Lots of fat sweaty YouTube video game critics love to pick on Superman's video games, and that's because they claim none of them "capture the spirit of the character". What these people fail to realise is that a game that captured the spirit of Superman would be boring as hell. Here's what a real Superman game would be like: you'd fly around beating up everyone and not taking any damage, then Lex Luthor would show up with a load of Green Kryptonite and you can't win. The End. Does that sound like a fun game? No, it doesn't. I feel that people think a game being the real Superman would be fun but it is not feasible. A game needs to have difficulty and you need to be able to lose. If you really want to feel like Superman, then get a Game Genie, Action Replay, or Game Shark, put in an invincibility code, and presto, you're the invincible, real, Superman, and all the fun and challenge is gone.
On the other hand, the 1988 Superman arcade game by Taito, and The Death & Return of Superman for the Super Nintendo and Sega Genesis, are both damn fun.
Lots of fat sweaty YouTube video game critics love to pick on Superman's video games, and that's because they claim none of them "capture the spirit of the character". What these people fail to realise is that a game that captured the spirit of Superman would be boring as hell. Here's what a real Superman game would be like: you'd fly around beating up everyone and not taking any damage, then Lex Luthor would show up with a load of Green Kryptonite and you can't win. The End. Does that sound like a fun game? No, it doesn't. I feel that people think a game being the real Superman would be fun but it is not feasible. A game needs to have difficulty and you need to be able to lose. If you really want to feel like Superman, then get a Game Genie, Action Replay, or Game Shark, put in an invincibility code, and presto, you're the invincible, real, Superman, and all the fun and challenge is gone.
On the other hand, the 1988 Superman arcade game by Taito, and The Death & Return of Superman for the Super Nintendo and Sega Genesis, are both damn fun.