Rocksteady teases Suicide Squad game

{o}P II said:
WB Montreal is still making that court of owls Arkham game (hopefully)
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I really hope so, no reason there can't be more Batman games, it doesn't have to be part of the Arkham continuity.

White Devil said:
A well done Superman game would just be playing GTA with god mode on. There'd be no real fun or challenge because Superman himself is the least interesting superhero there is when you're not focusing on morality or ethics, and no one wants to play a Superman game that's essentially an interactive drama.
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That's my point, it just doesn't seem like Superman can work in games, I'm sure Rocksteady must have tried, but couldn't figure it out.
 
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I feel like VR is the only Avenue that a Superman experience could theoretically work in as a sort of flying simulator but itd still probably be clunky since you'd just be standing/sitting there
 
Dang Woodchucks! said:
That's what people with no imagination say. There's kryptonite weaponry for mooks, a rogue's gallery with the likes of Mongul, Parasite, Metallo, Livewire, and that's not counting transplants like Despero, Sinestro, Black Adam and Darkseid. All you need to do is look at the 64 game... and not do that.

ETA: Remember that Hulk Ultimate Destruction was a thing. If the Hulk had one game that didn't suck, there's no excuse other that writers shrugging and saying "hurr durr how'z we beat Soops? he's 2op duuurr"
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Nah, Superman is just a boring, unfun character.
 
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White Devil said:
A well done Superman game would just be playing GTA with god mode on. There'd be no real fun or challenge because Superman himself is the least interesting superhero there is when you're not focusing on morality or ethics, and no one wants to play a Superman game that's essentially an interactive drama.
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Even stories focusing on morality and ethics with Superman tend to be boring as shit because the core theme is essentially the same "Superman shouldn't ever do TOO MUCH cool shit otherwise he could just fix everyone's problems for them". Which is kinda silly because Superman is essentially wish-fulfillment created for that very purpose.

In reality, a fun Superman game would have to be something like Prototype but with regular thugs basically being cockroaches that you can squish without even trying but doing so without breaking the core of the character would require a morality system like Dishonored's, where going full asshole and just running a blitzkrieg on every supervillain and criminal in town while smashing everything earns you the bad ending, while doing things the "good way" and not doing any excessively flashy shit to avoid killing people and flattening skyscrapers earns you the good ending.

It's not an impossible concept to do but every video game developer wants to go the lame way and depower Superman so he's basically slightly above Spider-Man, which is a dumb approach to the character. I don't wanna get knocked around by goons with miniguns, I wanna waltz into a bank amidst a hail of gunfire and then troll everyone by stealing their guns at super-speed and then bemusedly watching as they break their hands taking a swing at me.
 
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I think a Superman game only really works against cosmic entites..

Darkseid is pretty much a must...

Superman patrolling Metropolis and fighting thugs would be hard to figure out...

I mean the power stuff, to figure out, is realtively easy imo...

You go Green Lantern style where Superman has a power bar. Different powers require different amounts of energy. So, it's a game of managing when to use your powers...

So, you don't depower Supes, but you allow a caveat to create some sort of challenge...
 
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Obviously with a Superman game you would have:
-Cosmic Entities which can go toe-to-toe with Supes
-Timed or strategic scenarios where failing to meet the timer or successfully complete a puzzle results in a bad end. (for example, Superman has to fight his way through 3 booby trapped rooms within 5 minutes or Lois dies)
-De-powered fights involving kryptonite-wielding enemies
-strategic scenarios where the player has to carefully think through power use to avoid harming innocent bystanders or killing non-powered enemies
-non-Earth settings which allow Supes to go all out against his enemies (ex. Apokalypse)

Its not at all difficult to develop a good Superman game unless you're literally retarded.
 
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THIS IS KATANA. SHE'S GOT MY BACK. AND SHE'S 19.99 USD DLC.

Festivus said:
If we don't get to kill at least 2 street level heroes like Green Arrow then what is even the point of this game? I'm not sure they have the balls to kill off any of the original 7 JL members so they better at least throw a couple 2nd tier character deaths at us. I'm talking deaths on the JL side and on the Suicide Squad. If they don't go gritty and realistic on this game then this might as well be a reskin of that Lego DC Villains game. If they actually go all out and kill one of the original 7 JL members then that's enough for me, not to sound too bloodthirsty or anything lol.
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That's not what the Suicide Squad does. Their whole point is they're felons with ridiculous multiple life sentences for horrific crimes, and signing on as expendable, deniable assets gets them lighter sentences. They're like the French Foreign Legion with supervillains.

What you want is a Legion of Doom game or something.

Injustice 1 also kills off a few. But not the ones you'd hope for.
 
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Dang Woodchucks! said:
That's what people with no imagination say. There's kryptonite weaponry for mooks, a rogue's gallery with the likes of Mongul, Parasite, Metallo, Livewire, and that's not counting transplants like Despero, Sinestro, Black Adam and Darkseid. All you need to do is look at the 64 game... and not do that.

ETA: Remember that Hulk Ultimate Destruction was a thing. If the Hulk had one game that didn't suck, there's no excuse other that writers shrugging and saying "hurr durr how'z we beat Soops? he's 2op duuurr"
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What if we take Superman, and say "FUCK earth," and put Superman on a boom tube to wage a one-man guerilla war on Apokolips wrecking major industrial and military centers for 15 minutes a time, beats a boss that comes to defend it, and then fucks off to rest before Darkseid's main forces show up, and you just whittle it down until you finally have a cool showdown with the big man. Also each level you're freeing kidnapped heroes and they can be called to assist in levels to solve certain issues(have an ice hero freeze all anti-air turrets so you can superjump/fly more in a level, or a speedster can be called on to keep an eye on you and move you when certain fast attackers would otherwise hit you for a big damage spike)

Hulk Ultimate Destruction, but in the bad guy's backyard in space.
 
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What if we take a game about Krypton before it blows up, make the player Zod before hes a general, and just let you fuck shit up?
 
Jan_Hus said:
I want a superhero game where you have to manage the secret identity of the superhero alongside the superhero stuff
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That's what I thought Spider-Man PS4 was going to be when they announced it and said the Peter sections are just as important as the Spider-Man sections, but that didn't end up happening.
 
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Back on topic, I really hope they aren't retreading the "evil Superman" thing. Netherrealm and Boon had their chance and fucked it up with his obsession with sucking Batman's dick.

And about heroes that could use more love, I would actually like a game with (the) Flash as the main character. I even have a fanfic pitch that totally doesn't suck.
 
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I am very curious to see how this plays. Linear on rails? a entire area like arkham? Coop? As long as it doesn't focus on batmobiles, it will fine.
 
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Michael Wade said:
I am very curious to see how this plays. Linear on rails? a entire area like arkham? Coop? As long as it doesn't focus on batmobiles, it will fine.
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I'd love co op in a Rocksteady Arkham-esque game. I feel like I'm one of the few that actually enjoyed the Origins multiplayer.
 
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It would be fun to hack and slash with Kitana.

If you're bringing the inferior comic book Enchantress in (aka not the amazing sexy asgardian one) then go by her appearance in the Injustice game because fuck that weird ass writhing dancing Cara Deli melt
 
Only seen the movie (heard good things about the comics though, especially since its all Peak Waller), but that crazy Aussie cunt (but I repeat myself), would be mandatory.
 
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