Remember When Superhero Games Were Good?

[@DeadPixel27]

I was addicted to Prototype when I was younger, shame the franchise had to die but maybe it was for the best.

[@GloriousGrunt]

Imagine how bad a 2023 prototype release would be 😱

[@LockjawGael]

@@GloriousGrunt The protagonist would need to disguise as a female NPC for a mission and afterwards scripted dialogue would trigger where they describe in detail how they feel much more comfortable in a woman's body.

[@ownedmaxer607]

@@GloriousGrunt This is why it's better to just let some things die. Imagine how horrible a new Infamous game would be, as well, makes me shudder.

[@stinkfinga4918]

​@@LockjawGaelI unfortunately can see that happening. Some internal dialogue about how much better they feel not being stuck as a man or woman, now they're a superior being who's both lol

[@jakedizzle]

Yeah, Prototype 2 kinda sucked. The first one was the bee’s knees though.

[@Iroquo1s]

wild how the entire media is trying to set up miles as the main spider-man and completely throw away peter parker. a character thats been created entirely for the sake of 'diversity' taking spotlight is just disgusting. we arent having black washing we are just having black flooding at this point.

[@TheCreed1217]

Huh? What are you talking about you act like miles hasn’t existed for over a decade. They’re pushing miles because he’s popular in all facets of media; movies games and comics rn. You know who isn’t popular right now? Fucking Peter as far as the books go. Peters been written terribly for 4 years, vs Miles who keeps getting competent writers that let him grow and change unlike Peter. That’s why insomniac Peter is good, actually struggles and changes in positive ways, your take is either insane or bait.

[@deadeye_john]

Wait really? I thought Miles was only a side character.

[@stinkfinga4918]

If you look up his actual creative origins it's truly hilarious. He was inspired by Obama because he was mixed, and was intended as a literal SJW who would tackle more socially focused issues, yes including 'exploring his sexuality'. These characters just shouldn't exist.

[@TheCreed1217]

@@deadeye_johnMiles is just as much Spider-Man as Pete, they overlap but he does his own things with his own characters. They really only overlap neighborhoods and villains but miles has some of his own now but not enough

[@P8nplays]

@@stinkfinga4918miles was a good addition in the comics but this game sadly did it wrong. I don’t need Peter telling me that we don’t need him anymore. Idc if his ass wants to retire he needs to be Spider-Man for a whole game as the main focus before they talk about funneling him out after one solo game

[@SoaringShade]

The fact infamous and prototype are still being praised makes me happy. Those were the two best games, and infamous had some of the best real world physics ever. Like being able to shoot electricity into metal objects, and being able to reabsorb that electricity back into you storing more power than before.

[@saysalla]

Damn shame that both series got cancelled immediately after they started having non-whites as protagonists.

[@MerlautJones]

@@saysalla Lol What???

[@saysalla]

@@MerlautJones The first two infamous games make you play as some bald white dude but in Second Son you are Delsin Rowe who is Native American and gamers got so mad about it that the franchise was shelved and the developer Sucker Punch has no intention of revisting the series because of the controversy. The first prototype game makes you play as some cringy white edgelord but in Protoype 2 you are Sgt James Heller who is African American and gamers got so mad about it that the franchise was shelved and the developer Radical Entertainment got shut down because of the controversy.

[@MerlautJones]

@@saysalla I didn't even know Delsin was Native American. I just couldn't get into Second Son, but loved the first two games. I can't speak on Prototype tho.

[@aldiascholarofthefirstsin1051]

@@saysalla In both cases the games were poorly written garbage but anybody who criticized the story was shut down with accusations of racism, but they could not stop us from voting with our wallets, I'm glad these franchises died or otherwise they would have been ruined further.

[@LockjawGael]

We used to make jokes like "I loved the Raimi trilogy, but it was a weird directorial decision to include that scene where Uncle Ben goes on a five minute tangent about how beneficial the slave trade was." and the point of the joke was how out-of-left-field that would be. Now we're saying "I love the new Spider-Man game, but it was a weird directorial decision to include a mission where you play as a deaf black woman and the gameplay consists of spraying activist graffiti on walls." and it's not a joke, it's serious.

[@IronIsKing]

So you hate deaf people, black people and women? You're a disturbed fella, I hope you find something that makes you normal one day

[@spriggy_6117]

@@IronIsKing Yes.

[@wiztheambassador2797]

​@@IronIsKingbad troll attempt, do better

[@1992holycrap]

@@IronIsKing Ah, the classic ad homonyms & logical fallacies: "Everyone who disagrees with me/the narrative must be a bigot." I was wondering how long it would take before those started...

[@P8nplays]

I loved the game but I can’t even lie . That mission was the worst mission I’ve played in all 3 games. I was composing how long the segment was. It was way too long and that’s why the end of the game felt rushed thanks to missions dedicated to the wrong characters

[@ThatsaRandomName]

Isn't it crazy how the games goes out of its way to point out how much more aggressive Peter has become AND how much more property damage he's done AFTER getting the BLACK suit? 🤔🤔🤔

[@believer431]

Bruh 💀

[@chainsawplayin]

12.5/55

[@namechecksout6300]

This is funny! And I’m a black man.

[@sunbro148]

He's also stronger, faster, cooler, more efficient, has a better backbone, takes less crap from people and more confident, could argue more successful at work too AFTER he got the BLACK suit but sure, lets only focus on him being more aggressive

[@chunkymilk]

despite being only 13 percent of the population, symbiotes commit 50 percent of all violent crime.

[@dudewhat4434]

When I was in school, anything nerd-culture related wasn’t popular at all. Anything from super heroes to anime would make you a target for teasing. I was really taken aback when all this became pop culture, and everyone who originally hated those things became the normies today.

[@gdl9362]

Actually real. When I was in school I remember talking about spiderman or anything marvel related and people were looking at me weirded out. As far as I'm concerned. Normies never actually got out of their shell. Everything they care about is still socially related. Wokeness is just another facet of this... I remember in school when girls were talking about the last backstreet boys album without even giving a shit about the music itself since it was always about the thing you could connect socially with the thing in itself (or clout as they say). Now girls play games. No way. I'm fucking done. Everything is being invaded by them. Music, Games, Movies, Animation. It's a virus.

[@dudewhat4434]

@@gdl9362 at least we still have the good ol stuff we always enjoyed. It’s a shame so much of it has been ruined, which is why I couldn’t care less for any future marvel films, AAA games, TV shows etc.. I’d like to enjoy the future of our entertainment, but nothing about it is entertaining. It’s garbage.

[@YamatoFukkatsu]

@@dudewhat4434 This past decade should serve as a lesson: gate-keeping is not evil and is in fact necessary. Newcomers with a genuine interest in something are certainly welcome, but posers have to go, all the more so after we've seen the type of damage they do. Maybe a little hypocritical for me to say in a comment for this particular video, though, given that I'm just a casual fan of comic book superheroes myself (mostly just saw the phase 1 MCU, as well as some of the anime series, and I did watch a bit of that mid-'90s Spider-Man cartoon and BatmanTAS as a kid). Still, I've always been a gamer, and I know what it's like watching this hobby get destroyed from the inside with warped political pandering, even going back to before GamerGate.

[@Disconnect350]

Explains why all of those things are so bad now. People that teased you for geeky things now have invaded and changed them for their own liking.

