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PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale |OT| Use Supers to Smash your Bros!

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TheMink

Member
christiankid7 said:
I just wish we could get a character that wasn't lightning based. Why couldn't we get Medusa or Poseidon or something?
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Huh... How many characters have at least one lightning move...

Cole
Cole
Raiden
Spike
Nariko
Sackboy
Big Daddy
Ratchet
Jak
Sir Dan

I feel like im missing people...

I never thought about the lighting moves before :p
 
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MaverickHunterAsh

Member
christiankid7 said:
I just wish we could get a character that wasn't lightning based. Why couldn't we get Medusa or Poseidon or something?
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TheMink said:
Huh... How many characters have at least one lightning move...

Cole
Cole
Raiden
Spike
Nariko
Sackboy
Big Daddy
Ratchet
Jak
Sir Dan

I feel like im missing people...

I never thought about the lighting moves before :p
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I wonder if that's one reason Lightning was seemingly canned? FF XIII fans know she'd be quite different from any of the other electricity-wielding characters in the game (even Raiden), but to non-fans or the uninitiated she might just come off as too similar to Raiden, Cole, or even Ryu Hayabusa if he ends up being in.

I hope that's not it because she has such awesome potential as a unique character in this game despite all the other electricity users, but I suppose it's something to consider.
 
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SmithnCo

Member
christiankid7 said:
I just wish we could get a character that wasn't lightning based. Why couldn't we get Medusa or Poseidon or something?
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Or Aphrodite, but it would make it an AO rated game.

Anyway, I would forgive franchises getting 2 characters if we get Lammy. She isn't a minion yet so there is still a shred of hope.
 
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KalBalboa

Banned
SmithnCo said:
Or Aphrodite, but it would make it an AO rated game.

Anyway, I would forgive franchises getting 2 characters if we get Lammy. She isn't a minion yet so there is still a shred of hope.
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If they break the one character per franchise "rule" again, it should be for Solid Snake.
 
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SmithnCo

Member
KalBalboa said:
If they break the one character per franchise "rule" again, it should be for Solid Snake.
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Yeah, I forgot about him. Though they probably tried to get him and ended up settling for just Raiden, which may be a bad sign. But those are probably the only two from represented franchises I'd be excited about.
 
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christiankid7

Member
SmithnCo said:
Or Aphrodite, but it would make it an AO rated game.

Anyway, I would forgive franchises getting 2 characters if we get Lammy. She isn't a minion yet so there is still a shred of hope.
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Hmmm.......maybe if we could get some awesome villain reps besides zeus itd be okay.....
Nefarious (although hes a stage hazard)
Chimera
Zarok or Palethorn
Vergil (dmc1 or 3)




Or....
Medievil 2
Tyrannosaurus Wrecks :p

http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110529114705/gallowmere/images/3/3f/DinoSkel.jpg
Playing as a freaking skeleton tyrannosaurus rex?
 
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J-Tier

Member
Ugh...on the Sony forum...some guys are alright, but others...

Vocal minority = majority
Anecdotal evidence = fact
Opinion = fact
Ignorance = knowledge
Emotion = justification
Personal = general

GAF is good...GAF is home...
 
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KalBalboa

Banned
christiankid7 said:
Hmmm.......maybe if we could get some awesome villain reps besides zeus itd be okay.....
Nefarious (although hes a stage hazard)
Chimera
Zarok or Palethorn
Vergil (dmc1 or 3)




Or....
Medievil 2
Tyrannosaurus Wrecks :p

http://images2.wikia.nocookie.net/__cb20110529114705/gallowmere/images/3/3f/DinoSkel.jpg
Playing as a freaking skeleton tyrannosaurus rex?
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In terms of villains, Nefarious, Zeus, Radec, Calypso, Nemesis, and Sephiroth would be my picks for various reasons. Having Zeus & Radec is nice, but I think adding a Chimeran solider into the fray wouldn't do much that having the Invasion stage & spike grenade don't already do.
 
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J-Tier

Member
KalBalboa said:
In terms of villains, Nefarious, Zeus, Radec, Calypso, and Sephiroth would be my picks for various reasons. Having Zeus & Radec is nice, but I think adding a Chimeran solider into the fray wouldn't do much that having the Invasion stage & spike grenade don't already do.
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I suggested this once, but playing as the Chimeran hive mind would be an option. I imagine in the story, the perspective would be that of the entire army, though for gameplay, you'd be playing one soldier, whose attacks summon other soldiers and chimera-types, and probably a level three with a full on invasion or something.

