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Crystal Dynamics (Marvel's The Avengers) sounds online, is 3rd person cover based
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KZXcellent
Member
The idea of The Hulk or Thor in a 3rd person cover environment sounds hilarious.
matrix-cat
Member
Do we have to play the whole game as Hawkeye or something?
The Pet of the Month
Member
Interesting, i wonder if it be anything like that cancelled first person multiplayer Marvel game that I don't remember much about, aside from a PowerPoint presentation and some gameplay clips floating around.
Couldn't tell you if it was an Avengers title, sorry I don't know much about comics.
Couldn't tell you if it was an Avengers title, sorry I don't know much about comics.
Mr. Smiley
Member
I will only accept this if playing as Iron Man in cover can lead to some Vanquish shenanigans.
Sad Affleck
Member
Who comes up with this stuff? Cover-based Avengers game? Are they going to base the whole thing around Captain America's helicarrier shootout against Random Hydra Goon?
3rd-Person, Cover Based can cover a lot of ground. Technically, Infamous for example is "cover based" if you want it to be. I'd have to imagine that's the mold they're aiming for with this game.
As for the online portion, I would have been shocked if there wasn't an online component in a game like this.
As for the online portion, I would have been shocked if there wasn't an online component in a game like this.
GrimDarkDarrel
Member
Awesome. Paying once for games I could keep playing forever was stupid. I've been waiting forever for games makers to figure out that I'd rather keep paying for random ass bullshit and more grind.
I wonder if it's cover based for characters like Hawkeye cause I cant see Iron man needing to hide behind a wall but I guess its okay if it's optional
Indeed
Indeed
texhnolyze
Banned
Game as a service, interesting..
I'm all for 3rd person cover shooters.
Or what if the players aren't actually the heroes?
The Avengers will be there, but as NPCs helping us through the missions.
I'm all for 3rd person cover shooters.
Or what if the players aren't actually the heroes?
The Avengers will be there, but as NPCs helping us through the missions.
Admiral Woofington
Member
I AM THANOS
DESTROYER OF WORLDS
WITH THE FLICK OF MY FINGER I CAN MAKE YOU DISAPPEAR FROM EXISTENCE
EVERY PLANET COWERS IN MY PRESENCE, CHILDREN WEEP AT MY NAME
*gets behind cover*
*takes out SMG and shoots at you occasionally*
DESTROYER OF WORLDS
WITH THE FLICK OF MY FINGER I CAN MAKE YOU DISAPPEAR FROM EXISTENCE
EVERY PLANET COWERS IN MY PRESENCE, CHILDREN WEEP AT MY NAME
*gets behind cover*
*takes out SMG and shoots at you occasionally*
KingdomHeartsFan
Member
I probably won't be touching it then.
NegroNinja
Member
Finally the Punisher sequel I've always wanted.
Mr. Phellps
Member
Hmm... Okay, so maybe this is more like Battlefront, where most players will play random soldiers/agents from each faction (Shield/Hydra), and every once in a while a player is picked to play actually important characters.
Well, the teaser did seem to imply something about reuniting the Avengers.
Maybe you play as an Agent of SHIELD.
You are a regular person who has a machine gun and a sub-machinegun, and you cover-shoot at various Hydra soldiers until you free an Avenger, who thanks you and flies off into the distance.
Bosses consist of people like Ultron who float around and have 5000 HP, so you shoot at them and then move to a new piece of cover when they throw a grenade at you once every 15 seconds.
It can be like that Batman Arkham Origins multiplayer mode where you played as one of Joker's clown makeup prison thugs.
It could also be a new Avengers team trying to reassemble the old crew. I'd imagine that the team would be not unlike the new team on Avengers Assemble (Captain Marvel & Black Panther as co-leaders, Ant-Man, Wasp, Ms. Marvel, & Vision).
that sounds like a colossal misfire
you finally get the marvel license for a good, AAA action video game and instead of playing as the avengers you play as some nameless mook
Or to put it in other words, you buy the game hoping to play a Marvel movie, but you end up with an ABC TV series at worst and a Netflix TV series at best.
NippleViking
Banned
Surprised people are putting so much weight behind the 'cover' quote.
This reeks of a 3rd-person class-based (Marvel) Hero Shooter. Which could be compelling if there's a good amount of Singleplayer, PVE, and balanced competitive.
This reeks of a 3rd-person class-based (Marvel) Hero Shooter. Which could be compelling if there's a good amount of Singleplayer, PVE, and balanced competitive.
SHIELD Season 4 was god-tier, mind you.
MohitParty
Member
Games as a service just isn't my jam. I'm hoping for at least a single player campaign separate from the games as a service. (in the vein of Arkham)
I wonder though, is Gaas really the future?
I wonder though, is Gaas really the future?
god this sounds so wack it's probably accurate
It's probably the direction of most $100+ million budget AAA games going forward.
That said, I expect people to make lots of non-service games at other budget tiers.
I would totally be down for an Agents of SHIELD game. Give me that playable Quake, Ghost Rider and Yo-Yo. And Mac with his shotgun axe. Oh and Coulson with his shield. Make it play like the inFamous games only with multiple protagonists like GTA 5. Fuck it, while we are at inFamous comparisons might as well put Lincoln in the game too.
