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Rocksteady Superman Game Possible Leak? (gamesystemrequirements.com) [UPDATE: Unlikely]
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Interesting ideas, but I'm not sure all of them work. Traversal has to be interesting. Racing games have terrain, boundaries, obstacles and other cars to make the movement interesting. What prevents me from simply flying above the buildings to my objective? And that's super boring.
Cool answers though. Thanks. :)
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Every time you fly into and out of a house there will be loading times. So it is only open world for those that Play carefully.
They'll work because they've worked in other games. All of Superman's powers translate either into weapons commonly found in action games (past Batman games especially) or UI and standard mechanics. Freezing people in Superman wouldn't be any different than freezing people in Arkham or webbing them in Spider-Man aside from how it looked.
Maneuvering around obstacles in flight would be the same with Superman as it was with Batman when you glide in the skies or when you drove the Batmobile along the ground. The only difference is that you don't need a rocket booster seat to transition between the two. Fly a plane in GTA5, ride the flying scooter in Saints Row; flying shouldn't be any different than those.
If flying to your objective is fun in GTA, it shouldn't be any less fun in a Superman game. And like how flying a jet wouldn't help when dealing with the finer details of a mission except for ones that involved flying above everything else in the game, the same would paply to Superman. You could fly above the city, but if everything you need to do is in between all of those buildings and on the ground, you can't just zip through the sky.
Break Superman's powers down to base gameplay mechanics, and this task seems a lot less impossible.
A part of me really wants to believe this but didnt Rocksteady say they're working on a next generation game!? No way this gets announced at the gaming awards now when rumors have it the next consoles aren't shipping until 2020.
Didn't Rocksteady deny that it was a Supes games? Not that they would come out and just spoil the surprise like that, but they could have just remained quiet.
I agree with you if that helps :)
Mind you, I don't have (much) comic book knowledge.
I think it has to do with that partially? A lot of people have a particular image of superman and are hesitant of change. I welcome it I guess. But that's just my opinion
After Arkham Knights "The Knight Is A Totally New Character And Not An Existing DC Character" PR bollocks it was clear that they have no compunction about outright lying to their audience so as to preserve surprises.
This isn't to say this rumour is necessarily true, of course.
Rocksteady also denied Arkham Knight being a previously known character and we all know how that turned out.
Not that I don't agree with them denying unannounced stuff, I think it's better to lie than to give a non-answer that basically amounts to "it's true".
I'd rather have another Batman game than Superman. Just one that doesn't have much batmobile.
Obligatory AVGN referenceI'm in
"Im starting to notice a pattern here, you go through rings, pick up cars, go through rings and pick up cars"
Please be real, Rocksteady would make anyone who doesn't believe in the idea of a good Superman game eat the most humble of pies.
I'd be interested in a more mystery focused Superman game. Have murky villains to force him to sleuth them out, build scenarios where you have to watch terrible shit happen as Clark Kent (Luthor walks in and engages you in an uncomfortable chat while you can super-hear folks being pistol whipped, and he drags the conversation on and on and won't let you leave), etc.
Basically, try as hard as you possibly can to limit and stymie being OP and punching dudes, so that when you finally do, it's more about it being a release valve for stress.
Adding Batman to this sort of thing would also be cool, since Superman can take out the frustrations of being Clark on Batman and his human limitations, and Batman can armchair psychologist that shit right back at him.
That, or pull a Spiderman 2 and have Clark losing his powers while still desperate to be a hero. Then you can mine lots of drama from someone used to being indestructible throwing themself into more and more danger as they grow weaker.
Basically, try as hard as you possibly can to limit and stymie being OP and punching dudes, so that when you finally do, it's more about it being a release valve for stress.
Adding Batman to this sort of thing would also be cool, since Superman can take out the frustrations of being Clark on Batman and his human limitations, and Batman can armchair psychologist that shit right back at him.
That, or pull a Spiderman 2 and have Clark losing his powers while still desperate to be a hero. Then you can mine lots of drama from someone used to being indestructible throwing themself into more and more danger as they grow weaker.
If they can pull off Zack Snyder's superman visuals seen in man of steel, batman v superman, it's going to be insane!! Especially since Rocksteady nailed the Batman aesthetics in all three arkham games, and BvS Batman himself looks straight out of the arkham universe/frank millers TDKR verse. I trust Rocksteady, those folks are fantastic at what they do. Just hope they have a fantastic writer on the superman game. Arkham Knight let me down in it's narrative and missed hand to hand boss battles when they were all replaced with batmobile stuff!
