@Lithium said in Marvel: 1963:
@Coin said in Marvel: 1963:
@Lithium said in Marvel: 1963:
It's a lot to overcome. I'd love to see the Marvel world brought to life in a game, the 60's is interesting also, but I'd prefer it if the FC's weren't available for play and people created their own characters and stories. If there was ever a universe that had room for OC's, it's Marvel's.
I'm not sure why Marvel has more room than DC or other universes.
In any case, I think the niche theme will probably help the people who do play focus on characterization and how to interpret characters.
But I am also a really big fan of alterante realities and stuff, so maybe that's just my jam.
There's a /huge/ difference in power between FC's and what is available for OC's in the DC universe. Superman, Green Lantern, Martian Manhunter, Wonder Woman, they are huge power wise and there is no chance for an OC to be the same power level as them. Even the rest of the Justice League has nothing to really step up with except for possible Captain Atom and a few others... which are just more FC's. Not even gonna touch Batman here.
Marvel's got some pretty powerful beings, but they're not on Earth most the time, so the big bads aren't always flying around and doing things every day. The most iconic for Marvel are people like Captain America (or used to be), The X-Men, Fantastic Four, and spider-man who are powerful but not unapproachable by OC's.
So in the DC universe OC's are generally even /worse/ off than Marvel when it comes to having OC's be relevant. The power gap is less a thing for Marvel OC's on most games (Strong people in Marvel toss around 100 tons, not counting a few outliers. Strong people in DC toss around hundreds of thousands of tons).
That's what I mean.
I was going to make a list of the first ten ridiculously powered Marvel characters I could think of, but I reconsidered because essentially you´re saying you think Marvel has better possibilities for OCs because DC's heroes are too strong and OCs don't reach those levels.
My response to that is: so what? That has absolutely no bearing on whether or not the possibility for OCs exists. Not to mention that given that the vast majority of superhero / comic book games are consent-only, the power disparity is essentially window dressing. Your character is as effective as needed to tell a good story--you know, like in the comics, i.e. the reason why Batman is ever considered capable of taking on Superman, for example.
It really just kind of feels like you're saying "why bother if I can't make my OC as strong as Superman or Wonder Woman", which I personally think is an absolutely backwards way of approaching this discussion.
I'm not saying you mean to say that, but that's what it reads like.