Analytic Dreamz: Notorious Mass Effect - "MARVEL'S SPIDER-MAN 2: EVERYTHING YOU NEED TO KNOW"

Episode Date: October 16, 2023

Linktree: ⁠https://linktr.ee/Analytic⁠This week, we're talking about Marvel's Spider-Man 2, the highly anticipated sequel to the critically acclaimed open-world action-adventure game. We'll cover everything you need to know about the game, from the release date and platforms to the story and gameplay. We'll also discuss the latest news and rumors about the game, as well as our own thoughts and predictions. If you're a fan of Spider-Man or video games in general, then you won't want to miss this segment!Privacy & Opt-Out: https://redcircle.com/privacy

It is time to talk about one of the greatest games of our generation. When I say one of the greatest games, this game hasn't even been released yet. So you already know my anticipation levels are through the roof. Exponentially higher than most fans because unlike most, this made me switch from Xbox to PlayStation. Now, I would say unlike most, but I mean, PlayStation is winning the console rate. So at this point, it's like, obviously other people switch. But maybe they had other reasons. For me, it's only specifically, because I love the Xbox controller.

That's one of the things I still feel like it's better than any PlayStation controller ever made. With that being said, Spider-Man is the reason I switched over because Spider-Man PS-4 made me get a PlayStation 4, right? So when I got a PS5, I was highly anticipating the next edition installment of the Spider-Man Ensoniac franchise because the way that they've been telling the story of Spider-Man has been in a way that not only has been captivating, but at this point, I can confidently say that this is the best rendition of Spider-Man we've received story-wise in a long time. That's talking about M-CU with Tom Holland, that's talking about Sony, with Andrew Garfield, and I know I may hurt some Spider-Man fans out there, some OG Spider-Spoteman fans,

going to hurt your feelings, but it's also talking about the Sony rendition of Toby McGuire. Insomnia X. Spider-Man is the best story that we've received ever. So with that being said, this is a video game. So all that said, all that being said, still have to keep in mind that this is a video game. So we get to play as the best Spider-Man rendition ever. So Spider-Man games throughout time, has not been the greatest, you know. We've received some duds as far as the movie installments. I mean, obviously the Toby McGuire, Spider-Man 1 and 2 was phenomenal, especially Spider-Man 2.

And I don't think it's as bad as people like to say with the Spider-Man games over time, but it's definitely been sub-part. And when I say sub-part, I mean, very below the bar. But we have received some games in the Spider-Man franchise that has added to the overall lore. And the reason I'm bringing that up is because that's going to, to factor into this segment. Web of Shadows, edge of time,

and ultimate Spider-Man is some of the best games at a Spider-Man video game history, right? Of course you have Spider-Man 2 with Toby McGuire. I never played that because that was before my time. And if they made a remaster that game, of course I would play it. But at this point, I mean, there's really no point with Spider-Man PS4 or PS5.

So the games that I did play, edge of time, and you can swap that out for a shattered dimensions if you want to. But basically, those games really all capitalizes off of what Spider-Man is basically made out of, you know? And with this game, Spider-Man PS5, it seems like it's going to heavily feature some of the tidbits in those games. Now, I'm not going to spoil the game, of course. I'm not going to talk about spoilers or whatever. and the gameplay I'm showing right now is basically just gameplay renditions of people playing the game, but it's not like, it doesn't have spoilers in it. It's basically just showcasing how the game plays and nothing like story-related.

So obviously, we're going to stray away from spoilers, even though if you want to know about spoiler, it's no idea cover. If you look up, Spider-Man 2, spoilers, analytic dreams, it should pop up as far as my take on how the story is going to play out. because, you know, with me being a huge Spider-Man fan, I had to dig deep and I had to look for some stuff that is not easily accessible to say the least. So I may or may not know how the story is going to play out.

And with that segment, it kind of details how the story is going to play out. And people will get information that they probably wouldn't receive on other platforms, right? And the sources, if Insomniac is listening, the sources that I use for the spoiler tidbits that I found out was or is completely made up. So don't come after me. If you hear something that may be on the nose, just know, hey, I made it up.

You know what I mean? It's just off the brain, off the dome. I don't know how I came up with it, but hey, somehow I found my hands on the information or not if you was listening. So with that out the way, we're just going to get into some tidbits about Spider-Man 2 before the game comes out because this is my most anticipated game ever, like, ever. Like, I don't think it has to be said if you listen to The Notorious Mass Effect, you should know by now that Spider-Man is my favorite fictional creation of all time.

