So far in every vs game if you made a team soley of characters you like you will lose to people who pick characters that are good. Period.
exactly, im in the business of studying the game and making a well informed decision after i figure the engine out
if the good chars happen to be ones i like(STORM!!!) then all the better
hell i hope that we can discover some things that make chars that look weak now good. spidey for example looks like a glass cannon without the cannon, but id love for him to be good(he was my favorite super hero growing up)
Yeah, you can’t pick 3 really good characters in MVC3 like CVS2 and win just because it’s one and one and the characters are that good. Team composition is really important in team tag games. Just look at the teams in MVC2 a lot of them follow have some sort of synergy between the characters to form a strategy. Spiral/Sent/Cable, StriDoomSent, MSP, Santhrax, hell even JWong’s low tier team of Jill/Ruby Heart/Ken is good because of it’s composition. Picking your 3 favorite characters can be a bad approach if the characters don’t have synergy between them.
I am convinced he’s going to be one of the best characters in MVC3 (pending any other DLC characters that come out) because of how he works and how much space he’s able to control. He has the makings of a strong trap based character who can zone very effectively. That being said MODOK has to be retardedly good like MVC2 Sent good before I will consider using him.
i will be playing team pretty and team ugly, something like:
x23, viper, phoenix (alt colour)
or
superskrull, modok, dormamu
Underdogs have crazy gimmicky advantages and can get away with some pretty unique things that most characters struggle with. Which is why MODOK kinda scares the shit out of me.
My beta picks in MvC3: Ryu (most familiar SF to me in the game), Magneto (flying, wicked normals, easy to combo -> ultra, big damage) and Wolverine (crazy fast, wall jumps, nice combo links).
The one thing I hope they put into the game more than anything is a decent soundtrack. I swear to god, If I hear that “I want to take you for a ride” ANYWHERE I’ll rage quit on the spot.
Icy cool jazz is the soundtrack for Marvel and always should be. I think I read somewhere that ‘Take You For a Ride’ plays over the end credits or they snuck it into some section of the game. It just wouldn’t be marvel without it.
underdog’s tricks in marvel generally get figured out really quick and become obsolete as soon as they’re seen, prompting the age old classic STSFN (save that shit for nationals)
lesser characters can have really situational uses and can shine with the right team synergy - take spiral/sent as the prime example of this
as for your proposed team i see a few problems
- not sure how ryus srk assist will be as an AAA, i’d imagine it would be pretty punishable
- wolvie and magnus are rush down chars with low health, neither seems to be a battery and i dont know how they could really compliment eachother
- i think your assesment of magnus is a little off base
as well apparently take you for a ride is the credit music, and i fuckin love that song
you should be able to enable it for char selection somehow 
can’t wait to get my hands on marvel.
I base my <beta> selections on past experiences with the characters in other games (Mostly in XMvSF, MvC2 wasn’t really a hit with me) - the science of creating my ultimate team will be more-so done through experimentation and learning the game mechanics & options I’m comfortable with.
i think the hatred of that song stems from the time I took a nap one day with the MvC2 main menu on screen. It was melted into my brain for days afterwards, lol.
everyone hated “indestructible” too until SSF4 came out without it!!!
ditto
I’m with Foger; MODOK is fucking amazing! He’s a super unique character design and he’s an icon in the Marvel universe whether some fighting game fans like him or not. Marvel has also been pushing him a lot lately as he’s appeared in all of Marvel’s current cartoons (And he’s a main character in Marvel Super Hero squad where all the characters are super adorable versions of themselves 
). I assume he’s reached icon status as even if his character design is hated, he is definitely one of the only memorable characters from Captain America’s rogues gallery… the only other good one is Red Skull? There’s also the Nazi professor with a face in his stomach I guess…
So hype for this game. Got the collectors edition on pre-order…Not nearly enough Wesker players last night though, thought he’d be more popular. Definitely leaning towards him, Chris and Zero/Chun at the moment: But learning Haggar for the lulz would be awesome. I want gameplay footage of Shuma and Jill noooow.
I was gonna offer a release party at my place that day haha. Can’t wait.
Misguided, feel free to come to my place as well… It’d be sweet if you brought another monitor / console we could use! the more setups the better.
I will stock up on beer / food the night before. As for Spinach, my deck provides excellent blazing territory.
Thanks much Derry, I’ll bring food and beer and even cook something with my effeminate awesome skillz. Don’t think I’ve gotten the chance to meet you yet though as I think you started going to Tubbies the week after I was forced to stop going :(, but we’re friends on PSN so it’s like we’ve known each other all our lives. I have multiple set-upes to bring!
He has a name, and it’s Arnim Zola. I also think that the MODOK inclusion was awesome, although the character is kinda weird, I’m glad they put a really unique Marvel villain in. I’m hoping that the game turns out like MvC2 did in the way that the Marvel characters are the best in the game. As big of a Street Fighter fan as I am, I’m a much bigger Marvel fan. So far the only Capcom character that I have any interest in is Arthur, and now Mike Haggar, and that’s because I loved their games when I was younger. I hate the designs on a lot of the Capcom characters. Especially the DMC inclusions. They are just so damn japanese and I think they just look really dumb. Maybe my opinion on them will change when the game comes out, but I doubt I’ll use any Capcom characters outside of Haggar and Arthur.
ggs phil and mark … haven’t played this game in a month so i was just jamming with a bunch of characters.
Arnim Zola! I couldn’t remember it for the life of me haha. I too hope the Marvel characters are top contenders, but personally I am so impressed with how the design team meshed some very Japanese characters with very American characters. I think the art style works perfectly. I agree that characters like Wesker and Chris, whose designs were americanized to begin with, fit in with the style a lot better than say Morrigan or Felicia (And, worst of all, Tronne and Zero). But honestly, I think they did as good a job as I could hope for merging Japanese characters with American ones. The DMC characters were also fairly North American in their design in the original DMC as well, so personally I think they fit in quite nicely here.
(My hidden secret is I want to play Dante so bad… but so does the rest of the world :(… the only character who could possibly be more bad ass than Dante is Solid Snake or Jack Bauer! That’s the dream, at least…)
Yeah I started going to Tubby’s right after the Canada Cup. Still scrubbin’ the decks away, I’m fairly fresh on the scene.
Next time I’m online we should play some matches, send me an invite.
yo ough if only mgs was a capcom title instead of konami
If anyone is hosting sf fight night during the weekend. Let me know pls 
Peace