/v/ - Video Games

6) Superman starts out at low-power-level (basically can only jump high, not fly, etc) and gets more powerful he progresses through the main story and as you upgrade him. At fully-upgraded level, he's basically at classic Superman power levels - you can literally just walk into a hail of gunfire, grenades and rockets raining on you without flinching and human henchmen trying to hit or charge you will either break something or end up bouncing off. It sounds overpowered but it's not - it's actually a HEAP of fucking fun being an invincible, super-fast, super-strong motherfucker. Besides, normal human thugs are not your main threat in this game - they stop being relevant after the first third and are mainly there for you to troll in style or for situations where you have to save others from them.

7) Your main foes in the game are mechas, chemically or technologically enhanced mooks, various super-weapons, monsters, aliens and robots. There are also ordinary humans wielding high-tech weapons like kryptonite or red solar energy powered rifles, but they aren't usually a major threat unless you get too distracted fighting bigger foes, at which point they can get a lucky hit in.

8) Superman has an "invincibility" bar, which is basically his health bar. It replenishes over time, sometimes faster depending on how close you are to sources of solar energy and sometimes slower if you're exposed to harmful environments. Once it's down to zero, Superman becomes as vulnerable as a normal human and can be killed in one hit by most enemies.

9) Superman has an attack, a block and a grapple button for combat. Attack is basically your standard punches, kicks, headbutts etc and can be combined with various aerial acrobatics, super-speed, etc, for badass combos. Block is defending against attacks, like deflecting a laser blast with your hand, intercepting a punch or dodging a blow, etc, etc. Grapple is grabbing enemies, dragging them through buildings, throwing them, putting them in chokeholds, etc. Superman can also use almost everything in his environment as a weapon - grab a chain and use it as a whip, pick up a lamp post and use it as a bat, tear a chunk out of a wall and fling it at an enemy, etc. There's also quick use buttons for abilities like heat vision and freeze breath, which can be also be combined with other attacks into cool combos, like bouncing your heat vision off reflective surfaces to hit multiple enemies. The fighting system is built from the ground up and was made specifically to accommodate the grand scale of Superman's battles.

10) Game draws on multiple eras of Superman, from Golden Age to New 52. Lana Lang is in the game (she is in fact Superman's main object of romantic attention in the game - Lois is also there but it's more like how Talia and Catwoman were in the Arkham games) as are the Daily Planet crew, Dan Turpin, Sam Lane, Steel, Dr. Shay Veritas and a voice message from Kara (Supergirl) in Clark Kent's apartment. Things like STAR Labs are also in the game.

11) There are sections where you can play as Clark Kent but they are mostly limited to the beginning.

12) Main villain is Mr. Mxyzptlk, a more "grim'n'gritty" version of him than usual than tries to screw with time and alternate realities. Other villains that show up are Parasite, Metallo, Toyman, Zod and his Kryptonian crew (in a very cool boss fight where you fight all of them simultaneously), Silver Banshee, Atomic Skull, La Encantadora, Intergang and Starro.

13) Game is set over the course of one day, much like the Arkham games were set over the course of one night.

14) Lex Luthor is also in it but not really as a "villain" more as an antagonistic story-related presence. There are news presentations that you can see on various TVs where he talks shit about Superman and the end of the game sets up a sequel hook with Luthor talking about something called "Project Galileo".

15) Superman's flight has been redesigned and a lot of it is based off the visual style of Zack Snyder and movies like Top Gun. Controlling Superman in this game is like flying a human-sized, world's deadliest fighter jet.

I just don't see how a Superman game would be fun while still being Superman. He's the most boring superhero who's basically god, except for a single macguffin weakness. Unless they're going to base this game's Superman on one of the weaker versions from the comic books, and not the one where he can somehow hear cries for help from Earth the instant they're yelled while 12 light years away, or how he can sneeze in space and accidentally destroy a planet.

Comicfags will come in to rant about "the real story of Superman is his struggle to be human and not a god" or some shit.

No.

If you can literally survive in space, can destroy things by accidentally sneezing, and are omnipotent, there is no credible threat against you.

>>14817029

> He's the most boring superhero who's basically god

but the people he protects aren't

i guess his games would be just defense/escort missions

also, green kyptonite weakens him, i don't remember what other kryptonites do, since i dont read superman

>>14817029

t. never read a good superman comic

>>14817029

>there is no credible threat against you

the problem is that Superman's rogues gallery isn't as good as say Bats

There's tons of beings that can slap his shit in and other heroes can hard counter him

For a game though, they should base his power level off the animated series where he was strong, but not unstoppable

>>14816905

>Game is set over the course of one day

>villains that show up are Parasite, Metallo, Toyman, Zod and his Kryptonian crew (in a very cool boss fight where you fight all of them simultaneously), Silver Banshee, Atomic Skull, La Encantadora, Intergang and Starro.

