and guess what

I STILL DO.

this game is a pickle for me because story wise it's my favorite bc jason todd is my little guy, but gameplay wise i'd say it's the weakest in the series. the combat is great, the stealth is still good, but this game is so fucking obsessed with forcing you to drive batman's stupid car.

my favourite part of knight was the prerelease cycle where the devs were like

"the arkham knight is a totally new character!!!"

everyone on the planet: hi jason

yeah lmfaoooo

its so funny to me because in the actual comic bruce figures out it's jason pretty much immediately. but in the game they keep dancing around it as if it's not the most obvious reveal in the world

maybe they want to help Jason's self esteem on his new project

like pretending you don't hear giggling from the closet when playing hide and seek

Boy they really were proud of that damn batmobile weren't they

That game may as well have been marketed as a tank combat simulator

it's so bonkers to me

you know what i think of when i imagine batman? that's right.... TANK WARFARE

oh but he's not killing because all these tanks are actually drones. and when he runs people over they're not dying they're just getting hit by the nonlethal car taser which doesn't kill people

normally i don't care about that kind of stuff because you need to do some level of suspension of disbelief to accept bruce's no killing rule and i'm eh over when people point out that "realistically this would have killed that person!" but it is very ridiculous to have batman driving around in an armored tank armed with giant guns considering his

very famous hatred for guns

story-wise i think everything they did with jason was really great. it's a very different take on the character but i think it works. and when they tore off the arkham knight helmet to reveal the red hood i was delighted.

it's also so funny to me that this was before the batman who laughs. since the nightmare world where bruce becomes the joker is literally just. the batman who laughs. i actually think everything they did with the joker in this game was really great too. he's like a tumor that bruce can't have removed until he L + Ratio's him into hell.

I only hated it because I'm so sick of the Joker on principle

I was already annoyed that they made Arkham Origins be about him

oh yeah so am i.

also i never played arkham origins because it's shit

I liked Arkham Origins except the Joker

just conceptually. the fact that the trailer had deathstroke in it as a batman villain has lead to so many deeply annoying people who think deathstroke is a batman villain

when in actual fact he's a teen titans villain who keeps losing to teenagers between 12 and 19.

Deathstroke is in the category of "Quote-unquote-badass characters who have tryhard fedora fans that are so insufferable they ruin the character"

remember when they tried to make a bat-plot out of him thinking he might be Damian's father and fighting Bruce about it?

Alongside Punisher, Boba Fett, Wolverine, and in fact several versions of Batman

(Seeing him get dragged in The Other Side of the DCU by Katana going "Yeah, everyone buys into Deathstroke's manly man persona, but so many of us see him for the pedophile he is." was fantastic.)

best version of Scarecrow though.

the "damian is slade's son???" plot was stupid but i liked some of what they did with it because it was personally crafted to make slade miserable

the best version of slade remains the teen titans cartoon version

also deathstroke as a character only really functions if you recognize that he's at his core a pathetic piece of shit.

I would have loved to see them do a plot with jericho being his son and rose could turn up

Deathstroke actually is what the worst Batman fans think Batman is and that's why he sucks.

that's true

shoutout to ghostmaker for saying he just can't feel threatened by someone who seems to exclusively go for kids