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SUPERMAN™ - Earth Sized Open-World Game in Unreal Engine 5 | Fan Concept
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Ugly as a motherfucker asset flip.
Madflavor
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The solution for a Superman game to work is to have you play as a young Clark Kent who just moved to Metropolis and is still learning and growing his powers. Metropolis should be huge and act as your main hub to do activities and side missions. Main story missions can occur in other places Warworld, Atlantis, Brainiacs ship, or wherever, but you always return to Metropolis between them. By the end of the game you should be able to zip and fly at breakneck speeds and be powerful as fuck, but at least there will be a progression up to that point and you'll have to earn your way to it.
Batman has had plenty of games, and Wonder Woman is getting her first big game too. There's ways around Superman's powers and soon they'll be running out of excuses as to why we still don't have a AAA Superman game.
Batman has had plenty of games, and Wonder Woman is getting her first big game too. There's ways around Superman's powers and soon they'll be running out of excuses as to why we still don't have a AAA Superman game.
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Umbasaborne
Banned
Getting some real “nintendo hire this man!” Vibes
U n i o n 0015
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Superman totally flies at what feels like 10 mph. Uh huh.
FingerBang
Member
Why would you make Superman have that hairline? Jesus Christ.
Yes, that is the thing that bothers me.
Yes, that is the thing that bothers me.
Spaceman292
Banned
Superman's thrilling journey through the generic Unity asset library.
VeganElduderino
Member
What happens if the earth is flat ? 
DonkeyPunchJr
World’s Biggest Weeb
Superman’s powers are amplified by Earth’s piss-colored sun.
dr_octagon
Banned
Make a Zod game where you conquer Earth.
Superman is working in a Starbucks in another galaxy. It's only when the Metropolis branch is destroyed, he returns.
Superman is working in a Starbucks in another galaxy. It's only when the Metropolis branch is destroyed, he returns.
TheThreadsThatBindUs
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Glad I'm not the only one.
diffusionx
Gold Member
YOOOO WARNER
HIRE
THIS
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HIRE
THIS
MAN
GymWolf
Member
So people have no problem with spidey (who can lift several tons and stop a fucking train) doing 20x hit combos on simple humans in sony spidey but somehow superman doing the same would be too much??
Give some stupid explanation like criminals now have super armours made of fucktonium and superman can't easily beat their ass anymore, easy peasy.
Give some stupid explanation like criminals now have super armours made of fucktonium and superman can't easily beat their ass anymore, easy peasy.
SmokedMeat
Gamer™
I like how his red tarp (cape?) behaves exactly the same on Earth as it does in space.
Seriously though, great job to the developer showing us how flight might work. The one thing that didn’t need solving in a Superman game.
Seriously though, great job to the developer showing us how flight might work. The one thing that didn’t need solving in a Superman game.
ResilientBanana
Member
The only way a superman game works is with kryptonite shield over a city, weakening him to at least aquaman levels. Also this demo sucks
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DonkeyPunchJr
World’s Biggest Weeb
The actual Superman game is going to reimagine Superman as a racially-ambiguous womyn with an under shave haircut who constantly talks to herself and makes witty comments in blaccent.
BootsLoader
Banned
Why I hate this garbage?
Shubh_C63
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Superman on Earth is boring.
If the game ever has to exist make Superman teen portal to another world (past-kriptonian etc) with fantasy buildings and completely destructible mountains. Restrict flight to looong jumps, take inspiration from DBZ games, Share 5 worlds where string of missions only end once EVERYTHING and entire planet is obliterated by Superman.
You can bring different biomes, different heights and structures to dwarf Superman-teen insane OP flight. And make it arkham combat-esque basically. Final mission is Superman turning Dark and Suicide Squad gets to kill Superman.
If the game ever has to exist make Superman teen portal to another world (past-kriptonian etc) with fantasy buildings and completely destructible mountains. Restrict flight to looong jumps, take inspiration from DBZ games, Share 5 worlds where string of missions only end once EVERYTHING and entire planet is obliterated by Superman.
