Originality Isn't Dead, It Just Isn't Necessary

With the official reveal of PlayStation All-Stars Battle Royale, many of the early criticisms centered around a lack of originality. After all, any gamer worth his salt is well aware of the three Super Smash Brothers games and how they play, and it’s not hard to see the similarities. It also didn’t help that one of the official pictures on developer SuperBot Entertainment’s web site clearly shows a Wii sitting next to a TV. The terms “copy,” “unoriginal” and even “copyright infrigement lawsuit” have all been directed at this game, yet none of them are truly deserved.

[ZeroChaos]

Gamers now a days don't know what they want.

They call for games to be original yet gladly pay more for unoriginal games and do not support the games that need supporting.

[Abash]

People begged for a PlayStation Smash Bros and when Sony does it they say "Duh wha? I thoughtz PS Smash Bros was like NOT gonna be like Smash Bros."

[MaxXAttaxX]

If we only limit one company to making a certain type of game, then we're limiting gaming and progress.

Pre-existing ideas are expanded by others and that's how games evolve.
Should RCA be the only ones allowed to make TVs? Should ID Software be the only ones allowed to make FPS games?

PS Battle Royale doesn't even use the same rules (percentage, stage/ring outs, etc).
It has original characters and movesets, super meters and whatnot.

Don't know why 'some people' feel so threatened. This game doesn't affect SSB in any way.

[PHOSADRA]

Remember the Michael commercial and how people were mad it wasn't a game with all the characters? Now they have the game and are still mad -_-
.....
And as for originality....
After Sony has introduced so many new IP's this gen and have more on the way (The Last Guardian, Ni No Kuni....)
Whats wrong with making a game like this after proving they can come up with their own ideas as well?

[PygmelionHunter]

Ni No Kuni was made by Level 5 in partnership with Studio Ghilbi, just sharing some information before someone replies to your comment in a bad way.

[PHOSADRA]

@PygmelionHunter
...Yes I understand.
I simply referred to games that were exclusive to Sony ... not necessarily a 1st Party Studio.

[Lord_Sloth]

Originality keeps the industry from going stale. I don't mind people copying a game, just don't copy the same thing everybody else is. *looks at the current FPC craze*

Copy Stealth games like Tenchu, the original Hitman, or somethin. We don't have enough of those around. Give us more sword games that aren't God of War clones.

The Beat 'em Up is overdue for a new hit as well.

[konnerbllb]

What does FPC stand for?

[wenaldy]

First Person Camping

[Lord_Sloth]

Woops.

[mr_badhand]

Exactly, I don't mind copying, as long as it improves on the original.

[smashcrashbash]

I really don't see what the big deal is. This is just coming off one of the most original game I have seen in a long time, Journey. So Sony MUST always make original titles or pay the penalty of the constant whining of fanboys? SSB isn't even an original concept. Any one who knows gaming history knows that.

[Hicken]

Whether they make original titles or not, Sony will pay the penalty of constantly whining fanboys. If Sony's backing it, there's more than enough reason for certain groups to complain.

Which is exactly why everyone's forgotten about anything that ISN'T SSB that's in the same vein. Power Stone, a great game, was SSB before SSB, in my opinion. It lacked the star power of SSB and was more 3D, but it's as similar to SSB as All Stars is. And Onimusha had a game in the same style, too; I don't recall anybody calling that a Super Smash clone.

And yet, even after bringing these games to the attention of the detractors, they will STILL only have eyes for Sony's title.

[arbitor365]

all-stars is the game we all wanted. or at least everyone who didnt dismiss the concept from the outset (cough cough, nintendo fanboys)

[arbitor365]

if Nintendo released a car combat game, I doubt people would be complaining. not just because of nintendo favoritism, but because its a style of game that we don't get very often.

aside from the capcom, SNK, and marvel crossovers, we dont get too many games like this. and of course, the idea of having a fighting game like this with sony characters has never been done.

All-stars is a plethora of things we have never seen before. Its just using a previously successful formula.

[r21]

hardcore nintendo fanboys are really bashing this game, usually saying its a SSB clone. yeah, obviously we can see that but what that they dont see, its a game for PS fans which is great for us. honestly, i cant wait to play as sly or drake or cole :D

[labaronx]

if the company adds it's own ideas on top of it....
for example

modnation racer may not have beaten out mario kart wii in terms of gameplay and fun factor, but modnation racers course builder was highly touted by critics as being a definitive feature in the game. That same track builder will be in LBP racing as well

as a planned wii-u buyer, i hope with the new processing power and improved online we will get something similar for mario kart wii-u, and would be incredibly disappointed if nintendo didn't finally add the feature....

will

[A LIVING LEGEND]

I'm not necessarily convinced that a lack of ' originality ' is the primary concern....
even though it is the easiest of criticisms available.

[GamingPerson]

Actually it's on pc!!

[Ck1x]

I dont think its a factor of who did what first because thats pretty obvious. But what won't make any sense is if Sony for the sake of trying to make the game original, ends up taking only bits and pieces from the SSB series and not the whole element that makes the games fun... I would rather play more of an All Stars game in the Mortal Kombat vain then SSB, I think most of Sony's IP's fall into the ripping ones heart out or head off more-so than knocking them out of the stage or something

[palaeomerus]

It's like this:

A bunch of silly nobodies, with no skin the game, and no real world experience with making or marketing games, inexplicably believe that they are incredible, natural born, game business geniuses, with superior taste and excellent, if not infallible, judgement, who should unilaterally guide all game development and marketing.

Presumably most of them are ignorant rather than insane. They exist in a dreamworld, of self importance, where gaming is concerned, because they simply don't know, and can't imagine, just how disastrous most of their 'off the hip' intuition-driven advice would be if actually implemented.

They feel like they are uniquely fit to judge what is good and so assume that what they dislike about gaming is also bad for everyone else. They assume that an entire market will love what they love and hate what they hate. Why? because they tune out all the people who routinely disagree with them and come up with excuses about why they must be wrong. Maybe they aren't real gamers, or they are new gamers, or casuals, or niche gamers, or 'bros', or they don't understand PC's etc. It seems like there is always some reason to ignore any and all input that contradicts the illusion of being 'one with all gamers' (except all those flawed fake gamers that are wrong and are ruining gaming).

These people can't get much of anybody to listen to them so they get on the internet and bitch to each other endlessly so they can feel really important without having to accomplish anything or prove anything.

The rest of the world that invests and buys and sells things, and actually tracks demand, hardly cares about these deluded cranks and their various theories. They ignore the chattering because they know from experience that most of it is worthless or even harmful.

Naturally the self appointed geniuses think that since they are being ignored, those people who ignore them must be part of a monolithic force that is ruining gaming.

Too long didn't read.