Batman: Arkham 3 rumour: "highly stylised" prequel may star Justice League of America

No, just NO!

I'm a big DC comics fan but Batman and his sidekicks have always been the odd ones out in both ability and tone. They operate in an almost real world of blacks and greys compared to the bright 4 colour, throwing planets around for fun world of Superman et al. Cross overs never really work well in the comics and adding any of the JLA into the Arkham-verse would kill it as dead as...well as dead as the Batman Animated series was after they started crossing over with the JLA.

YOU MUST AND SHALL HAVE FAITH.

/throws massive super-powered tantrum, dooms universe

How can you have faith nowadays they are wrecking every series that was worth something,just to pander to the masses.

I have never been a fan on the Justice league, and if this rumour proves to be true I will be a little dissapointed. Also if this game does focus on the first meeting of the Joker with Batman then they will need to have another voice actor seeing as Hamil is not going to do the voice for Joker again.

I have faith in Rocksteady though and I will be interested to see what they come up with next for the Arkham series.

This is a terrible, terrible rumour. Remove it at once! It won't work I tell you, it will not work.

Please don't make a cross over, please. I don't like the idea of a prequel either.

*Grabs conveniently placed torch and pitch fork.*

No, just NO!
blahblah.

Hey cunning, we did it again, we talked about Arkham 3 and BAM! Here it is.

Cough SW KotoR 3 and Battlefront 3 Cough

On topic - it's rocksteady. English Rocksteady I believe? Justice League of America? No I doubt it - but cameos a la Robin in Arkham City (predlc) from Superman and pals in Arkham 3s apocalypse storyline with Azreal? Very likely. It also glosses over having to code gameplay for really complicated characters like superman and GL by having them scripted.

As a side not; DC will be wanting to prepare people for the Justice League film coming out in 2015 after Batman gets a reboot film in 2014, superman is out, GL came out in jan, Wonderwoman is probs on the way. This is an unfortunate truth probably.

The only thing that puts me off about this idea is how other DC games have been in the past. As far as I am concerned the only good games have been the BAtman ONLY ones (not including the latest Lego title). All previous Superman games have been AWFUL (to be polite).

The problem with Superman, is that he seems to have so many powers. You can't them all as that'll make the game too easy and you can't really give him only a couple.

Perhaps a game based on Smallville?

No, just NO!
blahblah.

Hey cunning, we did it again, we talked about Arkham 3 and BAM! Here it is.

Cough SW KotoR 3 and Battlefront 3 Cough

It needs to be a two way conversation so; KoToR3 and Battlefront 3 would be awesome (are you listening universe?)

Beside Batman and his villains and Superman, DC comics is a bit lame. The Flash, Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, all meh. Loved the uber-camp WW series, though. The episode where she chases a car full of crooks on a skateboard is my personal favourite.

Here it is: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5y_Gro8hRBE

It was inevitable. WB were always going to try to expand their roster of characters into the most popular off-shoot outside of the comics. They were unable to do it in the Nolan trilogy due to the grounded nature of the films but the Arkham universe would unfortunately be their one way into the mainstream. I have read comments from DC themselves saying that apart from Bats and Superman most of their characters are unknowns.
After how massively successful Avengers has been, it obviously has re-invigorated WBs intention of bringing the JLA to the masses. However, as second, surely the general public who dont care about Aquaman and the Martian Manhunter will only look to such a thing as a JLA movie as a poor mans copy of Avengers regardless of which characters they include. Especially by the time something like a JLA movie comes out we will be heading towards Avengers 2.
Apart from Batman, there are even a lot of DC fans who dont like some of their own roster. How they are going to convince the non comic fans to care for Wonder Woman?
Make Mine Marvel

It was inevitable. WB were always going to try to expand their roster of characters into the most popular off-shoot outside of the comics. They were unable to do it in the Nolan trilogy due to the grounded nature of the films but the Arkham universe would unfortunately be their one way into the mainstream. I have read comments from DC themselves saying that apart from Bats and Superman most of their characters are unknowns.
After how massively successful Avengers has been, it obviously has re-invigorated WBs intention of bringing the JLA to the masses. However, as second, surely the general public who dont care about Aquaman and the Martian Manhunter will only look to such a thing as a JLA movie as a poor mans copy of Avengers regardless of which characters they include. Especially by the time something like a JLA movie comes out we will be heading towards Avengers 2.
Apart from Batman, there are even a lot of DC fans who dont like some of their own roster. How they are going to convince the non comic fans to care for Wonder Woman?
Make Mine Marvel

Any straight man would be interested in Wonder Woman, no?

