I love How Origins is getting the love it deserves, after being poorly received at launch. Makes me hope Roger Craig Smith can return as Batman one of these days.
Back then I felt lile a weirdo for liking this and Knight so much when they came out. People were too harsh on them and now, look at what we got (SSKTJL) and how everyone that gave them crap are now all of a sudden in love with these games
Honestly I feel bad I fall into that group of people and I actively told people to avoid this back in the day.. now it's one of my absolute favourites!
What's crazy to me is I actively avoided this game up until 2023 when I was replaying every Arkham game back in the honor of the news of the late great Kevin Conroy's death. Just so happened to play every other game, then wanted more so bought Arkham origins and I loved it.
People like that are dumb and stupid init? But They can't judge on this game !! Im pretty sure for certain The game would off definitely been made the way how it is now anyway by rocksteady imagine
@@morlife0273 Apparently Rocksteady had a completely different game in mind. From what I’ve been able to gather through the years this was originally a Rocksteady game. WB wanted something in between Arkham City and Knight because Knight would take a long time. Rocksteady’s Arkham Origins would have been a golden age prequel and had appearances from the Justice League. I guess they were taking the Grant Morrison approach when it comes to canon. Rocksteady didn’t think they could manage two games because the studio was so small and suggested someone else make it in early development. The TH-camr Kwing is a great resource for stuff like this. He use to know some devs at the studio and WB. We will never know but I’ve heard the same story being repeated over the years on different websites/groups so there probably is some truth to it. One of the guys shared concept art for Arkham Beyond years before it leaked on the internet so I believe what was being said. Apparently there was also a Superman demo in the works after Arkham City but it was scrapped but they used the destruction technology from it for the Batmobile. I’ve only heard Kwing say this no one else so I don’t believe it as strongly as the golden age prequel stuff. Or this could be all wrong who knows lol. Maybe one day someone will interview Sefton Hill and ask about this.
You know, another reason Kevin and Mark weren't in Origins is because they were WAY too busy with Knight, Mark having 200-300 Lines in the game, while Kevin had 37,000 recorded lines! And that's only as much as we know!
@@Guyinthetie Yeah, I'm not gonna lie, Hamil, Kevin, Troy, and Roger have earned their places in the Batman hall of fame, Roger would be perfect for a Long Halloween game.
37:42 They’ve been building up to this the entire game. Alfred, several times, tried to get Bruce out of harms way since the beginning of the game. His very first line in the game sets the tone for this. He clearly doesn’t want Bruce to leave. And once the assassins story line kicks off, he prompts Bruce again to stay home. This continues throughout the game until they have this breaking point here. It’s a damn good interaction that was set up well and is the proper breaking point of Bruce’s story arc in this game.
i feel like the release of SSKTJL has had a lot more people going back to the old arkham games and realizing how good they actually were (at least for me since i got back into them around the time ssktjl game out + many game reviewers)
It's 100% why I went back to Arkham Asylum was just supposed to be a look at that game but I got sucked into revisiting all of them and have been loving it
I absolutely love the moment where Batman has to defibrillate Alfred. Logically, you know he can't actually die because he's in City, but the dialogue and Batman's despair really sells the moment in spite of that. I also love how the subtitles refer to Batman instead as "Bruce Wayne" while you're shocking Al. Really goes to show just who he is in that moment, a young man afraid that he's just lost what's left of his family.
Jesus Christ,man! You beat down that ENTIRE room of cops! You're NOT supposed to fight them,and I wasn't sure it was even a fight that COULD be won. And with Arkam's Batman's "spider-sense" turned off,at that. Pretty impressive,bro.
You know I feel you about how underrated it was. I bought origins last week to revisit certain times, like the black mask detective section. While watching this video I realized how I love origins so much, especially with the villains made of helium. Great video!
I remember talking about this game back in highschool and thinking it was just a cheap cash in just to revisit it back on quarantine and thinking it was a blast of a game
Seeing Origins get a new look at nowadays brings me so much joy, I played this game to DEATH back then. I definitely agree with how you like your side quests, a lot of them branch off from the main story. I'd even argue that Anarky fits as much as say Black Mask, as he's literally spawned out of the corruption and greed from Gotham's police force and justice system.
@@Guyinthetiethere's also a lovely touch found in the cutscene after Batman finds Alfred dying that can only be appreciated with subtitles on. As Batman is shocking Alfred the subtitles show that, as he is pleading for Alfred to pull through, he is speaking as Bruce, not Batman.
I got Origins as an early gift on Xmas eve, the setting of the game matching perfectly with the real world forever makes this game amazing in my heart :)
11:05 it did exist back then, but because bruce sucked at making his gadgets work a long time early on it got destroyed, plus in knight its explained that the suits in asylum and city couldnt really handle the g-forces with the missing armor bruce has in origins
@@Guyinthetie Maybe after the one Bruce had broke and he armored down they abandoned the grappling boost project before he made WayneTech look into it again seeing he needed to get places quicker after the asylum incident
Origins had good voice acting with Roger Craig smith and Troy baker, they did amazing and I’d like to see more especially from RCS with Conroys passing
40:32 You know, the funny thing is, Mad Hatter was originally supposed to be in Asylum too, he would've had some kinda maze or something... Rocksteady strangely likes Mad Hatter a lot, even though he kinda sticks out as a Batman villain... The only thing he really has going for him is... Well... Drugs...
@@Guyinthetie Yeah, even though he's just some midget with a hat and drugs, his sections aee always fun most fun parts of the games... Too bad that it's heavily implied in this game that he did something very not good to the woman...
I absolutely loved this game, both when it first came out but especially now when I replayed it recently. I loved the concept of the last battle against bane as the joker makes Batman question his no kill rule and it really set up the whole relationship between batman and the joker which we saw take place throughout the series
@@Guyinthetie I didn’t really use social media back when I first played it so I remember being surprised a few years later when I saw how many disliked it at first
I was thankfully in the group of people who saw the game and was like "sick more batman!" Instead of "this game wasn't made by rocksteady! This game is trash!" I just thought the prospect of "more batman" was all i needed. Heck, for the longest time, i didn't even know it was made by a differant company.