Like, as a kid, I always used to think I was Spider-Man, like, way after the Power Ranger phase wore off, Spider-Man was the one that I was like, okay, I really messed with Spider-Man, like, as a overall character. because the whole balancing your regular life and then the superhero life can can um can everybody can relate to balancing one thing and another right one thing you're doing well at but something else may be faltering or vice versa that is the ultimate appeal of spider-man for me the balancing of two lives and each one suffering because of the other everybody can balance that whether it's school and personal life whether it's school and work life whether it's work and personal like it's so interchangeable but the way that spider man captivates that obviously it's a superhero appeal so you can't really relate to that but you can't say that like you're not balancing something in life like everybody's balancing something and trying to find that middle ground and for spider man i feel like it really perfectly captures what that looks like so with that being said let's get into spider man too so obviously

it's one of the biggest games to come out in this generation probably in this console period right so with that means uh i keep saying that and uh spider p s4 of course was a massive success like the epitome of what a console seller looks like so like 20 million sales uh 33 million including miles morales outperform all the other PlayStation exclusives like god of war uncharted witcher i don't think it outsold Last of Us, but that's another discussion for another day. So with that been, um, the sequel, of course, is going to perform even better because now with receiving so many, not bad, but mediocre Spider-Man games, it's like when Spider-Man PS4 was about to come out, everybody was still skeptical, uh, skeptical. Like, it was a whole thing over Puddlegate for some reason. I don't even know why that was the highlight. But for me,

I still have my doubts because it's like, I'm not used to having an open world game like this with Spider-Man being good, you know? So when Spider-Man PS-4 was actually solid, beyond solid, amazing, probably the best Spider-Man video game ever, and for PS-5 to be basically playing off of that in a way that makes you realize that it's not just a cash grab, they're not just reusing the same assets and putting out a game, they're also adding story tidbits and costumes that makes it feel like an addition to Spider-Man. PS-4. I mean, some of the additions, gameplay wise is the way you can launch yourself with the webs which is a playoff of Spider-Man 2 the way that you can use your web wings which I don't think we've ever had

that in the Spider-Man game as far as like using your web wings transversing the environment so that's a new thing entirely and then you have the black suit which that has been in Spider-Man games before but not used in a way that's used here as far as heavily into the story. I mean, I guess you can say Web of Shadows, but Web of Shadows compared to Spotomy PS5, as far as story-wise, like, I don't even think it's going to be. Like, not even, the game hasn't even came out yet. And I can already tell you the story compared to this and the story compared to Web of Shadows, like, I don't even think it's going to be a comparison, basically because it's balancing so many things. You have Miles Morales, along with Peter,

along with the lizard, Craven, along with Norman Osborne, the Bulls, the Bulls, black suit, Venom. I mean, it's so many different things of balancing other than the Web of Shadows that they were just balancing Spider-Man and Venom. Like, that's the only thing they was doing, right? So, with this game coming out, it's coming out and shaping up to be the best Spider-Man game ever. Spider-Man PS4 was already best Spider-Man game ever. Spider-Man PS5 is shaping up to perform even better and to just be an overall better rendition of a Spider-Man video game. So with that being said, of course, the game features both Peter Parker and Milesman-Rowless as playable characters. That's another thing you can swap between the two GTA style and has Craven and Venom as the main villains,

set to be released October 20th exclusively on PlayStation 5. So for all my Xbox players out there, just know that when this game comes out, I won't shame you for not having Spider-Man PS5. I will only just showcase how much of a letdown it is. that you don't have the game. That's all I'm going to do. You know, I ain't going to rub it into your face. I'm just going to rub it into the wound.

With that being said, of course, this game's going to be priced at $70,000, because if you don't know, it's very expensive to make video games. Like, I'm perplexed on how video games have stayed at this price point. I'm a consumer, so obviously I'm not going to be like, oh, they need it raises the prices.

But I do understand why game developers do want certain price hikes and games, because if you do look at the open world, and especially what you get as far as your bang for your buck, I think GTA5 showed gamers how much you can get just from spending $60, right? So whenever it's next gen, I mean, everything's improved graphically, story-wise, loading screen-wise, of course,

with the next-gen console, it's like the biggest thing with the SSD. The price, obviously, it would have to, you know, it's kind of like if you was an owner, right? right, you was given a certain product for a certain amount and you upgrade that, that product in its entirety. When did you raise the price as well? And looking from that standpoint, I know a lot of people don't want to hear it, especially coming from a consumer like me, you're probably like, how could you?

