Capcom definitely said that they were expecting MvC3 to sell more than SSF4. That probably wouldn’t happen. So sales are not “low” but neither are they “good”.
If we’re still talking characters we’d like to see, I think Darwin (formerly) from X-men would make an interesting design. I know he’s not a very well known character and it’ll never happen but it would be interesting to see how Capcom would make him work.
Darwin has the power of reactive evolution which basically means he automatically gains powers that help him adapt to pretty much any situation. If he spends a few seconds in the dark he gets night vision, if he dives underwater he grows gills, if he fights Hulk he gets to power to absorb gamma energy from him (and if he gets punched by the Hulk, he gets the power to instantly teleport three states away to be at a safe distance). I don’t know how to make that power work in the game because it would kinda make him a bad matchup against everyone, but like I said, it would be interesting if it was done right.
Darwin actually made it into X-Men First Class as a matter of fact
Wow, I had no idea. Nice to see him getting some main stream attention.
Like others said, MvC3 sold great as far as the genre goes. Fighting games are still kinda niche and companies are trying to get it at that mainstream level (and a certain recent blog explained why it’s a bitch to do). Don’t wave off any game that sells over a million. That’s pretty crazy. It’s not halo or CoD numbers, but seriously, more than half of their adopters are band wagon babies, kids who think blood/guns are ‘cool’, and hype consumers who put those games right back on the shelf after a month or two.
Considering the demographic, genre circumstance, and economic context, MvC3 (along with SSF4) did great. You have to consider factors like that. For instance, TvC - for a core fighting game on a family oriented console with one half of the cast from an obscure company… Capcom made a deal with the devil to get the numbers it did. In fact, SMvC3 is most likely happening because of the numbers it pulled, rather than “We screwed up, let’s try again” (that really isn’t how sequels get greenlit, it’s about the money Labrowski).
Also, once upon a time, the Vs games did come out almost annually. Instead of prefix or subtitles like SF, they just had different names (semantics really). (So SMvC3 may be called something different, who knows)
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I miss those days too. So much easier lol.
i personally really dont want another disc release
So capcom, When is Mvc3 Arcade Edition coming out. I mean…its not like you’ve ever done that with any other game…
OH WAIT…
I just went on a trip to memory lane and i thought of this. Vanessa from P.N.03
The ultimate zoning, booty shakin’ character mvc3 needs. I mean having her in super would mean stirring up old projects and new interest in P.N.03: The Sequel(Which I desperately want).
She would certainly be interesting. Too bad Capcom basically wants to forget PN03 ever existed, alongside Dino Crisis.
They haven’t forgotten Dino Crisis at all. One of the stages in SFxTekken is based on the Dino Crisis universe.
Regina from Dino Crisis would be pretty cool. I expect they’d make her something like an MvC2 Jill.
Also, after watching some old MvC2 videos, I really wish that Cable was in this game.
Changes i think would benefit the game
-A universal damage decrease by about 15%. The fact that the games at best 3 months old and there are one touch death combos should say something.
-X factor tone down. The idea in this very thread was great.
3 characters- x factor is only a speed boost
2 characters- level 1 x factor
1 character- level 2 x factor
-Phoenix having 2 character modes.
The one we have now
jean grey with 790,000 health, a trap super( there isn’t one now and it’d definitely help shift the game from LOL i rush-down first if more characters had options like this), no more healing field super. a very very low priority beam ( many projectiles go through it) mainly for better assists OR the drilling attacks likes psylockes, i mean jean is a telepath too. More than clearly the level 5 should be replaced and the phoenix super toned down a bit. Not dark phoenix for this one.
- 3-5 more for each side, but more defense oriented or more tanks preferably.
- bottom tier getting more tools (arthur, morrigan, hsien ko, haggar, well, all of the game besides the top 10)
- getting rid of iron mans ridiculous cr H or increasing it’s speed so its more than an input slip that has no benefit.
- Wesker less health. rest of top tier is fine. but maybe just 950,000-900,000 at lowest
- making arthur more like a vs character and less like im playing ghouls and gob… oh wait this is mvc3 and im dead.
- SPECTATOR MODE
- THE ABILITY TO PLAY MUSIC DURING OFFLINE MATCHES (mainly a ps3 complaint)
- better net code so a jumping hulk/tron/sentinel mashing 1 move isn’t viable.
- a personal complaint is that dead pool could use something more to be entertaining and taskmaster should be more like dante and less like a character claiming to be able to master fighting styles yet only have moves from two of the least interesting in the cast ( captain america and spiderman)
- More extra content to make it so im not either looking at the 2 image endings or playing online, playing mission mode or training. it feels empty and i can’t tell whats missing.
Wait super skrull a grappler? did i read that right? doesn’t he have one command grab?
vvv Thats the best and least invasive idea honestly just make the timing difficultvvv
^I said it once, and I’ll say it again. Make Ironman’s cr. H special cancellable; there would be a whole lot less crying about the move being caca (which it kind of is admittingly) and more “OMFG Ironman is rediculous with an RE”.
Isn’t it a Mishima experimental site? You know were the crossbreeded Alex (Tekken Raptor that is).
It’s possible, but in the canon, only Alex and Roger were created by Dr. Boskonovich.
No it’s part of the Tekken universe. Kazuya’s G Corp employed Boskonovitch to create Roger and Alex canonically, hence the reserves full of genetically engineered animals.
I question that because canonically, they only had enough DNA to create Alex, not a whole stable of dinosaurs which you see in the background.
Megacrash would save this game from the bs prevailent. Seriously, just implement Megacrash the same as TVC, and the game becomes way more enjoyable, meter management becomes important and red life+2 bars=good.
if they put in megacrash I will never play this game again