How Much of Batman: Arkham City Can You Complete as Bruce Wayne?
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- Опубліковано 21 вер 2024
- I decided to put Arkham City to a bit of a stress test. Using a glitch that allowed me to free roam Arkham City as Bruce Wayne, I investigated to see how much of the game you can complete with all of Bruce's gameplay limitations.
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As was pointed out by @davidhall7479, there is a Riddler trophy underneath the casino that can be collected that I didn't mention in the video. Normally to collect this trophy you have to step on a Riddler pad to lower a gate and then use the line launcher to get to the trophy without touching the ground. However, if you just punch your way off instead of walking off then the button never deactivates, allowing you to punch all the way to the Riddler trophy and collect it. I didn't know this glitch was a thing until this was commented, so there may be even more Riddler trophies that I overlooked. I'll have to do some more testing and maybe make a part 2 to this video if I find anything.
Also, for anybody wondering, it is possible to put the batsuit on and progress the game as normal after doing this glitch. In the video I show that if you reload the game after collecting a certain Riddler trophy, the game respawns you in the alleyway. If you can't get back that way, then @TheWaffleEdits has a video on his channel showing a route you can take to get back into the alley. Then from there you can climb ACE Chemicals, put on the batsuit, and go about the game as normal
Link to Waffle Edits' video:
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Man I'd rather play Arkham City Bruce Wayne than suicide squad 😂😂😂
New Hush playable character? Real?
God created us in his own image but we sinned and broke that image so now we deserve hell but God wanted a way of forgiveness so he took on the form of man suffered on the cross for the forgiveness of sins that whoever repents of his sins and puts his faith in jesus christ can be saved to get that forgiveness u have to repent of ur sins put ur faith in jesus christ follow him and rely on his finished work on the cross and not ur own works to be saved repentence first means realising ur a sinner who needs Gods help then u change ur mind about sin realising its disgusting before God and u let him help u to stop doing sin putting ur faith in jesus means u do his commandments which u can know about in the bible loving jesus means to do his commandments but u have to be careful first of all u dont know when ur gonna die so come to God and repent today and that jesus is the only way to heaven the only truth and the only life and we can go to heaven bc of what he did on the cross not bc of our own works so ur good works dont get u to heaven its only bc if what jesus did on the cross but that doesnt mean u live a life of sin no u live a life pleasing to God having a true relationship with him but u trust in what jesus did on the cross and not ur own works that can get u to heaven jesus loves u and he can give u eternal life repent today@@doynedodd50
@@originalname4176God created us in his own image but we sinned and broke that image so now we deserve hell but God wanted a way of forgiveness so he took on the form of man suffered on the cross for the forgiveness of sins that whoever repents of his sins and puts his faith in jesus christ can be saved to get that forgiveness u have to repent of ur sins put ur faith in jesus christ follow him and rely on his finished work on the cross and not ur own works to be saved repentence first means realising ur a sinner who needs Gods help then u change ur mind about sin realising its disgusting before God and u let him help u to stop doing sin putting ur faith in jesus means u do his commandments which u can know about in the bible loving jesus means to do his commandments but u have to be careful first of all u dont know when ur gonna die so come to God and repent today and that jesus is the only way to heaven the only truth and the only life and we can go to heaven bc of what he did on the cross not bc of our own works so ur good works dont get u to heaven its only bc if what jesus did on the cross but that doesnt mean u live a life of sin no u live a life pleasing to God having a true relationship with him but u trust in what jesus did on the cross and not ur own works that can get u to heaven jesus loves u and he can give u eternal life repent today
Riddler must be going nuts seeing Bruce Wayne casually collecting his “genius” trophies
"Only batman could've-"
@@shaynehughes6645"Wait..."
@@shaynehughes6645 You KNOW after it dawned on him he was screaming from every rooftop he could find about how he'd "solved the greatest mystery of Gotham" and sh%t lmao
Dude really believes his own hype that much
@@Eye_Of_Odin978it’s even better cuz in Arkham Knight he doesn’t even believe that Bruce Wayne is Batman
@calebhall75 well he is smart enough it's just he is too insane to do so
This marks "Arkham City" as the first videogame that truly makes you feel like Bruce Wayne.
I am reason. I am the daytime. I am Man-man.
