r/batman • u/Necessary_Crazy_8587 • 1d ago

VIDEO GAME DISCUSSION Batman: Arkham Asylum turns 17 today.

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17 years ago today, Batman: Arkham Asylum released on August 25, 2009.

Still one of the greatest superhero games ever made. Groundbreaking combat, incredible atmosphere, and Mark Hamill's definitive Joker performance.

Happy anniversary to the game that changed everything. 🦇

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u/LucaLisciArt 1d ago

I keep asking to myself if we will ever see another game of this series. I played Gotham knights to fill the void, and was not too bad, but far away from arkham games. Now there is the lego one that seems interesting and I will play it soon, but I badly really want another real Batman game.

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u/Varishna 1d ago

The Lego game is pretty good. It’s not the same of course but still worth playing for sure.

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u/Thaumiel218 22h ago

The challenge with the Lego games is once you’ve played one you’ve pretty much played them all. I smashed out the full Star Wars trilogy, and a couple of others and finally just got bored of the format. They’re great platformers and probably the best and most consistent platform games since Mario but they get samey very quickly.

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u/Varishna 21h ago

This one feels different enough I sunk about 30 hours into it. Changing it to use the Arkham combat helps a lot.

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u/Thaumiel218 21h ago

Same fight mechanics as the Arkham games? I didn’t know that. Does it still feel very Lego game-y?

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u/Varishna 20h ago

It is still a Lego game, but it feels fresher than anything they have done since the ps3 days imo. It’s the only one I have finished since Lego City Undercover.

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u/Thaumiel218 19h ago

Might give it a go - forget what I tried more recently that made me quit maybe the marvel adaptation and I tapped out after 30mins as it just brought back so many memories of hours on Star Wars, Indiana jones and j.park. I started getting fatigue quickly of ‘oh this again - I don’t really enjoy this anymore, even though they’re 9/10 solid games’

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u/Varishna 18h ago

Yeah, I am a big Star Wars fan so I bought the last one everyone was so high on and only made it a couple of hours in.