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Roth
Jul 9, 2016

Here's a place to discuss all your favorite video games based on comic books, whether feature realistic web swinging or not!

Notable recent-ish games:



Arkham Series: I believe this is the most successful recent superhero game, and certainly the most notable one featuring Batman. Features a lot of returning talent from TAS, popularized the freeflow combat system, and went way too crazy with riddler challenges by Arkham Knight. Main series includes Asylum, City, Origins, and Knight. Also has a couple of spin-offs called Arkham Origins: Blackgate and Arkham VR.



Injustice: Gods Among Us: Fighting game for the DC Universe by Neatherrealm (who also do the MK series). Fighters include obvious choices like Batman, Superman, Wonder Woman, The Joker, and Lex, and also some lesser known characters like Grundy, Raven, and Killer Frost.



Batman: The Telltale Series: Telltale applies their usual formula to the Batman universe, emphasizing detective work and Bruce Wayne's social life. Features some unique twists on classic characters like the Penguin



Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3: The third in the Marvel vs Capcom series, featuring 3 on 3 battles. Includes characters like Captain America, Iron Man, Wolverine, Spider-Man, Doctor Strange, Ryu, Morrigan, Tron Bonne, and Chris Redfield for some reason. Just got announced to be remastered for PS4, with Xbox One and PC versions coming in March 2017



The Wolf Among Us: Based on the Fables comics and made by Telltale. Focuses on the Big Bad Wolf as he navigates a film noir plot with fairy tale characters.



The Walking Dead Season's 1 and 2: Based on The Walking Dead comics, focusing on an original group of characters. Put Telltale on the map as the surprise video game hit of 2012.

Other games that came out: Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions, Deadpool, Marvel Heroes, DC Universe Online, The Darkness 1 & 2 and a bunch of mobile games I don't know anything about.

Upcoming Games:



Spider-Man for PS4: Developed by Insomniac and published by Sony, this will be coming out sometime in 2017, and will apparently be the starting point for a shared universe of Marvel games.

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3R2uvJqWeVg



Injustice 2: Sequel to Injustice, coming to PS4 and Xbox One in 2017. This time, there's a loot system to customize your fighters, and thus far the confirmed cast is: Batman, Superman, Supergirl, Wonder Woman, Harley Quinn, Deadshot, Gorilla Grodd, Atrocitus, Flash, Aquaman, and Blue Beetle. Doctor Fate and Captain Cold are heavily rumored.

Announcement trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hX0WA6yIZ7I
Gameplay reveal: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p50qZNiRfa8
Wonder Woman and Blue Beetle: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FptBnTlqrlc
Harley and Deadshot: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mSpIKf0CdWc



Marvel vs Capcom: Infinite: Just recently announced for PS4 and PC in 2017. This time, it will have two on two combat, no assists, and has the Infinity Stones as a gameplay mechanic. Confirmed so far are: Iron Man, Captain Marvel, Ryu, Megaman X, Captain America, and Morrigan. A character cloaked in shadows at the end is not entirely clear on the identity just yet.

http://www.gameinformer.com/games/m...ity-stones.aspx

This article confirms that X-Men and Fantastic Four aren't necessarily being outright abandoned as was rumored.

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BVolJ3L15lM
Extended Gameplay: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CEa9Tz8dXH4



Guardians of the Galaxy: The Telltale Series: Another game that was just recently announced. Reportedly coming out in 2017 for home consoles, PC, and mobile devices. Little else is known.

Teaser: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Koy_e_ipwng



The Walking Dead: Season 3: The latest in The Walking Dead series by Telltale that was also just recently announced, for the usual suspects of of platforms that Telltale releases their games on.

Trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PgXqmVMFTWY

Other games:

There's a lot of really good comic book games that I didn't mention, simply because of sheer volume. Such as Spider-Man 2, Ultimate Spider-Man, the Turok games, Shadowman, the X-Men arcade game, Hulk: Ultimate Destruction. The list goes on. Feel free to name your favorite comic book game that wasn't given a whole lot of focus in the op, and I'll edit it in.

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Roth
Jul 9, 2016

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AU4QilQkH0U

Here's the Robin trailer.

Roth
Jul 9, 2016

Neatherrealm is doing the designs, so no.

Roth
Jul 9, 2016

I'm amazed they didn't find a way to horrifically gently caress up his design.

Roth
Jul 9, 2016

Good God, that Cheetah design is the worst one yet.

Roth
Jul 9, 2016

Scarecrow apparently leaked for Injustice 2? Do they have enough Batman characters?

Also Green Lantern and Cyborg, but that's not all that surprising.

Roth
Jul 9, 2016

I want more characters like Swamp Thing or Grodd, so if they add anymore Batman characters it needs to be Clayface.

