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

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.

the MJ stuff was the most gaming broccoli of gender equality ever
if you really want to even the field a bit just give us an option where I can play as Spectacular Spider Jane and my intrepid reporter boyfriend Peter is in all the cutscenes.

Idk if I'll ever be able to shake the term gaming broccoli from my mind now

sorry?

No it's very good

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?

I'm 100% in on that thread once I process it fully and have examples. It's def a vibe I know well

any and all escort missions

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"

i'm not sure you can avoid adding some broccoli in almost any game
like you wouldn't think Mortal Kombat has any but then you remember
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CfwTG1EvL2c

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