I wish. but to be Batman *and* Spiderman is to fly too close to the sun.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 7 September 2018 16:29 (five years ago) link
This game is a joy.
― EZ Snappin, Friday, 7 September 2018 16:35 (five years ago) link
First time in ages I've gone to a game shop and paid full price on release day. The shop was queued from the counter to the door with people buying Spider-Man.
Played an hour so far and loved every minute. I seem to be shit at Spideying my way out of getting shot.
― Non, je ned raggette rien (onimo), Friday, 7 September 2018 20:45 (five years ago) link
is there a button to say his famous catch phrase, "i am the spider-man"?
― ciderpress, Friday, 7 September 2018 22:40 (five years ago) link
i don't think i'll be playing it, but this is really cool
The architecture in Spider-Man is some M.C. Escher shit.https://t.co/AKhtZUdtvQ pic.twitter.com/yvKSfowiHV— chris person (@Papapishu) September 8, 2018
― Karl Malone, Saturday, 8 September 2018 15:41 (five years ago) link
god this game is so much fununlocking some aerial moves and swinging through ny pulling off stunts at the apex of every mighty swing is worth the price of entry on its own
― bitch that’s the tubby custard machine (bizarro gazzara), Saturday, 8 September 2018 16:05 (five years ago) link
I love this game already pic.twitter.com/EorWtzSeBm— Jamie McKelvie (@McKelvie) September 8, 2018
― Andrew Farrell, Sunday, 9 September 2018 07:48 (five years ago) link
Ok should I buy a ps4 for this
― Chuck_Tatum, Sunday, 9 September 2018 15:21 (five years ago) link
yeah
― bitch that’s the tubby custard machine (bizarro gazzara), Sunday, 9 September 2018 16:10 (five years ago) link
i mean if you like spidey i dunno what else you’d want from a game, it pretty much nails itthere’s even a mission where you have to chase down the garbage truck where peter’s stuff has been dumped after he gets evicted for non-payment of rent, which is kinda the distilled essence of spider-man imo
― bitch that’s the tubby custard machine (bizarro gazzara), Sunday, 9 September 2018 16:19 (five years ago) link
Yeah this game is real fun.
― circa1916, Monday, 10 September 2018 00:16 (five years ago) link
holy shit the combat in this is so so so so fun. far more fun than the arkham games.
― Hmmmmm (jamiesummerz), Tuesday, 11 September 2018 21:26 (five years ago) link
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1SpVYmcTGM
― Josh in Chicago, Tuesday, 11 September 2018 21:58 (five years ago) link
Poor kid, has an Xbox.― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, September 6, 2018 6:12 PM (six days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, September 6, 2018 6:12 PM (six days ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
Me, every year since 2001.
The game looks like a blast.
― Rod Steel (musicfanatic), Wednesday, 12 September 2018 20:06 (five years ago) link
finished. good stuff, Spidey!
― Nhex, Friday, 14 September 2018 18:39 (five years ago) link
...and I Platinum'd it. Thankfully you don't need to 3* all the challenges, you just need enough medals to buy the suits (no trophies for buying all the suit powers / upgrading your gadgets all the way). I don't think I'll ever perfect those drone and bomb challenges, but the combat and stealth ones are pretty doable with the right tricks. Also, you don't need to get the hidden suit for getting all the hidden photos, but i did it anyway. Boy that took a while even with a guide.
there are two trophies that are basically the kind you have to stumble upon if you don't know them in advance (the "pay respects" and "high five" ones) but the rest can be gotten fairly organically
burned through this so fast, kinda tempted to buy the DLC though i generally don't like supporting those at full price
― Nhex, Thursday, 20 September 2018 19:00 (five years ago) link
https://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/9il92t/playing_spiderman_when_i_found_a_building_that/
― Nhex, Tuesday, 25 September 2018 00:00 (five years ago) link
Nice video about how the little things contribute to the joy of playing this gamehttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqQvR5M4_FQ
― Nhex, Monday, 1 October 2018 05:19 (five years ago) link
anybody played the DLC yet? I'm short of finishing the taskmaster bullshit to get all the costumes (never gonna happen) and curious to see if it's worth jumping back in.
