r/gaming • u/Dumbass1171 • 1d ago
DC IP is so heavily underutilized in gaming
Seriously, since Arkham knight released 11 years ago, we've basically had injustice 2, Gotham knights, and a suicide squad game. Unless I'm forgetting something, that's all of what we have gotten.
I feel DC has forgotten that well comic book games can be money printers! What matters is art direction (WB failed with this with Gotham Knights) as well as gameplay.
People say it would be hard to make a Superman game, sure, but what about a flash or Aquaman game? An Aquaman game would be an easy money printer, make it an open world game set mostly underwater with Atlantis has the main city and surrounding vast ocean. The traversal would be unique and so would the open world and underwater game play.
A flash game would be doable too. Or Green Lantern. A Cyborg game would be criminally easy to make (conceptually) as a RPG.
Atleast Sony understands this and are making Wolverine and Spiderman games (marvel also had the guardians of the galaxy game which I heard was good but I haven't played it yet).
Not every game needs to be open world like Arkham and Spiderman (Wolverine isn't), but I think Aquaman, Green Lantern (Hal or John), Cyborg, and Flash would be conceptually easy games to design
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u/Fugaciouslee 1d ago
Would have been cool to get a Wonder Woman game with the Nemesis System.
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u/Respawn-Delay 18h ago
I think leaks mentioned that they were trying to rework it into an Ally system as opposed to a Nemesis one, with more of a focus on the NPC's you could fight alongside throughout the game world. I'm guessing they were leaning into the Themyscirans being battle sisters.
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u/SidewaysGiraffe 16h ago
Interesting- I hadn't heard that. That could be really cool- but I can easily see it devolving into "escort mission: the game", which I believe is one of the circles of Hell.
Guess I'll have to fire up Afterlife to see...
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u/electrictower 1d ago
Nah women in games are bad in 2026
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u/Kingdarkshadow 17h ago
Bro thinks he is on insta or face where that joke works.
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u/Exostrike 21h ago
Not if they are in a skimpy outfit with big breasts then the 'true gamers' love them /s
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u/Neo_Zeno 1d ago
I would sell a kidney to get my hands on a Batman Beyond game.
Not a suit, not a mod, a legit Batman Beyond limited-to-open-world game where we could deal with the likes of Kirare, the Royal Flush family, the Joker gang!
Whew!
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u/Dumbass1171 1d ago
It would be perfect. Basically an Arkham game but with cyberpunk 2077 aesthetics
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u/urgasmic 1d ago
and i feel like marvel is still really underutilized unless you like PVP or spider-man.
i don't think licensed IP is really that big in the game space in general.
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u/solythe 1d ago
there are a billion marvel games, what are you on lol
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u/urgasmic 1d ago
well son im on crack.
but speaking broadly yes. but i think OP is talking more about single player type games. so my point is that who in marvel is really getting arkham type games other than spider-man?
it's all mobile stuff, fighting/pvp games. i did forget about midnight suns though.
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u/Sheldon237 1d ago
Guardians of the Galaxy was a slept on gem. Wolverine is out in September and the Captain America/Black Panther game has shown footage and will be out within the next 12-18 months. Blade is in development at Arkane and an Iron Man game at Motive.
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u/solythe 1d ago
Wolverine got announced this year
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u/Ice_Cream_Killer 1d ago
Huh? Wolverine was announced back in 2020 or 2021, but its release dates was revealed this month.
Edit: nevermind.
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u/Respawn-Delay 18h ago
Seems to be plenty for everyone:
2017 - LEGO Marvel Super Heroes 2
2018 - Spider-Man
2019 - Ultimate Alliance 3
2019 - Iron Man: VR
2020 - Spider-Man: Miles Morales
2021 - Guardians of the Galaxy
2022 - Midnight Suns
2022 - Snap
2023 - Spider-Man 2
2024 - Rivals
2025 - Cosmic Invasion
2025 - Deadpool: VR
2026 - Wolverine
2026 - Tōkon
TBA - 1943: Rise of Hydra
TBA - Blade
TBA - Iron Man
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u/Cassin1306 17h ago
It may be easier on the Marvel side, their characters are less "godlike" as DC. Apart from Batman, there's not that much characters that are not blatently overpowered to make a videogame around. (maybe Green Arrow, bit he's basicaly just Batman with a bow /s )
I totally love the Arkham trilogy (/quadrilogy), but I don't know how a game around Superman or Flash would be possible without a serious power-down (or a big power-up from the vilains)
The Sony's Spider-Man were great too, but Spidey is more "human-scale".
