
To do this, they're dragging out his return with a massive, overly long, overly complicated, poorly executed event called The Hunt for Wolverine, which is incorporating a gazillion tie-in books that all beat around the bush to stall Wolverine's big return. Even in the world of the comics, he doesn't have anything going on Marvel killed Wolvie off years ago as part of their not-so-secret petty feud with Fox over the X-Men franchise's movie rights, and only now are trying to phase the guy with steak-knife knuckles back into their core A-lister lineup.

He's got no movies slated to come out, and he's got no successful games on his resume. Wolverine, for all intents and purposes, doesn't really exist right now. With these points considered, it's no stretch to say that Marvel hasn't been swinging for the fences with its AAA lineup these past few years. well, more in line with what we've come to expect from movie tie-in games. With that perspective, only TASM1 and 2 are true AAA Marvel experiences, and while TASM1 was a surprisingly fantastic movie tie-in, 2 was. just six AAA console video games: The Amazing Spider-Man 1 and 2, Telltale's Guardians of the Galaxy game, and three Lego Marvel games. However, we can more or less write off the Lego games and Telltale's Guardians, since those four titles are by-the-numbers, formulaic palette swaps of their respective developers' endlessly recycled licensed game formulas (calling them true AAA Marvel games would be like saying a paper plate with a picture of Iron Man taped onto it is "legit Marvel merch").


Between 2012 and early 2018, Marvel released over a dozen blockbuster movies, hundreds and hundreds of comic books, and. Say what you will about the quality of Marvel's products, but at least they know how to produce quantity - at least when it comes to everything but video games.
