Make a roster for a DC Fighterz game

[Lukmendes]

Is it at all possible to do this sort of game without Batman?

Of course it is, but Batman essentially prints money, so why the hell would they not include him? Lol.

[Restingvoice]

Get Over Here / Jiu-Jitsu / Ninjutsu guy: Batman
Bojutsu guy: Tim Drake
Kung Fu Guy: Richard Dragon
Karate Guy: Karate Kid
Sonic guy: Black Canary
Shapeshifter guy: Clayface
Battlesuit guy: Lex Luthor
Possess You guy: Deadman
Escrima / Jiu-Jitsu guy: Nightwing
Battlesuit / MMA guy: Luke Fox
Whip / Karate guy: Catwoman
Gun / Jiu-Jitsu guy: Red Hood
Poison / Tentacle guy: Poison Ivy
Poison / Scythe wielder guy: Scarecrow
Rope / Berserker guy: New 52 Cassie Sandsmark

Tanky guy: Superman - Power Girl - Supergirl - Superwoman - Darkseid (I'll come back later)
Rope guy: Wonder Woman - Cassie Sandsmark - Donna Troy - Artemis (I'll come back later)
Shield guy: Hal Jordan - John Stewart - Guy Gardner - Sinestro - Hal Jordan (I'll come back later)
Sizeshifter guy: Ryan Choi - Ray Palmer (I'll come back later)
Archer Guy: Oliver Queen - Mia Dearden - Roy Harper - Shado - Emiko Queen (I'll come back later)
Hulk Smash guy: Doomsday - Solomon Grundy - Killer Croc - Bane (I'll come back later)
Poison guy: Joker - Ivy - Scarecrow (I'll come back later)
Tentacle guy: Poison Ivy - Swamp Thing (I'll come back later)
Magic guy: John Constantine - Raven (I'll come back later)
Gun guy: Jonah Hex - Red Hood - Deadshot (I'll come back later)
Martial arts guy: Lady Shiva - Bronze Tiger - King Snake (I'll come back later)
Sword guy: Ra's al Ghul - Deathstroke - Talia (I'll come back later)
Freeze guy: Mr. Freeze - Killer Frost - Captain Cold (I'll come back later)

[9th.]

Is Harley Quinn officially a hero now?

I think she's more in the antihero territory now.

[TheRay]

Of course it is, but Batman essentially prints money, so why the hell would they not include him? Lol.

DC fans will buy it if it has their favorite character

[Lukmendes]

DC fans will buy it if it has their favorite character

That's fans in general, DBFZ sold because it's a Dragon Ball game, brand recognition is a great money maker.

[Jcogginsa]

Is it at all possible to do this sort of game without Batman?

If you wanna make a moveset without him you could, but realistically he's going to be in a game like this

[TheRay]

That's fans in general, DBFZ sold because it's a Dragon Ball game, brand recognition is a great money maker.

Well, yeah. I just didn’t want to say that and have somebody call me out for trying to say fans will blindly buy anything because that’s not what I’m saying.

[marhawkman]

Other people did a wide variety of interesting characters, but for me....

I want to go with characters who would fight differently. But that said... people can and have made fighting games with nothing but ordinary Human fighters. So you could make a game with a roster of 24+6+6+6 characters... who were all Kryptonians(or some sort of demi/fake Kryptonian). There's enough Kryptonians that you could make them all unique to play as if you really wanted to. How? well.. some DO have unique twists to their powers. Also several like to use super-tech weapons. And well... don't use the same fighting style.

Not a complete list:

Kal-El: the classic Superman.
Dru-Zod: uses a meaner fighting style than Kal-El
Ursa
Non: big guy, relatively slow, etc...
Powergirl:
Bizarro: would have the flame breath/ice-vision gimmick some Bizarros have. Also a seemingly very clumsy fighting style.
Car-Vex: this would be a character using a heavy empasis on hitting things repeatedly.
Faora Hu-Ul
Lesla-Lar: has a teleporter
Karsta Wor-Ul: has a style that goes more for big hits than lots of hits.
Kara Zor-El(Red Lantern): this would be largely cosmetic, but make her fighting style a bit different.
Divine:
Bizarro Girl; female Bizarro.
Cir-El; Human infused with carefully selected bits of Kryptonian DNA, her powers are an intentionally engineered variant of standard K powers so her energy projection works differently
Linda Danvers; the Matrix Supergirl, yeah, not the standard Kryptonian powers, especially after she sprouted flame wings.
Lucy Lane: Human infused with Kryptonian dna... along with a few other races. So her powers look different than a true Kryptonian.
Az-Rel
Nadira; they both used a fighting style that heavily emphasized big hit rush attacks.
Eradicator: robotic doppleganger
Cyborg Superman: yeah cybernetic weapons along with a variant of standard powers.
Kon-El: he's not a full Kryptonian so slightly different powers.
Jon Kent: Son of Kal-El... not sure
Thara Ak-Var: Kryptonian military person bonded to the Flamebird entity
Lor-Zod: the Kryptonian Nightwing. Has certain powers related to that
Brainiac's Daughter: part Coluan, apparently used tech to enhance her powers.
Xa-Du: due to the excessive time in the Phantom zone he's a bit ghostly and has a limited phasing ability.
Jax-Ur:
Quex-Ul:
Super-Girl: (the fake Kryptonian Jimmy wished into existence)

[TheRay]

5. Green Lantern (John Stewart)

Will he have the gold version too?

[Jcogginsa]

Will he have the gold version too?

Gold version of what?

[Lukmendes]

Other people did a wide variety of interesting characters, but for me....

