Yeah, I feel like they do take a bit too much inspiration from Assassin's Creed at times. Asylum was much more focussed, but City and Origins felt the need to add tons and tons of 'stuff' in to try and pad the game and add 'value' for the completionists. It's like a film director who refuses to cut anything after the rough edit. Sure, the film is longer, but that doesn't make it better.

Having said that, that tendency is one of the only things the Batman games get wrong. For the most part they're incredible, and I can't wait for Arkham Knight.