Pitch your million dollar idea for a Superman vidya /v/>hard mode: don't nerf supes too much
>>739993820>million dollarthat's not enough even for a AA game
>>739993820Superman is...evil.
>>739994152superman going after alien menaces and tag-teaming with lantern squad would be kino.
>>739993820I'm not even joking. Set it in the 1950's or even 40's. This is ironically the only way Superman doesn't come off as hokey or old fashioned, just put him in the past where he fits way more naturally than he does today.
>>739994246A video game based on the old 40's cartoons would be too based for this damned modern world.
>>739993820he flies through a bunch of rings
Smallville kent so your powers can be given gradually and arbitrarily set by the game
An open world beat em up with dialog choices in a morally gray setting where no matter which option I pick superman says it with the authority of a morally black and white character.
The enemies pretty much need kryptonite coated weapons to make it fair
Superman is gay and boring.
>>739993820Start the game in metropolis. Give you the superman power fantasy. Fight Lex Luther bots and him in a mech as your tutorial mission protecting the city.Mid fight a boom-tube opens up and apokolips invades, enemies are slightly harder. Defend the city from the ayylmao invasion of Parademons and some new gods/Darkseid's elite while working with some other JL, or other Super-family members in the background getting mission objectives or quests from them.Final section of the game is set on apokolips, rescue captives etc etc, with the final boss being Superman vs Darkseid Superman escapes after making Darkseid's plan is ruined.The end.
Keep Superman as hilariously overpowered as possible, almost never make him in any danger. Make the game about saving civilians. Instead of a basic action game, this is a game about stretching your multi-tasking abilities. About making him really feel like he has the world on his shoulders. You use Superman's powers (sometimes creatively) to get people out of danger. You're lifting some rubble to let some people out when you can hear someone getting mugged on the other side of the city. Catching people as they fall. Super villains that you have to handle with kid gloves to avoid collateral damage until either the area is evacuated or you can move him somewhere else, after which you beat him in an instant. I'm sure there's a lot more creative scenarios you could do with this. I'm not even saying you can't make fun action with this either at times, you could have Superman meet a genuine match, or you have the obvious kryptonite, but I'm convinced this angle is the only way to make Supes not feel like just another generic action hero, or make people wonder why someone as powerful as him is struggling so much.
Lois Lane dating sim.
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>>739993820Someone cast a spell/curse or whatever that makes it so after enough damage, Lois Lane will die. So Superman can't be tanking like he usually does or he'll get Lois killed. Not taking damage for a couple of seconds resets the bar. This way Superman needs to learn how to do Martial Arts and how to move out of the way instead of just standing there tanking hits.
>>739993820Alright hear me out. What if we put a nuke in metropolis and make Superman think Lois Lane is doomsday...
You play as a regular guy with a gun. You walk into a room and encounter the two creators of Superman. You realise both of them are jews and you shoot them. It then goes into an emulated version of Superman 64.
>>739993820Superman works best as a movie, since you can focus a large amount of time on a single powerful villain and the rest on clark shenanigans.I cant imagine a scenario where a game works well without it being super contrived, like having superman in a weakened state, every enemy having kryptonite, or other kryptonians invading earth. Even superman 64 had the town filled with kryptonite fog or whatever as an excuse. You could have ANOTHER superman vs the justice league gimmick, but from supermans POV i guess.You could have the game be about something other than fighting weak thugs, but i dont know how that would work. have him go around saving people from burning buildings or something, but that sounds lame and effortless for superman.
>>739994394No they fucking don't, Superman has plenty of enemies who are capable of hurting him without kryptonite. Darkseid regularly beats his blue ass red.https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LYedkLZLKvQ
>>739994432Oh and I forgot to mention. Lex being the tutorial boss also means he needs to get at least 2 salty runbacks. One mid game and one on apokalips.
