Let's find out whether PSASBR is a rip-off or not.

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Flanneryaug said:

Ajescent said:

Flanneryaug said:
If SSB wasn't a successful franchise, Playstation All Stars wouldn't exist. It may be a good game, but I really have a problem with a company blatantly copying a game that another developer worked very hard on for years, just to make some easy money.

Did you complain when Battlefield was announced on the back of COD?

Did you complain when Shift came on the back of FORZA and GT?

How about almost any beat-em-up on the back of Street Fighter?

Hey, remember that time you complained about Final Fantasy on the back of Zelda?

The difference is that those games are part of different genres, shooters, racing, and fighting. If they made a 3D fighting game with Sony characters(which would make more sense since most of these characters are from 3D games) almost no one would be complaining. The fact is that they had a Wii in their office for a reason, to copy SSBB as much as possible. The only thing they changed is the characters and the way you kill other players. They didn't even change the colors for the icon above the characters.

So... what you're saying is that it only matters because it's a 2D 4-way fighting game with mascots? NOONE can make one of those without it being labelled a blatant rip-off with no originalty?

Cause seriously, the day that Nintendo makes a 3D fighter I want fields of "Nintendo rips of VirtuaFighter/Tekken/DoA/etc." threads. Fields.

EDIT: The reason that Wii was in the office has been discussed to death. Almost the entire development team for this game is a bunch of fighting game fanatics. They like brawl... and a bunch of other fighting games.  They don't wanna hide that at all.

And why change the color of the icons above a character? Should they all be purple? You know how hard it would to find your character sometimes with out that? Are you really gonna flag them for using the elements of Smash that make 100% sense and would be stupid to not use? You realize this is like saying lets make our large scale team shooter different by not using voice chat or a mini-map? You realize this entire paragraph will be all questions? What makes more sense than 3 primary colors and 1 secondary color (the one that looks least similar to the primaries used to create it)? Does nintendo have some special patent on use of the colors red, blue, yellow and green in a fighting game?