/vr/ - Retro Games

PC was goat

I thoroughly enjoyed the PC version. Not sure how well it aged if I were to play it today. It cracked me up as a kid how Spiderman's webs were just went straight up into the sky, attaching to nothing, whenever he did any web slinging.

The Batman: AA of its time.

What I mean by this: This was the first superhero game I played that actually felt like a game that was specifically catered to the super hero I was playing as. Yes, Batman had a string of good games back in the late 80s to early 90s, and various comic book characters got put into good fighting games by Capcom, but this was the first game where I stepped back and said, "Whoa. Now this is a SPIDER-MAN game, and not just a decent game with a license slapped on it."

Let's look at Batman NES for an example. Yeah, it's a great game, but there's nothing about that game that feels particularly "Batman". You could have just as easily swapped out Batman with another character (not even from comic books) and the game would feel largely the same.

Now look at Spider-Man. You swing around the city like him and get to do things that you ACTUALLY SAW Spider-Man do in the books. The swinging around the city alone put this far above any other Spidey game that came before it.

I think this game was a change in super hero games.

I found the PC version new, CiB for 2 dollars at a thrift store.

>>1319268
>>1319853
Wait there was a PC version? Damn I thought only the N64 and Playstaion ones existed. Game is still great either way though.

I moved last year and found my old PS1 with this still in it. Turned it on just to see if PS1 still worked. Ended up playing up till the second venom battle not bad at all.

Pic related Greatest All Time

>>1318961
Rented it like four times. It was fun.

>>1320336
I dunno man, I've had that game since it came out and the controls are too sluggish for me to enjoy it.

>>1320376
Agreed. I just tried playing for my first time last week and it was really shitty.

>>1320336
Haven't played that, but I've played the sequel and it's pretty much one of the worst games I've ever played on the controls alone. It's incredibly hard to climb a wall, let alone attach a web to anything (especially Hobgoblin's glider in the beginning). It's especially bad when you fall down the pit towards the right of the first screen and you have to wrestle with the controls for ten minutes to even get part of the way up the wall, after which you just shut the game off because it's not fun anymore.

For me, this was the defining game of my childhood. Sure, it wasn't by a big name company like Capcom or Konami, but for some reason, everyone I knew had played this game at one point or another. Even now, when you'd have someone new over, and they'd see that cracked jewel case with Spidey on the cover, it became necessary to pop the disk into the console and give the game another go.

>>1318961

Mfw the 2nd "funny" or whatever comedy audio track on ps1

That scene at the end where you escape the Dock Ock/Carnage boss was crazy.

What happened to escape scenes in video games?

>Espacing Dock Ock/Carnage
>Fleeing the falling castle in OOT
>Escaping Final Andross in Starfox 64
>Escaping fucking everything in Super Metroid

>>1320509
I'm still disappointed that you didn't get to fight Carnage-Ock.

Still one of my favorite PS1 games ever. It's a shame they dropped the ball so hard with the sequel.

>>1320482
>watch that first step
>IT'S A DOOZY!

>I AM MINI-OCK!

>>1318961
I got the PC version for free in a cereal box mail in order when I was 6, however I was retarded and could not understand that the bomb went into the vault, kept thinking
>But what about all that gold?!
Still really enjoyed that first level even though I couldn't get past it
Found it again about 6 years later and decided to be less retarded and beat the game
Has to be one of the best ps1 games I played

"SURF THE WEB! SURF THE WEB!"

I loved it. Lots of fun. It had a comic style of play if I could call it that, and all of those sweet costumes. And that final boss was so spooky. I actually feared it.

>>1320428
>>1320407
>>1320376
But the sluggish controls make it require real skill to play like the original castlevania

just kidding horrible game but i used to play the fuck out of it, never beat the park level i think the boss was rhino

>>1321061
Nah, you just suck
I think I beat the rhino on my third try in my first playthrough

Carnage Ock scared the shit out of me when I was young. Fun game.

>>1318961
Best unlockable costume that doesn't have a special power.

Fun game, a little on the short side.

This is probably the only PSX -> N64 port that creatively got around the lack of FMVs in the latter. The comic book parts were pretty neat and are no worse than the FMV.