As you all know by now, I avoided the VGA's like the plague. I really didn't miss out on anything except the trailers and watched those on the Internet less than an hour after the show itself. Even still, I heard there were a few...interesting parts of the show. One such part seems to have been the award given to Character of the Year (Batman played by Mark Hamill in Batman: Arkham City).
Mark Hamill's confusion about the award aside (he didn't seem to understand why he wasn't actually presented the award on stage), there was apparently a pre-recorded Joker video with him accepting the award. In the video, he is holding a script and printed on it in big letters are the words "Batman: Arkham World Script" as clear as day.
Funny enough, several sites have taken this as outright confirmation of a new game from Rocksteady entitled, what else, Batman: Arkham World. One site, who shall remain nameless, even joked(?) that maybe it would be an MMO! I can't help but wonder again why "journalists" are even bothering to report on something so flimsy.
Given the jokey nature of the Joker and the sense of humor the show had, I can't help but feel this is a big joke from Rocksteady. Sure, they may have plans for another game, but teasing it this early? They hid a secret regarding Arkham City in Arkham Asylum that no one found for months and finally had to say something to point people in the right direction. Not to mention that any development on it would be in the very early stages at this point, since they just went gold on Arkham City a few months ago. Even further, Arkham World is a horrible name and one that doesn't fit the story ideas present at the end of Arkham City. Good job, Rocksteady; you cast out the bait and everyone took it willingly, not quite seeing the barb hidden inside.
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