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midnightAI
Member
You do know they are a 3D character artist, yeh? they may be very good at their job
Arsic
Loves his juicy stink trail scent
Boss Mog
Member
I'm sure that the dev that was fired from Sucker Punch for mocking Charlie Kirk's assassination will get rehired by some other Sony studio. It's like how the catholic church moved those priests who abused kids around.
Boss Mog
Member
Mentally ill degenerates should not be writing anything that is meant for a general audience because beyond the fact that they are almost always talentless DEI hires, they simply don't know how to write anything without constantly pushing their degeneracy. We don't hate these people enough.
vpance
Member
MALpractice311
Member
I'm not going to tell anyone that they're not allowed to engage in their own form of artistic expression. We all have different experiences and opinions and we should all be allowed to express ourselves freely. But when a company is hiring for a big budget work based on a long standing intellectual property, I don't think is unfair to look at someone's resume and say, "you know, maybe this person isn't the best fit for this project" and then pass on them.
kingkratos15
Neo Member
Sony is once again releasing very high-quality games this generation, just like every generation. And I am eagerly and curiously looking forward to this Marvel comic character Wolverine game. I am sure it will be one of the best games of the year.
clarky
Gold Member
ChorizoPicozo
Member
AI SLOP
Angry_Megalodon
Member
If someone tried to make a joke racist story, he wouldn't come up with a plot like the one written by this land whale.
It's infuriating how these degenerates get hired for jobs that true talented fans would dream of.
Fuck Insomniac.
Ristifer
Member
MrAlwaysRight
Member
X-Men in Avengers Doomsday, Wolverine is about to sell giganumbers
Chuck Berry
Gold Member
What's the issue? Are you not looking forward to this Marvel comic character Wolverine game?
JerryinSoCal
Member
Surely you aren't comparing child molestation to a person making a stupid comment for attention are you? lol it's nowhere near the same thing. Someone getting a new job at a new studio is not the same as a monolithic organization moving you to a different branch to hide you after you've committed a crime. If they were fired it's highly unlikely that another studio within the same company would hire them but even if they did each studio hires their own people, Sony doesn't hire them.
People assaulting children is a lot worse than some clown saying something insensitive to get attention on social media. Social media is a poison, it's trained so many people to think that attention is all that matters, it's also trained people who were never hurt by anything to play the victim and make someone else's tragedy about them.
JerryinSoCal
Member
There are several people writing for this game, it's not just one person.
ChorizoPicozo
Member
more or less than Spiderman?
Ristifer
Member
Of course he's looking forward to it, NeoGAF user Chuck Berry. He couldn't be filled with more exuberance, verve, and enthusiasm to be anticipating such a visual affair. Who isn't enthusiastic about the next Marvel video game offering in 2026?
diffusionx
Gold Member
anyone who played Spiderman 2 knows it's "not just one person."
JerryinSoCal
Member
This is from google, this is the narrative lead/writers credits.
Spec Ops: The Line, Star Wars: Battlefront II, BioShock 2, Mafia II, and Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel, also writing the book Significant Zero about his industry experiences. He's also credited on Star Wars: Squadrons, Civilization: Beyond Earth, and The Darkness II, working as a writer, narrative designer, and story editor across major studios before joining Insomniac Games in 2021.
Spec Ops: The Line, Star Wars: Battlefront II, BioShock 2, Mafia II, and Borderlands: The Pre-Sequel, also writing the book Significant Zero about his industry experiences. He's also credited on Star Wars: Squadrons, Civilization: Beyond Earth, and The Darkness II, working as a writer, narrative designer, and story editor across major studios before joining Insomniac Games in 2021.
ChorizoPicozo
Member
MrAlwaysRight
Member
Depends if Spider-Man Brand New Day is a box office smash and the hype for Avengers Doomsday is real, but it could sell more than Spider-Man 2 and Miles Morales, probably on par with the OG PS4 Spider-Man .
Boss Mog
Member
Are you mentally ill? At no point in my statement did ever ever say or even suggest that mocking somebody's death and abusing children were comparable offenses. What I said was offenders in both cases get moved around instead of permanently removed, never did I compare the offenses. Interpreting it like you did is exactly the kind of bad faith interpretation I expect from mentally ill degenerates. Are you one of them? If not, I would drop it and move on.