― Fuck the NRA (ulysses), Thursday, 25 October 2018 22:10 (five years ago) link
also curious. frankly most games i'm willing to wait a year for the DLC pass to go on sale but this one juuuuust had me hungry enough to keep going and pay for more.
btw you don't have to 3* ALL the Taskmaster stuff to get all the costumes (thank God), just make sure you buy all the suits and suit powers, you DON'T have to max out the gadget powers
― Nhex, Friday, 26 October 2018 00:31 (five years ago) link
spider-man and spider-man pay tribute to the ‘spider-man points at spider-man’ meme in SPIDER-MAN, insomniac’s game about spider-man starring spider-man
https://66.media.tumblr.com/aac0881b40905ae69f560a3296e3986f/tumblr_pgv0w8FfPQ1qfz9cf_500.jpg
― la bébé du nom-nom (bizarro gazzara), Saturday, 27 October 2018 22:43 (five years ago) link
this game is the bomb. i'm all in. so so satisfying crushing fools.
it's funny when you get a new skill and then you forget you have it for a few days and then you're like ahhhh fuck why am i not doing that and then you do it! and it works like a dream!
i just met taskmaster and dudes sorta hard. i guess i need to dust off my throwables. i hardly ever use anything but electric webs and the normal webs. i bought the little spider-bot which i never use. as for the suits i only use the one which stuns everyone with electricity for awhile. i can't see the advantages of the other ones really.
anyway SPIDER-MAN
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 17 January 2019 01:31 (five years ago) link
Heh, my wife threatened to rewrap this and regift it to me for my birthday if I don't play it soon. Today!
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 17 January 2019 14:50 (five years ago) link
i did not actually like it for the first day or two. felt too much like an arkham rip-off, i didn't have the knack for webslinging yet, and the story felt lame. but now when i play it's like, i don't even think about it. i just strap in. and suddenly it's 1:30am
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 17 January 2019 15:15 (five years ago) link
I think the controls are more straightforward than the arkham games, or they at least do hinting in a way that I've caught on to much better.
I didn't hit the top tier on all the challenges but found most of the battles relatively surmountable. The most recently released DLC has at least one warehouse that's just *difficult* if you try to fight in a straighforward way without doing a lot of evasion and separating goons.
battles where every bad guy has either a Sable gun, jetpack, armor, or is one of the heavies really makes you work for it
― mh, Thursday, 17 January 2019 15:30 (five years ago) link
i am currently addicted to web-swing kicks. takes out the bullys and the shield guys too.
it was a revelation when i realised i don't just have to stay ON THE GROUND - i can zip up, away, anywhere!
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 17 January 2019 17:04 (five years ago) link
most definitely
I forget it after playing other games and coming back, but it's rigged such that the more you're in the air, the more effective you are!
big fan of doing the launch punch followed by yanking a second dude into the air with webs, it's a hilarious use of implausible spider-physics
there's a challenge in one of the dlc chapters where you're supposed to do gadget-only takedowns and it's all a combo of the gadget that levitates a group of enemies followed by tossing the web tripmines at them
― mh, Thursday, 17 January 2019 17:19 (five years ago) link
Web Blossom is my favourite feels-like-cheating power. You can take out a whole rooftop of bad guys in one move.
― Non, je ned raggette rien (onimo), Thursday, 17 January 2019 20:27 (five years ago) link
wait.. they stay webbed?? i bought it but (as i detail above) still haven't used it yet
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 17 January 2019 23:13 (five years ago) link
It works well on roofs and near walls as the baddies stick to anything they're close to.
