5 Things Batman Arkham Asylum Did BEST
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- Batman Arkham Asylum was the first game in the Batman Arkham series, but it still managed to do many things better than the rest of the games. Let's take a look at some of the best parts of the game! #BatmanArkham #WBGames #BatmanArkhamLegacy
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Asylum - Strategist
City - Hero
Origins - Detective
Knight - Soldier
Hotel - Trivago
Origins blackgate: ignoring 3rd dimension
That’s a perfect analogy for why Origins is honestly my personal favourite Arkham game. I loved the deep detective work, that’s one of my favourite aspects of Batman that’s been neglected over the years. I hope WB Montreal’s new Batman game focuses heavily on detective work.
@@stepkickking9868 I assume it will considering the fact that WB Montreal made origins
Knight - invincible super tank
The one thing I wish was in Knight, was the asylum. In specific I mean like at the end when you are taken to the asylum, I wish instead you tracked scarecrow there, and you got to explore it for the last time. Also to see how the place changed, just a big nostalgic send off.
I never thought of that but that could have been cool instead of scarecrow getting you there and you fight againts the joker in your head and you start to see things like when the truck chrashes and you get out and your in crime alley and your fighting jokers like you should have been able to play in the asylum but idk man it would have been cool but the asylum is like destroyed cause of the plants and that nobody takes care of the place and yeah i think it would be awsome walking through the main hall but idk.
That could’ve been great. As you walked through the Asylum, Batman could’ve had flashbacks to each Arkham game, starting with Origins and working up to Knight. It would’ve been a great way to recap the whole franchise.
@@stepkickking9868 would maybe have been a great opportunity for an actual boss fight with scarecrow like the ones in asylum
@@lucaskay5847 Maybe one of those glitches could have happened.
Would have added a nice cyclical structure to the whole story and make the player actually feel like everything was ending where it began. Would also allow for a more extended endgame by going through the Asylum one last time.
Playing this game late at night alone still creeps me out. They did such a good job w the ambiance in this game.
Whaa??? It feels awesome!!
I feel like Batman in a batcave on his computer playing Batman
In Asylum, whem you walk into the walkway where the Joker has a tv over his head and says you can’t come in, just turn around and look at him again. He’s making a different pose. That had got to be the creepiest in the entire game.
The killer croc boss fight always made me sh*t my pants when I was younger.
My friend told me about it sometime before I got to that part and I had a nightmare about it, still feeling uneasy on the replays
I played asylum for the first time last week and for some reason I was unfazed at the killer croc mission
Still does with me, tbh.
The croc boss fight scared me so much as a kid that I didn't complete it and asked my dad to do it for me instead
I'm surprised that the character bios weren't on here. Those were done SOOOO much better than all the other games.
I remember I got scared by the page flips the first time I heard them. I freaked out and didn't touch the game for at least an hour. I was 9, give me a break.
The art was so cool 👌🏻👌🏻
@@absolutelynoone2755 yup
Austin Batton Hey. Fuck off.
@Austin Batton We are the Sons of Virgins and we don't condone Premarital Handholding.
In my opinion it has to be the environment and eerie feeling it gives me every time I play it.
Even if it doesn't have any endgame gameplay I think the emptyness adds to the eerie feeling.
this exactly
Agreed. I would’ve loved to have seen Arkham Asylum get a complete remake using the same engine as Arkham Knight. I say that because brining the Asylum to life with the photo realism of Knight would’ve made it feel even more creepy.
Yeah I finished it today on Xbox one and I decided to get the rest of the riddler trophys and it felt really empty and eerie I felt like there was gonna be a jumpscare or something which I did get jumpscared by some of the lunatics that were still roaming around the empty asylum
Even the deisgn to the buildings and everything was excellent
arkham asylum has more creep factor
I agree it really had a lot of horror elements that I wish later games incorporated
Degenerate Jay especially for killer croc every time he saw him pop up I paused for 10 secs and it was because of the setting it really is nerve racking just looking around waiting for him to jump out of the wood pallets and shock him the environment played the biggest part in that
@@GodsWorstMistake I was unfazed by that for some reason lol
@@Playing_WithMemesSB I can see why but I was ten last time I played asylum
@@GodsWorstMistake yh true I am 14 rn
I really like the interview tapes in arkham asylum
I don't know how to properly describe it but there is something about Asylum's atmosphere that none of the other games got quite right.
