Arkham City’s Been Taking Pot Shots At LOST

Batman: Arkham City is undoubtedly one of my favourite games of all time.

Besides the fantastic free-flow combat system, the way every villain is so seamlessly and organically blended into the narrative and the game as a whole, the fantastic story with its twists and the amazingly detailed environment; the game world also has a tangible living quality to it with the inmates going about their lives and having discussions amongst each other. I even saw some members of Two-Face’s gang working out in the middle of the street, doing push-ups and so on.

While playing through Arkham City, you’ll hear many strange and interesting conversations between inmates. Some talk about other villains, others talk about how they’d like to get a ‘beat down’ from Catwoman. There was even a modified version of rock-paper-scissors going on between a few guys and one inmate was talking about his mother on prom night which became very weird very quickly.

While traversing the rooftops last night, I overheard an inmate say something along these lines:

“I don’t get it, did they ever explain what the Island was?”

Probably a LOST reference but it’s subtle, right? Well then it was off to the internet to see if I’d heard right and verily ’twas so but in addition to that little bit of satisfaction, I also found this clip with an in-the-face LOST reference from Joker.

A light warning of spoilers. There’s nothing in the following video that I would deem as a spoiler but you might see things differently.

Name: A-G Sonday
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