Chapter 625: I'm Sorry, I'm a Superhero
Everyone knows the term "superhero", and various works related to it have never been uncommon, the most famous of which is the Marvel and DC series of the United States.
There are many, many superheroes in these two series of comics, some of them are infinitely powerful, some are not bad, some are amazing, some have all kinds of magical props, and some have all kinds of wonderful abilities, punish and eliminate evil in one comic story, defeat one big boss, and even unite to save the earth.
Such characters have always been loved by the masses, and there is no cultural barrier between the East and the West, there are chivalrous stories of robbing the rich and helping the poor in the East, and there are also legends of Robin Hood in the West, which are essentially the same type.
As early as the seventies and eighties of the twentieth century, Marvel and DC's comics sold very well in the United States, selling tens of millions of copies, and cultivating a large number of fans since childhood, so now, when the superhero movies are released, they are often hundreds of millions of meters or even billions of meters of exaggerated box office, and can set off a cultural boom around the world.
If you use this kind of theme to make a game, it will naturally have a bright future and a lot of promise.
In fact, there are quite a few video games with superhero themes out there.
The more famous ones include the "Batman" series, the "Spider-Man" series, the "Lego Batman" series, the "Injustice" series, and those mini-games authorized by Marvel, etc., relying on the charm of the superhero IP itself, the sales of these games can be regarded as good, although they are not big sellers, but at least they are small profits.
If you've played any of these games, you'll find that most of them are role-playing games, where the player controls a superhero in the game, such as Batman or Spider-Man, and takes them on an adventure in the city where they are located.
Of course, there are also fighting games like Injustice and Marvel Heroes Smash Bros. in which various superheroes in the comics fight each other, which are very few, so I won't mention them here.
Of course, there is nothing wrong with choosing to make a role-playing game, and this is also a game mode that makes the most of manga IP. What are the fans of the popular comic IP who are attracted to buy the game for? Isn't it to play the protagonist in the comics himself, to do chivalrous justice, punish adultery and eliminate evil, and satisfy his fantasies when reading comics?
It's just that such a game obviously doesn't meet the production requirements that Leon needs.
First, these games are all based on popular comic IP, Li Ang does not have such an IP on hand, if you want to do it, you have to find DC or Marvel to buy it, and pay a large sum of money to foreign devils, this kind of thing, Li Ang is absolutely unwilling to do it.
Second, although IP can also be built by itself, this is not an overnight thing, just like both DC and Marvel have a development history of more than 40 years. If you don't have enough time, you can't build a strong enough IP. Just like now, the hottest, most well-known, and most acceptable game IP in China is still Journey to the West and Three Kingdoms. Li Ang doesn't have so much time to build the IP, and then wait for it to spread and ferment.
Third, those comic superhero role-playing games are basically linear processes, one level after another, one task after another, all have a fixed routine, even if the manual operation is not good, you can pass it after practicing a few more times, the plot is fixed, and the actions of the characters themselves are just to promote the plot, even if there are multiple endings and cool QTE fights, but its essence is still similar to a superhero movie, mainly selling stories, not games.
What Leon pursues is a sense of substitution, because only the stronger the player's sense of substitution in the game, the more intense their emotions will be.
Therefore, what he chose to make is not for players to play those famous and legendary superheroes, but to let themselves, with their own strength, from an unskilled novice, a clueless newcomer, to a real superhero game.
Such themes are not uncommon in movies, such as the "King of the Sea" series, and the movie "Superheroes", the protagonists in these two movies are ordinary people, but for the sake of full of enthusiasm, or unsatisfactory life, they embarked on the road of becoming a superhero and punishing adultery and eliminating evil, but this road is tortuous, and the end is not beautiful.
It is obviously very difficult for ordinary people to become superheroes to fight crime, after all, two fists are hard to beat with four hands, and even after a certain amount of combat training, it is still very reluctant to defeat a group of criminals.
However, many people usually have fantasies about what they should do after becoming a superhero.
Of course, it is understandable to have such fantasies, because as long as we have a certain amount of experience, we will understand that the world is not completely beautiful, and there are still many, many dark or dark corners, for example, in all kinds of news, we can always see many cases of crazy and inhumane criminals, which make us feel out of anger.
After all, the vast majority of people pursue a living environment that is as beautiful and peaceful as possible, and will not harm their own interests, and who is not worried when they think that those crazy criminals are likely to appear around them?
Of course, the law and order in China is still good, the proportion of vicious cases is very low, and the probability of everyone encountering criminals of that level is not very large.
However, there are not many vicious criminals, and there are still many petty thieves.
For example, if you go to take the bus and the company is ready to go to work, and you touch your pocket, and the wallet or mobile phone in the bag is gone, do you feel very angry?
For example, if you are a girl, or take the bus, there is a lewd uncle behind you who keeps leaning on you, and the back of his hand falls on your ass and thighs from time to time, will you feel very angry?
Obviously, yes, the former means that in addition to your monetary loss, there are a series of troubles such as reapplying for an ID card, reporting a lost bank card, reapplying for a mobile phone number, etc., and the latter is even more disgusting and makes people unable to eat.
However, in the face of such a situation, there is very little we can do.
The former we have to ask for leave from the company, go to the police station to report the case, at that time we are often asked to fill out a form, and then go back to wait for news, of course, you yourself also understand that the police Shu Huang is usually very busy, and it is very troublesome to catch this kind of thing as a thief, not something that can be caught in a moment and a half, I don't know if you can wait for that news in the year of the monkey.
