Where to start...
The girl you are forced to listen to for the whole game (maybe? They don't let you go far in the plot) is called Kamala, just like the (D)onna Hylton Fan Club VP. I'm sure it's just a coincidence, but it irritated me anyway.
As for her personality - I was expecting something more feminist honestly. She sounded more like an obsessive fangirl than anything else. She was still kind of annoying though, even if it seems not political.
The antagonist (I'm guessing? You don't see him for all free missions you can play but you fight his army, so surely he is the antagonist.) is of course a white male. No surprises there.
As for the actual game, it's like the Batman games. There's lots of button mashing, but sometimes you'll get to use superpowers. Seems like it would get boring pretty fast when the novelty wears off.
Oh, and for everyone that's curious, they don't appear to be forcing you to play as Generic Female Protagonist™ for that long, although that might be just for the beta.
Finally, balancing seems completely out of whack and the game is so easy even Kotaku "journalists" could beat it.
Don't think I'd recommend it, even disregarding the fact we should be boycotting Marvel.
She didn't say anything that woke, at least that I noticed. Half of her lines were cringeworthy reactions to doing things or meeting people. She acts like a teenage girl near her crush whenever anything happens and it's honestly painful, but I was expecting her to be full "future is female" cult material.
Ironheart is worse, no question. The name is stupid, the origin story is ridiculous and it's purely a feminist shit over a good character.
Kamala's shtick is more of a "ZOMG I'M SUCH A SUPERHERO FANGIRL AND MY FAVORITE HERO GAVE ME HER NAME!!!" thing. She's an Inhuman who was blessed by Carl Manvers herself with the "Ms. Marvel" name once she got smacked with the Terrigen mists and got her powers. Her comic book character is just about as awful as it sounds, because it's either fangirl SQUEE'ing, her pulling a Mr. Fantastic-style ripoff of changing her body's size and shape to fight street-level crime, or being a mouthpiece for whatever SJW writer du jour is handling the book, with added bonus of the character being a teenage Muslim girl.
Given that, I'm not surprised that the majority of her lines were total cringe.
Ironheart would be Patient #4 (or maybe #5 if you backtrack and count Squirrel Girl's transition to wokeness as the #1 and shift everyone forward), and her origin is a complete shit-show. "She's a black teenager that's smarter than Tony Stark!" Yeah, if that were the case then why'd she have to steal Tony's armor designs to build her suit?
So, basically, to "fight stereotypes", they just build a character out of nothing but new and acceptable stereotropes and demand we worship the shit. Got it.
I guess "false idols" come in many different forms, and from many different places, after all.
Disagree. #1 is Squirrel Girl, a character whose claim to fame is that the creator undermined some of the Marvel Universe's best villains by having them job to her.
Honestly, Squirrel Girl was kinda fun for everyone who was down with the in-joke nature of the character before the Wokeness Brigade got their mitts on her. If you look back at her original appearances (ignoring the Steve Ditko horror-show version of her), they had her set up to be the cute, plucky, sidekick type with a gag power and the meta-joke of her being able to use that to beat anyone because you're not so tough when a squirrel runs up your pants leg and bites you in the nuts. Unfortunately, the SJW clique got their hooks into her and turned her into the fat, buck-toothed, wokeness mouthpiece she exists as now, ruining all the fun.
beat anyone because you're not so tough when a squirrel runs up your pants leg and bites you in the nuts.
Especially considering that anyone witness to this is going to start laughing their asses off at you while the squirrel is trying to gather your nuts for the winter.
That would be fine if she was the star of her own comic book universe. But when you're playing in somebody else's sandpit, you should be more respectful. Because the armoured sorcerer-scientist with indomitable will is that tough.
Now that's not fair, I doubt anyone at Squeenix even knows about her and when Marvel said they would have to put "Miss Marvel" in to the game they thought it would be the cool, pre-hormone treatment, Carol Danvers one.
And I wouldn't even put past that the ugly characters are due to the artist being pissed off by that and doing a half assed job on purpose.
It looks to be a lazy, dumb, hyper-homogenised game with a thin coat of Marvel paint.
It's emphasis is on looting. Looting. In a superhero game.
