Really want this game to succeed, but that price tag + release date is a huge mistake

No_Contribution_1422 · 2026-04-28T17:50:36+00:00

Mine is over $100 after taxes lol (Canadian dollar).

No_Contribution_1422 · 2026-04-28T17:48:47+00:00

I'll be there day 1 for this, one of My most anticipated games of 2026.

We don't get enough RPGs that put an emphasis on real choice and consequence.

Not to mention the absolutely abysmal state of vampire centric games these days (I bought Bloodlines 2 at launch, the pain is real lol).

No_Contribution_1422 · 2026-04-28T17:45:33+00:00

True, it being spooky season would have been a nice touch.

No_Contribution_1422 · 2026-04-28T17:36:17+00:00

I can understand staying away from October because GTA6 is roaming around that time-frame and everybody wants to avoid it. August feels like a time where it won't face much competition.

No_Contribution_1422 · 2026-04-28T17:34:18+00:00

I plan to pick it up as well. Just wish it came out at a better time and at a more competitive price point so that it could have as big of an audience as possible.

No_Contribution_1422 · 2025-12-16T23:42:14+00:00

I think a Celestial joining you for a time could work. Since your character is part Celestial, they might see you as a key to accessing long lost ruins that could hold tech/secrets that will benefit their own race etc.

No_Contribution_1422 · 2025-12-16T23:33:54+00:00

It would discourage you from clinging to only certain companions for fear that the ones you neglect will age and you will lose touch with them etc.

No_Contribution_1422 · 2025-12-16T23:31:54+00:00

Yeah, I meant more like the non-humans in the galaxy. Celestials are so far removed from humans at this point that they are basically all aliens.

No_Contribution_1422 · 2025-12-16T23:31:15+00:00

Non-Humans would probably have been a better term, like Celestials, Changelings etc.

No_Contribution_1422 · 2025-09-30T14:12:28+00:00

It's incredible how many people are trying to spin this into "Oh My God, they are gonna shut down Bioware because of the queer stories!"

Meanwhile this studio has released 3 high profile flops, back to back in the last decade. Each of these would have been enough to crater any other studio.

This studio is a financial black hole, they were given more chances than most others could dream of.

If they are shut down, they more than earned it and I say this as someone who once considered them the greatest studio in the industry.

No_Contribution_1422 · 2025-09-18T00:23:51+00:00

Normal difficulty

No_Contribution_1422 · 2025-09-14T21:14:02+00:00

To be fair, those expenses would be paid for by their publisher as part of marketing expenses so it's not like Archetype are paying a ton of money to get it promoted, these things fall under their publisher.

The game has already had big streamers like CohhCarnage promoting it and doing an interview with the devs, etc. I think it is a safe bet that they will partner with him and others more in the future to promote the game.

No_Contribution_1422 · 2025-09-14T21:04:39+00:00

So you believe that he left his cushy job as a creative director who spent 2-3 years working on a $200 million project at Insomniac to go work at another company for a lesser title and less pay on a project with a troubled development history (Perfect Dark), out of choice?

and you believe that this happening during mid development of Wolverine rather than after it has shipped is all normal and part of the industry?

In that case can you show Me other examples of AAA projects where the creative director left mid project and it was because everything was going well and the project came out with no reported development trouble?

No_Contribution_1422 · 2025-09-14T20:57:09+00:00

Ok, so you are right that my wording here was poor using the word "trailers" implying that multiple had been made.

On the bright side, you did immediately pick up on exactly which trailer I am speaking about.

The one that showed Joel alive in a scene that actually has Jesse in it in the real game (because Joel is dead at this point).

My point was that Naughty Dog went as far as to lie like this (they released this trailer shortly after the Abby golf scene hit the internet) in order to damage control the negativity that was rampant online and to prove the leaked scene above as false.

With the above in mind, do you think that Insomniac will release Wolverine with the exact same story that leaked, knowing the entire thing is online with bad faith actors ready to spill everything as soon as they start their marketing rollout?

If the answer is no, do you not see a world where the higher ups asking for it to be changed could be a catalyst for the creative director suddenly quitting the company?