― Non, je ned raggette rien (onimo), Thursday, 17 January 2019 23:25 (five years ago) link
Like this
https://youtu.be/m1jyAQ7nc98
― Non, je ned raggette rien (onimo), Thursday, 17 January 2019 23:27 (five years ago) link
quite ready to deploy that shit. i just started encountering the sable-suited dudes.
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 17 January 2019 23:35 (five years ago) link
i'm just now post-prison break
its’s like throwing a bunch of web bombs around you at once
the electrify gloves one is necessary in the “zap ten at once” challenges
― mh, Friday, 18 January 2019 05:14 (five years ago) link
I have officially played 1% of this! It's a blast, but I feel like I already need to start over and learn the controls. I'm so bad at remembering these things, and it all goes by so fast.
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 24 January 2019 21:08 (five years ago) link
i felt the same way but eventually things start clicking into place
why are these games always so goddamn long though?? i mean it's good but sheesh
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Thursday, 24 January 2019 21:34 (five years ago) link
I thought the main plot was pretty concise! You really should do some side stuff before getting there, thoughwe’re in a much difference place now compared to the jrpg days when my roommate was playing dragon quest and was like “i’m only 80 hours in!!”
― mh, Friday, 25 January 2019 01:52 (five years ago) link
by modern open world standards Spidey's pretty brisk, I think I completed it in like 25 hrs or so
― Nhex, Friday, 25 January 2019 06:01 (five years ago) link
I mean the other answer, I assume, is that games have a pretty hefty lead up time in production, just to get to the point where you can start making content - so if the game was half as long it would still cost 80% as much. And a lot of loud video games fans have opinions on value for money.
― Andrew Farrell, Friday, 25 January 2019 08:08 (five years ago) link
ya down with dlc?love this game, not sure I'm willing to pay £6.49 for another "chapter"
― illegal economic migration (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 9 February 2019 00:10 (five years ago) link
waiting for a discount on the pass myself
― Nhex, Saturday, 9 February 2019 19:36 (five years ago) link
me too.
― EZ Snappin, Saturday, 9 February 2019 20:05 (five years ago) link
just beat the game, very much enjoyed it, but deleted it about 20 mins later to make room. too much to play, sorry dlc!
― they're not booing you, sir, they're shouting "Boo'd Up" (Will M.), Monday, 11 February 2019 15:15 (five years ago) link
Bought this Sunday, actually got dizzy swinging to the first mission, and was overwhelmed with all the button prompts during the combat. #lolold
― Antonym Scalia (Leee), Monday, 25 November 2019 18:58 (four years ago) link
My biggest problem has been letting enough time go between plays (which haven't been that many, tbh, for no good reason, it's a great game) that I forget what everything does and which buttons do what. I have found that the game is pretty forgiving when it comes to frenetic and ungraceful button mashing, though.
― Josh in Chicago, Monday, 25 November 2019 19:10 (four years ago) link
The combat is finally clicking for me! Having loads of fun now, though catching pigeon is annoying.
― Scorsese runs afoul of the Irishman (Leee), Saturday, 7 December 2019 18:42 (four years ago) link
the combat is so goddamned good. i’d end up LOOKING for tough bases to take down.
― Li'l Brexit (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 7 December 2019 21:38 (four years ago) link
I bought a physical copy of this and like two weeks later the optical drive on my PS4 crapped out :(Thought this was a lot of fun. Really the best you could hope for in a game where you are the Spider-Man.
― circa1916, Sunday, 8 December 2019 02:41 (four years ago) link
Heh, I had a physical copy that I just sold last week and replaced with a digital copy, figuring I'd be more likely to play it if I didn't have to fuss with a disc (and because it seems like the sort of game that works well in shorts bursts)
― Josh in Chicago, Sunday, 8 December 2019 03:25 (four years ago) link
I've been laughably bad at the sneaking missions, I've yet to avoid kicking boxes so far, I know the bad guys don't notice it when I do but it's still hilariously jarring.
