#incorrect dca quotes

[fnafwritings]

(Playing Twister)

Moon: Right hand on red.

Y/N: *ends up on top of Sun*

Sun: You're doing this on purpose, aren't you?

Moon: I stopped spinning like 15 minutes ago. Honestly, I'm surprised you two didn't notice.

[dcawritings]

Y/N: Hi.

Sun: Hey, did you do what I said? Did you tell him?

Y/N: I did.

Sun: And what did he say?

Y/N: “Thank you.”

Sun: You’re totally welcome. What’d he say?

Y/N: He said, “Thank you.” I said “I love you” and Moon said, “Thank you.”

[avalance-incorrect]

Gary: I..I did a bad thing..

Ava: Does it affect me or Sara?

Gary: ..uh..no?

Ava: Then suffer in silence.

[incorrect-wafflecrew-quotes]

Strahd: I can smell your blood 

Paultin, drunk as hell: Come out and fight bitch

(Submission by potootrashheap)

[hellzyeahthewebwieldingavenger]

There has been talk here and there about how the PS4 Spider-Man game was the first real attempt to give Spider-Man the ‘Batman: Arkham Asylum’ or ‘Arkham City’ treatment in video games.

For those who don’t know beginning in 2009 (possibly as a late attempt to do a tie-in for ‘The Dark Knight’ film) a video game called ‘Batman: Arkham Asylum’ was released. It started a massive Batman video game franchise and was not only hailed as the best Batman game but some regard it as the best superhero game ever and as redefining what a video game based upon an outside licence could be. 

Not only were there sequels to the game (notably an mostly open world direct sequel called Arkham City) but an animated movie tie-in and other pieces of merchandise based upon the specific video game version of Batman.

To me the Arkham games ushered in a new idea for superheroes. In much the same way the DCAU and MCU versions of the DC and Marvel characters proved they could be highly marketable and popular unto themselves, having their own ‘universes’ within the wider scope of their respective brands, the Arkham games showed us that this is possible for video game versions of the characters too. 

Unsurprisingly a similar sort of approach was taken for another DC video game ‘Injustice: Gods Among Us’. Although a fighting game (which tend to have fairly simple plots) the game offered a clear cut vision of an alternate DC universe and came out the gate swinging with a tie-in prequel comic book which led to even more comics and other pieces of merchandise.

In light of the Arkham and Injustice franchises the fact that people were talking about Insomniac’s PS4 Spider-Man as Spidey’s ‘Arkham Asylum’ might be more prescient than we realized.

Think about it.

Putting aside how much buzz surrounding the game, how much news was being dished out about it, how the promotional campaign surely went beyond what other Spidey video games have had, what was the first true piece of merchandise we got connected to the game?

A prequel novel.

And this is a bigger deal than you might think because aside from MCU related stuff and one Miles Morales YA book, there hasn’t been a Spider-Man novel in YEARS, possibly even a decade, and even longer for something which is clearly having Peter himself be the main character.

More than this PS4 Spider-Man is being advertised by Marvel comics proper in a way no other Spidey video game has ever been to my knowledge and in fact they are doing a whole event in part to promote him, incorporating him into Marvel Comics canon (albeit not in 616 obviously).

Let’s also consider that the number of Spider-Man video games that have truly attempted to have an entertaining story unto themselves that captures the essence of the character, as opposed to just something to facilitate the game play or a cool hook is relatively small.

Excluding the movie games because they were obviously based upon the films or else filling in the gaps from them (e.g. if you wanted to see Garfield’s Spidey catch Uncle Ben’s killer you better have purchased one of his video games) the only ones I can think of are:

Spider-Man 2000, my first and favourite Spider-Man game ever.

Spider-Man 2: Enter Electro

Ultimate Spider-Man, which for a hot five minutes was actually canon to the Ultimate Universe

Arguably Spider-Man: Edge of Time

And now Spider-Man PS4

Clearly, much like the Arkham and Injustice games, Insomniac want you to show up for the story as much as the gaming experience, hence people who aren’t even playing this game were hyped for it too.

Also consider that one of the major people behind the game when discussing the making of it said the whole point of the redesigned Spider costume was for people to look at it and instantly know that they’re seeing the Insomniac video game version of Spider-Man.

A creative stamp of ownership? Perhaps but equally it doubles up as just plain logical marketing...that is if you are planning on your version of Spider-Man to have a life BEYOND just the game itself.

Such as in...comic books, tie-in novels and other merchandise.

After all if he looks just like 616 Spider-Man then when you make a statue of him how would anyone know beyond seeing a logo somewhere on the box?

Whether by accident or design the idea of classic superhero characters having unique costumes for their video game counterparts is also true for the Arkham Injustice games.

In fact I suspect that in addition to wanting a more experienced Spider-Man simply because they liked it and because it’d be something different, having the video game Spidey be an 8 year veteran was a matter of creative/marketing practicality.

A 23 year old Spider-Man is younger than his canon counterpart and so has plenty of room to grow going forward with sequels. But equally having 8 years of untold stories gives you plenty of scope for expansion in the other direction.

This was yet another aspect of the Arkham and Injustice games I suspect Insomniac were looking to replicate. The Batman of the Arkham games has clearly been on the job for years, hence he’s already got a whole rogue’s gallery ready to fight and in the sequels Dick Grayson is already Nightwing alongside other Batman partners and proteges. Equally in the Injustice games the world has already fallen to Hell as the main story unfolds.

This allowed for further stories to be told in the past of each universe, with prequels comics for Injustice and prequel game for the Arkham series.

So I suspect going forward we will be seeing more stories set int he past that flesh out the world and characters of Insomniac’s Spider-Man.

His first encounter with Kingpin, MJ learning his identity, etc

[incorrectdca-blog]

Evelyn: Why are people so obsessed with top or bottom? Honestly, I would be excited just to have a bunk bed.

Paultin: …

Diath: …

Paultin: I’m gonna tell her.

Diath: Don’t you dare.

[sparkkeyper]

WTF, Wafflefam, I turn my back for 5 minutes and y'all are giving Diath wings.

The entire Waffle Crew but Holly, probably

[fnafwritings]

Y/N, looking through their clothes: Has anyone seen my top?

Moon: Sun's in the kitchen.