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I mean, that's not at all what's been killing Multiversus. The issue there was that it's gone four months now without a new character when they used to add them every other week. A live service game with that big of a content drought relative to its lifespan won't sustain players.
Well, I was open to other possibilities. I guess I should have made it clear more as well as the fact that I meant not just that game, but Smash Bros. clones as a whole.
yep, you also get to briefly team up with a ghost in 6
It's a live service game. Things aren't meant to stop being added until the game dies. To put it into perspective, the roster right now has 23 characters.
I don't see why they need to stop saying that because that's what it is. The fact that SMT characters appear in Persona but not in Smash along with them is just the unfortunate reality of it in this case.
Ah, I see. Still, with it being online based as someone else said and all, I don’t think it would last as a very comparable-to-Smash-Bros game or maybe a good enough Smash clone, with one reason; as someone said; bring it being more online means you can’t play it when it goes offline, unlike the Smash games themselves. Plus, with what has happened and the drop in the player base, I do not think the appeal would last long for MultiVersus anyway. I do see adding more characters WOULD actually expand its lifespan some, but I don’t think it would be long enough to have the appeal of Smash Bros. games, if you know what I mean.
Level-5 in general has had a bad history of people calling any new IP they made "X-series killers" It happened with Dark Cloud being called a "Zelda killer" and Yo-Kai Watch being called a "Pokemon Killer" I don't know if anyone ever called Fantasy Life an "Animal Crossing Killer" but if not then I guess it luckily dodged a massive bullet and was allowed to thrive in its own right...
Honestly I think the main reason why nobody can compete with Smash is simply budget and time issues. Smash is by far the platform fighter with the biggest team, and not only that but with Ultimate they could continue development and use assets from Smash 4 to create a huge roster, and they were lucky to have the same team. No fighting game can have a development time this long. And this is where NASB suffered a lot. I think gameplay alone NASB is very good actually, but with such a small team and budget they had to sacrifice animation and overall content (no unlockables or collectibles, no skins, no single player mode etc.). Playstation all stars had the same issue. There's many leaked documents and concept of the game that showed that they had huge plans for the game roster (including Crash and Spyro, Lara Croft and Cloud), but they couldn't get any third party in with their small budget. There was also 4 aditionnal dlc characters in development (Abe, Dart, Ryu Hayabusa and Tombi) but they all got abandonned probably because the first few dlc didn't sold as much as Sony expected.
Ironic, since there is a crossover between AA and PL.
Plus, why bother making your own and likely failing when you can buddy up with the other guy and go for the real deal?
That's my favorite part of that game haha
Exactly! It was easier to get Banjo and Kazooie as well as Steve in Smash compared to making an actual Microsoft Smash clone.
Man, PSABR was just downright tragic, in a way. Some of those characters are likely never gonna get acknowledged again thanks to Sony's current priorities...
I am gonna have to agree. Not that I was intentionally showing any sign of being against it, but yeah, the world and universe itself is rather based around the idea of competition, and it is something that should be important in the realm of business as well.
I remember hearing that Samurai Jack, Lord of the rings and Harry potter stuff was in the game files, my first assumption being that licensing issues have gotten in the way.
This has nothing to do with the conversation but i find it extremely wholesome that Professor Layton was a game conceptualized by an Ace Attorney fan, who would later collab with Ace Attorney and as a result inspire the creator of Ace Attorney to return to the series and make the Great Ace Attorney
Yeah to be honest while I can understand why people were sad with PSABR roster, I'm going to give them credits for adding many retro characters like Spike, Parappa and Sir Daniel. But yeah at this point I doubt we'll see a sequel to the game because Sony seems way more excited about big budget narrative game (and to be honest I can't blame them, this formula since to work really well for them and I'm glad they found their identity instead of trying too hard to do family games).
Yeah, I see what you mean. It is a bad case of bad bias and scapegoating (if that is the right word) that prevents people from accepting games for what they are and as means of finding excuses to not like a game and try to spread that dislike around. Quite sad, huh?
That kind of mentality is not a good look, especially for a Smash fan. You should want to see beyond just one series.
Yeah, it's good see the genre expand beyond just what Smash brings. That's why I had high hopes for PlayStation All-Stars. It had so much potential and I was very disappointed that they didn't follow up on it.
Maybe you're right.
i always felt yo-kai watch being compared to pokemon was unfair. cause it always felt like YW was trying to be it's own thing not a pokemon killer. and i've played games that were clearly trying to be another
it is a very memorable part so i can't fault you for it. part of me wants that ghost in more FF crossovers
Pokemon wasn't even its main inspiration according to Hino, but Doreamon, which after seeing more of the games and anime, I can see where he was coming from.
did not know that
I'm not sure if you can really say NASB was trying to do that. I thought it was just trying to be a crossover between...the Nicktoons that Nick themselves and the game devs were okay with.
Considering both series mascots this tracks.
it was bug catching
I think it's funny how Game Freak created a mechanical dragon monster to serve as the mechagodzilla to tyranitar...
Yeah, that kind of mentality really needs to stop. It kind of holds the genre back and gives the game an unnecessary bad rep. Just because it's another crossover, doesn't mean they're trying to "beat" Smash. They're just simply inspired by Smash. Simple as that.
Well, IDK if I'd go THAT far (even as someone who admittedly doesn't like what Sony has become), though thanks to the stuff with the ActiBlizz deal, it HAS brought to light that they probably SHOULD try to focus more on their own IPs: they seem to have put all their eggs into the COD basket.
