Playstation All Stars Battle Royale

[kupomogli]

Since it hasn't been posted yet, decided I'd make mention of it. Hearing about it last year I thought it'd be a pretty garbage game. After seeing the first gameplay footage, it looks pretty amazing. Yes it's a Smash Bros clone, and now that that's out of the way, it looks damn good. According to the developer, there is going to be both first and third party characters.

http://www.gametrailers.com/episode/gametrailers-tv/152

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=v1bQSw7FOUQ

[heybtbm]

Does Sony ever come up with original ideas anymore?

[Ro-J]

I hope they also clone Nintendo's idea of including characters from their earlier days to help make it appeal more to retro gamers. I liked that Parrapa was in there, but I would like to see Crash, Spyro, Jumping Flash ....

[Aussie2B]

It would help if it contained characters that anybody gave a damn about. Too bad Sony lacks any actual "all-stars" for their All-Stars game.

Although seeing Parappa is cool. But he's about as relevant to modern gamers as Mr. Game & Watch. And the Patapon background was cute, but again, not "all-star" worthy.

[RCM]

Man, next thing you know Sony will come out with a controller like the Wiimote, and a handheld with a touch screen... oh, wait.

[markusman64ds]

Oh, so NOW Fat Princess decides she can jump and fight.

I have a feeling Cloud from Final Fantasy will be in this.

[Genesaturn]

I hope they also clone Nintendo's idea of including characters from their earlier days to help make it appeal more to retro gamers. I liked that Parrapa was in there, but I would like to see Crash, Spyro, Jumping Flash ....

Yeah, but would Crash and Spyro be considered Sony All-Stars anymore? They have been on other platforms, all of Super Smash characters are legit Nintendo only. I saw this article and couldn't help, but giggle...it feels like Sony is pissed over the PSVita to 3DS sales and they had a meeting labeled "how can we piss off Nintendo"

[Robocop2]

They might as well call it "Kratos, Sweet Tooth and Nathan Drake punch obscure characters into oblivion"

[j_factor]

Where's the list of characters?

[Tupin]

They might as well call it "Kratos, Sweet Tooth and Nathan Drake punch obscure characters into oblivion"

I don't know, was there much attention paid to the Twisted Metal franchise in recent years? Before the remake, there hadn't been one in seven years.

This game does look fun, though.

[frogofdeath]

Yeah, but would Crash and Spyro be considered Sony All-Stars anymore? They have been on other platforms, all of Super Smash characters are legit Nintendo only.

Uh, not to split hairs here, but Sonic and Snake aren't really Nintendo only.

Game looks okay. I'm more interested to see if it does do anything differently than Smash Bros. As of now, outside of aesthetics, I'm not really seeing how this game is unique.

[kupomogli]

The six characters included and their games are

Sweet Tooth(Twisted Metal)
Kratos(God of War)
Fat Princess
Sly Cooper
Colonel Radec(Killzone 2)
Parappa the Rapper

Games and a character from each that Sony could choose from. Probably missing some.

Cole Macgrath(Infamous)
Nathan Drake(Uncharted)
Jak(Jak and Daxter)
Ratchet(Ratchet and Clank)
Sackboy(Little Big Planet)
Wanderer(Shadow of the Colossus)
Dart(Legend of Dragoon)
Gabe Logan(Syphon Filter)
Sir Daniel(Medievil)
Chimera(Resistance)
Shu(Arc the Lad)
Toro the Sony Cat
Crash(Crash Bandicoot///Used to be first party.)
Spyro(Spyro the Dragon///Used to be first party.)

It would help if it contained characters that anybody gave a damn about. Too bad Sony lacks any actual "all-stars" for their All-Stars game.

Maybe not you to, but to other people that like the characters, sure. How many characters are in Super Smash Bros Melee and Brawl do you think most people cared about before playing? I guarantee not too many. As a Super Smash Bros fan myself, I can say while I knew of many of the characters as I've played the games they've been in, I've never really cared about too many of the characters outside of the main characters in their specific franchise. Super Smash Bros while a great game and easily one of the best fighters out there is nothing more than a big advertisement. People play as characters they've never played as before, happen to like the characters, possibly purchase the games they're based off. Kid Icarus would have never came to be if it wasn't for Super Smash Bros Brawl, and not because the original Kid Icarus is any good, but solely based on their perception of the Brawl character. Earthbound would never be as expensive as it currently is if it wasn't for the original Smash Bros and all subsequent games.

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The developers have stated that they are going to have characters from third parties in the game as well. If you were to watch the video Michael, maybe this is what it could have been alluding to all along. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mdWkKKSckNk

There are plenty of characters that while they're not exclusive to Sony consoles, are those that can easily be likened to Sony consoles despite the games themselves or future games being on other consoles.

A feature of the game is that each character is going to have a level one, two, or three super attack. The basis of the game is that there are no health bars and that doing damage to your opponents builds up the super attack gauge and that the super attacks kill the opponent in a single hit. So a player can't just hide in the corner, wait until there are others low on health, then go out there and clean up. If the player isn't remaining active and isn't hitting the opponent, then their special gauge won't fill up and they won't be able to kill an opponent.

[Genesaturn]

Uh, not to split hairs here, but Sonic and Snake aren't really Nintendo only.

Game looks okay. I'm more interested to see if it does do anything differently than Smash Bros. As of now, outside of aesthetics, I'm not really seeing how this game is unique.

True , true - Sonic doesn't have a specific home anymore, but I guess he does appear more often on Nintendo now a days than anything else. Snake STILL makes no sense to me as to why he ended up in SSB

Sony does have a decent sized backlog to call into play, but It's not like Nintendo. When someone asks me to name Sony mascots or characters - I would have to stop and think. I mean yeah it has its share of platform exclusives like God of War, Syphon Filter - but unlike Kratos, who gives a damn about Gabe Logan?