― Scorsese runs afoul of the Irishman (Leee), Sunday, 8 December 2019 18:47 (four years ago) link
i think we could make a pretty solid list of gaming broccoli.Final Fantasy character customization screens come to mind immediately.maybe worth a thread?
― Four Seasons Total Manscaping (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 14 November 2020 04:56 (three years ago) link
I'm 100% in on that thread once I process it fully and have examples. It's def a vibe I know well
― Kompakt Total Landscaping (Will M.), Saturday, 14 November 2020 05:01 (three years ago) link
any and all escort missions
― ciderpress, Saturday, 14 November 2020 05:05 (three years ago) link
i'm defining it in my head as "necessary and unavoidable play activity included by designers for [fullness of experience / game balance / inclusivity / customization / anticipation for the next climax / lore building] that is, nevertheless, not fun"
― Four Seasons Total Manscaping (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 14 November 2020 05:07 (three years ago) link
i'm not sure you can avoid adding some broccoli in almost any gamelike you wouldn't think Mortal Kombat has any but then you rememberhttps://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfwTG1EvL2c
― Four Seasons Total Manscaping (forksclovetofu), Saturday, 14 November 2020 05:10 (three years ago) link
gaming broccoli is a great term. especially as a category it generates some interesting onward thinking (is the way kojima serves his broccoli the main part of what makes his games distinctive? because *so much broccoli* you could even argue he made a virtue of it in death stranding). but yeah, how do we get the action/character from a-b, i suppose we’d better make this mission an escort mission, let’s send the character here before they can encounter x boss or get y upgrade, or *time for a laborious info dump to explain stoopid premise of the next mission. all classics of their genre.
― Fizzles, Saturday, 14 November 2020 08:44 (three years ago) link
I'm not sure that I'd find the term that useful (sorry forks) - I mean FFVII arguably is a materia management sim with some very large mini games - is the story broccoli?
And most stealth sections levered in are less "we should do this" and more "we have to expand this sequel, what are the kids into".
So I'd see (keeping on that kind of example) the Spyro sequels where the charging around and head butting / flaming things is interspersed with dull levels where you have to play other characters - I'd see a line separating that from the Starcraft missions where there's no new resources, you have a small team in an enemy base and you'll get reinforcements at specific points. The latter seems a lot more like "what does our toolkit allow us to do?"
― Andrew Farrell, Saturday, 14 November 2020 10:12 (three years ago) link
But maybe I'm wrong, maybe Insomniac had a burning desire for more Sheila the Kangaroo, and Blizzard had to be forced at gunpoint to make soloish levels so that the players had heroes to 'identify with'.
I've probably mentioned before but I was overjoyed to get to the bottom of the high-up dungeon on the home island in Wind Waker, because the game gave me the thing I went in there for, and a portal out, AND an entrance to more levels!
Which yeah, you like a game if you like the gameplay, but the concept of gameplay isn't a monolith. After I finished Ico, I hipped a friend to it, and she came round to play it. She really loved it - apart from the bits where you whacked at the shadow kids with your sword, where she'd hand the controller back to me. But the fighting parts are still part of the game, and contribute to the tone (and mounting horror), right?
I'm hesitant to push this theory too far, as the end point may be the claim that watching a progress bar fill is protected gameplay, which is basically the Anti-Life Equation.
― Andrew Farrell, Saturday, 14 November 2020 10:29 (three years ago) link
i dont think story/cutscenes are ever broccoli unless they're interrupting a good gameplay sequence and breaking up your flow
― ciderpress, Saturday, 14 November 2020 15:00 (three years ago) link
Spidey But Better is like Spidey, but better!
I really like the new supercharge not-stolen-from-infamous power but not had much fun with my invisibility cloak yet.
Early days yet so I have lots to work out with gadgets and upgrades and skill trees.
― Clean-up on ILX (onimo), Tuesday, 17 November 2020 19:59 (three years ago) link
Looks nuts
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XrPZSq5YXqc
― Josh in Chicago, Wednesday, 24 May 2023 23:22 (ten months ago) link
did they remember to put spider-man in this one?
