Reasons Why Superman Doesn’t Deserve His Own Game | Total Revue

Superman is the OG superhero, the godfather of comics and daddy of DC. After Rocksteady’s incredible Batman; Arkham City, the logical step for a superhero game seems to be his greatest rival, Mr Clark Kent. However, whilst Superman may be perfect comic book material with his patriotic persona and all round perfection, he doesn’t sit in well with the gaming universe. Simply put, he is too good for gaming.

[rpd123]

You seem to be fixated on him being too powerful. An easy way to fix that is to start him off at his Golden Age power level. He could run fast, jump high, and was stronger than your average human. The most he could lift was a car. He could be hurt by men with guns or bludgeoned. Then he could gradually work his way up to his modern day powers with a upgrade tree type leveling system.

Also, all of his enemies pose a threat in some way. They could just work through his rogues gallery Arkham City style.

I agree with setting though. Metropolis is pretty generic and other than the Daily Planet and Luthorcorp, there wouldn't be anything to see.

[WeskerChildReborned]

Or just not to build him up as an overpowered character like maybe including Doomsday into it since Doomsday was one of his toughest opponents.

[rpd123]

Yeah that'd work too. Really all of his rogues have something against him and it's not always about brute strength.

I'd like to see a Death of Superman video game. Or have it be a DLC story or something. That'd be awesome. You'd get the full Superman experience in the main game and then in the DLC you could play as all the characters in a Reign of the Supermen and then Return of Superman.

[Snakefist30]

There are much more powerful and better enemies than doomsday like darkseid,Maxima,Suberboy-prime ,Mandrakk,Cyborg Superman,Bizzarro,Parasite,Kry ptonite man and many more!!!

[nveenio]

The brilliance of Superman is that he doesn't defeat his enemies using brute strength. He defeats them using his smarts. (At least this was always my favorite part of the classic movies.) So there are lots of ways to make his super abilities less of an issue.

But I do like the idea of a leveling system. That could be pretty sweet. Really, though, I think his biggest problem is flight and super speed. Those are two pretty tough things to pull off in a game. Controlling a character at Mach 3 could be rough. Maybe Rocksteady will take it on, though. Especially since Man of Steel is coming out in 2013. If it's popular, they could really capitalize on a reinvigoration of Superman with the general public.

[Corepred4]

Build him up?? What the...!?! It's Superman, he has God mode on automatically. I know what you're saying but no, that's lame.

[rpd123]

That's how Superman actually developed in the comics. He had barely any of the powers he has today in 1938. He was more powerful than a locomotive, faster than a speeding bullet, and could leap tall buildings in a single bound, that's it.

[SilentNegotiator]

First of all Metropolis might be standard stuff, but that never stopped Superman from having interesting stories before. Besides, he travels all over the universe in many of his adventures. You could have an open world Metropolis AND have transitions to other places.

Second, you don't have to gimp Superman to his olden days. He has a lot powerful enemies. Borrowing a list already posted: doomsday, darkseid, Maxima, Mandrakk, Cyborg Superman, Bizzarro, Parasite, Kryptoniteman. And besides that fact, a lot of what he does revolves around protecting people and taking the hard route to do things right.

So bite your tongue, author. Off! (JK, I'm not that petty) Playing an exceptional Superman game is on my bucket list. Top 10.

Seriously, though, these are pretty much the same sort of uneducated criticisms that people lay on Superman's existence as a superhero. Superman isn't completely immortal at all. And you're thinking WAY too basic of gaming mechanics on this one.

[ProjectDeputy]

too powerful ?

dude...i just need silver surfer or phoenix to pwn his @ss.

[rhap]

Or maybe create a good game where you could space travel and Earth was nothing but a nuisance to you, with Dragon Ball style fights around the sun and stuff like that.

I'm pretty sure we are having an attempt at a decent Superman game if Zack Snyder's Superman becomes sucess.

[DarkBlood]

its not the game we deserve but the game we need :P

[youndamie]

Why Batman deserves his own game "Because I'm Batman!"

[Moby-Royale]

You ought to be ashamed of yourself.

Smh

[youndamie]

LOL @Moby-Royale come on some had to say it.

[Moby-Royale]

Lol you're right about that!

[xXBlondieVanHarlowXx]

No, I think we deserve it too :b. The wait for a great Superman game has been long, Superman is probably one of the most well recognised superheroes ever created. Batman finally got his game with the Arkham series. I think Superman is more than deserving of his own game. Even if working around his invincibility would prove a challenge.

He didn't look too invincibile in the Dc universe online trailer. I'm sure they can work something out.

[SavageFlamingo]

Or...Kryptonite infused with the air from an accident. Or in the water. It could make him weaker to the point of being slightly vulnerable.

