Bad Marvel and MCU Video Games

[@austineruption]

Please don't make me play Ps1 Hulk again. Or think about his feet again...

[@gantz22ify]

Of course… play Saturn Hulk.

[@bucknerstrange3076]

you should read Immortal Hulk

[@setsers1]

Seriously?🤨😠😆 Why that?

[@stewartfennell8926]

Spiderman on the sega master system was brilliant

[@raciallyconfused]

Ok

[@runbaa9285]

I think one of the best things about the first Marvel Ultimate Alliance was that it introduced a lot of casual gamers to the wider universe of Marvel. From SHIELD, Mandarin, Asgard, Atlantis, etc. It was fanservice galore in the best ways possible. Then MUA2 adapted the Civil War storyline, which was pretty drab in terms of settings. MUA3, while good, just didn't have the same magic as MUA1 as it was mostly fanservice for the Thanos arc from the MCU. As a casual fan in the early 2000s who was introduced to Marvel by the Spider-Man and the X-Men movies, the idea of Spider-Man and Wolverine going to Atlantis to help Namor was like a fever dream, lmao

[@newageBoundhippie]

the gameplay also got worse with each sequel....MUA2 stripped down a lot of the RPG elements and replaced the fun reference filled sim missions with generic ones ( not to mention cutting down alt costumes to just 1 per hero ) while MUA3, being a Team Ninja developed game, devolved into boring counter & dodge focused combat and replaced the simulator missions altogether with frustrating and not remotely fun challenges while also being grindy as hell ( and also dropped the ball on alt costumes...most are just weird palette swaps instead of actual costumes fans would actually like )

[@robertojarrin3634]

@@newageBoundhippie you have no idea how mad 10 year old me was when I found out each character only had 4 special moves

[@zaydagoat6952]

I agree thats how i found out about black panther n dr strange

[@arditeider2812]

Yeah, MUA1 was my introduction to Deadpool, back then I went like "who is this Spidey look-alike?" lol I know he showed up in X-Men TAS but maybe I'm too young to remember or skipped the episode back then.

[@newageBoundhippie]

@@arditeider2812 Deadpool only had an extremely brief cameo in the 90's X-Men series from what I remember...

[@UltimaShadowX]

The run cycle on PS1 Hulk is hilarious, he looks like he's doing a jaunty stroll.

[@darlingxluxii7977]

OMFG IKR 😭😭😂😂😂

[@jakubmakalowski6428]

You mentioned red alert, and now I’m wondering what a marvel rts would look like

[@tlynn327]

I thought someone got a Hulk model to do Gangnam Style.

[@SuperPeterok]

Thats how I look on a treadmill =/

[@gregsky01]

Adamantium Rage is probably the most 90s name they could’ve gone with. It pretty much sums up the direction comic books were going in for the decade

[@tedioustotoro4885]

“The quality control of games got much better after Disney” *glances at Marvel vs Capcom: Infinite*

[@mechanomics2649]

And Avengers.

[@Xhabit300]

Disney as a whole sucks with their marvel cartoons & games lmao …. It’s pathetic

[@tedioustotoro4885]

@@Xhabit300 I mean, not really. Ultimate Alliance 3 and Guardians of the Galaxy were amazing and they have made a lot of good cartoons like the upcoming Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur

[@Xhabit300]

@@tedioustotoro4885 ultimate alliance 3 was a fail , marvel’s avengers fail , majority of their cartoons… FAIL

[@tedioustotoro4885]

@@Xhabit300 While some of the cartoons did kinda suck (like the 2017 Spider-Man series) most of them were fairly well received. Especially Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes and Ultimate Spider-Man.

[@nemurenuyorumoonlight8778]

I remember the Punisher on the Xbox. My favorite part in the game is the newspaper headline that says that The Punisher... murdered a polar bear? I don't know why, but that part sticks out too much for me to not forget.

[@akuze12345]

lmao!

