Thirith on 13/10/2018 at 11:24
That's actually a Mark Brown video I wasn't too keen on, because in it he seems to presume that every kind of interaction in a game needs to be challenging. Personally, I don't think Spider-Man would've been improved by the kind of changes he suggests, and they would've been an outright bad match for the story the game tells.
Edit: Also, I didn't dislike the Batman combat, but I didn't particularly like it either, especially the way you snap to enemies ten metres away. It was fun in terms of mechanics, but it also felt very mechanical, like the game was sliding Batman across the area so he'd be in the right place.
N'Al on 14/10/2018 at 11:16
Thanks, Thirith.
Personally, I do prefer DC's characters somewhat to Marvel's, the villains in particular! There's no denying though that DC's run in the film space has been far less successful than Marvel's recently, resulting in a bit of ill will towards the characters, maybe. (Having said that, Marvel's latest, "Venom", is meant to be very sub-par.)
When it comes to games, though, Marvel never had a truly outstanding title in the way DC had with the Arkham series, imo, afaik. Seems like they now do.
Thirith on 14/10/2018 at 14:34
Venom isn't a Marvel Cinematic Universe film, mind you, just like the X-Men and Fantastic Four film's aren't MCU. The rights to the Marvel characters are distributed onto various production companies - though with Disney's hunger for acquisitions, some of them may join the Avengers universe before long.
Sulphur on 14/10/2018 at 14:42
True enough, but with the recent acquisition of Fox, you can count on the X-Men to be integrated into the next MCU opportunity that makes sense (which is probably around the time the current crisis crossover is done). A shame they won't have Hugh Jackman's Wolverine for it, but the torch had to be passed at some point.
N'Al on 14/10/2018 at 16:26
Venom is still a Marvel film with the Marvel name on it, MCU or not. The MCU has had an amazing run, no doubt (The Incredible Hulk was fucking rubbish, though), but my favourite Marvel films recently have been outside the MCU, actually - Logan and Deadpool.
henke on 30/12/2018 at 13:22
I started playing this 4 days ago and I'm already 43% through the story. In sharp contrast to RDR2, I'm spending most of my time with the story missions and quite little time exploring the open world. Traversing the world is fun, but the world itself is pretty boring. I mean, it's Manhattan, we've seen it like a billion times in games already and this version isn't really doing anything special. It's very pretty but there's little to do in it besides clearing a deluge of sidequest icons off your map. Most of the sidequest stuff is pretty boring, eg. finding backpacks and pigeons and hidden cat-figurines, as well as the usual time trial and checkpoint race stuff. Clearing out enemy camps is challenging and fun though.
The real meat of the game is the main story, and it's pretty good. The fighting and webswinging gameplay is good, and I really like the character animation in the cutscenes. RDR2 probably has more realistic looking characters, but somehow Spider-Man's characters feel more real.
henke on 2/1/2019 at 07:46
I'm at like 73% completion now. Did all the Black Cat stuff only to get a really tepid wrap-up, guess they saved the proper end of that storyline for the DLC. Speaking of which, anyone play any of the DLCs yet? Any good?
Thirith on 2/1/2019 at 09:23
I'm waiting for the DLC to be complete - and, realistically, for me to have more or less finished RDR2. Which means it'll probably be a month or two before I return to Spider-Man. Sorry.
Malf on 2/1/2019 at 09:58
Dunno how near completion I am, but I threw down the game in frustration after doing the Taskmaster tasks, only to get my ass handed to me by him and find out if I wanted to fight him again, I'd have to do even more of his shitty tasks. I haven't touched the game in over two weeks now.