Marvel vs. Capcom Infinite

Any hardcore complaining about the Avengers can be silenced with public recognizability really quick.

Hell, if the purpose is to drum up interest in dormant properties like Darkstalkers, who do you want Morrigan and Felicia rubbing shoulders with, the Avengers, stars of the biggest blockbusters of the past decade, or Marrow and Sentinels?

edited 20th May '17 8:34:24 AM by Beatman1

Marvel and Capcom plays the opposite way here: Marvel with relevancy and Capcom with interest in older titles.

Cuz Capcom never seem to make "new" games nowadays

edited 20th May '17 8:44:22 AM by Getta

Plus some characters that have been in the MCU are also characters people haves asked for anyway.

Like i remember people wanting Loki, Black Panther and Carol Danvers in M v C 3 last time.

Yup. And I personally have wanted Ultron in the series even before the movies so this works out well for me.

I don't understand the hate for SF 3 characters. They lack some of the old-school cheese of the previous Street Fighters, but different isn't necessarily a bad thing. There's an urban groundedness to them, similar to a lot of the more memorable SNK designs. Sure there's some lame ones like Twelve but then you have rad ones like Elena, Dudley, and Makoto. And people who hate Yun and Yang can fite me.

You have standard martial artists, an expy of Mr. A/The Question, and a ninja who everyone seems to like. They seem either too grounded or too outlandish, rather than that middle ground.

Also, reading some of the dialog for Project X Zone...if the gsme's story mode has moments like that, it will be good.

edited 20th May '17 5:23:39 PM by Beatman1

The hate seems to have lessened over time. Ibuki is quite popular and Dudley, Elena, Makoto, Hugo and Yun all seem to have their fans, with Dudley even winning that poll to get into Super Street Fighter IV. I actually am keeping my fingers crossed Ibuki makes it into this one.

I think at the time a lot of it came down to They Changed It, Now It Sucks!, which I'm guessing is the reason the holdouts still dislike those characters.

edited 20th May '17 6:14:19 PM by comicwriter

I'd enjoy seeing Q again sometime.

The thing about Q is that Street Fighter is in a...relatively good place as far as representation. If the whole point of this is to reinvigorate dormant properties, you need reps from said properties. Then again, if Q actually spoke, it would be like having The Question with the Marvel superheroes. Don't know who wanted that crossover, but here we are.

I guess that's why I would like the story mode to do what Netherrealm does, where each chapter has a focus character, and said character teams with random people for each fight.

Then again, if the intro is Morrigan dancing while a battle between some superheroes and say, Asura rages in the background, it will be the best thing ever.

edited 22nd May '17 7:14:39 AM by Beatman1

Yeah, I agree that Marvel vs Capcom would not be the place for Q unless they paired him off with a really thematically fitting Marvel character and gave him a role a story mode, and even then, there'd be better choices.

I was just idly commenting on Q because the SF 3 cast came up. Probably should have framed it more clearly.

If I were to pick any character from 3, at least of the ones less likely to show up (Ibuki is relatively likely, for example, and Urien - who with his brother totally fits right in with Marvel's tone), it'd probably be Necro. He has a good Marvel-esque hook story-line wise, he has powers that are relatively easy to make more spectacular than usual, and visually he's expressive and interesting. His moveset would need an overhaul, but it would hardly be the first time MVC did that.

Twelve would (thematically) be cool in an MVC game too, but he's too hated (mechanically) for anyone to bother including him.

I thought Q was based off Robot Detective K, an old Toei/Ishinomori show. And remember, Toei did work with Marvel back then with Spiderman (with a giant robot), Battle Fever J (team of Caps), Denziman, Sun Vulcan (A version of Hera was the main villain for both), and more recently the Disk Wars anime.

edited 22nd May '17 12:08:11 PM by Rinsankajugin

Elena might be fun, too. Arcade-mode story hook: Umbrella tries to set up an operation in Kenya (much like they did in Kijuju in RE 5), Elena travels to Wakanda to get help, and Black Panther himself comes back with her to help kick Wesker's face in.

I like it. It's more elaborate and original than "Daredevil thinks Ibuki works for The Hand."

Elena, I think, would be the person who finally discovers how to make friends with zombies.

I like that a lot.

Yeah he was definitely based on K◊. Continuing Street Fighter's love of making character homages to Japanese pop culture.

edited 22nd May '17 7:16:01 PM by comicwriter

X-Men characters are confirmed for Marvel Future Fight, one of the games under the "Fox-ban" I think it bodes well for X-Men characters and Fantastic Four characters being DLC.

edited 26th May '17 3:17:24 AM by KSoniK

I now imagine the X-Men in the story mode...as complete butt monkeys. They get owned whenever they show up, Sentinels get mowed down by the dozen, Morrigan is shown to be able to do what the entire Blue Team can't do, etc.

well, the X-Men at least. Only FF characters I could see are Doom and maybe Super Skrull.

But how do we embarrass Doom?

I know!

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What makes you think the X-men will be in the story. They might be dlc at this point. :p

That's more likely, but it's funnier if they do show up only to be embarrassed.

edited 26th May '17 7:41:07 AM by Beatman1

Why would that be funny?

Childish spite on the part of Marvel? If you refuse to take the story seriously, I could see that being pretty funny.

I doubt Marvel cares that much.