I can't possibly read 50-60 years worth of comics
I mean I have and I'm a full-time university student. What's your excuse?
Or is youtube my best option?
Yes, very much yes. I cannot stress how much you'll want to watch the summaries people like Comic Historian provides.
One more question, since they'll be taking notes of how long you've been together, is there any end game plans to actually wife somebody?
We're still talking about it but it's so far away whatever consensus we come to could change like six times.
Love and Sex: Second base "endings" come to mind when i say this. Where you get a small event that says "hey, you did it! ya'll found love and got married. Nice." and then the game ends.
We don't plan on putting any "hard ends" in the game. You won't die and if we have a ending prologue or something, we'd want it to let you move around the sandbox since there will be post-main story DLC. We have at least one planned so far but other than wanting to do it there's not much done on it.
Apart from that, you can find summaries of the issues Shiny passed (in the spoiler above) in Fandom (
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) and read individual character pages; for most main characters you'll get long pages, but for villains and others, you'll have just enough to read without getting too bored. I'd reccomend you read and pursue just enough knowledge our character would have.
Reading character wiki pages is viable. Click on the citation numbers at the end of a sentence if you want to know the specific issues that the events happen in.
Did shiny say they'll include background info in the game? I guess I must have missed that post
I didn't, but we will to some degree.
I haven't read anything about a codex of characters or whatever.
Not sure if we'll go this far. We're really early in the timeline so there won't be too much to fill out until like half way into the game.
I meant, 'hear from them' in the way that they'll share their own story at one point and I want to get to know about them like that.
Yes. Each girl will have some backstory, but because of how early we are in the timeline, you'll be witnessing their backstory form as you play.
From what I understand, they're following the comics with the story, but not copying them.
This is true. We're "trimming the fat" for lack of a better term. Some events will bee off-screen and some will not be mentioned.
So only the basic, something a civillian in that world would know is the type of knowledge I'm looking for and reccommend others to search if they want to spend time with that.
Civilians won't know much since the X-Men for the longest time had secret identities.
In fact, Xavier's school being for mutants is just a rumor. We will be making changes to some presentation because these comics came out before the internet and video recording on phones was a possibility but nothing concrete will be available until later.
Also, this would probably be a good time to mention, the game will be taking place vaguely in the 2000s. We're not going to state specifics so let your mind wander if it's 2000, 2010, 2020, or whatever.
We made this decision because Magneto and Xavier would be way too old to participate thin things. I mean even Ian McKellen who played Magneto in the original trilogy was born AFTER Magneto had been a young teen during the holocaust.
We also don't want to touch on too many real-world events since we also plan on shoving a lot of the fictional stuff that happened in Marvel Comics.
Although, comics about them exist in the game's lore so if you want you could be a nerd who knows about the gals and bros from the comics alone - although I'm sure the comics would be different from reality even in the lore.
Very different. Many characters will be "in character" and events in the comics will occur with the MC's involvement or off-screen but things
Personally, I'm playing the "smug jock" role, he doesn't know anything about mutants, and is friendly or dismissive (depending on how inferior, or superior, he feels to them) to people he doesn't know and respectful or commanding to people he does.
This is a viable playstyle from what I've seen in write-ups.
This hasn't been confirmed, but I'm hoping girls talk about each other in some way - they could tell you about each other, or talk about another girl in jest if they dislike her.
Something like how Kitty gets Laura new clothes in Rogue-like.
I'll confirm it.
I was thinking about maybe making a compedium of features that have been promised in the past
Please don't. As development goes on we'll be making changes and some of the things I've said will be outdated.
Like we just recently, like a few days ago, threw out the outlines we had for chapters after chapter 1 and figured out how we can faithfully follow the timeline without bogging everyone down with the 17th time the X-Men were abducted by aliens.
Shiny's here to reply to people anyway.
And I'm willing to answer questions more than once! Considering the answers may and have already changed in some instances!
