SaysWho? Posted September 18, 2023 Share Posted September 18, 2023 I've been playing so many Insomniac games lately in anticipation for this. Looking forward to it very much! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skillzdadirecta Posted September 18, 2023 Share Posted September 18, 2023 1 hour ago, SaysWho? said: I've been playing so many Insomniac games lately in anticipation for this. Looking forward to it very much! Yeah maybe I should fire up Miles to get ready for this Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kal-El814 Posted September 18, 2023 Share Posted September 18, 2023 The only “concern” I had going into this was that Spidey and Miles were both very “traditional” open world games in terms of how they dispensed content, stories, collectibles, missions, etc., for the most part. The traversal, story, action, etc., all made up for it of course, but I found myself wondering if another full game in that style would wear a bit thin. But whatever, this looks good and I’m hyped, even though I am in the same camp as @skillzdadirecta where I think that Venom wore out his welcome in the late 90’s. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commissar SFLUFAN Posted September 18, 2023 Share Posted September 18, 2023 7 minutes ago, Kal-El814 said: But whatever, this looks good and I’m hyped, even though I am in the same camp as @skillzdadirecta where I think that Venom wore out his welcome in the late 90’s. Venom was "90s Edge" before the 90s even existed. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skillzdadirecta Posted September 18, 2023 Share Posted September 18, 2023 25 minutes ago, Kal-El814 said: The only “concern” I had going into this was that Spidey and Miles were both very “traditional” open world games in terms of how they dispensed content, stories, collectibles, missions, etc., for the most part. The traversal, story, action, etc., all made up for it of course, but I found myself wondering if another full game in that style would wear a bit thin. But whatever, this looks good and I’m hyped, even though I am in the same camp as @skillzdadirecta where I think that Venom wore out his welcome in the late 90’s. 16 minutes ago, Commissar SFLUFAN said: Venom was "90s Edge" before the 90s even existed. EXACTLY... He was kinda the kickoff for all the worse things about 90's comics. As far as Heroes arch-nemesis' go, I much prefer Sabretooth (Wolverine) Bullseye (Daredevil) and a bunch of others. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kal-El814 Posted September 18, 2023 Share Posted September 18, 2023 The thing that pissed me off about Venom was that he knows who Spider-Man is, is immune to Peter’s spider-sense, wants to kill Peter, and just… never does. Go to his house my guy, you know where he lives. Wait until he’s asleep and bite his head off. At the time Venom didn’t have the “baggage” that someone like The Joker, or Lex Luthor, or Sabretooth or whoever had with their nemeses. Just fucking kill him 1 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skillzdadirecta Posted September 18, 2023 Share Posted September 18, 2023 8 minutes ago, Kal-El814 said: The thing that pissed me off about Venom was that he knows who Spider-Man is, is immune to Peter’s spider-sense, wants to kill Peter, and just… never does. Go to his house my guy, you know where he lives. Wait until he’s asleep and bite his head off. At the time Venom didn’t have the “baggage” that someone like The Joker, or Lex Luthor, or Sabretooth or whoever had with their nemeses. Just fucking kill him This... and then they ruined him even further by making him an anti-hero and then an eventual hero. So fucking lame. Plus he kicked off a trend in the 90's where every hero had an "evil mirror version" character. Wolverine, who already had Sabretooth got Omega Red, Ghost Rider got Vengeance, Batman got Prometheus, There was even another Captain America villain who was basically evil Cap (Not John Walker) I can't remember his name but I have a clear picture of him in my head. He had a triangle shield I believe and was bigger and stronger than Cap. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firewithin Posted September 20, 2023 Share Posted September 20, 2023 looks like the game officially went gold as of today Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commissar SFLUFAN Posted September 20, 2023 Share Posted September 20, 2023 15 minutes ago, Firewithin said: looks like the game officially went gold as of today Sure did! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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Brick Posted September 20, 2023 Share Posted September 20, 2023 I'm curious how they handle the symbiote suit from a gameplay perspective, and how really as a player you should see, and feel how it's corrupting Peter and want him to stop using it. In a pure narrative medium like the comics, or movies and TV shows, it's easy enough to write that so the audience wants him to get rid of it, but in an interactive medium like games how do you make the player hate it when it comes with cool new powers that are fun to use? From a gameplay perspective you'd never want to lose those abilities, but eventually you will since of course at some point in the story Peter will get rid of the symbiote, and then Venom is born. That's a challenge. I wonder if maybe giving new gameplay powers was actually a mistake because of that, and they should have made the symbiote suit purely cosmetic. Pretty sure in all the media I've seen of Peter using the suit (at least older media from the '90s and '00s) he still has all the same powers, just stronger. Even the webbing is still white, and not black goop. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Commissar SFLUFAN Posted September 28, 2023 Share Posted September 28, 2023 Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 builds on accessibility in previous titles and introduces new features BLOG.PLAYSTATION.COM Insomniac devs detail Marvel's Spider-Man 2 accessibility features, including options using the upcoming PlayStation Access controller. Quote Hey, everyone! I’m Michele Zorrilla, the Advanced Senior UX Researcher at Insomniac Games. With the launch of Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 just around the corner, our team at Insomniac is excited to share one of the ways we can all #BeGreaterTogether – through accessibility! So today, I’d like to highlight some of the notable accessibility features swinging into the game at launch on October 20, then I’ll pass it over to Sam Schaffel, Insomniac Games’s Accessibility Design Researcher, who will provide an update on more features arriving in a post-launch update. Carrying forward our learnings from our recent games, we’re implementing useful accessibility features from both earlier titles in the Marvel’s Spider-Man franchise as well as Ratchet & Clank: Rift Apart. As with any new title, we also had to figure out new features to support the expanded gameplay systems of our favorite web-slingers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyser_Soze Posted September 28, 2023 Share Posted September 28, 2023 On 9/18/2023 at 12:06 PM, Kal-El814 said: But whatever, this looks good and I’m hyped, even though I am in the same camp as @skillzdadirecta where I think that Venom wore out his welcome in the late 90’s. What about Gwenom? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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MarSolo Posted October 4, 2023 Share Posted October 4, 2023 On 9/18/2023 at 3:37 PM, Kal-El814 said: The thing that pissed me off about Venom was that he knows who Spider-Man is, is immune to Peter’s spider-sense, wants to kill Peter, and just… never does. Go to his house my guy, you know where he lives. Wait until he’s asleep and bite his head off. At the time Venom didn’t have the “baggage” that someone like The Joker, or Lex Luthor, or Sabretooth or whoever had with their nemeses. Just fucking kill him Venom wasn’t even the problem for me, it was when they introduced CARNAGE where I went “this shit sucks” because Marvel decided Spider-Man needed a “Joker”. Maximum Carnage remains one of the worst things to come out of the 90s besides the Clone Saga. Here’s 14 issues of Spidey, Venom, MORBIUS, and a bunch of other people chasing Carnage and his rag tag group of D-list villains. The only time Carnage was cool was when Norman Osborn somehow got the Carnage symbiote and became the “Red Goblin”. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Kal-El814 Posted October 5, 2023 Share Posted October 5, 2023 6 hours ago, MarSolo said: Venom wasn’t even the problem for me, it was when they introduced CARNAGE where I went “this shit sucks” because Marvel decided Spider-Man needed a “Joker”. Maximum Carnage remains one of the worst things to come out of the 90s besides the Clone Saga. Here’s 14 issues of Spidey, Venom, MORBIUS, and a bunch of other people chasing Carnage and his rag tag group of D-list villains. The only time Carnage was cool was when Norman Osborn somehow got the Carnage symbiote and became the “Red Goblin”. I approach Maximum Carnage the same way I approach a random TikTok where someone gets a horribly ingrown toenail extracted. It’s terrible content yet sometimes I cannot look away. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jason Posted October 5, 2023 Share Posted October 5, 2023 4 minutes ago, Kal-El814 said: I approach Maximum Carnage the same way I approach a random TikTok where someone gets a horribly ingrown toenail extracted. It’s terrible content yet sometimes I cannot look away. One time I had to dig an ingrown toenail out myself because of how bad it hurt. Went from zero pain to HOLY FUCK literally overnight. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brick Posted October 5, 2023 Share Posted October 5, 2023 Venom was actually done really well in the Spectacular Spider-Man animated series. The build up of Peter losing Eddie as a good friend, almost like an older brother, was so well done, especially because it was Peter's own damn stupid fault. You really understood why Eddie hated Peter, and it was all before Peter got the symbiote, so when he did he just made things worse. I do also think Venom's first appearance in the '90s animated series was also good because of how he wanted to toy, and slowly torture Peter psychologically. Haunting him. Something the films and games could do more of rather than just be big, tough, evil Spider-Man. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
silentbob Posted October 5, 2023 Share Posted October 5, 2023 Spectacular Spider-Man was probably my favourite of the Spidey cartoon series that have been released over the years. Plus they did the banter with the enemies so well on the show. Real shame it didn’t continue after season 2’s cliffhanger Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
