It's indeed just a matter of making it challenging enough. Make him face the world's actual threats and issues. Wealth distribution, internalized identities, social cohesions and mutations, short-term profit and ecological perspectives, religious bigotry and materialist reductionism, cognitive limitations and communication expansions, empathy circles and widening responsabilities, mass disinformation and freedom of speech, fair opportunities and birth inequalities, animal suffering and prioritary human requirements, differential scientific awareness, demography and diseases, moral universalisms and relativistic thresholds, individuality and cooperation, animality and culture, death and meaning...

You're bulletproof, you have : super-punch, laser eyes, super elastic S logo wrapper, you can outrun a train, jump over a building, and roundkick the sun into the nearest black hole. Good luck.

* Throws wrapper logo at global economy three or four times, goes "fuck that", and spins the Earth back to the precambrian. *

I dunno, I'd prefer Bebop Superman game

I KNEW THAT WAS COMING!

Even so, it still made me laugh my ass off. XD Well played!

I agree for the most part, but there has to be challenge to the Superman part too. Not when fighting bank robbers or catching a falling plane, but when the big villains arrive. Superman has a great collection of villains, I think second only to Batman in all of comics, so there's plenty of challenges for him to overcome in a fight. Actually, the first such major fight could be made into a truly memorable moment in the game exactly because up to that point everything you do as Superman is so fun and goes so smoothly... and then someone like Mongul or Zod shows up and suddenly you're in a fight for your very life.

Sorry, I just had to do it. For your eyes only.

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I think the first Arkham game was brilliant, didn't play much of the rest but Arkham City didn't play bad either. The combat is definitely one of the series' best aspects. As for a Superman game, I can't picture a good story for it but flying in a large open world is probably the best course.

Oh, definitely.

I would also give the player the chance to make "superman syndrome" sort of mistakes (I. E. So many powers that forget to use the power that would have saved the day).

The classic decision to save one or the other or do your best to save both sort of choices are also fun.

I think a Superman game HAS to happen now.

I think everyone is missing the obvious solution: Superman Kart

Done it: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B00DK2XNT0/?shop28-20

The reason Superman games always feel unsatisfying is that they never get the flying right, so whoever makes it needs to figure out how Superman moves first and how his powers work, and then build the game around that, much like what Nintendo does when it starts on a new generation Mario game. Also, games like Crackdown and Saints Row IV, among others, have already done high-super-powered characters in an open world pretty well, so study those and see what about them could be easily adapted to Superman.

What I really think is a Superman game where he has been captured and put in some giant maze thingy and he has to fight and figure his way out using all his powers cleverly to achieve certain results.

Yes, but in this version it would be one guy in tights versus a bunch of machines instead of one naked guy versus a naked half-bull-guy.