Origins is just as good as City was. People just say it should be avoided because it wasn't made by Rocksteady. They call it bad just because it was created by a different developer. The story is every bit as entertaining as the last two games and the gameplay is still as fun as ever.

I heard it was just Arkham City reskinned with a shitty story[spoiler] (joker is the badguy again? Seriously?[/spoiler] and that it was riddled with terrible bugs.

The story was pretty good actually. In fact, it's when Joker shows up that the story really starts to get good. And yeah it is pretty similar to Arkham City but is that really a bad thing? Arkham City was great. More of that gameplay is always welcome to me. And the worst bug I encountered was an audio glitch in one of the cutscenes but it hasn't happened since.

I might pick it up sometime for cheap, but that's it.