[@Oni-Di]

You all sound like losers...That never really got over or unplugged from high school. I've been a nerd my whole life, but I never let it overtake my ability to socialize. Has everyone jumped on the nerd wagon? Sure. But the way I see it, it's just more people to talk to about my favorite things. And even when I was a kid there were girls playing video games. Maybe you guys were just either A.)Ugly and kind of on the smelly side. B.) Got bullied by a few so rejected the many C.) Just didn't interact with people as much as you thought you did especially girls You guys have to get a fucking grip. You feel all these negative feelings and some how find a way to connect with someone like Synthetic Man (BIG Greasy racxist loser) when you should be embracing this new wave of nerd main stream (Minus the BIG obvious political pushes). The people that are ACTUALLY into it will stick around and the ones that aren't will fall off and it'll be obvious to someone who's been a nerd all their life.

[@GameSenseGamer]

Prototype will be the best superhero power fantasy game out there which is not based on an existing IP which also doesn't pander to anyone nd will only appeal to gamers who love to have fun.

[@amalekedomite]

You typed "Prototype" when you meant to type either "Freedom Fighters" or "Superhero League of Hoboken"

[@GameSenseGamer]

nah@@amalekedomite

[@n9ne]

they ruined that franchise withe the second game. you start off with super ultra god mode powers for the first 30 minutes and then they take it all away. boring a** game.

[@GameSenseGamer]

@@n9ne I agree the sequel killed the franchise, but that's just how most video game sequels are the Devs get over confident, arrgonat and actually forget what made their first game great happens more often the u think.

[@useraccount3207]

@@GameSenseGamer A good example of this is Phil Fish cancelling Fez 2 due to his ego.

[@FaithfulFumoFan23]

I was never a big super hero guy but it saddens me to see how p0zzed the genre has become.

[@alphaotakux]

All games are p0z now. Blame sjw's and the tiny hat crew.

[@improbablyyourdad8458]

It happens anytime a niche becomes a trend. Geek media like Star Wars and Superheroes are being watered down to appeal to new fans who don't understand the property. They're just in it for the aesthetics.

[@UrfriderPoro]

​@@alphaotakuxFeeFees

[@halfmoon106]

It gets worse and worse with each passing year.

[@AkuTenshiiZero]

@@alphaotakux There's good stuff to still be found in indie games, and Japanese games are mostly the same as they always have been. It's just the big Western developers and the West Coast indies that are p0zzed.

[@PaperStackerJ]

I agree Synthetic it’s actually crazy. When I was middle school people would try to pick on you if they knew you played video games. Now majority of those people play video games 🤣🤣🤣

[@KratostheThird]

People in the 1990’s told me I was on the computer too much. Now those same people are on Instagram and TikTok.

[@PaperStackerJ]

@@KratostheThird its crazy how the world works

[@KratostheThird]

@@PaperStackerJ It was better when gaming was niche.

[@Soto-]

Is it supposed to be a badge of honor that you got ostracized in school likely because you missed social cues since all you did was play video games?

[@KratostheThird]

@@Soto- I was autistic and socially awkward in the 90’s, so that didn’t help.

[@redrat-ty1zj]

I actually really appreciate it when you talk about older games.

[@cinemacrow2521]

Boomer 🤡

[@SamGoeltz]

Some of these people aren't and still act this way. That's what makes it even funnier.

[@spriggy_6117]

You've gotta check out Web of Shadows. It's got some of the very best combat out of any game I've ever played. The black suit in that one actually has a completely different moveset, and the writing doesn't have that sterilised "safe edge" feel to it where everyone is artificially nice. To me, a game fails when it has cookie-cutter sections that are so generic that they could be put in any game at all. Stuff like putting out fires with sprinklers, investigating an empty house, running around as some rando who ISN'T Spider-Man, and fake science puzzles aren't very "Spider-Man"-ish, moreso just a thing that any random game could have in it. Whenever you encounter these "slop" sections it's usually just boring filler. Web of Shadows doesn't have any of that stuff, and that's why I think it's not only a far better, more unique game, but also a better Spider-Man game.

[@medievalplayz8327]

Web of shadows is an underrated gem

[@1992holycrap]

@@medievalplayz8327 Ah, I see you too are a man of culture.

[@raw5889]

As someone who 100% that game, it's wildly overrated.

[@christopherjones5700]

I agree, "walking simulator" or "clicking simulator" can technically apply to ANY gameplay loop, but the exact point of this complaint is that the player shouldn't ever be taken out of the core gameplay loop if instead we could get a cool cinematic, or for extraordinarily rare instances that aren't boring. (like escort missions are one of the worst possible filler contents especially the kind that was in some older Assassin's creeds...)

[@devonjames7999]

I beat marvel spiderman 2 over the weekend over the weekend and I STILL put web of shadows at the top of my list for the reasons you said. I gave this game 7/10 . To many "last of us walking scenes " some of the scenarios in this game flat out doesn't make sense. I'm so glad I have PC. I can get web of shadows and play it forever at 240fps and blazing clarity lol

[@SammEater]

The middle eastern version of the game removing all the rainbow colored propaganda is the most hilarious part. Especially how all the major gaming sites are quiet about it.

[@inkchariot6147]

They hate the punisher because they're the people who would be on his shit list.

[@traive-alastor]

Damn that's a good callout. Dark and good 🤣

[@luisyupari]

Frank doesn't really work like that though does he?

[@lightyagami5972]

who tf is "they" 💀 bluds talking about no one

[@luisyupari]

@@lightyagami5972blud is waffling

[@lightyagami5972]

@@luisyupari exactly bruh who is he taking about 💀 who is "they"?

[@waffleman8053]

It was nice to see Synth enjoy Superheroes again. Reminded me of better days.

[@dajokahbaby1506]

The good ole’ days when you got called a nerd or a phägg0t for liking any superhero that wasn’t Spider-Man, Batman, the X-Men, and, to a lesser degree, the Hulk. Redditors really don’t understand how much they lost with the genre becoming mainstream, just like with video games.

[@TheREALHugo4]

Who cares. Synth is garbage.

[@ExtremeMan10]

​@@dajokahbaby1506not only that, but also many media had soul in them.

[@WakeUpUniverse66]

The OG Punisher game is so underrated. We need more games that let you shove Bad guys in ovens and alot more ovens.

[@LurchyScott]

I bought that shit first day when it came out and the fact that they had Thomas Jane reprise his role as Frank Castle/The Punisher was great too. It's really the only sequel to his movie we got as Frank does mention "The Saints" in one of his monologues in the game. It's a "loose" sequel so to speak.

[@Paul-du3qq]

One of my favorite PS2 games ever released. Interrogation was so brutal it really drove home how far Frank is willing to go.

[@honeybadger6275]

Gonna need some serious advancements in oven technology to make that happen. We just cant do it with the current technology.

[@WakeUpUniverse66]

Never stop believing. @@honeybadger6275

[@spark556]

It was an amazing games

[@AlaskanWhiskeyOfficial]

Its because back then games were actual games. They had standards for game play and what that should be rather then injecting a cutscene into every minute of the game.

[@Krysnha]

Also you have variety, you have all kinds of games, now we focus only in very few genres and leave a lot in very specific companies

[@charmingpeasant9834]

Back then cutscenes felt like rewards, especially the CGI ones. Now they feel like waterboarding since game directors are wannabe Hollywood hacks like Druckmann.