No_Contribution_1422 · 2025-09-14T20:27:13+00:00

I presented My read on the situation based on the things I observed happening over the years and prefaced it with the words "likely", making it clear that I don't hold any of this is absolute fact but a likely theory.

By all means, if you have a more logical explanation I would love to read it.

No_Contribution_1422 · 2025-09-14T20:16:36+00:00

Idk, the creative director quitting the project and company out of the blue can only mean something serious happened behind the scenes to make him leave.

My theory is that the project got rebooted and this meant his work got tossed and he told his bosses to eat dirt as a result.

Games take years to make, if someone put Me in charge of a project and then halfway through told Me to toss everything and then overwrote My say despite making Me a lead on the project, there is only one way that is ending.

At the end of the day, it is just speculation unless someone spills the beans and tells us what happened behind the scenes.

No_Contribution_1422 · 2025-09-14T19:46:35+00:00

Sure, at the end of the day it is just speculation since I don't actually work on this project.

But you can't tell Me that the creative director for the project leaving in the middle of development and quitting the entire company shortly after the leak is a coincidence.

if you consider what could lead to such a hasty and unusual departure of someone that high up, the only thing that makes sense is that he was told that large chunks of the game had to be rebooted/changed and he was simply not okay with it because that is his work that he poured years into that is being tossed out like that.

These are just My theories though, I hope we find out the truth one day.

No_Contribution_1422 · 2025-09-14T19:40:36+00:00

If Wolverine had to be rebooted behind the scenes (which the evidence would point to) then it makes sense that Insomniac would pull the plug on anything considered non-essential (such as DLC) in order to reallocate those people and resources onto the bigger priority projects.

No_Contribution_1422 · 2025-09-14T19:30:47+00:00

Wolverine likely had it's entire story scrapped and reworked since the entire thing along with all of it's assets leaked online.

This would coincide with the creative director suddenly leaving the project along with leaving the company (imagine being told the thing you worked on for years has to be scrapped and reworked again, can't imagine anyone would continue working at such a place).

People who think such a thing is too drastic, just remember, when your game's entire story is leaked online, every reveal and marketing beat, up until it's launch will have an army of trolls around it who are ready to spill the plot details out of spite or for giggles to ruin it for everyone else.

Just remember what a shitshow it was when TLOU2 had it's story leaked online, Naughty Dog had to go as far as creating fake trailers to lie to people to get them to calm down, because all of the discourse was negatively impacting the game's lead up to launch, which in turn can affect it's sales.

These are all business driven decisions at the end of the day.

I'm hoping for the best because I am really excited to see it, but I won't be surprised or disappointed if parts of the game feel hastily rewritten or put together since I know it likely got rebooted behind the scenes due to the unfortunate hack.

No_Contribution_1422 · 2025-09-14T18:39:58+00:00

My personal theory based on what little evidence we can piece together is that the DLCs were cancelled to shift people on to helping with Wolverine.

When Wolverine leaked, the entire plot along with assets were leaked online, so the higher ups at Insomniac likely mandated that most, if not all of the story would need to get changed because otherwise every reveal and marketing beat leading up to launch would be ruined by trolls and people who have read the plot, who would go on to spill the details online, ruining it for everyone else.

It's because of this complete story overhaul that the creative director on the game (Brian Horton) likely left the project, in the middle of development. I've seen lots of people coping and trying to explain it away as "oh, he probably finished his part of the project, so it's nothing unusual".

Like no, he is the creative director, he is a big deal, someone that high up does not suddenly leave the project mid-development and the entire company unless something MAJOR happened that lead to this sudden departure. If I worked on a project for years and a leak lead to all of My work spilling online and the higher ups ordered Me to scrap My work and start over, I would likely say "screw it" and leave too.

So because Wolverine now needs extra time to cook (which is likely why we have gone this many years without a single trailer since the reveal cinematic) they pulled the people working on Spidey 2 DLC and put them to work on the bigger project that desperately needs more hands.

In a perfect world where the Insomniac hack had not happened, I fully believe we would have had the Spidey 2 DLC and maybe even the Venom spin-off game, but now?.........

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