That Metro quote is fucking terrible. Spider-Man has to move the genre forward in order to score higher?
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Marvel's Spider-Man - Review Thread
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We're slowly devolving into the shitshow we thought this thread would be. God forbid the MC ticks down one more point. There may be no survivors.
I can't wait for Zelda to be brought up in Red Dead's review thread...and every other game until the end of time. :P
Haven't played a zelda game since Majora's Mask. Can someone quickly elaborate why BOTW is considered the pinnacle of open world gaming?
This game could just be swinging around New York and I'd still buy it. It looks amazing and fun as hell. Repetitive side missions and boss fight complaints don't bother me in the slightest.
I'm buying this game for the free roaming, everything else is just cherries on top.
I'm buying this game for the free roaming, everything else is just cherries on top.
Damn son! That's bait.
I couldn't disagree more.
But I'm not even hating you know, but I'm pretty sure other people are so brace yourself
https://www.gamerevolution.com/news...s-make-it-most-successful-insomniac-game-ever
Doesn't say numbers but still their most successful/sold game ever.
The real question is why bring BotW at all.
This is a Spider man review thread, for webs sake. Aren't there enought threads about this game already?
A review for Spider-Man mentioned it. I feel like it will always come up in review threads for open world games regardless though, shit is so weird.
I think it is justifiable to critique something for being too familiar or safe.
*review thread intensifies*
Things are heating up...
Anyways, it sounds like the traversal is excellent and this is one of the most important things to me in an open world game.
Things are heating up...
Anyways, it sounds like the traversal is excellent and this is one of the most important things to me in an open world game.
just wait until Breath of the Wild 2
it'll be like a review thread inception
It's the most acclaimed, influential, and discussed game of the past couple years.
I don't really get why people ask "why is BotW getting brought up." It's ok to compare games to each other. Naturally, the most influnetial ones will be brought up, like BotW and the Witcher 3 for this gen.
It's also because Spider Man is an open world game with heavy focus on traversal, similar to BotW.
Because no other game is going to get 97 MC in a long time, Zelda or not...
Now seriously, the Belda argument is tiring, you can disagree with the reviews, which is fine and all, but using the "the main reason it scored that high is the name" is delusional at this point.
It's not like they've ever denied that they take a more literary critical approach to game coverage than most other sites--it's been their mission statement from day one. The, 'they're shoving politics into everything!' sorts of posts you see in threads like this, in response to their pieces, utterly baffle me, honestly. They're always in response to perfectly reasonable, well-argued conclusions, supported by textual evidence.
Anyway, for people like me who are waiting until the DLC is all out, thatll be like 3 hours each probably so you're looking at like 30 hours for main content plus side stuff. That isnt bad ar all for a non rpg.
There will be meltdowns if red dead scores/maintains a 98 metacritic score. Straight up bloodbath.
The Witcher 3 can't enter in the discussion. I only accept games that have 98 MC and higher. Botw is out as well.
I mean, I know what you're doing but this is exactly my own thoughts without even baiting anyone.
It has nothing to do with this thread(not to mention its absurd exaggeration). Stop that.
Most AAA games they've scored highly run off the same template and weren't dinged for the same thing.
Its a Spider-Man game, a comic book super hero game, a genre that mostly has been awful outside of the Arkham series and early 00's Spider-Man games. They're not making Citizen Kane over there.
Personally I wouldn't call it "the pinnacle", but it's certainly the most refreshing, and one of the best.
It's sort of hard to put in words though. It's not a game packed with side quests, objective markers, NPCs who have jobs for you, etc. Yet, it encourages you to explore through other ways, and feels a LOT more natural. The world is a character, and from the first moment in the game until the last, you'll keep seeing things in view that you'll want to go check out, and the game delivers, and delivers, and delivers. It's a world begging to be explored and you just sort of get lost in it. It doesn't feel like "oh this is from that game, that's from this game", it's super immersive in that you'll just get lost in it for hours and days and weeks. It really feels like your adventure, more than any other game I've ever played. It's also a super malleable game, in that it lets you do a ton of different things for any given situation.
Here are a few more quick things that I couldn't get to in our review (because I didn't want it to be 3,000 words).
As a huge fan of Spidey, seeing Brandon Jones (Easy Allies) praise Insomniac for putting so much love and care into the world and truly getting the character, that's a hype boost.
Easily my biggest worry for the title was the story and the game missing what makes Spiderman such an amazing hero.
Easily my biggest worry for the title was the story and the game missing what makes Spiderman such an amazing hero.
Since we are talking about scores, has anyone seen what Polygon is doing going forward for review scores? They are getting rid of them entirely.
It was a joke about bad game editorial headlines. "What X can learn from Y."
He might not have considered it so maybe, but if you'd prefer not to really know about what villains are in the game (or not) and when/how long, you might want to stop about a third of the way in. Won't bother everyone by any means but it certainly will some. Worth a mention anyway.
Lower than I was anticipating, but still glowing. I'll wait as my backlog is huge (and includes FFX, FFXII and DQXI), but I'm excited :)