is surprisingly epic as well, and with it also being the only game to show the actual bat cave, it’s a must to play along with the others. The voice actors not only did amazing as joker and Batman, but the fact that they changed the actors and that this is years before the other games make it work really well. Arkham Knight is the definitive Batman experience. In no other game will you have all the gadgets down the Batmobile. The graphics still look like a game that was made recently. The gameplay mechanics, from everything that returns from the previous games to the wide array of new additions, are refined to a level of quality beyond the other games. The boss fights unfortunately took a major hit, with some enemies being brought down in extremely anticlimactic ways. The whole namesake of the game was a red herring just to introduce a character that was already established, along with the lie that rocksteady said the character was completely original to the Arkhamverse. And then there’s City, which is absolutely perfect in every way. Batmobile won’t be shoved down your throat to where even the boss fights suffer. Here, there’s no Batmobile, and the map is perfectly sized for on foot, grappling, and gliding only. Everything from asylum comes back and is done bigger and better. Quick fire gadgets, riddler trophies actually lead to riddler side missions, a story that weaves its way around many villains, boss fights that are unique throughout, and the first game to introduce multiple side missions that could be tackled at any time. Side missions that culminated in Batman crossing path with another of his iconic rogues gallery. Arkham City was just absolute genius. Didn’t rely on the previous games like origins, took what asylum did and blew it out of the water, and managed to take all the right risks with that unlike Knight. My ranking is 4. Asylum 3. Origins 2. Knight 1. City
You're all wrong, the most underrated is origins blackgate🙃🙃🙃
1000 percent
No, the most underrated Arkham Underworld
@@Merikq hey look we have to call a game underrated that people know of, not many people know about Arkham underworld or Arkham city lockdown
Facts
Absolute peak game
Arkham Asylum literally revolutionized combat in ALL third person action games, not just the superhero genre. If it weren’t for Rocksteady outdoing themselves (twice) I’m confident it would still be considered one of the best video games of all time
They did create a new genre
That’s a reach, grow up
@@grph1t3z geez someone woke up on the wrong side of bed.
@@itzjakedawgttvyt3749 nope, Arkham games are good, but not that good
@@grph1t3z wrong
I really hate it when people dismiss games just because they're old. I've recently been playing through the Devil May Cry series for the first time. Some of those games are over 20 years old and, except for the second one, they're all fantastic.
Thankfully tons of folk still replay the classics and adore them. Though as far opinion’s go I’ll always have a hard time agreeing with TH-camr critics who claim Arkham Knight is a garbage video game Simply for some of its flaws
Origins is just straight up not included in Arkham bundles like wtf
They need to remake it instead of doing that stupid VR game
@@bullymaguire3385I have this crazy conspiracy, a bundle for the release of Arkham shadow included with a remastered version of origins
@@bullymaguire3385
I hope you mean REMASTER IT because remaking often includes changing all the cutscenes and the story and voice cast and I don’t want that for origins the cutscenes are what makes that game for me
The only ppl who hate that game r the creators
it's bc of it's reputation that wb doesnt want to bother with getting through the legal hoops to remaster it
I think Arkham Knight is the most underrated because the open world is by far more amazing than anything we’ve seen before in the series, and is one of the best open worlds of all time, it is just perfect. And I know this is just based on when the games were released but the graphics are A LOT better than the other games. But also the nightwing suit probably balances out all of that with how bad it was so…🤷♂️
Agreed
I agree
Gotham could've been better in Arkham Knight imo
@Sabiq16 literally how lol, each island has its own distinct style and contains a bunch of detail, so much it wouldnt surprise me if there were things no one has noticed akin to seeing man-bat early in the story
@@Knighthawk_ I don't disagree with you about that. The map has a lot of detail and diveristy but I expected it too bee more like the background of arkham city if you remember. Please search on youtube "gotham city retrospective" if you want to see an analyzation of the map.
Let's be real...Suicide Squad is not Arkham Cannon
Not canon at all
Agreed it never happened
The hell is SSKTJL?
@@Black_Knight_-BK- Suicide Squad Kill The Justice League
@@Hallowpool193 What the hell even is that?
/s
Arkham Origins can't even get a remaster. It's definitely the most underated.
dude. no.
@@spideyfan1024 literally
it deserves a Remaster. Fuck WB
Well, it's backward compatible on xbone and series x though.
@@lolmetaknight yeah leave out PlayStation and the DLC’s being pc exclusive now. This is why a remaster version is needed
Ahhh memories. When Origins came out, is when I began my modding TH-cam channel.
