Whereas Marvel Rivals is doing fairly rattling effectively (shitty layoffs apart) with the entire plenty of Marvel heroes coming collectively (not in that manner) factor, there was as soon as one other manner we may have seen the comics big’s costumed crew crossover – by way of an MCU-eque “Marvel Gaming Universe”. For higher or worse although, that concept by no means turned a actuality.
This ill-fated idea was mentioned by Bungie co-founder Alexander Seropian – who additionally as soon as served as Disney Interactive Studios’ vp of recreation growth – and Marvel Rivals author Alex Irvine on a latest episode of the The Fourth Curtain podcast. The pair naturally received into why it did not find yourself taking place, and it seems like the reply may need one thing to do with execs not liking to consider powerful lore questions.
“Once I first began engaged on Marvel video games, there was this concept that they have been going to create a Marvel gaming universe that was going to exist in the identical manner that the MCU did. It by no means actually occurred,” Irvine defined, with Seropian including that the idea was his “initiative”. The pitch was that this gaming universe would tie Marvel’s video games collectively by placing all of them in the identical timeline/universe, with Seropian saying that it got here earlier than the MCU on the film facet of issues was up and operating.
Nevertheless it did not get funded by Disney, with Irvine saying: “That was so irritating as a result of we got here up with all these nice concepts about learn how to do it”. The developer went on to stipulate a few of these concepts.
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“I used to be popping out of ARGs at that time,” he recalled, “and pondering, ‘Wouldn’t or not it’s cool if we had some ARG features?’ There can be a spot the place gamers may go that each one the video games touched, and we may transfer them backwards and forwards from recreation to recreation. We may hyperlink in comics, we may loop in something, we may do unique stuff.”
When it comes to why this MGU by no means received the inexperienced gentle, Irvine theorised that its downfall may need one thing to do with the quandaries it raised when it comes to how it could have labored finest. “Even again then,” he mentioned, “we have been attempting to determine if there’s going to be this MGU, how is it completely different from the comics? How is it completely different from the flicks? How are we going to determine if it stays constant? I believe a few of these questions received complicated sufficient that there have been folks at Disney who didn’t actually need to cope with them.”
So, we by no means received a factor which may have linked the likes of Insomniac’s Spider-Man video games to its upcoming Wolverine one, and even stuff from different studios like Skydance New Media’s Marvel 1943: Rise of Hydra and Arkane’s Blade recreation. We’ve got Rivals although, so you possibly can at the least nonetheless pit Venom in opposition to a shark known as Jeff.
