Rocksteady Probably Not Developing Batman: Arkham World Next

@bonbolapti said:

Patriiiiick, don't read into a joke. I don't care if it's a slow news day either.

i know right, as if rocksteady would ever tease a game in such a ballsy way.

Would Arkham World be their MMO?

I AM RAGING ABOUT NEWS STORIES ON VIDEOGAME SITES! ARRRRGGGGH

Can't they just do that Batman Beyond game next?

@Cirdain said:

@Baillie said:

The entire user base knew it was a joke, I guess it's just the professionals who can't get a joke.

Yep.

I would love love love if Rocksteady veer away from what I call "The Arkham Syndrom" and base their next Batman game , if they are making another batman game, on The Long Halloween. I think it'll be awesome going through the events of that great story. Not to mention that they'll have great characters to work with, have a great chance showing off the origins of a great batman villain, and have a chance integrating Catwoman into the game and not make feel contrive.

I liked Arkham City but I think many of us can agree that the weakest part of the game was the story.

EDIT YOUR FUCKING GRAMMAR!

@patrickklepek said:

Not exactly a surprise, but it shouldn't have come as a shock that people took them seriously, either.

Look, I've done it for you. Now copy and paste it into the article.

Would be a shame if this team never got a chance to shine with anything other than Batman games that are already suffering from diminishing returns.

Arkham county jail.........its a prequel

@sagesebas said:

Arkham Asylum, Arkham City, Arkham World, Arkham Solar System, Arkham Universe

Are we just skipping over Arkham Galaxy? Come on!

Batman: Arkham State then first?

Running an article on this was a mistake. However, that doesn't mean it's not an understandable mistake given Rocksteady's history with crazy teasers and their quick announcement of a sequel following up Arkham Asylum. I'd brushed it off as a joke myself and am not surprised to see Warner Brothers confirm this, but I also wasn't totally sure considering a similar joke was in Arkham City itself. Be reasonable, internet. It's not as though Patrick rushed out and claimed Batman Arkham World had been all but confirmed.

@Beforet said:

Yahtzee was right! The logical endpoint can only be Arkham Universe!

what about the multiverse?

"Not exactly a surprise, but it shouldn't have been shocked that people took them seriously, either."

Bizarre grammar of that sentence aside, really Klepek? You're fast becoming my favourite writer on this site but come on, the amount of people who were calling BS on this far outweighs those who gave it credence. Still no idea why so many ran with this 'story' and you guys shouldn't be ashamed to admit when you're wrong and should have known better, you've certainly shown in the past you have the integrity and strength of character to do so.

I can't wait to see how they justify that storyline. "Well after we just let all the convicts and crazies out to roam the street, we decided to just wall it all off and let them fight it out in there, then they escaped that so now we just took all the normal humans in ships off of Earth, moved to Alpha Centauri, and now they have the whole planet to themselves."

They really can't call it Arkham World. I'd just call it Batman: Arkham. Drop any other identifier.

That is pretty fucking stupid. World?

They should at least follow the proper naming conventions in video games.

Arkham Asylum, City, Land, Country, World, 64, Galaxy

@Baillie said:

The entire user base knew it was a joke, I guess it's just the professionals who can't get a joke.

The entire user base knew it was a joke, I guess it's just the professionals who can't get a joke.

Well that is that.

It's officially a joke: http://www.gameinformer.com/b/news/archive/2011/12/13/that-whole-arkham-world-thing-was-a-joke.aspx

Not sure why this is on GB. Usually "news" like this is left for those other gaming sites.

@MrKlorox said:

@GunslingerPanda said:

Er, this was clearly a joke.

Really? Is running every money making franchise into the ground with too-soon sequels not what the industry has become, let alone the fact that the exact thing happened to the last game in this franchise, clearly a joke?

You're a joke.

Er, this was clearly a joke.

I hope they give it a break, because Assassin's Creed started doing yearly releases and the latest didn't turn out so good.

I took the Arkham World thing to be a joke about the next logical step the series could take (from Asylum to City, I guess it could be Country, but that rolls off the tongue even less so), and the mention of spoilers being a joke about... the Joker, and how everyone took the Joker's death information that came out before City's release as spoilers.

No, they won't call it that.
It's very clearly a joke.
Slow news day eh.

Hmm, I figured they would just go with "Gotham City."

Arkham World will somehow only contain about 20 hours of content.

@Eyz said:

Oh, come on! Akrham World, really? Just give us "Batman: Gotham City" as it should logically be..

