Probably all of the Arkham games...that was one of the best times I've had with a video game in recent memory

I'd like to try Spider-Man, but I've never owned a PS4

The original Arkham Asylum, probably.

Spider-man (PSOne) was a childhood favourite.

I got a soft spot for Spider-Man: Shattered Dimensions, it was the spider-verse before spider-verse

Marvel vs Capcom 2

Hulk: Ultimate Destruction

• the Batman Arkham games
• Injustice 1 and 2
• Insomniac's Spiderman games
• Guardians of the Galaxy
• the Infamous series
• Marvel Ultimate Alliance

Spider-Man is probably the best one.

Not "really" a superhero game but Prototype is good.

Any of the Batman Arkham games are great

Saints Row IV

I think it has to be Arkham Asylum, for it’s impact on the sub genre. Before that, I don’t think superhero games were taken that seriously. Most were movie tie ins, or fun titles (shout out to Spider-Man on the PS1). But Asylum is really when people started to recognize the storytelling potential.

Yup, fair, by the end the gameplay feels like it has been stretched as long as it can be. The story is the thing driving GotG forward. (My real answer is that I probably would have said the Arkham games in terms of fun gameplay and good story, with the rare exception of the stupid late game tank battle BS in Arkham Knight).

On the other hand, alot of the open world superhero games fall flat for me past their main story modes. Sure the 2018 Spider-man game had alot of "things" to do on top of the story, but alot of this was in side content like looking for backpacks, the stupid research stations, or whatever next set of icons that popped up. Most of this felt like busy work to me by the fifth time you did the same task/time trial over and over again. Some people like having that (the Arkham games have alot of that as well of course), it's just not my cup of tea.

Batman Arkham series

So many games have tried to copy the free flowing combat since

Infamous, hands down. Prototype is a close second.

Just to throw out something different and controversial (totally agree with Arkham Asylum & recent Spider-man games though), I thought the Guardians of the Galaxy video game was pretty great. I enjoyed the story way more than either the second or third movies as well.

The first Amazing Spider-Man game.

The newer Batman series

The batman arkham series

Spiderman 2 for the ps2

2018 Spider-Man on ps4 was the best!

i'd pick Arkham Knight

Knight was the best imo. Asylum was amazing for its time, but I feel Rocksteady kept building on everything great about the previous games. I know the tank sextons aren’t everyone’s jam, but I learned to enjoy them. How often do you get to stealth up and blow up a tank while in a smaller tank?

I’d love to see some super hero games that weren’t in the vein of MCU or Batman

I think the Arkham games suffered a bit as they went, but I cannot deny how stellar Knight looks as old as it is.

Batman is good and all, but Spiderman is literally my favorite character in all of media

Probably Arkham asylum. I didn’t really like the open world aspect of Arkham city, I never replayed it for that reason but I played the first one many times

Marvel: Ultimate Alliance. First console game I ever played, and introduced me to a lot of characters who are still favorites of mine. Daredevil, Deadpool, Moon Knight, Nightcrawler, Ghost Rider, Hawkeye, Dr. Doom, and that’s just who’s playable.

Infamous 1 and 2(second son was also pretty good).

Batman Arkham Asylum.

The Incredible Hulk:Ultimate Destruction

Spider-Man PS4

Infamous

Prototype

Hulk Ultimate Destruction

X-Men Origins Wolverine

Battletoads

Incredible Hulk: Ultimate Destruction.

I still load up my old ps2 to play this from time to time. It’s perfect all killer no filler. Satisfying upgrades, fun consistent physics, open world with easter eggs. Please someone port this to switch.

It probably doesn't technically count, but the InFamous series. 

Ultimate Alliance series was great stuff 👏

I’m not even a Marvel fan and this game was one of my favorite single player games of the generation. Fantastic game from top to bottom. I want a sequel.

Been revisiting marvel ultimate alliance and it's pretty fun. I'm surprised at how much marvel lore they were able to add. A little peeved they have portraits for playable characters not available in my version for the loading screens though. God damn moon knight!

Insomniac Spider-Man and Batman Arkham are I think the quintessential comic book video games.

• Comix Zone, while hard as balls, is a complete love letter to comics in the form of a beat ‘em up/platformer.

• X-Men Legends 1-2

• Marvel Ultimate Alliance 1-3

• the Sonyverse Spider-Man games

• The Square-Enix Avengers game had really good single player imo. Sure it was a failure on a lot of levels but I think the single-player gets overlooked at how good it was because of that.

• X2: Wolverine’s Revenge… I may be the only person who loves this game. I still play it from time to time and while it’s not perfect, I like it a lot.

• X-Men: Mutant Apocalypse on SNES. I hate the end of the game’s story but the journey is really good.

• X-Men 2: Clone Wars on Genesis is another one I like a lot regardless of how hard it is.

• I dunno if it counts but Batman (1989) had 3 different games on NES, Genesis, and Game Boy that were all very different and all good in their own right.

• X-Men Mutant Academy and MA2 on PS1 are excellent fighting games. It makes me sad Next Dimension killed the franchise.

Insomniac's Spider-Man 1 & 2/MM

The darkness 

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such an amazing game, i first played this on a gaming center on xbox 360, then bought it for pc, then lost the cd when i was shifting houses. Then I found out that this game was sadly delisted from all platforms around 2014. Later on got to find out about r/spidermanwebofshadows in late 2022, downloaded it again (its not piracy if there's no legal way to get the game) and memories flooded again. Black cat was hot then and hot now too 😍😍

I do have some criticisms of the game now but it's still a blast and imo it was the best spiderman game till Insomniac raised the bar with Spiderman PS4. Still some aspects/features of this game are unmatched and not seen even in the latest Insomniac releases like wall combat, ally system, choosing hero/villain path based on your suit alignment etc. This game had 4 endings (hero, anti hero, villain, anti villain)

obviously later came the arkham games which i loved (origins is the best according to me)

I also played Ben 10 flash games a lot on cartoonetwork.com in the late 2000s/early 2010s, remember Battle Ready, Savage Pursuit? There were even Generator Rex games too, underrated series which would've done well if it was released today.

batman followed by spidey

dead pool is super underrated and i would gatekeep it

Prototype 

have not played Deadpool and wolverine. the best series imo is the batman trilogy