You've switched up. You're joining in on capitalism. But if it makes sense, then I think they should do it. And with the $70, I don't think it's too egregious of a price hike. I mean, look at what Netflix is doing, and they're not giving you anything in return for their price hikes, right? So for the next gen price tag to be $10 more, only $10 more than the old gen versions, I think that's pretty reasonable. So that being said, standard edition for Spider-Man PS-5 is 70, the Lux edition will be 80, and the collector's edition would be 230. I did not know that, collector's edition.

I wonder if that's coming with the 19 inches because, you know, hey, let me tell you all, some. A lot of people want them 19 inches. And shame on y'all, man, shame on y'all. Because $230, that's way too much. I don't care how many inches they're giving you. Like, that's just ridiculous.

And if you don't know what I'm talking about, then you just out of the loop. Because last time I looked at that tweet talking about the 19 inches, I think that had more engagement than people on the planet. I was like, how in the world? Like, if y'all look at that tweet,

it's like, I think it's almost at a, I'm not even trying to be funny, hold up, because y'all don't think I'm trying to be funny, but the engagement on the 19 inches is like, bro, like, are y'all okay? Like, y'all, you may need some mental evaluations before we can play this game.

Hold on, let me see. Because Venom, let me see. Venom is just, I'm just going to type in 19. Hopefully that crazy pops up. 19 inches. I can't believe I'm pulling. Yeah, my son. search bar is crazy right now.

Let me see. I'm trying to find that original tweet. Oh, here we go. PlayStation UK. No, somebody quote tweeting that. Okay, so PlayStation, because I think there was the original tweet.

PlayStation UK. Ah, here we go. 94.3 million engagement. Okay, so I was a little, I was exaggerating with the people on the planet. I think, no, I was. I'm, you know, like, come on now. I'm in college.

Let me, you know, I can't be acting that slow dollars. So basically the engagement on this tweet is insane 94.3 million. Like I don't think I've seen that type of engagement ever on a tweet like ever. So if you don't even know about the 19 inches, when I say 19 inches, you just add the loop. I'm sorry, you just probably now on the internet and it's okay. Now everybody needs the internet, but let's just say the 19 inches is a very substantial part of the Spider-Man 2 rollout at this point. After that tweet, whoever tweeted that out or whoever was the PR person behind that, he should have immediately got a lifetime

contract because that is how you market a video game. But that being said, um, so yeah, if you want to pay $230 for that 19 inches, I mean, I've, you know, I've, you know, heard of people paying more for less. So, you know, hey, at the end of the day, you know, it's on you. But anyways, uh, Spider-Man PS5, of course, I keep calling that because I think this is the last Spider-Man game we're going to get on this console. Like, the way that Insomnia games is talking, I don't even know if they'll give out a DOC for this.

So we're going to get the game. And then after that, like, they're going to come out with the Wolverine game. Like, they've already started working on Wolverine for Insomniac. Like, it's, uh, Spider-Man 2 is gold. And gold means when the game is, like, basically ready to launch. So with that being said, we had no announcement of DOC or anything, which Spider-P-S4 are going back in time.

D-L-C was announced before the game was even came out to make you buy the entire edition, right? Which was the City Never Sleeps Edition. believe so with spider-man two not even have a doc announced i don't know if it's because honestly i'm just going to say it spider-man two is going to be the last game on on ps5 so they're not going to come out with another one until the ps6 comes out and that won't be to like 2026 or something like that which also heightened my anticipation for this game because if you don't know spider-man is going to be a flagship of playstation for them to put so much credence into this game knowing it's going to hold us over until the next console comes out like you already have to

the amount of stuff that's going to be happening in this game and no d oc like people are saying that the game won't be that long like it would be around the same runtime as spider-ps4 but we don't know if that's dlc included we don't know if that like okay so basically just saying 20 to 30 hours would be would suffice for the main story that's how long it would take you to beat the main story but if you do sign missions if you go for the platinum trophy of course you'll get into the 40-50 range but that's still a lot of story like 20 to 30 30 a straight story from Insomniac is still a lot because you already know it's going to be a plethora of cutscenes, great performances. I mean, the guy who's voicing Venom, I think he

voiced like Candyman or he voices like a bunch of horror villains. So basically they got the best of the best for these characters. And the way that the story is going to play out, now that's going to be spoiler. So let's just say, DOC may not make sense for this game. They're going to give us everything in its initial package. So that being, said it's really not too much to get into oh here are the suits oh let me go back to that here are the suits for pre-ordering yeah here we go so that's another thing i want to talk about i don't know if insomnia got a little uh what's the word i don't know if they got a little arrogant or overconfident i don't know what is the word but ever since they made one of the better

