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J.Scogz · August 16, 2011, 8:39pm

5 years after the game came out?

Little_Goten · August 16, 2011, 8:44pm

LOL, yeah.

This one’s even better.

“A Masher’s Dream”

I walked into an arcade and saw a 10-year-old brat insert some coins to play Marvel vs. Capcom and since Tekken Tag Tournament was already surrounded by a crowd of fanboys cheering at button-mashers, I thought it’d be cool to watch someone play the first major cross-over title. I had previously heard different views of it but as I always liked to see things for myself first, I decided to set aside the ‘tis game rOxOrs meh boxors’ or ‘tis mash xxx teh megaman art hah’ and looked on.

What I saw was a sorry but rich momma’s son pick Venom and Spider-Man (probably because he didn’t know the code to pick Roll) and get his sorry butt kicked in fashion by a smiling Zangief who is pretty weak as a CPU opponent. How surprising A dejected kid then walked away from the machine but not without kicking it first of course. Talk about a violent pedigree !

After going to check whether the damn TTT machine was free only to find it even more surrounded and with 2 guys claiming that ‘King grapoule ownz yer Paul fist fool’, I felt that maybe a token wouldn’t be lost in MvC just for a kick. As soon as I had inserted my token and fiddled with the half-broken Start button, who do you think comes up but the spoiled brat ! He also inserted his token with his foul-looking hand and stared at me as if he was going to rip through my flesh and feed on me like a zombie if ever I dared to beat him. He picked Megaman. And at the same time, my friend’s wise words flashed through my brain again : ‘tis mash xxx teh megaman art hah’.

Strong punch, strong punch, strong punch, strong punch, strong punch, strong punch…Was the core of the battle while a dejected Ryu just blocked and an even more bewildered Strider Hiryu jumped in for barely 30 seconds before being sent back to his overly computerized world. Jumping amidst the array of blue fireballs that came my way would result in Ryu or Ken eating a powerful beam earned by my pal’s constant pressing of that strong punch button which must surely be broken now.

And hence the most persistent news about Marvel vs. Capcom had been verified. And you know what, I saw that kid playing Soul Calibur later and he lost in the very first match although he used one of the best characters in the game (Sigfried). Too bad for him mashing still requires some thought in the aforementioned title. MvC is a masher’s dream. MvC doesn’t require skill. MvC will sharpen your button-slapping skills. ‘tis mash xxx teh megaman art hah’.

But it is not in my habits to rely only on first impressions, so I thought it’d be cool to try it again and look upon the game engine for myself. Game engine ? Where ? If it was in there, then I must have missed it. Welcome to a game where all you need to do is jump and tap whatever button your hand is next to. Should you miss, don’t worry, you just have to punch the machine right away, rotate the joystick once or twice and watch the screen shine with big projectiles and possibly a well-placed counterhit.

Because, face it or not, this game has absolutely no depth. Where is the technical masterpiece of very old titles like Super Street Fighter II Turbo ? Where is the amazing balanced system of SFII : Champion Edition ? MvC requires nothing and will give everything to any newcomer as long as the latter can repeatedly press a button. No need to look at the screen, you will still win ! Hell, I even read a book and played it once and won by a good margin !

The stinking Aerial Raves don’t change anything either besides their flashiness And speaking of flashy, might as well use the term for the whole game. Capcom apparently cared only about making everything colorful and flashy enough to attract all those innocent by-standers. A Megaman transformation along with a card-throwing Gambit will earn more respect than a complex Ryu combo. Emphasis has been put on graf-x at the expense of everything else.

Because graphically, MvC is a stunning masterpiece, still unequaled today. ‘Marvel is in, so why not give it an anime look ?’ thought Capcom. And an anime look it was ! Even too much though ! I do not play a fighter to marvel at booming fireballs or Captain Commando’s big-ass monitor. Yes, it is a welcome addition but that alone doesn’t make a game fine and worth playing. Actually, MvC can be fun. If you are a scrub or if you don’t mind about the blatant lack of a real complex system.

Most characters seem really alive and the Marvel characters have enjoyed a superb transition while their Capcom counterparts look as good as ever. There are a few noticeable glitches during some moves and some frames are dodgy but overall, everything is well-done and I don’t have any complaints as to the visuals. The backgrounds are as exhilarating with a baffling variety of settings. Onslaught’s stage is unequalled with all the countless details in the background while that cheapo himself simply looks ‘refined’.

The resolution of the whole game is literally overwhelming and this may very well explain why people like to watch other playing MvC so much. If I hadn’t played the game myself and seen how it was overrated, I would perhaps be among them too. This is brilliance in its purest form but don’t forget, this is only the packaging.

