Rocksteady Studios' Arkham series really was absolutely miles ahead of its time, in basically every department.
The graphics created a version of Gotham that we'd never seen before, whilst the beat-em-up gameplay also left every other competitor in the dust. Launch issues with the PC version of Arkham Knight aside, it's still one of the most consistently excellent trilogies around.
Most players would agree that, amongst the three games, Arkham City probably serves as the zenith and players haven't spent thousands of hours exploring every nook and cranny to discover its secrets.
Over on YouTube, one of the rarer pieces of dialogue is blowing people's collective minds, but you'll have to do something quite counter-intuitive to get it to happen.
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In the mission where Batman is inspecting a crime scene and discovers the shot came from a sniper in the church opposite. Upon investigating that location, he discovers that the shot came from a timed gun put there by the Joker and his minions. With the place rigged to blow, you're meant to get out of there before the timer goes off and everything goes boom.
If you choose to stand around like a lemon instead, you won't be immediately killed off by the bomb. Instead the Joker will treat players to a unique piece of dialogue that goes as follows:
"You're going to come and find me, you can't stop yourself can you? Sometimes I wonder if all this is just one of us looking down at the other's corpse, trying to work out what to do next. The only question is; whose body will it be? I know who I'm rooting for!"
The comments in response to the video are all speculating on why it's included, with many alluding to the Joker's true motivations.
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"And if you really understand joker... you know he's actually rooting for Batman all along... and his death was the perfect joke," one said.
"The fact that joker made it so the bombs detonate not after the timer countdown but after Batman leaves is just showing us how he actually doesn't want to kill Batman," another added.
A third said, "And Batman's response when the Joker died was to gently carry his corpse out of the city... instead of Talia's... makes you think."
If you've never managed to jump into the Arkham games before now, they are well worth jumping into in 2025, and they're a lot cheaper than they were at launch.
Topics: Batman