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They should just fucking cool it with the superheroes. I know it was mostly Disney who milked the genre to death but at this point I have immediate fatigue when presented with yet another piece of comicbook media.
Make something else, try again with superheroes in 5-10 years.
I think you are getting it wrong. They tried to sell this game to people who loved Batman Arkham series. And they were simply not interested in a live service, looter shooter, with a terrible story. They always loved a story-driven single player superhero game, which this is not.
Number of people interested in, what is at most a mediocre looter shooter are minimal at best. So, of course, it failed.
Yeah, the target audience for this has been happily buying superhero games for a while.
This is just a really bad superhero game.
The issue was not that Superheroes are milked. It's the gameplay isn't fun and no one wants GaaS.
Yeah, and actual good super hero games are free and far between. It's not a market that's been oversaturated yet, weirdly enough. You'd have thought there'd be a ton of avengers games, but we only got that one garbage one.
They can't make anything else because the creative types who can actually come up with interesting and compelling new ideas don't get along with the business types that aggressively invaded the video game industry the instant it started making lots of money.
The thing is if you do that the other guy will just make a super-hero film in 4-9 years, collecting all the hard work you spent making the genre scarce again.
People kept making westerns for as long as they just barely made any money, I’m sure the same will happen with ‘capeshit’
It is NOT the superheroes. They aren't great, but it's absolutely everything else.
I stopped giving a fuck at like avengers 2 or 3. That was like 10 years ago, but they keep making em.
I'm okay with superhero movies, they just gotta do two things:
Stop making shitty movies.
Put a little nuance into the story.
It'd be pretty cool to see a Doctor Doom movie that focuses on threats against Latveria and acts more as a political intrigue. Victor is loved by his people, imagine seeing him in a good light.
How about a Harley Quinn movie centered around her sociopathic tendencies, delusion, and abuse by the Joker? Throw in some cool fighty bits, but from her perspective, with some of the old intrigue between her and Nightwing or Batman.
The problem is they keep going back to the same tricks. Then when they try to do something different it's just garbage. Poor cgi, poor writing, bad taste.
Run with one of the old man Batman timelines. Kill Superman. Show Spiderman as less a quirky kid or awkward young man and give us more of his brilliant scientific knowledge. Some of my favorite moments were Tony working on something, the montages in his garage and him figuring out something new.
It's there. Just gotta stop being dumbasses about it.