Arguably the biggest reveal of the night for the Spike VGAs was Batman: Arkham Asylum 2, or whatever they're calling the follow-up -- a specific name wasn't exactly given. Anyway, we pretty much knew this was going to happen, but an announcement so soon? I never saw it coming.
In the trailer, we get a look at a much thinner, flat-out gross-looking Joker. I know he took a beating in the last game, but damn! We're told "Arkham Asylum has moved," which I'm still trying to figure out for myself.
When the asylum's gate is shown in a wide shot, it looks out of place; almost like the island has been moved or something crazy. The more sensible conclusion would be that the fight with the inmates has moved into the city, which is probably the case from the looks of the carnival backdrop.
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Honestly, this makes no sense to me. Yeah the first had a really bad ending, but it definitely closed up the entire fiasco with the Joker. Why is he back? Did Rocksteady really just run out of ideas that fast?
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He looks ridiculously sick and fucked up. Like more fucked up than before. I'm theorizing [spoliers] that the stuff he injected into his body has fucked him over and this is his last hoorah...or...something.
Joker will never die. This is not news. And I would have it no other way.
Anyways I just saw this and I am ecstatic for no reason other than I loved the original and do I see a carnival theme!?!
Go take a gander at arkhamhasmoved.com. Take a nice look at the person on the sign. I have a feeling that Joker isn't gonna be in the spotlight this time. Or if he is, he'll have some kind of Ganon-like puppetmaster influence and that's about it.
This is a surprise to me as well. It's a good thing I rented it and finished playing it last month. I wonder if they are going to have Batmobile sequences?
*notices right hand has gun ans left hand is empty*
*left hand is pale and right hand is orange*
*left of clothes are clean and right clothes are dirty*
@vApathyv: Yeah, I see what you're getting at. I would prefer Joker not be in it as he was the main villain of the last game, but hopefully they spin him out enough to just make him a figure head.
this is no fucking joke, i can assure you, you may think this is just a really obnoxious publicty stunt, but well, can you say "sarin nerve gas", YOU ARE ALL GOING TO DIE here mother fuckers, just kidding
Fuck yea Mr. Freeze better be in this one. Also the ads on your vids blow half the time i have to reload because the sound for the clip is playing while the ad is going.
Well, I also just had something hit me: The first AA was loosely based upon a Batman Graphic Novel right? Well, if I remember right, there's a Batman story about Gotham getting closed off from the rest of the world and the biggest villains laying claims to different parts of the city. There might have been something about Gotham possibly just getting bombed out of existence too, I'm not sure. But anywho, I'm thinking they're going for that, with, say the Joker taking the carnival-like area, Two-Face took the business district wherever the court houses are, Clayface took the industrial district, Catwoman just kinda roams around as a neutral party, and fucking Ra'as Al Ghul will show up to take advantage of the situation, Firefly causing burning anarchy in the streets, something like that.
tl;dr- I don't think any one villain is gonna have the spotlight this time.
My guess for them not specifically calling it Batman: AA2 is that the naming is going to be confusing, and they'll try to come up with something sexier.
this is the premise:
The crime rate in the united states rises 400%, the once great city of gotham becomes the one maximum security prison for the entire country. A 50 foot containment wall is erected along the new jersey shore line, across the harlem river and down along the brooklyn shoreline, it completely surrounds gotham. All bridges and water ways are mined. The united states police force like an army, are encamped around the city. There are no guards inside the prison, only prisoners and the world they have made. The rules are simple once you go in, you dont come out
@hpv
I'm glad you said that because that's one of the reasons I actually loved the first one.
Everything about it felt so tight, so smooth, so perfect, I liked the repetition. It was working. It didn't deviate and what it had me doing over and over I wanted to do over and over. I enjoyed the fact that they got what they did down so packed and so fucking polished that I actually wanted more of the same and they delivered it with neat little twist here and there but nothing that radical.
I feel like things like vehicles could be incredibly risky. Especially considering before Arkham Asylum Rocksteady had, in my opinion, an incredibly shitty track record. I could see trying to do a lot working against them terribly.
I'm expecting something that only adds to the tried and true formula but nothing that will change it or be so different that it'll feel new.
What hpv said, first, fight Bane, then fight a Titan, who is basically Bane, but without hoses, then fight a Titan with minions, then fight two Titans, then fight two Titans with minions... then fight a giant fucking plant. Oh, then the final boss is basically just fighting a whole bunch of all the common ennemies you face throughout the game.
Scarecrow was cool the first time around in the morgue, but then got... bleh.
AA was good, but not great. Doesn't have much/any replayability, achievements be damned. Even though the Joker levels had a nice spin, would have been better if they actually had a purpose.
Either way, announcing AA2 this early is obvious money-grab (considering how well the first sold) and most likely won't be anything more then an xpack like MW2 and L4D2 were.
You are kidding, right? Both MW2 and L4D2 had all-new characters, gameplay mechanics, maps, and more content than the original games. Expansion packs don't have more content than the original game.
@ this video:
I'm rather surprised at it being announced so early, but Arkham sold ridiculously well for some reason so I guess I shouldn't be.
vApathyv i happy your mentioned Ra'as Al Ghul because i dont know if anyone noticed this, but one of the riddler challenges is finding his body in the morgue, but if you go back later in the game, its gone. creepy no?
OK that's quick. But it's not like the game is coming out next month so it doesn't matter. I think they're just proud that the other game was well received. Or maybe it had something to do with that (weird) award for best studio.
