I mean, you know that’s just what Anti-Venom IS right? A reanimated symbiote created by Mr. Negative touching Eddie Brock which made it attack his cancer cells and cure him while not having a mind of it’s own?
Personally I think the Anti-Venom suit is a great resolution. Not every difficult choice a hero has to make should be a net neutral at best. Sometimes it’s nice to see a character make a choice that seemingly weakens them come back to help them in the end. Anti Venom is the culmination of all of Peters actions as Spider-Man. From giving second chances, to teaching miles, and of course leaving the Symbiote behind, and even that needed the other two to even happen. Let this Spider-Man be his own Spider-Man. OP Anti Venom powers and all. Getting rid of it would completely invalidate this entire game from a gameplay perspective. He got the arms from Ock, he gets the Symbiote from Venom. A key aspect of this Peter his him learning and becoming stronger as a direct result of his villains.
I agree. Also, from a gameplay perspective, he needs something to separate him from miles, and the arms just aren't enough. I prefer this peter as a character over this miles, his voice, his jokes, his style. But before he gets the symbiote, i much prefer playing as miles because he's just more fun. Once pete gets the symbiote, though, he's much more fun to play as than miles imo
Agreed! Some people would argue having Peter keep the the Anti-Venom suit and powers it would make him OP. But really, it wouldn’t make sense to have him get rid of it because this suit helps distinguish himself from Miles a lot more and makes more of his protégé’ sequel in terms of power and abilities. Plus it would also be a waste to not use these abilities again in the future games as many people, (myself included) believe these are the BEST ones to use in the game. P.S I don’t think Insomniac would just forget about the Anti-Venom suit or it’s powers anyway, because they care about consistency and always delivering the best to they’re fans whenever they can.
@@webwalkerz2048 Hell no, i want to be able to play with anti-venom, and peter can't pass the symbiote to anyone, because it's already on his blood cells Edit: AYOO we hit 100 likes
"Forced & sloppy justification for new symbiote powers" -- My brother in spandex tights, Mister Negative was the one who enabled Brock's Anti-Venom powers to begin with in its first appearance in the comics. We saw both the symbiote & Mister Negative make an appearance in the first game in 2018. That is neither forced nor sloppy, that is five whole years' worth of foreshadowing. As far as the mechanical spider arms not being as strong as the symbiote or the bio-electricity goes, have you considered that you just didn't give them as much of a chance? Especially since you confessed that you immediately dumped all your points into symbiote skills and didn't touch the mechanical arms side of the skill tree? For example, I greatly prefer Spider Rush over Symbiote Strike. Both abilities have Peter dash forward & scoop enemies up, and both web enemies to the wall instantly downing them if the move gets them close enough, however, at the end of each move, Symbiote Strike pops enemies up into the air vertically, while Spider Rush flings enemies incredibly far forwards, making it wildly more effective at instantly incapacitating enemies. And this whole mentality about "returning to the status quo" you keep going on about? That kind of thinking is what drove the current comics into the terrible spot they're in today.
True, comic-book fans need something new and unique to make them more fun and fresh again, I would much personally prefer new and better stories, but this is a second best thing.
Was scrunching my face this whole video because wtf is this guy talking about 😂😂 I like criticism on things I like n if they actually make sense I’d give it to them, but dude seems to be doing a lot of yapping just for views, shit he got my view lol
I see the Anti Venom suit as the culmination of Peter’s journey. The Venom symbiote brought all of Peter’s trauma that he was trying to hide to the surface. He wasn’t properly healing and it was only with the help of Peter’s support system that he was able to finally start healing himself before he could heal his friend. It also symbolizes that after the pain Peter went through he won’t have to go through that again. P.S. The idea of more creative web attacks would be cool but it’s pretty clear they’re saving that for Silk. Peter keeping Anti Venom from a gameplay perspective helps distinguish him and it doesn’t take away the pain he had to go through to get to this point.
Honestly i wish in the next spiderman peter can do web attacks similar to web of shadows or shattered dimension not to the same extent as silk due to her having organic webs and he doesn't but strong enough to stagger physically stronger foess
@@spider-man5544 I would like that too, that part in the Sand Man boss where Miles rips piece of debris out of Marco’s face and hits him with it is something I’d like to see more of in the base move sets.
If we're being honest, I hope they keep Cindy Moon as a side character not a Spider-Person, since 3 of them in one game is too much to be honest, and they barely fit a 2 Spider-Man story in this game
My main gripe is that we don't really get to hear Peter's thoughts about the Anti-Venom suit. Maybe if the end of the game was longer, we could've have gotten that.... 🤔
Listen to ur remote when in black suit vs white suit one has voices that u jus cant hear but the other suit has 0 voices becuz anti venom does not have a “hive mind”
@@The-No-onethis is what bugged me. That in that call both of them didn't question it at all, or had at least suspious that a symbiote is on him again, after both had the pleasure to wear it
Yeah, I was gonna say the arms are cool as hell. In some ways, even cooler than the symbiote. Don’t get me wrong, the symbiote was definitely the star of this entry, but using the arms with the comic Iron Spider suit and the Superior suit was just so satisfying!
there was so much they could have done with the arms too, and it was so annoying how they felt the need to have either all of them come out or none of them come out, like the backflip kick peter does, they could have countered his momentum by crawling towards peter's target during the flip allowing peter to remain on the offensive, restrained people to keep them rom hurting him, grabbed people's guns, crawled for him while he's fighting on walls and ceilings, employing exactly the amount of arms that are needed for a given task, showing peter's experience enabling advanced improvisation and multitasking, how did no way home of all things do the arms more justice than this entire game?
The fact Peter has a anti venom symbiote forever is amazing he overcame the original black suit and venom and is able to make anti venom part the best parts of the symbiote but he is in total control that alone makes this story ark amazing to me the fact he can keep the power of the black suit but not have to worry about loosing himself that is a finished story the explanation is just obvious we don’t need them to tell us the details we just use common sense
The reason why the black suit storyline works well is because it reflects real life addiction. Peter starts to become addicted to the black suit because it makes him feel stronger and better, and he feels like hes nothing without it. But the suit is making him angrier and more aggressive to his friends and family. When peter removes the black suit its such a powerfull moment because it symbolises overcoming addiction, but when you add anti venom it doesnt work because it removes the real life side of it, its the same as giving an ex meth addict this "new" meth that has all the positives and no negatives, its lazy writing and it undermines the conclusion of the black suit.
@@ziriyt989Except that anti venom isn't a "meth" and it wasn't given to Peter, he had to fight for it and learn how to forgive himself, thus making the best of his mistakes
@@geminiandromeda8082 i didnt mean literal meth lol. I was saying that you should imagine a story of an drug addict, and after he overcomes the addiction, he all of the sudden now can drug himself as much as he wants bc he now has the same drug exept it doesnt have the negatives. You can look at it this way: Symbiote=addiction Peter=the addicted Miles,mj ect= friends of the addicted Peter overcomes the symbiote with the help of his friends= the addicted overcomes his addiction with the help of his friends Anti Venom= ?? Also peter really wasnt doing anything to get anti venom he was sorta unconscious but yea
@@ziriyt989 I know you meant the figurative meaning of meth, I'm saying Anti Venom isn't a type of drug because, unlike the original venom symbiote, isn't addictive or forcibly used by Peter. It's more of a tool than anything
Honestly i think that giving Peter Anti-Venom powers permanently is one of the most genius and coolest upgrades ever, even more cooler is that they literally became part of himself, making this version of Spider-Man way more stronger than he already was.
To be fair, Anti-Venom wasn’t something Insomniac pulled out of their asses, it’s from the Comics and had more-or-less the same origin as the game. In the books it was Eddie Brock, but the whole “Mr. Negative powers + lingering symbiote cells inside DNA” is ripped straight from the source material.
To be fair, not everything in the comics is good. Anti-venom has always been a rather weird idea that I've never fully been able to get behind, and that's as a Venom fanboy.
AV is extremely strong in comics, and acts basically the same way. Near unkillable unless something very extreme happens, can’t be shared, can’t really be removed, and most importantly can heal which is very important assuming this becomes Pete’s “Thing” for the rest of the series which I hope it does. I think he still has it and personally I like that, Pete needs something to make him stand out in 3 especially if silk comes along and this is a really fun way to cap off the symbiote arc in a way that’s really never been done before. Pete always looses the symbiote and now we finally have a story where he keeps it. I get how in the context of the game this doesn’t feel right but for the character as a whole this is basically Independence Day for symbiote spidey/Antivenom fans (remember- AV keeps getting killed off in comics so it’s barely around). Personally I’m in the boat that Pete should keep this for the long run, it can get expanded upon in dlc and the third and it’s a nice thing to make him stand out in the wider spiderverse
Peter doesn't really need a 'thing' tbh. If Silk comes in, she's just another addition, Miles has bio-electricity, she can shot webs from her fingers, Peter is physically the strongest, fastest of them all, that's his thing. It doesn't have to be an illusion thing, or something visual and flashy like AV tendrils, or electricity to get him to be proven as a strong member of the team.
@@fernosbonos5394 They still follow a lot of key points from the comics in terms of abilities, and I would hope that they’ll flesh out Antivenom considering that they even admitted it largely came out of gameplay necessity rather than for story telling, it’s a good turnaround to make something they did kinda out of impulse into an actually important plot point going forward
@@ZXLRT In this game, I’d say yes. Cause he’s got the blandest abilities of all he’s using those ock arms and being the “Strongest” doesn’t matter cause you don’t feel that at all in gameplay because him and miles have largely the same moveset outside of the special moves. It’s a video game that has multiple characters, he needs it from the standpoint of making the games interesting to play and making characters not feel too samey. Also a Symbiote Spider-Man isn’t really a common thing, like yeah we’ve seen the Symbiote arc time and time again but it’s not the same as a Spidey who specializes in Symbiote powers or uses them as more than just a nice suit that makes him slightly strongest
@@xr9790they should have made him have let's say automatic dodging and parrying like 20 percent of the time to show his experience and have more HP and dmg if he should be strongest and most experienced
Insomniac respect the OG spider-man comics with Harry, the villains, JJJ, MJ, etc.... But I love that they take liberties in their universe using more of the 2000's Spider-man lore such as Miles, Anti-Venom or Silk. It's just some fresh air with nostalgia on top of it, I love it and I agree there is no need to reset to the "status quo", that's one of the reasons comics struggles sometimes, they keep things too classic and when they rebrand something they do it all new. Insomniac nailed the balance of the 2.
Y'know, I did have defenses ready for Peter keeping antivenom and why it works the way it does (by using the comics), but I didn't entirely disagree with your take. I'm still fine with it because I just think it makes this version of Peter more unique like Spider Gwen in the comics (if you didn't know, she's wearing symbiote too). Also where was it said that Peter is using Otto's tech for his arms? I just might've missed it. Edit: Regarding Peter's spider arms (thx again substitute zero), there isn't anything implying that Peter is using the intra-cranial nerual (can't believe I remember that) network like Otto did for his arms, so I think it does make sense that it wouldn't have drawbacks.
I find it nice how in the first game you had the Anti-Ock suit and in this one you get the Anti-Venom suit. It makes it almost feel like they always planned anti venom haha I see no problem with it cuz in the story atleast from what I could understand the symbiote was changing and manipulating peter and basically helping in all the wrong ways. The anti venom has no such influence and allows Peter to well be Peter! A true man of Great Power and Responsibility 💪 his conclusion of possibly retiring is ight too B) as long as he doesn't die!