I've loved Origins since day one and seeing it given the love it deserves makes me happy. It's my favorite Arkham game and the absolute best one hands down. It's easily got the best story in the series and City's great gameplay with my favorite Gotham to fly around in.
Watching you take out the whole cop shop at around 22:00 was pretty epic. You're definitely not supposed to do that. This game absolutely rules, story-wise, but the combat is a bit frustrating; it's easy to get hit in the middle of an animation, which I'm pretty sure the others don't allow. Also a lot of rooftops are non-sticky for no reason and there's no visual cues for that. Bane's frustrating. Still replay it pretty often though
It's actually impressive how close Troy Baker's Joker is to Mark Hamill's. Yes, he's not him, but he did such a great job considering the fact that, well, it's not the same vocal tract.
You're doing great bro, pls don't stop, we all are your kind motivation please don't stop making such videos, I Just love to watch your content sir.. Batman Arkham Knight review next, pls?? 😌🥰
one thing that turned me from hating the deadshot boss to loving it was waiting until later when you get equipment like the glue grenade and improved disruptor to take him on, and also the realization that you can throw batarangs at thugs strung on gargoyles to cut them down and reopen them for inverted takedowns as much as you like also makes it much more enjoyable and easy to take his men down. One last thing is that going up to him for a silent takedown but immediately doing that knockout smash thing does the same ammount of damage as a normal beatdown while also being way quicker. Hope this is like all tangible and im not speaking nonsense ekfdrnkg lol
It's really great to see games such as Arkham Origins, Assassin's Creed III and Assassin's Creed Unity get the respect they never got at launch these days. Really underrated titles of their respective franchises.
39:08 I think that is just an artistic representation in Joker's vision of how he first saw Batman in the Killing Joke story in the comics and when he was surrounded by darkness and having his sight screwed up because he was wearing the Red Hood helmet, to him at the time Batman looked like a monster.
i remember getting each arkham game after Asylum for christmas when they’d come out. i was maybe i was maybe 11 when origin came out and the amount of different interesting characters really made it stand out to me compared to city. before i could enjoy game quality like pop in, load times and story. all the assassins and how they would pop up really made the game one of my favourites in the series. of course its only became equal to the rest to me. i wish there would be a remaster that would solve the issues that plague it. i can barely find anhthjng to disagree with what you say in these vids. love it
Thank you so much Kenneth!! Yeah though they fixed quite a few issues I remember back at launch there are still constant bugs that pop up some funny like thugs bouncing off the ground after a beat down to just annoying like firefly
This was the final Arkham game I played and I’m kinda glad it was the last one I played because it was my favorite in the series and I finished the game in one night like I was actually Batman or sum. I loved their portrayals of pretty much all the characters (Especially Joker and Bane) and the snow setting is great, overall a great game edit: that copperhead death screen had me down bad edit edit: merry christmas
Loved origins when it came out and still do to this day. It may be the “weakest” of the Arkham series but that is not an insult. It’s still an amazing game, it’s just flawed
Actually Batman had the grappling boost before. the city and asylum suits are just to weak to handle them but the origins and arkham knight armor lets him use it
Just came a month late to this but glad to see you covering the rest of the arkham games also I've always loved origins only found out years later how divisive it is
merry christmas it’s weird and funny how you started talking about the arkham series right when I started playing it. I literally just finished origins like 2 hours ago great videos
9:33 It's funny because Deathstroke is actually the arch nemesis of Dick Grayson AKA Nightwing (the first Robin). Nightwing is also my all-time favourite comic book character.
Arkham Origins is probably the best game storywise but I really hate the fact that I had so many bugs through my first playthrough (I started playing the game month ago). Also I'm pissed that I couldn't complete all worst nightmare challenges outside of the main story and there weren't that many good side quests.
@@Guyinthetie looking hella forward to it i think knight is my second fave but it is so full of things that also bring it down (too much riddler shit and forced batmobile usage) you have any ideas what you may cover after the arkham series ends??
sorry for my bad english it's not my main language... The Arkham Franchise it's my favorite video-games of all time... I just wanna thank you for this video, Arkham Origins for some reason is the only one (besides Origins Blackgate but we don't talk about it...) that the fans don't give a try or played for 30 minutes and gave up cause "it's not a true Arkham game". But this game it's one of the best Arkham games and it's my top 2 also! I dont understand why gamers prefer to ignore it, it's a exelent game! And the story is so good, the boss fights are one of the best in the franchise, I love the character development between Batman and Joker, it really works! I dare to say its the best interaction between those two in the franchise. This was the firts Arkham game that I played, so maybe it's cause of that I praise this game so much... Arkham Origins always gonna be in my hearth! I always loved the game, and wanted to him to have more reconigtion... and finally that is happening, people are realising why this game is a true Arkham game. Watching your video made me nostlagic and emotional seeing the love that you gained with game. I love your video man! Keep going a good your, and I'm looking foward to that Arkham Knight video xD
Apparently Kevin Conroy spoiled Knight's existence to someone cause he didn't even know about Origins. So when someone asked him how he feels about "the new game" and if he's in it meaning Origins, he answered that he is in it thinking Knight probably was announced by that time even though it wasn't
I wish they would just Port or Remaster Origins to modern consoles. In fact the Arkham Games need the Resident Evil Treatment and Remake Arkham Asylum, City, and Origins since the Suicide Squad KTJL game has f'ed it all up.
@@Guyinthetie Yea but it'd be nice to see tho. It'd also be a way to get it right canonically since there are lots of Retcons. Also what they shoulda done for Asylum was put that his been Batman for 20 Years instead of just 9 or 10 Years. That'd way it'd make sense in Knight.
