Microsoft Could Totally Pull Off Its Own Super Smash Bros. Clone

Kotaku - I was reading online about the Playstation All-Stars game and in the comments people were ripping on Microsoft and say that they couldn't even make a game like that since they have no exclusives or decent IP's. I did some thinking, I think Microsoft could pull it off and have it be totally awesome.

[NastyLeftHook0]

Sure and Bethesda can make "Rogue Warrior" an FPS game, Just because you "could possibly" pull it off does not mean it should be done.

[princejb134]

in my opinion shooting characters don't mix well in brawlers like smash brothers
a good example is snake he just didn't seem to mix well with all the other fighters

[humbleopinion]

Bethesda didn't make Rouge Warrior, they just published it. The game was developed by Zombie Studios/Rebellion (both pretty mediocre ones).
Try harder next time

[Veneno]

Well, everyone is in agreement about one thing: that Xbox games are mostly shooters. So why not just make a battle royale game that is a shooter? Third person, cover based but yet fast paced to keep the action moving. Give it 4 player slpit screen and you''re good.

[bishop-br]

Actually, this sounds like a good idea and fun for a local multiplayer face-off. I remember playing the 1vs1 Syphon Filter with friends and it was a great time. Not that different from playing a sports game with your friends, just much faster and filled with trash talking.

But I don't think that's what most shooter enthusiasts want today. A face-off demands a relatively low player count for a shooter and it probably wouldn't be purelly based on aim, like there's no point in headshooting if it only decreases an X ammount of your health bar and you use a special power/movement to insta kill me right after... That ends being kind of chea for a shooter.

I guess if you could scale that up to more player, with respawn and near crazy action, it could sell a lot, but kind of defeat the purpose of being an alternative to a brawler.

[darkride66]

MS could do it, but it wouldn't sell on their console. This style of game is more kid oriented, and historically even good kids games tend to get ignored on the 360. I couldn't see a game like this moving more than 200k, 300k on the 360 - tops.

[CoolBeansRus]

*Tentonsoftube* you are such a Sony fanboy. Why do you even bother posting if all you do is downplay everything that is not SONY.

[WeskerChildReborned]

Yea but the only people i could see being in it really is Master Chief, Commander Shepard even though Mass Effect gone multiplatform, and Marcus Fenix. You could probably also include the people from L4D.

[OneAboveAll]

Alan Wake and the chick from Kameo! And let's not forget Pinatas!

[bahabeast]

well microsoft own one of most loved fighting franchises of all time soo all they have to do is make a xbox exclusive killer instinct and im sure they will sell a few extra 360's just because.

[sloth3395]

are you sure they own it and not nintendo like with the whole golden eye thing

[KMCROC54]

Owned franchises and properties

Aegis Wing
Age of Empires
Age of Mythology
Azurik
Banjo-Kazooie
BattleTech
Black & White
Blast Corps
Blinx
Bloodforge
Blood Wake
Blue Dragon
Brute Force
Combat Flight Simulator WWII Europe
Comic Jumper: The Adventures of Captain Smiley
Conker
Crackdown
Crimson Alliance
Crimson Skies
Every Party
Fable
Forza Motorsport
Freelancer
Fusion Genesis
Fuzion Frenzy
Game Chest Series

Grabbed by the Ghoulies
Halo
Haunt
Hexic
Hydro Thunder
ilomilo
Iron Brigade
Infinite Undiscovery
It's Mr. Pants
Jawbreaker
Jetpac
Jet Force Gemini
Joy Ride
Kakuto Chojin
Kameo
Killer Instinct
Kinect Adventures
Kinect Fun Labs
Kinect Sports
Kodu
Kung Fu Chaos
Lips
Lost Odyssey
Magatama
Maximum Chase
MechAssault
MechCommander
MechWarrior

Microsoft Flight
Microsoft Flight Simulator
Microsoft Train Simulator
Microsoft Space Simulator
Midtown Madness
Milo and Kate
Monster Truck Madness
Motocross Madness
Ms. Splosion Man
Nightcaster
Ninety-Nine Nights
N.U.D.E.@Natural Ultimate Digital Experiment
Perfect Dark
Phantom Dust
Project Gotham Racing
Quantum Redshift
Rallisport Challenge
Rise of Nations
Sabreman
Shadowrun
Sneakers
'Splosion Man
Starlancer
Sudeki
Tao Feng: Fist of the Lotus