Kinda like Parasoul from Skullgirls.
 
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christiankid7

Member
jtir123 said:
I suggested this once, but playing as the Chimeran hive mind would be an option. I imagine in the story, the perspective would be that of the entire army, though for gameplay, you'd be playing one soldier, whose attacks summon other soldiers and chimera-types, and probably a level three with a full on invasion or something.

Kinda like Parasoul from Skullgirls.
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That could work, do the chimera have anything unique about them? All I know is that they're an alien race with guns.

I do wonder what they will do with Zeus alt?

Liam Neeson Zeus? disney Zeus? Cole Zeus?
 
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MaverickHunterAsh

Member
KalBalboa said:
In terms of villains, Nefarious, Zeus, Radec, Calypso, Nemesis, and Sephiroth would be my picks for various reasons. Having Zeus & Radec is nice, but I think adding a Chimeran solider into the fray wouldn't do much that having the Invasion stage & spike grenade don't already do.
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Sephiroth would be cool. The more I think about it, the more I realize how absolutely bonkers it is that there isn't a single Final Fantasy (or even RPG) character in this game.

At this point I'm 100% certain it's Square's fault. There's no way SuperBot didn't know fans would want that and didn't approach Square about it.
 
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SmithnCo

Member
MaverickHunterAsh said:
Sephiroth would be cool. The more I think about it, the more I realize how absolutely bonkers it is that there isn't a single Final Fantasy (or even RPG) character in this game.

At this point I'm 100% certain it's Square's fault. There's no way SuperBot didn't know fans would want that and didn't approach Square about it.
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There is a rumor they had a Lightning model at some point and probably approached Square, so yeah it's definitely on Square. We know they had actively looked for characters, with Lara and Abe. Same with Spyro/Crash, and their only mention of how that went down is "it's Activision."
 
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Ryce

Member
Since Mink obviously knows what he's talking about, I'm convinced Lightning was planned at one point for the on-disc roster and then pulled. Maybe SuperBot talked with Square Enix's American offices, they liked the idea, SuperBot started preliminary work on Lightning, and then Square Enix Japan told them to stop?
 
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MaverickHunterAsh

Member
Ryce said:
Since Mink obviously knows what he's talking about, I'm convinced Lightning was planned at one point for the on-disc roster and then pulled. Maybe SuperBot talked with Square Enix's American offices, they liked the idea, SuperBot started preliminary work on Lightning, and then Square Enix Japan told them to stop?
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That sounds very plausible. It's so frustrating, too, because Lightning could have been awesome. You just know her level 3 would have been her summoning Odin and riding around the stage owning everyone.

... man. :(
 
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Paddington Bear

Member
Ryce said:
Since Mink obviously knows what he's talking about, I'm convinced Lightning was planned at one point for the on-disc roster and then pulled. Maybe SuperBot talked with Square Enix's American offices, they liked the idea, SuperBot started preliminary work on Lightning, and then Square Enix Japan told them to stop?
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No question in my mind.

I feel like SuperBot was screwed every which way trying to build a roster... But still. In Mink We Trust
 
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Sponge

Banned
Paddington Bear said:
No question in my mind.

I feel like SuperBot was screwed every which way trying to build a roster... But still. In Mink We Trust
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It's such a shame that they were. The characters we do have play amazingly and I'm so grateful for the game we have. I'm trying to stay optimistic that Santa Monica might keep this game alive, but I'll just until what the Mink has to say.
 
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IntelliHeath

As in "Heathcliff"
SmithnCo said:
lol, I'm surprised people are bothering with ranked at this point. I want to pull my hair out after one or two matches.
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Same here. Many people don't really use their brains which irritated me. MASH MASH MASH MASH OH HEY I SEE SOMEONE IS ATTACKING KRATOS MASH LET STOP THAT GUY FROM GRABBING KRATOS SO THEY CAN HIT LEVEL 3 MASH MASH MASH MASH MASH MASH LEVEL 3 AGAIN LOLOLOL DITCH GRAB MASH MASH MASH
 
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Ryce

Member
I have a friend who's willing to give me his code, so I'm good. Saves me ten bucks. I don't plan on buying Ascension until later this year after a price drop.
 
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MaverickHunterAsh

Member
SmithnCo said:
Eh... Not really stoked about that. Don't plan on buying Ascension day one.
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Okay, time to dissect the wording of Seth Killian's blog post! Well, just bits and pieces of it really, but still.

