Capcom dropped the ball but Disney also fucked them over. The project was doomed from the start and shouldn’t have ever been made.
Capcom is going to hibernate on FGs for the next 5 years or at least SHOULD hibernate on them. They’re making bangers in all the other genres, that should be their main focus. The FG stage needs to be handed off to the developers actually putting in the work.
Honestly, I wouldn’t mind if Marvel Games (with ComboFiend) made a Marvel only fighter, as long as it’s a proper fighting game, and not some mobile crap.
I’d be okay with it not being team-based either. At the end of the day, I want to play as Marvel characters, especially the X-Men.
Dude I’m with you on this one, even though I had never played a marvel game in my life, as an outside spectator it seemed VERY odd that there were no X-men in mvci, to me that defines the mvc series!
Disney was being overly anal on what characters they could use and how they should look or animate, yes.
But how the game looked, played, sounded, etc, is all on capcom.
It is also their fault that the game barely had resources to work with.
Disney was dificult to work wth, but that doesnt really weight on why the game tanked.
The problem with that is that Disney is not interested on making games.
A new fg will depend on a company approaching them and licensing the ips for a game.
Disney is happy with just waiting for developers willing to throw money at them.
Is more redituable.
I will again say that I believe mvc4 will be announced at Evo along side ssfv. 99% chance I’m getting WRECKED lol.
Isn’t Marvel Games (the company that made Ultimate Alliance) owned by Disney?
From wikipedia
" The Marvel Games branding was revived after Disney discontinued their interactive media business as a first party developer and publisher by shutting down Disney Interactive Studios, opting to license their intellectual properties for video games instead.[2] Since then, Marvel Games has been involved with publishing and distribution of all Marvel related video games with third parties"
They only seem to handle the licensing to 3rd parties and ensure that the ip and chars are handled in disney best interests
You can see on the list of games that is always a 3rd party the one doing the work
RIP MVC
Thanks for the correction
Truthfully I wouldnt mind a Marvel themed Smasher. Only problem would be people making it ultra competitive, sucking the joy out of it and shit in pools.
No lie, I’d play the helll outta that.
The only reason why i am not 100% sure on the mvc series being dead, is because the mh guy being the new head of the fg division.
We uave yet to see what he will do to improve it.
Sfv is already fucked so our best chance to see his plans will be with sf6, ehich i expect to be anniunced when the ps5 is unveiled.
You do not want chip kills in UNIST
From the looks of it Disney also put them on a strict deadline. I think with 6 more months MvCI could’ve worked around all the bullshit or Capcom could’ve seen more where their ideas were going to fail. Instead they rushed shit out praying their first ideas were good enough and for the most part they weren’t. Capcom is notoriously terrible at an FG’s first release to begin with, MvC2 being a lucky accident. If nothing else they love Trial and Error, but in this case they only released an Error.
It was ill-fated and the partnership is done. Disney can put out Marvel properties under their own umbrella, a Vs. Series title, even a really good one, would never satisfy them at this juncture.
MvC release was not the first version. Tlearly version of MVC2 was only 4 buttons and didnt have input dash.
So yeah, could’ve been really bad.
Disney didnt put any sort of deadline.
The game was rushed simply because capcom wanted it out as soon as possible.
Again. Disney is not hiring 3rd party developers to make games.
They are only licensing their ips to those who pay the most for them.
Outside ensuring that the ips and chars are handled into their liking, disney doesnt have control on the dev cycle of the games.
That lands on the companies making the games.
Also, i doubt that more time would have helped.
The team behind the game was inexperienced and underfunded.
Shit, this year is Darkstalkers 25th anniversary.
Not sure if capcom not doing anything with the franchise is a bummer or a blessing in disguise. Lol
On the bright side, there is now a golden opportunity for a Capcom VS Capcom dream match or CvS3.
A capcom all stars with the vs series gameplay could work.
But it seems that most of the vs fans only want a marvel vs game.
Cvs3 aint happening, since snk is not a big nake anymore.
And that their last crossover with other fg series flopped.
I think MvCI would have done a little better if they had the initial DLC as part of the base roster. It was weird when Ultron-Sigma was the bad guy while Monster Hunter and Black Panther had their own chapter (with BP having a movie and MH coming out the following year) yet none of them were playable at first.
I think having those three in at the start would have lessened some of the roster complaints. At least the one with people saying there was too few new characters.