Why Rocksteady's Next Game Should be Superman

Jacob St-Amour from Link-Cable Writes: "In the last few years alone, we have seen an increasing amount of rumors suggesting that the now acclaimed developers that is Rocksteady Studios who are best known for their work on their re-imagining of the Caped Crusader are looking to bring the Man of Steel to the video game world. This has been suggested time and time again and we have heard countless takes on Rocksteady’s unknown project that Superman will be the main hero for the company’s next big title. We here have already discussed that we are long overdue for a new Superman game and we feel as though there is no other developer besides Rocksteady Studios that should be at the helm of this project. So here’s why Rocksteady’s next game should be Superman."

[Italiano1234567]

But its not its a Batman reboot

[AK91]

Thats WB Montreal not Rocksteady.

[Italiano1234567]

Shit ur right my bad lmao

[UltraNova]

Hopefully RS breaks silence during E3 2020!

[AK91]

It's cool we all make mistakes.

[FloydianAndroid]

I understand why people want a Superman, but I don’t the think people factor in the logistics of it. It’s much more difficult to make a Superman game than a Batman or even a Spider-Man game.

Flight is very difficult to get right on a physics level. Also, unless the story involves Superman not having all of his powers it just doesn’t make sense that he would have any trouble fighting low level enemies.

Despite would people say I don’t think rocksteady has any real desire to go away from Batman. The only ip I could see them pulling off is maybe a TMNT game, and I would kill for that personally.

[BlackTar187]

TMNT would be insane. The reveal would give me chills.

[gangsta_red]

"Flight is very difficult to get right on a physics level."

How is it difficult, they've done flight in multiple games. Even the Superman game from EA nailed it.

He shouldn't have trouble fighting low level enemies which is why you don't make the game filled with them. You give him enemies that do present a challenge.

Save the low level enemies for the meta game. Protecting citizens, stopping a bank robbery, stopping a high speed chase, etc.

[FloydianAndroid]

The flight in the Superman game you’re talking about was not good in my opinion. It felt like time was slow to give the illusion that Superman was moving fast. I mean Superman routinely flies to outer space in a split second there’s no way to make the world big enough in scope to give it that feeling of speed. Also you’d have to be flying above all the buildings so that you don’t run into them. It’s not like Spider-Man where you have that freedom of movement.

[TheKingKratos]

Yeah, Superman returns did all that and EA made it

and come to think of it, Dragon Ball kakorat did it as well with the flight

[UnSelf]

Superman Returns got quite a few things right. Perhaps the one thing that got right more than any other is Superman's health.

We all know the man cant be defeated unless you force Kryptonite into the mix. We are tired of that.

Tie Superman's health not to himself but to something like the city. This way you dont have to curtail his powers. The challenge would be in protecting an entire city that is constantly under peril from a multitiude of crime and danger.

If done right, this will make for an excellent game. Superman Returns only scratched the surface with that system.

Imagine having a fight with over 200 people at the same time that spans across an entire city.

Or making sure you take it easy while fighting to avoid collateral damage.

Im writing the outline to a video game based off of my novel series and this is one of the major cornerstones of the gameplay - taking it easy with your combat to ensure as little collateral damage as possible.

[SolidGamerX]

"Flight is very difficult to get right on a physics level."

There's flight in lots of games even Batman from the same developer flies to a degree well glides but its still flight like.

[FloydianAndroid]

I’m not trying to be argumentative, but Batman’s glide is not “faster than a speeding bullet.”

[Thunder_G0d_Bane]

The low level enemies should be armed with kryptonite weapons which makes them still present a danger just like Batman struggles facing enemies with assault rifles.

The more he is hit by kryptonite bullets for instance it could weaken him and strip away some of his powers like flight, heat vision, ice breathe etc. As a mechanic so its also integral for the player to avoid the kryptonite.

[gangsta_red]

"Also you’d have to be flying above all the buildings so that you don’t run into them. It’s not like Spider-Man where you have that freedom of movement"

I really don't understand the issue here, there has been numerous games where you fly above buildings. In every GTA game you can fly above buildings, so why would that be difficult for Superman?

And I disagree, the EA Superman was terrible but they did nail flight down and a lot of his other powers. I especially like how the radar on the HUD represented his super hearing. Touches like that would make a Superman game work.

If developers can make a game where you fight dragons, gods and explore a whole universe...I am positive Superman can be done in a competent manner.

Check out this blog that one of the coolest guys here on N4G has written about possible ideas for a Superman game. I think he definitely was on to something.

https://n4g.com/user/blogpo...