If they are going to make this a trilogy, i'm thinking we'll see a little back breaking at the end of this one. :D
And seriously, all the games they showed said "coming fall 2010" so, we still got another year for this one. And don't forget the delays. gotta have delays.
I never really liked Two-face. I'm all for the Joker coming back. Its the Joker for christ sake. He IS batman's villian.
And now, for some hopes and dreams. Get this team to make a Batman Beyond game.
No Man's Land would be neat, but I'd say it's almost too early to bet on it. I'm totally down with it, but it could just be the Joker fucking shit up and taking control of the city. As long as Jim Gordon doesn't look like a roid freak and they put fucking Man-Bat in this time, I'm down.
dude if they pull some no mans land shit i'm gonna flip.
there were some killer incarnations of his best villains in AA (killer croc) and if the story expands, we can only hope to see hush or any of the villains who were profiled... maybe MANBAT!!!
Maybe Croc (after having his hand on the Titan juice) injects himself with it all and physically MOVES the island himself. It's a long shot but It'd be cool to see.
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10:13 PM on 12.12.2009
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He looks ridiculously sick and fucked up. Like more fucked up than before. I'm theorizing [spoliers] that the stuff he injected into his body has fucked him over and this is his last hoorah...or...something.
Joker will never die. This is not news. And I would have it no other way.
Anyways I just saw this and I am ecstatic for no reason other than I loved the original and do I see a carnival theme!?!
Go take a gander at arkhamhasmoved.com. Take a nice look at the person on the sign. I have a feeling that Joker isn't gonna be in the spotlight this time. Or if he is, he'll have some kind of Ganon-like puppetmaster influence and that's about it.
This is a surprise to me as well. It's a good thing I rented it and finished playing it last month. I wonder if they are going to have Batmobile sequences?
Also, OHBOYOHBOYOHBOYOHBOYOHBOY
Two face is on the bill board
What do you mean?
*visits site*
*notices right hand has gun ans left hand is empty*
*left hand is pale and right hand is orange*
*left of clothes are clean and right clothes are dirty*
Wait a minute...*ORGASMZ*
Anyone know what Richard Moll's up to lately? :)
You know there's no official name for this right? We're just calling it Arkham Asylum 2 because of that reason.
You...you're shitting me right?
Well, I also just had something hit me: The first AA was loosely based upon a Batman Graphic Novel right? Well, if I remember right, there's a Batman story about Gotham getting closed off from the rest of the world and the biggest villains laying claims to different parts of the city. There might have been something about Gotham possibly just getting bombed out of existence too, I'm not sure. But anywho, I'm thinking they're going for that, with, say the Joker taking the carnival-like area, Two-Face took the business district wherever the court houses are, Clayface took the industrial district, Catwoman just kinda roams around as a neutral party, and fucking Ra'as Al Ghul will show up to take advantage of the situation, Firefly causing burning anarchy in the streets, something like that.
tl;dr- I don't think any one villain is gonna have the spotlight this time.
^This I would love. For me it was the peak of the Batman/Joker dynamic. Everything else is acceptable but this... this would be perfect.
The crime rate in the united states rises 400%, the once great city of gotham becomes the one maximum security prison for the entire country. A 50 foot containment wall is erected along the new jersey shore line, across the harlem river and down along the brooklyn shoreline, it completely surrounds gotham. All bridges and water ways are mined. The united states police force like an army, are encamped around the city. There are no guards inside the prison, only prisoners and the world they have made. The rules are simple once you go in, you dont come out
I'm glad you said that because that's one of the reasons I actually loved the first one.
Everything about it felt so tight, so smooth, so perfect, I liked the repetition. It was working. It didn't deviate and what it had me doing over and over I wanted to do over and over. I enjoyed the fact that they got what they did down so packed and so fucking polished that I actually wanted more of the same and they delivered it with neat little twist here and there but nothing that radical.
I feel like things like vehicles could be incredibly risky. Especially considering before Arkham Asylum Rocksteady had, in my opinion, an incredibly shitty track record. I could see trying to do a lot working against them terribly.
I'm expecting something that only adds to the tried and true formula but nothing that will change it or be so different that it'll feel new.
I see what you did there ...
Scarecrow was cool the first time around in the morgue, but then got... bleh.
The name on the building Joker is in, as the camera pans up is "Sionis", which is Black Mask's real last name.
Either way, announcing AA2 this early is obvious money-grab (considering how well the first sold) and most likely won't be anything more then an xpack like MW2 and L4D2 were.
You are kidding, right? Both MW2 and L4D2 had all-new characters, gameplay mechanics, maps, and more content than the original games. Expansion packs don't have more content than the original game.
@ this video:
I'm rather surprised at it being announced so early, but Arkham sold ridiculously well for some reason so I guess I shouldn't be.
If they are going to make this a trilogy, i'm thinking we'll see a little back breaking at the end of this one. :D
And seriously, all the games they showed said "coming fall 2010" so, we still got another year for this one. And don't forget the delays. gotta have delays.
I never really liked Two-face. I'm all for the Joker coming back. Its the Joker for christ sake. He IS batman's villian.
And now, for some hopes and dreams. Get this team to make a Batman Beyond game.
there were some killer incarnations of his best villains in AA (killer croc) and if the story expands, we can only hope to see hush or any of the villains who were profiled... maybe MANBAT!!!
/gush
Also Hush.