Why is it so hard for them to make a Superman video game?

>It's hard to make a superman game unless you just do the same trope of 'hero looses powers and regains them over the course of the game'
Why?

Makes no sense, superman has the powers of a god, there would be no tension or challenge whatsoever

A Red Son game could be fun, Supercomrade initially being a shining beacon of communist ideals standing against the imperialist west but bit by bit uncovering massive atrocities being committed against the Soviet people by their own government and realizing that he's been protecting and upholding an incredibly evil system. Could be neat and might even open the door to some RPG elements, with supes deciding what path he's going to take after discovering various truths. Might be too obscure a setting though, people are generally only familiar with the more classically heroic Burgerman.

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The Bizarro-mode was fun at least. I still can't understand how a game that opens with Supes being kidnapped to Warworld and fighting a giant Metallo decided that ending on a fucking Tornado was a good idea.

modern superman interpretations suffer from the misconception that he should be literally god instead of very strong super-human

megatron rainfall was great tho, dunno what you're on about

Shitty powers and you can't justify why he would take damage from trash mobs.

Flying sucks in video-games, except Ace Combat & Flight-Sim. No game has done a good job of utilizing it. It always feels uncomfortable. It's literally underwater levels, except you don't have the underwater visuals.

There's no actual reason why a Superman game hasn't been released though. You could copypaste the Spider-Man game.

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Megaton Rainfall takes place in space, with seamless transitions to an entire earth.
You're an invincible alien entity that has tons of powers like blasts that can cause nuclear explosions, and you're able to travel at speed faster than light.
You have to defend the earth from alien attackers that occur across the planet.
Rather than having a health-bar for yourself, it's the city/earth, but it really ruins the game imo.

I'm not. Superman is the most boring, dogshit superhero ever conceived. Bring on more Spider-man and Batman games.

>fly around the world in five seconds
>laser bad guys
>be invincible
>strong enough to lift anything easily
yeah real fun game

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I enjoyed it, but the constant rating system + city-health-bar just ruined the fun for me.
I will say the soundtrack and the flow between locations on earth was hella fun.
I played before proper mod support was added, so I might see if I can get a mod that removes the fail thing.

Superman would have more games if his most prominent power weren't flight. It's almost impossible to balance difficulty for a game where you can fly forever unless you specifically have clouds of kryptonite or some bullshit all over the map to prevent you from just flying over enemies and beam spamming them. We're gonna get a Wonder Woman game by the Mordor devs, and I have high hopes for it.

Pull a batman arkham city. Superman gets injected with THE EVIL KYRPTONITE VAX and that makes him weaker but not enough to lsoe all his powers. Thus you can give him a health bar. Rest is business as usual

I have a feeling Rocksteady have tried multiple times to make one but couldn't solve the overpowered problem. The Suicide Squad game looks like shit.

Superman is the strongest mortal, but he's weak to magic. He would unironically get his shit wrecked by those shitter glintstone pebble spamming hollow sorcerers in Elden Ring.

An Invincible game would be a lot more fun since he's not actually invincible. You could start out not knowing much about your powers and get stronger and better as the game goes on and there's plenty of bosses they could use. Maybe even have a few levels where you switch to atom Eve's perspective since her powers would be fun in a video game.

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Superman isn't boring, but his skill set isn't conducive to flashy bamham combat because he'd punch people so hard they'd explode. Spiderman kinda gets powered down in the Sony games, since he can bench like 10 tonns or something, but it'd be way more obvious for someone like Superman to struggle with your average mugger and jogger.

>mentions elden ring out nowhere
kek, and superman is not a mortal, he's a literal alien called "Kal El" who gets his powers from the sun, and although he's weaker to magic he's as fast as light so no your shitty elden ring enemies wouldn't do anything

they had a pitch for a Superman game, but it was rejected and the Suits forced the live-action Suicide Squad shit on them.

Nah, don't nerf superman, buff everything else. Toss him into a portal to a giant Room Escape dimension and you have to use his entire skill set to solve physics puzzles like Breath of the Wild.

That would be a reasonable take if he wasn't able to fly, shoot lasers out of his eyes, project energy fields, see through walls, and I even think he became invisible in some obscure number
They trated him as a god from his conception. His whole motif is that he could do things no other human could even try doing.

It is a mortal creature, technically
He literally has a whole line of comics that use his death as a main plot pivot

The only way it ti be interesting it either do origin story with him being a teen with only fraction of his powers or make him injected with krypronite to make him weaker. But either of those will be basically not a superman game.

Don't conflate mortal with human. Everyone knows Superman is an ayy masquerading as a circumcised American (Ma and Pa Kent were Jews, btw). He's mortal in the sense that his powers are biological in nature and that he has a lifespan. He's no different from Martian Manhunter. ANY magical attack fucks him up, this is a non negotiable fact.

The only times Superman is interesting is when he's far in some alien planet with introduces the audience to a whole bunch of weird cultures and it can get pretty deep from a lore pov.
A Superman game should be about that, put him on Krypton or something, make him stronger than his peers but not extraordinary. This would give the player a challenge while at the same time creating the opportunity to do whatever they want with the narrative, introducing new characters or whatever. Make the final stage the Earth for some increase on the tension and there you go.

That sounds good, but you can really only pit Superman against other Kryptonians for one game. No one makes a superhero game without the expectation of making sequels if it sells well.