The feeling that death can pop out at every turn?
I don’t know if THa other games r going for tHat Doe
I know I’m probably alone in this, but I think Arkham Asylum has the best setting out of all the Arkham Games. The grim, dirty maze like layout of the Asylum creates a claustrophobic atmosphere, that I think is a great metaphor for the insanity of the patients within. I honestly wouldn’t mind if Gotham Knights (or whatever the new game is) also used a linear level design, even for a small portion of the game.
You're certainly not alone.
@@leonpaelinck no that seems to be the popular opinion (and for completely good reason i agree)
Going open world was the franchise's worst call. Arkham knight did everything it could to make a good open world game, but the result was a game that was almost nothing like how it started.
The perfect Arkham game would be, asylums atmosphere, knights combat (not the bat tank), city’s story and origins bosses
Knight combat's gave to the series a more fluent but more easy combat which sucks actually.. for me origins' combat was perfect 👌
@@manaaa_I agree that Knight is too easy,even on hard difficulty. Both Asylum and City excelled in their difficulties,and Knight only felt hard because of overused Batmobile missions and sidequests.
Yeah some of the predator encounters in asylum were surprisingly difficult, i recently replayed the whole series again and it stood out as having some of the harder sections.
The pump station. Hardest one for me.
The Llama King yeah it almost seems like it doesn’t matter where you go they see you in the dark, it’s crazy
@@thellamaking5132 abuse the ultra batclaw. it's OP when enemies are standing near a ledge. (there are many ledges in that room)
I think you hit the nail on the head. Asylum feels more focused and feels like it has a better sense of direction. A lot of it felt like the creators were asking themselves "how can we make this aspect of the mythos playable?" while in the other games the kind of felt like they did it the other way around. The Riddler challenges were probably the best example of this. I have no idea how they went from riddles and secret documents to race tracks.
I love knight but you perfectly articulated something inherently wrong with the game, the loss of groundedness. Asylum while being wacky and having comic book villains, still felt realistic in the sense that the world was designed first and the game had to work with that world. Arkham knight feels like they made a game first and attached the world to it. Why does the Arkham knight use thousands of unmanned drone when if he straps a kitten to one Batman’s entire plan would be thwarted? Why does the riddler build million dollar underground race tracks as a test of intelligence? Why is every random problem solved by the bat mobile? Because they made the game about the bat tank first and then built the world around it, making it feel so much more gamey.
You both hit the nail on the head
I'm actually playing through Return to Arkham, Batman Arkham Asylum. Nice timing great vid. Just finished the Killer Croc sequence
@@randomnerd3402 First time I got jumped by Killer croc, I set the controller down and noped my way out. I wish they did something like that in Knight. Maybe going through the ship tracking croc by finding dead officers like Ivy's plants.
Same here,currently in the lunatic aisle..just beat harleys men while she swung around from the ceiling lamp
I know I was literally scared when I was doing it, so fun though
I really enjoyed the riddler challenges with catwoman in Arkham knight. Wish it was in the rest of the franchise
I didn’t even play enough after the last boss to have any knowledge of such feature. Went to get a certain trophy and it was glitched and not there, so I stopped. There is also wayyy too many
@@sugaquaks I didn't even try to collect all the trophies because city burned me out
@@jackgreff9118 yes
@@coltonervin9244 I think arkham knight in general made playing with other characters better than any other arkham game
Colton Ervin I did all of them for every game
Asylum is my favorite Arkham game mainly because definitely it feels like you’re trapped on the island and it gives off a really eerie, haunting feeling and it feels like your essentially surviving a horror movie. Not to mention the incredibly creepy Scarecrow and Killer Croc boss fights.
