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[DonJorginho]

Venom is my favorite Marvel character, so was insanely excited when this game was announced.... and now here I am, didn't buy the game and am in a spoiler thread with zero F's given. It's because I read that they made Harry Venom and was gutted. Reading the critiques here just validate everything I was worried about. Eddie is Venom. Harry as Venom is just stupid at a fundamental level. It's like, hey in the next Batman game, Killer Croc is actually.... the Joker!


I just watched a video of the fights and they are sooooooooo bad. They are template battle scenes in tiny arenas. How the F do they do this when Venom and Spidey are the most mobile characters? The fight should be across the city, putting that PS5 SSD to good use.

The worst part is, the moments you do get Venom and Pete going across the City?

It's an uncontrollable cutscene that you only see splices of..... As you're instead sent into......

A MARY JANE SECTION YAYYYYY

 

[DeVeAn]

After playing 2 I went back to Miles and Part 1. Spider man games were terrible before 2018. We are spoiled now.

 

[DrFigs]

Wait…I thought Miles mom was fucking his Uncle? It seemed implied at the ending.

... its some other dude. some asian guy

 

[sendit]

... its some other dude. some asian guy

You’re right. It’s the chameleon.

 

[Chuck Berry]

Remaster Kingpin intro. Music sounds like it’s from Heat. Cops in the shit.

What the fuck happened

 

[Chuck Berry]

The confidence he exudes in the first game is insane

 

[Lokaum D+]

I swear to god if the next game is just Miles i'm out, cant handle this level of pandering through an entire game.

 

[sendit]

I swear to god if the next game is just Miles i'm out, cant handle this level of pandering through an entire game.

On top of that. Miles skill set is OP compared to Spiderman w/ anti venom

 

[tmlDan]

I swear to god if the next game is just Miles i'm out, cant handle this level of pandering through an entire game.

I don't think anyone cares if you buy the next game

Miles is more fun to play, his abilities are awesome. Playing Pete again would be boring.

I'd prefer a Silk/Miles in the future but i expect Pete being pulled in again due to him being so tied to the Green Goblin.

 

[Faust]

Remaster Kingpin intro. Music sounds like it’s from Heat. Cops in the shit.

What the fuck happened

Slacktivism.

Also amazing screenshot. I don’t remember PS5 Remaster looking that good and I just replayed it! I think I need to use a different monitor.

 

[LaughingStock]

Goddamn, that fight against symbiote MJ was a cringe fest.
The constant female validation that male feminists love. Bitch, Peter is risking his life out there fighting super villains every day while you sit at home typing on your laptop, drinking your starbucks. Fuck off.

And Peter needing to be saved by Wraith. What a hero.

Maybe Wraith, Black Cat and MJ should team up. They'd be invincible.

 

[Chuck Berry]

Seriously, the sequel was sorely lacking simple cool side shit like this. Spidey being Spidey. This stuff just wasn’t there at all. Antiquated QTEs be damned

 

[3liteDragon]

My thoughts on the game (Best superhero game EVER, SM3's gonna be NUTS):

Just beat the story & finished 99.9% of the side stuff, gonna 100% & platinum tomorrow. This is easily the BEST fucking superhero game ever made by a COUNTRY MILE & one of the best game sequels I've played. The final hours are jaw-dropping, all the setups (there are setups in the side stuff as well, Flame ones & drone catching ones) for Spider-Man 3 are there & that game whenever the fuck it comes out is gonna be absolute fucking bonkers.

Things I didn't like:
- MJ missions, they're better than SM1 & I finished them all very quickly but I don't see the need for them to be in the game, completely unnecessary
- Brooklyn Vision side stuff were meh, prowler & spider-bot ones were alright but the rest of the side stuff were allimo, make sure you guys do them
- Wish Venom could've had more playtime

I'll update this post if i can think of any other negatives lol, everything else is top top-notch. Visuals, traversal, gameplay/combat, story, no other supe game comes CLOSE. I'm gonna play it again once the NG+ update drops in December I think, this is definitely one of my all time favorites.

There's also 2 post-credit scenes, BOTH are important & are setups for Spider-Man 3 as well.

9.75/10

I've taken 84 screenshots during my 5-hour play session today so I'm gonna take a long break & go to sleep cause my head's all fucked & sift through those tomorrow to post in the thread. I'll post a few here rn.