Just make it like the animated series where he is not as powerful.

just take the Fleischer cartoons and make a beat-em up, easy
>youtube.com/watch?v=aIeAQyWzAbI

Devs are too stupid to conceive a good one.
>he's too powerful!
So fucking what? A game where you can do anything from go instead of "get powers over time" would be fucking awesome, that's why Richter mode is the best in later CVs.
>n-no it wo-would be boring
It would be unique in a landscape of cut and paste, grind to level, path blocked until dev says go games. For the challenge fags have some guys like Darkseid or Doomsday as bosses or puzzle foes like Braniac/Luthor that require problem solving instead of punching.
The other option is to go back to the OG. Jump tall buildings, fast as a locomotive, strong enough to pick up a car. It would be fun as hell.

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Because the last time they tried, an absurd amount of executive meddling caused Superman for the N64 to exist.

Well, you could ignore the whole destruction of Krypton thing or make other planets with a whole new set of "rules" for his powers.
Whatever is fine as long as Lois Lane isn't there

Superman is too strong to be interesting.
Its really Dragonball tier, the main characters are so strong and powerful you have to keep creating new villains and shit to be a threat but then theres another gigantic jump in power etcetcetc

Superman has no lifespan though, in Superman One Million he has lived dozens of thousands of years, and he will keep living and getting stronger as long as he can harness solar energy

> A game where you can do anything from go instead of "get powers over time" would be fucking awesome
I don't think you understand fun. I hope you don't get to be involved with anything related to entertainment, at least until I die or become too old to understand what's going on.

A Lex Luthor game would be far better
>Combination of a strategy game, and third person action game.
>Start off with a small criminal enterprise smuggling, and selling drugs, and grow to the point where you you've taken over every business in the city. Through diplomacy, violence. and buying out the competion.
>Slowly take over Metropolis's economy while fighting against various Superheroes and Villains, criminal organizations, Star Labs, and Wayne Enterprises.
>Rely on common street thugs to do most of fighting for you at first "when you're too weak to fight most things" Develop your technology to the point you're controlling sci-fi soldiers with advanced weaponry, and have your own suit of power armor to fight heroes.
>Superman shows up in the mid game, and is the one hero you can't defeat, only slow down. It's up to you to try and recover from the damage he does to your business.

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superman as a property has some rights bullshit so it's hard to make anything with it that isn't comics

>t. Lana Lang
Lois is best girl, to the point the Spider-man game just made MJ into a copy of her

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Just mash up saints row 4 and hulk ultimate destruction. It JUST Hulk but add flight mechanics.

Their only chance is a minecraft x superman game where you are a common construction worker trying to rebuild metropolis after every attack.

Look deep into your heart, you know it to be true.

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I think Nintendo EDP should’ve gain DC right to make Superman games.

A game where Superman's friends are brainwashed so he can't go all out until the finale

he's the most well known fictional characters ever, the symbol is right up there with coca-cola and mickey mouse. the merchandising alone is a license to print money.

if you're not an idiot you capitalize on it

You need to break your pre-conceived notions, kid

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He's too strong for challenging gameplay, and his flight is too versatile to control effectively.

When She-Hulk exclusive for Xbox?

>as long as he can harness solar energy
There's only a finite amount of energy in the universe, and he'll run out of suns eventually. Even if he resorts to dimension hopping or time travel, the fact that there's a restriction on his lifespan makes him mortal. On the other end of the Spectrum we have Dr. Manhattan, who can use his matter manipulation abilities and lightspeed cognitive ability create infinite energy.

I just want him to have an alien romantic interest, someone like him, like Supergirl, she's always been a cutie

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Megatron Rainfall for smash bro!

>You can't make him as powerful as he should be without the game being boring
This always gets peddled out as an excuse and it's always FUCKING RETARDED. There's a built-in narrative device for how you could excuse that shit
>Nyeh, Superman! You've fell into my trap and have been afflicted by some bullshit variety of kryptonite or specific level of kyptonite dosage that allows you to remain about as powerful as ever but now you take damage, nyeh! NYEH!
Or, you know, make all the enemies Metallo drones, or have Supes transported to Metallo City that's XXXX years in an alternate dimension where even the mooks robbing jewelry stores are powered by kryptonite. Have some space aliens come in and be the baddies, or have Metropolis go to chaos because the entire city got hit with a You-Can-Hurt-Superman Ray and suddenly everyone's galvanized to do crime.

It's a comic book game, you can do whatever bullshit you like. Either that or just don't fukken care in the first place. Who really gives a shit if Supes takes damage if everyone agrees to the concession that it's needed for the game to be fun.

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Imagine seeing Homelander appear as secret boss?

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Because of retards like this

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Homelander doesn't have any training or real experience doing anything besides killing humans he'd get wrecked by an actual supe

>people whining about Superman being too powerful when he was literally been beaten to death

I think that depends on who's writting him, I remember reading comics where he actually could die of old age, it just took him like a dozen thousand years on Earth
I also remember seeing Superman and Batman age together
There's also that time where he lived a million years in the sun
The point is that he can die of old age in most renditions, and definitely can be killed

Could be kino

there's so many different iterations and writers that it's all up in the air at this point

tomorrow they could have some rando mugger shoot him, blow his brains out and have his fag son take over and have that be canon going forwards

Well, in fighting games he's neither invincible nor does he have infinite power. They don't need to say "hey, he just happened to get injected 1.21 giga-kryptonite, so he's crippled" before the game starts, so maybe just nerfing him for no reason may be the answer.
It happens to Samus every Metroid, anyways.

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