PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale is a MAJOR flop - we need to talk about it

[Runa216]

I find the levels of willing ignorance in this thread hilarious yet baffling. Does nobody understand how game development works? does nobody understand HOW products are made and improved? Is it really so much to ask that people UNDERSTAND that it's common practice for a game developer to see something that works and imitate it?

when Crash Team Racing game out, there was no aggressive hate-storm of gamers complaining about it being a MarioKart clone. when Castle Wolfenstein came out, you didn't see people taking up pitchforks complaining that Doom or Duke Nukem 3D were ripoffs. When Grand Theft auto came out, it was the first of its kind, then Saints Row came out and people were crying "GTA CLONE!", even though it was its own thing.

When a new genre or subgenre is created, there's ALWAYS a first entry in the genre. Nintendo is known for their longevity and strength in the industry BECAUSE they innovated so many ideas. Frankly I'm amazed that it took Sony this long to try this, and you should all be ashamed of yourself for complaining about this; your ire only shows your ignorance, foolishness, and selfishness. How in the world could you possibly play games and not understand this?

oh, right, I forgot, EVERYTHING SONY DOES IS EVIL AND MUST BE PUT UNDER A MICROSCOPE OF HYPER-INTENSE SCRUTINY!. In the last 5-7 years, it's become the cool thing to hate sony, even though they've not done anything worthy of this seething hatred. Microsoft ships a BROKEN, FAULTY console, and people get over it. Sony takes a feature away from their console to ensure it DOESN'T break (the linux support), and they get attacked by hackers resulting in the PSN being down for months.

Fuck you; gamers are such entitled shits. It's a shame I love games and gaming so much because the community is despicable. this is why I rarely post outside the Vita thread.

-moderated by amp316