Whereas Marvel Rivals is doing fairly rattling nicely (shitty layoffs apart) with the entire plenty of Marvel heroes coming collectively (not in that method) factor, there was as soon as one other method we might have seen the comics large’s costumed crew crossover – by way of an MCU-eque “Marvel Gaming Universe”. For higher or worse although, that concept by no means grew to become 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 current episode of the The Fourth Curtain podcast. The pair naturally bought into why it did not find yourself occurring, and it appears like the reply might need one thing to do with execs not liking to consider powerful lore questions.
“After I first began engaged on Marvel video games, there was this concept that they had been going to create a Marvel gaming universe that was going to exist in the identical method 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 aspect of issues was up and working.
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 find out 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 it’s cool if we had some ARG elements?’ There could be a spot the place gamers might go that each one the video games touched, and we might transfer them forwards and backwards from recreation to recreation. We might hyperlink in comics, we might loop in something, we might do authentic stuff.”
By way of why this MGU by no means bought the inexperienced mild, Irvine theorised that its downfall might need one thing to do with the quandaries it raised when it comes to how it will have labored finest. “Even again then,” he mentioned, “we had been making an attempt 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 resolve if it stays constant? I believe a few of these questions bought advanced sufficient that there have been folks at Disney who didn’t actually need to cope with them.”
So, we by no means bought a factor that 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. Now we have Rivals although, so you may a minimum of nonetheless pit Venom in opposition to a shark referred to as Jeff.
