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Tom Henderson on the state of Marvel's Wolverine: "From a few playtesters that I've been speaking to, they think that the game looks fantastic"

Are we ready for more Insomniac Kino?

>>720306295 (OP)
Source: https://youtu.be/ebz9vqIyNhc?t=2285

The same Wolverine game where you craft bandages to heal?

>>720307443
That was leaks from 3 years ago. Move on.

>>720306295 (OP)
>dude the short manlet with long nails that punches people in the face is so awesome
DOUBT! Wolverine is lame. Only works in movies

>>720306295 (OP)
achievable natty? them biceps?

>>720307675
>Wolverine is lame.
He is THE X-Man bitch.

Same playtesters who thought Concord was fantastic btw.

>>720307680
even Jackkkedman admitted he was on juice for x-men

>>720306295 (OP)
>playtester's job is to say what's bad about the game
>"ït looks fantastic"
oh ok, thanks

>>720306295 (OP)
By Insomniac? Fuck no they’re fucking worthless as a studio now, did everyone suddenly forget how fucking shit Spider Man 2 was? Games made by limpdick liberal fags who worship black people to fetishization levels.

>>720307584
Does that mean you dont craft bandages anymore?

(((playtesters)))

>>720306295 (OP)
>Sony playtesters

>>720308070
>worthless as a studio now
Every game they make sells 10 mill in a few days. Cope.

>>720308128
He doesn't know, he's just angry that you asked.

Only playing if his one true waifu is in the game.

>>720307860
Well yeah if you point out that the game is shit they call you toxic and kick you out. If you criticize the art direction or comment on how unappealing the characters are you are deemed a chud and get blacklisted from ever playtesting again.

>>720308214
Spider-Man 2 did not meet expectations which is why they canceled support.

>>720308569
>Spider-Man 2 did not meet expectations
>source: my ass

>>720308653
this, Insomniac was actually expecting it to sell less than half of the original

>>720306295 (OP)
>from the guy who represents the company: "yeah, some people that played my game liked my game".
No fucking way. I can't fucking belive it.
I actually like Wolverine as a character, and there was a Wolverine video game in the past I actually did enjoy, I think. I really dont remember a lot about it. I have incredibly negative expectations already though for whatever this game is going to be already. Im prepared to preemptively ask for a refund even though I have no intentions of buying it, because I assume it will be that disappointing. Reparations, if you will. Im already wondering who will be genderswapped, or race swapped, or both. I have no patience for it. I have less than no good will for it. They have got to know that i feel this way. I cant be the only one.

>>720306295 (OP)
>PLAYtesters
>they said it LOOKS fantastic

lmao uh oh

>>720306295 (OP)
Are these the same playtesters they usually grab who don't actually play games? Just like the focus groups they grab who are just random normies off the street whose entire experience is playing wordle and candy crush?

>>720308283
There is a 0% chance they will make Storm look good if the game uses facial scanning for it's character models. And it will. You will be LUCKY if she doesn't have the likeness of Debra Wilson.

>>720309128
>We've already got the booth warmed up for you Debra.

>>720309128
heh

>>720309128
>>720309156
>>720309187
So I have heard that Ms. Wilson is easy to work with. Can anyone confirm this is true?

>>720308070
>Spider-Man 2
The general consensus is that the story is shit, but the gameplay is great.

>>720307584
Prove it's out of the game. Preferably prove whoever insisted on that mechanic is fired, out of an airlock is best. Current insomniac doesn't get the benefit of the doubt.

>>720309128
Callisto actually

>>720306295 (OP)
P S 5 EXCLUSIVE

>>720308283
Your waifu is a SHIT, and they threw her at black panther because they had nothing beyond "they'r both african.

>>720309617
Must not be a very large consensus considering how hard it failed to reach the original's sales.

>>720309659
>that right image

HAHAHAHAHHAHAHAHA

A few weeks ago, there was an anon who claimed to be one of the devs. He said the game got a massive retool due to the reception of the leaks. It will be less nuGOW-ish and Logan will still brutally kill people.

>>720309724
>had all the best scenes in X-Men 97
>is the main girl on all the Tokon promotional material
>will be front and centre in the MCU X-Men

Storm chads always win.

>>720309827
I heard it. I don't believe it for a second but I heard it.

>>720308990
>I can't be the only one.
LOL. An understatement.

>>720309732
Sold 11 million copies. I think the dropped support happened due to some executive getting salty about The Game Awards thing.

>>720309985
Spider-Man 1 sold over 20 million in two years. Spider-Man 2 is approaching that mark with only 11 million?