The Gunstringer
The Harvest
The Maw
The Movies
Tinker
Tork: Prehistoric Punk
Toy Soldiers
True Fantasy Live Online
Viva Piñata
Voodoo Vince
Whacked!
XNA
Zoo Tycoon

[TheDareDevil]

I cant believe they own Bloodforge. That game is getting some real bad reviews

[SilentNegotiator]

Kinect fun labs, XNA, flight simulator.....why didn't you just cut some of these and make a list of their IPs that would actually contribute to a sort of collaboration?

[Denethor_II]

Yeah... I don't think MS would try and release there own fighter in the mix with all the superb, established, fighters already out on sale. Not to mention MS relies on Mult- plat games to move it's consoles to the core audience, with the exception of 1 or 2 games.
But who knows with E3 coming round maybe they have some huge exclusive coming?

[slaton24]

fable side characters..blinx...blue dragon..banjo and kazooie...super meat boy...wow thats all i can think of....lol

[Patriots_Pride]

Dam your right MS need to step up and bring it next gen if they want to survive - I can not really think of any myself and I dont think they own Super Meat Boy.

I got the below from Wiki but never heard of most of those games.

Aegis Wing
Age of Empires
Age of Mythology
Azurik
Banjo-Kazooie
BattleTech
Black & White
Blast Corps
Blinx
Bloodforge
Blood Wake
Blue Dragon
Brute Force
Combat Flight Simulator WWII Europe
Comic Jumper: The Adventures of Captain Smiley
Conker
Crackdown
Crimson Alliance
Crimson Skies
Every Party
Fable
Forza Motorsport
Freelancer
Fusion Genesis
Fuzion Frenzy
Game Chest Series
Grabbed by the Ghoulies
Halo
Haunt
Hexic
Hydro Thunder
ilomilo
Iron Brigade
Infinite Undiscovery
It's Mr. Pants
Jawbreaker
Jetpac
Jet Force Gemini
Joy Ride
Kakuto Chojin
Kameo
Killer Instinct
Kinect Adventures
Kinect Fun Labs
Kinect Sports
Kodu
Kung Fu Chaos
Lips
Lost Odyssey
Magatama
Maximum Chase
MechAssault
MechCommander
MechWarrior
Microsoft Flight
Microsoft Flight Simulator
Microsoft Train Simulator
Microsoft Space Simulator
Midtown Madness
Milo and Kate
Monster Truck Madness
Motocross Madness
Ms. Splosion Man
Nightcaster
Ninety-Nine Nights
N.U.D.E.@Natural Ultimate Digital Experiment
Perfect Dark
Phantom Dust
Project Gotham Racing
Quantum Redshift
Rallisport Challenge
Rise of Nations
Sabreman
Shadowrun
Sneakers
'Splosion Man
Starlancer
Sudeki
Tao Feng: Fist of the Lotus
The Gunstringer
The Harvest
The Maw
The Movies
Tinker
Tork: Prehistoric Punk
Toy Soldiers
True Fantasy Live Online
Viva Piñata
Voodoo Vince
Whacked!
XNA
Zoo Tycoon

[GamingPerson]

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That list got owned..

[Hicken]

As quoted from SilentNegotiator above...
"why didn't you just cut some of these and make a list of their IPs that would actually contribute to a sort of collaboration?"

I mean, who are you gonna have from Zoon Tycoon in this sort of game? Or Lips?

Don't be so quick to jump the gun and assume stuff. Try thinking every now and then.

