Yeah, that's a standard move. Dodge towards a wall and then hit attack to do an Off the Wall strike.
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Spider-Man [PS4] preview thread
- Thread starter Toumari
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Yeah, that's a standard move. Dodge towards a wall and then hit attack to do an Off the Wall strike.
I mean I'm fine with this looking at the GIF because that's all I can do right now. Once we're playing it I think it'll inevitably "feel cheap" when it goes from having perfectly playable segments that suddenly transition into "huh, where goes my controls? Oh, another QTE sequence..." where no matter how impressive it looks there'll be that weird dichotomy of the game going from super playable and in the player's hands to being very rigid and automated.
Lol. Many games have done 'towers' absolutely fine. It's not an inherently flawed design, it was just overused painfully by Ubisoft (among many other highly repetitive design decisions).
QTEs are fine, I prefer having cinematic QTEs rather than not having any cinematic moments.
Too many people are trying to find negatives in things like outposts, towers, collectibles, qtes and stuff when really none of that matters. It doesn't matter because you get to play as Spider-Man and no other game lets you do that.
Too many people are trying to find negatives in things like outposts, towers, collectibles, qtes and stuff when really none of that matters. It doesn't matter because you get to play as Spider-Man and no other game lets you do that.
As longs as the core mechanics are fun, I don't mind QTEs for some of the crazier cinematic moments. Some of my fave games are rife with them, like Resi 4 and Bayonetta.
The last bit was obviously cutscene, but the initial part he's literally doing basic ass web swinging. You're the one who I guess just hasn't seen anything with "cinematic" presentation if you think something as basic as web swinging must entail a cutscene.
Glad to hear people are reasonable with this sort of stuff. Some complain about QTE as if it's something dreadful. It looks great! :)
That's good to hear. So what's your take on it as someone that's played it? Enough depth and amount of options going on with the combat?
Someone who played the game literally just said they did 2 QTEs in 4 hours of gameplay
No. In the regular tower system, various kinds of points of interest will be automatically revealed on your map. In BOTW that is not the case, you have to manually search the point of interest and mark them if you wish. Thus you won't have your map cluttered with icons. That thing is so off-putting as your actions will be guided by those icons, without you realizing it.
I like my map clean in my open world games. If we can actually hide the icons, that would be great though.
You certainly haven't played it.
There are reviews that specifically mention it's NOT Batman style and you're ignoring the mass of glowing praise to be negative.
So it's pretty clear that you simply wanted to say "I'm gonna wait."
Sure, it's a QTE, but damn it's impressive looking. How else can you do this without a QTE but need player input? I'm damn impressed. :P
Personally I dislike when the game asks me to mash buttons like that in QTE. God of War had a option in settings so you can just hold the button instead of mashing it, which was a pleasant surprise.
Any chance there's also a option like that in this game jstevenson? If not that's fine too, it's just a minor complaint.
Web swinging in a tight camera zoom? Just stop. It's all from part of a longer cutscene.
Yes, this was confirmed to be an accessibility option on twitter.
Here's another one. This may be a GOTY-contender lol
FFS the graphics are incredible. Love the art style.
Changing camera angles inherently means it must be a cutscene? The one that needs to stop is you lmao. That's such a basic feature in contemporary games it's not even funny.
stay tuned on that front, we were looking at it but I need to check with folks when I'm back in LA
Thx, good stuff.
Ok, thank you.
These previews are all from the beginning 2-3 hours of the game. I assume we'll be unlocking combat moves way into the game, so what we see here is just the most basic.
Sounds like you should actually keep reading instead of harping on a single negative comment that in of itself seems rather overblown. For example most don't compare the combat to Arkham games but those of the character action genre such as DMC or NG.
This is what I was afraid of. I don't really want an icon fest of templated side missions.
This comment fromt he Verge seems rather off the mark considering Horizon Zero Dawn had very similar mission structure and design to a lot of open world games.
I like towers in open world games. I haven't played that many games that include them so I'm not sick of that mechanic at all. Also climbing towers as Spider-Man will be cool as hell!
No, just that guy's pizza.
No, just that guy's pizza.
It's pretty fast and fancy free.
As you unlock more moves and gadgets, the game throws more enemy types and group combinations at you to keep you on your toes. From what I've played, I'd say combat will have more variety the farther you are in the game.
Ah, I see what you mean; yea, that's a fair point.
Although, it should be noted that these previews only had access to the first couple hours of the game; I can't imagine Verge would have had enough time to determine how alive and integrated the Spider-Man's open world is.
Yeah, at first I wondered how reviewers would take certain aspects of Spider-Man, but if Horizon can get an 89 MC with all of its generic open world qualities, surely this game can get in that same ballpark.
I'll take what I can get. Do I get to choose between being a Good Karma Spider-Man or a Bad Karma Spider-Man? Because I really want to be Evil Spider-Man.
yall not getting me to disrespect Celeste like that
let me play the game first
The vast majority of open world stuff doesn't even unlock or appear in the first 3 hours
Yeah I don't understand how Spider-Man differs from HZD at all in this regard - or any open-world game. They're all the same, with their follow the marker stuff, it's partly why I'm not a big fan. So I didn't get that comment.
But at least with Spider-Man you'll get to do some fun swinging on the way to the marker though, rather than the tedious traversal of other open world games.
Some of the best games ever made have had QTE's. Its not having QTEs that is a problem its overdoing them or sticking them in places that aren't needed or ehanced by them or just making them plain unfun/super hard.
Metal Gear Rising was renowend for its character action gameplay, incredible boss fights and so on. It also had a lot of QTE's and they often came either in a very dramatic moment in the battle to enhance said moment or came as the bat shit crazy climax where Raiden did something insane to add the cherry on top of the action and violence sundae. Resident Evil 4 was often the same way where QTE's were placed into gameplay sections or moves that were only made that much better.
