monkey wrote:

Im not a deep expert on Spiddermon so anyone feel free to comicbook guy me. 

However I think a lot of the villains tend to stem from a handful of sources. Most of them are goons given some sort of tech. That tech comes from Kingpin, Oscorp or Dr Octopus. Or its symbiote stuff. Or one of those sources gather the teams together like the Sinister Six or Venom gets on a criminal and makes Carnage. 

Its all kind of linked.

WRONG! 
They've pretty much all got independent origins. Guy invents something and robs a bank. Lab experiment goes wrong so another guy robs a bank. Guy gets zapped by something and robs a bank. They team up and stuff but it's basically coincidence that all these dicks share the same zip code. 

They do do that thing you describe but it's not how any of the big baddies came about.

The Chameleon - From Russia, probably Voldograd. Initially just an impressionist with a multi pocket disguise vest, we were introduce to him impersonating Spider-Man to steal some missile defence plans to sell behind the Iron Curtain. He is foiled when Spidey webs shut the submarine so the commies can't get out. Is the half brother of Kraven the Hunter.



The Vulture - From Staten Island, New York. Was an inventor whos partner ripped him off at the wrong time, just as he'd invented a harness allowing him to fly. Side note, Spidey managed to defeat him by guessing how he was able to fly, which is mental, and played off as nothing in a single panel.



The (Terrible) Tinkerer - From New York. Genius scientist and engineer. I'm baffled by his origins. He appears with some aliens, implanting electronic spy devices in radios belonging to important earthlings. His words, not mine. Spidey foils the plan, and all the aliens bar Tinkerer run off, and we see them blast off in their ship, declaring they can never return. Spidey pulls a mask off Tinkerer (of Tinkerers own face) battling him during a burning building. This suggests Tinkerer is also an alien. Early Spider-Man was fucking wild. This is retconned decades later to be Mysterio and hired goons dressed as aliens, but this is absolutely not what is presented in the original comic. He should be an alien, but he's not.



Doctor Octopus - From Schenectady, New York. An atomic scientist, he made his famous arms to allow him to conduct nuclear experiments from behind a lead shield. An experiment goes wrong and blows up the entire facility, and causes the arms to fuse to his body. Unfortunately it also damages his brain, making him severely paranoid, thinking the hospital staff are jealous of him and keeping him prisoner. He is the first villain to defeat Spider-Man.



The Sandman -  From Queens, New York. Sticking with the atomic theme, The Sandman was an escaped convict who hid in an 'atomic devices testing centre', until 'a nuclear test explosion caught him unawares'. Spider-Man defeats him with, and I'm not joking, a hoover.



Doctor Doom - From Latveria. It's Doctor Doom lads.



The Lizard - From Coral Gables, Florida. After losing his arm in 'the war', Curtis Connors becomes the worlds leading authorities on reptiles, as you do. After successfully getting a rabbit to regrow a leg, he downs the serum himself and becomes The Lizard. Jameson challenges Spider-Man to defeat the Lizard, so Peter tricks Jameson to sending him to Florida to take pictures of Spider-Mans attempt. Spidey manages to craft an antidote in a matter of hours, returning Connors to human form.



The Living Brain - I mean it's a computer that short circuits. It's not really from anywhere, but it was built by the International Computing Machines Corporation, the IBM we've got at home, and IBM are based in New York if that will do you.



Electro - From Endicott, New York. The very same place IBM were founded. Coincidence? Once an ordinary electric lineman, in a million to one chance he was working alone on a pole when lightning struck! By a fantastic freak of fate - due to the way he had been grasping the electric wires - the two bolts of current cancelled each other out. Discovered his powers when some clothes hangers got tangled on his arms. Spidey defeats him with Marigolds and a fire hose.



The Enforcers - Who is the Big Man??????????? asks the opening page. It's Frederick Foswell. Who you might ask? No idea. He's introduced for the first time halfway through the story. Spider-Man doesn't even beat him. The police follow his car and find his disguise. He's from Queens, New York. His goons are Montana, from erm, Montana, Fancy Dan, from Brooklyn, and The Ox from Seaside Heights, New Jersey.



This concludes our whistle stop tour of the amazing foes of Spider-Man from the first ten issues.

Tremendous post, Dante

Diluted Dante wrote:

I've still got sand on the carpeting in my car that no amount of hoovering will pick up. Totally unrealistic imo.

Kraven(off) the Hunter and his cronies. I've seen most of the Spiderman films but I don't remember spotting him in any of those so assumed he was new. Decent bigbad imo.

That goes without saying.

Kraven is from issue 15, so very much olde school.

Same.  I also had a Spider-Man annual from the 80s I think where he and Vuture in particular were the focus.

acemuzzy wrote:

Spidey had just got to a Halloween party on my game. Sus.

I’ve just done the same part.

I’ve just done the mission that was in the 12 minute gameplay reveal a few months ago…..eye popping!!!!

Absolutely loving this game!!

I really don’t want it to end, so I’m doing a load of the side missions between main missions.

It’s simply sublime!

It’s a fairly standard open world AAA-er so, though I haven’t started it yet, I’m going to guess at ofc.

The extras on the map kinda grow as the game progresses, so it's not a massive mess of icons to start off with.

Also, the missions can be seen as virtual beacons in the real world which float above their start locations and it looks really cool.

Spidey1 was the first of 2 games I’ve ever Plat’ed. none of it felt like too much to me and I was more or less happy to keep going to clear all those icons BUT I don’t remember any stand out side missions. I don’t remember any of it as particularly critical or standout fun so you won’t be missing anything by leaving it there.

Just had my first crash, maybe 10 hours into the game. Enjoying it a lot so far though.

Anyone else have a cut scene where the character voices are missing? I closed and restarted the game but no luck.

Ah that’s happened a heck of a lot. 

Voices back, I just rebooted.

Paul the sparky wrote:

Still my favourite example.