Now don't get me wrong, I love The Joker. But I do think it's getting a bit ridiculous that no other Batman villain seems to be really able to get the limelight anymore because they always feel the need to throw him in front and center because he's popular or because they don't have enough faith in any other villains being able to carry a game. For the sake of variety I would have loved to have seen (the vastly underrated) Hugo Strange (or if they really needed him Ra's Al Ghul, though I will say he is another villain who I could easily see carry a game as the main antagonist) and Black Mask get to be main antagonists of City and Origins. Now that's not to say I don't think Joker should have been in the game. Setting him up is perfectly fine. Heck, maybe even having him as the Red Hood in it as one of the assassins (having him fall into a vat of chemicals by the end after a boss fight) could have been fun. (Just spitballing though) Though even if he was The Joker by then, that doesn't mean he needed to be the fully fledged, top of his game mastermind who is made the focus.
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Final_Hitokiri
9 years ago
that doesn't mean he needed to be the fully fledged, top of his game mastermind who is made the focus.
Exactly, and that's some of what hurt this game. They could certainly introduce the character, but he didn't have to be the complete mastermind that they had him be. (Especially since he claimed he was only in Gotham for 5 days...) Last time I checked, building an "amusement park" can't really be done in an evening either, but it's a game so that part is a little more forgivable.
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JSSTyger
9 years ago
Even the Joker in City wasn't the primary atagonist. I think Rocksteady knew full well somebody else needed to be "the boss." The primary reasons Joker was in that game at all was to tie to Arkham Asylum and, of course to finish off his story line. I think most people found that acceptable and could deal with that so long as Joker is DONE. Warner Montreal wasn't paying attention to that...just like they weren't paying attention to really anything that people wanted.
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IndianaMcClane
9 years ago
The thing about that, is that there are almost two different plotlines going on in Arkham City. The Hugo Strange/Ra's al Ghul Protocol 10 one, and the sick Joker poisoning the city one. The issue for me is that the former seems to get sidelined most of the time in favor of the latter. If they wanted a more Joker-centric game than I think they should have just waited on doing anything with those other two rather than having them get railroaded aside. Or at least, that's how I personally see it.
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