Marvel RIVALS - Our first impressions

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Um, Nettie's games launched a new overwatch-esque game using Marvel characters.

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It is free to play on Steam, which is nice.

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We always like stuff that that gives you some entertainment for no money.

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Bo Jay and I have spent a little bit of time with it.

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So we're going to kind of run through our initial thoughts.

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Jay, I think you've probably got a little bit more time in it than I do.

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Yep. What's your what's your your broad first impressions of the game?

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All right.

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So after playing 900 hours, um, yeah, I still just die so much.

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Um, it's fun.

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It's a fun game.

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It is very much like overwatch, um, Valorant or whatever.

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It's, uh, but it's quick.

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It's easy.

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It's fun.

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I always like these type of games when like, I don't want to get too immersed

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into a storyline because I have to like go to work in like three hours and I need

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to go to sleep still, blah, blah, blah, whatever.

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I don't know.

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Um, but it's fun.

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And oh gosh, I'm just like obsessed with the little Jeff guy, a little shark.

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There's a little shark.

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You're so cute.

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And I feel like he is very overpowered.

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Okay.

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Oh my gosh.

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But, um, no, it's a fun game.

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Uh, they do have a battle pass that you can buy and then like get like, uh, coins

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or whatever and then go to the shop and unlock more characters and stuff.

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But, um, my first reaction is that it's fun.

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I like it.

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I love that it's in the Marvel universe.

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And, um, yeah, I'm going to continue to play it like in between some of these

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like story games.

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What about you?

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Yeah.

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Um, so I want to reiterate something you have again, like, I kind of put games

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into two kind of categories where like where the cyberpunk 2077, like we were

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talking about earlier in the show, like if you're, you can't sit and play that

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for 20 minutes and just walk away.

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Like you've got to have a couple hours to like kind of work through some stuff.

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This is the kind of game that if you've got 20, 30 minutes, you can get a

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match in or two.

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Um, I'm curious if you had the same experience as me.

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I found matchmaking was really fast.

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Oh yeah.

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A hundred percent.

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Like quick match is like, oh, you're in.

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I'm like, oh, cool.

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Like, and I like that.

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Um, it's a third person shooter.

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Yeah.

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Um, which is interesting.

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I also like the fact that I kind of had some hand to hand in there and some

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range that did it to the besides Jeff.

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Have you, have you locked on any other characters you really like?

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I'm sorry.

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I unlocked the Scarlet Witch shop.

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Um, I'm trying to like her.

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She has the ability where she can like hover and I think she's kind of

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invisible at the time.

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Yeah.

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I think.

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Um, and, um, she's like, okay.

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Now I will say I've seen people play venom and I'm like, oh, I got to get into

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venom because venom looks so sick.

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Um, but yeah, right now I've only played, I think like Jeff and Scarlet Witch.

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Okay.

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Um, I spent a little bit of time before I got into a match in the like tutorial

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arena where it's just an open space to do stuff.

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Um, kind of like getting a feel for like, oh, you're a rate of fire is this and

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this is kind of this and did to do.

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Um, so far I've had the most success with Hawkeye.

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Really?

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Um, because I figured out that like there's, there's some, some element to it who,

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like how long you hold his bow pull.

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Okay.

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And damage.

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Like if you hold it down for a second and like.

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Right.

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Like I was getting the eyes for half to three quarters of their life in a single

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arrow.

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Um, so I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like, I'm like,

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I was like, um, like, okay.

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So, you know, the best for me is, but like, you know, that's, like my

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love for my Vegeta King and Mario game.

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And that's, like, ACTUAL.

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And yeah, yeah.

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Yeah, got no things to answer the other stuff while I was playing it, but like.

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Tham.

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Okay, yeah.

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All right.

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Staying!

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Hey, there it is, the N

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question to me is staying power. Yeah. Um they're going to have to

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forget their competitive scene quickly. They're going to have to

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figure out balancing quickly. I've heard some complaints online

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about like the the teams are kind of like three DPS and a healer

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right now. You know, like I don't think they've kind of got

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figured out the roles between tanks and healers and DPS yet.

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Um it's early days for the game but they do have to figure it

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out quickly because gamers will move on fast. Yeah, I would

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say like every time that I played, I haven't actually played

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online with friends. Um and I feel like that would probably

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make a difference but playing just randomly with a god like

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my I feel like my healers never did anything. I'm like, where

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are you? I think most of the time I didn't have a healer. Yeah

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or they just they're not there. Um and I will say like this is

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very very interesting because if you look at the I'm going to

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make so many people cringe. Watch our numbers are going to

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drop like crazy. Um when you compare it to like Fortnite

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Fortnite, I know but they are very successful with like

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continuously re-releasing like or coming up with new characters

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and like new ways to draw you in like and they'll come out

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with like Ninja Turtles and like I don't know this that

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whatever like whatever appeals to like little nine year olds

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and and adults. Um and it's going to be really interesting

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with how Marvel rivals can do that because they do have like a

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limited I guess you could release like skins and stuff

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like change the outfits. You could do retro outfits,

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futuristic outfits, but you're kind of like limited to

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Marvel. That makes sense. So, I don't know how you're going to

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keep the audience like addicted to it. I I think that I think

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that if you Marvel has such a deep well of characters,

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right, that they can keep introducing more and more and

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more and more, right? Get Mr. Fantastic in there, right?

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Wait till next year with this Marvel Rivals game and then do

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a big launch of all the Fantastic Four right as the

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Fantastic Four movie comes out. Wait, when is the Fantastic

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Four? Next July. Is that going to be like the second

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movie I've ever fallen asleep to in theaters? I don't know. This

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is an MCU one. So, I'm hopeful. Um so, again, I think

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there's a lot of tie in stuff you could do. You could tie it

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into MCU releases. You could tie it into a lot of other

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things. Adding characters. Uh there is Squirrel Girl in there

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for god's sakes. Um I tried Spider-Man for a minute but

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man, his web swinging like stuff is hard to control. Um we'll

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say I tried Iron Fist for a second. He was kind of fun for

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a minute but I it's it's hard to play a melee guy in that. Um

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so, again, if they get their competitive scene up and

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running and they get some good balancing and good

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matchmaking, like I think I think it it has a chance to do

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well. Okay. I think it's got the good bones of a game.

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I mean, it's it's free. Like you really don't have anything

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to lose. Like just downloading the game is a play.

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Yeah. I don't know for sure. Um but yeah, let us know what

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you think. Have you already picked up Marvel Rivals? Are

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you planning on picking it up? You're gonna give it a shot.

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Let us know.