Marvel not doing 'crappy' movie games anymore, says exec

Unfortunately, in many cases, high sales do not mean a game is good.
Trust the good people here, they wouldn't lie - it was awful.

If one of the executives say the game is shit, then you know it's fricking terrrrrible.

What flaws? It was an easy to learn beat em up action game, whats so terrible about it? Enlighten me Padawan

There were about 5 bad guys the entire game..and most of them had nothing to do with the movie or the comics. They were reskinned, they were different models with the same animations.. really no variety which is a typical sign of rushed development.

The AI was piss poor. Enemies always followed the pattern of "attack #1....pause...attack #2...pause...repeat." Pathfinding was broken and enemies got stuck all over.

Boss fights were very repetitive and tiring. Defeating a Rock Golem or Windigo on the hardest difficulty meant dodging and jumping on his back to button mash like 50 or more times. Deadpool fight was super broken.

The fighting/combo system was workable but that is about it.. no depth, huge open window for counters, no variety in counters or kill animations.. combo tree offered little in the way of choice.

Environmental interaction was terrible.. much of the world was clipped with invisible walls. Wolverine couldn't even jump over a hand rail or desk.

Listen, it goes on. Don't get me wrong.. I liked everything there was to like about the game.. and I loved it's potential.. but it was marred with basically every hallmark of a rushed, "cookie-cutter" licensed game despite all their claims otherwise. You people and your egos.. you get won over by some simple kill animations and a leaping mechanic and you think the game MUST be of good quality to justify yourself getting any enjoyment out of it. Face it.. it was crap... you liked crap. And that is okay.. but just admit it.

Sorry, but there was plenty of variety in counters and kill animations. Granted the game was extremely easy at points and the boss battles were repetitive, but Raven clearly succeeded with one thing: Making it fun. Face it, the game was fun. I'm not saying it didn't have any flaws, but the flaws that you listed are pretty small and had really didn't stop me or most people from enjoying the game.

The game isn't a buy by any means, but it was a fantastic rent and it Raven Software delivered in making it an entertaining bloody beat em' up game. We don't like crap, we just don't nitpick at every single little flaw in a video game, and get pissed off that I can't jump over a hand rail. Sorry if hand-rails and desks ruined your gaming experience.

Oh don't try and paint me as so shallow. Maybe you don't have the perspective I have but my overall gripe is with the lack of professional quality and outright deceptive marketing handled by the developers themselves. I already know RAVEN has the ability to produce much better which makes it all the more dissapointing that they would treat this game the they had. Clearly some love was lavished on the game at some level.. the hands on guys in the team really did the best they could with what they had but any professional who looks at Wolverine as an example of work in this industry can tell you exactly what it is... and we see hundreds of them every year. Same breed of animal as "imagine ballet star."

Are you talking about Hulk 1 or 2?

As to the others Marvel has little creative power in regards to the the Spider and X-franchises, which are licensed to Sony and Fox, respectively. Neither seems willing to part with the franchises because the two are probably the most well-recognized Marvel properties and they're bound to make money.