[@Krysnha]

@@charmingpeasant9834 Also because in those times games were more stilish, and have a different astetic acording to game, now everithing has to be hyper realizstic and nice grafic, and what i find hilarius, is what he said, i feel in some moments grafics start going backwards and game look more and more hidious, and not only these kind of game but games in general outside indies that still use stile look but hardly try something different. Is like games become stagnate and only some, SOME INDIES TRY.

[@MultiKamil97]

It's also more about the gaming being more open to other people. Back then only true gamers played those games, today there are many casuals who play the games and cry on Twitter about the game not having a homosexual character or being offended by some in-game dialogue or text. Devs just want to cater to those woke people instead of to real gamers who do not give a shit about inclusivity in games. It's also why they made those games so simple and easy in case some braindead people played them.

[@thelastpersononearth9765]

U guys complain way too much. There wete good and bad games back then and there are nowadays as well. You dont even try to enjoy.

[@Morfe02]

Remember how Shattered Dimensions invented the SPIDERVERSE BEFORE THE COMIC and Edge of Time (as the first game mention) was copy to make Across the Spiderverse ? yeah now this game is a 10/10 because emmm Sony

[@deadlyninja112]

Nah fam spider verse been dabbled with before that

[@thatguyap_]

​@@deadlyninja112 fr?

[@asdtgh8895]

​@@thatguyap_Ye. It's called Spider-Man TAS. With a buncha Spider-Men vs Spider-Carnage

[@deadlyninja112]

@@asdtgh8895 🎯

[@that_deadeyegamer7920]

​@@asdtgh8895i was gonna say spiderman did spiderverse in the 90s lmfao and honestly did a better job.

[@DionPanday]

I’d take getting bullied over my nerdy hobbies anyday instead of letting these activists put their agendas in them when they never cared about them until they got mainstream. Gotham knights is another example of the decline of superhero games.

[@KratostheThird]

Gaming was better when it was niche.

[@liquidniteofficial]

yeah id bully you

[@ExtremeMan10]

@@KratostheThird Everything was better when it was niche, because only people that cared about the thing gave it love instead of sapping it away with cringe memes. Look how far JJBA or Yakuza fell, or how DC comics fell.

[@KratostheThird]

@@ExtremeMan10 I don’t know what JJBA is.

[@ExtremeMan10]

@@KratostheThird Jojo bizzare adventure, basically a good manga/anime was ruined by tiktok and cringe memes. It once was actually respected community of people and its memes were even known in other fandoms. It became a laughing stock to entire internet.

[@Kaptime]

Arkham Asylum, Spider-Man 2001, and a couple of the old Transformers games were quite good. The charge-up mechanic in Spider-Man 2 was great as well, powering up an uppercut and launching a goon into the stratosphere will never get old.

[@kyriss12]

the fall of cybertron trilogy was the best tronsformers movie never made.

[@Arkhambattles]

Officer Balls

[@charlie1234500]

Miles runs faster than Peter. Pretty unintentionally based.

[@P8nplays]

I noticed they made it so they both jump the same height but before miles only jumped about half as far. Probbaly so you don’t feel disadvantaged playing miles but they should have focused on Peter for 85% instead of 60 so the story had more weight

[@potssnpanns8418]

super weird how they made it so miles couldn't swim but peter could

[@MillywiggZ]

I bet he always has a different bike every time you see him too hahaa!

[@marcogenovesi8570]

miles can't swim though so it's balanced

[@IronIsKing]

Nah. Its about 2 spider-men. Peter already had the PS4 game which was 95% about him (5% was MJ and non powered Miles missions) @@P8nplays

[@thetoadwalker3010]

Always great to remember there is good stuff out there. Old games, and some indie games that really do deliver amazing experiences. Boycotting the bad AAA games gives time, space, and freed up pocket change to individuals willing to either dig through the new AA and lower studios stuff for your niche needs, or go back in time to discover things that might have been missed which become personal classics. Good to do in all genres!

[@ralphcole4267]

Very well said. When people say “Games used to be better”, obviously no one is talking about Bubsy 3D

[@leostenbuck4194]

@@frogglen6350 RDR2 is a slog to play, only graphics are better.

[@mobbs6426]

​@leostenbuck4194 I still say RDR had a better nighttime sky box. Also better online. Better narrative beats, but that one is subjective, I suppose, but find me the Mexico moment in RDR2.

[@mobbs6426]

​@@frogglen6350some of those games are getting pretty old now. There are great games still releasing, but you can't deny a homogeneity setting in. As great as Elden Ring was, I never found an elevator moment. I admit, I only got as far as Altus plateau, but it felt like beating the Taurus demon only to be dropped at Anor Londo. More Sen's Fortress, but it needed a downtime area to flex a little before beating you back down, that or intentionally loop back through Limgrave. I needed some catharsis, is what I'm saying. Now I'm never going to find it cause I've lost my muscle memory

[@latinaparfait]

@@frogglen6350 activate clown mode level 999

[@MasterDecoy1W]

@@frogglen6350 7 sequels and one original, if derivative, game. Gee, I wonder where all these modern masterpieces came from? Could they have their roots in the turn of the century? Persona (PS1 1996), DMC (PS2 2001), God of War and Elden Ring (PS3 2009), Yakuza (2005 PS2), Witcher (PC 2007). Imagine paying $70 for a game with little to no replay value. You have a room temperature IQ, but the room is in Alaska.

[@baddogkelevra1]

Man I loved Prototype. I used to play that game for hours, either wreaking havoc or trying to infiltrate bases without ever being detected. What an awesome sandbox it was. Shame they had to ruin it with the sequel.

[@surgicallydestroyed]

mid

[@SamGoeltz]

Prototype was garbage. Spiderman 2 is the best superman game in years. At least to people who don't need some faceless loser on KZbin to give them permission to like something 😅😅😅

[@tomverlaine728]

Trans bot moment

[@SamGoeltz]

@@tomverlaine728 you said trans omg it's WoKe!

[@CainDB]

​@@SamGoeltz"Spiderman 2 is the best *superman* game in years"...Yeah right buddy, and sorry but I prefer games just to be fun, not cinematic dramas, I want to *play* not *watch* games, and Prototype is a damn fun game, it's core gameplay is just solid and well crafted, while Spider-Man 2 just copies Arkham series with focus on "aerial combat" (I put it in quotes because you barely actually move in air during actual fight unless you dodge a lot, you are like stuck in one specific spot in air) and calls it a day, the only TRULY SUPREME thing is web swing traversal, I won't even argue with that, it's just excellent, but the whole rest is a SLOG, boring and unsatisfactorily repetitive slog

[@megamax898]

Hulk Ultimate Destruction sounds a lot like Destroy All Humans. You feel overpowered until the military bends you over.

[@horserhimself8222]

Over a barrel and shows you the 50 states.

[@Hoppelite]

Hulk Ultimate Destruction was so fucking good. That game was my life between the ages of 7-11

[@lightborn9071]

Then use the probe in return

[@drgojira6044]

Hulk: UD was the GOAT

[@sting7789]

Just get the cheats which you power up your ultimate faster and then it's even more fun. Great game. HULK SMASH!!!! Ya know what else it has for an old game a new game plus!!!

[@Spinozin]

If you asked the top dev companies to produce a 10MB game with pure gameplay, what would be the result I wonder

[@Rorschach1998]

A slideshow 😂, they have no passion nor talent.

[@led-0185]

16bit consoles had great games and their cartridges, like the SNES for example, could only hold about 6MB.

