The hallucination of Barbara shooting herself is actually the militia that Ivy knocks out early in the game, in the same room. If you go back to that room later, you can see one of the militia guy sitting dead in the wheelchair. Batman actually watched him kill himself, but his hallucination made him think it was Barbara.
@@itsjordan1042 it was in hallucination. Batman got whiff of the toxin. So joker moves. It shows how strong he can be when the toxin hits Bruce. It shadows what’s to come as joker becomes stronger & “newer”
@@itsjordan1042 I think the gun was always where the militia picks it up but in batman mind the gun is shown to the left so joker pushes it to its real time location
@@itsjordan1042 The gun is still in it's original place. It's just that the militia guy had a longer arm than Barbara and could reach it with no problem, while Oracle would have some issues. Joker "moving" the gun makes up for that difference
I had to hit capture on the PS4 because I also noticed that rarely, very rarely, a thug will turn into the Joker. I noticed the billboards but never thought to look back at them. I really just though someone was putting up billboards of the Joker and Batman to fuck with him. Same with statues. Wasn't too far gone to think someone put joker faces on things.
@@General_C it's twice The first time is during the Manbat side quest, the second is on Halloween (the Halloween one doesnt force you to redo the Manbat quest, just a little fuck you from Rocksteady on Halloween which I'm also pretty sure is the night Arkham Knight takes place, on Halloween night)
One that gets overlooked is the Arkham Knights posture. When Jason was being tortured by the joker he had barbed wire over his chest to prevent him from leaning back, and when we actually see the Arkham knight in game u can see his hunched posture, showing the effect of jokers torture to this day and also the amount of detail rocksteady put into this game
That's a good catch! I think it's also likely that it happened because Jason was hung by his wrists, which would've definitely done heavy damage to his arms and shoulders. His posture is hunched, but he's also seen rolling his shoulders, and his fighting style revolves mostly on his legs. So yeah, Jason's upper back, shoulders, and arms are probably _fucked._
Fun fact: in Arkham Knight, you can find a poster for DC superhero Booster Gold somewhere in Gotham, which fits Booster’s character because he wanted to become a superhero for fame. You can also find an ad for Zatanna’s magic show (fitting because she is a magician). Finally, one of Starro’s spores can be found locked behind glass at a Gotham amusement park. It’s labeled as “that starfish freak,” which is fitting because Starro is a star-shaped alien.
I played this game this year. Ended it for about 5 times with different difficulties. GOD, I can't find any other game this much addictive. I'm used to it and I wanna play more like this. But Arkham Knight was way ahead of it's time and It's once a lifetime opportunity. A truly masterpiece
Well, if you haven't already, you should try *Shadow of Mordor* (same studio, if i'm not mistaken, and pretty much the same combat style) and also *The Witcher 3,* which is just as adictive (i'm on my 4th playthrough right now) and many claim it to be one of (if not THE) best games ever made.
@@nebcyt-notenoughbraincells419 I wanna play Witcher from a long time but, for some odd reason My rig ain't letting me play it. I upgraded my gpu last summer and since then The Witcher isn't working on my PC anymore. I'll try the other one soon
Not ahead of it's time just that developers actually cared about the game and put much more time and effort into making it than greedy developers nowadays that make games bare minimum or just enough that causal gamers would play. There are a few game devs that make really good games though but not enough. For example Hollow Knight, Marvels Spider-Man, Slime Rancher 2. Can't think of any others lol Here are really good games that are older. Wath Dogs 1, Call of Duty Advanced Warfare, Need For Speed(2015), Call of Duty World at War, Call of Duty Black ops 1 and 2(Bo3 was pretty cool), Call of Duty Ghosts, Battleblock Theater, Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3(old version), Darksiders 1 and 2, Metal Gear Rising Revengeance, Sunset Overdrive, Happy Wars(nostalgic fun game & really grindy), AirMech Arena, Destiny 1, Destiny 2(Forsaken good expansion after that it got worse now it's a money hungry micro transactions game), Halo Reach, Portal 1 and 2.
Another is if you look at "Barbra's" dead body you will see in detective vision that there is no spine damage so she was not in the room, and a fun franchise fact is you never fight Harley Quinn as Batman she is defeated by either takedowns (Harley Quinn's Revenge and Knight), it happens off screen (in City by Talia) or it is done in a cutscene (Asylum).
arkham city, when you enter the clocktower after the courtroom fight, harley runs at you and attacks. you have the chance to either parry, or take the hit. whether or not it’s canon is up to the player
I noticed one another detail while replaying the game recently. During the mission of rescuing the workers from Ace Chemicals, after you rescue the 2nd alive worker and uses the Batmobile to pull up the elevator to get out, the Arkham Knight suddenly attacks you with an unmanned chopper. But if you observe closely, you can see the Knight himself standing on top of the building to your left. After the drones and the chopper are destroyed by Batman, he disappears suddenly.
During that fight, you can actually shoot the Knight off the roof with the Batmobile's riot gun. It doesn't change anything but the idea of the Knight taking a rubber slug to the chest when trying to destroy Batmab is amusing - I wish it had an effect on the fight
The joker aspect of this game was pure genius. I remember playing the first time and my daughter walked in the room asked “ why are you looking at that statue “ “ could have sworn it looked like joker” I said.
"Hello son, its me your father. Its time we had a talk. You know? About the dressing up." "Hello Bruce, it your mother here. Im in hell at the moment and heheh...hehahahahaha sorry, its just. Its soo funny because, you know? Shes DEAD bwahahahahahahahaha!!!!" Joker on the phone pretending to be Tomas and Martha.
another thing I find cool is the dialogue from the villains side quests (Penguin, Two-Face etc.) changes depending on whether you complete the mission before or after Batman's identity is revealed
Anyone else sometimes feel like the Arkham games are too good to be true? These are GOTY contender games about Batman focusing on an original universe and new storyline led by the legendary Conroy and Hamill duo. It's basically the interactive version if the BTAS.
Right after you exit the clock tower at the beginning of the game, you talk to Alfred on that forearm projector. If you move the camera angle towards the left you can see Man-Bat rising into the sky from the area his lab would be. You see him flying in the distance until he reaches pass Panessa Studios and then he just dive bombs right into some building. I just noticed it with my last playthrough just this Halloween. The one I cannot believe I've never seen is Mr Zsasz in that security footage. He just blends in so well.
Fun fact about Manbat actually, two interesting things can happen after you've beaten his side quest. First, if you return to Langstrom's lab, his wife's body will be gone and there will be a message written on a wall, implying that his wife is still alive and has actually turned into a bat herself, but that's not even half as interesting as the other thing that can happen. If you play the game on Halloween (or just set your console or PC's date to 31st October), you can bump into Manbat again whilst you're flying around the city, go back to the GCPD and you'll see that Langstrom isn't there anymore, one of the guards will even make a comment on it.
When Harley takes over the movie studios and you have to take back the 3 Jokers, you team up with Robin. Before you really start you get another Joker hallucination. If you switch between Batman and Robin you can see Joker materialize and dematerialize as you switch between the two
One of my favorite details in City/Knight is that Two Face has a different voice depending on which side of his face is facing towards the camera. If his good side is facing the camera, it’s Harvey Dent. If it’s his bad side, it’s Two Face. Thought that was a really cool way to portray his split personality.
Yes. I actually never knew two face names is harvey dent. I randomly talk to him in the cell and harvey dent name appears on the subtitles. And i wonder who am I talking to and keep talking to everyone in the cell untill i know the secrets
I'm actually impressed with myself the only one I didn't noticed was the Joker looking better the more you advance in the game. But I guess is because I've finished this game at least a dozen of times. Another one I noticed is that after you find out Robin was kidnapped by Scarecrow, if you leave the theater and return later you'll see Red Hood painted his symbol on the floor. Also, when Batman is about to surrender to Scarecrow, just before entering the building you can see another Red Hood symbol on the wall and Batman looks at it for a brief moment.
I've played this game dozens of times and always wondered what he was looking at int the cutscene and how he knew Jason was coming. Thank you fellow Gotham Knight!
@@iceprinc3art120 when he was being taken to the asylum in the van Alfred mentioned someone tracking his movement and Batman said "I knew he (Jason) would." That's how he saved Batman. What I don't get is why he sprayed his symbol on the floor in the Panessa studios of all places
@@grandmascookies8796 Maybe to let Brucy boy know that he had Robin, or to let him know that he really does know how Bruce thinks. In the cutscene, Tim was supposed to go out and fight all the people on top of the Studios. But Jason knowing how the Bat thinks set off the sensors so that so Bats would put Tim somewhere safe, so that he could capture the new Robin. It lets Batman know that whoever Bruce brings into this, they are never truly safe. Or maybe he just wanted to mess with him I dunno.
