Switch To Get Timed Exclusive Access To Robert Pattinson In Batman: Arkham Trilogy

Immediately best version.

So psyched for this. Will be heading down to my local game store to pick up my pre-order on Friday. Been a long time coming for this on Switch. I traded in GOTHAM KNIGHTS on PS5 towards it!

@LadyCharlie Can't argue with you when you're right. haha

Is this one of those games that is not worth me getting on switch if I have an xbox?

I definitely want to get it, but will wait for reviews to see how it performs. Plus, my local retailer will probably have it at a 10-20% discount by Christmas.

Still had they keep ignoring the Origins games. I actually quite liked the main one (and Blackgate wasn't bad either).

Arkham City was peak. I don't know what went wrong with Arkham Knight. Not terrible, but not great either.

@Mach_Rider It’s been on my wish list since it was announced, but at £50.00, I’m waiting for the reviews as I’ve been disappointed before and £50.00 is a lot for me 🤞🏻🤞🏻😊

Forget Pattinson.
We need Adam West.

“Some days you just can’t get rid of a bomb…”

We are so back switchbros.

Was Arkham Origins that bad? I actually enjoyed the game but it’s completely ignored in all the compilations.

@E_Gadds_Garage I was honestly thinking the exact same thing!
Like I understand possibly not using his likeness, but at the very least give us the option to wear the West suit

It was confirmed some while ago that all 3 games aren’t on the cartridge correct?

@Kekshook Amazon is being really weird about this release. No release date and not even available to order anymore 🤔

The Batman was probably my favorite DC movie in a long time other than Gunn's Suicide Squad so this is pretty neat; just too bad it's only for Arkham Knight when I'm only planning on getting Arkham City.

This actually looks pretty good. I'll get at it a later date maybe.

@E_Gadds_Garage isn’t West’s costume DLC for Arkham Asylum and City?

@E_Gadds_Garage A suit based on the Adam West series was in Arkham Knight but it was in a DLC pack exclusive to the PS4 version of the game so guess we'll see how serious WB is about giving the Switch previously released content.

Still a shame the non Rocksteady 'Origins' isn't included, I really enjoyed it and it's dlc on PS3. I think it's underrated, plus its set at Christmas which would have been a great time to play it again.

Much as Knight impressed me with it's visuals and scale on my then new PS4 (if not it's tank battles), I'd almost rather go back to Origins, I might actually replay if on PS3 for the season.

Not too fussed on this suit for Knight, I always played with the 89 movie suit (and cruising about Gotham in the Tim Burton movie Batmobile was fun even if it didn't transform into a tank).

Will wait to see how these perform on Switch, I believe they are based on the original versions, the 'remaster' of City on PS4 was a mess performance wise, and they never fixed it. I regretted my purchase and the PS3 version was better.

Take that, Laurence Fox! 😏 😛

@majinx07 Yes, although each game is 8GB, 14GB and 14GB respectfully and I can't imagine any publisher opting to go for a 64GB cart without wanting jack up the games price

weird how hogwarts legacy switch version which came out november 14 was not reviewed so far by nintendo life any reason why?

I'm really interested in the game, but with so little gameplay available a just a few days before its releaseI think it's better to wait for reviews.

I really wish they would have let us preorder on the eshop so it would download a week early. Having to download over 50gb will take a bit and I’ve been waiting for these games.

Well that explains why the costume was released not long ago and quickly pulled.

Having the games on Switch could be great, as long as they run ok. Asylum and City should be fine, City was already on the WiiU, but one to be cautious about is Arkham Knight.

I hope all 3 are great, and I would buy them if they all had been on physical carts, but we can't have that sadly. If I'm forced to go digital for 2/3 of the games than I'll just stick with my PC copies on Steam Deck.

Ah, this is the costume that was accidentally patched in to existing versions about a month ago and then quickly patched out, guess we know why now

I want this. BUT, I will patiently wait for reviews to make certain that this has been ported to the Switch without issues.

Day 1 baby! DAY 1!!!! And that Pattinson suit!!! chef kiss

Oooooh Yeaaaaaaah! This game will be my self gift for Christmas this year, and I'm going to play first Knight with Battinson's suit! I can't wait!

@fpcreator2000 no, Origins is pretty awesome, specially the boss fights. Why are they not recognizing it? Probably because didn't do it, but it was WB Games Montreal, the same team that did the excellent Armored Edition version of Arkham City for Wii U.

Ok. But, is anyone going to review this release before it’s released on Friday?

@Athropos yea, sems like this release is coming in hot. No previews, or reviews a few days out and very little actual gameplay. Usually not a good sign but I have faith in this one.

I'm mostly just glad for Asylum and City they're using the original versions rather than the Return to Arkham ones. Are much better versions of the games.

