@Deusoma said:
@Dookysharpgun: With due respect, friend, what in the hell are you talking about? The article was commenting on a rumour of what the storyline of the next game might be, nothing more. I don't know where you're drawing all this stuff about WB infringing on Rocksteady's creative talents or forcing them to tie the game into a movie from.
...I...I kinda wrote exactly what I was talking about down...do you honestly think that given the success of the gritty and new take on the Arkham series, where it created its own excellent, if not a little confusing, continuity, that it just so happens a developer would work backwards, creating a prequel to a series, based within the potentially (a word I used to start of my post, by the way, you know, I heavily disagreed with the potential idea?) campy 1960s continuity of batman...for god's sake, they had stories about rainbow batman and the like...and it just so happens that after the Avengers became such a hit, WB are pushing for a Justice League movie, seemingly in time to the potential release of this game, given development times? Do you honestly think that a developer would decide to take all of their brand spanking new resources, the utterly brilliant story they had created, and shelf it in order to make a prequel potentially involving other DC heroes? And if they were to do that, wouldn't they use those resources to branch out and make different games, involving those characters, you know, branching out? If this is true, then I highly doubt it was anyone at Rocksteady's idea, because it doesn't add up from a creative point of view, but from a business angle. You know, raise awareness by making a hot-as-shit dev team work on yet another Batman title, but make it a prequel, shove some other characters in there, and time it's release to the 2014 block? Perhaps it wouldn't be a direct tie-in, but it'd be as close as dammit, and since it'd be working from a template of events that it would have to stick to, the development team would be unable to take the big risks that they had made with the original arkham series.
If you want to believe that this potential game isn't some way of ramping up movie awareness for the possibly doomed-from-the-outset JLA movie, then fine, that's your opinion, but I choose to see this for what it could possibly be, if it were true; a publisher-mandated title, an advertisement for a franchise, in order to create hype. To me, it isn't that difficult to see, and I'm not the only person who sees this as something that could go horribly wrong. This rumour, again, for a potential game, is more mandate than creative, there'd be no sense in doing a prequel, given how AC ended, how many stories there were to tell, and given the very stark contrast between silver age stories and the arkham series, it'd be such a change of pace, such a jarring transition, that it could possibly damage Rocksteadys' reputation. Factoring in the more than likely huge budgets for next-gen games, which this will more than likely be created for, and you've got a recipe for disaster. It isn't taking a risk, or going in a bold new direction, whether or not this is true, which it more than likely could be, given the current mindset at DC, this is an idea that spells nothing but bad news for a series that created it's own identity by taking risks and telling a different and unheard of story, in many ways. That's why people love it so much. I'm getting my ideas from the fact that this idea isn't being put forward in a vacuum, there are plenty of other factors for this that line up just a little bit too easily, and what they allude to is Rocksteady being used as a flagship to spread awareness of a movie, or movies, in an attempt to cash in on a superhero team-themed movie franchise that won't work. I'm commenting on the rumour myself, but not within the bubble on videogames alone, and we've all been around far too long to not be just a tad suspicious when a dev team changes tack seemingly out of the blue, and the owners of the property they're using just happen to announce a movie franchise at the same time. I'd like to believe this is a coincidence, I'd like to believe that this is all Rocksteadys' idea, but it's because I don't want to see such a great series taking a step backwards, like so many have as of late, that I believe this rumour, in whatever capacity, true or false, is/would be a push by WB, that's all.
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