Karsticles
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I just realized: have we heard about whether characters can block during air dashes?
Obviously this is incredibly important for Morrigan.
Obviously this is incredibly important for Morrigan.
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Marvel Vs. Capcom: Infinite Characters and Stages Roster Discussion Thread
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Yeah, Arthur is a great character who absolutely deserves to be here. His return is one of the highlights of the roster for me. Ghosts'n Goblins was Capcom's first big franchise, and the Japanese MvC1 site even referred to him as "the face of Capcom in the '80s." Some people just have an aversion to short/quirky/goofy characters in fighting games.
BronsonLee
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Arthur is butt
Put him in the garbage bin
Put him in the garbage bin
That's understandable. But I feel they could still do a better job of balancing both priorities though. With better visuals, some base roster changes, and changes to mechanics (assists) instead of removing them outright I'm sure they could have still targeted both groups, IMO.
In all seriousness though, I do agree to some extent - they likely aren't able to say what they want to say due to corporate shenanigans. I do think Combo's comment that characters are just a function is a legit horrible thing to say for this series in particular though.
Yeah, he pulled that one right out of his ass. He totally ignored all the fun people have with those characters and how they've bled into t-shirt designs and stuff the community has made. There's no defending that statement.
It's not looking good. SFV had more hype and looked better pre-release. The thing that killed that game was the impressions of the final product. It's still at roughly 1.6 mil. Now MVC:I is worse off. It doesn't have as much positivity and goodwill, doesn't look all that great, and has heavier competition in the same genre.
Less than a million.
I'm going to agree, and say 1.2 million, as well. 1.1 at the minimum. This is looking to be another "Soulcalibur 5" incident, in my eyes, and I expect it to sell, as such. No matter how well the game may play in the eyes and hands of the FGC, a boring roster, lackluster presentation and little to keep the casual crowd satiated is going to hurt this game's bottom line.
And that's assuming the game doesn't get any more bad press than what it has now. For some, I'm thinking that not having at least BP (or any other PoC hero/heroine) on the base roster, for the sake of some diversity, is going to make it an easy target.
Karsticles
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Arthur with a dash, a solo cross-up, and a quick overhead is going to prove formidable, I think.
Jawmuncher
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If there isn't a shakeup in the roster from what we know of leaks. They're definitely going to be seeing some shit over 4 female and the only black character being behind DLC.
Since it's especially bullshit when Marvel themselves have been making a big deal about diversity
One of the very few highlights for me. Very, very few.
Indeed, if they go too far attracting the casual gamer they risk alienating the veteran who would normally support the game once they drop all this inevitable DLC on our faces.
I'm really going to miss 3v3 and assists, but the gameplay here at least has captured my attention with its own crazy stuff. Was it the right decision? I don't think so personally, but I'm going to give it a fair chance.
I always assumed Marvel would leverage their movies/cartoons to advertise for the game. Throw story sequences up (I think the action stuff looks pretty good), coupled in with some of the gameplay where you can't really tell how funky stuff like Chun looks.
If it does have a lot of single player content, then it'll review inline with pretty much every other fighting game out there, so reviews shouldn't be an issue unless they didn't get the message from SF5.
I think it'll meet their expectations. It's on three platforms, coming out around a time of a newish console, it'll have the holiday as well (something SF5 didn't have launching in February).
If it does have a lot of single player content, then it'll review inline with pretty much every other fighting game out there, so reviews shouldn't be an issue unless they didn't get the message from SF5.
I think it'll meet their expectations. It's on three platforms, coming out around a time of a newish console, it'll have the holiday as well (something SF5 didn't have launching in February).
Looking that this game and then looking at SFV, you have to give the SFV team credit. They found a way to balance and diversity the roster with 16 characters all built from scratch. While the guys on MVC:I can't do that with supposedly 28 characters and using assets from the previous game.
I love Arthur and they did a real good job adapting his Moveset, same with Firebrand.
sixteen-bit
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you know shit is dire when you make launch SFV look good
You talking about that with a company that is known to have outlandish expectations. LOL!
Karsticles
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I agree on Arthur, but Firebrand was a huge disappointment. They have all of Demon's Crest to draw from. In that game, Firebrand has a massive move set, including spells. I really recommend a playthrough if you havent.
I think there's a few other things that basically guarantee it won't be SFV levels of bad at least (there's a story mode, XB1 release, they're advertising the combat as very casual friendly whether that ends up being the case or not).
One feature that I really hope is in the game but I'm starting to worry about is 4-player support like SFxT had. It seems like such a no brainer that would reach to a really wide audience but I think they probably would've mentioned that by now. :/
One feature that I really hope is in the game but I'm starting to worry about is 4-player support like SFxT had. It seems like such a no brainer that would reach to a really wide audience but I think they probably would've mentioned that by now. :/
2 million copies isn't outlandish for this property.
I would have said the same about SFV but here we are still at 1.6 mil. MVC:I saving grace is that it is on Xbox One.
I mean I would have preferred Demon Crest Firebrand for sure and hopefully they did for this game (lol) but for OG Firebrand they did great for what they had to work with.
I'm an Arthur main from 3, so I was pretty excited about his inclusion. Really didn't think he would make it at all. I'm a little sour that his golden armor still breaks though lol
2 million wasn't, and isn't, crazy for SF5. They fucked up with SF5, a lot.
MVCI also has the Marvel crowd to draw on.
That shit is really dumb and needs to be changed before launch.
Nothing AFAIK.
Doctrine Dark
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Nothing at all.
I'd be cool with a top tier Arthur.
Karsticles
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Tell me what you've heard about how Dormammu plays and I'll believe you.
Then why did somebody ask about the visuals at E3 and said that Ono will be on it.
because he's the face of capcom. you're thinking about this too hard
well, I heard he was on that datamine leak list
That someone heard all the negativity about the graphic and thought he'd try to calm things down, he wasn't shilling though.
An interview with Gamestop that was all types of nonsense and PR speak.
EDIT: Gamespot not Gamestop
The fuck did you guys actually expect?
Don't tell me people were expecting they would confirm X Men characters at this point or talk about the negativity around the game.
Repeat after me: PR lip service gonna PR lip service.
Some interesting stuff about Marvel licensing in general, also confirms MvCI is made with "game as a service" in mind which is good for future support:
http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articl...games-why-they-dont-make-em-like-they-used-to
This line made me laugh though:
http://www.gamesindustry.biz/articl...games-why-they-dont-make-em-like-they-used-to
This line made me laugh though:
If I were Capcom I'd also be trying to protect Megaman from myself after SFxT
Jawmuncher
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Lol you can tell they're treating their roster second fiddle
christiankid7
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