"You're stuck here with all these villains"
*Puts down Uno reverse card*
Arkham Asylum did something that hasn't been done before or since: it's a survival horror Batman game.
Bum ba-bam bum. The sound of my childhood.
I especially love when Joker makes the chime with his voice at one point.
Same
Arkham asylum was the best gaming experience I ever had and still return to the game every year
To an extent, I guess you could say this game did Killer Croc and Scarecrow the best. I absolutely love Scarecrow in Knight, but those fear sections are still some of the best gameplay I've ever experienced. And Killer Croc didn't really have much competition. I haven't played his Knight DLC, but I think I've seen enough of it to know it was a far cry from his lair in Asylum. Having to slowly walk through this maze while a giant mutant crocodile could jump out an eat you at any second was terrifying and awesome.
Croc in Knight is a joke. You get the jump on him (really? REALLY? After all the talk Croc makes about having your scent?) and fight a bunch of random goons while you and Robin beat on Croc a few times, it was a real let down. Knight is an amazing game and super fun to play, but it lacks in several major areas: the oft-mentioned Bat-tank reliance and the lack of any boss battles of *any* significance. The only one worth a damn was the showdown with the Knight himself in the base because it was at least a proper Predator encounter rather than the tank crap again.
Degenerate Jay: I'm not doing any arkham video
Arkham games: you could not live with your own failure, where did that bring you back to me!
He never said he’s not doing any, he said he’s not going to do them exclusively, listening really has become a rarity these days I see
@@theAverageJoe25 People who can take a joke have become a rarity these days.
The character bio’s. The character bio’s in this game were amazing, they were cool to look at, had a lot more information in them than the other games did and because of how many there were they really expanded on the Arkham Universe and the Batman Mythos as a whole for people like me, who were new to Batman. Arkham Asylum and the The Batman series from the early 2000’s was my only knowledge of Batman at that age, so they introduced me to new characters that I’d never heard of before in a really cool, interesting way.
The Joker pack you could get with PSN was really good. I remember playing the sh*t out of all the challenges and trying to collect every damned Riddler trophy to get the Platinum.
Joker in challenges is also in the return to arkham version on all platforms.
1:02 no they were stuck on this island with ME!
Now this is the right mindset.
I felt more vulnerable in asylum then I ever did in the other games even in knight where you had a literal occupying army you the odds were still in your favor but in asylum I felt like it was an uphill climb to victory
I love killer croc in this game as he is one of my favorite Batman villains and his design in this game is awesome. I’m also a big fan of scarecrows design in this game and his voice. I like how his voice is high pitched and creepy and I think I like him more than the Arkham knight scarecrow. This was the only Arkham game where I got every riddle and trophy. It was really satisfying to hear the riddler get arrested over the coms.
I got 240%. Suck it Nerd!
@@icecream4you161 lol the Irony, calling him a nerd when you’re the one who got 240%🤣
@@toddtaylor8368 Hey, don't disrespect the drift boy.
Definitely the biggest thing for me with this game was that aspect of learning about all the different characters and their backstories. I was a Batman newbie when I first played this game, I basically only knew what was in the Batman live action movies (Burton and Schumacher) so getting into this for the first time really opened my eyes to the complexity that is Batman and his rogues gallery and it has really made me love Batman as a whole. I'm actually working my way through BTAS for the first time right now, with a slew of the animated movies lined up after that and if I ever stop spending so much money on video games collectors editions, I do want to get into the comics at some point as well. And that's all stemmed from Arkham Asylum
Good to see this game getting some love. It's seems pretty overshadowed by it's successor and/or successors when I don't know if I ever felt more terror or suspense or edge of my seat thrill with any of the other games' stories like I did with this one. One example being that tension of being stuck in the sewer with Croc ready to pop up on you. And dealing with Scarecrow's hallucinations was great. Loved this game so much.
