Originally Posted by
Revolutionary_Jack
Arkham Knight sold very well and is still a high seller. The PC version once they fixed it started getting decent reviews on Steam. I think AK fell victim to a sense of anti-consumer revolt because the launch PC port had those bugs (and wasn't even done by Rocksteady).
Likewise, the Batmobile sections which I love, made Arkham Knight vulnerable to a certain subsection of sagames criticism, i.e. attacking games for feature creep and so on. It's not true or valid but it sounds true and valid so that gave license to a gaggle of hack critics and their prejudices.
That's called a tautology. The fact is that there have been many attempts at a Superman game. There have been attempts at an open world game (Shadow of Apokolips the Superman Returns game tie-in) and it's all been unsatisfying. The open world map doesn't feel big enough for someone with Superman's powers and abilities, you don't always have the freedom to fully play with Superman's powers because unleashing Superman's powers with the open world freedom of GTA would look like the fight at the end of Snyder's Man of Steel. They've put a health meter on the city so that Superman has to move fast to save bystanders and civilians but that gets tedious and removes the joy of the open world sandbox.
To do Superman in an open world sandbox where you have all of Superman's powers would mean stuff like you can use your X-Ray vision on every building, every street, every pavement, every road except for parts covered in lead. That's an impossible amount of detail to consider. To accommodate flight, you need scale on a level no open world video-game has done. For instance, most buildings and cities in open world games are compressed. Rockstar's GTA games if you compare them to real life cities they are parodies of aren't quite as big and wide in terms of space and architecture. The Assassin's Creed Unity game famously featured a recreation of Paris' Notre Dame cathedral that was 1:1, i.e. the game's render is the same size, height, and width as the cathedral. That became possible thanks to advances and the fact that the Cathedral is all things considered not a very big building by modern standards. To do a Superman game right, you need to do Empire State Building 1:1 in a game, at minimum and open world games aren't there yet. You need a building that tall, a sky that far away from the street to have some sense of what Superman flying in an open-world city feels like in scale.
Spider-Man PS4 recreated Manhattan but it was quite small and compressed and certainly not 1:1 and it works for Spidey, in the same way the full Gotham of Arkham Knight works for Batman because both characters have a powerset and skillset that can accommodate a smaller sense of scale than Superman.
It's not 50%, not even close. It's just the new obvious thing so that's what everyone focuses on but it's still balanced properly.
Seems like that for now.
They left easter eggs for all characters across the DC Universe -- Green Arrow, Constantine, The Flash, and also for Suicide Squad (Cadmus Labs, Iron Heights penitentiary.