[slaton24]

disagrees must be from ps3 lovers well to u guys i am a ps3 user i got rank 18 with 110+ games....xbox i have 6 games....look up slaton22 thats me and if u also have xbox and if u can check slatonA7X also me...i am not a fanboy but a true gamer...been gaming since atari with frogger pacman and space invaders...i love games so if u disagree with my previous comment thinking i am a xbox fanboy u r highly mistaken

[pwnmaster3000]

I think its the other way around and xbox fanboy disagreeing with you lol

[Fatty]

I enjoy my 360 and original Xbox (it was my system of choice for multi-platform games last generation), but they don't have the star power necessary to make a good Smash Bros. clone. Just like any company they CAN make one (a clone), but it wouldn't be as compelling as Nintendo's or Sony's. Outside of Master Chief and Marcus Fenix, I can't think of any characters that really represent the Xbox.

[Morgue]

Aaron Greenburg

[Fatty]

Major Nelson could work, I guess...

[AngelicIceDiamond]

They could, lol but they won't.

[smashcrashbash]

Microsoft may have characters but what is the point if no one remembers many them or they have no relevance? Who really remembers the characters in Blue Dragon, Kameo, Blinx or Ninety Nine Knight without going to look them up? People seem to forget that there were once 150 million PlayStation owners. Despite the attempt to downplay Sony's characters they are remembered. People remember Gex, Parapper, Ratchet, Jak, Sly and many of the characters.

Heck I am sure people know Fat Princess and Radec more then many of Microsoft's characters. And to make it worse many of Microsoft's characters are third party and they would have to pay a fortune to use them all. Many of the characters in PASBR belong to Sony so they can use them however they please.

[dubt72]

Who the hell are fat princess and radec????

[pwnmaster3000]

Fat princess not alot of people shouldnt know it, but radec. Millions of people bought killzone 2, so people should know him

[lategamer]

Well I remember Kameo and Blinx. As for Blue Dragon, the game had an Anime and a DS game as well, and I remember it. N3 is pretty meh though.

Your right that some Sony franchises are more well-known, but I'm pretty sure Master Chief is more well-known that all those characters you mentioned, does that mean Sony shouldn't put them in the game?

[edgeofblade]

Who the hell is Sly? Jak? Parapper?

I know who they are, but you do realize those are just as obscure as Kameo and Blinx to some people. It's like people not knowing what Fire Emblem, Earthbound, and Ice Climbers were in Smash Bros.

[P_Bomb]

To some people sure, but Sly Cooper has had a better commercial and critical run than all the other games you mentioned. Wouldn't call it Earthbound or Fire Emblem obscure.

*3 PS2 games 2002-2005
*Successful 2010 HD Collection
*Playable charachter in PS Move: Heroes 2011
*Recent digital uploads to the PS Store with a freebie for PS Plus users
*Sly 4 currently in development set to drop 2012

His face has been out there the past couple years. Battle Royale just adds to that.

[smashcrashbash]

Oh please. Stop the pretense.Do you really believe Sly, Jak and Parapper are as obscure as Kameo and Blinx? Jak and Sly had three well received games with Sly getting one just recently.Even Parapper had three games himself. How many games have been made with Ness and Ice Climbers? How many games where made with Kameo and Blinx?

Go ask anyone who Sly, Parapper or Jak are and I can bet my head they would more likely to know if you ask them who Kameo, Blinx, Ice Climbers, Pit or Ness are.

[123_321]

They could use Marcus Fenix, Dom, Master Chief and Phintias from First Edition in the Market District. That's only four though. I really don't know who else they could get. They dont have a lot of characters that are as memorable as the four above. Too bad...

[C0MPUT3R]

They have more characters from Rare remembered on Nintendo platforms than what MS has.
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So it would be like Nintendo Smash Bros. 2 with MS characters sprinkled in. LAME.

[BrianC6234]

What a boring list. Microsoft doesn't have many characters to make a decent game like this. Just forget about it.