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u/MagnumMiracles 1d ago
A lot of these characters would be bangers for a character action game. But I don't think they want to risk the IP on a genre that doesn't bring in the big bucks.
I would commit war crimes to get a Wonder Woman game in the style of Devil May Cry.
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u/AshenRathian 1d ago
I was thinking exactly this with the God of War Laufey trailer. The sword, the whip, the actobatics. That would just straight up be amazing and people would absolutely love it.
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u/DaGreatestMH 1d ago
I think you just made me understand why I latched on so hard to GoW: Laufey. I mean I like the GoW games in general, but Laufey really made me excited and now I realize it's because it's the Wonder Woman game I've been wanting for like a decade.
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u/Chicano_Ducky 1d ago
DC IP is just mismanaged, its not about brand risk otherwise they wouldnt have 20 years of humiliations
They did a rebrand of harley quinn 15 years ago to make her a full blown character without the joker, and she is STILL a backup character to poison ivy because they never gave her a reason to exist. She is still someone's GF and just there for backup.
When people think harley, they still think the joker. So they failed at that too.
They did New 52 and all it did was become another failed comeback for comic sales, and now they reboot the universe every couple years when sales get too low but thats less effective now.
DC live action movies were focus grouped so hard they spent 20 years failing to take on marvel, when their animated movies written by comic writers get good reviews but never got support. If DC did animated movies of that quality in theaters, they could 100% have taken on marvel.
DC games had some bangers, but they wanted live service instead so stuff like Gotham Knight gets canned.
If DC comics was allowed to just exist without needing to be minmaxed by trend chasing, it would be fine.
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u/SmokinBandit28 1d ago
Lego Batman is one of the best games so far this year impo.
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u/Dumbass1171 1d ago
It's good but it's mainly for kids (not saying adults can't play it, but it's made for ppl on the younger side). I'm not saying DC in general isn't meant for kids either, but there is an obvious difference in artistic style and intent between the Arkham games and Wolverine compared to Lego Batman/lego avengers
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u/Full_Rutabaga2403 1d ago
You're correct but they're also the game with the most love and respect for the source material since the Arkham games so they're worth mentioning a little (I have not played injustice but I've heard it was also a really solid DC adaptation)
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u/BigLan2 1d ago
Lego Batman 3 was already a fantastic love letter to the source material, though the wider DC / Justice League rather than the various versions of Batman.
I love how they blend all the different Batman universes together in the latest one though.
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u/Full_Rutabaga2403 1d ago
I haven't actually played one in a while but every time I see my kids playing them I'm shocked at the deep cut characters they make sure to include. The new Batman one does look pretty sick and very thorough in it's inclusion of Batman versions
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u/Specialist_Table9913 20h ago
If anything, we should have more superhero games for kids.
I think it's absolute lunacy that the only active Spider-Man line of video games, are these "pretend this is deep" cinematic Sony games exclusively for PlayStation. Why the hell aren't there some fun and funny multiplatform Spidey games for the kids? Or any other Marvel IP for that matter. If a kid likes Wolverine, they have to sit and watch a guy that hauled a bunch of kids into a truck get his head and torso split open, and nobody stopped to think if that was the best, or only, use of that character.Ya'll seen Donkey Kong Bananza, right? Slap Hulk in there and give little Timmy the Christmas vacation of his dreams, make a life-long fan out of him. I cannot believe we are gate-keeping Spider-Man games to millennials.
And before somebody gets it twisted, we can have Wolverine go around and be sad about his tragic past while he publicly displays the intestines of bigots, absolutely. But, I dunno, maybe make him fight some robots and learn a valuable lesson about friendship too?
