GP writer Jared discusses the unfortunate history behind Playstation All-Stars Battle Royale's development and how a series of high profile leaks affected it in the long run.
While Playstation All-Stars Battle Royale didn't get the best review, there are still some aspects of the game that deserve some credit.
Though PlayStation All Stars Battle Royale is a bit of a cult classic, it could have been a big hit if it launched in 2022 instead of 2012.
It wouldn't have mattered, Sony would've rushed it out and left it to die. More so now than before with their focus now being on SP narrative driven AAA games.
Oh, but somehow Smash Bros. 64 made it work?
It just couldn’t compete with Smash Bros. and it wasn’t a free-to-play game like Multiversus.
I think it released at the right time. It's just after the success of Smash and Multiversus, it's finally time for a sequel.
I'd be all in on a remake or remaster of the original. I enjoyed it because I didn't sit there and compare every aspect to SSB. I just enjoyed it as it was.
Sony should make part 2 and dump a good amount of money on it. Scrap super only kills and it's bound to succeed.
Yes the power kills spoilt it completely WTH was they thinking you should have hp bar that's it
God of War: Ragnarok has plenty of fun references to PlayStation history, but now fans have discovered a conversation that calls back to PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale — the crossover fighting game released for the PlayStation 3 and PlayStation Vita.
That’s interesting. It actually does make it canon lol. He mentioned it in a mainline game. I’d say that’s pretty cool.
kind of sad but its so true.
This game had more leaks than a wire mesh roof.
Most fighting games get their cast leaked anyways. I don't think it is such a big deal.
I do remember the smash bros tags though, lol, good times.
Can't wait for Kat!
No I really don't agree with any of this at all. It only was a problem for most of the trolls and naysayers that constantly searched for reasons to put the game down but none of this stopped the people who actually wanted the game. All the things you mentioned were basically as petty as the people who didn't buy the game because it had new Dante or that it had Big Daddy or because there weren't enough females or that they used Raiden.Things in games get leaked all the time and knowing what was coming in advance, unless it is some major spoiler or crucial ending to the game, shouldn't make a problem.Gamers try to make mountains out of mole hills all the time and many tines it is the idiots, trolls and the people who just plain want the game to fail who are always there trying to cause chaos and stir up trouble. The character or stage leak didn't change anything. We would have found out about they eventually it's just that we found out early.
With every PS3 game people always try to make the things that other games do all the time into big deals. Every glitch and mishap and leak and delay is a reason to call in the marines.Superbot listened to us for so long and the moment they took a break from revealing things people went ballistic and called them names as if they weren't listening and answering us before. Many developers ignore us completely. Superbot is one of the few who has tried to listen to the never ending requests from the same ungrateful people that turned on the them the moment anything goes wrong.So in short none of those things should have worked against them. Many people allow their whole games to be leaked so much so that people play it all the way through and give out the ending to people and people still run out and buy it anyway and dismiss the careless nature of the developer or the fact that some hacker found every part of the game from maps, to achievements to weapons and blabbed it all over the internet.But people tried to make the character leak into such a big deal. I know that Nariko, Cole and Sir Dan are characters.So what? Does that mean I won't be getting them? If someone tells me what I am going to get for Christmas does that mean I won't still want it?