That was the direction they were going, but then they realized they had a money printer with AAA historical games, but instead of actually commit to a change of direction they just drug the story and shat out half-assed history game with half-assed Illoominati conspiracy drivel for decades.
VRM was pretty fun as a companion piece, but I don't think it would hold up well on its own.
Try telling that to the people who think Arkham Origins is "underrated" and he's the next Kevin Conroy (ha)
Nolan North himself, voice of Desmond, confirmed the present day plan at one point. I wish they'd done it that way, it sounds so much cooler than than generic history game, and Desmond was actually a somewhat interesting character before they killed him off. Now the modern day part of the story is completely pointless, I don't know why the bother to even include it in the newer games.
I'm not going to defend Origins because I honestly don't remember much about the game but I did like that it actually had boss fights, unlike Arkham Knight with the Batmobile being overused to hell.
Knight had one or two good boss fights, the Batmobile was overused but it was pretty fun to drive around.
I very much agree that Origins was City knockoff but that's far from a bad thing. While the Deathstroke fight was really just a button masher, at least it was something compared to the "fight" in Arkham Knight. Origins Firefly is actually a fight instead of another Batmobile chase like he was in Knight. I honestly can't remember a single decent boss fight in Knight that wasn't a Batmobile fight. Even the Batmobile boss fights were boring. The big important fight with the Jason was very subpar as well.
For the initiated Arkham game fans (or any DC game fan), yes, but I don't see him being the next Conroy any time soon. But my god I still miss Kevin Conroy to this day
Play the console port of Half Life 1. The PS2 version. Way better than the PC version even with controller.
Pretty much anyone who was around for HL1 launch knows this. The series has been in decline since the second game. And now is nothing more than a dogshit franchise to sell VR headsets or whatever garbage Valve is spewing next.
Knight was my favorite game of the series actually. Origins being a City knockoff is a disappointment because it takes what City did and does it worse. The combat is clunky, traversal is slow until you unlock Batwing fast travel, and Batman's voice isn't even close to as good. Had they just had Kevin Conroy do Origins, hell, even had Troy Baker do both Batman and Joker (his Batman actually sounds much closer to what you'd expect a young Conroy to sound like), it would have been better. And I don't understand why they felt the need to mess with the combat, it's fluid in City, but it actually feels worse in Origins.
It's not something you can really show visually, it looks about the same on-screen; it's about control timings. I think one of the big issues was that unlike the other games, you can't cancel out of an attack, so if you've just hit the attack button and an enemy is about to hit you, you can't dodge or counter until the animation completes, whereas you can do that in the other games.
Yes, I'm talking about the basic attack, not the special ones.
I think it was the DX11 settings that killed framerates. I always turned those off so I could use Texmod anyway.
