Isn't it embarassing that, barring those DC crossovers like Injustice, there's never been a great Superman game?

The commodore 64 game was passable, and the arcade was at least decent. Beyond that, no.

I honestly think Superman Returns had the right idea but shite execution. Superman himself isn't harmed by most enemies, the city is instead. You have crazy powerful abilities so the challenge is taking out your enemies quickly enough to minimise damage to the city while also making sure you don't cause too much damage to the city while fighting them. Another challenge would be if multiple crimes happened at the same time, causing you to need to manage your response to them.

Make the focus of the game something diferent from fighting
Superman main focus is to SAVE people not fight badguys
Is like making a fireman game where your focus is to kill terrorists instead of stoping fires

Make it like a puzzle where you need to ise your powers right to save people

>he has no cool powers
I think you need to chill out.

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So, borderline what Superman Returns was where you lose health as the city gets damaged? And how did that work out? Oh yeah, it was shit.

Or alternately you could go Devil May Cry with it, where gameplay-wise he goes down but in cutscenes he's invincible.

Or, we could follow the origin all the way to the end, and go over the top with it the way Platinum Games would

I honestly believe the best version of Superman is the Fleischer cartoons, because he was strong as fuck but not god-mode, you could make an OK game based on that with a kino art deco style too even though Superman was asian for some reason.

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you need Multiple overlapping distress calls that you can't answer all of.

The only way to make a good Superman game is to take away the super strength. Keep the flight, the ice breath, the heat vision, the x-ray vision, but you absolutely need to get rid of the superhuman strength or else he's just way too fucking overpowered, unless you go the usual route and just make the enemies Kryptonite enemies. It'd be cool to play as an alternate universe Superman where he's an assassin or something and has most of his powers but with limitations. Fucking Tenchu Superman. Yes it's a bastardization of the character but fuck, when you make a hero as invincible as Superman you kinda need to fuck it up a bit if you want to put him in a game.

Then your game gets endless amount of backlash and doesn't sell because of how rabid superhero fans and normies alike are. The things people in this thread are asking for just aren't feasible in reality. The character is too popular

Main focus of that game was fighting robots
When your objective was to save people from burning buildings ans stop giant rockets that game was great

Why not trap Superman in a virtual world

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Isnt that the plot of superman 64

That's the joke

would be a good twist to justify gameplay adjustements, some guy with magic powers traps him in a replicate world to keep him busy while magic villains is free to do as he pleases in the real world, point of the game is to break out of the illusion

People love elsewhere stories thought
Like that one where supermannwas a commie

Just don't make him invincible for the sake of the game. It's literally that easy.

I thought Superman wasn't popular anymore and the majority of comic readers, being SJW, hate him specifically?

Then the only choice is to have a small eShop/PSN/XBL Bizarro/Red Kryptonite game, where the whole point is to wreak as much havoc as you can on the city as waves of military and other DC super heroes try to stop you, with shit getting more dangerous and more intense as time goes by. I'm pretty sure that was a side-mode in Superman Returns. That's really the only thing I can thing of to let you actually have tons of fun with Superman's powers while still making sense in-universe, at least on Earth.

I don't think anyone hates him, but nearly everyone finds him antiquated and boring

A The Flash Game would be better

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Super man doesn’t deserve a game

Just imagine the speedrunners.

Flash is also broken though since he can literally time travel. DC has this problem of making their superheroes way too fucking strong.

>Flash is also broken
OH NONONONONONO

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That's part of the challenge. Sure, it's not easy but creative game designers should be able to come up with something fun. Definitely not impossible.
Technical limitation is becoming less and less of an excuse with each passing year.

Is there any videogame character that could beat Prankster?

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Musou games are a thing and they sell really well.

why has Japan historically been capable of making good games based on very powerful superheroes with no problem but Americans always end up scratching their heads?

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Why not a puzzle game?

>pennies

You're smalltime

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>Can perceive nano-seconds.
>Runs into a sword that is standing still in relation to him.

There are game about some weeb super-powered guy and everyone okay with it.
Also God of War exists.
I don't see a problem with Superman,

superman is the only comic that was being well writen, until they fucked it up again

he said he can PERCEIVE the world in nanoseconds not react in nanoseconds

It's not an issue of very powerful superheroes though, it's THE MOST powerful superhero. Flight, super strength, super speed, heat vision, ice breath, x-ray vision, super hearing, bulletproof. The dude is god mode cheating in terms of super powers, so the only way to make a fun game about him is to crank shit up to 11 and make it even more ridiculous, which means lots of embellishing crap that may not be okay'd by fans or creators.

