^ Stuck as in you don't know what to do or you know what to do but it's difficult?
I agree that the whole drive behind
Arkham City is a little conceited. Especially Strange's 'Protocol 10 will commence in 4 hours' countdown because you can play the game for 20 hrs not doing any story stuff and nothing happens. Not only is that going on but Batman is on his own race against the clock, yet you can still choose to spend it hunting down Riddler trophies (like I did). Wouldn't you think he'd want to get himself sorted out first?
The only way you can make that kind of story drive work is if you look at
FFXIII which had a similar story structure, instead they combated it by removing any side stuff completely and make it linear as hell.