Smash Bros. Ultimate has the games industry worked into fever pitch, so we thought we'd take a look back at 5 games that tried to copy it and failed.
A job listing published by the UK studio reveals that its next project will be another entirely new IP.
Good. Something not boring, not one of those "make your own game" crap and also on Steam would be nice.
Outriders developer People Can Fly's next game has been canceled after its publishing agreement with Take-Two Interactive fell through.
"the capital group of PCF Group S.A."
If you're getting funding from a group that needs two different ways of Acronyming itself, things will not go the way you want them to.
Outriders was crap. They slapped that game together and threw in a loot system to get players' attention. This game was absolutely jank and the always online nonsense made it stutter like crazy. People Can't Optimize.
I liked Outriders but I could see where the artistic vision was compromised. The way the industry is now, it wouldn't surprise me that upper management would scrap something that didn't pull in money via gaas, mts, or other means.
The new Escape from Tarkov Unheard Edition has the community in an outrage after promising exclusive access to the new PvE mode for $250 USD.
$250? Do they not know all the other games that already exist or will be made in the future that can do similar?
This is for the hardcore people that have 2500 h in the game. They basically play that one game the whole year.
Oh and those same people are mad as hell at this... what a way to reward fans of your game and annihilate newcomers.
Read a comment earlier calling it a "special monetization operation." I had to chuckle at that.
None of those games are near the level of Smash.
In that case Super Smash Bros is just a ripoff of The Outfoxies
Playstation All-Stars is the only one on the list with aspirations of being on, or higher than, Smash's level. The rest were created to make a quick buck off of the smash formula, namely the Cartoon Network one.
TMNT Smash-Up legitimately made me feel both sad and angry.
Because for a brief time, I owned it.
And I wanted it to be good SO BADLY.
But it just WASN'T GOOD.
Lack of key characters, bad floaty physics that made even Smash Bros. BRAWL feel fast and weighted, and just overall half-assed effort.
I had more fun with TMNT Tournament Fighters, and that one did not age well for me.
As a fan, TMNT deserved better.
I would be blown away if Sakurai put the Turtles into Ultimate, though.
Make picking one work by either switching costumes but with different weapons, so you play as one Turtle all match long and multiple character slots aren't taken up [think an advanced form of picking Alph instead of Olimar pre-match], or like Pokemon Trainer's switch-out mechanic does via down-B. [Except with Ninja smoke instead of pokeballs]
Reading this article has only raised one question for me, why the f#£& hasn't Viewtiful Joe been remastered yet?