Spider-Man 2 Won't Receive Any PS5 Story DLC

I thought there were plans in place for a dlc with chapter headings leaked?
I wonder whether the hack put them so far behind, they have had to cancel plans?
Such a shame, I really liked the game - thought it was one of the highlights of this generation, and was hoping to see some dlc.

As much as I agree that the writing was bland, I'm still really disappointed with this. I can't bring myself to replay the story again but I'd have paid whatever for DLC.

Ah. Well there’s that then.

Well there it is an underwhelming end to an underwhelming sequel. Considering how broken the game was at launch and how every patch would break something i'm honestly concerned on where they're at. Is Venom happening? Is Wolverine going to be a mess? Will Wolverine come out before next gen? Who knows.

Well that's disappointing

Sounds like the leak dlc plans probably got added into the venom spinoff

This is great news to me. I've grown to hate post launch dlc at this point since it usually comes out long after I've moved on from the game.

@Rich33 Lots of things change during production, iirc God of War Ragnarok started as a DLC, The Lost Legacy too before becoming a smaller stand alone title. The leak might have made Insomniacs change plans or they could just as easily changed plan on their own accords. We might never know ! But it's not something unusual for a Sony Studio.

@DennisReynolds hmmmm? Exactly how was it a mess?
The game played flawlessly for myself and the majority. They added in amazing preset graphical options, including probably the best use of ray tracing and performance we have seen in a video game on a console.

How are they in a mess? They literally held up the first party exclusives for the entire ps5 launch window up until spiderman 2.

They have probably been the 1 developer who's games are the most polished out of everyone and they have been consistent with their output and performance.

I experienced no issues in my entire platinum trophy run. I had a blast game play wise. The story wasn't as compelling as the first game but bits of it were good.
I see people hating on this game a lot. People are dialing up the hatred because of Insomniacs involvement with Sweet Baby Inc@Bez87

@Katsuhono regarding GoW Ragnarok, I remember quite the opposite, that originally it was going to be 2 more full games (making it a Norse trilogy) but that they combined them into the single sequel.

What's strange is that months ago it was revealed through a debug mode that Beetle was being set up as the DLC villain. My guess is that they're probably saving it for either the sequel or the supposed venom game. That, or Insomniac just kinda gave up, and giving the amount of rewrites Spiderman 2 went through during the development as well as the unexpected hack, I can't really blame them, unfortunately. Still, some small continuation of the symbiote would've been nice. Hopefully, Sony will give them enough time for the 3rd game (and please don't force them to rush it, I don't care how impatient Spiderman fans will get)

@Bez87 Yeah flawless launch that's why they were constantly patching bugs post launch then, in fact the last update the game got was a fix for something the last update prior had broken.

I'm fine with this. I wasn't a big fan of this one so I'm happy they're moving on to hopefully a much better game like Venom or Wolverine.

Make no mistake Sony already has the Venom DLC ready, but they will only make it as a make believe full game right along with the PS6 release date as they did with Miles Morales.

We know Sony's questionable business practices already.

They probably decided they can make a ton more money making a Miles Morales-style expandalone game featuring Venom.

As long as Venom and Wolverine come out sooner, I'm happy with what they've done and I wish them good luck.

Yeah personally I'd prefer they focused on Wolverine and that Venom game if it's actually happening.

Well whatever it was an underwhelming sequel anyway. Astro bot was great but there future slate looking less and less appealing

Why sell a $20-30 DLC when you can sell a $50-60 “standalone expansion”? It already worked with Miles Morales (which was in every way a DLC for the first game), and we already know a Venom expansion is being sold as a full game next year (Insomniac’s leak).

@get2sammyb I’m convinced that Venom started as an expansion for SM2 and since Miles Morales sold so well they’re instead selling Venom as a standalone experience, for more money of course.

I'll go back to it and platinum it since there won't be more. That's disappointing.

Probably working on the remaster instead

@IOI The leaks already told us what the 3 expansions were and they weren't Venom but the Carnage one was setting up the Venom game. So yeah think what you want but the leaks already told us what the plan was originally.

That really sucks. On release, Spider-Man 2 was missing features that the first game already had and overall had less content so it's a shame that there won't be any DLC now to add a bit more bulk to it. This has been a bit of a disappointing sequel. Such a shame.

Personally i fully enjoyed my time with Spiderman 2 🤷‍♂️

I wonder if we will start to see more studios back off from post launch dlc. With the time it takes to make new titles these days, it's probably worth putting any ideas into a sequel instead.

Personally would like to see Insomniac work on something new next rather than just becoming a Marvel factory - as much as I think wolverine will be a good game

I desperately want Insomniac to get back to their own creative and colourful IPs, not this done-to-dearh Marvel/dork bait. Ugh.

@DennisReynolds Yeah but in the same leak those expansions were not in the roadmap so maybe they were already cancelled for the Venom game, who knows but I also can’t shake the feeling that SM2 ended up being disappointing, I recently replayed it in NG+ and tbh I struggled to finish it, without the hype I realized many flaws with the game but specially the pacing is much worse than the first one which I’ve played like 4-5 times.

I agree with a few other commenters, I do wish Insomniac would go back to focusing on non-Marvel titles. Spidey 1, 2 and Miles Morales are fun games, don't get me wrong, but they're kinda stuck as the Marvel game studio for the foreseeable future, which is disappointing.

I have no doubt a Venom spinoff and the Wolverine games will be good, but I do wish for another Ratchet and maybe a new wacky, zany ip from Insomniac.

Ah. Oh well. The game was fun, I will admit. But the story was way too short and the ending was lousy. I’d be interested in maybe seeing some more suits in DLC. I don’t remember the game being super buggy at launch though?

If there is to be no DLC and development has ended, surely that increases the chances of it going on sale sometime, eh?

@IOI Venom was always going to be his own game. The character is really popular so it makes sense to give him his own game instead of making him DLC. From what we know the Carnage DLC was going to basically be a prologue to the game with it having Eddie become Venom and set the stage for Carnage being the big bad of his game. Actual Venom DLC where we play as Venom was never on the cards, they most likely decided very early on that they would do a Venom spin off especially with his movies doing really well around that time.

Honestly shocked by this. Especially since the first game had some pretty great DLC. Seemed like easy money.

I wonder how much of this decision is because of the massive hack they had. I enjoyed Spiderman 2 but some dlc would have been welcome.

I can see people want them to move on from Marvel, maybe theyl go back to resistance XD

@AdamNovice Just because one game was more broken doesn't mean SM2 wasn't broken.

Eh. I enjoyed playing the game, and probably would've paid a coupla quid for DLC but I think I'd rather their focus be on Wolverine and I'm beginning to become optimistic about a Venom game (I'd prefer a smaller game than DLC for MSM2) There could be a lot of fun in that, especially if it carries the air of the films.
Before all that though, I'll NG+ it once the Pro enhancements kick in. Gimme summink to do over Christmas I guess....

@LavenderShroud Must admit I enjoyed playing the game, but the story coulda been filled out better and the ending was kinda... Wait, how did it end again? I (genuinely) can't remember. Can't have been very good at all then!
In contrast, I remember all 3 endings to Stellar Blade, and the variations in which I played them...
I had a couple of issues, suits turning into squares/cubes and getting stuck inside a building or two on occasion, but it was nothing major, more likely than not because I have this awful habit of leaving my PS5 running between sessions.