Marvel needs to get back together with Capcom if you ask me.

AngelMayLaugh

I dunno for a while Marvel were really doing incredible. Spider-man 2, Ultimate Spider-man, Hulk:UD, X-men legends 1+2, Marvel UA. All they really need is to ensure that all their games are good quality not just some.

It's pretty clear that Spider-man 3 and the new hulk were horribly rushed and basically just tried to use the previous game as building blocks. The iron man game again clearly rushed.

Zim

*Waits for Black Bolt V. Hulk V. Sentry argument to start.*

...there should be a Black Bolt game... At the very least, more (much more) Deadpool in Ultimate Alliance.

Fallible

Marvel Ultimate Alliance was good. It sold like crazy, and they don't think it was good? Damn.

TheAngryHeretic

Oh. Fantastic. More Sega Marvel games. Yippee.

If Marvel really wants money then give us what we want! X-men, The Avengers and Spiderman the Arcade game for PSN/XBLA.

Kanik

If it's like the quality of the films they released this year then I am ALL for it.

StealthMaster86

A company wanting to make good movie games, simply astonishing. Hopefully some good comes of their plans.

Neo-Senku: The World's Finest Pervert

remember the Wolverine game? i thought they did that nicely.

RET_Ghost

@Fallible:

You kidding? exploding suns only makes Hulk angrier! :p

Seriously though, Hulk is like the Marvel superman, the nerd-debated with him just get silly

Hitokiri151

Seeing as there's already way too many superheroes in the Marvel Universe they'd figure you can't have too many games published about it either. Their logic is so powerful.

@imikedaman: I'm glad someone else noticed - I thought I was going insane then.

humongous_mouse

Marvel + Capcom = An even stronger desire for the return of the golden age of the American arcade.

I loved me some Juggernaut and hated me some Cable

And Howard The Duck is an awesomely bad-good movie

KanjiGear

I would like a Marvel vs. Transformers game, so that the world can finally be shown how much Unicron > Galactus.

Giant Robots vs. Superhero/villians whilst atop of even bigger Robots/villians. Make it happen.

AllOfUsAreLost

@imikedaman: That's Howard The Duck.

Shinryoma

Ohhh, I get it now. That's actually Howard the Duck.

imikedaman

They sad that the last time too. Sega did Hulk and Iron Man and look at how those turned out. I like Marvel and Sega but those games sucked hard.

Shinryoma

@Hitokiri151: Sentry: power of a million exploding Suns, that's all I'm saying. Crap, now I'm doing it...

Fallible

@TheAngryHeretic: I agree. Marvel Ultimate Alliance was great... played it through with my wife and we both liked it a lot. It was however released in 2006, so technically that's long enough to say it's been years (2 is enough for the plural form) since the last good one. It's not the best use of the phrase though since it almost makes it sound like there hasn't been a good game out for... years.

The Whaleman

The existence of Donald Duck in that picture confuses me.

imikedaman

I'm all for higher quality games, I liked (didnt love) Marvel Ultimate Alliance, but i got the PS3 version.. which was a horrible port

@Fallible:

Hulk wins.

end of discussion.

Hitokiri151

Maybe if Marvel didn't allow crappy studios to make their games they wouldn't be putting turds on the shelf.
People talk about a GTA-style Batman game, they could do the same thing with Spiderman and done by a studio with 18-24 months it would be our new God. However, it's much easier to churn out a piece of refuse to cash-in on movie tie-ins.

Earthjade

@AllOfUsAreLost: As much as I love the Transformers, doesn't Galactus consume planets? I think Galactus would destroy Unicron, but the rest of the matchups, my money is on the Transformers. At least the top tier Transformers. BumbleeBee would get his ass handed to him.

TheAngryHeretic

Sega should be dragged out behind the toolshed and shot for what they did with that Hulk game.

Incredible Hulk: Ultimate Destruction - still the bestest superhero game there ever was.

Chances

Nothing will ever top the X-Men arcade game. I spent about what would be a car payment now in quarters on that thing.

SkittleKicks

@Fallible: shouldn't it be Sentry v Silver Surfer v Phoenix?

RET_Ghost

He was talking good until he mention Sega!

zetopazio

@Fallible: Hulk takes the cake, because he was irradiated with win.

