{"id":8822,"date":"2020-12-19T15:31:34","date_gmt":"2020-12-19T15:31:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/?p=8822"},"modified":"2020-12-21T10:21:38","modified_gmt":"2020-12-21T10:21:38","slug":"batman-arkham-asylum-arkham-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/batman-arkham-asylum-arkham-city\/","title":{"rendered":"BATMAN: ARKHAM ASYLUM & ARKHAM CITY"},"content":{"rendered":"

I heard lots of good things about these<\/a> two<\/a> games over the years, alongside seemingly never-ending comments about this or that game using “Arkham<\/em>-style combat”.<\/p>\n

So perhaps my expectations going in were too high: Neither game is particularly impressive and the much vaunted combat is just your standard beat ’em up<\/a> fair. Streets of Rage<\/a> was released over a decade earlier for fuck’s sake.<\/p>\n

I will however grant that they both earn top marks for visual quality and implementing that age-old combat system flawlessly… but that’s not really enough to counteract the somewhat clunky non-combat movement and the complete and utter absence of any loot\/pick-ups. Batman basically has everything he needs right at the beginning and doesn’t use conventional weapons so you’re just moving from point to point through static environments beating\/creeping up on generic mooks.<\/p>\n

If you’re a beat ’em up fan this obviously won’t be an issue, but personally I need more than button-mashing for button-mashing’s sake to keep me invested in a game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I heard lots of good things about these two games over the years, alongside seemingly never-ending comments about this or that game using “Arkham-style combat”. So perhaps my expectations going in were too high: Neither game is particularly impressive and the much vaunted combat is just your standard beat ’em up fair. Streets of Rage was released over a decade earlier for fuck’s sake. I will however grant that they both earn top marks for visual quality and implementing that age-old combat system flawlessly… but that’s not really enough to counteract the somewhat clunky non-combat movement and the complete and utter absence of any loot\/pick-ups. Batman basically has everything he needs right at the beginning and doesn’t use conventional weapons so you’re just moving from point to point through static environments beating\/creeping up on generic mooks. If you’re a beat ’em up fan this obviously won’t be an issue, but personally I need more than button-mashing for button-mashing’s sake to keep me invested in a game.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[33,7],"tags":[148,466,62,473],"class_list":["post-8822","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-pc","category-video-game-related","tag-action-rpg","tag-batman","tag-science-fiction","tag-third-person-perspective"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8822","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=8822"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/8822\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=8822"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=8822"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.offkorn.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=8822"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}