I’m fine with the grapnel boost, but for continuity I kinda wish the batsuit didn’t look like a direct upgrade to the one from Asylum/City….its too bad the “Armor” version from Asylum’s challenge mode wasn’t the default….then maybe Origins suit wouldn’t have looked so out of place….oh well, those are minor things lol
You know why origins got hate in 2013 and now gets love? It's because in 2013 games we're still really good. After fans played aa, ac. AnD ak, ppl were left craving more. All the hate it got at first really hurt it at launch.. but once Gotham knight came out, we realized the day of good games was over and ppl gave it a real chance. Ppl finally realized how good of a game it actually is. Other than batmans voice, this game is awesome. It needs to be included in return to arkham. It has Its own vibe. I love each game for different reasons a origins is my favorite. I almost believe rocksteadt should cone out with a prequel to arkham origins. It be based around Bryce Wayne training with the league of assasins, returning to Gotham and being the batman. Rough around the edges, starting out as a ninja, slowly throughout the game becoming more and more like batman through upgrades. I would title it "arkham" Bruce wayne
6:57 Killer Croc was a regular person born with an extreme form of an medical condition which caused his appearance to develop progressively into that of a crocodile, hence his name which is why he looks different in the other games. Waylon was put under the guardianship of his incredibly abusive and alcoholic aunt after his mother died giving birth to him and his father had abandoned him. Waylon had no friends, and was the object of constant ridicule of those who knew him and as a result he grew to resent all of humanity. Arkham Origins has honestly the best design for the character as it's the one most faithful to Croc's original appearance in the comics.
I am glad you changed your opinion on this game.its my favorite in the series and i see so many people saying that this game is the worst in the arkham series so seeing you say that its become your 2nd favorite is really good to hear.cant wait for your Arkham knight video
Honestly went into this video expecting it to just be pure hate but it's actually a really fun title and does most of what I want in a batman game perfectly 💪🏻👔
If this game came out before City, it would have slapped so hard, this game is still my favorite Arkham game i don't care what anyone says, this game is PEAK imo
I enjoyed Origins. I enjoyed it then and still do now! Even the different voice actors didn’t bug me. The cut scenes though are top notch. Maybe the story could of went a different direction but overall still pleasing
This used to be my favourite arkham game in all honesty. Partially due to it being so hated on which made me love it more but also because of its story and how good the game is given the circumstances. I don’t think there is a definitive best arkham game since there’s just too much to take into account but origins remains my 2nd favourite after asylum. Rankings are tricky because people assume what’s at the bottom is the worst which is fair but really it’s just down to preference. Merry Christmas
I get what you mean Arkham city is technically at the bottom of my list right now but it's ranking stellar games against other stellar games they are all 8/9s out of 10s to me
Yet another example of a botched release where a game that was hilariously broken at launch turned out to be really good after all the bugs were finally patched out. Still a few bugs, found one place where you can reliably glitch straight through the ground by power bombing into it from a specific point and end up stuck under the map until you find a way to kill yourself, but I love finding bugs so I found that very entertaining.
I have a weird relationship with this game. First thing I want to say is this game was not hated because Rocksteady didn’t make it. The general audience does not care. This game was hated because of the broken release and then instead of fixing it they said they were focused on DLC. As for the game itself it was okay but I wish they did more. Some of it felt so lazy. It was a prequel and it had so much potential. I was hoping we got to see a Batman using more analog technology. The detective parts could have been more like LA Noire or even Spider-Man where you are looking for clues. Instead it was just point and click. This Batman was basically the same as the Asylum one. There is no progression in his technology or anything because they couldn’t be asked. The grapple boost is another one. They could have explained that Batman is manually launching himself off roofs but it having too much of a strain on his arm but again they couldn’t be asked. Rocksteady’s Batman was a combination of the Post Crisis Batman and the DCAU Batman. It was colourful and embraced its silly world while this one went more grounded with Batman wearing military armour and everything having a DC 52 vibe. Also the amount of content this game recycles is so distracting. Almost every boss fight in this game recycles something from the ras fight in Arkham City. This game would have benefited by being a more linear game like Arkham Asylum instead of an open world. The developers obviously cared a lot about the character but didn’t have the experience to make an open world like Arkham City. From stuff I have heard online over the years this was originally a Rocksteady golden age game but they initially dropped it because they couldn’t work on this and Knight at the same time. Wonder what that would have been like. I criticized it a lot but it is still a good game. I don’t think it was underrated or anything though. It got around 7/10 which is beyond fair considering how many bugs it had at launch and the amount of recycled content. It was basically a remixed Arkham City. Cool videos enjoying them.
Thank you so much for taking the time to comment was a good read, 100% agree it would of been cool seeing more older technology but instead we get a far more capable batman then asylum and city. I know that's just down to gameplay but still feels odd
@@Guyinthetie thanks for reading it and responding I appreciate the kind reply. I usually get into some trouble for criticizing the game but it all comes from a place of love lol.
I have liked this game since I got it. I'm not a big fan of the last bane fight, but it's still a great game. Played it today. Tried cold, cold heart, but it got the better of me. I'll definitely be playing this game. It's a lot of fun.
16:03 The funny thing is if you check out a video on The Atomsmith's channel where he plays an earlier version of Origins it turns out they actually did plan for him to say the line but for whatever reason decided against it later I guess? Missed opportunity. *EDIT:* The video is titled "Breaking an Arkham Prototype" skip to 3:39 to see it.
Oh man! I guess it wouldn't really fit the tone this batman is going for but agreed that would of been amazing, completely unintentional my end though 😅
im right there with you with asylum. arkham city does everything that asylum does and does it better minus a few minor aspects. the gameplay in knight is objectively head and shoulders superior to the prior three games. but something about asylum… maybe its the nostalgia, maybe its the setting, maybe its the map, or scarecrows nightmares but its been my favorite game since i was a kid and probably still is.
