As you know, the third edition of the MvC series has been announced. If you didn't know, well, the third edition of the MvC series has been announced. Oh, and it looks delicious. Here's the extended trailer released during E3, which introduces the matchups Ryu vs. Wolverine, Morrigan vs. Iron Man, Chris Redfield vs. The Hulk and Dante vs. Deadpool. You should watch it if only for the fact that Deadpool gets unintentionally buttraped: Looks like it plays very similar to TvC, even the control scheme keeps almost the same button control scheme. So, discuss away, I guess.
MvsC 1 & 2 are by far the two most played games on my arcade at home! That's what's running in the photos below!
I didn't play much of 2, but I used to play the first one to death on the PS, really addictive and fast paced.
I used to have a M.A.M.E emulator on my old PC, and the game that I'd play the most was... wait for it.. Marvel vs. Capcom 2. The keys on my keyboard were starting to wear because of it. This looks absolutely fantastic, almost better than Mortal Kombat.
Ah, I was never interested in Mortal Kombat, so naturally MvC3 interests me way more. MvC3 looks pretty different from the previous game, most notably the control scheme among other things. It looks closer to Tatsunoko vs Capcom, to be honest, so hopefully TvC players such as myself will feel right at home with it
Yippee! Another "classic" MvC game which probably will have an unbalanced roster, be way too friggin' spazzy and open to a broken system of the same move by the same teams over and over again. Oh, and the fact that the Marvel superhero characters don't really "fit" with Capcom videogame characters for the most part. Yippee! Wake me when Capcom decides to do one of two things: 1. Another team up with SNK. At least the rosters fit together better, the games were much, much better balanced, and the whole thing wasn't based on a broken ass system of tier set ups with same strategies over and over again. Oh, and they weren't glorified spaz fests. Amazing to me how people dug MvC2 when even the Vampire/Darkstalkers series was much better overall. 2. Capcom keeps the broken ass spazfest, but decides that, y'know, instead of teaming up Marvel superhero characters with their own, that maybe, just maybe, going hard after the DC Comics character licenses are worth it. Yeah, I'd have the same complaints about the overall fighting engine, but at least the DC superheroes would be a better "fit" with the Marvel U characters, and as a by product maybe we'd actually get something of a more balanced roster. After all, in MvC2 damn near the whole Capcom side was nigh unusable, and teams were mostly comprised of Marvel characters. Gotta figure it wouldn't be the same if DCU characters made up the other side of the roster rather than Capcom's characters. Besides which, the comic geek in me would go all fanboy on that game.
You know the MvC franchise is universally loved, right. It's slightly more hidden than the flamboyant SF praise, but MvC2 is one of the big names in fighting game tournaments.
You'd be amazed by how many tourneytards you can find in some fighting game forums, they keep going on and on and on about how unbalanced it is and how unusuable everyone is and blah-di-blah-di-blah. Bottom line is that it is, like you say, universally popular.
See I'm not a pro gamer, or a fighting enthusiast, I just play what's fun. And MvC 2 is FUN. Easily the funnest fighting game out there, and that's why people play it and love it, not because it's "balanced" or any other crap like that. Just have fun with it. Onto MvC 3, I played it at e3 and it was my favorite game there. It was so amazing, the controls are pretty much the same but the overall gameplay is improved and the graphics are BEAUTIFUL. So yeah, it's awesome.
Yeah, while I'm not a casual fighting gamer, I'm not exactly a super-hardcore tournament player, I'm somewhere in between. MvC fits nicely into that middle part, making it highly accessible, and it's one of the reasons I like TvC so much. Oh, and you're so lucky you got to play it
