Spider-Man Catch-All

Did I miss a new thread for SP:MM or is this it?

Liking it so far, but I worry it seems short.

lunchbox12682 wrote:

Did I miss a new thread for SP:MM or is this it?

I asked the same thing a couple weeks ago. Looks like this is it.

Excited to start it in a few days. Tempted to go ahead and buy to play on PS4 this weekend until I can pickup my PS5. But that seems silly I think.

For anybody playing on PS4, how does it perform? I'm not going to get a PS5 anytime soon so if performs as well as the original Spider-Man, or close to it, I'll probably get it on PS4.

I haven't played it myself, but Jeff Cannata of DLC said he was actually a little underwhelmed by the PS5 version once he switched to that after playing a good chunk on PS4. The PS5 version adds small fillips of ray tracing and lighting improvements (or that buttery-smooth 60fps option), but the PS4 version already looks and plays fantastically.

It's not like Spider-Man was bad on PS4. HDR and everything, it was already a great looking game.

I'm playing on PS4 pro. Other than remembering the controls, my only issue is the faces look weeks now. The change to Peter is especially bad, but there's some weird uncanny valley thing happening that I don't remember from the last one.

Just wrapped Miles Morales. Loved the story and the performances. I also appreciated it was a smaller game.

I'm looking forward to it so much... but I want to play it with ray tracing and whatnot so... it looks like i'll get to play sometime q3 of next year thanks to scalpers and folks buying multiple ps5s for themselves during the supply drought.

LastSurprise wrote:

For anybody playing on PS4, how does it perform? I'm not going to get a PS5 anytime soon so if performs as well as the original Spider-Man, or close to it, I'll probably get it on PS4.

I am playing now on the ps4 and it is great. Plays just like the original game - smooth with quick loading.

I'm playing! Seem to be about halfway through, and enjoying it so far. Boyfriend picked up the Remastered version and is struggling, which reminded me of how rough the beginning can be. I'm thankful that I don't seem to be struggling to recall the combat moves or how stealth works (both feel a bit funky compared to other action games I'm used to).

I still hadn't finished the 3rd DLC. So I thought I would mop that up before starting Miles.

So damn frustrating. Vehicle chase with a jet, faster than any other chase in the game. Screwball with the shortest bomb timer ever, also with a vehicle. Just acres and acres of enemies with sable tech battle suits, batons, whips... it's exhausting. I am using gadgets and suit power left and right and still getting overwhelmed sometimes. I really just want it to be over, so I can move my save and get the trophies on PS5 too, and not ever play the DLC again. I may 100% the main story again on PS5 just to enjoy the upgrade, but I'm pretty sure I will never touch DLC stuff again.

I just did the 2nd DLC a couple months ago and it was not this hard.

I didn’t mind the story stuff in the DLC but some of the challenges are just stupid hard. I didn’t find them that enjoyable as a result.

I skipped the DLC due to middling reviews. Didn't seem necessary.

Yeah, I skipped it, but I guess I have it because I got the Miles Morales bundle with Spider-Man Remastered included. I still have no urge to try out the DLC, but Miles Morales gave me what I wanted from a Spidey NY revisit.

I heard the DLC was middling but I ended up really enjoying it. There were some fantastic chases and moments where you had to fight a load of people whilst trying to stop them from completing a task which added a welcome extra element to those fight. The DLC isn’t a must play but it was a hell of a lot more fun than I’d been led to believe.

Also, it was more Spider-Man for someone who is trying to resist playing Miles Morales until he allows himself to buy a PS5.

I'm waiting to I get a few free moments to dig into this (on PS4). Between the holidays, being a stay-at-home dad, and applying for jobs, I haven't had really a moment to myself in months.

Hope you enjoy it when you do. I wasn’t sure about the game early on but, in the end, I adored it.

I definitely found the DLC fun, though less good than the main game. The story was interesting, though it felt a little disjointed across all three segments (especially between the first one and the next two).

My big complaint was all of the brutes with miniguns. A few of these for the story would have been fine, but the game leaned too heavily on this specific enemy to provide combat challenges -- especially in the bases. I knocked the difficulty down at the end because I was real tired of being gunned down in wave 6, just as I was getting close to finishing.

