Why has no one else tried to use this formula/game-type to make another best seller?

TubaElf · 10 months

A good friend of mine really wants a Super Smash Bros. clone to be made starring breakfast cereal characters.

ActionFlank · 10 months

Power Stone.

SirFadakar · 10 months

You mean Marvel vs X?

Sarria22 · 10 months

Cartoon Network Punch Time Explosion
Jump Superstars
Marvel Superhero Squad
DreamMix World TV fighters

paradox1123 · 10 months

Because everyone thinks that this game is good solely becasue of the Nintendo mascots. Don't get me wrong, it's a lot of fun to play as Nintendo favorites, but the fighting mechanics are the real reason why the game is so popular.

I'd love a game company that cares about competitiveness and game balance to take a stab at the smash formula; with their own characters designed from the ground up to fit a playstyle; not fitting a playstyle onto an existing character.

hiroshi_x · 10 months

Maybe DreamMix TV World Fighters for Gamecube and PS2? It even features Optimus Prime.

muskieratboi · 10 months

They Did. it was called TMNT Smash Up for the Wii.

It Sucked.

King_of_the_G1ngers · 10 months

They have, it was called Super Smash Bros. Brawl

Acrostis · 10 months

Probably because no other game company has as many franchise game characters as Nintendo.

Closest I can think of would be Jump Super/Ultimate Stars, and that will never come out of Japan due to problems licensing the characters.

RyderJ · 10 months

Rag Doll Kung Fu is pretty fun with other people.

OneTrickRaptor · 10 months

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Onimusha_Blade_Warriors

drupido · 10 months

look, here is the most famous ripoff in Japan. It's actually pretty fun if you are a fan. Many items are found in their exact same iteration in this game:

BATTLE STADIUM D.O.N.

Sodfarm · 10 months

There was this game called Small Arms that sort of tried to modify the basic idea to make it about gunplay rather than close quarters fighting. It's a stretch, but I definitely saw the resemblance when I played it. It's pretty good, but pretty unbalanced and has limited content, as it was an XBLA game.

lordskelzor · 10 months

I like the way fights play out in this way more than in something like Street Fighter or Mortal Kombat

Gyper · 10 months

I hear Cartoon Network punch time explosion is actually an alright smash bros clone.

capnons660 · 10 months

Digimon Rumble Arena, cept it also had health bars. otherwise, its the same damn thing basically I got some kicks out of that game with my little bros

jormugandr · 10 months

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teenage_Mutant_Ninja_Turtles:_Smash-Up

LordOfAwesomeTown · 10 months

I think Sony could if they wanted too. There are plenty of characters to choose from with all of their exclusive games.

Frix · 10 months

They did, several times actually. but in the end if the game simply isn't good then pasting popular characters on it won't fix anything.

boxxy_brown · 10 months

This game type has been around LONG before Smash Bros. I can't remember the name of the game at the moment but there was a 2D arcade game that had the exact formula but instead there was more blood and gore and actually more interesting overall.

Also this game has been made of entirely mascot characters. Not every company has 20 characters that they can throw out that are recognizeable.

Capcom, yeah. Konami, not so much, but they did make their own games that have a few mascots back on the NES.

Squaresoft(enix) Did a few games but they sell about as well as they could.

Now you have to think of the other dozen developers if you made a game.

Ubisoft - What is their most well known titles? Assassins creed, Splinter Cell, Beyond Good and Evil, and a dozen tom clancy titles with different characters. Not exactly viable material for a smash bros game.

Atlus - This would be a massive mistake. It wouldn't make any sense. They actually have a lot of Japan only games and if they released a game like this it would be just a mess.

The only games that I can think of lately that were even semi-decent that used characters of something was Jump Superstars 1 and 2. But 2 cut out DBZ or something like that if I remember right.

Point is it just isn't a practical game format.

HopeRidesAlone · 10 months

They should make a game with the latest Smash Bros Engine based around Arrested Development. Koo-koo-ka-cha!

Ellimis · 10 months

Because the initial appeal that actually originally drew an audience to the game was the mashup of characters. No other company has licenses to that many popular characters.

Obviously the game has evolved since then, but you have to have an interesting character base in the first place to attract users.

MrFalconGarcia · 10 months

Onimusha blade warriors and the naruto ultimate ninja series are very similar

MetaLink13 · 10 months

Soul Calibur is probably the closest to a non-Nintendo game on this genre.

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