Arkham 3 What Would you like to see?

[Ibnal'Xufach]

One thing I'd REALLY like to see is more accurate Riddler challenge indicators. The main problem with the Riddler maps in AA and the Riddler thugs in AC is that the indicators only show 2 dimensions, leaving the player to figure out where the challenge lies on the third. maybe when you get in the vicinity of the trophy or riddle an arrow indicator can show up on the screen and lead you to the exact location.

"But Batman is the world's greatest detective! He has no need for such hand holding!"

Yeah, and Batman wouldn't need maps or thugs, either. The current indication system is nice, and you can find most of what you're looking for with just a bit of poking around, but some of them you STILL need a walkthrough in order to find, which defeats the purpose of having the indicators in the first place.

[Deathstroketheterminator]

I really am trying my best to finish going through the thread but I must say Deathstroke, Manbat, and Redhood, and I want Deathstroke to be the comic Deathstroke, the only man to ever beat batman in a fair fight thrice. I want to see Redhood hire deathstroke for a hit on (hero's name here) and have batman and him fight and him win like he would in the comics to be chased down by Nightwing and Robin while batman recovers at Alfred's side, I want Alfred in there and I want him to be a pivotal story point instead of a disembodied voice as he was before. I just want a great, gritty, darkish story with amazing attention to detail and full of easter eggs like the Arkham games we know and love, but more than anything I want the ending to be just like AC where even though it is your victory it feels like you didn't win. But I want it a step further I want it to end on a Cliffhanger and make it even bigger than the joker's death. I want the player to feel completely uncertain, mad, frustrated, ecstatic, and wanting a sequel more than life itself similar to how I felt at the end of AC this concludes my nerd rant, have a great day thank you for reading.

[Hunter50502013]

[Summary]With the Inmates of Arkham City unleashing to Gotham City, the city is burning to shreds. Events occur which may not stop. Scare crow plans to release his toxin fear gas to the city, causing any citizens who come in contact with the toxin must face the fears. He plans to release the toxin on one of the largest building in Gotham, Wayne Enterprises. As this takes places, Hush plans revenge on Bruce Wayne. With Two face having Tim Drake(robin) hostage and Barbara captured by the Riddler, Batman must take on Gotham’s most powerful criminals alone. In hope, there is someone out there who will help him things don’t go as smoothly as expected.



-Longer Campaign +30 hours atleast.
-Take place in Gotham City.
-DON'T BRING BACK JOKER. He had his major roles in the first two games, let the poor dude rest.
-Scarecrow and Hush as main villain.
-Have main villains own territories of Gotham like in AC. (eg. Jokers Funland "Joker", Museum/ICe berg lounge "Penguin,etc)
-More buildings to explore.
-More control of Bruce Wayne.
-Have Riddler as a side quest, but have him impact the Main Storyline.
-Harder boss fights.
-Introduce new characters like
*Maxie Zeus
*Prometheus
*The Great White Shark
*Lady Shiva
*Red Hood
*The Ventriloquist
*Simon Hurt
*Clock King
*Killer Moth
*Tweedledum and Tweedledee (Why not?)
-New Gadgets such as:
*Bat-Darts: A form of tranquilizer darts specialized for the needs of Batman.
*An EMP gadget to turn off the lights in the area for 10-20 seconds for better predator moves. (Seen in TDKR)
*Sonic Bat-Beacon: An electronic device that puts out high frequency calls to attract near-by bats. Used to scare near-by thugs during attack.
-Have Riddler trophy puzzles more challenging and make more deadly too.
-Unlock cooler things from Riddler trophies such as upgrades,batsuits and challenge maps. Also bring back stories, interveiws and concept art.
-See more from the ambravoci twins now that they reunited, in their easter egg http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8l-6FnsQ7-w . Maybe they could be a side mission together, or part of the Main Campaign as long as they keep them two away from Harley.
-Physical roles from Alfred and Oracle.
-The timeline needs to be fixed. In both AA and AC all events were crammed into one night. Maybe let the campaign last a couple days and than afterward you can switch from day/night in the start menu.
-The ability to access the Batcave this time around where we can possibly change suits and use the Bat computer to analyze data. Exploring Wayne Manor as Bruce would be cool too.
-More extensive use with the Bat-Family (Nightwing, Robin, Batgirl, etc).
-I think it would be cool to go back to the asylum for a side mission. -Batman Begins/The Dark Knight/The Dark Knight Rises skins.
-A fast travel system. Batman can call his Batmobile when in a safe area or the Batwing when on a roof and then fast travel to key locations. Maybe even throw a cool little cut scene in there when he does that. Of course this would only be necessary if the next map is very very big.
-A villain story mode. Note: Could possibly be DLC, but is possible to ship with disc.
-I also hope they would add more skins for Robin, Nightwing, and Catwoman. And with a villain story mode, skins for our villains too!
-A little bat-mobile action??
-More side missions. Note: I think anyone could agree with this. If Rocksteady really wants to take it to another level.
-Civilians needing to be rescued or possible other heros like Robin or Catwoman looking for assistants.
-Something in Batmans mind cracks making an echo of Joker follow him around. He wouldn't be a villain, just a residual image comic relief at moments.
-The ability to use Gadgets while gliding. Like the Batarang,Grapnel Gun,The REC gun and maybe even the Bat-Darts (listed above as an idea for a new gadget).