I could replay the story over and over again even without chapter selection (even though the Arkham series really oughta start putting that feature for real. They did it for Catwoman in Arkham City)
I have the Catwoman dlc but cant select?
@@batmantheknight7862 My nephew had the GOTY edition that included DLC characters and had the Episodes of Catwoman mode where you could pick a chapter you wanted play from. I think you first you had to complete that chapter for it to be in the mode.
@@MrWolfchamp-xi3cu it gets overshadowed because of Arkham City which wasn't all that great in terms of storytelling
Jay, I enjoy the content you make, but how do you not burn out or grow tired of the Arkham games videos.
For me it's interesting cause I'm playing them. But for a longtime fan, how do you retain interest?
I mean this in no way to offend, but out of curiosity. :)
I do get tired of them and I take pretty extended breaks. It's also why I make lots of other content (though a lot of people don't care about those videos lol).
@@DegenerateJay Oh I'm sorry, I do lol.
Keep up your work, I wish you nothing but success in future.
Arkham Asylum had the best little details. Be it the architecture, the easters eggs, the references, the character bios and more. It those details that truly make a game in my opinion.
It was also the only game where the Batfamily not being involved actually made narrative sense if Joker or Harly suspected that Knightwing or Robin had gotten involved then he would have killed Sharp and his other hostages rather than just use them as bait. Whereas the other games made no sense as despite what Batman says things would have gone much better if they had been involved.
The third and final thing that it did best was the villains, they genuinely felt powerful and dangerous and that Batman needed a plan in order to beat them, or in Killer Crocs case he knew he couldn't win that fight so the best he could do is plant a trap and hope for the best. You also have Bane smashing through walls, Ivy taking over the whole Island, Joker and his crew killing almost all the guards and staff and scarecrow giving you nightmares.
Great comment
I totally agree!
The fact that joker talks to you all the time through the speakers with that iconic ring made it much better
Asylum and City are that perfect one-two combo. You see how Joker had clearly spent a lot of time planning out the Asylum takeover, even if his actual plan in the game didn't amount to much, and the self injection of Titan was massively out of character, but I digress. He obviously had come up with something massive and Batman put a stop to it, resulting in Joker's desperation play of that Titan injection which wound up backfiring on him with his poisoned state in City. Even in Knight, with Batman having the Joker hallucinations and slowly becoming a new Joker, it all traces back to that one night in Asylum, to the events in this one game.
I think it wasn't out of character for the Joker injecting himself with Titan because it makes a lot of sense for him to do that.
The Joker took time and planning to make his goal come true, to take over the Asylum.
When the Joker realized it was falling a part, his last scheme was to make Batman turn into a titan monster because he knew that Batman will jump in front of Gordon to save him. That last scheme failed shocking to the Joker when Batman was able to resist the change.
The Joker was stunned, so stunned he came up with one last idea to finally put a end to Batman and finally achieve his goal and that was to inject himself with the titan and turn into that Jokerized monster.
It all makes sense to me because Joker wants Batman to see the madness and Joker will do anything to show him and that's why he injected the titan and turned into that monster because he's insane enough to do that.
I think more than any of the other Arkham games, Asylum really had more of a horror theme to it.
Being in not only an insane asylum, but Arkham of all places, really added to that. There have been plenty of "the inmates are running the asylum" stories out there, but it's always special when it's Arkham since you have the super villains thrown in the mix as well. Like Jay says, in the other games Batman never feels trapped. He's just starting out in Origins, he can easily escape Arkham City (only really staying to investigate what the hell is going on) and in Knight he's hunting down Scarecrow and the Arkham Knight's forces. But Asylum? More than any other game in the series, you have that sense of being trapped with all the crazies running around. Which makes it all the more fun to turn those situations around in a "I'm not trapped in here with you, you're trapped in here with me!" kind of way.
