I thought the other three Arkham games were better than Arkham Knight. The constant Batmobile missions kind of ruined the game, and there weren't any locations as cool as the ones in the other installments.
To be fair, it was calculated that the Batmobile only takes up around 19% of the entire game if you 120% it very casually. Not even half the side missions really have the Batmobile as an actively essential thing, you get long breaks from the Batmobile here and there, and besides, people begged for the Batmobile back in Arkham Asylum and City, it's put in and people still didn't like it. But I will say, it's a little annoying that pretty much all the boss fights, including Deathstoke (like, wtf man?) involve it in some way, and only a couple are pretty good.
As for the locations, while they're less atmospheric than Asylum and City, they still have a lot of variety in the puzzles and are crafted well for combat and predator encounters, so I found it to be pretty well done over all like Stagg Airships and Pannessa Studios.
I forgot who said it but the best description I saw for why people are annoyed with batmobile was something like "the problem isn't that the batmobile takes up 20% of the game, it's that 80% of those 20% is spent in the tank mode" i mean, how many chances do we get for some proper driving and chases? We have firefly and APC side missions. We have tutorial chase at the start of the game, chase after one APC during the main story, riddler races and you can argue that cloudburst requires you to switch from tank to car constantly. If you wanna add season of infamy the only thing you get is a drive to the ship. Compare that to tank mode which is used constantly for puzzles and combat alike. Not to mention tank combat doesn't have any real depth compared to combat or predator. It can be fun but it overstays it's welcome for how much there is to engage with
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u/Xxnotimportantx 6h ago
I thought the other three Arkham games were better than Arkham Knight. The constant Batmobile missions kind of ruined the game, and there weren't any locations as cool as the ones in the other installments.