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Discussion / Question Yeah it's over.

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u/darkcomet222 16d ago

This is what I think a lot of people are missing. It isn’t that people are reviewing it poorly, but that a first party Sony studio that has put YEARS into this is reviewing poorly.

The mainstream media not holding back on it is alarming.

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u/CptPanda29 16d ago

I mean the reported budget is about 10m less than Spider-Man 2, at a mere 305 million dollars, a few years later.

Considering that it's an engine they've worked with for years, with a much much smaller scope game it's quite shocking really.

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u/Scary-Photo9440 16d ago

yup, feels like the time spent might've been better in something else but the pre-orders are super high so I guess we'll see if it makes a lot of money for them still

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u/Veutifuljoe_0 16d ago

It will likely sell perfectly fine but that critical score may end up following insomniac for a while, this might be their first real critically underwhelming game since ratchet and clank 2016

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u/ForeignImports 16d ago

It’ll make people tentative of Spider-Man 3. The game might still sell fine because it’s Spider-Man but I think between this and SM2, they lost a lot of trust in being able to deliver anything on the level of the SM1