Marvel\u2019s Midnight Suns dev pushed Marvel for key feature: \u201cHow crazy are you willing to get?\u201d 2K Games\/FiraxisMarvel\u2019s Midnight Suns features plenty of iconic characters, but the game\u2019s protagonist is a new addition known as The Hunter. Marvel\u2019s Midnight Suns launches this week, and while it features an iconic cast of Marvel superheroes including Wolverine, Spider-Man, Iron Man and plenty more, the game also features a new protagonist \u2014 the Hunter. The offspring of the new \u201cbig bad\u201d Lilith, the Mother of Demons, the Hunter is resurrected after centuries of sleep to help fight back his mother\u2019s new army. And, as it turns out, the team at Firaxis was determined to have an original character join the fray. Dexerto spoke to Jake Solomon, Principal Program & Lead Designer, and Garth DeAngelis, Senior Producer to find out more about what went into that decision. Marvel\u2019s Midnight Suns devs pushed for the character creator When asked how much of the in-game relationship-building was a part of the game\u2019s initial design, Solomon explained: \u201cI think the character creation was there from the start, we knew we wanted a customizable avatar.\u201d \u201cThat was on the first call with Marvel, that was almost our \u201ctesting question\u201d of \u201chow crazy are you guys willing to get with us?\u201d \u201cWe always wanted to build relationships [between characters],\u201d DeAngelis adds. \u201cWas that going to be through a comic panel system? Was that just through cinematics? Was that going to be more menu-driven XCOM style?\u201d \u201cWe came to the realization after a lot of experimentation that we wanted to go all in like a traditional RPG and be able to interact with a real-time, fully rendered 3D model and have dialogue branching choices.\u201d As for their favorite characters in Marvel\u2019s Midnight Suns, Solomon notes that the portal-wielding Magick is his choice. \u201cMy favorite character is Magick, since I read the New Mutants comics growing up,\u201d he says, also pointing to her gameplay design as a reason to add her to your party. DeAngelis, on the other hand, prefers Blade. \u201cI loved the original Blade movie the sequel, and I remember thinking I didn\u2019t even know he was a Marvel hero when I first watched them. He was just the coolest hero, Marvel or not, that I saw on the big screen at that point in my life.\u201d For more on Marvel\u2019s Midnight Suns, be sure to read our full review.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Marvel\u2019s Midnight Suns dev pushed Marvel for key feature: \u201cHow crazy are you willing to get?\u201d 2K Games\/FiraxisMarvel\u2019s Midnight Suns features plenty of iconic characters, but the game\u2019s protagonist is a new addition known as The Hunter. Marvel\u2019s Midnight Suns launches this week, and while it features an iconic cast of Marvel superheroes including Wolverine, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-83176","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83176","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=83176"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/83176\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=83176"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=83176"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dejan.au\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=83176"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}