Hello everyone! I can’t believe the end of the year is here already. Needless to say, this was quite a momentous year for us at SuperBot with shipping our first title, Playstation All-Stars Battle Royale, and announcing our game’s first DLC pack with incredible new characters Kat and Emmett, and a super awesome Heavenly Sword/Wipeout level.
We have been thrilled with all of the positive response the game has been getting, especially from the fans, as this love letter we call PlayStation All-Stars was ultimately crafted just for them. We are so proud that we are able to work on, and deliver, such a cool and long awaited title for you all.
As a special thank you to all of our supporters and fans of PlayStation, we wanted to send out our holiday card to wish you all a most wonderful Happy Holidays!
We look forward to bringing you more great content in the years to come, and continue the celebration of all of the incredible characters and worlds that are a part of the magical world of PlayStation.
With much holiday cheer,
Chan Park
Can we get Vamp from Metal Gear? Maybe Scorpion from MK or Ryu from SF? :)
I’m eagerly awaiting the release of the new characters. However PSASBR needs some more tuning, not in the nerfing department, but in the beefing up department. Big Daddy is easy to topple over in situations with characters like Kratos, Sack Boy, and Nathan Drake in a single match together. I find myself struggling to make my own stand as I have nothing with broad enough strokes or effective stopping power to get myself out of those situations.
While I like how All Stars trys to give each character its own strategies for success, some of those strategies are completely ineffective against 5 or 6 characters. Another artifact from traditional fighting games that doesn’t work Brawling Fighter like All Stars. Big Daddy is just one problem among many I’m sure a few people have some complaints as well, but it makes this game a bit inaccessible to people who are….well not me.
Also can we get some new modes? Maybe more options for match configurations?
Any word on the DLC release date yet?
Also PSASBR is a great game and I hope to see more improvements in the future!
I must say, All Stars is a pleasure to play with. I saved up since the beginning of November just to get this game. So far, it is so worth it. I really hope that Superbot plans to make more titles such as this. I look forward for 2013 and what it may bring!
Happy Holidays and best wishes to the SuperBot team!!
I must say I enjoy PSASBR thoroughly and can’t wait to get my hands on the new DLC!! Again, thanks for making an awesome game and wish you all the success in 2013!
P.S. I know Abe is most likely going to be the next DLC character, any news on a Mortal Kombat rep. (*hint* *nudge* Sub-Zero!! *wink* )
Thank you Chan, and thanks to the rest of the fine folks at SuperBot! I hope you all have a fantastic holiday!
I am, and have been, enjoying All-Stars thoroughly since launch, and cannot wait for the new DLC. That being said, take your time with it, you guys deserve a break ;)
Thank you SuperBot for this amazing game, I’m addicted to it like no other fighting game!
Oh and Can you guys call the “Retry”‘s routine in the pause menu when restarting a match instead of reloading the scene in the next patch. I don’t see why the player should be punished with Load times on Defeat if code already exists for restarting a match that takes less than a second.
super bummed gamestop had it for 19.99 before christmas. if i learned 1 thing this year. PATIENTS.
Happy Holidays, Super Bot!
Enjoying PSASBR on my Vita! Any ETA on the DLC?
And how about some announcement of more DLC? :cough:Crash:cough:
Been loving the game! Quite possibly my favorite fighter ever.
Any new game modes planned like king of the hill or royal rumble? Plz say yes I platinumed this game in a week and one thing it lacks is depth the story mode was a chore but online is great exept everyone spams the same cheap attack over and over give us health bars or a damage couter so that way it will show how much damage u landed vs their cheap specials
Oh and megaman x dlc plzz
maybe you guys can tell me why Japan gets no cross buy, and the two games come to more than 100 $. I just feel ripped off living out here. It is like sony japan or super bot, or whoever sets the prices thinks the internet does not exist and that people do not check prices online to see what is going on. I mean does sony think Japanese people are happy when they see the US get a deal like this while they have to fork out almost double the price. It just makes us feel cheapened as customers.
Happy Holidays SuperBot, I’m really loving the game and can’t wait to play as Kat :D (Basically the character that made me to buy the game).
If you guys are still taking request for characters I would KILL to see Etna from Disgaea and Selvaria from Valkyria Chronicles. I can assure that those two make it in I’ll pester all I know that have a PS3 to buy the game so I can use the characters against them ^_^.
Last paragraph is comforting to know you guys will be around for a while. I expect greatness, you can only go up from here.
thanks for the game, thanks for the great xmas card. you rock.
love the depth in the fighting system, not just thrown together. been playing daily since launch
Finally got it for Christmas, love it. Only complaint is the rather thrown together arcade mode… wish there was more of a story, or a story at all.
Words cannot describe how much I want a crossover game with all the characters going on an adventure… Please, Sony, make that!
But yeah, as for this game, love it. The stages definetely feel more alive than the-game-that-shall-not-be-named. I’m hoping DLC and the (hopefully) inevitable sequel will add more content and fix stuff I am not as happy about. But eyah, thanks for the game, it IS awesome :D
Happy Holidays!
I won’t buy PS All-Stars Battle Royale until I see truly All-Stars in the game, and that includes Gabe Logan.
