Why Can't the Most Important Superhero Ever Get a Game as Good as Marvel's Spider-Man?

When it comes to a making a solo Superman game, there are specific challenges and limitations developers face that make it almost impossible.

[Terry_B]

Batman got a lot great games already.

[just_looken]

true that as a batman fan i am like ok dc that is enough can i get some other hero a static shock reboot? then a game. Heck a jessica cruz game

But at the end of the day beyond the swing animation the complexity of spiderman/batman games is way less then a superman game.

Fly combat/ground combat/undergrounf combat perhaps space combat each foe own set of powers each own move set bizzaro/lex/mettalo/leach guy drains powers then balance all the powers and map size to compensate speed.

[Terry_B]

Its just better to get a Crisis on Infinite Earths game together already where Supes is just one of many characters to play as ;) Or have one about Superman, Batman and Wonder Woman together. There is enough source material for a story with the holy triangle.

Or a truly Soulslike Superman game where kryptonite in the environment or the weapons /moves of the enemies plays a big role. DC has a ton of other more interesting character than Supües anyway. We never got a good Arrow game or even a Wonder Woman one yet. And where the hell is Lobo in the video game landscape?

[hotnickles]

Got ‘em!

[Rainbowcookie]

Cause Batman has the money to pay off developers to make no good superman games. He needs to be stopped in the corporate world.🙂

[IGiveHugs2NakedWomen]

It's hard to create a game around a person who's nearly indestructible, unless everyone in that Universe is nearly indestructible.

[CrimsonWing69]

They can’t incorporate weaponized kryptonite? Or just make boss fights based off of attacks from the comics?

[Aussiesummer]

Same reason he can't get a decent modern movie.....no one really gives a shit about superman.

[porkChop]

Because Superman is a poorly thought-out character. He's super fast, super strong, he can fly, he shoots literal rays of solar energy out of his eyeballs, etc. He's indestructible except for one single weakness. He's boring to play because the game is literally on god mode. The game can't take away his powers because players hate that. You can't do an origin story where he learns his powers because people have seen it a million times before. The character just doesn't work for video games.

[Flawlessmic]

This ^^^^^

He is just way to over OP as character to make a great game without stripping away what makes him so cool.

Batman and spider man are 2 of the goats for me because they are both very human and can be hurt and have people to lose, while also having very great villain list.

I pray we might get a great superman game but I doubt it.

Even before the games spider man and batman were my favourite comic book hereos just for there humanity and the realists they had to deal with.

[derek]

It's problem that has always existed in comicbook writing, power scale. There are characters way more powerful than Superman in marvel and dc, like galactus, but they are much more interesting because of how they are written. Superman is great but he is not very interesting and he is not the most important comicbook hero, Spiderman is.

[ABizzel1]

I get those points, but it's not even really that.

Even as an OP character it can still be done. The issue is there aren't many developers willing to put the effort and BUDGET into making the quality of game needed for Superman.

A Superman game needs a God of War level budget and production team behind it, and clearly there's only a handful of studios at that level for that genre of video game with the potential budget to do it, and maybe 2 - 3 willing to take the risk.

A good Superman game has to be a massive undertaking otherwise it'll undersell the character. So it either needs to be an intergalactic adventure, or a red-sun-based game with weaponized Kyrptonite to give a sense of urgency.

[IGiveHugs2NakedWomen]

porkchop gets it

[Retroman]

Flash movie will be out in June this year. a flash game might be released if so it should not be hard to make Superman game.

[Dandalandan117]

Because it's hard to strike the balance between being too easy or challenging considering how powerful Superman is.

[jjb1981]

Superman is important already. He's the worst game of all time. Bro....

[jznrpg]

Because SuperMan has some crazy powers and only weakness is cryptonite which is supposed to be super rare . He can literally fly in f’ing space at insane speeds . Hard to translate that into a game . You would need most villains to have the rare cryptonite just to have a chance against him.
You would also need one of the best studios like Insomniac or possibly Sucker Punch who have experience with super hero type games first and have the best writers and director ever .
Either way it’s still a hard game to make no matter who is making it .

[MrChow666]

Because he is boring

[CrimsonWing69]

Yea, I don’t know, you’d feel a Superman Game would be a no-brained to make.

[BrainSyphoned]

Goku keeps cranking out games. Maybe Superman should go train a little harder so he can reach above 9000 then maybe he can have a decent game.

[Demetrius]

It’s sad that spidey and bats are the main 2 heroes getting games they will never listen to use fans I wouldn’t mind a daredevil game, status shock, flash, hell even a teen titans game would be dope so much creativity just sittin round smh

[hotnickles]

I’ve never liked Superman as a character. The only time I thought he was interesting is when he turned bad.

[Tres21]

Then do a son of Superman game.

[gold_drake]

is he really THE most important Superhero ever?

[Unknown_Gamer5794]

Most important? I don’t think I agree with that, though he does have a lot of history behind him, so I suppose I can respect him for being OG, and possibly laying the foundation for other heroes to come. Beyond that though, this may be a hot take, but I’ve never been a big fan.

There’s more to what makes a good superhero than just being OP IMHO, and I just don’t like the way Superman is written. He’s too bland for me. Spider-Man and Batman on the other hand, are great. Moreover, not being too overly OP is great for balance in a game.

[Chocoburger]

I actually beat Superman 64 on original hardware (no emulator save states), that's enough Superman gaming for me, forever.

[Minute Man 721]

The reason for that game...WB. They micromanaged

[ApocalypseShadow]

Because he hasn't been made by a proper game studio that could do the hero justice. And rock steady never tried.

Spider-Man was just an okay game for years. Then insomniac made a great game. It's not that he's not uninteresting. Or even over powered. Fighting Darksyde wouldn't be some simple fight. And fighting Shazam, Black Atom, Metalo, etc wouldn't be simple either. Gamers just aren't thinking hard enough.

Just need a good developer and and a good game plan to make it happen.