[mil0]

I'm new here, and since my reply is probably really lengthy and poorly formatted, I doubt many people will take the time to read it. But I've been steaming about this for months now and I'm trying to find a place to get these ideas noticed, or at least something of a backing, so I hope that enough people notice this and take it somewhere.

THIS CONTAINS SPOILERS
The following is a list of characters left at the end of AC, so that the rest of this makes sense. I'm fairly new to this, so...

FREE
scarecrow
rhaz al ghul
clayface
freeze
calender man
killer croc
azrael
black mask
poison ivy

CAPTURED (alive)
two-face
penguin
riddler
bane
mad hatter
zsasz
harley

Gameplay
-swimming, possible for hostage rescue (gadget/upgrade temperature variation)
-better free running (a=speed, rt=stealth, with a new "stealth sprint")
-vehicles (batmobile on side of buildings)
-gargoyles-- bigger and better disguised, with an option to stand and scan for radio chatter instead of just crouch and always have to put up with random radio chatter
-batmines (upgrade/alternative to explosive gel)
-up on d-pad+right stick = weapon wheel, so that left, right, and down on d-pad can be used to toggle between different vision types (sonic, heat, night; the latter of which allows for more stylized dark areas)
-more of the elevated trains
-batcave as a minihub (hush can take over, leaving batman to stash his vehicles in designated areas around gotham
-casual counters (batman's signature backhanded whack to the face)
-Gotham should be a little tidier in the nicer parts
-catwoman team-ups and robin team-ups (possible co-op?)
-more weather variation?

-i heard a GREAT idea from various places that joker could appear as a cameo, like residual of his blood in batman's system causing hallucinations and flashbacks (also i thought... harley's crazy enough, she might even try to get at batman for the joker in his blood... maybe even a last-ditch attempt to bring him back...?)
-MORE PSYCHOLOGICAL STUFF!!! i personally LOVED the scenes in AA where we walked down the long asylum hallway as batman and came to the end of a twisted alley as a little bruce wayne, and the mind-boggling fuzzy screen followed by the dream sequence replaying the first scene of the game with the hero-villain roles reversed. im sure everyone would LOVE to see more of that, especially since scarecrow is so heavily alluded to in arkham city.

Plot
-NOT BLUDHAVEN (despite the clues-- clayface's being pushed into the lazarus pit and the plotline of how bludhaven is destroyed, combined with Azraels prophecy, sets up a parallel to the storyline where rhaz al ghul uses a semi-intelligent mass of toxic chemicals to destroy the city)
-harley's revenge/protection of her newborn(s)
-scarecrow, with a titan-fear toxin combination (duh)
-rhaz al ghul in league with scarecrow (batman begins style) and using a lazarus-enhanced clayface, while at odds with the order of st. dumas
-riddler's revenge a major point (improvements to his intelligence, e.g. more like the scarecrow easter eggs)
-two-face bank robberies
-poison ivy and freeze recruited together by league of shadows (maybe even with bane, like in batman and robin) through a deal with ivy to restore plants and by extorting freeze by kidnapping his wife
-penguin's escape and war with two-face

