I just loved the gameplay in Anthem. Not particularly the loop, the grinding, the enemy “variety” or mission design. But the base of it all, the flying and hovering and fighting. Especially the idea of turning the common formula around by making the combat ability focused with guns being more like support items, instead of focusing on shooting and using your abilities in between (like in Destiny 2 or The Division, for example).
The game really is the prime example of “wasted potential” when it comes to video games.
I just wish it would’ve been developed by a company with more experience in online multi-player games and released by a publisher that’s less egregiously openly focused on maximizing profit above everything else like EA.
Please, in the name of everything holy, not another Super Hero Comic property. Marvel fatigue is a thing and I really can’t be assed to voluntarily expose myself to any more Red/Golden Exo-suits, lightning channeling Vikings, spandex wearing human arachnids, Frisbee throwing patriots, talking raccoons, people with all the neon bright skin colors of Las Vegas at night and endless, pointless, aneurism triggering technobabble.
I’m completely fine with the cheesy superhero aesthetic part of it, but imo the whole thing needs a reset. The MCU has gotten too big and unwieldy and is getting bogged down by trying to stick to all the canon and characters established by even its worst films. I used to watch every one, but it started falling apart for me after Spiderman: No Way Home (or far from home? Whichever was the first one. Stupid titles imo). Shiang-chi was good though, even though it had some of the blatantly obviously cute-cgi-animal-for-toys aspects.
Guardians of the Galaxy, and Thor recently, especially I’m still alright with because it doesn’t try to pretend to be anything but what it is. I feel like the pseudo-80s space setting makes them feel like they can be fully and shamelessly over-the-top and playful, vs trying to make yet another semi-serious emotional epic somehow combined with zingers.
I am tired of the quippy one liner humor in general in these movies though.
Everything Everywhere All At Once blew Dr. Strange sky high out of the water as a multiverse movie (as well as, well, everything else). That might as well be a superhero/comic books movie.
I guess I just want a big shakeup and some more originality, less concern with the huge Cinematic Universe deal.
Now I’m talking myself around to thinking maybe it would actually be best for superhero movies if we booted marvel entirely and brought in independant comics as a basis instead.
Also I agree about the technobabble. A little handwavium for ship like FTL is fine, but generally I could so without all the hacking tropes and whatnot these days.
I just loved the gameplay in Anthem. Not particularly the loop, the grinding, the enemy “variety” or mission design. But the base of it all, the flying and hovering and fighting. Especially the idea of turning the common formula around by making the combat ability focused with guns being more like support items, instead of focusing on shooting and using your abilities in between (like in Destiny 2 or The Division, for example).
The game really is the prime example of “wasted potential” when it comes to video games.
I just wish it would’ve been developed by a company with more experience in online multi-player games and released by a publisher that’s less egregiously openly focused on maximizing profit above everything else like EA.
Actually many people enjoyed the flying in Anthem. Let’s hope they take it and make some other game with it. Maybe a single-player iron man game?
Please, in the name of everything holy, not another Super Hero Comic property. Marvel fatigue is a thing and I really can’t be assed to voluntarily expose myself to any more Red/Golden Exo-suits, lightning channeling Vikings, spandex wearing human arachnids, Frisbee throwing patriots, talking raccoons, people with all the neon bright skin colors of Las Vegas at night and endless, pointless, aneurism triggering technobabble.
I’m completely fine with the cheesy superhero aesthetic part of it, but imo the whole thing needs a reset. The MCU has gotten too big and unwieldy and is getting bogged down by trying to stick to all the canon and characters established by even its worst films. I used to watch every one, but it started falling apart for me after Spiderman: No Way Home (or far from home? Whichever was the first one. Stupid titles imo). Shiang-chi was good though, even though it had some of the blatantly obviously cute-cgi-animal-for-toys aspects.
Guardians of the Galaxy, and Thor recently, especially I’m still alright with because it doesn’t try to pretend to be anything but what it is. I feel like the pseudo-80s space setting makes them feel like they can be fully and shamelessly over-the-top and playful, vs trying to make yet another semi-serious emotional epic somehow combined with zingers.
I am tired of the quippy one liner humor in general in these movies though.
Everything Everywhere All At Once blew Dr. Strange sky high out of the water as a multiverse movie (as well as, well, everything else). That might as well be a superhero/comic books movie.
I guess I just want a big shakeup and some more originality, less concern with the huge Cinematic Universe deal.
Now I’m talking myself around to thinking maybe it would actually be best for superhero movies if we booted marvel entirely and brought in independant comics as a basis instead.
Also I agree about the technobabble. A little handwavium for ship like FTL is fine, but generally I could so without all the hacking tropes and whatnot these days.
It doesn’t have to be connected to MCU. Insomniac’s Spider-man games are very good. Super hero games, done well, still has an audience, I believe.