Current Events > My thoughts on Spider-Man from what I've played so far

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I'm a few hours in now and yeah... it plays like literally every Spider-Man game. It's fun for sure, but I'm not exactly wowed or anything. It's just another Spidey game.

The ripping off of Arkham is a little heavy handed. The combat plays exactly like Arkham. You have a detective mode exactly like Arkham. The insta takedown moves in combat are exactly like Arkham (same button prompt and everything). Arkham was great, but ffs I want something new.

Also, "side quests" are incredibly generic open world fare. "Go to the towers to fill out the map." Wow, I haven't seen that in literally every other open world game ever. Can devs not think of anything original for stuff like this?

The swinging is fun and I like how it's very momentum based. You can get some crazy speed going once you get the flow. That being said, I don't find it to be very deep. It's not really better or worse than previous games. It's fun though.

The graphics are very good, almost too good. What I mean by that is there are times where I'm swinging and the sunlight is so bright and realistic that I can't see where I'm going. From a visual standpoint it's great, but from a gameplay standpoint it's kinda annoying. I know that's kind of a weird thing to complain about.

The humor is pretty dead on and very in character for Spidey. I actually chuckled at how Peter kept going on about Spider-Cop while Yuri groaned the whole time. From what I've seen so far the writers seem to understand the character very well.

Overall I'm not super impressed. The game is fun, but it's nothing you haven't seen before. I wasn't really on the hype train for it, so I was hoping it would maybe surprise me and be awesome. However, it's exactly what I thought it would be: just another Spider-Man game. If you like Spider-Man, you'll enjoy it.
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I agree with this. I think it's a good game, the problem is it's got an also-ran vibe. If this were the first type of game to release like this, it'd blow my mind, but fact is it doesn't do anything different to separate itself from other open-world type action games.

It does what it does well. But it doesn't do anything else that we haven't seen before

Yeah. It checks all the boxes for an open world game but doesn't really go above and beyond
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This is why I had no interest in it. Cause it seemed like it was going to be that for awhile.
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is swinging deeper than spider-man 2?

from what i see you don't choose which side you wanna web which you could in S2... obv i could be wrong.
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AsucaHayashi posted...

is swinging deeper than spider-man 2?

from what i see you don't choose which side you wanna web which you could in S2... obv i could be wrong.

I'd say it's somewhere between the ASM games and SM2.
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BlueBoy675 posted...

and yeah... it plays like literally every Spider-Man game.

Well duh

AlphaCuck posted...

BlueBoy675 posted...

and yeah... it plays like literally every Spider-Man game.

Well duh

My point exactly. People were acting like it was gonna be some revolutionary game for Spidey and well... it's a Spidey game alright
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To be honest, that's all I really wanted it to be.

A current-gen, competently made Spider-Man game with a decent story and tons of comic book easter eggs to have fun with.
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Honestly everything I've seen makes it look fundamentally like every one of those genero open world spiderman games we got for like a decade or more before this. With a dash of arkham because of course.
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NinjaBreakfast posted...

Honestly everything I've seen makes it look fundamentally like every one of those genero open world spiderman games we got for like a decade or more before this. With a dash of arkham because of course.

The more I play the more I find that it feels a lot like the ASM games. To be fair I enjoyed those, yet everyone acts like they were awful while this game is somehow amazing?
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It feels too much like arkham
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By the sounds the writing and characterisation are both much better than a lot of these other games tbf and obviously that's good but still.
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BlueBoy675 posted...

NinjaBreakfast posted...

Honestly everything I've seen makes it look fundamentally like every one of those genero open world spiderman games we got for like a decade or more before this. With a dash of arkham because of course.

The more I play the more I find that it feels a lot like the ASM games. To be fair I enjoyed those, yet everyone acts like they were awful while this game is somehow amazing?

I always thought the problem with the ASM games was the technical glitches and how shit the web swinging was.
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BlueBoy675 posted...

NinjaBreakfast posted...

Honestly everything I've seen makes it look fundamentally like every one of those genero open world spiderman games we got for like a decade or more before this. With a dash of arkham because of course.

The more I play the more I find that it feels a lot like the ASM games. To be fair I enjoyed those, yet everyone acts like they were awful while this game is somehow amazing?

ASM2 was the only ASM game I played, and I couldn't play it for more than 4 hours because it was just... bad. All I really wanted to do was swing around New York so I dropped $60, and I just couldn't do it. Spider-Man PS4 feels way more like the older games, and swinging feels infinitely more enjoyable. Not quite to the old Spider-Man 2 standard, but unlike ASM it at least feels fun to move about the city.

ASM2 just felt... cheap. While PS4 has things like Stan Lee cameo and such.
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