PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale Name is Real, Site Owned by Sony

[Zim]

I actually pray this game doesn't get made unless it features VAST amounts of third party characters. I would prefer another game instead if it's just Sony stuff. Simply because it would just be too embarrassing for Sony. Ignoring the fact we all know it will get referred to as Sony's SSB, it's just the fact they don't have the characters or stages to make it work.

Nintendo could pull it off as they have iconic and long lasting characters with clearly themed and quite well known areas too. Not only this but the vast majority of the characters fit in with each other. Yea Fox and Captain Falcon are from slightly more realistic games but they still fit in okay with Pikachu. Later they started adding in Characters like Ike who fit in a little less but at the same time was close to link in style and was still from a game that while violent wasn't gory or really bloody.

With Sony where would the stages be? Generic jungle from Uncharted, generic industrial area from Twisted metal? The only good ones I can think of would be stages themed around Parappa the rapper, locoroco etc i.e. the more stylized games but then how messed up will Kratos look there?

That raises the problem of what style of game is it? SSB is quite cartoony in it's style and even though it's fighting it isn't gory or very violent. But if you have a game with Kratos, Drake using a gun etc etc... well it kinda has to be. However you can't really have Kratos cut Ratcher in half, then again you can't have Kratos fight and not be gory.

Then the characters.... so you have Nathan Drake, Kratos, Sly Cooper, Sackboy, Ratchet, Clank, Jak And Daxter, Locoroco, Patapon, Parappa. Already you are having to use some VERY recent characters and some characters only known to a small amount of gamers. A very small selection but already with far too big a disparity in style.

Then I guess you have to start using things like Sweet tooth, an ape from ape escape, Nariko, the interchangeable short haired angry men from Killzone, resistance and Infamous (Sev, Nathan, Cole).

I just really don't think Sony alone has a strong enough stable of characters to make it work. Now if they can get some third parties on board it will be amazing. Get Kratos, Drake etc standing alongside Dante, Cloud, Lara etc and it will be a dream come true. Make it a more realistically styled fighter but still 4 player etc. That could be great.