Topic: Batman Arkham City

Ok, I got this game last year to support 3rd parties and because it sounded good. Then I got Arkham Asylum for PS3 because I didn't want to jump in a serie from the second chapter - Arkham Asylum is a fair game.
Now I'm playing Arkham City and I am surprised by my inability to play it properly. There's simply too much stuff going on. The environment is stuffed with so much paraphernalia that is hard to see roads and enemies, there are so many physical things you can do (like hooking, cover, glide etc) that the button icons are eternally there on the screen and there's so much chatter coming out both the TV and the GamePad that it makes my head explode. The GamePad menus are a chinese box, so hard to navigate! It is a pity that everything is so confusing because when you do basic things like combat, the game feels mega.

I have been playing for 5 hours now, and I felt like I have accomplished absolutely nothing. Actually, I feel like 90% of the things in the game passed by without me noticing. Anybody had similar experiences with games like this // am I getting too old to "get" how awesome these stuffed games are?!

I personally thought it was one of the most overrated games I had played on Wii U but that might be because I had just finished AC3 at the time and was too disillusioned with open world games to enjoy it. I definitely thought they could have dealt with objectives better. I would be following the obvious path to my objective and end up walking into a new mission and completely lose track of what I was doing.

I thought it was fantastic on the 360 but would still give Asylum the edge when comparing the two. Origins was a piece of garbage though.

I loved it but I'm a Batman fan in general, I don't like the stupid Wii U exclusive suit tho.

yeah that's pretty much what's happening to me all the time - I'd be following the main objective and get sidetracked by a ton of other things, most of which triggered by accident. Then I look down at the map and see a million icons I don't even know what they stand for - it's so confusing.
And the fact that you can't walk five meters without catching somebody's talk coming out from either the telly or the GamePad - it's driving me crazy. I understand they tried to use the GamePad as a radio or something, but it's not pleasant at all.

Funny that, I had no issues with Arkham City, so I finished it, but I have yet to finish AC3. Your last paragraph sums up how my AC3 experience has been so far, but instead of 5 hours I've spent 60+ and I think I'm half-way. Batman 'clicked' better with me I suppose.

I thought Arkham City on the Wii U with the cool suit and easy access buttons and batarang camera view and the map and the recordings and all that... to be honest... I thought it was just amazing. I can't think of more pure fun I ever had with any game. It was just pure joy.

The game in general was good, but I though Arkham City was on of the best ports the system has to date. A lot of work and extra content was added.

The game was great, but some of the Wii U controls felt tacked on.

I felt the same way and ended up trading it in pretty quickly. It just seemed like every button on the Gamepad could do 50 different things depending on the situation, and the in-game manual/bat-computer or whatever it was called to teach you all your moves was like 7,000 pages long. Maybe if I gave it more time I would have liked it, because I saw the potential, but I just wasn't about to devote that much of my free time simply to trying to understand what I was doing.

It also made me feel like I was getting too old and just not cut out for these more modern games, but then I got Splinter Cell: Blacklist and loved it, and I'm also liking Deus Ex: Human Revolution so far, so I'd say just try something else if you want. There's too little time to spend wasting so much of it on a video game that you just are not into, even if others think it is great.