Too add too the whole tech prob discussion , Peter might have used it but he prolly properly finished and even upgraded it , fixing the problem of the nuro brain stuff
From what I remember, the problem with the arms was that Otto over engineered the arms just before he attacked the raft. The arms were working in a functional level after the arm test that they juggled some balls. Anything after that point was work on the neural link which Otto ask you to check out a magazine where you tell him about a gallium inter-cranial link and told him you don’t think it is a good idea before Otto gets excited and dismisses Peter’s discomfort, using one anyway when he shows Peter the octopus arms. I believe Peter just scaled down the arms and just made a different less invasive link for the arms that is just in the suit and works well enough to maneuver the arms. (Since he is a genius)
Eh. As someone that always loved the thought of Peter having a permanent Symbiote that doesn't fuck him up mentally as well as it being the _anti-venom_ symbiote no less, I really got no complaints about this development. Frankly, I'm _HOPING_ Peter still has Anti-Venom next game and that it expands even moreso on it's abilities.
I don't think it's a problem and it narratively makes sense miles is the one to save him from the original evil symbiot and then miles and his actions made antivenom making Peter's legacy and his positive affect on miles make him stronger
I think he's going to use it during his work with the Emily May Foundation. I can totally see him giving Anti-Venom to the EMF where they can use it to cure all disease. I also think a possibility is that he ends up combining Carnage with Anti-Venom to defeat Carnage.
@@brockmxbgaming No, it’s not. If we were to follow the comics for this game, Venom would have died to fire. Peter would have taken Miles’ spider powers with Anti-Venom. The Prowler would have fought Peter. Should I go on? They skipped out so many details from the comics. The creative director for this game said he wanted to simplify the Symbiote concept. The video games are now separate from the comics, and there is nothing you can say that would change that
Did you forget that it's forever bonded to him? Connors states that he has some that permanently connects him to the symbiote hive Mind and Martin and Miles state that it has too much of a hold on him which then gets changed when it's converted and it completely bonds with him which means it's inseparable.
@@sackmmthis isn't comic adaption this is insomniacs own take on spiderman, that's why this Universe’s Kraven is much stronger than his comic counterpart.
I disagree. The reason: Anti-Venom looks sick af. I don't think it was a bad idea for Peter to have the arms. He simply found a way to improve his mentor's work. As for the Anti Venom suit... it's nice to be handed things? For real, he helped train Miles, and unintentionally taught him a thing or two about redeeming people. He needed to find the strength within him to remove the Black Suit in the first place. So, the suit imo seems like a indirect culmination of his actions, him simply being a role model for Miles. His training of Miles, him making Miles a better hero, it's all coming back to him.
Anti-Venom exists in the comics (it’s just Eddie instead of Peter) and is technically less powerful than his comic counterpart because comic AV could have literally just booped Harry & cured his disease, but other than lacking the healing ability it’s pretty much comic AV but with Peter instead of Brock
@@Kenny_Ken_Ken12 probably, but also I figure that would make the plot kind of fall apart if he could just tap Harry and cure him of his disease/wake him up from his coma
See, This video had me intrigued until the reasoning behind it was revealed which I disagree with Peter with Anti Venom is a natural progression for all characters related to the event, Peter’s growth in feeling helpless and wanting the power to sanction his lack of success, like his inability to handle Sandman like before, nearly forced to watch someone die despite all his best efforts and getting his ass kicked by Kraven as if he was a joke, which is why he put the Symbiote on, to feel more powerful, to be more effective, to be less a problem, more a solution, him taking it off after Miles snapped him out of painful mindset to then get slapped by Venom and almost turned back into a Symbiote, all while in the background he learns his own lesson in finding a balance between everything in his life, Miles and Li’s help in getting all the Symbiotic parts and his buried pain and his realization that balance requires time, effort and dedication, something Spider-Man as a job never gave him, until he finally uses the Anti Venom to gain the power he needs to no longer be a burden while simultaneously being a positive force to everyone around him is what Peter needed and his growth in his old dualism to balance between both sides. Li’s much needed development in granting positive and negative energy to anyone he chooses to work with, making up for his wrongdoings by helping Peter and Miles save the city, to not die as the revengeful man he once was, granting all his energy to Peter, freeing him from the power so it can be used in better hands, for Peter and Miles is excellent. Miles progressing from being a great Spider-Man AND a better Miles Morales by helping not Spider-Man, but Peter Parker, is something Miles needed to move on from the hatred he carried, the fear, the pain, reaffirming his belief in not only his enemies but himself, helping Li with freeing Peter. No narrative reason or balance with gameplay too? Don’t agree there
5:22 Wait, hold on, let him cook- the fun thing about Spider-Man 1 was Peter's overpowered gadget wheel. Miles practically had no gadgets in his spin-off but the electricity and invisibility meters were fun to use. Just take those separate mechanics, make them exclusive to each character... and port them into Spider-Man 2. Then WHEN Peter gets the symbiote, he loses the gadget wheel and gains the symbiote powers.
Be better if you could swap them out like you can with the arms. Losing those features would've been bullshit imo. Liked the selection feature better than SM1's gadget wheel anyways, would be an overall better feature
@amog8202 I'm glad they made the gadgets easier to use, but kind of miss gadgets being useful for stealth sections. I hope in the sequel we will get the best of both worlds. Gadgets that have have both in combat & out-of-combat uses but can be used with simple button press rather than selection wheel. Also having a whopping 8 abilities/gadgets + mega power trivialized some encounters.
@@JWonn I honestly didn't even notice your gadgets don't do much in the way of stealth, was honestly really occupied with the web lines. Do hope they fix that in the next game yeah
For me, I think the issue is that Miles is fundamentally just a better Spider-man. He has all the same powers as Peter, plus bioelectricity and cloaking. They COULD have used tech to help Peter stand out a bit more, were it not for the fact that this series thinks every teen is a super genius who can create advanced sci-fi tech and software from the comfort of their bedroom (Miles is out here making a “hack anything” app on his phone well before he even gets powers.) If they’re really going to bring in Silk, yeah, Peter needs his own gimmick to stand out.
Plus it would kind of be a dick move on Peter's part to not give certain tech to Miles just so he can "keep up" as it were. There's a reason that other than arms - which were prototypes - Miles and Pete use the same gadgets.
Personally I was fine with how the Anti-Venom suit was handled, all I really wish was different was that it wasn’t forced on you in the final mission cause as much as I like the suit, I would’ve much preferred fighting Venom in the Advanced Suit 2.0 along with Miles’ Classic or Upgraded suit, and I’m not hating on Miles’ Evolved suit, in fact I seem to be one of the few people that actually kinda likes it but I understand that it was bad timing since Miles just decides to make a new suit when New York is getting taken over by symbiotes, I really think they should’ve had that be a reward in one final side mission after the story like Peter’s final EMF mission that gets him the Life Story suit with the idea some other people out there have thought of where Hailey gives Miles the suit as something she made now that he’s flying solo
Honestly, for Miles suit all they would have to do is tell us that it was something he and Ganke made that works better for his upgraded bio-electricity and just have, say, an automatic skill unlock that makes the mega-blast charge faster or something. Then have a post game call from Ganke where he says he added the tech to his old suits now that they have the time with the crisis over.
I don't think he can get rid of it if he wanted to anyway, which I'm happy about and I hope Peter doesn't retire as Spider-Man since he's practically unkillable now.
I hope peter keeps the antivenom symbiote i hate that peter never gets something for himself let have something cool if miles can have 2 venom blast powers peter deserves something too
What? He has the spider arms and anti venom powers, and miles got two powers as well and they're accurate to his spider-powers what do you more expect for peter to have😭
I honestly think this version of Peter having permanent symbiote powers is a great way to differentiate this version of Spidey from others. Especially since it's a direct result of the growth and changes his character has made.
I've never come across your channel before, but, watching the video I noticed something, YOU HAVE THE APE ESCAPE ON THE LOOSE MUSIC FROM IN THE TIME STATION IN THE BACKGROUND AND I LOVE THAT
idk if you missed this in the first game but Martin Li does know who spider man is, in the mission where you are trying to uncover Martin Li's secret according to your suspicion's he exits the room is gets caught by Martin Li who says "Hello Peter, did you find what you were looking for?" in a menacing tone before they get interrupted by Aunt May signaling us that he knows or has some idea of Peter's Identity.
My main gripe with it is that narratively, Peter now owning Anti Venom just confirms that ultimately, he needed that power to actually keep up with Miles as Spider-Man. His arc in this game seems to be, at least in part, about the fear of not being enough of a hero to really save as many people as he wants to. While that's a good arc for him to have after everything that's happened in the first game, the fact that they actually did give him this power proves his fears right at the end. Not only that, but it's also absolutely unearned. Peter gets beat up, Miles and Lee attempt to help him, and manage to pull a hidden symbiote out of him and make it better. What this does ultimately is prove everyone right. Peter's strengths stop being his fortitude, fight spirit, experience and intelligence, and are now replaced with extra goo powers that just prove he was as weak as the cutscenes were suggesting prior to the black suit. Quick reminder that Peter used these strengths during the first game to actually defeat Otto, using his knowledge to create the anti ock suit, and his fight spirit to keep going regardless of how beat up he was and how many broken bones he had to deal with. The symbiote story usually represents the addiction for this devilish power that will consume the user. A drug too strong to give up. And now we're stuck with a version of Peter that gave the power up just to eventually lose yet again and be proven that he did need an external power to actually be useful. Pathetic ending for his arc.
I think the reason why Pete still has Anti-Venom is cuz we might get a DLC. Also Carnage will probably be the villain for the DLC & Pete's gonna need the symbiote to defeat Carnage.
There's 2 Ways they coulda made this feel better narratively and gameplay-wise: 1: Peter DOES lose the Symbiote narratively, but we can still use it in the open-world and for side-missions, only disabling it in main missions (This wouldn't happen in New Game Plus though, you'd be able to use the Symbiote abilities even in the main missions there). 2: If they made the story longer, so that when Peter does gain the Symbiote back, it doesn't feel like it invalidates him losing it in the first place.
not everything has to come up in the story, its a game based on the comic books. the anti-venom is created when the venom symbiote left inside him is charged by Mr. Negatives energy and is basically revived in Peter and bonds to his white blood cells. Unlike the black suit, the Anti-Venom symbiote has no mind of its own, it has all the upsides of a regular symbiotes, enhanced even and none of the downsides. The Anti-Venom symbiote is essentially a cure to symbiotes so thats why its stronger against the symbiotes.
I also don't get that he can do all of those cool abilities as Venom because the suit "knows what he wants to do", whereas for Anti-Venom he can still do those same ablities. Is it still conscious? Is he manually controlling the induvidual strands of it?