[@Invidente7]

@Schlacht Barghest Mirage Great Justice no, he KO that bear because he was too peaceful. The other bears were more than willing to eat the gangsters.

[@ViktarTheBarbarian]

Woah woah woah there Austin, the Captain America game is actually pretty good! It's basically Arkham Asylum meets Castle Wolfenstein. Chris Evans didn't phone in his voice lines and the fight choreography in the game actually inspired the fight scenes in the movies moving forward! If you like all the cool flips and kicks etc in Winter Soldier and Civil War you can thank SEGA for that!

[@austineruption]

I'll have to give it another try! I just remember the pa3 version chugging quite a bit.

[@Invidente7]

@@austineruption you gotta try the XBOX360 version then. The DS versión isn't bad at all neither.

[@RappingNinja]

I agree completely with this! And I also can vouch for the DS versions of both Thor and Incredible Hulk.

[@TheLewisLightning]

Agreed. If you like Arkham Asylum I don't see why you wouldn't like this. Sure, it's derivative, but it's not bad by any stretch. It does enough to differentiate itself from the Arkham series and it's genuinely a fun time

[@GamerArcad]

Out of the main console Sega games, Captain America Super Soldier plays the best (Batman Arkham clone) but the Thor port for the DS by Way Forward is really good!

[@psyifinotic]

super soldier is 100% worth a play for anyone who is even mildly interested. glad i didn’t give that one to gamestop as a dumb kid lol

[@GamerArcad]

@@psyifinotic I made that mistake with that one and so many other games but thankfully I found another copy and now I own all of the Sega Marvel games now!

[@JustinLeeper]

I have 2 things to say: - You’re the only one I’ve heard use “mid” as often as AEW star MJF. - I did mocap for Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3, and it was lots of fun to portray Captain America, Thanos, Venom & Groot!

[@PhoebeTheFairy56]

Oh, that’s really cool! I have a lot of hours in mua3 and venom is one of the 4 characters I've gotten to the max level

[@JakeMLGF]

When you brought up the old Marvel vs Capcom games, I was actually expecting you to bring up the... quality of Infinite. I don't think it's a wholly bad game per say, but its development cycle and messed up execution on a lot of the franchise's classic elements is fascinating. It's also seemingly killed the entire Versus brand, so there's a lot there. Then again, going too in depth on it would take away from exploring the exceptional early MCU games.

[@zackschilling4376]

Its a decent game. Not great, but totally playable, plus its got Monster Hunter. No X-Men was a big disappointment

[@DFloyd84]

If Capcom reps had come out and said "Disney wants this game to represent the MCU, so the Marvel roster is coming from there," there might not have been as much backlash.

[@waterking74]

@@zackschilling4376 decent game but not worth 60 dollars

[@zackschilling4376]

@@waterking74 I got for like 15-20 a month or 2 after it came out, but I never buy games at launch.

[@griffintravis8506]

@@DFloyd84 they would have gotten in a lot of trouble if they said that

[@UltimaKeyMaster]

Fun fact about why Marvel Ultimate Alliance seemingly and randomly skipped the GameCube despite both X-Men Legends games coming to it: It didn't. It was supposed to also be there. The devs were making *Samus Aran* into a playable character for the GameCube port but when they showed it to Nintendo, it was on a PS2 build of the game, so Nintendo flipped their shit and assumed they were about to put a Nintendo character on the PS2 version (instead of...y'know...understanding it's a fucking multiplat game and ONE OF THEM has to be the base...) and canceled the GameCube port. There's pictures and footage of Samus and everything, her rocking her METROID PRIME look even. We could have had Samus fight alongside Spider-Man and Wolverine, but Nintendo were a bunch of pissy babies jumping the gun. If you're wondering why Samus specifically, remember that Metroid has always been more popular in the West than in Japan. These devs clearly liked Metroid Prime to boot, so it only made sense to want to pay tribute to it on the GameCube.