>>739994290sounds retarded fucking hard bro
>>739993820alright get thisyou play as superman but in order to do anything first you have to collect resources. there's a meter that you have to fill up constantly or you die, so the whole game is centered around collecting rocks.also, supermans suit is fragile and breaks all the time so you have to keep an inventory full of suits or else you can't play the game10/10 ignuniversal praisebestseller
>>739994834And yet out of all the ideas posted in this thread, it's the one most likely to be made.
>>739994526only smallville is really attractive. man of steel is kind of cute too.
>>739993820Multiplayer game where 15 villains from a roster and character creator terrorize Metropolis, gaining money and infamy to buy upgrades to their powers/equipment while 1 superman is tasked to take them down and capture them. Superman has all his powers, is basically invincible to all but the top tier weapons, but if the city reaches X amount of damage he gives up and gives into the villains demands.
i don't care about the city, i want to dunk on baldie luthor
>>739994246Silver age superman is too silly, there is a reason dc rebooted everything in the 80s
>>739994946Margot Kidder is cute as balls, faggot.
>>739994716Of course a supervillain can hurt him I'm talking about the standard enemies who aren't some ancient evil god.
>>739993820You're a small-time criminal trying to commit crimes and not get busted by superfaggot.
>>739994526For me, it's whoever is on the bottom right.
>>739995096And where are all these people going to get this shit that is going to give them bone cancer? You know Superman's weakness to kryptonite is not actually something that everyone and their mom knows about, right?
>>739993820Nothing anyone can pitch here will work as a Super Man game unless it's done like Superman 64 or that one based on the Brandon Routh movie, because what makes Superman Superman isn't his powers. It's his unwavering good guy moral compass. He will use the appropriate amount of strength to deal with the threat on hand and will never go over that.Put someone with Superman's powers in the hands of anyone as a video game character and they will go and push past that morality. We've seen this in other superhero games like every time anyone throws a mook off a building in the Insomniac Spidey games, or anytime someone runs goons over with the batmobile in Arkham Knight.
>>739993820Superman 64 is already the quintessential Superman game
>>739993820Only a million? In that case just do some Streets of Rage 4 style beat em up but like way over the top with explosions and effects, to the point that you can barely see anything on the screen.
>>739995268The movies really miss out on the rings. Glad James Gunn remembered to put them in.
It starts off as anti-prototype where you have to babysit a city and its citizens.But eventually real life misery creeps in and tries its best to force a dark morality change in you the player and subsequently superman.So the player could go down 2 main routes of either eventually fighting the incarnation of evil to stay morally pure and save the city.Or become evil/grey and deal with the fallout from other super heroes or cosmic entities.
>Superman is too damn OP and impossible to play as this makes my third-world brain mad>but Goku, Dante, Bayonetts, Asura, Kratos, Godzilla? I will gladly play as them!
>>739995508Not a single one of those characters have any moral qualms about using their full strength to punch down.
>>739995508To be fair, most of those guys don't perform feats of strength or durability anywhere near what Superman does. No I don't care what the dipshits at death battles say, Kratos putting up his hand to shield his eyes from light does not mean he's moving faster than light.
>>739993820>Young, cocky Superman who's never faced a serious challenge >Opening/tutorial: Superman at full power, toying with [random DC supervillain] >[Random DC supervillain] is revealed to be a secret agent for Darkseid, uses weapon that depowers you to the point where you're like Captain America-tier strong >Cutscene showing Lex Luthor congratulating [random DC supervillain] on his job followed by news channels showing Lex Luthor swiftly taking over the world >Just barely beat [random DC supervillain] and escape >Most of the campaign is waging a guerilla war against Lex Luthor's forces >Doing some objectives, like taking back government capitals or whatever, somehow slowly gives you your powers back >They also act as a timeline progression, the game upgrades enemies and gradually throws more alien forces at you >Why yes, I do enjoy Far Cry 3-5, how could you tell? >Superman, humbled by the experience of being depowered and having to get help from civilians and other street-level superheroes, quickly matures emotionally >Final mission(s) of the game, Darkseid himself comes down to Earth to have an epic fight with you >Epilogue is Superman having been transformed into the nice, boring, boy scout Superman we all know
>>739995640>op says "hard mode: don't nerf supes too much>anon goes full journalist mode
>>739995152she's ugly as hell wtf
>>739993820Make it like old games where you can choose multiple scenarios from different shows and comics instead of just one cinematic story.In one scenario you get your ass beat by a boxer and have to train to get revenge. Another scenario you're a god and have a problem about where to pee since peeing will destroy multiverses.
