Poll What do we want to see in Injustice GAU 2? (2 votes)
I thought Injustice 1 was frustrating due to being great but not living up to its potential, so here's a few thoughts. First of all, expand the Star Lab minigames into full story arcs of linked encounters for each character. Even without voice acting in the cut scenes, you can use them to give solo content for each of the playable characters as a real story arc, rather than the 2D scrolling business with shooting rolling barrels and making a cat jump over beams like an odd Super Mario-tribute.
I felt those minigames didn't match with the rest of the main story in tone, which would have been good.
Also give characters more special moves and more than one trademark move -- maybe for each character have one Personal trademark attack that they commit bodily or with a weapon, and then another Environmental trademark which alters depending on which fight Background location you are using, so for example Batman could have a swooping batplane which he throws you up in the path of, but this only happens on rooftop outdoor Backgrounds. In street-level outdoor Backgrounds he does the same thing with the batmobile. In Gotham indoor backgrounds he cracks a smoke pellet, surrounding you with mist, and then makes a bunch of flying attacks from nowhere, while in Metro indoor backgrounds he uses a grappel gun on you somehow, and in Thermyscira/other wild locations he pulls out a sonic-device and summons a big flock of bats which swarm the hell out of you, before he swoops in and floors you, etc.
Re: characters: I would try to prioritize first character choices that are strong/good fighters in the comics, making them logical choices for a beat 'em up game, and second of all those with interesting potential powers and abilities in terms of moves FX and animations.
As such, for Bat-villains: enough with Joker! He's everywhere, why not give him and Harley a DLC instead? Personally I wouldn't mind having to pay if I really wanted the character that bad, and indeed with his popularity would it make more sense to include him in the base roster or as a subsequent DLC?
Instead, Bat has loads of lesser known fighter enemies so I'd really like to see: Amygdala
Silver Monkey
KGBeast (and maybe NKVDemon)
Abbatoir
Prometheus
Bronze Tiger
King Snake (that's BANE'S DAD: a blind martial artist, kind of like the bad guy from Karate Kid 1)
Victor Zsasz
Onometopia
Hush
Court of Owl assassin(s)
Brother Eye, incarnate (an AI built by Batman with robot avatars, has a mission arc in DCUO, would be a good non-humanoid fighter)
The Batman of Zur-En-Arrh
Great White
Man-Bat
Black Mask (he is good with blades)
Roxxy Rocket (it's in the name)
Harvey Two-Face (he can hold his own as an MMA brawler, he was once taught MA by Batman when he briefly reformed, and it would also be cool to see what asymmetrical/dual-tone armour-costumes they design for him, besides the suit and tie).
And Catwoman too, of course. Maybe Wildcat and the Holly Robinson Catwoman as well.
For Superman villain characters, I'd like to see: Ultra-Humanite
Metallo
Silver Banshee
Neutron
Atomic Skull
Cyborg-Superman
Mercy Graves
And Lex being bad again.
For Flash rogues: Mirror Master (could have very interesting special move FX, given his abilities)
Double Down (could have insanely fun moves, given his powers)
Trickster
Weather Wizard
Captain Boomerang
And Scorcher
I'm not in a hurry to see Captain Cold, TBH.
For Wonder Woman: Ares was a good character
Circe
Cheetah
Paper Man
And THEM!
For other characters: as wellas the Bat-family regulars, give us Orpheus (dead Bat-family vigilante from early '90s), Baphomet (from Widening Gyre), Azrael, Wildcat, Holly Robinson Catwoman.
Also Prometheus, Vandal Savage, Mongul, Cheshire, Ragdoll, Knockout and the rest of the Gail Simone Suicide Squad. And Killer Frost.
And a Brotherhood of Dada DLC.
Anyone who looked through the Concept Art gallery in Bonus Features saw some amazing stuff there, right? Extremely varied designs, from classic to armoured to steampunky to dayglo. I especially liked the gold-breastplated Batman, the shiny metallic crimson Flash with actual flames licking off him, the jester Harleys and the great-coated Joker with the pinstripe pants. Very cool.
Here's what I'd like for Injustice 2: make all the unused concept art character designs into unlockable skins. MAKE ALL THE UNUSED CONCEPT ART CHARACTER DESIGNS INTO UNLOCKABLE SKINS.
Possibly with customizable textures and colour patterning, too.
That is all.
Thoughts?
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