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Spider-Man 2 Controversy: Gamers Are Stupid and Don't Know Sh*t About Development
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Pelta88
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That's what hype looks like in numerical form.
simpatico
Member
Gamers are stupid is the death knell of the industry. Look at BF2042 vs BattleBit. Publishers think when a game bombs, it's because gamers didn't enjoy it correctly. Given the amount of structural cleaning that this requires, I'm not sure if it can fixed without a bigger crash. Entire executive floors need to be cleared out.
mckmas8808
Mckmaster uses MasterCard to buy Slave drives
But sometimes gamers are stupid. So what should the industry do when gamers show "collectively" we are dumb about game development?
simpatico
Member
Make and sell us the games that we want.
Skifi28
Member
You want the wrong games, let me sell you what you should have wanted all along but don't know it yet.
simpatico
Member
Here's a good example. Suicide Squad + Gotham Knights OR a big, well polished Batman Arkham game. Boggles the mind that billion dollar companies can't figure out which side of that equation is going to be more successful.
I mean sure people didn't like Suicide Squad or Gotham Knights (30fps hate didn't do it any favours) compared to a possible big, well polished Batman Arkham game but i don't see the relevance. Spiderman 2 is exactly that isn't it? A big well polished Spiderman game. They didn't go online multiplayer or anything like that.
The OP calls gamers stupid for not knowing that a lot of polish goes into a game late in development. It was when people went into complaining mode after the gameplay showcase a couple of months ago. Some controversies tend to just disproportionately spiral out of control.
Take your example of BattleBit vs Battlefield. You think if EA released Battlefield looking like that they wouldn't be ridiculed and laughed at?
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MAX PAYMENT
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Are we shitting on game trailers or defending them? What does the GAF hivemind want this time?
mrcroket
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It's quite true though.
simpatico
Member
My comments are aimed at the meta idea that gamers are stupid more so than anything to do with Spider-Man 2 specifically.
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STARSBarry
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mckmas8808
Mckmaster uses MasterCard to buy Slave drives
But devs are literally doing that every year lol.
DeepEnigma
Gold Member
What do you want. Explain.
Pelta88
Member
One month later... I can't work out what the "controversy" was/is.
Every time I open the thread I land on the last page, not the first. So I legitimately am at a loss as to what was controversial. Trailer is creating a buzz and the marketing campaign hasn't started yet, beyond a Story trailer. Which has obviously gone viral at 9 million views (from one upload) in 4 days.
I'm pointing that out to remind us that our conversations rarely, if ever, coincide with the much larger broader gaming market.
Every time I open the thread I land on the last page, not the first. So I legitimately am at a loss as to what was controversial. Trailer is creating a buzz and the marketing campaign hasn't started yet, beyond a Story trailer. Which has obviously gone viral at 9 million views (from one upload) in 4 days.
I'm pointing that out to remind us that our conversations rarely, if ever, coincide with the much larger broader gaming market.
simpatico
Member
Well for BF2042 I would have liked BF4 with a shiny coat of paint. Take out the operators, bring back classes and spend the resources just making the netcode good. Oh and some BFBC2 destructible environments too. Nothing beats blowing open a sniper nest with a noob toob. Same goes for Halo Infinite. Just spruce up Halo 3 and call it a day.
Also would have preferred just a regular Batman game to Suicide Squad and Gotham Knights.
No one needed Redfall or a half baked Deathloop. Either see out the Deathloop concept to it's full potential or make Dishonored 3.
And for fuck's sake, why did it fall on Trepang Studios to make a legit sequel to F.E.A.R.?
All of these things are paths of lesser resistance then the ones the publishers chose, and I believe they all would have made them more money and inspired good faith in their customers. Don't they see all the money CDPR and From are bringing in?
kiphalfton
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ChiefDada
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Twoshay
3liteDragon
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Looks like OP was right lmao
DeepEnigma
Gold Member
Pedro Motta
Member
Yup, it's now very close to that first teaser. Crows will be fed.
Rocco Schiavone
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rofif
Can’t Git Gud
+contrast
+decals
-lighting on the box in the back
=She is still 50 hot suburban housewife
Fair enough they improved decently from the terrible original trailer, albeit in the image its more the effect of light placement, decals, and color grading. That being said the game is about to be released so can you finally admit the graphics are clearly inferior to the reveal and not even close to your original expectations aka close to the movie visuals that you were hyping?
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bitbydeath
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Got any comparisons?
I’m curious to see the difference.
Unknown?
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We don't care about your sour grapes.
Feel Like I'm On 42
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Lol there is LITERALLY no difference between these two pics except the contrast is tuned way up to the point where it actually crushes some of the detail from the original pic
RoboFu
One of the green rats
So.... are they trying to make her look sort of like a grown up Bella Ramsey like they changed parker to look more like a sort of Tom Holland? That's very creepy sony.....
ChiefDada
Gold Member
How so? This looks to be identical quality to me. Additional points for launch trailer gif with additional assets/geometry.
Sorry, I can't. At least one cutscene looked to be straight out of a movie. Hopefully a couple others (preferably setpieces) reach that level as well.
Stooky
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Get your eyes checked .Looks like they adjusted shader materials spec how it reacts to light. definitely more texture detail in jacket and her face.
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Who are you exactly? Act a bit more mature, I have my opinion and you do not speak for the damn forum.
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Stooky
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You are possibly looking at lighting in a cinematic vs open world lighting. Cinematic lighting will always look superior.
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Whats the specific comparison you're requesting?
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bitbydeath
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bitbydeath
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Thought you had something in mind with the OG trailer and the launch trailer?
Ah ok I was making a comparison to the movie trailer that Chief initially hyped as the achievable visual goal that spiderman 2 will match and he is still adamant about, these were the original expectations that chief had for the graphics...which apparently insomniac has matched in his eyes in the trailer.
and also with the first reveal trailer.
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and also with the first reveal trailer.
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VeganElduderino
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ouuuu ,all these old Spider-man 2 threads popping back up !
HeWhoWalks
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Often times (many people don't understand this), changes are purely artistical. Because moods change depending on lighting and composition. What may be deemed a "downgrade" is sometimes just a rearranging of features to give a different feel, even if the overall makeup contains the same geometry/textures/shaders, etc.
Exhibit A (scene I put together using 3D assets from Unreal, rendered in Octane using my rig)...
fog and DoF used + vignette
Same scene - No Fog/DoF/particles reduced/vignette removed
Amazing what a few small changes can do, even if none of the materials have changed. This is often a matter of just adding some "pop" to a cinematic, or, in-game cutscene (of which, Spider-Man 2 will have plenty). Based on this phenomenon, the new trailer and reveal trailers are very closely matched, despite a different time of day. Had the new trailer been at night, I'd be willing to bet it would be a 1:1 situation.
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bitbydeath
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Difficult to find any comparative scenes, but here's one with the suits and background.
Reveal Trailer:
Launch Trailer:
Silver Wattle
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Needs more DoF.Difficult to find any comparative scenes, but here's one with the suits and background.
Reveal Trailer:
Launch Trailer:
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