>>739993820I would simply stick Superman in Flight Simulator 2027.
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>>739995626Godzilla fought the entire Marvel and DC superhero ensemble and won. Goku is claimed by shounenfags to be capable of busting universes. Hell you even have people say Dante fights universal demons and can regenerate from nothing. Is this casual admittance Superman is stronger than that? Think hard on your next response.
>>739994394Just give the character significantly reduced powers from the beginning, perhaps due to an anti-Kryptonian beam hit by Luthor. Then, as the game progresses, Superman's powers slowly return.Supes starts out vulnerable to even bullets, but his power increases as the game progresses. So do his enemies' abilities, which range from electric and sound attacks to red sun radiation blasts and kryptonite bullets.Like, supposedly powerful characters like Kratos, Dante, or the Doomslayer can be damaged by regular shitters for gameplay purposes, why the same can't be done Superman according to some anons is beyond my understanding.
1) Set the game on the moon or mars and have him fight ayylmaos and robots, that way you can have him use his full power. 2) Have him rescue a cute dog or baby alien. Importantly, this character should not be annoying and should be useful in gameplay, maybe they heal superman or give him an anti kryptonite shield.
>>739993820For the longest time, Superman was weak to magic (Shazam, and he still is) and he did not have the mental fortitude to block psychic manipulation, and there's nothing you could do against someone who has actual reality warping abilities. So dupe everyone and make a fucking teen slice of life dramatic movie game, where the teen MC is struggling through abusive home and depression whatever growing up into young adulthood, and realizing how harsh shitty life is on the street / real world. And then the MC develops some sort of mental illness like schizophrenia or DID or whatever and close to edge of either anhero, or turning to the Joker and starts murdering everyone in the street, who fucked up his life etc. And the peak or crucial point of the game is this MC trying to juggle his sanity IRL and his imaginary life at the same time, where he's battling insane crazy batshit in the imaginary world and he's getting in trouble in the street IRL, like it's dark and raining and people are trying to mug him on the street while there's riot everywhere, like it's batshit in both reality and it's starting to merge and he's about to break and break bad...
>>739996253>Godzilla fought the entire Marvel and DC superhero ensemble and wonBut he hasn't. All the recent Marvel vs Godzilla crossovers involved the heroes kicking his ass or being a draw then going "oh no! we need Godzilla's help to defeat this other threat" like how he had a stalemate with the X-men then tag teamed to beat the Sentinel, or Hulk reviving Godzilla with gamma radiation to take down Hedorah.
>>739993820But it turns out the MC is fucking Superman, trapped in a nightmare by another fucking meta/supe. You only reveal this at the last fucking hour of the gameplay. Someone managed to subdue the fucking Justice League in their fucking space base, the Watchtower and they're all just about to die when Clark Kent break out of the fucking mental torture bind / spell trick. Turned out it was Batman that managed to get him out, turns out they're all trapped in their own mental labyrinth, but Batman, with his iron will and mental fortitude managed to "jump" consciousness or rather managed to "will in" or acts as a beacon for J'onn (Martian Manhunter, a psychic), so Batman pulled J'onn into his own nightmare, and fucking begged J'onn to then transport his will or consciousness into Clark's nightmare, to wake him up, coz Supes the only one strong enough to physically break out of the physical constraints / contraption that's binding them, so in the MCs story there's this peculiar character that's always like a mentor or a wisdom / totem to on his life, guiding him around. So the fucking MC managed, at the last moment, fight his way in his fucking deranged imagination, then he managed to fight his way out in the shit "reality" and then the MC broke out of the two realities, kinda liek being awakened and he ascens, transcends, into the "true reality", and now he's broke out fo the mental jail and is fucking Superman. And so he broke out the other JL members, only to find out they're fighting the mirror images of their own, an alternate dimension JL, like the Crisis animated movie. That's only the part I. Neil Druckmann will return with Part II.Again, to reiterate this, it was a dupe, there's no superpowers in the beginning, you didn't know it's a fucking Justice League IP game. It was just psychological drama for 95% of the game, until the last 5% where all is revealed. Part II will have your brainrot kickpunch action shit.
