Update: WBIE has confirmed Jason's reporting with a statement: Jason Schreier of Bloomberg is reporting that Warner Bros. is shutting down three studios
With so many big name DC heroes, you’d think we’d be getting big budget games about them constantly, but outside of the Batman Arkham games we don’t have much to show for it in recent history.
Marvels got a whole bunch of cool stuff in progress: Wolverine, Captain America, Black Panther games. On top of its successful Spider Man games, and they hit Marvel Rivals that just launched. But its crickets from DC.
According to a lot of developers, it’s apparently damn near impossible to make a good superhero game. I’ve heard it justified as needing to find the right balance between gameplay and character power level.
Like it’s kinda tricky to make a lore-accurate Superman game, but people like me enjoyed Superman Returns back in the day for what it was.
I had read about the cancelled Superman game, Blue Steel, and its sad that it was never given a shot. Superman in city-destroying brawls with Braniac/Zod/Darkseid or Wonder Woman fighting mythical Greek beasts in a modern setting just seems like a game that should already exist.
DC can’t just pick a damn batman actor, or be consistent with their movie stories. They just keep rebooting. They keep shooting themselves in the foot.
It’s kinda hard when the literal perfect voice for Batman (who already played the character in like 95% of every production for 20+ years) passed away in 2022.
I agree, we should try to figure out who the next best staple voice could be, but it’s also hard when the fans don’t usually want to give new voices a chance. That said I think Hamish Linklater (Batman: Caped Crusader) and Bruce Greenwood (Young Justice) are really good contenders for the role.
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With so many big name DC heroes, you’d think we’d be getting big budget games about them constantly, but outside of the Batman Arkham games we don’t have much to show for it in recent history.
Marvels got a whole bunch of cool stuff in progress: Wolverine, Captain America, Black Panther games. On top of its successful Spider Man games, and they hit Marvel Rivals that just launched. But its crickets from DC.
According to a lot of developers, it’s apparently damn near impossible to make a good superhero game. I’ve heard it justified as needing to find the right balance between gameplay and character power level.
Like it’s kinda tricky to make a lore-accurate Superman game, but people like me enjoyed Superman Returns back in the day for what it was.
I had read about the cancelled Superman game, Blue Steel, and its sad that it was never given a shot. Superman in city-destroying brawls with Braniac/Zod/Darkseid or Wonder Woman fighting mythical Greek beasts in a modern setting just seems like a game that should already exist.
DC can’t just pick a damn batman actor, or be consistent with their movie stories. They just keep rebooting. They keep shooting themselves in the foot.
It’s kinda hard when the literal perfect voice for Batman (who already played the character in like 95% of every production for 20+ years) passed away in 2022.
I agree, we should try to figure out who the next best staple voice could be, but it’s also hard when the fans don’t usually want to give new voices a chance. That said I think Hamish Linklater (Batman: Caped Crusader) and Bruce Greenwood (Young Justice) are really good contenders for the role.