>Can perceive nano-seconds.
Depends on the writer and comic. There's nothing more annoying than people nitpicking a single comic when they discuss and try and flaunt a comic superhero's power.
Reminder that biggest enemies to the flash is an Australian with a boomerang and multiple times over and over again has he been hit by a simple boomerang.

People punch superman and he takes damage in comics.

Sounds like a cop out to me, which is the problem with a lot of these insanely strong superheroes. The only way for them to lose is to either break the rules or have them do dumb shit.

Are you retarded? His super power is being able to MOVE FAST. If he can PERCEIVE FAST and he can MOVE FAST, then he can REACT FAST.

isnt that the point of superheroes?
for then to be SUPER?

put a banana in your ear

I don't disagree, but the people that own these licenses arent usually open to the creativity of a developer that could do something new and exciting with it. They're gonna go for the safest developer they can and most likely try to get an Arkham city out of the game, which just won't work with Superman. The character is at s point where he's basically his own business and that's what posts like Are missing. I don't disagree with you guys or am saying any of the ideas being proposed here are bad, but between autistic comic book fans that don't understand Vidya and normies and investors it'd just be a fucking mess. The easiest example I can relate it too is why we got SWTOR when Kotor 3 would have probably been a smarter move, despite all logic they tried to make a shitty mmo to compete with wow that's now on life support for the rest of eternity

I think the only way you could make a good superman game would be a telltale like point and click adventure where you have to inspire people with your words as superman and do investigations as clark kent.
if you have fighting make it like very easy like arkham city combat where one punch is enough to knock out most enemies just to underline how strong superman is

Supes has bigger problems than shitty games nowadays, his recent films have been by far the worst of the new age DC flicks.

When Aquaman is doing better than you, it’s a real goddamn issue

Yeah absolutely, but when you have someone like the flash running into a sword, I mean that's just borderline stupidity. He obviously has insane reflexes because he's able to maneuver winding roads with cars, people, animals and other crap. He wouldn't run into a sword unless he tripped and fell into one.

Lex Luthor partially block off the sun at the start of the game with nano machines which weakens superman

>Depends on the writer and comic.
Entirely true
>There's nothing more annoying than people nitpicking a single comic when they discuss and try and flaunt a comic superhero's power.
I'm sorry, but even if you account for writers and shifting power levels that comic strip is nothing but stupid.
>Reminder that biggest enemies to the flash is an Australian with a boomerang and multiple times over and over again has he been hit by a simple boomerang.
Because the very writers you just mentioned above. They're writing retarded shit so flash doesn't just solve every problem. And then this is why the writers for days of future past have Quicksilver show up, do his thing, then fuck off. Because no one in that specific movie could challenge him.

This a Superman musou would be fantastic. Hell, even add in the rest of the Justice League and some villains for variety.

The problem is we got shitty writers that make characters too strong combined with other shitty writers that make characters too weak, and it’s just a clusterfuck.

those aren´t really games
more like cutscenes where you press buttons

I would argue that every protagonist in every game is more powerfull than superman. You're largely immune to almost everything and hardly ever die in modern games. Almost every protagonist can heal himself and recharge so I don't really see the difference between a modern day single player protagonist and superman.

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In most games you're weak to like 2 things. Bullets and explosions

Returns was mediocre, if a new game just built upon it it could be real good. Bizarro mode was fun as all hell.

It's a video game, who gives a shit? No one is complaining that Supes can take damage in Injustice. Without Kryptonite, he should be invincible in that game, but that would obviously be ridiculously OP so the devs gave him HP just like any other character. It doesn't make sense, but it's necessary to make the game work. There's no reason they can't do the same for any other genre.

Modern day protagonists don't usually fly, or if they do they don't also have laser eyes, freezing breath and super speed. Also even if they have super strength, they aren't usually bulletproof. There's always something there to balance out modern day protagonists. Superman is like playing Doom with the god mode cheat enabled unless you either bring magic into the mix or have him only fight other insane super villains.