Plenty of good ideas in this thread but it's also worth remembering that other cape games include the possibility of losing to street thugs (to a level which would never happen in the comics). So some degree of Supes fighting and potentially losing to a weaker enemy than you'd think would not be unprecented even if reddit powerlevel-heads would screech about it.
>>739996672>For the longest time, Superman was weak to magicWhy do people still get this wrong? He has never been weak to magic, he just has no special protection against it. Hit him with a spell, and it will do to him what it would do to anyone else. If you cast a turn him into a frog spell, it will turn him into a frog, if you cast a fireball spell at him, it's not going to set him on fire, because that's covered by his resistance to most physical and energy damage sources. The spell or enchantment needs to have an effect that specifically targets him, as opposed to say Thor's hammer, which is just enchanted to hit really hard, hence why it didn't insta pulp Clark during any of the crossovers where they end up fighting. The worthiness enchantment however does effect superman, because it specifically targets whoever is trying to lift the hammer at that moment, hence, why he has never been able to wield it in any of the crossovers, except for that one time Odin temporarily disabled said enchantment.
>>739993820Megaton Rainfall had the best approach for making a Superman game. Instead of you having a health bar, the city you're protecting does, so the challenge is all about being able to defeat enemies quickly and with a minimum of collateral damage.
>>739993820Superman but it plays like Bayonetta
>>739995712>hard mode is the only mode
>>739996927He is weak to magic. Regular lightning and fucking electricity does nothing to him. But magic lightning like Shazam's or Black Adam will hurt him. The Black Lightning in Krypton will also make them go berserk, raging out and killing anyone nearby, friend or foe. Those are clear weaknesses / disadvantages. Considering he could tank a "normal" lightning.
>>739993820Lex challenges Superman to spend a day "without being superman", prize being that he stops all illicit activities forever. The game is either choice-based or conversational RPG, with hilarious hijinks about choosing between resolving conflicts without superpowers or using powers in sneaky, unnoticable ways ways. All eventually leading up to the discovery of a larger villanous plot by a cosmic threat.
>>739993820Superman game where you play like Hulk/Alex Mercer, but instead of doing a maximum amount of damage, you are trying to mitigate it.
>>739993820>superman is too powerful its le boring!bro do you play video games
>>739995096>ancient evil godi fucking hate darkseid wankthis is why mongul is better, free of all that bullshit and just a plain alien warlord
>>739993820>>hard mode: don't nerf supes too muchEasy. I can even buff him.>game is all about limiting the collateral damage you inflict (and how dead/injured the bad guys are)>still need to go fast because any damage the baddies do is counted as your fault>minimum score to actually win the event/mission/level, rank C/B/A/S/etc above that>story change slightly depending on your average score: stop everyone instantly with no damage and everyone love you, get a few dead muggers and total'ed cars and you will just be an okay guy that the cops would prefer not have around and some journos hunt down like Spidey has, destroy a city block every time some purse is stolen and now everyone hate youBam, done.Now you can make Supes ridiculously OP and it will actually make the game *harder*.
>>739995152Yiddish woman
make it a Prime game where you absolutely can just pulp enemies if you want to but the point is to fill in Superman's shoes so every time you do that the city hates you more
>superman threadA little offtopic but is the recent superman cartoon worth watching? All the bad superman movies and games burned me out and I'm looking for a decent adaptation that isn't the original 90s show
It's a drama movie game with a father figure and a son figure, and the son figure is Superboy or whatever and he is raging out coz he can't use his God powers and the father figure keeps saying "Boy" and shit like "we need to become better men", in like Detroit Ohio Florida or wherever the fuck the niggers / shithole at nowaday maybe those Fentanyl streets.
