Playstation All-Stars Battle Royale (...PS3)

[Kalyx triaD]

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[RP]

Explain...

[#BROKEN Hasney]

Explain...

Super Smash Bros. with way worse characters.

Bar Parappa, which is better than anything any other game company has ever come up with.

[ClockShot]

There a roster floating around net?

I can see Sweet Tooth, Sly, and Kratos. The Halo lookalike might be from Killzone?

[Kane Knight]

There a roster floating around net?

I can see Sweet Tooth, Sly, and Kratos. The Halo lookalike might be from Killzone?

There's a guy from Killzone or Resistance. Forget which one. People have commented his specials or whatever SSB calls them look like Solid Snake's from SSBWhatever.

Parappa's also in, as is Fat Princess. I didn't look at the video Kal posted because it's probably the same one as the VG news thread, but it confirms some other guys.

[Cool King]

I get the feeling that the majority of the roster will consist of big dark muscle-bound gun-toting 30-something men. When I think about PlayStation exclusive characters, all I can really think of are guys like that. :-\

I'm sure I'm wrong though, as I don't own a PS3 so I'm not familiar with the PlayStation 3 exclusive titles.

[Cool King]

Though thinking about it now, I get the feeling we'll see Nathan Drake included in the game.

[Cool King]

I would love it though if the Kula Beach Ball from Kula World/Roll Away was included, just for the hell of it.

[SlickyTrickyDamon]

Too bad Snake is already in Smash Brothers.

Katamari would be a funny thing to include.

[Extreme Angle]

I will have a PS3 available to me by the time this releases, hopefully it's a laugh, they can't go that wrong though if they keep it to pretty much a reskinned smash bros. Thought i'd colour my text for a laugh.

[Sepholio]

IGN was touting this as some huge announcement. More like a huge disappointment. Just another Sony attempt to pander to the casual/wii fan base. I bet it will be move compatible and everything.

I guess I'm just bitter that the announcement wasn't KH3 or FF7-2 but whatever.

[Kalyx triaD]

You want a FF7-2?

[#BROKEN Hasney]

I did, but not after Square's recent efforts.

[Ultra Mantis]

Could be interesting depending on the roster. Parappa is a good start, throw in the King of All Cosmos and we're getting there. Norman Jayden gets my vote too, just because I want to hear him shout out moves in that ridiculous accent.

[Cool King]

I'm coming across a hell of a lot of people demanding that Crash Bandicoot be included in the game. They don't seem to understand that Crash isn't a PlayStation exclusive character and hasn't been since 2001.

I doubt we'll see him in the game, unless Jason Rubin & Andy Gavin, or whoever the hell owns the rights to Crash these days, begs that Crash be included in the game, much like what Hideo Kojima did with Snake and Smash Bros.

[ClockShot]

Spyro, Ratchet and Clank, and Jak and Daxter will probably show up.

The Killzone guy actually is Radec. Hmph, of all the characters in that game series, they choose him.

[Verbose Minch]

Spyro is the same as Crash. His rights were sold off too.

[Kane Knight]

I guess I'm just bitter that the announcement wasn't KH3 or FF7-2 but whatever.

That would be my guess.

I did, but not after Square's recent efforts.

Pffft. SEPIROTH!

I'm coming across a hell of a lot of people demanding that Crash Bandicoot be included in the game. They don't seem to understand that Crash isn't a PlayStation exclusive character and hasn't been since 2001.

I doubt we'll see him in the game, unless Jason Rubin & Andy Gavin, or whoever the hell owns the rights to Crash these days, begs that Crash be included in the game, much like what Hideo Kojima did with Snake and Smash Bros.

It's understandable to want Sony's former mascot in the game, though. I mean, we're talking what people want to see, not what people themselves could license.

Crash is owned by Universal Interactive, for the record.

[Sepholio]

I wonder if microsoft will try to clone SSB now, as well. Always wanted to see Master Chief stab Blinx in the face. With a brick.

[Kane Knight]

I wonder if microsoft will try to clone SSB now, as well. Always wanted to see Master Chief stab Blinx in the face. With a brick.

God, Microsoft will have like two non gay space marine characters.

[Sepholio]

I actually tried to sit down and think about who MS could use if they cloned this...and they really don't have enough exclusive characters to pull it off, imo. It would simply require them using too many characters from the same few games, unfortunately.

