Wolverine may actually have been a flop

The Deluxe Edition is also 25% off right now on the PS store (so $59.99 instead of $79.99).

Maybe they shouldnt have made Logan a female to male troon and sabertooths bottom and the game might have sold better

They made 1 good spider man, 1 passable spinoff that was basically dlc, spiderman 2 was atrocious. Anyone watching that decline in quality shouldve been prepared for just how truly terrible this game was

Which was your favorite part of being a friendly neighborhood Spider-Man? The mission where you paint blm graffiti as a deaf black girl? Or how about the side quest where you make sure two gay High schoolers go to prom together?

The game is hilarious woke to a comical degree almost like it is a parody.

The main story had potential and could’ve been good if they had just focused down on one main thing. Either venom or the hunter. Instead it gets spread way too thin


The gameplay is still excellent I’ll admit and even improved but they had already built an excellent foundation in Spider-Man 1

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Which was your favorite part of being a friendly neighborhood Spider-Man? The mission where you paint blm graffiti as a deaf black girl? Or how about the side quest where you make sure two gay High schoolers go to prom together?

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Jesus. I’m glad I never got around to buying this trash

Just to put it into perspective

Spiderman sold 23 million
Spiderman 2 sold 18 million

Wolverine putting up 2.5 is absolutely pitiful.

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nobody was asking for a Wolverine game

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If done well, like Spider-Man, it would have crushed it. (Didn’t play SM2)

It was not done well and had Sweet Baby, Inc. all over it.

I refuse to spend money on a game like that.

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You can have some woke aspects, but solid gameplay and story will overcome that. You can have some lackluster gameplay, but a good story can diffuse at least some of it.

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People will forgive a tremendous amount of things if a few things are in place, nameplay good engaging gameplay/combat system and a narrative that is worth following along AND/OR an interesting world with good world building and exploration. Ideally you want both of the latter but if a game has a weak story or in a case like Skyrim for example basically no story at all if the good world building and rewarding fun exploration in place people won’t mind. Nailing both of these things in tandem at a very high level are how you get 9/10 or 10/10 type of games. Claire obscure, Witcher 3, Phantom Blade Zero imo, etc.

One of the biggest issues western AAA runs into isn’t just that the games are woke, which is annoying and off putting to people. It’s that the type of people that populate that Millue by consequence of their world view and priorities almost always, without even setting out to in most cases, aren’t capable of delivering those things even if/when they want to.

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they just weren't asking for that Wolverine game.

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i said all along. .

A wolverine game should be like a Nier/DMC-style hack and slash, or a Noir crime game like Judgement (but in Madripoor)

Making it a GoW skin was dumb af

The game shouldve had a combat system that works at its foundational level like Stellar blade

There are combo strings you can do and a few branches off each one of them for a total of like 10 combo strings and a branch off of each. Not as complex or deep as DMC can be but enough depth to provide a solid combat system to dig into. I think this fits a superhero game better than one like Bayonetta or DMC.

None of these studios have any idea what the frick theyre doing at all though, and im so sick of hearing the "its the evil suits faults!" excuse trotted out there. Execs green light a game and might give you a frame work, theyre not sitting in the writing room or over the shoulder of a level designer, or telling the art team to make all games have as much purple as possible.

The devs just suck at their jobs. This is why over 50% of the industry is using Unreal engine 5, well one of the reasons, because its easy to use relatively speaking and many studios are full of devs who wouldnt have any idea how to make a game in a custom engine. To be fair im speaking generally, Insomniac actually does use their own engine they built.