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I'm at 91% of the game.





The_Liquid_Laser said:
AngryLittleAlchemist said:

It is cool to look back at the evolution of Spider-Man games. I was watching clips of some of the Activision ones, and it looks like it takes the best elements from all the games, not just the PS2 one. 

What other Spider-Man games have influenced this one?

I can say that I have been playing Spider-Man games for a long time, really going all the way back to the NES.  At first they were pretty disappointing (and that goes for superhero games in general).  Then the PS1 was pretty good.  That was exciting.  Then the PS2, open-world, game came out and that was the way Spider-Man was meant to be played IMO.  But then the PS3 never really got a decent open world game for Spider-Man.  I remember playing one, Spider-Man 3 I think, but it wasn't really that great.  I was afraid they were never going to make a good open-world Spider-Man again.

I'm going to pick this game up soon, as soon as I finish Octopath.  If nothing else the city looks fantastic, but it looks like they improved combat a lot too and kept web-slinging fun like in the PS2 game. 

I can't really remember, I wasn't even a fan of Spider-Man before playing the PS4 game. I believe that the PS1 games started the costumes, although I could be wrong about that. And also I think some of the gadgets and abilities are from the Activision ones. 

Last edited by AngryLittleAlchemist - on 21 September 2018

great sales I'm not surprised. I'm seeing a lot of ppl on social media who aren't big gamers playing this It is also the first ps4 game I bought full priced since Arkham Knight



Keiji said:
I'm at 91% of the game.



What is taking you this long?



duduspace11 "Well, since we are estimating costs, Pokemon Red/Blue did cost Nintendo about $50m to make back in 1996"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8808363

Mr Puggsly: "Hehe, I said good profit. You said big profit. Frankly, not losing money is what I meant by good. Don't get hung up on semantics"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=9008994

Azzanation: "PS5 wouldn't sold out at launch without scalpers."

GOWTLOZ said:
Replicant said:

Bold: Yeah, me too.

Titles below (not counting remakes/remasters and PSVR) are most of the games they've published this gen (and some upcoming).

Sony has mastered the action adventure genre (both linear and open world) and now I hope for a platformer (like Ape Escape), a Japanese RPG (like Legend of Dragoon), and an open world racer (like Forza Horizon).

 

Action adventure (linear): God of War + Uncharted 4 + The Order 1886 + Detroit Become Human + The Last Guardian (+ The Last of Us Part II)
Action adventure (open world): Spider-Man + Infamous Second Son + Gravity Rush 2 (+ Ghost of Tsushima + Days Gone + Death Stranding)
Western RPG: Horizon Zero Dawn
Action RPG: Bloodborne
First person shooter: Killzone Shadow Fall
Racing: Gran Turismo Sport + Driveclub
Sport: MLB The Show + Everybody's Golf
Platform: Ratchet & Clank + LittleBigPlanet 3 + Knack + Knack 2
Sandbox: (Dreams)
Arcade: Alienation + Helldivers
Puzzle: Entwined (+ Concrete Genie)
Party: SingStar + The Playroom

Action adventure kinda is a vast genre and the games you put don't match. You put a TPS like Uncharted and a hack and slash like God of War under the same banner. Detroit doesn't have any gameplay mechanics. Last Guardian barely had any action in it.

Bloodborne is a JRPG. You can't put 2 different subgenres based on different criteria.

Gran Turismo and Driveclub aren't the same genre. Simulation and arcade racers are distinct and appeal to different audiences.

I've put no effort whatsoever in matching these games other than according to the genre they have on Wikipedia.

I'm not saying Uncharted (third person shooter), God of War (hack and slash), The Last Guardian (puzzle), and Detroit Become Human (interactive drama) are very similar games (as is shown by the sub-genres I've assigned them). I'm not saying Gran Turismo Sport and Driveclub are very similar either (I literally only listed them as racers). Feel free to match them however you want. That's not even close to be the point of my comment.

I'm saying that Sony has mastered this vast action adventure genre, and now I hope to see something similar to Ape Escape, Legend of Dragoon, Forza Horizon, or something entirely new.