The latter is similar, timid girls will choose to bear it silently and go home at night to wipe their tears alone. What about the bold? Except for yelling, "What are you doing?" And then what if you change places? You pulled the obscene uncle and was about to call the police, but the other party said, "The car is crowded, I didn't mean it." "What can you do? The other passengers in the car have their own jobs, how many of them are willing to accompany you to the police station to testify? Even if the police came, there was no definite evidence, and most of them were muddy, and in the end, they didn't do it.
It was a deep, powerless feeling that hid beneath the anger.
Yes, powerlessness, like the thief's example earlier, even if you are alert and find out that he is picking your pockets, what can you do but press your pockets tightly? Fight with him? How do you know if he has an accomplice? Will those accomplices carry knives deeply? Even if you finally call the police and come to the police, and there is no definite evidence, what can you do with him? How can it be so easy to catch thieves and stolen goods? In the end, it was nothing more than a failure.
There are also elderly people in the family who are deceived by the promotion of health care products and buy those useless health care products at high prices; Some relatives in the family were deceived by pyramid schemes and became ghosts and ghosts; I was pulled by the porcelain, but I didn't let you go; There are children who have been corporally punished by unscrupulous kindergarten preschool educators, and they can't get justice......
These are all reluctance in life, and they are all indescribable powerlessness generated by ordinary people in the face of evil deeds in society.
So, what if you have the power?
If you were mighty! If you don't break it! If you are 100 meters in a second! If you fly to the sky! If you control the thunder! If you're stronger than ever!
Can everything above be changed?
Thieves stealing things from you? Wait for him to get out of the car, catch him and soar into the sky, and hang him on the top of the Oriental Pearl Tower! Cover your face, rush into the health care product experience store, organize the nest of pyramid schemes, and break all the scammers inside one by one! Touch the porcelain and send him to the center of the Qiangtang no man's land! The kindergarten teacher who committed the crime sent her to the top of Everest to blow the cold wind!
You can choose the most comfortable way to vent your anger and grievances.
This is the meaning of superheroes, that is far beyond the power of ordinary people, that is the freedom not to be bound by rules, that is the right to unleash one's own nature.
However, there are also only one step away from the supercriminals!
In fact, in the vast majority of superhero comics, it's cool not to watch superheroes fight criminals, but they all involve one issue, that is, the sensitivity of "extrajudicial enforcement".
No matter which country or which government, they all hate "extrajudicial law enforcement", and you have avenged all the revenge, what else do you want the police to do? What's the difference between you and criminals?
Of course, this makes sense, the law is serious, and there is a very strict degree of certainty.
For example, the thief at the front, as a superhero, of course, you can come as you want, and it doesn't matter if you go down with a stick and knock out his brain, but if you calm down and think about it carefully, does he really deserve to die for this crime he committed? If he deserves to die like this, then what standard should you use to punish those vicious bandits?
Batman has an oath not to kill, Spider-Man often hangs the prisoner upside down, and Superman doesn't kill people in most cases, just knocks people out...... This is because they all have a degree and a bottom line in their hearts.
And in real life, once a person has the power not to be countered, is not bound by the law, and his nature is completely released, how long can he keep the bottom line in his heart?
Sexual goodness and sexual evil have been debated for thousands of years, and you may not even know whether your heart is good or evil!
Therefore, reality is not a comic, nor is it a game, even if you are a powerful superhero, the national government has to find ways to control you and prevent you from doing anything wrong.
Therefore, Li Ang can only make games to let everyone vent the dissatisfaction hidden in the bottom of their hearts in reality and soothe the anger that is full of society.
This kind of venting game has been around before, such as the famous Grand Theft Auto series, where players can even play as a vicious criminal and fight against the police.
Of course, everyone knows the result, this game series was banned by the relevant departments of China.
The game made by Li Ang is naturally not so exaggerated, and the superheroes and the national government in the game are on one side, which can be regarded as a variant of the assistant police.
So, what exactly does this game look like?
First of all, players are ordinary people, how can they become superheroes?
This problem is easy to solve, because in addition to the various gun shooting, hand-to-hand combat, and cold weapon fighting tutorials of "Good Dream Training", many players' characters use the "Heart of the World" and have superpowers, such a person, being a novice superhero, of course, is no problem.
Then, there's the positioning of superheroes.
This is also very easy to solve.,It's under the jurisdiction of the state in the game.,Organized and cultivated.,There is a career establishment.,Special security personnel.,For the time being,It's called the Harmony Police.,Referred to as the Auxiliary Police.。
Then, it's about how the player should play the game.
This is also simple, for some reason, many people in this world have awakened to superpowers, and a large part of them have relied on their superpowers to start doing mischief, the world is in chaos, and the world government in the game reacted quickly, and immediately gathered a group of superpowers for training, so that they can become harmonious police, go to cities to fight crime, protect ordinary residents, and help the local police stabilize the situation.
Of course, superpowers have a level of strength and weakness, and the super criminals in each city are also strong and weak, the strongest ones have even defeated the local military police and completely ruled the city, and the weaker ones are chased by ordinary policemen and hid in Tibet, players can choose the difficulty they can adapt to at will, and go to the game.
These cities are like dungeons, so you can choose to go solo or team up with friends and family to work together.
Finally, of course, there's the game reward.
If the player performs well, they will be rewarded with Harmony Points from the World Government, which can be exchanged for all sorts of goodies.
For example, if you wear steel armor that you can fly away, for example, a genetic medicine that can increase your physical fitness if you eat it, for example, a body modification experiment hosted by an official expert, a special metal that changes the skeleton of your whole body, such as a flash pen that can erase the opponent's short-term memory, and so on.
Of course, you can also choose to fall and join the gang of supercriminals, and then wait for other players to crusade against you.