[@painvillegaming4119]

Huh so nothing really changed

[@panduvandal]

Never change Nintendo

[@silosis]

fuck nintendo

[@nicksrandomreviews]

The devs should have explained that PRIOR to showing it to Nintendo. Hardly Nintendo's fault that they couldn't do a proper pitch.

[@tigerfestivals5137]

@@nicksrandomreviews even if we assume they didn't, it's still immature of them to flip out

[@agentrevenge3370]

The best X-men games in the 90's was X-men Clone Wars for the Sega Genesis and X-men Mutant Apocolypse for the SNES.

[@RaineKugami]

Yesssss finally someone mentions clone wars

[@denzelkoe]

Yeah I think that it was good but I liked legends better in my opinion

[@linkueiavenger4065]

Xmen vs Street Fighter as well.

[@bobbyboy9599]

Children of the atom aswell

[@TheAmazingSpiderPunk]

Fun fact: The music for the PS1 Fantastic Four game is mostly just stuff from a sound library and because of this you can hear tracks on it used in other games. Two main examples are Donald Duck's theme from Magical Tetris Challege (Sideburn Stan on FF) and Gulp's Overlook from Spyro 2 (Passion In Paisley on FF)

[@greylithwolf]

"Last game developed by Silicon Knights" And all the Legacy of Kain fans cried out in pain.

[@MrRuano825]

To be fair, Silicon Knights only did Blood Omen. The rest of the series woes lay more on the disassembly of the main crew responsible for it and the mishaps of Crystal Dynamics in regards to Dead Sun and Nosgoth

[@JustinLeeper]

All the Eternal Darkness fans lose their sanity.

[@stephensmith7327]

Weren't they bought by square who made that shitty Avengers Game

[@gantz22ify]

Also, Captain America Super Soldier was 100% legit, and inspired the combat in the Winter Soldier sequel.

[@3slicessenpai]

Ultimate Spider-Man for the GBA was my first game for the system and I loved every second of it. Beating enemies, traversal and discovering hidden upgrades feels good and the music is so incredible.

[@thebaker525]

It was seriously any better than it had any right being! Vicarious Visions really tried hard on that game for like no reason lol

[@TimedRevolver]

A few things: 1. A surprising amount of actors hve a hard time with voice acting, because they rely on more than their voice. Hemsworth and Alexander, for example, are very emotive actors. They use body language and facial expressions to help their acting. So having only voice really threw them off. 2. The Sega Hulk game was actually a lot of fun. And they hucked Hulk enemies at you that have never been in a prior Marvel game at all. 3. X-Men: Destiny isn't terrible, but oh my ferking Gods the unskippable cutscenes hurt my soul.

[@rickimaru915]

I just want to say that X-O Manowar is a fantastic comic series (or at least the later reboot which I’ve read the entirety of) and absolutely a cool character. Valiant comics are pretty great in general. Also I owned the Gameboy port of Iron Man / X-O Manowar and I thought it was pretty decent

[@Zeugnimodms]

I was able to pick up a few issues some time ago. So much fun! You can tell by the coloring how 90s it is, which adds some nostalgia to it

[@mesousagaby740]

By the way, wanna know who developed the Thor game? The same people who did a Desperate Housewives PC game.

[@dudestep]

Been wanting to play that for a while. Desperate Housewives is a fantastic show and seeing it adapted to a game should be quite interestibg

[@MrPsyren99]

@@dudestep if you haven't played it yet it's basically the sims but in the desperate housewives universe

[@bluehole6019]

@@MrPsyren99I mean that sounds kinda sick???

[@MrPsyren99]

@@bluehole6019 I bought it for my wife as a Christmas present when I saw it at a yard sale

[@ViKatamari]

12:07 She-Hulk is THE ULTIMATE MARVEL WAIFU AND NOBODY CAN CHANGE MY MIND

[@HanDaimond]

She's hot indeed.