@johnedwin they’ve decided not to review the former UK number one because it’s a known quantity at this point, and we can go elsewhere to see how it runs apparently. Whatever the controversy over JK Rowling is has dictated this decision, which is ridiculous, there’s no moral high ground to take, or there’d be very little reviews by any given publisher, developer or entity. Guaranteed these games will get a review, and they’re much more of a known quantity. Just crazy @NintendoLife

@Athropos I think asylum and city will fair well, but big question mark over knight

@OFFICIALMichi no I don't think so. I got the trilogy with every piece of DLC for $10 USD about 6 months ago. It goes on special about 4 times a year. But if you're willing to pay $40 for the new Batsuit? But with it being timed, I would say it will be available later to the other platforms. Probably only cost a couple of bucks as well. If you need to play on the go and you have decent internet (fibre at least 20mbs up, at home and 5g mobile or wifi) just remote play. I am on Arkham City ATM paying completely remote play. So totally not worth buying on switch if you have an Xbox IMO.

Tl;Dr No.

@MattAllsopp The Game Collection have it for £37, plus you get £10 worth of points.

Too bad Knight is looking pretty damn rough on Switch. Might buy Arkham City for some portable open world Batman but i think shell stick with my PS4 version of Knight if i want to play that.

@LadyCharlie Honestly there is no best version. The PS4 version has exclusive DLC and is the best console version, Switch has timed a timed Pattinson skin plus portable play while PC has the best visuals (now that its fixed).

@fpcreator2000 Origins is a fantastic game with some of the best setpieces and boss fights in the entire series.

@AmplifyMJ Yeah they're quite happy to review games from Publishers who straight up abuse and rape their staff then sack them but draw the line with a game JK was never even involved with.

@DennisReynolds although if you do want to buy it, Nintendo Life can provide an affiliate link! Lol

At least in the US, you can’t currently purchase this on Amazon right now. It says currently unavailable with no indication of restocking.

Robat Bat-baterson's Batman with a bat, now on Switch!

@OFFICIALMichi only if portable play matters... This trilogy is usually $5-10 everywhere else

@Lizuka why? Whats different?

@OFFICIALMichi Depends how much portability and the OG versions of Asylum and City looking / performing better than the Return to Arkham versions (which are still very playable, though City can get frustrating at points) affects you. All the time you can get these same games bundled together on Xbox for like $6.

@ParadoxFawkes For Asylum it's mostly just visual, a lot of the hair in the remaster came out very dark and weirdly solid so there's just a lot of uncanny valley kind of stuff going on with it. It's not anything huge, and the most notable glitch I recall running into is occasionally doors having trouble loading their textures, but it's not a gigantic deal.

City... City has problems. Beyond having the same visual problems (especially in regards to Hugo Strange's beard), the game very often chugs while gliding around the city, and if you're going too fast sometimes it just won't load the closeup textures at all and the hitboxes on buildings won't line up right. Crashing isn't a rare occurrence and I've also run into other bizarre issues like once when I couldn't finish a fight for a sidequest due to an enemy getting stuck in the wall then left, came back, and instantly had the pre-fight cutscene play again (with the person I was talking to invisible this time) followed immediately by the post-fight cutscene.

City's still plenty playable on the whole, it's mostly stable and is still fun and mostly looks fine, but it's definitely a more messy, frustrating way to play the game than the original release.

"It's been confirmed via the above image that the Batsuit from the movie will be limited to Arkham Knight,"

Maybe I missed something, but "the above image" seems to only confirm that it's 1) free and that it's 2) in Arkham Trilogy.

@Nok_Sukow It's in the fine print, it says it's only available in Knight.

@johnedwin there are videos of how the Switch version looks and runs likes. I saw a Switchup review of it and it actually looks decent.

@Lizuka Ah, gotcha.

Can’t wait! Hope it gets the same treaatment like what Panic Button did for Doom!

@PINKSTER007 The Game Collection £10 Bonus Reward Points promotion already ended. But their price £37.95 is the reason Amazon have it at that price. FYI standard rate of TGC Reward Points is 2.5%. If you can get any Amazon promo's like £5 off then that's best offer currently available AFAIK

There was another batman movie?

@LadyCharlie I was a big fan of Batman comics/graphic novels when I was younger and can safely say that the Pattinson Batman movie captured the feel of the comics better than any prior film.

@Lizuka hmm interesting, I do have that return to arkham collection on ps4 just haven't gotten around to it and I do own them on PC ... Pretty much i was expecting a switch release for years now before i played those again... And now its almost here .. i am however concerned about Knight and how that will play since i only played a little of it on ps4 (too much batmobile) but if that one doesn't run well the ill probably pick up city snd asylum separately.... Definitely city regardless

@Kekshook 😅 Sorry I should have pointed out I'm from the US. The Amazon page in US says it's backorder and they have no idea when it will be back in stock

I hope they change the fov so Bats doesn't take up 75% of the screen. So long as Asylum and City run well, I am so in though.