[Jijoro]

List I made

Master Chief
Marcus Fenix
Carmine
Locust Sniper
Skorge
Arbiter
Kat-B320
Tartaurus Chieftain of the Brutes
The Tank from L4D
Alan Wake
Fable
Banjo Kazooie
Conker
Blinx the Time Sweeper
Kameo
Forza
Project Gotham Racing
Rallisport Challenge
Midtown Madness
Voodoo Vince
Cooper Chance
Joanna Dark
Mech Assault
Mechwarrior
Chromehounds
Steel Battalion
Killer Instinct
Splosion Man
Fuzion Frenzy
Crimson Skies
Panzer Dragoon Orta
Shenmue
Otagi
Phantom Dust
Blue Dragon
Viva Pinata
Kung Fu Chaos
Jet Set Radio Future
Jade Empire
The Maw
Shadow Complex
Bullet Witch
Onechanbara
Stubbs the Zombie
ToeJam & Earl
Age of Empires
Oddworld: Stranger's Wrath
Brute Force
Blood Wake
KuF:CoD
Magna Carta 2
Ninja Blade
KOTOR
Tao Feng
Tales of Vesperia
Infinite Undiscovery
Ninety-Nine Nights
Magna Carta 2
CrackDown
Shadowrun
Advent Rising
Earth Defense Force
Killer Instinct
The Gunstringer
Bastion
Lost Odyssey
Your Avatar
3rd party

[pwnmaster3000]

List seems desperate.
Really tales of vesperia, bullet witch, locust sniper,
Tank lol
Oh and wtf forza lol
Your just listing a whole bunch.of games.

If anything I like
Lost odyssey characters
master chief
Marcus
Jet set radio
Fusion frenzy
Kameo
Banjo
Conker and blinx
And also raiden sinse mgs2 was on xbox

[SovereignSnaKe]

-Or they could just cut the Bull shit and Announce Killer Instinct III... :D

[glennco]

only nintendo can get away with the same mascots for 30 years. i have no idea why but that is how it is. MS is not about mascots.

[Lord_Sloth]

Yeah! It'd be a 2D shooter just like MvC2!!!

[dubt72]

Why would we want that? Smash Bros is garbage. I'd be diappointed if the DID make one.

[isntchrisl]

Most of their characters would probably need to be third party to be recognizable by masses.

[GamingTruth]

so what microsoft has only been in console gaming since 2000 so it shouldnt have that many notable star characters, but halo alone beats out anything on both nintendo and sonys platform, im a sony fan and a nintendo fan off top no doubt, but the xbox and microsoft bashing is insane on here the truth must be heard gears of war and halo are crushing anything sony has, and nintendo is only standing strong cause of the kiddy nature of the games on nintendo platforms so no one on xbox really cares about playing something so kiddy

funny ps3 fanboys are on here, i have a hunch your trying to divert the attention of the bashing ps3 and sony was getting when people called playstion allstars battle royale a smash bros clone to the 360 now, its pathetic, and i thought pc nerds were bad

[pwnmaster3000]

Yeah no gt5 sold more the gears so take that off the list, but if your talking about pure gameplay and story your trippin.
Uncharted 2 has one of the most goty awards this gen.
Dont forget about god of war series.

Oh anf
Putting gears on the same level with halo is disgraceful.
Halo1 and 3 is still my favorite game.
Your whole comment is full of fail

[paybackprahl]

You'd be right, except more IGN readers anticipate The Last of Us over Halo 4. A completely unproven, unreleased new IP over the "crushing" force you mention.

[NinjaSky]

I think they made this to reel in ps3 fan boys and it worked obviously. but hey it's alright that ps3 can have one cause it's the mother Theresa of the gaming world :-p

[ALLWRONG]

2 Sony & MS, stop ripping off Nintendo 4 once. "Smash Bros" clones are 4 kids & fanboys.

[ChunkyLover53]

They could, but I don't see that as their style. I am interested to see how Sony does it, but I think Microsoft should stay away from copying that formula. I think it would be a hugely niche title on the Xbox 360 and it probably wouldn't sell very well.

I'd much rather have a Conker, Banjo or Killer Instinct game.

[numonex360]

Gears of War Kart or Halo Kart. Halo Smash Brothers Brawl or Gears of War Smash Brothers Brawl. Both Halo and Gears of War can be milked for years to come.

[vega275]

MS could make a SSMB game. But why would they. Its not like the 360 fanbase is begging for a clone of ssbm. We all know MS has the character to to pull it off but why would they need to.

[Roccetarius]

So, just because Sony wants some of Nintendo's money, MS should follow as well?

*sighs*

[mt]

sorry i don't see that happening. they should add kinect as a character if they would make their own game /s

Xbox is missing variety in characters.