Dev's please no more Spider-verse characters for new characters for a while

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  • dianetics
    dianetics Posts: 1,653 Chairperson of the Boards
    edited 28 May 2024, 15:07

    @entrailbucket said:
    Are you counting Aunt May as a spider person? That seems like a stretch. I guess 2* Nightcrawler is, technically. Who else? Is the request "no more characters from Spiderman comics ever?"

    Spider-verse characters. They occupy around 10% of the games characters, and that's not even counting the sinister six characters or other spiderman related villains.

    **edit
    Not a request for them never adding them ever, but there is a lot of spiderman fatigue here.
    I don't want to point out characters to add instead because we can run off characters for hours.
    We got a lot of mutants and spider adjacent characters, I would just like them to move outside that bubble in a meaningful way.

  • rainkingucd
    rainkingucd Posts: 1,433 Chairperson of the Boards

    @DAZ0273 said:
    And here is Kid Venom!

    What about future Symbiotes?

  • Hammer3001
    Hammer3001 Posts: 183 Tile Toppler

    I can see a 5-Star Symbiote Spider-Man 2099 & a 3-Star Venom 2099.

  • JoeHandle
    JoeHandle Posts: 535 Critical Contributor

    Silly thread, game is fulll of spiders BECAUSE it IS MARVEL Puzzle Quest.

    This thread is like specifically buying a Ford pony car every year and then complaining that they are always Mustangs :D

    I trust these posters are also littering DC game forums with complaints about Superman and Batman people.

  • dianetics
    dianetics Posts: 1,653 Chairperson of the Boards
    edited 28 May 2024, 16:54

    Look at it from when the symbiote summer started...less than 12 months.
    Jeff / Symbiote Jeff
    Gwen / Gwen
    Rex /Rex
    Mr Negative
    Vulture / Vulture
    Penni
    Miles / Miles
    Spiderman India
    Moongirl (not sure if it counts but she feeds venomsaurus and is fed by spiderrex)
    Nightcrawler
    May / May
    and now May / May again
    It is a lot.

    **edit
    Not 12 months. 13 months

    double edit** not May / May .. Parker / Parker

  • Bzhai
    Bzhai Posts: 513 Critical Contributor

    @dianetics said:
    Look at it from when the symbiote summer started...less than 12 months.
    Jeff / Symbiote Jeff
    Gwen / Gwen
    Rex /Rex
    Mr Negative
    Vulture / Vulture
    Penni
    Miles / Miles
    Spiderman India
    Moongirl (not sure if it counts but she feeds venomsaurus and is fed by spiderrex)
    Nightcrawler
    May / May
    and now May / May again
    It is a lot.

    **edit
    Not 12 months. 13 months

    double edit** not May / May .. Parker / Parker

    2* Electro if we're counting Mr Negative. I think people would not complain as much if there were more diversity among the spiderverse characters. As in, more villians, less variants, etc.

  • dianetics
    dianetics Posts: 1,653 Chairperson of the Boards

    @Bzhai said:
    2* Electro if we're counting Mr Negative. I think people would not complain as much if there were more diversity among the spiderverse characters. As in, more villians, less variants, etc.

    Electro is a classic spider villain so yeah, I missed that one too.
    But, this also just kind of proves the point.
    If there were more Spider adjacent characters (more street level villains ie shared with Daredevil) it would look less on the nose.
    Just making everyone a symbiote and then choosing weird spiderman skinned characters just feels tired now.

  • entrailbucket
    entrailbucket Posts: 5,970 Chairperson of the Boards

    I think most people on here have never read an actual comic book, or at least haven't read one in the last 30 or so years, and their only Marvel experience is the big MCU stuff, the older Fox X-Men movies, and the X-Men TV show from the 90s.

    It's Marvel Puzzle Quest, not "nostalgia for middle-aged 90s kids Puzzle Quest." Witness the bizarre hype around Omega Red.

  • spatenfloot
    spatenfloot Posts: 665 Critical Contributor

    I'm still waiting for Captain Britain. He did fight Spiderman once, you know. But really, we need some Excaliber

  • spatenfloot
    spatenfloot Posts: 665 Critical Contributor

    Oh yeah, we need The Trapster/ Paste Pot Pete and Cosmic Spiderman

  • BriMan2222
    BriMan2222 Posts: 1,328 Chairperson of the Boards

    @entrailbucket said:
    I think most people on here have never read an actual comic book, or at least haven't read one in the last 30 or so years, and their only Marvel experience is the big MCU stuff, the older Fox X-Men movies, and the X-Men TV show from the 90s.

    It's Marvel Puzzle Quest, not "nostalgia for middle-aged 90s kids Puzzle Quest." Witness the bizarre hype around Omega Red.

    Of course it is, why else would they give us omega red, edgier omega red, and bazillion pockets Cable costume. 90's Max to the extreme puzzle quest!

  • JoeHandle
    JoeHandle Posts: 535 Critical Contributor

    @BriMan2222 said:

    @entrailbucket said:
    I think most people on here have never read an actual comic book, or at least haven't read one in the last 30 or so years, and their only Marvel experience is the big MCU stuff, the older Fox X-Men movies, and the X-Men TV show from the 90s.

    It's Marvel Puzzle Quest, not "nostalgia for middle-aged 90s kids Puzzle Quest." Witness the bizarre hype around Omega Red.

    Of course it is, why else would they give us omega red, edgier omega red, and bazillion pockets Cable costume. 90's Max to the extreme puzzle quest!

