As long as there have been games, there have been games based on superheroes. Most of these tended to range from mediocre to terrible, with only one or two gems popping up every few years.
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.
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.
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.
By following the example set by other successful superhero games, Warner Bros. could give the Man of Steel the modern AAA title he deserves.
superman gameplay is difficult and unique...there is a reason no one wants to try anymore. he can't brawl your average thug and making him vulnerable is a cop out.
I don't even give a crap about Superman. I think he's a pretty generic Superhero.
But you make him a god at virtually everything, then it's questioned why devs have a hard time building a good game around that fact.
Superman is a character that is hard to make a game about. The guy is super strong, fast, indestructible, flies, and gets his ass kicked by a little green rock. And on top of that DC tends to micromanage and interfere when it comes to Superman that is how we got the memorable pile of shit called Superman 64. Superman can't kill, can't wreck the symbol on his chest, can't wreck his hair. Only one game came close to being a good Superman game and that was the Death and Return of Superman for the Genesis and SNES. I'd rather have a Lobo game over Superman I love DC but Superman isn't one of my favorite characters.
It would be easy to make a Superman game. I don't understand the argument that he's too strong when we have characters in games that are just as strong as he is.
Superman has all the tools for gameplay available, speed for a dodge mechanic, heat vision for a projectile weapon, freeze breath for an enemy slow down mechanic, super hearing which can be shown as an overhead map (which was done by EA), flight which has already been used in a lot of open world games...what exactly is the issue with translating him into a good video game?
He has more than enough enemies that can give him a run for his money, so that wouldn't be an issue. The whole "he's a god" shouldn't be an argument especially after coming off GoW's success.
why not go the ballsy route and make the player insanely overpowered for the normal fodder in the open-world, but then make bosses give you a run for your money?
It's not difficult to make a Super-Man game. You could even do a story that involves criminals getting access to kryptonite bullets or weapons if you really don't want to let Super-Man just be Super-Man until a boss shows up.
The world needs more good DC videogames that don't feature Batman at all in general
I loved the old 1988 Superman Arcade game and just about everyone loved The Death and Return of Superman on SNES. I've been told Superman Shadow of Apocalypse on PS2 and Gamecube was pretty decent but Ive never played it. But for some reason everyone always talks about Superman 64 like its the only Superman game that was ever made. Its starting to get on my nerves a little bit. Superman has had good games in the past and he will again in the future. Stop this nonsense about Superman being un-game-able. It's total BS.
If the rumors are to be believed, Rocksteady Studios is currently hard at work on an original Superman game that will drawn on his full comic book history. They even referenced Superman and Lex Luthor several times in the last Batman Arkham game. Don't be surprised if you see an announcement in the next several months.
Excellent read! I think your ideas have the potential to make a fun sounding superman game. Superman returns was no goty contender by any means but it was an ok game with plenty of good ideas. If that game had a bit more time in development it could have been really good. Either way is love a great game staring big blue. Hopefully a talented studio somewhere is hard at work on one right now
I read sometime ago about a cancelled recent superman game