MultiVersus General Discussion - Shut Down planned for May 30.

[Guynamednelson]

Roster was mixed

I think the whole "PSASBR has an irredeemable dog**** roster" is focusing strictly on third-parties. From Sony's first-party lineup, the only major omissions barring things that debuted after 2012 are a Team ICO game and Gran Tursimo, the latter of which makes sense for a series that could only get the Brawl Animal Crossing treatment at best.

 

[Opossum]

I think the whole "PSASBR has an irredeemable dog**** roster" is focusing strictly on third-parties. From Sony's first-party lineup, the only major omissions barring things that debuted after 2012 are a Team ICO game and Gran Tursimo, the latter of which makes sense for a series that could only get the Brawl Animal Crossing treatment at best.

Never forget how Dart got absolutely screwed over.

 

[Capybara Gaming]

Never forget how Dart got absolutely screwed over.

Ah, but you know they just had to have Evil Cole! Too important and iconic to include over some JRPG protagonist

 

[Opossum]

Ah, but you know they just had to have Evil Cole! Too important and iconic to include over some JRPG protagonist

As funny and dumb as Evil Cole was, apparently it came down to having both Coles or having neither, so in that situation I'm glad they went with both, if only because not having Cole at all would've been worse imo.

 

[Capybara Gaming]

As funny and dumb as Evil Cole was, apparently it came down to having both Coles or having neither, so in that situation I'm glad they went with both, if only because not having Cole at all would've been worse imo.

IIRC they wanted to give him a morality system and you'd have an evolving moveset through the match. I get why they did it but I wish they'd have gone with the original idea.

PSASBR deserves a second shot. The game itself isn't a bad idea, it was just executed poorly. And it really is just the Super Gimmick that ruins it. Well, that and having a middling roster, but they can only do so much.

 

[CapitaineCrash]

I genuinely don't think PSABR roster is that bad, like sure I wish they got more third party support like Crash, Lara Croft, Cloud and stuff, but in term of first party characters, I think they did a good job of representing the Sony franchise of the ps3 era. People used to really not like Big Daddy and Isaac Clarke, and sure they're not huge Sony icon in the same way that Crash or Lara Croft was, but Bioshock and Dead space were really huge back in the ps3/360 generation. It's not a perfect roster by any mean, but I think it's a fun one.

I think what really killed the game too was the balancing. The guys who did PSABR balancing must have loved hack n slash because goddamn Kratos and Raiden just destroyed everything, and other characters like Spike and Sir Daniel were pretty much unplayable. The game was barely even more balanced than Brawl, which is saying a lot. Even taking the weird super system aside, the game had no chance to have any serious competitive scene with that balancing.

 

[Donaldtoon]

Apparently Banana Guard replaced Poison Ivy https://x.com/GemsAndMayhem/status/1885472123407237238

 

[SneakyLink]

Papagenos is doing a livestream on the game.

I’m not sure if he’ll confirm everything mentioned today, but he did mention that Gumball was the mystery Cartoon Network character that he had in previous videos.

 

[Opossum]

Apparently Banana Guard replaced Poison Ivy https://x.com/GemsAndMayhem/status/1885472123407237238

The person is also dodging questions about where this information actually came from. I'd hold off until someone with actual info corroborates it.

 

[CapitaineCrash]

I don't really believe that Banana guard literally took the spot of Poison Ivy. I mean, if that was the case that would mean that Season 1 relaunch was planned to have 2 DC characters (because Joker was there) which is kind of weird. My guess is that Poison Ivy was put on hold for some reason (maybe to not have too much DC characters since Aquaman, Raven and Joker where higher priority), and at the same time Banana guard was push to have a "easy to pick up" character at relaunch, and the leaker just correlate both events even if they're not directly related.

 

[Schnee117]

I don't really believe that Banana guard literally took the spot of Poison Ivy. I mean, if that was the case that would mean that Season 1 relaunch was planned to have 2 DC characters (because Joker was there) which is kind of weird.

Not even just two DC characters but specifically two Batman villains

 

[Capybara Gaming]

Ok… like I said, there’s a lot, some of which is coming from sources beyond my comprehension. I’ll start with something simple. These characters were playable in pre release builds:
Daffy Duck
Emmett Brickowski
Ruby Rose
Static Shock
Wicked Witch of the West (as the resident Oz fan of Smashboards, this stinks)

I've got a mild update on this. I asked PapaGenos on his livestream about this, and according to him, pre-release builds distributed to testers immediately before relaunch was a thing; they would contain a set amount of unreleased fighters, so this is more likely, but not a guarantee. I specifically mentioned Daffy, Ruby, and Emmet, and he had not heard those three specifically.

 

[LimeTH]

I've got a mild update on this. I asked PapaGenos on his livestream about this, and according to him, pre-release builds distributed to testers immediately before relaunch was a thing; they would contain a set amount of unreleased fighters, so this is more likely, but not a guarantee. I specifically mentioned Daffy, Ruby, and Emmet, and he had not heard those three specifically.

Did he say who he had heard of, if anyone?

 

[ivanlerma]

Apparently Banana Guard replaced Poison Ivy https://x.com/GemsAndMayhem/status/1885472123407237238

Well whaddaya know, Ivy was gone the whole time.

 

[Kirbeh]

fine...i'll just see another person's roster instead.

What?