>>720309379
Only indirectly. Black female actresses that have had ZERO drama for decades? That's a group of under 5 people to begin with. And she's doing 6-20 projects a year, so she's dealing with international teams, with remote europeans, with asians who don't understand a thing she says, and with full on racists.

t. Lives near Playa Vista. Can hear the arguments spill over sometimes.

>>720309724
>Cuck'challa gets Logan's sloppy seconds
Theres also the constant stroking that Storm and BP get as being "godly leader types" in their setting. To the point that its kind of gross. All the time with Storm.
>UMMMM, DID YOU KNOW THAT SHE'S AN OMEGA LEVEL MUTANT!?
>UHHH, DID YOU KNOW THAT SHE IS RESPECTED AND REVERED AS A GODDESS!? TAKE THAT BIGOTS!
Holy shit, fuck off. I already liked Storm before the god awful, patronizing, ass kissing. What's the opposite of character assassination? That's what Storm and BP get constantly. Black Spiderman too, obviously.

>people paid to have a opinion have a opinion
breaking news OP

>>720309659
>>720309749
Good enough fit I think.

>>720310198
I was facetiously asking that question. Its become a meme to bring up how "easy she is to work with" any time her name is brought up.

>>720309919
>>720309827
I believe they WENT that way, but how far did they get?

>>720310212
it's blackwank
like batwank but with blacks

and of course you can't simply lift someone up without going out of your way to put someone else down so we're also shitting on peter parker and frank castle

>>720306295 (OP)
>Wolverine is Fantastic according to (((playtesters)))

>>720306295 (OP)
Unless they completely redesigned it, you can have this exclusive, ps5 peeps. Smell vision detective portions? Making the game like 10 minutes walking, 5 minutes action? Yikes

>>720308283
That is Dr. Doom's owner.

>>720309985
Yeah, the dlc, the gaas, and all that other stuff was all because of the game awards, not because the sales were meh and Disney is charging an arm and a leg for licensing

>>720309617
that consensus comes from what, 9 year olds? it's got that same shitt no physics swinging as the first game, and the same generic arkham style combat.

>>720309985
>I think the dropped support happened due to some executive getting salty about The Game Awards thing.
LOL. Fuck of with your bullshit. Salty over game awards, and throwing a tantrum and going home? No. We know what happened, and that's from the leaked budget data, and the lawsuits. Game sold well, but had a completely fucking insane budget so the ROI isn't there. It's also why they "paused" the live service game.

>>720310408
It's probably just story. Sweet Baby was involved but given their reputation I wouldn't be surprised if their input was scrapped.

>>720310783
(You)

>>720306295 (OP)
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>>720310483
They could ironically have Storm be a romantic interest for Logan in the game. There would be actual history for it in the comics. It would be genuinely interesting. They would never though. They would sooner make Jean a nog, and have her flirt with Wolverine. Why? Because fuck you. They would sooner make Psylocke black. And then just make Wolverine gay. And then have you play the second half of the game as X-23 who is now also black. Somebody take me out of this dogshit timeline i have slid into.

>>720310861
And I wouldn't be surprised if they quadrupled down, and then took one step back. Remember that the team making the game was quite woke, and THEN they convinced managment to spend more money hiring SBI to make it even more woke, and more money on top of that implmementing their dumb shit.

And SM2 and MM did move product. You've seen how little some of these places change even when they take a half billion kick to the nuts.

Still. Haven't seen the final product. Now MY standard is Frank fucking Miller.

>California spends ~$1,000,000,000 annually fighting wildfires
>Storm makes it rain and does as good, if not better, than the firefighters
>charges them $999,999,999 for the service
How are mutants not the wealthiest people around?

>>720306295 (OP)
Look man, I've played modern video games. I know play testers are now just some guy named Ranjesh Jeetaru who doesn't do his job and just accepts all the bugs as is, so I dont really care what they have to say

>>720306295 (OP)
CELESTIAAAAAALS!
WE MUST BE BETTER X MEN

>>720311382
Wildfires are an excuse for property buyouts. They'd pay her to leave the fires alone if they had to.

>>720310615
Owned by Doom*

>>720311256
At this point I wouldn't be suprised if they had him be gay with Herc.

>They would sooner make Psylocke black.
Don't give them ideas.

>>720311856
>hag Jean

Why aren't models upset that developers ugly them?

>>720311856
Dead game.

