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Gotham Knights - open world action-RPG where Batman is dead

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Batman is dead. It is now up to the Batman Family - Batgirl, Nightwing, Red Hood and Robin - to protect Gotham City, bring hope to its citizens, discipline to its cops, and fear to its criminals. You must evolve into the new Dark Knight and save Gotham from chaos. Your legacy begins now. Step into the Knight.
 
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Pretty much looks like all the others apart from with different models. Played through every one up to Knight, but couldn't stomach the same game for the fourth time. Will wait and see if they add anything else besides co-op, but based on the videos it just looks like a reskin.
 

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Infinitron can move it to the RPG games category:)
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Mostly looks like more Arkham Knights with optional Coop and more RPG elements, I am actually surprised I expected full-on multiplayer game. Which pretty much confirms that Rocksteady's game will be a complete Destiny clone
 
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There truly can't be a new generation of games without some manifestation of the Arkham Formula.

The Suicide Squad Premier ought to be more entertaining, though.
 

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I thought WB Montreal was being sold off? Either way I’m finding it very hard to believe that they are dumb enough to squander the court of owl’s storyline on a Batman game that doesn't have Batman in it.
 

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I thought WB Montreal was being sold off? Either way I’m finding it very hard to believe that they are dumb enough to squander the court of owl’s storyline on a Batman game that doesn't have Batman in it.
Don't be silly. Of course he's in it.

Of course. It's going to be some shocking 1 minute to midnight reveal. But it just seems odd to me that the court of owls has been wasted like this instead of being the main focus of a Batman centric game. This co-op gameplay feels like it should have been DLC to the main game six months after release, not the primary focus.
 

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Is there any reason they can't make a Batman Beyong game? Is it beyond their capacity?
Honestly given the current state of consoles and their hardware limitations I'm glad they haven't done it. If they don't do it with PS5/XSX on the table, something's wrong.
 

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Will almost certainly have Denuvo so... not interested.
 

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I thought WB Montreal was being sold off? Either way I’m finding it very hard to believe that they are dumb enough to squander the court of owl’s storyline on a Batman game that doesn't have Batman in it.
Don't be silly. Of course he's in it.

Of course. It's going to be some shocking 1 minute to midnight reveal. But it just seems odd to me that the court of owls has been wasted like this instead of being the main focus of a Batman centric game. This co-op gameplay feels like it should have been DLC to the main game six months after release, not the primary focus.

I assume they will use the Court's errr skills to bring Batman back at some point during the game,but yeah doing the Court of Owls without Batman as the main character from the start is just weird.
 

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Watched this live. Big disappointment ensued. Gib Batman motherfucker.
Also it smells like Game as a Service type of game.
Coop is off-putting on its own and this would just seal the deal. Hard skip.
 

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Batman is one of the few superhero things I pay attention to, but I've hated the "Batman family" shit. It's just goofy, the character works ten times better on his own or with Robin at most. That's one big turnoff right away. Also didn't Barbara stay Oracle in these games? Blah.

Also co-op and open world RPG screams not my thing too.
 

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The weak opinion is to cry about not having Batman despite all of those chars being interesting on their own. (Also if you really think he's actually dead and they won't have him playable in DLC or something you're a moron)
The true take is to be annoyed about forced and unnecessary grind with half-assed co-op.
 
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The weak opinion is to cry about not having Batman despite all of those chars being interesting on their own. (Also if you really think he's actually dead and they won't have him playable in DLC or something you're a moron)
The true take is to be annoyed about forced and unnecessary grind with half-assed co-op.
nobody cares about sidekicks
 

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What immediately strikes me is that story-wise, this game celebrates the Bat-family while Arkham Knight brought all of these characters together just to take a shit on it, and on Batman as well. Incline, but not a hard bar to pass.

Everything else seems to be decline compared to Knight though. The story trailer is 4 minutes long and the gameplay trailer 7 minutes long, and all they manage to convey is that the game is dull and unimaginative. They use the same old Arkham combat/stealth design, made worse by turning it into a shitty RPG (he even brags about level scaling at 7:00). And the story part that they decided to show was "Mr. Freeze attempts to freeze all of Gotham", just like in a certain panned 1997 movie. How is that gonna catch anyone's interest?

It doesn't help that the hair physics on Batgirl looked really stiff and poor, or that the framerate was terrible at times. Pre-alpha or not, that framerate gives off a really poor impression for a AAA game.

If they had done a Batman Beyond game instead, they would have been forced to make notable changes to the gameplay formula, and probably cooked up a more interesting and attention-grabbing story for the preview video as well.
 

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To be fair to Freeze he tries to cold up Gotham like every week, goes well beyond the shitty film. It was even done pretty well in The Animated Series, had a really nice atmosphere and somber tone.

A batman beyond game... eh it'd be cool but it's so ingrained in TAS it'd be a little strange to just jump straight into that. At the very least I cannot imagine anyone being able to pitch that considering BB hasn't been relevant for years, has no one people really recognize, all on a big budget this style usually requires. If BB got a game, I'd prefer something cheaper and stylizied.

Also people love the Bat Family, they're more popular than other mainline heroes like Wonder Woman.
 

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