Why did this game fail
Because it's not Sony smash bros and it's got worse game mechanics like normals do no damage
Bad gameplay, shit roster, straight ripoff.
It was profitable though and sold over a million
>>320094863
Because its a poor rip off
Also, Nintendo has a far better and more consistence style with their games, all stars looks like utter shit with all these random characters clashing in design and colors.
>no crash
>no cloud
>no snake
>no dart
>DmC Donte
>Gay Raiden
>Bioshock outof nowhere
>no ICO
>NO SOTC
>Clone Cole
gezzz i wonder. This is mascot brawler and most important feature is characters.
Fighting system was solid but if you bring big daddy instead of crash something called "playstation" it would be destined to fail.
Though it sold very well . 2.5 million LTD. (which more then KZ2,KZ3,Resistance ,TW 2012) etc etc
>>320095012
Actually, no. I wouldn't turn my nose up on a 1 : 1 Sony copy of Smash.
>>320094863
cause thats the sounstrack
>>320094863
>Mascot Fighter
>Mascots don't have any charm.
Also, fucking multiplat characters.
>>320095192
You forgot Spyro and and a couple of others, but yeah. It was really disappointing.
A horrible roster and basing winning/losing entirely off of specials.
only good characters are parappa the rapper and sly cooper
>>320094863
Obligatory
>no yakuza guy
>>320095491
Latter is not reason game failed dumbass.Thats a design choice. IMO it is much better then smash. Game would be success if it had characters. Simple as that
>>320094863
>It looked hideous (Smash and MvC at least had a united aesthetic)
>OVERTIME
>Roster that existed to sell more copies of games like Starhawk, Gravity Rush, and all those third party titles
>Game lets me play as fucking Sir Dan, Issac Clarke, and Kat
>Still able to find a game here and then thanks to PS4 having nothing else to play
T-Thanks.
>>320094863
Close enough to get labelled as "Sony Smash Bros", but combat looks like Smash Bros, but only ultimates can kill people and it's just a race to build your ult.
Didn't have a bunch of the characters that dudes grew up with, which was kinda the thing people were hoping for.
>>320095192
>Fighting system was solid
You clearly never played the game. That stupid super system they had ruined every point I was going to give the game for the inclusion of Sir Daniel.
>Only final smashes kill
Beyond dumb.
How that decision even got past the brainstorming board is beyond me.
>>320094863
Because it was shit.
>>320095951
>sir daniel
I remember the cringly announment kotaku gave on kat and daniel
Even if it was a joke, it was stupid
>>320094863
Because of
1. Lack of actual Sony Characters like>>320095192
points out and
2. Smash was catered to a casual market, people know Mario, Link, Kirby, etc. Whether as in All-Stars, most of the casual market didn't know these characters. Most of them in fact or from "hardcore" gamer titles. So the fact that it was appealing to a casual audience with unknown characters made it a flop.
>Solid Snake got into Smash Bros
>Solid Snake got into THIS
>lol game not even out yet Raiden
>no Solid Snake
How badly can one roster get fucked up? Playstation All-Stars dares to answer that question.
M$ would probably have more success if they tried one
>>320094863
The only reason anyone bought this game is because Dan was in it.
If you bought it for any other reason, kill yourself.
>hey guys you can use scorpion for free if you want
>haha naw we are good
>wh-what? Are you sure?
>yeah lol
>>320095192
>No Crash
Why, oh why, do people think he's first-party? I get his debut was the Playstation 1, but that doesn't mean shit if he's appeared on many more consoles that AREN'T Sony's property. Same applies for Spyro.
>>320097721
Faggot nobody said its first party. Stop acting like lawyers and fags. Crash cloud spyro tomb raider snake those characters are heavily assosicated with playstation and their success was because of it. If you cant make deal for licensing those characters in your mascot game then dont do it.
>newfags dont know sony treated crash as mascot
>Cloud, Snake, Ryu, Megaman and Pac Man made it into Smash Bros
>FUCKING CLOUD, THE FACE OF PS1 JRPGS
Santa Monica Studios should be ashamed of themselves
>>320095698
Except it actually is. Way over half the posts I see about this game are "It's a ripoff, and not even a good one"
>>320094863
Because it was bad
>>320095698
Nah the supers shit was really, really bad.
Arcade mode drags on, the exact opposite you want from arcade play
Nobody is gonna sit and play multiple 3 minute matches in an arcade.
Shitty KO system is to blame for that
>>320097721
>implying Sony has enough characters to make a roster
This game is made up mostly of 3rd Parties.