After Jason reveals himself and is beaten, the militia turns to Deathstroke for leadership and are heard talking about how the Arkham Knight fled and was nowhere to be found. Seems Bruce managed to get through to him. Presumably, since his army was no longer in contact with him, neither was Scarecrow. Him leaving his symbols is a message to Bruce that he's still keeping tabs on him. Since the symbol appears in the studio after Batman finds Tim missing and leaves, Jason probably tailed Bruce there. The message is "I can find you," and given the assist Jason provides in the end, it's clearly less of a threat than it was earlier in the game. These games are so detailed, it's incredible. And Jason is such a complex, compelling character.
About Oracle's death scene: If you pay attention to the corners of the room you are in, you can actually see fear gas leaking out of some pipes, explaining how the vision of her death was induced
If you didn't know when azreal is given the choice to strike batman down or break the sword, you actually can just walk right out and not pick up the sword
One detail i've never seen anyone mention: When you go to the clock tower for the very first time, and then exit it, while Batman is talking to Comissioner Gordon on the comms, you can briefly see Man-Bat flying across the sky in the distance, and then diving down to the streets.
For the Deadshot shells, it's possible that this is a reused asset from AC's side mission, as one of the first things Batman noticed and pointed him toward Deadshot was the bullet casing that had his name on it
If Rocksteady made another entry in the Arkham series, I could easily have seen them throwing in an easter egg referencing that Deadshot some how helped supply the militia. Sounds like a Rocksteady style meta joke
@Braden Hogan I wish there was a deadshot boss in knight. I personally hated the "arkham knight/redhood" bossfight boring compared to arkham origins bosses
@@josiahgonzalez942 The Origins boss fight for Deadshot was basically reiterated and improved on with the final Knight boss in the mall, which that boss itself was basically an improvement on the City Two-Face v Catwoman fight. I mean, when you think about it it really is the same boss concept (have to take out a room full of guys to sneak up on a sniper) but spanning multiple rooms and enemy types. It would be cool to see another boss fight like that though. It was essentially the culmination of Arkham stealth. I don’t think they’ll ever go back to the Arkham series, but if they did then I would like to see how they could make a stealth encounter even longer, more complex, and more difficult than the final Red Hood fight. What I would really like to see is a boss fight that literally forces you to use every kind of stealth attack, or at least every gadget - like the Mr. Freeze fight, but a predator encounter and made more complicated by Batman’s now giant tree of moves in the series
In the dlc for Batgirl there is a place you can visit where Starro the Conqueror in sitting in a glass container. Still very much alive. This is scary. The only thing stopping world conquest is about an inch of glass.
The entire combat mechanics of the Spider-Man games as well as the camera adjustment and compensation is entirely based on batman, it has been years since I played Arkham knight when I played spiderman for the first time, the first thing that popped into my mind was “wow this is the exact same fighting as Batman.”
One of the best Batman stories ever. I loved the dynamic between Joker actually being inside Batman's head and distorting his surroundings like the billboard.
I do like how they humanized the criminals that you find all around Gotham it makes the game more like Gotham is a real place with real people i really like that detail
Oh yeah, like the goon saying that they have to rob a toy store to get a present for his kid, another guy saying that he has to stop rioting early because he has to watch his kid, or in the Batgirl DLC the guy getting the wrong roses for his girlfriend!
Another humanizing detail is you can see the damage Batman (or any other character) does to thugs and rioters on their faces. Blood noses, bloody mouths, black eyes, missing teeth, bruises, etc.
One guy says Batman will "kill us like he did Joker". Another says, in a confused voice "By withholding medicine?" I laughed way more than that probably deserved. 😁
One thing mentioned how he thinks Batman is government funded as an explanation for his head the other thing suggested that he might be Wayne. I heard another thug suggest that Wayne might be Batman and the other thug shuts him down. I think that even if Scarecrow didn't unmask Batman that his time was running out anyways and people were starting to figure it out.
@@personman1148 that's actually really cool, people figuring it, especially criminals is really cool, you rarely see people figure it out in the shows, films and comics so I like that detail, I've only encountered the one where the goon gets shut down but I thought I misheard it so I brushed it off, I'm happy i didn't mishear it
The bust in Bruce's office is an nod to the 60s Batman who used a similar hidden button to open the secret entrance to the cave which consists of a couple of fire poles he and Dick would slide down and when they got to the cave they would be in costume. Weird that sliding down a pole would dress them
That's probably a lot less obvious to those that grew up with more recent versions of Batman. For those that grew up with the '60s era Batman Show/movie, it's pretty obvious what the bust is and why it's there. Thankfully, it does show up in detective mode for everybody else.
-The begining song when you're cremating the Joker is foreshadowing about how's you're gonna be stuck with him in your head. -In the diner, there's a scarecrow behind 4 bats and 2 ghosts, basically telling you how the game's story goes.
This game really is one of a kind, from character developement to gameplay, Rocksteady really did an astonishing job on this trilogy, I remember the good old days of 2015 when it came out, what a time it was.
@@TheFirstCurse1they aren't ignoring Origins. Whilst the game is a recognised addition to the overall Arkham canon, the OP does specifically say the "Rocksteady developed" Arkham games. Which are Asylum, City and Knight. Origins was not produced/developed/created by Rocksteady. So as it pertains specifically to the 3 Rocksteady made Arkham games, a trilogy is the correct classification.
I have one that’s gameplay related and it blew my mind when I discovered it. If you play as Red Hood/Arkham Knight, you can quickfire his flashbang grenade with L2+circle/LT+B to stun an enemy from a distance as if you’d approached them and hit circle/B to do a normal melee stun with circle/B (as Batman this button combination is quickfire REC) As you know, up close after a melee stun on an enemy as any character you can execute a beatdown by tapping square/x repeatedly. Same deal with Red Hood and the flashbang. Up close you can follow a flashbang up with a melee beat down if you're close to the stunned enemy. HOWEVER as Red Hood you can also follow up the quickfire flashbang and execute a “beatdown” with his handguns if you're at a distance from the flashbang'd enemy and still immediately follow up with rapidly tapping square/X. If you’re at a distance, Red Hood’s animation will be one of him rapidly alternating gunshots for each press of square/X until the final hit. This animation is similar but indeed different than his quickfire pistols animation, one that like a normal beatdown can be interrupted/stopped by the player. If you’re familiar with “gun kata” it’s reminiscent of that type of movement and posing. In the AR challenge missions the move shows up as a normal beatdown in the score description. It’s cool coming across such a useful, stylish, but completely unlisted move in Red Hood’s kit completely on my own like that. And I didn’t discover it until my third playthrough chasing the platinum trophy and putting more time into other playable characters.
One of the greatest games of all time! I’ve never seen a game with so much attention to detail. I notice something new every time I play through it. This game was a decade ahead of it’s time when it released in 2015, and holds up better than games today imo!
6:57 another Easter egg that surprisingly wasn’t mentioned was the missing person poster for Henry Adams, the symptomless joker blood recipient kept in the bat cave at the time of the game.
My God, it makes me sick. You are so underrated it's unbelievable. You provide so many damn facts. It's insane dude. You have my wishes that you may one day get the appreciation you deserve.
8:34 in the Spider-Man games there is a similar Easter egg that no one seemed to notice on the rpgs that are fired, they read “guaranteed to kill spiders”
I knew most of these. And I absolutely love the Calendar Man one. They really didn't leave anything out with these series. I also love that they went through the effort of doing all the riddler puzzles in the games. I would never find all off them, but the annoying manner in which they keep taunting completionists is incredibly entertaining to me.
7 months late, but; You don't have to find all of them! The thugs who roam the streets that glow green are Riddler Informant's, if you isolate them in battle and leave them as the last man standing you can interrogate them. Basically they're the human version of the Riddler Maps from Asylum. You don't even need to go out of your way most of the time, if you beeline for them the moment you see them then all three islands will probably be complete with every trophy, riddle, and puzzle by the time you finish half the side quests and main story. I've gotten 240% on three outta four save files and I plan the do it again on my last one, so in case you needed a reference from someone with experience, y'know.
