When comparing Street Fighter V vs Batman: Arkham Asylum, the Slant community recommends Batman: Arkham Asylum for most people. In the question“What are the best PS4 (PlayStation 4) games?” Batman: Arkham Asylum is ranked 117th while Street Fighter V is ranked 149th. The most important reason people chose Batman: Arkham Asylum is:
Arkham Asylum is the first game to bring us freeflow brawler melee combat in its full glory. It invented the combat genre where you fight a multitude of enemies who take turns attacking you, while the player has a basic attack, a parry+counter and a combat roll. Getting multiple hits in on enemies builds up a combo streak that makes batman stronger. This streak is reset by getting hit by an enemy. Other games, like Assassin's Creed, had superficially similar combat systems, but not as optimized as this and they did not feature hit/combo streaks. Arkham Asylum's freeflow combat system is very suitable to be played with controllers.
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Pros
Pro Enjoyable combat
Street Fighter V's combat involves a lot of strategy and technique, requiring you to utilize combos, special moves, and reading your opponent. Despite that, it's still a lot of fun to punch, kick, and fire ki blasts regardless of your skill level due to excellent visuals, great sound, responsive controls, and a terrific netcode. It just feels really nice fighting your opponent in any game mode.
Pro Great for newcomers
Something that may have held people back from playing this series was the tough controls for pulling off successful combos and special moves. This has been tweaked in SF V, as the controls are a bit easier to understand as well as pull off. This was done by design in order to make the game more accessible.
Pro Diverse cast of playable characters
What Street Fighter V might lack in quantity it makes up for with quality. Each one of the 28 characters has a very distinct look, combat style, and special moves. Thanks to this, it's very fun to try out and learn multiple characters, purely because they feel so different from each other.
Pro Excellent visuals
Street fighter V strikes a perfect balance between gritty realism and cartoony graphics. Most of the models, textures, and particle effects are very detailed, colorful, and there's enough visual clarity, so it never detracts from gameplay. It's just very pleasing to look at the on-screen action.
Pro Freeflow combat pioneer
Arkham Asylum is the first game to bring us freeflow brawler melee combat in its full glory. It invented the combat genre where you fight a multitude of enemies who take turns attacking you, while the player has a basic attack, a parry+counter and a combat roll. Getting multiple hits in on enemies builds up a combo streak that makes batman stronger. This streak is reset by getting hit by an enemy. Other games, like Assassin's Creed, had superficially similar combat systems, but not as optimized as this and they did not feature hit/combo streaks. Arkham Asylum's freeflow combat system is very suitable to be played with controllers.
Pro Fun stealth & gadgets
Remaining stealthy and getting stealth takedowns is important in Arkham Asylum's gameplay. Arkham Asylum gives the player a relatively large number of different gadgets to use for different combat purposes, such as ranged takedowns, cutting ropes, diverting enemies' attention, blasting through doors, traversing longer distances and hacking.
Cons
Con Limited single player content
SFV was developed primarily for online multiplayer, so its singeplayer content is severely lacking. While there are a couple of singleplayer modes, they get boring really fast. If you don't enjoy competitive multiplayer, this game might disappoint you.
Con Poorly written story
Even though each character has a storyline, it doesn't give you any meaningful background info. Because of this, you can't clearly understand a character's motivations or empathize with them. So whenever you see a character being angry, sad, or just amused, it seems exaggerated. The voice acting doesn't help much either since it's only fairly average.
Con Dark atmosphere
You won't realize how many shades of black exist until you've played an Arkham game. It's always dark outside, so to people who like daylight and colors in their games, this might get a bit dull after a while.