I wonder how they'll fit this in, for Asylum and City is made sense since you were trapped in a prison with them

>>14817046

pink kryptonite turns Superman in to a flamboyant homosexual

And yes, his whole thing is about protecting people, but a game made of nothing but escort missions would be fucking terrible.

They could do branching paths where Superman saves different people given hard choices, but since different power levels give him the power to travel faster than light and to turn back time I don't see how even that would work.

Unreal Engine (that is, Tencent and chinese involved) + Warner/DC (that is, marxists involved) = it is guaranteed to be shit.

>>14817089

It's capeshit, it was dead from conception.

>>14817063

>I wonder how they'll fit this in, for Asylum and City is made sense since you were trapped in a prison with them

It's basically "a day in the life of Superman" simulator and the villains are wrecking shit. Some are main story villains, most are side missions.

>>14817063

>For a game though, they should base his power level off the animated series

Superman in this game is more in the upper echelons of power by the end but he's not as ridiculous as say, sneezing a planet to pieces. Above animated series level, though.

>>14817089

Unfortunately, UE4 is the most versatile engine on the market right now. It's not perfect and Rocksteady modified the shit out of it to support higher levels of environmental destruction with crashing people's framerates in the process but it was better than trying to wrestle with another engine.

>>14817146

*without

>>14816903

>Superman has an attack, a block and a grapple button for combat. Attack is basically your standard punches, kicks, headbutts etc and can be combined with various aerial acrobatics, super-speed, etc, for badass combos. Block is defending against attacks, like deflecting a laser blast with your hand, intercepting a punch or dodging a blow, etc, etc. Grapple is grabbing enemies, dragging them through buildings, throwing them, putting them in chokeholds, etc. Superman can also use almost everything in his environment as a weapon - grab a chain and use it as a whip, pick up a lamp post and use it as a bat, tear a chunk out of a wall and fling it at an enemy, etc. There's also quick use buttons for abilities like heat vision and freeze breath, which can be also be combined with other attacks into cool combos, like bouncing your heat vision off reflective surfaces to hit multiple enemies. The fighting system is built from the ground up and was made specifically to accommodate the grand scale of Superman's battles.

So it's not the shitty arkham system that plays the game for you? I might be interested but truthfully they really fumbled hard with Knight in nearly every way. And the fact that WB is involved worries me. What will be DLC? Do I really trust WB, even if rocksteady is somehow talented enough, to approve of that destructible set piece part, or not to meddle hard enough as to not butcher anything? Do I even trust Rocksteady to make half the shit written here fun when they made the Batmobile the complete opposite? Will the costumes remain as ugly as they are in the Arkham games? Will they ever take a page from the Spider Man games to have the costumes give you neat little powers?

On a side note, do you think I AM A REAL AMERICAN or a more uplifting version of the Arkham orchestra when you think OST?

>>14817109

Actually, Superman isn't weak against magic, but it's one of the few sources of damage that he doesn't resist.

>>14817189

Forgive me for being thick but is there much of a difference?

>>14817150

>So it's not the shitty arkham system that plays the game for you?

No, it's a system more focused on freedom of choice on how to deal with individual enemies. If I had to compare, I'd say it draws more from the Dishonored series than from the Arkham games.

>What will be DLC?

Costumes, mostly. I know there's some plans floating around for extra story DLC but Warner Bros. is waiting to see how the game is received first. There's a lot of apprehension about Superman's perceived unpopularity in the general public's eyes because of how catastrophic the DCEU movieverse's reception ended up being.

>Will they ever take a page from the Spider Man games to have the costumes give you neat little powers?

Costumes are just there for aesthetics like the Arkham games.

>On a side note, do you think I AM A REAL AMERICAN or a more uplifting version of the Arkham orchestra when you think OST?

It's definitely more uplifting but I wouldn't say it has much in common with the Arkham soundtracks. In fact, the closest comparison I can think of is Michiel van den Bos' soundtrack for Age of Wonders. It has the same sort of slightly melancholy quality to it at times.

>rocksteady

>DDR tier combat again

No thanks.

