“It’s since been well-documented that Marvel’s Midnight Suns is not ‘XCOM-but-Marvel’.”
Solomon states: “It is hard to tell a more powerful story than the one a player tells in their head. I still believe that, even with all the scripted narrative – the story that a player tells in their head is hard to beat. And we all have that with XCOM. You know, even the guys who, I swear to God, would miss shots so much, you end up developing a love for them. You’d be like: ‘Oh, this dumb bastard, he never hits his shot’. But everybody loves him, and you’ve nicknamed him something, or you dress him a certain way just because of that. It’s so hard to beat that type of narrative.”
“Because these Marvel characters are established, we have a tonne of scripted narrative. But, you still develop a relationship with these heroes that’s unique, even from playthrough to playthrough because their gameplay is still customizable. You still can choose these heroes’ abilities – if it’s Captain Marvel, or if it’s Blade, or if it’s whoever, you can choose their abilities, you can deck them out a certain way. Later in the game, you get these things called mods, and then all of a sudden, the heroes’ abilities get these random perks added to them. And then all of a sudden you think: ‘Oh, this ability, which I didn’t love before, now, it’s become the most powerful thing in the game’. [With that], you still get the memories from combat, and you still build your own story from gameplay.”
Weinhoffer concurs, including: “Depending on how you craft and customize your Hunter, and the heroes that you choose to take into combat more than others, you can end up feeling very different about the story. You might say: ‘Okay, I’m going to focus The Hunter on all of her life abilities, and push her to be the perfect paragon of justice heroes. She’s going to ally with Captain America and Captain Marvel, and that’s a squad that’s going to feel a certain way in combat, and see its relationships develop in a very specific way. You might then start another playthrough and do a 180, being way more antihero, going more dark side of the balance, allying with Blade and Ghost Rider and feeling very different in both narrative and gameplay terms, and in the conversations and relationships you’ll have over the course of the story.”
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“Even the folks at Marvel were like: ‘Oh yeah, these guys are hardcore Marvel fans,’ and then, with that, we could speak with a level of trust.”
As Marvel’s Midnight Suns marches in the direction of its December 2 launch day, we have actually currently listened to exactly how it’s a faster and darker tactical RPG from the team behind XCOM. We’ve listened to how anime and JRPGs make it a better strategy game, as well as we have actually discovered what it resembles to go hands-on with a promising Marvel strategy game hiding a slick RPG. As Solomon as well as Weinhoffer synopsis over, Marvel’s Midnight Suns is additionally a game that’s aiming to the future, pressing the borders of Firaxis’ capability, while recognizing a desire amongst a group filled with enthusiastic Marvel followers. Indeed, this isn’t XCOM-but-Marvel in any way, which’s likely an advantage. But there are resemblances in between this game’s unavoidable launch as well as XCOM: Enemy Unknown’s ten years back, when Firaxis placed its very own spin on a currently well-respected entity.
With all due regard to Julian Gollop’s MicroProse as well as the initial Xcom games of the late ’90s as well as very early ’00s, Marvel notes a much larger suitor this time around about, with a larger, as well as, most importantly, a lot more singing fanbase. Is going after that stress as well as examination something Firaxis proactively looks for? Solomon giggles, prior to claiming: “Well, I don’t think we choose that. But it is funny. I had the exact same feeling when we were announcing Midnight Suns that I had when we were announcing Enemy Unknown. It was the exact same.”
“We were immediately dealing with the audience, and, obviously, this market is enormous. We had to weather the storm and say: ‘Look, let’s just make sure that people understand that we are also very passionate about this. We understand any concerns they have that wouldn’t be different from concerns we have’. And so, we just tried to talk as much as possible. And then people start to go: ‘Oh, okay. I guess… I guess they know what they’re talking about’. They could see that we’re passionate fans too. One of the reasons we’ve got such a good relationship with Marvel is because we’ve been very free with them and they’ve been very free with us. Even the folks at Marvel were like: ‘Oh yeah, these guys are hardcore Marvel fans,’ and then, with that, we could speak with a level of trust. Dealing with passionate fan bases, then – it’s not unfamiliar. It’s not necessarily something we look for, but we are familiar with it.”
Weinhoffer responds in contract, as well as includes: “I take that any day over dealing with an unpassionate audience!”
Marvel’s Midnight Suns schedules on December 2, 2022 for PS5, Xbox Series X, as well as computer.
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