10 Video Games That Should Have Ended 10 Minutes Earlier
4. Batman: Arkham Asylum
Batman: Arkham Asylum broke new ground for both third-person action games and the superhero genre, but sadly couldn't hold onto its integrity all the way to the finish line.
Despite being Batman's most iconic foe, The Joker hasn't had many direct, all-out fights against the Caped Crusader because the villain's strengths lie less in his physical stature and more in his playful psychological toying with the superhero.
But in a desperate attempt to end the game with an obligatorily larger-than-life final boss fight, the Clown Prince of Crime injects himself with the Titan formula, transforming him into a hulking beast.
If Rocksteady couldn't be bothered to come up with an actually cerebral, mind-bending final battle in which The Joker thoroughly screws with the player, it probably would've been better to just end the game after Batman defeats The Joker's squad of Titan-afflicted goons moments before the final boss fight begins.
All the Joker fight did was undermine the game's prior accomplishments, really.