| teigaga said: PSASBR flopped because of poor execution. The game looks awkward and its overall presentation is very poor. I think sony should gone down a slightly darker root that focused on the more violent characters and had this reflected in the art style and character rooster. |
^yup pretty much. i will copy my thoughts (and idea) from another thread:
DigitalDevilSummoner said:
i've been thinking about this game and how it could have been better.
the game failed to attract attention because of its horribly stupid name, horrible cover, mediocre graphics, horrible roster and of course it was a plain rip off of a concept that was built for nintendo and worked for nintendo. Super Smash was a cohesive game that made sense.
on the other hand PSASBR was all over the place, instead of attracting a wide range of PS gamers, it managed to alienated everyone ! You had dark characters like Kratos fighting childish ones like fat princess and the set was a random mash up of PS memorabilia. the result was not a game that made you wanna kick some ass
my idea is pretty simple as a matter of fact: when you want gameplay excellence just call Platinum games: take the concept of a crossover brawler and combine it with Anarchy Reigns.
To begin with, a game like AR could show off the PS3s graphics unlike the concept of Super Smash. Secondly it could look a lot darker and actually interesting instead of the kiddy mess that we ended up with. When you wanna make a fighting game you don't bring everything down to a rated E for everyone level. You take fat princess and add some bruises and scars.
So you have a proper 3D brawler akin to Anarchy Reigns and the name of this game would actually intrigue people and reveal the game's concept. And that is "Playstation VS Everything".
As I said a problem with Battle Royale was the roster. A bunch of commercial failures, a bunch of forgotten characters, a bunch of fluffy characters that don't look menacing at all and what remained didn't look really inviting for a bloody battle anyway. My idea is to simply copy Anarchy reigns even further: have two opposing factions fight each other. On one side have PS only characters and on the "Everything" side their mutliplat counterparts. So it would be like: Radec VS Big Daddy, (original) Dante VS Bayonetta, Kratos VS Gabriel Belmont, Drake VS Lara Croft, Heihachi VS Ryu, Old Snake VS Hitman.
Have classic PS music themes remixed into some Tekken styled frantic soundtrack, add a ladder, sell some hats and you're ready. I would play that game.
