Spider-Man Catch-All

JeremyK wrote:

Unlocking suits over gadgets really only matters if you care about trophies right? Gadgets seem more useful and I really don't care about trophies at all.

Well each suit also comes with a suit power, and the suit powers are pretty powerful.

thrawn82 wrote:
JeremyK wrote:

Unlocking suits over gadgets really only matters if you care about trophies right? Gadgets seem more useful and I really don't care about trophies at all.

Well each suit also comes with a suit power, and the suit powers are pretty powerful.

It just seemed like after unlocking Web Blossom I'd never want to switch it out. Seems so good.

Yeah suit powers over gadgets.

And some of the gadgets upgrades are basic like "more ammo".

Unlock the gadget itself sure. But upgrades are hit and miss.

Also don't get too blinkered about some single gadget or suit power. That's one of the things i really liked about the 'bonus objectives' in a lot of the street challenges. it incentivised me to learn and use a whole range of powers and techniques i might not otherwise have tried.

I don't remember what Web Blossom did, but once I unlocked the one that let you electrify enemies with your punches, I basically used that until the very end of the game and the rapid refill power.

web blossom is the spin move that webs everyone around you. It's definitly top teir. i used a lot of electric punch too, and the one the keeps you from having combos interupted

Evan E wrote:
Hobbes2099 wrote:

...Insomniac's Spider-Man gameplay and mechanics made it more fun to BE Spider-Man than to see a story ABOUT Spider-Man.

I wouldn't go with "more", myself; the mechanics are great, and a big part of the games appeal outside of the story, but I also thought the story was great, and easily the best story of any Spider-Man game I've ever played. Pretty much the definition of a win-win.

I would agree this is the best Spider-Man story I've ever consumed; second to Spiderverse.

And still, I prefer "grinding" to Spider-Man-esque stuff than to see how the story unfolds.
I'm now going for N+ the the second-to-last difficulty and enjoying the extra bit of difficulty it brings.

thrawn82 wrote:
Stele wrote:

Have you seen Into the Spider Verse? Because that was hands down the best movie of 2018.

I guess i should have been more specific. It;s the best Peter Parker story i've experienced. Spiderverse is a very very very good, but it's a miles morales story, and peter parker in the movie is a bit distasteful.

I especially love that both have their own mini-meta and are both connected enough to be familiar but different enough to tell their own version of the mythos.

Spider-bro is the best.

Just finished this game and... weirdly, the last third felt like a total nose dive in comparison to the rest of the game. The boss battles were tedious as all hell. Decent fun overall, the second to last suit to unlock caused me to literally laugh until I cried a little... but basically from the “twist” which wasn’t much of one to the end started feeling more and more like a grind than any fun.

Demosthenes wrote:

Just finished this game and... weirdly, the last third felt like a total nose dive in comparison to the rest of the game. The boss battles were tedious as all hell. Decent fun overall, the second to last suit to unlock caused me to literally laugh until I cried a little... but basically from the “twist” which wasn’t much of one to the end started feeling more and more like a grind than any fun.

Eh, that's every open world game. At some point, you have to get to the story parts which are more linear. This is why I haven't finish RDR2 or Horizon yet. Spiderman is just lucky he's Spiderman.

Agree, the end petered out (pun intended) a bit.
I bought the DLC. I hope the quality of stories recover.

I thought the ending was pretty good if overly dramatic.
I did hate that

Spoiler:

everyone seems to know Peter's"secret" identity.

He doesn't exactly try to hide it that well.

Just from the opening cutscene, his landlord and neighbors in all directions have to know.

cube wrote:

He doesn't exactly try to hide it that well.

Just from the opening cutscene, his landlord and neighbors in all directions have to know.

I'm so annoyed I can't find a copy of the Rock as Clark Kent skit from SNL.

cube wrote:

He doesn't exactly try to hide it that well.

Just from the opening cutscene, his landlord and neighbors in all directions have to know.

I'm so annoyed I can't find a copy of the Rock as Clark Kent skit from SNL.

lunchbox12682 wrote:
cube wrote:

He doesn't exactly try to hide it that well.

Just from the opening cutscene, his landlord and neighbors in all directions have to know.

I'm so annoyed I can't find a copy of the Rock as Clark Kent skit from SNL.

https://www.nbc.com/saturday-night-l...

Let's be honest, the only one who doesn't know his identity is the Kingpin, and that's entirely just for plot reasons. All of the underlings know because someone's cousin's girlfriend's aunt's sister's ex-brother-in-law saw him jump out of his apartment. They don't tell him because they think it's too obvious to say.

I grabbed this on the sale, and I'm digging it so far. The traversal is fantastic. My toddler somehow knows who Spider Man is, and I told him I have a Spider Man game, so now he asks to watch me play, which means I sometimes have an extra excuse to.

I'm finding I'm having a hard time with the combat. I probably just haven't really gotten in the groove yet, but I die a fair amount on normal difficulty. It's probably related that I'm having a generally hard time remembering the different controls. Probably because I've been playing in small chunks, so it tutorializes something, I play for a few minutes past that, then put it down for a few days, and forget. I'm sure it'll get better, and if nothing else, I can drop to easy.

Should I be spending backpack tokens on anything except suits? I like playing dress up, so I want all the suits, but since there's a limited number of backpacks to find, I don't want to spend tokens on gadget upgrades and find out I'm short for suits later.

Yeah suits are priority, for achievements, for fun, and for style

Backpack tokens aren’t what will hold you back. There are enough backpack and landmark tokens to cover all the upgrades. Same with research tokens — if you do all the research stations, you’ll have enough research tokens to cover everything.

The ones that really bottleneck you are challenge tokens, and (to a lesser extent) base and crime tokens. For each of these, you get rewarded based on how well you do. If you ace everything you will get enough tokens to cover all upgrades, but I found the Taskmaster Challenges, in particular, difficult to ace.

The new suits debuting in Spider-Man: Far From Home just got added. I figured we'd be waiting for the sequel to get them.

I like how they have continued to add suits to the game post launch. It’s nice to see those little touches still being added this long after the game launched.

Mantid wrote:

I like how they have continued to add suits to the game post launch. It’s nice to see those little touches still being added this long after the game launched.

I know, I was thinking that same thing this morning. Now I will have to download the game again to jet around New York with the new suits. Its a good problem to have.

Sweet. Another reason to get back to the dlc.

So I just had it check for updates, and it says I need to free up 7.4gb of space to download it. I've got 32gb free already. What in God's name is taking up so much space to add two new suits?

Last time I updated it was 2 or 3 dlc that I hadn't installed yet. Took a lot of space

I believe the PS4 also requires free space equal to twice the download size.

It wound up only downloading 350mb. It did some unpacking operation, but I have no clue why it insisted on more free space.

The PS4 really has some crappy memory handling, and is also terrible at telling you accurate download sizes.

If this had come out when I fired it up again a month or so ago, it would have been my forever Spidey suit:

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