Rate Your Top Ten Favorite Marvel Related Video Games

[Ivo]

Maybe I should post this on the comic book thread but that thing is over 100 pages... It is a bit off-topic here.

I've been thinking of reading up the original Spider-man "continuity" (if such a thing exists) from the start up (wow, from the 1960s) to current perhaps.
It is somewhat peculiar how in comic books they . I know DC often does reboots but I think Marvel just keeps it going and going with twists and turns (and some occasional spin-offs like 2099 and Ultimate).
Maybe it is a silly undertaking and there is too much stuff? Will the stuff from the 60s look too jarring for someone that was used to the 80s/90s stuff?

When I was a kid/teenager I used to read Spider-man comic books - it was translated and I think we got stuff delayed due to that as I went through the Secret Wars and the original Symbiote origin, and I would be too young in 1984. I also remember some gangster war between Dr. Octopus and an Owl-themed supervillain for example.

[Jagosaurus]

Not sure I have 10 but here's my top 3:

1. XMen vs Street Fighter (Saturn)
2. Marvel vs Capcom 2 (DC)
3. XMen (Arcade - Konami)

[Luke]

Maybe I should post this on the comic book thread but that thing is over 100 pages... It is a bit off-topic here.

I've been thinking of reading up the original Spider-man "continuity" (if such a thing exists) ...

Nope, it really doesn't. You are going to run into dozens of crossovers and story arcs that won't be complete without additional titles. You also have runs of books that aren't worth the time reading. It also gets frustrating when Spidey says something like "Better get home after that incredible brawl with the Hulk*" with the footnote "See Incredible Hulk #411".

[Key-Glyph]

I want to pile on the love for X-Men 2: Clone Wars for Genesis. That's one of my favorite video games of all time. Excellent music, satisfying gameplay, lots of replay value... and co-op is an entirely new sort of challenge. If you and a friend can get through the Phalanx Ship level and its moving platform nonsense with your relationship intact, your bond is guaranteed for life.

I have to ask, though. A lot of people are citing the first X-Men for Genesis as a favorite game. Am I just playing it wrong, or maybe not giving it enough time? I remember renting it as a kid and thinking it was difficult and confusing, but I'd assumed I hadn't known what I was doing back then. When I picked it up recently as an adult, though, I'm still confused, and now get really frustrated by the jumping mechanic. Thoughts?

[samsonlonghair]

Maybe I should post this on the comic book thread but that thing is over 100 pages... It is a bit off-topic here.

I've been thinking of reading up the original Spider-man "continuity" (if such a thing exists) from the start up (wow, from the 1960s) to current perhaps.
It is somewhat peculiar how in comic books they . I know DC often does reboots but I think Marvel just keeps it going and going with twists and turns (and some occasional spin-offs like 2099 and Ultimate).
Maybe it is a silly undertaking and there is too much stuff? Will the stuff from the 60s look too jarring for someone that was used to the 80s/90s stuff?

When I was a kid/teenager I used to read Spider-man comic books - it was translated and I think we got stuff delayed due to that as I went through the Secret Wars and the original Symbiote origin, and I would be too young in 1984. I also remember some gangster war between Dr. Octopus and an Owl-themed supervillain for example.

Spider-man titles from the '60s and early '70s are heavier in teenage melodrama. They read more like Betty and Veronica than modern Spider-man. I personally dislike the stuff. Spider-man really picks up again in the '80s and '90s.

If you want the "rebooted" version of Spider-man, just read the first eight years of Ulitmate Spider-man. USM condenses forty-five years of Spider-man into a more approachable modern format. Some license was taken by the writers to make the Ultimate Marvel Universe distinct from the mainline Marvel Universe, but not too much.

[Gamerforlife]

I want to pile on the love for X-Men 2: Clone Wars for Genesis. That's one of my favorite video games of all time. Excellent music, satisfying gameplay, lots of replay value... and co-op is an entirely new sort of challenge. If you and a friend can get through the Phalanx Ship level and its moving platform nonsense with your relationship intact, your bond is guaranteed for life.

I have to ask, though. A lot of people are citing the first X-Men for Genesis as a favorite game. Am I just playing it wrong, or maybe not giving it enough time? I remember renting it as a kid and thinking it was difficult and confusing, but I'd assumed I hadn't known what I was doing back then. When I picked it up recently as an adult, though, I'm still confused, and now get really frustrated by the jumping mechanic. Thoughts?

The first X-Men game for Genesis was crap. I think a lot of gamers realized that once they played Clone Wars. Prior to that, I don't think there were many options on the Genesis for X-Men games, so most of us played the first one cause there was nothing else.

Personally, I'd rate Mutant Apocalypse on the SNES over both games though, but that's just me.

[CFFJR]

I want to pile on the love for X-Men 2: Clone Wars for Genesis. That's one of my favorite video games of all time. Excellent music, satisfying gameplay, lots of replay value... and co-op is an entirely new sort of challenge. If you and a friend can get through the Phalanx Ship level and its moving platform nonsense with your relationship intact, your bond is guaranteed for life.

My friend Tony, with whom I've been friends about 18 years, always liked to play as Gambit, and we did indeed beat that level together (the whole game actually) as kids. However he delighted in throwing cards at the switches from off screen to trigger the platforms and piss me off.

He still occasionally reminds me of that, and he laughs every bit as hard now as he did then. Dick.

[Ivo]

(...) You are going to run into dozens of crossovers and story arcs that won't be complete without additional titles. You also have runs of books that aren't worth the time reading. It also gets frustrating when Spidey says something like "Better get home after that incredible brawl with the Hulk*" with the footnote "See Incredible Hulk #411".

Yeah I remember that kind of stuff from when I was younger, and it is a bit frustrating, but usually they weren't that terribly overdoing it as I remember.

Samson, thanks for the Ultimate suggestion but at least if the Ultimate-based games I played were anything to go by, the story is considerably different from what I remember (e.g. Peter seemed to be 15-16 for one, Venom was completely different origin, Nick Fury seemed to be a lot more involved, and other stuff like that). I found that a bit jarring and I guess this is quite a lot motivated by nostalgia so I think I will stick to the "originals".

I will see if I find a good digital collection and if I think the early decades are too soap-opera from the 60s I can always skip nearer to the part where I start to remember I have read.

[ExedExes]

Personally, I'd rate Mutant Apocalypse on the SNES over both games though, but that's just me.

^

[Key-Glyph]

The first X-Men game for Genesis was crap.

Ah, I feel a little less crazy now. Thanks. I'll still give it another try, though.

My friend Tony, with whom I've been friends about 18 years, always liked to play as Gambit, and we did indeed beat that level together (the whole game actually) as kids. However he delighted in throwing cards at the switches from off screen to trigger the platforms and piss me off.

Hah! That's awesome. And also proves my point!

My best friend growing up beat it with me. I played as Nightcrawler straight though, but he'd switched to Magneto by the time we got to that level. This made it extra painful (and hilarious) when he happened to miss a platform, because he'd reflexively use Magneto's power to hover mid-fall -- giving us ample time to ponder and dramatically gnash our teeth over the inevitable train wreck of backtracking we'd have to do once he dropped.

That makes it sound like he was bad at it, but he wasn't. I was just able to climb up walls.