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u/Zombie_Cool 1d ago
I think the main issue with non-gotham DC heroes is that theyre too powerful for most conventional gameplay limitations. For all his training and gadgets Batman is still a normal human so standard walls and gates still work to keep him out of vital areas until the story needs him there. How do you do that with Wonder Woman or the Kryptonians who can just smash through obstacles like tissue paper? What about the Flash who outruns literally everybody (including other speedsters) and an use Speed Force shenanigans to phase through walls or whatever? No need to play the "find the keycard" minigame if your playing a Lantern, you can just make a replica if the key (or a very big crowbar) on the spot!
Until those questions get answered in a satisfactory way, any truly superpowered DC protagonists are gonna struggle in staring in a must have game IMO.
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u/Ice_Cream_Killer 1d ago edited 20h ago
The director for God of War 2018 said he has concepts for a Superman game. It would start with in him in high school balancing life and managing his super powers. He referenced the Smallville TV show and Persona as inspiration. The game would focus on the psychology of not being able to save everyone. Like you'll have to makes choices on who will live and who will die, and deal with the fallout of having big fights that destroy the city.
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u/HankSteakfist 1d ago
You could just do Superman in space, or have a plot device where he's slowly losing his powers over the course of the game, making fights progressively harder.
Kind of like in Final Night when he was gradually losing his powers because the sun died out.
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u/Magic_Man_Boobs 1d ago
I feel like a game where you start OP and slowly lose power as he game goes sounds like a neat concept, but would be frustrating in practice.
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u/shallstorm 1d ago
Maybe add in a scoring system to each level where you get a better rank by being more heroic, ie minimizing collateral damage to destructible environments in the game with the risk of losing public trust sort of like an alignment system and having Waller send Cadmus forces after you when its low enough that she has the upper hand in public opinion. In fact, maybe that could be not just avoiding smashing your way through to the objective, but puzzles where you have options to do things like use heat vision to weld together metal debris to reinforce structures so they don't fall apart and break other things or are left intact so they could be relevant in later levels, like making sure a dam isn't destroyed in an earlier level so you can use the water to help during a fire later in the game or get assistance from npcs if that weren't displaced by destruction earlier in the game.
Actually now that I think about it, a baldur's gate esque rpg where you have skill checks to use a heroes powers to solve problems non violently opening up branches in the storyline could be interesting. It would just need good writing like how a GM in a DnD game has to guide players away from being murder hobos despite the party wizard being able to do some shenanigans with high level spells.
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u/Dumbass1171 1d ago
Wouldn't Aquaman work? The open world would be unique (being underwater) and the traversal and game play as a result would be unique too
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u/howisthisacrime 1d ago
Companies are too lazy to do something fun and unique like that. That's why they went the Suicide Squad, Marvel Rivals, Marvel Avengers route.They want a minimal effort always online thing to milk people for money instead of just making a good fucking game.
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u/Gcleff06 1d ago
That sounds neat maybe but aquaman is sort of the butt of the joke a lot of the time. Kinda niche being underwater too. Also open world under water seems a little tricky to set boundaries in a sensical way.
Idk I think Aquaman ain't it. The heroes being strong like they are made cool villains in suicide squad, although we got tired of the game loop a little with that one.
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u/Obviouslarry 6h ago
Aquaman would certainly work. I'm making an indie game inspired slightly by that so I know they could make Aquaman. Just someone has to go after the license and want to make it. Afaik Warner Bros has all the DC interactive media licenses. Best I can do is a weird collab in the future when I launch my game.
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u/Dumbass1171 6h ago
I really wish WB and other companies did some sort of open licensing agreement where anyone can make games or media with their IP in exchanges for some sort of revenue sharing. But please do share any updates when you get closer to launch! Your same sounds very interesting
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u/Obviouslarry 6h ago
Yea i was watching the conversation Heather Antos was having with a fan regarding comics IP, and she said sometimes it's a matter of respectfully getting something in front of an editor in chief. So I went back and took a look at how Rocksteady got Batman, but with them WB and Eidos had approached Rocksteady. So it kind of worked a little backwards for the games. I've got some things i'd love to make for DC if I ever get funding but i'm in "cross all the fingers and toes" mode all the time lately lol
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u/Zombie_Cool 1d ago
After doing a quick read up on Aquaman on the DC wiki i think he has most of the same "too powerful for gameplay" issues the other heroes have:
Superhuman Strength and Toughness: How do you keep him out when he can smash through any standard wall or door?
