Hey at least you guys got tournaments and actual competitions for marvel. Over here in Singapore, it never ever gets above casuals, and even then the skill level between 70% of the people that play marvel (scrubs) and the pros is too far apart that the 70% just give up. And so little people play now that I’m practically willing for some guy to just put in his quarter, so that I don’t have to play against the comp every day.
sigh.
=(
MvC2 shoudnt be dying.
I just started playing this game like 6 months ago. I got really obsessed and i dled so many videos and everything, did searches and stuff on how to improve.
i remember getting beat up by players who used spiderman doing 7 hit combos on me over and over again >.<
But then i’ve been serious at it for half a year and i’ve gone from using iceman spiderman or zangief to scrub then to teamZ and finally => MSP my favorite.
I remember practicing for ever just to get magic down. Spending weeks trying to get tigerknee down. And practically months just to get ROM down and finally one day it just started working well and the possibilities arising from it are limitless. oh the joy of learning new stuff =(
To be as good as the pros really takes time, but if newbies keep up at it they can get good. Nowadays its hard to find competition for mvc2, so ppl arent wont be willing to invest so much time in mvc2 to get good just to beat nobody. Its hard for new blood.
QFT. Yeah thats what i feel, i started with the usual newb teams and as time pass i practiced with friends or random people. But as time passed it seems they became uninterested and moved on, while i stayed loyal to mvc2 and did my time, now im good at it and find myself playing one game every single day @ the mall. And is true that a new rival arrives after time passes. I found myself a buddy and he is getting the hang ouf it, just hope he doesnt quit all of a sudden.
I live in the home of the gate, the best competitive arcade in the south, but dont have a ride to go, h-town is big and the place is to far and only open once a week on friday nights 
that seems like the biggest problem with people that try to learn marvel, they always quit thanks to either marvel hate, (which is funny because the game of the fighting game scene used to be marvel.) or they just think they can get better at something else quicker.
New gamers are just like that, they don’t want to put time and effort into learning a game for big payoffs, they want a “win” button an thats it, these new gamers don’t think they should have to lose.
Sad but true.
Yeah i’m fo sho dedicated to this game. I’ve taught people and they’ve gotten good but then quit anyways and it sucks because they’re people that love the game but stray beacuase the scene is dead around here. (Our arcade closed and not a whole lot of people are down with going out of town.) Well yknow its alot easier to stay dedicated when there is great competition always around the corner and the community was into growin and helpin eachother. Now that the arcades out over here practice rarely happens since we have one person who owns a mas stick and no one wants to practice on a pad.
Now atleast the machines moved to a laser tag place, but still not as nice as at the mall where its more likely to attract a wanderer who is interested. Or mall employees that get into the game and play on thier break everyday. Or somethin.
Do people who want to play this game have to go to an arcade to have a scene really? I think anyone would be satisfied with just meeting at someone’s house and playing on the DC.
its like playing cs or dota with anybody… eventually you get bored of playing your own friends and just want to play against the rest of the world. its a way of measuring your own skills.
some ppl can just play games against their friends and have fun
but other ppl get their fun from a skilled competition / fun from owning other people knowing that they are good and you beat them
Its a matter of perspective … with so many arcades closing down, capcom should’ve made mvc2 xbox live too 
Fo sho
Most arcades these days only have Tekken 5 and DDR/ITG2 going for them right now, sad but true. I was mad when a local scrapped their Third Strike machine and later closed down due to contract issues with the mall. There was a very good article on arcades on Shoryuken.com a long time ago about the “crisis”. If arcades had more games that people actually WANTED to play then they wouldn’t be going extinict.
Come to bugis on saturday. But it actually depends on where you play in Singapore. I randomly go to Bugis on weekdays I still manage to get ppl to play against half the time. Of the half the time maybe 2/3s are scrubs or newbies and 1/3 are pro.
I think plaza sing is also a good place
This thread must’ve pulled a Gill on me when I wasn’t looking 
This thread was made 3 years ago, and it’s kinda weird to look back on how things were then, and how I personally feel about marvel now. My local mall is getting demolished soon and the arcade is going with it. They are going to replace it with a wal-mart so that’s good (seriously), but yea I just don’t know. Marvel will probably always be underground and may exist for a while longer as a closely held game in the fighting game community but I really doubt it, or very likely any other fighting game, will ever take the mainstream by storm again. Of course, you can still hope…
As much as I love this game…I own a copy, yet none of my friends play.
My arcades don’t have them. Nobody plays. This game is nearly dead to me.
Sounds like a personal problem.
Arcades are dying because they’re getting rid of the expensive cps-3’s for cheap bootlegs like kofs. Not just, oh, a bootleg 02 [I enjoy kof as well], but the super duper delux infinite meter versions. It’s sort of depressing, and the arcades close complaining that everyone just stopped going for no reason.
If everyone who goes to your arcade is a noob, don’t discourage them from playing, because someone is better than no one.
Week and a half more and no more 5am-11pm bs, I’ll get back into MvC2 and try to get people into it as well.
I’ve been playing MvC2 alot lately, so none of you guys better quit now, if we all do, then it really will be the end, however as long as competetion is there, then MvC2 will stay alive. It’s a great game, always loved it, I doubt it’ll ever truly die.
Bump just to say its almost 08 and marvel is still bangin’.
Evoworld2k7=The shit
Marvel will never die 
No way! MVC2 is a title that will continue standing the test of time.
Although competition has nearly died out in my local arcade, but thats ONLY because the lazy ass company that the machines are rented out from won’t fix shit anymore. Basically have two machines that are 1-player only.
Tired of playing MVC2: Ghetto edition, with broken buttons, and the wonkey sticks.
Uh, it still gets massive tourney turnouts?
Like there’s a major that goes on in every state anyway?
Even in the states where there aren’t majors, people still play marvel. Nobody is being idenial. It’s just a fact. The game isn’t dead. Anyone who says otherwise isn’t paying attention.