A competitive analysis of PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale

I'm interested in this game.
Looking forward to character reveals.

@1 Positivity? On Eventhubs?! Well I never...

I wonder if Snake does make it into the game if hes going to be very similar to his smash brother counter part.

@3
I'm not really sure. After all, they gave him a bunch of explosives and stuff because of a no-bullets rule.

I dont like the idea that this game is basically an arm race to build meter and how super is the only way to kill because atleast with percentage you feel like your hurting your opponents every time you hit them but in this game some characters like parapa can build mmeter with out attacking with his boom box special so it seems like character strength will be based on supers and meter gain in this game.

It was already mentioned before that this game being developed has no intention to be completive in a sense. This is feeling redundant

someone a TL;DR what the conclusion was? yes or no?

It looks fun...but the controls sound awkward as hell...guess we will see

Is this all people can think about? The game looks like it'll be fun for what it is and we have enough competitive fighting games to play already.

6 Well I think they are trying to give it a competitive feel dont know where you heard there not but there still tweaks there trying to fix and keep in mind Ed Ma and Maj are part of the development team so expect some competitive aspect because the developers would be smart to make an easy to learn game but hard to master game and hopefully there not dicks like the smash developer who does not want there game to be competitive by having unbalance gameplay with no intention of tweaks and random slips because its the community that determines its life span and a competitive feel will give it a long one.

I just don't think Sony has a good enough group of characters to make this game worth it to me.

However I will be intrigued to see who is included. Maybe I will be surprised.

11 Na sony has a goood roster of mascots I grow up with sony and most sony mascots are cool but if xbox made a game like this there roster wouldnt be good enough because most of there mascots are forgettable and only ones I can remember being cool is Marcus Fenix and master chief.

@11 Like #12 said. Sony has plenty of characters they can add on here to make a pretty decent roster. Plus, let's not forget about the 3rd party characters that will be added. I'm looking forward to this game. I just hope that they do include more basic stages and a different knockout mechanic aside from killing with only supers.

@13 Yeah right now the only thing I am not liking is the knockout mechanic.

@12 I disagree. I grew up playing ps1 and ps2 and I casually play the ps3 and I don't recognize half of the characters on the screen usually and the other half are mostly throwaway characters. Compared to Nintendo's lineup of Mario, DK, Link, and add Sonic and Snake (one of Sony's big guns) to that and you're taking a huge step down going into 'playstation all-stars.'

15 Well its all a matter of opinion I played snes n64 and ps1 at my cousins house as a child but my first consol I owned was a ps2 and I can remember most of the mascot like Spyro, Sweattooth, parapa, Crash, Jak, SLy, Ratchet, and so on there very memorable to me including the newer ones like Kratos and Sac boy and ya Nintendo characters anyone can name off like that but playstation character are also classics.

I mean Sweet tooth

spyro
crash
cloud
sora
jak
ratched
the prince of persia
ico
nathan drake
sly
lara crof
snake

thats only a few characters that made their fan service known on the playstion. the possiblities are endless for this game. i do agree that Nintendo does have more member characters but they just about used up all their known characters that must ppl know. king dd,metal night, pit,fira emblem,ness and his brother, are new characters that must ppl dont know anymore(unless you was born in the 80's or 90's like me,but even then i didnt know who ness was sense his game is only in japan) but that didnt stop them from becoming fan favs. the same could be said for this game when all the characters are released.

Ive played this game before on the gamecube. Battle Stadium D.O.N

Just throwing this out there. They should totally add Dante. Devil May Cry was once PS exclusive. I will be very happy if he makes it in.

This game won't live because of the characters. I bet you a million this game won't be anything unless they beg for 3rd party characters to help them stand.

Soooo how come this game get's a "competitive" analysis, but not Smash? Something tells me EH is being pretty biased here.

Nintendo's characters maybe more memorable since they rehash all the same franchise mascots in all their of consoles for the past 30-20 years.

Rarely we see a new Nintendo franchise with a memorable cast or lead.

I love the fact they put Parappa in this. It will be interesting to see how this game turns out. They'll have throw sack boy in this as well, they wouldn't leave him out.

Hope this game is good

@15 Snake started off on Microsoft based system the MSX2(made by MS Japan) was then ported to the NES got a sequel on both the MSX2 and NES(ony the MSX2 verison was the real sequel)
When MGS was released there was a GB side story. Since then there's been 4 full(IOS game doesn't count as it's a shooting gallery) MGS games that came out on other systems MGS1 on GC, MGS2 on XBOX, the HD collection on Xbox, MGS3 to 3DS also had a guest apperance on Smash.