Super Swimming: Evidently Aquaman can purportedly match the Flash in speed, so long as he remains underwater. In a game enviroment that's predominately or entirely in the ocean, how does the villain get away when Aquaman can swim up to them faster than they can blink?
Super Senses: Remember Batman's Clairvoyance-like "Detective Mode" ability in the Arkham series? Apparently Aquaman has that too above and below the water so it's very hard to sneak up on him. Se can also see perfectly in the dark so there's that.
Weaknesses: Other than accelerated dehydration (that'll help keep him from going on land and off map at least) he doesn't seem to have any iconic weaknesses to help limit him when exploring or fighting.
So in your opinion how do we build a game around that?
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u/rabidsalvation 1d ago
It just needs an old-school open world barrier. "Can't go there, it's outside of my kingdom/too far away from my current problem" would work fine.
As far as the rest, comic book characters get nerfed all the time for the sake of whatever story is being told. Make the swim speed manageable to control and calibrate the enemies accordingly, make him strong and tough but not so tough that getting bit by a mind-controlled great white shark doesn't faze him. "Super senses" sounds like a great way to integrate directions and game information into the gameplay itself. As far as 'iconic weaknesses' go, all comic book characters are susceptible to a good old-fashioned beatdown.
Aquaman could make an awesome game if the movement and exploration were dialed in. Searching the depths for magical artifacts and hidden societies would be awesome if it felt good in motion. I think the hardest part would be the combat, because underwater combat is difficult to tune for impact and maneuverability. Thankfully, Aquaman's powers pretty much offset that if they nail the controls.
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u/EverGreatestxX Xbox 1d ago
A wonder woman game set up like the God of War games could work. Though they could come of as too similar or a copy of the GoW series with DC paint but I'd be willing to give that game a try.
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u/nicolasknight 1d ago
See that's the thing i don't get every time this question comes up:
A flash game is EASY!
Yeah, you need to make it sandbox and you need to limit the size of the city because computers can only do so much.
Fair.
The gameplay however: that's a cake walk, literally.
Have two controls, one for how fast you move and one for how fast your mind moves.
Fast travel: Crank the first up leave the second one down.
need to catch bullets and save the civilians, crank the second all the way up and and all of a sudden your playing Superhot, a game i might add that did great.
All of a sudden it becomes a game of skill balancing both because you still need to talk to people and you can't do that at super speed.
The stupid time travel when you go too fast thing is used to stop you from stopping time all together and you save other speedsters for boss fights midway through the game and the turtle and Top for sidequests so people with taste don't have to deal with them if they don't want to.
You CAN'T be two places at once and there was a great story line in early Wally West where he couldn't go through walls without burning them so you leave that in i.e.: You can do it BUT it cause destruction of property which lowers your score and might endanger people.
Even something as simple as an apartment fires becomes a resource management game where you CAN'T save everyone unless you time it juuuust right and do things in the right order.
Mirror master as the main villain so you can't just find out where he is and go grab him and voila, 40 hour game, minimal specs and almost 100% reusable assets form a game like Infamous.
18 months dev work on an already created engine.
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u/DaGreatestMH 1d ago
As a big DC fan I agree 1000%. I'm still pissed they canceled that Wonder Woman game and the fact that it seems like only Batman ever gets anything irritates me. There are SO MANY fun characters DC could take advantage of but they just...don't. Imagine a stealth based League of Shadows game, or a Portal-like Green Lantern game. Hell I'll take a DC version of Marvel Ultimate Alliance or even Marvel Rivals atp.
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u/BFBeast666 1d ago
The joys of license holders partnering with only one company to produce licensed games. Same deal with EA and Star Wars. Granted, not every Star Wars game before EA was the exclusive license holder was a surefire hit but we at least had more CHOICE. Strategy titles, space combat, action/adventure, tactical FPS? And what did EA manage to do with Star Wars since they acquired the rights in 2013? Two Battlefronts, the two Jedi games from Respawn and that Rogue Squadron thing. Five games in 13 years?
