If you’re like me, you may have been asking yourself why everyone’s been talking about something called the Raimi Suit, and why people are so angry about it.
Earlier today, Insomniac Games announced an update for Spider-Man (2018) for the PlayStation 4. The free update included a new suit for the player to wear. It’s the same suit that Toby Maguire wore in the 2002 film Spider-Man, directed by Sam Raimi. Thus named the Raimi suit.
While this sounds great, it was preceded by some anger and entitlement by the gaming community. Fans had been wanting the suit for nearly as long as the game has been out. Spider-Man (2018) has a number of suits, referencing different films and alternate universes, after all, such as Homecoming, the Iron-Spider, and Into the Spider-Verse.
When Insomniac announced the details for the final DLC, Silver Lining, fans noticed that it also lacked the Raimi suit. They took this to mean the game would never get the suit. Sure enough, the developers were harassed and criticized for this exclusion, calling all previous suit “trash” and claiming that Insomniac doesn’t listen to their fans.
Fortunately, Insomniac is handling the negative input fantastically. Take the below example for… example.
Of course, there were many folks in the community that were completely content with the game, and some that were upset with the people angry at insomniac for not including the suit.
All of that drama now concluded with this update.
If you can’t tell, this particular article is a bit more bias than most. I found the aggression to be extremely unwarranted, and super entitled. They worked hard on the game, and they’ve made an amazing experience as a result. But they’re ruining everything because they don’t have the suit from a 2002 film that most of y’all only meme at this point? I don’t even know what kind of licensing they might have had to handle to get this update to happen. Why can’t y’all just appreciate what you have?
The suit looks good though, I can’t deny it.