Spider-Man

Sony finally has a holiday game lol
Movie releasing close as well..

And they are smartly releasing it before Red Dead 2 which is also going to be featuring PS4 ads. I'm sure they'll be spending a pretty penny on marketing these two games during the holidays.
 
Now God of War, Detroit: Become Human, and Spider-Man all have a release date before Crackdown 3. I guess the script was flipped. So much for showing games early to create hype being a Sony thing. Microsoft literally promised a full scale epic multiplayer destructible environment 3 years ago and we've heard nothing.
 
Not to be contrarian (who me?), but Insomniac has had some mediocre games recently. In the last 7 years, they have put out a couple of weak Ratchet and Clank sequels, then Fuse, which flopped, then Sunset Overdrive, which struggled, and then Song of the Deep, which got mixed reviews. Their only unqualified success in that period has been the Ratchet and Clank reboot.

I'm not saying Spidey will be a dud. I'm not saying it's unusual that a studio as large as Insomniac produces average games now and then. I'm just saying having Insomniac at the helm isn't a guarantee that it's going to be great.

GI's hands on impressions are very positive so that's promising.
Taken from resetera
  1. Reading through and wanted to provide people some details on the article:

    Controls:
    • L3 to dive and gain momentum
    • X to send out a zip web (used to move around buildings quickly and make sudden turns in direction
    • Scan environment by pressing R3
    Suits:
    • You start off with the traditional suit
    • They don't explain the white spider, but do explain some aspects of the new suit, the red parts on the suit are made for armor reinforcement, where he might get hit the most and the blue parts are used for flexibility in order to traverse easier
    • They saw silhouettes of a dozen suits, but they said there would be more in the final game
    • It seems like certain suits will have their own abilities
    Combat:
    • It's fast and fluid
    • Spider-Man jumps from one enemy to the next with ease
    • All about giving the player choices; webbing up and using items, fighting enemies in the air, using gadgets, finishing moves.
    Peter Parker:
    • The part that they got to play with Peter Parker is the one we see in the PGW trailer at the F.E.A.S.T shelter
    • Walk around the shelter interacting with various items, speaking to characters
    • They compare it to those quiet moments in Uncharted games where people are walking around going about their business interacting with each other and various things in the environment
    The Open World:
    • The city is densely packed with people and life. Saying that none of the details disappear when they are at a distance
    • Can interact with citizens; take selfies with them, high five, finger guns
    • Definitely Marvel's Universe; Avengers building, Wakandan Embassy
    Side Activities:
    • One has you grabbing various backpacks that Peter has webbed up in the past , the one they picked up in the demo had and image Spider-Man's old webshooters
    • Taskmaster has placed various bombs all over the city that need to be defused
    • Earn crafting components for competing these missions, bonus objectives during them give you more materials
    • Outposts that are run by Kingpin need to be taken down
    • Seems like Shocker bit from the trailer is tied into a side mission
    • Random crimes happen; robberies (actually get to go into interiors), car chases.
    • Take photos of some golden cats that are strewn about by Black Cat
    Leveling System:
    • Gain experience for doing various tasks; finding landmarks, combat, exploration.
    • Various traversal upgrades; swing speed, faster launching
    Gadgets:
    • Tripwire which we've seen in the demo
    • Web bomb which incapacitates a group of enemies at once
    • Spider Drone which can shoot webs of it's own at enemies
    DLC "City Never Sleeps":
    • Committed to keeping people engaged after the main story
    • Each will feature a unique villain, storyline, missions, challenges, and suits
    • First one is called "The Heist" and features the Black Cat
    Minor Story Details:
    • Mary Jane and Peter are not together at the time
    • Game opens up with having to take down Kingpin
    • Opens up in Peter's apartment showing some daily bugle cut outs of Vulture, Electro, Scorpion and Rhino. Doesn't confirm them as villains in the game, just that some cutouts of them getting captured by Spider-Man are there.
    The best part is the quote at the end:

    "I walked away from Spider-Man with one word in mind: Amazing. Insomniac is poised to do for Spider-Man what Rocksteady did for Batman. Only experienced a small part of what will be in the final product, but what I played is exactly what I want from a Spider-Man game"




 
Not to be contrarian (who me?), but Insomniac has had some mediocre games recently. In the last 7 years, they have put out a couple of weak Ratchet and Clank sequels, then Fuse, which flopped, then Sunset Overdrive, which struggled, and then Song of the Deep, which got mixed reviews. Their only unqualified success in that period has been the Ratchet and Clank reboot.

I'm not saying Spidey will be a dud. I'm not saying it's unusual that a studio as large as Insomniac produces average games now and then. I'm just saying having Insomniac at the helm isn't a guarantee that it's going to be great.
This seems to be more akin to SO in terms of genre, which I thought was great.
 
I guess I'm feeling conservative/cautious when it comes to this game, for some reason. I think that's because there are so many different variables that have to mesh together to create a great open-world game. Story, characters, combat (over the long haul), side activities, progression system, economy, art design, environmental immersion, etc. -- all of that has to be good, and it all has to come together well. It's hard to get a feel for that from a brief preview.
 
They talk a lot about the game early in this podcast.