This is more due to them being in the video game market for far less time than Sony and Nintendo at this point and not a slap to their characters. They just haven't really had the time to build a catalog of memorable characters. Kind of how most of Sonys characters aren't as memorable as the Nintendo ones.

Still, BLINX MUST DIE~~@@#!1111~~!

[Kane Knight]

I actually tried to sit down and think about who MS could use if they cloned this...and they really don't have enough exclusive characters to pull it off, imo. It would simply require them using too many characters from the same few games, unfortunately.

This is more due to them being in the video game market for far less time than Sony and Nintendo at this point and not a slap to their characters. They just haven't really had the time to build a catalog of memorable characters. Kind of how most of Sonys characters aren't as memorable as the Nintendo ones.

Still, BLINX MUST DIE~~@@#!1111~~!

Plus, a lot of their ideas sunk. Without Halo, they might never have survived the market.

I was trying to think of them. Kameo, or whatever the main character was called. 'Splosion Man/Ms. 'Splosion Man would be potentially interesting. Maybe Kain from Lost Odyssey or some of the other characters. I thought of the N3 series, but nobody stuck out.

I can't really remember most of the original XBox titles. I only had Crimson Skies and Hunter: The Reckoning. I don't know if the former would be doable/worth it and I doubt the latter would work much.

That and I remember who Blinx is. wouldn't mind him getting ganked.

I think I'm stretching even with the list I have because I'm not sure where those properties actually lie. These are the ones I can think of that were in some way a Microsoft/XBox exclusive.

[Sepholio]

I've often wondered if MS would have made it without Halo. I'm glad they made it though, someone needed to fill the gap left by the demise of Sega's hardware division. More competition is better for the consumer.

[Kane Knight]

Microsoft was also a primary force in the whole "advent of western development" thing. Even if it started before them and they didn't necessarily do much directly, they had a huge part.

Unfortunately, that means every series ever is going to be rebooted as an FPS.

[Sepholio]

Sweet, I always wanted to play Baldur's Gate with guns.

[Sepholio]

Plus Diablo is gonna be a pushover with my BFG 9000.

[Kane Knight]

Personally, I want to see Minesweeper as an FPS.

[Sepholio]

I think they have that on OoGhiJ MIQtxxXa, along with clam digger and The Legend of Solitaire.

[dronepool]

Square Soft should get them to use Sephiroth or Cloud.

[#BROKEN Hasney]

Kevin Butler.

[Sepholio]

Kevin Butler is the secret boss at the end of the game.

[Kane Knight]

Kevin Butler.

Day one buy for me.

[Ultra Mantis]

Square Soft should get them to use Sephiroth or Cloud.

Overexposed. It's Tifa's boobs or bust.

[Ultra Mantis]

Would really like to see Tower Knight in this game though.

[Extreme Angle]

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[Kalyx triaD]

That... egg thing is pretty angry.

[Savio]

hjbgftr45hyunj

[Extreme Angle]

hjbgftr45hyunj

Your avatar is a dream to watch :kiss:

[Emperor Smeat]

Potentially the majority of the game's entire roster, stages, and a few other things have been leaked from the beta going on for the game.

The roster is probably going to be in the low 20s (22 confirmed or leaked so far) with at least 14 stages expected based on rumors.

The rumored list from the beta (too long to post): http://www.screwattack.com/news/rumor-playstation-all-stars-characters-and-stages-leaked


Crash Bandicoot is also being rumored as the new new character to be revealed soon from the same source who first leaked the existence of this project before Sony made it official.
http://www.screwattack.com/news/paul-gale-hints-new-character-playstation-all-stars-battle-royale-was-not-roster-leak

[Skippord]

the fuck is Fat Princess? presumably a fat princess, I guess.

[Big Vic]

Fat Princess was an awesome PSN game until DLC ruined it. Download the demo though is you have a PS3.

[Emperor Smeat]

Take it with a grain of salt but its from the same sources that leaked all the stuff in the beta. Apparently some of the stuff Sony and developers were revealing as features are being taken out with the sole purpose of to charge later as DLC.