@@Phoenix00Knight I'm Bruceman-I mean-Bat Wayne
@@LadyDecember you joined 17 years ago holy shit
@@wiggard Sure did. Within UA-cam's first or second year of operation. Through all the changes, my username is still completely intact from what it was since the beginning lol. Gather round, kiddos, and let me tell you tales of UA-cam's yesteryears, tales you wouldn't even believe!
Nah telltale is
"I am the rich, i am the playboy, i am Bruce Wayne!"
"I am the 1%" - Man (year 1)
The 1% of the 1%. Wayne-man! @@essecara3275
I can imagine Bruce saying this around one of the many foes in his rogues gallery, and them putting 2 and 2 together
@@essecara3275”I am Man - 1% (year man)
Dr Strange "I know you're Batman"
Bruce: "I don't need that suit then"
This is DC. That would be PROFESSOR Strange. Doctor Strange is someone else entirely.
@@justinharvey7398 He technically is a doctor so what they said is accurate. His full name and title is Doctor Hugo Strange, I.E, Doctor Strange.
The name Doctor Strange is also used by a marvel character, but, this is technically an accurate way to refer to Hugo Strange in DC.
@@coolspider295 Unless you listen to the Arkham City audio tape interviews between Hugo and various rogues. During the sessions between him and Joker, Joker constantly refers to Strange as 'doc'. To which Strange irritably corrects him with 'professor'. So technically I'm only being as picky as the man himself.
@@justinharvey7398they call him dr strange in origins
@@justinharvey7398 I mean...his professorship was suspended though, no? Pretty sure he can't be tenured as a professor while being a supervillain.
Him correcting "doc(tor)" to "professor" is probably done deliberately as a nod to Doctor Strange from Marvel though. They're just having a bit of fun with it, so no reason for us - random UA-cam commenters - to take it so seriously.
A bat was bitten by a radioactive wayne-man and became batwayne. The origin story of this human with bat-feats doing bat-things.
Batwayne? Is he questionable?
Dude out here be playin Assassin's Creed in Arkham with all these parkour tricks.
This new ac mirage gameplay be looking sick!
@@OdinsDraugr69420Now that's just mean...
This game looks prettier.
Its actually amazing that they made so many options for jumping, ledge grabbing, sliding etc in Bruce form, and you only get to play as Bruce at very beggining of game. Probably some of those movement animations are used in Batsuit form, but simply added to Bruce too.
@@Dominik40301Actually all of these moves are available to Batman since Asylum with the exception of sliding.
Riddler watching Bruce Wayne collect all of his trophies that he hid for Batman:
"Hey! Hey that's not for you! You put that back!"
@@calemr This is 100% in character dialogue.
Also Riddler after Arkham Knight ending: oh my god...i get it
@LordFawful-se9fk No, it's more like "man, he's really leaning into that "I'm Bruce Wayne" lie, he's been doing that for years now"
"See Dark Knight? You're NOT the world's smartest detective, other than myself your intellect pales in comparison with that of Bruce Wayne, who completed many of my riddles during his unscheduled stay in Arkham City. You've lost Dark Knight"
9:44 The reason you had the option to "Pounce Attack" is quite possibly because the game thinks "he is not Batman so he must be Catwoman"
Lol it got colder
Nightwing also has it labeled as a pounce attack iirc, so it might be some code line running to check for a cape, and then administering glide mechanics and glidekick takedowns?
@@crowbird0540
That’s a sound idea.
Love that logic^^
Is the game stupid?
finally, Man Arkham CIty
( insert Happy r/BatmanArkham noises)
I don't quite understand the Joke. Is there a lore reason? Or am I stupid?
Finally, "mansoon"
Why is Man outside of the Alsume? Is he stupid?
Cmon, back to the aslume with you.
I wanna see this done with a mod to swap back and forth in order to break the softlocks and see how much _in total_ can be done by Bruce Wayne, using Batman only to do what Bruce can't.
This
Plus noclip to save on switching more.
The Atomsmith did that using console commands to switch between playable characters.
Freeroam Telltale Batman effectively.
That's what I was hoping
PLOT TWIST: You're _always_ playing as Bruce Wayne.
