Giant Bombcast Marvel's Spider-Man 2 Review + Answering Your Questions

Will I get to beat up a whopping two or three supervillains and spend 50 hours collecting grocery bags or whatever this game's treadmill happens to be?

Appreciate the format. Never complaining about a chance for a full staff to chime in on a big game.

Love the format, hope you folks tackle some more big releases like this

About to listen, but I'm hoping this is a revisit to that format they experimented with years ago. A review discussion thing with Jeff. I think they stopped because it'd double up discussion on the Bombcast or whatever, so that'd be the only thing to be aware of.

Anyway, the first game somehow ended up on my top 3 of that year after zero expectations. So I'm really looking forward to this one.

Interesting that Dan decides the Sand Man fight isn't a spoiler because it happens at the start of the game. What a ridiculous statement.

A step in the right direction.

Sounds rad, I'll be excited to get into this after I finish up Super Mario Bros. Wonder.

PLEASE hook into my VEEEEEEEEINS more people realizing that A) Spider-Man is meant to be FUN and that's what makes the serious moments sing and B) modern interpretations CAN be better than the comics.

They had Spidey sell his marriage to Satan instead of having him get a divorce in the comics, "arrested development" doesn't even START to cover it.

@hughesie27: hope you didn’t listen to Gerstmann’s podcast today because he talks about it too. 😂

More videos/discussions like this for games please. Doesn't have to be a spoilercast just the crew having a focused discussion on a game that they can't fully cover during a traditional bombcast.

@permanentsigh: Yeah, but Jeff is known for doing that because he doesn't care about spoilers. He's done it for years on GB. I've learned to skip ahead once he starts talking about the story in a video game once the embargo ends.

Hey I kinda like the new review format and having it added to the podcast feed - looking forward to the next one. What if you all gave it a score out of 100 and averaged them together for an official score at the end? I think that would piss off a lot of people and be super fun!

Sounds like you had the same issue the crew had. They would rather the game be bite sized like miles morales. Though the first game had more than three villains. Miles has the fewer villain variety. Personally think Miles game works well but you just cant spend that much on a sequel and come out with a game you can beat in a rental period...people would complain no matter how good it is. I think we have to realize sometimes stuff like the flashy fights and on rails stuff is super good for the average gamer, and such people are the bulk buying. You see that flashy stuff or play it in a mall as a kid and you'd flip like seeing the sonic running from whales in sonic adventure...it's just pressing a button but it looks and seems cool. Miles story game in hindsight works so well for people as you dont have time to get bored, its like the assassins creed rouge game vs assassins creed 4, where all the cool stuff is condensed into a rollercoster of fast fun without the bloat.

Seems like you'd think dan doesn't care like most of the staff about stories as they usually seem to not enjoy most movies and then they flip me on the head and fall hard for some random game with a story you likely seen in some anime or something lol. Like Dan prior watching anime and thinking MGS was soo crazy (it is just saying a lot of that kinda story telling you can find in anime from the 90s.) Not making fun of them more just remarking. Its something we all fall into i guess. Hence i get why he doesn't care about story very quickly, takes alot to impress him. Then again sometimes it doesnt lol, he's also a college guy in the field sooo no telling with DAN he's a savant and anomaly all good.