>>739993820Who cares about superman in 2026?He was always nothing more than a rolemodel psyop>the perfect office cuck, doing what he is told>always takes the extra load (not because it's easy for him, but because he must!)>has a love interest that would canonically fuck anyone except his fake personality>spares irredeemable villains like batman would, but almost never risks anything in doing so>not even human, basically a Lucifer archetype by "falling from heaven" and becoming everyone's idol by being so amazing >accepts no rewards for his heroics, but is fine being praised incessantly for shit that took him as little effort as a normal guy walking from couch to fridge.Superman is not particularly good if you think about it.The man could do almost anything, but rarely ever does, except maybe some niche comics.If you stop for a moment to think what a fucking waste of powers he is, you realize what he is doing is nothing but the bare minimum. If he had no supervillains, even a 24/7 criminal stopping spree would STILL feel less taxing to him than the average blue collar worker's sunday
>>739993820He's got his whole skill set but he gets isekaied into some xianxia world where he's got to deal with arrogant young masters and old beasts and demonic cultivators whom he can't simply overpower.
>>739997680>He was always nothing more than a rolemodel psyopNigga.He is a jewish powerwank created for the sole purpose of one-upping Nazi's Ubermensk concept.Like, literally. That's the entire reason for his creation as a character: "You goyim have an ideal of strength? Well us jews have a guy that's 6 000 000 stronger. And he fly. And he has all powers. And he has better chin that you do. Take that, bet you feel bad now!"That's why he has 0 fucking depth conceptually, he is a schoolyard-tier creation.He isn't supposed to be some 2DEEP4U character. You are supposed to lean into what he was intended to used for. Same as you don't use Bugs Bunny for a psychological horror game/story.
>>739997196Nigga, that the hard mode qualification is "too much" implies some nerfing is expected. But nerfing him to "Captain America tier strong" who, outside of the MCU, is just slightly above the strength of a power lifter all for some Ubislop wank pitch is several orders of magnitude beyond nerfing him too much.
Superman's rogue gallery stole his abilities and destroyed his outfit, so he has to go on a platforming beat em up to confront them. Each boss uses his ability at him, which gives them a puzzle like quality where Superman has to use his own ability against them, with the final boss being around Superman flying, since that's the core motif of Superman being a hero. Call it "Superman: The Lost Cape".The point of the clothing is A) clothing mechanics are always cool in games and B) it's a mirror of Superman getting stronger and stronger, as he starts to look more like Superman
>>739994320That would be cool, you could be fully super in a unique way
>>739993820Lex Luthor manages to make a "proper" kryptonian clone army except they look a little monstrous so you don't feel so bad about what's gotta be done to them.They all have nearly the same potential as superman, but each one of them is turbo specialized in to one of superman's powers, for the sake of variety.They are all irredeemably evil and to make matters worse, their unstable experimental bodies would overcharge on sunlight and implode within a month, destroying large parts of the cities they inhabit, leaving Clark no choice but to straight up kill them or yeet them in to space before they blow up.The gameplay consists of Superman actively nerfing himself with a tiny piece of Kryptonite because it hurts them more than it hurts him.
>>739994450Came here to say this.
>>739997680>>739997845It's the same deal with most superhero bullshit nowadays: it's either surface level, rolemodel propaganda or amateurish sloppy post-modern subversions thereof, all with shitty action. The fact that "adults" watch this shit and do so on a yearly basis is proof enough of how infantlized most people are.The 90's animated series were actually pretty good, but that was before there was an absolute cultural inundation of capeshit for the last 15 (holy shit) years. Maybe I'm just sick of it, but capeshit really needs to die off if just for a couple decades. It's gotten me to read more about classical heros and more traditional hero's journey type tales/games.