Barbatos and Zurr-En-Arrh say otherwise
😐@@sunsetman22
Bro spoilers
No way 😱
Errrmmmm, actually, Bruce Wayne is Batman, Batman is not Bruce Wayne!
I'm just imagining an AU where Bruce does literally everything in AC ('cept for carrying Joker's body out, he's somehow in costume by then) as... well, himself. The GCPD gets access to all of the camera feed from Arkham City for invstigative purposes somehow, expecting to see Batman whooping ass as usual... only to see Bruce Wayne, fancy suit and all, stomping literally every single threat into the ground. The freakout they'd have would be amazing. Can't even imagie how Gordon would react lol.
Gordon in the beginning of AC: "Stop putting people in Arkham City. Wayne's lawyers are going to sue the shit out of us for this."
Gordon by the end of AC: "Did Bruce Wayne just put the Joker's dead body on the hood of my car?"
@@splinterchalkId like to add Bruce allowing Robin to run around in yhe Batman costume so instead of thibkiny Bruce is Batman theyre just like "he can just... Do that?"
@@jimblesnontroninbo6690they might end up thinking Bruce Wayne is Robin
I always wanted a Bruce Wayne costume just for fun, like it has everything Batman can do but you’re just Bruce lmao
I miss when games did the "secret identity costume" bit where you did this, just played while the character stays in their regular clothes.
If some Spider-Man games can do it, why not Batman?
It's not like it's any more immersion breaking than a literal cartoon Batman running around.
instead of gliding with a cape he just has a stream of money flying out of his back
I wish!
😊❤
Small correction: You CAN take fall damage as Bruce without glitches. After you climb the building where you talk with Alfred but before contacting him, the invisible walls haven't spawned yet, and you can flip back into the alley where the Penguin and his thugs were, and the fall is high enough to get damaged and even die if you do it enough times.
I remember doing this as a kid over and over because I thought it was funny dying of fall damage as Bruce.
@@SpinoRexzillaEN25Bruce cant cope with jail
Man: City was always my favorite Man game. Glad it still holds up.
Man Ham City*
Being able to take down armed thugs and soldiers while crouching on top of a gargoyle with a full tux on is a new level of bad-ass and hilarious. Like a non-lethal Agent 47.
Non Lethal Metal Gear tuxedo run
I didn't know Bruce Wayne can spin dash, the way he rolls into that wall from the ledge. Sonic must have taught him spinjutsu.
Knuckles taught him how to glide!
If so, I'd bet Tails helped out a bit with all the tech. Maybe he makes up the entire 'Applied Sciences' division at WayneTech!
I’ll bet the extra Bruce restrictions are from older builds of the game where you played as Bruce for longer or in more parts of the game.
Nope
@@thefonzkiss Yep.
They are probably there to hold you off from exploring as Bruce.
Maybe
Fall damage might have been the initial deterrent to jumping off the building before they decided to just implement a death barrier.
“ITS BRUCE WAYNE!!!”
'LOOKOUT! WAYNES HERE!'
@@pharaohbubbles1547 😭😭
“It’s Bruce Wayne, we can take him”
“Damn, Bruce Wayne got hands.”
“WHAT’S THE WAYNE DOIN’ HERE?”
@@ArcaneHazeOfficial 'IT'S THE FRIGGIN BRUCE!'
Always wondered what it would be like trying to survive and explore arkham city as just a regular guy, and this gives a great idea. Great content!
Yeah, well only issue with that is this isn’t a normal guy. it’s Bruce Wayne. The billionaire, playboy That’s in peak human condition and knows every martial arts style.
Bruce Wayne is far from being a normal man.
In the comics he has literally became a god.
@@WarFox7012 Only meant exploring and stuff. A normal person wouldnt be able to kick the ass of anyone they see, obviously.
You are not a normal guy if you are in Arkham City 💀
It’s pretty badass to think that he’s doing all this in a formal suit. 😎
You should see Agent 47
N shit must be tight af lmao with all that muscle💀
Well I guess Bruce has more abilities and stuff he can do outside the suit but the game isn’t showing it since we have to wear the bats suit.
I think the reason for why you can't jump off balancing areas (if that's the right term) is because when playing as Batman, he will start gliding. But if you can't glide off, you can't jump off.