I agree, but for a game that has tons of other DC villains/heroes, I feel they give Injustice a pass. That shit wouldn't fly with hardcore fans if it was just a straight up supes game. I personally wouldn't care, but anyone who cares enough about a Superman game to really want one will.

What the fuck are you talking about? That sounds like a good excuse for an upgrade tree to me. Think of how you end every game with RPG-Like elements added onto it. You're super OP and the enemies just get stronger to deal with your new powers

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>superman game
>start with all powers, but some kryptonite related catastrophe leaves him powerless
>have to slowly relearn powers as the game goes on
>finish the game ridiculously powerful

Or

>young superman game (Smallville)
>learn powers as the game goes through
>finish the game ridiculously powerful

Or just give him a healthbar? How is this so hard?

How does the one from the late 00s play?

How's DCUO if you're playing free, without paying for anything?

Yeah I think that's what people are saying though. We couldn't have a game like Spider-Man for example where it takes place on Earth and you're fighting regular villains. It would have to be high stakes god-mode villains because Superman is too strong for regular joe shit.

Fuuuuuck a why was there no Smalville game made? I loved that show.

A Superman game should be like Spore in its layered expert

multiple games in one, where you can "zoom" the scope of Superman's powers in and out. He holds back more or less depending on what scale of combat/adventure you're currently playing in.

That way you can fight street thugs, supervillains, giant robots, and do things like lift mountains or push the moon back into orbit, fly to other planets, etc.

see

Having a cosmic superman game would be pretty cool. It's something completely new. I'm sick of games taking place in the same areas over and over again

Who cares?

>ctrl+f megaton rainfall
>0 results

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I would sooner go with City of Heroes if you absolutely need a superhero MMO.

>DCUO
I honestly forgot this shit was a thing. I remember liking the opening cinematic.
>VRshit
no thanks

It's pretty boring.

Hang on, is it actually working now?

it supports vr, it doesn't require it.

yeah but it's still the best superman game

More or less but there's drama between who's version of the game you want to play basically, either Leandro or /vg/'s.
Either way it's time to come home, citizen.

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>it supports vr, it doesn't require it.
Doesn't matter, its still first person and that makes it shit.

So it's going to be a game where you fly from rooftop to rooftop, meeting with would-be suicide jumpers, trying to talk them out if it.

Gameplay is about picking the right dialogue choices so they don't jump.
Wow. I'm fucking excited.

Up Up, and a fucking way

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Have pic related be the villain and you can justify anything you want in game.

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could be that
could be saving kittens from trees and fetching baloons

or it could be saving people from daily problems like earthquakes, fires disasters and even roberies, a normal guy with a gun might be nothing to superman but he can kill a inocent person,

AND that is what makes superman diferent from other heroes., Batman stories are about batman spiderman stories are about spiderman

superman stories are about the people superman saves.

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>there's never been a great Superman game
Hello??

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I've never played past the first level of Superman Returns because I could never destroy those meteorites because the game was so shit

lel you were getting beat up by thugs with pipes and chainsaws

>WB makes a better Sonic game than Sega could

>>VRshit
>no thanks
Off yourself retard

True it gets repetitive pretty quickly but you can put a solid 8-10 hours into it at least and i'll never forget that opening sequence

Supes is just playing along

>He may not be able to outrun Wally, but he's quicker where it counts
oh nononononononononono

Isn't there like 5 people playing this anymore

Is Superman peak boomer superhero? Like who the fuck cares about some generic guy literally name Super-Man

The generic ones are the most iconic, just look at Spider-man and Batman too

>dude DIALOG works LMAO!

Superman predates boomers. ACTUAL boomers, not Yea Forums's dumb meme boomers.

>lol if i cant shot something the game is shit dude
western gaming in a nutshell

nigger there's around 3000-5000 people playing any given time and a queue to even log in

[citation needed]

I was more talking about the comic that reeked of wishful thinking.

is called escapism for a reason
thats why i love superman actualy

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It's a comic book. The whole thing is power fantasies and wishful thinking

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lol just say his name backwards

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you have to make HIM say it

The name thing isn't even his weakeness it's just what he chooses as the losing factor for him to go back home, he can make it so the terms are beating him in a footrace and he'll fuck off

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Yes but he doesn't go down from just one or two hits. That being said, Superman is nigh invulnerable but with enough damage, he will eventually go down. He's like a raid boss with too much HP if anything.

That's pretty wholesome

how are you so naive
they were fucking