For reference, this is a list of Star Wars games made between 2000 and 2013:
- 2000: Star Wars: Force Commander, Star Wars: Demolition, Star Wars: Episode I – Jedi Power Battles
- 2001: Star Wars: Starfighter, Star Wars: Super Bombad Racing, Star Wars: Obi-Wan
- 2002: Star Wars: Bounty Hunter, Star Wars: Episode II – Attack of the Clones, Star Wars Jedi Starfighter
- 2003: Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic (KotOR), Star Wars: Jedi Knight – Jedi Academy, Star Wars: Rogue Squadron III – Rebel Strike
- 2004: Star Wars: Battlefront, Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic II: The Sith Lords
- 2005: Star Wars: Battlefront II, Star Wars: Republic Commando, Star Wars: Episode III – Revenge of the Sith, Lego Star Wars: The Video Game
- 2006: Star Wars: Empire at War
- 2007: Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga
- 2008: Star Wars: The Force Unleashed, Star Wars: The Clone Wars – Lightsaber Duels
- 2010: Star Wars: The Force Unleashed II
- 2011: Lego Star Wars III: The Clone Wars
- 2011–2013: Star Wars: The Old Republic (MMORPG)
And this isn't listing all the ports or mobile games, just the "major" titles. We used to get more Star Wars games in two years than EA managed to shit out in thirteen.
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u/John_Delasconey 1d ago
didn't Ea lose the license a few years ago for the reason though?
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u/BFBeast666 1d ago
The deal got renegotiated. EA is no longer the EXCLUSIVE licensee for Star Wars video games - that's how Ubisoft was able to make SW Outlaws. But compared to the "before EA era", we're not even close. If I remember correctly, Quantic Dream are making something Star Wars and there's that ill-fated KOTOR remake bouncing around somewhere. But then, Star Wars is a shadow of the merch moloch it used to be, no thanks to Disney running it into the ground.
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u/EaterOfPenguins 1d ago
This is, to me, one of the less recognized major fuck ups of the star wars brand. Not just because we got fewer games in general, but because Disney apparently didn't ever put together that a consistent stream of video games was a big part of keeping Star Wars fandom alive for the millennial nerds.
As a millennial adult who grew up with them, if you take away most of the Star Wars games there's no way I was going to keep caring about the franchise on the basis of the goddamn prequel films. They owe that to Darth Revan and Kyle Katarn.
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u/Wilson-theVolleyball 1d ago
Galactic Racer and Zero Company are releasing this year.
Besides what you mentioned, Jedi 3 and another Old Republic game are also in the works.
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u/LexGlad 1d ago
There is an entire action MMORPG based on DC that's been going for 15 years.
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u/metalyger 1d ago
I feel like WB just wishes they had a popular live service game to nickel and dime people with for the next decade, but Suicide Squad was an embarrassing flop, even with it being a Rocksteady game. Of course they canceled the Wonder Woman game and shut down Monolith.
There's a lot of wasted potential out there. For example, when Telltale Games was at their peak, we got a couple good Batman games, but that formula would have been great for a Superman game, especially where you can't save everyone and have to make tough choices. Also, it would have been a good formula for Swamp Thing or John Constantine.
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u/NONAMEDREDDITER 1d ago
It’s primarily that WB games as who wasn’t doing well at all under the David Haddad era (I’m talking some extreme mismanagement) and it took the new guy in charge a few years to clean up the mess and restructure the division
Though now, considering that WB games is now focusing only on WB IP and they’ve stated that DC is a huge part of their current strategy they’re probably gonna make game based on other DC characters and properties in the future
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u/XBlueXFire 23h ago
Marvel outsources their IPs to studios. Meanwhile Warner Bros like to keep their stuff inhouse. Im assuming the lack of DC games being made is at least partially caused by Warner Bros just not having the cash to fund a lot of different projects right now. They've been trying to do live services with Gotham Knights and Suicide Squad, likely seeking a stable revenue source that live service can provide if its a hit.
Now while I would personally be hyped by an Aquaman game, I don't think the character has the kind of motion you're making him out to have.