Sorry for the long typing… My “logical” explanation for it is that Anti venom is a non-symbiote goo that goes into the white blood cells instead of the mind and consciousness, so unlike normal symbiotes its pretty much permanent and can’t be detached or transferred to another host although another host can still get anti venom by having the symbiote on but Martin Li going in and removing the symbiotes negative effect on the host but Li may have lost his powers when doing it to Peter Maybe if anti venom has any weaknesses that I’m unaware of Insomniac can use that plot to get it off him when defeating Carnage if he shows up for an upcoming DLC
Give my boy Peter a break, have you seen his luck, like not even the avengers aka earth’s mightiest heroes help him, while they take a vaction, Peter and Miles are dealing with what looks like to be the apocalypse, like if they don’t thank them both in the next game i am going to flip the fuck out💀
i think they should tweak the design over time so it looks better, and make it a unique part of his character. it's honestly a good solution to be able to use the symbiote abilities post symbiote arc
But Anti-Venom was established in the comic years ago... tbh the only thing about it that caught me by surprise was the fact that Peter got it. I was completely prepared for Miles to get the Anti-Venom as soon as the story started to go back to Martin Li. If not before Across the Spiderverse, then after watching it and seeing that Sony's Spider-Man is officially it's own universe within the Spiderverse, I don't mind at all that a lot of things are different from OG Comic Books, like the omission of Eddie Brock, etc.
Let him keep it. Its cool. I'm tired of pete losing the black suit cause of how it makes him a bully. It's ridiculous how every other spider person has an upgrade over pete(the OG)
The thing with the arms is a weird point because its not like he just used his arms, he used the reasearch to make something similar, and in the first game peter was on his way to perfecting the arms, otto just didn’t give him the time. So it makes sense he could make a nerfed version of ottos arms, connect them to his suit instead of straight to his brain, and have it not affect him. Especially since otto had a mental disease that made him vulnerable when peter dosent
I too would have preferred that Peter just got abilities to show off his superior skill to Miles. Like yeah, Miles has experience now, but Peter still has about 9 years on him (assuming Miles started field training around a year after the first game). Give him some insanely flashy combo moves, or make him physically stronger and faster than Miles to balance with Miles's extra powers. Then they symbiote is a huge boost that lasts for a while then goes away permanently. My biggest gripe with the game is that in the final mission neither Peter nor Miles look like themselves. Peter is in an admittedly cool suit but it would be better if he was just him, and Miles looks like toothpaste with Adidas on
I’m predicting near the beginning of spider-man 3 which I I’m also betting will take place very shortly after the events of spider-man 2 or its DLC Peter will give Harry the anti-venom symboite to heal both his disease and his coma leading to the creation of agent anti-venom, Peter needing to have new mechanics to differentiate him and possibly a fourth playable character.
When Peter saw Harry was dying again after the defeat of Venom, he should have given the Anti Venom Symbiote to him. It would act as a good ending, a way for the symbiote to leave the story and be a mirror of when Harry gave Peter venom
Honestly to me the best way to handle this would have been for Peter and the remains of the symbiote in him to have a parallel arc to Miles and Li. Within peter, under all that baggage is the part of the suit that just genuinely wanted to heal and be together. Peter and that remains reach an understanding, mr negatives powers give them a boost, and the anti venom suit is more a side grade to peter that gives him a new super mode and is especially effective on symbiotes. Power scale closer to Gwen's symbiote rather the stuff we saw the black suit do here.
“Congratulations! As a reward for completing the story, you can now switch back to the symbiote suit and its powers if you wish to!” A disclaimer like this would have been enough for me, honestly. There was no need for a rushed Anti-Venom. Just make it clear that the story’s over and the post-game symbiote is non canon, it’s just a gameplay bonus. No big deal, really.
I am pretty sure his spider arms a programable matter from the previous game, cuz it has those small sparks that are now blue but for the Underground it was purple
I would have honestly loved to see a big form of anti venom vs Harry’s venom and just see 2 big dudes fight but either way the introduction of anti venom was important to end the story in a way that didn’t feel like oh yeah spider man just strong cuz emotional
To everyone complaining that Mr. Negative basically creates the anti venom symbiote in the comics and that this guy has never read comics he mentions this in the video so u very clearly didn’t watch the video. Secondly I agree that Peter getting the anti venom symbiote was sloppily thrown in right at the end for the sake of keeping the gameplay fun but at the cost of the story. Thirdly since the anti venom seems to be the same as it is in the comics then Peter should be able to cure Harry’s unknown illness as in the comics the anti venom symbiote can cure its host and others not just heal.
Think about it this way: Miles arc with Mr Negative gives him something to gain, by seeing his mentor get some power to defeat this army of symbiote. and, imagine if it was another ability doing something completely different. Would you still be complaining. And, I think that the anti venom suit is apart of his blood since he already got the symbiote so its not technically a venom symbiote.
Here’s some things i personally didn’t like about Spider-Man 2. Lmk if u agree 1. Miles’s blue electricity shouldn’t come from Martin Li. It makes perfect sense for his powers to be altered due to absorbing all that Nuform. That makes sense. But no they didn’t do that. 2. I don’t like how Peter’s arms just come out of nowhere. They had potential to have Peter go to the Raft and have a conversation between him and Doc Ock so Peter gets inspired to succeed where Doc Ock has failed. Also they coulda done a little thing where Peter gets a call from Miles and he’s like “Hey Miles what’s up?” and then he’s like “on my way” so that Doc Ock knows or at least guesses that Miles is the other Spider-Man. Cuz how would Doc Ock know Miles is Spider-Man when Norman asks him if he knows who they are. It makes sense. But back to the arms for a second. It would’ve been cool to see Peter unlock the arms in the story. Just like how he unlocks the white spider suit from Doc Ock’s influence. And as a bonus there’s a nice parallel between both games. Peter gets an upgrade from Doc’s influence. Same thing for the web wings. They should’ve been something that u unlock and not just pull out of ur ass like it’s nothing 3. I don’t like how Peter basically dies and then immediately gets the symbiote. Like why did they do that? It’s pretty obvious Peter wasn’t gonna die cuz he hasn’t gotten the symbiote yet. So that whole scene just felt off to me. Also anyone who’s seen the trailers would also know and be like “nah Peter won’t die cuz we only just now got the symbiote.” Idk man like i get it they r trying to tease Peter’s inevitable death cuz they did that in Miles Morales too. Like they r really teasing Peter’s death cuz he almost got killed by Sandman till miles saved him. 4. There should’ve been cameos from other heroes. Venom taking over Manhattan is definitely an Avengers level threat. Or at least have another hero show up to help. Like apparently there’s a Daredevil game that’s in the works. It woulda been cool to see a cameo from him. Nothing too big just something small and quick. Or maybe even a Wolverine cameo cuz his game is gonna be in the same universe as Peter so there ya go. Like they teased Doctor Strange and Wong but we didn’t even see them. That was lame as hell. Or maybe we coulda seen them in the later portion of the game fighting symbiotes or something idk. 5. They should’ve gave Peter a super ability with the iron arms. Like how for Miles u press both circle pads and he makes a huge shockwave. We coulda had a thing for Peter where if u equip the ability to be spider arms instead of symbiote powers, he’ll unleash his arms and u can fight with the arms out instead of them only appearing for a second when u use the simple abilities. Cuz in the first game when u pull out the arms u can actually use them in combat when ur punching and kicking or whatever but we only see the arms for a short amount of time when he uses his abilities when in reality if i had iron arms i’d use that shit for more than 3 seconds. Like god damn this game had potential and all that hype around nothing. Anyway i’m done. If u actually read all this 👏 👏. Thx for reading all i have to say
anti-venom is literally just a brainless symbiote with no downsides, no mood swings, nothing. its anti-venom, its the opposite of what a symbiote does, instead of taking over the body and taking it for a joy ride, corrupting the wearer slowly until they are nothing but a husk of their former selves, the anti-venom is controlled by peter, only peter, and it doesnt mess with the user. the venom symbiote controls peter. peter controls the anti-venom. you can't even really call it a symbiote anymore because its not a thinking living creature, its just an extention of the wearer. in the comics, from what i know i never read them, eddie brock gets the anti-venom symbiote and he is the sole user of it when it was still bonded to him, he sacrificed it to get rid of a massive virus outbreak. but he like peter in insomniac's story is the one controlling the symbiote, the only thing the symbiote does is detect illnesses and heal them. other symbiotes are typically seen as illnesses. though in the comics samples the anti-venom symbiote and the carnage symbiote are combined in an experiment by alchemax and becomes the misery symbiote, wich does seem to have a personality but its most likely because it combines the two polar opposite symbiotes together into one.
Well spider-Gwen in the comics is basically gwenom forever and it’s fine. She doesn’t goo it up the hole time and I feel Peter could just go down this route
I've never thought about the anti-venom powers after the game ended but now that you bring it up yeah does Peter have this new power forever will he have it in Spider-Man 3 , will he have it when he fights carnage in the DLC because if he does he'll be able to take out Carnage relatively easy
It almost didnt do shit against Venom. Carnage will probably be even worse. And still, 3 wont have Peter up until some point of the story that isnt the start, to bring Peter from his temporal retirement probs.
Because Anti Venom causes Peter to lose his powers in the comics, I'm hoping in Spider-Man 3 or DLC Peter will start getting weaker due to Anti Venom and will have to take it off and find a way to recover his powers
Honesty i think the Anti Venom Symbiote will sacrifice itself to kill Carnage in the (hopefully) inevitable DLC. The game sets up Carnage for DLC expansion so hard I'll be shocked and honestly a little disappointed if they choose to keep him back for Spiderman 3. Peter even makes a comment about how there are still Symbiotes in the city after main story meaning there is obviously still a very real threat that needs dealing with and so it makes sense to wrap up the Symbiote storyline in a DLC. Also it would make sense from a product standpoint too, Hammerhead was a pretty underwhelming DLC villain in the first game so having Carnage as the DLC villain for Spiderman 2 is much more likely to entice people to buy it.
Martin Li lost his powers. Doesn’t really do much for the narrative from an outside perspective, but Martin was becoming a hero. Mr. Positive, I guess.
i don’t see an issue with the anti venom symbiote. it levels peter and miles in the same ball park. and it’s still a symbiote , except it can heal anything, destroy other symbiotes easily , and it doesn’t have the negative side effects he had while in possession of venom. plus miles has new powers which were said to be more volitive, so it evens out the playing field
i dont think there are issues at all aside from further story not mentioning it pete gets a symbiote that doesnt mess with his mind and cant take over its literaly the venoms weakness it gives similar power boost as venom so for pete its just a win-win situation his break isnt physical , its mental , its letting himself and people around him breathe , take some time off from all the spiderman stuff for a while
What if in spider man 3 it’s revealed that the anti venom is rather killing him or curing him of his powers and by the end of spider man 3 he’s got no powers or he’ll lose it in dlc or something They just need to give it some sort of weakness or get rid of it
I feel like the the abilities Peter have pre & post symbiote time could’ve easily been changed to just be acrobatic movesets. L1+Square could’ve just been the web bomb to compare with his anti venom bomb later on in the game. L1+Triangle he could still have slingshotted himself towards an enemy just take out the stupid hurricane effect that would no doubt slice the enemies in half rather than just blow them back. L1+Circle is a simple taser web, have it be the same ability just have be from his web shooters. And L1+X could still have Peter pull & push a guy upwards & create a shockwave, just don’t have him lean on the arms. Looking at them now, the arms are more cosmetic than I thought. Most of those moves, Spidey could already do without the arms. Or at the very least have the option to toggle the arms off for the abilities so they don’t look out of place on the suits that don’t have arms in at all. Like NWH final swing suit.
i'm sorry you're completely ignoring that anti-venom is a comic thing and it's origin is the same in this game, he's been a popular character in the past just typically associated with eddie brock, but it really does fit peter
I'm sorry you're completely ignoring that I said verbatim: "I understand that this is similar to the comic book origin of anti-venom, so I don’t really blame Insomniac for going for it..."