It’ll be a shame seeing how Sony used the character for 8 years, and other characters like Parappa and Fat Princess are not that used and are in the game!
Gabe Logan passed in every Sony console out there…PS1, PS2 and PSP. He deserves to be in the game as much as Kratos, Sly Cooper and Sweet Tooth.
Syphon Filter and Gabe Logan went on through PS1, PS2 and PSP, that are systems Sony doesn’t support anymore.
I’m a really big fan of the franchise and of the caracther itself, and i’ll be pissed if Sony doesn’t include him.
I guess Playstation All Stars Battle Royale is a tribute to characters that really defined a generation, a system. Gabe Logan made much sucess in the PS1 era, much more than Parappa. He continued in the PS2 and PSP, from 1999 to 2007, throught 6 great games.
Fat Princess has only 2 games out there and she is in the game. Why Gabe Logan with 6 games (still) aren’t?
I really like Kratos, Sly Cooper, Cole Macgrath, Nathan Drake and Jak & Daxter, but I’ll say it’s sad for the part of Sony to exclude Gabe Logan like this, like he never existed.
Kratos and Dante need tuning. When EVERY game has at least one kratos/dante you know something is unbalanced. Radec needs his sniper nerfed to a minimum 25 AP. Run from one side of the stage to the other and spam it. not cool. Sackboy was the least of my PSAS concerns. Do me a fav! Thx happy holidays.
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Seriously? You call Gave Logan a “true” All-Star, more than people actually in the game? I… you… what?
@22
Seriously you didn’t understand? I recommend reading again my post.
I don’t call Gabe Logan a true All-Star more than Kratos, Sweet Tooth, Jak & Daxter, Ratchet & Clank, Sly Cooper…
I call Gabe Logan a TRUE All-Star MUCH MORE than Fat Princess, Parappa, Big Daddy.
Did you understand now?
If you guys make a sequel, could you please give us an option for traditional stock kills and out of platform kills? It gets really boring having to store up supers as the only means of finishing off enemies.
Also, please put more effort into the single player modes next time. The arcade/story mode was just flat out lazy. Worse than even the first Smash Bros on N64. There should have been an overarching storyline that explains why these characters are thrown into the same universe and forced to fight one another. Not just pointless rivalry fights that mean nothing after its done, because they go back to their main universe afterwards. :/
Also, please don’t waste two slots on the same character next time. Evil and Good Cole do NOT play different enough to warrant them being seperate. You could have easily made a generic Cole with Good and Evil costumes. The 20 character roster was already pathetic, but wasting even one slot like that is sad.
I absolutely love PSASBR and made sure it was one of the first games I got for my Vita. I really don’t think the game gets enough credit from the gaming “press” for its cross-play feature and the fact that it’s exactly the same on a handheld as it is on a console. (Meanwhile, Nintendo fans are STILL waiting for that long-rumored 3DS version of Smash Bros, which is almost certain to be different from its console brethren.) Seriously, SuperBot, you guys did some great work on this one, and your love for all things Playstation shows.
I hope that the critiques that have been leveled against this title will encourage you guys to make part 2 an absolutely essential purchase for fans rather than to discourage you enough that you water down the title into something to please the critics.
Anyone who spends a lot of time with PSASBR knows how tight it is. I’m really stoked that this title stands apart from fighting games in the Capcom/SNK mold and that it also is a distinctive brawler with a style of its own: much more technical than the Smash Brothers series. The cast is great too for its variety.
I can’t wait to see what the DLC and the sequel bring to the table, You guys rock, Superbot!
By the way, for the single player component, I think three fighters have really nailed it:
Dissidia focused on building up a strong sense of character and let the personalities of the heroes and villains play off each other while adding in the excuse that they couldn’t remember much about their own worlds. This meant that the game didn’t have to focus as much on the backstory and could really let the characters clash in the cutscenes and rival battles.
Mortal Kombat has the best single-player story I’ve ever encountered in a 2D fighter. It really made you feel something for each of the characters, and it helped you to understand their motivations for fighting. It really enhanced the game and was preferable to the “arcade mode” mentality of beating the game with each character to see the unique ending.
Street Fighter Alpha 3 was actually a prequel to the core Street Fighter games, and it made the interesting choice of having each fighter go through a unique semi-canonical experience to help explain what happened to each of them in the continuity of the Street Fighter universe. The rivalries occurred mid-game and broke up the monotony, and the final two battles served the ultimate story of the characters.
Cloud
Snake
Dart
Oliver from Ni No Kuni
Sora
Lara Croft
Ryu
Ryu Hayabusa
Chun Li
Nathan Hale
Joseph Capelli
Chimera
Leonard from White Knight Chronicles
Folklore Rep
Valkyria Chronicles Rep
Resident Evil Rep
Assassin’s Creed Rep
Finally picked up All-Stars during boxing day! Looking forward to playing as Kat although Raiden is a lot of fun :)
Happy holiday
Happy holidays
Yeah Happy Holidays to you too SuperBot!!! I’ve had the game since launch day and still have it save in my room and are keeping it forever! i just love it!! i’m so very badly looking forward to play Kat, ive enjoyed gravity rush and shes gunna be my number 1 female character to be with. I’m also looking forward to future DLCs which i’m hoping if new ones will come longer than 1 or 2 years which will be EPIC! and while i’ll be waiting i’ll always be both playing the game and posting requests, ideas of DLC characters, costumes, stages and character patch need of buff and nerf.