 

Though regarding Bloodborne, are you saying that Japanese developers can't make an action RPG, a tactical RPG, etc. because an RPG from Japan will simply always just be an JRPG? That sounds pretty silly, don't you think? You can argue that JRPG is a main genre covering all RPGs made in Japan but just as easily argue that JRPG is a specific sub-genre covering games like Chrono Trigger, Pokémon, old school Final Fantasy, etc. Many people see Dragon's Dogma as the best "WRPG" made by a Japanese developer because it has many of the traits historically found in RPGs made in the West.



Replicant said:
GOWTLOZ said:

Action adventure kinda is a vast genre and the games you put don't match. You put a TPS like Uncharted and a hack and slash like God of War under the same banner. Detroit doesn't have any gameplay mechanics. Last Guardian barely had any action in it.

Bloodborne is a JRPG. You can't put 2 different subgenres based on different criteria.

Gran Turismo and Driveclub aren't the same genre. Simulation and arcade racers are distinct and appeal to different audiences.

I've put no effort whatsoever in matching these games other than according to the genre they have on Wikipedia.

I'm not saying Uncharted (third person shooter), God of War (hack and slash), The Last Guardian (puzzle), and Detroit Become Human (interactive drama) are very similar games (as is shown by the sub-genres I've assigned them). I'm not saying Gran Turismo Sport and Driveclub are very similar either (I literally only listed them as racers). Feel free to match them however you want. That's not even close to be the point of my comment.

I'm saying that Sony has mastered this vast action adventure genre, and now I hope to see something similar to Ape Escape, Legend of Dragoon, Forza Horizon, or something entirely new.

 

Though regarding Bloodborne, are you saying that Japanese developers can't make an action RPG, a tactical RPG, etc. because an RPG from Japan will simply always just be an JRPG? That sounds pretty silly, don't you think? You can argue that JRPG is a main genre covering all RPGs made in Japan but just as easily argue that JRPG is a specific sub-genre covering games like Chrono Trigger, Pokémon, old school Final Fantasy, etc. Many people see Dragon's Dogma as the best "WRPG" made by a Japanese developer because it has many of the traits historically found in RPGs made in the West.

And why using wikipedia classification plus lumping such diverse games together is logical?



duduspace11 "Well, since we are estimating costs, Pokemon Red/Blue did cost Nintendo about $50m to make back in 1996"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=8808363

Mr Puggsly: "Hehe, I said good profit. You said big profit. Frankly, not losing money is what I meant by good. Don't get hung up on semantics"

http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/post.php?id=9008994

Azzanation: "PS5 wouldn't sold out at launch without scalpers."

Replicant said:
fauzman said:
Wow. Really impressed. Every time sony releases a new game, it sets a benchmark...and then another game comes and beats it.

Now all i need is some more variety in the types of games they publish and i will be all set.

Bold: Yeah, me too.

Titles below (not counting remakes/remasters and PSVR) are most of the games they've published this gen (and some upcoming).

Sony has mastered the action adventure genre (both linear and open world) and now I hope for a platformer (like Ape Escape), a Japanese RPG (like Legend of Dragoon), and an open world racer (like Forza Horizon).

 

Action adventure (linear): God of War + Uncharted 4 + The Order 1886 + Detroit Become Human + The Last Guardian (+ The Last of Us Part II)
Action adventure (open world): Spider-Man + Infamous Second Son + Gravity Rush 2 (+ Ghost of Tsushima + Days Gone + Death Stranding)
Western RPG: Horizon Zero Dawn
Action RPG: Bloodborne
First person shooter: Killzone Shadow Fall
Racing: Gran Turismo Sport + Driveclub
Sport: MLB The Show + Everybody's Golf
Platform: Ratchet & Clank + LittleBigPlanet 3 + Knack + Knack 2
Sandbox: (Dreams)
Arcade: Alienation + Helldivers
Puzzle: Entwined (+ Concrete Genie)
Party: SingStar + The Playroom

Well the list you have put up looks very impressive but in all of those genres, the number of games sony has this gen is so much less than the ps3. So i would really like sony to focus AAA love and money into these games.