[@tical2399]

I miss the days when wolverine was 5'3. The movies really fucked that up.

[@nubworthycigars6682]

I read a lot of Marvel comics, and certainly grew up with the 90s X-men show.. is there specific story points that make his height important? That’s an honest question cause everything I can remember is like a gag or joke lol

[@Emoney-hy2kn]

@@nubworthycigars6682 It’s usually for gags or jokes. Like a random thug will see him in the Larry Hama comics and laugh him off because of how small he is but then they realize he’s a real badass once he’s beats up the group. It also helps with a distinct look for him alongside his hair and love of cigars. Plus it helps with his personality short fuse small guy who doesn’t like being picked on or he erupts in a berserker rage. It’s fun to incorporate when you put him in a group shot of the X-Men like Nightcrawler looks like a demon, Beast is a furry blue guy, Storm has super long white hair all of this adds small details to the characters that make them stand out and help readers pick them out of a group besides costumes.

[@dixonb.tweenerlegs4225]

Kinda hard to find a 5'3 male who could still look intimidating while also having the acting chops for the job.

[@RoseWaltz]

Fastball Specials just aren't the same when he's tall

[@MoonSpiritChannel]

Did not expect a "Don't Wake Daddy" reference of all things, and that makes me smile!

[@BroomPusher2024]

I still remember from the OG Completionist. "🎵Dont wake daddy🎵... OR HE'LL FILL YOUR HOME WITH AN HUGE VOLLEY OF BULLETS!!!"

[@fariskhalifa8403]

Austin, you have no idea how much I love you and your videos. You have gotten me through some really really dark days and seeing you still doing your thing brings me great joy. I love you ❤️‍🩹

[@setsers1]

Haha

[@redgrave4492]

23:36 That's also a big gripe for me for the X-Men: Origins Wolverine game. Other than how large bosses were handled it was pretty good.

[@Waltersop]

Glad Marvel is slowly learning on how to embrace modern Triple A games, that Guardian game was fucking dope

[@mechanomics2649]

It's too bad Avengers is absolute garbage.

[@dixonb.tweenerlegs4225]

They need to make a Hulk game and build off of Ultimate Destruction. But use the Devil/Immortal Hulk persona.

[@neoandroid8586]

It was fantastic I loved Guardians game

[@FrancisHD]

@@mechanomics2649 Nah don't exaggerate either.

[@Overlord72]

You're not gonna mention Marvel's Rise of the Imperfects made by EA in the mid 2000s? The PSP version is easily the worst Marvel PSP game and dare I say the worst Marvel game ever

[@AxeKick80]

Oh man, you should try the DS version. I remember getting home, playing it for a few minutes and being horrified I paid money for it. Later I played the PSP version and it was a huge step up 😂

[@Raytheman581]

Im surprised he missed that one, probably for the best though.

[@spencerbrandt5299]

MARVEL NEMESIS: RISE OF THE IMPERFECTS. Mainly because I'm largely convinced it's a fever dream from my youth.

[@PeverellTheThird]

Was a good game, just got really difficult as the player progressed in story

[@panduvandal]

Not exactly a good game but definitely enjoyable especially the vs mode

[@Shade2800]

After watching a friend play the 360 version of “Marvel Ultimate Alliance”, I wanted to own it, but I had only a GBA. Safe to say I didn’t care for that port. Couldn’t even get past the carnival level.

[@피리를-불어라]

There was a DS port of MUA2 iirc and it was also v bad

[@RaineKugami]

@@피리를-불어라 same with the PSP port too. Which is odd cause the first one was good

[@ClothesJord]

I don't understand why you don't have more subs. I love everything you upload. Always great videos. Love the short dives into the games.

[@DIOBrando-ij2bp]

That Marvel’s Avengers game is very bad. The gameplay is bad, visually (at least from a design standpoint) it’s bad, stages are pretty boring, and it’s got a pretty boring selection of game modes for missions.

