Aiming to eke every last drop of lore from Warner Bros Montreal’s upcoming superhero outing, Gotham Knights? You’ll need to strap yourself in for several playthroughs if that’s your aim! Effectively, because there are four characters to take control of, each run will provide you with a slightly different take on events. To be clear, the overarching story will remain the same, it’s just your perspective of it will change.
“You will not see all of it in a single playthrough,” game director Geoff Ellenor told PLAY magazine. “[That’s] just because there’s so much content that is unique to the hero’s perception of what’s going on and what’s happened.”
Cinematics director Wilson Mui added: “From the cinematic standpoint, it’s very, very, very challenging. Structurally, we’re gonna have a very similar scene that overall falls in the flow for each character, but each character has their own version of that. So, because they move differently, speak differently, they have different histories with all the different characters, it allows us to make a scene that would be their version of that. Some of them are very similar in how they do it, but they’re gonna have little subtle differences.”
Diehard fans will probably want to experience all the possible permutations, then, which will likely add extensively to the replay value. Let’s hope the core campaign is compelling enough to encourage all of those playthroughs, eh?
[source gamesradar.com, via mp1st.com, psu.com]
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I really want to love this as even multiple playthroughs sounds awesome. Yet I can’t shake the feeling this will be the first Batman game to disappoint me (Origins was still a very good game). Also, I can’t stomach 4 thirty hour playthroughs so let’s hope for a shorter campaign.
I feel like too many games are starting to do this approach to lengthen their game hour total and most make it repetitive and not fresh.
That actually sounds cool. I like these sorts of branching narratives so games like Ys Origin which subtly change as each character. I hope beating all 4 unlocks Batman as that would absolutely have happened back in the PS2 days but it would probably be DLC if nothing else.
@nessisonett I’ve said it many times, Batman will be in this in some shape or form. I think he’ll be unlockable after the campaign and probably have DLC
I think the most concerning thing about this game is that they just haven't shown much aside from a few like specific Mission sequences and then of course a bunch of cutscene nonsense and story overviews but if you really think about it like this is one of those open world Hub type game things and we haven't seen any of what sidecar tent will look like and honestly very little in variety it's bizarre to me to think that this game is coming out in less than a month or about a month and we still have not seen much about it.
Ironically, despite having seen a lot of stuff shown about it if that makes sense it just feels like it's not being shown very well kind of like another Guardians of the Galaxy scenario which could bode well you know who knows it might be great but it certainly not like on my day one list from what I've seen
I suppose it depends on how they do it. If it's like Hades and Nier Automata then I won't mind as each playthrough revealed new things and the game didn't feel like a job. If it's going to be like Destiny where with each character I'd have to go through the same story with cosmetic changes to get to the end game grind I'm not at all keen.
"That's cause there's so much unique content in the game"
I wish devs would stop it with that dev talk.
When It Takes Two got GOTY, it really paved the way for cooperative games and I think more devs should take a shot at it.
I’m a sucker for co-op, day 1 for me, a cooperative Arkham Knight game sounds legit! Could end up like Saints Row or Aliens: Fireteam Elite and regret it or could be great! I hope it’s good enough to want to go back and play as everyone..
Love it when you get different view points in the comics about a certain event so I'm definitely looking forward to this one.
Plus my boy Nightwing looking fire 🔥
Can we switch characters during a play through or is it one at a time?
Most times the games that do different perspectives as a big deal typically only have minor differences from each other. So, I can see myself possibly playing through more than once if you can only do one character at a time, otherwise I’ll probably just beat it once.
i mean …anything to add to the one and done experience of single-player , im down with .
I shall play this through 0 times to balance it out for everyone 😁
Hate to say it but it sounds like they’re being very careful to avoid falsely claiming there are branching narratives. The character saying a slightly different thing in reaction to the exact same cut scene you saw last time is what seems to be inferred. I’m not bothered tbh - I struggle with Marvel/DC games anyway. I’ll try it if people rave about it but would be highly unlikely to end up replaying it to see this ‘subtly altered’ perspective on the story lolz
@RogerRoger Thats all good. Sweet.
