(And no, we’re not going to try and make an airborne brawler, this genre is tricky enough as it is.) Gliders like Batman can work, though. If the hero can fly, then players will be annoyed when we glue their character to the ground during fights.
We don’t want to have to prototype some new gameplay system, and we don’t want to have to strip away a character’s iconic powers to make them work as a brawler. Lots of heroes feature beams, guns, telekinesis, fire, ice, illusions, magnetism, shape-changing, summoning, or other non-brawling gimmick. Maybe this seems obvious, but we need a hero that fights with their fists.Marketing isn’t going to give us fifty million dollars to adapt some obscure goof. The hero needs to be reasonably well-known.You need tons of animations, lots of varied foes, and a variety of environments. Making a game on par with Arkham whatever isn’t easy. Let’s put together a pitch for marketing and see if we can get someone to green-light a game. That’s the classic superhero milieu, and marketing knows how to sell that.Īnyway. Audiences can immediately understand cities, slums, warehouses, and that sort of thing.
I mean, yes, you can set the game in the wilderness or some fantastical other-world, but that is more challenging in terms of design and marketing. Let’s assume we PROBABLY want a hero that operates in the urban areas of Earth. It seems simple, but it’s actually kinda challenging once you get down to it. I’ve played with this idea a lot over the years. We also talk a bit about my attempt at a Bayonetta playthrough and how that ended.Įh! Steve! Talking Batman and Spider-Man with Shamus YoungĪlso, Chris and I talk about superheroes that would be good for an Arkham-style brawler. This week I sat down with Chris and we spent two hours talking about the Batman Arkham series, the Sony Spider-Man game that needs a subtitle, and even a bit of Resident Evil.
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