LastSurprise wrote:

My big complaint was all of the brutes with miniguns. A few of these for the story would have been fine, but the game leaned too heavily on this specific enemy to provide combat challenges -- especially in the bases. I knocked the difficulty down at the end because I was real tired of being gunned down in wave 6, just as I was getting close to finishing.

Yeah I posted my complaint after dying on Wave 4/5 of a base over and over for 30 minutes, making no progress. Just way too frustrating. Maybe I should try the difficulty thing. At one point I was looking in my suit gear wondering how much damage is stopped by some of those items. Those flying shield guys that leave a trail of electricity everywhere, the whip guys, the stun batons, just so many elite enemies all at once, it's not fun.

I had a great time with each of the three DLC episodes. I did come to them swiftly following the main game, though, meaning my skills were less likely to atrophy.

I got a lot of mileage from the electrical shock webbing, the attack drone, and them web bombs. I think, possibly, there was an upgrade to web kick, or web swing, or air suspend brutes. Possibly two of those three. I forget.

Definitely had a hiccup with one of the Screwball challenges. It almost drove me mad!

I did acquire a Platinum trophy on the main game and a 100% on each DLC. That is rare indeed.

Yet to get around to Miles Morales, mind you. The price was a shock when it seemed to be pegged as a DLC rather than a sequel. There was also a review that initially cooled my interest before reconsideration for "I do not appreciate that fiction can be separate from and set apart from reality" to rekindle positive intrigue once more.

I may wait out a PS5. Maybe. Possibly.

Putting this in here because I can't be arsed to search for a more appropriate thread, and this one seems appropriate enough.

Anybody want a free Movies Anywhere digital code for Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse? I bought it digitally when it first came out but then decided I wanted needed it on 4K Blu-Ray, so I have a 2nd digital code.

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So I finished the last DLC, and boy was that an interesting side story.

Thought I had 100% since I got all the suits. But lo, there's a trophy in each DLC for getting the medium grade or better on Screwball challenges. Apparently I got it on one but not the other 2.

Hm... do I waste another few minutes cleaning that up before transferring my save so I can get the trophies on both PS4 and PS5? I dunno...

I really want to start Miles Morales. I was also worried if I bought and installed digital Miles (Ultimate) it would want to install the PS5 Spider-Man too, so I hadn't actually bought it yet. Didn't want to end up with 2 versions of Spider-Man installed. Is that a problem or is it a separate install?

Who can tell what Sony's store will give you; it really feels like spinning a roulette wheel. I got the Ultimate version, which offered the Remaster as a download - I think when I downloaded it I only got the PS5 version, but I've had such varying experiences it's hard to remember. So far the rule of thumb seems to be that it won't download the version you want, instead downloading the other; I guess Sony really wants to distinguish themselves from Microsoft's "Smart Delivery".

Well yeah I saw somewhere (maybe this thread?) about people getting the PS4 version of Miles installed. And I know one article I was reading said not to install both PS4/5 versions of the same game, although I don't know why. Maybe it was just hard drive space or something.

Guess I should just buy it and see

Stele wrote:

So I finished the last DLC, and boy was that an interesting side story.

Thought I had 100% since I got all the suits. But lo, there's a trophy in each DLC for getting the medium grade or better on Screwball challenges. Apparently I got it on one but not the other 2.

Hm... do I waste another few minutes cleaning that up before transferring my save so I can get the trophies on both PS4 and PS5? I dunno...

I really want to start Miles Morales. I was also worried if I bought and installed digital Miles (Ultimate) it would want to install the PS5 Spider-Man too, so I hadn't actually bought it yet. Didn't want to end up with 2 versions of Spider-Man installed. Is that a problem or is it a separate install?

They are separate downloads. I bought the whole thing and have only downloaded Miles on my PS5 so far.

So I think I am about half-way through the story on MM. Some quick thoughts.

-I am glad that they didn't hold off on the reveals. I know who Tinkerer is, I know who Prowler is. Don't make me play the entire game pretending not to know, for example, that Otto Octavius becomes Dr. Octopus.