Hopefully there's a NG+ then.
I seemed to be the only person who hated the other WB Batman Games.
I just want to know why they allowed both rocksteady and WB Montreal to make 4 player co op games. We are living in the era of every game needs a buddy or group. Id rather of had a single player focused Robin game, or even a single player suicide squad.
The reality from what the developers are saying is the differences are so minimal that it probably isn't worth multiple play through.
Coming off the great single player focused batman games (including origins) im quite disappointed and have 0 hype for these team based games point scoring games.
I really hope I am wrong and the perspective are different enough that I care to play through twice or more and that the team based point scoring doesn't take away from both of their incredible story telling.
Honestly i’m trying to convince myself to play this just once, nevermind multiple times
@Toypop honestly can't believe they haven't jumped on making a ps5 remake of those games, including origins. Looks abit washed out playing the last batman game on the ps5. A 4k hdr patch would be amazing.
Ps still think arkham asylum was the best game haha
Be interesting to see if this is properly branching narratives and lots of new content, or largely the same content 95% of the time with the odd new corridor chucked in for different characters (sadly we have seen the latter more often tham not)
@Bez87 agreed. Asylum was my favourite too. I enjoyed the concentrated experience over the open world elements of City and Knight
thank god i dont bother about trophies. you can see 4 play through for the plat, so for you guys, i hope its decent
I'm hoping it surprises people like Marvel's GOTG did. Fingers crossed. It's not Day 1 for me. The other 4 Arkham games were but I'm gonna hold out on this one.
Hi there fellow gamers.
I´m really liking the idea of multiple playtroughs with different characters perspective.
Still a bit on the fence, but hopefully, Montreal delivers a great BatFamily game.
Oh, and as for my favourite, it´s Batman Arkham City for me.
Cheers, stay safe everyone and all the best
@ErrantRob Hi there friend.
Yes, indeed, Arkham Origins was a really good game, especially the Boss battles.
Also, it is kinda interesting seeing Bat in he´s first years were he is still, you know, more unhinged.
Oh, and the Joker part was great as well.
Cheers, stay safe and have a good one
@nessisonett Hey there friend.
"beating all 4 unlocks Batman as that would absolutely have happened back in the PS2 days"
Yeah, those were the days indeed.
In the good old days, we would unlock content by just playing the game and finishing multiple times.
Games had a lot of replayability back then just for that reason alone.
Like playing the Arcade mode 30 times with Jin to unlock his third outfit in Tekken 3. Or beating the original God of War on PS2 in God mode to unlock more lore videos and other artwork.
Now, everything is mainly DLC..... These are times.
Cheers, stay safe and have a good one
@get2sammyb Might want to update the Game Profile of this on here as it's not coming to PS4. I think most of us know that by now, but you could get a random person that wasn't aware.
Kind of nice I guess, but I don't really care about it so much as I don't think I'll play this more than once. Maybe in my younger years, but I really don't have the time to sit down and play a game more than once very often. There's too much other stuff to play for me to do that much either.
@KilloWertz It's a bug, we need to fix it to be honest, so good shout. The PS4 version is actually marked as cancelled on the site.
That sucks, imo. I’m forced to replay the entire game multiple times just to see a few different outcomes? No thanks, I’ll play it once and YouTube any interesting parts I missed if necessary.
I am buying this day 1 simply off the back of the Batman Arkham games being my favourite series of the 360/PS3 era(along with Mass Effect)..
I don't expect it to hold a candle to them games but I am just hoping I will be able to play it in the same way and it won't turn out like the avengers game
I really like that they are doing that. I hope it seems different and significant. I hoped they would. My dear is it being too grinding and just waves of thugs over and over and just being a time sink. That's my fear, but it's a big one. Also not super into getting same looking gear for stats. So, I hope that's not too integral.
I just wanted a batgirl game so only playing through once works for me.
To help this game Batman should be a playable character from the start
Hopefully this means the story for each character is shorter as a result...I can't imagine replaying a 10-15+ hour game 4 times in a row.
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