I just hated the whole game in general. It seems like they took a lot of steps back
Playable Characters:
Asylum-2: Batman and Joker (on PS3)
City- 4: Batman, Catwoman, Robin, and Nightwing
Origins- 2: Batman and Deathstroke (EXACT SAME moveset as Robin, just lazily reskinned as Deathstroke)
-No new interesting gadgets or combat mechanics, except for a throwaway zip line thing & a stupid counter-ninja mechanic that doesn't work half the time
-Combat is worse than before. In asylum and city, you could strike multiple opponents from across different parts of the room with a nice flow. In Origins, if the enemy is too far, Batman will just punch the air & break the combo
-Sometimes when Im done beating up a group of thugs in the city, Batman will stay in the combat position because the game decided to make other thugs from 40 ft. away join the fight while I wait & my combo goes away
-Lazily copy-pasted half of the city, with the new part horribly designed with tall and long buildings that make it frustrating or impossible to grapple. Putting a looong bridge in-between the islands is just horiible design
-Continuity errors. In City, you could see that the prison was in an isolated island that was a couple of hundred feet from the the rest of Gotham with no other islands in sight besides main Gotham. In Origins, the new island appears out of nowhere south of Arkham City, despite there being no evidence of an island there in Arkham City
-No civilians, vehicles, or any sign of life in the city, it's suppose to be Gotham, not Arkham. The "civilians were ordered to stay indoors due to the blizzard" is just a lazy excuse, Spider-Man games have had civilans and vehicles in an open world for years now and you guys couldn't? If you can't then don't try to tell us it's Gotham. They could've used civilians as a new mechanic where you have to save people from getting robbed or mugged, increasing your reputation (since Batman is still a myth and sought after by the police)
-Killer Croc, Deadshot, Electrocutioner, and Shiva were horribly done. I get that Electrocutioner was suppose to be a joke, but they should'nt have told us that he was one of the main assassins, get us hyped up, then disappointed when Batman beats him with one punch. They should have not put him as one of the main assassins and not mentioned that he was in the game so we get surprised when we play it ourselves. You remember those fights with the titan thugs in asylum that were incredibly easy and nobody liked? Let's make one of those the Killer Croc boss fights. The Deadshot fight was just a predator map with punching at the end
Sorry, I know this isn't a review or rant thread, but I just had to get it out of my chest