You can bring different biomes, different heights and structures to dwarf Superman-teen insane OP flight. And make it arkham combat-esque basically. Final mission is Superman turning Dark and Suicide Squad gets to kill Superman.
Knightime_X
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It has potential, but FAAAAAAAR from game worthy as is.
Reizo Ryuu
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SmokedMeat
Gamer™
I think a Superman game where he’s married to Lois Lane would work.
You’re invincible to anything in the game, but after saving Earth/a cat in a tree/burning building/etc you have to be back to your home, dressed, and ready to go out to dinner before a timer runs out.
Or you’ve got several items to pick up at the grocery store as Clark Kent, and have to memorize exactly which ones she wanted. Was it Baking Soda or Baking Powder??
Did you leave the seat up?
You have to listen to Lous drone on about her day, and afterwards she questions if you were listening? You then have to answer questions as to what she was talking about.
Pissing off Lois results in a failed mission. Boom done! No redundant Kryptonite or silly Magic nonsense. Just don’t suck as Clark Kent.
You’re invincible to anything in the game, but after saving Earth/a cat in a tree/burning building/etc you have to be back to your home, dressed, and ready to go out to dinner before a timer runs out.
Or you’ve got several items to pick up at the grocery store as Clark Kent, and have to memorize exactly which ones she wanted. Was it Baking Soda or Baking Powder??
Did you leave the seat up?
You have to listen to Lous drone on about her day, and afterwards she questions if you were listening? You then have to answer questions as to what she was talking about.
Pissing off Lois results in a failed mission. Boom done! No redundant Kryptonite or silly Magic nonsense. Just don’t suck as Clark Kent.
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Heisenberg007
Gold Journalism
Warner Bros. Flight Simulator.
Physiognomonics
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The transitions are awfull and make the whole thing meh. No Man's Sky and Outer wilds are more impressive than this.
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Sleepwalker
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I don't think so, no. Unless there's been an announcement i'm not aware of.
Either way I want a Superman game, it's been a long time since the goat: Superman 64
Hawking Radiation
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That hairline
The cape physics and it flapping in space
The superhero landings
TRASH
The cape physics and it flapping in space
The superhero landings
TRASH
U n i o n 0015
Member
Yuuup. I love that it's "open world," but every time they have to transition from Earth > space > moon there is a cut to disguise the fact that they loaded in a completely new level.
digdug2
Member
Many "open world" games require loading screens or have the player squeeze through a crack so the new area can load in the background. Is Skyrim any less open world because there are loading screens? How about Elden Ring?
CamHostage
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The description on the video outlines the project as "Open World "SuperMan" Game with Earth Sized Map! " That's not what this demo is. It's a City map, it's a Moon map, and it's a Jungle map. (It's possible that the demo could hide its transitions better than those whirlpool-out swaps they use in this video, but even if that was cleaned up, the scale of the "Earth Sized Map" is massively, massively contracted, not at all comparable to something like Flight Sim's representation of the globe... which is obviously how this would have to work, given that FS uses several petabytes of terrain data.)
Whether it'd be a good idea in general to have a planet-sized world for a Superman game is a different thing (although anybody who understands anything about game design would say this would be a bad direction, given that it's hard enough scheduling enough tasks and challenges and variety in a city-sized map.) But this is not that.
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Negotiator101
Member
Cloth physics on the Cape are awful, on the other side we need a Superman game absolutely.
Drizzlehell
Banned
Oh god, not this shit again...
EverydayBeast
thinks Halo Infinite is a new graphical benchmark
I’m on board with a super man game all the excuses, flying mechanics, powers just seem like bullshit.
Kdad
Member
Dont kink shame.
DonkeyPunchJr
World’s Biggest Weeb
Thanks for bumping this thread to agree with the opinions from 8 months ago
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