@AllOfUsAreLost: It would be a good battle, but in the end, Unicron loses out. Galactus, aside from his planet-eating skillz (with a z, yes), has a nasty left hook. We're talking two hits here - Galactus hits Unicron, and Unicron hits the.....space.

AngryEddy

yea, it would suck if thor had to be released and it ended up being viking with changed character skins :/

HunterToOkie

Hmmmm, if they want quality games maybe they should take the license away from Sega. And DC needs to get thier characters far away from EA as well.

fearing

I dont see a spiderman in there.

Para

@Para: Phew, I'm glad I'm not crazy. I spent a little too much time trying to see if he was, and then convinced myself I missed him somehow.

Ricochet

@Shiryu: Special mention to CPS1 game The Punisher. I really loved playing Nick Fury as P2, it was very nice their attention to detail, as you could only see his eye patch when he fascing the left. Details are everything.

Have a vid on me of the (inferior but still very good) Megadrive conversion:

+ Watch video

Shiryu

I have not touched any Marvel games since Capcom stop making their CPS2 fighters. Looking back, that sure was a long time ago...

Shiryu

Wait what? 2006's Marvel Ultimate Alliance was pretty decent as far as I'm concerned! And with ratings over the 80% mark, I'd say that most game reviews agree with me on that one.

WhiskeyJak

If they make Nintendo v Marvel with the Ultimate Alliance gameplay, I am so there.

P.S. Spider-Man is not in the pic! He needs the most care & attention to revive his games!

Chadders

I always thought the X-men Legends series and Marvel: Ultimate Alliance were good Marvel comics games. They held relatively true to the comic source material and provided some good gameplay.

Phlycheez

Here's an idea Marvel, just stop doing movie based video games in the first place. That way you can do games based on whatever superhero you want at a nice leisurely pace where you don't have to rush to meet the deadline of the movie release. Everyone could be very happy with that solution, unless you still screw it up... but I don't want to be too pessimistic.

Dullshimmer

Nova is in the pic, so it's all good ;) Hopefully, he'll be in the next Marvel Alliance game ... but, I'm not holding my breath. Actually, the Annihilation comic series would make an awesome game -- something in the vein of Dynasty Warriors with superheroes kicking butt through the Annihilation Wave.

jayntampa

Marvel vs Capcom 3 would be so pringles!

Roenick92

Hulk: Ultimate Destruction is a great game, I just started playing it and for a 4 year old game, it's fun as hell. Marvel Ultimate Alliance was....meh at best.

Talleh

@Roenick92:

Wheres ya curly mustache at??

ichiban1081

I thought Ultimate Alliance was a lot of fun. They are calling that less than decent?

Belabras

@Shiryu:

Actually, I quite liked the Punisher TPS game that came out with the recent film! Some of those fatalities were awesome.

Chadders

Marvel vs. Capcom 3, with high-resolution, 2D graphics would blow my mind. C'mon, Capcom, give us what we want!

kylenalepa

"For all Marvel's recent success in the movie business, there hasn't been a decent Marvel video game for years."

Stopped reading right there. Marvel Ult Alliance, X-Men Legends 1 & 2, Ultimate Spider-Man and Hulk Ultimate Destruction were all fine games.

dry-roasted-peanuts

easy money = 1)marvel Vs. capcom3 2) marvel Vs. dc

CancerMan

@TheAngryHeretic: Most fun I've had with co-op over the last 4 years.

Pombar

Marvel vs Capcom 3 would be huge.

lupohki

Hehe, funny. No, seriously, where the hell is Iron Man in that picture? >:O

man in gauze is king ramses II, silly.

You know what they need to re-release... that old school arcade beat em up by Konami.... that was quiet possibly the best move marvel ever did when lending out their franchise rights... i miss that game =(

Phoenixfire1185

@dry-roasted-peanuts:

Marvel ultimate alliance, did we play the same game?

The others are mostly good, but I think that "by years" he mean "this generation"

Fulgurator

Marvel vs. Capcom 3 please!

Rondogg

@man in gauze is king ramses II, silly.:
No iron man? Instant FAILURE

Fulgurator

One word

Sidescrollingbeatemup!

