Fanboy Dreaming Here; Just Dreaming Up my Dream Spiderman Game
All this hype for a Spiderman game got me so pumped now! Huge Spiderman fan and love the majority of the games (there a few big stinkers though). All this hype sort of got me thinking how best to make the game and I think I just thought up my dream game and how it should play. Hear me out.
So looking at a PS4 controller for instance the game could work like this:
R2 and L2 are your right and left web shooters respectively, and it almost works like Spiderman 2 with how you swing using each web shooter independently.
R1 and L1 are also your web shooters but they are more specialized. They work on like a radial wheel and you can change each web shooter (right and left) to do something different from one another. These buttons let you web zip to a target, pull a target to you, shoot impact webbing (or a web ball) or wrap up someone or something in webbing. These can be used for the bad guys or for puzzle solving too. You can mix and match what your right and left shoulder buttons do, and if you have the same power for both your right and left shooters, then they will be more powerful / effective (like using both hands for a faster zip or rapidly shooting web balls). To make aiming with these webs easier, I think a little cross air (like i mean small as to not interrupt the flow or swinging) like inFamous' would help immensely.
As for the face buttons, X can be your jump, Square for light attack, Triangle for heavy attack, and O for like a counter attack (similar to action games of today). I think the combat would work well being like a Platinum game or Web of Shadows instead of Arkham style.
And then to complete the buttons, L3 will be sprint and R3 will be like your Spider - Sense (which will work somewhat like Batman's Detective Vision).
And then Start and Select buttons (or the big pad on PS4) will bring up menus, maps, upgrade charts for abilities / combos / faster swinging, etc. The game can have like an experience system that can be earned from stopping crimes, taking pics for JJJ or delivering pizza or something. And then you can upgrade Spidey or buy different costumes for him.
As for the story I think it can go two ways, a realistic way or a crazy too good to be true way:
The realistic could be some plot involving the Sinister Six or something and then Green Goblin is like the last boss in some crazy fight all over the city and leading to a bridge. Stay away from symbiotes and save Venom and all that for a sequel. Maybe like tease Eddie Brock or something.
The crazy way could be some Spider-Verse game where you can play in two different New Yorks with like four different Spider People. Like you could play as Peter Parker and Miles Morales (to represent Earth - 616) and then some dimensional stuff happens and you have Spider - Gwen and Spiderman 2099 come into the picture. You play in Earth - 616 present day New York but you eventually get to go to 2099 and zip through the flying cars and future New York and all that.
These are just my crazy ideas for my dream Spidey games that would blow me away personally. Would love to see my favourite super hero back in action on the home consoles with an amazing and spectacular adventure (pun intended)
