deanb Posted June 13, 2017 Report Share Posted June 13, 2017 Looks pretty slick, seems to be disappointment on the QTEs. I'm personally more disappointed in the villains they've shown off (but I guess save some of the big guns for later?). I only really know of Mr Negative as the guy who was kind of a catalyst in making Anti-Venom Also seems to tease Miles Morales. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. GOH! Posted June 13, 2017 Report Share Posted June 13, 2017 You start off as Peter, then Peter becomes the villain (brainwashed by Negative Man) and you play as Miles trying to save Peter. Or maybe you switch off between Miles and Peter a la Assassin's Creed Unity. I am certain you will be playing Miles for a significant portion of the game. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MetalCaveman Posted June 13, 2017 Report Share Posted June 13, 2017 Looks cool, but as I mentioned on twitter, all those QTEs pretty much killed my interest. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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TCP Posted September 4, 2018 Report Share Posted September 4, 2018 GOTY?? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted September 4, 2018 Author Report Share Posted September 4, 2018 It's sounding really good but I'm not sure if it's £50 and need to get it at launch levels of good (especially when I'm home stretch for Persona 5 n away all this weekend anyway so not like I'd be able to play it) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MetalCaveman Posted September 6, 2018 Report Share Posted September 6, 2018 Looks really cool, though VC4 is going to be my game for September. Would probably get it if I wasn't trying to clear some games off my backlog. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mister Jack Posted September 7, 2018 Report Share Posted September 7, 2018 So I've played for about three hours now and this game is fantastic. I've barely even touched the story because it's just so much fun to zip around the city and do random activities. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CorgiShinobi Posted September 7, 2018 Report Share Posted September 7, 2018 I saw today on Reddit that Spider-Man can swim in this game. 10/10 No, seriously, I got the email saying my package has been delivered and I'm anxious to take the game for a spin. Gonna be hard to balance this along with D2 and Monster Hunter. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TCP Posted September 9, 2018 Report Share Posted September 9, 2018 GOTY? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thursday Next Posted September 17, 2018 Report Share Posted September 17, 2018 Not GOTY imho, especially not with GoW out there. But a great example of the genre. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted September 17, 2018 Report Share Posted September 17, 2018 GoW, as good as it was, can't even come close to Spider-Man. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CorgiShinobi Posted September 18, 2018 Report Share Posted September 18, 2018 I'm a huge Spider-Man fan, so I'm biased. It's definitely GOTY material as for the most part it has only minor flaws. Nothing deal-breaking, though I will say they didn't quite scale the combat proper in the beginning as the game expects you to web everything as a solution. Later on you get so much variety that you can approach fights however you please. Thankfully unlocking suits gives you the freedom of mixing suit powers with a different suit as well as having three different mods to practically abuse the combat mechanics. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted September 18, 2018 Report Share Posted September 18, 2018 I almost never use my web, even in the beginning, except for against the big bruiser guys. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TCP Posted September 19, 2018 Report Share Posted September 19, 2018 Yeah I liked GoW well enough but Spider-Man is the ultimate culmination of Ass Creed/Arkham/etc. It's the most non-Nintendo fun I've had with a game in a few years. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thursday Next Posted September 19, 2018 Report Share Posted September 19, 2018 I just feel like I'm enjoying it, but it's not going to stay with me after I'm done. It's a refined form of what it is, but does nothing especially new, so not (my) GOTY. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mr. GOH! Posted September 19, 2018 Report Share Posted September 19, 2018 Not GOTY, but like a perfection of non-Rockstar open world design philosophy from circa 2010. God of War is my GOTY so far. But I do love Spider-Man. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
deanb Posted September 30, 2018 Author Report Share Posted September 30, 2018 Finished the game this evening. It's pretty underwhelming. The swinging is pretty great, and some of the story is neat but there's so much that's kind of "old fashioned". Which given the game was first shown off 2 years ago I'd imagine they had decent chunk locked down (that first teaser did have a lot of stuff that's in the final game). You've got the combat lifted fairly heavily from the Batman games, which makes sense to do given it's one of the most praised comic book games, and stuff like the counter system makes much more thematic sense with "spidey-sense". Got the Ubisoft towers for whatever damned reason (I literally can't think of why they're needed). Got the backpack collectables. Got the drug-induced battles stuff, Got unnecessary stealth sections that drop any of the games main mechanics (though I guess do have a nice way of putting in some story elements). It felt very heavily as the game story developed that it was more lining up a sequel than focusing much on the game at hand. Reveal hidden contents What with Miles Morales getting his powers, Norman Osborn not being Green Goblin but developing the suit and grenades and plenty of "goblin" like masks around his apartment, and Harry being Venom (which is an interesting idea). As for the game at hand Reveal hidden contents I think they maybe relied a lot on the Spider-man 2 film to fill in on Ottos transformation for players, but it felt way too quick and sudden and nothing really made sense. In the film he continued his existing work and stopped at the end and redeemed himself. In this game Otto just suddenly snaps, decides to infect a plague on New York, release two prisons of prisoners on the city and even at the end is still enraged even knowing it's Peter, his lab assistant. It's mentioned throughout that he plans to expose Norman n all that but apart from attempting to record a confession out of him before throwing him off a building doesn't do anything of the sort. None of Harrys friends seem to think it's odd that Harry has been in 'Europe' for 6 months and not contacted them in any way shape or form. Dunno about you guys but if I went