[Romudeth]

Superman is my favorite super-hero but yeah, it seems almost impossible to make a really good game with him.

It's a catch 22 situation. Make him as powerful as he is in the comics and the game will be insanely easy. De-power him and you'll have angry fans screaming that he is weak. It's a no win situation.

I hope that someone can come up with clever way of making a great Superman game one day.

[dragonyght]

Tru maybe in 10 15 or 20 years they will be a hardware powerful enough to make a Superman game lol

[Sheikh Yerbouti]

"He is a fairy, I do suppose
Flying through the air in panty hose.
He may be sexy and even cute,
but he looks like a sucker in a blue and red suit..."

-Sugar Hill Gang

[josephps3]

Superman is just one man.

Its not that impossible to make a fun game and still have him all powerful and invincible as he should be. I wouldn't play a game that would have a gimped superman.

Superman can't die but everyone else he's trying to protect and care/love about can die. You can put him in a situation where you have to deal with a situation and you're evaluated based on how many or how little human casualties. You may even have to decide who to save and who to let go because you can't be in two places at once no matter how powerful or fast you are.

If you complete a mission with the least amount of casualties then you get public approval rating. Get the Key to the City etc Do poorly and the city turns against you and starts portraying you as a useless and start discussing, "Why The World Does Not Need Superman." and you can lose the game if the entire sections of the city turns their back on you.

Tougher bosses/enemies has tougher puzzles or situation where you need a strategy to quickly capture/kill the bad guys with the least amount of collateral damage to people and property.

You can have situation where countries go to war and you have to choose which country to side with and there are bonuses/rewards and penalties for each one.

Superman is only physically all powerful and invincible. He is not all powerful in the mental department. I'm not saying he is a dummy lol but ultimate goal may be world peace where something like Civilization games there is a rating on culture, technological progress, happiness, number of alliances between nations whereby these years of harmony leads to Humankind to unite and develop real space travel and launch a rocket to Andromeda Galaxy.

That sort of feat is impossible without the entire world united as one global citizen of Earth and it was only possible with Superman taking this war ravaged, crime ridden city/world where precious resources is wasted. Instead with world peace, the world unites and finally develops space travel.

Superman can't develop space travel and renewable energy etc. But he or you in the game can help to create a world that allows that possibility.

[NateCole]

Don't know why people disagreed with you. Your ideas are very good.

[hellvaguy]

"Your ideas are very good"

Only good if your trying to write some nerd college paper on socialism. No one would watch a movie about Superman trying to save the world by developing a better disposable cup. And he totally lost me on some irrelevant point on space travel bringing about world peace.

I mean wow seriously?

[TotalHitman]

Lol, remember Superman IV, when he somehow rebuilt the Great wall of China with "rebuild vision."

[DarkBlood]

that was from the fortress of solitude not his own power

[hellvaguy]

Well he is kinda from a planet thousands of years more advanced than ours. Seems to make sense that the tech from his planet could do advanced things.

[smashcrashbash]

Okay first of all people could make a better game about Superman if they would stop doing things like tornado fighting and flying through rings. People seem to think that just because Superman is not all dark like Batman they can just fool around with him. Second of all in response to josephps3 Superman is very powerful in the mental department. He has built robots, a whole fortress,studies planets and galaxies, attempts to cure diseases is very adept at science.Many times Superman has outsmarted people like Metallo, Myxlplyx, Lex Luthor. His alien mind may not be crazy smart like Batman is but he isn't even close to being stupid. Bizarro's mind was a bad copy of his and he was able to form his own planet

Thirdly, it really isn't as hard to put super strong Superman in a game. All you have to do is put him up against powerful people. He has many enemies who have armies at their disposal. Darkseid alone has hundreds of thousands of people on his planet, Mongol has a whole planet of gladiators, Lex has endless resources, Braniac has a whole army of machines. It is not that hard to see enemies armed with Darkseid tech or Lex's machinery to fight Superman and Superman under enough pressure can be killed. Not to mention hes has tons of enemies to fight Parasite, Metallo, Live Wire,Doomsday,Braniac,Cyborg Superman who have the powers and the tools to destroy him. What is so hard about making a level where you fight Brainac's machines, putting him on Apocalypse to take on all those people who are strong as or stronger then Superman?

Developers don't want to think of anything because they are too lazy. They want to do Batman all the time because it is easy to make Batman all dark and brooding, crawling through holes and sneaking up on people and getting badly hurt and torn up.But no one seems to think of anything else for Superman to do but fly through rings and fight tornadoes.

[Tacklebait]

Could do a game of him slowly developing his power while balancing his secret identity. Until one day he has to fight off some major weapon corporation with kryptonite bullets.

I dunno, get creative and i'm sure someone could polish up a pretty damn fantastic game.