>>720306295 (OP)
>playtesters
You are literally not allowed to say negative things about a game, either you have to sign a document alongside NDA to not talk shit about the game or your opinion gets censored by middle men before they reach the devs.
I've playtested many games before and my opinion was silenced enough times that I just gave up on giving any real feedback.
Don't hate playtesters, there are layers of bullshit between them and the devs and that's just reality if you want to keep a job in this industry.
t. QA

>>720309617
i pirated the first game and got bored because the gameplay feels kinda bad. and theres so much boring story shit it ruins the experience

>>720306295 (OP)
And Sweet Baby Inc's DEI-infested bullshit? No thank you.

>>720312362
>Don't hate playtesters, there are layers of bullshit between them and the devs and that's just reality if you want to keep a job in this industry.
Double fuck playtesters if that is what happens. Refuse to be tools for incompetent middle men and have some fucking principles. If playtesters just stood up and said, "No. Fuck you. I will give real feedback," the silencing would stop. It is because they are spineless, feckless cowards that their opinions and jobs are worthless. Playtesters are fucking parasites if they go along with bullshit that prevents them from giving valuable, necessary feedback for both developers and customers just so they can keep getting a paycheck.

>>720311927
It would be like complaining that you look bad on your driver's license photo. It's a raw scan of their face. No make up, or foundation usually. Also, there is probably some culture of " feminist empowerment" to have those scan renders out there looking like shit as they do. You just know those bitches hypocritically wear make up and use filters on every single one of their social media photos though. But that is "on their terms". When they represent themselves on their spaces? Beautified and fake as shit. Peacocking to attract a mate. When they represent themselves in what they perceive to be "your space". No make up, made to look unfemenine as possible. Don't want to titilate you, you disgusting male.

>>720307680
Huge jacked person took roids.

>>720306295 (OP)
We should've gotten wolverine 2 by now. Wasn't this all leading up to full fledged xmen game by the end of the decade? Tic toc insomniac.

>>720306295 (OP)
>game looks fantastic
but how does it play?

>>720306295 (OP)
I work on this game and can offer the actual TRUTH and FACTS to you FAGGOTS.

ama

>>720311856
>>720306295 (OP)
>GAME LOOKS FANTASTIC.

>>720313183
ok why do all the women look like men and why is race swapping ok if it's from white to black

>>720313319
Toxic positivity, more or less, and then obsession with the Druckman ways of doing things.

It's typical of post modern design, deconstruct what is expected and offer something unexpected: eg. Ugliness, race swapping, narrative remixing. It's just so tone deaf and retarded, and perhaps worst of all just totally expected at this point.

The good news is that we do look substantially less ugly since what you've seen in the leaks.

>>720306295 (OP)
>playtesters (i.e. normies and midwits)
yeah I'm thinking slop is on the menu

>>720313183
alright i'll bite
how far from gold is the game?
how desperate are the suits about the current state of the project?

>>720312759
Not sure how much is still on-track
>venom game MIA and likely rolled into spiderman 3
>spiderman 3 broken up into 3 different parts
>wolverine supposedly a year away but no release date

>>720306295 (OP)
the leaked gameplay vids show a whole different story

>>720311856
They need to fire every transgender in the industry.

>>720313802
We're making steady progress. The game suffered from a lot of hiccups, including but not limited to several full rewrites, layoffs, the ransomware attack which alone costed is about 2 months of dev, and then the inevitable head rolling in order to save sed suits asses. You can imagine how morale was lmao

We are approaching alpha currently, and it is likely that you will start getting some marketing soon. The game is going to come out, it's probably going to have a fairly mixed reception -- but I think wolverine fans will have plenty to enjoy. I expect it will make it's money back and then some, but this is exactly why we partner with marvel for that insane IP power

Speaking of which

>>720313830
Incredibly outdated

>>720314783
a technical question. I assume you're using some inhouse sony engine either the one used in spider-man, or something else forced upon you. how do you handle shader compilation?

>>720315028
alright, I wasn't specific enough. for core platforms you could do it once and just send it in a patch, but from my experience that's not true anymore. is this ue5 shit and you have better solutions or is it fucked?

>>720310343
>Raceswapped
It's so... tiresome.

>>720306295 (OP)
>playtesters
lol

>>720314783
Are you this anon from about a month back:
>>720309827

>>720315028
>>720315225
Our in house engine is wonderful to work with, we have a dedicated team that is constantly improving it. I'm not super qualified to talk about exactly how we compile are shaders, but I can tell you that we definitely handle it better than UE5. A lot of money and work went into quick swaps and loads that you see in Rift Apart and that tech hasn't gone anywhere.

Having devved in both UE environments and our proprietary tools I can definitely say I prefer the latter. Our workflow is nice as well, which can be hellish for other. For instance, Naughty Dog has to rebuild their whole levels anytime they want to see a change, where as I can save and see it represented on my dev kit more or less instantly.

