Sony All-Stars Battle Royale

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Yeah, I pulled that image from SRK, so I saw the thread about the beta codes. I'm patient enough to just wait for the game release to play. I don't absolutely have to get my hands on a game at the earliest possible opportunity.

 

[d3v]

The clear images of the stages have been available on various sites for a couple days, now. And the characters have all been identified from that image, too.

Side note: SRK is having a beta key giveaway on the forums. If you have an interest in the game, head over for the details.

Ahem!

http://shoryuken.com/2012/08/01/sony-playstation-all-stars-beta-code-giveaway/

Factor in two other players, random hazards, and area of effect attacks and you won't see combos like that really ever. Any hit knocks you out of whatever action you're doing. This game looks phenomenal on paper. In practice, not so much.

It's a combo video. 90% of combo videos for 2D fighters are filled with flashy but impractical shizz. This is just Maj (and Clockw0rk) showing off based on the stuff he's utilized in his own .

 

[CyberEvil]

I don't like linking because I'm lazy like that and didn't feel like opening another tab at that moment. As for the video, that goes without saying. I think I even mentioned something about that, but it was definitely implied.

 

[Megawarrior]

At least one final fantasy character needs to be in this game.

 

[Allan Paris]

That would be dope.

 

[Awesmic]

At least one final fantasy character needs to be in this game.

Zidane will do just fine.

No cloud nor squall will emo up this game! =P

 

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Zidane will do just fine.

No cloud nor squall will emo up this game! =P

ZELL!!!

 

[CyberEvil]

According to the leak, none will be. I would've expected Sephiroth honestly. Don't care either way since this will likely get, at most, a Redbox rental from me, but that's the character I'd most expect.

 

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Personally, I'd like to see a character from Legend of Dragoon in this (Dart, Lloyd, Meru, etc). That game needs more love!!

 

[CyberEvil]

Hayabusa is now rumored to be in it. That BETTER NOT pan out. Seriously, Hayabusa isn't a fucking workhorse to be whored out to every game developer that asks nicely. And he's hardly even close to a character known for being on Sony platforms. There have been, what, three DoA games on Sony platforms? One was the DoAX game on PSP, even, so that doesn't count. Then the three Sigma titles, though the Vita one is pushing it since it's mostly a terrible port of the first Sigma. Then NG3 proper but that was terrible. Hell, Nintendo has a better claim on him. They have the original NG games, the SNES upgrade/port, NGDS, DoAD, and NG3:RE coming out, plus the announced NG 3DS game.

/anger

 

[Allan Paris]

He'd be top tier if he is in the game.

 

[CyberEvil]

I can't tell if you're responding to me. I don't think you are. But the timing is nuts.

 

[Allan Paris]

I was responding to you, CE. I see you made an edit adding the reasons why you feel he shouldn't be in the cast. I honestly don't care if he is or isn't. I just know he will most likely be ridiculous if he is in the game.

I just know my Parapa Tha Rappa is going to be serious business.

 

[CyberEvil]

Ah alright. Yeah he'll almost have to be insanely good, given his games and such, but even that wouldn't get me to buy it. They'd have to make the main mode a real Smash Bros. ripoff complete with dying by falling out of the screen to get me on board. The whole only supers killing thing bored me to death when I played it.

 

[Allan Paris]

When I heard about the Supers only killing it turned me away as well, a little. If I do get it, it will only be because of the iconic characters in the game. I wouldn't play it for competitive reasons. Games like this I just played them for fun. I do want them to change that only Supers can kill. That's corny and is going to get boring as hell to watch or play. Unless Supers were guaranteed in combos or juggles. I wouldn't mind that because landing hits in game like this is fairly easy. Even still I'd have to test that idea to see if it is plausible with players.

Other than that, they'd have to open up the game so that more than just Supers can kill. That's a really stupid concept the more I think about it, only Supers can kill.

 

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Ah alright. Yeah he'll almost have to be insanely good, given his games and such, but even that wouldn't get me to buy it. They'd have to make the main mode a real Smash Bros. ripoff complete with dying by falling out of the screen to get me on board. The whole only supers killing thing bored me to death when I played it.

Honestly, I'd say you need to just get over it already. Super kills might've been "boring" in the timed mode (as at EVO), but with word out being the game will also have a stock mode (limited number of lives per player), I can easily see THAT being the preferred mode of the game, certainly serving to liven up each match.

The game is NOT gonna be a Smash Bros ripoff, so stop looking for it to be. lol


Also AP, it has been said that certain characters in the game ARE, in fact, able to juggle into Supers.

 

[CyberEvil]

You're right. It's gonna be worse. Just like every other shining, white knight that Sony has pinned their hopes on (Resistance and Killzone come to mind immediately) this one will do marginally well and ultimately fail. If I was alone in my concern about supers killing, that'd be one thing. Maybe I'm just hating for the sake of it, right? But I'm not and the vast majority of people that have played it hated that. Just having a stock based mode isn't going to change the fact that it's a race to get meter and only the characters with easy meter building and easy kill-scoring supers will be used.

Lame.

 

[Game Over]

There's never just 1 person hating on any given game. Every game has its batch of haters for various reasons ... it doesn't mean the games don't get played, though. Haters gonna hate.

It's about meter-management over health/percentage in this game. You could look at it as a "meter race" in matches, but considering there are moves (including throws) that effectively TAKE meter off of an opponent, there will be strategy layers in the game to keep things interesting.

But hey, if you don't like how the game is shaping up, there's no reason you have to play the game, or even pay its development much mind. Let the people looking forward to it continue looking forward to it without you constantly chiming in saying the game "sucks", "is boring", "didn't impress me", "doesn't play enough like Smash", etc., etc. IMO, you're almost becoming a broken record like GFM's complaints about "counters during stun" in DOA5.


And one more thing ...

... only the characters with easy meter building and easy kill-scoring supers will be used.

Oh, so only characters seen to be Top/High tier in the game will be used in tournaments? Gee, that doesn't exactly sound like a foreign concept in the world of fighting games. I mean, just for example, didn't Smash Bros tournaments only see a handful of characters consistently at the top of tournament play?

 

[UnD34D]

Oh, so only characters seen to be Top/High tier in the game will be used in tournaments? Gee, that doesn't exactly sound like a foreign concept in the world of fighting games. I mean, just for example, didn't Smash Bros tournaments only see a handful of characters consistently at the top of tournament play?

If you ain't metaknight, you ain't right.

 

[Allan Paris]

Also AP, it has been said that certain characters in the game ARE, in fact, able to juggle into Supers.

If the majority can do this, fine. If "certain" means 1,2 or 4, then no. For Supers only killing, you have to give me something that I can land them legitimately with, without throwing them out randomly in hopes to hit you. A good portion of characters have to be able to do this.

Now I am curious to know how many characters can juggle into Supers. Those will be the only characters used if the game picks up a decent scene. Unless the other characters have unblockable Supers that cove or travel a decent amount of the screen. But, I don't think that's the case.