On a more serious note, I quite like the JLA and it would at least expand things a little, the problem with Superman games is well....he does everything, very tricky to make a game for him, Green Lantern can never be done justice (no pun intended) as you can't really imagine anything you'd want to use, Wonder Woman and the Martian Manhunter have similar issues to Superman. I'd think like mentioned earlier it might be cameos, they help rather than being playable characters.

Green Arrow might be a character you could make a game out of....as he's basically a different Batman.

P.S Aquaman sucks.

It was inevitable. WB were always going to try to expand their roster of characters into the most popular off-shoot outside of the comics. They were unable to do it in the Nolan trilogy due to the grounded nature of the films but the Arkham universe would unfortunately be their one way into the mainstream. I have read comments from DC themselves saying that apart from Bats and Superman most of their characters are unknowns.
After how massively successful Avengers has been, it obviously has re-invigorated WBs intention of bringing the JLA to the masses. However, as second, surely the general public who dont care about Aquaman and the Martian Manhunter will only look to such a thing as a JLA movie as a poor mans copy of Avengers regardless of which characters they include. Especially by the time something like a JLA movie comes out we will be heading towards Avengers 2.
Apart from Batman, there are even a lot of DC fans who dont like some of their own roster. How they are going to convince the non comic fans to care for Wonder Woman?
Make Mine Marvel

send her to a nudist beach

While getting Superman involved with the franchise would be a bad idea due to him being a great big Mary-Sue, I think crossovers with other mainline DC heroes could work. The Green Lantern doesn't need to be overpowered, though it would probably be best to keep him as cameo material, and there are plenty of 'normal' heroes such as Black Canary and Green Arrow that could fit right in.

Personally though, I'd like to see Rocksteady tackle some of the more 'underground' DC properties that aren't associated with IPs such as the Justice League. I think Rocksteady's take on the DC universe would work perfectly with characters such as John Constantine, Sandman and Swamp Thing. A standalone Sandman game would get me pretty damp.

Just don't do it.

Batman is my favorite superhero, he's so much better than the other JLA people. Batman has such a different tone to all the other, they would ruin the more grown up, grittier batman games rocksteady have made. How would it even work? like others have said superman is impossible to but in a game, there would be no sense of danger as he's invincible. Apart from were when all the enemies some how have the super rare kryptonite. Oh and the flash is really fast. wow

I dont think batman belongs in JLA and they dont belong in a batman game. Or film for that matter

It was inevitable. WB were always going to try to expand their roster of characters into the most popular off-shoot outside of the comics. They were unable to do it in the Nolan trilogy due to the grounded nature of the films but the Arkham universe would unfortunately be their one way into the mainstream. I have read comments from DC themselves saying that apart from Bats and Superman most of their characters are unknowns.
After how massively successful Avengers has been, it obviously has re-invigorated WBs intention of bringing the JLA to the masses. However, as second, surely the general public who dont care about Aquaman and the Martian Manhunter will only look to such a thing as a JLA movie as a poor mans copy of Avengers regardless of which characters they include. Especially by the time something like a JLA movie comes out we will be heading towards Avengers 2.
Apart from Batman, there are even a lot of DC fans who dont like some of their own roster. How they are going to convince the non comic fans to care for Wonder Woman?
Make Mine Marvel

Any straight man would be interested in Wonder Woman, no?

You'd think so, and yet the new TV show got axed last year after only the pilot because no one watched it.

The more I think about this the more I don't think this is an Arkham game. Besides anything else Arkham Asylum and Arkham City both shared a very distinct visual design style that was fairly realistic. To change that to the "highly stylised" look the article mentions would be too big a departure for either a sequel or a prequel. Add to that the fact AC had way too many hints about future plots to suddenly abandon that and go back to the beginning and I think this is a seperate stand alone game.

Hell yeah to a Sandman game. Can you imagine, it could play like Psychonauts meets Silent Hill meets Shadows of the Damned. Or moving away just from Morpheus, have different levels revolving each of the Endless.

Man, i have just wee'd a bit.

I kinda went off-topic, but as most of these other comments show, my initial reaction seems to be the general one. The Arkham series is so good and we have waited for years for a super-hero themed game to be really worth our time. I'm worried that if they have to change the formula at all so as to include more powerful hero's, that it might change too much.

Having said that, I have put some hours into DCUO and just being able to fly about a city and drop in on random trouble is really great.

And Sandman? How you could represent any of that craziness it in a game? I don't know. But it would be awesome if someone tried. Plus Gaiman just announced that he is going to do more books, which is nice