>>14817029

Unless they had something like kryptonite outfitted weapons and gas areas which decreased his abilities until he gets captured or killed. If they went with the Kingdom Come story they could do a decent game since Shazam fucked him up in it and he had to fight other superheroes instead of mechs or something dumb like that.

>>14817192

It affects him just like it affects everyone else. He's "weak" to it in the sense that he just has no defense against it like he does everything else.

>>14817193

How do you know this, anon? Do you or your dad work for Rocksteady?

>>14817199

Close (female) friend works for Rocksteady. I've managed to convince her to divulge most of this info despite her reluctance because it's coming in a month's time anyway.

>>14817228

You sexual tyrannosaurus you.

I'll keep an eye on it but I really don't have high hopes.

I want to like Superman again but he's just not what's cool anymore. The genre has evolved past him.

>>14817198

Considering he's pretty much invulnerable to everything else, that's pretty weak, relatively.

>>14817265

He is weak to all kinds of stuff though. Gas, psychic attacks, magic, and if Brainiac is the main villain he can be outsmarted.

>>14817255

Superhero comes have not evolved since the 30s, they were already a devolvement from horror comics. Unless you consider the propaganda they spew towards have evolved to become niggers and harpy communists.

>>14817255

I think Superman is cool in his own way if played right.

>>14817352

You mean his villains, the exact same thing with Batman.

>>14817360

I mean Superman himself. It's weird bringing up the movie in a positive light but I liked the way the Justice League movie handled it. Superman was absurdly strong but he was charming, charismatic, had a decent friendly rivalry with the flash which made that shitshow of a character almost tolerable.

Speaking of Batman villains I hate how, at least in Arkham, they made people like Riddler and Mad Hatter basically Joker lite.

Oh fuck will be the equivalent of the 400+ "riddles" for this game?

>>14817228

You a brit anon?

>>14817380

Just fucking say the Justice League, everyone likes the Justice League since it plays them all off on their quirks, the people themselves are boring fuckheads. Everyone liked the 2000 cartoon since it was well written.

>>14817380

>Mad Hatter basically Joker lite

I remember Mad Hatter being dealt with in Arkham City tho

Sage for double post

>>14817341

There are more things in the genre than Comics. Look at One Punch Man. Basically a total kick in the nuts to super hero logic. With a frustrated over powered protagonist.

>>14817391

No shit, it's a joke webcomic from Japan that got a Jump adaption and a Madhouse anime, probably the only fucking reason why you've even heard of it off from /a/, it's not from the American comic books industry.

>>14817382

Australian, currently in the UK. Not giving away more than that.

>>14817380

>Oh fuck will be the equivalent of the 400+ "riddles" for this game?

Something called "Metropolis City Stories" which is journalism-related stuff for Superman to pick up around the place which unlocks bonus stuff like recordings, newspaper articles, character profiles/trophies and upgrade points. I didn't manage to get exactly how it works, unfortunately, but from what I hear it's basically this game's version of Riddler trophies.

>>14816901

nice advertising, mr. marketer

I want to strangle the person who created the Comics Code and made Capeshit the only shit in the industry by killing horror and crime genres.

^retard

>>14817456

>by killing horror

What about Infidel, the comic about a muslim woman who gets haunted by ghosts who "feed off Xenophobia"?

>>14817092

True.

>>14817146

The point is: it gives money to Tencent. So it must never be used. Period.

>>14817481

1: the CCA was ultimately just a meme. A mark you would place in the front of your comics to assure readers and parents of readers that a quasi-government agency had read the book and approved it for general consumption

2: the CCA disbanded in 2002, but the genre tendency hasn't recovered yet. Modern comic artists and writers generally can't make something without inserting their politics into it, driving sales down, and capes will continue selling better (relatively) as long as there's a dearth of other genres

>>14818378

Goku might not have "planet-destroying sneezing powers", but he sure as fuck can blow up entire planets with very minimal effort

>>14818378

>Why does Superman have to be impervious to everything?

Because casuals need to be pandered to.

>>14817456

Would it shock you to find out it was a Gem?

>>14817029

>Didn't read OP, the post.

There is an invincibly bar that makes you mortal once it gets taken down to zero.

You recharge it by absorbing solar energy.

At zero you get one-shoted by bullets.

Anon, try actually reading what OP wrote before you make an ass of yourself.

This isn't fucking Twitter.

>>14819120

>He says as he conveys his ideas completely through text

Are you fucking stupid?

>>14819120

What then? Do you expect this site to be some kind of graphic novel of memes, just because it has a different format then Plebbit?

We do type things here newfag; in detail sometimes.

