I'm sure some are, and I'm sure it's nice to know paychecks are steady in a very unsteady industry like game development.

But if you are actually creative and passionate about making video games as an art, being stuck as a marvel cuck for a decade of your career is the death of creativity. There's nothing original or creative about working on this stuff. The characters and stories are all pre written to an extent, of course insomniac writes the story, but the universe and characters are so established and there's so many guidelines to follow for creating an approved marvel story. And as we can all see, being forced to be inclusive doesn't add anything to freedom of creativity, especially when insomniac has to have their script approved by the woke brigade of black and Asian lesbians before they can even get to work.

I'm sure after all of this stuff there are a good amount of people who will be happy to get out of their contracts just like some will be happy to renew them

You're applying your personal feelings on this. I think 99% of the folks at Insomniac are happy to be in the top 3 most prestigious studios at Sony and certainly the one that put itself on the map as top dog for this current gen. There's also nothing to indicate they're having issues making stories or content for Spiderman, Wolverine and Ratchet. Guerrilla only has Horizon right now, Naughty Dog is a TLOU studio and Santa Monica only has God of War. I'd say Insomniac has more freedom or at least variety than all of them.

havoc posts on neogaf? I just saw a post where havoc00 liked it lmao

Crazy to think how much they changed since the days of making the Spyro trilogy. Proves how these developers simply have nothing in common with the eras that made them great. Reminds me of what happened to Blizzard.

I started multi-quoting to reply to some comments in this thread but my lord the number of comments that need a reply is just too great, lol, low IQ Misc at it's finest ITT.Great analogy except how Blizzard is producing nothing and Insomniac is churning out great games.

Lol good joke, didn't know mgftp could genuinely crack a funny

lol at caring about mainstream games, at this point a seasoned gamer finds his/her/they niche and sticks to it

Bruh, that's what I've been doing these days. Seems like about 90% of the games I bought this holiday season were AA and indies focused on my personal interests.

Nah he's right, Spiderman 2 is fun af. I will immediately do a replay when NG+ is out and I don't feel that way for most games. The couple woke side quests are just passing things and not even close to ruining or impacting the story. I just lol and move on to the 99% of other stuff that's fun to do.

Cool story but I still have 0 interest in it.

Then you wonder why youre a foreveralone incel. Youre going after the wrong sex.

Try men ph@ggot.

Imagine if white americans moved to brown countries and complained there was no white people representation in the media. All these dominicans and chit in the video complaining US media doesnt represent them, what the fuk do they expect it should be american. Go watch dominican media then to see 100% of yourself all the time.

These CRT obsessed propagandists ruin everything they touch. And they're too lazy to come up with their own chit so they need to infiltrate existing, popular intellectual property, "subvert" it, and self-insert themselves as ugly ph@660t characters because they're talentless narcissists who cling to ideology as their only means of upward mobility.

Soulless pandering to minorities and smug condescension to everyone else isn't a great strategy to win favor with the public. Making Spider Man get struggle session'd by Mary Jane for a 30 minute boss fight saying "You're so much stronger than me!" like a little cuck ph@660t is just tiresome, it isn't groundbreaking narrative. These people suck such rank ass at everything they do.

What exactly did you interpret as the joke?

I don't mind the gays cuz I know some who are nicer people than most straight ones. That said, hiring for the sake of being diverse sucks. I just hope they hired gaming gays at least.

In the end, if the game is good, the game is good and I will play it. If it has too much gays or fatties, thousands of other games to play instead.

SM2 is great btw. Esp if you're a comic book nerd. Story is well done.

Nah. This is where tolerance leads.

They've been caught with their pants pulled down. Hopefully they can use this to evaluate and develop as a company.
Lets be honest though, they're just going to pull a Naughty Dog stunt and play the victim, blaming everyone else.

Diversity this, representation that blah blah and yet the black protag is still rocking an afro with sneakers, while the Latinx mom blurts out random Spanish words while speaking English, muy caliente. Seems like not much progress has been made since the 80s movies where black guys were talking hood and we had Mexican dudes called Hector ranting about big cojones while wearing headscarfs and checkered shirts.

But at least we know why schit costs $300+ mil now. Dozens of danger hair people ranting about representation this and struggle that, because of course that's what I'm looking for when considering shelling out 60 bucks for a game. Also on the topic of representation, where are the hot guys/gals? Especially the straight ones.

Worst part is that they pretend that the games/merch whatever are making bank - if they are - because of all that woke crap, not despite of it. Hell, I'm sure they could make bank with a game that consists of Kevin Spacey molesting Ewoks, just because it's Star Wars.

Also wtf @ the Wakanda opening? How is THAT not racist and condescending?

.....you realize many of these people are from the US?

Or do you think only white people are born inAmerica

People do this. This is exactly what they're talking about, displaying the people accurately.

its incredible to me that a lot of these right wing tough guys are worse snow flakes than the people they complain about. crying about those coloreds in videogames.

Bet they wish they paid the ransom…or maybe not. Maybe they’re insane enough to be totally cool with all this coming out.

Idiots crying about black/gay/whatever people just being present in games or any other form of media are idiots, no argument there.

My points are:

- why the fuk would anyone want to waste resources on "accurate representation" or whatever, when the end result is just what we've always had, like black people with afros and sneakers, Latinos randomly inserting Spanish words, Russians speaking with Borat/porn accents and having a preference for vodka and whatnot?

