Batman: Arkham City | A Complete History and Retrospective

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  • @The_Phantasm
    @The_Phantasm ปีที่แล้ว +116

    You know, a character that has always stood out to me these games in particular is The Riddler. Honestly in my opinion these games have the best depiction of The Riddler outside the comics. Wally Wingert who voiced the character in all 4 games always delivered such an incredible performance that always managed to perfectly capture Riddler's obsessive personality, massive ego and superiority complex.

    • @YourFavoriteSon1
      @YourFavoriteSon1  ปีที่แล้ว +16

      He's pretty great

    • @k92ful
      @k92ful ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Yeeeeas. Best shit

    • @Kris-wo4pj
      @Kris-wo4pj ปีที่แล้ว

      Hes so petty and annoying its great. Kinda feel bad for him in origins but then i stop feeling bad for him during arkham knight cuz those car trials suck ass.

    • @MiniDallas000
      @MiniDallas000 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Does he know?

    • @sadomars2446
      @sadomars2446 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      BTAS had a great Riddler

  • @baki484
    @baki484 ปีที่แล้ว +17

    For me it's the soundtrack that hits even after all these years.

    • @Tuelis97
      @Tuelis97 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      Agreed. It’s my ‘running soundtrack’ - nothing like sprinting through the local park listening to ‘I Think You Should Do As He Says’

    • @baki484
      @baki484 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@Tuelis97 Rick kid blues, Rust in pieces and call him off but my favorite one is You need to think this through (the one that plays as you scales wonder tower to stop strange)

  • @Omnicia17
    @Omnicia17 ปีที่แล้ว +30

    How are you churning out these quality retrospectives like this? You're blowing away the competition.

  • @betteryou7hanme
    @betteryou7hanme ปีที่แล้ว +10

    The cutscene when joker is looking at his decaying face in the mirror, and then turns towards batman and suddenly looks perfectly normal is so legendary.

  • @billmozart7288
    @billmozart7288 ปีที่แล้ว +5

    The sense of purpose in the combat system really put me in the Dark Knight's boots. More amazing work, son

  • @andrewmah2962
    @andrewmah2962 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Too bad Arleen Sorkin didn’t come back at Harley Quinn for Arkham City and Arkham Knight

  • @elibrooks1662
    @elibrooks1662 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Wow I forgot so many of the details in this game. The catwoman parts were sick, loved the addition of Penguin too!

  • @elenasalwa9828
    @elenasalwa9828 ปีที่แล้ว +6

    2011… this is absolutely shocking! Almost 12 years ago and this game is still absolutely brilliant to this day! I play Arkham games pretty much every year (Arkham during Autumn early winter and Uncharted in summer time) and every year I enjoy them just as if not more than before. Well, I’m a huge Batman fan 😅 that’s kinda obvious hehe.
    But it’s amazing that 12 years ago we are still talking and playing these games! Damn I wish we would get another Arkham masterpiece on current gen.
    I discovered your channel yesterday, one time TH-cam algorithm did something right and displayed your Arkham Asylum video on my main! Instant subscription!! Thank you for fantastic retrospective! It’s pure pleasure to listen to you 😊 can’t wait for Arkham origins and knight!

    • @baki484
      @baki484 ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I have a fellow enjoyer of the same series of games.
      I play the uncharted series in the new years period chronologically.
      I play city and asylum's story in November or December every year.

  • @planescaped
    @planescaped ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Arkham City in particular is extremely nostalgic for me.

  • @aristoddle8932
    @aristoddle8932 ปีที่แล้ว +9

    Yo, I love your content, but take care of yourself dude
    Hour+ long content requires a LOT of recording, script-writing, asset collection and editing
    I absolutely love what you’re putting out, but the rate @ which you’re doing it is… a real hustle.
    Hope to be able to keep listening to you for years to come while working, cleaning, gardening, and walking around my city. So, please take care of your health bröther.

  • @gimpscam9976
    @gimpscam9976 ปีที่แล้ว +3

    Absolutely astonished at the rate you produce you’re high quality content! I always always love watching your vids and have gone back to watch old ones too just to hear my favorite games talked about again! You’re great!

  • @hopethishelps91
    @hopethishelps91 ปีที่แล้ว +8

    Exactly what I needed today! Keep up the great work!

  • @racheljackson4428
    @racheljackson4428 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Son, You forgot to mention the foreshadowing at the beginning when you play as CatWoman. there's a painting from Two Face's vault Called The Duality of Man including Cain and Abel from the bible.

  • @shawnwilliams3083
    @shawnwilliams3083 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Great timing. I unwind and listen to your videos.

  • @MrOJHeart
    @MrOJHeart ปีที่แล้ว +11

    Your videos are always so good, Son. I always look forward to them.
    Keep up the great work!