Also a decent amount of characters are being rumored or stored away for DLC purposes with Crash being rumored as DLC only.

there is no king of the hill, there is no capture the flag implemented yet nor have I heard talk of anything like that… LAN games were removed due to the amount of bugs submitted for it, no free roam as far as I have seen… And the Challenge, General and Character trials are being removed in order to be made into DLC

http://www.screwattack.com/news/exclusive-anonymous-source-gives-us-real-story-behind-playstation-all-stars-battle-royale

[Emperor Smeat]

More leaks this time from Sony themselves which confirms a few new characters and stuff from the leaked beta being true. Sackboy, Nariko from Heavenly Sword, Raiden from Metal Gear Rising: Revengeance, and Jin Kazama from Tekken are now confirmed.

The roster is rumored to be having about 3 Tekken characters with 2 already leaked or confirmed so far.

Supposedly there are screen shots of Crash Bandicoot in the game but everything still seems to lean on him being DLC although it might be the "on the disc" type.

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[Extreme Angle]

I'm actually really excited for this... Might need to finally invest in a ps3.

[Kalyx triaD]

For this game? wtf

[Emperor Smeat]

Quick Look video of the beta from GiantBomb.

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[Extreme Angle]

For this game? wtf

Well this is the icing of the cake tbh, lots of other games but never really felt it justified it. With Jak and Daxter collection. Ratchet and Clank (which I never played), Uncharted, MGS4 and the other exclusives.
Considering I was so pumped for the PS3 close to launch i'm suprised I havent got one.
Only got a 360 because PS3 got delayed. Thought Halo is the best thing.

[Kalyx triaD]

Also Bluray, I guess. Good luck.

[Savio]

I do not support DLC....especially on the disk DLC.

[Savio]

That video makes me not care

[Emperor Smeat]

Game has been delayed for about a month for North America with now November 20 release date. No news on if the delay will also impact Europe.

No official reason for the delay but developers SuperBot are going to use the extra month to polish the game.

http://www.screwattack.com/news/playstation-all-stars-battle-royale-receives-later-release-date

[Emperor Smeat]

Sony released a few new trailers at Gamescom with Dante (DmC reboot version), Sackboy, Rachet & Clank, and Spike (Ape Escape) shown off.

http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/watch-every-new-playstation-all-stars-battle-royale-trailer-right-here/

[Kalyx triaD]

They have YouTube uploads of all four characters.

[Emperor Smeat]

"Evil" Cole has been officially confirmed to be in it by Sony.
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/sony-confirms-evil-cole-macgrath-for-playstation-all-stars-battle-royale/

Crash Bandicoot being it in has some conflicting rumors since most point to a Twitter conversation Activision had with fans as confirmation while a few state it was later debunked. The problem is both sets of tweets were deleted quickly although SuperBot will be making an announcement soon regarding Crash's status.
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/rumor-crash-bandicoot-playstation-all-stars-reveal-coming/

[Kane Knight]

I don't thnk there's really an evil Cole. Just "Douche Cole" and "Douchier Cole."

[Big Vic]

The game looks badddd

[Emperor Smeat]

If anyone in Europe with a PS3 is interested, public beta registration has opened up recently with the beta itself lasting from September 11 to September 18.

https://psnbeta.eu.playstation.com/userInfo.php?enroll=PlayStationAllStarsbeta <--- registration link
http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/playstation-all-stars-battle-royale-public-beta-now-taking-sign-ups/


Nariko from Heavenly Sword was confirmed from the earlier beta leak to be in the game along with Dan from the MediEvil series. Both were leaked by the way of debut trailers from Gamespot before being forced to be pulled down.
http://www.destructoid.com/medievil-s-dan-fortesque-and-nariko-in-ps-all-stars--234059.phtml

[Savio]

eu stands you europe right?

[Emperor Smeat]

Yeup. Also made a mistake and didn't realize the offer is for European residents only.

Sometimes they have worldwide ones but this one is being restricted to just Europe from some other sites I've just read recently.

[Emperor Smeat]

A few new updates and details was recently revealed and its mostly bad when you think about fighters in general.

* No hidden or unlockable characters at all since the roster you get at the start is the game's entire roster. Only way to get new characters is to buy DLC packs.

* No chance at Crash Bandicoot appearing the game at all since Activision refused. Its been teased Activison is working on a new Crash game.