I bought it on release but never really appreciated it until recent 😭 regret not giving the game a chance all these years
Hey man, love your content keep it up!
kinda unpopular opinion but Origins and Asylum are my favorite games in the series
Tbh i love Arkham knight the most out of all 4 games but definitely atmosphere at asylum and boss fights at origins have it's own thing that makes those games so good.
I prefer Origins to Knight. Asylum is my second favorite on the series, while City is in the first place
The batmobile segments were some of my favorites
Hell yeah! people complain too much
@@Giuseppe_Camole_4073 On gosh, they make it sound like hell 💀
The argument about City's story being nothing but a fetch quest is certainly a weak one. I'd like to give my reasons for it being my least favorite story in the franchise (despite still really enjoying it). Batman as a character is completely stagnant, undergoing no introspection or development, while also being far too emotionless. Batman should be stoic but it's far too much in City, especially compared to the others. In Asylum he has caring banter with Oracle and even chuckles occasionally and he shows genuine care for Gordon. In Knight he practically cries when he thinks Oracle dies, and the plot basically revolves around his fear of failing the people he loves. I think Origins doesn't even need to be mentioned it does this aspect so well. But in City he's basically a statue. His coldness towards Robin doesn't feel like protectiveness he just comes off as uncaring. He has a stronger reaction to Hugo Strange's death than Talia's. The plot of the cure isn't the best but the only thing about it that actually bother's me is that Hugo Strange is reduced to a complete non threat. Once Bruce is infected there is ZERO investigation of Protocol 10 until Sharp is arrested, when scaling Wonder Tower Strange doesn't do anything to make good on his threat at the beginning of "if you try to stop me, everyone will know your secret," and then he's just gone after being revealed to be a lacky for Ra's. It's not that I think the story is bad at all, I still greatly enjoy it, but I much prefer Bruce's characterization in every other game and I would've preferred more focus on the Protocol 10 mystery than just the cure. Man that was an essay, sorry lol.
I say strange got arrogant by the end everything of his went according to plan he's been manipulating everyone playing catwoman and two face against each other, ratting out Gordon's undercover team, giving freeze to penguin manipulating quincy sharp using Mad Hatter etc. He kept batman off his tail and from investigating protocol 10 until it was literally 20 minutes away and by then it was too late.
In the opening he says "I assume you thought yourself untouchable well as you can see no one is untouchable"
By the time you are about to apprehend him he ironically says "I am untouchable" all of his successes got to his head and it became his downfall. Even Ras Al Ghul calls him out on it. "you've proven that batman is better than you" batman never got arrogant
@@baki484 and like that's exactly what happened, but I feel like it kinda undermines his "cold and calculating" thing. And they could've just avoided it by making that final stealth section similar to the one in Asylum in the Botanical gardens where you need to sneak past everyone to get to the guy in the control room first. Strange assumes Batman fell off the tower once his people lost sight of him, which means until you take out the first guy in the top room he thinks you're no longer a threat. If you had to sneak past the guards, silent takedown Strange, and THEN the rest of them, that would have solved that issue in my eyes
@@jacobcenter7374 the story has problems it no near knight story
@@jacobcenter7374 When he thinks batman has fallen of the tower is just a showing of the sheer arrogance going to his head even after taking out the guard and batman is literally standing right there without a door separating. Even as you unlock the door you realize he's nervous when you scan him. At that point hes trying to convince himself that his plan isn't unraveling.
Riddler calls him out on his insecurities and how he feels unworthy. In a way his failure was foreshadowed. Then there he lunatics from arkham Asylum being his handy work on top of their disposal in wonder city.
The reveal of batman's identity was something he planned to do after the work was done with batman beaten and broken. But I wish the final stealth room was us taking everyone out with him noticing
And he didn't make good on "if you try to stop I guarantee everyone will know your secret".
Arkham City is pretty overrated imo
I enjoyed playing all four of the games, but I've replayed Knight the most and consider it my favorite. I remember feeling genuinely upset that Barbara had died, and was replaying the scene in my head.
Then it hit me that Joker moved the gun, and out loud I exclaimed "Joker moved the gun!" and confused my Mom who had no idea what I was talking about. also Knight turns 10 next year and that makes me feel old.