  • @matthewsmith7059
    @matthewsmith7059 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    After just watching your Arkham Aslyum video I was excited to see when the next game retrospective of city was up and I was pleasantly happy to see it already uploaded ! Exacted for the next one ‼️

  • @marzuuuuski
    @marzuuuuski ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Good retrospective, but you forgot one side mission, which was my personal favorite: The Identity Thief

  • @Reptonious
    @Reptonious ปีที่แล้ว

    Was looking forward to this once I saw a vid for Asylum was out. Knight is good and Asylum is great but this is one of those games that I can't forget any beat of. Thanks for the love on this Mother's Day son.

  • @dylansears1049
    @dylansears1049 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Awesome video and one of my favourite games!!

  • @The_Phantasm
    @The_Phantasm ปีที่แล้ว +4

    I know you've completed the games you've done retrospectives for but I wanted to ask if you have listened to all the interview tapes from the Arkham games? If not I highly recommend watching them because they offer some of the best conversations in the entire Arkham series.

  • @shahrouh
    @shahrouh ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I may be in the minority but gameplay aside I actually preferred the story of Asylum. It felt more tightknit and focused whereas City's was following a bunch of different threads. The Scarecrow sequence blew me away in Asylum and I loved the dynamics between him and the Joker, who I felt we didn't really see much of in City. One thing is also the setting of Arkham Asylum had a certain feel to it and the opening where you felt something was off was pretty awesome, and it felt like an extension to the comics whereas City changed the story with how Strange was dealt with as well as the death of the Joker. But that's just my take.

  • @sawadatsunayoshi8887
    @sawadatsunayoshi8887 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Been waiting for this one, it's gonna be amazing!

  • @mementomori771
    @mementomori771 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    43:08 the amazing ending is undercut by a boring catwomen mission unsurprising

  • @ALL_that_ENDS
    @ALL_that_ENDS ปีที่แล้ว +2

    Me boi.. Chapter 2, Arkham boogaloo

  • @seizie_
    @seizie_ ปีที่แล้ว

    9:31 “it’s billionaire son… millionaires are so last year”🤣

  • @TommyBahamy
    @TommyBahamy ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Hell yeah, new video! Thanks!

  • @The_Phantasm
    @The_Phantasm ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Really excited for when you get to Arkham Origins next. That game was definitely underrated when it first came out. More recently however people have gone back to this game and have praised it for its great story and amazing performances and it has in my opinion the second best story in the series with the first being Arkham City. It also has the best and most accurate depiction of Bane ever outside the comics.

    • @YourFavoriteSon1
      @YourFavoriteSon1  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      I've been enjoying it, but it definitely has it's issues

    • @The_Phantasm
      @The_Phantasm ปีที่แล้ว

      @@YourFavoriteSon1 But Bane is really great in it isn't he?

    • @booprice5473
      @booprice5473 ปีที่แล้ว

      @@The_Phantasm lol

  • @neocores
    @neocores ปีที่แล้ว

    48:55 harley statue jumpscare

  • @Sarunas863
    @Sarunas863 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    dont know why you used the remaster version for the video, originals visuals look so much better

  • @martinrosendahl9134
    @martinrosendahl9134 ปีที่แล้ว

    Another great video from MyFavoriteSon ;-)

  • @eppinizer
    @eppinizer ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Wish I still had motivation to play open world games. Always feels like a chore whenever I find myself given the freedom to decide what I want to do next. I can respect a good game even if I don't want to play it, of course. I remember my friends going nuts for this game on release.

    • @YourFavoriteSon1
      @YourFavoriteSon1  ปีที่แล้ว +2

      I usually agree, but I think this game came before most of the really egregious open world games.

  • @picahudsoniaunflocked5426
    @picahudsoniaunflocked5426 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Good job, Son.

  • @connla
    @connla หลายเดือนก่อน

    my memory is messed up as I remember I stopped playing during the 'find Rha's ah ghul's hiding place mission and never got to the boss fight with him, but I also remember doing the mr freeze boss fight??? In fact I remember going as far as having to go the steel mill a second time and Catwoman having to make a choice. I guess I did do the Rhas fight after all. But I remember it being a sticking point with Arkham City that that the sheer amount of secondary missions and riddler trophies were such a distraction that I lost all track of where I was meant to be going in the game and thats why I stopped (I had a similar response with Arkham origins, weirdly did not have the issue with either Asylum or Knight though)

  • @TheGodKingRat
    @TheGodKingRat ปีที่แล้ว

    Cant wait to watch the 4 hour video of all the games together looking forward to the 20 hours of Yakuza video lol

  • @Gaster_021
    @Gaster_021 10 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I wish that there was more lore to the city itself other than a massive free rain prison

  • @775315
    @775315 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Would love to hear your long-form thoughts on the watch dogs trilogy. There’s not nearly enough on them in my opinion. Those games have so much good and so much bad it’s fascinating

  • @Jose-se9pu
    @Jose-se9pu ปีที่แล้ว

    Its amazing how Rocksteady took the biggest criticism of the previous game (bosses sucked), and had this game had some of the best boss battles in gaming history.
    While the atmosphere in Asylum was better, City is better in every single other aspect.

  • @kreevisful
    @kreevisful ปีที่แล้ว

    *Son* im back from the store with bread & milk. I also bought you some of those Pokéman cards ya like.