>>739994526Yes
>>739997845>flyThat was an addition from the radio serialThe original Superman was a power fantasy but he evolved greatly from that imo
>>739999363it was just a natural progression. his cape made no dang sense being on someone who just leaps high.
>>739993820Unironically a lego gameNobody will bitch about him being OP if the games are babby tier difficulty and wrecking brick structures with your OP powers is just fun
>>739997610No.
>>739993820Ummm Superman fucks Lois, Diana, and Maxima
>>739997610God no. It has that saccharine, faux anime, tumblr animation seen in Netflix shows like Mighty Nein or Castlevania or that jeets version of DMC. All the villain designs and origins are downgrades. They turned Clark into Gohan but lamer. The only “upgrade” is Lois.
>>739993820>Superman but you control him like the guy in Baby Steps. No nerfs
The only game genre where the scale of Superman's powers would make sense is a huge ass real time strategy game.They should make a game where he has to take over Apokolips fighting the forces of Darkseid. Superman will function like the powerful commander units in Total Annihilation/Supreme Commander, or heroes in WC3, he can easily 1v1 most enemies but could be overwhelmed by an army, so he needs to build up an army of his own. At the start he has to harvest resources and build bases to produce Superman robots to help him fight. He can also use super speed to scout areas and take out smaller enemy encampments. Later when you have enough worker units to maintain your economy, Superman can lead your army. He'll have a bunch of powerful abilities but he'll need to accumulate yellow sun energy to recharge them.The main campaign could be like Dawn of War Soulstorm where you're fighting through different parts of Apokolips amd defeating Darkseid's captains (Granny Goodness, Desaad, etc) before the final showdown with Darkseid.You could even have Lex Luthor as a supporting character, maybe he'll be the sarcastic advisor who reluctantly helps you but also mocks your mistakes.
>>739993820Postapoc Earth where Darkseid turned the sun green or some shit and the planet is a wasteland. Old, slightly nerfed Supes (as in, he has all his powers but he isn't that strong) tries his best to protect what's left of humanity that worships him as a god from cosmic monsters, somewhat less OP variations of Doomsday roaming the wastes. Supes is tired of worship, age and the general state of things but also tries his best to stay a beacon of hope like he always did.Basically 2015's Mad Max but with Superman.
You play as Clark Kent most of the time. The goal of the game is to accomplish tasks around the Daily Planet while keeping a low profile so no one knows you're Superman. You got to get coffee for your boss, flirt with Lois, write articles, conduct mundane interviews, etc. all while finding time to slip away and change into Superman when a crisis happens. The challenge is always finding a method or an excuse to get away long enough to change, save the day, and get back to work. You never get to fight monsters or fly. It's just hours of office busywork and socializing and occasionally a big timer pops up and you gotta pretend to have diarrhea or something to get away from your boss. The final mission is trying to have a successful date with Lois while Lex Luthor and Gorilla Grod release a bunch of radioactive mutant apes into Metropolis.
>>739993820His plan is to fuck as many women as possible to turn Earth into Krypton-2
>>739993820meet n fuck superman
>>739993820you're playing a journalist and you can romance power girl
>>739993820Shmup roguelike>>739994152nah he's just gay
>>739994450This is the way. You can't make Superman not overpowered because that is the whole point of the character. So you make it about external factors.
No one cares about your gameplay mechanics. Unless you're prepared to model the entire fucking planet and hundreds of cities then don't even bother.
>>739993820The problem with a Superman game isn't even how overpowered he is, you can just come up with thousands of ways to deal with thatStrong enemies from the comics and supervillains that can beat the fuck out of him as bosses, a morality based gameplay where if you evaporate the thief that is robbing a dude on the stret you are LE BAD, having to try to not destroy the city to not kill anyone and not cost billions every fight...The problem is the scale, you can block the player from going out to space, ok, but how do you explain why he is locked to a city, or a country? Or how do you manage to make the entire world travellable (?) in like 10 seconds?There are some concessions that can be made, like the player can understand why he can't completely destroy every building or just dig to the core of the planet and instead you just slam into the ground, but there are some that you would just think>But why