I recently played this fully for the first time, because just like you I didn't like it back in the day (it also was insanely glitched on release, like, couldn't progress in the story kinda glitched, so that didn't help) I don't think of it as fondly as you do however I think it has some excellent stuff (the Deadstroke fight) but I personally hated the Copperhead fight. Felt too derivative of what had been before. The bridge fight was AWFUL, just do the same thing over and over again. The Bane fight was AWFUL. Do the same thing over and over again. It genuinely just felt jank through and through. I rate it lowest personally. Asylum first, then City, then Knight, then Origins. I put Asylum first as well because it just "got" the comic book aesthetic and atmosphere correctly. At launch I preferred City but over the years I kinda lost interest in it. Knight is awesome, I like it more than City but I HATE what they did to Scarecrow and a lot of the other designs (Ivy as well for instance... she's like... not even the same person)
This was my first arkham game,i dont recommend doing that tho,bcz if u start with this game,the other arkham games will feel slack.i believe this is the best in the series.
I didn’t mind the Arkham origins. It was just OK. The voice of Batman just sounded very uncomfortably.. sure he sounded terrifying but it was okay in terms of gameplay. But it’s freeze every now and then
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@@БогданКрименюк Yes 😃 WE DO🗣🗣🗣
I love How Origins is getting the love it deserves, after being poorly received at launch.
Makes me hope Roger Craig Smith can return as Batman one of these days.
He did such a good job and checking his IMDB he did go on to do more batman in other media
Well there's Batman Unlimited and Batman Ninja from what I know of
You may just get your (and my) wish in arkham shadow
Bro got a vision
I find it funny that now-in days it is hard to find a negative criticism of this game.
Back then I felt lile a weirdo for liking this and Knight so much when they came out. People were too harsh on them and now, look at what we got (SSKTJL) and how everyone that gave them crap are now all of a sudden in love with these games
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Mr "English is not my first language 🤓"
I SWEAR TO GOD IF I HAD A NICKEL FOR EVERY SUCH COMMENT
Honestly I feel bad I fall into that group of people and I actively told people to avoid this back in the day.. now it's one of my absolute favourites!
What's crazy to me is I actively avoided this game up until 2023 when I was replaying every Arkham game back in the honor of the news of the late great Kevin Conroy's death. Just so happened to play every other game, then wanted more so bought Arkham origins and I loved it.
yeah thats crazy to me. Like is this another example of the Mandela Effect 😂? And its a helluva lot better than Suicide Squad 😂
It's almost like people over-hated this game because it wasn't made by Rocksteady...
Honestly ashamed I was in this group of people till now 😔
No it is because it was broken. Its a fun game but I don’t like fans rewriting history. The general audience didn’t know or cared who made the game.
People like that are dumb and stupid init? But They can't judge on this game !!
Im pretty sure for certain The game would off definitely been made the way how it is now anyway by rocksteady imagine
@@morlife0273 Apparently Rocksteady had a completely different game in mind. From what I’ve been able to gather through the years this was originally a Rocksteady game. WB wanted something in between Arkham City and Knight because Knight would take a long time.
Rocksteady’s Arkham Origins would have been a golden age prequel and had appearances from the Justice League. I guess they were taking the Grant Morrison approach when it comes to canon.
Rocksteady didn’t think they could manage two games because the studio was so small and suggested someone else make it in early development.
The TH-camr Kwing is a great resource for stuff like this. He use to know some devs at the studio and WB. We will never know but I’ve heard the same story being repeated over the years on different websites/groups so there probably is some truth to it. One of the guys shared concept art for Arkham Beyond years before it leaked on the internet so I believe what was being said.
Apparently there was also a Superman demo in the works after Arkham City but it was scrapped but they used the destruction technology from it for the Batmobile. I’ve only heard Kwing say this no one else so I don’t believe it as strongly as the golden age prequel stuff.
Or this could be all wrong who knows lol. Maybe one day someone will interview Sefton Hill and ask about this.
@@inshal6420 man made a fall paragraph uno
Wich is completely unnecessary
You know, another reason Kevin and Mark weren't in Origins is because they were WAY too busy with Knight, Mark having 200-300 Lines in the game, while Kevin had 37,000 recorded lines! And that's only as much as we know!
That makes sense as I remember hamil saying he was done with joker after city but I think that was part of the twist of him being back in knight
@@Guyinthetie Yeah, I'm not gonna lie, Hamil, Kevin, Troy, and Roger have earned their places in the Batman hall of fame, Roger would be perfect for a Long Halloween game.
@@YSL8704 100% they're all amazing
37:42 They’ve been building up to this the entire game. Alfred, several times, tried to get Bruce out of harms way since the beginning of the game. His very first line in the game sets the tone for this. He clearly doesn’t want Bruce to leave. And once the assassins story line kicks off, he prompts Bruce again to stay home. This continues throughout the game until they have this breaking point here. It’s a damn good interaction that was set up well and is the proper breaking point of Bruce’s story arc in this game.
i feel like the release of SSKTJL has had a lot more people going back to the old arkham games and realizing how good they actually were (at least for me since i got back into them around the time ssktjl game out + many game reviewers)
It's 100% why I went back to Arkham Asylum was just supposed to be a look at that game but I got sucked into revisiting all of them and have been loving it
I absolutely love the moment where Batman has to defibrillate Alfred.
Logically, you know he can't actually die because he's in City, but the dialogue and Batman's despair really sells the moment in spite of that.
I also love how the subtitles refer to Batman instead as "Bruce Wayne" while you're shocking Al. Really goes to show just who he is in that moment, a young man afraid that he's just lost what's left of his family.
Jesus Christ,man! You beat down that ENTIRE room of cops! You're NOT supposed to fight them,and I wasn't sure it was even a fight that COULD be won. And with Arkam's Batman's "spider-sense" turned off,at that. Pretty impressive,bro.
Haha barely made it and took quite a few hits in the process but was such a fun fight, worth giving a go just for the bragging rights 💪🏻👔
I just love it when man did a origin.
Is there a lore reason bone doesn't kill man? Is he stupid?
Man peeled oranges ? Is he hungry ?
@@БогданКрименюкdid man break bones? Is he angry?
