Whereas Marvel Rivals is doing fairly rattling effectively (shitty layoffs apart) with the entire numerous Marvel heroes coming collectively (not in that method) factor, there was as soon as one other method we may have seen the comics large’s costumed crew crossover – through 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 sport improvement – and Marvel Rivals author Alex Irvine on a latest episode of the The Fourth Curtain podcast. The pair naturally obtained into why it did not find yourself taking place, and it feels 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 facet of issues was up and operating.
Nonetheless 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 the way 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 considering, ‘Wouldn’t or not it’s cool if we had some ARG elements?’ 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 sport to sport. We may hyperlink in comics, we may loop in something, we may do unique stuff.”
By way of why this MGU by no means obtained the inexperienced gentle, Irvine theorised that its downfall might need one thing to do with the quandaries it raised when it comes to how it could have labored greatest. “Even again then,” he mentioned, “we had been attempting to determine if there’s going to be this MGU, how is it totally different from the comics? How is it totally different from the flicks? How are we going to resolve if it stays constant? I believe a few of these questions obtained complicated sufficient that there have been individuals at Disney who didn’t actually wish to cope with them.”
So, we by no means obtained 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 sport. We now have Rivals although, so you’ll be able to a minimum of nonetheless pit Venom in opposition to a shark referred to as Jeff.
