u/Academic_Paramedic72

I love how full of color they are

I really wanted to emphasize the plague doctor clothing, Romanticist palaces and the Absolutism to get that true classical feeling of the Middle Ages, you know? I avoided firearms though, that gets into steampunk territory. I also had to avoid all that Age of Exploration stuff, it's too piratepunk.

É a humilhação suprema do espectador. Você aposta, perde todo o dinheiro porque o objetivo é fazer você perder, e o comercial da aposta ainda diz que o otário é você. E aliás me recuso a chamá-las de "bets", que é uma outra humilhação pela cara de pau. Será que se bebêssemos "Poison" não morreríamos envenenados?

Latino is neither a race nor an ethnicity. Joking that an actor looks or doesn't look "latino" is as nonsensical as saying that Samuel L Jackson doesn't look "North-American" because he doesn't look like Brad Pitt.

uj/ Fire was created after the "Anos de Chumbo", the main years of violent repression in the military regime between 1968 and 1974, had already ended and Brazil was in its redemocratization, but it's still tone-deaf that no writer realized what exactly a spy actually does.

rj/ Never ask Fire where she was during the Riocentro terrorist attack of 1981.

My sketch is that it ends with Darth Vader sacrificing himself to betray Palpatine. I think it's a good resolution to his character and an exploration of a more vulnerable side we haven't seen yet. This could finally save Star Wars, it would be huge!

A challenge in including Superman in video games is that his invincibility (to normal enemies, that is) is too iconic to the character, to the point that it could get old to make him only fight mooks armed with kryptonite or robots. However, I think something that should be indispensable is the superhero/journalist dichotomy in Superman's character, which would not only justify struggles against common enemies in combat but also diversify gameplay.

The idea is that Superman functions as a hero not only in his role as Superman but also in his role as Clark Kent, going on investigations in which a health bar is replaced by a "Cover Bar". Clark will not be truly injured whenever he gets shot, but his cover might get blown. So the player needs to act as if Clark were a human whenever he is in his disguise, or else both the enemies and the Daily Planet will find out he is Superman, and the phase is lost. The most lethal the weapon, the less believable it is that a mild-mannered journalist can survive getting hit by it.

For example, let's say that Superman finds out that there is a clue to an evil plan inside a factory. But he can't break in as Superman, or else he would alert the criminals he needs to investigate and interrogate. Therefore, the player must enter as Clark Kent in an investigation for the Daily Planet and evade attacks by the enemies. Each time Clark gets "injured," the believability of his lies decreases ("It just grazed me!", "That was a close one, I almost got shot!", "Good thing I'm wearing a bulletproof vest!") until his cover bar depletes and the player needs to restart.

Therefore, the player would use phone booths spread around Metropolis to transition between the two personas as needed for different missions and goals.

If the player needs to overtly use superpowers, such as in map navigation and boss battles, they switch to Superman; if they need to sneak in to investigate an area in which Superman wouldn't be allowed inside without alarm, such as a crime scene or an evil lair, they switch to Clark Kent. Every time the player is in Clark Kent mode, they get access to Lois Lane and Jimmy Olsen as helpful companion NPCs. For example, if there is kryptonite in a region, the player switches to Clark in a nearby phone booth and gets it away with their help, expanding the map in a way they could not as Superman.

This mechanic could also lead to tense situations in the narrative. Superman couldn't just get into LexCorp, but as Clark Kent, he could interrogate Lex Luthor for clues in missions in which the player would need to be extra careful to not blow his cover.

The gameplay mechanics change from action-adventure as Superman to stealth detective as Clark. To keep Clark's sections from being too monotonous, though, Clark should still get to use his powers: super hearing and x-ray vision would be allowed all the time, but the others could only be used in secret; if the player misses the timing, the Cover Bar decreases. For example, Clark needs to use his laser vision to open a coffin with a clue inside, but there are enemies nearby: he must distract them first before getting the right timing to use his powers.

As notícias do PCC, Comando Vermelho e milícias se alastrando nas cidades e assassinando e extorquindo civis nos deixam apavorados. Notícias de latrocínios, feminicídios e tiroteios entre facções criminosas enchem os noticiários todos os dias, dando a sensação de que vivemos praticamente num narcoestado.

Mas eu me pergunto: a violência ilícita que vemos atualmente é um fenômeno novo? Houve uma época em que a violência era algo distante que não nos passaria na mente? Ou o nível é o mesmo desde a primeira feitoria portuguesa na costa e apenas achamos que está pior por conta da era da informação?

Por um lado, não há como negar que o tráfico de drogas tem crescido nas últimas décadas; talvez pela evolução dos transportes e comunicação. Mas é fato que os traficantes e milicianos da atualidade tem muito em comum com os cangaceiros entre os séculos XIX e XX, que também saqueavam cidades e alastravam terror na população. Claro, se voltarmos mais ainda, o Brasil nunca foi um país pacífico: sempre houve conflitos entre o governo e indígenas, guerras entre escravagistas e quilombos, a tortura sangrenta diária contra escravos na chibata e até mesmo nossas guerras civis e de independência.

Ainda assim, não consigo parar de pensar que a violência do crime organizado atual é diferente. Parece-me às vezes que não é nem mais o governo infiltrado na facção, é a facção infiltrada no governo. Ao mesmo tempo, é inegável que o Brasil é menos violento do que apenas a um século atrás. Será que, contra toda a lógica, o saldo atual de violência na verdade é positivo? O que vocês acham?

The main challenge for a Superman videogame would honestly only be the flight. But even then Spider-Man had a similar feature with the web-swinging and it went fine.