The first article I ever wrote on this site was that Paul Dini said that he isn’t going to be involved in Rocksteady’s next Batman game. Now in my 100th article, we learn why Paul Dini won’t be involved. After this news came out, people were worried about the next Batman game. Paul Dini wrote both Batman video games from Rocksteady in
Batman: Arkham Asylum & and
Batman: Arkham City. One can see that Paul Dini is a big influence in the games from in
Arkham Asylum in Harley Quinn’s tapes have numerous references to Dini’s graphic novel
Mad Love and in
Arkham City because Hush made a mask of Bruce Wayne’s face which is a reference to another Dini book
Heart of Hush and many more Dini references. Dini explained why he will not be involved in the next Batman game stating this:
”The last talk I had with Warner Interactive about future games was while I was doing promotion for Arkham City last September. Naturally as there was such a rush of interest about Arkham City, everyone was asking me about a third game, and frankly, I had been wondering about that myself. When I asked about the possibility of working on a third game I was told that as Rocksteady had just finished wrapping the second one, it would be a while before everyone was ready to sit down and discuss future plans. That said, it was intimated that for future games, Warner and Rocksteady might not be looking as much to freelance writers, the message being, that if I had something else interesting coming my way, I might want to take it.”
Dini also stated that he was not involved in the
Arkham City DLC called
Harley Quinn’s Revenge. Dini has taken on other work that makes him “
unavailable to take on anything new until 2013." Dini isn’t mad or bitter even saying that "
If we wind up working together again at some point, that would be cool, too.
Rumor has it that the next Batman game will be a prequel that shows Batman’s first meeting with the Joker and features the Justice League. The rumored prequel game also has stated to be inspirited by the Silver Age Batman. If you ask me, I think that they should make the prequel game without Dini and that he should come back for the sequel to
Arkham City. What do you think? Comment below. Peace.