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GV10: [Results] Best Comic Book Video Game: Check Page 2!
DJ Eebs
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Our next category is Best Comic Book Video Game!
This category is for your favorite comic book video game of the past 10 years! Essentially, if a video game came out between April of '05 and today, it's eligible, so nominate your favorite!
Rules
1) Nominate as many games as you want! There's no limit
2) If you see one of your favorites has already been nominated, feel free to second or third or fourth that nomination!
3) Please talk about why you think your favorite games deserve to be in this poll. Simply posting a the name of a game won't disqualify your nomination, but...
4) ...this thread is also for you to state your case for your favorite games! I won't be making a seperate voting thread, so here's where you make your case
5) And above all: keep it civil. This is supposed to be fun. I don't want to see people slagging on each other or their choices, try and keep it positive, alright?
Alright, and nominations are open...NOW
Put your nominations in BOLD TEXT. You don't need to all caps them, though
This category is for your favorite comic book video game of the past 10 years! Essentially, if a video game came out between April of '05 and today, it's eligible, so nominate your favorite!
Rules
1) Nominate as many games as you want! There's no limit
2) If you see one of your favorites has already been nominated, feel free to second or third or fourth that nomination!
3) Please talk about why you think your favorite games deserve to be in this poll. Simply posting a the name of a game won't disqualify your nomination, but...
4) ...this thread is also for you to state your case for your favorite games! I won't be making a seperate voting thread, so here's where you make your case
5) And above all: keep it civil. This is supposed to be fun. I don't want to see people slagging on each other or their choices, try and keep it positive, alright?
Alright, and nominations are open...NOW
Put your nominations in BOLD TEXT. You don't need to all caps them, though
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Arkham Asylum
As much as I hate hate hate it sometimes ( most of the time) Marvel Avengers Alliance
Would Telltale's Walking Dead game count as a comic book video game?
Hulk Ultimate Destruction
Ultimate Spider-man from Ps2 era
Marvel Ultimate Alliance
Car Fists
Bus Surfboard
Hulk Stealth Mission
It's also a really well made, fun open world game that captures the spirit of Hulk perfectly but
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Seconding Marvel: Ultimate Alliance, because I can't nominate the best version of those games, X-Men Legends 2. It still had Colossus, though, and a bunch of really fun cutscenes in between wrecking shit with your buddies.
Seconding Ultimate Spider-Man because swinging around New York and running into the Baxter Building is still one of the most pleasant surprises I've ever had in a video game. I wasn't expecting to run into other elements of the Marvel Universe, and I'm glad they were there.
Edit: I should refresh before posting.
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Arkham Asylum. You are Batman. You strike fear into your opponents by sneaking around in the dark and brutally taking them down. The Scarecrow levels are fucking awesome. Nuff said.
Arkham City. Pretty much the same as the above, only this time you can also play as Catwoman.
Lego Batman 2. Lego: good. Batman: good. Playing other superheroes: good. Fighting a giant Joker robot: awesome!
Ultimate Spider-man. A good game based based on a great comic series? Hell yeah! Plus you get to play as Venom and beat the shit out of Wolverine!
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If we don't get a huge number, I'll drop the number of votes per ballot, probably. Let's see what happens, though.
I'll also nominate Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3, primarily because I fucking love watching fighting game tournaments and those games are insane to watch. I'm fuckawful at it, but the comebacks pros can come up with are insane in a really entertaining way.
Deadpool: This won't win, and I know people find the Daniel Way-esque version of Deadpool annoying, and this game is certainly a little TOO self aware and juvenile, but it had enough funny bits to justify the $10 I paid for it.
I mean.
Marvel Heroes: This wasn't a terrible Diablo clone. Though I wish I could have just bought a version that had all the characters rather than having to grab them separately as a F2P game. They've added a TON of fan favorite characters and loads of new content since launch. If you like Diablo loot games and Marvel, I'd recommend checking this out. It's free, after all!
X2: wolverines revenge is 2 years too early unfortunately. it gives you smell o vision which is a really nice precursor to detective vision, a whole heap of stealth kills, plus you can play as patch or in the brown and tan (best outfit!)
i can't in good conscience vote for uMvC3 as i bought the standard game in good faith, then they re-released with iron fist and ghost rider with no options to get them as DLC for the original game, which is just a massive fuck you.