Pre-Arkham Knight I would think Rocksteady could actually make it good. But now I'm just going to wait and see. And not expect anything.

>>14816901

Since OP is an Aussie i'll assume he's asleep right now while asking this:

I was wondering if they are going to put Smallville into the map, since he mentioned country side.

Also i'm wondering on if there will enclosed spaces with stealth like in asylum.

>>14819138

I like what I've read so far: No Arkham combat, the flight sounds interesting and I can see some interesting shit coming out of combos and I want more games where I can shoot eye-lasers. But this is the gaming industry we're talking about, so most likely all the interesting parts are going to get scrapped and this'll turn into yet another QTE fest.

Are the villains going to be actual bossfights? If not, you can take it and shove it.

People complaining that Superman is boring and never read All Star Superman or Red Son.

>>14819225

Capeshit is shit.

Be it movies or toilet paper/comic books.

>>14819174

>I was wondering if they are going to put Smallville into the map, since he mentioned country side.

No. Countryside is mostly extended Metropolis, there's the actual city with skyscrapers and densely populated urban areas and then there's surrounding areas containing things such as factories and mansions, etc.

>Also i'm wondering on if there will enclosed spaces with stealth like in asylum.

There are interiors but it's not really interiors in the same way as the Arkham games. To put it this way, Superman could be fighting someone inside a nuclear power plant one second and the next, they are tumbling through the sky outside. It's more continuous, if that makes sense.

And there is no stealth. This is Superman, he doesn't do stealth.

>>14819204

Yes, you can actually fight guys like Parasite and Metallo. The AI is currently being tweaked from what I heard, because it has a tendency to focus on killing civilians and causing excessive destruction right now rather than trying to kill the player which is a bitch if you're trying to do a "no civilians deaths, no excessive collateral damage" good-guy run.

>>14818378

Current post crisis super man lifted a book with infinite pages and eternity itself. Super man is on a whole other level from Goku.

>>14819225

Do you really have any confidence Rocksteady will be able to deliver a narrative on par with those comics and weave it seamlessly with gameplay?

>>14819447

>And there is no stealth. This is Superman, he doesn't do stealth.

Wew, releaved to hear that.

Thought we were going to get some forced stealth like the upcoming Spiderman game.

>(The interiors) are more continuous, if that makes sense.

Makes sense based on Rocksteady's previous titles, I know in Arkham Knight the entire city was designed with seemless interiors and exteriors and a underground section.

PC frame rates aside Knight always struck me as a very technically impressive game.

All these console faggots praising God of Soy for it's lack of loading screens in the game are so insufferable.

They think the devs of that game are soooo innovative for designing a game with seemless interiors.

Even though TW3 and Arkham Games did the same thing years before with games that have 10 times more content then that walking dialog simulator.

>>14819736

Original from the glimpse I got but it does have familiar landmarks and such. I definitely remember seeing Suicide Slum in there.

>>14819770

Suicide Slum is a long established Metropolis location. Notice the two maps have it in different places.

>>14816905

>11) There are sections where you can play as Clark Kent but they are mostly limited to the beginning.

Why can't we ever have a superhero game that crosses actual detective gameplay with the "crazy" combat? Why does it seem like the only Superman media that actually used his day job as part of the story was the old live-action series from the 50's?

>>14819792

could be fun, depending on the quality of the outcome of course

This will probable be shit, and not because we hate everything here. Rocksteady's Batman gameplay has worked really well for them for a long fucking time, but Superman has to play entirely different. I don't know if they're going to be able to make Superman play right.

>>14817029

Being Superman could be fun, but there's no way I would follow his moral code if they gave me a choice. I would blow the whole city up multiple times for fun.

>>14819897

Underwear. With the Superman logo on his butt, that you can only see if you make the cape move out of the way and really pay attention. It could be pretty small. Make it extra ridiculous, because it's funny.

>>14819939

Do they wear more underwear under the suits, though?

>>14819785

I see that. Don't remember where it was on the actual game map, though, just noticing the name.

>>14819897

The default costume has no underwear.

>>14819952

Probably not, but they more than likely wear a jockstrap.

>>14819959

Actually, if it's over the suit, isn't it overwear?

>>14819955

>The default costume has no underwear.

oof, looks like I'm going to need one of those DLC skins ASAP then.

>>14819817

Lois and Clark with Dean Can did this. I loved that show.

>>14819792

I hope they go with a more playful tone. That could be really cool if they pull it off. I am tired of Zach Snider, Grant Morrison and Alan Moore's DC edgefest. Make Superman Fun Again.

