Why are companies so terrible at making superhero video games?

A reader is nonplussed over the lack of superhero games this generation and in particular the way Warner has handled DC Comics.

[Poopmist]

Action games tend to be better using swords or guns. Super heroes generally use neither.

[Godmars290]

More like modern games development mentality favors guns, swords and first/third person. That mold needs to be shaken up if not broken.

[Smokehouse]

What a whiny article lol.

[killswitch80]

Why are so many journalist writing horrible spins on comic book video games.

[OneEyedSteve]

They aren't, you are just clueless.. There is loads of good ones.

[Xaevi]

Hollywood screws movie adaptations of games and the gaming industry screws game adaptions of movies. It's a somewhat funny yet sad cycle of on purpose mediocrity cause you're basically given an amazing idea and yet they consistently fail.

[KwietStorm_BLM]

This hasn't been relevant for a number of years at this point. Spiderman isn't suffering under Activision anymore, we've had the incredible Arkham series, even an all new superhero IP like inFamous.. And we already know that most of the bad ones in the past were made by no name studios to meet a deadline for a tie-in. Pretty late with this whole question.

[TheColbertinator]

This is a golden age of superhero games compared to the old days.

Back then we had 3 attacks, every level had the same 3 goons, we only walked forward with said superhero to progress and the stories sucked.

[Silly gameAr]

Sounds like Maximum Carnage or Captain America and The Avengers. I played the hell out of both games in my childhood. I remember the frustration like it was yesterday.

[TheColbertinator]

They weren't particularly fun for me. Superman 64 and Batman Beyond were also notoriously broken.

[DaveZero]

Either try to do much or to little they do, there never seems to be a middle ground. They create these super hero games and films with there own take and spins, they also don't keep to story's that were told before and take them way off of track.

They bring out a super hero show and rather than it being about the crime and villains and hero's fighting one and other till death, we have to much romance and eastenders type story building that drones on and on.

If I could get a solid show made that were 4 to 6 parts instead of 21 that has to much crap talk that makes me fall to sleep you could do a show really good and it would gain the followers and fans the show would deserve. There is also the fact that if a show is short and packs it's main story and action sequences and has a small amount of episodes, you could then finish seasons quicker and move onto other much needed story arks.

Video games are no different to what I mentioned above the developers do not listen to the fans. Wlhen it's there faverite super heroes or villains they grew up on, they are even more disappointed that something took so long to develop and we all know who's to blame for the tone deaf development that took place.

[Tross]

Rocksteady and Insomniac send their regards.

[Prince-Ali]

They're Superheros... they dont have to try very hard to get mindshare. so they dont.

[AK91]

It's more greedy publishers who want to turn everything into to mobile pay to win games or overpriced alpha GaaS games. Nothing drives more sales than superhero games thanks to the abundance of movies coming out these days unfortunately it also means the suits see this as a chance to make money not make great games.

[Iltapalanyymi]

because capeshit is terrible

[sampsonon]

why are "some" companies terrible at making superhero video games? you mean?

[darklaw]

A hero game is trapped in a confined environment due to the restrictions of the party that owns the rights to the character. The city looks like this, the hero looks like this, the hero can only do this, and the villains can only do this. Now go make the best game possible.