PASBR is really an awesome game but seriously, single player arcade dissapoint a lot , it was promissed a history on each character that justify the rivalry of all stars but most of all were caused by silly questions and the boss too were expected other treatment, but since all focus were on multiplayer, this one still needs much more attention. It still have a lot of connection bugs that needs fixing.
And complaints about the characters will always be acceptable, since some all stars seems to be forgotten on playstation history, and some people complaints to have some new all stars, and for some “forgotten on history” I really wanted to see Aya Brea from Parasite Eve, it’s still a first party and a lot of fans would like too, but oh well…
Cross. Game. Chat. Now.
I wish the guys at SuperBot good luck in their search for a new job, especially after the poor sales of Sony’s biggest exclusive of the year V_V
Megaman x
I love this game.
Can you please put Um Jammer Lammy as a playable character and put Ratchet’s “Deadlocked” armor in the game.
I can’t wait to see the new levels and characters that you guys create!
Happy Holidays!
Also, it would be awesome if there was a short cutscene for every level, not just one rival. The single player is the weak point in the game, but if it’s not to late I know everybody would LOVE and appreciate seeing Jak talk to Drake and all the other characters. Please don’t hold off any cool DLC for a sequel.
Ayumi (X Blades, Blades of Time) rivaled with Lara Croft (Tomb Raider Series)
I agree with Alastor424
In my opinion, Kratos and Nariko are a little OP, but hey… they’re two overwhelming characters with extremely fast AP generation sooo…………………
We love you SuperBot! Your game rocks! Can’t wait for the DLC!
Keep it up!
I really hope they include an assassin’s creed character as dlc. It would be awesome!
People over here and everywhere around just saying this game should resemble smash can gtfo of here.
Stop comparing it and start loving it for what it brings to the table…the game delivers in almost every aspect of it, yeah sure lot of characters are missing for now, few characters are god tier, but the game got enough SOUL to keep it self alive, trust me well get new chars and balance patches soon, in the meantime show support to it, thats the only way youll get “your favorite character” on the game.
Happy holidays to you guys at superbot, we are all expecting great things from you in the near future . :)
Just saying, Nariko’s level 1 needs a larger blast area. It looks like it’ll hit and then…. it completely misses. The fact that it’s stationary makes it hard enough to hit with, let alone with that baby blast area. In regards to her level 2, it needs a slightly faster pivot speed so people don’t just camp next to it and roll every time she turns it and actually have to run away from it. As for her level 3…. eh, slightly longer duration would be nice due to some attacks taking forever just to kill 1 enemy, but not necessary (just wishful thinking on that one).
Nariko’s an epic character in an awesome game but…. her supers, sadly, come up rather short.
Congrats on the title. I honestly couldn’t get into it on the beta but it did bring me back to that one fighting game that featured zelda, can’t put my finger on what the game was called but it was pretty fun.
Selvaria from Valkyria Chronicles please, that gives me 3 waifus in the game along with Nariko and Katt.
@25 Ryumoau
While Superbot (for obvious reasons) will never address it, word on the street is that Suckerpunch let them use Cole, but only if they had Evil & Good in the game, as it therefore represents their character/game.
Considering they intend to make DLC, it isn’t a bad tradeoff, having both Cole’s didn’t force them to cut someone else, and not having Cole would have been a glaring omission.
Happy Holidays!
I have great hope for you Superbot, seeing has how you created a great game and it was your first, really says something. I hope that in the future, the games I buy are from you, and that you stay forever developing Sony EXCLUSIVE games. Keep up the good work!
PS. It would be soo great if you add Ostrava of Boletaria from Demon’s Soul! Or any other character from it, I just love PSASBR and Demon’s Soul, and I would love it if you bring a character from it! This is the link to my request: (I already have the moves and supers!)
http://community.us.playstation.com/t5/PlayStation-All-Stars-Battle/Just-my-mind-speaking-here-kinda-like-a-faster-version-of-Sir/m-p/39173291#U39173291
PLEASE keep this game alive forever with a lot of DLC!
Merry Christmas and happy New Year to you too Superbot. Hope you all have a good one,
Speaking on PSASBR, there are some things I want to discuss like quantity and quality of items, boss fight and more but right now I want to discuss the roster.
Why is the game called “PlayStation” All Stars when there are games that are iconic or important to PlayStation that aren’t in the game or haven’t even been announced yet? besides all the third party games like Crash, Spyro, MGS (Snake obviously), Silent Hill for example, where are the first party game characters like Legend of Dragoon, Jumping Flash, Arc the Lad, Dark Cloud, Syphon Filter, Team Ico for example? and instead of games iconic to PlayStation we have non iconic to PS games like Bioshock, Rising, DmC and games like Fat Princess made it in before games that are more iconic to PS?