Roth
Jul 9, 2016

Found my main for Injustice 2

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=d7UbqkDk1xo

Roth
Jul 9, 2016

Telltale Guardians of the Galaxy trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFzC1aGVToQ

Edit - Also Scarecrow and Captain Cold are in Injustice 2: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KfKEtYNmxpU

Roth fucked around with this message at 18:15 on Mar 30, 2017

Roth
Jul 9, 2016

Yeah, Bane looks like an MK ninja in this.

Roth
Jul 9, 2016

I like the nightmare-scenario a friend of mine proposed where each of the Marvel games is exclusive to different consoles.

Roth
Jul 9, 2016

Captain Cold trailer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pdf763i82qc

Roth
Jul 9, 2016

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RpuP-SKm10M

Scarecrow

Roth
Jul 9, 2016

The last announcement being The Joker is the single most flaccid and boring announcement that could happen other than Red Hood.

Roth
Jul 9, 2016

Clearly you never played Poker Night 2

Roth
Jul 9, 2016

That moment when Chris shoots Ultron Sigma vaguely reminds me of Cap standing up to Thanos in Infinity Guantlet.

Roth
Jul 9, 2016

Still hoping for Kamala and Laura as Wolverine

Roth
Jul 9, 2016

I got Marvel vs Capcom 3 recently and playing it is showing my how badlt this game pretty much needs a fight stick.

At least Injustice plays fine on a gamepad.

Roth
Jul 9, 2016

I'm gonna pre-order Injustice 2 tonight

Roth
Jul 9, 2016

Well, here's the Joker

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jq4uDaxSMJk

This design is utterly awful

Roth
Jul 9, 2016

I hope the kids that have no idea what they're doing pick Joker so I can beat up the Joker as Canary or Darkseid

Roth
Jul 9, 2016

It's been canon since The Killing Joke was published.

Roth
Jul 9, 2016

Vince MechMahon posted:

He stripped her naked and took photos of her, but he did the same thing to Jim. It was definitely monstrous and assault but I doubt he was cumming in his pants during either of them. Especially since Batman is his main thing and all.

You don't need to do it out of a desire for pleasure for it to be sexual assault.

Roth
Jul 9, 2016

Calaveron posted:

Who won that poll

Pretty sure it was Spawn

Roth
Jul 9, 2016

If that's real, then that's just about the lamest they could have gone with.

Roth
Jul 9, 2016

lol, Red Hood's multiverse ending reinforces what a terrible character he is.

Jason Todd: You see, Batman and Superman are like a giant douche and a turd sandwich. I don't like dictatorships, but Batman is just too moderate for me, so I'm not going to do a thing about it.

Roth
Jul 9, 2016

To be fair, that DBZ game looks hype as gently caress

Roth
Jul 9, 2016

I'm honestly more excited for Lego Marvel Super Heroes 2 than I probably should be

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mOPsFCr9rUo

These games are always really basic but I just keep managing to get sucked in to doing 100% every time when I buy one.

Roth
Jul 9, 2016

Maybe Spawn will be in the next MK game.

Roth
Jul 9, 2016

I'd rather have too much to do than not enough anyway.

Roth
Jul 9, 2016

What an excellent win animation

Roth
Jul 9, 2016

Lurdiak posted:

Origins and Knight are half assed games with terrible stories. Arkham City's fine, despite some story problems.

I get the feeling Arkham Superman is going to focus way too much on Luthor.

Well, from the rumor it's supposedly Braniac that's the main villain.

Would be cool if they had Lex develop into the anti-hero with the Superman armor.

Roth
Jul 9, 2016

Wal-Mart accidentally put up a bunch of leaked announcements up for pre-order apparently



No sign of Superman, but there is Lego DC Villains.

Roth
Jul 9, 2016

I liked how they tried to make a super cool boss fight with Deathstroke but the combat system is clearly built for group fights

Roth
Jul 9, 2016

I wish the new ports of Ultimate Alliance were good.

Roth
Jul 9, 2016

Oh, I did not know they had fixed them. I'll get them on sale.

Roth
Jul 9, 2016

Video game development is too expensive now for movie tie-ins.

Roth
Jul 9, 2016

https://twitter.com/InkyPenComics/status/1031813226227486720

Inkypen is going to be available on the Switch. I'm not so sure the Switch handheld screen is exactly ideal for reading comics, but it's still neat.

Roth
Jul 9, 2016

Aphrodite posted:

They also said "You can't just recycle Wii games like that" and yet...

What are you talking about?

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Roth
Jul 9, 2016

Physical copy of the game comes with a free month of Marvel Unlimited.

Edit - US version also has a reversible cover.

Roth fucked around with this message at 05:38 on Sep 7, 2018

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