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Post by Nowhere Man on Feb 5, 2015 18:35:45 GMT -5
I agree with you guys that we should be seeing more great Marvel games on the level of the Arkham series. The problem is, I think, that the companies are still in "movie tie-in mode" for the most part. Arkham Asylum was a rare instance when a developer was allowed time to create something great without it being associated with a movie or cartoon series. Marvel Ultimate Alliance was also wasn't a tie-in, and at least from an artistic standpoint, was created to be nothing less than a celebration of the entire Marvel Universe in video game form. (I'd buy an HD, revamped version in a second. They did it for Fable and Resident Evil, why not MUA? Get the rights straightened out Disney.)
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Post by Deleted on Feb 6, 2015 4:01:07 GMT -5
One of the problems is the license will sell itself without the care taken to make sure it's a good game. There could be a fantastic game with Marvel licenses, but they'd probably make more money with a half broken cheap dollar phone app.
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Post by Dizzy D on Feb 6, 2015 8:07:57 GMT -5
The Arkham series is one of those rare occassions where a licensed game is also a good game even without the license.
On the other spectrum of licensed superhero video games that are also good games: the LEGO Marvel and DC games are pretty fun.
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Post by impulse on Feb 6, 2015 15:34:20 GMT -5
Agreed, licensed games are normally garbage, and the very best ones would be good without the license with the license serving to only enhance it. It just seems with Marvel in peak popularity in the mainstream popular culture with movies and reacquiring so many rights that it is time to strike now. The new console generation would be a good excuse to tie it into new tech, as well. Listen up, Marvel! There's at least...4 posters at the CCF who want to buy your games.  |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 6, 2015 15:46:10 GMT -5
LEGO Marvel was so much fun, but the Batman games always felt like thry had one major flaw. The first felt really repetitive, even by LEGO standards, the second had horrific flying mechanics and a crappy map, and the third felt really restrictive/confined despite a bigger roster and the scale of the story.
I'd pay $60 for MAU 2 if all they did was improve the graphics a little.
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Feb 6, 2015 17:12:22 GMT -5
Agreed, licensed games are normally garbage, and the very best ones would be good without the license with the license serving to only enhance it. It just seems with Marvel in peak popularity in the mainstream popular culture with movies and reacquiring so many rights that it is time to strike now. The new console generation would be a good excuse to tie it into new tech, as well. Listen up, Marvel! There's at least...4 posters at the CCF who want to buy your games. The actual fighting mechanics of Dark Sector, outside of Hayden using a gun as well as the glave, is a perfect template for the use of Captain America's shield as a throwing weapon. I mean you could literally just paste Cap in that game, take out Hayden's gun and you'd have one of the most important mechanics of a good Cap game in the bag. If you've never played it, the glave can be thrown, and returns to you. It's ricochets of enemies and objects. And latter in the game it upgrades to where when you throw it, the perspective goes first person behind it, and you can control it in slow motion to hit something harder to reach, retrieve items and hit enemies behind cover. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 6, 2015 19:22:57 GMT -5
The Arkham series is one of those rare occassions where a licensed game is also a good game even without the license. On the other spectrum of licensed superhero video games that are also good games: the LEGO Marvel and DC games are pretty fun. I loved the Star Wars Battlefront games. I wish they had kept that series going. I'd love a PS4 version. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 6, 2015 19:33:29 GMT -5
The Arkham series is one of those rare occassions where a licensed game is also a good game even without the license. On the other spectrum of licensed superhero video games that are also good games: the LEGO Marvel and DC games are pretty fun. I loved the Star Wars Battlefront games. I wish they had kept that series going. I'd love a PS4 version. Pretty sure I read Battlefront 3 was coming this year. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 6, 2015 19:35:13 GMT -5
I'd love a PS4 Burnout, or barring that, a racing game that wasn't first-person or heavily rooted in online.
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Post by thwhtguardian on Feb 6, 2015 20:59:04 GMT -5
I loved the Star Wars Battlefront games. I wish they had kept that series going. I'd love a PS4 version. Pretty sure I read Battlefront 3 was coming this year. That would be awesome! I'm not a big fan of war games but the battle front games were amazing. It's sad though as I won't be able to play it because EA hates nintendo. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 6, 2015 23:52:11 GMT -5
Call Of Duty games are my favorite for picking up and playing a match real quick and then quitting. I don't sit for hours in front of a game so if I have to dedicate time to get anywhere I end up quitting. I don't think I'll finish The Last Of Us for that reason.
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Post by crazyoldhermit on Feb 7, 2015 0:07:07 GMT -5
Pretty sure I read Battlefront 3 was coming this year. That would be awesome! I'm not a big fan of war games but the battle front games were amazing. It's sad though as I won't be able to play it because EA hates nintendo. It's coming this Christmas. |
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Post by adamwarlock2099 on Feb 9, 2015 9:00:51 GMT -5
I finally finished Dead Space 2 last night. I have to say I was very unhappy with the ending. It played out like the Dallas thing, where a whole season was revealed to be someone's dream in a coma. It's like did Dead Space 1 even happen? What the hell are you telling me with this terrible ending? I still have Dead Space 3 to play, though my son says that it doesn't do much with anything done in Dead Space 2, so I think, unlike Gears of War, I am going to just have to enjoy the game play itself, more so than the story. I'm going to do a replay of it before I play 3, cause I barely scratched the surface of getting all the weapons. I concentrated on upgrading four of my weapons I didn't do much else but survive. I spent a lot more money on ammo and health than I ever remember doing playing the first one, even the first time. Still, Dead Space is still a superior gaming series so far, for me. |
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Post by Deleted on Feb 18, 2015 12:46:29 GMT -5
The Order 1886 is a nice game to look at, but it's not much of a game. It's basically the same thing as that Walking Dead game from Telltale, with a little more "action". There is no punishment for dying, and I'm on the eighth chapter (of sixteen) and it still tells me how to do everything but shoot. And it is really short, I've only had the game on maybe five hours to get this far. I intentionally didn't say "played the game", because actual game play (not counting walking) has been maybe an hour. The last two chapters were especially egregious.
Sixth chapter: Press triangle once. Walk ten-fifteen seconds. Cutscene. Walk another ten seconds. Cutscene. Press X rapidly three times.
Seventh chapter: Cutscene.
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Post by Deleted on Feb 19, 2015 20:07:14 GMT -5
So, I haven't gone back to that game since my initial playing and don't think I will. Back to RoS and FIFA.
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