Side missions/subplots:
-hush...?
-black mask vs. falcone and maroni gangs
-mad hatter's revenge (if you go back and talk to hatter after defeating him, he CLAIMS he just wanted a friend in batman)
-zsasz nearly gets "the mark"
-calendar man's christmas killing

p.s. I think we all want the abromovici twins back, and if the above details are true, they should have their own conspiracy/involvement in the rival gangs of the penguin and two-face.
also, the two-face/penguin war would be amazing; pitting penguin's greed and two-face's mania would elevate the robberies and shoot-outs to levels of grandeur fitting only for Gotham, with arial gameplay reminiscent of the two-face bank robbery in the opening scene of batman: forever.

while i realize that most of these movies i mention have mixed reception, the aspects i describe fit the essence of batman and suit the game series very well.

[Ibnal'Xufach]

Another thing I'd like to see is better grappling, period. There are some points the game will only allow you to grapple to while you're gliding, which is a real pain when you're standing atop a building and attempting to grapple boost. You wind up jumping off the building top and then immediately hitting grapple boost, which is just a waste of time. Also, I've noticed that, even while gliding, there are places you can grapple to, but the game won't let you for some reason, so you have to stop gliding, start falling, and THEN you're FINALLY able to grapple. Pointless.

[Offie-Darknight]

For RS use


So far we want;

To see not only more use but more of a story to
Robin
Night wing
Batgirl
Catwoman

Appearances From;
Huntress
Red Robin
azrael
creeper
black canary

Catwoman to have a better means of transportation

Addition of new villains that may have not even been mentioned before

Villians:
Hush
Harley
Firefly/Killer Moth
More from two face/penguin
More involvement from riddler
Black mask
Scarecrow
Ventriloquist
Killer croc
Bane
Poison Ivy
Red Hood
Lynx
Saiko
Spine Bender
Cricket
The Talons
Vigilante
Great White
Death Stroke

Thugs using dogs

Falcone/maroni organised crime side missions

Gotham city location

more fighting styles for which the user could pick from

making use of the shadows to hide in and attack from

wanye manor / batcave as a retreat to use for practicing/training, finding information, changing suit etc

Weather change

darker story contents/environments

more gadgets (more ways to trap/manipulate enemies)

Gadget ideas: TDK pump action sticky gun
Flash bombs
Trip wire mines
Night Vision/Infra Red
Sonic emitter to call bat swarms
communicate with batwing to deliver gadgets
Bat-Tracer like the one used on the ninja in AC
Batcetylene torch (laser)
Bat Breather (breath underwater)
Ultra Batclaw
more Batclaw upgrades (fire claws to capture enemies)
batmines

batman cloak himself in his own cape

longer story or gameplay altogether

making use of the environment around you (office equipment, garbage bins etc)

customisable suit

alternative ways to access buildings (open window, roof window, breaking and entering, pick locking)

More clues to easter eggs

Rescue Side Missions

Enter doors without having to takedown all thugs.

ability to take out the lights (turn on night vision)

Multiple counters against the same thug

Flashback missions reliving iconic moments in batmans life

Seeing a darker tone to the story looking at how badly affected bruce is by events that had happened

An exploration mode of the challenge maps

alternate skins in cut scenes

A bettering of Nightwing's detective mode and catwomans thief mode

A disarm and destroy combo move for characters other than Batman

Lengthy One on One fights with thugs or main bosses (like joker at the end of AA and black mask in robin dlc)

Less Repetitive Boss battles

More involvement from Mr. Freeze as an enemy or ally

Ability to move Robins Hood up & down.

Flashback missions/iconic movie missions (separate from the story)

Realistic reaction to fear from the enemies

some parts of the main story cannot progress until completion of a related side story

More Depth to forensic investigation.

PS3 players are able to play music from there HDD.

Silent Takedown combo (combo is built by not being detected)

Special Silent Takedowns

Triple silent Takedowns

Iconic Gotham Locations (enterable and full of riddler clues)

Oracle and Alfred at Wayne Manor

Playable Villain as DLC

PS Vita version (possibly a separate story running parallel, maybe with a different hero)

More in-game cheats

social media integration

a developed interrogation system

swimming

more control over scanned conversations

When grappling to an edge, u have the option to stay hanging to the edge out of sight. Instead in AC you auto roll on to the roof top exposing yourself to the enemy

Different Scanned views;
Night vision
Heat detection
Sonar
Some amusing versions (drunk vision, Everything is cartoon etc)

[Offie-Darknight]

mil10's idea about different visions got me thinking more about that last point above.

just like when you go into detective mode, you could also go into night vision etc but what about little funny extra's

it just has to be some sort of view your are looking through. maybe some joker glasses and everywhere goes loopy
or drunk view wer everyfin is hazey and disjointed

sure ppl on ere could come up with some great ideas



also still would like to hear from sarah may, busy as she is just her own input on this thread and whether sh knows RS are looking at these ideas?