@@ultimatepunster5850 that's what those glowing goons are, I thought they where just a harder enemy to get some bonus EXP like a Arkham militia captain or something
@@wolfiethefurrygamer1908 lol no this literally exact same green neon as riddler trophies and base decoration is no stat boost; tho the game also explains the interrogation part
@@ultimatepunster5850for me in arkham knight a few of these informants actually counted as the puzzles being solved. Idk why but any of them that fought back instantly counts as a portion to the boss fight, still hated going through like 210 riddles
at the beginning, when you have to disturb the person smoking in the diner, if you wait a bit, the background music switches from 'only you' to the instrumental of Johnny Charisma's song
Detail: After you encounter Scarecrow in Stagg Airship 2, if you ignore Scarecrow's warning about Barbara and do something else, when you get to the penthouse Barbara is dead as soon as you get there. (Joker's dialog is altered)
I personally took hours to get to Scarecrow's penthouse as I picked that time to do a lot of side missions and I got the normal cutscene after several hours of ignoring Scarecrow
There actually WERE some fun things in here I never noticed! Like how the Riddler's key-game spells out B-A-T-M-A-N, or the Joker getting healthier as the game goes on (seriously how did I miss that!?)
I immediately googled Arkham, to see exactly when it first appeared, to see if it was lat enough that it was in fact a homage to Hamil (wouldn't be the first time, Joker's original name in the Keatonverse, Jack Napier, was a reference to Alan Napier, who played Alfred in the Adam West TV show) It's not, the asylum first appeared in the late 70s.
My first playthrough when I saw Barbara in the room dead I think I just sat there staring at the screen in utter disbelief for about 5 minutes. But the city needed me, so I got up and kept going.
I noticed the gun moving the first time I played but I assumed it was just an oversight by the developers Plus I wish someone made a mod where they went through the game files and just permanently enabled all the jokerised objects, so you could just play in a strange city where almost everything had the jokers face or name on it
I noticed it and thought that it made no sense. I haven't gotten to the part of the game where we find out she's alive, but there are a lot of hints that things like that are just in his mind as he's seemingly not affected by the toxin and there's recurring reference to the toxin bringing out people's greatest fears. He's also seemingly the only person to have seen the body as I would imagine that Commisioner Gordon would have had the body taken to the morgue and probably been placed into protective custody for his own good afterwards.
Coming back to this game after a while really makes you appreciate how well crafted this game was especially in the current gaming market really hoping for some kind of remaster or continuation of the Arkham series would almost be impossible unless knightwing took up role as Batman as Kevin Conroy is no longer with us R.I.P.
I first played a bit of Arkham Asylum in a hospital as a kid, but I played all of Arkham City and genuinely thought "Arkham" _was_ from Mark Hamill's name. In my defense, I was like 12.
One of the saddest things I saw in the game is when the Joker hallucination talked to Batman about what Bruce wanted the most, his parents back and for his city to be at peace.
Forgot one thing in a part of The story where Batman tells Alfred to launch the bat wing to scan for the cloudburst if you look in the sky for a little bit you can actually see the bat wing flying around the city
Great video. Personally I never shot any of the diner partrons as Owens because killing in a Batman game even when you're not playing as Batman feels off. A new easter egg was found not too long ago. At the movie studios where Batman and Robin are rounding up the Joker infected, if Batman crouch walks, Robin will copy him. But if you are playing as Robin and crouch walk, Batman won't copy Robin.
The bust you can push the head back is a reference to the one in the Adam West Batman show where he pulls the head of the same bust and presses a button to open the door to the Batcave.
This is literally the best superhero game ever! These are just such such crazy attention to detail. Awesome to see this game getting recognision 6 years after it's been out!
I found one recently. In the flashback with Joker and Barbara, you see an open book on her couch. You can actually read some of the words, and it turns out to be Phantom of the Opera.
Sure, it could have worked fine and it would be awesome, but I'm afraid it would take so much time to develop the story. I mean, Burce could have turned into Batman Who Laughs as you said, but it would happen at the end of the game (maybe after Scarecrow got him trapped and he's hallucinating). It would have us left with just a few minutes to explore the game as Batman Who Laughs. Not to mention the fact that he would be the main villain (it would be a spectacular Final Boss), without someone to fight him. Tim was there with Jim Gordon as Scarecrow's hostage, Barbara was in GCPD in a wheelchair, Jason was the villain and it would not fit well for the plot turning him into a hero by defeating/killing Bruce at this point. Maybe Azrael could do that, but he was a minor character in the whole story, and depending on the player's choice, he would be locked in in GCPD. Anyway, let's hope we may play as Batman Who Laughs in the future in an open-world game like the Arkham Series.
In the League of Shadows DLC at the morgue, Talia's name is in one of the freezer bed cabinets, which is open enough for you to look inside. But her body is missing in there. Step aside Catwoman, Talia's coming to get her man back.
I knew most of these (love Batman too much), but the ones I didn't know were fascinating. It is truly incredible how much detail Rocksteady implements. Great video as always! 👍🏾
It was anarchy that started the whole new fear toxin in 6:38 you will see an A symbol and anarchy is the only character in the Arkham verse (that i know of) makes those symbols.
I've worked to have 8 separate 240% save files for this game, I'm glad it payed out and knew all but two of these (Iceberg lounge sign and Wayne office)
The reason Zsasz can be seen on the security camera is because he was actually supposed to be a part of the same as a side quest, but it was scrapped because the mission was too similar to the Professor Pyg side quest. You can still find one of his displays a Riddler question, though.
My only problem with Arkham Knight is that it had a dissatisfying ending for a game that claimed to be the final entry of the series and yet it didn’t even feel like it ended. They made it open for another adventure
It was also poorly written in my opinion. One of the dumbest plot points is people becoming Joker and the Arkham Knight's identity. There was no build-up for that. It felt so random. Also, the lack boss fights hurt the game as well. The game was decent. But compared to Arkham Asylum and City, it was a massive disappointment in my opinion.
@@yokotubene yeah u know what I can agree with you on tht with the lack of boss fight where they traded a fight between Batman and Deathstroke they trade it with a tank battle….. talk about a crappy disappointment of a boss fight and u also u know what ur right about the writing as well cause Asylum and City were written by Paul Dini and this one wasn’t so at least I know why it felt so dissatisfying
@@yokotubene it's not a huge disappointment. Knight was a million times better than Asylum and I still think it's better than City but its a matter of opinion.
@@LegoCityFilms Definitely a matter of opinion. Because of the reasons I gave, I found even Arkham Asylum way better than Arkham Knight. Of course, it's an older game. But if it would've come out at the same time as Arkham Knight, it would be better in every way possible in my opinion (including gameplay, which Arkham Knight actually improves in that regard).
Ive always loved the batman arkham series i really hope they add another game. Also about arkham knight ive never stopped playing it and never will forget how much of a great game it is
I do remember that the customers in the diner are employees of Rockstar who worked on the game. i had a friend who worked there and saw her character model in game
I always thought that the explosive gel when placed on a wall looked more and more like the joker's smile and less like a bat symbol as the game progress. Maybe just in my mind.
9:07 You missed one. In the first scene inside the Diner, on the refrigerator near the place where officer Owens is sitting, we can see that a missing poster for Henry Adams is stuck.
If you look closely at Harvey Dent's normal side, you can see the claw marks from when Catwoman scratched his face in Arkham City. Early on, at ACE Chemicals, Arkham Knight tells his men to avoid shooting Batman at the symbol on his chest, saying that it's where his suit is the strongest and that the symbol is meant to be a distraction. This foreshadows later on where Gordon shoots Batman at the Bat symbol on his chest, because he knew that it wouldn't hurt Batman if he shot him there. If it's Halloween day and you have already captured the Man-Bat, you'll find that he has escaped from his cell at GCPD. Furthermore, if you return to his lab, his wife's body will be missing and there will be writing saying "For my love." When you are about to surrender yourself to Scarecrow at the end of the game, you can see a symbol of a red bird on the building. A message for Batman from Jason. This same symbol appears again after the final mission at the Joker Quarantine.
6:28 that whole owen thing? I saw the smoking bag first and tried to leave, i also knew what the gas was and i instinctively didn't shoot... This was all on my first play through
Now I feel like a sick bastard, considering the fact that each time I do the beginning scene as Officer Owens I try and shoot as many people as I can before I get taken out, so many that I actually ran out of ammo one time
In the same scene where Lucious shows Bruce the new Disruptor, if you look in the other Batpod you'll see the Arkham City costume. In the same scene, if you check Bruce's answering machine he receives phone calls from Vicki Vale, Lex Luthor, and Kate Kane (Batwoman).
