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alessandro ( alessandro@lemmy.ca )  to PC Gaming@lemmy.ca · 2 years ago

Riot was working on a Smash Bros-style fighting game, but MultiVersus helped convince it to pull the plug

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Riot was working on a Smash Bros-style fighting game, but MultiVersus helped convince it to pull the plug

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alessandro ( alessandro@lemmy.ca )  to PC Gaming@lemmy.ca · 2 years ago
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  • JokeDeity ( JokeDeity@lemm.ee ) 
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    Every Smash clone tries to be innovative in the worst ways.

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    • DarkThoughts ( DarkThoughts@fedia.io ) 
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      To be fair, I think a PC / cross platform game would have more success due to a wider audience. But a lot of those clones often fail to understand the very basic things that make Smah Bros such a great title.

    • Dudewitbow ( Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip ) 
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      as far as platform fighters go, Brawlhala actually did decent.

      • JillyB ( JillyB@beehaw.org ) 
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        Also Rivals 2 will likely do well. If anything, we’re seeing platform fighters getting more and more recognized as a genre rather than one game and a bunch of clones.

        • Dudewitbow ( Dudewitbow@lemmy.zip ) 
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          yeah im hoping rival 2 does well long term. also hope that custom content community if possible thrives with it.

    • WanderingVentra ( WanderingVentra@lemm.ee ) 
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      I thought the Nickelodeon one had a lot of potential but they really fumbled it with the small cast, lack of voice acting, and bad netcode in the beginning. It was eerie seeing the Nickelodeon characters be utterly silent while hitting each other.

  • tacosanonymous ( tacosanonymous@lemm.ee ) 
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    Deciding not to make “meta” trash is a good decision.

  • ILikeBoobies ( ILikeBoobies@lemmy.ca ) 
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    https://2xko.riotgames.com/en-us/

    Maybe a better reason not to have it is because they already have a fighting game

    • JillyB ( JillyB@beehaw.org ) 
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      Agreed. I think 2XKO could be big enough and accessible enough to bring in Smash players. Riot probably realized they were cannibalizing their own hit game

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