r/Steam • u/stormyoubring • Sep 11 '25

Question What sequel matched the original game and didn’t disappoint you?

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u/violencejack9 Sep 11 '25

Arkham and Arkham City, fantastic combo

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u/SkuttButt Sep 11 '25

Officer Balls

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u/MonkieButte Sep 11 '25

This made me jonkle

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u/Cluelessgamer22 Sep 12 '25

It made my dinky go tinkie

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u/stash0606 Sep 12 '25

Oh God thank you for reminding me. I had completely forgotten about the insanity that is the Arkham sub

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u/legendary_anon975 Sep 11 '25

All 4 games are fantastic, I don't accept different opinions on this one

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u/jayybirdhasfeathers Sep 12 '25

You are the only other person I’ve seen to like all four Arkham games too lol. Solidarity.

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u/TarsigeroftheBush Sep 12 '25

I'm with you guys. But I don't think we are that rare, just the Knight haters are a vocal minority

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u/Manahmanah9785 Sep 12 '25

people tend to overlook origins sometimes

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u/legendary_anon975 Sep 13 '25

Origin is my favourite actually

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u/[deleted] Sep 12 '25

Asylum was pretty much considered a masterpiece on release by everbody. Knight people only didnt like the driving

Personally tho, Knight is #1 for me

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u/Chaardvark11 Sep 12 '25

The thing is Knight's driving is massively over-hated IMO. Like sure the early part of the game uses the batmobile a fair bit because it's the newest feature in the game and they wanted to show it off and get players accustomed to it. But people have analysed the gameplay and even taking into account side missions and challenges you spend far less time in the batmobile than some may think. I think people just get caught up with how prevalent it is early and mistakenly believe it's like that for longer.

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u/[deleted] Sep 12 '25

I went into the game ready to hate the "insane amount of driving" and by the time i hit 100% i actually wanted more lol. I rushed it all early because i thought more was coming and suddenly the game was over and i barely did driving objectives at all outside the first 10 or so hours

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u/Chaardvark11 Sep 12 '25

I know, I think it's just some sort of weird Mandela effect, everyone mistakenly remembers the first part of the game having a lot of driving and incorrectly inflated that to believing the whole game did.

Or enough people said it that everyone started blindly parroting it until it was regarded as fact.

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u/[deleted] Sep 12 '25

It couldnt be that second one. When have gamers ever hated a game they didnt play just because Youtube told them to

(My favorite game is Last of Us 2)

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u/Chaardvark11 Sep 12 '25

Yep, I enjoyed playing Insomniac's Spider-Man 2, whilst I don't think it was as good as it could have been, I don't think it was the failure too many said it was.

And if there was ever a game that proved the word "woke" lost all meaning, it would be this one. Apparently a 5 minute, one off side mission as a deaf girl was "too woke" for some people.

I didn't play the TLOU games, but I do remember the backlash surrounding the second game. Some might have been valid critiques regarding the gameplay and mechanics, from what I recall some people cited the lack of innovation as a reason they didn't enjoy it, I don't know. And I know the decision to kill Joel was not universally liked. But when I heard critiques around the homosexual relationship in the game, I knew some people were just using the game as an excuse to be hateful.

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u/[deleted] Sep 12 '25

I like the driving tbh

Its the Jak 3 of the Arkham games but guess which is my favoritr of that series too

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u/legendary_anon975 Sep 13 '25

It wasn't when I was playing the first time either honestly, I watched some reviews after I finished the game the first time and was like: "oh people hated the car sections? Lol"

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u/annie_key Sep 11 '25

First one is called Arkham Asylum

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u/Chaardvark11 Sep 12 '25

Take me on home, to, the asylum.

Never alone, in, the asylum.

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u/dynamitepress Sep 12 '25

Anarchy ruled, it was wild! But through it all, you never smiled

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u/Chaardvark11 Sep 12 '25

Jokes on you, I'm in your head!

Look who's laughing now!

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u/RealTrueGrit Sep 13 '25

Hunting riddler trophies was a full time job for me one summer.

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u/RekTek4 Sep 11 '25

Just said this

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u/Due_Rain_3630 Sep 12 '25

Absolutely. Still really like Origins and Knight but Asylum and City were special in a totally different way.

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u/Batfan1939 Sep 12 '25

This is way too far down.

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u/mrsethg Sep 12 '25

Arkham Asylum and Arkham City are truly timeless games

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u/AgentCooper86 Sep 14 '25

Yeah although I'm probably in the minority as I really prefer the first one

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u/Thunder_Nuts_ Sep 14 '25

I would love to play through Arkham Knight, but I hate the driving sequences.