Altima NEO

@Fulgurator:
No, I think he was right to leave it out.

I did mostly enjoy Ultimate Spiderman, I have to say.. but the gameplay was a bit frustrating at a times (mostly the Venom levels), and overall it could have been a much better game.

The problem with licensed games is that fans tend to give the game a bit of leeway because it has licensed characters and "it's not bad for a licensed game". However, if you replace Wolverine, Spiderman, and all other recognizable characters with non-licensed heretofore unseen characters and judge the games based simply on their gameplay (which is what we should be doing in the first place), the games tend to be mediocre at best and can't compare to other games in the same genre.

Tayruh

Kinda disappointed spider-man isn't in that pic!

Shin-Kaiser

Bioware should make a marvel game. Oh god it would be epic.

VijayBison

Marvel really needs to hook up with Capcom again. Marvel Vs Capcom is the only game I think that's good relating to Marvel...

KLEPTO671

First they are going to need all their licenses under the same roof, (Punisher is still under exclusivity for Ubisoft) and then should plan to publish games surrounding Marvel comic events (Secret Invasion, Civil War, etc) instead of the movies. Only then will they really be putting out a well planned, excellent product worth making.

art_zombie

Joining the chorus asking for Marvel vs Capcom 3.

Who knows, maybe in 5 years we'll have it if Street Fighter 4 is well received.

wallapuctus

The upcoming "Spider-Man: Web of Shadows" looks very good with a fun aerial combat system.

BTW, is that Zorro on Storm's left?

Arklop

Marvel Ultimate Alliance was great.

Poormojo

It was about time god dammit!

ajiezer

wahahah! i knew is was gon be a MvC3 bloodbath!

Please oh please oh please bring it back! this time with 110 players, 2d sprites with 3d background and 5d music!

carnagy

nice header btw

0tak1n9

M:UA2 looks promising. The first one was pretty good, but not as fun as the X-Men: Legends games were. Spider-Man: Friend or Foe is mindlessly fun, I would have loved it as a kid and for $5 at Blockbuster it was worth it. I'm looking forward to Web of Shadows, as well...

@Arklop: I would say yes, that is Zorro.

tk.

@Thorgryn: So long as there's variety in the missions.

Free Roam can be fucking terrible with very few missions to do.

Just look at Spider-Man 2 the game. Sure, swinging through the city felt really nice.. and actually made the game worth playing through once. But every mission is like the exact same. SP2 is really not that great of game, it just had a good mechanic and the first realistic New York City in a game.

thezman

Superhero game + Sandbox -time limits + free roam= win

Thorgryn

WTF. Two-Gun Kid, Ka-zar and Man-Thing, but no Spider-Man up there? No Captain America? Who did this?

Owen Good

How quickly we forget Marvel Ultimate Alliance. Not a brilliant game, but certainly 'decent'. Also, X-Men Legends and the sequel were both worth playing. Of course, all of those games were made by the same company.

PaulMorel

@ Arklop It's the Goddamn Two-Gun Kid. I'd play Avengers:Legends or another Ultimate Destruction game.  Spider-Man 2 for xbox was good too. But I'd give your left nut for a decent Fantastic Four game.  {GOB} COME ON!! {/GOB} __________________________________________________________________ Yahoo! Canada Toolbar: Search from anywhere on the web, and bookmark your favourite sites. Download it now at http://ca.toolbar.yahoo.com.

GailFergasun

Its about goddamn time! Get that Marvel MMO up & running!!

Connobi

Ultimate Alliance was great and faithful, for the most part, to its source material. Also a sequel to Ultimate Alliance was announced at E3 this year, although little was shown. I don't doubt it will be at least as good as the first though. Hopefully they just balance the characters a little better. Some were ridiculously powerful, clearing room after room of baddies with ease, while others struggled in combat with only a few enemies. More abilities for each playable character would be nice too.

Ultimate Spider-Man was decent, but not great, as were the other Spider-Man games (aside from 3). I do wish they would make a Spider-Man game and spend more time on it though. Ultimate was ridiculously short, and the gameplay, while fun, was incredibly shallow. They need to refine the close quarters controls, and have a lot more indoor sections that are set up like real levels, instead of just missions that are races, chases, or beating up random people.