TheMule1983
Member
10 years ago this would've been my most anticipated game. But seeing Sony games and Marvel shows/movies the past half decade, easy pass for me.
JerryinSoCal
Member
A child molester being hidden to protect the church and someone hypothetically being hired by a separate developer who does their own hiring but happens to be under the same parent corporation is just stupid. The fact that you even mentioned it is dumb, they have not been rehired by any sony developer in the first place so you brought this whole thing up for no reason. Do you think Sony really cares enough about this person to make a dev hire them later? that's just stupid. Sony themselves would not push for the hire, they don't want the headache and it's not like that person is the only one that can do that job. The Priests were hidden to protect the church, this person wasn't hidden they were fired. Even in some alternative universe where he gets hired again by another developer it's not the same thing, he was fired and lost his income for his tweet, he wasn't protected.
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Buhaj
Member
Having finished Spiderman 2, I hope Insomniac will tone down on the protagonist babbling, I disabled audio podcasts in SM2 from the start, and still had to listen to protagonists either have phone calls about nothing or talk to themselves. Just shut up ffs. Good that Wolverine is PEGI 18, as treatment of some villains in these teen games is fucking naive. And enough with the "discover yourself" shit.
Pacing to me felt better than in GoW Ragnarok on the other hand, so there is a chance it will not be bad.
Pacing to me felt better than in GoW Ragnarok on the other hand, so there is a chance it will not be bad.
KanKamAndNob
Member
This kind of shit is why I have no longer support AAA Western games.
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Insanemaelstrom
Member
Spiderman 2 definitely has its pros and cons.
The gameplay and traversal is spectacular. Traversal especially. Try going back to spiderman 1 after spiderman2, everything feels so slow. It's like there was a puzzle missing and they filled it. Same with combat, in the first game, suit abilities were either useless or overpowered. I don't think I ever changed my suit ability from the first one, it was that overpowered. Switching to abilities made the combat far more dynamic. Plus, you no longer have one ability so op, that you never switch things up. There is also a car more natural progression in spiderman 2 with most of the powerful abilities unlocking at the end.
They also ixed my biggest complaint regarding combat in the previous games. In the previous games, after a certain point, it used to become hard to identify enemy types during combat. Spiderman 2 fixed that. Enemy types are more numberous and are far more clearly distinguishable.
They also reduced the feeling of repetition besides maybe one side activity. The science tasks are generally different from each other( The lab missions). The outposts are smaller in general and are far fewer in quantity. Crimes are now entirely optional. They tried adding atleast some uniqueness to each task and overall reduced the quantity.
The story also, was good at the start. The voice acting is good, same with direction and pacing. It's just that the story starts falling apart from the mid point. Having two spidermans didn't help the game at all. Having to juggle two main characters clearly impacted the game. Peter is trying to balance his life, his aunt is dead, he has lost his job, he is trying to improve his relationship with MJ, his best friend is back and trying to launch a new startup together and then is dying again, and his former enemies are dropping like flies due to a powerful new enemy all the while he is dealing with the synboite. In comparison, miles is trying to complete an essay and chasing martin li. Miles just didn't have the hock needed for the story. The main events felt disconnected from him. That's why we also ran into the issue wherein they had to give missions clearly meant for Peter to miles, the black cat mission being a clear example.
Also the later part of the story was definitely rushed, which made things worse. Peter losing sumboite, venom taking over harry and taking over new york happened too quickly. The later parts should have been left for part 3. You spend 70 to 80% of the game dealing with kraven( if you are being generous, it felt like kraven was 90% of the game). Dedicating only 20 to 30% of the game to a villain as integral and famous as venom was a poor choice.
Finally the problem with the story was the dialogues. It felt like the dialogues were written by CW writers. They felt safe and sanitized, like someone passed them through a filter to remove anything even remotely offensive. Characters felt safe and bland inspite of the excellent voice acting. It also resulted in some characters feeling too one dimensional. Compare J Jonah Jameson in spiderman 1 vs spiderman 2, if you are looking for an example.
Spiderman 2 unfortunately follows the footsteps of recent Sony sequels having better gameplay( and side activies) but worse story lines.
