Xrd Loketest? Just watching it looks like it’s #R more than anything. I think other, established GG players that played it made no mention or comparison to Marvel so Xrd should be fine. And what does Miles923 mean by Marvel? Marvel 3? Marvel 2? Marvel 1 where I can just do HOH HOA all day with Wolverine?
And let’s hypothetically say it really did play like “Marvel,” it’s still just an alpha/beta phase that can easily change later on with later builds and tests. Seems like Arcsys and Ishiwatari really want to bring back an older style of GGXX that would be nostalgic for those that play GGXX back then and that there are lesser systems so that newer players can get into the game.
Elevenshadow went to the loketest and posted live updates while he was there. One of the first things he said about it was towards the gamespeed. “Game speed feels good! Pretty much just like XX series.”
I’ve been hearing the GG and Marvel comparison since I’ve started playing in XX. From a capcom-only player’s perspective, Marvel is the closest/only comparison.
(ST is a much closer comparison. Some ST players say GG is like what if SF2 never stopped updating. I think the two games have very similar pacing/emotion/clutchness.)
Before they took out the blood (not sure why), but the blood + most every character using a weapon was obviously inspired by Samurai Showdown. I started playing it from the very first game on PS1 and I was instantly reminded of Samurai Showdown as far as the aesthetics and the zooming camera.
The characters themselves borrow influence from a bunch of other fighting game characters and the gameplay is like a mix of Darkstalkers, Marvel and some other stuff in just a very basic sense. Overall though the game has enough of its own features and mechanics where it’s just its own thing. It’s obvious ArcSys was just fans of a bunch of different fighting games and just decided to make a game based on those influences.