In one of your clips you went past a building while in the tank, if you look closely look at the name of the place, it’s called queen industries which is green arrows business that he ran. Pretty odd but cool to know their are other characters from the DC universe involved in the Arkham world
You know the thing that I didn't notice in arkham knight? that you can slide on the floor. Played all the missions, dlcs, and almost complete all the riddles, except one last riddle that required you to do a slide.
Best one in the series for me, The Joker trolling throughout was both relentless and humorous at the same time. The game entertained to no end and in terms of art, absolutely one of the best looking games ever made in my opinion, detail coming out of the ears. My only real criticisms is that the Batmobile tank battles became a bit tedious after a while, they overly rinsed them. I also thought there could have been tougher stealth set pieces - this is something the whole series failed to do well enough for me. You just never felt you really had to use Batman level intelligence in order to get around complex situations, they were just too easy. Even if you messed up, the game never really punished you for it, you could just destroy hoards of enemies anyway once your cover was blown to no detriment. Could have done with some more boss fights too, that's where Arkham Origins really shone.
In harder difficulties, enemies will adapt to your tactics and gadgets, for example, on hard and knightmare, Arkham knight (or whoever the leader is) will as for check ins whenever you down somebody, tell them to switch comms when you use the voice modulator, stay in large groups to avoid getting taken down, and stay away from walls if you used them. More than anything, I think the stealth in this game relies more on whether you want to make it difficult for yourself or just breeze through it
For the most part, I agree, but in the side game "Flip of The Coin", that's exactly how it works. Fail and the turrets cut you down and don't allow you to escape and so you have to start over from the balcony. As for the Batmobile, I enjoy it. I pray my insurance agent never watches me try some of them, but I really enjoy the challenges. The distance you sometimes have to travel in-game while driving and returning criminals to GCPD thereby forcing you to return...yeah, that gets old sometimes.
As officer owens, when you confront the guy in the diner, look at the table he is sitting at and you will noticed he has scratched anarky’s symbol onto the table
A few details (minor and major) i noticed recently was that you can see the batwing searching for the cloudburst just in the sky, its really cool, and its not at an absurd height like out of a skybox, its pretty close to the playable area. The other is the seismic activity before a certain mission, this one is more obvious but i liked how there would be random tremors within the missions area before you did it
The PlayStation version of Batman Arkham knight is the superior version graphically over the PC version. It has superior lighting effects/shader/textures. It has superior rain and sea water effects. It has superior reflections through out the world close to raytracing. You also can break most of the glass in windows during fights or by punching the glass. Also you can see bruising and bleeding on the criminals as you beat them and while they're laying on the ground.
Well done. I just started playing all four (YES, FOUR. Origins is fantstic) in reverse order and cannot believe how well they hold up I find myself bored about an thirty minutes in on almost all new games. These? The Arkham games, i never get bored
Origins was always my favorite I don’t know why some people hate it I mean the most interesting assassins were in the main story and the others were left for side missions after so it was all great.
@@DantesInferno96 It really was. It is the one game that had a vibe which stayed with me. The plot itself is great and as you said the Christmas eve snowy environment just makes me want to be there. There were a ton of bugs especially during combos but I love that damn game
Origins is one of the best games of the series, that one and Arkham Knight are very underrated. Anyone know how to get ahold of the Mr Freeze dlc from origins? I can only play the game on psnow but not the dlc. Any help would be much appreciated!!!!!
I didn't know quite a few of these. One you didn't cover was the Ace Chemicals tank battle with the Arkham Knight. During the fight, if you look on top of the main Ace Chemicals building, you can see the Arkham Knight controlling his chopper from the roof, and you can pop him with the Batmobile's riot cannon. It doesn't change the fight in anyway and I don't think there's any change to the story, but the Knight being so cocky and then getting popped with a rubber slug is amusing nonetheless
Some were new like the dialog between the two cops at Owen's cell. Thugs with brouses on them, the missing poster, the missiles from the tanks, Barbara Gordon's spin, thug playing catch and exercising, and Batman punching the keypad. By the way I was wondering can you do a video discussing which lantern corp should Miles Morales be in?
Needle mouse you are by far my favorite UA-cam channel and. I must compliment you for producing these beautiful and dark Batman videos that is all the more reason why you are now my favorite UA-camr
The hallucination of Barbara shooting herself is actually the militia that Ivy knocks out early in the game, in the same room. If you go back to that room later, you can see one of the militia guy sitting dead in the wheelchair. Batman actually watched him kill himself, but his hallucination made him think it was Barbara.
Oh shit that’s awesome.
How come joker could move the gun then? Not saying I don’t believe you but that part still confuses me
@@itsjordan1042 it was in hallucination. Batman got whiff of the toxin. So joker moves. It shows how strong he can be when the toxin hits Bruce. It shadows what’s to come as joker becomes stronger & “newer”
@@itsjordan1042 I think the gun was always where the militia picks it up but in batman mind the gun is shown to the left so joker pushes it to its real time location
@@itsjordan1042 The gun is still in it's original place. It's just that the militia guy had a longer arm than Barbara and could reach it with no problem, while Oracle would have some issues. Joker "moving" the gun makes up for that difference
The joker appearing out of no where, the random flying bat that scares you while grappling, the changing of the billboards, such a masterpiece
I think the man bat jumpscare is only once (maybe twice?) And Joker's appearances are tied to the story and major events like criminal lockups.
I had to hit capture on the PS4 because I also noticed that rarely, very rarely, a thug will turn into the Joker. I noticed the billboards but never thought to look back at them. I really just though someone was putting up billboards of the Joker and Batman to fuck with him. Same with statues. Wasn't too far gone to think someone put joker faces on things.
@@General_C it's twice
The first time is during the Manbat side quest, the second is on Halloween (the Halloween one doesnt force you to redo the Manbat quest, just a little fuck you from Rocksteady on Halloween which I'm also pretty sure is the night Arkham Knight takes place, on Halloween night)
@@wolfiethefurrygamer1908 halloween? Halloween what. A mission?
@@worldsbestdadmugv1nce239 i think actual Halloween
Joker's face getting more healthy as the game progresses is the opposite of Arkham City where his face degrades as the game progresses.
It’s to symbolize his progression in taking over Bruce’s body.
Joker was dead in Arkham Knight, it was all in Bruce's mind.
@@jaynightlife4628 yeah we all know that bud
@@jaynightlife4628 Really? Wow. Didn't know.
@@jaynightlife4628 WOW!! And Batman is actually Bruce Wayne.
One that gets overlooked is the Arkham Knights posture. When Jason was being tortured by the joker he had barbed wire over his chest to prevent him from leaning back, and when we actually see the Arkham knight in game u can see his hunched posture, showing the effect of jokers torture to this day and also the amount of detail rocksteady put into this game
That's a good catch! I think it's also likely that it happened because Jason was hung by his wrists, which would've definitely done heavy damage to his arms and shoulders. His posture is hunched, but he's also seen rolling his shoulders, and his fighting style revolves mostly on his legs. So yeah, Jason's upper back, shoulders, and arms are probably _fucked._
@@meteorshower8490 yeah, for sure
im so glad other people noticed this 😭🙏 it makes me so sad
Joker a fucking sick bastard, one of the greatest villains of all time.
@@Smiley0.1 very true
Fun fact: in Arkham Knight, you can find a poster for DC superhero Booster Gold somewhere in Gotham, which fits Booster’s character because he wanted to become a superhero for fame. You can also find an ad for Zatanna’s magic show (fitting because she is a magician). Finally, one of Starro’s spores can be found locked behind glass at a Gotham amusement park. It’s labeled as “that starfish freak,” which is fitting because Starro is a star-shaped alien.
There are a lot of those. There is also a shop with Constantine something something for paranormal activities.
There’s a poster that also mentions basil karlo. (clayface) you can also see clayface in the concept art for the movie studios
oh thats really cool, didn't know that, gonna have to check those out!
Even Gray Ghost posters in the elevator of Panessa Studios
nice
I played this game this year.
Ended it for about 5 times with different difficulties.
GOD, I can't find any other game this much addictive.
I'm used to it and I wanna play more like this.
But Arkham Knight was way ahead of it's time and It's once a lifetime opportunity.
A truly masterpiece
Definitely ahead of its time
Well, if you haven't already, you should try *Shadow of Mordor* (same studio, if i'm not mistaken, and pretty much the same combat style) and also *The Witcher 3,* which is just as adictive (i'm on my 4th playthrough right now) and many claim it to be one of (if not THE) best games ever made.
@@nebcyt-notenoughbraincells419 I wanna play Witcher from a long time but, for some odd reason
My rig ain't letting me play it.
I upgraded my gpu last summer and since then The Witcher isn't working on my PC anymore.
