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Maybe I missed it but does Marvel's Avengers really not have a scene where Kamala actually chooses her hero name? I just finished the story mode the other day and I realized that I don't think it ever actually calls her Ms Marvel outside of menus.
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muscles like this! posted:Maybe I missed it but does Marvel's Avengers really not have a scene where Kamala actually chooses her hero name? I just finished the story mode the other day and I realized that I don't think it ever actually calls her Ms Marvel outside of menus. I thought that popular girl she saved called her that. It's a weird name for the character in the MCU because there's no legacy aspect with Carol Danvers old name. Edit, forgot what thread I'm in and thought you meant the TV show.
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Sep 14, 2022 07:28
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Skwirl posted:
 Her father gives her the idea for her superhero name near the end of the last episode. He says that her name means "marvel" and her family always thought of her as Ms. Marvel.But yeah. They never give Ms. Marvel a codename in Avengers I don't believe.
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Sep 14, 2022 08:09
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ThermoPhysical posted:
That's funny because her name doesn't mean anything in Urdu, her creator fully admits that.
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Sep 14, 2022 12:12
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Skwirl posted:That's funny because her name doesn't mean anything in Urdu, her creator fully admits that. At least it's an actual name unlike poor Karma of the New Mutants' whose name is basically Vietnamese gibberish.
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Sep 14, 2022 13:18
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Skwirl posted:That's funny because her name doesn't mean anything in Urdu, her creator fully admits that. "Kamala" doesn't mean anything, but Kama(a)l does actually mean perfect in Arabic, or marvel in Urdu. That's the comic canon reason for her name too. Her parents changed it a little to make a nicer sounding name, but they were naming her Marvel. It works a lot better in the show because then it's not just coincidence.
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Sep 14, 2022 13:58
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I will say, there's so many Americans with gibberish names now, that it's not that big of a deal. Like, maybe her parents were just the Vietnamese equivalent of this woman.
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Sep 14, 2022 17:26
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It would be weird if they were because Kamala is not Vietnamese Like that's not even the same part of the world
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Waffleman_ posted:It would be weird if they were because Kamala is not Vietnamese I was referring to Xi'an from the New Mutants.
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Sep 14, 2022 18:37
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I like America Chavez hailing from a world where fully luxuriated les-biocommunism means her parents naming her America is totally divorced from the implications it would have here.
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Sep 14, 2022 20:39
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FilthyImp posted:I like America Chavez hailing from a world where fully luxuriated les-biocommunism means her parents naming her America is totally divorced from the implications it would have here. Yeah, shame they got rid of all the fun backstory
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Sep 14, 2022 22:29
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X-O posted:The article above says who the other characters are, did nobody read it? It's Gabe Jones and an unnamed Dora Milaje warrior. chuds are gonna poo poo themselves, four characters and only one is white lololol day 1 purchase no matter the quality
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Soonmot posted:chuds are gonna poo poo themselves, four characters and only one is white lololol Imagine if Cap wears a combat helmet and mask for the entire game and they never mention Steve at all and then at a pivotal moment near the end he takes it off and it's Isaiah Bradley underneath. Just make some whiners poo poo their breeches even more AND have a cool character who probably wouldn't ever star in a game otherwise.
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thebardyspoon posted:Imagine if Cap wears a combat helmet and mask for the entire game and they never mention Steve at all and then at a pivotal moment near the end he takes it off and it's Isaiah Bradley underneath. YESSS! I will say that I need more info on this game. All we have so far are characters and setting. What even kind of gameplay are we talking here? (I know no one knows yet)
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FilthyImp posted:I like America Chavez hailing from a world where fully luxuriated les-biocommunism means her parents naming her America is totally divorced from the implications it would have here. I have students from South America named America. As long as the continents are there it's going to be a name. Actually seeing it more and more with my immigrant students.
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Sep 15, 2022 14:54
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America is a pretty cool name. Too bad the US is ruining it.
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Sep 15, 2022 14:59
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Guess who's getting a new game? From EA Motive.
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Lobok posted:Guess who's getting a new game? From EA Motive. Is it Sleepwalker?
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RevKrule posted:Is it Sleepwalker? Yes, the first game that can actually be played when your console's in rest mode.
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I've been waiting literal decades for a Darkhawk game so I'm super hype.
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Lobok posted:Yes, the first game that can actually be played when your console's in rest mode. Finally! I've been waiting for a console idle game!
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In case anyone is wondering, Motive did Star Wars Squadrons (which was dope) and are doing the Dead Space remake.
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Sep 21, 2022 13:20
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Why hasn't someone made a DMC/Bayonetta-style game with Blade last gen/this gen? I just want to cut vampires and gently caress up some ice skaters, man.
