I don’t think that reflects a lack of risk, just that the potential reward outweighs the risk - especially after seeing major success cases like Jedi Fallen Order and Spiderman. A lot of these same publishers chase after live service success knowing that there is a pretty high chance of failure after all - they’re not averse to taking risks.
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Like Redfall, it was originally a live service game and they changed it after seeing Avengers. lol. When you have Gear Score and loot and all this other garbage in a super hero game, it’s meant to be a live service game.
Game itself wasn’t that good either. For me, it was a 6.5/10. Just meh. Hogwarts isn’t a super hero game. Sure, there’s magic but Harry Potter isn’t what I would classify as a super hero. I loved Hogwarts Legacy (8.5/10 for me) and I don’t give two shits about Harry Potter but game wise, it was great.
GOTG was a great game because there was no bullshit garbage in the game. Just a straight forward linear 15 hour or so single player story driven game. It did worse than Avengers sales wise but that’s because no one trusted or cared about what Square Enix was releasing after Avengers. People weren’t going to take the chance on being burned twice.
Subtract Avengers and GOTG would have done amazing numbers, guaranteed. Of this, I have zero doubt.
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Don’t know, lots of single player non service games have all that these days.
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Yeah true but when it comes to a super hero game, this stuff makes no sense because they’re super heroes. Why do they need 42 gear score armor or some shit? It’s just stupid and makes no sense to me.
From those concepts arts I like protagonist has regular dudes clothes. It looks like it is going to be superstylised so really close to the comics. Promising for sure.
Yeah, speaking of that. Here he gets introduced in Tomb of Dracula comic for the first time.
Different colored trenchcoat and just a different look compared to the movies. Wonder if Arkane is going to put unlockable outfits in the game, would be great.
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The quality has generally improved, but it’s more indicative of Marvel’s wider success with the films. And I’m not sure quality always plays a role there, tbh.
Arkham Asylum was a watershed moment for the perception of comic based video games. Before that I never paid attention to any of them as they were generally trash, but Batman was a legitimate all time great.
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Yeah Batman games especially had it rough before Arkham. Particularly in the Xbox/PS2/GCN gen.
Don’t do me like that 
, Batman Begins was a favorite of mine on PS2 
, beat that game like 10 times
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I always forget that game exists lol.
I was actually gutted they didn’t make a Dark Knight game as well in 2008
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Spiderman 2 in the ps2 era was excellent, still prefer it to modern spiderman, better swing physics
The ps1 games were also really good and really captured the saturday morning cartoon vibe the 90s animated show had
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I never liked any of the 3D Spiderman games. I think the SEGA arcade game and the Mega Drive Spiderman games nailed it better.
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I shall not be afraid, for lack of better word, anymore that Blade wont be allowed to be violent and have blood, gore. If Wolverine can, Blade can too. 
Give me buckets of vampire blood, dismemberment, all that good shit!
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It’s a good thing they already announced the genre is, or else people would actually assume first person.
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Plus, they were narrated by Stan The Man himself.
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As someone who watched his older play that game way too many times, I still say it was a legitimately good Splinter Cell clone.
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