I'll try the other one soon
🇮🇳🙏I confirm again after playing Gotham knights
Not ahead of it's time just that developers actually cared about the game and put much more time and effort into making it than greedy developers nowadays that make games bare minimum or just enough that causal gamers would play.
There are a few game devs that make really good games though but not enough.
For example Hollow Knight, Marvels Spider-Man, Slime Rancher 2.
Can't think of any others lol
Here are really good games that are older.
Wath Dogs 1, Call of Duty Advanced Warfare, Need For Speed(2015), Call of Duty World at War, Call of Duty Black ops 1 and 2(Bo3 was pretty cool), Call of Duty Ghosts, Battleblock Theater, Call of Duty Modern Warfare 3(old version), Darksiders 1 and 2, Metal Gear Rising Revengeance, Sunset Overdrive, Happy Wars(nostalgic fun game & really grindy), AirMech Arena, Destiny 1, Destiny 2(Forsaken good expansion after that it got worse now it's a money hungry micro transactions game), Halo Reach, Portal 1 and 2.
Another is if you look at "Barbra's" dead body you will see in detective vision that there is no spine damage so she was not in the room, and a fun franchise fact is you never fight Harley Quinn as Batman she is defeated by either takedowns (Harley Quinn's Revenge and Knight), it happens off screen (in City by Talia) or it is done in a cutscene (Asylum).
arkham city, when you enter the clocktower after the courtroom fight, harley runs at you and attacks. you have the chance to either parry, or take the hit. whether or not it’s canon is up to the player
Or annoy the hell out of her by just running around in circles first.
@@jkid1337 So the trick she used in Lego Batman came back to bite her.
@@inspire.610 Same for Christina Bell she can scratch Robin or you can counter her.
The spine was shattered when I played it.
I noticed one another detail while replaying the game recently. During the mission of rescuing the workers from Ace Chemicals, after you rescue the 2nd alive worker and uses the Batmobile to pull up the elevator to get out, the Arkham Knight suddenly attacks you with an unmanned chopper. But if you observe closely, you can see the Knight himself standing on top of the building to your left. After the drones and the chopper are destroyed by Batman, he disappears suddenly.
During that fight, you can actually shoot the Knight off the roof with the Batmobile's riot gun. It doesn't change anything but the idea of the Knight taking a rubber slug to the chest when trying to destroy Batmab is amusing - I wish it had an effect on the fight
@@kissarmyrules Yeah 👍
The joker aspect of this game was pure genius. I remember playing the first time and my daughter walked in the room asked “ why are you looking at that statue “ “ could have sworn it looked like joker” I said.
That’s cool and spooky 😭
And you find yourself nervously looking for Joker where he isn't, as the game gradually makes you as paranoid as Batman.
"dad are you turning into Joker??"
"Hello son, its me your father. Its time we had a talk. You know? About the dressing up."
"Hello Bruce, it your mother here. Im in hell at the moment and heheh...hehahahahaha sorry, its just. Its soo funny because, you know? Shes DEAD bwahahahahahahahaha!!!!"
Joker on the phone pretending to be Tomas and Martha.
@@AzguardMike damn
another thing I find cool is the dialogue from the villains side quests (Penguin, Two-Face etc.) changes depending on whether you complete the mission before or after Batman's identity is revealed
Anyone else sometimes feel like the Arkham games are too good to be true? These are GOTY contender games about Batman focusing on an original universe and new storyline led by the legendary Conroy and Hamill duo. It's basically the interactive version if the BTAS.
Yeah and ALL of them are good. It's rare for a series to keep that level of quality at all levels for so long...
agreed. and it makes me sad we won’t have another 1
@@DekkarJr I still play Batman Arkham Knight. Roam around and knock out bad guys.
Right after you exit the clock tower at the beginning of the game, you talk to Alfred on that forearm projector. If you move the camera angle towards the left you can see Man-Bat rising into the sky from the area his lab would be. You see him flying in the distance until he reaches pass Panessa Studios and then he just dive bombs right into some building. I just noticed it with my last playthrough just this Halloween. The one I cannot believe I've never seen is Mr Zsasz in that security footage. He just blends in so well.
I knew it!!! I could've sworn I saw manbat back there
Fun fact about Manbat actually, two interesting things can happen after you've beaten his side quest. First, if you return to Langstrom's lab, his wife's body will be gone and there will be a message written on a wall, implying that his wife is still alive and has actually turned into a bat herself, but that's not even half as interesting as the other thing that can happen. If you play the game on Halloween (or just set your console or PC's date to 31st October), you can bump into Manbat again whilst you're flying around the city, go back to the GCPD and you'll see that Langstrom isn't there anymore, one of the guards will even make a comment on it.
When Harley takes over the movie studios and you have to take back the 3 Jokers, you team up with Robin. Before you really start you get another Joker hallucination. If you switch between Batman and Robin you can see Joker materialize and dematerialize as you switch between the two
Wait for real?
I never even thought to try that since those specific hallucinations are so important to the story, I couldn't dare break up the emersion.
@@juliangrant9718 *immersion
@@dudebroguy3357 thanks
One of my favorite details in City/Knight is that Two Face has a different voice depending on which side of his face is facing towards the camera. If his good side is facing the camera, it’s Harvey Dent. If it’s his bad side, it’s Two Face. Thought that was a really cool way to portray his split personality.
Yes. I actually never knew two face names is harvey dent. I randomly talk to him in the cell and harvey dent name appears on the subtitles. And i wonder who am I talking to and keep talking to everyone in the cell untill i know the secrets
I'm actually impressed with myself the only one I didn't noticed was the Joker looking better the more you advance in the game. But I guess is because I've finished this game at least a dozen of times.
Another one I noticed is that after you find out Robin was kidnapped by Scarecrow, if you leave the theater and return later you'll see Red Hood painted his symbol on the floor. Also, when Batman is about to surrender to Scarecrow, just before entering the building you can see another Red Hood symbol on the wall and Batman looks at it for a brief moment.
I've played this game dozens of times and always wondered what he was looking at int the cutscene and how he knew Jason was coming. Thank you fellow Gotham Knight!
@@iceprinc3art120 when he was being taken to the asylum in the van Alfred mentioned someone tracking his movement and Batman said "I knew he (Jason) would." That's how he saved Batman. What I don't get is why he sprayed his symbol on the floor in the Panessa studios of all places
@@grandmascookies8796 Maybe to let Brucy boy know that he had Robin, or to let him know that he really does know how Bruce thinks. In the cutscene, Tim was supposed to go out and fight all the people on top of the Studios. But Jason knowing how the Bat thinks set off the sensors so that so Bats would put Tim somewhere safe, so that he could capture the new Robin. It lets Batman know that whoever Bruce brings into this, they are never truly safe.
Or maybe he just wanted to mess with him I dunno.
After Jason reveals himself and is beaten, the militia turns to Deathstroke for leadership and are heard talking about how the Arkham Knight fled and was nowhere to be found. Seems Bruce managed to get through to him.
Presumably, since his army was no longer in contact with him, neither was Scarecrow.
Him leaving his symbols is a message to Bruce that he's still keeping tabs on him. Since the symbol appears in the studio after Batman finds Tim missing and leaves, Jason probably tailed Bruce there. The message is "I can find you," and given the assist Jason provides in the end, it's clearly less of a threat than it was earlier in the game.
These games are so detailed, it's incredible. And Jason is such a complex, compelling character.
I didn't notice tbh
About Oracle's death scene: If you pay attention to the corners of the room you are in, you can actually see fear gas leaking out of some pipes, explaining how the vision of her death was induced
Glad to see that this game is still being talked about
Edit: didn't realize that I'd be getting this much likes after a week
Exactly
Amogus
Let’s hope the rumors about the remaster are true. I wanna play this gem on my ps5 with 60 FPS
@@henniebrood 120 maybe…?
If they remaster it I hope they add dlc. And story dlc. More challenge maps and race tracks.
If you didn't know when azreal is given the choice to strike batman down or break the sword, you actually can just walk right out and not pick up the sword
I wonder if you complete the side mission then by doing this?
@@ktwenter77 you do
Wait that was a secret, I just thought that was what you was meant to do so I just dipped straight out the door XD
One detail i've never seen anyone mention: When you go to the clock tower for the very first time, and then exit it, while Batman is talking to Comissioner Gordon on the comms, you can briefly see Man-Bat flying across the sky in the distance, and then diving down to the streets.
