David Jaffe not a fan of Marvel Games
Over on his blog David Jaffe (the man behind the God of War franchise, and also Mickey Mania) has ranted about recent Marvel Games and their use open city worlds in almost of their games. “Please stop putting Spiderman games in big open sandbox environments where you swing around and do oh so slight variations on 4 pretty dull mission types,” he comments.
He goes onto comment that he wants more games that feels like a comic? “I don’t mean art style wise; I don’t mean like Comix Zone with panels and cliche stuff like that. I mean feels like a comic in a story based, narrative way: a game that shows off the OTHER aspect that makes Marvel Comics so special: The characters/story. It’s not JUST about the powers, you know.”
Finally, he comments “I really hope Marvel stops ONLY using the HOW TO MAKE A MARVEL GAME template that seems to demand: Open City, Hero Powers, Recycled Missions ad nauseam, and a few Unique things tossed in. And I hope they stop because this template- in most cases- goes against the very thing that makes the comics so special: story.“
2 comments ↓
Nogert
June 24th, 2008
Who is a fan? Recently they have been nothing but shite cash in schemes, every marvel game within the last 3 years seems to have use the same engine and it’s boring.
Marvel doesn’t care about computer games!
It’s true, boycott em, they are just here to make a game when a movie comes out.
Ben
June 24th, 2008
These games come across as so overly safe in concept they are devoid of any substance. They should hand the license to a proven developer and ask them to run with it.
A video game interpretation of the license could add a lot of value.
Take a risk!
P.S. Jaffe – hurry up with Twisted Metal PS3.