The Best version of the Scarecrow as well. I know he was the big bad in knight but here he did the nightmare sequences and it was amazing better than anything he pulled off in almost any other continuity.
Hey jay. Just wanted to say I’ve been watching your vids for the last couple months now, ever since TH-cam suggested one of your “Top 5” Arkham vids, and I love your content.. Keep doing what you do 🙏🏼
Thank you Tim I really appreciate it!
Your reasons are spot on to mine. This game made me research the characters and get invested in the Batman world at only 10 years old. The environment is my favorite thing, the other games don’t connect you to the settings nearly as much.
"Batman the tank boy" funniest shit ever lol
The game had the best atmosphere. It felt so eerie.
It was always the foreboding scary game of the arkham series. It really was. This game was the scariest of them all. Scarecrow and killer croc and the maniacs were all scary and I love it
Croc and The Maniacs gave me nightmares as a kid
I really liked the environment of the game I think that it was a character it's self. My favourite environments are the caves and Killer Croc's lair. Crocs lair has to be one of the scariest environments and locations out of all the Arkham games.
IKR it gave me nightmares as a kid and even when I replayed it in return to Arkham when I was older I still was decently scared.
I wasn't a fan of joker turning into a giant monster with a Mohawk at the end, but it's still a pretty good game.
I just got done replaying this game last night, and let me tell you, if you like following trails of chemicals through hallways, this is the game for you!!!
Riddler taunting you or freaking out about how close you were to being done was great. In other games you could go for hours without interaction with him and that made the puzzles feel empty imo
"Up for a challenge?"
2nd favourite game in the franchise and helped raise the notion that Superhero games can be amazing
the riddler trophys are so fun in asylum
Love the video, I hope you didn’t feel to pressured to make another Arkham video and hope you’re enjoying it more. Excited to see what the next couple will be, personally I think City showed the relationships between the villains/gangs the best, you see how joker’s gang and penguin’s gang really hate each other, but you also see a overlap and connection between the individual thugs themselves with the random conversation that have and the way they talk about the other gangs and the members.
I’ve been loving all the Batman Arkham videos. During quarantine I’ve reconnected with all the Batman games and have a newfound appreciation for the series
I am only just playing this Series for the very first time, I completed Asylum a few days ago and am now playing City, gotta say I am enjoying the bigger Freedom of City, however i really only started to get used to the Combat and Predetor missions towards the end of Asylum, and am thinking of re-playing it (also to try and get all the Riddler Trophies now I have a good feel for each section of the Island).
I have to say Riddler stuff in Asylum is my least favorite
My favorites are City and Knight
The riddles to get the trophies are very fun and you explore places you may not visit other wise
Also City has the actual levels, Origins the towers and Knight has the Selina stuff which is so cool
In Asylum you can take any of the trophies without much afford
And the pay off isn't that great
Of course the dialogue at the is awesome but in City and Knight you actually capture him
One of the issues with the Asylum Riddler stuff, is there isn't an in-story reason for Batman to waste his time with the Riddler. There is a game play reason, gaining experience points for upgrades. But in-story, there are no consequences if Batman ignores them, so why would be bother with them? He's more concerned with stopping Joker, not playing at Riddler's game.
@@KeithRK well at the end you hear how the police arrests him
@@oguzhanbaharli7598 excately
Heavily disagree the some of the trophy’s in City and Knight were so frustrating to get, also Knight makes you do shitty races. I like Asylum because you are exploring unique places and learning about different characters that aren’t in the game while seeing cool Easter Eggs about them.
The riddles were done sooooo well in this game, really didn't feel necessary but you wanted to do them and were so interesting
Facts dude, I wanted to learn about new characters and stuff
I like how Riddler was done in the Arkham series but in City and Knight he felt too much like Jigsaw from the Saw films but I liked Riddler none the less.
🙌🏻Let's go Jay!
I loved the story at the start when Joker was literally telling Batman his plan, it made young me feel like a detective lol
This game has the darkest atmosphere, like the comics
Bet the thing origins did was made us all rage quit like 10 times before actually beating deathsroke.