[@ianmaclellan7623]

The Pantheon Saga reminds me that Ultimate Destruction is a game that is actually fun.

[@UltimaKeyMaster]

Ultimate Destruction is one of the best Marvel games ever made, fight me.

[@shazzbutter]

Captain America Super Soldier is a solid, mostly great game.

[@godspeedyoublacknerd]

You made a Dragon Force reference and our friendship became stronger today

[@Kamikraze]

Can confirm. Uncanny X-Men sucked when I was a kid, and it sucks now.

[@OBSDCC7]

“Bad Marvel games” The Avengers 2020

[@EarthboundX]

I recall the Captain American 360/PS3 era game being surprisingly good. It's basically a Captain America take of the Batman Arkham games. So I disagree with it being put in the same category as the that awful Thor game. It's like a 6 or a 7, where Thor was a 3.

[@FezTheSpaceBiker]

Saying Marvel's Avengers is better than Thor God of Thunder is kinda like saying Sonic 4 is better than Sonic 06. It's technically true but even that's debatable tbh.

[@shortfuse9443]

The problem with modern marvel is how everything revolves around the MCU now. Nothing is trying to be it’s own original take anymore, all the games and cartoons are all just trying to be like the movies as much as possible

[@Gabriel-wk3hz]

Midnight Suns looks to be changing that a bit. It's a tactics RPG along the same lines as X-Com (and made by the same devs), and looks pretty neat if different is what you're looking for

[@Emoney-hy2kn]

Cartoons are definitely now over reliant on holding the MCU as a crutch to attract new viewers of children. Something like Avengers: Earth’s Mightiest Heroes could not exist because it’s core value is focusing on the comics as inspiration. I will give props to the Insomniacs Spider-Man game taking a good amount of stuff from the comics like making Mr. Negative a central villain and sprinkling in references to characters like Swarm. Guardians while my fear upon starting it to see how the game could cram Ego or Ronan as villains was surprised to see the game take so much from the Dan Abnett and Andy Lanning era of comics over Gunn’s interpretation of the team. Main villains being the Universal Church Of Truth, characters like Ko-Rel show up from the Nova comics, Mantis is closer to her comic counterpart, references to characters like Darkhawk and Moondragon. I would say currently if they go a similar route with the Wolverine game and focus a lot on comics stuff like they did with Spider-Man and Guardians fans will be happy. Avengers is just not a great game so seeing characters like Hawkeye’s neighbor Gilbert show up in the game is cool but the core gameplay is just not fun anymore. The cartoons definitely need to be shaken out of focusing on the films though. Like I’ve always said it was a comic book company at the start and not everything needs to be plugged into the MCU for people to enjoy. TLDR: The comics should be held up and appreciated like the films and ignoring them for other adaptations makes the writers and artists who are creating the Marvel Universe seem unimportant compared to the films. Go read Chip Zdarsky’s Daredevil people it’s really good.

[@Esoteriste]

The Ramuh song during the Thor part made me smile. Two very different "god of thunder" !

[@Lorkanthal]

ah good, so my wife and I weren't going insane thinking we heard ramuh's intro being played.

[@RadikAlice]

The SEGA-Marvel partnership definitely needs to be covered in-depth

[@arashi86]

There's something particularly *OOF* worthy about "Iron Man 1 for the every console." They really did just shove that crap out.

[@SlamBolts]

Captain America Super Soldier isn't bad. It's actually pretty decent.

[@Nathan-rb3qp]

That GBA Daredevil game is actually a counterpart to a cancelled open world PS2 version.

[@markmagician2471]

Sega's Avengers would be better than what we got

[@erickavery1]

Hey hey hey, Captain America Super Soldier on the ps3 is pretty awesome. Its basically just Arkham Asylum. Innovative no, but actually really fun lol.