-I like the story so far. Though I feel like it is a bit of a retelling of the first story with Spider-Man caught between the terrorists and the fascists. I hope that they do something better than the first game, but with what Austin Walker and Gita Jackson have said, I doubt it.

-This plays like more Spider-Man. The combat is a bit different, the animation is a bit different, but it is more Spider-Man. And I like it.

-This is better than the 3 DLC packs, which were also more Spider-Man. Maybe this is Spidey Plus?

-I miss web blossom.

-Troy Baker's Simon Kreiger is one of the best sh*t-heels in video games. Norman Osborne could take a lesson.

-I am playing this on my launch PS4 and it runs surprisingly well. I hope one day I may have a PS5 and can see what it looks like there, but I don't see that happening for a while.

-I like traversing the world (like I said, still Spider-Man). I am trying to get through the story and then will try to do clean up.

-Did I mention I miss web blossom?

UpToIsomorphism wrote:

-Did I mention I miss web blossom?

Oh yeah I tried some others but that is the suit power I went back to and kept forever on the first game. It was so effective, bosses, mobs, anything... really the best.

Spider-Man: Miles Morales patch lets you play at 60 fps with ray tracing

Polygon wrote:

Until now, PS5 players had to choose between Fidelity mode, which runs in native 4K resolution at 30 fps with ray tracing, or Performance mode, which drops the resolution and visual fidelity (and eliminates ray tracing) to deliver 60 fps gameplay. The in-game description for Performance RT mode suggests that it entails some further compromises to the graphics — it adds ray tracing “by adjusting the scene resolution, reflection quality, and pedestrian density” — which makes sense.

That's Miles Morales rolling the credits as I write this. All in all apart from being very familiar it was a great time. The character development isn't quite there because of the short length of the main campaign & the villian/s definitely fall short of Spiderman 2018's cast.

The positives though, the stealth & venom powers genuinely add a new layer to combat. When the likes of the venom smash connect or you time the mega venom blast it feels like power fantasy at its finest. Going invisible, jumping down onto a crowded floor to get behind a big brute for a takedown is gratifying & helpful. You can use your invisibility to break sight & enter another phase of stealth in enemy encounters.

Miles Morales does some things better than its predecessor, better side missions that feel a little more engaging. The crimes don't feel anywhere near as copy & paste. The collectibles are hidden better, sometimes you've to break boxes to get into an area containing a time capsule or pull down a scaffold to get into a tech cache. Its a bit less obvious which I appreciated.

The 60fps on PS5 genuinely felt like it made the game a better experience, instant reactions to your inputs & the dodging when things got chaotic onscreen felt extremely responsive. The loading coming out of Roxxon Lab's or other underground hideouts were instant which made the flow of the game better. When you do want to fast travel its literally 2 seconds before it cuts to Miles walking up the steps out of the subway onto the streets.

Ganke is a cool sidekick, he's got a lot of wit & good humour on the comms, I'd like to see more of him in future games. Phin is very likeable & much like Miles in a lot of ways but there were some questionable decisions that I felt were a bit out of character but still, she added to the game & overall story well.

One person that really gets on my wick is John Jonah Jameson, he is so one note & an utter prick that I wanted an end credits scene were I could venom punch him through a wall. He was infuriating in Spiderman 2018 because of the amount of dialogue he had talking on his podcast, he's still present in a much smaller capacity, its still enough to grate on me.

Lastly once you complete some of the challenges/side content you get some amazing looking suits (its just such a pity that they don't have an ability that comes with them like most of the others). Its also worth getting through all of the combat challenges as there's a nice surprise at the end.

Overall a great little experience, its short campaign length doesn't justify its hefty price tag but if you can overlook that there's a lot to enjoy here.

The full sequel should be mouthwatering.

A bit brutal to hide the Platinum behind beating the game on NG+, imo.

I don't particularly care about trophies or cheevos, but I was considering getting this one because I'm only missing 3 (100 hit combo, beat on NG+, get all abilities (also only possible in NG+)) Getting all abilities only requires you to gain 3 levels, so that's no big deal. But not sure I want to play all the way through a 2nd time immediately after beating the game.