An Oculus Studios first party Batman game developed for the Quest 3 by a studio as talented as Camouflaj should spark nothing but excitement, but when Batman: Arkham Shadow was recently announced, the general response was one of disappointment.

While there’s every chance that the VR game will actually turn out to be good, its announcement has served as a stark reminder for how poorly WB Games has treater the Batman: Arkham series.

Not only has it’s been nearly a decade since the series’ last entry, the way WB Games chose to follow up on it was with the hugely disappointing live service failure Suicide Squad: Kill the Justice League. Amidst all of that, the company’s decision to license out the Arkham series for a VR spinoff, even as cries for a new mainline instalment go unheard, is one that it’s hard not to get frustrated with.