Bro screaming at the joker is crazy, you definitely were one of the infected fellas
I think people play Arkham Knight more cuz it’s not as clunky as the other games
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I play it more because I can see different suits in cutscenes
@@bullymaguire3385tbh Asylum is the only one that can be considered "clunky"
City and Origins brought the combat up a few notches and Knight kept that ball rollin til the end
@@Mohamad-m7mdpretty sure City also did that
Origns is my favorite Arkham game
Same. Especially because of the setting being winter and because I enjoy early Batman stories where he is just angry all the time
Asylum 8/10
Pro: Best atmosphere
Con: Worst graphics (it still looks pretty good. It’s just the newer ones look more better so not too big of a critique).
City 10/10
Pro: Best Story
Con: Worst intro (not the biggest fan of the beginning prison scene but it’s not too long so it can be easily brushed aside).
Origins 9/10
Pro: Best Boss Fights (Deathstroke and 1st Bane boss were the best Fights in any Arkham game and I’ll stand by that).
Con: worst runtime (feels very short compared to the other 3).
Knight 8/10
Pro: Best Graphics/World design
Con: Worst Boss fights (Deathstroke deserved the Origins treatment for him in this game not some Tank BS)
Suicide Squad: KTJL 3/10
Pro: best looking Justice League team
Con: Worst Story Ever!
Arkham Shadow (to be determined)
Pro: (to be determined)
Con: it’s on freaking Meta Quest of all things!
Origins is still the most underrated because I still see it get more hate than the other three games. Ive seen more people say origins sucks than any other arkham game🤦♂️ smh. Even though origins has the best cutscenes, best boss battles, and is just arguably the most enjoyable to play. Orgins will always be number one to me 🤷♂️
I definitely agree
City gets more hate because the nostalgia goggles are off for most people now including me
@@Bugplanet8840 ive honestly never seen city get hate. I'm not saying it doesn't happen btw. I'm saying that I've personally never seen it happen. The most I've seen is people say it's kinda overrated but I've def seen origins and Knight get spat on
@@christaylor7916 well people are seeing the truth now since all the games have been out 10+ years. Personally city is my least favorite
@@christaylor7916 ignore him only some people hate it most people enjoy it
Hot take I don't have a favorite Arkham game I love them all equally.
Goated opinion
@@datdankdj8264knight clears all of asylum city and origins
@@crazygamingyt7245 irrelevant
@@crazygamingyt7245Yeah, maybe, but I'm still prefer the other ones
Origins is the obvious choice. However I personally think Arkham Knight is the most underrated and City is the most overrated
City isn't that overrated and knight isn't underrated that title goes to asylum
City being overrated is a legitimately psychotic take. your Arkham Ball knowledge is nonexistent.
Yeah I agree, City is incredibly overrated plus it’s story sucks
@@Bugplanet8840 city story was great
@@Bugplanet8840 ball knowledge = 0
I think Batman Arkham Asylum isn’t given enough credit perhaps? It was an unbelievable foundation for The Arkham Series, and it was a brilliant game! Sure, it didn’t have the most advanced combat or mechanics like we now have in Batman Arkham Knight, but I think its atmosphere was unmatched. It also brings back so many memories, and so much nostalgia. And respectfully, nostalgia is a hard feeling to beat as it’s such an awesome feeling that is universal for all videogamers!
As a retrogamer, I'm kinda shocked Asylum is considered so outdated for "today standards". What would people think if they play PS1 or Nintendo 64's classics? 😧
Arkham knight i the fucking best in sereis handsdown. Dont kill me its my opinion.
Yeah I agree the gameplay is so good but the story no
Yeah I agree second best in the series behind Origins.
@@ironbat5481the story is good, Origins does have a better story though
I agree but the story was terrible
@@superironman8324 not in the slightest
Arkham City is easily the most overrated, Arkham Origins is easily the most underrated, Arkham Knight is easily the most overhated, and Arkham asylum is just Arkham asylum
Imo knight is the most underrated. People make it seem way worse than it is (main point being the Batmobile) when you don’t even use it as much as people drag it on to seem.
The potential is still wasted. The driving mechanics feel clunky, and all you really do with it is copy and paste tank battles that require no thought or strategy.
Yeah, you don’t use the Batmobile a ton, but when the only times you do use it are boring, then people make a big deal out of it
The bomb’s payload is exposed. I can use the power winch to trigger a controlled explosion.
Nah that side mission made me go INSANE like it got WAY to boring
Officer balls
BWAHAHAHAHAHAHA
Some people might hate me but in my opinion Arkham knight is the most underrated I don’t know why people hate it.
