Batman- Arkham Origins (The Movie)

If you've never seen my movies before, what I do is try to tell the story of the game in movie format. The idea is to present the story in a way that feels complete and can be understood whether you've played the game or not.

I capture the entire game's story, and edit together cutscenes and gameplay. The cutscenes obviously drive the story, but if you just show the cutscenes, you will be left confused as to what happened between cutscenes most of the time. So gameplay is necessary, but I do try to keep gameplay to only the minimum I need to tell the story. If I can find areas to cut down on that don't affect the story or the pacing of the movie, I will.

I also try to keep the experience as close to a proper movie experience by removing anything that makes it super obvious that you're watching a game. Obviously, it includes gameplay, so that can only go so far, but I can remove HUD elements, button prompts, any on screen text or loading/saving indicators, etc. Thankfully, due to an ini file tweak in this game, I was able to entirely disable the HUD. For everything else that remained, I was able to either edit around them or use visual effects to remove them.

For those of you wondering, I'm playing this game on PC, with the graphics at max settings, including the advanced PhysX and DX11 effects. The hardware I'm using is:

AMD Phenom II X4 965 3.4 GHz
NVIDIA GeForce GTX 480
8 GB RAM
1920x1080 @ 30fps
Max Settings

The game does dip below 30fps in a few spots when a lot is happening on screen, especially when the more advanced effects are used, but for the most part it stayed at a pretty solid 30fps. I used a 30fps cap because I was recording at 30fps, but without the cap it often went up around 40-60fps.