I want to go with characters who would fight differently. But that said... people can and have made fighting games with nothing but ordinary Human fighters. So you could make a game with a roster of 24+6+6+6 characters... who were all Kryptonians(or some sort of demi/fake Kryptonian). There's enough Kryptonians that you could make them all unique to play as if you really wanted to. How? well.. some DO have unique twists to their powers. Also several like to use super-tech weapons. And well... don't use the same fighting style.

It's worth pointing out though, even in the few fighters where characters don't have super-powers (Or don't have as many super-powers, like how Tekken has some super-powered characters), we have a ridiculously high amount of martial arts that can be based around making those movesets, something the poorly defined Kryptonian martial arts lack lol.

And honestly, even if we were gonna get a fighter that uses only Supes' characters, only Kryptonian and Kryptonian-like characters is pushing it, like, not having someone like Lex, or maybe even Parasite in the game? Come on.

Also it's really pushing it to include that prototype Supergirl lol.

The game could have a high amount of Kryptonians, but you also need other characters from Supes' world to be more colorful, otherwise the cast looks bland.

[Jcogginsa]

It's worth pointing out though, even in the few fighters where characters don't have super-powers (Or don't have as many super-powers, like how Tekken has some super-powered characters), we have a ridiculously high amount of martial arts that can be based around making those movesets, something the poorly defined Kryptonian martial arts lack lol.

And honestly, even if we were gonna get a fighter that uses only Supes' characters, only Kryptonian and Kryptonian-like characters is pushing it, like, not having someone like Lex, or maybe even Parasite in the game? Come on.

Also it's really pushing it to include that prototype Supergirl lol.

The game could have a high amount of Kryptonians, but you also need other characters from Supes' world to be more colorful, otherwise the cast looks bland.

How about something like this?

Base Roster
1. Superman (Clark Kent)
2. Superboy (Kon-El)
3. Supergirl (Kara Zor-El)
4. Lois Lane
5. Black Lightning
6. Powergirl
7. Steel
8. Saturn Girl
9. Lightning Lad
10. New Superman
11. Jimmy Olsen
12. The Super-Sons
13. Lex Luthor
14. General Zod
15. Metallo
16. Bizarro
17. Livewire
18. Lobo
19. Atomic Skull
20. Red Cloud
21. Mongul
22. Brainiac
23. Manchester Black
24. Maxima
DLC 1
1. Krypto the Superdog
2. Captain Marvel
3. Toyman
4. Doomsday
5. Bloodsport
6. Mr. Mxyzptlk
DLC 2
1. Karate Kid
2. Bouncing Boy
3. Brainiac 5
4. Emerald Empress
5. Cosmic King
6. Composite Superman
DLC 3
1. Orion
2. Big Barda
3. Mr. Miracle
4. Kalibak
5. Lashina
6. Darkseid

[TheRay]

Gold version of what?

…..Booster Gold

[marhawkman]

It's worth pointing out though, even in the few fighters where characters don't have super-powers (Or don't have as many super-powers, like how Tekken has some super-powered characters), we have a ridiculously high amount of martial arts that can be based around making those movesets, something the poorly defined Kryptonian martial arts lack lol.

And honestly, even if we were gonna get a fighter that uses only Supes' characters, only Kryptonian and Kryptonian-like characters is pushing it, like, not having someone like Lex, or maybe even Parasite in the game? Come on.

Also it's really pushing it to include that prototype Supergirl lol.

The game could have a high amount of Kryptonians, but you also need other characters from Supes' world to be more colorful, otherwise the cast looks bland.

Yeah, I know. This is just a thought experiment really. DC would never do a game where half the roster are minor characters. a real game probably would leave out half of them or make them echo fighters to make room for non-Kryptonian characters associated with Superman.

Also for making combat styles varied you don't need to use actual martial arts. Sure, some games do make an effort to define real martial arts as inspiration. But you don't need to. It's like how in Superman 2 Zod and Non don't fight the same way.

How about something like this?

That is a lot more like what might actually get made.

[Lukmendes]

How about something like this?

Base Roster
1. Superman (Clark Kent)
2. Superboy (Kon-El)
3. Supergirl (Kara Zor-El)
4. Lois Lane
5. Black Lightning
6. Powergirl
7. Steel
8. Saturn Girl
9. Lightning Lad
10. New Superman
11. Jimmy Olsen
12. The Super-Sons
13. Lex Luthor
14. General Zod
15. Metallo
16. Bizarro
17. Livewire
18. Lobo
19. Atomic Skull
20. Red Cloud
21. Mongul
22. Brainiac
23. Manchester Black
24. Maxima
DLC 1
1. Krypto the Superdog
2. Captain Marvel
3. Toyman
4. Doomsday
5. Bloodsport
6. Mr. Mxyzptlk
DLC 2
1. Karate Kid
2. Bouncing Boy
3. Brainiac 5
4. Emerald Empress
5. Cosmic King
6. Composite Superman
DLC 3
1. Orion
2. Big Barda
3. Mr. Miracle
4. Kalibak
5. Lashina
6. Darkseid

Yeah that's more likely to happen lol.

Yeah, I know. This is just a thought experiment really. DC would never do a game where half the roster are minor characters. a real game probably would leave out half of them or make them echo fighters to make room for non-Kryptonian characters associated with Superman.

Yeah, even then, unless it's something like Injustice, the other characters would be just costumes and not much else.

Also for making combat styles varied you don't need to use actual martial arts. Sure, some games do make an effort to define real martial arts as inspiration. But you don't need to. It's like how in Superman 2 Zod and Non don't fight the same way.That is a lot more like what might actually get made.

You don't need it, but it's certainly easier to use them as reference, at least for how the moves are gonna look, Tekken is an example of that being done, even if the way the characters play may not represent how the martial art actually works.