Edit: They're called perches. Not balancing areas. Just a brain fart on my end.
I enjoy how this video is so straight laced and serious intermixed with unhinged YTP style editing it’s really goofy hahaha
"Well well well Batman and Bruce Wayne, my two LEAST favorite people standing right in front a me."
"well look who is. bruce bloody wayne and batman. The two people I hate most in this world standing right in front of me"
My lore for this run is that the Bat-suit can't enter Arkham City because anti-aircraft guns so Bruce risks it in his normal suit. He then gets shot by Two-face and dies instantly (his spirit haunts the court house to this day)
Omg that is hilarious
His last word was a confidently incorrect "objection"
@@BaggedRanchGirlhaha I agree, it is indeed funny
Twoface killing Bruce doesnt really feel like something the character would do.
@@Pigness7 if the coin decides
You could do Arkham Origins as Ninja Bruce Wayne next. He has way more potential, but will probabaly get stuck at some point too.
I'm hoping to do Arkham Origins eventually, but it will be a massive undertaking. I'm not nearly as familiar with Origins as I am with City, so I'm sure that game will take forever in testing. I do plan to get around to it someday though
Nobody is. Arkham Origins is the black sheep of the series with it being a prequel and having diffrent voice actors.@@splinterchalk
@@OldmangamessBut its also the best playing game in terms of pure gameplay with the best gadgets and best "quality of life" improvements. Whether you like the game or not, its inarguable fact.
I’d argue that applies more to Arkham Knight, and that Origins simply has the best bosses in the series.@@justinlast2lastharder749
Ninja Bruce?
Pretty ambitious crossover to include Man in Batman: Arkham City.
He is forgiveness, he is the day, he is Bruce Wayne
I wonder if the reason why he takes fall damage is because that was originally how they prevented you from dropping down off of ledges, and once it turned out that it was very hard to design the level in a way that both made sense and also had him fall to his death from every ledge spot (presumably during testing there were some ledges he didn't die falling from), they just brute forced it and made him completely unable to drop down from hanging ledges instead.
Or maybe they also just planned on having more "Suitless" parts, which would have been really awesome.
Just because of that one scene with the political prisoners near the courthouse, I think they at the very least planned for you to get the suit later in the intro.
It’s nice rocksteady never fixed glitches like this. It’s almost like they’re part of the game at this point lol
I just love it when he says "don't worry, you'll get there" implying that I would actually try and do something like that. No way, man, that's why I watch the video, so I don't have to do that myself. As a matter of fact, I wouldn't even come up with such an idea.
Can you imagine a 100% speedrun where you start the game, do everything you possible can as bruce wayne, put on the batsuit and do the rest of the run as batman? It sounds like a hella fun idea to me!
Sounds like some r/arkhamasylum shit
Call it the Man: Ham City Run
@@TheWaffleEditsBack to the alsume with you
Uh, shit. I forgot the Bat-Suit.
YOU FORGOT WHAT?!?
@@Gehrmanthefirsthunter7247you mean the Man suit
i like the detail that bruce fights way differently without his costume on
I like it too he is more careful.
I'm always astonished how people break games in ways i never imagined to do.
Are you sure? I remember trying to break the games that I completed, quite a bit.
Would've been nice if we got a proper Bruce Wayne skin that can beat the game from start to finish, with an unmasked Bruce using his trenchcoat for gliding.
Just T-posing in the air like Jesus in smoking would be even funnier.
So cool that they let you play the game as a random business tycoon, that's some next-level worldbuilding.
I finally found it. Man: Ham City
As Bruce is climbing up buildings all I hear in my head is Pickle Rick's voice "GET THAT PARKOUR, GET THAT PARKOUR"
Give him a long jump or double jump and a short grappling range. And i see a great base for a daredevil game. That would really heavily on parkour
so inFamous basically? (without the powers of course, except maybe some sort of Detective Mode)
Harley Quinn and Catwoman gameplay be like:
Hey, guys. What is your favorite Man Ham game?
- Man Ham Aslume
- Man Ham City
- Man Ham Origins
- Man Ham Knight
Why did you misspell Alsume? Are you stupid?
@@splinterchalk Of course I'm stupid, duh. Are you stupid?
