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Here we have the launch trailer for Spider-Man: Web of Shadows and … whoa whoa whoa! What’s up with the emo-ness in this trailer? Oh man, it’s like I’m watching Spider-Man 3 again. Oh God, not again!!!
Sure, the trailer is a bit melodramatic, but it really sets the mood for the game. Heroes and villains alike get infected with the Symbiote and it’s Peter Parker against all these odds, more or less by himself. Not to mention that he has to keep his own Symbiote in check too.
I have high hopes that this will finally be a Spider-Man game Spider-Man fans have been waiting for, especially after reading Dale’s preview of the current-gen and Nintendo DS versions of the game. Spider-Man: Web of Shadows comes out October 21 for pretty much every platform that still matters.
Also, so long as there’s no random retarded dancing-on-the-streets-and-freaking-out-women scene in the game, I’ll be happy. Are you looking forward to the game?
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12:30 PM on 10.11.2008
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game looks meh, but i'll prolly give it a chance
and wow... Venom-Wolverine!? wow. I never understood how spiderboy could take on Wolverine... one slice and its all over.
It was something that you loved when you first saw it, but the fans took it and made it bad for the original fans. Venom was just a "here and there villain", now you see that shit everywhere.
Still excited for it though.
Venom SS wins the World
Did you know that the Silver
Did you know that the Silver Surfer once fused with the Carnage Symbiote to become "The Cosmic Carnage"?
That huge mass of symbiote at the end of the trailer has my interest piqued.
That WAS Wolverine merged with a symbiote.
This whole game looks sweet. Especially that part with the giant symbiote.
ANd I agree with Gun Gr4ve, I found no emo there. He wasn't being a whiny little bitch about stuff.
This trailer looked okay to me. The first 10 seconds were a bit dismal but the serious tone overall didn't bother me in the way it seems to give some people the rage to ball up their fists and shiver with pure rage.
This game is looking fucking awesome...
but I still have others to get.
LittleBigPlanet
Fable 2
Gears of War 2
BK: Nuts and Bolts
Prince of Persia
God damn, there's not way I can play all these games.
I am thankful that Shaba has evolved combat to more than ground-based, but if it turns out I can't carry an enemy with me to the top of the Empire State Building and pile-drive him into the concrete like in SM2, then I'm not interested.
It would seem that any individual who strays from the mental-model of what men should, and shouldn't be, threatens some folks' sense of sexual identity.
Using labels like "emo" is a more subtle (and subconscious) way for the moderately-socialized-male-gamer to engage in homophobia, while being able to rationalize that he's nothing like the poorly-socialized guy who still calls people "fag" over Live.
it's like having your cake and eating it, too. Think about it.
This game looks like it could be amazing.
Possible Spoiler here:
Could this have anything to do with the "Venom Bomb" Dr. Doom threw at Manhattan in the pages of Mighty Avengers earlier this year?
Anyway..Do Want but..not too much
Also, people gotta stop using "emo" because people look depressed.
Vernage!! The differnt symbiotes here look interesting. I hope it doesn't suck.
Besides, the difference between that trailer and that movie is that the trailer looked amazing and Spider-Man has a reason to feel conflicted, the movie was just total shit.
I really want to play it now
No. Emo has turned into the universal word for anything that involves sadness or emotion. It has nothing to do with the music. It's the new "gay" and I'm really getting tired of it.
Anywho. I'm excited.
I love that song.
Spider-Man has always been one of the more outwardly emotional superheroes on Marvel's roster so this kind of monologue really doesn't bother me at all. I just hope the game holds up to all the rave previews it's been getting so far.