Although I agree, that it shows the power of the batman franchise, when coupled with a great game.
I think DC will have to pump out ANOTHER one for a different super hero before Marvel Responds. Realistically I dont think one game shows enough to invest into video games. Especially with so many of the marvel games coming out. It seems to be them it's not about quality, it's about quantity. And don't get me wrong, DC still treats this with some of there other heroes. A great example is the green lantern game...just completely terrible. You can tell they wanted to sell as many as they could in the shortest amount of time.
I mean even MUA had great potential, the x-men legend games originally did well. And they only had to build on them, instead they came out with MUA, which was far less than revolutionary. It made for a decent but not exceptionally over well done that AA and AC have shown is possible with a super hero game.
Overall, the right company has to come to marvel to do this. I don't know why Marvel doesn't look into hiring a visionary leader to motivate and look over a project who understands gaming. I think the stories have been pretty well done, I mean if you were to do a basic "story line" graph, it looks great on paper.
You can just see people get so caught up in, "Good web slinging makes for a great spider-man game". Which is TRULY not the case, people want to play as Peter Parker Spider-man, not Dude who swings with cool web. I think this is something that AA has done really well.
You never feel like your playing a standard game. You feel like your playing a BATMAN game, it's very immersive, and makes sure you know you feel like batman.
And I truly think, that most video games based on super heroes go in with that wrong mentality, because I know that's the first thing I think of, hey you know what would be cool...if I was a green lantern and given the ability to create cool objects!
Well, truth is that is "cool". But thats really not what makes AA & AC, and super hero games feel genuine, and any different than every other game where you have some sort of special power.
I'd really want to see the business #'s in what generates more profit versus more revenue. My money is that AA's & AC's current business model with DLC being added will generate FAR more than the other games, but not because its cool to have those costumes, but because everyone knows that those DLC's are going to be done with quality.
So overall, I don't expect marvel to retaliate with there own title, not in the forseeable future. They don't have someone who understands both markets the way Sefton Hill does and his team do. (I'm guessing it's sefton who had the vision, i could be wrong.)
However, I do envision more and more super hero games coming out in the next bit, as more and more companies try to tap into this market. As this happens, I imagine we'll start see more quality games.
