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If there is one criticism I have over the Arkham games its that the combat system is not well explained. At all. I struggled with it at first too, largely because I was also going at it all button mashy. It's actually more like a rhythm game than a fighter: if you are pressing a button more than once every couple of seconds you are probably doing it wrong. Once I got the hang of that it became a lot more natural, and made me feel much more like Batman. ie: badass.I haven't played them very much - the first seemed a very button-mashy-combos-I-can't-do beat em up, and the second was a hugely entertaining super-parkour rather spoiled by mandatory set pieces reverting to the type of the previous game. I think I'd have probably really enjoyed them as console games, but the PC is not where I go for punch-face simulators.
60 Adam West portrayal is not original Batman portrayal. Originally, Batman was a dark, brooding psycho and his enemies were either regular crooks (Mafia types mostly) or bonkers brightly colour clowns (literally in the case of Joker). He was around for nearly 30 years before he was camped up. In that sense, the modern Batman is a lot more true to the original intent than Adam West Batman ever was.FatherJack wrote:The trailer sort of confused me, and I guess modern Batman in general confuses me - he's all gritty and anti-hero, quite the reverse of the garish Adam West portrayal in the 60's series, yet the baddies are still as colourful, sparkling and much more fun, as they ever were.
Which if you are mostly basing your image of Batman off the TV series and cartoons is perfectly valid. In the comics the fact that he is a bit dubious in the "heroic goodness" stakes is a recurring theme. Is he a hero, or is he just as much of a psycho as Joker, Penguin and the rest? Is he doing good and fighting crime, or is he allowing his personal issues to spiral out of control, making him inadvertently responsible for half of the things he ends up trying to prevent? Personally, I find the exploration of that grey area in the character far more interesting than, for example, the clean cut, good to the core shining beacon of pure heroism that is Superman.FatherJack wrote:Okay - I think I get it, he's jet black - and the contrast is that the enemies give the colour. I'm finding it hard to like Batman, my childhood hero. He seems to be making things worse in Gotham, with an escalating arms race of gadgets. What are you doing Batman?
Y'see, I've watched the films, TV series and cartoons and know nothing else. I've never read a comic of him. I never really pegged Batman as that dark, that hung up on his parent's deaths that this trailer shows, I just thought he was a hero to do good.