Knight is overhated. It easily has the best combat and gameplay in the series. The story has some problems but it’s still good. People cried for the Batmobile and then get mad when it’s a key part of the game
I’ve never hated the Batmobile so I really never understood why people hated the sections so much is all seems well designed and fun to use so I don’t get bothered
Origins is getting overrated. I only see people saying it's the best gameplay wise, better than any of them etc. Going in blind, I think Asylum is the most underappreciated as of now.
Asylum is a banger
The gameplay was primitive but still a W
The atmosphere and acting was awesome
@@TheWaffleEdits One of the best, if they remade the combat to be on the level of city or knight it'd easily be the best game.
Absolutely
It’s just people that first Arkham game was Origins.
Absolutely fucking no one that played Arkham Knight first would say Origins had the best gameplay. I’d say origins has the least balanced gameplay with close to zero improvements
Arkham origins probably has the worst gameplay .
@@Indigo_1001 Somehow they exist. People attribute nostalgia and their personal favs into what is actually the best game.
5:00 i use that announcement bell as notification sound, got quite confused for a second lol
I like how he discredits The criticisms towards Arkham City by saying they're vague and are stupid. But then proceeds to not give any real reasons of why those criticisms can't be applied to the game.
At least he still makes good points for the other entries.
Arkham city stans what do you expect from them felt like a was watching under the mayo for a second
i know nothing abt arkham games and never played one but imo arkahm city is talked about waaaaay less than the 3 others
Arkham city is my least favorite out of them all.
I think all the Arkham games suffer from the fetch quest problem to an extent. But it's most heavily present in Arkham City and Arkham origins.
The part about Batman Arkham city being a goose chase I somewhat agree with when doing the whole penguin part, go to this jammer then the next then the next then everything inside
Every Arkham game has those types of missions though
@@YouScareMe1 Yeah but it's definitely most prominent in City and Origins. Find out about protocol 10, Save Catwoman to find out more about protocol 10, find where the joker attempted to shoot Catwoman, completely abandon investigating protocol 10 to go after the joker. Get infected with joker's blood and go to the GCPD and find Freeze. Freeze isn't there so go to the museum. The museum is locked so go around the city and the subway system to destroy jammers. Go into the museum to get Freeze. Get sidetracked by a hostage situation. Save Freeze and the hostages, but then have to chase a ninja. Which leads you to Ras al ghul, which leads to you once again going to the GCPD to talk to Freeze. But then the cure gets taken, So you go back to the steel mill to get it back. And then after basically being forgotten since like the first hour of the game, Protocol 10 actually happens.
I do actually agree with the criticisms of City's story after a recent playthrough... The story starts off extremely interesting with Protocol 10, but then is almost completely abandoned for chasing Joker's cure instead. It's a wild goose chase with not much character growth in it. It has a phenomenal ending, and still incredibly solid gameplay and graphics, but yeah the plot is barebones until Protocol 10 actually comes into effect towards the end.
I've come around to Knight recently. It's my new favorite Arkham game despite its many flaws. The raw gameplay is just that insanely good and massively improved over the other 3. I only replayed the first 3 games once, but with Knight, I've beaten it on every save file.
Knight story is way worse
yeah I 100% agree. City’s story is complete trash compared to Origins and Knight
@@ironbat5481 no it isn’t
@@Bugplanet8840 it is
Im sorry but I disagree with everything you said yes the story has it problems but u are giving knight too much credit knight has way more problems than city like deathstroke,hush,joker and joker blood plot,scarecrow getting shafed from more joker,boss battles and Jason todd
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damn... this video basically sumarized what i think about the whole underrated conversation to perfection.
what an amazing video, keep up the good work man
Batman DOES NOT KILL
Batman: 8:21 crucifies a guy with a fence
We need a arkham orgins remaster
Or just an Arkham Origins 2
@@nathanadams7595 Arkham Shadow is just that, with RGC too! I know it's a VR exclusive but the devs care about the Arkhamverse WAYYYY more than rocksteady and they even have freeflow combat!
Knight was my favorite just the fact how the adventure went out and the nostalgia of the game and it just really feels good playing it and it’s scary like in killer crocs layer but that’s my favorite one
Every game was underrated because we now know what came after.
Joker sucked in knight i hated his trash story in trash knight
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knight is the second best in the series. TF you talking about?
