| Vinniegambini said: I purchased the game and was massively disappointed. I am not surprised by the lack of interest in this title as the character roster of this game is abysmal. If Sony had properly invested in this software and revisited many games of the PS2 era like Final Fantasy, Tomb Raider and so on and included them as playable characters then lord behold this would of been a smashing hit. However, the only 'known' characters are Drake and Kratos, the others are not recognizable, popular to a main audience or have yet to be released. |
You are 100% correct.
However this has been gone over countless times and the response from the posters on this site who support all things PS3 is that the roster is very good and that they know most of the characters, forgetting that the average person who owns a PS3 and isn't obsessed with playing video games will not have heard of them. Failing that you will get excuses that actually most people who have played some PS3 exclusives will know most of them, again rubbish.
I don't play a lot of games in terms of hours but do play most that are released and there are some on the list I have neither heard of nor even seen before. Ridiculous when you're talking about a roster of roughly only 20 characters. If the roster is going to be that small, you make damn sure every character counts.
They will repeatedly make comparisons to SSBB that you haven't heard of a lot of characters in that game either, forgetting that the roster in SSBB still includes lots of known characters too.
It's like Marvel Vs Capcom type crossover games. Sure there's a bunch of characters people haven't heard of or seen before than only a marvel comic nut will know, but there's a massive number of ones that are known and the new ones are cool, look funky and are fun to play. Same goes since the beginning of those games where the character roster was lower but all the characters there would have been known and liked, or disliked, it doesn't matter - they had personality.
PSABR characters have no background to build off except for the single game series they were in prior to it, no history, no charm, no lore.
As you say, if they'd have coughed up the cash for the licensing of the type of characters who should have been in this game it could have been fantastic and a sales beast. They didn't and instead we were hearing about DLC even before the game was released likely of characters that should already be in the game but weren't because they didn't want to pay up. Now the buyer of the game will have to pay for this.
Thanks Sony, and thanks all the supporters of this game. It might a "first effort", but it's a bad effort. It could easily have been better with some money invested in it. It's failings aren't down to it being a "first effort", but for being a cynical rip-off of a great concept that has it's problems rooted in Sony's greed.
It's not arguable. Just chucking in 5 classics from the likes of Crash, Spyro, Cloud, Tidus, Serge, Yuna types...any PS2 character basically would have been a recipe for success. Unfortunately that would have meant paying 3rd parties for licensing and gone over the $5 budget per character.
