Quick Look: PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale Beta

@BluPotato said:

I find it odd that there is no onscreen point counter for each player during the match. Perhaps this will change in the final product.

That's crazy that there isn't any kind of on-screen indication as to how well you're doing, save for your level. That is crazy, right? Because it seems crazy.

The main problem is the artstyle. It looks like Playstation Home. Just dull boring hi-res-ish characters.

Look at Persona, look at Marvel, look at smash bros, look at ANY fighting game! They have a distinct cool style, this is soulless.

I don't like anything I saw in this video. the changing stages is a neat idea, but it's a dull stage changing into another dull stage.

@hollyw00t said:

@BluPotato said:

I find it odd that there is no onscreen point counter for each player during the match. Perhaps this will change in the final product.

That's crazy that there isn't any kind of on-screen indication as to how well you're doing, save for your level. That is crazy, right? Because it seems crazy.

Ya its insane.

@algertman said:

@atomic_dumpling said:

@AlexanderSheen said:

@Springfart said:

where's pikachu?

In the land of Nintendo.

Is the Pokemon franchise legally tied to Nintendo? I always thought it was its own entity.

Nintendo owns the majority of Pokemon.

I don't know. But judging by how many Pokemon game came out on any Sony system ever versus Nintendo, I would say the Pokemon franchise and Nintendo are pretty tight.

EDIT: Oh, I didn't read the last comment. So, there.

Had been trying to keep open minded about this game, but my god does it look dull. Hope none of that interface is final, either.

This reminds me of another game... someone help me out here.

@algertman: Vita sales are dropping because there haven't been any major games released for it lately. Same happened with the PSP early on too, even in Japan, it's most successful territory. The solution is to release more games for it - not the other way around.

This looks boring as fuck. Nice backgrounds/stages though.

@AlexanderSheen said:

@algertman said:

@atomic_dumpling said:

@AlexanderSheen said:

@Springfart said:

where's pikachu?

In the land of Nintendo.

Is the Pokemon franchise legally tied to Nintendo? I always thought it was its own entity.

Nintendo owns the majority of Pokemon.

I don't know. But judging by how many Pokemon game came out on any Sony system ever versus Nintendo, I would say the Pokemon franchise and Nintendo are pretty tight.

Do you people not understand how ownership of a company works? Though I'm not sure how the company is controlled now.

Smacks of poor design, or a lack of design, really. Good fighting games have more to them than just pressing buttons and hitting guys but this game seems to have nothing beyond that. No strategic depth, no interesting systems (no, a fucking super meter doesn't count as interesting), it kind of has really nothing to it at all. It just looks really boring.

@jabbertrack:

Battle Arena D.O.N.?

@algertman said:

Put in the car from DAYTONAAAAAAAA!!!!

you mean Hornet?

Fighters Megamix is a game I'd love to see re-released.

@Generiko said:

Is Hulk Hogan in charge of video descriptions now?

im going to make sweet love to you from the back!!

So they took Brawl's Super Smashes and turned them into the only way you can score points. What an awful, awful idea.

Uh, guys? The developers have no problem with this game being compared to Smash Brothers.

I've barely paid any attention to this game's coverage at all, and even I know that. In fact, this is the only site I visit that covers that kind of stuff, so I must have heard it from you. Come on. Put some effort into it.

@GenocidalKitten: doesn't only look bad... it plays like shit too.

To be perfectly honest, I think this game would be better if they ripped off Smash Bros. more than it already does.

I'm with jeff, i dont understand how there is any competitive aspect at all. it feels like such a....thrown together project. Like they didnt understand what makes a game interesting and just made one of those vague non-ideas everyone gets when they play a game and dont like an aspect of it but also wants more of another without really having an answer for why that thing had a lesser presence in the first place. :(

If the full game is just this (with more characters, backgrounds & online multiplayer) then to me it looks excessively boring to play.

I like Smash Brothers and everything about this looks pretty awesome but DUDE the playing of it looks like the most boring shit ever. Building Meter: The Game! What the fuck?!

@Generiko said:

Is Hulk Hogan in charge of video descriptions now?

im going to make sweet love to you from the back!!

 @algertman said: 

@AlexanderSheen said:

@algertman said:

@atomic_dumpling said:

@AlexanderSheen said:

@Springfart said:

where's pikachu?

In the land of Nintendo.

Is the Pokemon franchise legally tied to Nintendo? I always thought it was its own entity.

Nintendo owns the majority of Pokemon.

I don't know. But judging by how many Pokemon game came out on any Sony system ever versus Nintendo, I would say the Pokemon franchise and Nintendo are pretty tight.

Do you people not understand how ownership of a company works? Though I'm not sure how the company is controlled now.

The stages all being boxes of about the same size and height, with a few of them even starting out just flat, seems really weird. I am also not fond of the lack of score feedback, or the presentation in general. For instance, things like Sweet tooth's transformation takes a little too long so even if you're not likely to see it many times in a match, I still think it halts the action too much.