― ciderpress, Thursday, 25 May 2023 00:41 (ten months ago) link
goddamn it now i have to get a PS5
― Tracer Hand, Thursday, 25 May 2023 07:17 (ten months ago) link
i for one am excited to play as play as spider-man 2 in SPIDER-MAN 2, insomniac’s game about spider-man 2 starring two spider-men
― rick semper moranis (bizarro gazzara), Thursday, 25 May 2023 11:33 (ten months ago) link
Look Who's Spider-Man Too!
― Josh in Chicago, Thursday, 25 May 2023 11:37 (ten months ago) link
Spider-Man all symbiote'd out fighting Kraven? Sure, why not
― mh, Thursday, 25 May 2023 13:53 (ten months ago) link
lol the story and cut-scenes in this are so shit
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Friday, 19 January 2024 22:59 (two months ago) link
so glad they inserted a walking simulator section where you clean the kitchen
The first game or the second (or Miles)? I think I read that the sequel cost significantly more than the first game, like triple, and also that the game, despite strong sales, hasn't come close to breaking even. But I've also heard that it looks and plays more or less the same, or at least as more of the same, which is fine by me. I liked Spider-man, but I think I have low game standards.
― Josh in Chicago, Friday, 19 January 2024 23:20 (two months ago) link
oh all the fighting and swinging is great. i'm not a huge fan of the tag-team dynamic, the main effect of which is to make you forget which button to mash as they have one shared abilities tree, as well as separate ability trees. it's just astonishing how much attention they can put into like a million dolby atmos sand droplet effects but none into making the faces look like they're actually talking human words
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Friday, 19 January 2024 23:25 (two months ago) link
just so much stupid sub-sitcom stuff like peter’s nervous that MJ won’t like the clutter in his house so you have to make him throw the “old” fruit away yet the bananas are still yellow and the apples are fine. his mortgage is more than 4k per month on his aunt’s huge place and he doesn’t have the money and MJ’s like “i’ll pay for it!” and peter’s like “i don’t deserve you! *snuggles*” like whatfeels like they’re trying to take a few pages from naughty dog’s book but it’s harder to make this stuff work than it looks. at one point miles, as spider-man, says “i gotta go tell spider-man!” uh you are spider-man budjust playing now, noticed peter can apparently stick to foam tile drop ceilings. how does the physics work here
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Friday, 19 January 2024 23:43 (two months ago) link
peter’s shooting hoops with his old school friend. now, if you’re going to do a basketball minigame, could it at least be fun? if not, could you at least mimic the shot mechanic of 2k, which is how millions of people all over the world play video game basketball? anyway, they’re just trading shots in street clothes as they reminisce and bro down, and say one point pete’s friend says “hey what’s the score?” the score? you are just trading shots. there’s no score. it’s not a game. it’s not even horse. every bit of non-action gameplay and scripting appears to have been written by an ai
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Friday, 19 January 2024 23:49 (two months ago) link
oh and i’m piissed i didn’t get a trophy for swishing every shot
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Friday, 19 January 2024 23:50 (two months ago) link
Who's laughing now?
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 20 January 2024 00:12 (two months ago) link
early on spidey is talking to a fellow nerd on some kind of comm as he swings around the city and his friend is like “the city’s communication grid is down! but i have an idea.. maybe we can set up our own network to communicate!” and spidey says back “ok great idea” except with more wisecracking obviously, and then his friend is like “get to the top of that building and find a launcher, that’ll send up a drone which will form the first node of the network, then we can communicate” and spidey says back, into his comms device, “that’s brilliant”
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 20 January 2024 00:20 (two months ago) link
It's not about the destination, it's about the journey. Like, literally.
― Josh in Chicago, Saturday, 20 January 2024 02:45 (two months ago) link
i did like the underwater nightmare sequence tbf
― Humanitarian Pause (Tracer Hand), Saturday, 20 January 2024 22:26 (two months ago) link