let’s play as spider-man in SPIDER-MAN, insomniac’s game about spider-man starring spider-man

...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

https://www.reddit.com/r/gaming/comments/9il92t/playing_spiderman_when_i_found_a_building_that/

Nice video about how the little things contribute to the joy of playing this game
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RqQvR5M4_FQ

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.

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

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

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

Heh, my wife threatened to rewrap this and regift it to me for my birthday if I don't play it soon. Today!

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

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

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!

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

Web Blossom is my favourite feels-like-cheating power. You can take out a whole rooftop of bad guys in one move.

wait.. they stay webbed?? i bought it but (as i detail above) still haven't used it yet

It works well on roofs and near walls as the baddies stick to anything they're close to.

Like this

https://youtu.be/m1jyAQ7nc98

quite ready to deploy that shit. i just started encountering the sable-suited dudes.

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

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.

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

I thought the main plot was pretty concise! You really should do some side stuff before getting there, though

we’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!!”

by modern open world standards Spidey's pretty brisk, I think I completed it in like 25 hrs or so

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.

ya down with dlc?

love this game, not sure I'm willing to pay £6.49 for another "chapter"

waiting for a discount on the pass myself

me too.

just beat the game, very much enjoyed it, but deleted it about 20 mins later to make room. too much to play, sorry dlc!

Bought this Sunday, actually got dizzy swinging to the first mission, and was overwhelmed with all the button prompts during the combat. #lolold

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.

The combat is finally clicking for me! Having loads of fun now, though catching pigeon is annoying.

the combat is so goddamned good. i’d end up LOOKING for tough bases to take down.

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.

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)

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.

Anyone want to buy this off me?

well this is weird

https://www.engadget.com/peter-parker-recast-spider-man-remastered-215023780.html

looks more like tom holland

yea it's very weird and feels kinda unnecessary when they could've simply upscaled the old model but *shrug*

I don't get the logic of "we wanted him to look like This Guy so we
modelled him on This Other Guy!"

Or am I misreading?

Played the first hour or so of Miles Morales. As expected, it's great. What I didn't expect is that they've definitely optimized the engine since the DLC came out, it runs smoother! Also cracked up when I saw the Spider-verse "filter" in action.

omg can’t wait for that. as soon as i got the 2-d vintage stan lee comics suit in the first game i wore it all the time.

when you play as Stan Lee does it erase the credit scroll of all the writers and designers and animators if you finish the game, and just show you dancing around saying "I made this!," with occasional cutscenes of you going to court to testify against all the programmers you fired?

yes

when i said 'suit' i meant 'lawsuit'

How different a game is it to the last Spidey?

Is it more of the sake but shinier? (because I'm in)

Or does it feel like a whole new game? (because I'm in)

definitely more of the same, which is totally fine in this case. This is basically Spider-Man 1.5
Miles does have new powers Peter didn't have, and there's some subtle nice QOL changes but I can't quite remember offhand
also new Peter face still really weird

thank you

I'm in!

I recently played through the 'city that never sleeps' DLC stories for the last game as it was v cheap in a sale. I really got into the game again as the cannon fodder had better cannons and all the difficulty felt tweaked up just enough to make it more interesting but not too much to put an old gamer off

fuck an 'MJ sneaking around' mission forever btw

lol. very “dragonlance” those scenes.

Spider-Man all symbiote'd out fighting Kraven? Sure, why not

lol the story and cut-scenes in this are so shit

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.

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

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 what

feels 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 bud

just playing now, noticed peter can apparently stick to foam tile drop ceilings. how does the physics work here

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

oh and i’m piissed i didn’t get a trophy for swishing every shot

Who's laughing now?

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”

It's not about the destination, it's about the journey. Like, literally.

i did like the underwater nightmare sequence tbf