Nice list mate. PA System SOOO nostalgic! I would also argue this game does the Scarecrow sequences the best, too (Not counting Joker hallucinations, as they were because of Joker's blood).
I've been replaying the series and after playing Asylum I *had* to download the PA system jingle.
To this day this is the one Arkham game I haven’t beaten yet. I’ve been chipping away at the return to Arkham version and so far I thoroughly enjoyed it
I like Return as a way for people who only use modern day consoles to play it, but sadly they really jacked up a lot of the character models, the lighting etc. Its not the end of the world but it did bug me.
Degenerate Jay unless your favorite game is origins.
For me, ArkAsyl concentrates the triumph over fear best out of all the games: you're in a pretty stereotypical autumn Halloween haunted house setting, filled with monsters of various sorts. But you're the Batman, and the ones who aren't scared of _you_ yet will learn better. But sometimes the oppressive lonely atmosphere is just a challenge to continue on into (possibly topped by those moments you get into the screaming madmen area.)
5 the Stealth
4 the Lighting
3 Soundtrack
2 the horror
1 Atmosphere
Loved how eerie it all felt, between Crocs lair, Scarecrows Scenes (primarily the morgue), the little details such as Clay face being in his Cell shape-shifting or inmates cells such as Freeze, Dent, Callender Man, etc
Playing this game by myself even in the day still creeps me out especially when I just completed the game and I am looking for Riddler trophies all by myself in the eerie and creepy Asylum.
One thing I think Arkham Asylum needs a good bit of credit for is that it really showed people just how formidable of a foe Scarecrow can be. It armed the very concept of his fear toxin to the teeth, as well as showing it can be used for intense psychological terror rather than spiders and snakes. Scarecrow is an amazing villain, probably my favorite in fiction (next to Bane since honestly it's now a little bit difficult for me to pick one over the other), and I think that Arkham Asylum was one of the very first adaptations of the character other than TNBA to really do him a lot of justice
Just saw your playthrough of the game from 2018 yesterday it was quite funny👌👍
I never felt stuck on Arkham Island with the Joker, Harley, etc. I felt like all these villains are stuck there with me
I don't know about anyone else but after this series I think it would be pretty interesting to see you do playable characters concept videos
For me Arkham Asylum had the best map to explore, and it is the best for pure nostalgia
5:32 “Batman The Tank Boy” LMAO
The last shot in the game is Batman going into Gotham to stop Two-Face abord the Batwing. Proving that at anytime Batman could have left the Island. I loved that.
I think you're absolutely on point with these specific parts of the game that you've selected. I've watched walkthroughs of all four games, and the points you selected really do stand out better in Asylum than they do in the others. That, for me, actually validates my opinion when I say that, when comparing which of the four games had the best of which components, Arkham Asylum was the one that set the standard for the rest of the franchise. As for the other three, Arkham City had the best Story, Arkham Origins had the best Boss Fights, and Arkham Knight had the best Combat Mechanics.
I swear I hear that “duun dundun duun” in my sleep😂
Its soo creepy lmao
Great video
Like everyone else, I’m replaying the Arkham series, I’m just getting hyped up for the announcement for the next game, and I do really enjoy asylum for the eerie ambience and how it had a great story which set up the best game in the series, and I think people forget that city couldn’t have happened without this game
One thing this game did better than every other game in history, not just it's series, was its sewer level was an absolute highlight of the game. The Killer Croc "boss battle" was and remains one of the best of the series and no one seems to mention or reference it. True, you don't exchange blows, batarang him in the face as he charges you to make him slam into a wall so you can ride him and steer him into other bad guys and all that, and it's really not a fight per se, but the element of danger, dread, isolation urgency and foreboding are unrivaled. He only has to catch you once and you lose. He can come at you from anywhere at any time and you have to be on your toes to make sure you can fire a batarang at his collar in time before he gets you and you have very little time to react. Plus the music and sound design really enhance the battle. Playing this with a good system really immerses you in that place and hearing Croc's voice coming at you from all around you, never knowing just where he is when he taunts you is legitimately creepy.
