Hackers are utterly incapable of hacking shit that would actually benefit people. Want them to hack the FAFSA to get rid of student loans?? Sorry their too busy hacking cartoon studios and threatening to release something people were already planning on watching
It’s not inherently that the stakes are too high, it’s that there isn’t a convincing progression of stakes to make the web of shadows rip off convincing or meaningfully grounded. Hell Peter’s arc is done before the final fight even begins
I do like 2 and when it gets to the final boss fight, it works for me, but most of the problem with the 3rd act is the worldending scale's way too much and overblown.
1 works beautifully in keeping the personal stakes small and it hits emotionally hard the whole time.
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@Jaysond0esstuff Like I get sometimes being annoyed when a character overly explains how they are gonna kick someone in the nuts but it’s really not that difficult to get through silver age marvel. (DC on the other hand is a different story)
Mind you, there’s genuinely nothing lost if you don’t read the text boxes if you think they over explain shit lol. OG ASM is so easy to get into and enjoy when compared to modern books which take 7 issues to tell the same story
Mind you this doesn’t like 60s Spiderman and think it’s a chore because “they are full stories in just one issue” he genuinely wants worse pacing in comic books lol
@J_Onaka Like you really can’t jump on at any other point before 2000 without some road bumps lol. This era was so foundational that I just don’t get why you wouldn’t want to read it
What really pisses me off about this is that Lee/ditko/romita Spider-Man is one of the biggest reasons I got into marvel comics lol. These stories are not hard to read if you have a reading level above the 5th grade
I think some of yall are focused on the wrong problems. Why do we care about iron man ult VFX or storm skins when both characters are fucking awful and desperately need buffs and reworks
Two franchises that openly flaunt the main characters sex appeal with the latter being shit on for making her more realistic and a franchise where the main character barely speaks or leaves the suit people originally thought was for a guy.
Weird that this wasn't an issue for Tomb Raider, Bayonetta, Alien Isolation, every Metroid game, etc.
When you're so committed to a narrative that you accidentally erase the existence of good female game characters.