[@jonathanclark5892]

Yo? Trails of Cold Steel music in the background? My respect for this man has just skyrocketed

[@AlexTenThousand]

I had that Hulk PS1 game! Couldn't understand what was happening, 'cause I was a little kid, I'm Italian, and thus I didn't know a word of English back then because they never localised it properly.

[@Bjhorn279]

Just seeing the Spider-Man 3 fail animation makes me happy

[@TheGr8KOZ]

I liked captain America Super Soldier, it was reminiscent of Arkham

[@TheGr8KOZ]

Same I think it’s highly underrated

[@pokealien]

It is saddening how few Marvel and DC games there are, and it is even more disheartening how fewer good superhero games there are, especially considering THESE ARE MARVEL AND DC-the Heralds of comics.

[@thatssomegoodpie]

Some of those MCU games have some decent versions on other consoles, Thor on DS and Iron Man on Wii come to mind.

[@ArcRay20]

"if i hear anybody the Avengers game is bad after all that." i mean it is bad though right? its a live service with random loot bullshit instead of being what could have been a good character action game.

[@reggiereg2064]

You know who need a stealth game and had brand recognition. Black Widow at the height of her popularity from those marvel movies or even now since she's still pretty popular. I dont know who could be trusted to make it though. Im also sick of marvel but i won't turn down a good stealth game in this market.

[@wander7812]

I love how according to the KZbin time bar, the most viewed part of this video by A MILE is no other than the Hulk's Feet at 14:33

[@zalza8403]

A really cool thing about wolverine adamantium rage is that the second boss stage music, tri-fusion, is widely considered to be one of the first grime/jungle beats to ever exist. The track was created by Dylan Beale, who was a member of a group called Rude and Deadly, an extremely important proto grime group who made some really dope beats.

[@otaking3582]

*ADAMANTIUM RAGE!* * tries and fails to smash a beer can against my head*

[@Klookko]

Speaking of bad Marvel games.. Crystal Dynamics Avengers :)

[@paulman34340]

Yep, that game is never going to get better....and Guardian's of the Galaxy just proved all that "Destiny" (as in the game) shit they added (only in this one it's WAY WORSE, Say what you will on both Destiny games, but DAMN did CD prove you can take a below to decent average system and "do it ten times worse!") to Avengers when they shouldn't have. Really shouldn't have been added! It had a good story, the character's (to me) were likable and good. Combat specifically is where it beat Avengers in by not using "RPG" mechanics (Sure your stuck playing Peter for the entire game, but it's still leagues better than Avengers) and surprise, surprise it's not a Bug Ridden Mess! Another game to prove Single Player Story Driven Games will beat out Multiplayer forced ones any day of the weak (especially when your LAZY about it, there's so much they could have done to make Avengers decent, but they chose to be lazy and cheap, and got back what they invested!). I'm not praising GotG as a Super Top tier game (If I put it on a Tier List of Games from F rank to S Rank, it's be in either the B or A rankings). But If I had to pick one game I don't regret buying at full price, it's Guardians of the Galaxy (Lucky I RENTED for Free Avengers, and wasn't surprised that my gut feeling told me not to buy it! If the Guardians was equally terrible, I'd never buy a Crystal Dynamic game again, Lucky they won that bet LOL)

[@CecilMeowzer]

Kinda surprised that X-men Next Dimension wasn't mentioned.

[@TheLaLeeee]

Excuse me? The Sega Captain America game was awsome, I'd rank it up there with X-men Origins Wolverine. It's Arkham Assylum in WW2.

[@TheDrLemonz]

Yoooo one video every week? I'm so hyped! Just an fyi you're my favorite gaming KZbinr. I really love your style and I can't wait to see what you cook up.

[@zackschilling4376]

X-Men Children Of The Atom came first, not Marvel Super Heroes - both in home and in the arcade.

[@NekoiNemo]

Having recently finished watching an LP of Spider-Man and the X-Men in Arcade's Revenge - i definitely nominate it as a candidate for one of the worse (not THE worst, but getting there) licensed superhero games. Boy, is that one bad, from design, to execution.

