I’ve been playing the spider-man games and yeah they’re cool whatever... swinging around the city is crazy fun and the visuals are nuts, not denying that. but i already played this years ago but it was darker and it was arkham... the combat is literally the same freeflow system arkham invented. the rhythm, the counters, the slow-mo finishers, enemies waiting their turn like they’ve got manners. straight out of arkham. stealth too. isolating enemies one by one, tossing gadgets to lure people yeah totally never seen that before except in 2009 when we were terrorizing thugs in gotham lol..

And what kills me is people acting like spiderman redefined superhero combat. hello?? arkham literally crawled out of the trenches so superhero games could even be taken seriously. before arkham, superhero games were absolute clown material. rocksteady builds the whole formula from scratch and then spiderman copies like 80% of it, adds sunlight and some jokes and suddenly it’s masterpiece of our generation

Like good for them i guess but man it feels like watching someone copy your exact assignment and then teacher gives them a gold star and completely forgets you even exist.. i accept spiderman games are fun and polished and all that.. i’m mad at how people pretend arkham wasn’t the blueprint for literally everything that makes spiderman cool...

Spiderman gets all the praise but arkham basically did the homework first