I noticed that and when I grappled to the nearest building after exiting the clock tower he appeared and it started his side quest
For the Deadshot shells, it's possible that this is a reused asset from AC's side mission, as one of the first things Batman noticed and pointed him toward Deadshot was the bullet casing that had his name on it
yeah i’m pretty sure that’s exactly right
@@reecieboi8668 All those details and they become lazy at that 💀
If Rocksteady made another entry in the Arkham series, I could easily have seen them throwing in an easter egg referencing that Deadshot some how helped supply the militia. Sounds like a Rocksteady style meta joke
@Braden Hogan I wish there was a deadshot boss in knight. I personally hated the "arkham knight/redhood" bossfight boring compared to arkham origins bosses
@@josiahgonzalez942 The Origins boss fight for Deadshot was basically reiterated and improved on with the final Knight boss in the mall, which that boss itself was basically an improvement on the City Two-Face v Catwoman fight. I mean, when you think about it it really is the same boss concept (have to take out a room full of guys to sneak up on a sniper) but spanning multiple rooms and enemy types. It would be cool to see another boss fight like that though. It was essentially the culmination of Arkham stealth. I don’t think they’ll ever go back to the Arkham series, but if they did then I would like to see how they could make a stealth encounter even longer, more complex, and more difficult than the final Red Hood fight. What I would really like to see is a boss fight that literally forces you to use every kind of stealth attack, or at least every gadget - like the Mr. Freeze fight, but a predator encounter and made more complicated by Batman’s now giant tree of moves in the series
I literally just started the Arkham Knight game, so it looks like I’ll be huntin’ Easter eggs tonight!
Enjoy it; savor every detail of a fantastic series
Take your time enjoying it bro
Me too just started playing it on the ps5
Hope you have a strong heart....
(Nobody tell him.)
@@shawnthompson2303 TELL HIM WHAT?
I love how no matter how long ago I played it or how many times, the amount of lore and detail, is never ending and I learn new stuff over and over
In the dlc for Batgirl there is a place you can visit where Starro the Conqueror in sitting in a glass container. Still very much alive. This is scary. The only thing stopping world conquest is about an inch of glass.
There are recordings that actually hint towards asylum in it too.
It’ll be fine! No one is stupid enough to lock Starro behind 1 inch of normal glass.
Even funnier, if you die as batgirl and visit starro again he will be gone
@@DRBR_Hippo Bro, that scares me.
The entire combat mechanics of the Spider-Man games as well as the camera adjustment and compensation is entirely based on batman, it has been years since I played Arkham knight when I played spiderman for the first time, the first thing that popped into my mind was “wow this is the exact same fighting as Batman.”
Well yea, they’re both members of the “Cool Motivated Orphans Club”
The Arkham series spawned this type of fighting system, used in Spiderman as you said and also Mad Max and Sleeping Dogs.
Rhythm based combat it’s called. Arkham invented it
I'm assuming this is well known but If Robin doesn't dodge the attack from the jokerized women he gets a permanent scar that lasts throughout the game
damn I didn’t know that, cool
Sick
I tought it was imposible to dodge lmao
I had to retry that multiple times to not get the scar, pretty intense because you can't spam dodge or dodge too early
@@simonghoul3602 But the Scar is cool
One of the best Batman stories ever. I loved the dynamic between Joker actually being inside Batman's head and distorting his surroundings like the billboard.
I do like how they humanized the criminals that you find all around Gotham it makes the game more like Gotham is a real place with real people i really like that detail
Oh yeah, like the goon saying that they have to rob a toy store to get a present for his kid, another guy saying that he has to stop rioting early because he has to watch his kid, or in the Batgirl DLC the guy getting the wrong roses for his girlfriend!
Another humanizing detail is you can see the damage Batman (or any other character) does to thugs and rioters on their faces. Blood noses, bloody mouths, black eyes, missing teeth, bruises, etc.
One guy says Batman will "kill us like he did Joker". Another says, in a confused voice "By withholding medicine?"
I laughed way more than that probably deserved. 😁
One thing mentioned how he thinks Batman is government funded as an explanation for his head the other thing suggested that he might be Wayne. I heard another thug suggest that Wayne might be Batman and the other thug shuts him down. I think that even if Scarecrow didn't unmask Batman that his time was running out anyways and people were starting to figure it out.
@@personman1148 that's actually really cool, people figuring it, especially criminals is really cool, you rarely see people figure it out in the shows, films and comics so I like that detail, I've only encountered the one where the goon gets shut down but I thought I misheard it so I brushed it off, I'm happy i didn't mishear it
The bust in Bruce's office is an nod to the 60s Batman who used a similar hidden button to open the secret entrance to the cave which consists of a couple of fire poles he and Dick would slide down and when they got to the cave they would be in costume. Weird that sliding down a pole would dress them
That's probably a lot less obvious to those that grew up with more recent versions of Batman. For those that grew up with the '60s era Batman Show/movie, it's pretty obvious what the bust is and why it's there. Thankfully, it does show up in detective mode for everybody else.
-The begining song when you're cremating the Joker is foreshadowing about how's you're gonna be stuck with him in your head.
-In the diner, there's a scarecrow behind 4 bats and 2 ghosts, basically telling you how the game's story goes.
Also in the first cinemátic , You can see a reference to all four jokers
I’ve Got You Under My Skin by Frank Sinatra
This game really is one of a kind, from character developement to gameplay, Rocksteady really did an astonishing job on this trilogy, I remember the good old days of 2015 when it came out, what a time it was.
It's a Quadrilogy. Stop ignoring Origins.
@@TheFirstCurse1they aren't ignoring Origins. Whilst the game is a recognised addition to the overall Arkham canon, the OP does specifically say the "Rocksteady developed" Arkham games. Which are Asylum, City and Knight. Origins was not produced/developed/created by Rocksteady. So as it pertains specifically to the 3 Rocksteady made Arkham games, a trilogy is the correct classification.
I have one that’s gameplay related and it blew my mind when I discovered it.
If you play as Red Hood/Arkham Knight, you can quickfire his flashbang grenade with L2+circle/LT+B to stun an enemy from a distance as if you’d approached them and hit circle/B to do a normal melee stun with circle/B (as Batman this button combination is quickfire REC) As you know, up close after a melee stun on an enemy as any character you can execute a beatdown by tapping square/x repeatedly. Same deal with Red Hood and the flashbang. Up close you can follow a flashbang up with a melee beat down if you're close to the stunned enemy.
HOWEVER as Red Hood you can also follow up the quickfire flashbang and execute a “beatdown” with his handguns if you're at a distance from the flashbang'd enemy and still immediately follow up with rapidly tapping square/X. If you’re at a distance, Red Hood’s animation will be one of him rapidly alternating gunshots for each press of square/X until the final hit. This animation is similar but indeed different than his quickfire pistols animation, one that like a normal beatdown can be interrupted/stopped by the player. If you’re familiar with “gun kata” it’s reminiscent of that type of movement and posing. In the AR challenge missions the move shows up as a normal beatdown in the score description.
It’s cool coming across such a useful, stylish, but completely unlisted move in Red Hood’s kit completely on my own like that. And I didn’t discover it until my third playthrough chasing the platinum trophy and putting more time into other playable characters.
Please make a video for this
One of the greatest games of all time! I’ve never seen a game with so much attention to detail. I notice something new every time I play through it. This game was a decade ahead of it’s time when it released in 2015, and holds up better than games today imo!
6:57 another Easter egg that surprisingly wasn’t mentioned was the missing person poster for Henry Adams, the symptomless joker blood recipient kept in the bat cave at the time of the game.
And at the start of the game as officer owens you can see Henry adams is missing by reading a strangers newspaper
Yep, it's pretty obvious when you play through again, but you're not going to notice it the first time through.
This is the only game I 100%. Not only are the side missions fun, but it’s rewarding getting the good ending with all side missions complete.
My God, it makes me sick. You are so underrated it's unbelievable. You provide so many damn facts. It's insane dude. You have my wishes that you may one day get the appreciation you deserve.
8:34 in the Spider-Man games there is a similar Easter egg that no one seemed to notice on the rpgs that are fired, they read “guaranteed to kill spiders”
I knew most of these. And I absolutely love the Calendar Man one.
They really didn't leave anything out with these series.
I also love that they went through the effort of doing all the riddler puzzles in the games. I would never find all off them, but the annoying manner in which they keep taunting completionists is incredibly entertaining to me.
7 months late, but;
You don't have to find all of them!
The thugs who roam the streets that glow green are Riddler Informant's, if you isolate them in battle and leave them as the last man standing you can interrogate them. Basically they're the human version of the Riddler Maps from Asylum. You don't even need to go out of your way most of the time, if you beeline for them the moment you see them then all three islands will probably be complete with every trophy, riddle, and puzzle by the time you finish half the side quests and main story.