Because it should have come out to combat the first smash bros, not the third. Back when Sony had cool exclusives. Think. Crash, Spyro, Sweet Tooth, Laura Croft, Kazuya Mishima, Cloud, maybe even Gex. Hell it would have been a 10x better game with a roster from then alone. Nobody wants to play as a hellgast vs short haired Dante and fat princess.
>>320096416
Snake be like "what the fuck am I doing in this freak show?"
>>320095192
I don't think the roster was full of literally who's
It was just missing a ton of iconic characters.
Could have atleast included Lara.
>>320096416
kek what is this
>>320100928
Dream Mix TV World Fighters
Cop Fox was not playable.
>>320094863
Sega, Capcom and MAYBE konami could pull off their own Smash Bros.
Sony? Just look at how many IPs there aren't actually theirs. On top of that, short of Kratos, Nathan Drake and maybe Sweet Tooth, no one there is instantly recognizable to casuals like Mario, Link, Pikachu, etc is.
It fucking blows my mind that Snake and Cloud are in Smash Bros and Sony was too incompetent to get them or Spyro or Crash, but they thought Donte and a Big Daddy was perfectly fine.
>>320102068
>that viewers
>that tags
>that
Terrible roster, poor mechanics, most blatant ripoff of Smash possible, to the point that Sony had actually fucking tagged the early trailers with shit like Smash, SSB, Super Smash, etc.
>>320103887
SEGA Smash Clone would be the tits if pulled off right.
At least it had Nariko.
>>320094863
a roster made up of "literal who"?
>>320094863
4 of those character are just fucking generic white guys holding different weapons.
Nothing against the white race master race but if I wanted to play as some schmuck I'd experience my day to day real life
Tmnt smash up, CN punch time explosion, & playstation all stars.
I wanted games like smash brothers, all I got was very badly balanced & tested games.
It had No. Fucking. Content.
Forget the character roster, look at how much stuff you can unlock in a Super Smash Bros. Game. New characters, new stages, trophies, stickers, soundtracks, samplers of the games the characters come from, and god knows what!
Then there are also the different game modes Smash Bros. Gamds have. Coin Battle, Break the Targets, launching the sandbag, special themed battle stages and more, all that stuff! Playstation All-Stars had single player, multiplayer and nothing else!
Then here was the retarded decision to tryand court the drooling fuckfaces on Smashboards by making the game "competitive". PSABR has almost no items to spice up its fucked up core gameplay, so playing the game doesn't bring anywhere the variety and excitement Smash gives you in a single round of play.
The enire game was an ill-concieved mess from the get go.
You're abducted from your home by a group of men in dark suits and taken to a seemingly abandoned warehouse. Inside, you're wordlessly thrust into a dark container the size of a refrigerator covered in power cables.
Suddenly, you find yourself back in the year 2009, in the office of a Sony executive willing to accept any design decisions you're willing to make on their new project "Sony Smash Bros". Before you go invest in Amazon stock, how do you make it a better game?
>>320107324
I tell Sony not to make it.
>>320107324
For one explain what hit boxes & frames are.
2nd, I'd let them know a concept around built a I win meter almost negates skill.
3. ...Profit?
>>320105819
>>320094863
Because it followed the smash formula, and people autistic enough to play games like that already own a Wii or WiiU
>>320094863
The gameplay sucked, just rip off Smash Bros, it works fine and is more intuitive than the Super bullshit.
Shit roster, New Dante, Killzone guy, the nigger from Starhawk?
Where the fuck is Cloud, Solid Snake and Crash, the characters that are beloved by so many?
i completely forgot this game even existed till i saw this thread, i think that speaks for itself lmao
Werent there rumours they were working on a sequel or reimagining?
>>320095610
BUT WHO THE FUCK IS NEPTUNE
I would buy this game and be perfectly fine with playing it offline if they released the Dart DLC instead of canceling.
>>320094863
They should've just borrowed Nintendo's strategy with Pokken and hire Katsuhiro Harada to churn out a Tekken game with Sony character skins.
>>320106293
There's a pitch for a Sega Smash clone on YouTube which is pretty good. They have Platinum characters, Mega Man and Earth Worm Jim shown in the pitch as guests too.
>>320094863
Smallish roaster, needed more polish and overall more content.
Good game, mind you. If you can look passed that its not Smash's system. Crossover games used to happen all the time and still do in Japan, if you don't compare it to Smash and compare it to other ones, its decent.
>>320095610
I love this picture just because seeing how normies would reaction to an overpowered Neptune in the reviews
>>320102068
They made tags invisible shortly after that controversy. But it's just a coincidence, right?