@@Bugplanet8840 you are wrong
Jeez. If I was going to make a list of the things wrong with the Batman Arkam City storyline it wouldn't be ANY of those. If I had to make a complaint it'd be, 1) Arkham city is an extremely stupid idea. I know that mind control was involved, but no one would give up prime real estate in new york city to turn it into a prison. It had a museum and an active steel mill for pity sakes! 2) The idea that Hugo strange would as he said make more Arkham cities in "Keystone" and "bludhaven when it basically failed within like a month or however long it was operating for to the point they needed to introduce protocol 10. It felt like the most contrived possible way they could have made a game where batman runs around in town and there's no civilians to worry about.
3) I have mixed feelings about the joker actually dying. On the one hand it's nice that there actually was a death and someone didn't just come back from the dead as common in comic book stories, but the Joker? Especially when he died 3 feet from a Lazarus pit. Ultimately I love the series and it became a useful plot element in arkham knight, but it still felt like such a gut punch.
Gotham City does isn’t supposed to be part of New York, despite one of NYC’s nicknames being “Gotham”…if I remember correctly Gotham is supposed to be in New Jersey
@@datdankdj8264 I know, I was using New York as an example.
@@keegobricks9734 oh nvm then lol
Yea it makes no sense how Hugo thought he could open up other Arkham cities when the first one went terribly, literally no one would let him make another Arkham city
City is THE MOST overrated Arkham game.
The Ra's Al-Ghul being the mastermind plot twist is trash.
Who the hell is Hugo Strange? Not even the Top 10 of Batman's rogues gallery. Not to mention Hugo Strange is lame, and he did nothing consequential with his knowledge on who Batman is.
You cannot even defend Arkham City's story. You have no argument, only vague things like
"...details, plot twist, worldbuilding...".
Um, elaborate?
"Nope, I refuse to"
Arkham City's story criticism is justified.
Mr. Freeze's boss fight is ULTRA overrated. I cannot see how I can genuinely enjoy the fight for my next playthroughs other than the first. The fight is all substance and no style. Even Mr. Freeze and Batman made a remark on how formulaic the boss fight is.
Deathstroke boss fight in Arkham Origins is so much better. It has style.
Honestly, unironically, I think people who say Arkham City is their best game only say that because of nostalgia.
Ask every other person what the definitive Batman Arkham experience is, and they will say Arkham Knight.
@@ShadowbannedAccount I'm sorry but I disagree with everything you said ra al ghul plot twist was Great unlike arkham knight. "hugo strange is so lame" so what it good to learn more batman villains than the joker if Arkham city criticism is justified then Arkham knight criticism is also justified and how mr freeze fight is overrated Mr freeze fight always Keep you on your toes since you can't do the same moves twice everyone in the community always praises Mr freeze for in creative yeah deathstroke from Arkham origins is good I can't lie but Mr freeze always be better anyway it u opinion about that. no not always about nostalgia people generally like it that the gameplay and story I think that your worst take ever. Only maybe some people may say batman Arkham knight makes a definitive batman Arkham experience but all that just your headcanon the real answer would be Arkham asylum or origins
Origins had its time in the sun as underrated. I think it’s fair to say they are all perfectly rated.
Not by WB
arkham origins is the soul reason i play batman arkham games it what started the love i had for the games then comes asylum which had the most of the edge of the chair feel for me then city which gave the feeling of lost hope and the need for batman to save the city then comes arkham knight which i loved so much and still to this day go back too i don't know if u will agree but origins is a very underrated game just cuz there's glitches and kind of the same mechanics doesn't mean it has the same story and i think everyone should give it a try and i love all of the arkham games since to me the all have their own story feel and mechanics
I know Asylum is aged but I played it for the first time last year and I had such an amazing time and couldn’t wait to continue the series. I’ve played games where I didn’t play in its heyday and/or not on its original console so while I recognize the history, I can’t get into it like I wanted. But that wasn’t the case here, I was having so much fun with Asylum. Definitely a favorite now.
That said, I went into Origins expecting the worst since I saw so many talk poorly of it. And instead I ended up absolutely loving it. It shows how important it is to play for yourself to find how a game impacts you or doesn’t. as I too played it for 1st time last year I never experienced the rough start and I didn’t have too many issues with glitching in general fortunately. The story and cutscenes had me hooked and now it’s one of my favorite games ever. I doubt it’ll ever be remastered but if it was I’d buy it in a heartbeat.
Asylum, City, Origins and Knight are all fantastic games. I'm harsh on a lot of media. I'll be the first to absolutely shit on something if I don't like it or it's not up to my standards. But I absolutely love the Arkham games. They're all good. Some flaws yes, I'm not going to say anything is 100% perfect, but I absolutely adore the Arkham games. Even many years later they're all still fully fun and playable. I recently went through and played all 4 again but in chronological order and it was awesome.
