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I have watched it only once. Very powerful film. As countless others have said, what Ledger did is beyond words.

I think I'm gonna cry with all these memories... 

To find this adventure game, try looking at Abandonware sites (it's an old DOS game) and run it with the DOSBOX application.

Well, I'm sorry if I appeared as petty, no matter what I say I have a positive "it's only movies" attitude, and I never have a perception about people depending on their tastes in film, music or art.

Our point of view and our taste usually defines what is "good" or "bad" (in pieces of art and entertainment), which is a very subjective factor. Many films meet the definition of good you give. E.g. The Rock (1996) is an excellent film this way, and not a sub-par actioner that happens to have excellent production values, stirring music and a nice paycheque for Sean Connery.

Most games in general are a waste of time, unless they  push the limits of what electronic entertainment is all about (like Assassin's Creed, Metal Gear Solid 4 or Uncharted for PS3). Most movie/comics games are not even decent and serve as diversions for kids. GoldenEye (made by Rare, one of the best game developers of the 90s) is one of the few exceptions to this unwritten rule, the game moved forward the FPS genre. Be happy if a game is not released

The problem is not when someone has opinion A or B, but when he expresses that opinion as a fact (it's bad because I don't like it). "I'll say when something is good". Define good. 

[The best one could hope for would be the 4 main characters]

I'm not a collector and have no interest for figures, but I'd sure like to see them available for any collector. I'd like to see them being made.

However, your big list with all minor characters is a crazy idea, and a very-very geeky idea in the eyes of everyone except fans of the films. The best one could hope for would be the 4 main characters, all visually strong, well-known and played by famous actors, and maybe Max Shreck, because he also wore a funny costume and was played by Christopher Walken. Who wouldn't like to have a 6 inch Christopher Walken?

Gordon, Bob the Goon, Grissom, Dent, Selina, Bruce, multiple Penguins and Jokers, henchmen, all this stuff removes credibility in the argument you want to make to the companies. What you would really like it'd be 4 (or 5) good McFarlane-like figures of the main characters.

[Nolan camp and Burton camp? What is this?]

A general impression is that many Nolan fans can't "stand" a single bad review of "their" film. If you see the comments in some bad reviews in Rotten Tomatoes, there are many... Bat Attacks. I think (and hope) this is a minority of comic book readers, since it's an attitude not dissimilar to that of the obsessive Star Wars people that couldn't "stand" bad reviews of their beloved Revenge of the Sith. It's as if THEY made the film, and THEY expected profit from it. It's like a film is their reason for existence (which is not, and I feel sorry for obsessive people of any kind, be it Batman comics, Nolan/Burton films, or Star Wars vs. Star Trek or whatever).

Some of the defensive stance Burton fans have comes from the tendency of the Nolan fans to completely demolish the perception of the old films, constantly saying how bad everything is about those films, how "Nicholson was a harmless prankster", how "cartoony the city was", how "happy Elfman's music was" etc. etc.

It's like the old Roman empire around Constantine's time when Christianity was established as an official religion, and the Christians demolished countless Greco-Roman pagan temples in favor of the new Christian churches, because they considered their religion would gain power by destroying all remnants of the old polytheism, including architectural and sculptural masterpieces. Instead of focusing on how they'll organize their church and worship the One God, they attacked the old religion (and its artistic/architectural expressions). They had a point, however, they wanted to homogenize the population of the empire under a single banner.

It's a far-fetched analogy, and the admiration of movies in the internet age has nothing to do with the politics of ancient Europe, or any kind of politics, but this is how it comes out: Nolan camp and Burton camp? What is this?

Instead of saying how good this film actually is, they never miss a chance to say how bad (they think) the old films are and how this corrects every flaw in them. Instead of simply admiring the new thing for what it is, they try to demolish the old one as if the new thing gains anything at all this way.

What is this the point of something like this? What is the point of degrading a film succesful, big and generally accepted as good for the time it came out, in "defense" (it looks like a defence) of a much more modern and improved product?

It feels like subconsciously saying "MY movie is better", to which attitude the only logical answer is: "Why so serious?" It's only movies.

My defensive stance as a Burton fan comes only from one place: I don't like hurried misjudgements of any kind. I don't live by movies, I can perfectly be happy if the whole internet bashes films I love, the point is I dislike inaccurate comments and personal opinion posing as fact.

You mean the beginning of "Dog Chasing Cars"?

This mix of classic stuff with the Zimmeresque music makes it all the more thrilling. These references don't clash with the tone of the film or its music.

I haven't seen this being mentioned a lot.

Did anyone else notice Zimmer's nod to Elfman's theme? It's at the beginning of track 2 and the middle of track 16 (about 7:20-to-8:10). It's performed quite slow on low registers.

It's similar to the "WB logo" statement of the theme, at the beginning of the two films.