You know I feel you about how underrated it was. I bought origins last week to revisit certain times, like the black mask detective section. While watching this video I realized how I love origins so much, especially with the villains made of helium. Great video!
Thanks bro 💪🏻👔
I remember talking about this game back in highschool and thinking it was just a cheap cash in just to revisit it back on quarantine and thinking it was a blast of a game
Same here never gone back on my opinion so hard before about a game 💪🏻👔
Seeing Origins get a new look at nowadays brings me so much joy, I played this game to DEATH back then.
I definitely agree with how you like your side quests, a lot of them branch off from the main story. I'd even argue that Anarky fits as much as say Black Mask, as he's literally spawned out of the corruption and greed from Gotham's police force and justice system.
And we literally deal with anarky then end up going to the GCPD and seeing the corruption first hand... Such good writing man!! 💪🏻👔
Arkham Origins is brilliant. I play through it every Christmas. The game's soundtrack and snowy look really gets me in the mood.
Honestly I feel that, jokers theme will be played every year now! 💪🏻👔
@@Guyinthetiethere's also a lovely touch found in the cutscene after Batman finds Alfred dying that can only be appreciated with subtitles on. As Batman is shocking Alfred the subtitles show that, as he is pleading for Alfred to pull through, he is speaking as Bruce, not Batman.
*7:23* am i the only one eho expected him to suddenly have christian bale batman voice yelling WHERE THE OTHER DRUGS ARE WHERE IS HE?!
yet another banger
love your work man keep it up
Appreciate you bro! 💪🏻👔
I got Origins as an early gift on Xmas eve, the setting of the game matching perfectly with the real world forever makes this game amazing in my heart :)
I think I might need to give it another play through at Xmas this year maybe on the hardest difficulty as a stream game 🤔
7:03 it’s funny because in new game plus for Arkham Knight you can get Riddler as soon as you unlock founders island😅
11:05 it did exist back then, but because bruce sucked at making his gadgets work a long time early on it got destroyed, plus in knight its explained that the suits in asylum and city couldnt really handle the g-forces with the missing armor bruce has in origins
Still find it odd how they go out of their way to say the boost is a prototype 🤔
@@Guyinthetie Maybe after the one Bruce had broke and he armored down they abandoned the grappling boost project before he made WayneTech look into it again seeing he needed to get places quicker after the asylum incident
Origins had good voice acting with Roger Craig smith and Troy baker, they did amazing and I’d like to see more especially from RCS with Conroys passing
Smith has some crazy range honestly, glad they carried on playing the roles in other media 💪🏻👔
40:32 You know, the funny thing is, Mad Hatter was originally supposed to be in Asylum too, he would've had some kinda maze or something... Rocksteady strangely likes Mad Hatter a lot, even though he kinda sticks out as a Batman villain... The only thing he really has going for him is... Well... Drugs...
He's honestly some of the most creative parts of these games 💪🏻👔
@@Guyinthetie Yeah, even though he's just some midget with a hat and drugs, his sections aee always fun most fun parts of the games... Too bad that it's heavily implied in this game that he did something very not good to the woman...
32:20 I’m so fucking jealous of Bruce right now
Right there with you brother 💪🏻👔
I absolutely loved this game, both when it first came out but especially now when I replayed it recently. I loved the concept of the last battle against bane as the joker makes Batman question his no kill rule and it really set up the whole relationship between batman and the joker which we saw take place throughout the series
I still remember launch being rough for the game but so happy about giving it another go!
@@Guyinthetie I didn’t really use social media back when I first played it so I remember being surprised a few years later when I saw how many disliked it at first
Soo good bro been waiting for this
27:41 Did you just call a helicopter a plane?
Oh Uh.. well you see.. the thing.. is.. *leaves
I was thankfully in the group of people who saw the game and was like "sick more batman!" Instead of "this game wasn't made by rocksteady! This game is trash!" I just thought the prospect of "more batman" was all i needed. Heck, for the longest time, i didn't even know it was made by a differant company.
So glad I ventured back and gave it another shot, such a good batman title 💪🏻👔
I went to go binge all your videos …. Before realising you have 6 …. Bro I’m here at the start !! I can’t wait to see how you push on
Slowly building up the content, thanks for checking me out 💪🏻👔
@@Guyinthetie it’s all good, you very quickly became me comfort TH-camr ! 😂
I've loved Origins since day one and seeing it given the love it deserves makes me happy. It's my favorite Arkham game and the absolute best one hands down. It's easily got the best story in the series and City's great gameplay with my favorite Gotham to fly around in.
Couldn't agree more 💪🏻👔
5:05 dude got fucking LAUNCHED out of orbit by that kick 😂
Batman never skips leg day 💪🏻👔
Watching you take out the whole cop shop at around 22:00 was pretty epic. You're definitely not supposed to do that. This game absolutely rules, story-wise, but the combat is a bit frustrating; it's easy to get hit in the middle of an animation, which I'm pretty sure the others don't allow. Also a lot of rooftops are non-sticky for no reason and there's no visual cues for that. Bane's frustrating. Still replay it pretty often though
47:36 Lucky fools, Alfred was only using a quarter of a percentage of his power.
okay but what alfred said about bruce being a "young man with a trust fund and too much anger" is completely true.
Looking forward to this one, Origins is still somehow severely underrated. Keep up the great work man this series has been amazing so far!
Thank you so much! Already getting excited about revisiting Knight! 💪🏻👔
How u dont have more subs is ridiculous ur editing and commentary style is brilliant
Thank you so much that means a lot 🙏🏻
@@Guyinthetie will knight be ur next vid bro
It's actually impressive how close Troy Baker's Joker is to Mark Hamill's. Yes, he's not him, but he did such a great job considering the fact that, well, it's not the same vocal tract.
You're doing great bro, pls don't stop, we all are your kind motivation please don't stop making such videos, I Just love to watch your content sir..
