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[arkhamguy123]

Licensing out IP, WB Montreal working on new single player game, Rocksteady working on new single player game

One way or another a new Batman game is inevitable and I’m so happy about that

 

[Cyberpunkd]

Can adults make cohesive sentences? Many IP, HUGE IPS, big money, u buy!

 

[proandrad]

Can Sony please save rocksteady with Batman from WB.

 

[Mister Wolf]

I wonder who will get Batman. I can see EA or Ubisoft going after it. Microsoft should try to get it as well

 

[arkhamguy123]

Can Sony please save rocksteady with Batman from WB.

Question is, what Sony studio should do it? Insomniac is booked into the mid 2030s. Contractually. Naughty dog doesn’t do open world. Everyone else seems booked with projects. I know if any other Sony studio is up to par to handle The Batman.

 

[DenchDeckard]

Batman fits xbox in my opinion. Spidey on ps and batman on xbox but those days are long gone.

 

[arkhamguy123]

I wonder who will get Batman. I can see EA or Ubisoft going after it. Microsoft should try to get it as well

EA would be hilarious with the rights coming back full circle over 2 decades. I think EA could do it Justice. They seem like they’re willing to invest into quality single player.

Ubisoft and Microsoft would be gross. Ubisoft would make some graphically sub standard awful open world generic romp. Microsoft would make some cheap, no production value, game pass fodder. Neither of which are appropriate for a prestige IP like Batman

 

[Magic Carpet]

Beetlejuice, Beetlejuice, Bee---

 

[Angry_Megalodon]

Question is, what Sony studio should do it? Insomniac is booked into the mid 2030s. Contractually. Naughty dog doesn’t do open world. Everyone else seems booked with projects. I know if any other Sony studio is up to par to handle The Batman.

The one who makes the best superhero games at Sony: Sucker Punch.

 

[Werewolf Jones]

Aren't DC in Fortnite?

 

[Mister Wolf]

EA would be hilarious with the rights coming back full circle over 2 decades. I think EA could do it Justice. They seem like they’re willing to invest into quality single player.

Ubisoft and Microsoft would be gross. Ubisoft would make some graphically sub standard awful open world generic romp. Microsoft would make some cheap, no production value, game pass fodder. Neither of which are appropriate for a prestige IP like Batman

Respawn or EA Motive Studio would definitely do a solid Batman game.

 

[BennyBlanco]

I wonder who will get Batman. I can see EA or Ubisoft going after it. Microsoft should try to get it as well

I want a game from Monolith with the Nemesis system

 

[intbal]

I don't think they could afford it, but Don't Nod could make a good Batman game.
They already tried (the combat part, anyway) with Remember Me.

 

[Killer8]

Time to give that Mad Max game IP to Kojima like George Miller wanted.

 

[Solarstrike]

Middle Earth: Shadow of Angmar when?

 

[rodrigolfp]

Can Sony please save rocksteady with Batman from WB.

Can Sony or Nintendo please not make any franchise slave of any console.

 

[arkhamguy123]

The one who makes the best superhero games at Sony: Sucker Punch.

Get them a bigger budget and a more professional writer and fuck yeah that would be brilliant

 

[The Cockatrice]

Ill take Suicide Squad for 3 fiddy.

 

[Dr. Wilkinson]

Good! Make more HP games. Clearly the market is hungry for it. How many copies did Hogwarts sell? 25 million? Crazy

 

[StueyDuck]

Ooooh give FEAR to someone.

Someone talented obviously. (Or just let monolith get off the terrible idea that is wonder woman)

 

[Three]

I wonder who will get Batman. I can see EA or Ubisoft going after it. Microsoft should try to get it as well

Licensing out IP, WB Montreal working on new single player game, Rocksteady working on new single player game

Pretty likely they're doing that themselves.

 

[delfrickintree]

Rocksteady is already dead, Jim. Just be grateful that we got the good batman games that we got. It will never be the same

 

[wvnative]

I really want to see a modern AAA matrix game. I think Shiny did the best they could on gen 6 platforms, but the tech wasn't quite there yet. With today's tech, you could make something truly incredible with the right team.

No idea who would be best suited today though.

 

[thicc_girls_are_teh_best]

A Game of Thrones title from Naughty Dog would actually be pretty epic. SIE need to get in on this.

Also a Mortal Kombat from Arc System Works would be insane (and feel a lot better to play).

I genuinely don't care about the DC/superhero stuff; there's already a glut of superhero games on the market and Rocksteady can still make a great Batman game.

Outside of Robotron I don't see the value most of Midway's catalog could bring to other big studios or publishers in the market. I think that's something smaller indie studios would be interested in, however. Like a new San Francisco Rush from Raw Thrills or something.

I really want to see a modern AAA matrix game. I think Shiny did the best they could on gen 6 platforms, but the tech wasn't quite there yet. With today's tech, you could make something truly incredible with the right team.

No idea who would be best suited today though.

Maybe a combination of Eidos Montreal (they made the newer Deus Ex games) and Suda 51? Although Suda 51 seem very interested in a new Killer 7, and I'd always personally take something new for an original gaming IP over a licensed game.

Though just also thinking...maybe Kojima Production & Eidos Montreal could team up on a Matrix game? That'd be pretty cool.

