The reason the game never got a big scene among the hardcore was it was extremely poorly balanced. All the characters kept the different fighting systems from their individual games and were just thrown together. Because of this the Darkstalker characters (Jedah and Anakaris especially) were way better than any of the others. They just had so much more to work with. They basically could just zone the SF characters (2, Alpha, and 3S) to death. The Warzard characters were just a little behind the Darkstalker ones. The SF characters (especially the SF2 ones) just didn’t have the tools to keep up with the rest of the cast. Add into that the already small number of selectable characters and you ended up with a game were just 2 or 3 characters were viable at high end play.
The Xbox version did have online play, but hardly anyone was ever on. I don’t think an XBLA or PSN release would do much to bring this game back. It was fun to mess around with but that was about it (no real long term reason to put time into it).
That looked pretty great actually, tense match the entire way through
The game may look a bit ghetto (Sprites from CVS2, VS, SF3 and Alpha all thrown together) but it obviously plays much better than a random MUGEN project
Hah. Yeah, that took me a second to get but you’re right. There were cameos of nearly everyone from SF2/Alpha/3s in the background. Loved the artwork for the game too. The comic-style endings were a nice original touch.
I’m kinda wondering what’s stopping Capcom from re-releasing their entire fighter catalog on XBL/PSN. Especially now that they are licensing GGPO netcode.
Maybe not their entire catalog, but some of their bests would be great (3s, CvS2, Alpha 3, some of the earlier VS games, maybe an EX game, etc).
This game was probably the least played capcom fighting game on the 180. I highly doubt it will be resurrected. Most complaints come from the cut and paste job on the characters and if I remember right the other complaint was the super bars for each style made some bad matchups or something like that. Ono apologized for that a while back. Personally I thought the game was alright and played some matches on the 180 as late as OCT of last year.
That was one of the best thing about this game. The soundtrack was actually pretty good.
The game itself wasn’t bad. It just wasn’t finished in the traditional 1st game is ok but it’s sequel is great formula (CvS2, MvC2). They slapped it together probably hoping and banking on the Capcom name selling it. Probably thinking it would at least do well enough to warrant a sequel. It obviously didn’t and now we’re stuck with a half decent game cut down before it had it’s time to really shine with a sequel with as many characters as MvC2.
this is stupid, this is why it’s a team game. counter picking becomes essential.
it’s too bad we’re all too stupid or lazy to wrap our heads around the concept, ono appologized but probably muttered “stupid, idiots” under his breath
Well, as much I find it to be a good idea, most people would hate it, due to the fact that 90% of the fighting gamers hate that game, not to mention that, if your talking about XBLA, well, then the game would have to be on DreamCast and all that.
It wasn’t that the game was bad, it was just boring. It was technically sound, they just didn’t give it anything to keep you hooked. Some more characters may have helped, I’m not sure.
Eh, Capcom said that they’re basically trying to learn from their past mistakes and not over-saturate the market. Someone from Capcom said in an interview, regarding bringing CvS2 to XBL/PSN, that most people will only buy one fighting game a year, because that’s how long it takes them to master it. Whether or not that’s true, that’s pretty much why MvC3 isn’t coming out until next year, and why the likely forthcoming Darkstalkers game won’t be announced until then.
Ya Jedah and anakris are in another league compared to the rest of the cast. Jedah was bat shit insane imo, and his mixup game was ridiculous. Really their offense was better and they had solid zoning options that most of the rest of the cast simply had no consistent answer to.