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4 Third Party Characters I Would Like To See As DLC In PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale

PlayStation Euphoria: In the past, I have written “5 Unexpected Characters Who Should Be In PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale” which included Kevin Butler, Finn, Sora, Rayman and Wander but there are so many characters to choose from in the PlayStation universe. Here are “4 Third Party Characters I Would Like To See As DLC For PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale.”

Note: Third party characters have been considered for downloadable content according to Omar Kendall, the creative director of the game during our interview with him. Upcoming DLC has also been confirmed earlier by Sony Santa Monica.

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pr0t0typeknuckles4084d ago

i would like to see all of these except for connor, screw connor, if there was gonna be a ubisoft rep get one thats actuallyh cool like rayman, the prince, ezio, or jade, etc...but screw connor.

chrispseuphoria4084d ago (Edited 4084d ago )

Jade, Ezio Rayman and The Prince would be great but Connor would make the most sense to represent the Assassin's Creed series. He's the most recent in the series and carries more interesting weapons.

I may add Jade in a future post and I was trying to add her as a fifth option but I really couldn't figure out a moveset for her.

Snookies124084d ago (Edited 4084d ago )

Yes Connor may be the most recent, but in terms of making the most sense to represent the series, it would of course be Ezio. I mean, he did have a trilogy dedicated to him in the series. Surely he's the most well known of the AC games.

Though making the most sense for representing isn't always what companies go with... That's very apparent by "new" Dante for Devil May Cry in this as opposed to the original which was featured in 4 games as opposed to 1. Then again, that was just on account of greed by Capcom/NT for wanting to drum up sales of the new game by putting in its character and not the original.

ps3vita4life4084d ago

Good Choices. My top 4 would be Crash, Spyro, Snake, and Cloud though. At least we only have to wait a month or so to find out.

CaptainSheep4084d ago (Edited 4084d ago )

HELL YES, PERSONA! The JRPG representative. :D
Pretty much all Persona games except for Arena have been exclusive to a PlayStation console. So, it'd be really cool to have Yu/Teddie/Minato in the game.

mcstorm4084d ago

I know this will not happened as long as Sony and Nintendo are making hardware but ide love to see PS All stars vs Super Smash bro's.

r214084d ago

I'd rather have Aveline instead of Connor IMO

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Where the Heck is Ni No Kuni 3, Mun?

Matt from We Game Daily writes: "Cross Worlds isn’t going away. It’s making a small fortune, particularly in Asian markets, so there’s no reason for Level-5 to pull the plug. That said, there’s no real reason why a full PC/console sequel can’t be developed alongside efforts to support Cross Worlds."

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Relientk77100d ago

While Ni no Kuni 3 would be cool, if it was like the first game, where is Dark Cloud 3 and Rogue Galaxy 2?

phoenixwing100d ago

I thought the dev recently went mobile and Japan only. They shut down their American offices. So don't expect anything for consoles

shinoff2183100d ago (Edited 100d ago )

I swear they just announced a few new games.

https://www.nintendolife.co...

phoenixwing100d ago

I stand corrected then. Never heard about these games and also i just remember ni no kuni online being mobile only.

Michiel198999d ago

they said a loooooong time ago that Level 5 was working on a new installment but there has been no news since afaik. I just hope that they take more inspiration from 1 than 2, especially when it comes to the story.

thorstein99d ago

Ni No Kuni Cross Worlds is the mobile game you're thinking of.

It looks amazing but I don't like to play mobile games.

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-Foxtrot99d ago

Yeah the sequel was okay but had nothing on the first game, especially the battle system.

The story just didn't have that charm and even the twist at the end of the game wasn't really anything cool like Wrath of the White Witch.

Also the fact there was like ZERO mention of Oliver or his adventures in the game, no references, nothing was such weird. It's set a hundred or so years after but still, I'd have expected to seen some throw backs. I think we just got like a temple with his statue in it or something.

goldwyncq99d ago

If you want more Oliver, just watch the movie.

shinoff2183100d ago

Fking word. I've been hoping for this for quite some time.

melons99d ago

The premium games didn't sell amazingly, right?

shinoff218399d ago

Not to sure. They should of though. They were pretty good. I like both.

Michiel198999d ago

yeah, especially outside of japan. They should have released on pc at the same time as the ps3 version or a short time after.

Inverno99d ago

They should've worked with Ghibli to put out a proper movie. Should've also made a Pokemon-esque spin-off rather than make Yokai Watch. If they do make a third game they gotta work with Ghibli!

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Spyro at 25: Insomniac Games and Toys for Bob celebrate 25 years of Spyro the Dragon

The platformer’s original creators and the stewards of the remastered trilogy dive into the original series and how it impacts the franchise today.

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Stanjara224d ago

Thanks Sony for letting this slip away to Activision.
25 years wasted.

Oh btw I just purchased the trilogy.
Brought tears to my eyes.
It's so good. I bought it for my nephew's and we played all night.

Kaii224d ago

I would've preferred having Spyro 4 over Crash 4

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Remembering the Best JRPGs on the PS3

Get ready to embark on a journey filled with monsters, magic, and overpowered haircuts, because this list features the best JRPGs on the PS3.

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shinoff2183262d ago (Edited 262d ago )

There wasn't that many. Thanks to the west's criticism. It was definitely lacking compared to every other ps system. Dont get me wrong there were a few good ones i know that.

jznrpg262d ago

Nier, Valkyrie Chronciles, Tales games , Ni No Kuni, Resonance of Fate, FF13’s, Ys8 just a few off the top of my head and there were a lot more.

