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No spoilers - Spider-Man (2018) game
Oct. 31st, 2022 10:23 amOn a lighter note I have finally gotten around to playing the 2018 Spider-Man video game on the Playstation. I've finished the main campaign and spent some time pootling around to clean up a bunch of the collectibles, and I have DLC to go. The game's remarkably good at distracting me from my tinnitus, plus it's just plain fun, and Spidey feels right. So does New York, or rather, the majority of Manhattan- you can't access the other boroughs and Manhattan ends at Harlem. But the rest of the island feels pretty damn close to the real thing, in a lot of regards.
This is probably the first video game I have ever seen on a major platform (I am not counting Android games that I had to buy through Humble Bundle) that had Hassidim in it. Like, pretty-sure-they-wandered-out-of-the-Diamond-District guys, based on their looks. Also a couple of guys in kippahs. I didn't encounter them until late in the game because I was spending 9/10 of my time swinging from building to building or else using fast travel (which uses various scenes of Spidey on the subway as its loading screens). Don't know where else they are in the city, but I met a few of them on the Upper East Side. One of them told Spidey he liked 'the other suit' better, which is fair, because at the time I was wearing the preorder suit that looked like it was made from Kamen Rider outfit parts. I've also seen a number of ladies in headscarves in various parts of the city.
No kids, though. The only minor I've seen in this has been Miles Morales, and possibly one of his friends. I'm guessing Insomniac Games figured that it was better to avoid even the possibility of someone attempting to harm them, despite all the civilians in the game being invincible. The only people I've encountered so far with mobility devices have all been at the FEAST homeless shelter, but that's still more than I've seen in most other games. (Points to the PS2 port of Half-Life for having a scientist in a wheelchair as an NPC in the co-op game.)
There are a lot of suits you can unlock for Spidey to wear, and most of them have associated powers, but Insomniac was kind enough to say 'once you unlock a given suit you can use its power with any other suit in the game' so you don't have to run around dressed as if you were in Secret Wars in order to use the mess-with-electronic-gear power. I personally love the Vintage Comic Suit, because you're basically a cel-shaded animation version of Spidey who looks like he was drawn by hand, and nothing else changes about the animation. I'm sad there's no commentary on it, though. J. Jonah Jameson periodically does podcasts in the course of the game, and when I unlocked and wore the Spider-Punk suit he started kvetching about that. But nothing about the comic suit, or the Japanese superhero suit. Boo.
That being said I'm gonna stop here, because I want to avoid spoilers, but I will say exactly one thing: I only found out about the Spidey enemy Screwball through this video game, and I can safely say I despise her.
This is probably the first video game I have ever seen on a major platform (I am not counting Android games that I had to buy through Humble Bundle) that had Hassidim in it. Like, pretty-sure-they-wandered-out-of-the-Diamond-District guys, based on their looks. Also a couple of guys in kippahs. I didn't encounter them until late in the game because I was spending 9/10 of my time swinging from building to building or else using fast travel (which uses various scenes of Spidey on the subway as its loading screens). Don't know where else they are in the city, but I met a few of them on the Upper East Side. One of them told Spidey he liked 'the other suit' better, which is fair, because at the time I was wearing the preorder suit that looked like it was made from Kamen Rider outfit parts. I've also seen a number of ladies in headscarves in various parts of the city.
No kids, though. The only minor I've seen in this has been Miles Morales, and possibly one of his friends. I'm guessing Insomniac Games figured that it was better to avoid even the possibility of someone attempting to harm them, despite all the civilians in the game being invincible. The only people I've encountered so far with mobility devices have all been at the FEAST homeless shelter, but that's still more than I've seen in most other games. (Points to the PS2 port of Half-Life for having a scientist in a wheelchair as an NPC in the co-op game.)
There are a lot of suits you can unlock for Spidey to wear, and most of them have associated powers, but Insomniac was kind enough to say 'once you unlock a given suit you can use its power with any other suit in the game' so you don't have to run around dressed as if you were in Secret Wars in order to use the mess-with-electronic-gear power. I personally love the Vintage Comic Suit, because you're basically a cel-shaded animation version of Spidey who looks like he was drawn by hand, and nothing else changes about the animation. I'm sad there's no commentary on it, though. J. Jonah Jameson periodically does podcasts in the course of the game, and when I unlocked and wore the Spider-Punk suit he started kvetching about that. But nothing about the comic suit, or the Japanese superhero suit. Boo.
That being said I'm gonna stop here, because I want to avoid spoilers, but I will say exactly one thing: I only found out about the Spidey enemy Screwball through this video game, and I can safely say I despise her.