>>720309732
>Bloriciuan Spiderman.
I will now no longer buy your game.

As soon as they recast Holland in the Sony-MCU Spider-man into a Nagger, it's over for Sony. Nobody gives a shit about Miles.

Unless that Miles is Edgeworth.

>>720313183
When's it hitting Steam? Because I'm not buying an console for the X-men. Sorry (not sorry).

>>720313183
How are you liking the combat so far? Are you lot aiming for high speed crazy action or slower brawler? You thinkit's likely it'll get dumbed down for ultra normies?

>>720316308
Sony seems like it likes to wait at least a year before dropping a PC variant. We don't handle the ports though.

>>720313183
You're bullshitting, but just on the off chance that you're not: is Laura in? If yes, what does she look like?

>>720311407
What the hell is that posture. Dude looks so done with his life

>>720317098
Insomniac is all about appealing to ultra normies. That's the MO, unfortunately.

Combat has been the single most inconsistent thing in our game and the biggest problem to solve. If you look at the greatest action games out there though, they're basically normie repellent. You just can't bring something like sekiro down to that level, but you'll also not be able to replicate the incredible satisfaction a game like that presents.

Combat talent on the team are veterans of Respawn and Jedi Fallen series, you can expect some of that to be influencing it. But honestly, I cant say exactly where I will land. All I know is it will be very flashy for normies.

>>720317302
No, this is closer to a wolverine origin story. X-23 would be very cool though, id love a Bayonetta style action game with her.

>>720317482
Well, it IS Wolverine.

>>720317812
Isn't Wolverine more often than not looks grumpy-sad rather than sad-sad tho

>>720317686
So they're not planning on doing the Miles thing with her. I guess it's something.

>>720309659
>>720311407
>>720311856
You're trolling, right? That can't be the real game, right?

RIGHT???

>>720317589
Is the gore any fun, I can accept dumb flashy fun if it's violent.

>>720306295 (OP)
>looks fantastic
>nothing about the gameplay
3rd person over the shoulder slop incoming!

>>720318018
No, the miles thing is set to be with a little more unexpected of a character.

>>720318081
Yeah it's pretty good. The brutality is one of the things we've done right. It's going to be dumb and flashy and hopefully by the end edgy too. Look up our narrative lead, he's the guy who made Spec Ops: The Line

>>720318469
>No, the miles thing is set to be with a little more unexpected of a character.
Please don't tell me it's Daken.

>>720318034
They're leaks from a few years ago so it might not be entirely accurate

>>720317589
Insomniac-kun, can you tell us if the older Rachet and Clank games will get re-releases? I hate that the Future trilogy is still stuck on the PS3.

>>720318034
Local mouthbreather shocked when shitty in dev screenshots look shitty.

>>720306295 (OP)
Playtesters have a history of being literal retards.

Storm

>>720318686
She's my second favorite X-man.
First is the blue elf.

>>720318535
Anon-chan, don't expect anything more than pure marvel sloppa for a long while desu

If it's gonna be done, it won't be done by us

>>720313183
does the game do anything interesting with wolverine's healing ability/adamantium durability(don't know if you guys get to that or not)? it seems like that aspect might be kind of tricky to feature given how regenerating is a common hohum mechanic in games with regular human characters.
the way his durability has been handled at times in comics would put logan below a lot of videogame characters by default.

>>720318580
Cosplay as a pear for the rest of your life.

>>720318750
Who's Wolverine's VA?

>>720313183
How is the general gameplay? Is it closer to spooder with no webs, or something like Wolverine's Revenge?

>>720318520
Thanks anon, that's kind of reassuring. Have a nice day. Cheers!

>>720313830
>X-Men game

Based. Not playing unless my Queen is in though.

>>720315904
I understand that's proprietary knowledge, but do you have an inkling how it's better? You mentioned ND having to rerender levels on smallest change, I get that, but that's also a weird situation.

>>720311817
>At this point I wouldn't be suprised if they had him be gay with Herc.
In your dreams mine too. For as woke as Insomniac like to parade themselves as. They would never let Logan get intimate with another man. Even if it’s a different universe they wouldn’t. Because you know as well as I that when it comes to pandering. They only care about portraying lesbians because it’s the “safer” option. I doubt they’ll even introduce Wolverine’s son, Daken Akihiro, into the game either and he’s bisexual.

>>720319061

>emma frost design by a western game studio

one look at their jean grey should tell you all you need to knwo

>>720318750
Is sweet baby inc breathing down your necks? How do people feel about having to work with a well known controversial company that does nothing but harm to your brand?