One more thing I thing this game does better than the rest is it knows less is more. The Killer Croc sewer level occurs only once, lasts for a good 10-15 minutes, then it's over. The Scarecrow hallucinations only happen 3 times, becoming darker, deeper experiences with each one, but then it's over. The Riddler challenges are fair and don't overstay their welcome, etc. The rest of the series tends to go overboard at times. Arkham City less so, but Origins over does it with Nygma challenges, maps (what I mean is the overworld if you will, is massive, but there are so few locations accessible to you to enter and explore, leaving it feeling vast, but dead), straight up combat rather than well - thought-out predator missions, and so on. Knight really over does it with tank battles, DLC campaigns that waste your time rather than offering a fulfilling experience (unlike Cold Cold Heart and Harley Quinn's Revenge, which give you at least an hour of story to play through), Riddler challenges (many of which, I found to be excruciating chores at best, and buggy messes at worse, namely the ones requiring you to uncover and follow the question marks with the Batmlbile, which for me, never worked right and I had to start over way too often), and too many militia drones, checkpoints and the like to have to take out. Arkham Asylum, while being far more linear than the rest, never felt like the story was being sacrificed for more, more, more, and it felt like it could have taken place in just one night, and while it had less, it said much more and always leaves you hungry for more.
Agreed 100%. Croc's boss fight in Asylum and Mr. Freeze's fight in City are two of the absolute pinnacles of Batman boss fights for me in the entire series.
Great comment
Arkham Asylum is sill my favorite Batman/DC game and still my favorite of the Arkham franchise. And you hit the nail here, especially with number one with the story. Paul Dini's my favorite writer for Batman stories and this really did feel like a spin off or mature take on the DCAU Batman aka Batman The Animated Series, it's own thing, or just a solo game that you can play without playing the sequels. The best story of the franchise was here imo. Great video overall, Degenerate Jay!
Paul Dini's a genius.
It's still my favorite because of all the years of comics and the animated series, even Batman forever, you finally get to go to Arkham Asylum. It was so cool to finally see it and be there.
This game had the best overall scares. Like the Scarecrow missions, they are some of the best boss fights in the entire series, and that Killer Croc mission was spectacular for me. It still scares me to play the third Scarecrow fight and the full Killer Croc one just because of the unsettling feeling when playing it.
The feeling trapped thing is so true I got scared as a kid from playing arkham asylum because of the claustrophobic setting and the scarecrow part of the story
“Batman The Tank Boy”
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5 best Arkham Asylum things: 5. Best use of Mark Hamill's Joker 4. Arleen Sorkin's swan song. 3. having to use your wits when trapped such as in the Patient Transfer Loop 2. Best post Animated Series Batman game. 1. Best use of Poison Ivy. I hated how in City she's only a cameo and mini boss. I really hated her dying in Knight. They could've done something else but no she has to die. Her boss fight's one of the best of the franchise. 5 best Arkham City things: 5. Best use of other characters like Solomon Grundy, Clayface 1, and Prof Hugo Strange. 4. Best Riddler use as I can usually complete it, CatWoman helping collect trophies is cool. 3. The best catastrophe you have to end, Protocol 10. I preferred this situation of trying to stop mass executions of prisoners over Scarecrow's fear cloud attack. 2. The Grappling Gun, cool once you upgrade it. 1. The atmosphere, stuck in a prison where it seems like Hell itself. 5 best Arkham Origins things: 5. Best Bat Suit, it looks like actual armor. 4. best array of gadgets like the Remote Claw, Glue Grenade,and Electrocutioner's gloves. 3. Best Joker plot, to use assassins to kill Batman then seize Gotham City. 2. Great array of assassins to fight like Deathstroke. 1. Best use and design of Bane. He looks great here as opposed to the previous games. 5 best Arkham Knight things: 5. The idea of his rogues uniting against him, maybe a nod to rival Spider Man who did this first in his comic book's first Annual back in 1964. 4. pretty decent design of Scarecrow for maximum effect. 3. The Batmobile, regardless of overuse, we never got to use it prior to now. 2. The dramatic death of Poison Ivy. I hated seeing her die but it was a good dramatic death, maybe like what Paul Dini would've written for her. 1. Two Face side mission. I know some hated it but it was one of my favorites of the franchise. Just so many ways you can beat him and his guys. I've twice used a take down from a gargoyle to beat Two Face.Please have a nice day folks.