I've gotten 240% on three outta four save files and I plan the do it again on my last one, so in case you needed a reference from someone with experience, y'know.
@@ultimatepunster5850 that's what those glowing goons are, I thought they where just a harder enemy to get some bonus EXP like a Arkham militia captain or something
@@wolfiethefurrygamer1908 lol no this literally exact same green neon as riddler trophies and base decoration is no stat boost; tho the game also explains the interrogation part
@@tanikaze7697 I was like 12 when I played Arkham City so I was dumb back then XD
@@ultimatepunster5850for me in arkham knight a few of these informants actually counted as the puzzles being solved. Idk why but any of them that fought back instantly counts as a portion to the boss fight, still hated going through like 210 riddles
at the beginning, when you have to disturb the person smoking in the diner, if you wait a bit, the background music switches from 'only you' to the instrumental of Johnny Charisma's song
The Arkham games are just so well made and every single detail is just so good. Also the Easter Eggs in the video are so cool.
Detail: After you encounter Scarecrow in Stagg Airship 2, if you ignore Scarecrow's warning about Barbara and do something else, when you get to the penthouse Barbara is dead as soon as you get there. (Joker's dialog is altered)
I need to see this for myself (Not that I don't believe you, but rather, I'm interested to see how it plays out).
I personally took hours to get to Scarecrow's penthouse as I picked that time to do a lot of side missions and I got the normal cutscene after several hours of ignoring Scarecrow
There actually WERE some fun things in here I never noticed! Like how the Riddler's key-game spells out B-A-T-M-A-N, or the Joker getting healthier as the game goes on (seriously how did I miss that!?)
Also in the crime alley fight you start fighting like how joker fights in the arkham asylum dlc.
RIP Kevin Conroy.
I'm not sure the 'Deadshot' on the shells is meant to be an easter egg, but is rather just the reuse of an asset from Arkham City.
Pretty much that's what it is.
it's an easter egg in our hearts
Possibly, but given how much money they spent on the rest of the game, retexturing the shells would probably not have been much of an issue.
9:25
That bruised guy it will haunt my nightmares for the rest of my life
When you told me Mark Hamil's name has the word Arkham in it, that blew my mind bit.
I immediately googled Arkham, to see exactly when it first appeared, to see if it was lat enough that it was in fact a homage to Hamil (wouldn't be the first time, Joker's original name in the Keatonverse, Jack Napier, was a reference to Alan Napier, who played Alfred in the Adam West TV show)
It's not, the asylum first appeared in the late 70s.
@@medafan53 It's kind of a shame that we never got a 3rd movie as those were some of the Best Batman movies IMHO.
I played the Arkham trilogy during the lockdown in 2020, it was one of the greatest experiences of my life.
I never knew that you could change Owen’s story by never firing a shot in the diner sequence that’s an amazing detail
Honestly, the Mark Hamil-Arkham connection I never thought of before, but that is both comical and awesome!
My first playthrough when I saw Barbara in the room dead I think I just sat there staring at the screen in utter disbelief for about 5 minutes. But the city needed me, so I got up and kept going.
In Paul's Dinner almost everyone is a Rocksteady employee
I never knew about the different dialogue lines for the cops talking about Owens. Great attention to detail Rocksteady 👏
It's amazing how much love and attention Rocksteady put into all their Batman games.
I noticed the gun moving the first time I played but I assumed it was just an oversight by the developers
Plus I wish someone made a mod where they went through the game files and just permanently enabled all the jokerised objects, so you could just play in a strange city where almost everything had the jokers face or name on it
I noticed it and thought that it made no sense. I haven't gotten to the part of the game where we find out she's alive, but there are a lot of hints that things like that are just in his mind as he's seemingly not affected by the toxin and there's recurring reference to the toxin bringing out people's greatest fears. He's also seemingly the only person to have seen the body as I would imagine that Commisioner Gordon would have had the body taken to the morgue and probably been placed into protective custody for his own good afterwards.
Coming back to this game after a while really makes you appreciate how well crafted this game was especially in the current gaming market really hoping for some kind of remaster or continuation of the Arkham series would almost be impossible unless knightwing took up role as Batman as Kevin Conroy is no longer with us R.I.P.
8:06 i heard that as ''criminals and f*cks''
I first played a bit of Arkham Asylum in a hospital as a kid, but I played all of Arkham City and genuinely thought "Arkham" _was_ from Mark Hamill's name.
In my defense, I was like 12.
One of the saddest things I saw in the game is when the Joker hallucination talked to Batman about what Bruce wanted the most, his parents back and for his city to be at peace.
I wish there were more superhero games like this, with all their classic enemies and teamups
Forgot one thing in a part of The story where Batman tells Alfred to launch the bat wing to scan for the cloudburst if you look in the sky for a little bit you can actually see the bat wing flying around the city
During the flash back scene at the clock tower, Barbra actually has the Oracle symbol put up on her wall as decor
Great video. Personally I never shot any of the diner partrons as Owens because killing in a Batman game even when you're not playing as Batman feels off.
A new easter egg was found not too long ago. At the movie studios where Batman and Robin are rounding up the Joker infected, if Batman crouch walks, Robin will copy him. But if you are playing as Robin and crouch walk, Batman won't copy Robin.
That’s a neat one
The bust you can push the head back is a reference to the one in the Adam West Batman show where he pulls the head of the same bust and presses a button to open the door to the Batcave.
This is literally the best superhero game ever! These are just such such crazy attention to detail. Awesome to see this game getting recognision 6 years after it's been out!
This game was way ahead of its time imo!
I found one recently. In the flashback with Joker and Barbara, you see an open book on her couch. You can actually read some of the words, and it turns out to be Phantom of the Opera.
Who would have love to see Batman who Laughs and Batman Lantern
You mean the dawnbreaker?
Sure, it could have worked fine and it would be awesome, but I'm afraid it would take so much time to develop the story. I mean, Burce could have turned into Batman Who Laughs as you said, but it would happen at the end of the game (maybe after Scarecrow got him trapped and he's hallucinating). It would have us left with just a few minutes to explore the game as Batman Who Laughs. Not to mention the fact that he would be the main villain (it would be a spectacular Final Boss), without someone to fight him. Tim was there with Jim Gordon as Scarecrow's hostage, Barbara was in GCPD in a wheelchair, Jason was the villain and it would not fit well for the plot turning him into a hero by defeating/killing Bruce at this point. Maybe Azrael could do that, but he was a minor character in the whole story, and depending on the player's choice, he would be locked in in GCPD.
Anyway, let's hope we may play as Batman Who Laughs in the future in an open-world game like the Arkham Series.
The Batman who Laughs sucks just like the rest of modern DC.
In the League of Shadows DLC at the morgue, Talia's name is in one of the freezer bed cabinets, which is open enough for you to look inside. But her body is missing in there. Step aside Catwoman, Talia's coming to get her man back.
I knew most of these (love Batman too much), but the ones I didn't know were fascinating. It is truly incredible how much detail Rocksteady implements.
Great video as always! 👍🏾
I like the way you convey information. Nice and fluent.
I hope newer games take inspiration to how much work it takes to make a masterpiece like this.
It was anarchy that started the whole new fear toxin in 6:38 you will see an A symbol and anarchy is the only character in the Arkham verse (that i know of) makes those symbols.
I'm so glad I started off my gaming experience with games like the Arkham series and Uncharted. A 10 year old never felt happier!
4:20 This is because joker is becoming stronger and taking over argo he is becoming healthier
I've worked to have 8 separate 240% save files for this game, I'm glad it payed out and knew all but two of these (Iceberg lounge sign and Wayne office)
wait, how do you get 240%? I only have 120%
@@K-Flo10 completing the game on ng+ gives 200%. The expansion missions are 20% each time, so when you do absolutely everything you can get 240%
@@Lemon-gj4hv ng+?
You collected all the riddler trophies 8 times? You are a legend.
@@abinjosejoseph604 haha probably more at this point, honestly they’re all kinda memorized so it’s not a big issue
could you imagine asylum,city,origins and knight was all made today all with the graphics and performance
The arkham series is literally some of the only good super hero games and has some of the best story telling in gaming
The reason Zsasz can be seen on the security camera is because he was actually supposed to be a part of the same as a side quest, but it was scrapped because the mission was too similar to the Professor Pyg side quest. You can still find one of his displays a Riddler question, though.