@@splinterchalkIt's a popular meme going around the r/BatmanArkham subreddit. You play the Arkham Series and is part of the community, and didn't know that? Are you stoipuid?
Man Ham WORLD!!
@@User19086 r/wooosh
Some of my favorite time savers when playing City and Asylum involve just skipping certain steps of the story.
In Asylum, You don't actually have to go back to the mansion and talk with cash before you do the killer croc levels.
And in City you can skip a few predator/combat encounters by passing across them.
I would love to see a mod that makes the game completable as Bruce Wayne. Maybe you do get some of the gadgets, but you still take fall damage and can't glide (admittedly I'm pretty sure there's one or two parts where gliding is a requirement beyond just those minigames where you can test the suit out), obviously give him the ability to drop from ledges and railings, etc. It'd be pretty wild.
There are mods out there for Bruce.
I love how the devs made the city traversable by foot, in case someone just doesn't want to use the glide mechanic
It's like, an ordinary man CAN traverse Arkham city and a thug theoretically can chase batman to the ends of the world
Great video man, it’s nice seeing such good content still being made from this game all these years later
I am Privilege, I am the Elite!
I. Am. BRUCE-MAN!
Welp, I didn't expect that you only have 20 subscribers, I've only watched the first few minutes but the editing and cut of the clips is so good.
Good luck, hope you get bigger or something.
He had 20 subscribers yesterday? He got 380 new subscriber in one day?
He has over 580 now
Imagine if all of this was just the tutorial before you can continue the main story AND THEN you got to play the actual Arkham City game.
batman arkham city but it was made by r/batmanarkham:
Limited Traversal was one of my favorite things to do. The map is so genius even if accidental at times.
It's my understanding that the only way to get hurt by falling in these games as any character is by crossing the kill Z volume, and the default pawn class in unreal engine hasn't had fall damage implemented either, so I can't possible fathom why Bruce can take fall damage unless the devs were toying with it and changed it later, or if they wanted you to die before continuing the game as Bruce
I personally suspect that they had changed their minds on having more bruce wayne based content whether at the start or in dlc.
@danielhaycroft1597 I think it would be pretty interesting to mix between the two, working with standard Bruce's limitations part time. People really didn't like the "civilian stealth" missions in Spiderman, but I think that's mostly because of how sequential they were, and cause all you could really do was make some distractions at very set-up points. If developers tried to do the same kind of thing, but with freeroam and tradeoffs instead of "you're just infinitely weaker now" I think it has untapped potential
20:21 love the random ass ytp in this vid lol
29:33 and this too
Ayo what was bane doing with Batman in Arkham Asylum. Ngl seems like fun
this video is really well put together! really enjoyed watching it.
This. This video is your breakthrough. Always wondered about being Bruce in Arkham City. Thanks for this 😎 your commentary is awesome. I can listen all day. Great find.
Weird how Bruce tries to hide that he's Batman but doesn't change his fight style
😂
I just know that the riddler is losing his shit seeing Bruce collecting all his trophies.
20:35 fantastic bit
It's so impressive the amount of work you put in this project, the result is simply extraordinary, well done!
You forgot one more thing that you can do as Bruce. You can use the power winch to trigger a controlled explosion.
No fucking way you only have 30 subs bro keep this going I believe in you this video is great subbed
this looked like a lot of fun! just figuring out the parkour routes is a game on it's own
I remember doing that just to see how far can I travel without the use of my gadgets.
12:50 *Bruce thought he was in Assassins Creed Mirage for a minute their*
Nah fam, parkour is way smoother here.
your commentary and gameplay is very pleasing, i didn't even realise i completed the video without skipping, which isn't me. Great work!
Arkham City having better climbing puzzles than literally the entirety of the AC franchise.
I hate how true this is.
@@lakshaykochhar6799 I do as well, I always felt that there was a lot of untapped or inproperly utilized potential in the Assassin's Creed series.
The original games kinda did that sometimes with sync points but even those "puzzles" often felt too linear for me.
@@terry2295 At least, it felt like they were trying with Altaïr and Ezio games. After them, it's like they give up; they dumb-down the parkour and simply took away our control over our's character movement.
@@lakshaykochhar6799 It felt like they tried to focus on it more again with Unity but were limit probably due to development time. After that it seems like they truly gave up on parkour in general.
