Batman: Arkham Knight, thanks for playing. No one in their right mind expected TH5 to be good. Personally I'm not even surprised it's a trash fire.
Arkham Knight, though. Man. Talk about a game snatching defeat from the jaws of victory. Leaving aside the PC port, even. I had super low expectations for that game going in because I thought the Batmobile looked lame and everyone and their mother knew who the Knight was the moment he was revealed. BUT! The game actually turned me. I liked the Batmobile at first and by god, the story had SO MUCH PROMISE. A Batman who's an unreliable narrator? The whole time I was playing the game I was questioning what was even real. But it went absolutely nowhere, and the Batmobile became overused to the point of comedy. When you're relegating Deathstroke, one of the most skilled hand-to-hand combatants to face Batman, to a boss battle that takes place entirely in the car and is a copy-paste of a boss fight against the Knight (who is also an able fighter who can match Batman), you know you done fucked up. I've seldom seen a game waste so much narrative and gameplay potential. It's a tragedy. There's an amazing story and an amazing game in there that they steered away from at every possible turn, seemingly.
/rant