The next Spider-Man game looks like it might have improved the combat a lot... lets hope thats not all it improves.

I salivate at the idea of a decent Iron Man game. Its a hard game to make. There isn't really a similar type of game to base it on, so you have to go for something unique, which is normally a bad idea for license games, because of scheduling. In the hands of the right team though, Iron Man could be an amazing game.

magiczero

"It makes a lot of sense to me that we might soon see Marvel as a videogame publisher."

If this happens, there is going to be an EXODUS!

boopadoo

You all are talking about
Marvel games like they're
all by the same people.

Ultimate Alliance and X-Men Legends
were both made by RAVEN.

Not Sega.
SEGA licensed Marvel titles SUCK.

Raven did the Jedi Knight series,
Solier of Fortune, and they're
doing the upcoming Wolfenstein.

I also believe that Raven is doing
the Ultimate Alliance sequel.
So it's a good chance it'll be good.

But I refse to touch Sega-licensed
Marvel games.

Sullyville

I thought Marvel Ultimate Alliance, The Incredible Hulk: UD and Ultimate Spider-Man were actually pretty good but all the recent Sega licensed games suck.
@GailFergasun: Is that some sort of advertisement?

shak_0

Honestly, did Marvel just say this note perfect or what?

DARTH_TIGRIS

Uhm. Isn't this like a NO SHIT affair? I loved the Spider Man 2 (I even liked 3) And Ultimate Alliance is my own little Diablo clone I love so dearly (the creation of different "teams" for bonuses based on comic groups i thought was pure brilliance. new avengers? YES. marvel knights? YES.) But I've always been pissed at how rail thin the stories in the games were. It seems to me the story in a comic book game could be so much better than a movie! first off you have time that you don't have with a movie. You could recreate an entire plot from the books. Civil War themed game anyone? How amazing would that be? Age of apocalypse. A good third person sandbox like game with the X-Men, with branching storylines much like Spider Man? Genosha? The Danger Room? The X-Mansion? Huge 50 foot sentinels? How are they only now realizing this? Think God of War with Colossus. Prince of Persia with Beast? Resident Evil 5 with Cyclops? Portal with Nightcrawler? No-Clipping mode with Kitty Pryde? (joke) Can I please slice someone up with berserker rage? Can I get a Wolvie featuring kitty pryde game set in japan please? Thank you.

Byronotron

No good games? What was wrong with Marvel Ultimate Alliance and Xmen legends? Any game with Deadpool is a good game. It's a scientific fact.

Ozmaff9

heres a way to not make shitty marvel games. u ready? DONT GIVE LICENSE TO EA. there problem solved.

maraxusofk

@Roenick92: FUCK THE KNICKS!! Sorry, I had to :P. Holy crap, MvC3 would be completely amazing, with SF3 level 2D graphics.

dslsd64

@ichiban1081: OH! OH! OH! OH! OH! OH! OH! OH!

-Scoopz McHagen Daas :)

Knoxximus (360/PSN)

I feel like I'm the only one who really enjoyed Marvel Ultimate Alliance, Spider Man 2, or even Hulk: Ultimate Destruction.

These games were fun as hell.

Granted, few and far between, but Ultimate Alliance was awesome.

Brokenface2k

hey folks, glad to see you like my micro-heroes graphic, but how about a little credit for it?

PercivalLibo

I agree with everything he said. They messed up after X-Men: Legends 2. Marvel Ultimate Alliance looked exactly the same graphically showing no progress. I truely hope Marvel focuses on getting a better quality game released alongside their movie success.

BabeBro

where's Iron Man in that chibi collection?

The Medicine Seller

where is spidey?

schLuen

@Brokenface2k: I'll agree with you. However, I still stand by my comment that Spider Man 2 (AND Huld:UD) didn't have enough variety in their missions.

And it was really just the big cities and mechanics in which you got around that made either of them stand out.

I still find it incredibly fun to swing through NYC in SM2 and jumping through the city in Hulk is, by far, the best on-foot free-roam control. WAY better than Crackdown's. But overall, the design and the missions were lackluster.

thezman

@AngelMayLaugh: Oh em gee, i agree.

So, I notice that spiderman is missing from that cast picture, but Donald Duck is not...?

mackincheese