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[MisterHero]

It looks a lot like an Activision-made Spider-Man.

Web-swinging is too slow, overuse of web-zipping pretty much confirms it.

Combat is needlessly complicated, but I get kids enjoy those combo-fest type things.

 

[Sn4ke_911]

You guys are nuts.

The game looks freaking incredible.

 

[Zvonimir Boban]

Not feeling the combat (Looks like the same thing we've seen in many other games) and QTEs are whatever but that traversal looks great. Getting around New York is going to fun as hell and seeing Miles Morales was pretty cool.

Insomniac have a massive amount of goodwill from Sunset Overdrive (Probably still my game of the generation so far) so I'll give them the benefit of the doubt any day of the week.

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Please don't make it too grindy

 

[Admiral Woofington]

if the end game doesn't have many QTE moments then it was a bit dumb to show the demo that was heavy QTE.

It's going to give people a bad idea of what to expect, and then you have to explain that QTEs might be largely left to main story missions.

 

[Donthizz#]

Spidey dies early on and miles takes over

 

[Imperial Bishop]

Not feeling the QTEs

 

[Eidan]

That was a shit ton of webbing. We back to natural webs?

 

[Tinfoilhatsron]

Miles Morales is the newer bi-racial (half black, half latino) Spider-Man introduced in the Ultimate Universe who was brought to the main Marvel Universe after Secret Wars. Miles doesn't replace Peter in the main MU, but rather co-exist with him (though he did replace the Ultimate Universe's Peter, who died). He basically has all of Peter's powers plus Venom Blasts (red electric shocks) & the ability to go invisible.

Right, but what was the tease? Did I miss it?

 

[Strootman]

It looks awesome. The traversal is sick.

 

[LeonSPBR]

Looks amazing. That's a day 1 easily for me.

 

[TheThreadsThatBindUs]

Soooooo many QTEs

It's a gameplay vertical slice. And the QTEs were simply one-button prompts in the cinematics... It's hardly indicative of the entire game.

The demo looked phenomenal to me.

 

[Booker.DeWitt]

Miles Morales.

What, 2 Spiderman at the same universe ? What the hell ?

 

[Tonky]

Yo...the water puddles were reacting to his movements.

 

[Commanche Raisin Toast]

i don't like superheroes. i don't like marvel stuff, don't like DC stuff, and i have never had the slightest interest in Spiderman in particular ever. never watched the movies, read the comics (beyond enough to make me not like it), or played any of the games.

but gosh darn do i want this game. soooooo hard. i loved the combat, the swinging, the stealth, and especially the aspects where he tries to avoid civilian casualties.

i am going to buy this.

 

[Pachimari]

The wall running looked hella awkward. Wish it was like in Spider-Man 2, where he would start running on the sides of building as soon as he got in close proximity.

I'm somewhat glad this is a 2018 release so they'll have time to fix and improve the mechanics.

 

[est1992]

Thoroughly impressed with how fluid everything looked. With that said, I hope the entire game isn't a bunch of predator/combat missions that play out this slowly. The Spidey combat looked fun, but I feel this game might get too many comparisons to Arkham.

 

[Puruzi]

Why not just... not include it? Like, don't bother with the whole crane collapse BS, just get immediately to the webslinging helicopter chase.

because it was cool as shit my dude, lmao

 

[Bad_Boy]

You guys are nuts.

The game looks freaking incredible.

awesome gifs.

requesting gif of the web wall mine. im excited spidey gadgets are going to be a thing.

 

[crack-king]

I like how you conveniently ignore that I mentioned Just Cause as well

Even Just Cause doesn't have this kind of action. Just Cause is more about doing stupid stuff (which is also fun) with big weapons, but nothing resembles a scene like that.

 

[Bunta]

Right, but what was the tease? Did I miss it?

It's after the title screen at the end.

 

[Asriel]

Seriously. Stop with the QTEs.

And the combat is very Arkham like. I'd love to see what the open-world is like!

 

[Endo Punk]

Gameplay lost me. Off my list.

 

[Pai Pai Master]

What, 2 Spiderman at the same universe ? What the hell ?

That's what we have in the comics now anyways.

 

[Primethius]

This game looked FUCKING AMAZING.

Holy shit. This is the Spiderman game I always wanted.

 

[Sojgat]

Soooooo many QTEs

As long as they're just in big event filled story sequences, I'm fine with them.

If they play into free roaming at all then they fucked up.

 

[Son Of Sparda]

yeah it was kinda weird that he seemed to fight way slower than Batman...wtf.

it looks fun though overall. definitely step up from many of the previous spiderman games in presentation.

Yeah, exactly. Even the webbing was very slow.

I mean... HOW? You are making a Spider-Man game. How is being "super fast" is not the first thing that you think about?

 

[NullPointer]

QTE are expected when doing story missions .

They are? News to me. I thought they were slowly going extinct.

 

[Flipyap]

Batman-style QTE combat with a QTE-filled story mode based around Beenox-style "stealth" levels? Yep, this is the worst case scenario.