A good FPS is a no-brainer. I agree with you about the jrpg. And i would lime more R&C totake care of the platform genre. For open world racers-sony made a mistake in shutting down Evolution Studios. Barring Driveclub, they had been doing pretty well in this department. 



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DonFerrari said:
Replicant said:

I've put no effort whatsoever in matching these games other than according to the genre they have on Wikipedia.

I'm not saying Uncharted (third person shooter), God of War (hack and slash), The Last Guardian (puzzle), and Detroit Become Human (interactive drama) are very similar games (as is shown by the sub-genres I've assigned them). I'm not saying Gran Turismo Sport and Driveclub are very similar either (I literally only listed them as racers). Feel free to match them however you want. That's not even close to be the point of my comment.

I'm saying that Sony has mastered this vast action adventure genre, and now I hope to see something similar to Ape Escape, Legend of Dragoon, Forza Horizon, or something entirely new.

 

Though regarding Bloodborne, are you saying that Japanese developers can't make an action RPG, a tactical RPG, etc. because an RPG from Japan will simply always just be an JRPG? That sounds pretty silly, don't you think? You can argue that JRPG is a main genre covering all RPGs made in Japan but just as easily argue that JRPG is a specific sub-genre covering games like Chrono Trigger, Pokémon, old school Final Fantasy, etc. Many people see Dragon's Dogma as the best "WRPG" made by a Japanese developer because it has many of the traits historically found in RPGs made in the West.

And why using wikipedia classification plus lumping such diverse games together is logical?

Because it's not in anyway close to being the point of my post. I'd just be wasting time trying to sort them myself. Match them however you want.

The point is, I (ME, PERSONALLY) hope to see a game like Ape Escape, Legend of Dragoon, Forza Horizon, or something entirely new as one of Sony's next projects.

 

fauzman said:
Replicant said:

Bold: Yeah, me too.

Titles below (not counting remakes/remasters and PSVR) are most of the games they've published this gen (and some upcoming).

Sony has mastered the action adventure genre (both linear and open world) and now I hope for a platformer (like Ape Escape), a Japanese RPG (like Legend of Dragoon), and an open world racer (like Forza Horizon).

 

Action adventure (linear): God of War + Uncharted 4 + The Order 1886 + Detroit Become Human + The Last Guardian (+ The Last of Us Part II)
Action adventure (open world): Spider-Man + Infamous Second Son + Gravity Rush 2 (+ Ghost of Tsushima + Days Gone + Death Stranding)
Western RPG: Horizon Zero Dawn
Action RPG: Bloodborne
First person shooter: Killzone Shadow Fall
Racing: Gran Turismo Sport + Driveclub
Sport: MLB The Show + Everybody's Golf
Platform: Ratchet & Clank + LittleBigPlanet 3 + Knack + Knack 2
Sandbox: (Dreams)
Arcade: Alienation + Helldivers
Puzzle: Entwined (+ Concrete Genie)
Party: SingStar + The Playroom

Well the list you have put up looks very impressive but in all of those genres, the number of games sony has this gen is so much less than the ps3. So i would really like sony to focus AAA love and money into these games.

A good FPS is a no-brainer. I agree with you about the jrpg. And i would lime more R&C totake care of the platform genre. For open world racers-sony made a mistake in shutting down Evolution Studios. Barring Driveclub, they had been doing pretty well in this department. 

I'm sad about Evolution as well. Driveclub being the best looking game ever, those devs were f-ing magicians.

Agree about the FPS. If given as much attention and love as e.g. God of War and Horizon Zero Dawn, it'd be really interesting to see them tackle the FPS genre again.



DonFerrari said:

What is taking you this long?

I don't how you do it you people, I need some time before completing the game.



Keiji said:
DonFerrari said:

What is taking you this long?

I don't how you do it you people, I need some time before completing the game.

some people have plenty of free time, they are lucky...don't worry ;)



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