    If there was capacity to go all-in on offering skins, the devs could clean-up offering multiple versions of main characters (Marvel Heroes somewhat did this (RIP, Marvel Heroes)), or even to reskin characters to other characters (would also need to include renaming in various text blurbs), allowing each player to personalize their own versions of the game. Make mine Bronze-gilt, Silver Age Marvel PQ. Flush all this '90s and later **** LOL

  • DAZ0273
    DAZ0273 Posts: 10,342 Chairperson of the Boards

    @spatenfloot said:
    I'm still waiting for Captain Britain. He did fight Spiderman once, you know. But really, we need some Excaliber

    Like!!!!!

  • DAZ0273
    DAZ0273 Posts: 10,342 Chairperson of the Boards

    @spatenfloot said:
    Oh yeah, we need The Trapster/ Paste Pot Pete and Cosmic Spiderman

    All the Likes, every single one!!!!!!!!

  • entrailbucket
    entrailbucket Posts: 5,970 Chairperson of the Boards

    @BriMan2222 said:

    @entrailbucket said:
    I think most people on here have never read an actual comic book, or at least haven't read one in the last 30 or so years, and their only Marvel experience is the big MCU stuff, the older Fox X-Men movies, and the X-Men TV show from the 90s.

    It's Marvel Puzzle Quest, not "nostalgia for middle-aged 90s kids Puzzle Quest." Witness the bizarre hype around Omega Red.

    Of course it is, why else would they give us omega red, edgier omega red, and bazillion pockets Cable costume. 90's Max to the extreme puzzle quest!

    Like, people flipped out about the Dinosaur Spidermans -- those characters were the leads in Marvel Comics' top-selling title for months!

    Folks don't have to like it, but Marvel is bigger than whatever stuff you remember from when you specifically were a kid. Moon Girl is a popular current kids' series! There are adults now that have zero attachment to any of the 90s characters we grew up with.

  • DAZ0273
    DAZ0273 Posts: 10,342 Chairperson of the Boards

    @entrailbucket said:
    I think most people on here have never read an actual comic book, or at least haven't read one in the last 30 or so years, and their only Marvel experience is the big MCU stuff, the older Fox X-Men movies, and the X-Men TV show from the 90s.

    It's Marvel Puzzle Quest, not "nostalgia for middle-aged 90s kids Puzzle Quest." Witness the bizarre hype around Omega Red.

    I think with things like Marvel Unlimited it is far more likely that people are reading the older comic books rather than collecting the monthly singles any more which are far too expensive. So a bit of both.

  • entrailbucket
    entrailbucket Posts: 5,970 Chairperson of the Boards

    @DAZ0273 said:

    @spatenfloot said:
    Oh yeah, we need The Trapster/ Paste Pot Pete and Cosmic Spiderman

    All the Likes, every single one!!!!!!!!

    And when they give us these guys (and they will), a bunch of people will complain that they give us nothing but silly joke characters, and why haven't they given us Major Important Marvel villains like Toad and Avalanche and Sauron?

  • DAZ0273
    DAZ0273 Posts: 10,342 Chairperson of the Boards

    @entrailbucket said:

    @BriMan2222 said:

    @entrailbucket said:
    I think most people on here have never read an actual comic book, or at least haven't read one in the last 30 or so years, and their only Marvel experience is the big MCU stuff, the older Fox X-Men movies, and the X-Men TV show from the 90s.

    It's Marvel Puzzle Quest, not "nostalgia for middle-aged 90s kids Puzzle Quest." Witness the bizarre hype around Omega Red.

    Of course it is, why else would they give us omega red, edgier omega red, and bazillion pockets Cable costume. 90's Max to the extreme puzzle quest!

    Like, people flipped out about the Dinosaur Spidermans -- those characters were the leads in Marvel Comics' top-selling title for months!

    Folks don't have to like it, but Marvel is bigger than whatever stuff you remember from when you specifically were a kid. Moon Girl is a popular current kids' series! There are adults now that have zero attachment to any of the 90s characters we grew up with.

    Did they? Flipped out? I think it was more a rolling of eyes no?

    Anyway - Marvel 100% trades on nostalgia as does any company pushing decades old content. They want it both ways and who can blame them? X-Men 97 is the perfect example - there is no originality to the 1st season leaning on classic 80s and 90s audiences but reimagined for also an audience that didn't experience it first time round and are thinking they are seeing new content. Marvel wants it all!

  • entrailbucket
    entrailbucket Posts: 5,970 Chairperson of the Boards

    @DAZ0273 said:

    @entrailbucket said:

    @BriMan2222 said:

    @entrailbucket said:
    I think most people on here have never read an actual comic book, or at least haven't read one in the last 30 or so years, and their only Marvel experience is the big MCU stuff, the older Fox X-Men movies, and the X-Men TV show from the 90s.

    It's Marvel Puzzle Quest, not "nostalgia for middle-aged 90s kids Puzzle Quest." Witness the bizarre hype around Omega Red.

    Of course it is, why else would they give us omega red, edgier omega red, and bazillion pockets Cable costume. 90's Max to the extreme puzzle quest!

    Like, people flipped out about the Dinosaur Spidermans -- those characters were the leads in Marvel Comics' top-selling title for months!

    Folks don't have to like it, but Marvel is bigger than whatever stuff you remember from when you specifically were a kid. Moon Girl is a popular current kids' series! There are adults now that have zero attachment to any of the 90s characters we grew up with.

    Did they? Flipped out? I think it was more a rolling of eyes no?

    Anyway - Marvel 100% trades on nostalgia as does any company pushing decades old content. They want it both ways and who can blame them? X-Men 97 is the perfect example - there is no originality to the 1st season leaning on classic 80s and 90s audiences but reimagined for also an audience that didn't experience it first time round and are thinking they are seeing new content. Marvel wants it all!

    I need to go back and read the thread, but I think there were some pretty weird, angry reactions to those guys. Maybe I'm misremembering though.

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