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Shadowman wrote:

Wigglez wrote:I want multiplayer for the Batman Arkham series. I now that sounds dumb and to be honest, I know the game doesn't need it. It's good enough with the ranking boards you could compare with friends and the rest of the world. But I think It would just be fun to be super ninja on other people trying to be super ninja. It would just have to not have the detective mode so you don't spot the other players.

The problem is, the majority of fights in the Arkham games are all about basically letting the player win. That's what makes it so awesome, you can trash an entire army because you are the goddamn Batman. While it could theoretically work, it wouldn't be anywhere near as awesome as the game proper.

That said, if it did happen, I could easily see a huge number of characters being playable; Batman, Robin, Nightwing, Catwoman, Joker, Harley, Ivy, Two-Face, Ra's, Scarecrow, each one with their own gadgets and attacks and stats and stuff oh my God that would be totally awesome!!

SEE!? I was thinking more of League of Shadows Ninja but your idea is way better. I say leave the freeflow fighting to just single player and bring the predator into the mp games.

Wigglez wrote:SEE!? I was thinking more of League of Shadows Ninja but your idea is way better. I say leave the freeflow fighting to just single player and bring the predator into the mp games.

Predator mode only works because the enemies can't see more than ten feet away, human players don't have that disadvantage.

Yeah but think about Assassins Creed multiplayer. Take out your target while watching your back. Well, that's like any multiplayer game but AC was in my mind because that was stealth based. And make it like instead of in a building, outside in a good sized portion of an area filled with many ways on how to take an enemy out. Like you see someone hanging, waiting to do an inverted takedown on a passing player. So you start walking towards their way and all of a sudden someone busts through a wall and takes you out. I'm sure by the time Arkham 3 comes out, there are going to be so many ways to take people out, it'll be crazy. I'm just saying because this could work.

Wigglez wrote:Yeah but think about Assassins Creed multiplayer. Take out your target while watching your back. Well, that's like any multiplayer game but AC was in my mind because that was stealth based. And make it like instead of in a building, outside in a good sized portion of an area filled with many ways on how to take an enemy out. Like you see someone hanging, waiting to do an inverted takedown on a passing player. So you start walking towards their way and all of a sudden someone busts through a wall and takes you out. I'm sure by the time Arkham 3 comes out, there are going to be so many ways to take people out, it'll be crazy. I'm just saying because this could work.

AC's multiplayer, which I was thinking of, and indeed AC's stealth entirely, is based on hiding in plain sight. Altair and Ezio work by blending into crowds, the multiplayer Templars only work because there's dozens of copies walking around to confound your pursuers and act as decoys; moving any faster than a brisk walk is actually discouraged because it gives you away.

You can't really do that in Arkham; Batman and Joker stand out in a crowd too easily, and the stealth is all about blending into the shadows, which, unfortunately, won't confuse a human player in the slightest. Inverted takedowns are especially problematic because you don't need to be the World's Greatest Detective to figure out that guy sitting on a gargoyle might try to kill you if you walk under him.

I'm honestly suprised they haven't done it yet, but a Pokemon MOBA-type game.