Will Marvel ever has it's "Arkham" quility game?

Very few games in general reach Batman Arkham quality so I feel it's highly unlikely that a Marvel game will reach that level.

I'm much more of a DC comics man myself, but I still really enjoy X-men and would love a really good X-men game in the future.

How can you say great movies when 2 of the Dark Knight movies were OK, the Green Lantern movie was a major joke, and Man of Steel was garbage. That's 40%. As far as TV goes the last 2 episodes of Agents has picked it up and Arrow..really? That show would of been cancelled on any other network besides the CW and yes I have watched it .

Your shyt threads and posts null and voids any criticism you might have, so try again.

The wolverine game was good. They should build on the franchise. Activision does not help, they either come up with shit or Call of Duty (a turd itself).

Imagine Platinum making one, without all the weird japanese shit, would be great.

It would need more Wolverine-Senpai and some Rogue-Kun

I always wonder this, Marvel has huge potential they could do x men games set out like arkham city, it's ridiculous. Marvel just suck in the gaming world.

Have you watched Arrow beyond, I don't know, the first six episodes?

Marvel will always have the better movies than games compared to DC imo.

Yup I was that one yes only because of the X-men Legends, the Marvel Ultimate Alliance, and Wolverine Origins game. If they could just pull together the right story and gameplay together and make it as good as the Arkham series then yes.

The last good Marvel game was Xmen: Mutant Apocalypse on SNES... they're about due for another good one I'd say!

@charizard1605:

Daredevil/Moon Knight/Hawkeye/etc >>> DC's Batman focused line-up.

As I said, Arrow on a major network would of been cancelled last year. You keep forgetting to put IMHO in front of everything . There is a reason why Marvel movies are a hot commodity and DeCeased's aren't.

Marvel Heroes might be the closest thing

@charizard1605:

People who actually think Arrow is a bad show are the people who haven't even watched it, their opinions on it are null and void.

Justice League or bust

they don't need one, they have something even better.

Captain America: Super Soldier

GREATEST. SUPER HERO GAME. NA.

Spiderman 2

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Nope. DC>Marvel.

im trying to think what character to use (note: i dont follow the comics).

character like thor and the hulk have the same problem as superman in terms of games...they are, to all intents and purposes, gods. they should not have a health bar. they should be able to jump/fly where they want. the environment needs to be very very destructible.

if i was building a game for these characters it would involve trying to save people and minimising the damage (its no good for thor/superman to beat their enemy if they end up wiping out most of the populace and sending the rest back to the stone age in the process...not very heroic :P). could be an interesting game mind. sure you can beat 300 foot goliath in the middle of the city.....but try do it and keep casualties and damage to a minimum. but these characters should never die from thug with crowbar. the crowbar should break off their face.

hulk is really hard because when you are playing as bruce the player will always want to be the hulk. always play as the hulk and, from a gaming perspective, its going to boil down to SMASH. i dont recall the hulk ever sitting back for a think to solve a problem. there is a fun GTA4 mod for the hulk though :P.

there have been some decent spiderman games and they have tried to capture it....but it hasnt quite worked yet. worth trying again though on newer hardware (i rememebr the wii got an awful time for its version of spiderman early last gen....ah memories).

captain america would be better suited. not a god but good in combat. both his physical prowess and his skills with the shield are upgradeable.....that opens up options for the gameplay. ranged combat (guns and the shield), clever level design and puzzles could all be built around his abilities.

i dont know enough about black widow....she seems to be just a human who is very skilled in hand to hand combat and manipulating people. could make for the basis of an interesting RPG perhaps...but not so good for something like arkham.

at the end of the day though the same rule applies....build a great game first then have the IP make that great game even better. strip all the batman stuff out of AA and you still have a cracking metroidvania type game. strip all the star wars from KOTOR and its still a very enjoyable RPG. im not a big star wars fan but i still love KOTOR.

Nice irrelevant knee jerk response. Heck if it wasn't for Supernatural and Tomorrow People CW would just be another skip over on my cable TV.

Pffh. Iron Man/Tony Stark more than qualifies. His run with alcoholism alone sets him up there with Batman for "layered nuances [and] subtext" (what the **** is this exactly?).

As for the topic, I doubt it, Marvel cannot even keep up with DC's quality of comics anymore. They'd need to hire Rocksteady (who I assume have an exclusive contract with WB/DC) to get something even close.

"Next-gen" demands an Arkham City quality Iron Man, Thor or Captain America game.

