NO YOU CAN'T MAKE A GAME ABOUT SUPERMAN, HE'S LIKE A BOYSCOUT AND CAN'T KILL ANYONE!
But why not?
NO YOU CAN'T MAKE A GAME ABOUT SUPERMAN, HE'S LIKE A BOYSCOUT AND CAN'T KILL ANYONE!
Who are you quoting?
People don't want an actual canon Superman game where you mostly just goes around helping people and being a boyscout.
That would be fun, though.
Superman does kill, he just prefers going almost any route that doesn't involve needless death. But he has no problem killing Doomsday or letting Darkseid die.
boss rush against his strongest / weirdest villains
There, easy.
How about a Superman game concept where you're invincible and the focus is on protecting the city instead? There's a whack-a-mole of random crimes and events popping up and you have to prioritize which ones to go deal with first. It's fine to ignore petty crimes like robberies but they eventually increase the crime level of the area leading to more destructive crimes if left unchecked. Letting too much destruction happen leads to a game over. Normal enemies can't kill you but can still slow you down and there'd be occasional super villains showing up who can actually kill you.
The Superman Returns kinda did that. Superman didn't have a health bar, but the city did. It was generally poorly received.
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easy solution, just set the game on a virtual world or something
me, I said that. and yes, I meant that.
I think the issue with the concept is that the gameplay doesn't really scale in an interesting way with just one guy. That concept makes sense for something like tower defense or a strategy game where you're building defenses for the city. Or even something like XCOM but you're amassing and training a team of super heroes to respond to the threats. But since you'd just be playing a Superman that means you're always going to be just one guy reacting to each threat one at a time. There's not a whole lot that can be done to make it more strategic beyond dealing with the threats in order of magnitude.
It doesn't have to be about killing honestly. There's been Batman and Spider-man games that did well and neither of those characters kill people if they can help it. It's more that there's been nobody who wants to fit the power fantasy of being Superman into a decent playing game.
I do, I want to rescue cats from tree and help grandma cross the street and regularly go back to Smallville to help Pa and Ma on the farm
Why can't they just say the bad guys get knocked out like in every other super hero game? You can throw people off sky scrappers in the Spider Man games and they still insist the dude is fine.
The superman GTA mod looks like fun but I'm not reinstalling GTA just for that
Generally the problem isn't "Superman goes bad" it's that it's been done like 8 times now.
People just want boyscout Supes back.
Anyway what is it with people and not accepting that Supes is a good person? You don't have to subvert the big blue boy scout, he's fine as he is. All you need to do is make him inspiring and not pontificate about goodness.
People who complain about Superman in general. Yet, they keep consuming "What if Superman was Evil" comics and shows like it isn't just the same thing but on the opposite spectrum.
When the fuck are we getting an updated dcuo? This shit feels like it was made for the ps2.
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There's been Batman and Spider-man games that did well and neither of those characters kill people if they can help it.
Yeah, except in the Spider-man games people are constantly getting thrown off of tall buildings or having car doors slung at them at 80 mph.
I want a game where you get to play as these two (not necessarily these iterations).
And the game features an insanely big world, because they would make it feel small.
Why fast travel when you can fly corner to corner in a map the size of AC: Odyssey in seconds?
And the game would feature two types of scenarios... normal hero stuff, where you have to stop bank robbers or catch a plane out of the sky. And those parts would be about controlling your incredible power, and minimizing damage.
The other would be Supes-level threats that you have to face, where you get to cut loose and have insane battles where you're knocking each other across the map and causing tons of damage while you try to keep the fights away from civilian areas.
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Shouldn't have said the N word.
Superman is a dead franchise just like star wars
So basically an entire game of defend this fucking moron npc quests. No thanks.
Pretty sure Superman doesn't have a no-kill rule, he just has a no destroy the Earth rule.
escort mission: the game
Subverting Superman isn’t interesting because Superman is already an inherently subversive character. “What if a powerful person was evil” isn’t clever, we see it in real life every day. “What if a powerful person was genuinely benevolent” is the real shocker. Being cynical and being subversive aren’t one and the same.
It’s also been done. People were going “What if Superman was…LE BAD?” back in the 50s, and I’m going to dump it now for my amusement.
Superman killing chuds in their basement bedroom as their fascist enabling parents look on would be kino.
Is there a game like that?
Superman should have a gun, so many dicey situations would be facilitated if he had one
I don't really think either of those ideas are all that subversive now or ever in the past.
Yes i fucking do, it would be a breath of fresh air in a genre where it's proliferated with games that are all about being criminals or assasains
Kamala lost btw
Man I am fucking tired of Superman. Have been for a while. Any story he is in is just, boring.
I don't trust gamers to be kind
Asura's Wrath basically?
and trump is an idiot playing footsy with tariffs
I like that idea though
I have too many friends like that, and its annoying how much they hype up omniman and homelander. It's just strange how they shit on anything superman despite hardly looking into his comics, if at all, and then go hype up anything that seems like an evil superman.
Superman doesn't kill people because he's just too smart to kill. Batman doesn't kill people because he's crazy.
I do. It could be like Yakuza but with Superman instead of Kiryu.
Does he tell them he has x-ray vision or does he let them pretend they matter for a little longer?
Superman is not shy in admitting he's better than normies, but just because he's better doesn't mean he benefits.
realize a lot if not most of comicshitters problems would go away if the hero just killed the villain
makes you think..
"from the experts"
The verbiage seems political, at least using the same language and the implications that "reading every medical textbook ever published" still makes him less qualified than "the experts" somehow.
Here is my idea for a superman game.
Basically a groundhog's day situation where you constantly repeat a day. There are dozens and dozens of crimes and incidents everywhere to help out. There are major cases that can be investigated to find what caused them and then from there how to stop them from ballooning out of control. Goal is to do a bunch of heroism while also trying to end the loop. Maybe the loop changes a bit and once you perfect an hour or something it becomes locked to prevent tediousness
there's a difference between having the knowledge and know-how, and the actual physical and practical experience in the moment. you could be Lex Luthor and you'd still need to handle something like surgery with growing skill rather than immediate mastery.
Pretty much.