@@GameDenColor then don't include the complaint lmao, the whole video ignores comic's because you're also treating it like a normal symbiote when it's not at all, idk if you can even classify it as a symbiote because it's never separated from a host n held its own form, or had its own consciousness, it's honestly closer to a vaccine, a small amount of the original disease altered and designed to kill the original disease, plus those symbiote powers just suit peter cuz we all associate him with the symbiote anyway, it reads as spider-man, there's a canon reason it doesn't go against the anti symbiote narrative, i don't understand what there is to be mad at
Then don't comment if you're wrong... The whole video is a critique of the adaptation of Anti-Venom in the Insomniac universe, and how I think it was underbaked and disappointing. If you don't agree, that's fine this is all my opinion. The video ignores the comics because the comics couldn't be more irrelevant. The comics context is an entirely different story and there should never be an expectation that a story needs submental reading material from a different medium about a totally different character. Should I hate how Doc Ock was handled in the first game because it wasn't comic-accurate? Comic accuracy means nothing when it's handled poorly. And I don't consider comic accuracy some gold standard because comics can be (and often are) bad.
I think in spiderman 3 they should do miles having the spiderman 2 ability system and Peter having the option of the more gadets like in the first game and in new game plus and after you beat the story you can use anti venom
10:29 wouldn't have been cool for at this moment instead to have the black suit return but "fractured"? So like part advance suit & part symbiote. With the urge to bond or join with venom. So for one; Peter would have the advance suit using symbiote powers with a rage ultimate ability *with only partial symbiote suit*. THEN in the endgame once Venom beats the heck out of Peter then Martian Li's powers combine with the symbiote due to Fear/Anger of losing Harry, MJ, Miles, the city to Venom. Thus making the anti-venom suit. 10:29 yeah seeing Peter lose control again here and the suit *flickering* or fade between on and off. Probably would work better. PLUS Imagine hearing Venom talk in Peters head again? "JOIN US!"
Well the good news is that the suit doesn’t seem to powerful anyway and is only really super effective against symbiotes. Despite combat moves being added the symbiote doesn’t feel any stronger which actually kinda pissed me off for story purposes but I get it. It’s hard to make things look worth it while not dogging on others
What I think works is that the Symbiote IS stronger in rage mode compared to Miles who just has a powerful AOE attack. The Rage mode is when Peter starts holding back less which is why the game has us enter that mode in two story missions where he's really pissed off. The Black Symbiote Rage Mode gives off an "out of control vibe" to it.
Dude the symbiote is so much stronger, you literally have an I win button that charges quickly enough to be used in almost every fight, not to mention how good the venom abilities are, just because the suit doesn't let you be in rage mode 24/7 doesn't mean it's not stronger.
It completely escaped my mind that he didn’t give th symbiote to harry at the end, I completely forgot he still had it on after the final battle, im sure the 3rd game will make some excuse about him losing the symbiote over time or some shit lol
Given that insomniac is open to a venom game if there’s demand for it I can imagine that Harry still has part of the venom symbiote and would have a storyline of Harry and the symbiote being the more lighthearted chocolate lover venom since now that the meteor is destroyed and how most of the symbiote was destroyed it might develop a different perspective or personality
I disagree. I LOVE the addition of Anti-Venom. He keeps his original powers, plus having a non-corrupting symbiote which gives him all the venom abilities, AND he can stay canonically a hero! Absolute 10/10!
I mean he can still actively choose how to use the Anti-Venom Symbiote thanks to Mr Negative, so like he can pack it away whenever he wants and now he has a more effective weapon against future symbiote enemies like Carnage (for all the good it'll do if Carnage has accurate comic book power scaling to Venom in this game, I don't think they'll go that route because he'd be fucking unstoppable, but still. Peter being Anti-Venom AND Spider-Man is fine. They're already kind of setting up the idea of him hanging up the webs with Miles capable enough to succeed him while he moves on to bigger projects like literally ending world hunger and shit.
Gonna be honest. This video is just extreme exaggerations and saying anti venom shouldn't have been added is probably one of the dumbest things I've heard about this game. It's introduction and the build up to getting it was really well done and getting to see miles and lee help peter overcome his guilt about losing may was heartwarming
Here is what I think he gives anti venom to Harry in the third game and also I agree that you should have had a more in depth mission with Peter earning the suit maybe he has to be the one to destroy that core or whatever but I think they should have said the suit was weaker than Venom but there is one thing I disagree with and it is because anti venom is immune to sound in the comics so that isn’t a stretch
When I first played the game, and Peter took the symbiote off, I was thinking, "Yes. All that power isn't worth it. This is so inspiring. He's giving it all up because his love for MJ and everyone else is stronger than his desire to feel unstoppable. He's going to have it much harder in life now, but he'll be fighting for the right reasons." And then my jaw dropped when they just gave him another symbiote, and MJ, who witnessed firsthand what the first one did to him, just went along with it unquestionably when he said he had another one. The whole story prior suddenly became worse, because it was no longer about how power corrupts, but about how there is always a way to get around that and have the power anyway.
Nobody gave him another Symbiote. Mr. Negative just purified the Symbiote which remained in him after he ripped it away. So that said, the Symbiote never left his body in any way.
I’m gonna be honest this really just sounds like a Well thought out and fully expand upon nitpick. For one, I actually totally believe Peter would potentially be able to take dark ox technology and improve upon it for his own use. In fact, that’s not really are you surprised to me considering in the first game, Peter’s character is set up and shown to be very and fully capable of doing such a thing, as well as he also showed major interested in potentially assisting Otto with making his technology safe for use, and in fact, it seemed like he very much wanted to would have, and could have done exactly that if not for Otto going on a rampage as doctor octopus. In fact, I would say it’s generally kind of just good writing to show us that as an example of parallel line, plot points, and scenarios to subtly bookend the game. if you really want to get married anything I’d say it’s the fact that from narrative perspective, it seems like it doesn’t make sense that you would be able to still play Peter after the game is completed based on how the story ended. I’d say that’s more of a gameplay convenience than the anti-venom suit.
8:09 - 8:25 I agree with a lot of what you're saying in this video, but the way you presented this makes it seem like you think Insomniac pulled the anti venom concept out of their ass, when that's EXACTLY what anti venom has been for 15 years now.
I'm hoping that we get more abilities in updates/dlc. Better arm powers and mabey even an ultimate arm power similar to how they worked in the first game. Also, venom needs his own story dlc / game
IMO they should have done a lot more to make the black suit feel stronger. Maybe recharge is half the time on abilities and you do a fraction more damage than usual which when he got anti venom could have made it normal speed that way you get the fun parts but it’s not as powerful and it’s not like the black suit in that way TLDR : making anti venom weaker since it’s only a little bit left of the original symbiote
But it's Martin Lees powers added in, in the comics its just a zap of Martin Lees powers to a cancer treatment Eddie Brock and he gets Antivenom which is all the power and more from a symbiote without it having any personality its just your white blood cells mixed with symbiote and Lee powers doesn't make much sense in the slightest but Insomniacs not only has more stakes pays off narrative wise it has all of Lees power which he loses for putting into Pete.
Really all the black suit amounts to is a different slightly better set of special moves and the rage meter. It's decent but you certainly don't feel like symbiote Spider-Man should. For example, I was fighting Yuri with the black suit the other day and she brought me from full health to dead in 3 fucking hits. That shit would never fly in any other symbiote storyline. I feel like they should have made you more powerful in a number of ways, especially in the health department.
5:04 Finally someone accepts this. I swear people debated soo much that Peter is stronger than miles that they would not accept peter needs the symbiote suit to keep up with miles, at least in game
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Have you ever read a Spider-Man comic before?
@@mjareacts2731 lol
@@mjareacts2731 a what..? I'm not following. Like a stand-up comic?
I mean, you know that’s just what Anti-Venom IS right? A reanimated symbiote created by Mr. Negative touching Eddie Brock which made it attack his cancer cells and cure him while not having a mind of it’s own?
@quintenperkins3278 yeah this vid is bad
The problem lies in the fact that Peter can NEVER separate himself from the Anti-Venom. If I remember rightly, it’s bonded to his white blood cells.
Is that the case for this specific or is that just a anti venom thing in general?
@@maxwelltaylor9063this specific case
@@odd-devno its an antivenom thing
@@StreakComics Miles has his bioelectricity powers.
@@StreakComics L take
Personally I think the Anti-Venom suit is a great resolution.
Not every difficult choice a hero has to make should be a net neutral at best. Sometimes it’s nice to see a character make a choice that seemingly weakens them come back to help them in the end.
Anti Venom is the culmination of all of Peters actions as Spider-Man. From giving second chances, to teaching miles, and of course leaving the Symbiote behind, and even that needed the other two to even happen.
Let this Spider-Man be his own Spider-Man. OP Anti Venom powers and all. Getting rid of it would completely invalidate this entire game from a gameplay perspective. He got the arms from Ock, he gets the Symbiote from Venom. A key aspect of this Peter his him learning and becoming stronger as a direct result of his villains.
I agree
Same
I agree. Also, from a gameplay perspective, he needs something to separate him from miles, and the arms just aren't enough. I prefer this peter as a character over this miles, his voice, his jokes, his style. But before he gets the symbiote, i much prefer playing as miles because he's just more fun. Once pete gets the symbiote, though, he's much more fun to play as than miles imo
Agreed! Some people would argue having Peter keep the the Anti-Venom suit and powers it would make him OP. But really, it wouldn’t make sense to have him get rid of it because this suit helps distinguish himself from Miles a lot more and makes more of his protégé’ sequel in terms of power and abilities.
Plus it would also be a waste to not use these abilities again in the future games as many people, (myself included) believe these are the BEST ones to use in the game.
P.S I don’t think Insomniac would just forget about the Anti-Venom suit or it’s powers anyway, because they care about consistency and always delivering the best to they’re fans whenever they can.
Well said
I don’t think the anti-venom symbiote should be destroyed. It’ll do a lot of backtracking.
give to Harry pls Insomnia
@@webwalkerz2048 Hell no, i want to be able to play with anti-venom, and peter can't pass the symbiote to anyone, because it's already on his blood cells
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@@tihbloxyt2039probably just put it till spider-man 3 and then kill Peter off in later games
@@SwirlKillerstop asking for peter to be killed
@@yourefatmom6159 sorry but that’s my opinion, not yours
"Forced & sloppy justification for new symbiote powers" --
My brother in spandex tights, Mister Negative was the one who enabled Brock's Anti-Venom powers to begin with in its first appearance in the comics.
We saw both the symbiote & Mister Negative make an appearance in the first game in 2018.
That is neither forced nor sloppy, that is five whole years' worth of foreshadowing.
As far as the mechanical spider arms not being as strong as the symbiote or the bio-electricity goes, have you considered that you just didn't give them as much of a chance? Especially since you confessed that you immediately dumped all your points into symbiote skills and didn't touch the mechanical arms side of the skill tree?
For example, I greatly prefer Spider Rush over Symbiote Strike. Both abilities have Peter dash forward & scoop enemies up, and both web enemies to the wall instantly downing them if the move gets them close enough, however, at the end of each move, Symbiote Strike pops enemies up into the air vertically, while Spider Rush flings enemies incredibly far forwards, making it wildly more effective at instantly incapacitating enemies.