As far as music is concerned, most of you will perhaps find MvC great but I, personally, was in for a huge let-down. Because the music in this title is **** compared to what Capcom usually does. Sure, they may be as enjoyable as can be and add to the crazy and fast-paced atmosphere of the game (as seen by on-lookers and scrubs) but there is not a single one that’s even memorable. Sound effects are very common and don’t provide anything new either except Megaman’s voice which gets pretty irritating after a while.

And if you think that MvC is based on a good engine and is actually strategic, then you will enjoy it but let’s just say that maybe you don’t know much about fighters. The hidden characters and endings are great and add to the replay value and I am certain you will find another poor Capcomer to abuse and to make the more skilled player despise this game.

As a matter of fact, MvC is more of a mixed case. It depends on what type of a gamer you are. I know a lot of people who do play fighters a lot but find Marvel vs. Capcom great. But I also know even more scrubs who play only this title and always use the same damn characters. Overall ? A decent title without proper balance and ruined by a crappy game engine. ‘25-hit combo in yo face, sucka !’

http://www.gamefaqs.com/arcade/562630-marvel-vs-capcom-clash-of-super-heroes/reviews/review-31446

J.Scogz · August 16, 2011, 8:46pm

It’s like, he made a bad review because he sucks at the game.

Densuo · August 16, 2011, 8:51pm

knife kill while they are prone: “CHIMICHANGAS!!!”

Chris soundbites would work like a champ here.

AC-130: BRING THE PAIN!!

You know. I love winning by time out and “throw whore” with Fuerte I suppose I’d piss off alot of those unity scrubs.

Little_Goten · August 16, 2011, 9:10pm

LOL, don’t they always?

J.Scogz · August 16, 2011, 9:10pm

What is your avatar of?

Little_Goten · August 16, 2011, 9:25pm

It’s a render of Namine from Kingdom Hearts, done by the same guy who made Dead Fantasy and Dead Fantasy 2.

J.Scogz · August 16, 2011, 9:28pm

Never played KH.
Never heard of the other two games.

Little_Goten · August 16, 2011, 9:32pm

Dead Fantasy is a fan-made series of movies.

Watch this:
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Veserius · August 17, 2011, 2:23am

I know that T.Hawk vs. Blanka is really tough, but come on.

Little_Goten · August 17, 2011, 2:40am

LMFAO

Here’s another one:

Paolochun · August 17, 2011, 7:38am

“Nooooo! Not the head-bite!”

d3v · August 17, 2011, 7:46am

You forgot this one.