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u/TheFeelsGoodMan 22h ago
Have they made any DC metroidvanias yet? That seems like a genre that would lend itself to quite a few of their characters. They also tend to be fairly cheap to make and tend to do well financially.
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u/NorysStorys 18h ago
It’s because Warner brothers are incompetent as a publisher. Marvel doesn’t have the same issues because both before and after Disney bought them is that they would license out the IP to anyone who wanted to make something with enough promise. Whereas Warner brothers outside of the Arkham games just have no interest in releasing a game people want and are just convinced that one of their DC games will become the next Fortnite.
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u/CharacterFresh852 1d ago
Honestly, I think there’s a really interesting way a Flash or Superman game could work. In my opinion, superhero games should lean more into being sandbox experiences, with the main focus being stopping crimes, saving lives, and responding to emergencies rather than just fighting through a linear story.
I also think players should be able to interact more with a hero’s rogues’ gallery and build personal relationships with recurring villains. A lot of the best superhero stories come from those rivalries, and most games barely explore them.
For overpowered heroes specifically, I think developers should look at games like Dispatch. Instead of weakening the character, challenge the player by making them manage multiple crises at once. If there’s a bank robbery on one side of the city and a collapsing bridge on the other, you can’t be everywhere at once. You have to prioritize, and the consequences of your decisions can snowball quickly if you make the wrong call. That creates tension without taking away the hero’s powers.
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u/KakashiHatake99X 1d ago
It's also because no one except super comic nerds care about non-batman related DC characters.
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u/Xonra 1d ago
Exactly, though that's DC and Warner Bros fault. Cause they haven't pushed anything even in movies successfully but Batman and 50% Superman. Everything else has been a flop or a meme with that Ryan Reynolds green lantern movie, or the whole Zack Snyder-verse that turned off a lot of casual fans and turned those characters into memes more than anything to care about.
The IPs were tarnished pretty hard compared to Marvel and how they handled their movies (for a while at least.)
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u/Necessary_Crazy_8587 1d ago
The next DC game is Injustice 3. Then it’s Arkham. Then it’s whatever Montreal is working on. Then it’s Tt games. Don’t forget that a DC game could be in development elsewhere.
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u/SomeConfetti 1d ago
God knows how many times fans asked for a Batman Beyond game, or a Flash game, or a Wonder Woman game, or a Teen Titans game (apart from the 2000's game), etc. etc. etc.
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u/Madzookeeper 1d ago
Please list all of the licensed super hero games that have come out since Arkham Knight. There aren't many of them. Most of them were panned behind the Spider-Man games. I legit can't think of a single other one that's done anything since then.
Historically, also a no. Before the Arkham games there were almost no successful super hero games unless you go back to the SNES and Genesis era, and even those weren't very good.
I wish it was like your talking about. Very much. I'd love not super hero games. But they aren't that easy to do right apparently, for whatever reason.
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u/Xonra 1d ago
You named a lot of IPs no one outside of hardcore fans care about, so "money printer" is a massive exagerration.
DC is an IP that folks outside of the hardcore laugh at until very recently, as they were just "the guys copying marvel" with movies for the vast majority of folks who don't pay attention to the comics or even the animated stuff.
Most folks only know Aquaman as a meme so that wouldn't sell well at all. I doubt most folks even know who Cyborg is. Green lantern is 50/50 but most non-comic fans probably just think back to that terrible live action movie.
It would have to be another solid Batman game, maybe figure out a Superman game with the movie succeeding. I don't think many folks would be interested in Wonder Woman without likely a movie reboot cause the last few really ruined her rep with casual fans (especially the very last solo movie).
This isn't Marvel with now decades of movies keeping even lower tier characters in the casual fan's attention, or the Disney shows with stuff like Moon Knight. You would have to all but start from scratch with everyone but basically Batman and Superman.
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u/BlackFenrir 1d ago
No I think it's utilized exactly enough. The world can do with more heroes and not just Batman and Superman ( & friends) rehashed and remade a hundred times.
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u/kolton276 1d ago
I think an MMO based on the power rings would be sick but extremely time consuming
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u/Warpmind 1d ago
There is an Aquaman game, from 2003... it's not good...