[@mtallmen184]

Sega's Avengers would probably be better than the live service bullshit we have now

[@wajabicoliptos6044]

"She-Hulk is a playable character" I hope we'll continue to hear that in the future!

[@mikesantini65]

You: How could they mess up fantastic 4 Me: I can think of 3 movies right off the top of my head

[@AlmyTheAlien]

12:29 I know "limited" is sort of just the British equivalent to "corporation," but that doesn't change the fact that "Attention to Detail Limited" is the single most unfortunate developer name I've ever heard in my life.

[@SuperZippyzippy]

The rocksteady started batman games are the best superhero games

[@DrethNET]

You missed the latest Avengers game.

[@urban_radagast]

Has everyone forgotten the gritty cringe that was Marvel Nemesis: Rise if the Imperfects?

[@DesignIncase]

It's like Dragon Ball Evolution, this is the last time we mention it.

[@urban_radagast]

@@DesignIncase ok its not thaaat bad

[@ll7868]

Why isn't there a Marvel vs DC video game? Do they not know how much money they would make even if they split the profits?

[@timgonzales2891]

X men origins wolverine will always be in my top superhero games. Stupid, violent, and fun. God of war but wolverine. Better than the movie

[@hazardrider8317]

The Iron Man and XO Manowar is still a really weird crossover for a 90s game for whatever reason. Also the Fantastic 4 PS1 game will forever haunt me. (If you’re interested in seeing more on it, for whatever god forsaken reason, check out Rebel Taxi’s vid on failed games series)

[@rocketblooom]

Watching that Spider-Man Ps1 web swinging, i could hear that effect in my head

[@kayleeclassic]

you do not have to apoligize for finding she hulk hot, she is mommy

[@alexroy5854]

Btw Austin, Avengers is bad, even after you played all that

[@elibridgers2781]

4:47 Me and the boys in a NES Spider-Man game

[@stevenhardy2769]

Captain America: Super Soldier was a perfectly competent Arkham clone that actually ended having a small influence on the MCU. I disagree strongly that it's bad.

[@julianx2rl]

One of my favorite Marvel games its Spider-Man Web of Shadows... DS, I swear its great, really!

[@leoultimaupgraded9914]

Grew up with the Wii Version so can’t comment but I’ll trust your judgement

[@alecpheonix0761]

The DS and console spider-man games are almost completely different which is awesome since you get two adventures with 1 game

[@squigin3380]

Fun fact: The Adamantium Rage SNES soundtrack is considered one of the things that started a sub genre of rap called "grime" I recommend the track crystal dragon.

[@Dan4Neo]

Surprised you didn't bring up Marvel's Avengers...

[@MiSambra]

I understand superhero fatigue is definitely a thing when it comes to cinema these days, but it is a crime that there is really only a handful of great superhero videogames.

[@necromanta4852]

The Captain America game was actually good

[@SomnusLucisCaelum]

Ngl, lots of respect for Barking Lizard for the effort and actual honest attempt at making the art and backgrounds look good and varied for an underpowered handheld

[@Vaposer]

Adamantium Rage's "stereotypical I'm In Japan soundtrack" is actually significant for essentially replicating the Grime genre of dance music 10 years before the genre came about

[@SeanHolt]

I'm honestly surprised that Crystal Dynamics Avengers didn't get more than just one line in the video despite broken dev promises, glitchy gameplay, ofuscated stats and gear with random rolls, repetitive combat, and no real content.

[@Equ3strianGam3r]

This has nothing to do with games but growing up I never cared for the X-Men cartoon. I don't know why, I just could never get into it and my friends at school would always ask me if I would watch it with them if I came over. I would try and I would always get bored watching it. I guess I just preferred the comedic cartoons. I never got into the Spiderman cartoon either. However now that I think about it, I did really like the Batman animated series and Gargoyles and they were more focused on action and storytelling. Who knows? I remember liking some of the Spiderman and X-Men reboots that came later on though on Kids WB.

