Batman: Return To Arkham - 8 Ways It Proves Remasters Are Totally Ridiculous

4. Time Would Be Better Spent Making New Games

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We all know that another Batman game is a certainty. It may or may not be coming from Rocksteady, but the Arkham IP is just too bankable to let go.

That being said, I think it’s safe to say that audiences would much prefer genuine sequels – not rehashes of releases gone by. It’s not just Arkham where this is the case either, Capcom are currently remastering pretty much every Resident Evil you could possibly think of, and we've had remakes of Darksiders, Heavy Rain, and even Deadpool. All made by competent studios I might add, but doesn't that just add to the sense of frustration that we're not actually getting anything new?

Take High Moon studios for instance; the harbingers of two of the best Transformers games of all time, the muted reaction to Deadpool pretty much eviscerated the developers' autonomy, as they've now been reduced to offering assistance on Activision's yearly barrage of Call of Duty titles, and, of course, that pointless remake of the Merc with a Mouth.

Instead of trying to cash-in on the hype for Deadpool, it would've been so much better if they'd been able to work on a proper sequel to Fall of Cybertron, especially considering the cliff-hanger it left everyone on when it ended. It's beyond frustrating to see studio talents wasted on rehashing games everyone's already played, and High Moon's story is only one example of talents being wrongly allocated.

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WhatCulture's very own resident movie guy, Ewan has been working in the content creation biz for over 10 years now, having started as a freelance contributor to WhatCulture Gaming all the way back in 2015. After graduating with a First-Class Honours in History from Northumbria University in 2017 (where he won a prize for a totally killer dissertation on the Watergate years), Ewan took on the role of Comics Editor at WhatCulture and quickly developed WhatCulture Comics into one of the biggest superhero-focused channels on YouTube. He followed this with a brief hiatus at Screen Rant in 2021, where he worked across the Gaming and Film sections as a writer and editor, before returning to WhatCulture as a Senior Content Producer / Presenter in 2023. He started his own podcast, We Love Dad Movies, in 2022, and has contributed several written pieces to the Eisner-nominated comics website Shelfdust as well. In his current role, Ewan incorporates his love of cinema, comic books, and history into written pieces and video essays for WhatCulture's Film & TV channel, as well as WhatCulture Gaming and WhatCulture Horror, with a particular focus on nineties-era Dad Movies, old school Westerns, and Golden Age Hollywood Noir. John Carpenter is his fave, and he thinks Batman Beyond should never have been cancelled. If that's your vibe, you'll probably like his stuff.