What's your favorite Batman: Arkham game?

[Asita]

I want to say City just because Ra's Al Ghoul is probably my favorite Batman villain and Arkham City gave him some wonderful pizazz, but the writing was so slipshod...

Mr. Freeze knows exactly what compound he needs but is unable to synthesize it (alright)...Batman recognizes its chemical model at a glance (what.) as belonging to the Lazarus pit. Oracle does much the same and both reference a long history with both Ra's and Talia Al Ghoul...both of whom confirm it (hell, Ra's still wants Batman as heir to the League of Shadows)...and then after the confrontation with Ra's, Batman gives Oracle a crash course in Ra's Al Ghoul and the Lazarus Pit as if neither of them had known anything about those things before the events of this game.

It was critically important that the Joker not be allowed to use the Lazarus pit because it could make him immortal and thus unstoppable! ...When it doesn't work like that...at all. Even the game itself made it explicit that it healed and rejuvenated rather than granting true immortality or invincibility.

I'm going to have to go with Asylum because it ran a much tighter ship.

 

[Bob_McMillan]

City, because it was just more of the same, and when you are a huge Batman fan, that is just what you want.

 

[Tilly]

Asylum had the better story and pacing. City had a better world to explore. Gameplay was more or less identical.

I'd probably slightly side with City. Only just.

 

[joest01]

Asylum.

I only played up to the electric boss with the puddles - that was supposed to be a puzzle or something - in city, but was already so disconnected from the game at that point that I never picked it up again. Which does not happen to me very often.

Probably one of the biggest steps down in a franchise I've played.

 

[Aeshi]

I'd say City. Asylum is slightly less great, Origins is just a bit "eh" and Knight felt overly designed (I didn't really care much for the Batmobile) and that's not even taking the latter two's bugs into account.

 

[Benpasko]

It's like the Assassin's Creed question, is 1 or 2 better? The tighter package with a ton of potential, or the realization of that potential at the cost of focus?

My answer is the same as Assassin's Creed, I like the first game more, but it's hard to deny the sequel improved a lot.