This was pointed out to me by @ninjablade09 and i didn't believe him,obviously,but i checked the GCPD building and i found this....

Last date is 1976......that means Asylum takes place in 1981?.....and they have this kind of tech and cars?!.....doesn't make sense....

@punyparker said:

This was pointed out to me by @ninjablade09 and i didn't believe him,obviously,but i checked the GCPD building and i found this....

Last date is 1976......that means Asylum takes place in 1981?.....and they have this kind of tech and cars?!.....doesn't make sense....

Probably someone who makes the textures was having fun.

@black_arrow said:

@punyparker said:

This was pointed out to me by @ninjablade09 and i didn't believe him,obviously,but i checked the GCPD building and i found this....

Last date is 1976......that means Asylum takes place in 1981?.....and they have this kind of tech and cars?!.....doesn't make sense....

Probably someone who makes the textures was having fun.

That's what i think too......

@punyparker: I haven't played Origins. How old is the building? How long has it been evacuated?

It's the GCPD building...it's not evacuated.It's occupied.Operational.

@punyparker: You can go in there as Batman? There are NPCs and everything? Weird.

@jaken7: It's the building where's the morgue and everything.....

Well it definitely takes place in the 1900s. In arkham city if you go to the building that you have to enter after finding the right helicopter right after the joker boss fight in the steel mill (and when protocol ten starts) there is a plaque on the wall outside where the snipers were that says "arkham city established in 19" and then the rest of the plaque is too damaged to read. So the series happens in the 1900s sometime. I can probably find a picture or video if anyone is actually interested.

IGN did a breakdown video of the new trailer and found a license plate saying 1976 and they note how the people are dressed in pretty retro looking clothes driving retro looking cars so yeah I think these games take place in some hyper-futuristic alternate 1980s in similar vein to how Batman the Animated Series took place in a noiresc pseudo-1930s modern world.

Yeah the series definitely 100% takes place in the 1900s

I ALWAYS found that weird....

I like it. I think it gives off a nice atmosphere.

All superhero stories take place in the multiverse. Arkham Origins could have taken place in a different universe where technology advanced faster than here.

@punyparker:keep in mind that this is set in the DC Universe, where things like Luthor's armor and Flash's cosmic treadmill exist

Wow that's an old thread....

And yeah sure, but still weird.

@punyparker: anyway, i like the idea of the Arkhamverse taking place around the 70s or 80s. maybe because the Tim Burton movie was so great

No, man, the Tankmobile and the holographic com device he has in Knight.....it's not 80s. :P

@punyparker: i hate the holographic com thing. not only can people see who he's talking to, but it requires him to have a free arm to use, unlike the previous games

That's just weird, TBH.

So much weird revelations in this thread.

I always thought that only he could see the one he's talking to, because of a special thing in his cowl or something....

thats what i think too cause look at his eyes he's in detective mode

Before few weeks i was on one site where was every Arkham game mentioned together with year in the game... I can not find it nowhere now !!!

I love this theory ^_^ It makes perfect sense, considering Batman: Arkham Asylum was basically a loose adaptation of Grant Morrison's "Arkham Asylum: A Serious House on Serious Earth," (published in 89). It would also explain the abysmal standard of care for the patients at Arkham Asylum, evident in the first game. xD

@punyparker: Arkham origins might take place during like 2014 or 10s while asylum is like maybe 2017 and city 2017 and city possibly 2020s