Navigate through Manhattan with this new gaemplay video of The Amazing Spider-Man, commented by executive producer Brent Nicholas. Plus new screens showcasing two vilains: Black Cat and Vermin.
Loakum @Driftwood Awesome! I’m loving it! It does show a much crisper picture and the frame rate looks good! I was playing Stella Blade and Dragonball Soarkling Blast! :) (2 Days ago)
Driftwood @Loakum: enjoy, the one Sony sent us will be there on launch day. Coverage will follow asap. (3 Days ago)
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nostradamus very few with religious beliefs are naive or zealots, but for sure don't find amusing their beliefs being thrown in for clout. maybe STFU with that discourse? (9 Weeks ago)
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Will i get it? no, dont like Spidey.
Also the movement looks cool, but it seems pretty low to the ground compared to the old great Spiderman games.
How much control you have and how dominant QTE's are will make or break this.
Did the old games do that to you?
Thank God for LoveFilm <3 I wouldn't buy this but I will very much enjoy renting it.
while web swinging from an imaginary ceiling and flying through light poles.
Now you just "hold" R2 and spidey flies around on imaginary ceilings and then pause the game and select a waypoint for where you want to land? Half the time it just looks like you are flying and flailing around all nimbly bimbly rather than actually swinging. Not really seeing anything redeeming about this one...
Spiderman 2 came out 8 years ago, and since then we have had around a dozen games for all different devices, the latest and greatest of which has improved by making prettier graphics and..............simplified controls? Personally I don't think making things simpler and less skill driven=better. 8 years ago web swinging was actually physics based and dependent on where you were and momentum. You had to plan your movements and watch where you went because you could actually fail.
Now, like most games, developers just want to make you look cool and feel unbeatable, so you just hold down a button and watch Spidey magically fly around. Want to land on something? Don't bother thinking or judging it, just pause the game and select a landing point. Maybe some people are becoming jaded, but perhaps that is more a symptom of the majority of games lacking any real innovation, rather than some social ill.
That doesn't mean every game with a sequel is going to get ridiculed though. Look at series like the Elder Scrolls or GTA. Each game doesn't really do that much differently from its predecessor, but because Bethesda and Rockstar put so much time and care into making their games, they are almost always met with universal praise.
To sum it up, I think there definitely is more negativity than ever, but there is so much milking of franchises (sequelitis) and stagnation, that I can't really condemn people for voicing their frustration, myself included. I think if you look at certain titles, I think you will see the kind of positivity and optimism that gaming should instill, if only the developers would make the effort. I do agree that people need to keep a more open mind though, and that is something we could all work on....