And where is the hate coming from? […] Batman: Arkham Asylum (2009), Batman: Arkham City (2011), and *Batman: Arkham Knight (2015) *garnering a pretty big following across console.
Then, *Batman: Arkham Shadow *shows up on the radar, a VR-only game that is exclusive to Quest 3—two things that aren’t communicated to the casual viewer until they physically click on the video. This presents not only a bit of a bait-and-switch for gamers hoping for the next long-awaited *Arkham *title, but also an all too real sign that Meta is likely phasing out Quest 2 and Quest Pro later this year.
Arkham Asylum was great, Arkham City was good, and Arkham Knight was ok. Based on the trajectory the series was going I was fairly ambivalent when I saw the next one was coming. I definitely won’t be getting it if it is a quest exclusive but I’m not sure I was getting it anyway. Maybe I’m an outlier on this series and most players didn’t see a decline from game to game but if not then this seems like a bad series to make an exclusive. Seems like it will do more to hurt the series than help the platform.
Probably depends on how the game will turn out. Big IPs often turn into shit VR games, because the studios don’t have VR experience. It’s a more experienced studio here, but who knows how it’ll turn out.