"Rocksteady has really made a name for itself since its founding in 2004. Though the studio has only three games under its belt, two of those are the critically-acclaimed Batman: Arkham Asylum and Batman: Arkham City, which have been lauded for being so faithful to the source material. It’s clear that Rocksteady can’t continue working on Batman games until the end of time, though there is plenty of material to draw from, but the question is what direction should the studio take once they are finished with the Dark Knight’s story?"
"Replica arcade cabinets are popular among collectors nowadays, with three sizes commonly available: 3:4 scale, 1:4 scale, and 1:6 scale cabinets. Numskull's Quarter Arcades line is stepping up their game (and prices) with today's announcement of 1:4 scale Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles and TMNT: Turtles in Time cabinets. Both miniature cabinets are fully playable and support 4-player local co-op," says Co-Optimus.
James Gunn's DCU plans need to finally give Superman a proper gaming outing. By looking at the DC Comics lore, leaving Earth is the way to go for Kal-El.
The beginning of EAs Superman Returns was a good little side story that should have been explored more. Having to compete on War World was a great game level and could be expanded on even further.
As I have said before, there's zero reason why we can't have a good Superman game. Superman 64 proved this.
I feel like Gunn is prioritizing Superman this go-around. A game would make sense. Now more than ever.
When it comes to a making a solo Superman game, there are specific challenges and limitations developers face that make it almost impossible.
true that as a batman fan i am like ok dc that is enough can i get some other hero a static shock reboot? then a game. Heck a jessica cruz game
But at the end of the day beyond the swing animation the complexity of spiderman/batman games is way less then a superman game.
Fly combat/ground combat/undergrounf combat perhaps space combat each foe own set of powers each own move set bizzaro/lex/mettalo/leach guy drains powers then balance all the powers and map size to compensate speed.
Its just better to get a Crisis on Infinite Earths game together already where Supes is just one of many characters to play as ;) Or have one about Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman together. There is enough source material for a story with the holy triangle.
Or a truly Soulslike Superman game where kryptonite in the environment or the weapons /moves of the enemies plays a big role. DC has a ton of other more interesting character than Supües anyway. We never got a good Arrow game or even a Wonder Woman one yet. And where the hell is Lobo in the video game landscape?
Cause Batman has the money to pay off developers to make no good superman games. He needs to be stopped in the corporate world.🙂
It's hard to create a game around a person who's nearly indestructible, unless everyone in that Universe is nearly indestructible.
They can’t incorporate weaponized kryptonite? Or just make boss fights based off of attacks from the comics?
Same reason he can't get a decent modern movie.....no one really gives a shit about superman.
Because Superman is a poorly thought-out character. He's super fast, super strong, he can fly, he shoots literal rays of solar energy out of his eyeballs, etc. He's indestructible except for one single weakness. He's boring to play because the game is literally on god mode. The game can't take away his powers because players hate that. You can't do an origin story where he learns his powers because people have seen it a million times before. The character just doesn't work for video games.
This ^^^^^
He is just way to over OP as character to make a great game without stripping away what makes him so cool.
Batman and spider man are 2 of the goats for me because they are both very human and can be hurt and have people to lose, while also having very great villain list.
I pray we might get a great superman game but I doubt it.
Even before the games spider man and batman were my favourite comic book hereos just for there humanity and the realists they had to deal with.
It's problem that has always existed in comicbook writing, power scale. There are characters way more powerful than Superman in marvel and dc, like galactus, but they are much more interesting because of how they are written. Superman is great but he is not very interesting and he is not the most important comicbook hero, Spiderman is.
I get those points, but it's not even really that.
Even as an OP character it can still be done. The issue is there aren't many developers willing to put the effort and BUDGET into making the quality of game needed for Superman.
A Superman game needs a God of War level budget and production team behind it, and clearly there's only a handful of studios at that level for that genre of video game with the potential budget to do it, and maybe 2 - 3 willing to take the risk.
A good Superman game has to be a massive undertaking otherwise it'll undersell the character. So it either needs to be an intergalactic adventure, or a red-sun-based game with weaponized Kyrptonite to give a sense of urgency.
The Avengers!
Spawn needs a good game. he is an awesome character who has never received his worthy title yet.
They work for WB so I doubt they'd be able to do Marvel without a lot of contracts.
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good question, how about superman..