I wish I could get a Web of Shadows remaster instead, but that's probably forever lost in Activision's licensed game dungeon. RIP Shaba Games, you were too good for this license.

 

[Hidden One]

Day fucking one and I'll buy a pro to get the real experience.

 

[AyaisMUsikWhore]

The fighting

The animation

The CITY WEB SWINGING !!!!

The rest of the conference was whack but this was the best thing there period!

 

[Rats Off To Ya]

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spider

man, the graphics are looking GOOD!

how the hell did sony manage to grab this as an exclusive?

Sony has the film rights to Spider-Man, and now Disney is making a Spider-Man movie.

Connect the dots.

 

[TsuWave]

qte's were used mostly for the set pieces which i don't mind, gameplay in general looked great and smooth. combat looked fluid and seems to offer several options and approaches. really pleased with what i saw

 

[RedHill]

It looks a lot like an Activision-made Spider-Man.

Web-swinging is too slow, overuse of web-zipping pretty much confirms it.

Combat is needlessly complicated, but I get kids enjoy those combo-fest type things.

First there's too many quick time events now combat is too complex

 

[George Oscar Bluth II]

I need the authentic Parker Luck™ experience in this game.

 

[Altered Juice]

The passive aggressive "QTE" comments that were flooding the Sony thread was funny as hell considering how the vocal majority on GAF dislikes quick time event

Game looks amazing!!

 

[Ray Down]

Put Black Panther in and Slayven will be 10 copies.

 

[HMD]

Also I need to comment on the wall run spiderman did when chasing the helicopter, it looked straight out of Sunset Overdrive, that game must have a huge influence on Spider Man.

 

[Uno Venova]

So even though the QTE's in the demo all had to do with that specific plane sequence and not with any of the combat or swinging (the meat of the game) talk about it is going to dominate the thread huh?

 

[UnemployedVillain]

Even Just Cause doesn't have this kind of action. Just Cause is more about doing stupid stuff (which is also fun) with big weapons, but nothing resembles a scene like that.

But that's what Spiderman should be, except replace "big weapons" with random objects in the environment. That's mainly why I mentioned BOTW, because of the ability to manipulate objects. Just Cause for the aerial acrobatics, BOTW for the interactions with the environment (IE, replace static and magnesis with different types of webbing. Maybe even allow one that lets you stick things together then you can throw them or swing them around). There's so much more they could do with a Spiderman game!

 

[Pachimari]

Somebody gotta gif the moments when he gets into contact with buildings to wall run. That shit looks off.

 

[Shredderi]

Disappointing amount of QTEs.

 

[plainr_]

These quicktime events don't bother me. It would be hard to pull off those set pieces and still give complete control of spiderman.

 

[Bunta]

qte's were used mostly for the set pieces which i don't mind, gameplay in general looked great and smooth. combat looked fluid and seems to offer several options and approaches. really pleased with what i saw

Yep, there were a lot of combat options they didn't use while at the construction site. You could see a lot of objects they could have used.

These quicktime events don't bother me. It would be hard to pull off those set pieces and still give complete control of spiderman.

Yeah, it's not like the QTE's are going to be there in open gameplay..

 

[Tinfoilhatsron]

It's after the title screen at the end.

Oh shit, my stream just cut off after the title screen. Damn, I hope we get to play as Miles. Are they going to do the Death of Ultimate Spiderman story-line? Otherwise, why would Miles be holding up a camera phone?

 

[ActWan]

Freaking amazing.

 

[SmackAttack]

You guys are nuts.

The game looks freaking incredible.

*awesome gifs*

A MIGHTY NEED

 

[gustave154]

Sony did good to make this a PS4 exclusive. Everything looked like a system seller to me.

 

[matrix-cat]

I was hoping for something more than a straight up Arkham-style "Here's a stealth room with gargoyles/rafters, here's a combat room, repeat" formula. It's not a dealbreaker, but that shit's pretty played out at this point. Using environmental objects in combat looks pretty cool.

Swinging doesn't look a patch on SM2 or even Web of Shadows, but I'd have to get my hands on the controller to know for sure. It's extremely slow and Spidey isn't really beholden to physics; he's basically flying most of the time. The wallrun is obviously a locked-in animation, whereas in SM2 it was 100% manually controlled.

I don't know, I'll give it a chance, but I'm hoped for more.

 

[gundamkyoukai]

Why not just... not include it? Like, don't bother with the whole crane collapse BS, just get immediately to the webslinging helicopter chase.

Maybe people are really fucking hyped to watch a short movie where Spider-Man webs up stuff, but that's not why I'm putting my money down. I'm buying a Spider-Man game it's to do Spider-Man shit, not occasionally press a button while the game does Spider-Man shit for me.

People want spider man doing cool shit while there playing .
I sure since it open world you can do what ever you want but i expect some cool stuff during certain missions .

They are? News to me. I thought they were slowly going extinct.

For certain things like set piece it make sense .

 

[Soulstar]

This game is looking pretty good.

I really wan't to get my hands on this game and see how web slinging through the city feels.