Spider-Man (PS4)

Just beat it. No spoilers, but jesus what an ending. They went all out like Rockstar on Arkham City. Absolutely phenomenal game, and amazing story. Time to go for the plat.

I just got the platinum for this game. I haven't had this much fun in aomw time with a video game. Way to go Insomniac.

Phuck the task master challenges, I did platinum the game but getting the high score on those task master challenges was a bittch

I started NG+ on ultimate difficulty today and it's embarrassingly easy, even without all of the upgrades. Basic combat is just as easy and not much of a challenge. Now I'll just have to wait and see how hard to damn Silver Sable checkpoints are. I remember those being a little bit of a pain in my ass.

Hope that Black Cat DLC is good and has a decent length to it.

This passed up Arkham City to become the highest grossing superhero game ever. Pretty crazy considering the fact that it's a PS4 exclusive and how short a time it's been since release.

https://www.dualshockers.com/marvels-spider-man-batman-arkham-city-best-selling-superhero-game/

It's not that crazy when you consider how much of a homo Penis Parker is.

Holy sh*t, fkn fight me you knob slobber

Originally posted by Arachnid1
The rumored Spiderman title surprisingly ended up being real. I love me some Spidey, so I'm hyped. I just hope its not like the previous Amazing Spiderman games. They screwed those up. Also, not liking the new suit.

YouTube video

PS1 Spidey was good.

Just got to play this today. I'm only a couple of hours in, but mixed reactions so far:

Originally posted by -Pr-
Looks gorgeous. Sounds gorgeous. Web-swinging is great. Combat is a bad, bad imitation of the Arkham games.

Yeah, I also had mixed reactions. I didn't think it was that great. I think it got a little boost from being an PS4 exclusive.

Combat is not that fun.....most activities are copied and pasted and it's not original at all. However, did nail web slinging though...I give them credit for that

I think the combat is pretty good. But yes, definitely just an arkham knockoff.

And dead on about the sidequests, most aren't really worth doing.

Meh, same combat system from Spider-man 2, which Arkham ripped off.

IMO it has a lot of room improvement, but its good.

Originally posted by BackFire
I think the combat is pretty good. But yes, definitely just an arkham knockoff.

And dead on about the sidequests, most aren't really worth doing.

And they are the same...just with different enemies.

I see a checklist with unknown icons and I'm like..."ohhhhh, what can those be" and it's just the same....really disappointing.

Completely agree. The game was mediocre at best. I'm not the biggest fan of the Arkham games, but Spider-Man felt like an inferior version of them. Ultimately, it failed to keep my attention and I quit after like 6 hours and I have absolutely no intention of ever picking it up again.

So like getting Pokemon Red over Pokemon Blue.

Don't those gimmicks look totally worth it for people that bought into the "GOTTA CATCH EM ALLLL", now that their entire misspent youth is getting kicked to the curb.

WTF are you talking about? How does that in anyway relate?

Cdtm does that, Goes on rants about things that don't relate at all.

It relates perfectly. Doing samey side quests with different villains is exactly the same thing as playing different versions of Pokémon with samey gameplay and just some different Pokémon.

Pokémon you paid extra for those Pokémon, that you can no longer bring into the current generation, because Nintendo decided they hate their long term fans and don't want anyone to catch them all.

Originally posted by Smasandian
Yeah, I also had mixed reactions. I didn't think it was that great. I think it got a little boost from being an PS4 exclusive.

Combat is not that fun.....most activities are copied and pasted and it's not original at all. However, did nail web slinging though...I give them credit for that

Once I figured out how to cheese the combat I didn't mind it so much. I mean, 90% of the bad guys can be beaten with triangle, then circle, then hold square and air combo them. Even brutes are a piece of piss once you get the wrecking ball ability. It's still not great, but knowing how to get around it resolves a lot of headaches. At least for me. And I do like the bullet-dodging mechanic at times.

And yeah, agreed too, side-quests are largely meh.

Originally posted by Arachnid1
Meh, same combat system from Spider-man 2, which Arkham ripped off.

IMO it has a lot of room improvement, but its good.

Spider-Man 2 or Amazing Spider-Man 2? I mean, I see the argument, but even if you want to make it, Arkham still refined and damn-near perfected the system in a way no game has really matched since. Combat flows far more smoothly in Arkham, which it really shouldn't given how Spider-Man fights when compared to Batman.

And sure, you can say they've had three games to do it, but even in Asylum it was as smooth as anything.

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I do feel like in a lot of ways, the game has good things going for it. It scratches that "be Spidey" itch to a fair extent. I particularly like the stealth "predator" sections. The web-swinging is great. The graphics and sound are pretty solid. Even the framerates are all right.

The combat though... Yeah. And the characters are butt-ugly in certain instances too, but that's more a personal aesthetic thing.