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Someone here said to set it on some alien world where a red sun weakens him. You can still do all the fun stuff but you're also mortal and can only take so much.

I've always said Superman could work as a boss rush game like Shadow of the colossus

Just give him all his powers and let him rek all his most powerful villains.

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A Superman game where Superman doesn't have his powers or he's weakened by kryptonite or something would be shit, because why make a game about Superman if you can't use Superman's powers?
A Good Superman game should still be similar to other capeshit games, meaning Superman still has an health bar and stuff, but random mooks can't hurt him (obviously there wouldn't be a use for random mooks by themselves then, that's why random mooks should be like robbers or kidnappers, so you have to defeat them while saving the random citizens they're threatening). Then there are powered mooks that can hurt him, maybe different kind of powered up mooks, like some simply have kryptonite while others have superstrenght or something like that, so that the former weakens Supes while the latter simply are more powerful. Then there are the bosses, the only ones that can really hurt Supes (also giving to the players the feeling like "oh no! I getting wrecked! That's how it feels to be a normal human bean….!") and in some cases, like Doomsday or Zod or Bizzarro, you also have to minimize the damage to the city and saving citizens in danger.
I guess that maybe a game where Supes has to save people while fighting crime at the same time would be too difficult for the "casuals", that's why the BamHam games are so popular.

I like it. Have stages where it is set in populated cities, where there are still civilians trying to flee and got rekt the fuck out. Don't have some gay minigame or bonus where you can save them. They're fucked by circumstance, and all you can do is push down their screams because you have to fight the villain, or else there will be more death and screams. And if it's going to have Luthor in the game, don't use the current live action movie, spastic version of Lex.

inb4
Superman vidyas seems plagued with "muh balance, can't make him too strong" and 9 times out of 11, winds up as shit no one wants to play because the game ends up sucking kryptonite dildos.

The set up could be that all of his villains that he sent to the phantom zome come back all at once and for some reason all the justice league members are dead.

That should be enough for Superman to justify all the collateral damage.

All the people saying that he should be literally invincible aside from Kryptonite have never read a Superman comic, because if they had, they'd know that practically every single one is about fighting an alien or robot or whatever who is as strong as him.

The bigger problem is flight. It's gonna feel like bullshit not being able to fly all the way around the world. You need an excuse for that. Fortunately, Superman comes with one. Have Brainiac put the city in a bottle. He can put a red sun lamp over it, like he does with Kandor, and that would weaken your powers, but not fully take them away. Then you could power up by shutting down generators or whatever that power the Red Sunlight.

Enemies can consist of Brainiac drones and maybe other aliens who are showing up from other bottled cities in Brainiac's ship. Hell, you can have New Gods and Parademons Boom Tube into the city just to make shit get really real. You can have Kryptonian supercriminals show up from the Phantom Zone or Kandor. And these are all just random mooks. All the classic Superman enemies would of course be bosses.

If they want other locations, Brainiac has captured them, too. You can go to Kandor, or maybe he's captured Smallville or the Watchtower. Maybe for the final boss fight you can leave the bottle and just go all out in space or at Vanishing Point or something.

I hear the Superman Returns game on 360 did a good job with being invincible, and having the loss condition be too much damage to the city or whatever. So take cues from that.

Then maybe a sequel takes place on Apokalips or something. Maybe Darkseid has stolen a huge chunk of the earth and its overrun with Parademons or something.

Eh, you can still have challenging task of saving people from criminals, beating up the bad guys and throw them in jail and whatnot and still fail due to other circumstances. Like Lex Luthor has some major scheme and kills Lois Lane because you were too stupid or slow to react to something.

That would be interesting. Have Superman come back from a mission on some other planet (a tutorial map), only to find that Apokolips has taken over Earth and Darkseid has destroyed Earth's greatest heroes.