And this whole mentality about "returning to the status quo" you keep going on about?
That kind of thinking is what drove the current comics into the terrible spot they're in today.
also does this dude not like having fun 😭
Finally someone said something I was watching this and wondering if this guy ever read comics💀
True, comic-book fans need something new and unique to make them more fun and fresh again, I would much personally prefer new and better stories, but this is a second best thing.
Was scrunching my face this whole video because wtf is this guy talking about 😂😂 I like criticism on things I like n if they actually make sense I’d give it to them, but dude seems to be doing a lot of yapping just for views, shit he got my view lol
Bryan Intihar said they made it up on the very spot. So this was NOT a setup or "foreshadow" in the first game
I see the Anti Venom suit as the culmination of Peter’s journey. The Venom symbiote brought all of Peter’s trauma that he was trying to hide to the surface. He wasn’t properly healing and it was only with the help of Peter’s support system that he was able to finally start healing himself before he could heal his friend. It also symbolizes that after the pain Peter went through he won’t have to go through that again.
P.S. The idea of more creative web attacks would be cool but it’s pretty clear they’re saving that for Silk. Peter keeping Anti Venom from a gameplay perspective helps distinguish him and it doesn’t take away the pain he had to go through to get to this point.
I see it more as a culmination and a reward of Mies learning to let go of his hate for Mr. Negative, but that works equally well
@@bitnn4703 It can be a bit of both.
Honestly i wish in the next spiderman peter can do web attacks similar to web of shadows or shattered dimension not to the same extent as silk due to her having organic webs and he doesn't but strong enough to stagger physically stronger foess
@@spider-man5544 I would like that too, that part in the Sand Man boss where Miles rips piece of debris out of Marco’s face and hits him with it is something I’d like to see more of in the base move sets.
If we're being honest, I hope they keep Cindy Moon as a side character not a Spider-Person, since 3 of them in one game is too much to be honest, and they barely fit a 2 Spider-Man story in this game
My main gripe is that we don't really get to hear Peter's thoughts about the Anti-Venom suit. Maybe if the end of the game was longer, we could've have gotten that.... 🤔
He said that it felt amazing and he described what it was like to have it. What more did you want him to say?
dlc maybe we can get more
He literally calls MJ and states that it has all of the regular symbiote benefits, minus the voices, minus the influence that Venom had on him.
Listen to ur remote when in black suit vs white suit one has voices that u jus cant hear but the other suit has 0 voices becuz anti venom does not have a “hive mind”
@@The-No-onethis is what bugged me. That in that call both of them didn't question it at all, or had at least suspious that a symbiote is on him again, after both had the pleasure to wear it
I actually like the arms, but agree that the symbiote was better to use.
Yeah, I was gonna say the arms are cool as hell. In some ways, even cooler than the symbiote. Don’t get me wrong, the symbiote was definitely the star of this entry, but using the arms with the comic Iron Spider suit and the Superior suit was just so satisfying!
there was so much they could have done with the arms too, and it was so annoying how they felt the need to have either all of them come out or none of them come out, like the backflip kick peter does, they could have countered his momentum by crawling towards peter's target during the flip allowing peter to remain on the offensive, restrained people to keep them rom hurting him, grabbed people's guns, crawled for him while he's fighting on walls and ceilings, employing exactly the amount of arms that are needed for a given task, showing peter's experience enabling advanced improvisation and multitasking, how did no way home of all things do the arms more justice than this entire game?
The fact Peter has a anti venom symbiote forever is amazing he overcame the original black suit and venom and is able to make anti venom part the best parts of the symbiote but he is in total control that alone makes this story ark amazing to me the fact he can keep the power of the black suit but not have to worry about loosing himself that is a finished story the explanation is just obvious we don’t need them to tell us the details we just use common sense
The reason why the black suit storyline works well is because it reflects real life addiction. Peter starts to become addicted to the black suit because it makes him feel stronger and better, and he feels like hes nothing without it. But the suit is making him angrier and more aggressive to his friends and family. When peter removes the black suit its such a powerfull moment because it symbolises overcoming addiction, but when you add anti venom it doesnt work because it removes the real life side of it, its the same as giving an ex meth addict this "new" meth that has all the positives and no negatives, its lazy writing and it undermines the conclusion of the black suit.
fr tho
@@ziriyt989Except that anti venom isn't a "meth" and it wasn't given to Peter, he had to fight for it and learn how to forgive himself, thus making the best of his mistakes
@@geminiandromeda8082 i didnt mean literal meth lol. I was saying that you should imagine a story of an drug addict, and after he overcomes the addiction, he all of the sudden now can drug himself as much as he wants bc he now has the same drug exept it doesnt have the negatives. You can look at it this way:
Symbiote=addiction
Peter=the addicted
Miles,mj ect= friends of the addicted
Peter overcomes the symbiote with the help of his friends= the addicted overcomes his addiction with the help of his friends
Anti Venom= ??
Also peter really wasnt doing anything to get anti venom he was sorta unconscious but yea
@@ziriyt989 I know you meant the figurative meaning of meth, I'm saying Anti Venom isn't a type of drug because, unlike the original venom symbiote, isn't addictive or forcibly used by Peter. It's more of a tool than anything
Honestly i think that giving Peter Anti-Venom powers permanently is one of the most genius and coolest upgrades ever, even more cooler is that they literally became part of himself, making this version of Spider-Man way more stronger than he already was.
So this spider-man depiction could be the strongest in all media?
@@c0ya1definitely not lmao
@@c0ya1that goes to Lego Spidey
To be fair, Anti-Venom wasn’t something Insomniac pulled out of their asses, it’s from the Comics and had more-or-less the same origin as the game. In the books it was Eddie Brock, but the whole “Mr. Negative powers + lingering symbiote cells inside DNA” is ripped straight from the source material.
So?
To be fair, not everything in the comics is good. Anti-venom has always been a rather weird idea that I've never fully been able to get behind, and that's as a Venom fanboy.
@@Ultimodestructicoif they didn’t the same amount of people would be mad so there’s no winning
@@Forsakenruler if they didn’t what?
@@Ultimodestructico The symbiote makes the game more fun why would they remove it just so the story could be a little better
AV is extremely strong in comics, and acts basically the same way. Near unkillable unless something very extreme happens, can’t be shared, can’t really be removed, and most importantly can heal which is very important assuming this becomes Pete’s “Thing” for the rest of the series which I hope it does. I think he still has it and personally I like that, Pete needs something to make him stand out in 3 especially if silk comes along and this is a really fun way to cap off the symbiote arc in a way that’s really never been done before. Pete always looses the symbiote and now we finally have a story where he keeps it. I get how in the context of the game this doesn’t feel right but for the character as a whole this is basically Independence Day for symbiote spidey/Antivenom fans (remember- AV keeps getting killed off in comics so it’s barely around).
Personally I’m in the boat that Pete should keep this for the long run, it can get expanded upon in dlc and the third and it’s a nice thing to make him stand out in the wider spiderverse
but this is not main marvel comics, insomnaic will do their own thing.
Peter doesn't really need a 'thing' tbh. If Silk comes in, she's just another addition, Miles has bio-electricity, she can shot webs from her fingers, Peter is physically the strongest, fastest of them all, that's his thing. It doesn't have to be an illusion thing, or something visual and flashy like AV tendrils, or electricity to get him to be proven as a strong member of the team.
@@fernosbonos5394 They still follow a lot of key points from the comics in terms of abilities, and I would hope that they’ll flesh out Antivenom considering that they even admitted it largely came out of gameplay necessity rather than for story telling, it’s a good turnaround to make something they did kinda out of impulse into an actually important plot point going forward
@@ZXLRT In this game, I’d say yes. Cause he’s got the blandest abilities of all he’s using those ock arms and being the “Strongest” doesn’t matter cause you don’t feel that at all in gameplay because him and miles have largely the same moveset outside of the special moves.
It’s a video game that has multiple characters, he needs it from the standpoint of making the games interesting to play and making characters not feel too samey. Also a Symbiote Spider-Man isn’t really a common thing, like yeah we’ve seen the Symbiote arc time and time again but it’s not the same as a Spidey who specializes in Symbiote powers or uses them as more than just a nice suit that makes him slightly strongest
@@xr9790they should have made him have let's say automatic dodging and parrying like 20 percent of the time to show his experience and have more HP and dmg if he should be strongest and most experienced
11:24 but Lee knew both Peter and May in the first game, where May was a close friend with Lee, and later Lee discovered Peter’s identity.
Not every Spider-Man story needs to return to the status quo. Let Peter get his power-up, it's awesome.
Insomniac respect the OG spider-man comics with Harry, the villains, JJJ, MJ, etc.... But I love that they take liberties in their universe using more of the 2000's Spider-man lore such as Miles, Anti-Venom or Silk. It's just some fresh air with nostalgia on top of it, I love it and I agree there is no need to reset to the "status quo", that's one of the reasons comics struggles sometimes, they keep things too classic and when they rebrand something they do it all new. Insomniac nailed the balance of the 2.
Y'know, I did have defenses ready for Peter keeping antivenom and why it works the way it does (by using the comics), but I didn't entirely disagree with your take. I'm still fine with it because I just think it makes this version of Peter more unique like Spider Gwen in the comics (if you didn't know, she's wearing symbiote too).
Also where was it said that Peter is using Otto's tech for his arms? I just might've missed it.
Edit: Regarding Peter's spider arms (thx again substitute zero), there isn't anything implying that Peter is using the intra-cranial nerual (can't believe I remember that) network like Otto did for his arms, so I think it does make sense that it wouldn't have drawbacks.
opening mission Peter says he salvaged the remaining tech from the old lab to build the arms
@@Substitute_Zero Ok thank you.
I find it nice how in the first game you had the Anti-Ock suit and in this one you get the Anti-Venom suit. It makes it almost feel like they always planned anti venom haha I see no problem with it cuz in the story atleast from what I could understand the symbiote was changing and manipulating peter and basically helping in all the wrong ways. The anti venom has no such influence and allows Peter to well be Peter! A true man of Great Power and Responsibility 💪 his conclusion of possibly retiring is ight too B) as long as he doesn't die!
Too add too the whole tech prob discussion , Peter might have used it but he prolly properly finished and even upgraded it , fixing the problem of the nuro brain stuff
From what I remember, the problem with the arms was that Otto over engineered the arms just before he attacked the raft. The arms were working in a functional level after the arm test that they juggled some balls. Anything after that point was work on the neural link which Otto ask you to check out a magazine where you tell him about a gallium inter-cranial link and told him you don’t think it is a good idea before Otto gets excited and dismisses Peter’s discomfort, using one anyway when he shows Peter the octopus arms. I believe Peter just scaled down the arms and just made a different less invasive link for the arms that is just in the suit and works well enough to maneuver the arms. (Since he is a genius)
Didn’t the first game imply the Li knew/figured it out? Why else would Li have the corrupted homeless people jump Peter?
Eh. As someone that always loved the thought of Peter having a permanent Symbiote that doesn't fuck him up mentally as well as it being the _anti-venom_ symbiote no less, I really got no complaints about this development. Frankly, I'm _HOPING_ Peter still has Anti-Venom next game and that it expands even moreso on it's abilities.