[@jiijijjijiijiij]

The first episode of a Pong reboot

[@martymcfly88mph35]

​@@led-0185the space shooters like Galaga or Ikaruga were pretty good

[@FlamespeedyAMV]

Old Limitations are proof that games was better back in the day because of it

[@nitrateodin]

Neversoft's PS1 Spiderman game was incredibly awesome for it's time as well. Which reminds me, gonna hafta make my son play it soon. He's getting all the required playing done.

[@stinkfinga4918]

I had a ton of fun on that game as a kid. Definitely overlooked for some reason.

[@nitrateodin]

@@stinkfinga4918 A buried treasure

[@artemis1993]

@@stinkfinga4918 It's overlooked because it lacked free roaming. Lots of people nowadays act like Spider-Man games *MUST* have free roaming to be good, sadly

[@MagnumBullets47]

Yeah! How did he forget Neversoft from PS1?

[@Chud_Bud_Supreme]

That game is the grand-daddy of all modern Spider-Man games. I played it a lot in high-school

[@minuteworld7027]

Notice how the comments are slowing down after people got tired of hate brigading from twitter

[@KratostheThird]

Synthetic Man put himself up there after his Tears of the Kingdom video.

[@JPNEETozaki]

Spider-Man 2, starring Peter Darker

[@RaineErasmusWalker]

holy fucking shit dude😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂 my sides are orbiting the planet the Venom symbiotie cane from

[@mindfreak9674]

​@@RaineErasmusWalkerIts not that funny calm down.

[@SourRobo8364]

We'll always have the Arkham series.

[@rockduck2210]

Yeppers

[@Frogman1212]

I want more than Batman. He doesn't even have superpowers. We NEED a Superman game to advance AAA gaming, which many games have falsely claimed to do in the last 5 years.

[@RealRagnar816]

@@Frogman1212to chad for superpowers Just workouts and learns how to fight 😎

[@Frogman1212]

@@RealRagnar816 Yeah that would be more poignant if he wasn't one of the richest men on the planet. Like Casey Jones or Rorschach. Or the Punisher too since he is mostly funded by stealing criminal money.

[@omnis1182]

The fact you just unironically said “yeppers”

[@lissyvale629]

I'm gonna go replay Prototype 1 and 2 again now, because you are absolutely right, Synth. Games where you have superpowers should be actually fun to play, and the Prototype games are exactly that. God I miss developers having a grasp of basic game design philosophy as a prerequisite to become a member of a development team...

[@chastion3689]

Idk if it applies here but Chronicles of Riddick escape from butcher Bay is one of my favorite games of all time and definitely one of the best games based off a movie.

[@edgelordleon5859]

It's not an old game, but I generally believe that Just Cause 3, after you aquire the lightening gun and jet pack from the dlcs, is a better Iron Man game than any game that has featured Iron Man himself. I started to refer to Rico as "Tampico Batman" after that.

[@edgelordleon5859]

@chandllerburse737 Fair. You make a fair point.

[@dajokahbaby1506]

12:19 Ironic that Marvel hates the Punisher cause he’s a killer when almost all of the MCU heroes actually kill their enemies lol. Still, I feel like that’s another element to the propaganda. They don’t want you to take matters into your own hands, but they do still want you to kill for them, against “Thanos” and his “evil army”. I can definitely see why people say those movies are military psyops despite not overtly showcasing the military like say the Transformers movies.

[@dangerdonkey4383]

It amazes me that they keep doubling down on models that have proven to be terrible in every conceivable way. That ESG money must be pretty good. I really miss games that tried to just be fun. This is a big reason I loved Armored Core 6 in spite of its flaws. I also liked your point about publishers not always being the bad guy. Halo Infinite is a perfect, recent example of an incompetent dev team. Mishandling Halo is like mishandling Star Wars, it's only possible with room temperature IQ.

[@1992holycrap]

Fortunately, the ESG money is running out(slowly, but it's running out) because ESG is financial poison & you always run out of other people's money sooner or later.

[@LeMicronaut]

Sometimes I feel bad that much of Halo Infinite's structure was built by temporary, contracted labor, but then again they did release the game with no slayer playlist soooo...

[@jebreggie4225]

People will always blame the publisher, its never the developers fault. Its just too easy. All the people at that dev team can easily say the publisher forced them to do everything and they had no choice

[@UnityAgainstJewishEvil]

From what I understand, it’s not that the ESG money is good, it’s because anyone who doesn’t conform to ESG standards can be ruined financially. Another example of “the tribe” using their power to get their way.

[@hammylove821]

I mean, wouldn't a lot of forced diversity hires make the development a lot sloppier and slower?

[@poetscotty]

No Eddie Brock or Flash Thompson but we have Miles Morales🤦

[@1992holycrap]

This game really makes you settle for less, doesn't it?...

[@FunnyRedemption]

Yeah, the two previous games hinted Harry is gonna be Venom and you expected Eddie Brock. 👏 Very smart.

[@khaoss4024]

Who tf cares about that nerd Eddie Brock or the school bully🤦🏾‍♂️.

[@An00n]

@@FunnyRedemption It doesn't matter that they hinted that Harry was gonna be Venom, it is still shit to not have Eddie Brock as Venom.

[@Jay3up]

Miles morales the most boring character who is literally just a lesser version of the original Spiderman

[@bvdemier1]

I honestly believe you doing the streams of older games you actually like is better for your sanity. 1)It allows you to see certain games without the nostalgia goggles 2)It is a good time for you. If you keep doing only streams where you play games you hate of dont like, you end up bitter and hatefull. So keep doing what you think is good for you.

[@DefaultAngel]

Wow, nice obvious 'advice'. Maybe if he was a normie you might trick him into thinking that's mindblowing advice. You have to be a child to be that naive.

[@SyndicateOperative]

Well, I don't know if it was "good" for him - it took a lot of time and obviously tired him out - but it was really enjoyable. He's a great host, I enjoyed watching every minute. Hell, they had 1000+ viewers on average.

[@SamGoeltz]

You guys are acting like you know him lmao. He doesn't even read your comments and he isn't really anti woke. He is actually very liberal 😅

[@johndoe-dj3iy]

so hes just pretending for views ? wouldn't surprise me but most feel this way so ill buy it is genuine anti woke as odds lean that way.@@SamGoeltz

[@DefaultAngel]

@@johndoe-dj3iy Watch his streams. He's much more than just 'antiwoke'.

[@MetalAxeMad]

I didn't play a lot of superhero games but Lego Batman 2008 and Lego Marvel Superheroes 2013 were so damn fun. It's shame you didn't mentioned them, especially Lego Marvel in context of Marvel Spiderman.

[@InkfinityOkamix3]

Lego games are definitely underrated to an extent.

[@chachies695]

I know I fucking love Lego Batman

[@skiisama]

Lmao Lego games don’t even get mentioned at the hall of game

[@r3nowned]

Havnt worked at traveller's tales since 2013, but from what I'm hearing from some of my old colleagues, your gonna be in for a big surprise soon if your into those games. Me and especially my son are hyped for what's to come

[@SamGoeltz]

​@@r3nownedhopefully it's all white characters or they will all be back here crying about it being "woke"

[@rb98769]

Don't forget Spider-Man for the PS1. That game was fantastic.

[@cinemacrow2521]

It's not that good boomer 🤡

[@SardonischerDean]

It was so much fun and true to the comics and animated TV show.

[@MGrey-qb5xz]

such good writing and i love the charm they have

[@Makini90]

Suicide Squad kills Rocksteady's biggest sin is that this will be the final performance for Kevin Conroy. His final outing as Batman deserved to be in something so much better.