Several times Seth calls Isaac and Zeus "new surprises" the and the "newest challengers," and nowhere is there an air of finality in anything he's saying. Because Seth is a stand-up guy and PS All-Stars has the heavy/hardcore community backing it does, I feel like SSM would just come right out and tell us if these were the last additions to PS All-Stars we were ever going to see.

That said, in his Kat/Emmett blog post, Seth came right out and said to expect the next character announcements in March, which he does not do here with a new timeframe, so that could be bad. What he does close with is "I’ll have some more details coming on the new challengers in the coming weeks," and that's a bit tricky.

Does he mean he'll have more info on Isaac and Zeus in the coming weeks, or is he saying that the coming weeks will bring information about other new challengers? It's hard to say, but while the wording would suggest the former, one thing to consider is that there isn't much more he can really say about Isaac and Zeus; between his 30-minute breakdown with IGN, this blog post, and the official site update, we know everything about them: their moves, supers, play styles, and what they'll cost. So maybe he really is talking about some totally separate new characters?

Well, in the end all we can do is wait, see, and trust in Mink. ;) This waiting is gonna suck, though...

IntelliHeath said:
Problem is that if you open the new game, then you have to exchange for new GOWA since you can't really return new game.
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Yeah, I know. I was just being facetious. ;) Hopefully one of my friends will buy Ascension and I can just bum the code off of them...
 
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ubersticky

Member
#1 defender said:
Free Isaac and Zeus for GOW:A buyers are NA only? Boo!
I got the game on pre-order, but i'm in EU.
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Same, it's a shame. Would've liked to get them for free since I'm not buying them but oh well.

Hope the next batch of characters is better. Lara please! (ugh but she has a gun...) What about Resident Evil character? (guns!)
 
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christiankid7

Member
ubersticky said:
Same, it's a shame. Would've liked to get them for free since I'm not buying them but oh well.

Hope the next batch of characters is better. Lara please! (ugh but she has a gun...) What about Resident Evil character? (guns!)
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Re rep....
I want Jill. She could have moves from all the re games, or just blend mvc2 jill with mvc3.

I've envisioned lara with more of a trapbased moveset. She could uncover spikes, dodge random swinging blades, "call" wolves and bears, use the midas hand, use ropes, discover guns on the battlefield, get medipaks to gain ap, use spears, set up lasers. She could have a very diverse moveset.
 
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MaverickHunterAsh

Member
KalBalboa said:
Why would you want Zeus then?

This seems pretty decent of them.
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Fair question. Mainly because I have a few friends who are really into this game, and we all get together to play it at my place quite often. Just because I don't care about Zeus (or Isaac) doesn't mean they won't want to use or even main them, so in the spirit of competition and completeness I want to have all the characters available when we play.

For example, one of my aforementioned buddies mains Big Daddy (and is quite good with him), so I already know he's going to want to start using Zeus once he's released.
 
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Ryce

Member
Seth has been answering some questions on the PS Blog:

  • Zeus and Isaac will have trophies, and we’re working on adding trophies for Kat and Emmett as well.

    [*]I can’t talk about future plans but I know for a fact Kat’s roll is on the patch list and should be fixed up soon.

    [*](Re: costumes) Depends on the 3rd parties, but we have some very cool stuff for them and hopefully can share soon.

    [*]We have a good series of patches coming in the pipeline now, so hopefully that solves your troubles[...]
 
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SmithnCo

Member
Trophies... I wonder if they are just "beat arcade." That would be kinda lame. I might have to barter to get a code from somebody.

Good to see they are trying to patch things. What's with Kat's roll again?
 
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Step

Member
SmithnCo said:
Thanks, hope they're fixing the other glitches too. Parappa's boombox glitch needs to be taken out back and shot mercilessly.
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Don't forget to hide any records about it, I can take balance problems, music issues and network issues but something like that breaks the whole game for me since it's based around the AP meter, it should have been a priority.
I don't find Heihachi's 3x that bad.
 
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SSReborn

Member
Ryce said:
Seth has been answering some questions on the PS Blog:

  • Zeus and Isaac will have trophies, and we’re working on adding trophies for Kat and Emmett as well.

    [*]I can’t talk about future plans but I know for a fact Kat’s roll is on the patch list and should be fixed up soon.

    [*](Re: costumes) Depends on the 3rd parties, but we have some very cool stuff for them and hopefully can share soon.

    [*]We have a good series of patches coming in the pipeline now, so hopefully that solves your troubles[...]
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Good Stuff.
 
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