It's between Origins and Asylum
I love origins bc the story and the constant tension even knowing who the joker is prior. Arkham knight has better graphics, traversal, and combat.
glad that someone finally came out and said that the batmobile was well designed and implemented into AK. The driving was incredibly smooth, the tank fights especially after full upgrades were so much fun, and the eject boost are so much fun to run at full speed with the nitro boost
What’s your ranking of every Arkham game worst to best?
@@jextern7961
4th asylum
3rd city
2nd origins
1st knight
im big on gameplay and have a very personal soft spot for origins multiplayer
@@spicycurry7238
W ranking
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For Arkham Knight I wish the city was bigger. I wish we had access to Wayne Manor, the Bat Cave, Arkham City, and Arkham Asylum
Citys story is fantastic and emotional
@Schnirt When batman sees his parents. Bruce wayne is ready to die, but batman clings on to life.
@Schnirt when Taila died, the way joker died, when protocol ten was happening and all the deaths
city’s story is shit. Origins and knight are objectively better
@@tyleroutland435 yeah no emotion at all, in Origins Batman has true emotion
@@Bugplanet8840 origins copy pasted everything good from city. Deathstroke boss fight copied straight from city's Ra's al ghul. City has better boss fights with mr freeze, al ghul, mad hatter, and the jokers funhouse.
I liked origins since it came out and I didn't even know it was hated for a long time. I liked the story and the online mode was fun
In all honesty, my favorite of the entire series is Batman Arkham ORIGINS. That's right. Origins is my favorite, for 3 main reasons.
1) The best interpretation of Bane in any Medium. Bane is not just a physical powerhouse, he's also a cunning and disciplined mind. On top of that, not only is he a cunning brute, he is also a legitimate leader. Someone who both has the ability to lead but also the ability to inspire his men to be the best THEY can be. Top Notch.
2) Deathstroke.
3) IT has the best combat. Yeah, I mean it. It has the best combat of any of the games. It took what arkham city did and added to it. We got brutes and armored brutes, Venom users and best of all martial artists that were such an interesting change of pace for the fights. Arkham Knight removed the venom users, and the martial artists, and the their version of brutes was much worse. They also removed armored thugs entirely, which made both combat and predator challenges less challenging and fun, which is unforgivable. All they added in return was medics who could revive and add the electric shielding to certain enemies. Although I liked it, it really didn't change the way you fight in any meaningful way. You just have to use Batclaw a bit more often to stop the electricity, and it really doesn't take much effort to stop a guy from reviving another guy. A very marginal threat increase.
I agree with all your points. While some people hated the martial artists, I found them quite a fun add that made combat more involved for experienced players.
Though, I believe Knight and Origins had different approaches towards gameplay. Origins clearly preferred difficulty while Knight prioritized being in a flow state and didn't push difficulty as much as Origins.
While we could debate which is better, I believe both achieved what they wanted to do quite well.
Can't forget the amazing Batman theme as well. I prefer it over the trilogy's.
So…
1) is doing one villain right
2) I really disagree, Deathstroke was a bitch in the game. Does nothing impressive and gets taken down by a rookie Batman in ONE fight, in one of the easiest fights in the Arkham series
3) this is so wrong. It has the most unbalanced combat. I’d added nothing that made the combat more fun. The new enemies are nothing special and The electric gloves is just a “win button” that removes any and all challenge from the game. In what universe does it have a better combat then Arkham Knigbt
@@agrainofrice2424
In what universe is Arkham Origins difficult? The shock gloves legit removes ALL challenge from the game. It’s by far the easiest Arkham gsme
@@Indigo_1001 Death stroke and Vigilante Bruce wayne don't have them, also turn off "hints' and they don't have the counter attack warnings.
Origins is the best
City was overrated to me. I replayed the trilogy n everything in city kind of blended in to me. Story was kind of all over the place as well. I liked asylum the best since it had that claustrophobic feel and a certain horror element. Knight was fun except for the Batmobile. I actually haven’t even finished knight because of it.
Arkham origins>>
Agreed. It is criminally underrated & should’ve been included in the remastered trilogy, despite not being made by Rocksteady Studios
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It’s a spinoff that barely is part of the main trilogy story.
