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Infinite Crisis' Superhero Origins Story
An anonymous reader writes A new interview published this week looks at the creation of Infinite Crisis, one of the slew of Dota 2/League of Legends team multiplayer competitors currently under development. What makes this one stand out however is not only its use of DC Comics heroes like Batman and Wonder Woman, but the experience of the studio behind it, Turbine, in massively multiplayer online games and punishing abusive and toxic players, something League of Legends developer Riot has serious struggles with. Turbine was the studio behind the popular Asheron's Call, and is applying many of th same policing techniques it used in RPGs to the growing MOBA genre. Of course, they still have troubles with the inevitable: balancing Superman as a playable character. it's a challenge, Kerr admits, especially when you're having to nerf the Man of Steel as a result. "Yes, we redid Superman three times, because, and I know this is going to be a surprise, he was super overpowered," says Infinite Crisis creative director Cardell Kerr.
Dude, it's the games section ... it's an actual interview ... about an actual game ... on redbull.com ... it seems reasonably on-topic for what it's supposed to be.
What do you want, "Man Strains Thumb Playing Call of Duty"?
Lost at C:>. Found at C.
Soren Bowie of Cracked suggested another way to make Superman interesting: conflict about whom to save at any given moment. But I don't think it'd work in a game with multiple supers.
You could start at All The Tropes: "World of Cardboard Speech", which has the Justice League Unlimited quote at the top. And then waste a couple more hours clicking through all the links.
Does there come a time in a nerd's life when s/he just doesn't care about yet another "origins" story?
- Ultra-premium AKA ultra-high-priced franchise, DC superheroes, check!
- Massive committees in charge, check!
- Done by Turbine, part of Microsoft, check!
- YADC (Yet Another DOTA Clone) in an aging genre with a saturated market, check!
- DC's move belatedly into "action" MMORPGs, and Marvel's into "action" Diablo-clones both flopped miserably, check!
What could possibly go wrong?
(-1: Post disagrees with my already-settled worldview) is not a valid mod option.
Justice League & Justice League Unlimited is available on Netflix. It's on Amazon VOD too if you want to pay per-episode.
My sci-fi novel, Ghost Thief, is now available from Amazon.com.