Also since a lot of people are talking superhero stuff...personally, I'm a bit burnt out on it. And I don't want to see SIE's pipeline bogged down by superhero games anymore than it already is with Insomniac handling Spiderman and X-Men.

 

[arkhamguy123]

Pretty likely they're doing that themselves.

We’ll see. It seemed like a no brainer, sure fire, for certain notion years ago after Arkham knight and we got Gotham knights and suicide squad. So dogshit and more dogshit

 

[Heimdall_Xtreme]

I just see the WB logo and imagine fat bourgeois rats, who don't care about their audience.

 

[March Climber]

 

[Hemingwayoffbase]

We need a Batman immersive sim.

 

[Mownoc]

Ubisoft would have been drooling at the prospect of reskinning AC into a LOTR game.

But WB don't have LOTR rights anymore, embracer does?

So batman and harry potter are the only two big IPs I can think of.

Otherwise... AAA openworld Scooby Doo game.

 

[intbal]

I'd like to know who owns NOLF IP.
Figuring out those rights seems like a mess, considering it was made my Monolith (now owned by WB, but acquired after NOLF released), and co-published by FOX interactive (now owned by Disney) and Sierra Entertainment (now owned by Microsoft).

 

[Perrott]

Question is, what Sony studio should do it? Insomniac is booked into the mid 2030s. Contractually. Naughty dog doesn’t do open world. Everyone else seems booked with projects. I know if any other Sony studio is up to par to handle The Batman.

Once Sucker Punch wraps up the Ghost series with the upcoming Tsushima sequel, have them develop a one-off singleplayer Batman game for PS6.

At least that's what I'd do.

 

[Xellos]

Sunsoft is still around. I could go for another NES-style Batman, or at least a Sunsoft Batman compilation.

 

[Alpha Male]

I know many like me want a new Battle for Middle Earth but they need to do what Star Wars did and authorize a Total War Middle Earth

 

[N0S]

I'd like to know who owns NOLF IP.
Figuring out those rights seems like a mess, considering it was made my Monolith (now owned by WB, but acquired after NOLF released), and co-published by FOX interactive (now owned by Disney) and Sierra Entertainment (now owned by Microsoft).

Nightdive been trying to get the rights ever since the studio started I think. Shit is real sad.

 

[digital_ghost]

License out the batman series to a developer that actually cares about making a kickass singleplayer game. And not some mtx, generic third person shooter.

Id kill to have an arkham knight remake or sequel in ue5 for example.

 

[Holammer]

Why not, it worked for Games Workshop. There are more 40k (and warhammer) games than you can eat and much of it is pretty good too.

 

[intbal]

Id kill to have an arkham knight remake or sequel in ue5 for example.

WB could easily create some good will and ramp up interest in a new Batman game by patching Arkham Knight for 9th gen machines.
The increase in sales wouldn't necessarily be huge, since most gamers already own it, but it could increase the value of the Batman license to a potential third party.

 

[Evil Calvin]

Licensing out IP, WB Montreal working on new single player game, Rocksteady working on new single player game

One way or another a new Batman game is inevitable and I’m so happy about that

Batman games have been done to death. Make something new.

 

[Hemingwayoffbase]

Batman character action soulslike.

Tell me this doesn’t sound awesome.

 

[intbal]

Batman games have been done to death. Make something new.

They did.

 

[Dick Jones]

Batman games have been done to death. Make something new.

The last two Batman games didn't have you play as Batman. Joker being the main villian is the only overdone part

 

[digital_ghost]

WB could easily create some good will and ramp up interest in a new Batman game by patching Arkham Knight for 9th gen machines.
The increase in sales wouldn't necessarily be huge, since most gamers already own it, but it could increase the value of the Batman license to a potential third party.

Thats true. They should patch it for PS5/XSX.

If they really want to create some goodwill, id take Arkham City or Asylum in Arkham Knights engine.

Its sad that arkham knight still is a better looking game than the recent gotham knights and suicide squad.

 

[FinalBossWithTheMostPower]

Sure, whore out the IP after their internal studios shit the bed with every worthwhile property.

 

[cormack12]

 

[BennyBlanco]

Sure, whore out the IP after their internal studios shit the bed with every worthwhile property.

You say that like it’s worse than getting Gotham Knights and Suicide Squad back to back.

 

[Hudo]

For fuck's sake, can they please let Monolith make a new Fear game?

 

[RickMasters]

Sunsoft is still around. I could go for another NES-style Batman, or at least a Sunsoft Batman compilation.

I second that compilation. And I want that collection to have even the non sun soft batman games. We just need a complete collection of all the 8 and 16bit batman games. And throw in the arcade games while they are it. Maybe even those sucky 8 hit computer batman games and the Amiga game too. Good and bad we need that whole collection. Same with the old Spider-Man games. I still remember playing Spider-Man on sega megadrive way back in the early 90s.

 

[Deerock71]

WB RN:

 

[FinalBossWithTheMostPower]

You say that like it’s worse than getting Gotham Knights and Suicide Squad back to back.

Yeah, more like that it is be hard to be excited for anything new from WB.

Doesn't matter where it's coming from, now.

 

[Audiophile]

WB could've been not dumb and just had Rocksteady make a Matrix game and/or a Blade Runner game.