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Sentinel Red posted:Why hasn't someone made a DMC/Bayonetta-style game with Blade last gen/this gen? I just want to cut vampires and gently caress up some ice skaters, man. The short, disappointing version is that Blade hasn't been a marketable IP since the first or second Snipes movie 20+ years ago. Now add the fact that costs millions of dollars to bring a AAA game to the market, and the fact that Blade as an IP is nowhere near as profitable as Spider-man, the X-men (Wolverine specifically) or any of the individual Avengers, it kind of makes sense. The fact that Black Panther is one of the most successful movies out of the entire Marvel movie machine, and we never got any kind of Black Panther game is almost astounding.
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In general Marvel hasn't really cared about keeping the games in step with the MCU for years now. Still plenty of time and opportunity for a BP game. We're kind of getting one with this new team-up game T'Chaka is in with Cap.
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For the majority of the MCU's existence though, big budget licensed games have been the exception rather than the norm. As opposed to the 360 era and before where every movie got a tie in game on the big consoles of the time, for most of the 2010s you got mobile games instead so it didn't surprise me they didn't make a triple A game based on Black Panther, the Infinity Wars stuff or whatever. Obviously the Arkham games and Spiderman being the big exceptions (I'm probably forgetting one or two as well to be fair) for that era and probably the latter is what's helped convince some studios to chuck some money around a bit. Now with this Iron Man game, the Cap/Black Panther game and such, it seems like that's turning a bit but it takes time for the big companies to make that sort of pivot, pitch stuff and then make something to the point where they can announce it, covid probably didn't help either but we're probably seeing that wave of stuff that's been worked on for the last few years start to crest now. Wouldn't surprise me if we see a few more announcements of some other big ones as well.
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I really enjoyed the Captain America game they made around when the movie came out
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Wolverine Origins shocked me by being a surprisingly enjoyable game.
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Arkham is what made them stop and re-evaluate their games licencing. Spider-Man games coming out during the Arkham era weren't necessarily all bad or unfun but to put them up against their Batman contemporaries there was an obvious gulf in quality and reception. Marvel didn't want its characters to be given any less than the Arkham treatment anymore. Insomniac's Spider-Man game is called "Marvel's Spider-Man" not just for branding but as a stamp of quality assurance and a sign of its commitment. Timely (ha) connections to the movies are gone in favour of making sure the games have time and care to be top tier.
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Lobok posted:Timely (ha) connections to the movies are gone in favour of making sure the games have time and care to be top tier.
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Disney pulls all their licenses and folds studios on a whim every 4-5 years. They're horrible to work with.
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Probably all boils down to "Feige isn't a gamer"
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Endless Mike posted:Now explain Marvel's Avengers (mediocre at best) or Marvel's Guardians of the Galaxy (a very good B-tier game) Guardians was great to me so we'll just disagree there. Avengers was a misstep but the studio had a good track record. I don't think people from Marvel were literally playing the game along the way checking how awesome it was. It's the same with all the upcoming games: on paper these things have excellent potential. Midnight Sons by tactical game veterans, Amy Hennig behind Cap + Panther, their darling Insomniac given the keys to Wolverine. Haven't played any of Motive's games but I'm guessing since Iron Man will be single-player their multi-player Star Wars games weren't as big of a deal in getting to make the game? That one is a question mark so far. We're a far cry away from Beenox Spider-Man games being released every year is what I'm trying to say.
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I'm genuinely annoyed we aren't getting a Guardians sequel game.
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Skwirl posted:I'm genuinely annoyed we aren't getting a Guardians sequel game. I wonder if Avengers didn't hurt it. Shame. It was honestly my GOTY.
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Dawgstar posted:I wonder if Avengers didn't hurt it. Shame. It was honestly my GOTY. It definitely hurt sales for it
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Avengers 100% had a negative impact on Guardians, considering when it was announced, the wide reaction was "another loving one of these?" and people wrote it off immediately.
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I have to think Guardian's marketing was part of the problem, because despite the obvious connections it wasn't very much like Avengers at all. It wasn't multiplayer, you only played as Quill, the loot was inconsequential, it wasn't built out to be a microtransaction trap, and it wasn't weirdly ugly looking. It was "Uncharted, with better writing, in space" as opposed to "Destiny, with worse gameplay and graphics" but you wouldn't know it from the way it was promoted
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OnimaruXLR posted:I have to think Guardian's marketing was part of the problem, because despite the obvious connections it wasn't very much like Avengers at all. It wasn't multiplayer, you only played as Quill, the loot was inconsequential, it wasn't built out to be a microtransaction trap, and it wasn't weirdly ugly looking. Genuinely had more emotional reaction to that weird group of losers in space than either The Last of Us.
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