* Story mode is somewhat half-assed since its just arcade mode again but this time with a few cutscenes that don't really create an actual storyline. Its basically there so that they can say they have extra playable modes besides arcade mode.

http://www.screwattack.com/news/more-information-came-out-psasbr-eb-games-expo

[Kalyx triaD]

Those details don't amount to much. When you think about fighting games, you think about fighting.

[Emperor Smeat]

They do when one of the charms about fighters or at least party fighters is being able to find hidden/unlockable characters. To be fair though everyone was assuming just a couple would be tucked away and the developers constantly stated the roster was going to be small even with DLC.

Story mode seems a bit redundant considering they could have just put the cutscenes into arcade mode or at least flesh it out more like other games that separate a story/campaign mode from arcade mode.

[Kalyx triaD]

That charm died with this current hacked disc/leak-happy culture toward fighting games. Say a few characters we know about were never meant to be revealed and they would be unlocked through gameplay; they would certainly be outted eventually and all we have is a wait for things we already know about. This is why many fighting games today have complete rosters unlocked off the bat, most people have no patience for grinding to unlock a potential main or old favorite.

And this is a game trying to be 'legit' with traditional fighting gamers so I imagine having the roster known and unlocked initially is another example of that.

[OssMan]

who the fuck are these characters

[Mercenary]

Looked like a cheap SUper Smash Brothers from the get go.

[Kalyx triaD]

Well... yeah.

[Big Vic]

Looked like a cheap SUper Smash Brothers from the get go.
It will never even reach that level

[Emperor Smeat]

Beta set to start this week although there are differences depending on which you apply for.

The PS3 beta is only open to Playstation Plus members while the Vita beta is available to all Vita users.

Beta starts October 16 in the US and October 17 in Europe before ending on October 30.

http://www.egmnow.com/articles/news/playstation-all-stars-beta-begins-this-week-for-playstation-plus-members/

[Savio]

I hope if they decide to ever make a sequel to this "clone" of SSB they actually CLONE it.

[Kane Knight]

Since this is on sale this week on PSN, I figured I'd ask if it's worth the 14 dollar asking price in the estimation of TPWW. Reviews have been...Less than helpful, and gameplay vids haven't really swayed me either way.

I'm already snagging Tom Raider and Unfinished Swan, and I'd probably grab Walking Dead if I didn't just get it as part of a bundle for teh Peesea

[Kalyx triaD]

Fuck this game.

[Kane Knight]

I'm going with a "no" from Kalyx, then.

If I might ask though, what do you specifically hate about it?

[Kalyx triaD]

Well me and Khuntry went deep into why the game fails, so some points may not matter to you. And it really depends on how you feel about Smash Bros.

- Smash Bros is essentially King of the Hill, so a lot of the gameplay centers around building knock-back probability with 'in-field' combat moves and whatever. So it makes sense for rocketing knock backs, air recovery, edge strategies and whatnot. All-Stars, totally missing the point, retains the wild knock-back even though it is not a KotH game.
- On top of this, they have an honestly rich combo system that many characters require. Now... set aside that a combo system that extensive means nothing in a game where four guys are running around interrupting attack strings (an embarrassing design oversight), you have a combo system that runs contrary to the 'Smash' knock-back mechanic (again for a ring-out system not necessary to All-Stars).
- So in cases of severe knock-back, what does it mean for Dante to be able to switch cancel his moves? What possible use is a combo system in a party fighter pretending to be a legit fighter? I watched a lot of vids, it's a technical mess of mismashed ideals.
- The main point of the combat is to nail your supermoves after building meter. Had they scaled down the Smash influences (regarding KotH), they actually would have had a compelling meta-game.
- Imitation is flattery but you have to know what the big boys were going for, and even more so if you aim to subvert their vision. Can't have it both ways.

Now you may not give a fuck about any of that, or perhaps it would be as glaring to you as it is to me - but then again it's on a cheap. And maybe you wouldn't mind just slapping people around with that dude from Monkey's Island.

PS: The interface is ugly.

[Ultra Mantis]

Guybrush Threepwood is in this?

[Kalyx triaD]

No.

[Kane Knight]

Yeah, probably just give this shit a pass.

[OssMan]

Playstation All-Stars Battle Royale