No the reason why it works for Batman is, if you take away all of his resources and equipment, he has nothing and wouldn't be able to survive. As good as AA was it did have major gameplay flaws. So I have to play the game and get experience to give Batman abilities he already had to begin with.

Nope, they will never get their "Arkham" None of the Marvel characters even come remotely close to Batman. As a game, I don't see which ones are possible. Iron Man, Hulk, X-men, Spiderman etc are all a big no.

Thor COULD work, if Sony Santa Monica purchased the rights and made a god of war-esque game with Thor and the Norse gods, then again Thor would be Kratos' bitch so maybe not...

As far as I'm considered Marvel doesn't have their "Dark Knight" movie yet either. The Avengers was probably on par with TDK:R or Batman Begins, but definitely no where near The Dark Knight (#6 on the IMDB list for a reason)

So sad if this is the truth. MH is good but compared to arkham lol

Plausible but games nowadays are becoming dark and edgier. Which is more or less good.

Marvel have been lending thier characters to the wrong developers

I can't really say anything else. Maybe Deadpool or the Spiderman game? They're ok, but nowhere near the quality of the Batman games or even DC Universe Online

Personally, I'd rather play as Magneeto than Wolverine. The deadpool game wasn't as bad as people made out. It was simply "ok".

Nope don't agree. Marvel's characters are more popular, but not superior. If that's how it works then the Wii was superior to 360/PS3, Justin Bieber is a modern day Mozart. Sounds like you only read whats popular. And that days of future past casting is horrendous. Anybody see Quicksilver?

Same can be said about TC and his opinion of DC characters. So Wonder Woman, Green Lantern, The Flash, Teen Titans, the Justice League have had series running for decades because nobody cares about them?

Before Arkham Asylum the same thing was said.

Ofcoarse it can happen, it just needs a passionate team of developers.

The problem with a Marvel - Activision game right now isn't Activision, honestly. It's Disney.

The truth is that before Batman Arkham Asylum rocked the industry, we were getting incredible non-movie games from Activision for years. We saw the release of the excellent X-Men Legends series, which lead directly to an early gem last generation with Marvel Ultimate Alliance. Not much longer after that, Disney acquired Marvel, and the output after that is easily traced.

Disney is very protective of its properties, and they give VERY little leeway in creative freedom for outside forces. Do you think that if it was Rocksteady working with Marvel, that they'd have had the freedom with any Marvel character that Rocksteady was given with Batman? Absolutely not. Not only that, but Disney just doesn't see the value in releasing a videogame that can't tie into a movie or other transmedia effort they have going on at the moment.

The only Marvel characters Disney would even be willing to let a videogame touch are those who they don't currently retain the film rights to. We are way more likely to get an X-men game, Fantastic Four game, or a Spider-man game (we just got X-Men Legacy and are getting a new Spidey game this year) than ever seeing any character from the Marvel Cinematic Universe appear in a videogame that was designed by an outside creative team.

The one thing I enjoy about these movies is when they are called unrealistic, they take play in another reality were what happens in the movie happens on there earth, sure you can say this is how you make everything fit, but it works, most people like to nitpick, stupidily yes, but then again welcome to the real world

Would be hard. Disney has indicated they are only interested in cheap social and mobile games. Anything else would have to be made by 3rd party publisher, but there quality control would be impossible for Marvel.

Plus Batman was pretty unique. There's nobody in Marvel universe who has this nice setting, such amazing gallery of villains and also has works in a way that's easy to translate into videogame.

I always found Marvel to be a more colourful and fun comic world,

While as DC is alot more gritty and serious.

But video game development for both comes down to has the rights and what they plan, I mean Rocksteady have gone a different way and put out games which are more closesly involved in the comics, and marvel have put out games which more delve into the movie side of things,

all I want is a good superman game which actually feel likes i'm super man, it's needs to be handle with such care which it never is.

@charizard1605 The Dark Knight trilogy is the most overrated series of movies of all time. The last movie had me dozing off as they ruined Bane and set a large portion of the film in a prison hole where your Lord and Savior Bruce Wayne recovers from a critical spinal injury likes it's not even a thing.

Best superhero movies: Batman

Best licensed superhero video games: Batman

Best superhero comics: Batman

Best superhero: Batman

Coincidence???

Hello.....X-men legends? That was a superb game and the combat was way better (and varied) than the Arkham games.

Also:

Spiderman 2

Spiderman 2 the sinister six ( If I could get this game on 3ds vc I would die)

Marvel > DC

Probably not. That said though, i think the only thing marvel games need is an Ultimate Alliance 3.

I don't think there is a superhero out there that it would be impossible to make a good game for, except maybe Aquaman.