As much as I want a Superman game, I'm not sure Rocksteady are the ones I want it from.
They nailed Batman, but Batman is grounded and it's easy to add a sense of progression to a character like Batman. How in the hell do you do the same with Superman without falling into the ever escalating threats trap that plagues a character like Superman.
And don't throw comics at me where he's depowered, that shit won't work in a game and will likely result in a huge backlash from people who expect to play a Superman game, not a Hobbledman game.
They nailed Batman, but Batman is grounded and it's easy to add a sense of progression to a character like Batman. How in the hell do you do the same with Superman without falling into the ever escalating threats trap that plagues a character like Superman.
And don't throw comics at me where he's depowered, that shit won't work in a game and will likely result in a huge backlash from people who expect to play a Superman game, not a Hobbledman game.
I want a pure Superman game without Batman in it. He's in practically everything already, give it a break.
It's a BATMAN + SUPERMAN game
Essentially think this: Superman will be this Game's Batmobile
By the By World's Finest is the episode in the old cartoon where Batman and Superman first meet, where Batman is investigating Kryptonite Smuggling by Luthor and the Joker
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3108220/
So... yeah, investigating as Batman, Super Powered battles with Superman (probably a weakened superman at times )
That's the game.
Essentially think this: Superman will be this Game's Batmobile
By the By World's Finest is the episode in the old cartoon where Batman and Superman first meet, where Batman is investigating Kryptonite Smuggling by Luthor and the Joker
https://www.imdb.com/title/tt3108220/
So... yeah, investigating as Batman, Super Powered battles with Superman (probably a weakened superman at times )
That's the game.
Sounds exciting, I was hoping for a Superman game. It's a bit of a an awkward time for new announcements for games as its going to raise the question of is it next gen? / cross gen extra. Remember when Watch Dogs was shown before next-gen consoles were announced?
Luckily I don't find Captain America interesting at all.
Except they don't really Translate to someone who is completely overpowered. You can't make flying all that interesting especially at the speed he can fly in the city. You'd basically have almost no street level crime to worry about and guns are out of the question since one of his main powers is invulnerability. They could work if you depowered or superpowered but that shit at that point isn't really a Superman game just a Batman game with a Superman skin.
On the point of flying in GTA, thats not the main mode of transport for Superman that is his main mode of transport. You don't fly around in GTA to get to A to B all the time most people drive.
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The best Superman is the one in the Injustice comic/game.
To create a peaceful world, one must learns that there is an Almighty God that will always watch and judge all beings and their actions.
And boy, Superman is the best when he is the Judge, Jury, and Executioner.
This is why I always like the idea of Cosmic Armor Superman and 1M Prime Superman, he is there to deliver divine punishment across all omniverse.
I hope Rocksteady will make Supes an anti-hero character where he knows he is above the laws of common men, and with a grey moral compass as well.
To create a peaceful world, one must learns that there is an Almighty God that will always watch and judge all beings and their actions.
And boy, Superman is the best when he is the Judge, Jury, and Executioner.
This is why I always like the idea of Cosmic Armor Superman and 1M Prime Superman, he is there to deliver divine punishment across all omniverse.
I hope Rocksteady will make Supes an anti-hero character where he knows he is above the laws of common men, and with a grey moral compass as well.
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If I have a choice between a Superman game or a online Justice league I take the former.
If you feel differently I get it. To me Rocksteady is a single player developer and there are fewer of them in the triple A space, so them making a more of a multiplayer
focused game would be disappointing.
Than again there is a big chance it's all not real and they are making some multiplayer focused game with loot and all that stuff.
If you feel differently I get it. To me Rocksteady is a single player developer and there are fewer of them in the triple A space, so them making a more of a multiplayer
focused game would be disappointing.
Than again there is a big chance it's all not real and they are making some multiplayer focused game with loot and all that stuff.
Superman game with Batman? Man, there's gotta be some Henry Cavill and Ben Affleck skins, please!
They could be working on more than one game, or this might be like Arkham Origins and have a multiplayer mode mostly separate from the singleplayer campaign, yet shipping on the same disk.
The Man of Steel powerscale seems good to me. He can get thrown by explosions, lose his footing under heavy gunfire.
I think you just tie his failstate to the civilians around him. Something like Dead Rising. So instead of getting knocked through a building and being hurt, that would engage the passive 'lifebleed' of being unable to save civilians. Then progression is bigger threats and more civilians in peril.
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