[@minuteworld7027]

you're calling people broads just because they agree with someone? GET HELP.@@daniellebrodhagen7062

[@GhostRida7777]

@@minuteworld7027 Alright Captain Save-a-hoe. Simmer down.

[@minuteworld7027]

I saw your comment calling her a c00n. atleast she has sht on her channel bch. @@daniellebrodhagen7062

[@oxfordeducatedhighschoolhe6989]

Conroy was a perv.

[@rabbox4513]

How dare you not talk about the absolute masterpiece, industry shattering, incredible, revolutionnary, gotham knights ?

[@amapnamedpam]

lmaooo i forgot about that stinker

[@Mr_Mistah]

I think I vomited in my mouth a little

[@Maverick560]

If you compare it to arkham yes but as it's own thing it's decent.

[@artaz2171]

It's so bad that everyone forgot about it

[@-pressxtostart-]

​@@Maverick560who on earth wants to spend £70 on something you define as 'decent'

[@Hrmagate]

Only found this channel a few days ago when my brother recommended it to me, I’ve been binging it quite a bit so far, and I have to respect our Mr. Synthetic always seems to offer his completely unadulterated views, and only centers himself to the point of keeping his channel protected. Bravo good chap.

[@SamGoeltz]

Your brother must of been playing a prank on you to recommend this garbage. This guy is milking all the sheep for views. He actually doesn't believe any of the bs he is saying 😅😅

[@beemie5604]

family full of klan members

[@LordParticle]

God damn, the death animations in that punisher game were brutal, especially for its time. I can only imagine how awesome it would be if they made a new one with the same level of gore fidelity as the newer mortal kombat games

[@larrybobinski1257]

the only thing that is more brutal than these punisher finishers, is synthman's hairline

[@SamGoeltz]

These sheep are hilarious

[@mattmas6628]

I’m the same age as Synth and I remember everybody in like 7th grade losing their minds over COD4 and Xbox 360. From there came the COD sequels, assassins creed and other heaps of normie-slop (cod was good back then I admit). At that point I had spent my whole childhood gaming to little fanfare but NOW it was cool

[@faithdarkrealm]

Wait, assassins creed is a normie game?? But I love the old assassins creeds.. 😔

[@LeMicronaut]

I played a friend's copy of AC2 and was HOOKED for days @@faithdarkrealm That was definitely a great game. The fidelity of the environment and the movement was just really cool to see at the time. As said, CoD was good, even great, back then. It's just over-serialization with limited innovation. For AC it went with grinding and selling progress bars. CoD went for diluting its IP with every single pop culture token you could find. For @mattmas6628 , I fortunately got to revel in Halo 3 around school for a bit before CoD 4. CoD 4 I think really blew up cause it was 60fps, multi-platform, had next to zero second respawn times, and the item progression and prestige that scaled mostly off of time played served as a spectrum of flexing instead of the pretty discrete barriers between having hayabusa/recon or keeping a lvl 50 rank in a playlist. Plus people mistook dying in a quarter second to automatic weapons as being more skill based, somehow.

[@luisyupari]

@@faithdarkrealmDon't be a sheep and let labels take away your enjoyment of things. The old AC games are fun. Could care less if people call them "insert name". If you love them, that's all that matters.

[@Chris-nn3vu]

Games were popular way before cod4, zoomer 😂

[@faithdarkrealm]

@@luisyupari True.

[@davidborned]

Arkham games are the pinnacle of superhero games, especially Arkham Asylum and Arkham City. Surprised you didn’t talk about them for longer than a minute in the video. You should stream them soon so you can relive them because you said you loved them (especially Asylum, which I agree on is the overall the best Arkham game). Spider-Man 2018 was great too, although it shared some similarities with ubisoft games.

[@jakedizzle]

I hate the fact they won’t patch them to run at 60fps on the PS5. You can get Arkham city to run at 60 on the PS5 if you have the disk version and don’t patch it though.

[@WrathDrago]

@@jakedizzlePlay the Pc versions. You can play them higher than 60fps. Arkham Knight might still be abit demanding if your Pc is quite strong enough!

[@mavvynne444]

Don't forget Arkham Knight as well

[@davidborned]

@@mavvynne444 Origins and Knight are great as well, but Asylum and City are the goats of superhero games.

[@BoleDaPole]

Arkham city has the best gameplay. It even made playing as Cat Woman into a fun diversion.

[@middlesiderrider]

2011 was the last good year of my life. The Internet was amazingly useful, media was entertaining, and smartphones hadn't taken over everyone's lives and consciousness . Friends still wanted to do stuff IRL. We weren't being endlessly told how shit the world is. Or how shit we are. Everything has been getting worse since then.

[@metrosaurusrex7012]

The World did end in 2012

[@notsure4648]

​@@metrosaurusrex7012yep we died.

[@pikminologueraisin2139]

and you have dark souls and minecraft 1.7

[@SamGoeltz]

Lmao wtf is wrong with you people. You are all a drain on society. Sitting on KZbin crying about a video game because it had one less white character in it. 😅

[@cinemacrow2521]

How embarrassing 🤡

[@spnked9516]

People saying "remember when games were games" might seem tired, but I think that sentiment holds a lot of water. I mean, just look at what big devs expend their time and resources on. How many hours were sunk into the object and texture that makes up that perfectly rendered can of pop in a massive open world? How much money was spent on hiring some movie star to voice act? How many takes in a full motion capture stage did it take to perfect that one cutscene of two characters talking in a room that 99% of players with either skip or forget about in 5 minutes? It comes to a point where you seriously have ask what the point of it all is. Sure, it's "neat" that certain levels of detail are in a game, but if you're actually conscious of what you're consuming than it'll dawn of you immediately that a lot of those details don't tend to actually add anything of substance to the game. In fact, much of the time, all they serve to do it messy the experience. Visuals become cluttered, content drags on, and performance tanks as hardware strains to render a thousand different irrelevant objects.

[@TheAlphazoneYT]

Not true that 99% of players skip cutscenes.

[@cinemacrow2521]

Just play your old boomer games and stop crying 🤡

[@frankrizzo1934]

The dialogue of the NPCs was hilarious in Spider-Man 2! The original Spider-Man 2, that is.

[@mwahahaha2100]

Hey, I'm walkin' here!

[@thekaiseriswiser4451]

GET A JOB

[@frankrizzo1934]

"The next person that cuts me off, gets my fist up his tail pipe."

[@lostcrusader8053]

Random woman: “Spidey! You’re the man!” Spider-Man: “And you’re… uh… woman?”

[@frankrizzo1934]

@@lostcrusader8053 00s Spidey would definitely be canceled today for possible misgendering claims.

[@biglineman34]

The Captain America First Avenger movie tie in was a mostly decent Arkham clone. Seeing the shield bounce around bonking dudes while your slapping Hydra around was always fun for me.

[@MikeMarlowe-ym3zy]

It just had no story and some stupid parkour QuickTime events but I remember thoroughly enjoying the combat

[@biglineman34]

@@MikeMarlowe-ym3zy True. I just enjoyed smacking Hydra Goons

[@Mr.Alkebulan]

I’d love a open world Punisher ”Stealth Predator” M rated game similar to Manhunt with immersion like Fable . A few mission you can play as Cap maxed out in all his glory without the stupid mechanics from the ok super soldier game .

