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Are you interested in Square Enix's Marvel's Avengers?

  • Yes

    Votes: 10 2.9%
  • No

    Votes: 55 15.8%
  • Fuck No.

    Votes: 284 81.4%

  • Total voters
    349
Tried it out and it got boring pretty fast. Also it's a pet peeve of mine when a game centers around loot but your character doesn't change appearance, but they have to sell those skins so whatever.
still beats looking like an assclown when you have to wear random trash for the stat upgrades (additionally here the issue is that you can only change the iconic look so much).

item grinder without wardrobe system when it's affect appearance is crap most of the time.

The same thing that killed every other failed Destiny clone - tepid gameplay and a litany of repetitive side quests that put players into an extremely boring grind to make any progress.
so why do people still play destiny then...?

Honestly if they just made it a straight forward adventure game with separate "campaigns" for each of the major heroes and stripped out 90% of the microtransaction-related material it would have printed money.
which would mean 90% less income on paper and people dropping it after they finished each campaign. that's not how a live service game works.
 
so why do people still play destiny then...?

which would mean 90% less income on paper and people dropping it after they finished each campaign. that's not how a live service game works.
Re: point 1, I don't personally see the appeal, but from what I understand the gameplay loop is really fun and the grind is low-key enough to get invested in.
Re: point 2, every live service game is great on paper, which is why everyone goes for it, but it's also a semi-cornered market damn difficult for interlopers to usurp. The litany of failed looter shooters is starting to strongly resemble the era of repeated failed WOW-killers in the late 00's and 2010's.
 
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How in gods name did they manage to fuck this up? Basic AAA game with the core Marvel characters ought to be a license to print money.

They probably saw that people were fanboying over garbage like Agents of SHIELD, Runaways and the Netflix shows and figured retarded MCU fans would buy into anything.

They probably would have been right had they actually released the game between 2016 and 2019. The fact they missed releasing it with the big conclusion to the MCU's 10 year mark by a whole fucking year certainly didn't do them any favors.
 
Gave it a fair chance, but left me completely cold. Absolutely no attachment to Kamala - and a peppy teenager who writes fan fiction being the catalyst for the Avengers getting back together will never not be hysterical - and I didn't feel engaged by the story. Even the main mystery of Captain America's death is rendered moot by the fucking title screen.

It's not even entertainingly bad. Just depressingly mediocre.
 
Re: point 1, I don't personally see the appeal, but from what I understand the gameplay loop is really fun and the grind is low-key enough to get invested in.
Re: point 2, every live service game is great on paper, which is why everyone goes for it, but it's also a semi-cornered market damn difficult for interlopers to usurp. The litany of failed looter shooters is starting to strongly resemble the era of repeated failed WOW-killers in the late 00's and 2010's.
eh, that shit was egregious back when I was still playing, and that was before they removed like 2/3 of the game to give people reason to grind for grind's sake. even fucking division 1 was a better looter shooter after 1.6.

as for copycats, that always happens, remember the rts boom, the fps boom, the moba boom, the battle royale boom asf. sadly most of them fail because the most effort is spend on being a copycat, not being a good game in it's own right. however, considering that not every game was complete dogshit but they still failed since quality alone doesn't sell anymore, too many dumb players looking to play PRODUCT of the devstudio BRAND by CORPORATION, what's the point?
 
Lol, they're adding XP boosters now, because of course they are.

This game is just one big grift, and it deserves to never recover.

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Kinda glad this turned out the way it did - all the hype and shit seemed unfounded even when the first trailer was shown. It went from tank-grown Hulk with Wolverine claws being teased to...well, whatever hybrid of MCU filth you can call this, and with such a huge amount of paywalling over a pathetically small cast, it deserved to fail.

I wonder if Gotham Knights will learn anything before it releases to avoid a similar fate.
 
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I'm honestly surprised this abomination of a game is still active. Are there really enough people playing it for them to be releasing new "content"?
 
I'm honestly surprised this abomination of a game is still active. Are there really enough people playing it for them to be releasing new "content"?
Much like all the WOW clones that this looter shooter trend is reminiscent of, there's been enough companies who turned things around after a bad start for like 3 times as many studios to keep throwing good money after bad, in the misguided hope they too can accomplish that.
 
I'm honestly surprised this abomination of a game is still active. Are there really enough people playing it for them to be releasing new "content"?

There are enough MCU Fanboys to keep it running for now I'm sure. No idea if it is profitable in anyway or not, but enough to keep it running.

Hell, had this released in 2012-2013 I might have bought it and kept playing it a year in. I stuck with GTA Online for about 5 years. Maybe it was just me, but I think people are kind of dumb until around 26.
 
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