- if you allegedly care so much about representation, then how the hell do you manage to put in a Cuban flag instead of a Puerto Rican one, see Spider-Man 2? Do the diversity czars not have access to Google?

Love an anti Sony outrage lol but let's be real every tech company has diversity videos like this you need to watch as mandatory training when you are hired in your first days of employment, and you do a refresher where you rewatch it once a year.

It's nothing out of the ordinary.

It makes you wonder how much they could have saved gutting the diversity HR 2.0 and not hiring a "diversity consulting" outfit to write their script.

I had no idea until I looked into it, but spiderman is basically some unique entity that is insanely popular across the world to a degree where the IP might as well be too big to fail and will sell no matter what. The thing is, Insomniac actuallydoesgo out of their own way to hurt their product when they don't have to, they're just fortunate to have the one IP that would sell no matter how much glitter spiderman shot out of his taint.

Amazingly, we didn't have nearly the magnitude of these problems over a decade ago, or even during the previouscentury. It's only recently that we've seen this societal regression that prioritizes andvaluesjudging everyone and everything by superficialities as opposed to content and character. Weusedto haveorganicdiversity by virtue of talent and respect for whatever was being worked on.

Now we have condescending morons standing on the shoulders of giants like Jennifer Laurence claiming to be some female "first" for action movie leads alongside plenty of others acting as though the true achievements made by those before them never even happened, all so they can pretend to be important and fortify their savior complex. They would rather rewrite history to conform to their tumblr blogs instead of taking the risk of accidentally exposing themselves to some reality that clashes with their 24/7 head-canon.

You mean to tell me that for all these years people have been able to empathize with anything from anthropomorphized animals to a bloody toaster, but these lunatics can't look past shades of melanin or who fictional characters are boning offscreen? And these oblivious morons are the ones being catered to and doing the catering, hence the West's ongoing cultural regression in the name of relabeled bigotry in the name of progress, ironically undoing countless years of legitimate progressive movements.They're shallow, insecure, closeted racists/sexists/whatever-ists who are too self-important, narcissistic, and borderline sociopathic to empathize with anyone whotheyfeel don't reflect enough of themselves and their personal beliefs. To them, this idiocy is the equivalent to a religion (more of a cult, really), while dumping time and money into it is their proselytizing and flagellation.

Thatis the only thing they care about, and they'll launch a twitter crusade on anyone questioning their sincerity before even being capable of considering how they could ever be in the wrong.

E.g., the whole "latinx" thing they insist on shoehorning into everything despite when actual Latinos express how theydespiseit, but they see it as being for some made up greater good dictating how another culture and language operates. So on top of everything else, the hypocrites will accuse others of "cultural appropriation/colonization" while simultaneously acting out the very made-up definitions they created. The only representation they want is whatever batschit crazy conceptualization that exists within their petty minds, whatever any of those other people think be damned.

Spiderman is too big too fail. Spiderman will always sell. He is so much more popular than any other marvel character, his merch moves exponentially more so as well.

Certain miscers tried to fight me on this and act like Spiderman wouldn't move crazy numbers based on that alone just lolz. The name Spiderman alone sells. Period.

Spiderman completely transcends marvel as a character. There's a reason why Sony said **** all the other marvel characters we only are buying Spiderman all those years ago.


Sony also got insanely lucky that after they bought Spiderman, Marvel got their own chit together and changed the landscape with comic book movies and shared cinematic universes.

Sony had done absolutely jack chit with the spiderman ip since Tobey mcguire movies, if marvel hadn't resurged and worked out a deal for Spiderman to appear in marvel studio films, they'd have continued doing nothing but putting out mediocre Spiderman chit just to keep the ip active like they'd been doing the last 15ish years.

Show me any good Spiderman content in the time period between Tony mcguire trilogy and his appearance in civil war, lmao, there isn't any, because Sony had no Fkn idea what to do with Spiderman.

Sony should be sending interns over to blow Kevin feige on a regular basis for making Spiderman popular again

It is because many of them have nothing other going on with their life. Giving them spotlight makes it even worse.
People want to be relevant to a point where some would even cut their dick out and pretend to be a women just for the sake of people talking about them.

Despite being born in the US most of them claim they are dominican, mexican, wakandian etc. or to say they don't see themselves as americans.


Even if they did why do these egomaniacs only moan about a certain chunk of minorities?


Where are eastern europeans then?
Balkans have quite a distinctive culture for example and are insanely underrepresented everywhere in western media.
But yeah, I forgot they don't count since they are white.

Moaning about muh culture, muh representation counts only when you are a petty POC. With blacks especially is annoying AF since they are in fact overrepresented lately yet they still moan.

Alright, ima admit after finishing it. Spiderman 2 is fun to play and had me gripped but the wokeness was on another level.
Very minor spoilers ahead, if you care stop reading here.



There were way more gay couples than straight ones. Also it was very obvious how pathetic and weak they made Peter while Miles was their golden child. He was stronger and even wiser than Peter. He was giving Peter advice and being a mentor to him rather than the other way around. Not only that but he saved Pete a ton of times when Pete was getting his ass handed to him. They even gave the final fight to Miles even though it should have been Peter's fight.

Hope I didn't spoil much but absolutely baffling writing in this game. They clearly want to phase out Peter and make Miles the new star of the show, but they really didn't have to do my boy dirty like that.

Just lol @ Sony in 2023