I've said this before, and I'll say it again. Superheroes. Don't. Loot. They don't need to go on a never-ending quest to get better gear. Everything they need to wreck shit up, they already have. Thor already has the greatest hammer in the known universe, he is not going to find a better one anywhere else. Captain America has the best shield on Earth, he's not trading it up for anything. Tony is a goddamn billionaire with the full resources of an entire corporation at his disposal; if he needs better weapons for his suit, he's going to build them in the lab, not pick them up off the ground like some kind of hobo. And Hulk...the only reason he doesn't fight buck-naked is because they don't want kids to see his green junk.
This whole thing looked like a low-effort MTX-laden cash grab from the beginning, and it shows now that the beta is out. This could have been literally any of the quadrillion P2W shitfests we see flooding the market today, but this one has an MCU-colored skin wrapped all around it (or at least a cheap Chinese knockoff of one) because that's what's so hot right now.
Also, looting the dead is generally considered to be a lowlife thing to do, even in warfare (of course it was done in times of desperation - especially when it came to good footwear not wanting to go to waste - but it's not something any decent soldier or warrior wants to admit to. At least, so the Western noble stereotrope/civilizational yada yada goes. But as we've seen, all bets are off when it comes to the wonderful diversity of other cultures ....)
Needless to say, superheroes grounded in Western moral/ethical tradition certainly would NOT be going around stealing stuff from people just because they're dead/knocked out. And uh, when did superheroes start killing, anyway? I remember death being a thing in war and horror comics of the 70s (and in Kimba the White Lion), but not in the few superhero comics I read.
And yeah, way back when, watching The Incredible Hulk tv series as a kid, and knowing even then that Hulk should've had no pants, but he was going to have pants no matter what, because.
Kamala Khan is the new Miss Marvel... I don't like Marvel but you should at least know what you are talking about
Don't insult the Arkham series
I thought Brie Larson was the new one? I'll freely admit I'm not well versed in all this, I just thought as I wasted my time, might as well tell everyone what it's like in my opinion.
I mean, it seemed similar. I played Batman a long time ago, but it seemed a lot like this game.
Shit, I didn't realize you wrote this post. Sorry for my harsh tone. We're talking about comics here, not movies. Kamala Khan is a name of a character, not an actress. Brie Larson (ugly feminist cunt, even the mention of her name makes me sick) played Carol Danvers, who was the first Miss Marvel and then became Captain Marvel. However, since Miss Marvel was a sexy babe in a sexy costume, the movie skipped over that part of the character's career and when straight to her being a dyke cunt in an ugly costume that shows no skin.
The Arkham series are the best comic book games made, the only similarity they have to this game are that they are based on comics and you fight enemies in melee combat.
It's fine. I fully understand that people are mad about me not knowing the characters. I only really know the popular ones that everyone knows.
Also, your tone wasn't as bad as the guy who created an account to say I'm lying about playing the game. Imagine being that weird and defensive over a game that isn't out yet.
Only reason I even tried it was because after Epic went full BLM, I haven't played much of anything at all. (Ironically, I got an email from Epic saying I got a free item for playing this, so I guess if I ever come back, I'll find out what it is. Maybe I'll show the guy below to prove that I did play the game.)
I figured trying something that's free for the weekend would be a bit of fun and pass a few hours. It really wasn't that fun though, I'm not going to lie. It seemed rather brainless and really trading off the name it had more than anything else. There were some fun sections, the boss fight with the monstrosity was something with a little challenge to it at least. Most of the game was just mashing X and jumping around like a retard to avoid getting hit though.
I never understood the hatred for the Epic Games Store. Now, there is a legitimate reason to hate them but of course that's not the reason most people cite. It's a shame that Hitman 3 for PC will be Epic Store exclusive. I guess I can get it for console instead.
China.
That's not a good enough reason for me to not get Hitman 3 on release
Having watched a few streamers play this one, I think squeenix intended for Kamala Khan to be the "every man" entry point for the player. You follow her story as a regular nobody who gains super powers and joins an elite team of superheroes, and you learn about everyone else and the marvel world in general through her fresh eyes.
Except these are the most famous characters in the entire fucking world now, so we don't need some nobody as surrogate for the audience. Everyone knows the main characters in this game - they're the reason people want the damn game in the first place. Forcing players to spend a significant chunk of play time as some rando they don't know in order to "slowly introduce us" to characters we've known for a decade is just dumb.
I don't think you even played the fucking thing. You know jack shit about marvel and called batman a button masher.
You have no fucking clue what your talking about.
Okay Square Enix.
I was kind of tempted to just write that.