20 Disappointing Video Games That Didn't Fulfil Their Potential

16. Gotham Knights

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Oh, Gotham Knights, you could’ve had it all. What was once seen as a blip in the fantastic run of Batman Arkham games and a holdover until Rocksteady’s Suicide Squad is now, in my opinion, a much better game than what Suicide Squad ended up being. But it could’ve been so much more. 

Released in 2022, you play as a member of the Bat Family in a world where Batman dies (twice), and the Court of Owls and The League of Shadows are gearing up for an all-out war for Gotham City. The premise is simple but captivating enough to get you through, but this isn’t why the game makes this list. It’s because of what could’ve been. 

Gotham Knights was half a live-service game, half a standard co-op looter combat game. And it’s not a terrible idea. You choose whether you want to play as Nightwing, Batgirl, Robin or Red Hood, and you protect Gotham. Unfortunately, once the story is completed, there isn’t much to do. But allow me, if you will, to dream. Imagine if Gotham Knights continuously brought out expansion packs of different villains to take down, with new dungeons, mission types and loot. The base game only really saw Harley Quinn, Mr Freeze, Man-Bat, and Clayface. If the game continued to get support, we could’ve seen Scarecrow, Two-Face, and so many more. This would constantly add value to the game and would’ve softened the blow that was Suicide Squad.

 
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