And thus the bat-delay continues. July was meant to have at least one bat-themed remaster released at the end of this month, the titular Batman: Return to Arkham. Essentially a greatest hits collection of the first two Batman adventures from Rocksteady games, Return to Arkham would have bundled Arkham Asylum and Arkham City with all of its respective DLC into one massive pile of mentally damaged billionaire with parental abandonment issues on criminal violence.
That’s not happening, as Warner Bros. Interactive announced back in June that Return to Arkham would be delayed indefinitely, much like Chinese Democracy was and holy crap how awesome would Axl Rose be as a Batman villain. ANYWAY! Multiple sources over at Eurogamer claim that even in a best case scenario, the earliest anyone could see Return to Arkham would be November, although a more realistic launch window would most likely be in early 2017.
Apparently, the blame finger can be pointed at frame-rates here. Specifically, Return to Arkham’s inability to consistently deliver a smooth rate of action as was present on the Xbox 360, PlayStation 3 and PC versions of the game. Developer Virtuos Games is apparently struggling to polish the game up sufficiently, as the rebuild in Unreal Engine 4 is presenting some extra hurdles to bat-leap over.
“After reviewing the progress of the project, the team at WB Games has decided to delay the release of Batman: Return to Arkham to give the team at Virtuous Games additional time to deliver a polished Batman Arkham game experience,” a Warner Bros. spokesperson said to Eurogamer, repeating the exact same schpiel.
Warner Bros. is also being extra-careful with this port. After the cluster-fudge from last year’s PC version of Batman: Arkham Knight, the publisher doesn’t want a product to run like a week one version of Arkham Origins on the PS3.
Last Updated: July 12, 2016
HairyEwok
July 12, 2016 at 08:36
Oh dear, its happening again.
Original Heretic
July 12, 2016 at 08:41
Do we pretend that we’re shocked or do we just give them the a huge middle finger?
Hammersteyn_hates_Raid0
July 12, 2016 at 08:53
Depends, PC or console? 😛
Original Heretic
July 12, 2016 at 08:55
I won’t give a politically correct middle finger. So I guess it’ll be a console one then.
Greylingad[He Charges!]
July 12, 2016 at 08:55
I have to say though, the Arkham Naai version of the game works on a PC that has an i74790 with 24GB of RAM and a GTX 970, simply because that was their only test platform…
Hammersteyn_hates_Raid0
July 12, 2016 at 09:01
Arkham Naai
XD XD XD
Captain JJ off track
July 12, 2016 at 10:00
Middle finger should suffice
HairyEwok
July 12, 2016 at 16:33
Huge middle finger sounds about right.
Francois Knoetze
July 12, 2016 at 08:45
good. gives me time to save up
Hammersteyn_hates_Raid0
July 12, 2016 at 08:52
I had a fun time with Origins on PS3, guess I was lucky. Almost done with Arkham Knight just need the last couple of 100 riddler trophies…
Greylingad[He Charges!]
July 12, 2016 at 08:56
Those Riddler trophies….
Original Heretic
July 12, 2016 at 08:57
The only Arkham game I was able to get them all was Asylum. Didn’t even come close with the rest, though, then again, I wasn’t as tenacious with those.
Greylingad[He Charges!]
July 12, 2016 at 08:58
It does wear off, especially if you haven’t given the game enough time to “settle down” in a sense…
Original Heretic
July 12, 2016 at 09:05
I always used to collect them while I was busy with the main, or side quests, or general exploration. But once the game was done, I just wasn’t motivated to go back and find them. There’s always something else to play.
Greylingad[He Charges!]
July 12, 2016 at 09:08
Yup! Always something more interesting than to firstly, look for said trophies and secondly, unlock said trophies….
Original Heretic
July 12, 2016 at 09:11
Yeah man, some of those were a mission to try and unlock. I remember the one in Arkham City, inside some little steel cage contraption that you had to use the remote batarang, fly it through perfectly to hit the switch. I must have spent about 20 min on that one alone. At some point, I just get gatvol.
Greylingad[He Charges!]
July 12, 2016 at 09:12
I REMEMBER THAT BLOODY *&($*ING BATARANG ONE! And the controls for said batarang are so horribly configured….
Original Heretic
July 12, 2016 at 09:17
Heh, yeah, I think that’s one of the trophies that EVERYONE who even attempted it will remember.
I bet the real Batman never had that problem. He just blew a hole in the wire and took the trophy, batarang shenanigans be damned!
Greylingad[He Charges!]
July 12, 2016 at 09:19
Exactly! He’s a billionaire! Why not outfit himself using explosives!?
Ir0nseraph
July 12, 2016 at 09:00
Only a hundred to go well done , last time I checked you had 3 🙂
Hammersteyn_hates_Raid0
July 12, 2016 at 09:05
Not gonna bother with the AR challenges, the game is so padded I’ll be happy if I can beat the crap out of Riddler
Ir0nseraph
July 12, 2016 at 09:44
The AR challenges I skipped too, but yeah I also had the need to beat the riddler senseless.
Matthew Holliday
July 12, 2016 at 10:57
also had fun with origins, on PC though, it was okay, was fun.
the boss fights in origins were 1000 times better than the ones from Arkham Knight.
Still have to finish arkham knight, was one of the lucky few who it actually worked for on PC, played it to about 75%, never touched it again.
Hammersteyn_hates_Raid0
July 12, 2016 at 11:10
Agreed on the boss fights, at least they made up for it with the batmobile
Matthew Holliday
July 12, 2016 at 12:02
didnt really care for the batmobile, zipline and flying is way more fun
Hammersteyn_hates_Raid0
July 12, 2016 at 12:40
I spent too much time doing doughnuts like a tappit 20 year old with his puple Corsa
Matthew Holliday
July 12, 2016 at 13:25
Corsa lite + air filter
Krabby Paddy
July 12, 2016 at 09:02
I’ll anyways need my time and finances to be remastered before I can even be bothered to play a remastered version of a game I’ve already played.
Alien Emperor Trevor
July 12, 2016 at 09:05
They must be porting the PC version to console.