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PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale Discussion Thread 2 (read OP first)
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MrChocolate
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Well, here we go Sir Dan and Crash.
I hope other characters that the one who have been leaked...
KillerTravis
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Please tell me this song is in the game.
corporate cheerleader
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The grid layout makes it seem that there are only 20 characters and 14 stages.
MaverickHunterAsh
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Remember how Brawl's character select screen would rearrange its layout and grid as you unlocked more characters? Yeah. When you first booted up Brawl, the character select screen already looked like there wasn't room for any more characters. Same with the stage select screen. Not saying that PSASBR is or needs to be like Brawl in that regard, but I don't think the current grid layout has anything to do with the final number of characters. That can easily be changed in future builds.
corporate cheerleader
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Would surprise me if they even knew how to change layouts. :/ Time will tell.
MaverickHunterAsh
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Why would that surprise you?
corporate cheerleader
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Just kidding. Guess my expectations were different because of self-inflicted hype.
Wow Bluepoint are the kings of game ports!!! looks amazing I cant believe I will get the PS Vita version for free!
What are the 2 small things that are flying over PaRappas head at the 10:20 min??
Yeeesh
JStein0222
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So incredibly stoked. The cross buy announcement just resonated really well in me. I really want the other 2 games that will support cross buy too
I was gong to wait for a price drop for those but crossbuy really makes me want to get them earlier, great incentive.
What did they add? better be more characters.........
Dead Prince
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Napalm_Frank
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Dead Prince
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388mb. obviously is it
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Dead Prince
Banned
3 minute left to download. will speak of it unless someone does before me.
The Grim Heaper
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oh god version 2.0 my hopes are too high for maybe the new UI and bug fixes
Seems like its this build
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xj8b1HRAY4s
Minus the characters its the same people from the original beta
It has as the spear of destiny
Also Sly has been rebalanced all of his supers
His level 1 doesn't travel as far and is slower also for each person it hits there is a hit sound effect now
His level 2 you cant spam the rockets
and his level 3 you can't spam the camera snaps
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Xj8b1HRAY4s
Minus the characters its the same people from the original beta
It has as the spear of destiny
Also Sly has been rebalanced all of his supers
His level 1 doesn't travel as far and is slower also for each person it hits there is a hit sound effect now
His level 2 you cant spam the rockets
and his level 3 you can't spam the camera snaps
Thank god.
Dead Prince
Banned
no visual changes. 
Its purplish now it was light blue before
The Grim Heaper
Member
Yep, it's purple-y now.
MrChocolate
Member
From my first match in the beta:
Spear of Destiny
Win screen looks like it works now
On win screen, the stage is in the bg
The framerate was much better than usual
Yeah, looks nice.
Spear of Destiny
Win screen looks like it works now
On win screen, the stage is in the bg
The framerate was much better than usual
Yeah, looks nice.
MrChocolate
Member
From my first match in the beta:
Spear of Destiny
Win screen looks like it works now
On win screen, the stage is in the bg
The framerate was much better than usual
Better?
!!!SolidSnakex
Member
I just finished a match and i'm not sure if this is old but Sly isn't completely invisible now. He's faded whenever he uses his invisibility, but you can still see him. So no more running away and hiding.
Schobeleth
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i really wanted the wedding song from LBP2 for the LBP level.
I'm assuming the licensing for that would be pretty rough, even though it was in LBP, you'd be surprised how hard it is to get it on a new version or w/e if it wasn't done in house or by Sony themselves. Case in point - JP PSN vs. the world. That was one of my favorite themes/levels/worlds from the original LBP, and the song was just so damn catchy.
As others have said though, I agree that the main theme song from each respecting character/world should be used primarily - or at least something that's more striking.
A lot of the videos are from show floors so it's really hard to hear the music but some of the older gameplay is direct feed and you can hear the music - but it's still barely there. I agree the most recognizable themes were the Patapon theme and the Hot Shots Golf theme, all the rest are kind of dull and boring, most especially the Hades theme, I was really disappointed with that.
Why couldn't they use the theme you hear when you first enter Tartarus in GoW III, and have it build into one of the epic themes? This is the one I meant:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EulHBvcbJnE
That could be the intro, have it slowly build into epicness. I just feel like what we've heard of the "remixed" or "arranged" Hades battle theme, it just sounds lame in comparison to the original:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=p_JtztEl4LE
I dunno, maybe we haven't been able to properly hear it, or maybe it's not a final version we're hearing, but it definitely doesn't compare. In SSBB, basically all of the arranged and remixed themes were amazing, as a Nintendo fan they floored me ... the redone versions in this have so far been pretty underwhelming.
One thing I worry about is how the levels are mash ups, cramming two themes together can easily make one or the other, or even both lose their impact.
One final thought - I always found the Hades fight/theme to be boring in GoWIII (in comparison to others), they should have done a mash up of the Poseidon theme/level, which is arguably the best set piece in the entire game (IMO):
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cY0QmzP2VZA
I mean, come on. That's just epic, classic GoW right there. The Hades theme is too brooding and not as impactful. I know, this would pose a problem for the Hydra mash up in the Metropolis stage (because both monsters are similar) but they could've easily put something else in there.
Imagine this - the stage takes place on Gaia while she's fighting the giant Poseidon monster thing, while ... I dunno, plasmid mutants (from Bioshock) fight the armies of Zeus all alongside Mt. Olympus. This could also have the fight move towards the lighthouse from the original Bioshock as they crash into it and fight around it. I think that would've been WAY MORE AWESOME than the Hades stage.
I could see him before the beta he wasn't ever totally invincible but it was really hard to see at a distance when it zoomed in you could still see him
Parappa has a more reliable hitbox for his level 1
They added some stuff to Ratchets level that I remember seeing in the more recent gameplay video one of them being a jumpad.
Thank you based Superbot. May we never suffer scumbag Sly again. :3
We should compile the changes so that they can be put in the beta thread.
The Grim Heaper
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Sly's invisible-ness isn't as good anymore? NOOOOOOOO! Now how am I gonna invisitaunt?!
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