Siliconera- The initial PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale roster has 20 playable characters and Superbot plans to expand that number through downloadable content. We met with Omar Kendall, the director of PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale at Superbot Entertainment, to talk about the process of getting characters for the mascot fighting game and how they developed the PlayStation Vita version.
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.
It is what they have been saying from a long time ago. It is not easy to get anyone not even first party characters.So all the idiots saying 'Why didn't you get this person and that person' needs to go to the companies themselves and ask them why they refused. People think business is just so simple that everyone else just listens to anyone that comes and asks you something. That SE gives a $hit if you want Cloud or not and that they don't have their own priorities and goals and that they will just drop everything and say 'sure we all know the fanboys want Crash so here take him. In fact take Neo Cortex and Spyro and anything you want'.
People who say these thing sometimes forget that everything that is done withing a company even a gaming company is done by business decisions not listening to fanboys tears and griping. Therefore their are limits to what you can do. Like the people who constantly say SSB has more characters. Of course they do because everything belongs to them. Why do you think they left out Mega Man, Simon Belmont, Maximo and Fire Brand who would have been better then Toon Link, Dr Mario, Captain Falcon and Game and Watch? Because they knew how freaking hard it is to talk to several different developers that have opposing views and their own ideas and terms.
Imagine going to twenty plus developers, each one with their own terms and having to haggle and refuse and deal with them even if they are being unreasonable.They went to find twenty individual characters instead of doing something like take three characters from Sly and two from Jak and four from Ratchet and five from Twisted Metal etc like Nintendo did with Smash Brothers. At least seven characters from Mario, three from Zelda, at least five Pokemon, three from Star Fox etc.So they actually have more variety then any other game. Nineteen characters from completely different games with Evil Cole being the only exception. So instead of beating them up over it I think we should be applauding Superbot for making the effort instead of half@$$ing it with the characters. They could have easy route and just taken more characters from each of their first party games and not even bother so much with other but they didn't take the easy way out.And even better they are still bargaining for more of them.
I think Wild Arms really got shafted in this game :S 5 games and a remake of the first, and not even an item to show? I dont know... Seems like priority is messed up. I mean, Fat Princess is a fighter, and she was in one game. JUST ONE and a remake. Both of which were just about capture the flag. Maybe they'll surprise people with DLC but there needs to be more love for the slightly more obscure franchises. Wild Arms, Legend of Dragoon, etc.
Kat from gravity rush is a just to represent vita and its first party!
We all know there will be DLC for this game but do not be surprised that the 3rd party characters will cost quite a bit. Remember 3rd party developers/publishers have the right unfortunately to charge as much as they want.I do hope that at least 1st party character DLC will be free or at least reasonable.
Just be glad we got 20 characters right off the bat. When the original Smash Bros. was released there were only 12 characters. So when Superbot gets the chance to make a sequel than the sky is the limits on how many characters they can add. That is why we need to support this game so that Superbot gets that opportunity to create another game.
Yeah i dont blame superbot for not getting the few third party characters we been screaming for.
Square enix has always been a hard ass about their characters just look how long it took before LBP finaly got the FF7 costumes they dont care about fans otherwise ffversus wouldve been out by now.
Activision is just gonna try and get 25-50% of dlc profits when they let Superbot use Crash and Spyro.
What i really want to see in dlc packs speaking first party only.
-Kat
-Gabe Logan
-Heropon
-Locorocco
-White knight from wkc
-Wander
-Alundra
-Chimera
Third party Abe is a must cause add water genuinely wants him in the game.