[FloydianAndroid]

Umm not saying it would be difficult, I’m saying I don’t think it would be fun. Take Spider-Man for instance, it’s very fun to swing through New York and weave through the skyline, but Superman will just have to fly above all that and i don’t think that would be fun. It wasn’t fun at all in Superman returns in my opinion. My whole point isn’t that flight can’t be don’t, it’s that it’s not fun. Spider-Man and Batman have FUN traversal and I don’t think Superman would be fun. A Superman’s game seems awesome on paper, but with his power level and his flight and lackluster enemies, I just don’t think it would be fun. Id be delighted to be wrong.

[rainslacker]

The overpowered super hero thing was an issue for the luke cage tv series, because he really only had street thugs to fight. No super villain level or crazy bad guy to fight. He was strong and invulnerable to pretty much everything.

Then they introduced a way to fight hi., which gave him a weakness. Show still sucked, but at least it wasnt a constant showing of him showing up and just doing bad ass stuff.

Same thing could be done for super man. It's been done in the movies, although never to the point where you see superman constantly fighting street thugs. The super girl tv show seems to make her more vulnerable to random things which arent special, so it is possible.

I wouldn't be so concerned with flight, but itd probably be slowed down to accommodate a smaller game world.

For game enemy fodder, they could always use kryptonian invasion armies, or those kryptonian robot things or something.

[SolidGamerX]

That's fair.

[AK91]

I'd prefer a non DC property but considering who owns the company its probably going to be a superman game.......................... or that really cool looking Harry Potter RPG that leaked a while back.

[Skuletor]

I disagree

[jdaboss]

omg enough with the pull nothing outta your azz stories.. I know its a slow last couple of news weeks but sheesh.. shaddap already.

[P_Bomb]

Anything but Batman, especially if WB Montreal is already doing Court of Owls.

If Superman is a no-go, do Flash. Hell if you do Flashpoint, you can cameo Thomas Wayne Batman. While you’re there, retcon the corner Arkham Knight wrote everyone into. Imagine Barry returning to a Rocksteady world where Bruce still has his secret and Joker lives? 60fps it and off to the races.

[badboyz09]

My top 3 Superhero games Respawn Need to work on in order!!!!!!!!
1.SPAWN
2.Batman Beyond
3.X-Men

[BrainSyphoned]

I’d rather go with a Wonder Woman title. Century spanning gameplay, Grounded action, cheesing persuasion checks with the lasso and having a female lead worth its salt.

[gangsta_red]

It's amazing that with this whole female agenda they have in Hollywood that DC hasn't jumped on a chance to make a WW game.

Especially since that was one of their better movies.

[staticall]

tl;dr Superman will probably be too boring to play (too many powers and only reliable way to defeat him is kryptonite) for a long time; wish they would try new IP or sequel to Urban Chaos: Riot Response. But maybe i'm wrong.

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I don't know about Superman, personally, i don't think he'll be interesting to play. I mean, as a character, he has too many different powers - flying, super strength and speed, x-ray vision, super-duper hearing, screaming, healing, incredible intelligence, ice breath, even hypnosis, for f's sake! It's like they took most of the X-Men and thrown them into a blender. He didn't earn any power, get just got them because of space magic.

So you will either have to play as a very young Superman, when he's learning about his power and how to use them, but it'll be kind of boring, IMO (for short time, it's fine, yes, but center the whole game around it? nah). Or everything will be around kryptonite (like he'll get some kryptonite injection or something and will be stripped of his powers; but then, why make a game about Superman if, you know, he'll not be a Superman), which is so overplayed already.

Why Batman was interesting to play? It's a normal human being (although, a billionaire), that uses his intellect, strength (not super, mind you) and gadgets to overcome his limitations, but everything can and will hurt him.
With Superman, though, it feels like you entered every cheat code imaginable, any power you want - you got it. Batman can and has to upgrade his equipment to deal with different situations, but Superman, on the other hand, already has power for 99.999% of situations.

What i'm trying to say, i feel like Superman is not a good fit for a videogame, playing as super OP character will get boring fast. That's why we didn't have any good Superman games yet.
Personally, i wish Rocksteady would make a completely new IP, maybe something similar to Condemned: Criminal Origins, but with heavier emphasis on exploration, puzzles, detective elements and shooting, but within an open-world, that changes as story progresses? Or maybe Urban Chaos: Riot Response sequel?

But hey, maybe i'm wrong, that's the thing with Rocksteady, they have been silent for 4.5 years.

[lazyboyblue]

Rocksteady already said they're not doing Superman.

[The_Sage]

Others have already said this, but I don't think you can make a fun superman game. He's too powerful. People say you could do an everyone's got kryptonite, which is dumb because it's supposed to be incredibly rare. You could have a reason to have superman lose his powers, but then why play superman?

[Donnie81]

Their next project is a suicide squad game

[Max_Eckhardt]

ffs, its a games-as-a-service Suicide Squad game that is having a deeply troubled development.

[FloydianAndroid]

I would prefer TMNT or Green Arrow (not the show version)