I am a giant fan of shared, collective funtimes, so I need to lay flowers on the ft of posters on the Batman Arkham subreddit (perhaps not flowers; like, bat-themed knives and massive stompy boots. I do not know, what does Batman like?). A few weeks in the past, with no new mainline Arkham sport since 2015’s Arkham Knight, they began discussing Batman: Arkham World, a fourth sport within the sequence that got here out in 2021. Besides, after all, it doesn’t exist.
The one who kicked it off seems to be u/FrozeninIce248, who declared that the sub ought to take a leaf out of the Titanfall subreddit after which did. They posted commemorating the anniversary of Arkham World’s launch, asking for “this sub’s opinion on the sport”. “I liked the open world on this sport essentially the most,” they mentioned, “as a result of it was a literal world”. And boy did the sub reply.
Since then there have been numerous posts, all increasing the Arkham World lore in each the content material of the unique submit itself and the dialogue in threads beneath it. Listed below are some issues I find out about Batman: Arkham World:
- It has ongoing DLC and problem updates
- It could have already been remastered as Return To Arkham World?
- The Joker is again as the principle villain
- The Joker is utilizing portals to maneuver across the Arkham World
- These portals resemble those Dr. Unusual, off of Marvel, makes use of
- In actual fact, Spider-Man turns up
- And characters from Star Wars, Godzilla, and Breaking Dangerous (amongst others)
- All of these items are as a result of Arkham World is about Batman travelling the multiverse
- With a gadget known as the Bat-Universe-Jumper
I’ve seen it alleged by some posts that it is a reference to a little bit of NPC dialogue from Arkham Metropolis, by which a thug would understandbly ask if a “big-ass Arkham World” was going to be subsequent. However actually, who can say? Regardless of the case, it is value doing a dig by way of a few of the earlier/prime posts, as a result of being lined by retailers exterior to the sub means the meme is already in its end-game (h/t to Girl Emily, whose Tweet is definitely what alerted this exterior outlet to it). There was a minimum of one submit earnestly asking what Arkham World is. If Rocksteady ever acknowledge it, it’s going to be lifeless (a la Morbius)
Technically the canonical comply with as much as Arkham Knight is Suicide Squad: Kill The Justice League, however that is not as enjoyable and it is not out till subsequent yr anyway. There’s additionally Gotham Knights, which seems extra historically Arkham-y however does not even have Batman in it.