Now I'm sad this doesn't exist for me to play right now
Also Freedom Force vs the Third Reich qualifies and that series is just pure comic book happiness.
Spider-man 2 for the PS2 seems to just make the cut-off and that's a great game. I put in many hours on that one.
I fucking loved this game. I really want another one
To increase the list of games, i would like to nominate: Mortal Kombat vs DC Universe - any game that lets me play as Captain Marvel and SHAZAM people into oblivion is A+ in my book.
It's only flaw was distribution as a console-based download only game, which means that as of end-of-year 2014, it's been unavailable.
Marvel Heroes is really amazing for many reasons. First, it has excellent voice acting and characterization for a huge roster of heroes. David Hayter as the Winter Soldier? Tara Strong as Squirrel Girl? Whoever the heck was the voice of the 90s Spider-man as an alternate voice/costume for Spider-man? Jeez. It's an act of love.
Second, although it could be said to have had a rocky start, it won the award for Best MMO of 2014 and Most Improved MMO of 2014 from various sites and magazines.
Third, it has a metric butt-ton of characters and simply won't stop releasing them. They tend to pattern their patches around the release of MCU movies so when The Winter Soldier came out Captain America got a rework. Thor was reworked for his recent release too. Star Lord was released when Guardians dropped - etc, etc.
It's just a solid game with good studio support and you get to punch mans as pretty much any hero in the Marvel universe.
Gameplay Video
The earlier attempt of Super Hero Squad (despite how much I liked it) failed in this aspect by having horribly generic designs that looked like they came out of the Homiez line of gumball machine toys. I actually can't remember if I voted for SHS for Best Show or not. I nominated, but I might have seen others on the list that beat it out.
It is a Diablo style game made by Dave Brevik who basically was the father of the Diablo series. (And is a Ceo of the company now and still regularly does twitch streams with his wife of them playing the game.). It's obvious that the team is full of fans that respect the comics too, as you get everything from avengers movie costumes for characters to Hawkguy sweatshirt and pants to alternate versions like Kate bishop, lady Loki, or Sam Alexander Nova complete with alternate voice recordings to fit the characters. They've even gotten actors who played Spider-Man on precious animated series to voice his costumes along with Clark Gregg and of course Stan Lee himself.
Gameplay wise you are looking at a massively multiplayer Diablo style game where each playable hero is their own class. Which as of this weeks release of She hulk will put the game at 46 heroes, all who play very differently. They are constantly adding new content from one shot story missions to raids (Surter first and soon Axis with Red Onslaught, and an Ultron one). Even more story content is coming with a Secret Invasion based storyline and the coming of Thanos being teased.
All in all its a blast of a game and considering we've got close to 100 people in guild on the forums that play regularly it's pretty popular too. (Plug: lemme know if you want an invite)
I'm not really a huge adventure game guy, but boy, I loved the Sam & Max games. They did a tremendous job with the humor, they had great characterization, and were short enough that Adult Delduwath could actually fit them into his stupid dumb schedule.
Also the Soda Poppers theme song is still stuck in my head.
I don't even.
I will legitimately nominate Marvel Ultimate Alliance 2, because even though it was a lot shorter and less-in-depth than its predecessor, it was a mountain of fun, I liked the combat more, and I enjoyed how it blended together the modern avengers stories instead of the sort of weird greatest hits generic story the first game did.
I will nominate Injustice and Mortal Kombat vs DC Universe because I liked them.
and I will nominate Justice League Heroes, because at least it tried, sort of.
"Ride or Die" confirmed Dominic Toretto, as they took off to find the Dragon Balls in hopes of reviving their friend Sonic
If we have to pick specific tables for FX2 , I'll nominate Infinity Gauntlet and World War Hulk
Once you get 1-2 gems into the gauntlet, it gets so ridiculous, board flips over, balls become magnetic, balls teleport, it's crazysauce
I'll also throw my hat in for Hulk: Ultimate Destruction, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World and X-Men Origins: Wolverine
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The first time they came back to visit, a few months later, they were so happy that I had unlocked every character, just so they could play with them. Yep, that was totally the reason.
Great fun, less glitchy than earlier Lego games I'd played, and with some great humour throughout.
PSN / Xbox / NNID: Fodder185