Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-123.211.144.195-20140513084446

I am Arkham crazy right now. I was about mid-way through the latest game Origins, when I heard about Arkham Knight. Originally I thought that it would be the sequel to Origins, and I was fuck yes!! But as it turns out - it's the sequel to Arkham City.

My first thought:  Disappointing

Why? It would mean that our favourite hero, the Dark Knight, would continue in this post Arkham Asylum plot line without his equilibrium - the Joker. A hard thing to do in my opinion. Allowing the death of the Joker was a very silly thing for the developers to do. People who were getting tired of battling the Joker? Get over it, you don't belong in a Batman game!

Why I'm disappointed in Mark Hammil's departure as the voice of the Joker, I have to admit that a new bench-mark has been set by Troy Baker's brilliant voice work as Joker in Origins. Hell even Roger Craig Smith delivered a fierceness and a underlining constrained-emotional rage into voicing Batman. I personally was very impressed.

Don't get me wrong, continuing in the aftermath of Arkham City is a must because of the questions we were left with, and no doubt allow the series to close with us all deeply satisfied. I'm not writing to question that.

I do however feel that Arkham Origins deserves a sequel, if not a series of sequels.

In Arkham Origins, the one thing I loved more above everything else was Batman's first encounter with the Joker and BETTER still -  The Joker's first encounter with Batman. We actually got to go inside the Jokers mind as he recollected on his first experience battling the Dark Knight. Utterly brilliant!

What other important first encounters did we experience? Gordon. Bane. Freeze in the DLC. Oracle. Riddler. Black Mask. Penguin. Killer Croc. Mad Hatter. Harley.

Out of them all we never experienced any evolution of the characters save from Gordon, Harley and Oracle and arguably Riddler. We saw the evolution of Freeze too in the DLC, even though it was a little too fast passed. But that's what I loved about the Origins game. We saw some characters before they become their iconic selves. Now if only we can see more!

Arkham Asylum and City were definately game-changers. But Arkham Origins in my opinion can be the game-changer for the Arkham series and will rival the original Arkham games including the up-coming Arkham Knight.

In Arkham Origins we play a younger, fresher more inexperienced Batman still as of yet no-where near his prime! More importantly however Arkham Origins has allowed us all to experience something that hasn't been present in the past Arkham games -  Batman's failures. We saw this for the first time in Origins with the Commissioner and the Banker lady with plagued Batman with guilt, as seen when he was poisoned by Copperhead. But it wasn't until Bane outwitted Batman, stormed the Batcave and killed Alfred that we experienced a life-altering moment for the Dark Knight, and a game changer for the Arkham series. Now granted Alfred was revived, but just in that epic few seconds we saw a Batman that really has never be seen before. We saw a quality that hasn't been present in the other Arkham games. The Batman of the Arkham series being shaped through true pain and loss. We experienced first hand the unspoken love between Bruce and Alfred, and emotionally connected with the Dark Knight in a way that has never been experienced before outside of a comic-book. In Arkham Asylum and Arkham City we play a Batman who has already made his mistakes, and as such has already been shaped by them, and it is... well... invincible. In Origins we are right there with Batman as he faces his most challenging, tormenting, wounding, life-altering moments right before our eyes.

In Asylum/ City Barbara Gordon aka Batgirl's back is already broken, hence why she's portrayed in these games as the wheelchair confined Oracle. Tim Drake is the current Robin. (the 3rd Robin)  There are still two of his predecessors who have yet to be mentioned outside of the DLC for Arkham City:  Dick Grayson and more importantly Jason Todd. There is so much rich history in these three things alone that can be dramatised into an Arkham Origins sequel/s. Any Batman or Arkham fan would jizz over such potential to experience all this history first hand in true Arkham game-play.

More so the prospect of what is still to come! What can we expect if there was an Arkham Origins sequel?

Harleen Frances Quinzel is still a shy MD and has yet to become Harley Quinn. The developers merely touched on Joker's influence on her! Catwoman is non-existent it seems at this point. Barbara is still a teenager, yet to become Batgirl, yet to have her back broken by Joker and become Oracle. Harvey Dent may still very well be a sane district attorney, who Bruce Wayne may work closely with. Where is Poison Ivy? I never saw the flower shop which was depicted in Arkham City in the same point in Arkham Origins. The origin of the Batmobile - they hinted of it in the Batcave but how does Batman decide he needs the Batmobile which was seen in Arkham Asylum? Dick Grayson has probably yet to loose his parents the Flying Graysons (again mentioned in a Riddler challenge in Arkham City). Jason Todd. Bane breaking Batman's back? Ra's al Ghul was hinted at, but again when exactly did his infatuation with Batman at his heir begin? When did Talia first have her affair with Batman? Dr. Jonathan Crane has yet to become Scarecrow. Is Clayface still the actor Basil Karlo? Has Victor Isaacs still yet to make his first kill? The Falcones? Has Solomon Grundy been discovered yet?

Gosh i'm drooling at the potential to play through all these things and more! Imagine the possibilites! I pray for Arkham Origins 2!

Peace! 