Superman, realizing all bets are now off, can go unhinged and really start fucking shit up or at least use his powers without having to restrain himself.

sun-sucking cape-fuckers

It was excusable how it happened in the comics but holy shit Man Of Steel aren't you supposed to be John Cena fast? I've given up on Superman. He is irredeemable.

e3 releases of what, smartphone games? Marvel's video game crop has been complete and utter shit since X-Men Origins: Wolverine.

life bar will also appear when hit by electricity or kryptonite is about

you now have all the mechanics needed to make a good superman game

tfw anons come up with a good superman game idea, shills just might steal this

fuck off casual

fuck off too

Just make it where the fail state doesn't come from Superman taking too much damage, but rather civilians getting killed. Isn't that what Superman is about, he's nigh-invulnerable but the people he wishes to protect aren't?

A good Superman game can be done. All they have to do is make it like this game and iron out all the flaws.

So you want to be a Mary Sue?
Just play any Ubishit game, they all have built in cheats

Superman is a Gary Stu

Only good DC hero is Batman, everyone else has a retarded costume or retarded powers/lore.

Nah,

Doomsday is some edgy shit.

Also, he's supposed to be as strong as supes and has punching spikes as parts of his hands. Supes should have holes in him.

Well, yeah. Doomsday is basically what happens when you combine Wolverine and Hulk into what passes for a character, then sprinkle some extra edge on top of that.

There are no good sooper man games because soopah man is a shit character in general it's just a fact of life
It'really fucking hard to please a man who can lift a skyscraper with one arm and jerk off with another.

A giant escort mission would be the worst thing ever. The idea that Superman is indestructible is a meme that needs to die. Plenty of things can fuck him up and more can do so with plenty of creativity. I'll also add that Superman fans need to stop propagating the idea that Superman is all-powerful when trying to satisfy themselves during powerlevel pissing contests. I can't help but think this is where the idea of Superman being indestructible came from, despite him being fucked over by people like Mongol, Doomsday, and so on. Hell Intergang was a hassle for him due to alien technology and that's not even mentioning magic, kryptonite and so on.

has there ever been a superman fight where it was equal and didnt boil down to a basic brawn? cause last I checked superman can't die and can turn into god if he goes into a sun

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A few. Lex Luthor on some occasions, Toyman as well, Morgan Edge, some members of Intergang, and Mister Mxyzptlk, especially the last one since brawn is useless for the most part against him.

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Why not anyone else? Why not Lobster Johnson?

yet there's WW1 without french.

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Came here to say this. If they programmed the events to happen when you talk to someone, like in Spider-Man 2 and if the final boss wasn't a fucking tornado, it would have been 10/10 for me.

Nobody wants to make a Superman game because he's a boring character.

Are there any superheros that are just that good? No gadgets or superpowers or anything, just people who go around beating the shit out of people with their SUPERIOR LIMB BASED COMBAT?

Why not a Moon Knight vidya too?

I wonder if you make everything out of paper so some of the challenge is minimizing collateral damage. I think anons mentioned that though.

A Superman game doesn't necessarily have to be on Earth, you could have him on some hostile alien planet orbiting a red sun, or have him get into interdimensional shenanigans fighting fuckhueg aliens
or just have him go to bizzaro world or whatever it is and fuck shit up there and fight bizarro superman

Whats the [Your Favorite Anime] of America?

Doomsday isn't even a character. He's literally just a plot device to kill Superman.

Superman is near-indestructable compared to a bunch of other characters. But of course Superman characters, his enemies and allies, are usually on his level. Just like Spider-Man fights guys on his level, and Batman fights guys on his level. Spider-Man could kill The Joker in one punch, but that doesn't mean Spider-Man is invincible.

Pretty much all 5000 issues or so of the comics are about this.

Also, The Death of Superman is one of his most famous stories. And he's died a couple times beyond that, too. Though those are "imaginary stories." Still stuff that "could happen" though.

Pretty much any martial arts based character. Shang Chi. Iron Fist. Karate Kid. Karate Kid is just so good at martial arts that he's somehow a match for Pre-Crisis Superboy.