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Spider-Man PS4 needs to get several important things right when it releases this upcoming

early September, and has Spider-Man been visually downgraded since its 2016 debut?

Insomniac Games, one of my all time favorite studios, has a lot on their plate.

If they deliver a great Spidey game, the developer is off to the races and will have a successful

future ahead of it.

If it fails and Spider-Man PS4 proves to be a disappointment, well, that'll be very

problematic for Insomniac.

Now I'll be approaching this by treating Spider-Man PS4 as an open-world game, first

and foremost, but because at its core that's what is.

A title allowing you to freely explore New York City as a fan-favorite superhero, and

Spider-Man will need to avoid several open-world tropes if it wants to succeed.

I've been avoiding coverage for the game as I still want to actually be surprised by

it.

But the first thing Spider-Man needs to include is well thought out and story-based side missions

littered throughout New York City.

We can't have generic fetch quests plaguing the game, the type of side content you see

in most of Ubisoft titles, for example.

Missions with all similar gameplay loops that don't offer anything interesting besides

giving you the ability to level up.

The Batman: Akrham franchise is a great example of how to pull off side missions in open-world

superhero games.

You have content focusing on villains like Two-Face in Arkham Knight for example, where

he's robbing banks and you have to stop him.

There are cutscenes and there's a nice story beat to it.

It'll be great to explore New York and take on side missions featuring some of Spidey's

more obscure villains and story moments you won't get to see if you only complete the

main campaign.

Rockstar is also great at doing this as well.

In GTA V for example, Trevor has this whole side mission where he meets an old couple

from England who like to steal items from celebrities homes.

Trevor ends up doing favors for them and this side story ends in a car chase through a hospital.

Spider-Man PS4 will have a large playground and an exciting city, my hometown New York,

for players to get lost in.

So populate it with meaty and memorable missions.

The second important thing Spider-Man PS4 needs to get right is its boss battles.

Boss fights have to be well designed, engaging, and entertaining.

While this is important in any game, it's especially important for a superhero title

like Spider-Man.

We've already seen almost all of the baddies Spidey will be battling in the game, save

for a few surprises.

Each boss, whether it's elector or rhino, needs to feel different.

Part of of the fun of any superhero game or movie for that matter is the villains the

hero has to go up against.

The saying, your story is only as strong as its villain, rings true all of the time.

I'm not too worried about Spider-Man PS4 having good bosses given the fact Insmoniac

has consistently delivered great boss battles throughout many have its games, especially

Ratchet and Clank.

The last thing Spider-Man PS4 has to get right in my opinion is, well, the story.

This seems obvious enough but video games still, for the most part, don't have great

stories to tell.

The industry is still in its infancy when it comes to being able to deliver writing,

characters, and plots that can be comparable to movies and novels.

Since I've been avoiding most coverage for Spider-Man PS4, I'm not entirely sure what

the game's story is about.

But, there has to be a good mix of drama and emotion, and humor.

It's incredibly difficult to pull off, actually.

Being able to produce a game that's funny but also offers serious themes to ponder over

is challenging to say the least.

But looking at Insomniac's track record once again, this is a studio that has always

been able to offer great humor while still exploring heavy themes with its eccentric

characters.

If Spider-Man PS4 is able to nail all three of these things, then it'll definitely be

a huge success.

Now, briefly touching on Spider-Man PS4's visual downgrade controversy, a few fans have

been claiming the game has lost some of its visual flare since it made its debut back

at E3 2016.

This is including the lack of puddles in certain levels, believe it or not.

Now this visual downgrade claims isn't totally out of the question in my opinion.

Watch Dogs suffered the same fate if you can remember, and Sony also showed off a different

Killzone 2 many years ago that looked nothing like the final product.

Some these things have happened plenty of times before.

But Insomniac has denied the claims and by all accounts, the game still looks stunning.

Its visual appeal shouldn't be the main point of concern for people in my view.

It's the three things I've mentioned and the gameplay.

