I'm very divided on it. I love it in short bursts and the story is quite good but the open world activities are really repetitive and the combat and web-slinging (too automatic, the game usually forces you to let go of the web and the webs go through buildings) lack depth and are way too easy. Hard mode may as well be easy mode after the first hour.

Some of the web-slinging animations are amazing though - like the way Spiderman will zip over a building if your swing arc gets you just short of getting to the top of it. I hope Insomniac address these issues in the sequel because I usually love their games. I'm way harsher on this game than most but this is my honest opinion. I did get the Deluxe Edition on offer last year so I'll be playing it for a while. I heard that the DLC is a bit tougher so I have that to look forward to.

I agree that its sad that used games are becoming a thing of the past for consumers. But its much better for the industry as a whole. We need to ensure that when we buy a product that we enjoy, that our purchase goes to support the people who made the game. Second-hand sales don't allow for this.

Lol nice

this was alwalys the case and will always be the case. with everything

if you look back into the PS history, it has always been the 3rd parties who sells the most games. it was just that the PS1 and PS2 were so dominant that many of those 3rd party games were exclusives. so, back during the PS1 and PS2 days, the strategy was "to sell as many consoles as possible in order to sell more 1st party exclusives" to ride on that wave. The strategy to push many 1st party exclusives to sell consoles only started with the PS3 when many of those prior 3rd party exclusives went multiplat but more accurately, it started with the PSP.

Sony saw with the PSP, which was being trounced in sales by the DS, that 3rd party exclusives are hard to come by if you're not dominating the market. So they started building more 1st party games and when the PS3 were facing difficulties in sales, they knew they had to rely on their own to differentiate the PS3 from the 360. So the strategy back then changed to "release more 1st party exclusives in order to sell more consoles".

the only manufacturer that is still consistently selling their hardware to play 1st party exclusives, is Nintendo, and that was because they gave up the armrace for power thus they can't rely on 3rd parties anymore as all multiplats play better on competing consoles. AND that's also why they are the most ominous in going after emulators and also patent trolling!

so, you're not wrong there, but not an "aha!" moment or anything. it has been this way since the last, at least, 15 years for Playstation.

@zerobalance

So... what this tells you is that Call of duty, being the absolute check writer that it is, has been outsold by Last of us, God of war, 2 Spider man games..... Saying Playstation exclusives doesn't sell is like saying call of duty doesn't sell because they have outsold some of iterations. Does that make sense to you?