[@krissjames7276]

The Punisher Did Nothing Wrong

[@Max44321]

You should definitely try Spider-Man: Web of Shadows, the swinging is as good as in the old game and it has crazy combat, very brutal animations and you can swap between suits mid-combo to do some nutty moves.

[@TheBatman39]

We should be thankful to the woke Insomniac devs for making us appreciate even more the absolute masterpieces that the Batman Arkham Games are. Rocksteady managed to balance a cinematic story with fun inmersive gameplay: Batman was the only and true protagonist, completely devoid of pandering by SJWs, the female characters were competent and well-written, the plot was gritty, somewhat grounded and took itself seriously but it had that faithfulness to the Batman comics. Most importantly; we weren't forced to play as boring side characters in long-ass sections with random activities just because the devs wanted to turn the A VIDEOS into an interactive modern Hollywood movie. Last but not least, each of the Arkham games had new gameplay mechanics and gadgets after the previous one; which Insomniac crearly has not done in this game because the new gameplay features are half-baked and repetitive.

[@TheBatman39]

@@frogglen6350 Your comment is dead wrong in everything lol

[@TheBatman39]

@frogglen6350 Yeah, everyone knows that already it's a well-known fact. I was referring to the rest of your claims.

[@qqqq-dp4rv]

@@frogglen6350 Go outside wokehead.

[@morgan0__o]

​@@qqqq-dp4rv you used "wokehead" unironically, you cannot be taken seriously.

[@mwahahaha2100]

Who would want to be 'taken seriously' by you? @@morgan0__o

[@dandilion1268]

Spidey 2 is 1 cutscene for every inch of MJ's jawline

[@Sgt.ArchDornan]

That punisher execution compilation was kino af

[@caiovalente505]

You deserve all good things to happen to your channel. I'm from Brazil and it's rare to watch videos here about people ranting about the things they love without being a sellout to some new product that you are bullied to have the same opinion as the masses.

[@bobsnob9246]

common brazil W

[@someguy8516]

Definitely isn’t just nostalgia, I have also gone back and played some old games I never played and was glad I did. I cant believe how many people are shilling woke modern games like SM2, or Starfield, you either have to be paid off or have never played older games pre ps4/xbone.

[@ExtremeMan10]

I replayed Mount and Blade and Im having a blast, same with Casltevania and MDK. Games back then used to have soul.

[@OffendEveryoneImmediately]

There’s also something magical and heartwarming about older graphics. They don’t look ‘worse’ in my opinion, it’s just a different aesthetic.

[@ExtremeMan10]

@@OffendEveryoneImmediately Which is funny as many older games used to have that special backround design that was really beatiful. For instance Persona 3 had really bad 3D design, but its 2D design was amazing. Same with FEAR or Deus ex, backround was amazing, the city when you scale the building in FEAR is really beatiful.

[@DSxGoldSilver]

Started playing ps1 classics like metal gear solid and wish I played those earlier

[@mybrotherskeeper2003]

define “woke”

[@RogueFox2185]

They should have just done SM2 in a similar vein as Ultimate Spider-Man, Miles Morales could have stayed for the intro but after the fight with Sandman he urgently leaves the city due to a very personal matter and does his own thing. Miles can return in the third act and while he helps Peter get out of the depression slump that he’s in after feeling like he had failed the city, he would also serve as the penultimate boss fight you have as Venom. But the story should center solely around Harry and Peter’s friendship crumbling away gradually thanks to the symbiote’s influence affecting Peter, while the city is caught in a devastating crossfire with the Sinister Six being mercilessly hunted by Kraven. During the second act of the game, we’re introduced to Venom and you can switch between him and Spider-Man in certain missions throughout the game. That battle at the football field should’ve been the final boss fight of the game between Peter and Venom, where the Symbiote hesitantly separates from Harry who tragically dies from his fatal injuries and bonds with Eddie Brock in a secondary post-credits scene.

[@triceratroytv2292]

But alas, we got Spider-Man training Peter "Darker"

[@quelidle3772]

Isn’t Miles doing his own thing after sandman exactly what happens in the game? Most of the mainline story missions are with Peter.

[@Maverick560]

​@@quelidle3772each spiderman does their own thing. Pete has his missions and miles has his. There's a reason why Pete said you sure you can't handle it on your own in the beginning.

[@gatewaybois]

@@triceratroytv2292we get it you’re racist

[@rodafowa1279]

Just wanted to say, my dentist had a Nintendo 64, but it wasn't behind plexiglass or anything. It was just sitting on an entertainment center and people were trusted not to take/destroy it. I remember at least one time my brother and I played Wave Race 64 as we waited for our check-ups. Also, they had this giant rollercoaster-looking thing where you would move different color shapes around for the younger kids. Thing was an eyesore and a half, but it got the job done.

[@Flyon86]

The console behind plexiglass used to be a thing. I don't remember one at a dentist's office, but I remember a McDonald's play area had one as a kid.

[@memecentral4494]

Synthcels rail against the fail as we edge our way along the trail.

[@Jay3up]

The fact that the ending to this game pretty much tells us that Peter is getting thrown to the sidelines in favor of Miles who is a boring af character that was literally just created cuz we needed a non white Spiderman the guy doesn’t even have his own unique name lol he’s just a pale imitation of the original Spiderman

[@staplewarrior4903]

I thought it was more Peter passing the torch to miles because he needs to focus more on his personal life

[@Jay3up]

@@staplewarrior4903 the whole passing the torch thing can work but the fact that we got 2 Spiderman games with Peter and already there going to pass the torch to miles is in my opinion dumb besides the whole point of Peters character is that he willingly sacrifices his own personal life in service to the greater good so to see him at the end be like “ ok miles you be spiderman” it just seems like it’s going against peters whole character and why he’s such a likable guy

[@staplewarrior4903]

@@Jay3up that seems like a fair point

[@Spider-Man-b1h]

At the end of this game, Peter has been Spider-Man for 10+ years. He needs a break

[@MGrey-qb5xz]

he's such a token self insert, and his suit and his body looks so disgusting.

[@Max44321]

Prototype is still amazing, so many years later. Amazing open world potential, best parkour animations to date out of any game and the shapeshifting power fantasy is just so good.

[@TheAutistWhisperer]

I watched the making of that Spider-Man 2 game and yeah Tobey Maguire looked half asleep and was clearly phoning it in. Despite that it's still a great game.

[@TheAutistWhisperer]

@assassins_weed So says the mouthbreather.

[@SirTonyChopper]

Yeah the nostalgia argument doesn’t hold. I’m currently playing some PS1/PSP games for the very first time and I’m having a blast. Incredibly sad to see what happened to Sony.

[@KratostheThird]

1:20 proves Synthetic Man was born in the mid 1990’s. Sadly he wasn’t old enough to experience stuff like Quake, Duke Nukem 3D, Half Life 1, Blood, Shadow Warrior (original), Age of Empires 2, Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time. It wasn’t just the games either, it was the passionate developers behind them. Gaming magazines were actually worth reading. The mid 90’s to the mid - late 2000’s was the golden era of gaming. PS2 of course being the best selling console of all time and devs were allowed to experiment.

[@DavidSmith-bv8mv]

I would take your mid 90s and push it back to the late 80s as the starting point of the golden era.

[@KratostheThird]

@@DavidSmith-bv8mvThe big advantage back then was gaming was actually done by nerds. Normies were largely restricted to the NES, in particular Super Mario Bros 3 which released in America in early 1990 and sold 18 million copies. It was one of my favorite games growing up along with Batman: The Video Game. To anyone else reading, yes, there were actual good superhero games 30+ years ago. If you’re going back to the late 80’s you can’t leave out tabletop Dungeons & Dragons, which was the blueprint for early 1980’s computer games, including the Ultima computer game franchise.

