Why don't we have a good Superman game again?

Honestly, this would have been fine. Plenty of ways Superman can fuck up his heroics, and Telltale is all about glorifying fuck ups.

save people, fly around, fight brainiac robots, solve puzzles etc

superman 64 ruined superman games forever since nobody wanted to risk making future superman games kek

I'm waiting for those posts where some user suggests that game where instead of having Superman's life we get Metropolis' and then another user replies to him that "that's actually a good idea".

Megaton rainfall fills this niche pretty well. Not sure how it isn't more widely known

Because is a VR game and VR isnt popular yet

It's not solely VR though, you can play it without VR. Pretty sure it wasn't originally VR either

>you can model swap superman into prototype and it makes complete sense
No it doesn't

>every boss encounter is the same "press b to win" garbage
this looks cool but the combat looks shit

>but game devs show the strength and lack the intellect
The problem here is that the trend in modern vidya is 'no one left behind' because they'd rather people play the game and complain it was too easy then not finish the game and complain it was too hard. They design everything to cater to the lowest common denominator of intelligence, everything has to be tutorialised, signposted, and waypointed in case one player misses a moment of content and gets stuck. Games are terrified that a player will miss something or not figure something out nowadays. Which means they can't really show the intellect. Imagine for example, a scenario where the player, as supes, sees the villian punch a hole in a dam, which will cause it to burst and flood the city. The solution is for him to freeze the water. Now, in a modern game, which seems more likely.
1. The player is left to figure out how to deal with the situation on their own using their intuition. After a few failed attempts and loading a few checkpoints, they kick themselves for not thinking of ice breath sooner and attempt it, successfully freezing the dam.
2. The game freezes to make sure the player has enough time to respond, and an on-screen prompt appears instructing the player on how to perform ice breath just to make extra sure they know the input, even though they've used it hundreds of times before. Even before they've had the chance to do so, supes mutters to himself: "I bet I could use my ice breath to stop that dam from bursting!" just to make extra sure the sub-80-IQ players are not confused by what's happening. A flashing waypoint HUD element appears directly where the player needs to use the ice breath. Instead of experimenting and figuring it out themselves with a risk of failure, the player simply moves to the indicated location and presses the indicated button, blindly following what they are told to do without having to put any thought into it.

Just make a Superman Shump

What you do is have Superman but as an XCOM type geoscape game and you have to dispatch various Justice League Heroes to some events around the world but there are some events you have to personally intervene yourself because the disaster or threat is too great. However you will only ever control superman and sometimes your other superheroes may not apprehend the villains and they escape but you might be able to thwart their plans and so forth.

That's not a superman game, that's a JL game.

Superman game? No. HOMELANDER game? Now that's the real hero.

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superman eats brains

Okay, here's how you make a good superman game. You do the exact same thing that made a good spiderman or batman game: Make a game that makes you feel like superman. So.
>Flying/movement has to feel fun.
We're not just gonna get away with a simple push stick to move in direction system here. We need acceleration, momentum, and force. Every action needs to create a reaction on the world too. If Supes is flying around at high speed, it should be parting clouds and shattering the windows of buildings. He needs to feel powerful, like the player needs to restrain themselves instead of just holding the trigger all the way down instead of wreaking havoc wherever they go.
>Restraint needs to be a mechanic.
A core element of supes is holding himself back and how fragile everything is to him. This needs to be represented in gameplay. I figure tying movespeed to restraint might be a reasonable way to go about it - the faster the player moves, the less they hold back. If the player is fighting a thug, they don't sprint up to them at full speed throwing a haymaker. They walk calmly up to them knowing the only threat that peashooter they're holding poses is to the innocent bystanders. On one hand, this might be a little irritating, having to slow down and not charge everywhere at full speed. On the other hand, once the player gets USED to holding back and taking it slow, that's when the real payoff happens, because.
>When you have an occasion or need to go all out, it feels much more satisfying to cut loose after holding back.
XCX did a similar thing with their skells: The player doesn't get them until 15-20 hours into the game, once they've already gotten used to having to navigate the world on foot. Reason being that after getting accustomed to moving around on foot, you appreciate the freedom they offer much more. Same principle here. Once the player is used to having to hold back and take it slow all the time, it feels that much more satisfying to cut loose.

sounds cool though

Make it a game where Superman is godly OP and cannot be harmed, however he needs to protect the city, so you "take damage" by having innocent civilians die or too much property damage. So you have to prioritize saving people and tanking hits to protect the city.

Literally Superman Returns

Didn't that game get cancelled?

Because Superman is the least interesting hero.

We do, it's called Saints Row IV.

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>pretty much all his rogues can kill him
No, only Doomsday and maybe Darkseid can kill Superman. Everyone else can give him trouble but they'll never cause enough damage for an actual kill.

>Dude I have the perfect Superman game!
>We start by removing all of his pow-
For a board that went nuts over Metal Gear Rising, loves DMC, worships Kamiya and Platinum Games for their over the top style and prefers Prototype over InFamous, you fuckers are an unimaginative bunch. Superman has more than enough material for him to go nuts and unleash himself, but you faggots strictly want an open world game restricted to Metropolis (lol) that's mission based and who's only main villains always seems to be Lex Luthor. You niggers need to actually learn the fucking material before you say bullshit like "Superman just doesn't work in a videogame, he's not interesting ".

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This would get old fast

>Parasite, Zod, Metallo and Kryptonite man can't kill Superman

>learn the material
No thanks, I wouldn't want to subject myself to that tripe

No, they can't.

So RAD but you play Superman instead of a dude with a giant robot.

The only good Superman related material is Red Son.

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literal normie trash
>DUDE RUSSIAN SUPERMAN XDDD

people don't realize supermans power always depends on the writer, he can easily be made animated series level or john byrne reboot level.

Of course the best game would be flying through galaxies but that won't happen

Would rather have a green lantern game

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>Two are powered by his most well known and effective weakness
>One gains power while reducing his
>One is a member of his species with the same powers but also military and martial arts training.
Other than the plot demanding Superman win why would they not be able to defeat him?

First and foremost, you have to be able to make flight fun, which shouldn’t be too hard. I’ve noticed that every genuinely fun capeshit game has a good method of travel

>ASM2 Webslinging
>Hulk Ultimate destruction leaping
>Bamham AC gliding

So maybe do something so that it’s not as simple as holding a trigger and steering. Or you can do that, but boost by bounding off of buildings and flying through structures so that you have a legitimate incentive to not just follow a straight path (Spider PS4 did this pretty well).

I really don’t think managing Supe’s OPness is a huge issue. Just beef up enemies. Make a brainiac invasion.

For Zod and the other Kryptonians the reasons vary and may be a mix of the below

>Superman growing up on Earth means he was bathed in Yellow Sunlight during his formative years and is straight up stronger in every way than every other Kryptonian for this reason as his body can process
>Superman has had more than anywhere from a decade to decades with his powers and using them is like second nature to him as he literally grew up with him giving him a wealth of experience in their uses
>Superman has been trained in Martial Arts Batman ever since they first started working together

I think they used all three in fact whenever Kandor was unshrunk and a few hundred thousand Kryptonians suddenly appeared on Earth. Doomsday showed up right after and 8 Kandorians beat his ass to death.