Draugoth
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According to Kurokasis, the leaker who first reported on Sonic x Shadow Generations, the Marvel Game that was announced by Skydance Media in 2022 is titled 1943: Rise of Hydra"
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Skydance Marvel Game to be titled 'Marvel 1943: Rise of Hydra"
FinalBossWithTheMostPower
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Nickolaidas
Banned
I remember being excited when I heard about this a couple of years ago.
I can't even count the fucks I don't give now.
I can't even count the fucks I don't give now.
Mister Wolf
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I'll probably play it.
Perrott
Member
1. It's Amy Hennig's (Soul Reaver, Uncharted) new studio, one of the videogame arms of Skydance, the movie production company.
2. Because it seems that you don't know anything about the project. It's actually a linear, singleplayer, story-driven action/adventure game in which you get to control different Marvel characters at different points in the story – definitely not an always-online cooperative looter shooter.
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lughnasadh123
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Kind of an odd name for the title. Did they think people would forget Marvel with "Rise of Hydra" in the title? No matter though. Being able to play as Cap/Black Panther could be so fucking great if they can nail the combat in this.
Can they?
Can they?
Men_in_Boxes
Snake Oil Salesman
CAPE****!
Topher
Identifies as young
Is this live service?
March Climber
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…wouldn't this be considered a good thing? GotG released in 2021.
manfestival
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I mean as long as the game is good. I am willing to play it but it is hard to expect such from the marvel brand these days in their products.
kruis
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Kind of an odd name for the title. Did they think people would forget Marvel with "Rise of Hydra" in the title? No matter though. Being able to play as Cap/Black Panther could be so fucking great if they can nail the combat in this.
Can they?
It's with 99.99% certainty going to be an all-black team, so you'll be playing Isaiah Bradley instead of the real Captain America.
kruis
Exposing the sinister cartel of retailers who allow companies to pay for advertising space.
An Invaders game would have been interesting, because those are all characters from actual superhero comics published during WW2.
StereoVsn
Gold Member
Is it thought? How many flops have we had compared to good superhero games?
lughnasadh123
Member
Don't particularly care which version it is so long as the character is fun to play.
Topher
Identifies as young
That was the defining comic of Marvel's take on WW2 so when I see "Marvel 1943" I'm thinking Captain America, Union Jack and Submariner. The last character that comes to mind would be Black Panther. He is a modern day Marvel character so unless they are doing one of those over-utilized time travel gimmicks.......I don't get it.
So yeah.....this just seems incredibly contrived. Doesn't give me a good feeling about the game.
March Climber
Member
It is, because the alternative is you naming a game from 20 years ago, which is usually to be expected here.
Also do you mean financial flops, critical flops, or GAF bubble 'flops'?
StereoVsn
Gold Member
Well, maybe some of the all of the above, lol. We have had stuff like Avengers, Gotham Knights, Suicide Squad and more be both critical and sales flops. We had Midnight Suns which was a sales flop (admittedly a decent game if you skip friendship simulator parts). And there is more.
Even Guardians flopped more or less on sales side thanks to Avengers and pretty bad marketing campaign.
That leaves what, Spider-Man series?
Shut0wen
Banned
Naah its definitely 4 player coop like that shitty batman game
BennyBlanco
aka IMurRIVAL69
i look forward to not hearing another word about this until 4 years from now when it's cancelled
Perrott
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Dude, their official statements confirmed that it is a singleplayer game very much along the lines of the PS3 era Uncharted games that Hennig herself directed, what the hell are you talking about?
Gojiira
Member
Well Hennig is a good sign as is singleplayer action adventure. Could be good, just gonna depend who besides Cap will be playable.
Perrott
Member
Playable characters are Captain America, Black Panther (actually, the grandfather of modern day's Black Panther), a regular soldier from the Allied army, and spy agent from Wakanda.
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Gojiira
Member
Not a great lineup, shame.
Shut0wen
Banned
Amy henning talks bullshit and writes like tewm turf jk rowling, source my mind
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kiphalfton
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Marvel must have missed the memo; Strike while the irons hot.
Doom85
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The Black Panther mantle goes back far, FAR before T'Challa, I believe the oldest mentioned in the comics was 1,000,000 B.C. The movie version made it very clear the mantle has existed for a very long time as well.
So actually it's one of the most logical choices they could have made.
Dirk Benedict
Gold Member
When the fucks equal zero.
FunkMiller
Banned
They'd do well not to advertise it with imagery that screams four player looter shooter, then.
Topher
Identifies as young
I wouldn't say it is one of the "most logical choices they could have made", but I appreciate that you cleared up my confusion on the timeline. Still think Invaders makes more since in a WW2 Marvel video game as that was literally what Invaders was about.
Doom85
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I just meant most logical compared to most Marvel superhero mantles. Not counting alternate universe versions, most Marvel superheroes who have had legacy versions like Spidey, Captain Marvel, and Ant-man were not active in WWII unless there's some "an even older character held the mantle first" twist involving one of them I don't know about. I heard the Ghost Rider comics apparently revealed there was Ghost Riders prior to Johnny Blaze, but I feel a Ghost Rider would feel too out of place in WWII. Captain America embodies the classic soldier while Black Panther can embody the more stealthy and guerrilla tactics soldiers used in the conflict. I think it's a nice combo. The two other randos joining them is odd, but maybe when the gameplay is revealed it'll make sense.
Topher
Identifies as young
That's fair and makes sense. I'm just an Invaders fan from years back so a bit biased on that end. But also a big fan of Amy Hennig so I'm hopeful she will pull off a kick ass game. She's due.
March Climber
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This is an odd argument, because you're covering all bases with negatives, but all you'd have to do is flip it around to what aspects they did well to argue the positive.
Midnight Suns was received well critically and is an odd situation because Firaxis usually has better lifetime sales number climbs than year 1 sale results.
Another situation of a well received game with bad year 1 sales.
It depends on what you want to count. Spiderman series sold well yes, Marvel Snap made a lot of money too. Ultimate Alliance 3 and Lego Marvel 2 did well critically as well.
I'd say overall from game quality to sales, I'd rank them around a C in terms of output. While there are franchises doing better than Marvel Games, they are at least having one decent success story every few years. Again, I'd like to emphasize that the alternative here involves people pointing back to games from 20 years ago, which isn't quite happening so that is a positive sign especially on this forum.
CamHostage
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Was just announced by Amy Henning and shown/talked about right now live as part of the State of Unreal stream. Showed a trailer (which was all in-engine had some HUDless game sequences in there,) and now are doing a realtime demo of the engine. Not exactly "gameplay", but it shows what the game will look like. Coming 2025; no platforms listed.
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adamsapple
Or is it just one of Phil's balls in my throat?
Story trailer and release window.
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FalsettoVibe
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This looks pretty decent. Hope it turns out well.
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CamHostage
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The event where that engine runthrough was demoed is still going. Epic will likely post that up as a segment after the State of Unreal livestream finishes. You can rewind the livestream to catch it too, but there's no timecode to link to yet.
EDIT: Clip is out.
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Krappadizzle
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I want to look forward to a cool superhero videogame but I just know
What kind of game even is it?
What kind of game even is it?
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Oh man, Amy Henning was always celebrated due to her being face of Naighty Dog before they went woke, but looks like she is treadig the same path with WW2 game with 3 out of 4 main characters being black. At least don't make it that obvious. And the black female just looks exactly like the type of distasteful stronk black women portrayed in games today.
Amy did say this was all in-game real time so that part of the game is very impressive.
Amy did say this was all in-game real time so that part of the game is very impressive.
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