This review is for the current Steam version of Arkham Asylum.
I am so tired of these dumbass pointless remasters. I was able to run this game on high settings in 2009, but now my laptop is struggling to even run medium settings at a stable framerate. Tf? This is a 15-year-old game! If you wanna remaster something, get a game from the 90s that is hard to run on modern hardware and that probably has complicated controls. Or get a console port from the early 00s, back when PC was treated like a second-class platform. The original release of Arkham Asylum was fine! Last time I checked it still ran with no issues on modern systems! And why wouldn't it? 2009 wasn't that long ago. There are plenty of older games that really require a remaster. Or, if you just absolutely have to remaster this, at least add the ability to launch the original version like they did with Bioshock or the recent Quake remaster. But no, that is too much to ask for apparently. Fuck your nostalgia, play this game with changed graphics and a required online connection! Oh and btw, if you're poor and your cheap laptop can't handle it, fuck you too, we hate poor people here at Warner Bros! Our favorite pastime is to drive around Los Angeles and beat the shit out of homeless people and steal their pennies because that's just how we roll, motherfucker!
And just to make things more annoying, the graphics settings are in the launcher. So I have to keep exiting the game just to find a balance between a tolerable performance and decent-looking graphics. Now, I don't remember if that was the case in the original release, it might've been, but I played Arkham Origins in 2021 and the graphics settings were in the game menu. Since you remastered this game, you could've done the same here (again, if that was not already the case).
You know, at the very least you could've called this version "Batman Arkham Asylum Remastered", not "GOTY", because GOTY is usually the same game just with all the expansions and perhaps some new DLC. I bought this thinking I'd get the original game, just with a bunch of extra content. Instead I'll now have to pirate the original version or play this piece of shit on low settings with blurry textures and shit, and get constantly thrown back into the menu whenever the game decides there was a disconnection, because the video game industry just had to milk this cash cow.
I am so tired of these dumbass pointless remasters. I was able to run this game on high settings in 2009, but now my laptop is struggling to even run medium settings at a stable framerate. Tf? This is a 15-year-old game! If you wanna remaster something, get a game from the 90s that is hard to run on modern hardware and that probably has complicated controls. Or get a console port from the early 00s, back when PC was treated like a second-class platform. The original release of Arkham Asylum was fine! Last time I checked it still ran with no issues on modern systems! And why wouldn't it? 2009 wasn't that long ago. There are plenty of older games that really require a remaster. Or, if you just absolutely have to remaster this, at least add the ability to launch the original version like they did with Bioshock or the recent Quake remaster. But no, that is too much to ask for apparently. Fuck your nostalgia, play this game with changed graphics and a required online connection! Oh and btw, if you're poor and your cheap laptop can't handle it, fuck you too, we hate poor people here at Warner Bros! Our favorite pastime is to drive around Los Angeles and beat the shit out of homeless people and steal their pennies because that's just how we roll, motherfucker!
And just to make things more annoying, the graphics settings are in the launcher. So I have to keep exiting the game just to find a balance between a tolerable performance and decent-looking graphics. Now, I don't remember if that was the case in the original release, it might've been, but I played Arkham Origins in 2021 and the graphics settings were in the game menu. Since you remastered this game, you could've done the same here (again, if that was not already the case).
You know, at the very least you could've called this version "Batman Arkham Asylum Remastered", not "GOTY", because GOTY is usually the same game just with all the expansions and perhaps some new DLC. I bought this thinking I'd get the original game, just with a bunch of extra content. Instead I'll now have to pirate the original version or play this piece of shit on low settings with blurry textures and shit, and get constantly thrown back into the menu whenever the game decides there was a disconnection, because the video game industry just had to milk this cash cow.