Here's 17 Minutes (!!!) of Narrated Batman: Arkham Origins Gameplay

Does this look really choppy in places or is the videoplayer just being crappy again?

Also: Why doesn't his mouth move when he's talking to himself, on top of the elevator? Why are all the cops at the briefing standing around in exactly the same pose? Did nobody notice how awkward and unrealistic that looks?

Why should they? This video is supposed to represent the game in it's best possible light, yet they have these massive framedrops. So they are either incompetent (using a video showing bad performance for PR) or the game simply can't perform any better on the PS3 (which i guess is the version shown). If the latter applies, that's not a good thing... people gonna buy this and are stuck with a game that performs badly.

This has only been 17 minutes of gameplay and had already enough rough spots for me to cringe, so it's save to assume that playing the game for several hours will have way more (and probably worse) moments with really bad fps drops.

@galacticpunt:

That's the point, they're just supposed to sound like

younger version of Mark and Kevins characters. Not radically different and I

would say they nailed it.

Why does only Batman's breath steam up in the Batcave?

Whenever Batman talks in this, all I can hear is Chris Redfield.

I'll take my Arkham Origin with 60 FPS on my PC friday afternoon thank you.

I wish someone would express their opinion about the framerate.

SWAT guy: Oh yeah! Right in the jaw!

Batman: *smacks him in the jaw*

That moment at 6:00 where a narrator tells us it's an exciting, risk filled night night while Batman trains on thugs in the bat cave.

This could use some UI work and some optimization, but I'm interested in a PC version.

If only...

Can the people complaining about the framerate be rounded up and removed from the gene pool?

im batmen

@blitz_kill: seriously. at least hes wearing a black cape and not that blue shit lol

Was gonna watch this thing through, then GB reminded me that its just another batman game where you do the batman stuff you've been doing for the last 2-3 years while being batman

Looks like Batman is not stupid.

Wow the framerate is terrible.

If Batman isn't all buddy-buddy with the GCPD in this game, then who owns/turned on the Bat-signal?

Low fps... I hope that's somehow being aggravated by the way they captured the video.

Batman games need more Bruce Wayne mode. Charity dinners, being rich, maybe a dating sim. I wanna hang out in Wayne Manor and have Alfred make me cookies.

Twice as big traversal area as AC ain't exactly selling me on this. But seeing Bats take down goons in a variety of ways in a smaller space similar to AA gets me excited again. Frame rate schmame rate, this looks good.

<3 the first two Arkham games, and while I kinda would like to play this at some point, it doesn't have nearly the same TAS appeal as the Rocksteady games.

I really hope they're not wasting their time on a Superman game :(

@pr1mus: I got a chance to play a preview of this game and the framerate was horrific. I never get motion sickness in games or anything, but it was genuinely making me feel a little ill while playing, it was that jarring, especially when you were out in the heavy snow

That fucking framerate. Why, WHY do they insist on playing demos on consoles?

I'll be skipping this one, and that framerate is the worst.

Good on the developers for making their own "quick look" though.

I like that super cool text in the middle of the screen, obscuring what i'm doing. Thank's UI designer!

Yeah, weird how so many games are being demoed on PS3 instead of 360 these days. Some marketing push by Sony to get more exposure maybe?

Though choppy, still looks pretty good. This video inspired me to re-download and play Arkham City.

"Now, Batman's not stupid."

Yeah it suffers from the same re-hash treatment as AC, but the combat in these games is, y'know... good. Also Playing on whatever difficulty that removes counter warnings is the most engaging way to play a Batman: Arkham Whatever game.

I don't know about that...I remember Arkham City on PS3 turning into some level of bullet-time at certain spots, when you were stricted to a single room with dozen of baddies coming at you. That said, I still loved that game and don't really recall it ever really bothered me, even when it happened. Got even worse with Far Cry 3, which is one of the few console games that made me go "Oh maaan, that framerate is really terrrrrible..." more often than once. But I loved that game just as much.

So that being said, I'll probably end up enjoying this, only if it's Arkham City 1.5...though if it isn't good and also has that sloppy framerate on top of that, then I might sigh out loud and slap myself for pre-ordering...

This looks like it has the potential to be just as fun as the previous two games. Granted I don't know that I'm hungry for a third Batman game at this point but I might still pick it up.

Holy negative mindsets galore! Jesus people, it's like the pessimism is beyond contagious up in here, to the point where so many of you rag on what is clearly video production issues (the framerate).

But I guess that's the Internet for you - spewing venom regarding things not a single one of us has any idea about.

This looks pretty neat actually, and makes me want to go back and finish Arkham City. That said the frame rate is garbage and I wasn't too impressed with the facial animation during the conversation between Batman and Alfred.

I think I'll wait for a cheap PC/PS4 version.

I say they have the gameplay down pat but oh boy, they got to work on that frame-rate.

I would read the shit out of that!

anyways I still don't like how they keep saying "this a younger inexperienced Batman" and then he proceeds to take down guys like it's nothing, I don't see how they translate the whole year one Batman into gameplay.

When he said "Now, Batman is not stupid." I had a stupid idea, for a batman comic called "Batman is Stupid", where Batman is literally stupid, and somehow doesn't know how any of his own equipment works. Basically like The Tick, except he's still got that super serious tone.

So Commissioner Gordon can call up and say "The Joker is at the main street Museum!" and Batman would say "I don't know where that is."

Or somebody would escape through a door, locks it, and Batman would just stand there and say "I don't know how to open this door."

It doesn't really work.

This looks pretty good, I don't know what people were expecting other than a solid sequel. I was really worried they would try to do too much, they realized Arkham City is one of the greatest games ever and did a smart thing by simply adding a few features and changing things rather than overhauling anything. I mean come on, combat in these games is a genius level accomplishment.

You can tell these are the same dudes who made Armored Edition because of all these awful frame drops. Here's hoping the PC version is a bit better.

More of the same then...

Make. Them. Stop. Talking.

The PC steam sale can't come soon enough for this one.

That framerate is terrible, good thing i wasnt planning on getting this game

Batman is supposed to be emotionless. At least I always read the comics as dead flat. He yells a bit for emphasis, but for the most part Batman is flat. Only two emotions, Batman and BATMAN

Holy FUCK that framerate! Jesus!

I hope they add an option to turn off snow effects. Consoles gamers are going to be "playing" a slideshow.