Marvel's Midnight Suns director "totally gets" the backlash around its card battles

RPS talks to Marvel's Midnight Suns director Jake Solomon about how he reacted to the public negativity around its card based battle system.

[Huey_My_D_Long]

Honestly game was a real pleasant surpise. I dont even like marvel like that, but I loved the gameplay. Really fun and addicting, sad to see the game just didnt do well.

[SurgicalMenace]

Yeah over 100 hours of play from me and I enjoyed every minute. Hope it gets the support that it deserves.

[CrimsonWing69]

I really loved it. It sucks it didn’t do well.

I actually want a sequel badly.

[MasterChief3624]

Did it inspire you to get more into Marvel at all? I know when I played Ultimate Alliance 3, I wasn't that into Marvel, but I enjoyed the heck out of it. I enjoyed it so much that I ended up seeking out lots of Marvel comics that the movies didn't touch on much yet! I was wondering if something similar happened for you after playing and falling in love with this one?

[shinoff2183]

I'm still looking forward to it. I have yet to buy I but I do plan to. I'm a huge xcom fan and I feel this will hit the spot. Card base battles is a bit of a turn off but I feel they could pull it off.

[hotnickles]

It was great until the DLC trophies bugged out and they never fixed it. I beat the game twice and then they wanted me to beat it another 4 times for the dlc trophies. That was pretty lame and I moved on.

[shinoff2183]

Maybe I should wait till dlc is done then lol. Damn

[hotnickles]

Yeah it’s a great game though it’s just that one issue. The dlc characters are thrown in the middle of the story and if you have already beat the game the trophies won’t unlock. You have start a new game for each dlc character lol. That’s not fun after you spend a ton of time building your decks.

The price tanked like 2 months after launch. It was bad. Wait for the last dlc and then get the complete version for 20 bucks. I recommend it. I will probably play it again someday with all of the dlc.

[InUrFoxHole]

Waiting for the right sales price for this one.

[Bigninja]

Imagine X-Com 2, with Marvel characters and powers.

Yeah, would have rather had that

[Sgt_Slaughter]

They had us hyped af for what we thought was going to be X-COM-but-Marvel, and then proceeded to suck the life out of the room when they showed it was card based along with the weird life sim after-battle sections.

[JimmyDM90]

I feel like this game would have benefitted financially from being themed around running the Xavier institute and going out on missions as X-men. The existing gameplay of building up and training a team, having interpersonal disputes and hanging out in a mansion translates 1:1. Plus X-men have way more name recognition than Midnight Suns. Besides they already ditched a bunch of classic Midnight Suns characters to go for Avengers and X-men characters anyway.