Fan-tasizing: The perfect Superman Videogame.

I don't agree. I think we should only play as the true Superman and people don't mind a morality system that much.

BTW, did Injustice get on your last nerve?

I'd play it

All right then, I'll give a little.

How exactly would you fit Superman's morality into a open world videogame without constraining the player? And don't say "like the Arkham series" because frankly, Batman can't knock down a building by breathing on it.

This sounds like a great idea, but first I'd rather see a game focusing on some version of the traditional Superman mythos which, like @Alphadog said, would essentially be Superman's equivalent of the Arkham series.

@UltimaRex as for how you could fit morality into the game without constraining the player and still focus on the true Superman - the morality aspect wouldn't need to be that huge in the game. In fact, it could be pretty simple - If Superman knocks down buildings, his public perception becomes less favourable, which in turn could give certain enemies, such as Lex Luthor or General Lane, more leverage to go up against him, with public support, and create weapons to fight him, like Metallo or simply giving the army Kryptonite weapons. So, rather than it simply being a choice between playing as good or evil, it could be a choice between playing carefully or recklessly, and how that affects Superman.

And then of course you could always progress it to the point that, if all of Metropolis turns on Superman due to maxing out the negative morality during gameplay, Superman could react negatively and become a villain. Perhaps that could be achieved by having General Zod also in the game, perhaps as the main antagonist - if you follow the good morality path, you're naturally against him and his plans to take over/destroy Earth, and if you follow the bad path, you begin to lean toward his ideologies, especially as humanity turns on you, and you eventually fight against him in order to rule Earth yourself.

So in other words no, you can't fit Superman's morality into a open world videogame without constraining the player.

@AC1, even having a "negative morality" scale hews far closer to my original idea than having a "true" Superman game. Playing as the character negates the choice of negative morality as the character wouldn't even willingly do it to begin with.

Batman works well in videogames because all he does in the Arkham games is beat up/outwit bad guys. And it doesn't always work:



Superman, living in a world of slow moving cardboard as he does has far more freedom. Freedom means choice. Choice means options.

I kinda with you there. The story should make a compelling case for the player to act like the "true" Superman. But without choice we're back to constraining the player again.

@UltimaRex Yes I suppose. I guess that what it all comes down to is how we feel about constraining the player. I don't think it would be a big issue in practice don't it could seem so in theory.