He's sold well and been embraced on Sony's systems but... Ge never was a Sony big gun, never will be(since after 4 Konami is retiring solid snake) he's just been mutliplatform character hired to do some Sony games. (and yes I pharphased his "I never was a hero" speech).

Also if you want full list of who/what sony owns(which is a good 20+ franchises)Here ya go:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sony_Com...

And to whoever said "they're not going to stack up to mario and etc" of course not because Sony doesn't shove 30 games of the same character out there, plus Nintendo were the ones to save us from the Darkness After ET:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2DTjLG...

Jandro83
because this game is being made FOR competitive play(Superbot's words)

maxs2d2ace
Half of your list is busted(look up Princes of Persia 89)

Also Ness' game (Earthbound aka Mother 2) came out in America for the SNES.... But Lucas(Not his brother) is the one who came out in the game that wasn't released in America (mother 3, a GBA game)

#22 Something tells me you didn't you think before you posted that.

@22 the video is unreleated to EH, EH reports news as it is contributed by members, no competitive analysis provided by youtube members, no competitive analysis to report. Basic news process it should be pretty simple to understand

The game looks interesting, it would be cool if they can make it work

Super Smash Station

Ugh, before another person plays the "completely rippin Smash Bros." card, This has been done so many times, its not even funny. Snake actually appeared in a game called Dreammix TV fighters, Shonen jump has done two 2d variations and battle stadium DON, just to name a few.
I think it looks interesting, but i'm hoping they bring in a few other characters, as i'm not sold on the six they have so far. I'm looking forward to it though.

@32 sodium is running high

Man, this is looking like the crappiest FG to date... Guess that's the issue with FGs going more "Maintstream", it also means a lot more crap.

Kratos in Mortal Kombat... wonder if any MK Characters might appear here? Need dem cats too! Anything Demon's Souls, Heavy Rain, or 3D Dot Game Heroes would also be awesome.

@34 surprisingly no one has. I hate when nintendo fanboys claim nintendo created basicially every game. Its like "really so nintendo created platformers, arcade racers and beat-em-ups?????? Really? pretty sure i play those types of games before those ones"

bulit I had someone say "Nintendo created the light gun shooter" to which I point them to this image
http://www.ralphbaer.com/images/Brown...
if you have no idea what you're looking at, it's THE ORIGINAL CONSOLE, the brown box made by Ralph Baer(spelled that way) without that Nintendo wouldn't have tried the console market as there'd be none.

Is it just me, or does this game look kind of... gray? So far, all of the current stages/characters seem to blend into a dull swampy color.

This is a party game, will be as competitive as Smash. So if EH is posting news about this game, it is considering competitive, I say the add Smash to the list of this sight. If not, they are just showing their bias.

@Jandro you're calling it a party game the devs are competitive guys....

Unlike Smash's dev who has repeatedly said SMASH IS NOT BULIT AS A COMPETITIVE GAME.

You gotta be kidding me. This game looks so casual. Competitive play? Yeah right. AS much as the devs want it to be, it never will be a serious competitive game. Parapa has 2 auto-kill supers, the entire game relies on meter and meter alone, stages actually directly effect the gameplay? Please. And who's defending this saying it's nothing like Smash Bros? The devs aren't even trying to make it different. Fat princess has peach's hipslam, the stages look like they could have been dragged out of brawl, focus on knock-outs, and the "primary" modes are stock and time, the exact same as Smash bros? Even the guy who narrated the video said "Much like brawl" at least 7 time in the first 5 minutes. This game looks like a joke.

@Ty
A wise man once said:'Your eyes can deceive you, don't trust them'
When you consider this guy is only going off the video and ignores key elements of previews he read/watched (the part that says "If you play this like brawl you will lose") and didn't actually sit down and play the game. Parappa only has one auto kill super please read/watch some of the hands on yourself. Stages barely effect the gameplay as you can't be killed by the stage itself only another player, and while the stage does knock small amounts meter out of you, that is only if you're unprepared to DODGE! http://youtu.be/6npO-NoOPOg . Pretty sure many other characters had hip slam (cough voldo's booty bump and many many 2D characters) before Peach was playable in Smash Melee. The Stages look like they were dragged out of God of War, Ratchet and Clank, Jak and Daxter one and LBP respectively. The primary modes haven't even been announced just they showed a timed mode to demo the game and then said a stock mode is coming, so what are you saying? Also Stock mode wasn't invented by Smash as Stocks are just the lives system that's been in MANYYYYYYY games before hand. also the "much like brawl" comments from eyes on only. and once again 'Your eyes can deceive you, don't trust them'