Spiderman 2 Discussion Thread OT

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Hoe Law is one of the most insufferable Microsoft shills out there..... him and Florian controlled the entire narrative around the ABK deal and worked overtime to convince everyone that there was nothing wrong with it and anyone against it hates gaming.

Spot on, he is a terrible terrible Xbox fanboy, he still thought Xbox could and should buy more publishers after Activision.... said as much on one of Colins shows on LSM.

He did nothing but hate on GOW Ragnarok. Him, Florian and Destin have surrounded themselves with the most toxic Xbox fanboys and revel in it.
They embrace it.
 

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Spot on, he is a terrible terrible Xbox fanboy, he still thought Xbox could and should buy more publishers after Activision.... said as much on one of Colins shows on LSM.

He did nothing but hate on GOW Ragnarok. Him, Florian and Destin have surrounded themselves with the most toxic Xbox fanboys and revel in it.
They embrace it.
Idk why Colin entertains these clowns, they act completely different and sound so fake when they go on his show. And yeah Hoe law is a regular on Colteastwoods podcast 🤦‍♂️ and people expect him to be taken seriously.
 

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Played 2 hours Friday night. The beginning is fuego and the haptic feedback feels amazing. The city feels more dense with added NPCs and traffic. They took traversal and cranked it up by 10 with the web glide, new traversal skills, and slingshot spots. Love how side missions don't appear on the map and that you have to scan the district to see the missions.
 

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Idk why Colin entertains these clowns, they act completely different and sound so fake when they go on his show. And yeah Hoe law is a regular on Colteastwoods podcast 🤦‍♂️ and people expect him to be taken seriously.
Reminds me of when Geoff Keighley introduced us to Michael Patcher back during the Bonus Round days of Gametrailers.com. These fake ass experts who don't cover the game industry in their field yet get a platform to speak on the industry and get use as sources by the media. Fucking joke.
 
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So Hogg Law is now a gaming connoisseur?
He has been for several years. Iirc his brother works at actiblizz and I never got the sense that he was big time anti-Sony until the ABK deal so I think he's compromised now, same as the judge in thr FTC case.
 
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Disappointed to see Insomniac put the KindaFunny clowns in their game when these dudes started a hate campaign against PSVR2.... Labeling it dead and a flop less than 2 months after release before Sony even released sales numbers for it. Sony is always rewarding people that bash their brand

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So you want Kinda Funny to be like a cable news propaganda channel, that only spews positive news about a brand and doesn’t tell you the truth and keep it real? Like many Xbox channels do? PSVR 2 is a great piece of tech, but it’s expensive and Sony has no real 1st party roadmap for it. It seems like Sony is banking on 3rd party developers to carry it. Colin Moriarty is a huge PS fan but he criticizes the brand when need be. I would rather have that, than these Xbox Zealots that are in the media that are telling you how great GamePass is doing, when it’s not.
 

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I played for about 2 hours. The visuals look insane, I noticed the improvements right away. I was kind of overwhelmed by all the new moves, gadgets and everything on the screen. It's like the biggest technical achievement since FF16 😲

The wingsuit is awesome!!

I just beat the game, my new game of the year and now one of my favorite 1st party games 🔥🔥🔥 Gonna go for the platinum tomorrow.
How is that possible. I can't play those long sessions anymore, my mind always gets distracted. I'm glad you liked it 😁
 

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Was falling asleep last night and planned to check this out for a few minutes before today, and I ended up gaming for three hours, wide awake.

This just seems like a killer app in every way for the PS5, with the constant SSD-high speed stuff being the best of the bunch, and touching everything right down to the absolutely thrilling web-slinging speed.

But the story and game itself just seem evolved and refined from the first game in all the right ways. I just couldn’t put it down. It was that fun. The web-slinging is simple but amazing feeling, the combat is honed and spot on, and the set pieces are just like the best, most climatic, exciting ending sequences you could imagine in a movie except we’re only just getting started.

I am delighted.
I haven’t played it yet. But it seems like it’s going to be very hard to go back to the first one and Miles Morales after playing this one. It seems like this one is a very big leap, from a gameplay prospective.
 
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So you want Kinda Funny to be like a cable news propaganda channel, that only spews positive news about a brand and doesn’t tell you the truth and keep it real? Like many Xbox channels do? PSVR 2 is a great piece of tech, but it’s expensive and Sony has no real 1st party roadmap for it. It seems like Sony is banking on 3rd party developers to carry it. Colin Moriarty is a huge PS fan but he criticizes the brand when need be. I would rather have that, than these Xbox Zealots that are in the media that are telling you how great GamePass is doing, when it’s not.
Are you trolling? Please explain to me how calling a product a failure only 6 weeks after launch is "telling the truth and keeping it real" ? With ZERO sales data or any other relevant info.....I'll wait. If they said it was trash that's one thing, but they were saying it was dead, it flopped, and that there was no support....SIX WEEKS after launch. They even admitted that they didn't play many of the launch titles, and it had a great launch line up 🤦‍♂️ FFS look at the comments on that video and everyone is roasting them and rightfully so. I don't know why you're bringing up Colin, I have no issue with Sony criticism, look at my post history and you'll see plenty 🤡 I have an issue with spreading misinformation, propaganda, and trying to speed up the death of a brand new product when Sony is already reluctant to take risks. Especially coming from the person constantly crying about the death of the Vita and says he wished people would've supported it more, he's trying to create the same fate for the PSVR2. And you talk about roadmaps while saying you don't want to be like Xbox zealots...that's literally what they do, harp on about pointless roadmaps with release dates 5+ years away, no thanks. The first 7 months of PSVR2 already has more games than PSVR1 did in its first 2 years, I do wish there was more 1st party stuff but they take time, it's brand new tech and they already gave us COTM and GT7 VR this year. Nothing wrong with banking on 3rd party developers early on in the life of a system, we're getting RE4 Remake VR soon which is looking like it'll be the best VR game (ever).
 

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How is that possible. I can't play those long sessions anymore, my mind always gets distracted. I'm glad you liked it 😁
I started playing it right when the game came out at midnight, well I overslept a little but yeah I played right after release. I loved it so much I couldn't put the controller down and was playing in 6-10 hour stretches. I did just enough side quests to max out peter/miles respective skill trees but didn't put many points in the shared tree, and I maxed out damage. Gonna do the rest of the side content tomorrow and get the platinum.
 
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I feel like this is more of a discussion on gaming as a whole, but since it's also SM2-relevant...

What genuinely awful takes.

That fat fucking porker Hog Slaw is one KFC family bucket away from another heart attack.

Motherfucker is fused to his couch and he has the audacity to talk about something else being 'momentum free' smh.
 
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Completed, got the platinum in 31 hours. Great experience from start to finish.
Hands down Insomniac is Sonys best studio.


Till next time gents.
Nope it’s still ND for me. I know people are mad at ND right now, because of the Factions issue and lack of output. But Insomniac needs to make an original great IP before I can even consider thet.
 
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