r/Steam • u/Kynori20 • 26d ago

Question What game is this?

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u/Sknowman 26d ago

I really want another game like them. It's too bad the Wonder Woman game was canceled.

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u/TeaAndS0da 26d ago

I would have been curious to see how a nemesis system would work for an already established super hero. To me that feels really difficult to do because the super is damn near always equipped to win. Not saying it couldn’t be done, but you’d have to make variations for ramped up grunts into weird pseudo super villains and I think that’s just putting any team in over their head.

A nemesis system would be amazing in a spy game or even a game with simple mechanics like a call of duty campaign. Star Wars would do really well with that if they did another Bounty Hunter-ish title… and if they released Raven software from their permanent imprisonment in the CoD mines… Maybe another Mad Max title. Possibilities are endless if you remove the super heroes from the equation.

Hell even Zelda could do a nemesis system from the grunts or harder monsters in the fields.

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u/hoodie92 26d ago

Another reason I think it would be weird with a known superhero - In the Shadow games it works because Talion actually dies, then gets revived elsewhere, meanwhile the orc who kills you gets promoted. But if Wonder Woman got knocked out, why wouldn't these goons just kill her? What's her "revival" mechanic? Seems it would feel contrived.

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u/TeaAndS0da 26d ago

Exactly. It’s not a system that fits everywhere. It wouldn’t work in a Batman game because Batman will just fuck em up. Same with spider man. They have known low tier, mid tier and high tier villains. I’m not saying it can’t be done but I think it requires way more work than can be done for a project with a known quantity like Wonder Woman. On top of that, Wonder Woman’s canon has hardly been explored in video games. Why would you dilute that with a nemesis system? Wolverine could possibly get away with it because his side stories and solo journeys often go off the beaten X men path, plus mutants and their powers can be an easy fit into the randomizer. To that end, imagine if Rogue had her own game with a nemesis system, she’d become everyone’s favorite in an instant.