Playing games means following certain rules. And with rules come constraints. Having said that, how do you design games based on powerful superhero characters such as Superman and Iron Man? They can fly. They're fast. They have some projectile-like powers (heat vision and unibeam). They're strong. They can take a BIG hit (so puny weapons won't do).

With Batman, I can imagine a stealth game like MGS or Splinter Cell coupled with some driving sections with the Batmobile. That would be a passable (and believable) game. But the aforementioned two, how do you do it without nerfing them?

Any thoughts?

well ironman did pretty well in ultimate allaince but it is a good question and i think that it would be hard

I loved Ultimate Alliance, too. But somehow, because of the brawler constraints of UA, I shut down my disbelief detector for Iron Man (and Thor, too). I mean, if we were really nitpicky about it, Iron Man could have flown directly to the objective (leaving friends behind), and with the StarkTech technology behind him, he could've nuked every opponent in sight.

a really well made superman game would probaly be tons of fun.

instead of having just beat um up fighters over and over, a neat idea would be that youd have to save people from falling shit, or whatever, all in real time and it would play really fast, and youd have to fight off a villain at the same time.

that being said, i wana see a game based on the Flash.

Superman is cursed. There is no making a good Superman game. Don't bother racking your brain for an answer.

Iron Man on the other hand would make a fantastic rail shooter along the lines of Star Fox and Panzer Dragoon. That would be the only way I could see it working and keeping it balanced.

Has anyone played Zone of the Enders 2 ? That is how an iron man game should be played.

@Onyxmeth
Well, if devs won't bother to try, it'll be a self-fulfilling prophecy. But then again, with the talks of a Superman movie reboot, we'll get the inevitable game anyway.

@soulsamurai
That's a great idea.

oh sure as soon as make a good idea the thread always dies :(

and thank you hotrodx

@soulsamurai
lol. Maybe you have to say something controversial to keep the thread going. jk.

Anyway, somehow we need to send this idea across the interwebz so that they make a good Iron Man game next time. I hear Sega got the movie-to-game license again, and I'm assuming the team that made the first Iron Man game (and Golden Axe Beast Rider) will take the helm again.

yeah, problem is usually comic games don't spread among game websites often unless it's already half way through production and looking to play well.

Best way to do that would be to show the idea in a comic forum however i don't know if the idea would brew to well with them.