I'm still curious how the final version will play though.

Why doesn't it say what your score is during the match?

Looks bad in almost every way, kind of sad how poor the game looks when it's basically a Smash Bros clone.

"This has guns where people shootin' people."

You guys never played Smash Brothers, did you? Fuck.

@gladspooky said:

"This has guns where people shootin' people."

You guys never played Smash Brothers, did you? Fuck.

It's called making a joke.

@Hailinel said:

@gladspooky said:

"This has guns where people shootin' people."

You guys never played Smash Brothers, did you? Fuck.

It's called making a joke.

Weren't those guns "space guns" for Fox and Falco. They looked pretty cartoony and didn't fire "bullets". Diddy Kong had that peanut gun if I remember correctly.

@BBAlpert said:

Me and you

And you and me

No matter how they tossed the dice

It had to be

The only one for me is you

And you for me

So happy together

My favorite video game commercial ever. Curious to see how they market this thing...

I thought the regular time mode in Smash didn't tell you who was winning until the end of the match as well wich I thought it was great that's the best mode , the other mode where you have a limited number of lives kinda sucked if you got killed early as you couldn't do anything other than messing with the players I think?.

The more I see on this game, the more I...really start to dislike it.

I like how the beta has a problem where it can't tell who wins or not at the results screen.

I almost fell asleep watching this.

So awesome.

Looks bad... Looks like there's stuff going on in the background but the stages look a bit level editor-y.... And there aren't enough ways to win, won't take long to tire of the build your meter use a special move mechanic.

Overall it looks a lot closer, yet at the same time much worse than SSB.

This game looks so dull in its moment-to-moment. Waiting to build up supers makes everything in between just a waiting game. Might as well punch a dude if I have to wait.

Vinny's Summer Event idea is brilliant.

What's really turning me off is how easily overpowered those Level 3's are. I mean, yeah, Brawl's Final Smashes were overpowered, but at least they were, I dunno, a little more interesting. I hope it gets a little more polished by the time it goes not-beta. P.S. Jamiroquai.

Just doesn't seem to capture the same fun and tone that Smash Bros does. Jeff is right about the normal hits not really meaning anything and waiting to do your super bar attack. Smash Bros' damage percentage gameplay was one of the reasons it was so much fun. Getting people up to high percentages and flinging them off the screen was great. This seems like the regular attacks are just a means to get your super attacks. Not really interested anymore because of that. The level mix thing seems cool, but not when all of the levels are just one small flat arena. I'll just get the new Smash Bros when I get my 3DS.

Also why do all the character pictures in the final score screen have the sad looking ones when they win??

I feel like nintendo was in a unique position with SSB, no other system has had such a large line-up of beloved characters that can work tonally together, it's weird (not in a good way) to see Kratos and Sweet Tooth beat up on Parappa in a way that was never weird in SSB, combine that with the dull combat system and i'm really not interested :(

I dunno about the whole Super thing. I'm glad they found a different thing than Smash Bros.'s percentage mechanic, but it's weird that there are no punitive effects to getting beat up.

@RuthLoose said:

@Hailinel said:

@gladspooky said:

"This has guns where people shootin' people."

You guys never played Smash Brothers, did you? Fuck.

It's called making a joke.

Weren't those guns "space guns" for Fox and Falco. They looked pretty cartoony and didn't fire "bullets". Diddy Kong had that peanut gun if I remember correctly.

There was a guy called "Solid Snake" in that game. Also I'd like to give Vinny credit for being able to come up with better jokes than that.

I played a bit of this last night and didn't enjoy it. Maybe I just need friends in the room which is the only way I ever played Smash Bros.

This seems fucking dumb. Offensively so. I'd be totally pumped for this if it had more logical mechanics, better feedback, or just was a more traditional fighter. Also if it wasn't being used as a marketing tool for new games like DMC.

Eh... I don't know. Looks functional but the characters shown here are kind of... lame.

Regarding showing the scores in-game, I seem to recall during the EVO coverage of the game that they talked about specifically not wanting the players to know any results until the match was over. For some reason.

Cant wait! This looks way better than that Nintendo game.

PASBR: The SONY™-Friendly Ghost!

God, I hope they get sued so bad.

I don't know about this, looks dumb and undodgeable attacks -_-'

I had the chance to play it at E3; played a few rounds.. and I was almost bored before it was done. It played surprisingly slow and floaty for this style of game (moreso than brawl), and it just felt soulless and empty. The normal attacks not having any direct effect on your opponents at all just seems like a really bad idea. I almost agree with others when they say that they didn't copy Super Smash Bros enough.

And to be honest, the main characters of Sony franchises are just not that interesting. It's certainly an insane lineup, but definitely not in a charming way.