My only problem with Arkham Knight is that it had a dissatisfying ending for a game that claimed to be the final entry of the series and yet it didn’t even feel like it ended. They made it open for another adventure
It was also poorly written in my opinion. One of the dumbest plot points is people becoming Joker and the Arkham Knight's identity. There was no build-up for that. It felt so random. Also, the lack boss fights hurt the game as well. The game was decent. But compared to Arkham Asylum and City, it was a massive disappointment in my opinion.
@@yokotubene yeah u know what I can agree with you on tht with the lack of boss fight where they traded a fight between Batman and Deathstroke they trade it with a tank battle….. talk about a crappy disappointment of a boss fight and u also u know what ur right about the writing as well cause Asylum and City were written by Paul Dini and this one wasn’t so at least I know why it felt so dissatisfying
@@yokotubene it's not a huge disappointment. Knight was a million times better than Asylum and I still think it's better than City but its a matter of opinion.
@@LegoCityFilms Definitely a matter of opinion. Because of the reasons I gave, I found even Arkham Asylum way better than Arkham Knight. Of course, it's an older game. But if it would've come out at the same time as Arkham Knight, it would be better in every way possible in my opinion (including gameplay, which Arkham Knight actually improves in that regard).
@@yokotubene Arkham knight is better yea
I've been replaying all the Arkham games and I just refound this channel after so long and it's still just as great as I remember
Ive always loved the batman arkham series i really hope they add another game. Also about arkham knight ive never stopped playing it and never will forget how much of a great game it is
I do remember that the customers in the diner are employees of Rockstar who worked on the game. i had a friend who worked there and saw her character model in game
I always thought that the explosive gel when placed on a wall looked more and more like the joker's smile and less like a bat symbol as the game progress.
Maybe just in my mind.
9:07 You missed one. In the first scene inside the Diner, on the refrigerator near the place where officer Owens is sitting, we can see that a missing poster for Henry Adams is stuck.
Its really interesting, shows how he was playing us from the beginning and he was probably one of the longest infected (idk if that's stated or not)
If you look closely at Harvey Dent's normal side, you can see the claw marks from when Catwoman scratched his face in Arkham City.
Early on, at ACE Chemicals, Arkham Knight tells his men to avoid shooting Batman at the symbol on his chest, saying that it's where his suit is the strongest and that the symbol is meant to be a distraction. This foreshadows later on where Gordon shoots Batman at the Bat symbol on his chest, because he knew that it wouldn't hurt Batman if he shot him there.
If it's Halloween day and you have already captured the Man-Bat, you'll find that he has escaped from his cell at GCPD. Furthermore, if you return to his lab, his wife's body will be missing and there will be writing saying "For my love."
When you are about to surrender yourself to Scarecrow at the end of the game, you can see a symbol of a red bird on the building. A message for Batman from Jason. This same symbol appears again after the final mission at the Joker Quarantine.
6:28 that whole owen thing? I saw the smoking bag first and tried to leave, i also knew what the gas was and i instinctively didn't shoot... This was all on my first play through
8:33 Well guess what Deadshot?
You Missed-
Now I feel like a sick bastard, considering the fact that each time I do the beginning scene as Officer Owens I try and shoot as many people as I can before I get taken out, so many that I actually ran out of ammo one time
In the same scene where Lucious shows Bruce the new Disruptor, if you look in the other Batpod you'll see the Arkham City costume.
In the same scene, if you check Bruce's answering machine he receives phone calls from Vicki Vale, Lex Luthor, and Kate Kane (Batwoman).
never knew that cool!
But the jokers voice messages are the funniest. They crack me up😂😂😂😂😂
In one of your clips you went past a building while in the tank, if you look closely look at the name of the place, it’s called queen industries which is green arrows business that he ran. Pretty odd but cool to know their are other characters from the DC universe involved in the Arkham world
Despite the tank issue, this game had an incredible personality. Still have it after 7 years.
I honestly never understood the batmobile hate ngl
You know the thing that I didn't notice in arkham knight? that you can slide on the floor. Played all the missions, dlcs, and almost complete all the riddles, except one last riddle that required you to do a slide.
Best one in the series for me, The Joker trolling throughout was both relentless and humorous at the same time.
The game entertained to no end and in terms of art, absolutely one of the best looking games ever made in my opinion, detail coming out of the ears.
My only real criticisms is that the Batmobile tank battles became a bit tedious after a while, they overly rinsed them.
I also thought there could have been tougher stealth set pieces - this is something the whole series failed to do well enough for me. You just never felt you really had to use Batman level intelligence in order to get around complex situations, they were just too easy. Even if you messed up, the game never really punished you for it, you could just destroy hoards of enemies anyway once your cover was blown to no detriment.
Could have done with some more boss fights too, that's where Arkham Origins really shone.
In harder difficulties, enemies will adapt to your tactics and gadgets, for example, on hard and knightmare, Arkham knight (or whoever the leader is) will as for check ins whenever you down somebody, tell them to switch comms when you use the voice modulator, stay in large groups to avoid getting taken down, and stay away from walls if you used them. More than anything, I think the stealth in this game relies more on whether you want to make it difficult for yourself or just breeze through it
They had to make it accessible for the masses, where the money is. Not everyone has the patience to stealth their way through an entire game.
Agree, the only downside to this game is no real boss fights.
For the most part, I agree, but in the side game "Flip of The Coin", that's exactly how it works. Fail and the turrets cut you down and don't allow you to escape and so you have to start over from the balcony. As for the Batmobile, I enjoy it. I pray my insurance agent never watches me try some of them, but I really enjoy the challenges. The distance you sometimes have to travel in-game while driving and returning criminals to GCPD thereby forcing you to return...yeah, that gets old sometimes.
As officer owens, when you confront the guy in the diner, look at the table he is sitting at and you will noticed he has scratched anarky’s symbol onto the table
4:48 "the Joker is voiced by Mark Hamil, but if you look close enough - his name literally spells out ark Ham" holy fuck Im outta here
Ark ham aslume man jonk
A few details (minor and major) i noticed recently was that you can see the batwing searching for the cloudburst just in the sky, its really cool, and its not at an absurd height like out of a skybox, its pretty close to the playable area. The other is the seismic activity before a certain mission, this one is more obvious but i liked how there would be random tremors within the missions area before you did it
The PlayStation version of Batman Arkham knight is the superior version graphically over the PC version. It has superior lighting effects/shader/textures. It has superior rain and sea water effects. It has superior reflections through out the world close to raytracing. You also can break most of the glass in windows during fights or by punching the glass. Also you can see bruising and bleeding on the criminals as you beat them and while they're laying on the ground.
Its called remastered for a reason?
Theres one thing you missed! In the end credits, joker sings a song about batman while crying, you can find it on youtube lol
Well done. I just started playing all four (YES, FOUR. Origins is fantstic) in reverse order and cannot believe how well they hold up
I find myself bored about an thirty minutes in on almost all new games. These? The Arkham games, i never get bored
Origins was always my favorite I don’t know why some people hate it I mean the most interesting assassins were in the main story and the others were left for side missions after so it was all great.
Origins was great. I liked its winter theme very much. I hope it gets a remaster some day and they iron out the bugs. As it is, there are many bugs.
@@DantesInferno96 It really was. It is the one game that had a vibe which stayed with me. The plot itself is great and as you said the Christmas eve snowy environment just makes me want to be there.
There were a ton of bugs especially during combos but I love that damn game
Origins is one of the best games of the series, that one and Arkham Knight are very underrated. Anyone know how to get ahold of the Mr Freeze dlc from origins? I can only play the game on psnow but not the dlc. Any help would be much appreciated!!!!!
@@larryplummer9154 If it was Xbox One, I'd be happy to help, but I never had a PlayStation, sorry, man.
I didn't know quite a few of these. One you didn't cover was the Ace Chemicals tank battle with the Arkham Knight.
During the fight, if you look on top of the main Ace Chemicals building, you can see the Arkham Knight controlling his chopper from the roof, and you can pop him with the Batmobile's riot cannon. It doesn't change the fight in anyway and I don't think there's any change to the story, but the Knight being so cocky and then getting popped with a rubber slug is amusing nonetheless
Some were new like the dialog between the two cops at Owen's cell.
Thugs with brouses on them, the missing poster, the missiles from the tanks, Barbara Gordon's spin, thug playing catch and exercising, and Batman punching the keypad.
By the way I was wondering can you do a video discussing which lantern corp should Miles Morales be in?
Needle mouse you are by far my favorite UA-cam channel and. I must compliment you for producing these beautiful and dark Batman videos that is all the more reason why you are now my favorite UA-camr