I think the new kid will help them remember why they do what they do, yes.
there's been 3 different spider-men actors over the last 17 years, spider-man looking different isn't weird and more the norm
If anything PS4 Spider-Man's costume will be an exclusive skin, I doubt the character himself will be exclusive.
I mean, if Crystal's recent Tomb Raider games are anything to go by, that's exactly what it will be. Pretty graphics, great production values, technically sound but artistically confused, derivative, visionless and badly written.
It's people being wilfully ignorant. They are clearly aping the MCU style. Just poorly.
There are skill unlocks from what I remember. We don't know much more.
It's not really CD, it's Shaun Escayg, creative director and writer of Uncharted: Lost Legacy, and that one was pretty fucking great. He seems very earnest and committed to make the game the best way possible, I wouldn't be surprised if some characters models are upgraded in the future. What has me more excited tho is that the guy responsible for the combat is the same one that worked in God of War, and everyone that saw the demo praised the action. They still have a lot of time to work the kinks.
There are two distinctly different issues.
They seem committed and listening to the fans feedback. I think both these things will end up being addressed. Will they make more like the MCU actors? Fuck no, but I'd say they still have time to work out all the kinks.
They also had Rhianna Pratchett working on two of the Tomb Raider reboot games. She can write and write well but their approach to story-telling and writing seems to have made it impossible to create a good story. She just didn't have enough control/freedom to actually come up with something good. It's very possible that they've changed their approach to storytelling for the Avengers game but I'd caution against merely assuming the story will be good because they've got a good writer attached to it.
They are selling this as story first since yesterday. The story they are going for and what Shaun is saying it's getting me quite intrigued and the creative choice of killing Cap in the reveal trailer is bold, and sets the theme of who they are going to avenge, besides the people of San Francisco. While I get the concern with DP, based in the reveal trailer and how amazing Marvel Spider-Man's story was, I'm not worried in that aspect right now. They need to focus on upgrading the graphics and addressed the negative feedback of some character models, and I think this is just too big of an investment for them not trying their best to.
I feel like it'll end up being a third person shooter, most of the current well known guardians rock guns so it'll probably be something like that with some individual skills for each guardian( so star lord can fly, gamora has a sword, rocket is with groot doin melee stuff etc etc)
I mean, fair enough, but for the record, they did also make a big deal about how important and how great the story was going to be in their TR reboot games and always acted like they were really proud of the storytelling when it was quite frankly very lacklustre. (I don't doubt that they were actually proud of it, I merely doubt their storytelling sensibilities.)