Batman Arkham Knight review next, pls?? 😌🥰
Thank you for the motivation comments like this get me super hyped for the next project! 💪🏻👔
These arkham videos are great. I'm looking forward to Knight. My favorite.
Merry Christmas.
Absolute legend 💪🏻👔
one thing that turned me from hating the deadshot boss to loving it was waiting until later when you get equipment like the glue grenade and improved disruptor to take him on, and also the realization that you can throw batarangs at thugs strung on gargoyles to cut them down and reopen them for inverted takedowns as much as you like also makes it much more enjoyable and easy to take his men down. One last thing is that going up to him for a silent takedown but immediately doing that knockout smash thing does the same ammount of damage as a normal beatdown while also being way quicker. Hope this is like all tangible and im not speaking nonsense ekfdrnkg lol
BRO! I didn't realise you could batarang the thugs strung up to free the gargoyle!! This is huge 💪🏻👔
merry christmas bruv
Legend 💪🏻👔
Always loved origins. Its art direction, the story, and that Batsuit, aaaaaaah, i love it so much.
Don't forget Bruces beard phase 💪🏻👔
It's really great to see games such as Arkham Origins, Assassin's Creed III and Assassin's Creed Unity get the respect they never got at launch these days. Really underrated titles of their respective franchises.
I actually never played AC Unity mainly due to the backlash it spawned... Worth a revisit?
@@Guyinthetie Yeah it was the peak of ac games and had balance of gameplay and graphics, plus it's art work is worth watching
39:08 I think that is just an artistic representation in Joker's vision of how he first saw Batman in the Killing Joke story in the comics and when he was surrounded by darkness and having his sight screwed up because he was wearing the Red Hood helmet, to him at the time Batman looked like a monster.
i remember getting each arkham game after Asylum for christmas when they’d come out. i was maybe i was maybe 11 when origin came out and the amount of different interesting characters really made it stand out to me compared to city. before i could enjoy game quality like pop in, load times and story. all the assassins and how they would pop up really made the game one of my favourites in the series. of course its only became equal to the rest to me. i wish there would be a remaster that would solve the issues that plague it. i can barely find anhthjng to disagree with what you say in these vids. love it
Thank you so much Kenneth!! Yeah though they fixed quite a few issues I remember back at launch there are still constant bugs that pop up some funny like thugs bouncing off the ground after a beat down to just annoying like firefly
"How many people have I murdered by letting you live?"
14:00 thought she said “wash your ass” 😂
It's true, us Queen and country folk are known for not washing our asses 🇬🇧
This was the final Arkham game I played and I’m kinda glad it was the last one I played because it was my favorite in the series and I finished the game in one night like I was actually Batman or sum.
I loved their portrayals of pretty much all the characters (Especially Joker and Bane) and the snow setting is great, overall a great game
edit: that copperhead death screen had me down bad
edit edit: merry christmas
Copperhead filled a Harley sized hole in this game for me 👀
Loved origins when it came out and still do to this day. It may be the “weakest” of the Arkham series but that is not an insult. It’s still an amazing game, it’s just flawed
It's flawed but I think it gets right the issues I had with Arkham city and that's impressive
Deathstroke without counter icons is insanely satusfying
Ironically this one is my favorite of the Arkham series and it's not even like made by the same company LOL
Completely different developer but a lot of reused assets, I really liked this one too 💪🏻👔
I play this game every Christmas. It’s my favourite Arkham game.
That is a chad Christmas tradition ngl 💪🏻👔
It's December, so: Merry Christmas!
Also, I've always loved this game for its winter and Christmas atmosphere.
Actually Batman had the grappling boost before. the city and asylum suits are just to weak to handle them but the origins and arkham knight armor lets him use it
Oh really where is that confirmed? I swear Alfred says it's a prototype in city
While revisiting the arkham games, I grew to be a big fan of asylum and it's more linear nature so you aren't alone on that. Merry Christmas!
Wild how that game has aged like fine wine! Thank you for being an absolute legend 💪🏻👔
Just came a month late to this but glad to see you covering the rest of the arkham games also I've always loved origins only found out years later how divisive it is
Thanks for coming back and checking out the content.. should of dropped the collection video earlier for you 😅
merry christmas
it’s weird and funny how you started talking about the arkham series right when I started playing it. I literally just finished origins like 2 hours ago
great videos
Took your sweetass time 💀💀💀
Thank you such! Glad you are enjoying them were kinda the same on origins as about 3/4 of the game was all new content to me 💪🏻👔
14:02 friendly fire will not be tolerated
I'm glad I knew nothing about this game when it came out. It's my favorite Arkham game.
I can't get over how much this game impressed me the second time round 💪🏻👔
Abridged Alucard ref at Copperhead is peak😂
Merry Christmas
Absolutely love Origins, even with some of it's roughness and some reuse.
Honestly still shocked how much my opinion flipped on this revisit! 💪🏻👔
9:33 It's funny because Deathstroke is actually the arch nemesis of Dick Grayson AKA Nightwing (the first Robin). Nightwing is also my all-time favourite comic book character.
Love this game imo it has the best story and its replay value is high because of the christmas theme and the idea that Batman is still a myth
Christmas is my favourite time of year so that could also be a factor to why I prefer this to city 💪🏻👔
Wait batman's voice here is Sonic's?! My fanfiction is complete
Roger Craig Smith was Batman this time around yeah so sonic wore the cowl for a bit 💪🏻👔
@@Guyinthetie just needs him fighting joker having an omelette and a mustache and it's complete
Arkham Origins is probably the best game storywise but I really hate the fact that I had so many bugs through my first playthrough (I started playing the game month ago). Also I'm pissed that I couldn't complete all worst nightmare challenges outside of the main story and there weren't that many good side quests.
I'm surprised how many bugs are still present in origins so many years later 💪🏻👔
Merry Christmas 🎄🎁 Glad for the change of opinion haha and keep these up cant wait for the finale. Peace.