>>14819679

>Knight always struck me as a very technically impressive game.

I think it's the rain. Seeing the raindroplets on the cape and the mask is really something, but otherwise I don't think it looks that good outside of when it's raining.

>>14817116

>>14817096

lol is Snyder some jacked up manlet

>it's not a Power Girl game with an outfit destruction mechanic

Into the trash it goes.

OP if you're there I need to know this.

Rocksteady has been hiring multiplayer play testers.

Is their multiplayer in this game, and how does it work if so?

>>14826720

What's this?

>>14826884

(((sony))) vr shovelware

>>14826884

Megaton Rainfall, an absolutely forgettable name, isn't it?

>>14826888 (very nice)

It's on PeeCee now too, without the VR crap.

No more Batman ?

>>14827003

I think Rocksteady thought being a "ghost" of Batman who goes around gassing people with Scarecrow's fear toxin is too fun.

Come to think of it wasn't one of the conversations in Arkham Knight how the thugs were saying they wanted to leave Gotham? Maybe that was indicative of the devs wanting to put Batman to rest?

>>14827032

Didn't he fucking die at the end of that game?

>>14827040

Wayne Manor blows up with Bruce and Alfred in it, but it's obviously that Knightfall Protocol that's mentioned at the end of the game. Then after the credits you see a bunch of muggers get scared shitless by a "ghost of batman". My theory is that Bruce Wayne decided his next vigilante role will use Scarecrow's fear toxin to really scare the shit out of niggers.

Which surprises me to hear that there isn't a new Batman game considering it would be pretty interesting to see how Gotham's dealing with ghost B-man and Red Hood the one man death squad.

>>14818378

The problem is the idea of Superman itself and how his powers have been discussed and measured at nauseam within/outside the context of his stories and against many other fictional characters.

Dante's powers unlike Superman's are somewhat ambiguous, we know he's powerful but this hasn't been measured, it doesn't need to because they serve gameplay and story, so how do you measure him? By feats and use them as a general idea until they're challenged within canon.

Superman on the other hand is the complete opposite, his powers and weaknesses have been painstakingly documented and along the years the idea of who Superman is, what his powers and weaknesses are have been cemented in the common subconscious by TV-shows, movies and comic books. And even though writers might play with him there's a general idea of what he can do.

So, I think that what rocksteady is doing is using the idea of superman to serve gameplay as best it can and I feel that's the best way to go about it.

>superman is basically god

No shit dude, superheroes were specifically created to give christian kids a form of entertainment without God and Jesus. It's pure judaism.

Even fantasy, the lord of the rings has more faith and religious belief than capeshit.

>>14827115

Okay, so when making a new game set in its own world, divorced from the comics, how strong is Superman and how strong does a group of enemies need to be in order to present a reasonable challenge to him? If a group of thugs have been enhanced by some new formula created by Luthor, how much of an enhancement does it need to be? If Brainiac creates a set of robot troops to fight Superman, how tough does their armour need to be in order to stand up to him and how efficient do their power sources need to be in order to generate enough energy to hurt him?

Please answer in enough detail to satisfy the very demanding requirements of a video game.

>>14816901

Is the combat still too simplistic like Arkham? Or is it done much better.

>>14827135

I can't. It would require a level of autism beyond me. However I think that the rules have to be set within the confines of the game world to serve gameplay and plot.

And I think that's what Rocksteady had to figure out in order to even begin making a game and no matter what explanation they give there will be people unsatisfied with their take on the character.

>capeshit

>>14827490

Don't be a nigger

>>14816901

>"push x to get the next cinematic"

lol console "games"

>>14832765

Obviously ultra man has ultra good reading.

How do you make a game about someone who can fly and is completely unkillable?

>>14833030

Isn't that an exact description of Pong?

>>14827115

Who Superman is: jews' dream of being him, as in real life they are deformed freaks with inferior genetics.

>>14827122

This.

Capeshit is indeed, shit.

HYPE

>>14837176

Mental illness.

SUPAMAYN 64 RETURNS

>>14827122

>everything that doesnt talk about muh jesus is trying to take kids away from him

Why do you even play vidya, nigger?

>Another fucking superman attempt when Wonder Woman and Flash would make fucking great games

OP, this actually sounds decent so I hope you aren't bullshitting me. You probably are but since you went through so much time for what you knew would at best game a few dozen replies I am hoping you aren't just being a faggot. I am sick and tired of Batwank and want another superhero game about being super stronk.