[TheJokeIsOnU]

I want more of a story mode cause very villain has their own story. 3 times the amount of story time then as in arkham city and Robin could be co-op and Nightwing and Catwoman will have parts in the story too and being able to play as bruce cause a lot of the villains have grudges on him.

[Xaxm963]

For RS use


So far we want;

To see not only more use but more of a story to
Robin
Night wing
Batgirl
Catwoman

Appearances From;
Huntress
Red Robin
azrael
creeper
black canary

Catwoman to have a better means of transportation

Addition of new villains that may have not even been mentioned before

Villians:
Hush
Harley
Firefly/Killer Moth
More from two face/penguin
More involvement from riddler
Black mask
Scarecrow
Ventriloquist
Killer croc
Bane
Poison Ivy
Red Hood
Lynx
Saiko
Spine Bender
Cricket
The Talons
Vigilante
Great White
Death Stroke

Thugs using dogs

Falcone/maroni organised crime side missions

Gotham city location

more fighting styles for which the user could pick from

making use of the shadows to hide in and attack from

wanye manor / batcave as a retreat to use for practicing/training, finding information, changing suit etc

Weather change

darker story contents/environments

more gadgets (more ways to trap/manipulate enemies)

Gadget ideas: TDK pump action sticky gun
Flash bombs
Trip wire mines
Night Vision/Infra Red
Sonic emitter to call bat swarms
communicate with batwing to deliver gadgets
Bat-Tracer like the one used on the ninja in AC
Batcetylene torch (laser)
Bat Breather (breath underwater)
Ultra Batclaw
more Batclaw upgrades (fire claws to capture enemies)
batmines

batman cloak himself in his own cape

longer story or gameplay altogether

making use of the environment around you (office equipment, garbage bins etc)

customisable suit

alternative ways to access buildings (open window, roof window, breaking and entering, pick locking)

More clues to easter eggs

Rescue Side Missions

Enter doors without having to takedown all thugs.

ability to take out the lights (turn on night vision)

Multiple counters against the same thug

Flashback missions reliving iconic moments in batmans life

Seeing a darker tone to the story looking at how badly affected bruce is by events that had happened

An exploration mode of the challenge maps

alternate skins in cut scenes

A bettering of Nightwing's detective mode and catwomans thief mode

A disarm and destroy combo move for characters other than Batman

Lengthy One on One fights with thugs or main bosses (like joker at the end of AA and black mask in robin dlc)

Less Repetitive Boss battles

More involvement from Mr. Freeze as an enemy or ally

Ability to move Robins Hood up & down.

Flashback missions/iconic movie missions (separate from the story)

Realistic reaction to fear from the enemies

some parts of the main story cannot progress until completion of a related side story

More Depth to forensic investigation.

PS3 players are able to play music from there HDD.

Silent Takedown combo (combo is built by not being detected)

Special Silent Takedowns

Triple silent Takedowns

Iconic Gotham Locations (enterable and full of riddler clues)

Oracle and Alfred at Wayne Manor

Playable Villain as DLC

PS Vita version (possibly a separate story running parallel, maybe with a different hero)

More in-game cheats

social media integration

a developed interrogation system

swimming

more control over scanned conversations

When grappling to an edge, u have the option to stay hanging to the edge out of sight. Instead in AC you auto roll on to the roof top exposing yourself to the enemy

Different Scanned views;
Night vision
Heat detection
Sonar
Some amusing versions (drunk vision, Everything is cartoon etc)

I would like to see the Question as a playable character, and Prometheus as some sort of villain. Not just a reference. Also you can interrogate on any thug. Not just on Riddler informants.

[Offie-Darknight]

I would like to see the Question as a playable character, and Prometheus as some sort of villain. Not just a reference. Also you can interrogate on any thug. Not just on Riddler informants.

a developed system