Knight is going to be a big video, super excited 💪🏻👔
@@Guyinthetie looking hella forward to it i think knight is my second fave but it is so full of things that also bring it down (too much riddler shit and forced batmobile usage) you have any ideas what you may cover after the arkham series ends??
Followed you since the asylum video.
Merry Christmas by the way
Thank you so much raikkonen! I really appreciate that 💪🏻👔
Woohoo was waiting for this
Hope I don't disappoint 💪🏻👔
sorry for my bad english it's not my main language...
The Arkham Franchise it's my favorite video-games of all time...
I just wanna thank you for this video, Arkham Origins for some reason is the only one (besides Origins Blackgate but we don't talk about it...) that the fans don't give a try or played for 30 minutes and gave up cause "it's not a true Arkham game". But this game it's one of the best Arkham games and it's my top 2 also! I dont understand why gamers prefer to ignore it, it's a exelent game! And the story is so good, the boss fights are one of the best in the franchise, I love the character development between Batman and Joker, it really works! I dare to say its the best interaction between those two in the franchise. This was the firts Arkham game that I played, so maybe it's cause of that I praise this game so much... Arkham Origins always gonna be in my hearth! I always loved the game, and wanted to him to have more reconigtion... and finally that is happening, people are realising why this game is a true Arkham game. Watching your video made me nostlagic and emotional seeing the love that you gained with game.
I love your video man! Keep going a good your, and I'm looking foward to that Arkham Knight video xD
Thank you so much, comment was written excellently! Hope my Arkham Knight video doesn't disappoint 💪🏻👔
Apparently Kevin Conroy spoiled Knight's existence to someone cause he didn't even know about Origins. So when someone asked him how he feels about "the new game" and if he's in it meaning Origins, he answered that he is in it thinking Knight probably was announced by that time even though it wasn't
Haha the tom Holland of DC 😅 I love how Hamil was the opposite and kept the joker being back under wraps up till launch
I wish they would just Port or Remaster Origins to modern consoles.
In fact the Arkham Games need the Resident Evil Treatment and Remake Arkham Asylum, City, and Origins since the Suicide Squad KTJL game has f'ed it all up.
The Arkham games getting that sort of treatment would be amazing but I do feel they all hold up as they are honestly 💪🏻👔
@@Guyinthetie
Yea but it'd be nice to see tho.
It'd also be a way to get it right canonically since there are lots of Retcons.
Also what they shoulda done for Asylum was put that his been Batman for 20 Years instead of just 9 or 10 Years.
That'd way it'd make sense in Knight.
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Well to be fair, this is Mr Freezes first time facing the bat, and therefore cannot adapt to his strategies as well as he could in city
That makes perfect sense actually 😅
I’m fine with the grapnel boost, but for continuity I kinda wish the batsuit didn’t look like a direct upgrade to the one from Asylum/City….its too bad the “Armor” version from Asylum’s challenge mode wasn’t the default….then maybe Origins suit wouldn’t have looked so out of place….oh well, those are minor things lol
Merry Christmas
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i think that the joker in arkham city stabbed batman on purpuse so he would die and batman would feel resbonsibile and go crazy
I feel his reaction to the cure being gone means he didn't want to die imo 💪🏻👔
Merry christmas everyone!
Thank you much 💪🏻👔
You know why origins got hate in 2013 and now gets love? It's because in 2013 games we're still really good. After fans played aa, ac. AnD ak, ppl were left craving more. All the hate it got at first really hurt it at launch.. but once Gotham knight came out, we realized the day of good games was over and ppl gave it a real chance. Ppl finally realized how good of a game it actually is. Other than batmans voice, this game is awesome. It needs to be included in return to arkham. It has Its own vibe. I love each game for different reasons a origins is my favorite. I almost believe rocksteadt should cone out with a prequel to arkham origins. It be based around Bryce Wayne training with the league of assasins, returning to Gotham and being the batman. Rough around the edges, starting out as a ninja, slowly throughout the game becoming more and more like batman through upgrades. I would title it "arkham" Bruce wayne
6:57 Killer Croc was a regular person born with an extreme form of an medical condition which caused his appearance to develop progressively into that of a crocodile, hence his name which is why he looks different in the other games. Waylon was put under the guardianship of his incredibly abusive and alcoholic aunt after his mother died giving birth to him and his father had abandoned him. Waylon had no friends, and was the object of constant ridicule of those who knew him and as a result he grew to resent all of humanity. Arkham Origins has honestly the best design for the character as it's the one most faithful to Croc's original appearance in the comics.
I am glad you changed your opinion on this game.its my favorite in the series and i see so many people saying that this game is the worst in the arkham series so seeing you say that its become your 2nd favorite is really good to hear.cant wait for your Arkham knight video
Honestly went into this video expecting it to just be pure hate but it's actually a really fun title and does most of what I want in a batman game perfectly 💪🏻👔
If this game came out before City, it would have slapped so hard, this game is still my favorite Arkham game i don't care what anyone says, this game is PEAK imo
Honestly if asylum didn't feel so much better to play as a metroidvania then the sandbox games I would put origins first myself 💪🏻👔
Top Tier content, Top Tier Game, Top Tier creator, also Merry Christmas
Top tier viewer, top tier comment, top tier taste in TH-camrs 💪🏻👔
I enjoyed Origins. I enjoyed it then and still do now! Even the different voice actors didn’t bug me. The cut scenes though are top notch. Maybe the story could of went a different direction but overall still pleasing
It bugs me a little at the start but not for long, honestly the bugs and models are the only thing I wish was fixed 💪🏻👔
Personally, I don't see anything wrong with another Man vs Jonkler story, but Black Mask could definitely have been in the game more
Would of been nice to see more of him though joker does an insane black mask impersonation that voice was spot on 💪🏻👔
This used to be my favourite arkham game in all honesty. Partially due to it being so hated on which made me love it more but also because of its story and how good the game is given the circumstances. I don’t think there is a definitive best arkham game since there’s just too much to take into account but origins remains my 2nd favourite after asylum. Rankings are tricky because people assume what’s at the bottom is the worst which is fair but really it’s just down to preference.