I think Arkham Asylum was the best we got of Joker. The whole game you can tell that he's just having the time of his life. He was outright hilarious when trying to be funny, and he was at his absolute scariest here too when he would threaten his henchmen that if they don't get the Batman, he's going to have to have their family members maimed. He was great in Arkham City, but you could definitely tell they used all their a-tier writing for Asylum. By the time Origins and Knight rolled around, it didn't matter if Joker was good or not because he was hogging the spotlight in those games to their detriment.
also best boss fights, my favorite 2 are scarecrow and killer croc, because it's a boss fight that you don't fight, scare-cow has the atmosphere of fear and try not to be seen, and think when it's the time to move, and croc has the tense that you have to stay quiet and notice things like the shakey platform or the music. Not just punching
Perhaps the biggest mistake they made was not having Paul Dini write the rest of the games, cause I think origins and knight (this one especially would’ve been fantastic with him involved
I liked that you are stuck in the asylum no backup can’t run or hide it looks amazing and the combat is amazing not just ridiculous combos that are almost impossible this was amazing i remember being in the asylum stuck no way out you have to push yourself to your limits in my opinion this story is the second best because of Arkham City
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So what you’re trying to say is that this game makes you feel like Batman eh?
Arkham Asylum probably had more interesting locations in one part of Arkham Island than the whole of Arkham Knight. And, I know that people really love Spider Man 2, but this was the first Superhero game where you did really cool stuff without any limitations. You didn't control a GANGSTA or a sharpshooter, you were the GODDAMN Batman!
Genuinely the coolest location in Knight for me was seeing the Watchtower at last, and even then you barely go there. It should have been the Batcave-style location for the game (especially since Oracle is physically present for part of it!) but instead I found myself spending more time at GCPD than anywhere else.
The gun sound affects werecool
The reaosn the Riddler was best is because the riddles were smaller cos the map was smaller, a tiny poster on a board was a riddle, rather then a whole building like in the other 3
I much preferred Riddler in City and even in Knight because they were much more creative with his puzzles, and you actually got to beat him up at the end.
I think in asylum they Showed you how to be the detective/strategist, and in the later games you can take that approach, or go head on with brute force. Batman is a detective and an extremely talented fighter, so it makes sense that you can choose from either
I agree with the part about riddler missions. The problem with the other games is you have the riddler side mission on top of all the other side missions that take less time so it’s just disproportionate to begin with and on top of that it gets very repetitive going place to place to collect the trophies and all the other collectibles. Would prefer if in city where they had hostage missions and you just do 3-5 of those then you find and takedown riddler and leave the trophies out altogether
Perfect video
What I liked about arkham asylum was that the map changes over time as you progress and batman will have more and more battle damage and I liked that they kept the battle damage in the other games
I agree with everything in this video! Arkham Asylum was amazing. Still play it now, the challenge mode is great! Joker in the PA system "Good evening Arkham Asylum, tonight we will all watch Batman die!" brilliant.
Every time he said makes you feel, I said to myself, like batman?
My favorite riddler quest from this series is from city. I just really like jigsaw riddler. But I see your point.
The running animation
I do believe that the first 2 Arkham Games are the best ones in the franchise because of it's storytelling, character development and overall writing is brilliant and that's because of Paul Dini.