For as long as there have been major moneymaking franchises, be it movies, comics, or games, people have often discussed which franchise would emerge triumphant if two were pitted against one other. Godzilla VS Mothra, DC VS Marvel, Aliens VS Predator, etc. Which brings us to Capcom’s VS series, of which Marvel VS Capcom is the third installment after X-Men VS Street Fighter and Marvel Super Heroes VS Street Fighter. This game, like its predecessors attempts to settle age-old questions like, “who would win in a fight between Zangief and…The Incredible Hulk?” It’s a pity, then, that the game produced for this undertaking is so uniformly awful that one cannot help but think that it was programmed by Capcom to mock and parody the whole fighting genre.
So once again we have our comic book heroes and villains from Marvel teaming up with Capcom’s mascots, however, as you might have guessed from the name, it’s not all Street Fighter on Capcom’s side this time. Instead we get characters from Capcom’s arcade past, like Captain Commando and Strider Hiryu, to more modern entries like Megaman and Morrigan from the offensively lame Darkstalkers series. And if you were worried, there are still the classic Street Fighter characters like Ryu (who now has the ability to change into Ken AND Akuma, thus causing Shoto-scrubs everywhere to squeal with glee), and Chun Li.
Graphically, MvC is impressive, with large, colorful backgrounds and detailed sprites that move with an acceptable degree of fluidity. Unfortunately, at the same time, I found the graphical style to be excessively loud, garish, and gaudy. What IS it with the Japanese and producing games with enough flickering and flashing to drive players into epileptic seizures, anyway? Capcom apparently believed that if they threw enough sprites and enough cheesy graphic effects onscreen at once that it would hide MvC’s flaws. But in an your average arcade, there of often dozens of loud, blaring machines each vying for your quarters, so I can forgive MvC for trying to draw attention to itself. However, much like Morrigan from Darkstalkers, it is a deceiver. It draws you in with its seductive looks, hiding the sinister fact that it is, in actuality, pure evil!
The gameplay, obviously, is identical to the previous games in the VS series. You choose two tag-team characters as usual, however, MvC adds the “helper” system where you can call out a character to briefly attack the opponent, the limitation being that certain helpers are more effective than others are, and you can only use a helper a certain number of times. Normally, your helper is selected randomly at the beginning of the match, however, Capcom decided to you to choose which helper by pushing certain buttons during the helper select. What’s the point of making it random if you can just hit a few buttons and always get the strongest helper? Just add it to the long list of illogical decisions that went into this game
Once you actually start fighting with your opponent, everything progresses pretty much as it did in previous VS games. Each character has a “Super Meter” which you can charge by pretty much doing anything. Once it reaches a certain level, you can unleashed a devastating super attack on your opponent, which if it connects will often take away 30-40% of their health or more. Given that it’s so easy to build up your super meter, chances are you’ll never be too far away from pulling out one of these weapons of mass destruction.
Which, of course, brings us to “The Problem.”
The problem is that is ridiculously easy to chain these super attacks into combos. In games like Street Fighter Alpha, for example, this was tricky to do, because supers like Ryu’s Shinkuu Hadouken required two QCF motions and a punch. In MvC, however, such a move only requires one QCF motion and two punches. Once you learn how to tag a super onto a combo starting with a dashing low weak kick, something requiring only a few minutes of practice, suddenly all of the skills and talents you have learned from other fighting games go out the window, because MvC requires almost no skill. There’s no skill in timing, because everything’s in chain combos, and you never have to think about what combo to use, because you’ll always want the most damaging. The game quickly becomes a tiresome turtle fest, since in the Touch of Death game of MvC, leaving yourself open for the slightest seconds can have catastrophic results. But alas, you cannot turtle forever, as your opponent might eventually hit you with a jump-in attack (at almost no risk to himself, thanks to MvC’s unlimited air blocking), or you’ll mis-time your push-block, and then all you can do is sigh dejectedly as the screen flashes wildly and half your health drains away. Unlike Killer Instinct, the only other game I can think of with such ridiculous over-emphasis on combos, there’s no “Combo Breaker” system to prevent combo-ing-into-super from happening again and again. That’s right, you heard me, MvC’s “fighting engine” (a term I use most loosely) is one-upped by Killer Instinct. Congratulations, Capcom. I won’t even get into the travesty of MvC’s “Infinite Combos” which are something that should have been taken care of back when the game was in beta.
Tell me, since when did fighting games stop being about, you know, actually fighting, and start being about filling the screens with projectiles and supers so powerful that they kill you and the guy playing Super Puzzle Fighter on the machine next to you? With its absurd overuse of projectiles (Megaman’s for example, requiring only a strong punch to do his repeatedly), and the ridiculous-looking super jumps, MvC becomes like a 2D, sprite-based version of Unreal Tournament, minus everything that made that game fun. MvC encourages cheap tactics and button mashing, a flaw made worse by the horribly unbalanced characters. Once you become “good” at this game, you will rarely want to choose anyone but Strider, Wolverine, or Chun Li.
I cannot in good conscience recommend anyone sink their hard-earned quarters into this machine. Marvel VS Capcom is the arcade equivalent of fast food; it does not so much satisfy you as it fills you up with a bland, artificial mass. Don’t be fooled by the flashy graphics, for there are far better machines for you to play.

http://www.gamefaqs.com/arcade/562630-marvel-vs-capcom-clash-of-super-heroes/reviews/review-78009

J.Scogz · August 17, 2011, 4:32pm

Jesus, that’s wonderful.

PatakaReada · August 17, 2011, 5:05pm

Speaking of T.Hawk vs. Blanka, I remember in endless I was scrubbing it out with Hawk. The guy I played must have been annoyed because he decided to use Blanka. He just used electricity and sat there. So it was kinda an easy match. Dood left as soon as KO popped up.

Damn, no Gold War Machine?

Little_Goten · August 17, 2011, 7:18pm

Baiting Hecatom SO HARD.

“Play the Game…”

GAME OVER, man, GAME OVER

So, I decided to rent Guilty Gear XX a little while ago. It’s very simple to say we were excited. Well, I wasn’t. The series, to me, has been one of the greatest disappointments in a long while. I would love to love this series, with its cute Chinese chick, and… um… well.

Its unique graphic-style (I say this with a great deal of reserve), spastic play-style, and its varied cast of characters have made this game quickly one of the most popular 2D fighters in recent days.

Sadly, many of these people are not actually delving into the series’ many problems. So, a quick little look into the game… shall we?

Woah, man, The COLORS!

The graphics of this game are the biggest draw. The high-resolution graphics are amazing, simply jaw-droppingly gorgeous. You’ll all ways hear about the resolution. That’s the only real thing to talk about. To that, I give a base score of: A Holy CRAP

It’s amazingly colorful as well, but it really doesn’t translate well into this new version. In a move straight out of Darkstalkers, they screw with established backgrounds, and give really messed up background-colors. Like Night Warriors, the colors are just sillylooking. Pity they didn’t make new backgrounds. D+ Why did they do this…

The character models are pretty impressive due to the high resolution. They’re not really anything to write home about, though. The animation isn’t Third Strike, despite the boasts of its beauty. Superficial beauty isn’t everything. In summary. Great models. Bad animation. C+ Above Average

Overall: B

Rockin’ Tunes, Dude!

