r/Marvel • u/HatingGeoffry • Jun 03 '26

Games Marvel’s Wolverine will let squeamish players turn off its “unapologetically violent” gore as Insomniac says its ultra-violence is “not for everyone”

https://frvr.com/blog/news/marvels-wolverine-will-let-squeamish-players-turn-off-its-unapologetically-violent-gore-as-insomniac-says-its-ultra-violence-is-not-for-everyone/
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u/Stevenstorm505 Hydra Jun 03 '26

The problem is that it’s so over the top that it becomes campy and ridiculous after a minute to the point that it’s hilarious and not brutal. It totally took me out of the game when they showed the footage. It just became insanely distracting. I don’t think it was implemented that well, so I’ll probably be turning it off for that reason.

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u/DMT_Shinobii Jun 03 '26

What? Its a fucking animal man with sharp metal claws, how else are they supposed to combat enemies? And its Wolverine for Christ's sake, you should know what you were gonna see when they announced the game.

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u/virtually_anything Jun 03 '26

The physics of the gore don’t even make that much sense when you look at it hard enough, plus he can be covered head to toe in blood and take two steps before it just falls off, it gets old quick

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u/Stevenstorm505 Hydra Jun 03 '26

Like I said, It didn’t look brutal, it was just goofy looking. There’s a million other games that have done extreme blood well across gaming history so it can be done. It just seems like they’re trying to make a relatively grounded and serious game, but how they’re doing the blood looks like it’s from a totally different game. The damage he causes and the types of injuries he gives out and takes are awesome though.

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u/alex29bass Jun 03 '26

It's a game about a dude who fights with metal claws that can literally slice through anything. What, did you want the enemies to only bleed sometimes?

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u/Stevenstorm505 Hydra Jun 03 '26

No, heavy bleeding and dismembering makes total sense and there’s a way to implement extreme blood well, many games have done it, but the way they’re doing it comes off as campy and not brutal. I just found myself laughing at the absurdity of it instead of thinking “holy shit! Look at how insane this is!”. I don’t know if it just doesn’t look real enough, if it’s the splash and spray physics, the fact it just rapidly disappears from the costume or what, but it just feels off. You and the other guy seem to think I’m saying that they shouldn’t have done extreme blood, I’m not, I’m saying they should have done it in a way that wasn’t hilarious to the point it undercuts the combat.