[@faerieknight2298]

Hey! Captain America: Super Soldier is actually a decent game. An aggressively average game, yes. But decent and fun to play. The other ones, yeah I'd agree. I played the demo for the Iron Man movie game, and concluded it wasn't worth playing due to the bad controls.

[@GabrielRondon]

One marvel game from PS2 that I never hear anyone talking about it is Marvel Nemesis. It's bad, but I have good memories

[@senormarston]

There's a special place in hell for everyone that worked at LJN, that thing broke so many childhoods

[@stephensmith7327]

I honestly think Sega Avengers would have been better than Square Enix Avengers. At least that wouldn't have been a exploitative live service game. Did Square loose the license when they sold all that IP to invest in Crypto?

[@Vercalos]

Avengers IS bad. It's not nearly as bad as anything on this list, but it's still not all that good

[@entransta]

"Bad Marvel Games" Uses MUA3 Wolverine in the thumbnail

[@austineruption]

He just looked cute

[@austineruption]

It's also fortnite, CURSED

[@entransta]

@@austineruption SHIT ITS THE FORTNITE RENDER? NEVERMIND IT WORKS

[@TheUglyAnswers]

Punisher's Butt: 10/10, would play again

[@ManDudeMcHumanGuy]

Why does Donkey Kong Country look so good, but every other game that attempts psuedo-3D sprites looks like absolute hot garbage? The GBA is full of game using the 3d render sprites and they all look awful.

[@bobafett4265]

I love the Captain America Super Soldier game, it's the one MCU game I played that was very good and the only other I played of SEGA's MCU games was Thor which I played the PS3 version and encountered enough technical issues that it scared me off from finishing it, I did love X-Men Origins the Game and the early 3D Spider-Man games though.

[@dixonb.tweenerlegs4225]

I wasn't the biggest Hulk fan either until I read Immortal Hulk. Hulk comics within the horror genre is just such a good mix. I have no idea why Marvel either hasn't done it before or I've never known them to do it before.

[@diamond_dynamo2214]

Just wanted to thank you for summoning new X-Men 90s cartoon content by talking about it in this video lol

[@boblowes]

The Captain America game on PS3/360 was pretty good. It's very much a Cap version of Batman: Arkham Asylum, and that's no bad thing. Sega's The Incredible Hulk game for that generation is also a lot of fun, and very much comes across as a spiritual sequel to The Incredible Hulk: Ultimate Destruction for the Xbox/PS2/GameCube. Plus you can smash Trump Tower in it. That's worth the price of admission alone. And of course, there were multiple excellent Spider-Man titles from 2000 onwards, starring in PS1. Not the Spider-Man 3 movie tie-in though. That was dire.

[@TheKarishi]

The worst I ever played was The Amazing Spider-Man (1989 DOS). I know you attempt to give things a pass for being, just...old. But this was a title I played when I had nothing else and I STILL couldn't care enough to finish it. There was one point where I got into an area I hadn't been to yet beyond the grease chamber, by sticking my web to the one tiny section of ceiling that wasn't too slippery for you and then pulling my butt along the slick floor. Decades later I watched a playthrough of someone who beat it and...that stupid, jank method of getting out of that room is apparently the Intended Route. When I did it I literally thought I'd done a sequence-break and it's literally the only way to proceed. Also it's a puzzle game and all enemies are invulnerable. Some of them you can freeze in place temporarily with web shooters but you'll still take damage if you touch them even while they're frozen, making some tight corridors impossible to get through unharmed because giant rats clog the entire pipe. To its credit, it is Amazing. But the things that amazed me about it aren't the kind of thing a game company wants you thinking about.

[@JadedJester739]

Trust me, I was alive, that Wolverine menu music is totally 90s. That record skip and beat boxy sound was super popular. I know its a little earlier but take Toe Jam n Earl for example.