It’s extremely overrated and it’s easily the worst of the trilogy
@@Indigo_1001 nah origins is not the worst
The story mode was great
The combat & stealth was challenging which is what Batman games should be
& the boss fights were hard
I mean the electrocutioner boss fight took me about 4 days
@@exwa1300 origins is not underated at all anymore, this take of it being underrated has been said so much. it is not underrated anymore at all.
@@Sewergoose okay thanks for telling me
I’ll admit that Arkham Asylum is my least favorite of the Arkham series, but I do not think the game should be criticized for having gameplay that isn’t as good as it sequels and prequel. It was the first of the series so of course it’s going to have the least evolved gameplay the fact that holds up so well today despite showing its age is a testament to how great the game actually is.
I said in a previous comment that it has aged horribly especially with the sequels and prequel, but I did also mention, how it feels to be a chore to go through for me personally
Arkham Origins is by far the most underrated; It has the best story and the best boss fights... and that's definitely not a small thing.
Slightly related since boss fights for brought up, but does anyone else wish there was a boss rush mode in the Arkham games where you could replay all the boss fights? I would love to fight, death stroke, and see how much I’ve improved as a player without having to create an entirely new saved file. Plus, I imagine it would be useful for the sake of recording gameplay.
ALL BATMOBILE DLC SHOULD BE FREE!!! ESPECIALLY SINCE YA XANT USE MOVIE ONES IN MAIN STORY!!! (HOW CAN THEY NOT HAVE BATTLE MODE?! THEYRE BATMOBILES!!!!!!!!!)
It honestly still amazes me to this day that rocksteady was able to not only perfect car traversal in their first attempt at a vehicle in a game, but they also were able to completely implement an entirely different version of the batmobile (combat mode).
Say all the shit you want I love all Batman games none of them can be bad for me lol
Origins always be my favorite, I still have dreams of having a remaster version for next gen
I feel like people not fully understanding whats happening in Knight with the Titan isn't a valid criticism, its like skipping to season 3 of a show like Breaking Bad or the The Walking Dead with no knowledge of what happened before and complaining about being confused, you have to at least play through Asylum City and Knight to get the full story, Origins is more disconnected so you could skip it but its definitely worth playing too
Knights side quests sucked and the batmobile and trash boss fights sucked
Yes, we watched the video
Arkham origins was underrated as hell
it doesnt mean if ppl dont understand the story because they didnt play the other parts of the franchise that its bad.lets take gow ragnarok for example a lot of stuf from previous games was in the story and not really explained and new players to the gow franchise didnt understand it. does it mean it was bad? no of course thats the reason why its a franchise and not just one game cuz it takes more time to show it and explain it.
I feel like I kept hearing “no one mentions this good thing” in the Arkham knight section. But I’ve heard a lot of people mention those good things. I definitely agree that Arkham knight’s bat mobile is over hated, but I feel like it does get a lot of the credit it deserves
I would say arkham knight is the most overhated game in the series.
Lego batman 2008 is the best batman game change my mind 😭
You think to highly of yourself if think Arkham origins is overrated. Its rated fairly at this point
My favorite Arkham game is Arkham Knight . Yes it does have bad boss fights but it's still a great game.
Arkham Knight has the best closure to the series and my favorite in terms of story
Why you did not mention blackgate and SSKTJL😮😮
I agree with gotham Paladin on that 🙂↕️
I will forever praise arkham origins the most, i regard it as the best in the series.
The part about Batman Arkham city being a goose chase I somewhat agree with when doing the whole penguin part, go to this jammer then the next then the next then everything inside
At least the goose chase is entertaining
If there was a knock out smash silent takedown batman Arkham asylum would be the easiest stealth in the franchise
i love Arkham Knight because the batmobile And The bat suits you can wear i didn't forgot The batmobile skins so the story and the bosses And enemies and yes side missions is the cherry on the pie of this game.
I can't stand people complaining how much batmobile is used in knight. Someone online calculated it to be 20% of the game which is a minimal ammount. It is insane to complain about it because as stated it isn't used that much and driving/fighting with the batmobile is amazing
A better argument would be that those segments are forcefully put in the story.
@@misaeltoral508 that is a better argument for sure. There are a few parts where it feels like "why am I doing this with the batmobile"
It probably wouldn’t feel like that if they added more variety to the Batmobile.
Most of the time, it’s either one of those boring tank battles that require no amount of skill, and are all copy pastes, or it’s a puzzle which can vary wildly in terms of fun.
Origins has received its flowers so asylum and knight are currently the most underrated and they are my personal favorites to come back to each time
I’ve never really understood the hate for Origins.