spider-man unique outfits ever created with the whole white symbol because even now it still looks great and still looks amazing and you look at the white symbol for spider man you you think to yourself oh that's the video game insomniac version of spider man right these costumes that they've uniquely made for the game is not it like maybe i just have to play the game but i mean who thought it would be a good idea to put stone monkey suit in the game like forget the fact that it's for peter right i don't i don't care it's for peter let's let's just stick on the fact Stick to the fact that they put stone monkey suit in the game. I ain't trying to see nothing, no type of monkey rendition and no suit

when Miles Morales is also in the game because I ain't trying to have no type of confusion because you already know people be on their funny tip when it comes to monkey and black people. So we ain't trying to even get close to that conversation. So to put a whole monkey suit in the game like Spider-Man doesn't make no sense to put monkey suit in the game. Am I tripping? like Red Spector a punked elliptic

even tactical agmatic like all those make sense right Stone monkey like come on man like I don't know who put that suit in the game but they need to be fired they need to be fired at 7

I'm sorry like that's just I know it's probably one of it's probably it better be one of Peter suits it better not be one of my own suits I bet I say it's gonna be different levels it's gonna be like when I play MK1 and then they play as a single black person throughout the whole story,

I'm going to go off. It ain't going to be nice. So yeah, whoever made Stone Monkey, y'all need to be fired. I ain't going to cap to you. So besides that, other additions to the game because Spider-Man 2 is, like I said, a complete addition to Spider-Man PS4 and not just a cheap cash grab. Another thing is that they have additional Brooklyn and Queens added as far as the map, which is like double the size of the last map in Spider-May-Pos4.

for the 60 unlockable suits and side missions and stuff. What else? Preloading for the game starts October 13th and requires approximately 88 gigabytes of storage space. Release times vary by region, with some players having access on the 19th and others on the 20th. So at that being said, you may have to do what the NBA 2K players did when they went to, I don't know if it was Sweden. They went somewhere. Well, time-wise. like they changed the time on a console so they could get the game early you may have to do that for spider-man

and uh by they i mean me i'm definitely a the earliest i can get my hands on it the better pause but anyways so at the end of day spider-man two is going to be fantastic it's really not too much i can say about the game at this point besides the story seems immaculate uh the venom design is top tier like one of the best designs like it it behooves me how spider-man is is such a a iconic character and insomnia is somehow finding new ways to keep you invested and captivated into its story like you kind of know the beats that they're going to follow throughout the storyline but the way that they're delivering to you and especially some of the things i heard like it's going to be characters that's not used to being other characters in this game

and i'm not going to spoil it but and it's going to it's going to blow your mind it's going to blow your mind to the point where you may have to hit the pause button and just at the screen like insomnia has some stuff playing for this game and and all i got to say is i can't wait like i thoroughly am anticipating this game to the point where when this game comes out man i may go missing i'm just i'm just flows they're gonna be here to give you all uh content and stuff and obviously i'll probably stream it so if you want to watch me streaming but you know stream is not one of the things i promote because i'm a podcast you know i always like to say i'm a podcast who streams streaming is not my specialty but if you want to see it i was stream it just so if you

you want to see it and comment while I play the game. But at the end of the day, I can't wait for the game. It's going to be fantastic, amazing, spectacular. No, my fault. My fault. I'm going to keep that in the talk. So, yeah, what else? This is the last time I'm going to talk about this game before it comes out.

So I'm trying to think if there's anything else I didn't talk about. Transversial is going to be two times faster than the last game. If you don't know, Spider-Man PS4 started you out at a certain speed, and then you got up to the max speed as you leveled up. Spider-Man is going to start at the same. max speed for Spider-Man PS2 because you know the map is two times bigger and of course with the web wings it's going to make it easier to a transverse the environment and it's going to be way faster and there's a way you can turn off the handicap as far as swinging so sort of like Spider-Man 2

you can have all the physics unlocked for you so you could put your swinging on hard mode if that makes sense which it may sound worse than it actually is like when you actually play the game you may want to turn it off so um try to think it's basically it i don't want to overtalk because i think i've covered everything yeah with that being said uh whoever made the stone monkey suit i hope you get fired that's i want to end this off so click my link tree in my buyer uh click my link tree in my bio let me know one of my social media is what do you think about spider man two insomnia games rollout for the game and what is the most

anticipated thing that you're looking forward to when this game eventually comes out October 20th.