  • @davidt3563
    @davidt3563 ปีที่แล้ว

    Fantastic video son!

  • @onatgz
    @onatgz ปีที่แล้ว +1

    good game. good video.

  • @nicholasdanger627
    @nicholasdanger627 ปีที่แล้ว

    I love this game, but I remember that I couldn't play it around my Mom because she didn't like Catwomans zipper placement, the nasty thugs, and Two Face saying "bitch." So I had to play Amazing Spider-Man 2 instead, I was less than ecstatic lol

  • @greasygod93
    @greasygod93 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I’ve finished this game 3 times but never all the riddler challenges. There’s too many I get bored.

  • @bridgesbane7032
    @bridgesbane7032 ปีที่แล้ว

    That's my boy.

  • @Nicholas339
    @Nicholas339 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    Happy SonDay!

  • @jayvansickle7607
    @jayvansickle7607 ปีที่แล้ว

    I actually revisit Asylum, City and Origins more often than Knight. Partially because I'm more familiar with the controls of those 3, and going back and fort to Knight is a little jarring (for me). And, Knight is a bit too complicated for me... a personal issue, I know. I also prefer the smaller, more inclosed predator rooms to the completely open (and more sparse) predator areas in Knight.

  • @chydollaz2623
    @chydollaz2623 ปีที่แล้ว

    Definitely should do the last one Arkham knight that’s my favorite one Ever ! 🎉

  • @TevyaSmolka
    @TevyaSmolka ปีที่แล้ว

    I love Batman Arkham city it’s such amazing sequel to Batman Arkham asylum in my opinion and really great game which I approve.

  • @AM-uo2kf
    @AM-uo2kf ปีที่แล้ว

    I just finished my replay of Arkham city very recently and I really feel Catwoman was completely tacked on like she has little to no bearing on the story

  • @GloomSlayer69
    @GloomSlayer69 ปีที่แล้ว

    I'm that type of gamer who doesn't actually have the money to freely spend on DLC, I'm also the type of gamer who has played this game atleast 6 times just because it's that good. so when you said you start off the game as Catwoman I was wtf, no you don't you start off as Bruce Wayne but then you said DLC & I was like ah, well now that makes more sense. I remember wanting to go into Poison Ivy's lair so bad as a teenager but couldn't as I didn't have Catwoman as a playable character. Really ticked me off hahahaha

  • @Negolash
    @Negolash ปีที่แล้ว

    Remaster really fucks up a lot of lighting, shadows, coloration and hair. Slightly higher texture resolution and better models do not compensate.

  • @Kris-wo4pj
    @Kris-wo4pj ปีที่แล้ว

    This was my intro to the arhkam series simply cuz i had a ps3 not a 360(my brother had one but i didnt buy games for it) so its hard for me to play asylum pretty sure i did beat but compared to this game its not memorable

  • @mementomori771
    @mementomori771 ปีที่แล้ว +1

    7:39 the weaving of the catwomen missions into the main story was my least favorite thing

  • @OfficialSatelliteMan
    @OfficialSatelliteMan ปีที่แล้ว +1

    When you doing Resident Evil?😅

  • @elibrooks1662
    @elibrooks1662 ปีที่แล้ว

    omg I love this game

  • @Sophnar0747
    @Sophnar0747 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    It's a shame Rocksteady never made a superhero game again. Although it must be a relief for you that you can now move onto a new series because the Batman universe games definitely ended right here.

  • @mattmc9812
    @mattmc9812 2 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I don't see the suicide squad as cannon it's an abomination. Batman last story in my opinion is Arkham Knight

  • @mementomori771
    @mementomori771 ปีที่แล้ว

    37:19 this reflection is just flat out wrong very few of batmans villians would disapear if he never was batman

  • @jayvansickle7607
    @jayvansickle7607 ปีที่แล้ว

    So upset that the Mr. Freeze stealth wasn't a playable stealth map in challenge mode.

  • @tomhibbert6486
    @tomhibbert6486 ปีที่แล้ว +2

    I really wished the joker has stay dead after arkham city cause it kinda shoves the villains to the otherside especially in arkham knight like I like him as a character but I don't want him to be the main villain all the time

    • @YourFavoriteSon1
      @YourFavoriteSon1  ปีที่แล้ว +1

      True, probably would've been a better option for the series

    • @tomhibbert6486
      @tomhibbert6486 ปีที่แล้ว

      @YourFavoriteSon1 like arkham origins I can forgive considering that's a prequel but arkham knight should've just stuck with scarecrow

    • @theonlybilge
      @theonlybilge ปีที่แล้ว +3

      I disagree, the series is about Batman and Joker. The way they brought Joker back in Arkham Knight was probably the best way they could have done it.

    • @tomhibbert6486
      @tomhibbert6486 ปีที่แล้ว

      @theonlybilge yeah but when arkham knight teases scarecrow being the villain with no joker you would expect no joker

    • @benc77
      @benc77 ปีที่แล้ว

      But he did stay dead, he’s not really there in Arkham knight