Superman... Sorry, its a serious case of Do not want!
As many others have already more elloquently stated hes not a well designed char. Hes far too overpowered, and his only real flaw is his Hulkhoganism where he essentially plays damaged to start slowly building up steam and momentum to finally overcome his foe with some new found strength he never knew he had.
I mean you could hypothetically build a game around superman, but really it wont be as good and it certainly wont be well received. It also baffles me why media keeps trying to cram superman down our throats after we have repeatedly rejected the notion at every opportunity since the 80s incarnation. Just let it be.
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No if Rock steady wanted a new hero to work with, their best bet would be green lantern. GL is about the second strongest character (not superhero, but persona) in DCs stable behind batman. You have plenty of lore to work with, A cool but not entirely overpowered ability set, Multiple incarnations of green lantern so plenty of angles from which to approach it from, and from a gaming standpoint a lot of interesting ways to utilize the ability set in an interactive context.
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With all that said, there is one massive thing that would hold that idea back. Your talking about a char who had a 3 season animated series, 1 episode in a second animated series, and two short lived comic book runs equating to less than 50 comics. As much support as it might have from the current generations, it seems more like Beyond makes for a better fit as a footnote in the greater Batman cannon than its own separated entity and with such you have to ask if that is enough to warrant building a game around.
As many others have already more elloquently stated hes not a well designed char. Hes far too overpowered, and his only real flaw is his Hulkhoganism where he essentially plays damaged to start slowly building up steam and momentum to finally overcome his foe with some new found strength he never knew he had.
I mean you could hypothetically build a game around superman, but really it wont be as good and it certainly wont be well received. It also baffles me why media keeps trying to cram superman down our throats after we have repeatedly rejected the notion at every opportunity since the 80s incarnation. Just let it be.
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No if Rock steady wanted a new hero to work with, their best bet would be green lantern. GL is about the second strongest character (not superhero, but persona) in DCs stable behind batman. You have plenty of lore to work with, A cool but not entirely overpowered ability set, Multiple incarnations of green lantern so plenty of angles from which to approach it from, and from a gaming standpoint a lot of interesting ways to utilize the ability set in an interactive context.
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I would love this notion and to a degree it makes some sense. It allows you to utilize Conroy without Hamil being one of the most prevalent. Some of the beyond rouges gallery also have yet to be fully defined so it gives rock steady a great opportunity to expand on these ideas.Stevo92 said:
With all that said, there is one massive thing that would hold that idea back. Your talking about a char who had a 3 season animated series, 1 episode in a second animated series, and two short lived comic book runs equating to less than 50 comics. As much support as it might have from the current generations, it seems more like Beyond makes for a better fit as a footnote in the greater Batman cannon than its own separated entity and with such you have to ask if that is enough to warrant building a game around.
