DualShockers Writes: "Brawler PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale released to mixed reception back in November of last year. Pulling characters from some very popular franchises, it seemed that the game was primed to be a top seller.However, things do not appear to have turned out quite that way. Sales for the game reportedly leave quite a bit to be desired, and developer SuperBot has just laid off a number of its employees.
Perhaps we should examine a few of the reasons many PlayStation owners and I have been sleeping on this title."
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Hey i got an idea sony...instead of shittin' out this turd and calling it a game update our dashboard.
I loved it but it was flawed I can admit it
I thought most characters were poor....two coles, Raiden over Snake, new Dante etc
The Super sytem despite neat at first got boring especialy when you had a fav character you kept using over and over
No other modes for differnt people....HEALTH MODE....PERCENTAGE MODE....etc
No challenges
No unlockable content, characters wise
The unlockable content we had was poor....nothing exciting.
Sony are one of the worst publishers out there simply because they either do a poor job advertising their products or don't advertise at all.
***** the game should be given a fair chance but because of silly opinions like this one people railed against it like only nintendo characters should be in a brawler game or they are better fit. its like listening to nintendo fanboys saying that only a nintendo platformer can be the best platformer because it might have mario and friends.
the game wasnt given a chance by a lot of fanboys especially nintendo fanboys. i continuously heard about how psasbr was a rip off of smash brothers like smash brothers was the first brawler game or fighting game and the only brawler games should be made by nintendo.
i welcome all types of games especially if they are improving on previous ideas. with fanboys mentality about games shouldnt have anything that copies or close to its style we wouldnt be playing much games that improves on certain formulas. i love psasbr and i also loved playing smash brothers. i prefer psasbr because of the diferent characters and level designs graphics, online play and a lot of design choices that were never in smash brothers. to each his own
Yet no matter how many times you say it, we come back to "its a Smash Bros rip off!!!" I personally love Smash Bros, so whats the problem with having more than one game like it? Nothing. I love PS All-Stars, it hasn't left my Vita since I got it.
I agree with sdozzo, why would it matter if Nintendo fanboys didn't give it a chance? Shouldn't you be complaining about the Sony fanboys who didn't make this title a success you believe it should be.
The nintendo fanboys weren't going to give it a chance and I doubt they would even have a ps3 to play it on. So why go after them or the opinions of others? Go after the people that proclaimed this game as the second coming but never purchased it.
The game got decent reviews and there was no doubt in anyone's mind what this game was inspired and trying to emulate for the Sony system. Maybe people just weren't interested in playing a game like this.
And that is my point, most people weren't interested in the game. It came out near the CoD heat and that equals sales suicide.
one is exclusive to sony
one is exclusive to nintendo
so why the hate? and SSB wasn't even the first brawler so even nintendo took the idea from another game, but here i am making a logical statement on the internet.
I think we will see a sequel for playstation all stars, this first game did a lot of things right so for sequel it cam improve on many aspects and make other things better
seriously nintendo gets credit for everything in gaming
Soldierone
people like us don't have issues have 2 brawler games but fanboys have issues and their feelings were hurt, no one should ever try to copy zelda, or a side scrolling mario game since nintendo is the only one who have been permitted to do those kind of games.
why can't people just enjoy good games?
darksiders series took ideas from zelda,god of war,castlevania etc, but that doesn't mean it was a bad game.
Next sony brawler should be done by Santa monica themselves with Seth Killian as project lead. Getting Seth was a good plan but PSASBR was almost finished before he could even do anything or give advice.
Sony should just expand their first party studio's instead of funding all these contract studio's, its just not paying off most of the times.
No one wanted Emmett, we already have unbalanced gun characters in the game, why add another one?
Don't jump to conclusions and be overly-confrontational, it makes you look like a desperate fanboy.
So, StreetsofRage thinks its relevance is negated, because it didn't sell huge numbers and some reviewers gave it a 6/10. Nope, it's got a deeper strategy to it than even Smash Bros, a different set of gameplay goals, different overall gameplay, near-perfect character balance and solid online cross-platform multiplayer. I enjoy fighting even Sackboy against Kratos, and if you've never thought that would be fun and interesting, I don't know what to suggest.
Let's face it though - the mainstream perception of this game was that it was a Smash Bros rip off even though the game itself plays completely different and has a different strategy. That's the song people were singing. Even some of the more respected journalists were saying that it was a rip off and other people simply couldn't write a review without mentioning Smash Bros. Some of them were full-on comparisons. I'm sorry but you judge a game on its own merits, not that of a brawler that is on another console. That probably added the poor sales too, so well done modern day gaming journalism. And well done Sony for NOT advertising it.
Oh...wait.
Grow a pair.
The game under performed plain and simple.
Uncharted: Drake, Sully, Chloe, Elena, and Eddy
Twisted Metal: Sweet Tooth, Grimm, and Calypso
I feel that they over looked key cast members from their own games.
May it be a Super Smash Bros clone or not, I think everyone who loves several universes can drool over crossovers. If you love Dynasty Warriors and Samurai Warriors, then you have Warriors Orochi. If you're fond of Naruto and Dragon Ball, then you have Battle Stadium D.O.N. .
But somehow, when Sony announced Playstation All-Stars Battle Royale, journalists were "meh". Not "meh, the game looks terrible", but "meh, Sony copied Nintendo again". It's like it was a crime from Sony to have its own Super Smash crossover.
It's not like rip-offs are wrong. Many great game are rip-offs. Darksiders is a mature Zelda rip-off, Dante's Inferno is a great God of War rip-off, Dead Space is a Resident Evil rip-off, Crash Team Racing is a Mario Kart rip-off, Sleeping Dogs is a Grand Theft Auto rip-off, etc... They're all great, so why bother if it's a rip-off or not?
And when you look at Playstation All-Stars Battle Royale, you feel like journalists are saying "Release it already so we wont have to talk about it ever again", and the "meh" feeling spread through the gaming community.
I really feel sorry for the SuperBot team that pays the consequences of that failure.
my opinion is that the game should have bee a 20.00 digital title on psn, and not the a fully priced retail game. Or even a free to play game with characters as micro transactions.
A few things:
The soundtrack should've been orchestral like an RPG or like SSB.
There should've been more characters, especially actual iconic ones.
There should've been unlockable stages, characters and weapons / items.
The stages should've been more like they originally were planned to be in Title Fight.
And I personally think the game should've been a sort of arena fighter like Power Stone anyway.
However, the game fell down all over the place because of lack of content, poor presentation and just generally having no real reason to play... there's nothing you really unlock in the game, no new characters or stages, it is what it is.
Overall, I feel like the core game was good, but it was released in a beta form. Felt unfinished. Definitely deserved better than the final product.
Who cares. It's another game.
Now maybe this would work in 15-20 years when some of these characters have nostalgia going for them. As of now none are classic and half are from this gen. Would've sold 4 times the amount as a real fighter like street fighter or soul caliber. The more realistic characters would fit better. The whimsy and all that jazz doesn't work well for Kratos, Drake, and a Big Daddy. Plus it would've stood on its own two feet instead of being a cheap knock off that is always going to be second best from the gate. Such a wasted opportunity.