How Different Would it be "If" PSASBR Fully Copied SSB (KO System) or Actually had a Health Meter? (Sales/Competive Scene/Etc)

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tbone51 said:

naruball said:
Nothing would have changed. Zero. The game was great as it was. Reviewers and gamers were influenced by people who hated it without even trying it. The negative press killed it. It was the cool game to hate just like Knack, The Order and DmC. Sad but true.

I understand where your coming from, but that doesn't excuse it in the competitive scene. The KO system automatically killed it there. Peoples thoughts of negativity (press or Haters for example) wouldn't be enough to stop it from the 1mil people whobough the game and wanted to make it have a community (see games with low sales yet have a community).

As for Knack+The order, people didnt think they were horrible and Knack sold well (right?). The order might of been overhyped so thats where i see It having negativity, but of course i cant say as i didn't follow nor play the game

You didn't watch much competitive footage if you think the Super system is what killed the game competitively. There was a lot of hype in the PSAS matches when fans knew what was going on (it took a month for that to happen). What killed it competitively was when Sony decided to drop support, promise us a patch, and not start the patch for well five months, before using one person to spend five more months slowly delivering a patch, leaving several broken characters and unbalanced kill confirm ratios. 

 

Competitively it's still somewhat active too. The PSAS forum is the single biggest and most active forum on the official PS forums, period. Had we gotten a Melee to the PSAS's 64, we could've seen just how viable Supers could have been if given time and money to polish them up.