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Superhero RPG Video Game

Started by Novastar, February 14, 2015, 11:53:04 PM

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Novastar

February 14, 2015, 11:53:04 PM
May seem like a strange request, but does anyone know of a Superhero RPG Video Game, similar to say City of Heroes/Villains?

I've tried both Champions Online and DC Universe, but both are built of the "Freemium" model, and I'd like to avoid that. I also wouldn't mind it if the game was not an MMO (it's be a plus for me).

I'd just like to make my own superhero, and go fight (virtual) crime!
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crkrueger

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February 15, 2015, 01:31:01 AM
Quote from: Novastar;815836May seem like a strange request, but does anyone know of a Superhero RPG Video Game, similar to say City of Heroes/Villains?

I've tried both Champions Online and DC Universe, but both are built of the "Freemium" model, and I'd like to avoid that. I also wouldn't mind it if the game was not an MMO (it's be a plus for me).

I'd just like to make my own superhero, and go fight (virtual) crime!

On Steam there is Freedom Force and Freedom Force vs. the Third Reich.  You can control individual heroes as well as teams.  It's very 4-color tongue in cheek, with different campaigns, but IIRC there is a free-roaming mode just running around stopping crimes.
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Silverlion

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February 15, 2015, 01:52:22 AM
Quote from: CRKrueger;815843On Steam there is Freedom Force and Freedom Force vs. the Third Reich.  You can control individual heroes as well as teams.  It's very 4-color tongue in cheek, with different campaigns, but IIRC there is a free-roaming mode just running around stopping crimes.


You can downloads mods, but they're getting harder to find. You can create new heroes in Freedom Force/FF Vs TTR. But you'll need to skin it yourself..
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Ladybird

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February 15, 2015, 08:17:41 AM
Freedom Force is very good. Everything by Irrational was very good. But superheroes, as a generic genre, aren't attempted very often by developers. Until some of the CoH successor projects go live, you might be out of luck.

Saint's Row 4 is an open world game where the main character acquires a bunch of superhero powers (Blasts, stomps, flight, superspeed, telekinesis, damage auras), but it's not really a superhero game; same with the Prototype games. They are fun, though.

The Lego superhero games are very good, but you're not going out and solving crimes, they're "just" cute, fun, 3D action-platformers with a ton of stuff to find. Batman 1 is probably the least good one, but it's still good.

There's a PC port of the Sentinels of the Multiverse card game? It's not a CCG, there's no collecting or deckbuilding, it's a strategy game about superhero battles, with a bunch of heroes and villains with their own unique decks.

There's some gamebooks - Appointment with FEAR, Heroes Rise - that you might like?
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Novastar

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February 15, 2015, 09:49:27 PM
Got both Freedom Force games, but kind of sad that 10+ year old games are getting recommended...

Love the LEGO games, but yeah, not quite what I'm looking for.
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Silverlion

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February 16, 2015, 12:21:26 AM
Quote from: Novastar;815932Got both Freedom Force games, but kind of sad that 10+ year old games are getting recommended...

Love the LEGO games, but yeah, not quite what I'm looking for.

It is, but frankly, no one has stepped up to the play and done anything new, superhero wise, in a long while.

(Crackdown was kinda fun as a free roaming, super cop game, but its not a true superhero game.)
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woodsmoke

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February 17, 2015, 05:55:53 PM
Quote from: Novastar;815932Got both Freedom Force games, but kind of sad that 10+ year old games are getting recommended...

It really is. I fire up DCUO for a while every six months or so just to get some semblance of a fix, but that's about the closest I've gotten to really enjoying a good supers game since... Arkham Asylum? Maybe? As far as custom supers, I still have yet to find anything that tops the first few months of CoH's life, before they introduced the arena and PvP rebalancing sent everything to hell (IMO, naturally).

The genre's in desperate need of an adrenaline shot lately.
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Ladybird

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February 17, 2015, 07:59:55 PM
Quote from: woodsmoke;816120Arkham Asylum? Maybe?

I liked all the Arkham games, even Origins (Haven't played much Arkham : Mordor though), but there's very little actual superheroing in them; it's all brawling and Zelda-ing, and not much making me feel I'd made the world a better place, or even done much detective-ing.

I'd love to see a Judge Dredd game done in the Arkham style, though.
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woodsmoke

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February 18, 2015, 04:54:40 PM
Fair point. The Arkham games are pitch-perfect for playing a game that really captures the feel of being Batman (or at least what I imagine the feel of being Batman to be), but I suppose there isn't terribly much actual superheroing taking place in them. That being the case I suppose I'd have to go back to Web of Shadows. Maybe even Spidey 2.

All of which only further reinforces my belief the genre is in desperate need of an adrenaline shot.
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Novastar

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February 18, 2015, 06:27:47 PM
Me and my son have spent the last two days playing Champions Online, and the combats nice enough, but the story is pretty bland so far.

And jesus does PWE charge for everything...
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