someone please tell me so I can formulate an opinion correctly
That it’s a cheap looking game made by frame data nerds who don’t care about art direction.
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nothing, just make sure all your prayers are focused on the MCU lasting long enough that they eventually make a Marvel vs. Capcom movie
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I don’t think there’s a Cactus guy.
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a lot of weirdly-informed ideas about what this game is
-i wouldn’t characterize any large fighting game development as being first and foremost the effort of “frame data nerds” even if appeals to those who might be described as such are among the design goals and ultimately necessary
-mvc is not what i think of when i think of fighting game series that are technical for the sake of being technical, especially since infinite is actually a significant loosening of 3’s restraints in a lot of respects
-the art direction is aggressively banal on purpose; it’s meant to take after the mcu after all. no, it is not good. yes, i’m saying this is unfortunately the result of considered aesthetic intention, not utilitarian afterthought
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as to the OP
literally nobody, including myself, has an opinion about this game worth listening to
(competitively, it’s too early to tell. non-competitively, you already know if you’d want to play this or not)
Marvel vs. Capcom Infinite?
more like, Marvel vs. Capcom UN-FUNite, right?
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Believe In Borb
(BIB)
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It’s still hilarious that combofiend’s answer to the x-men question in this cross-over fighting game was essentially “characters are meaningless, aesthetics are an instrument of satan, play divekick.”
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all the capcom marks said king of fighters xiv is ugly when it looks great, and they say marvel vs capcom infinite looks great when it’s ugly as sin
also, during the promotional period of a crossover fighting game, a capcom employee said that nobody cares who the characters are, only the functions they have ingame. then why make a crossover fighting game if that’s the case? (for context, he was making excuses as to why lots of popular characters were not included)
in summary, this is a full price game that had 30 characters, with 6 more as paid dlc at launch, and even more added as paid dlc later. king of ifghters xiv is a full price game that had 50 characters at launch, with 3 more added later as paid dlc. don’t reward capcom!
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don’t play fighting games, fight playing games
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Refuse
I’d very much like for there to be a cool new fighting game not in the Arcsys playbook before I am 40 years old please
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fighting ex layer? it has cool character designs, at least
and it’s more of a “90s anime you bought on vhs” aesthetic than a “00s anime your classmates at your local college never shut up about” one
I’m very excited for the new MvC to be released on January 26th.
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nobody said this tho
sort of: the argument he was making was more that fans of the series want characters like magneto back more because of what they represent in mvc than that they’re comic book wish fulfilment, so if you miss your “main” from mvc3, you won’t be stuck without your playstyle being represented somewhere in the cast. i think there’s some truth to this: mvc3 was more interested in reminding you of mvc2 than anything else. this isn’t to downplay the legitimate place you’re coming from, only to say that it gets kind of complicated because aesthetic draw doesn’t exist independently of what, mechanically, those aesthetics are meant to evoke anyway. the stuff he can do in the videogame is, itself, characterization. magneto has a legacy specifically as a videogame character that carries its own appeal and expectations irrespective of anything he did in a comic book, and even that is not necessarily even the domain of “frame data nerds” as mvc3 was a spectator’s game much more than it was anything any significant amount of people actually played.
so, from there, if we’re accepting that only so many characters can appear and also that marvel as an entity is awful and their involvement only allows capcom to act inasmuch as they’re willing to service the mcu, it’s not that far a road to take to get to what combofiend said
it was still a really bad public answer to give, but it’s worth keeping in mind that the actual context for it was really just “help the x-men are being held in rights hostage right now and we don’t know how to assuage folks of this without overcommitting in lieu of whatever possible legal outcome”. also worth noting that combofiend was a tournament player brought on for a few years as a capcom usa rep/advisor and not like, an internal dev, really. of course he’d say some shit like that
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none of your hot takes will survive under me, the wettest of blankets
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Is it true that Spider-Man is ugly
he has like
the same build as captain america, who has the same build as liefeld captain america
it owns / is the worst
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