If your in a world where super man exists, i'm sure you can come up with enemies that can give him some troubles.

[black911]

Because he wears Tights???

[takohma]

I remember when superman was so powerful he could throw planets with his bare hands! They realized they went too far with his powers and toned him down a lot. I also remember when he didn't even need to breathe. They toned that down and said he could hold his breathe for hours. And he traveled with a can of soda size amoun of air when he traveled through space. Sounds crazy but true. Lol.

[ProjectDeputy]

too far ?

galactus pwns him
silver surfer pwns him
phoenix pwns him

i can go on but no point....only the dc fangirls think superman is the strongest of all,and was a pathetic move from DC to make a overpowered character to compete at the time

[takohma]

theres another marvel character who's too strong alos. He's one of the Inhumans. He was so strong and smart that he gave Dr. Doom his powers so that Dr. Doom could realize he couldnt handle it lol. I cant remember his name though.

[gamejediben]

I think a Superman game could work really well by beefing up his enemies to his power level or by having a villain take his powers away by turning the sun red. Either way would make a great game.

But here's an original idea:

How about putting Clark Kent in a building with terrorists and hostages. And the catch is the terrorists have a bomb that will kill everyone in the building if Superman shows up. Now imagine Clark having to discretely take out the terrorists without giving away his secret identity. Stealth Superman. Or maybe Die Hard Superman. It could work.

There's no reason a great Superman game can't be made. It's just idiots like the writer of this article that don't have any imagination.

[NeoTribe]

Cuz he's gay as hell.

[ProjectDeputy]

wont bother with a superman game
superman is way overated.

there are tons better heroes for gaming

black widow=stealth game,GOOD stealth game
the punisher=TPS
black panther could have a similar game like batman
deadpool getting his DMC game

anw DC heroes are mostly craps no wonder they their comics sales are down,all the movies flops big time except batman

unlike marvel wich ofc dominates

[InTheLab]

So you're just going to pretend that...

Fantastic 4
Daredevil
Ghost Rider
Xmen O Wolverine
Xmen 3
Blade 3
The Punisher
The Amazing Spider Man
Spiderman 3

...didn't happen? Those movies were s*** and you know it. The only good Marvel movies come from Marvel Studios now. Fortunately, Blade is coming back to Marvel, but Xmen (and all mutant related Marvels) and Spidey will remain with Fox and Sony...which means more crap coming down the pipes for the non Disney Marvel.

I'm not exactly disagreeing with you...but trust me, it's Time Warner that's f***ing up DC, not DC. DC pumps out spectacular animation and the New 52 Batman and GL are outstanding.. Doom, Batman Year One, Elite (which was a good Superman story that shows he has weaknesses, but was poorly animated), Emerald Knights, etc.

You are right about DC films though...and the TV shows are terrible. Smallville sucked pass season 4 and pretty much ruined Superman. Wonder Woman rebooted look worse than the 70s version. The Arrow looks ass.

The non Batman films suck and even the Batman films have their problems...like how there's about 30 minutes of Batman in each film while the other 2 hours are filled with Chris Nolan's bulls***.

And DC's sales are down, but so are the non Avenger Marvel comics. Sales received a boost thanks to the Avengers movie but up until that point, Marvel wasn't exactly running away with it.

[InTheLab]

There will never be a good Superman game because of people like the author. Instead of worrying about Supes being too powerful, they should go the other direction and make him overpowered.

Why is Batman AA and AC so good, but almost all other Batman games suck? Because Rocksteady made you feel like Batman. You're solving crimes, stealthily creeping about, stringing guys up from gargoyles, terrifying criminals...all like you are the Batman.

Why do most Superman games suck? Because devs won't go all out and the tech isn't there yet. Superman needs the world to play around in...not just Metropolis. Batman is Gotham, but Superman is the world, and occasionally space. You can't have him cramped up in the same damn city fighting Zod and Bizarro every game. We need a huge playground for Superman in order to feel like Superman.

The other problem is that devs usually cripple Superman by giving him some form of health bar as if Superman can be killed by random robots or other Supermen. Devs also try to limit Supermans abilities by giving him a "mana" bar and that makes you feel like you're playing a lesser hero instead of Superman. Superman should stay powered up as long as the sun is out.

Lastly, Batman is also a playboy Billionaire and a detective. Superman is Clark Kent, who is also a reporter. We need to see that other side of Superman. Not sure if working for the Planet translates to great gameplay but at least it diversifies gameplay, so you're not rescuing kittens every 5 minutes...

Oh...and no Silver/Golden Age/Bronze...Superman was not really any good during those times...

[TheLaughingMan]

Cause he's a tool

[Sino]

lol its no fair, he always turned on GOD mode