Somehow I hadn’t heard that yet. Screw Amazon.
Shouldn’t believe everything you read. Especially after I said that earlier in this very thread.
Amazon has it for $12.
And Gamestop sucks. Don’t buy it from them.
Out of curiosity, anyone know if there’s going to be a card appendix for Heroes and Heralds mode in it? Since the first guide had Jill and Shuma, I assume that this one will also have early DLC included.
I’d love that.
Also:
Gamestop: “You know that game you spent $30 on yesterday? Yeah, you can trade it in for two bucks.”
A little off the topic of money, but on the topic of Gamestop
>_> I tried to pre-order my copy on Gamestop yesterday online, ended up about thirty cents short of using my giftcard. Tried to put my debit card to cover the rest and they ended up charging the whole thing to my card. Canceled it, but I found out that I have enough rewards points to score the guide for free. I’m just hoping that they’ll let me use the coupon from the rewards to actually preorder the thing.
They do preorders of guides in stores, right?
Yes I pre ordered mine at gamestop as well.
Thanks. I’ll probably go in and do that tomorrow or something.
I don’t know if this has been posted yet. But how do you guys intend to deal with the eventual DLC characters released for this game?
Curious to hear your response on this. Thanks.
Hope they don’t or else it will spoil the game like ssfae is ass. Shuma and jill are great character because or dlc nobody like, play, or know how to fight them.
Like all other strategy guides, I doubt it will be updated. Not to put a negative light on this, but the original even after the patches of Vanilla was still damn accurate for the most part. If there are DLC characters, by the time they come out, you’ll only have a couple to look up on SRK and learn. Rather than have the other 50 not conveniently printed on paper and written about.
I wouldn’t be upset about it, and have high hopes for the quality of the guide if it’s no worse than the last.
It would be nice if there was a write up about DLC characters, but people don’t work for free.
Also difficult to know how many more DLC are planned - because you need the final product to make a guide.
Worst thing would be to write an addendum of say 4 characters, make people pay for it, and then 2 more come out in a couple months time.
Did not fully understand. You mind repeating what you were trying to say?
I figured as much, thanks though 
MILF is saying that they hope that they don’t add DLC characters to UMvC3 because it will make UMvC3 ass like SSFIV:AE…?
But AE was a new edition with many more changes aside from the characters added.
Makes no sense
I thought he was saying that Shuma and Jill were good and no one knew it cos they were DLC.
I think you’re understating the effect of the patches, but I also believe most people were massively overstating their effects upon your guide. They acted like a few no longer valid combos, a health change, and a few other tweaks suddenly rendered the entire book meaningless when that’s just not true. Most of your write-ups remained very valid ways to quickly get familiar with a character; I could grab the MvC3 (regular) guide even today, pick almost any character in the list, and become at least vaguely competent with them inside of a few hours. Not good, not great, but I would quickly arrive at “I know what this character does now and wouldn’t completely embarrass myself if I picked them at an event.” That’s not bad at all.
The truth thus lies somewhere in the middle, though much closer to your viewpoint than those who go “Sentinel’s health was changed? Entire book rendered irrelevant!”
In any case, I really liked the first guide and have pre-ordered the UMvC3 one. Best of luck to you!
P.S., a side response to those wanting a ‘digitally patchable version’… technically, I’ve seen things set up that could easily allow this. Such as PC Gamer’s online publication via Steam. It could work, though whether it’s market-practical for this project is an entirely different topic.
To the best of my knowledge, yes. The title is correct and clearly for the Ultimate version of MvC3. The publisher, BradyGames, is correct. The release date makes sense for the game in question. The product specifications talk about tournament players writing it (granted, that on its own means nothing, I’m sure we’ve seen guides from “THE PROS” that are anything but helpful; but in this case we know the pros in question), and the estimated/placeholder page-count is similar to the product we’re expecting.
I am 99.999999% sure that’s the book we want, and have placed my pre-order for the exact product you linked to. If that’s somehow not it, then a whole hell of a lot of us just got duped by what would be passing itself off as the right guide.
Yeah, although if you’re crazy about it like me you might want to consider checking out your local Gamestop on the 9th instead, they’re supposed to be getting the guides in early.
I’ll probably opt to save the ~$8