Merry Christmas
I get what you mean Arkham city is technically at the bottom of my list right now but it's ranking stellar games against other stellar games they are all 8/9s out of 10s to me
Merry christmas guys
Merry Christmas ⛄
No way I took this long to see the origins video dropped😢😢😢
The fact you came back for more of my content means the world brother 💪🏻👔
Yet another example of a botched release where a game that was hilariously broken at launch turned out to be really good after all the bugs were finally patched out. Still a few bugs, found one place where you can reliably glitch straight through the ground by power bombing into it from a specific point and end up stuck under the map until you find a way to kill yourself, but I love finding bugs so I found that very entertaining.
I have a weird relationship with this game. First thing I want to say is this game was not hated because Rocksteady didn’t make it. The general audience does not care. This game was hated because of the broken release and then instead of fixing it they said they were focused on DLC.
As for the game itself it was okay but I wish they did more. Some of it felt so lazy. It was a prequel and it had so much potential. I was hoping we got to see a Batman using more analog technology. The detective parts could have been more like LA Noire or even Spider-Man where you are looking for clues. Instead it was just point and click. This Batman was basically the same as the Asylum one. There is no progression in his technology or anything because they couldn’t be asked. The grapple boost is another one. They could have explained that Batman is manually launching himself off roofs but it having too much of a strain on his arm but again they couldn’t be asked.
Rocksteady’s Batman was a combination of the Post Crisis Batman and the DCAU Batman. It was colourful and embraced its silly world while this one went more grounded with Batman wearing military armour and everything having a DC 52 vibe.
Also the amount of content this game recycles is so distracting. Almost every boss fight in this game recycles something from the ras fight in Arkham City.
This game would have benefited by being a more linear game like Arkham Asylum instead of an open world. The developers obviously cared a lot about the character but didn’t have the experience to make an open world like Arkham City. From stuff I have heard online over the years this was originally a Rocksteady golden age game but they initially dropped it because they couldn’t work on this and Knight at the same time. Wonder what that would have been like.
I criticized it a lot but it is still a good game. I don’t think it was underrated or anything though. It got around 7/10 which is beyond fair considering how many bugs it had at launch and the amount of recycled content. It was basically a remixed Arkham City.
Cool videos enjoying them.
Thank you so much for taking the time to comment was a good read, 100% agree it would of been cool seeing more older technology but instead we get a far more capable batman then asylum and city.
I know that's just down to gameplay but still feels odd
@@Guyinthetie thanks for reading it and responding I appreciate the kind reply. I usually get into some trouble for criticizing the game but it all comes from a place of love lol.
Say what you want, but the reveal of the Joker in Origins is one of the greatest.
It is great but the advertising ruined it at launch imo 💪🏻👔
I have liked this game since I got it. I'm not a big fan of the last bane fight, but it's still a great game. Played it today. Tried cold, cold heart, but it got the better of me. I'll definitely be playing this game. It's a lot of fun.
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The funny thing is if you check out a video on The Atomsmith's channel where he plays an earlier version of Origins it turns out they actually did plan for him to say the line but for whatever reason decided against it later I guess?
Missed opportunity.
*EDIT:* The video is titled "Breaking an Arkham Prototype" skip to 3:39 to see it.
Oh man! I guess it wouldn't really fit the tone this batman is going for but agreed that would of been amazing, completely unintentional my end though 😅
After You finish the arkham series, would you consider doing this style of videos on the Ezio Trilogy of Assasin's Creed?
After talking about Roger Craig Smith the thought of revisiting them games did cross my mind 👀
im right there with you with asylum. arkham city does everything that asylum does and does it better minus a few minor aspects. the gameplay in knight is objectively head and shoulders superior to the prior three games. but something about asylum… maybe its the nostalgia, maybe its the setting, maybe its the map, or scarecrows nightmares but its been my favorite game since i was a kid and probably still is.
It's a testament to less is more as it will always be my favourite 💪🏻👔
I recently played this fully for the first time, because just like you I didn't like it back in the day (it also was insanely glitched on release, like, couldn't progress in the story kinda glitched, so that didn't help)
I don't think of it as fondly as you do however
I think it has some excellent stuff (the Deadstroke fight) but I personally hated the Copperhead fight. Felt too derivative of what had been before. The bridge fight was AWFUL, just do the same thing over and over again. The Bane fight was AWFUL. Do the same thing over and over again. It genuinely just felt jank through and through. I rate it lowest personally. Asylum first, then City, then Knight, then Origins. I put Asylum first as well because it just "got" the comic book aesthetic and atmosphere correctly. At launch I preferred City but over the years I kinda lost interest in it. Knight is awesome, I like it more than City but I HATE what they did to Scarecrow and a lot of the other designs (Ivy as well for instance... she's like... not even the same person)
Knight is pretty split in the community I'm really looking forward to revisiting it for the video
Give us Origins and Origins Blackgate remastered 🙌
Different take, I loved the game from the beginning and still love it as my favorite Arkham game to this day
I respect that 💪🏻👔
Guyinthetie uploaded we have to party now
Make sure you wear a tie 💪🏻👔
@@Guyinthetie as well as subscribing with notis on , I got this
2:29 Not of Sonic though.
I do really like his sonic but will always prefer Ryan Drummond as sonic, he was the voice when I played he games 💪🏻👔
This was my first arkham game,i dont recommend doing that tho,bcz if u start with this game,the other arkham games will feel slack.i believe this is the best in the series.
Yeah it maybe the prequel but I think it's best to play the series in release order as the gameplay just continues to get better with each title 💪🏻👔
yes, not to be offensive or anything but we needed a break. From the main cast that is.
I didn’t mind the Arkham origins. It was just OK. The voice of Batman just sounded very uncomfortably.. sure he sounded terrifying but it was okay in terms of gameplay. But it’s freeze every now and then
If only we got these 8 for the suicide squad game.
I would be very happy with this universe copperhead getting more screen time 👀