I’m not much of a soundtrack guy, so I’ll probably just briefly go over this. The background music is more or less what you’d expect from a game where you can fight as Axl Low versus Slayer. Rock. Rock n’ Roll. It’s a beautiful thing, but still can’t beat out the sheer joy of beating the living crap out of each other to jazz tunes.

So, I give it a basic… A. It’s that good a soundtrack.

The voice acting, on the other hand, is not as good. It’s downright awful in the Arcade Mode. You can barely hear it over the game’s soundtrack. On the other hand, in Story Mode, it’s pretty good. I’m not big into Japanese Seiyuus, but they improved considerably compared to in-game. Ahem. A certain video game creator needs to let someone with talent voice Sol. That is all. B Oh well.

That gives sound an overall score of B+.

The Story of My Life

Okay, here’s where the game begins to go downhill. Everyone knows King of Fighters is the so-called Plot-King. And yet, now many people claim this is. They’re all wrong. Project Justice’s story mode is the best. And as a wise move, XX tried to copy it.

They did it entirely wrong.

Eventually, you’re going to get tired of fighting everyone you meet (for reasons soon to be covered), no matter the reason. Some of the fights are just so contrived you won’t even want to bother. Story Mode is the best part of the story. It’s worth a couple of play-throughs, but not enough to warrant playing all of the games.

Arcade mode is just sad.

C- Below average story told in a good story mode

The Gameplay, bub.

No. Just NO. This game loses all merit in purchasing the moment we touch upon it. This game has the worst fighting game engine since MvC2. Honestly, the game is reliant on chain combos using four different attacks.

A hard slash – the most powerful physical attack, but it’s slow

A weak slash – Good for poking, and for setting up.

Punch and Kick – And these are just to start combos.

There are dust attacks: Useless launchers, there are sweeps, which are more useful, and, of course, various special moves.

Any amateur can easily get used to the controls, they’re simple and easy to master. But, maybe therein lies the problem. The game doesn’t usually require anything beyond chains and some supers afterwards.

Roman Cancels, something I don’t use much myself, are apparently the most innovative part of the game.

The game uses a power bar that you must conserve for Roman Cancels and supers. It’s easy to fill.

But, most importantly, the game is spastic. It takes very little skill to do a killer combo. You play the game rushdown, trying to do a series of combos before the other fighter can do the same to you. There is no major difference in play-style between Millia Rage and Sol Badguy. Which is a pity, because the sometimes original cast is lacking in anything interesting.

D- it lacks everything that makes a fighting game deep

Balancing issues, are also major. Chipp Zanuff is unable to last five minutes against any decent competition. He just lacks health. There are other ways to balance a character than to simply make him die faster.

Potemkin is another problem.

C- They’ve made characters unplayable, but not all of them

Overall: D but hear me out…

And now…the finale

To end, I don’t think it would be right to compare this game with masterfully crafted fighters like CvS2 or King of Fighters 2000. This game just can’t cut it in comparison, however, there are other games that it probably is closer to it.

This game is a Darkstalkers game. It feels like it. The new characters are something right out of a Darkstalkers game. The gameplay is right out of Darkstalkers. Sadly, this isn’t as memorable a game as Darkstalkers, but it still is a game worth playing.

Despite my dislike of the gameplay and story, the game is not a bad game. At times it is quite enjoyable. If you like Darkstalkers, especially, you’ll enjoy this game. As such, I rate Guilty Gear XX, out of ten, as…

6: A worthwhile rental, especially, but may not be your cup of fighting game tea.

http://www.gamefaqs.com/ps2/562111-guilty-gear-x2/reviews/review-56235

Thunda · August 17, 2011, 8:17pm

“Two muthafuckn thumbs down for the Elena player!” rofl

I think I’m starting to question the old Third strike fanboys after seeing these scrubquotes lol…

Hecatom · August 17, 2011, 11:33pm

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hell

you know what is the worst part, that this bitches really think that you cant zone, space, turttle and whatever their scrubby minds define as spam on GG
this shit just sadness me, lol

btw the amount of stupidity on the other quotes are part of the sings that the end of the world is near

J.Scogz · August 17, 2011, 11:38pm

I like to show this all the fucking time…

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Not the best Venom… but it’s good enough for scrubs to follow along and have their jaws drop.

Hecatom · August 17, 2011, 11:53pm

nice match
this is one of my favs to show when people say that chipp sucks ass
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and here is a classic scrubquote
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