Muscle Wizard
Banned
The trailer made it sound like you would be making your own hero, but having gameplay around cover-based combat sounds like the only abilities you get are based on "has a gun", which would be really bad.
flaxknuckles
Member
If this is true my hype is deflated. DC save us and make something other than Batman for once
Muscle Wizard
Banned
Now the game based on a Marvel comic they should be making is Strikeforce Morituri, a comic set in an alternate universe where an army of scavenger aliens attacks earth to take our tech and kill us off and the only hope are soldiers given powers at random through a procedure with a high mortality rate (which will kill them in a year if they do survive) and deadly training. That's the only Marvel thing I can think of that could work as a 3rd person shooter.
Imperial Bishop
Banned
I never knew I wanted this until now
Muscle Wizard
Banned
A Marvel/DC game done as Overwatch can't really work. Overwatch works because the heroes aren't really superheroes in the standard comic book sense (more of a saturday morning cartoon).
All OW characters main ability boils down to having a gun to shoot people with, which wouldn't really work with Superman, the Hulk, Spider-Man, or numerous others. Hell, they tried do a Batman team-based shooter with Gotham City Imposters, and the only way they could justify it is that the cast is made up of crazy fans of Batman and the Joker who dress up like them and get into zany shootouts.
Interficium
Banned
Preorder cancelled.
NippleViking
Banned
I think this would obviously be a limitation in design, but don't you think they could resolve, or at least skirt around this issue somehow? Obviously it like couldn't be class-based like Overwatch, as adapting Marvel Heroes to the Tank/DPS/Healer trifecta just wouldn't work. But as a 3rd-person hero Arena shooter?
Stilton Disco
Member
The only way I could see this being both the worst case scenario for game mechanics and that would actually turn out awesome would be if they took Tomb Raider and reskinned it to make a Black Widow game.
Forced online and GAAS can fuck right off though. GAAS exists solely to exploit an excessive amount of money out of people, and adds nothing to a product to improve it. It's the most blatant example of toxic capitalism the industry has ever come up with, taking all the evils of microtransactions, forced online, content removal to sell back to you later, having no respect for your free time and gambling mechanics, a cynical Skinner box all wrapped up in a bow and served up to an audience that's all too often grateful to be blatantly taking advantage of.
I'm also not in the least bit surprised it's CD that's apparently making these decisions, if the worst comes to pass. They've got incredibly talented developers working for them, but the people in charge have proven time and again that they'll chase any trend going if they think it'll make money, and that they have fuck all respect for any property they're given, or any desire to put what's best for their audience above their own selfishness.
Forced online and GAAS can fuck right off though. GAAS exists solely to exploit an excessive amount of money out of people, and adds nothing to a product to improve it. It's the most blatant example of toxic capitalism the industry has ever come up with, taking all the evils of microtransactions, forced online, content removal to sell back to you later, having no respect for your free time and gambling mechanics, a cynical Skinner box all wrapped up in a bow and served up to an audience that's all too often grateful to be blatantly taking advantage of.
I'm also not in the least bit surprised it's CD that's apparently making these decisions, if the worst comes to pass. They've got incredibly talented developers working for them, but the people in charge have proven time and again that they'll chase any trend going if they think it'll make money, and that they have fuck all respect for any property they're given, or any desire to put what's best for their audience above their own selfishness.
Mr.Deadshot
Member
Watch it become a F2P hero shooter with MOBA and Battle Royale mode. Also Star Wars guest characters.
Honestly: Let's wait for the official reveal before going into negativity.
Honestly: Let's wait for the official reveal before going into negativity.
"We've heard people asking for boots on the ground in other games so instead of Iron Man you'll play as Maria Hill."
this would be one of the dumbest decisions ever
People have been waiting years for an Avengers game, and thats what they will spend dozens and dozens of millions of dollars on it? Using them as NPC's?
Drillary Clinton
Banned
Hopefully this isn't what Deus Ex died on the cross for
ElBoxyBrown
Banned
Tomb Raider is a "cover shooter" even though your not attached to any cover in that game. Cover shooter can mean a lot of things.
I mean, as has been said in this thread, that is what inFamous is. If they are using inFamous 1 and 2 as inspiration for their game then I would say that they are going to make something truly special. InFamous 2 in particular let you play however the hell you wanted, even hand to hand if that is what your heart desired.
This just reminds me of what a bummer Second Son was.
Jawmuncher
Member
Sounds like a service game
A 3rd person Avengers/Justice League game where one player could be one Avenger and other players different ones while you kick Kree/Skrull/Chitauri ass was always something I dreamed about
Seems like it's coming true
EDIT: It would make sense that human-based characters like Hawkeye would have to get into cover to fight, while Iron Man or Vision would just fly around wrecking shit, like many others have stated in this thread
Seems like it's coming true
EDIT: It would make sense that human-based characters like Hawkeye would have to get into cover to fight, while Iron Man or Vision would just fly around wrecking shit, like many others have stated in this thread