I want people to understand this game wouldn’t exist if it wasn’t for PlayStation. I know people talk about Marvel and talk about us, but this game does not exist if it’s not for PlayStation and their support. I’m telling you, anytime I wanted to do something and I want to make a drastic change, it was like, ‘Okay’. I never heard about anything, it was like ‘Go do it!’. The question was ‘Is it going to make the game better?’ and I’d say, ‘Yep’, and they’d go, ‘Okay’, and that would be the last time I’d hear about it. For instance, I’d go ‘This cutscene, I don’t want to do it anymore’ and Sony would go ‘Well, we’ve spent all this money doing it’ and I’d reply ‘We can make this better’, then they’d just say ‘Then go for it’. As you guys know, the story was huge for us, it was really big, but sometimes you don’t know if it’s clicking until some of the stuff is created and to go in and talk about how we can make it better and be okay with making some modifications, and getting total support for it, was awesome.
I mean, people always talk about Marvel and Insomniac, which is awesome – you know how close I am with Bill (Rosemann, Executive Creative Director at Marvel Games), Mike (Jones, VP and Executive Producer at MG) and Eric (Monacelli, Senior Producer at MG), those are my boys. But I owe everything to PlayStation. I got to work with a lot of people at Sony. One person was Mark Cerny, who I was fortunate enough to get as a Producer on this game. Let me tell you, he’s one of the smartest men I have ever met. If there’s any development thing, he’s faced it in many ways and to have someone like him who would push me, challenge me. He would ask questions and do it in a way that’s actually helping you believe in what you want to do, figure out how you can do it, and in many ways when things were toughest I would ask Mark questions. He’s so diverse, you can talk to him about level design, combat design, and of course he was talking to our tech team on how to push the weather visuals, the lighting… To have someone in your corner that you can go to any time and ask him questions is invaluable.
