The Arkham Series and now Telltale Batman (though it hasn't dropped yet) more or less proves that there can be quality open world and story driven games based on superheroes and comic book characters.

So why doesn't WB Games hire a developer to make a quality Superman game?

Obsidian (as long as you give them a decent deadline/dev cycle and a Superman consultant from DC) could knock this out out of the park.

Thoughts?

dc can't even make great movie/animated movie with him nowadays and you want game ? green arrow will far more better choice..

Yeah

@goodguy: I disagree.

@hocko1999_virus: That was garbage mah dude. I mean something on the same level as the Arkham series.

@thepreface: Oh don't worry, there are plenty of GOTY level masterpieces.

Yeah, it could, with lots of lots of hard game mechanics. Lmao

It could also be done if they would have the gameplay be something like DCEU Superman's power levels and whatnot

Superman is so much harder than Batman to make a game out of.

Think about it, Batman, Assassin's Creed, Tomb Raider, heck, even Legend of Zelda. You're a person, you walk around, maybe you glide a bit, you sneak, you dodge, you use tools to open doors. There's lots of people who know how to make those games awesome.

But when was the last time you had fun just flying in a game. When was the last time you played a game where you played someone strong enough to break anything in sight and it was fun? When was the last time you played a character who was pure and noble and inspiring instead of badass and fear-inducing and it was cool and fun and you got into it? When was the last time you had enemies that were big alien monsters and you wanted to know more about their story and have dialogue options with them?

Will it ever happen? Yeah, but it'll come from a studio that not only has a passion for the character like Rocksteady had for Batman, but who has experience making games that feature characters that are like Superman and not so much like Batman. I think the group from Radical Games was the closest to making a Superman game and probably would be the best positioned, at least as far as gameplay goes.

A good Superman game would be very difficult to make open world considering the power of the character. Being limited to Metropolis would be so boring unless it was given some plot device like being sealed off by Braniac that could be interesting and fun. Instead a "beat em up" game like Asura's wrath would probably be a lot more fun and could give way to some pretty awesome fight scenes. The only problem is those style games aren't as popular anymore and it might not sell as well. An open world game limited to Metropolis could be fun if the character was more so TAS levels.

It's possible that they hired someone to.

https://www.reddit.com/r/DCcomics/comments/4cnimu/wb_games_montreals_superman_game_everything_i/

A Superman game should be on the scale of Mortal Combat or Resident Evil, but the character for sure needs to be nerfed; like maybe on par with the DCEU Superman like @captain_batman_ftw suggested.

I'm thinking he should be taken by surprise and indisposed for a little while, but breaks free to find the world one giant playground for creatures that are an amalgamation of magic and science. That'd offer some interesting combat situations. But for more Superman-like situations, by that I mean helping/inspiring, they could have him talk some special/specially-gifted people into joining him in the fight to save others and he is constantly lured into scenarios where he must save people; in doing so, he is constantly hunted down and his subsequent confrontations result in some casualties. He refuses to give up hope, but is still a bit weighed down by his inability to truly make a difference in this newer, darker world as it seems no matter what he does, it's hopeless.

I'm well-aware of how this sounds and I think it might actually sound corny, but I think if done correctly, ANY fan would be down for that type of Superman game. Don't know what to say about people who just want to play the game because it's a game. If you're not a fan, it may be hard for you to get interested.

Its impossible, Superman's image is of the ultimate force of a lawful ideal superior to any challenge and is too powerful to engage in a human setting with Batman/Spider-Man like game mechanics and allowing him to fight battles uninhibited with beings that would focus on destructive gameplay on a plantary scale, a game like batman and spidey works because they have grounded elements to engage in the environment where they can attack in tandem with their own human scaling setting. Plus they have their personalities allow them to be video game characters since video games are about wanting to perform high amounts of freedom and creativity when progressing from objective to objective and as action games goes being more versatile and powerful as you progress to destroy anything and everything.

Superman is effectively about restraint in a world made of cardboard, and being a living lesson in holding back and being rigid in using his powers as carefully as should be. Personality wise, he is not a fan of mindlessly fighting off the bad guys with no reguard of destruction in heavily population. Video games tend to break the rules in reguards to how much you can get away with in fighting with enemies that even has people in them.

Superman is too uptight to fight at his highest consciously, he is to strong to use his superpower casually in a arkham setiing heck even on a globl scale since we know he can destroy the earth if he truly went all out, and its no fun playing a character that doesn't want to show off the highest level of power he has cause he is to strong for the world to handle it.

For now lets play superman in a group type game before we get a solo game of him because his powers would be hard to use in game play in a realistic setting, he needs to fit a over the top place where he naturally fits as a character that can handle him and he can break logic all he wants, because he would and does hold himself back in the comics while some of the time can be become his outlandish self while living in human restrictions(comicbook logic), but i want a game where everything can handle the man of steel giving him unlimited power to anything short of being god and a fighting system that will make devil may cry and bayonetta call of duty level of generic. The bosses are literally the size of planets and or even the void of universes, and superman powers get more insane as he beats them each one.

Superman 64 wants to speak with you.

@jimishim12

Not quite convinced it's impossible. It's just a different game, and not quite sure it would need to be planetary scale, as Superman hasn't really shown himself able to decimate whole sections of the globe at once. He's really really strong and really really fast, but he's not quite a cosmic being. Similarly, Spider-Man is capable of tossing ten tons with ease, but we don't expect that from him in a video game. Superman, similarly, wouldn't be displaying his max comics stats for gameplay. As long as Superman feels incredibly strong in the player's hands, they won't care if he can rip reality in half with his bare hands, just as players who play Batman don't get upset because he doesn't have Batman's ability to simply walk into a room and say a word and cause foes to run, scatter and soil themselves in fear. It's about the feel, not stacking up to "that one thing Superman/Batman/Spider-Man did that one time."

You are right though that the game would be about restraint in a way which other games are not. It's a very different type of game, but to say that games *cannot* be about restraint seems really short sighted. Of course they can. There are tons of board games and card games that are about restraint and measured responses. If anything, video games are *more* versatile than card or board games.

And I also think you misunderstand Superman. He's not necessarily 'uptight' he just cares about the people around him. While Batman has no problem beating up poor mentally sick people who are weaker than he is, Superman actually cares about poor crazy people, and wouldn't hurt them any more than was absolutely necessary. The key to such a game is to get people caring about the game world. In short, you have to turn the whole world into a beloved companion that the player wants to protect the same way Superman would. Not an easy feat, and not something I've seen done on that scale before, but it's clearly possible to create those feelings of restraint in a player.

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Only if it's entirely based in outer space or fighting nothing but Kryptonian level enemies.

I'm thinking more The Animated Series like power level since he's one of the weakest version of superman and a more balance power level.

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