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How do you feel about the Batman: Arkham series’ titles and naming convention?
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Maybe they thought "Batman: Joker Is Behind It All 1, 2, and 3" weren't catchy titles.
To me, it was a unimpressive way to brand the series. When the Nolan trilogy went from Batman Begins to The Dark Knight I doubt many people were confused that they were in the same series. It feels like they think the audience is stupid that they won't realize that the new Batman game of the market is a sequel to the previous one. Hell, I think the only two Batman-centered game series at the time were just Arkham and Lego Batman.
Arkham Asylum is of course integral to the story of the game and lore of the Batman comics. There is a simplicity to that game were Rocksteady understood that the player would understand core elements of Batman such as the character's origins, his supporting cast and antagonists and they could just set a game and story in this interesting location. Arkham City I can kind of forgive, but I would have preferred if that was a "street name" for the prison system that the media/inmates called it and in-universe it was something like "Gotham City Corrections District." Arkham Knight is dumb because it is just the Red Hood, everyone knew it was the Red Hood, but they needed to get "Arkham" into title. They didn't even let you have a real gameplay segment in Arkham Asylum at the end of that game. If they were being poetic about ending things were they started, they should have had a final Scarecrow level like the ones from Arkham Asylum. I understand the real story of the game was closure against Joker and the hallucination segment there was to "finish" him off, but it never resonated with me.
To me, it was a unimpressive way to brand the series. When the Nolan trilogy went from Batman Begins to The Dark Knight I doubt many people were confused that they were in the same series. It feels like they think the audience is stupid that they won't realize that the new Batman game of the market is a sequel to the previous one. Hell, I think the only two Batman-centered game series at the time were just Arkham and Lego Batman.
Arkham Asylum is of course integral to the story of the game and lore of the Batman comics. There is a simplicity to that game were Rocksteady understood that the player would understand core elements of Batman such as the character's origins, his supporting cast and antagonists and they could just set a game and story in this interesting location. Arkham City I can kind of forgive, but I would have preferred if that was a "street name" for the prison system that the media/inmates called it and in-universe it was something like "Gotham City Corrections District." Arkham Knight is dumb because it is just the Red Hood, everyone knew it was the Red Hood, but they needed to get "Arkham" into title. They didn't even let you have a real gameplay segment in Arkham Asylum at the end of that game. If they were being poetic about ending things were they started, they should have had a final Scarecrow level like the ones from Arkham Asylum. I understand the real story of the game was closure against Joker and the hallucination segment there was to "finish" him off, but it never resonated with me.
This. It was totally uninspired to use it for any of them save for the first.
No. Arkham City was heavily connected to Arkham Asylum and Arkham Origins was the origins of the Arkham series + Batman and Joker.
Good thread OP.
Having Arkham in the new title will limit the marketing outreach to gamers who don't keep up with news, thinking it's another remake or remaster.
Having Arkham in the new title will limit the marketing outreach to gamers who don't keep up with news, thinking it's another remake or remaster.
Well if it's Arkham Legacy that speaks for itself as it sounds like a collection.
Same thing with the silly naming of the recent GRID racing game. People thought it was just a re-release.
