Yeah, this is kind of what I wanted to get into but couldn’t really figure out how to say at the time - there are tons of comic characters that are basically indistinguishable from tons of generic video game characters (cyclops, wolverine, captain america, etc), and on the other hand there are tons of comic book characters who have cool powers but you can’t translate them to video games without making them stupid generic video game abilities (like how could you turn professor x or aquaman or even ant man into a game without taking away everything about them that is actually interesting)
so spider-man is in that weird zone where his powers are more or less unique, but are also relatively easy to translate into video game verbs
the peter tingle (as i now prefer to call it) is the only one that feels very unnaturally compressed when it appears in video games, but i thought the ps4 one just treating it as the dodge indicator worked fine
And the Aquaman movie proved that moving through the water is basically like Superman flying through the air. Professor X game would be a kind of Watchdogs 3 sort of thing where when you wear cerebro you can spy on everyone in the world psychically. Ant Man is just a big/small game where you walk into a room then shrink to tiny size and now the space is transformed into a crazy platforming level.
Well, yeah, in the AAA space they’d need an established name and probably a decent tech demo behind them. I could see it happening but I agree it’s a moonshot.
the twitter reaction to these sony/disney negotiations are great at showing how truly deranged fan culture has become. seem to remember a time when fans used to hate the companies that made the things they liked and, quite frequently, even the creative teams involved (and occasionally every aspect about the thing they’re ostensibly fans of) and now it’s pitch warfare over corporate earnings.
Oh yeah, the number of people calling for Sony to lose the rights to make a Spider-Man sequel (game, but hey, film, too) is wild.
I saw some people say the negotiations were originally that Disney got a 5% cut, and Sony got 95%, but Disney also got all the merchandise earnings, which if the whole Star Wars/Harrison Ford deal taught us anything, should have been plenty! They argued for 50/50 and Sony walked.
Anyway, Spider-Man (the game!) reviewed and sold absurdly well, and I’m sure the deal there is different, so the idea they’d rip the rug out from under them on it doesn’t make a lot of sense.
I dunno, maybe Disney gives Activision back the license for a hot minute and I can can finally get my Steam key for Shattered Dimensions from Humble.
(That, or they get to re-release Web of Shadows, the second best Spider-Man game ever made.)
Funny you guys mention it because over the weekend I rolled the dice on a Web of Shadows torrent. I’ve ran it and fiddled with the settings and so far I don’t think my computer has been hijacked by ransomware so I’m going to keep rolling.
Web of Shadows is a great beat-em up. I also have Ultimate Spider-man as well.
I would be surprised if disney doesn’t swallow their pride on this one and work something out. they have too much wrapped up in Holland’s Spidey. the MCU fans are livid, just wait til they realize it isn’t Sony that’s fucking them here
Probably not! They might’ve done this as a pavlovian mind control stunt to get the public to hate Sony so much that they DEMAND that Galactus Mouse just buy out their film division
absolutely fucking wild that people are stumping for marvel’s divine right to the spider-man character. breaking up disney and reverting back to pre-76 copyright law needs to become a policy point for 2020.
alternately I think we should actually start legislatively treating corporations as nation states because it’s probably more realistic than treating them as people
Now I’m just picturing a bootleg live action spider verse movie done a la the 60s Casino Royale, with Maguire and Garfield and Holland plus like Andy Dick for some reason all playing different Peter Parkers
throw in Shameik Moore as live action Miles Morales and the rest of the animated Spider-verse cast as well, hell