Oh no, a game that plays exactly like my second favorite game ever. Only with a brand new story….
you wont pick city, you probably wont pick origins, so between asylum and knight i'll say asylum is the one you end up picking (haven't watched the video yet)
Maybe it is just my or the nostalgy, but asylum is my favorite till this day!😅
Have never heard of asylums combat being outdated. The only praise I ever really hear is from people who love both city and asylum but have a problem with either origins or knight.
I always hear Mr freeze or the ending in city. Or for asylum, how it revolutionised modern combat or how they remember when they thought their game "crashed".
Final placement of asylum is crazy
I haven't watched it yet but your answer is Arkham Origins Blackgate. If I'm right you have to give me your Xbox
lol that was actually a part of my script that I decided to cut last minute just to leave it as the main 4 Arkham games
I keep my Xbox😈
Arkham City has always been my least favorite.
Agreed
The Batman one is underrated
I'm sorry but I've never once heard any criticisms towards asylum for being outdated. Like did you see three comments on TH-cam and decide that's a common opinion?
I agree, however it always gets in the shadow of the other games, and i saw many tierlist of the games and asylum was always at 3 or 4 spot.
@@Crcustrip2 I personally put it over City.
@@Luke21-xk7uh i wouldnt, when i started playing these games i said that asylum was my favorite, until i played city and it took his place, however hes at my second place forever, knight and origins would never beat him ❤️
I respect Batman Arkham origins, 100%. But who is ready for Batman Arkham Shadow later this year.
They need to remaster origins
The SSKTL its the best joke
This was a VERY interesting video, this had a lot of nuance and interesting perspectives I never considered, especially with the likes of Arkham Knight.
I'm a big Sonic fan, so I'd be seriously tempted to try something like this with games people generally talk only negatively about. This seems like an extremely fun thought process and video subject, and I absolutely loved this video. Honestly, I was expecting Asylum to be listed as Most Underrated.
Don't forget arkham origins had online
I think the reason people myself included says origins is underrated is because wb doesn't show the game any love leaving it out of every re-release/remaster
Asylum and City were extremely beloved, praised, and even received well. So it's not either one of those two, that leaves origins and knight. I feel like origins has been getting some love recently but so has knight. Why either one of these two games were received poorly is beyond my comprehention.
At the time Origins was released the criticism was about, The bugs, The game running horribly and The Joker being the main antagonist AGAIN. With Knight I think it was because of the Batmobile being overused and The Joker being the main antagonist AGAIN.
I’d say currently, asylum is the most underrated, no one really talks about it now and people consistently rank it last
@@tristantemple834 Ah I see
@@Idk98268 This is true.
Ppl might disagree but arkham city is super overrated, the story is literally 5 hours, the gameply isnt the best
Stealth isnt the best
The combat isnt the best
The pacing is bad
The side quests are pretty meh
The city is good but the worst city
Boss fights arent the best
Its a really good game but ppl say its the only good one in the series
Origins and knight are realistically are the best
Oriģins has the best story
Best bossfights
2nd best stealth
2nd best combat
2nd best graphics
Arkham knight is great cause it had the best gameplay and the story is good 2nd or 3rd best
In my opinion all of the games are great 10/10 for me even asylum
arkham knight is overrated because its all every batman fan talks about, city had unique stealth option, you can say combat wasn't the best that opinion, pacing was not bad. They had unique boss battle that doesn't have the health and you beat the boss.
Arkham origins really is the most important game in the series I feel like the story between the beginning of batman and jokers rivarly is so important to the narrative of the franchise in general and also the boss fights and combat is so so underrated every other Arkham game does not have the "cool" factor that I think is necessary in a Batman game so thats why if it was properly remade to fix it's poor graphics and art style that was absolutely overlooked because of the poor performance it'd be the best in the franchise (also the suit selection is leagues better then the rest of the series in its uniqueness which is what I care most about in cosmetics)
The main antagonist should of been black mask not joker
Black mask would've been way better
@@alexcleianu185 the story's richer with joker in it because the main plot of the whole series is centered around the toxic relationship Batman and Joker have and it's so interesting especially in this game. The story would not be complete without joker.
@@burrito4 yes but they should have made joker a side quest
@@burrito4 and black mask central. The joker side missions could have been something like black mask crew attack joker( black mask was tracking joker in origins ). Batman saving joker from black mask would have made the story complete and also explain the batman-joker relationship
Even my dad loves Arkham origins no matter how many people hated it some people love it including me and some interested people