CrimsonWing69262d ago (Edited 262d ago )

Not nearly to the degree of PS1 and PS2.

@shinoff2183 makes a good point that around the PS3/Xbox 360 gen is when the genre wasn’t as prevalent and began to shy away from turn-based. There’s some standouts for sure, but look at the PS1 and PS2 JRPG library and then compare that to the PS3 and PS4’s.

Theres definitely a decline in a selection of titles. Even worse was the quality seemed to take a massive hit as well. I think Lost Odyssey was a huge standout for that gen when you look at production values, then you look at something like Fairy Fencer on the PS3 and it’s kind of depressing.

But by that generation there was a shift from western developed games overtaking Japanese developed games. Back from the NES to PS2 Japanese games were the cream of the crop… I don’t know what happened but like midway into the PS3/360 life-time they became less so.

shinoff2183262d ago (Edited 262d ago )

Compared to the ps1 ps2 and he'll even ps4 ps3 doesn't hold a candle to either imo. It's also when turn based damn near disappeared. Again thanks to the west's criticism

Crimson I'd put money on the west being at fault, guys like Phil phish, and numerous others at that time were attacking jrpg and Japanese games in general pretty hard.

Ni no kuni was probably my fav jrpg back then , and the blue dragon

GameBoyColor262d ago

Tales got kinda lucky here. When they took a chance and finally brought tales of graces f over west it sold like 250k lmao a lot of jrpgs did 500k or below. Disgaea was worse i think. Bamco decided to keep bringing more games over though.

Tapani262d ago (Edited 262d ago )

Demon's Souls, Dark Souls and Dark Souls II were the best RPGs on PS3 made by Japanese developers. Everything else just fell short always. Ni No Kuni was a full package, an okayish game as well. Nier and Drakengard III had superb writing, setting and voice acting, however, the performance was a real drag on the gameplay. Traditional RPG-wise I'd actually say 360 had better JRPGs, and think that Lost Odyssey and Blue Dragon were the best traditional JRPGs of the era. PS3 Valkyria Chronicles was okay, but it is closer to an SRPG.

Ryu Ga Gotoku games were also solid, they were still finding their footing and breaking new ground with new cities and formats.

PS3 was the era that almost made me quit gaming and I started playing on PC because I could not find good performance nor games on the system. PS4 got me back into it, and now PS5 is a mix in and between, I just play my PS4 library on the PS5 and rest on PC, just like during the PS3 era. The only new exclusive Sony JRPG is pretty much FFXVI and it is so streamlined and simplified from the normal RPG experience that I can't fit it into the genre anymore. Dragon Quest XII hopefully remedies all of this, but it is just one game.

These new games will all be on PC (while it does take 2-3 years to wait, and 6-12 months from launch to have them patched + fixed by modders) and they perform better on it. The only point in owning a PS5 is to play games a couple of years earlier, but for a hard-working family man like me, the quality of the experience is more important than playing it as soon as possible. And I can't do modern games at 30fps 720p after playing 120fps at 4K. For older games, that's okay.

PSX and PS2 though, those were the days...Still have a massive collections of classic RPGs in CD and DVD format and a phat PS3 to play them!

FinalFantasyFanatic262d ago

It's kinda like that, the PS3 generation was a bad time for JRPGs, especially with the Japanese feeling the need to westernize their games, shooters dominating that gen, the racism from western game journalists (it was bad, between G4, Phill Fish, and a slew of others), and the higher development costs...

It really made me miss the PS1/PS2 days of JRPGs, even the quality of half of those games during the 7th gen weren't as good. The 360 tried, but Microsoft's consoles weren't popular in Japan and no body in the West bought a Xbox for JRPGs (despite Xbox having Vesperia, Blue Dragon and Lost Odyssey).

on_line_forever262d ago

" It's kinda like that, the PS3 generation was a bad time for JRPGs, especially with the Japanese feeling the need to westernize their games "

This is when everything fall down and games looks not fun to play anymore except for few games like demon and dark souls for example

-Foxtrot262d ago (Edited 262d ago )

Nah. It's a bad trilogy of games

The only reason XIII-2 stands out is because XIII was so bad

When the bar is so low, anything after feels better.

goldwyncq262d ago

The monster catching mechanic was nice.

Eonjay262d ago

Don't understand the hate for it at all. Seems forced.

shinoff2183262d ago

Watching the credits roll on ff16 now it is good but , I'd really like to re try ff13 least it's turn based and would fill that gap for me.

FinalFantasyFanatic262d ago

They got better after the first one in the trilogy, not outstanding game though.

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CS7262d ago

Honestly, I played FFXIII a few years after release and maybe because it was after the hype cycle and I knew the flaws of the game, it actually became my favorite FF after VII.

I took off the mini map and never used auto battle and the stuff that mattered to me in an FF was just so well done.

The art and graphics were insane at the time
The music is still special
The story still lingers in memory more than a decade later
The RPG systems were decent

I never really got the hate for it, still have a soft spot for that game inside me.

goldwyncq262d ago

Still better than XV and XVI.

Yui_Suzumiya262d ago

Drakengard 3 goes for a small fortune nowadays

Knightofelemia262d ago (Edited 262d ago )

Only gripe I have with Ar Tonelico 3 is that Saki is annoying as hell whether English or in Japanese. Then Saki's English voice actor became Ionasal on Ar Nosurge she was a little annoying but not as bad. Johnny Young Bosch voicing Tatsumi I thought he did a great job. And Akiko Shikata with her vocals and the music from the games just went hand and hand.

DarkZane262d ago

I wish Ar No Surge and Ar Tonelico 3 would be remastered on PS4/PS5.

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