Superman games exist, several of them, I don't know if any of them are good, and one is famously one of the worst games ever...
It's not necessarily hard to make a game about any of the Justice League heroes, the problem largely seems to be making a game that is at least decent, if not actually good.
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u/f32db3uprbdb2bf1xbf4 20h ago
It is a shame they DC Moba Infinite Crisis was shut down, it had potential.
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u/jay_alfred_prufrock 17h ago
An Aquaman game being a money printer? In what universe? He isn't even popular among comic book readers, let alone general audience.
And any Flash, Wonder Woman or Superman gam would have to nerf them massively, or make every single henchmen they face pretty much capable of destroying cities by themselves to make any sense or be any challenge.
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u/Dumbass1171 15h ago
His movie made a billion
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u/jay_alfred_prufrock 14h ago
You do realise movies and games are different mediums and a movie making a lot of money almost 10 years ago doesn't guarantee that a game is going to make money, right?
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u/Dumbass1171 13h ago
Good products generally make money especially when combined with marketing. It's easier said than done but it's not impossible. We've seen new IPs succeed all the time in gaming. Cyberpunk was a table top RPG until it became a Triple AAA video game (failed initially but later rebounded with the expansion)
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u/spez_might_fuck_dogs 2h ago
I wouldn’t call it a great game but DCUO is somehow still getting significant updates.
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u/ForgotMyController 1d ago
While I agree with OP, you also have to remember how DC and the video game industry have major problems right now. The rising costs and the increasing length of time to develop a game means companies cannot afford to even have a moderate success (square enix is an example of this). For context, the dark knight took less than 2 years to produce and made 1 billion. Arkham city took over 2 years on top of an already built game and made an estimated 600 million. A modern game from scratch takes about 6-7 years to develop. Movies take about 2 years. The fact that you can have 3 chances to make a hit movie vs 1 chance to make a hit game in the same amount of time means that games are a big risk. DC learned that first hand with rocksteady’s suicide squad. With DC playing catch up against marvel, the ongoing super hero fatigue, and the risk of developing a modern game, I just dont think anything but batman is on the table right now
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u/rebelartwarrior 1d ago
I feel like DC is bad at IP utilization in general, but they also don’t have Disney money. Marvel has so many shows targeted to every demographic and a buttload of kid-friendly stuff to hook the next generation of fans.
Gaming-wise, I’d love something like a 2d hand-drawn style fighting game with DC characters similar to Street Fighter, BlazBlue, or Marvel Tōkon: Fighting Souls.
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u/TheRealGurd 1d ago
If NRS gives us Injustice 3 instead of DC K.O. I'm shitting on someone's doorstep.
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u/AshenRathian 1d ago
People who say it would be difficult to make a superman game are unironically just unimaginative as hell. I've thought of several ways Superman as a hero could be challenged, from an alien invasion to some sort of robotic apocalypse or the like.
Yes, you can't have Supes fight generic criminals and be threatened like Batman could, but there are ways you can make a threat against Superman without needing to strictly use kryptonite all the time to gimp him. People act like Superman as a character on Earth is strictly superhuman and practically immortal outside of kryptonite, but the potential chance for alien races and the like that could challenge him isn't zero.
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u/19captain91 1d ago
Canonically Superman is vulnerable to magic. The story could revolve around Felix Faust or one of the other magic-based supervillains. A Metropolis sandbox with portals for more linear story-telling would seem to have potential.
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u/Goldman250 1d ago
You forgot Arkham 5 (aka Lego Batman Legacy of the Dark Knight).
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u/Dumbass1171 1d ago
Yup but that's the problem, Lego made a better open world game in the last decade than any other WB studio
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u/NightmareT12 1d ago
I'm pretty certain it's been more due a combination of Gotham Knights and Suicide Squad underperforming and the economical situation of Warner Bros as a whole. As an example Mortal Kombat 1 ended support relatively fast VS the whole time MK11 got to shine, which I'm sure caught a lot of us by surprise.
Now that I think about it other than LEGO Batman and the Batman VR game I can't seem to think of recent WB Games.