I don't think it's a problem and it narratively makes sense miles is the one to save him from the original evil symbiot and then miles and his actions made antivenom making
Peter's legacy and his positive affect on miles make him stronger
I think he's going to use it during his work with the Emily May Foundation. I can totally see him giving Anti-Venom to the EMF where they can use it to cure all disease. I also think a possibility is that he ends up combining Carnage with Anti-Venom to defeat Carnage.
He can't just give it to someone
he you seem to forget its bonded with his whit blood cells he cant get rid of is
@@brockmxbgaming No, it’s not. If we were to follow the comics for this game, Venom would have died to fire. Peter would have taken Miles’ spider powers with Anti-Venom. The Prowler would have fought Peter. Should I go on? They skipped out so many details from the comics.
The creative director for this game said he wanted to simplify the Symbiote concept. The video games are now separate from the comics, and there is nothing you can say that would change that
Did you forget that it's forever bonded to him? Connors states that he has some that permanently connects him to the symbiote hive Mind and Martin and Miles state that it has too much of a hold on him which then gets changed when it's converted and it completely bonds with him which means it's inseparable.
@@sackmmthis isn't comic adaption this is insomniacs own take on spiderman, that's why this Universe’s Kraven is much stronger than his comic counterpart.
I disagree. The reason: Anti-Venom looks sick af.
I don't think it was a bad idea for Peter to have the arms. He simply found a way to improve his mentor's work.
As for the Anti Venom suit... it's nice to be handed things? For real, he helped train Miles, and unintentionally taught him a thing or two about redeeming people. He needed to find the strength within him to remove the Black Suit in the first place. So, the suit imo seems like a indirect culmination of his actions, him simply being a role model for Miles. His training of Miles, him making Miles a better hero, it's all coming back to him.
Anti-Venom exists in the comics (it’s just Eddie instead of Peter) and is technically less powerful than his comic counterpart because comic AV could have literally just booped Harry & cured his disease, but other than lacking the healing ability it’s pretty much comic AV but with Peter instead of Brock
They most likely took out the healing part since Peter has radiation in his body and it would cure him of his powers
I think the reason that peter had so much trouble could be due to venom using the meteorite which amplifies his powers
@@jheenyt989 most likely
@@Kenny_Ken_Ken12 probably, but also I figure that would make the plot kind of fall apart if he could just tap Harry and cure him of his disease/wake him up from his coma
Currently Flash Thompson is Agent Anti-Venom.
He'll probably give the Anti-Venom symbiote to Eddie for the Venom spin-off.
Anti-venom makes sense story wise and it exists because it sticks to his blood cells and it exists cause of Li’s power
See, This video had me intrigued until the reasoning behind it was revealed which I disagree with
Peter with Anti Venom is a natural progression for all characters related to the event, Peter’s growth in feeling helpless and wanting the power to sanction his lack of success, like his inability to handle Sandman like before, nearly forced to watch someone die despite all his best efforts and getting his ass kicked by Kraven as if he was a joke, which is why he put the Symbiote on, to feel more powerful, to be more effective, to be less a problem, more a solution, him taking it off after Miles snapped him out of painful mindset to then get slapped by Venom and almost turned back into a Symbiote, all while in the background he learns his own lesson in finding a balance between everything in his life, Miles and Li’s help in getting all the Symbiotic parts and his buried pain and his realization that balance requires time, effort and dedication, something Spider-Man as a job never gave him, until he finally uses the Anti Venom to gain the power he needs to no longer be a burden while simultaneously being a positive force to everyone around him is what Peter needed and his growth in his old dualism to balance between both sides. Li’s much needed development in granting positive and negative energy to anyone he chooses to work with, making up for his wrongdoings by helping Peter and Miles save the city, to not die as the revengeful man he once was, granting all his energy to Peter, freeing him from the power so it can be used in better hands, for Peter and Miles is excellent. Miles progressing from being a great Spider-Man AND a better Miles Morales by helping not Spider-Man, but Peter Parker, is something Miles needed to move on from the hatred he carried, the fear, the pain, reaffirming his belief in not only his enemies but himself, helping Li with freeing Peter.
No narrative reason or balance with gameplay too? Don’t agree there
Beautiful said.
5:22 Wait, hold on, let him cook- the fun thing about Spider-Man 1 was Peter's overpowered gadget wheel. Miles practically had no gadgets in his spin-off but the electricity and invisibility meters were fun to use. Just take those separate mechanics, make them exclusive to each character... and port them into Spider-Man 2. Then WHEN Peter gets the symbiote, he loses the gadget wheel and gains the symbiote powers.
Be better if you could swap them out like you can with the arms. Losing those features would've been bullshit imo.
Liked the selection feature better than SM1's gadget wheel anyways, would be an overall better feature
@amog8202 I'm glad they made the gadgets easier to use, but kind of miss gadgets being useful for stealth sections.
I hope in the sequel we will get the best of both worlds. Gadgets that have have both in combat & out-of-combat uses but can be used with simple button press rather than selection wheel.
Also having a whopping 8 abilities/gadgets + mega power trivialized some encounters.
@@JWonn I honestly didn't even notice your gadgets don't do much in the way of stealth, was honestly really occupied with the web lines. Do hope they fix that in the next game yeah
For me, I think the issue is that Miles is fundamentally just a better Spider-man. He has all the same powers as Peter, plus bioelectricity and cloaking. They COULD have used tech to help Peter stand out a bit more, were it not for the fact that this series thinks every teen is a super genius who can create advanced sci-fi tech and software from the comfort of their bedroom (Miles is out here making a “hack anything” app on his phone well before he even gets powers.) If they’re really going to bring in Silk, yeah, Peter needs his own gimmick to stand out.
Plus it would kind of be a dick move on Peter's part to not give certain tech to Miles just so he can "keep up" as it were. There's a reason that other than arms - which were prototypes - Miles and Pete use the same gadgets.
Personally I was fine with how the Anti-Venom suit was handled, all I really wish was different was that it wasn’t forced on you in the final mission cause as much as I like the suit, I would’ve much preferred fighting Venom in the Advanced Suit 2.0 along with Miles’ Classic or Upgraded suit, and I’m not hating on Miles’ Evolved suit, in fact I seem to be one of the few people that actually kinda likes it but I understand that it was bad timing since Miles just decides to make a new suit when New York is getting taken over by symbiotes, I really think they should’ve had that be a reward in one final side mission after the story like Peter’s final EMF mission that gets him the Life Story suit with the idea some other people out there have thought of where Hailey gives Miles the suit as something she made now that he’s flying solo
Honestly, for Miles suit all they would have to do is tell us that it was something he and Ganke made that works better for his upgraded bio-electricity and just have, say, an automatic skill unlock that makes the mega-blast charge faster or something. Then have a post game call from Ganke where he says he added the tech to his old suits now that they have the time with the crisis over.
No I believe peter should keep the anti-venom symbiote and should never lose it
Agreed, let him have a power up and keep it for once!
@@lonestarwolfentertainment7184 Yeah also just incase anymore symbiote enimes show up it be useful
I don't think he can get rid of it if he wanted to anyway, which I'm happy about and I hope Peter doesn't retire as Spider-Man since he's practically unkillable now.
Yeah this mf just dumb
@@The-No-oneHe can't because it's bonded to his white blood cells so if it were to be removed it would kill him
There's literally nothing wrong with Peter having the anti venom suit miles is literally broken why can't Peter have an edge as well???
Because Spider-Man’s “fans” hate change almost as much as his writers do, yet at the same time they still want him to marry MJ and have a kid.
@@lonestarwolfentertainment7184that is what I'm slowly realizing. It's really sad to see such a negative mindset.
I hope peter keeps the antivenom symbiote i hate that peter never gets something for himself let have something cool if miles can have 2 venom blast powers peter deserves something too
I agree
What? He has the spider arms and anti venom powers, and miles got two powers as well and they're accurate to his spider-powers what do you more expect for peter to have😭
@@bower.e He didn't say he wanted more, he said he wanted Peter to keep anti venom
@kurosaki987 why would Peter not have the anti venom next game, its literally apart of him now story wise😭
@@bower.ethe dumass who made this video doesn't want Peter to have the suit.
I honestly think this version of Peter having permanent symbiote powers is a great way to differentiate this version of Spidey from others. Especially since it's a direct result of the growth and changes his character has made.
I've never come across your channel before, but, watching the video I noticed something, YOU HAVE THE APE ESCAPE ON THE LOOSE MUSIC FROM IN THE TIME STATION IN THE BACKGROUND AND I LOVE THAT
Knowing Insomniac, they'll probably explain getting rid of Anti-Venom by having Peter use the last of its remnants to kill the Carnage symbiote.
Its in his blood. Y'know the blood that makes thousands of itself in an hour. I doubt Carnage would be able to destroy the anti venom.
I see no issue having a permanent Symbiote. It’s basically what I always wanted from a Spider-Man
idk if you missed this in the first game but Martin Li does know who spider man is, in the mission where you are trying to uncover Martin Li's secret according to your suspicion's he exits the room is gets caught by Martin Li who says "Hello Peter, did you find what you were looking for?" in a menacing tone before they get interrupted by Aunt May signaling us that he knows or has some idea of Peter's Identity.
My main gripe with it is that narratively, Peter now owning Anti Venom just confirms that ultimately, he needed that power to actually keep up with Miles as Spider-Man.
His arc in this game seems to be, at least in part, about the fear of not being enough of a hero to really save as many people as he wants to. While that's a good arc for him to have after everything that's happened in the first game, the fact that they actually did give him this power proves his fears right at the end. Not only that, but it's also absolutely unearned. Peter gets beat up, Miles and Lee attempt to help him, and manage to pull a hidden symbiote out of him and make it better.
What this does ultimately is prove everyone right. Peter's strengths stop being his fortitude, fight spirit, experience and intelligence, and are now replaced with extra goo powers that just prove he was as weak as the cutscenes were suggesting prior to the black suit. Quick reminder that Peter used these strengths during the first game to actually defeat Otto, using his knowledge to create the anti ock suit, and his fight spirit to keep going regardless of how beat up he was and how many broken bones he had to deal with.
The symbiote story usually represents the addiction for this devilish power that will consume the user. A drug too strong to give up. And now we're stuck with a version of Peter that gave the power up just to eventually lose yet again and be proven that he did need an external power to actually be useful. Pathetic ending for his arc.
I think the reason why Pete still has Anti-Venom is cuz we might get a DLC. Also Carnage will probably be the villain for the DLC & Pete's gonna need the symbiote to defeat Carnage.
There's 2 Ways they coulda made this feel better narratively and gameplay-wise:
1: Peter DOES lose the Symbiote narratively, but we can still use it in the open-world and for side-missions, only disabling it in main missions (This wouldn't happen in New Game Plus though, you'd be able to use the Symbiote abilities even in the main missions there).
2: If they made the story longer, so that when Peter does gain the Symbiote back, it doesn't feel like it invalidates him losing it in the first place.
not everything has to come up in the story, its a game based on the comic books. the anti-venom is created when the venom symbiote left inside him is charged by Mr. Negatives energy and is basically revived in Peter and bonds to his white blood cells. Unlike the black suit, the Anti-Venom symbiote has no mind of its own, it has all the upsides of a regular symbiotes, enhanced even and none of the downsides. The Anti-Venom symbiote is essentially a cure to symbiotes so thats why its stronger against the symbiotes.