nublood Posted October 5, 2023 Share Posted October 5, 2023 I know I’ve said it before but MAN I wish I could just go through the entire game with one character. I’ve bailed on so many games where I was forced to keep swapping characters because of “the narrative”. But I loved the first one so it’s quite the conundrum. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
best3444 Posted October 5, 2023 Share Posted October 5, 2023 27 minutes ago, nublood said: I know I’ve said it before but MAN I wish I could just go through the entire game with one character. I’ve bailed on so many games where I was forced to keep swapping characters because of “the narrative”. But I loved the first one so it’s quite the conundrum. I understand your point but I have a huge amount of faith in Insomniac. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MarSolo Posted October 6, 2023 Share Posted October 6, 2023 On 10/5/2023 at 1:04 AM, Brick said: Venom was actually done really well in the Spectacular Spider-Man animated series. The build up of Peter losing Eddie as a good friend, almost like an older brother, was so well done, especially because it was Peter's own damn stupid fault. You really understood why Eddie hated Peter, and it was all before Peter got the symbiote, so when he did he just made things worse. I do also think Venom's first appearance in the '90s animated series was also good because of how he wanted to toy, and slowly torture Peter psychologically. Haunting him. Something the films and games could do more of rather than just be big, tough, evil Spider-Man. The interesting thing about all the ways the series and movies have handled Venom is how different it was from the comics. When Venom initially revealed himself to Spider-Man, he has absolutely no idea who Eddie Brock is, THEN Eddie Brock goes into his history of why he hates Spider-Man, which they’ve winced retconned into revealing that the real reason he hated Spider-Man was because he had cancer and the symbiote was the only thing keeping him alive and he was afraid that one day Peter would actually want the symbiote back. Ever since then though, it’s always “they’re childhood friends or coworkers”. That said, the best Venom wasn’t even Eddie Brock, it was Mac Gargan (the Scorpion). Unlike Eddie who had a warped sense of justice, Gargan was such a piece of shit psycho when he had the symbiote. He bites off a guy’s arm! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Firewithin Posted October 10, 2023 Share Posted October 10, 2023 got email this morning that the CE pre-order should be charged soon and get ready for shipment. its happening! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
stepee Posted October 10, 2023 Share Posted October 10, 2023 I preordered yesterday just to get it ready 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Brian Posted October 13, 2023 Share Posted October 13, 2023 Spiderman 2 is preloaded 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
best3444 Posted October 13, 2023 Share Posted October 13, 2023 Fuck me. I need to beat Starfield before this game. Fuck. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Biggie Posted October 13, 2023 Share Posted October 13, 2023 22 minutes ago, best3444 said: Fuck me. I need to beat Starfield before this game. Fuck. Why? Is there some kind of unwritten rule in Starfield that says you can’t play Spider-Man 2 before finishing it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
best3444 Posted October 13, 2023 Share Posted October 13, 2023 6 minutes ago, Biggie said: Why? Is there some kind of unwritten rule in Starfield that says you can’t play Spider-Man 2 before finishing it? It's a ME problem. I can't focus on two games at a time. So I really have to stay focused on Starfield until I beat it then move on to Spiderman. I did this with Cyberpunk 2 weeks ago and it just doesn't work for me. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Biggie Posted October 13, 2023 Share Posted October 13, 2023 17 minutes ago, best3444 said: It's a ME problem. I can't focus on two games at a time. So I really have to stay focused on Starfield until I beat it then move on to Spiderman. I did this with Cyberpunk 2 weeks ago and it just doesn't work for me. Goddamn Best get off that game machine and come watch Jeopardy with us. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
best3444 Posted October 13, 2023 Share Posted October 13, 2023 12 minutes ago, Biggie said: Goddamn Best get off that game machine and come watch Jeopardy with us. I played Starfield for 3 hours today and didn't even walk upstairs to say hi lol. I'll hangout with them tomorrow. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Spork3245 Posted October 14, 2023 Share Posted October 14, 2023 9 hours ago, best3444 said: Fuck me. I’m flattered, but I’m married. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Keyser_Soze Posted October 14, 2023 Share Posted October 14, 2023 13 minutes ago, Spork3245 said: I’m flattered, but I’m married. Just get into the @TUFKAK lifestyle 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TUFKAK Posted October 14, 2023 Share Posted October 14, 2023 4 hours ago, Keyser_Soze said: Just get into the @TUFKAK lifestyle No be enm, poly is challenging. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SaysWho? Posted October 14, 2023 Share Posted October 14, 2023 Got this and Mario ready. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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