DC Fighting Game: Take Two

[trashcanman]

First, a quick history of DC gaming. I've been playing games based on DC Comics characters since the nonsensical Atari 2600 Superman game.


Yes, that's really what it was like. Fast forward to modern gaming and you've got nothing but a string of failures up to the two recent Batman games. A Superman arcade game that was decent, but you died REALLY easily, and then there was the Justice League game with only few playable heroes and you couldn't choose who you wanted to play as, and Superman 64, which is known as one of the absolute worst games of all time. So earlier this gen, we got Mortal Kombat vs DC, a game I recently got for free but haven't bothered playing yet. But the word on it has not been good, what with all of 10 playable DC characters and nerfed fatalities. Meanwhile, Marvel has had more great games than I can even count right up to the legendary Marvel vs Capcom series. So why can't DC get anything right other than Batman when it comes to video games? Well, looks like they are about to hit us with their best shot, and it looks like they may fail again. Let's have a look.

www.youtube.com/watch?v=hMkTQSbE6Bc

First off, another fighting game? By the people who already failed at it? 'Kay. Looks like it could be cool. I love the premise of DC heroes going bad, but here's the thing: they have yet to make a decent game of these guys (not counting Bats) being heroic. Is making the legit JLA game of our dreams just completely out of the question? Anyways, this is on my watch list, but a whole lot is going to be determined by character selection so I'm going to say it one more time: no Black Canary, no sale.

[The Curmudgeon]

I simply cannot believe that Superman game. I mean, I know the technology was basic but.. I mean.. what the fuck is going on? It reminds me of this;

www.youtube.com/watch?v=jR7m-4Vc3MU

Anyway, I'm my own worst enemy playing this sort of thing. The entire time I would be thinking, "no fucking WAY could Batman beat Superman in a fight. Or the Flash. This is stupid." End game.

I don't really know the whole story behind this, but I agree Trash there needs to be a better use of the characters than this. Why the fuck can't the geniuses behind the two Batman games get behind a JLA game or something?

Marvel have had some classics through the years. Did you ever play the Megadrive/Genesis Spider-Man game? That was (for it's time) brilliant. You could even take pictures of what was on the screen and Jonah paid you for the pictures (if you took shit pictures, you didn't get paid). Even NOW they haven't brought that idea into the new games. The PS1 Spider-Man games were classics as well.

So yeah, Batman has THE best game, but Marvel have a whole stack of other great titles too.

[trashcanman]

Dead Rising had a similar thing with taking pictures, but I'm kind of surprised to hear it went back to the 16 bit days. I can get over the whole strength differential thing for the sake of a fun video game. I love MvC, but I don't see Chris Redfield going toe-to-toe with The Hulk as likely. But seeing Bats throw Grundy through like 5 buildings was maybe pushing it a bit further than it'll go. Still, if it's fun I don't really care. It looks like the initial verdict isn't so good, though.

www.ign.com/articles/2012/06/01/injustice-supermanbatman-as-a-step-backward

I'm hoping they can polish this up and make it awesome, but history is definitely not on DC's side here.