@billyhoush said:

Maybe Arkham World isn't a physical place but some sort of alternate world created by drugs or a machine like the matrix. Maybe Batman needs to go inside the Joker's mind to find out the location of someone or something to save the world sort of like the J.Lo movie The Cell.

I just hope 1) that you're kidding 2) that nobody from the game development read and use this idea...

I mean...seriously... °__O

I seriously cracked it! I remember this episode when I was a kid and it must've been based on a Batman comic arc: http://batman.wikia.com/wiki/Strange_Minds this is totally plausible on what Rocksteady is doing.

So basically we're getting another prison but even bigger and crazier? Lol rocksteady.

I can't wait for the futuristic arkham galaxy and the one after, arkham universe!. Arkham dimensions will probably have multiple batmans like campy batman, or the dark knight working together. Btw, I am totally excited about all of that, can't get enough batman

Oh, come on! Akrham World, really? Just give us "Batman: Gotham City" as it should logically be..

@billyhoush said:

Maybe Arkham World isn't a physical place but some sort of alternate world created by drugs or a machine like the matrix. Maybe Batman needs to go inside the Joker's mind to find out the location of someone or something to save the world sort of like the J.Lo movie The Cell.

I just hope 1) that you're kidding 2) that nobody from the game development read and use this idea...

I mean...seriously... °__O

Batman: Arkham Arkham Arkham.

Maybe Arkham World isn't a physical place but some sort of alternate world created by drugs or a machine like the matrix. Maybe Batman needs to go inside the Joker's mind to find out the location of someone or something to save the world sort of like the J.Lo movie The Cell.

arkham asylum, arkham city, arkham state, arkham nation, arkham continent, arkham hemisphere, arkham world, etc.

@Deusoma said:

@Chibi_Kaji said:

@xobballox said:

It came to my mind, but it's almost surely a joke. Surely someone wouldn't name a game Batman Arkham World.

It sounds just as dumb as naming a game Arkham City.

Yeah, who the hell would think namingavideogameafteritssetting would be a good idea?

"Yo dawg, we heard you like Arkham Asylum, so we put Arkham Asylum in your perfectly habitable city." Yes, it's an appropriately descriptive name, but the premise of Arkham City is incredibly dumb and contrived, and the title is dumb by association.

They actually have a clue to this in the game itself. I was playing Batman Arkham City and at one point I was sneaking up on three criminals and I heard them talking and the dialogue actually went like this.

"Man, Arkham Asylum, Arkham City, what are they going to do next? Arkham County? Arkham State? Arkham World?"

"Who knows, they might do it."

"Man, these people are crazy."

"They suuuuure are."

And the last crook said it in a very wink and nudge kind of way, like they clearly weren't talking about the politicians in the game who created this city sized prison, but instead were talking about the game developers.

Fuck.

Nah, it was a joke.

So in order to protect the rest of the world, your plan is to confine all the prisoners to...the world...the fuck?

This is on the same level as thinking that Final Fantasy DDR game was real. Come on. There might be another Batman game, but there's a 0% it will be called Gotham World.

@MrOldboy said:

Bah, just give the sequel to another Dev. I want to see if rocksteady can make a game based on a new ip.

Same here. As much as I liked the Batman games, I'd love to see what else Rocksteady has planned.

Er, this was clearly a joke.

@Mr_Skeleton said:

I am waiting for Arkham Universe.

The inevitable Batman MMO.

I thought it was a joke...

Jesus, there are a bunch of sourpusses in this forum. Instantly people say because a game has the subtitle of "World" they think it will go down the path of Mario? What the hell is wrong with people.

We all know it wont be the name of the third game, but at the same time cool your nerd-jets and realize people joke.

I`m surprised that a lot of people seem to think this is anything more than a throwaway joke.

@GunnBjorn said:

Why not Batman: Gotham City?! All these merauders running loose in Batman's/Bruce Wayne's hometown. And the city's streets make a perfect excuse for a cool chase with the Batmobile.

Yeah I'm thinking that's the only thing that makes sense of the Arkham City thing, as it doesn't exactly make a lot of sense even with their attempt to try to. At least it's what I thought when they announced it as other than AA 2.

Though Arkham County, Region (Panhandle, etc), Tri-State, Mid Atlantic, East Coast, Nation, North America, Western Hemisphere, World, Solar System, Stellar Cluster, Spiral Arm, Galaxy, Local Cluster, Super Cluster, Filament, Universe, Brane, Multiverse....that's enough sequels even for Activision...

Really?

Really?