Comments on: Arkham Asylum Trailer

By: Nick R

Nick R — Thu, 27 Nov 2008 03:03:43 +0000

If there’s no connection to the “A Serious House On Serious Ground” comic, I feel they’ll have missed an opportunity to let players gradually pick up pages of Amadeus Arkhams’ journal.

The preview in Edge says that there’s a scarab beetle motif in some of the architecture in reference to the comic.

By: Adventurous Putty

Adventurous Putty — Wed, 26 Nov 2008 21:59:42 +0000

See people? Never doubt someone who obsessively watched the old Batman cartoon in the 90s as a kid — I could recognize that Hamill laugh anywhere.

Now all we need is Conroy as Batman and we’ve got an epic win.

By: Christian Otholm

Christian Otholm — Mon, 24 Nov 2008 23:17:07 +0000

Not that excited. I haven’t really seen anything that indicated this was a game and not an expensive graphics test.

I wish this had something to do with the Morrison comic. At least then I could hear Mark Hamill say the phrase: “Loosen up, tight ass!” as the Joker grabs Batman’s clenched arse.

And that hospital looks uncharacteristically empty. And pretty fucking dirty. I thought Gotham had a relatively high dose of crazy going for it. And a good amount of taxes going to “keep the crazies clean, subdued and the hell out of the city”.

RE: The plot for A Serious House on Serious Earth being thin: Somebody wasn’t up-to-date on their Jung and Tarot card readings, when they read it. (Not that it helped, given how illegible some of McKean’s drawings were.)

By: Rath

Rath — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 20:51:45 +0000

If there’s no connection to the “A Serious House On Serious Ground” comic, I feel they’ll have missed an opportunity to let players gradually pick up pages of Amadeus Arkhams’ journal.

By: amoe

amoe — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 18:52:17 +0000

looks like on of those trailers where the whole developemnt team works 3 days in a row without food or sleep (maybe just alot of red bull and coffeered bull) only to please some marketing dickhead who works for the publisher… in the end it turns out that all the assets that were created for the trailer are useless for the game and the whole thing was a big waste of time. maybe i m just projecting.

By: Fedora Freak

Fedora Freak — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 18:19:35 +0000

Has anyone else noticed that the engine is remarkably similar to Bethesda’s current engine build? I think I see the exact same medical cot as in Fallout 3.

By: Calabi

Calabi — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 17:37:01 +0000

I think the design of the Asylum is like a throwback to the Victorian asylums. Where the Administrators are just as bad as the crazys, and use the pretense of locking them up as an excuse to do all manner of horrible things to them.

Appears to be full of cliches by its descriptions, so we’ll have to wait and see if the application of them is any good.

By: Dracko

Dracko — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 15:31:30 +0000

You know, for an institute dedicated to helping the insane, there’s an awful lot of sharp edges and lack of protective padding.

You’d think Gotham would consider “freak” crime enough of an issue to fund Arkham enough for decent equipment.

Tei, you should read more comics. :(

By: Kieron Gillen

Kieron Gillen — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 15:12:12 +0000

Re: Arkham Asylum the comic. No connection with the game bar its locale.

By: asubstanced

asubstanced — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 15:10:29 +0000

I like the style at least, I’ll remain hopeful, what I have heard about it, it’s not going to just be an action fest, so they are at least trying something new.

By: Cyberpope

Cyberpope — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 14:36:26 +0000

@ eyemessiah
I was watching Narnia in the cinema with some mates. It got to the bit where the monsters were giving aslan a haircut and generally being noisy and gribbly. I heard something familiar loudly proclaimed “Oh I just heard the tiger growl noise from black and white!”

By: azwipe

azwipe — Sun, 23 Nov 2008 14:03:29 +0000

@ Tei:
Arkham Asylum had some of the best art of any comic ever, and was incredibly dark and moody, but the plot was a bit thin as i recall. certainly no Watchmen or V4V