EA and Marvel have a Civil War

Henroid

Dirty wrote: »

I still say that there is no way to make a DC fighting game that please both fans of the subject matter, and fans of good video games at the same time. While Marvel has its own extremes (something like Apocalypse Vs. Jubliee comes to mind), most of their signature characters can stand on relatively equal ground. Hulk Vs. Wolverine? Spider-Man Vs. Magneto? It could go either way, so seeing them in a fighting game works. Superman Vs. Nightwing? Yeah, not gonna work.

It didn't stop developers from making a dozen Dragon Ball Z fighting games. I don't think fighting games are really meant to operate with the premise of characters' powers set to what they would be normally.

Dirty

Well, the DBZ fighting games failed to be faithful to the source, AND failed to be good games. That's like, double the fail.

Its my belief that if you're going to make a game based on existing IP, you should do it in a way that makes sense. If you have to take liberties with the license to shoehorn it into a game type, you're doing it wrong.

cloudeagle

Dirty wrote: »

I still say that there is no way to make a DC fighting game that please both fans of the subject matter, and fans of good video games at the same time. While Marvel has its own extremes (something like Apocalypse Vs. Jubliee comes to mind), most of their signature characters can stand on relatively equal ground. Hulk Vs. Wolverine? Spider-Man Vs. Magneto? It could go either way, so seeing them in a fighting game works. Superman Vs. Nightwing? Yeah, not gonna work.

Well, the unbalanced nature of superheroes isn't limited to DC. The Capcom fighting games had Captain America single-handedly beating the crap out of Thanos and the Hulk, after all.

Henroid

cloudeagle wrote: »

Dirty wrote: »

I still say that there is no way to make a DC fighting game that please both fans of the subject matter, and fans of good video games at the same time. While Marvel has its own extremes (something like Apocalypse Vs. Jubliee comes to mind), most of their signature characters can stand on relatively equal ground. Hulk Vs. Wolverine? Spider-Man Vs. Magneto? It could go either way, so seeing them in a fighting game works. Superman Vs. Nightwing? Yeah, not gonna work.

Well, the unbalanced nature of superheroes isn't limited to DC. The Capcom fighting games had Captain America single-handedly beating the crap out of Thanos and the Hulk, after all.

Here we go!

Angry

Dirty wrote: »

I still say that there is no way to make a DC fighting game that please both fans of the subject matter, and fans of good video games at the same time. While Marvel has its own extremes (something like Apocalypse Vs. Jubliee comes to mind), most of their signature characters can stand on relatively equal ground. Hulk Vs. Wolverine? Spider-Man Vs. Magneto? It could go either way, so seeing them in a fighting game works. Superman Vs. Nightwing? Yeah, not gonna work.

it's funny because your examples are pretty terrible.

magneto is worlds beyond spider-man in terms of power level and wolverine, as was recently shown, can't stand up to the hulk at all. the sentry, a member of the current mighty avengers, is much more powerful then superman too. i'd just have to guess your knowledge of dc is rather lacking. martian manhunter, wonder woman, aquaman, any one of the gl are very powerful.

/edit: forgot that sentry is on mighty avengers now.

shyguy

Dirty wrote: »

DC characters in a fighting game? We'd have two choices: 1) The most horribly unbalanced fighter in history; or 2) The least faithful comic-to-game adaptation of all time.

At any rate, the Marvel Universe isn't any more balanced than the DCU in that regard. We're talking about games where matchups could consist of Thanos vs. Marrow.

DarkCrawler

Dirty wrote: »

I still say that there is no way to make a DC fighting game that please both fans of the subject matter, and fans of good video games at the same time. While Marvel has its own extremes (something like Apocalypse Vs. Jubliee comes to mind), most of their signature characters can stand on relatively equal ground. Hulk Vs. Wolverine? Spider-Man Vs. Magneto? It could go either way, so seeing them in a fighting game works. Superman Vs. Nightwing? Yeah, not gonna work.

The comic book fan in me is screaming in bloody rage.

I was able to hold him back. That is why this post was not written in Caps Lock. Really, sometimes I forget that not every board in the world is a comic book versus board.

Blackjack

I think, in whatever Marvel fighting game comes next, Squirrel Girl should be a secret character.

She could have a move that just instantly wins the fight.

Xenogears of Bore

Dirty wrote: »

Well, the DBZ fighting games failed to be faithful to the source, AND failed to be good games. That's like, double the fail.

Its my belief that if you're going to make a game based on existing IP, you should do it in a way that makes sense. If you have to take liberties with the license to shoehorn it into a game type, you're doing it wrong.

Actually, the BT series is both. More powerful characters tend to be better, and the games are outrageously fun.

also DC has a big enough roster to do it by strength if you really wanted to. Make one game have Superman, Wonder Woman, MM, Flash, Green Lantern, high level villians and then make another game with only street level characters. Or you know, you could just do what most franchise spanning games do and just say fuck it. Olimar is smaller than a quarter and yet he isn't even the smallest character on the Brawl stage. Hulk is the strongest there is but he sucks in MvC2 and so on.