>>14817029

> He's the most boring superhero who's basically god

The cry of the pleb normalfag. I bet you like One Punch Man and DBZ and think those are somehow different.

>>14842624

>Would rather have ANOTHER Batfag game

>>14842624

That would be cool. I could also see a Cyborg or Green Arrow game being made, but most of the other heroes are too powerful to be limited to a small space like a city. I wish they'd make a Joker game or something with villains, but it wouldn't be as popular because almost games are about reacting to, not creating, situations.

>>14843036

He also has a weakness to magic and electricity, from what I remember from the 90s to 2000s cartoons.

>>14843036

A surprising amount of them employ the power of Fist with some extra theatrical flair

>General Zod, Fist

>Bizarro, Fist

>Doomsday, Fist

>Parasite, power drain and also Fist

>Darkseid, Fist and also Omega Effect

>Brainiac, super strong technology, also Fist

That's just heavy hitter villains off the top of my head, there's loads of heroes who can too but you asked for enemies. There's a ton more villains who use tricks like Luthor and Mxyzptlk and others who use kryptonite trick like Metallo. Probably some magic villains I'm forgetting too.

>>14844554

>that first one

I have lewd thoughts.

>>14844554

I've always seen Starro as a League villain. I know Brainiac and Darkseid technically fall under that umbrella as well but they are historically more associated with Superman.

>>14837881

Everything that does not talk about Jesus IS trying to take kids away from him.

Fuck off, communist kike.

>>14842177

Wonder Woman would make a fucking game alright.

>>14842210

They are.

They are made by japanese, and not deformed kikes. That alone makes them superior.

>>14843036

Goku.

By being the superior product.

>>14827122

LotR and Narnia are VERY obviously Christian allegories.

>>14817029

>he doesnt want to play as clark kent and do reporter stuff

smh tbh fam

>>14844618

>Everything that does not talk about Jesus IS trying to take kids away from him.

>Fuck off, communist kike.

Please don't have kids. I feel sorry for them already.

>>14844719

Narnia yes, LOTR no - a major no, hilariously no. Tolkein wrote LOTR as an homage to european folklore and myth. CS Lewis was explicitly trying to bridge christianity and fantasy, but even he kept the allegory on the backburner.

Of the two and because of the popularity of the movies, christians have been trying to retroactively insert christianity into LOTR. Before the movies were announced there wasn't a single peep about it. Then when the movies were announced LOTR was on their radar and all of the myths about it started.

t. Someone with hard & devout christian upbringing. I had to research the shit out of Tolkein, came up with nothing except a brief mention in a letter, and ultimately had to lie about LOTR themes to get my stern parents approval. I reiterate: there is absolutely zero christian connections that you have to lie about it. I know because I used to, all of the time. Ironically I learned more about European myth and how much Tolkein had to research them in the process.

Also, please stop repeating this myth.

>>14827198

>>14827135

Here is the best way to go about it:

Superman has always gone by "as strong as he needs to be for the story". If the game gives progression in the proper way, you will start off with Superman being strong akin to how he was in the Max Fleisher cartoons

>superman can't fly yet, but he can "leap tall buildings in a single bound"

>he's "faster than a speeding bullet", but only through forced concentration

>he can catch and throw a building sized molten rock and pitch it over a city and into the sea but it winds him from the effort

>abilities such as heat vision and most anything outside of super strength and durability aren't available at the beginning

>this superman even was hauling a train up a hill while thugs were bombing him with tear gas and he was losing ground

>foes at this point can be criminal mobs, scientists with simple robots, or the occasional mutant monster or even natural disaster as this superman is still "growing"

As the game progresses, you can upgrade Superman's abilities, but only up to a specific limit for the timeframe of the game. Such as:

>upgrade leaps into flight

<not ultra fast flight, but flight that is better than hopping

>can upgrade strength from "can lift cars" to "can lift trains"

<not ultra strength so specially designed bots will still give you trouble

And have it progress like this, until a significant story segment changes the game and requires those more drastic powers. IE:

>you can heft trains and can fly but that isn't going to be enough to stop a particular incarnation of Solomon Grundy and need more to save the city

>Superman then "digs deep" to fight to save the people and this cornerstone will help him become aware of a new power at specific story checkpoints

It works akin to any video game upgrade system.

Throw in a type of penalty for ignoring too many "lesser crimes" and just going straight for the main story to unlock those powers faster, such as less points to actually BUY and upgrade said abilities and we have an incentive to play as Superman the hero.