My face when you can’t play a Batman game without Batman 😮
Wow I see a lot of effort put into this video you've earned a sub
Honestly really cool and impressive making an entirely different game within a game
18:06 ZSASZ KNOWS BRUCE WAYNE IS BATMAN 😮😮😮
Bruce does what Bat don't.
I remember doing this glitch and exploring the map about a year ago, and I thought it was hilarious seeing the penguin thug get freaked out seeing bruce wayne knock on his door.
Great, now /rBatmanArkham is gonna go insane with this
is the "Man" joke the only one they have over there? they should rename themselves r/Arkham Asylum, lol
Finally we get to play as Man in Ham City
Not sure if you forgot to mention it in this video but there's another Riddler trophy you can collect in the Park Row area as Bruce Wayne. Near the spot where Jack Ryder and the inmates are normally supposed to be. The trophy that's guarded by 2 mines. If you dive into the mines you should be able to damage boost your way through them and thus be able to obtain the trophy. You can also collect another Riddler trophy close to the northwest of the museum in the Bowery by using the punching glitch.
finally I can play as my favorite superhero: Man
The whole game...
Batman is Bruce Wayne 🤯
Nuh uh
i could hit you with some big nerd shit by saying technically🤓👆 batman is only bruce wayne in the beginning because thats when hes actually "wearing the mask" but ill spare you today...
Seriously? I thought...
That's just a zany fan theory.
Because batman has a cape, I don't think I ever really noticed how insane some of his jumps/climbing is. Dude jumps like 10 feet in the air lol
This is amazing! I'm shocked you're even able to do this much
I forgot how much fun there was to be had in breaking this game and doing silly things with it! Also, I have a new-found respect for all the Thugs, Political Prisoners and even some of the villains who are easily able to get from the entrance of Arkham City to the Industrial District without a grapple gun or a whip or something.
Why is Man trying to fight City without Bat?
Is he stupid?
MAN SIGHTED
Props for playing as me instead of Batman though
I do appreciate that
I loved this video and I think you need more subscribers lol!
I'd love to see more Batman/Arkham/Bruce videos as well
completely insane that this is remotely playable, props to the ppl that attempt this
Great video! I was seriously expecting you to be a bigger channel. I love arkham city and had always wondered if this was possible so this was awesome. Keep it up! You definitely have a great thing going here
Loved the recorder playing the knock-off Indiana Jones' theme song.
Prediction, story wise, you'd be able to beat the two face encounter. But get stuck on the first detective mode scene.
Here's a challenge: Use console commands to load in Robin in the main story and see how many trophies you can collect as him. You could also do the same with Nightwing, but I would find Robin more entertaining.
MAN: CIIIIIIIIIITY
MAN: CITY IS REEEEEEEEEAL!
Yeah it's an English club, current UEFA champions
Watching this video made me wish the game had a more limited use of the grappling gun and cape gliding cause the traversal seems pretty fun and engaging. The game should've made us use the environment more and be more in touch with it as we climb ledges and jump from rooftop to rooftop, not just basically flying above them.
this video really got me thinking of how interesting and egaging it would be to see this aproach in Arkham Origins. Sience the purpose is having batman on the begining of his career, it would be the perfect oportunity to have a more limited set of skills and gadgets (including the treversal system) that makes the player think outside the box on how to proceed the game.
I like how during the explanation where Bruce takes fall damage, Bruce falls from a great hight and barely breaks a sweat.
Finally, Batman cosplaying as Bruce Wayne and doing parkour
That ain't Bruce Wayne in the thumbnail, that's the Man
I was able to beat Mr. Freeze but couldn't escape the GCPD building without my grapple hook.
I always thought playing a Bruce in the opening part of the game was hilarious because seeing him move around without his cape reveals how strange his posture and walking is
To be fair, his walking-posture always felt strange to me, even with the Batsuit on.
This is the universe that billionaire playboy Batman is disguising himself as the mysterious Bruce Wayne
xDd mindblow
19:11 It looks so weird seing a regular an walking in those streets.
Putting on the Batman suit should have been a decision like getting the mark in dishonoured 2
We have completed our quest. Man: Ham City is finally out.
Great video, and I really wanted you to end by jumping in, and you did, so bonus points :D