SPOILER SCREENSHOTS (Easily one of the best final boss fights of all time):

 

[arkhamguy123]

I’m telling you, go replay the first game. Just the first 15 minutes it’s like it’s from a completely different era of gaming

Elaborate

 

[James Sawyer Ford]

... its some other dude. some asian guy

Who is the Asian girl at the end? Another miles love interest or does she fit in somewhere for the comics?

 

[3liteDragon]

Who is the Asian girl at the end? Another miles love interest or does she fit in somewhere for the comics?

Silk tease, Cindy Moon.

Silk | Character Close Up | Marvel Comic Reading List

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www.marvel.com

 

[GymWolf]

Silk tease, Cindy Moon.

Silk | Character Close Up | Marvel Comic Reading List

Marvel.com is the official site of Marvel Entertainment! Browse official Marvel movies, characters, comics, TV shows, videos, & more.

www.marvel.com

Even more girl power, love it.

Next game is gonna be miles and her isn't?

 

[MidGenRefresh]

Seriously, the sequel was sorely lacking simple cool side shit like this. Spidey being Spidey. This stuff just wasn’t there at all. Antiquated QTEs be damned

I don't think you can fail a QTE in Spider-Man 2. I've tried multiple times and there's no consequence. It's all smoke and mirrors.

 

[Ev1L AuRoN]

Just finished the game, overall still a fun game, the visuals are amazing, but this gotta be one of the cringiest games I've ever played.

 

[LaughingStock]

Miles has to save Hailey. He gets there just in time to watch her save herself by defeating a symbiote with a can of spray paint.

Speaking of symbiotes, Agent Mary Jaw has a gun that can sometimes one shot them. She even fights a boss. Later I laughed out loud when I saw her giant stupid face wearing a bike helmet. Funniest scene in the game.

Honestly, games goes downhill after Kraven dies.

I enjoyed Harry/Venom. Martin Li's story arc. I even kind of liked Miles. That uniform is atrocious though.

Spidey 2 is overrated as fuck. I give it a 7/10. Buggiest Sony exclusive next to Days Gone.

 

[existensmaximum]

I think the third act was easily the best one, would've loved if at least half the game was like that. I was just not having too much fun for too long in the beginning.

Probably the most overrated Sony game to date for me, and I usually love them. The main story missions were good (except for the unreasonably overpowered MJ stuff + the unbearable cringe) but most of the side missions and optional stuff was just plain boring and uninspired.

Maybe it's just me, I don't know? I just feel there was sooo much potential for fun, creative and exciting missions with lots of variation in environments but nope.

I'd love to explore the sewers and subways for example.

Most of he cutscenes and the graphics overall looked insanely good, with some weirdly bad textures and effects here and there. Sometimes the suit looked mind-blowingly good and sometimes it looked like shiny, cheap plastic in low resolution. What's up with that?

 

[AJUMP23]

Just started and got to the ship and the Ark part and I am combat rusty. They taught me super parry. I forgot how to do it immediately and died.

 

[AJUMP23]

More like spider—Mehn 2.

I like a lot of the game but the story was not great. Mary Jane is obnoxious and her missions are terrible and she is overpowered. Every npc is insufferable. The podcast stuff with the girl from the miles game is unbearable.

the swinging and combat are good. Lots of powers and lots of variety. The sand man bit is really cool. I thought getting the symbiot off of Peter and the death of kra were the real climax. Nothing really measured up after that to me.

I would give this game an A for presentation but a C for story. A solid B.

I bought a ps5 to play it. Maybe ff7 rebirth will justify the expenditure.

 

[Chuck Berry]

No problem, yeah Scream is a thing in the comics. Originally, debuted as part of a group called the Life Foundation. A group that captured Eddie Brock and forcibly remove parts of the symbiote to create 5 new symbiotes and Scream was one of them, this is after Carnage btw. And no, MJ was never Scream. The original host of Scream is Donna Diego, then she got killed off then Patricia Robertson (host of a Venom clone), then I think she got kill off and then the new Scream host finally became Andi Benton (host of Mania).

Who the fuck is Donna Diego?

Side note: I’m currently replaying and it’s actually been a little more enjoyable than the first time because I already know how shitty the story is

Can’t say the same for Ragnarok.

 

[Brock2621]

Finished this a little earlier this year and yeah, the third act looked and sounded absolutely incredible on my OLED with Dolby Vision and Surround