I just realized Li gave Miles AND Peter a whole moveset.. didn’t expect him to have such a huge role in the story
I also don't get that he can do all of those cool abilities as Venom because the suit "knows what he wants to do", whereas for Anti-Venom he can still do those same ablities. Is it still conscious? Is he manually controlling the induvidual strands of it?
Sorry for the long typing…
My “logical” explanation for it is that Anti venom is a non-symbiote goo that goes into the white blood cells instead of the mind and consciousness, so unlike normal symbiotes its pretty much permanent and can’t be detached or transferred to another host
although another host can still get anti venom by having the symbiote on but Martin Li going in and removing the symbiotes negative effect on the host but Li may have lost his powers when doing it to Peter
Maybe if anti venom has any weaknesses that I’m unaware of Insomniac can use that plot to get it off him when defeating Carnage if he shows up for an upcoming DLC
Give my boy Peter a break, have you seen his luck, like not even the avengers aka earth’s mightiest heroes help him, while they take a vaction, Peter and Miles are dealing with what looks like to be the apocalypse, like if they don’t thank them both in the next game i am going to flip the fuck out💀
They need to at least send bruh a thank you letter in the next game
i think they should tweak the design over time so it looks better, and make it a unique part of his character. it's honestly a good solution to be able to use the symbiote abilities post symbiote arc
But Anti-Venom was established in the comic years ago... tbh the only thing about it that caught me by surprise was the fact that Peter got it. I was completely prepared for Miles to get the Anti-Venom as soon as the story started to go back to Martin Li.
If not before Across the Spiderverse, then after watching it and seeing that Sony's Spider-Man is officially it's own universe within the Spiderverse, I don't mind at all that a lot of things are different from OG Comic Books, like the omission of Eddie Brock, etc.
title: "So... does Peter have a *SPOILER* forever? Proceeds to show anti-venom in the thumbnail.
Let him keep it. Its cool. I'm tired of pete losing the black suit cause of how it makes him a bully. It's ridiculous how every other spider person has an upgrade over pete(the OG)
The thing with the arms is a weird point because its not like he just used his arms, he used the reasearch to make something similar, and in the first game peter was on his way to perfecting the arms, otto just didn’t give him the time. So it makes sense he could make a nerfed version of ottos arms, connect them to his suit instead of straight to his brain, and have it not affect him. Especially since otto had a mental disease that made him vulnerable when peter dosent
I too would have preferred that Peter just got abilities to show off his superior skill to Miles. Like yeah, Miles has experience now, but Peter still has about 9 years on him (assuming Miles started field training around a year after the first game). Give him some insanely flashy combo moves, or make him physically stronger and faster than Miles to balance with Miles's extra powers. Then they symbiote is a huge boost that lasts for a while then goes away permanently. My biggest gripe with the game is that in the final mission neither Peter nor Miles look like themselves. Peter is in an admittedly cool suit but it would be better if he was just him, and Miles looks like toothpaste with Adidas on
I’m predicting near the beginning of spider-man 3 which I I’m also betting will take place very shortly after the events of spider-man 2 or its DLC Peter will give Harry the anti-venom symboite to heal both his disease and his coma leading to the creation of agent anti-venom, Peter needing to have new mechanics to differentiate him and possibly a fourth playable character.
The anti venom suit is not alive. So it is not weak to sonics
When Peter saw Harry was dying again after the defeat of Venom, he should have given the Anti Venom Symbiote to him. It would act as a good ending, a way for the symbiote to leave the story and be a mirror of when Harry gave Peter venom
Short answer to the video: Yes, Peter will have/keep the symbiote.
Honestly to me the best way to handle this would have been for Peter and the remains of the symbiote in him to have a parallel arc to Miles and Li. Within peter, under all that baggage is the part of the suit that just genuinely wanted to heal and be together. Peter and that remains reach an understanding, mr negatives powers give them a boost, and the anti venom suit is more a side grade to peter that gives him a new super mode and is especially effective on symbiotes. Power scale closer to Gwen's symbiote rather the stuff we saw the black suit do here.
I think he is keeping it thats why they said miles was the new main spiderman, cause Peter is anti venom now
I like that.
“Congratulations! As a reward for completing the story, you can now switch back to the symbiote suit and its powers if you wish to!”
A disclaimer like this would have been enough for me, honestly. There was no need for a rushed Anti-Venom. Just make it clear that the story’s over and the post-game symbiote is non canon, it’s just a gameplay bonus. No big deal, really.
I am pretty sure his spider arms a programable matter from the previous game, cuz it has those small sparks that are now blue but for the Underground it was purple
No he says in the start of the game he used ottos old research
If this was the case there’s no reason for miles not to have them too
@@sortacoolmaybe maybe he didn’t need them?
I would have honestly loved to see a big form of anti venom vs Harry’s venom and just see 2 big dudes fight but either way the introduction of anti venom was important to end the story in a way that didn’t feel like oh yeah spider man just strong cuz emotional
To everyone complaining that Mr. Negative basically creates the anti venom symbiote in the comics and that this guy has never read comics he mentions this in the video so u very clearly didn’t watch the video. Secondly I agree that Peter getting the anti venom symbiote was sloppily thrown in right at the end for the sake of keeping the gameplay fun but at the cost of the story. Thirdly since the anti venom seems to be the same as it is in the comics then Peter should be able to cure Harry’s unknown illness as in the comics the anti venom symbiote can cure its host and others not just heal.
>censors the spoiler in the title for people who haven’t played yet
>puts the spoiler in the thumbnail
I wouldn't mind if Peter kept Anti Venom forever
I Belive Carnage is gonna someway get his anti-venom simbiot off.
Think about it this way: Miles arc with Mr Negative gives him something to gain, by seeing his mentor get some power to defeat this army of symbiote. and, imagine if it was another ability doing something completely different. Would you still be complaining. And, I think that the anti venom suit is apart of his blood since he already got the symbiote so its not technically a venom symbiote.
Here’s some things i personally didn’t like about Spider-Man 2. Lmk if u agree
1. Miles’s blue electricity shouldn’t come from Martin Li. It makes perfect sense for his powers to be altered due to absorbing all that Nuform. That makes sense. But no they didn’t do that.
2. I don’t like how Peter’s arms just come out of nowhere. They had potential to have Peter go to the Raft and have a conversation between him and Doc Ock so Peter gets inspired to succeed where Doc Ock has failed. Also they coulda done a little thing where Peter gets a call from Miles and he’s like “Hey Miles what’s up?” and then he’s like “on my way” so that Doc Ock knows or at least guesses that Miles is the other Spider-Man. Cuz how would Doc Ock know Miles is Spider-Man when Norman asks him if he knows who they are. It makes sense. But back to the arms for a second. It would’ve been cool to see Peter unlock the arms in the story. Just like how he unlocks the white spider suit from Doc Ock’s influence. And as a bonus there’s a nice parallel between both games. Peter gets an upgrade from Doc’s influence. Same thing for the web wings. They should’ve been something that u unlock and not just pull out of ur ass like it’s nothing
3. I don’t like how Peter basically dies and then immediately gets the symbiote. Like why did they do that? It’s pretty obvious Peter wasn’t gonna die cuz he hasn’t gotten the symbiote yet. So that whole scene just felt off to me. Also anyone who’s seen the trailers would also know and be like “nah Peter won’t die cuz we only just now got the symbiote.” Idk man like i get it they r trying to tease Peter’s inevitable death cuz they did that in Miles Morales too. Like they r really teasing Peter’s death cuz he almost got killed by Sandman till miles saved him.
4. There should’ve been cameos from other heroes. Venom taking over Manhattan is definitely an Avengers level threat. Or at least have another hero show up to help. Like apparently there’s a Daredevil game that’s in the works. It woulda been cool to see a cameo from him. Nothing too big just something small and quick. Or maybe even a Wolverine cameo cuz his game is gonna be in the same universe as Peter so there ya go. Like they teased Doctor Strange and Wong but we didn’t even see them. That was lame as hell. Or maybe we coulda seen them in the later portion of the game fighting symbiotes or something idk.
5. They should’ve gave Peter a super ability with the iron arms. Like how for Miles u press both circle pads and he makes a huge shockwave. We coulda had a thing for Peter where if u equip the ability to be spider arms instead of symbiote powers, he’ll unleash his arms and u can fight with the arms out instead of them only appearing for a second when u use the simple abilities. Cuz in the first game when u pull out the arms u can actually use them in combat when ur punching and kicking or whatever but we only see the arms for a short amount of time when he uses his abilities when in reality if i had iron arms i’d use that shit for more than 3 seconds.
Like god damn this game had potential and all that hype around nothing.
Anyway i’m done. If u actually read all this 👏 👏. Thx for reading all i have to say
anti-venom is literally just a brainless symbiote with no downsides, no mood swings, nothing. its anti-venom, its the opposite of what a symbiote does, instead of taking over the body and taking it for a joy ride, corrupting the wearer slowly until they are nothing but a husk of their former selves, the anti-venom is controlled by peter, only peter, and it doesnt mess with the user.
the venom symbiote controls peter. peter controls the anti-venom. you can't even really call it a symbiote anymore because its not a thinking living creature, its just an extention of the wearer. in the comics, from what i know i never read them, eddie brock gets the anti-venom symbiote and he is the sole user of it when it was still bonded to him, he sacrificed it to get rid of a massive virus outbreak. but he like peter in insomniac's story is the one controlling the symbiote, the only thing the symbiote does is detect illnesses and heal them.
other symbiotes are typically seen as illnesses.
though in the comics samples the anti-venom symbiote and the carnage symbiote are combined in an experiment by alchemax and becomes the misery symbiote, wich does seem to have a personality but its most likely because it combines the two polar opposite symbiotes together into one.
Well spider-Gwen in the comics is basically gwenom forever and it’s fine. She doesn’t goo it up the hole time and I feel Peter could just go down this route
I've never thought about the anti-venom powers after the game ended but now that you bring it up yeah does Peter have this new power forever will he have it in Spider-Man 3 , will he have it when he fights carnage in the DLC because if he does he'll be able to take out Carnage relatively easy
It almost didnt do shit against Venom. Carnage will probably be even worse. And still, 3 wont have Peter up until some point of the story that isnt the start, to bring Peter from his temporal retirement probs.
Because Anti Venom causes Peter to lose his powers in the comics, I'm hoping in Spider-Man 3 or DLC Peter will start getting weaker due to Anti Venom and will have to take it off and find a way to recover his powers
The anti venom power matches perfectly with the color combination of Peter's Spider Man web
hope can see the anti-venom again at the third sequel.
Honesty i think the Anti Venom Symbiote will sacrifice itself to kill Carnage in the (hopefully) inevitable DLC.
The game sets up Carnage for DLC expansion so hard I'll be shocked and honestly a little disappointed if they choose to keep him back for Spiderman 3.
Peter even makes a comment about how there are still Symbiotes in the city after main story meaning there is obviously still a very real threat that needs dealing with and so it makes sense to wrap up the Symbiote storyline in a DLC.
Also it would make sense from a product standpoint too, Hammerhead was a pretty underwhelming DLC villain in the first game so having Carnage as the DLC villain for Spiderman 2 is much more likely to entice people to buy it.
Martin Li lost his powers. Doesn’t really do much for the narrative from an outside perspective, but Martin was becoming a hero. Mr. Positive, I guess.