Edit: They put the Spider-Man only portion up so I replaced the original video with this.
 
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I will pick this up because I've been wanting a modern Spiderman game for awhile now (aside from Superman).
 
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GI's hands on impressions are very positive so that's promising.
Taken from resetera
  1. Reading through and wanted to provide people some details on the article:

    Controls:
    • L3 to dive and gain momentum
    • X to send out a zip web (used to move around buildings quickly and make sudden turns in direction
    • Scan environment by pressing R3
    Suits:
    • You start off with the traditional suit
    • They don't explain the white spider, but do explain some aspects of the new suit, the red parts on the suit are made for armor reinforcement, where he might get hit the most and the blue parts are used for flexibility in order to traverse easier
    • They saw silhouettes of a dozen suits, but they said there would be more in the final game
    • It seems like certain suits will have their own abilities
    Combat:
    • It's fast and fluid
    • Spider-Man jumps from one enemy to the next with ease
    • All about giving the player choices; webbing up and using items, fighting enemies in the air, using gadgets, finishing moves.
    Peter Parker:
    • The part that they got to play with Peter Parker is the one we see in the PGW trailer at the F.E.A.S.T shelter
    • Walk around the shelter interacting with various items, speaking to characters
    • They compare it to those quiet moments in Uncharted games where people are walking around going about their business interacting with each other and various things in the environment
    The Open World:
    • The city is densely packed with people and life. Saying that none of the details disappear when they are at a distance
    • Can interact with citizens; take selfies with them, high five, finger guns
    • Definitely Marvel's Universe; Avengers building, Wakandan Embassy
    Side Activities:
    • One has you grabbing various backpacks that Peter has webbed up in the past , the one they picked up in the demo had and image Spider-Man's old webshooters
    • Taskmaster has placed various bombs all over the city that need to be defused
    • Earn crafting components for competing these missions, bonus objectives during them give you more materials
    • Outposts that are run by Kingpin need to be taken down
    • Seems like Shocker bit from the trailer is tied into a side mission
    • Random crimes happen; robberies (actually get to go into interiors), car chases.
    • Take photos of some golden cats that are strewn about by Black Cat
    Leveling System:
    • Gain experience for doing various tasks; finding landmarks, combat, exploration.
    • Various traversal upgrades; swing speed, faster launching
    Gadgets:
    • Tripwire which we've seen in the demo
    • Web bomb which incapacitates a group of enemies at once
    • Spider Drone which can shoot webs of it's own at enemies
    DLC "City Never Sleeps":
    • Committed to keeping people engaged after the main story
    • Each will feature a unique villain, storyline, missions, challenges, and suits
    • First one is called "The Heist" and features the Black Cat
    Minor Story Details:
    • Mary Jane and Peter are not together at the time
    • Game opens up with having to take down Kingpin
    • Opens up in Peter's apartment showing some daily bugle cut outs of Vulture, Electro, Scorpion and Rhino. Doesn't confirm them as villains in the game, just that some cutouts of them getting captured by Spider-Man are there.
    The best part is the quote at the end:

    "I walked away from Spider-Man with one word in mind: Amazing. Insomniac is poised to do for Spider-Man what Rocksteady did for Batman. Only experienced a small part of what will be in the final product, but what I played is exactly what I want from a Spider-Man game"




Very Arkham like. That's a good thing.
 
Page is down now, but here is what was said:

https://insomniac.games/community/s...ition-to-Make-Sunset-Overdrive-Multi-platform

“Sunset Overdrive is and will be exclusive to the Xbox One. Petitions will not change that. We have a partner in Microsoft, that we are happy with for this title. That doesn’t mean we can’t and won’t work with other publishers (see Into the Nexus).

“We realize not everyone is happy it’s exclusive. We hope the game speaks for itself though and the console becomes a nonissue. Thanks.”

He then locked the thread.
 
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Not to be contrarian (who me?), but Insomniac has had some mediocre games recently. In the last 7 years, they have put out a couple of weak Ratchet and Clank sequels, then Fuse, which flopped, then Sunset Overdrive, which struggled, and then Song of the Deep, which got mixed reviews. Their only unqualified success in that period has been the Ratchet and Clank reboot.

I'm not saying Spidey will be a dud. I'm not saying it's unusual that a studio as large as Insomniac produces average games now and then. I'm just saying having Insomniac at the helm isn't a guarantee that it's going to be great.

Sunset Overdrive is a quality game though and I'm pretty sure they suffered Ratchet & Clank fatigue. Insomniac has brought Spider-Man to a whole new level from what we've seen so far and they are really passionate about Spider Man. The chances of it being great are good which is why most gamers are not concerned. They are talented respected devs in the industry.
 
Sunset Overdrive is a quality game though and I'm pretty sure they suffered Ratchet & Clank fatigue. Insomniac has brought Spider-Man to a whole new level from what we've seen so far and they are really passionate about Spider Man. The chances of it being great are good which is why most gamers are not concerned. They are talented respected devs in the industry.
It rated decent and was $20 a month after release as I bought it for my son who thought it was awful.
 
The sales and scores did.

And the only thing that actually matters which is Microsoft was the publisher and it was up to them

If it sold 10 million copies and every goty award it still wouldn't be on PS4