because it's most likely for other games with Santa Monica.
God of War the fighting game
God of War X Marvel
God of War 2 Turbo
God of War Alpha
God of War Mythologies: Sub-Kratos
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Seth Killian joins Sony Santa Monica to work on All Star Battle Royale
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because it's most likely for other games with Santa Monica.
God of War the fighting game
God of War X Marvel
God of War 2 Turbo
God of War Alpha
God of War Mythologies: Sub-Kratos
Yes. Some Level 3 Super seems broken (Big Daddy automatically kills everyone on screen I believe) according to people that played it.
SolidSnakex
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Character balance is a big concern for any fighting game that's not named Virtua Fighter.
Wolfgunblood Garopa
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I never got the appeal of Smash as a serious fighting game. No matter how much you try to balance or legitimize a game like this, it's still dopey. But SKill is greatness, and this looks like a move upwards. Glad for him.
How did Capcom betray Sony?
Is balance ever not a big concern in a fighting game?
The Grim Heaper
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This is awesome.
SuperSonic1305
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Needs more white guys with gi's
metalslimer
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In a smash type party fighter, I wouldn't say it was a huge concern but Superbot seems to want more so I'm definitely interested.
ihearthawthats
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i hope that people don't take this the wrong way, but none i hope. i'd rather this game turn out more street fighter than smash.
What was this in reference towards? I don't recall Capcom betraying Sony. Only thing that comes to mind was moving Resident Evil to Nintendo.
Glass Rebel
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Hydrargyrus
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Ooooh man
This is HUGE
This is HUGE
The_Hitcher89
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Monster Hunter maybe?
metalslimer
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Just Takao being better because of MonHun4
Pretty much lol
SolsticeZero
Banned
This is fabulous news indeed!
Ahh yeah good call. Didn't think about that probably because I'm not a Monster Hunter fan.
How was it ever not a huge concern? It was an issue in Melee when characters like Fox, Falco, and Marth tended to be better than the rest of the cast, and it was an issue in Brawl when Metaknight was kinda overpowered while someone like Ganondorf was basically useless.
When you have a large cast of different characters with varied play styles, you don't want players to feel like they can only use a handful of them if they want to compete.
MiniBossBattle
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Good stuff Seth. Quite a hire for Sony.
it's already more smash than it is street fighter
TimeEffect
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Parappa does that, and it's not exactly unbalanced since different characters build AP faster than others. Parappa is a guaranteed 3 kill super at level 3, but that's it. Other characters have the potential to get as much as 5-6 supers at level 3 if they are good, so there is a tradeoff there.
ViewtifulJC
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Heart Attack
Member
Happy for Seth. But i think he was hired to add some "street cred" to the game, as well as to promote it for Evo.
Infinite Justice
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Crazy news.
Good luck Seth
Good luck Seth
davidsaurus
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My opinion is that All-stars needs at least 20 characters. There's not been a whole lot announced yet, I wonder how many they are saving.
I don't know how you got that message out from this move. To me, it sounds like he will keep on working with SuperBot on a line of fighting games exclusive to Sony consoles for the next few years.
Wrong person. You're thinking about Sven. Again...
SUPARSTARX
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Seth Killian had a very big hand in balancing for Super Street Fighter 4.
djplaeskool
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Christian Svensson is just a mouthpiece.
Outside of community relations, S-Kill has actually made tangible contribution to the development of multiple fighting games. Dude's knowledge of techniques and mechanics is on point.
Been the West's voice of reason to the Japanese and has contributed to and given suggestions to the devs of SF4, MvC3 and SFxTK. He told them to nerf Vanilla Phoenix before she got out of the gate, pushed for Arthurs inclusion, etc.
Also if he's a bad mouth piece... I don't know what a good one looks like.
New fighting game IP? Now that's something I'd be interested in. I hope this game does well so that can happen.
Great news, by the way. S-Kill is the best.
Just the fact that he suggested 2-d hit boxes for SF4 instead of conventional 3-D hit detection and got them to listen means he did a lot of good for the game's design...though, yeah, I wonder about where the rubber meets the road in terms of him translating his ability to dissect fighting games into the ability to guide their creation.
He'll be better than most, I'd suspect, but I've always been biased towards having serious players involved in helping to create a game in their preferred genre.
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