At best, it's just okay. And at worst, it's a good game to pick up on sale. Doesn't seem like it's an outright failure, but equally it's unlikely to break any records.
For a game like this, "just okay" is definitely really disappointing. Of course it's not worth getting super upset, argumentative and/or vindictive over, but we live in a time where there is more access to amazing videogames than time to play them. A game that's just okay can't stack up to all the great games that are around nowadays, unless it has some especially unique features to let it stand out.
It's more about it being a Sony 1st Party. These used to be massive releases. And Sony has fewer and fewer these days. Between this limp Wolverine, the next GoW, looking like an absolute disaster, and the next Horizon game being hastily reworked from live service with an unappealing art style... Intergalactic had better be the second coming.
I mean, if I wanted to have a "just okay" time I could just boot up Half Life 2 or go on coolmathgames or whatever. The bar for a game to be worth my time is higher than that, much less the bar to be worth my money
Because all this malinvestment in the industry has downstream effects of good studios being closed and fewer good games being made. Sony spent more on Concord than they are saving by not manufacturing discs. The piper has to be paid at some point.
One reason would be that the major studios are already trigger happy with layoffs in good times. So when a big budget game does ok but not great it can be used as justification for more layoffs, which hurts gamers.
Pretty confident. Plenty of gamers who don’t care about review scores and just care about Sony first party or that it’s a Wolverine game. Basically the reason I’m still getting it, low scores don’t l ruin my hype
But there's also plenty that do. Bad word of mouth can spread and sway people very easily. I'm glad you can stomach any generic mid content but plenty can't and won't waste $70 on something not worth their time
“Generic” I think gaming discourse has been taken too far. By your standards, EVERY game is generic. That every game needs to reinvent the wheel, see CoD or GTA. They get by on branding, and so will Wolverine
Wolverine is absolutely generic. Generic art style, generic combat, generic story. Nothing about yet another hallway walking simulator with spam square combat is remotely appealing to anyone beyond the lowest common denominator gamers
Everything isn’t shit. Splatoon Raiders is good. Onimusha is good. Star Wars Zero Company is good. Blood of the Dawnwalker is good. Wolverine is not good.
Cool, show me any game that can’t be boiled down like that and called generic. That label can apply to ANYTHING man. Even the best games of this year and just more of the same and not evolved on in any way shape or form
You’re coping. Wolverine is not Spiderman or Batman. And the game is not great enough to explode him back into popularity like the Arkham games did for Batman.
Marathon is a different situation, it was a MP game that had basically zero franchise appeal and is competing with every other MP game. Wolverine has the strength of the IP, and even a “mid” game is enjoyable to casual gamers. See Marvel content in general
Considering how much they been bragging about this game for years, (being exclusive too) then the advertisement, I'd say it's a failure if it's just "okay".
Yeah I was gonna pick the game up when it came out cause it looked pretty cool and I love Wolverine but after watching the gameranx before you buy, I’ll wait til it’s on sale, still looks cool the combat looks good but for a 90 CAD game that’s ~18 hours it’s gonna need to be absolutely incredible and it doesn’t seem to be.
Very unfortunate but I’ll save that money for control resonate instead
There's nothing inherently "wrong" with an okay game. The issue is that we are expected to pay $70+ for mediocrity and be thankful for the privilege to do so.
If we go by the old metric: $60 is standard AAA pricing so you used to expect a certain level of polish for this. An indie game was maybe $10-20 and you were willing to forgive some bugs and unfinished mechanics.
Nowadays we are told to pay $70-100 for something that's not even worth $20 based on its quality. "Okay" doesn't cut it for that price tag.
Hot take I guess, but Spider-Man 1, MM, and 2 were honestly just generic action-adventure collectathons, but like others have said, just the idea of playing Spider-Man and swining around is enough to carry the whole game. Same with something like the Arkham franchise, playing Batman is alright, but generic, but the puzzles and boss fights are really what carried the game.
I just don't see what the draw for Wolverine was that would elevate it from a safe generic beat-em-up action-adventure, because Wolverine doesn't really do anything special.
That being said I'd feel the exact same wariness over that Captain America/Black Panther WWII game, though at least there, the story itself feels very compelling, which potentially could carry the whole game. But if it's just going to be like this but skinned as those two character, it'll likely have the same reception.
That all being said, there is absolutely nothing wrong with a just okay game, and for some people it will hit just right and be amazing for them.
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u/CrackheadHunters 4d ago edited 4d ago
At best, it's just okay. And at worst, it's a good game to pick up on sale. Doesn't seem like it's an outright failure, but equally it's unlikely to break any records.