[@notsure4648]

​@@KratostheThirdultima four was amazing for the time.

[@KratostheThird]

@@notsure4648 My favorite is Ultima 7 personally. Ultima Underworld 1 & 2, while they felt like spin-offs or adaptations of the Ultima universe, were both great computer RPGs.

[@SuiteLifeofDioBrando]

I love seeing how happy you were playing the punisher. Spiderman ps2 is a game I will check out now.

[@scensionkonrado9253]

Prototype was my childhood its sad that the devs went bankrupt

[@Myth_or_Mystery76]

My dentist didn’t have a console, but they did have a Game Boy color you could play with.

[@minuteworld7027]

Same. Mine had an sp

[@richardhambel648]

My dentist had an asteroids arcade

[@mike45blue]

I spent hours of my childhood on Spider-Man 2(2004) I have no regrets.

[@ElectricKitty]

Some licensed games back then felt like passionate people trying to get a name in the market and to have their company survive, but now they feel like extremely curated and restrictive commissions for 100 pounds of slop

[@benjaminaleman4003]

I miss when they make games to play them more than once

[@FloRee2]

I enjoy hearing you rant about games. Never let haters stop you.

[@cinemacrow2521]

Embarrassed for you 🤡

[@GloriousGrunt]

Glad you're giving some old games exposure, the best thing about playing older games is you can pick the best of the best rather then hoping blindly that the latest AAA slop is actually going to be good 😆

[@cinemacrow2521]

Boomer 🤡

[@GloriousGrunt]

@@cinemacrow2521 Zoomer Consoomer 🤡

[@SamGoeltz]

​@@GloriousGruntsheep baaaa! Lmao. Synthetic man has you all fooled 😂

[@GloriousGrunt]

@@SamGoeltz keep slurping slop I'm not wasting time on stinky games

[@SamGoeltz]

@@GloriousGrunt yeah we know. Daddy won't buy them for you.

[@OrangeJ713]

I'm so glad you brought up the swinging and the speed/skill that comes with the original Spider-Man 2. The skill ceiling was huge and a lot of photo and pizza missions showed that. If I have to hear that "oh, Insomniac's swinging is 'physics based'" (duh), I may go crazy

[@kmsthanks]

Nah i wouldn't say the skill ceiling is all that high. More like the skill floor is high, after you get used to it, its not very hard to master

[@tiltedbandy6038]

Swing assist to 0 and then show me you being good at it.

[@forsaken7752]

I swear to god it’s so crazy how people don’t know the option to turn off swing assist smh

[@nordicwarriorgaming4953]

I reviewed a lot of these licenced superhero games. I have a serious soft spot for all of them. On the subject of Wolverines Revenge, that game is incredibly hard, and I think that's what put most people off. But its a game that takes a lot of skill to play and when you get used to it its a blast. God Bless.

[@MaxUmbra]

Even xmen the official game was hard asf I played it around high school and damn the enemies hit like a truck in that game yet I kept at it until I finished it. Really great games and it's a shame we don't get similar games like these 2 anymore. Even a remaster or a remake for these 2 would be great

[@SegwayBossk]

My dentist growing up had a Sega game cabinet but it had multiple physical games and you could switch between them with a button on the cabinet. The dentist office also had a big 2 story submarine play area in the lobby, that thing was so cool

[@KratostheThird]

Some dentists in the 90’s had Arcade cabinets out in the lobby area.

[@Deco_93]

It’s crazy how many people are calling Spider-Man 2 (2023) a masterpiece. The word has lost all meaning at this point. When you think of a 10/10 masterpiece, you’re supposed to think of a game that sets an entirely new benchmark for the industry. Very few 10/10 games exist. Personally, this is what I would use as my ranking system: 10. Masterpiece. Innovates in almost every way. Congratulations, you have set a brand new benchmark for gaming. 9. Astounding. 8. Excellent. 7. Great. 6. Good. 5. Average. 4. Crap. 3. Mega Crap. 2. Abysmal. 1. Disasterpiece. Baffling in all the wrong ways. Congratulations, you have set a new low for gaming experiences. Most games I’ve had the most fun with are probably hovering from a 6-8. Another good video, Synth. Appreciate your honesty, as always.

[@qqqq-dp4rv]

People have been so completely desensitized by marketing and shilling so the mere "this game is a good one" doesn't peak their attention anymore. Any big-budged AAA slop is called a masterpiece nowadays.

[@Deco_93]

@@qqqq-dp4rv Yep. It’s almost like a hive mind mentality surrounding them, too, where every form of criticism somebody has for these modern games is considered heresy of the highest order.

[@minuteworld7027]

this is a 3 or 4/10 game

[@musicology3552]

a 10/10 rating is just a way to tell you what kind of person whoever's giving that 10 is. Somebody giving Something like Gone Home, Fire watch, life is strange, or any modern Sony cinematic experience, clearly doesn't enjoy playing games and values pushing a message over good gameplay.

[@Blaze72sH]

Web of Shadows > spider man 2 (2023)

[@ethanebonhart6705]

been watching your videos recently they are fantastic, binge watched loads, thanks man from the uk

[@Multifire]

Man, this made the current state of super heroes cause me much more pain. I forgot how good we had it.

[@thelastspiderplayer5764]

Good? Spider-man 3, iron man, iron man 2, the incredible hulk, thor, spiderman friend or foe? Now we have batman arkham knight, marvels spiderman, marvels spiderman miles morales, marvel guardians of the galaxy, marvel spider-man 2

[@saysalla]

@@thelastspiderplayer5764 When you list it all out like that super heroes as a genre have been miserable for a long time. Is getting a single good game per decade involving super heroes too much to ask for?

[@thelastspiderplayer5764]

@@saysalla Per decade, if there has been at least one good superhero game, even more than one, that you have not tried or that do not convince you according to your tastes, it is different.

[@Camel-joe6000]

Remember when publisher didn’t milk the shit out of teenagers. Gaming is dead

[@moister3727]

Nowdays we need less lawfully good games. Miss the 2000's, the craze for chaotic type games and I'm not talking being straight up evil, just having more freedom to do what you want.

[@wendyhotchkiss7772]

The sad thing is that modern games in the mainstream will NEVER go back to how it used to be. A tragic end of an era for sure.

[@headshotmaster138]

At least we got to experience that golden age unlike the newer generations.

[@KratostheThird]

@@headshotmaster138Zoomers to be more specific.

[@headshotmaster138]

@@KratostheThird It depends on the zoomer. I'm an older zoomer and I grew up on the PS2 and PS3 generation.

[@KratostheThird]

@@headshotmaster138 Synthetic Man is at the tail end of the Millennial generation, so like him, you missed out on a lot. Though I will say that I will miss looking forward to stuff like Killzone 2, Grand Theft Auto IV, Red Dead Redemption 1 and so on. Everything has been neutered. Marvel’s Spider-Man 2 has the woke Hollywood vibe, which is enough for me not only to not play that game, I have officially given up on Sony for giving me a really decent game anymore. If not for Elden Ring and a few other games, I would of thrown in the towel on modern gaming.

[@headshotmaster138]

@@KratostheThird I can play those pre-PS2 games thanks to emulators and the last good sony game I can think of is Gravity Rush 1 and 2.

