Arkham's combat is a complete joke. It was impressive in its novel simplicity for one game and then it got continued to age like milk. Even for its time I almost instantly did not take to it. There's no sense that you really get good at the game at all, no incentive to want to get better.
Spider-Man PS4 has a lot of weird issues with its combat (the way it "automates" some of the combat and doesn't really have any actual hitboxes that can intercept multiple enemies for crowd control is something I'm really not a fan of), but at least there's still a satisfying depth to cleverly utilizing gadgets, planning approaches, upholding combos and having a risk/reward incentive with utilizing meter to refill health or do an instant kill move. Specific attack sequences and combos actually shift Spider-Man's current spatial location which can either be a safety or a risk depending on what type of enemies are currently in sights. It's actually somewhat satisfying to get good at, and it's still punishing to get wrong. Even with having sunk in dozens of hours I still end up eating dirt at times. I'd kind of argue it's probably the best thing about that game - especially since web swinging in the game really doesn't have all that much of a skill ceiling to it.