So, we should move the focus away from this.

But either way, we'll find out soon enough how Spider-Man PS4 holds up.

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Aretha Franklin was so hard-nosed in her business dealings that she demanded to be paid in cash before performing

Her heirs won't have it so simple.Though she lived to 76 and was terminally ill with pancreatic cancer, the Queen of Soul died without a will

As her four sons and other family members move on from Friday's funeral in Detroit, they're left with the potentially tall task of finding out how many millions she was worth, and divvying it up, a process that could take years and is likely to play out in public

Estate law experts expressed surprise but not shock that a wealthy person like Franklin would put off making a will until it was too late

At least one of the singer's attorneys says he urged her repeatedly over the years to draft one

'I tried to convince her that she should do not just a will but a trust while she was still alive,' says Don Wilson, a Los Angeles lawyer who worked on entertainment matters for Franklin for nearly 30 years

'She never told me, 'No, I don't want to do one.' She understood the need. It just didn't seem to be something she got around to

'Laura Zwicker, an attorney who specializes in estate planning but is not affiliated with the Franklin estate, says she sees it happen all too often in her work

'People don't like to face their own mortality,' Zwicker says. 'I had a client who had a $70 million real estate portfolio who had had end-stage diabetes

He had plenty of conversations with me about estate planning but would not sign the documents

' Papers filed in Michigan's Oakland County court last week by David J. Bennett, the lawyer who worked most closely with Franklin, lay out the few known basics:She was not married and left four sons, ages 48 to 63: Clarence Franklin, Edward Franklin, Kecalf Franklin and Ted White Jr

Clarence, Aretha's eldest, is incapacitated and is represented by a guardian. And a niece of hers has accepted the role of executor

Under Michigan law, as in most states, the sons will equally divide their mother's assets in the absence of a will, and so far no signs of conflict have emerged among family members

Bennett did not respond to phone and email messages seeking comment.Aretha Franklin's friend Ron Moten, a Michigan businessman, gave the four sons some guidance in his speech at Friday's funeral

'Remember your family, and friends that have been with you for years,' Moten told the men

'Because you are about to meet a lot of people who will now want to be your new best friend

You will also meet some people that will have the best investments in the world for you

My advice? Go slow, be careful and be smart.'The documents make no mention of the value of Franklin's estate

The figure almost certainly runs into the tens of millions, but there will probably be widely varying estimates as her attorneys seek to downplay her wealth for tax purposes and the IRS tries to maximize the amount for its own reasons

Franklin maintained ownership of the songs she wrote and did well by them, Wilson says, though of her major hits, 'Think' is the only one that's her own composition

She also wrote some lesser hits, such as 'Rock Steady.' Though her records were played millions of times, she earned little in radio royalties from smashes like 1967's 'Respect' because such payments go overwhelmingly to the song's author, not the performer

In the case of 'Respect,' the royalties go to the estate of Otis Redding, even though the song owes nearly all its popularity to Franklin

'I would imagine she probably felt she was entitled to more, but probably received more than a lot of artists from the time, especially African-American artists,' Wilson says

Among Franklin's more tangible assets are several pieces of property in the Detroit area that according to tax assessors' estimates are worth at least $2 million, with a market value that could easily be twice that

Share this article Share Once the value is established - a process that could take years - the IRS will take any back taxes Franklin owed, then will tax her estate at 40 percent for any assets beyond $11

2 million.Kenneth Abdo, an attorney who specializes in probate law and has worked on the estate of Prince, who also died without a will, says the IRS will conduct an audit of her holdings

Wilson, her entertainment attorney, says she would not have wanted to see her finances publicly aired: 'She was a private person

'As for why some clients don't make out a will, Zwicker said some heirs, like Franklin's son Clarence, may need more than others, and that can be a difficult and touchy decision for a parent

'One arrangement may be fitting for one child, where other people need more help,' Zwicker said

'To accept that and put it on paper can be hard for a parent.'