The gameplay and traversal is spectacular. Traversal especially. Try going back to spiderman 1 after spiderman2, everything feels so slow. It's like there was a puzzle missing and they filled it. Same with combat, in the first game, suit abilities were either useless or overpowered. I don't think I ever changed my suit ability from the first one, it was that overpowered. Switching to abilities made the combat far more dynamic. Plus, you no longer have one ability so op, that you never switch things up. There is also a car more natural progression in spiderman 2 with most of the powerful abilities unlocking at the end.
They also ixed my biggest complaint regarding combat in the previous games. In the previous games, after a certain point, it used to become hard to identify enemy types during combat. Spiderman 2 fixed that. Enemy types are more numberous and are far more clearly distinguishable.
They also reduced the feeling of repetition besides maybe one side activity. The science tasks are generally different from each other( The lab missions). The outposts are smaller in general and are far fewer in quantity. Crimes are now entirely optional. They tried adding atleast some uniqueness to each task and overall reduced the quantity.
The story also, was good at the start. The voice acting is good, same with direction and pacing. It's just that the story starts falling apart from the mid point. Having two spidermans didn't help the game at all. Having to juggle two main characters clearly impacted the game. Peter is trying to balance his life, his aunt is dead, he has lost his job, he is trying to improve his relationship with MJ, his best friend is back and trying to launch a new startup together and then is dying again, and his former enemies are dropping like flies due to a powerful new enemy all the while he is dealing with the synboite. In comparison, miles is trying to complete an essay and chasing martin li. Miles just didn't have the hock needed for the story. The main events felt disconnected from him. That's why we also ran into the issue wherein they had to give missions clearly meant for Peter to miles, the black cat mission being a clear example.
Also the later part of the story was definitely rushed, which made things worse. Peter losing sumboite, venom taking over harry and taking over new york happened too quickly. The later parts should have been left for part 3. You spend 70 to 80% of the game dealing with kraven( if you are being generous, it felt like kraven was 90% of the game). Dedicating only 20 to 30% of the game to a villain as integral and famous as venom was a poor choice.
Finally the problem with the story was the dialogues. It felt like the dialogues were written by CW writers. They felt safe and sanitized, like someone passed them through a filter to remove anything even remotely offensive. Characters felt safe and bland inspite of the excellent voice acting. It also resulted in some characters feeling too one dimensional. Compare J Jonah Jameson in spiderman 1 vs spiderman 2, if you are looking for an example.
Spiderman 2 unfortunately follows the footsteps of recent Sony sequels having better gameplay( and side activies) but worse story lines.
Toots
Member
I suppose everyone crying in thread about the woke writer hasn't played Spidermand Miles Morales/2 or the Ratchet and Clank girlboss ratchet edition (ie any insomniac game from the past 10 years).
Insomniac are some of the worst offenders when it comes to inserting politics in their game stories, it won't change now.
Insomniac are some of the worst offenders when it comes to inserting politics in their game stories, it won't change now.
Larxia
Member
Everyone complained about that in Spider-Man 2, we all know it's not new, doesn't mean it doesn't suck. It's indeed not surprising though.
schaft0620
Member
Anyone who saw that trailer and is crying woke has lost the plot.
Synless
Member
Please explain the plot to me. I'd like the details of how it won't be woke outlined here, based on that trailer.
The developer has not proven they are not political, history shows they will be. I'd bet people who watched the Spiderman 2 trailer didn't think it looked woke either… and well, it was.
schaft0620
Member
What are your specific concerns, did you think they were going to make Wolverine trans?
No way Sony lets them make something as overtly, crassly politically correct as Spider-Man 2 in the post-woke culture. It's just too risky. I could see a bit of it here and there but it'll be borderline invisible compared to those earlier games.
It's a different era now.
Synless
Member
No, who the fuck ever thought that was going to happen?
You're pivoting though. Given Insomniacs history, they will support with shitty quests and writing topics that are politically motivated and absolutely left leaning, no balance.
Do you believe this won't happen?
mckmas8808
Mckmaster uses MasterCard to buy Slave drives
So what would some "right-leaning" writing topics be, for instance? For balance sake.....