| BasilZero said: Made by a team of inexperienced developers with a low budget....what did people expect? If the game does make a return, hopefully one of Sony's bigger studios or a third party partner like Namco or someone will make a fighting game that will bring out the best out of the Playstation mascots. |
Yeah Superbot effed this up no question and Sony certainly didn't handle getting them the rights to character very well either. I get it Crash, Spyro, Lara Croft, Big Boss, and FF characters are third party. Guess what so were Big Daddy, Raiden, Dante, and Heihachi. Other than Heihachi and the OLD Dante those characters aren't nearly as associated or game selling as the ones I mentioned. Tell Capcom you want AT LEAST a skin for old Dante. Tell the other companies they're basically getting free advertising for any future games in their franchises by adding these characters and offer them a hefty sum none the less. Seriously were Sony being cheap or were third parties just being dicks because this was ridiculous that they couldn't get this sorted out.
So now you have the right characters (in addition to the first party ones they already had). Correct the gameplay. Don't make it a "hardcore" fighter with only supers killing. You're going to be called a Smash clone regardless so just make ringouts and percentages part of at least ONE game mode. Everyone gets one super like in Smash and it's dropped by the stage like Smash. Noticing a pattern here? JUST MAKE SONY SMASH BROS! It's not that hard. Make it different enough you don't get sued or something but outright copy the feel. You have the characters (or should be able to get the ones you don't own) that your brand associates with, so just make the stages (the one thing Superbot did right) and combat like Smash and I'm one damn happy fan. Instead I got this weird only supers kill and former Xbox exclusive characters cheap borefest. I normally love what Sony puts out but this was my most disappointing game of the gen considering how easily it could've been done right.
