@Biggs613 Alright, X-Men Legends was decent. Marvel Ultimate Alliance and Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2 were also decent.
I was thinking X-Men Destiny, which was horrible. It had horrid frame rate, broken save system, and a lousy premise in which you couldn't play as the actual X-Men, but new mutants who have no character nor unique skill sets.
X-Men Origins: Wolverine, also horrible. Also horrid frame rate and a poor God of War ripoff.
Maximum Carnage was good, as well as most of the classic NES and SNES Marvel games, I agree.
Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 comes closest to being noteworthy, but the franchise is so niche because of its fighting game genre.
In any case, I was looking for something along the lines of Arkham City / Arkham Asylum. Marvel Games has yet to produce a game of this caliber. I can immediately see their failed attempts with Captain America: Super Soldier (to copy Arkham Asylum) and The Amazing Spider-man (to copy Arkham City). Even Thor, which tried desperately to copy God of War, was a major flop, not to mention the past two Iron Man games.
This is where my frustration is. I love the Marvel movies, but the games are just not there. I played through Captain America: Super Soldier and suffered through the frame rate. The game was tolerable mainly because of my affinity for the character, but on its own technical merits, it was lacking.
@baszzer Indeed. That was the style being attempted by True Crime: Streets of L.A.
I remember this was supposed to be a True Crime installment, and it would have been fitting, but I can also understand why Square Enix-Eidos wanted to get away from that franchise since it left a bad taste for people who played it.
At the same time I think Sleeping Dogs is a horrible name for this type of game, especially how it involves Chinese people. It makes me think as though the game refers to the Chinese as "dogs" or are referencing the fact that dog meat is a Chinese delicacy.
I know that the name is derived from the idiom, "Let sleeping dogs lie", which means to keep something on a hush hush to prevent it from escalating into a big mess, and that it probably references the main character's undercover work, but I mean... sleeping dogs... "dog" as a derogatory name for ethnic people... and dog meat... I don't know if I can disassociate that from the title.
I'd rather go with "True Crime", perhaps even rebooting the franchise in an era where reboots are so popular, from Tomb Raider to Spider-man. Just as long as they don't get tempted to be overzealous and call it "True Crime: Sleeping Dogs", because that would defeat the purpose LOL.
Here's my experience of Kingdoms of Amalur: I booted the game, created my character, saw my character in-game, realized my character runs as though something was shoved up his butt, deleted my male character, created a female character, realized she also runs as though something was shoved up her butt, and ejected the disc.
There's no way I would be investing 20+ hours of my life with that kind of sophomoric animation, plus having already known that the game's world is generic.
How could a game with such talents as Jim Lee and R.A. Salvatore turn out to be so poorly executed and uninteresting? Curt Schilling hired these guys to recreate an action adventure RPG based on a pre-determined formula that he assumed would play safe and be successful. He made his own action adventure RPG based on his conviction of the popularity of WoW instead of letting these guys unleash their creative juices and go to town with what they do best.
Give this franchise to Bioware and I'll probably be interested.
Have these guys really been in existence for 30 years? If so, they haven't been doing a good job. Granted it's tough to make games in general, but they have not released anything noteworthy enough to celebrate over.
I thought "Marvel Games" was a new executive board to ensure that Marvel games stop sucking from here onward...
The clips showed here are actually from Fist of the North Star: Ken's Rage 1, including the music. The only thing they added was the sepia filter and the logo at the end of the clip.
@zzanzabar Actually, I thought Iron Man 2 was crap. It was a linear regurgitation of Iron Man in a sense of Tony Stark unearthing greater discoveries, etc., minus the sincere emotional element that made Iron Man 1 so profound. Iron Man 2 was director Jon Favreau being self-indulgent.
Thor was decent, but seemed to target Iron Man's emotional aspect of the main character being grounded in humility before being a true hero. Still, Thor is better than Iron Man 2 since it presents a moral to be learned. So I would rank the three movies as:
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