Spent the first hour installing it to the console, now I've got another 90 minute download to perform.
Yeah I feel like a boomer but it was much better when you could go from the car to playing in less than five minutes.
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Flashbacks to when I bought Forbidden West on disk. My internet connection would have been fast enough to download it twice as fast as it installed from disk.
On a different note, has the spiderman gameplay evolved past being "Batman Arkham, but with Spider-man" yet?
I can see that comparison when it comes to the combat for sure, although I find it to be really enthralling, especially with Spider-Man being a bit more agile than Batman.
As for the rest of the world? It's fun. I don't really plan on spending all that much time doing side quests; I just don't have the time, but I enjoy flying through the streets and taking goofy photos.
I ask because I got really deep into the Arkham games, min-maxing the abilities and combo system, especially the fights where you control multiple members of the bat-family in Arkham Knight are a delight, and the first Spiderman can't hold a candle to the Arkham series, mechanically.
The first spider-man copies everything from the Arkham series. Backbacks are riddler trophies but worse, combat is more agile but mechanically less complex, stealth sections are identical, right down to vent and vantage takedowns. Web swinging is a slightly more fun equivalent to grapple-gliding. The in-game lore is delivered through an identical character bio screen... Even the story missions are structured the same, sneak into this building, follow this marked vehicle, etc.
I even remember looking at the upgrade tree, and most of the abilities you can get being one-to-one equivalents to something that has been done in the Arkham series, disarm by web-pulling someone's gun? Batman could do that with his grapple. The whole first half of the game I was begging it to do something I hadn't seen before, and it just never did. I found myself wishing I could summon the batmobile, and missing all the gadgets you could use in Arkham during stealth to sabotage a stash of guns, set explosive traps etc.
Even spidey-sense was done the exact same way in the Arkham series.
I'd really like to get into Spider-man, lore-wise, but all the first game did was make we want to stop playing and fire up Arkham Knight. And I did.