@Ryu_Niiyama I made it to
Baddie: who are you?
Robert Pattinson: vengeance...

laughed, had to pause the movie to keep laughing, noticed it was 3 hours, stopped laughing, and turned it off.

@AmplifyMJ keep on crusading. I can't imagine how wonderful it must be to have something like this qualify as one of my life's "problems." I'm going to close my eyes, please write here about how awesome it is...

@Kekshook They probably took more preorders than they had planned stock.

My order just reads as "order recieved" when by now you would usually at least get an estimated shipping date...eh, Amazon has been off their game (in the US) for a while now.

@OFFICIALMichi

It depends.
Arkham Asylum and Arkham City will probably be more or less the same as on Xbox/PS4, Arkham Knight on the other hand will probably be downgraded.

@DennisReynolds what a vile thing to say just cause someone didn't give your favorite new toy attention. Grow up.

@Fangleman32 I think Arkham Asylum is best by far. More limited in scope, but the world design is excellent. I think Arkham City was a good game, but the world was kind of empty. I'd even rank Arkham Knight over Arkham City, because it's more of the same, but with a nicer coat of paint.

@LikelySatan crusading? I answered someone’s question as to why no review yet. I’m not calling for a boycott, or asking people to take up arms. @NintendoLife have made a ridiculous, hypocritical and cowardly decision in my opinion, and the fact they’re happy enough to offer an affiliate link just leaves an extra bad taste in my mouth. No crusade, just answering a question.

@AmplifyMJ Don't worry about @LikelySatan. He enjoys sarcasm, but fails to understand it, and where to properly apply it.

@AmplifyMJ yes. Cowardly. Cause they certainly aren't taking flak for it, lol.

@KoopaTheGamer Oh, I enjoy the first entry by far. I just think as far as how Knight came out, City was the peak for the series.

At the time of it's release, the idea of open world Batman game was neat. And while it wasn't perfect, City did an excellent job for that time period.

It's just when Knight released it felt like City 1.2. Instead of an evolution of the concept, it was just more of an expansion of the previous game.

If Arkham Asylum had a sequel that didn't up the ante so much, by going open world, then Knight would have done more to surprise me.

@Fangleman32 Yeah, I can see what you mean. I think Arkham Asylum has survived the test of time really well. Open world games are so common these days that I actually prefer games with a slightly smaller scope. Not linear games, but games that have a similar structure as Arkham Asylum or old 3D Zeldas etc.

@LikelySatan glad you agree, and don’t forget the hypocritical

Yes father, I will buy the bat... probably.

@AmplifyMJ you really should've waited for the Arkham review. Then you woulda' been like BAM! Internet justice, award in the mail. Next time, show some composure, and maximize on that indulgent rage at the ample time, my dude. Now you've shown your hand, your comments on that (potential, maybe) review are kinda spent here.

@LikelySatan I actually have no idea what you’re talking about anymore, none of that makes any sense. Unless you’re just using Batman puns with your BAM! and crusade, who knows. If so, good job i guess.

@Kekshook
You realize it only has Asylum on the cart right?

I don't care about it. It would be better if they put all 3 games on cartridge. But WB Games have different opinion.

Pre ordered it and can't wait to play it on the go.
The third game I haven't played at all so I'm really looking forward to it!

I was so bummed when this got delayed back in mid October it was supposed to replace the very good, but ultimately not very repayable Totk, due to 100% completion and the incredible let down that was the announcement there would be no dlc . But if the port is well done, it will be another great addition to the Switch's very good catalog . My only fear is it's publisher Warner Bros did put out a notably garbage port of the MK 1 reboot that cannot even be played in handheld mode because the screen aspect ratio just barely fit the characters and the graphical quality was absolutely hideous for a port they wanted over $100 usd for the deluxe edition .

@LikelySatan Pretty sure you weren't supposed to take that exchange seriously in the first place given Selina subsequently mocks him over it for the entire rest of the movie.

@DennisReynolds Digital Foundry have a video of the Switch version. It's a bit rough, like Dinosaur Planet running on an N64.

As for the Arkham games, Asylum and City should be great if they are based on the Xbox 360 versions. I fear the port of Knight will be a disaster.

What I am truly awaiting right now is real-time footage. Longer at least. No doubt they're putting a lot of effort here, and I hope it pays off very well.

@Kekshook The game releases tomorrow and Amazon (US) is still in "derp mode".

Might just cancel my order and go with somewhere else...

I saw Nintendo get new Batsuit 1st Dec. Other platforms 15th Dec. If this is true, this is not a timed exclusive, this is just early access.