It gave Peter the anti venom ??
Mr. Positive, I'm gonna use that. You didn't copyright it right?
@@thedarkroom6416Yes, Mr Negative made Anti-Venom when touching a symbiote separated Eddie who still had some symbiote cells in his blood
@@mateiolteanu1916 I’m allowing you to use it. Patented, trademarked and copyrighted. I had to bribe a lot of people, but you get to use it anyway.
i don’t see an issue with the anti venom symbiote. it levels peter and miles in the same ball park. and it’s still a symbiote , except it can heal anything, destroy other symbiotes easily , and it doesn’t have the negative side effects he had while in possession of venom. plus miles has new powers which were said to be more volitive, so it evens out the playing field
Exactly!
i dont think there are issues at all aside from further story not mentioning it
pete gets a symbiote that doesnt mess with his mind and cant take over
its literaly the venoms weakness
it gives similar power boost as venom
so for pete its just a win-win situation
his break isnt physical , its mental , its letting himself and people around him breathe , take some time off from all the spiderman stuff for a while
Im pretty sure Li already knew peter was Spider-Man from the first game when peter was able to sneak into Li's secret room
What if in spider man 3 it’s revealed that the anti venom is rather killing him or curing him of his powers and by the end of spider man 3 he’s got no powers or he’ll lose it in dlc or something
They just need to give it some sort of weakness or get rid of it
I feel like the the abilities Peter have pre & post symbiote time could’ve easily been changed to just be acrobatic movesets. L1+Square could’ve just been the web bomb to compare with his anti venom bomb later on in the game. L1+Triangle he could still have slingshotted himself towards an enemy just take out the stupid hurricane effect that would no doubt slice the enemies in half rather than just blow them back. L1+Circle is a simple taser web, have it be the same ability just have be from his web shooters. And L1+X could still have Peter pull & push a guy upwards & create a shockwave, just don’t have him lean on the arms. Looking at them now, the arms are more cosmetic than I thought. Most of those moves, Spidey could already do without the arms. Or at the very least have the option to toggle the arms off for the abilities so they don’t look out of place on the suits that don’t have arms in at all. Like NWH final swing suit.
i'm sorry you're completely ignoring that anti-venom is a comic thing and it's origin is the same in this game, he's been a popular character in the past just typically associated with eddie brock, but it really does fit peter
I'm sorry you're completely ignoring that I said verbatim: "I understand that this is similar to the comic book origin of anti-venom, so I don’t really blame Insomniac for going for it..."
@@GameDenColor then don't include the complaint lmao, the whole video ignores comic's because you're also treating it like a normal symbiote when it's not at all, idk if you can even classify it as a symbiote because it's never separated from a host n held its own form, or had its own consciousness, it's honestly closer to a vaccine, a small amount of the original disease altered and designed to kill the original disease, plus those symbiote powers just suit peter cuz we all associate him with the symbiote anyway, it reads as spider-man, there's a canon reason it doesn't go against the anti symbiote narrative, i don't understand what there is to be mad at
Then don't comment if you're wrong... The whole video is a critique of the adaptation of Anti-Venom in the Insomniac universe, and how I think it was underbaked and disappointing. If you don't agree, that's fine this is all my opinion. The video ignores the comics because the comics couldn't be more irrelevant. The comics context is an entirely different story and there should never be an expectation that a story needs submental reading material from a different medium about a totally different character. Should I hate how Doc Ock was handled in the first game because it wasn't comic-accurate? Comic accuracy means nothing when it's handled poorly. And I don't consider comic accuracy some gold standard because comics can be (and often are) bad.
Hey. Using a symbiote in Spider-Man 3 is gonna be lit
I think in spiderman 3 they should do miles having the spiderman 2 ability system and Peter having the option of the more gadets like in the first game and in new game plus and after you beat the story you can use anti venom
Never understood why anti-venom never saved Harry despite being on one mind with Peter, which is what he wants.
exactly.
10:29 wouldn't have been cool for at this moment instead to have the black suit return but "fractured"? So like part advance suit & part symbiote. With the urge to bond or join with venom. So for one; Peter would have the advance suit using symbiote powers with a rage ultimate ability *with only partial symbiote suit*. THEN in the endgame once Venom beats the heck out of Peter then Martian Li's powers combine with the symbiote due to Fear/Anger of losing Harry, MJ, Miles, the city to Venom. Thus making the anti-venom suit.
10:29 yeah seeing Peter lose control again here and the suit *flickering* or fade between on and off. Probably would work better. PLUS Imagine hearing Venom talk in Peters head again? "JOIN US!"
Well the good news is that the suit doesn’t seem to powerful anyway and is only really super effective against symbiotes. Despite combat moves being added the symbiote doesn’t feel any stronger which actually kinda pissed me off for story purposes but I get it. It’s hard to make things look worth it while not dogging on others
What I think works is that the Symbiote IS stronger in rage mode compared to Miles who just has a powerful AOE attack. The Rage mode is when Peter starts holding back less which is why the game has us enter that mode in two story missions where he's really pissed off.
The Black Symbiote Rage Mode gives off an "out of control vibe" to it.
Dude the symbiote is so much stronger, you literally have an I win button that charges quickly enough to be used in almost every fight, not to mention how good the venom abilities are, just because the suit doesn't let you be in rage mode 24/7 doesn't mean it's not stronger.
It completely escaped my mind that he didn’t give th symbiote to harry at the end, I completely forgot he still had it on after the final battle, im sure the 3rd game will make some excuse about him losing the symbiote over time or some shit lol
Given that insomniac is open to a venom game if there’s demand for it I can imagine that Harry still has part of the venom symbiote and would have a storyline of Harry and the symbiote being the more lighthearted chocolate lover venom since now that the meteor is destroyed and how most of the symbiote was destroyed it might develop a different perspective or personality
Why do you think that?
For me its not a big deal as i personally don't play games for the story i play games for the gameplay.
I disagree. I LOVE the addition of Anti-Venom. He keeps his original powers, plus having a non-corrupting symbiote which gives him all the venom abilities, AND he can stay canonically a hero! Absolute 10/10!
What if they add a DLC in the suit turns against him again imagine how stupid that would be 😂
I think they won’t include anti venom in the story of the next game but have it as a unlock skin
I mean he can still actively choose how to use the Anti-Venom Symbiote thanks to Mr Negative, so like he can pack it away whenever he wants and now he has a more effective weapon against future symbiote enemies like Carnage (for all the good it'll do if Carnage has accurate comic book power scaling to Venom in this game, I don't think they'll go that route because he'd be fucking unstoppable, but still. Peter being Anti-Venom AND Spider-Man is fine. They're already kind of setting up the idea of him hanging up the webs with Miles capable enough to succeed him while he moves on to bigger projects like literally ending world hunger and shit.
Gonna be honest. This video is just extreme exaggerations and saying anti venom shouldn't have been added is probably one of the dumbest things I've heard about this game. It's introduction and the build up to getting it was really well done and getting to see miles and lee help peter overcome his guilt about losing may was heartwarming
because miles punched him hard enough in the boss fight. srsly tho martin killed his dad and peter's aunt and a billion others.
Here is what I think he gives anti venom to Harry in the third game and also I agree that you should have had a more in depth mission with Peter earning the suit maybe he has to be the one to destroy that core or whatever but I think they should have said the suit was weaker than Venom but there is one thing I disagree with and it is because anti venom is immune to sound in the comics so that isn’t a stretch
He can't give the symbiote to Harry because the symbiote is part of him.
It's connected to his white blood cells, it's impossible to take it out
Thanks for considering spoilers in the title, but it is rather unwise to have a bigger spoiler in the thumbnail.
When I first played the game, and Peter took the symbiote off, I was thinking, "Yes. All that power isn't worth it. This is so inspiring. He's giving it all up because his love for MJ and everyone else is stronger than his desire to feel unstoppable. He's going to have it much harder in life now, but he'll be fighting for the right reasons." And then my jaw dropped when they just gave him another symbiote, and MJ, who witnessed firsthand what the first one did to him, just went along with it unquestionably when he said he had another one. The whole story prior suddenly became worse, because it was no longer about how power corrupts, but about how there is always a way to get around that and have the power anyway.
Nobody gave him another Symbiote. Mr. Negative just purified the Symbiote which remained in him after he ripped it away. So that said, the Symbiote never left his body in any way.
Lee already knew that Peter is Spider-Man in the 1st game. He let some homeless guys attack Peter at feast.
I’m gonna be honest this really just sounds like a Well thought out and fully expand upon nitpick. For one, I actually totally believe Peter would potentially be able to take dark ox technology and improve upon it for his own use. In fact, that’s not really are you surprised to me considering in the first game, Peter’s character is set up and shown to be very and fully capable of doing such a thing, as well as he also showed major interested in potentially assisting Otto with making his technology safe for use, and in fact, it seemed like he very much wanted to would have, and could have done exactly that if not for Otto going on a rampage as doctor octopus. In fact, I would say it’s generally kind of just good writing to show us that as an example of parallel line, plot points, and scenarios to subtly bookend the game. if you really want to get married anything I’d say it’s the fact that from narrative perspective, it seems like it doesn’t make sense that you would be able to still play Peter after the game is completed based on how the story ended. I’d say that’s more of a gameplay convenience than the anti-venom suit.
8:09 - 8:25 I agree with a lot of what you're saying in this video, but the way you presented this makes it seem like you think Insomniac pulled the anti venom concept out of their ass, when that's EXACTLY what anti venom has been for 15 years now.
I'm hoping that we get more abilities in updates/dlc. Better arm powers and mabey even an ultimate arm power similar to how they worked in the first game. Also, venom needs his own story dlc / game
The anti venom suit is literally attached to Pete’s white blood cells if it ever comes of the black suit will act up again
IMO they should have done a lot more to make the black suit feel stronger. Maybe recharge is half the time on abilities and you do a fraction more damage than usual which when he got anti venom could have made it normal speed that way you get the fun parts but it’s not as powerful and it’s not like the black suit in that way
TLDR : making anti venom weaker since it’s only a little bit left of the original symbiote
But it's Martin Lees powers added in, in the comics its just a zap of Martin Lees powers to a cancer treatment Eddie Brock and he gets Antivenom which is all the power and more from a symbiote without it having any personality its just your white blood cells mixed with symbiote and Lee powers doesn't make much sense in the slightest but Insomniacs not only has more stakes pays off narrative wise it has all of Lees power which he loses for putting into Pete.
Really all the black suit amounts to is a different slightly better set of special moves and the rage meter. It's decent but you certainly don't feel like symbiote Spider-Man should. For example, I was fighting Yuri with the black suit the other day and she brought me from full health to dead in 3 fucking hits. That shit would never fly in any other symbiote storyline. I feel like they should have made you more powerful in a number of ways, especially in the health department.
@@Jozombies115 exactly
5:04 Finally someone accepts this. I swear people debated soo much that Peter is stronger than miles that they would not accept peter needs the symbiote suit to keep up with miles, at least in game
I hope that the anti-venom symbiote is not destroyed in the dlc. The symbiote can be given to Harry so that we can have agent anti-venom.
The anti venom suit is a PART of Peter now. It cannot be given to Harry why don’t people understand this?
The Anti-Venon suit probably will get destroyed in the DLC, Norman & Peter are gonna work on a new cure called the G-Serum.