on an extended vacation I'd be posting up a bunch on social media at least and this game clearly has social media, never mind a simple email or phone call. And we never get an explanation of Mr Negative. Like it's implied a split personality n all that, and you are shown footage that shows Otto and Norman made him but never told why/how. And you basically just beat him in the boss fight and that's that. Like I've finished the game so obviously I didn't find it painful to play, I just found that for the most part it was rather uninspiring and old-hat. Nearly all boss fights are the same thing of "dodge until triangle comes up, then zip in, do a few punches, then repeat until three mini-cutscenes of Spider-man bitching at them has passed"). I was immediately a bit worried early on when of the first three boss fights two of them were Shocker and I was 25% of the game complete. The side quests are, research stations aside, mind boggling lazy. I joked/bitched about as much on Twitter other day. You start the game with the Fisk & Demon Bases, and the Thug & Demon Crimes. Then you get to the half way point, after defeating those side quests, and you get the same side quests with but with Prisoners and Sable. And not really with new enemies, apart from some Sable guys flying about, all groups of enemies have the same standard shooting guy, shield guy, baton/sword guy, tough guy, sniper guy and occasionally laser whip guy (however that's explained). given they've got these 3/4 groups (thugs/ryker prisoners I'd say are same) maybe would have been more interesting to have more unique combat styles. Means if you're responding to a crime or infiltrating a base it's exactly the same. You've got all these fantastical gadgets and suits to collect (and I'm not pulling out my teeth to get all the unlocks for all of them) and yet there's not really a reason to change tactics because you're against Demons or Thugs. Also the game has some really stupid NPC AI. Like faction in-fighting has been a thing in games for ages so it's not really asking for some huge leaps, but Sable (pre-half-way point) will happily patrol right through a battle I'm having as a shop gets robbed and don't step in at all. They're just totally dumb skinned civilians. Was rather disappointing. It's a licensed/comic book game that's not terrible but plenty over the last few years haven't been so it's not really a bar that needs clearing. The Lego Marvel stuff has been fab, Arkham series is highly praised. I've not played em but I hear Injustice is pretty decent too. I'd hold way back on the GOTY praise. "It's not shit" isn't "It's GOTY". There's far better open-world action games out there. I've remarked as such with friends that if anything it makes me itching to get back into Horizon which apart from a compelling story has enemy types that require switching out to different gear n tactics. And having the almost exact same KO sound effect as Arkham makes the comparisons so much more easier to make between the two. No doubt a second game will be on the way, especially given it's one of the best selling PS4 games to date, and given they nailed most of the swinging and animation stuff and they've got New York all built I'd imagine a quicker turnaround, but I really hope they drop a lot of the heavily dated mechanics & tropes and maybe explore a more creative henchman/thug roster rather than different skins. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Thursday Next Posted October 1, 2018 Report Share Posted October 1, 2018 Sums up my view on it. I'm not sure how far in I am Reveal hidden contents just cleared out the last demon base and am tracking Tombstone but while the game is fun, it's not blowing me away in the way that GoW did. Combat is great, traversal is great (I have only done the mandatory fast travel, web-slinging is too much fun and New York isn't that big) story is ok, but there is nothing genre defining or reinventing about it. The thing I am enjoying most is Reveal hidden contents that I am obviously helping Otto become Octor Doctorpuss but in-game me has no idea. It's a really well delivered story thread that is great for people who don't know the comics and are in for one heck of a surprise and a treat for people familiar with the story as we get the delicious anticipation. Wish more of the game story telling was a subtle and effective as this. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted October 2, 2018 Report Share Posted October 2, 2018 I really liked the inclusion of Miles, especially once Reveal hidden contents he got bit by the spider. It made me feel like Peter was actually in real peril, because they were setting it up that Miles could take his place. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Mister Jack Posted October 2, 2018 Report Share Posted October 2, 2018 Reveal hidden contents I still don't want Miles to replace Peter, but I'd totally be down for having them both be playable in the next game, especially if Miles has different powers like in the comic books. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted October 2, 2018 Report Share Posted October 2, 2018 Reveal hidden contents Yeah, I don't necessarily want Miles to replace Peter, though I'd be okay with it. I just really liked that they set it up so he could step in, because then I wondered if they might actually kill Peter off at the end and have you play post-game as Miles, kind of like RDR. It made the outcome seem less definite. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
CorgiShinobi Posted October 2, 2018 Report Share Posted October 2, 2018 (edited) I've stepped into the Twilight Zone, man. Best Spider-Man game since Spider-Man 2 and I can't wait till the DLC arrives this month. It doesn't even follow any one comic book story or universe as its primary source. Actually, this Spidey is his own Spider-Man in the Marvel comics. We can always tote the idea that certain characters tend to lean towards a certain fate. Reveal hidden contents This Miles could replace Peter, or not. Both stories have happened before, so it's up to however Insomniac wants this universe to progress. Hell, Miles could be the one to die and Peter has another death upon him. The game seems to be pushing the idea that Harry Osborn is the host to a symbiote, or at least is being treated by one. This Norman doesn't really scream Green Goblin, even if he should have the tech. We could technically have Hobgoblin if anything. Edited October 2, 2018 by Atomsk88 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheMightyEthan Posted October 2, 2018 Report Share Posted October 2, 2018 Reveal hidden contents That mask in Norman's penthouse suggested Green Goblin to me. I thought the black tentacles were weird, but I didn't even make the connection to the symbiote. Now I feel dumb. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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