[@nomad9584]

I put an unhealthy amount of hours into the Arkham series and they're the only set of superhero games I've highly enjoyed. Really satisfying combat but the story and investigative elements were also a real stand-out. Also, although it follows quite a rinse-and-repeat formula, Mad Max is very underrated and I can't recommend it enough.

[@VisForVindetta]

I knew superhero media was gonna die after the first Avengers movie. Normies ruin everything they touch, either because they are morons who don’t even know why they like characters and don’t know the nuances of their favorite hero’s or because they want to stick useless fanfic slip into everything. I miss when superhero games were niche

[@KratostheThird]

I miss when gaming itself was niche.

[@anti1training]

It's good that it's popular. It brings more money to it. And everyone understands what they like and the nuances of characters.

[@VisForVindetta]

@@anti1training money = good kek

[@anti1training]

@@VisForVindetta Money doesn't equal good, but popular means people like it

[@VisForVindetta]

@@anti1training and popular always means good? Because a lot of people like something it’s good?

[@iambrando8342]

It goes back to something you’ve said before that really sticks with me. We got all these good games back in the 2000s with developers who never grew up playing video games and the ones who did were playing basic old school games. Now we have devs who have grown up playing these great titles from the 2000s and yet are either too hyper focused on modern politics and self inserts, or just can’t match the same level of creativity when it comes to story or gameplay

[@KanoKansKanito]

It's not the devs that make the games the way they are these days, it's their overlords.

[@iambrando8342]

@@KanoKansKanito and that’s a good point. Gaming still wasn’t mainstream back then. Now it is. Guess we should’ve gate kept harder

[@Shieftain]

@@KanoKansKanito Oh the developers are just as politically driven as their publisher bosses these days. Practically all industries that are tech related are steeped in the radical left ideology.

[@mountain.spider]

Miles Morales was popular only because Spider-Man was dead, or stuck inside somebody else's mind in his body. Miles Morales was made in an alternate version which wasn't connected to the real one, and people generally liked him, but when they brought him over to the real world and now there's two Spider-Man it caused a lot of conflict he lost popularity. personally I think he looks like a dork, and there should never be two Spider-Man and now Disney/Marvel makes it a point to make a Spider-Man or woman of every race that it's becoming cringe and pretty much making the original Spider-Man generic

[@nova_archive]

The thumbnail tells you everything you need to know about what their goal is

[@Maverick560]

Yall been saying he's gonna replace pete for years😂. Wating to see if it even happens bc the game is more centered around pete.

[@redknight1888]

He doesn’t actually replace Peter. Peter literally says he’s just taking a break from spider-man, and miles is filling in while Peter is on break, so that Peter can focus on the Emily and may foundation, and setting down with mj.

[@piesofnorth5080]

I enjoy these videos where you talk about games you like! I remember playing Spider-Man 2 back in the day and thinking the swinging was pretty cool, even though some parts of the game were frustrating. I played Hulk Ultimate Destruction only a few years ago but had a lot of fun with it.

[@marcclay9125]

Seeing those Spider-Man ps5 clips makes me glad I didn't get it

[@IronIsKing]

It’s actually good, people always show the worst shit of a game

[@minuteworld7027]

biggest pos writing and pacing i've seen in years.@@IronIsKing

[@darthsidious4274]

The old Spider-Man 2 games is still one of the best to this day it's replayability is insane. I should try it again one of these days. I think we all brought some criminals to the highest reachable point, only to piledrive them to death. Good stuff.

[@TaddiestMason]

The 2008 Iron Man game was pretty good, too. As was the Incredible Hulk game based off the Edward Norton movie. I had a lot of fun with bofem.

[@AustrianPainter-dw8zo]

Spiderman was always for S⅁∀Ⅎ😂

[@cars_2_liveaction]

Damn, didn’t know you where still around Austrian painter

[@creatorsfreedom6734]

@@cars_2_liveaction Dassss Riggghhhhhhhhh Kang

[@YumiiSauce]

thanks for streaming as much as you have this month Supreme Chud. good video too

[@mobbs6426]

Just seeing the brief glimpse of gameplay in this video, I can already tell little has changed since SMMM. He's even pulling the same punches and kicks in the venom suit, where's the narrative through gameplay? Why don't his hits look more intense, his punches should have more wind-up, his kicks should slam into enemies, lean into cinematography with frame skips, animation pauses stuff like that. Then there's the swinging, oh the swinging. Web-wings? Cool. I can do that in Batman. I want *_SWINGS_* It should have been overhauled, left and right web shooters, moving up and down the web, even mid swing, running along the ground and climbing the web instead of that janky opposed magnets system. True momentum. Wouldn't it be cool to loop around a crane arm, shortening the web and building momentum as you do? Go flying off at top speed, or wind down to a flip landing for a launch. I wanted the beautiful lovechild of SM2 and MSM, but we just got MSM's preachier cousin. I liked MSM, I just reached the skill ceiling too quickly. The other reason I lost interest is, yes thebsecond chapter is the time to have the hero's fall, but in the current climate, and with the established characters, it was clear where they were going to take the narrative. Aunt May's death coming as a result of Uncle Ben's lesson is poetic perfection, Octavius' gradual decline, both were handled fantastically, if better told in a movie, but the gameplay was a B+

[@brotbrotsen1100]

Another one worth mentioning is "the wonderful 101" from platinum games, the gameplay gets pretty deep if you get into it and the style is like upbeat classic superhero comics. Don't know if it counts but there is also also Astral chain where you play as superpowered cops, the usual people where even outraged upon release because of that. There is a newer marvel ultimate alliance as well which was quite good.

[@WhiteManOnCampus]

Astral Chain’s story is utter balls and it’s clear it was hacked to shit, but the gameplay was awesome.

[@cornpoop]

Speaking of Platinum games , i also remembered Viewtiful Joe series made by predecessor of Platinum, Clover Studio The mashup between Japanese tokusatsu and American comic artstyle with Matrix style combat was pretty awesome

[@brotbrotsen1100]

@@cornpoop Oh yeah these ones were great as well.

[@Return_of_Godzillas_Revenge]

For me it's the Batman Begins game that got Christian Bale, Liam Neeson and even Michael fucking Caine to reprise their roles from the movie. Also, Darkness 3 never ever (and that's unironically a good thing since they'd probably ruin it)

[@jondon1079]

*Longingly gazes at Ultimate Spider-Man (2005)* Yes Synth, I remember everything...

[@histhoryk2648]

Remember Deus Ex sequel died because of Avengers game

[@Particle_Ghost]

The only redeeming factor of the stream was Synthetic Man, the game itself was beyond torture.

[@HGE0]

Nah it was not i just finished it great story 10/10

[@slicedtopieces]

@@HGE0 😅 You should work for IGN.

[@HGE0]

@@slicedtopieces nah ill pass

[@HGE0]

@@slicedtopieces its a good game btw dont forget that

[@Particle_Ghost]

@@HGE0 Sony Pony Nerd 🤓 🐴

[@shanpatrickbaker988]

When I was growing up, superhero games were considered low-tier and movie games were considered a total joke. I did start gaming in the early 90s though, so a different perspective.

[@jopera2087]

It boggles ones mind with all this amazing technology we are having you would expect games pushing boundaries not just in graphics but especially gameplay, instead they are getting worse and worse...then you realize you live in clown world and it suddenly makes perfect sense.

[@joshuahandhand8959]

Excited for the upcoming review! Thank you for all the great content you've been making!