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NEWS: Evo 2018 Tournament Unveils Fighting Game Lineup

Snubbing MvC:I, which unpopular as it turned out to be would garner SOME kind of audience, in favor of BlazBlue RWBY-Is-In-It-Please-Buy, which I should note comes out a mere 2 months before Evo, is...really something. Courting the now suddenly top dog ArcSys? Following the nose to where they figure the hype will be? Sending a message to Capcom? Perhaps someone out there has more insight than me.

While the graphics, roster, voice acting, and music were laughably mediocre for MvC:I, I always thought the general consensus was that the fighting system was quite solid. Perhaps this move will wake Capcom up. After the shaky launch of SFV, I thought they would have learned their lesson for MvC:I. What a shame.

I'm of the mind Marvel is mostly to blame for this. I mean look at the roster of Marvel characters. The game might as well have been called MCU vs Capcom: Infinite. I mean, really...Black Widow? Winter Soldier? Gamora? Who wanted these characters? The whole thing reeks of their influence, and aside from the graphical fidelity, excluding the X-men doomed the game from the start. Sure Capcom haven't been great lately, but if SFV:AE is any consolation, it seems they're trying their hardest to make things right. Feels like a classic case of corporate suits thinking they know best what consumers want when in fact they have absolutely no clue.

There was also that comment that one of the games creators (I forget his name) saying that the only reason people cared about Magneto was because of how he played and not because of who he was as a character which is complete garbage.

There was also that comment that one of the games creators (I forget his name) saying that the only reason people cared about Magneto was because of how he played and not because of who he was as a character which is complete garbage.

Punch Drunk Marc wrote:

There was also that comment that one of the games creators (I forget his name) saying that the only reason people cared about Magneto was because of how he played and not because of who he was as a character which is complete garbage.

That wasn't one of the "creators: of MvC:I, but rather that was FGC pro Combofiend, who was employed by Capcom to help promote the game. Since he had to toe the Capcom line, he couldn't go giving in to fans' (legitimate) complaints about the lack of any non-MCU characters who had been in the series before, but his excuse was a perfect example of how NOT to address stuff like this.

Was he wrong in his explanation as to why Magneto was so popular? Not completely, as Magneto's play style was definitely a major factor as to why he was used so often in MvC2, & why he was brought back for MvC3. If he played any differently, then there's a good chance that he wouldn't have become so synonymous with the "Marvel vs." franchise.

That being said, to completely discredit the fact that people also loved that the character that played in that "function" was Mag-freaking-neto was some of the stupidest spin one could use. If anything, I'd guess that Combofiend was told by Capcom that Marvel (and, by association, Disney) wanted to downplay any non-MCU characters when it came to discussion, so he decided to explain that, while Magneto wouldn't be in the game, his gameplay style (or "function") would still be there in some form via another character, so Magneto players could use that character instead.

Unfortunately, Combofiend decided to say such a thing in the most insulting way out there, for whatever reason. Honestly, though, I'm not surprised that MvC:I won't be officially played at Evo this year. Capcom doubled-down on aiming primarily at the fighting game community, and seemingly learned next to nothing with how botched Street Fighter V's original launch was. It doesn't matter how good the mechanics of the fighting game are if the overall package doesn't keep everyone, including a general audience, interested in the first place. I like SFV, & I'm sure I'd love MvC:I, but I'm not an online player, so Capcom really lost me hard with these two games, and only recently has SFV finally reached feeling like a "normal" fighting game (&, even then, Capcom still messed it up slightly).

I'm of the mind Marvel is mostly to blame for this. I mean look at the roster of Marvel characters. The game might as well have been called MCU vs Capcom: Infinite. I mean, really...Black Widow? Winter Soldier? Gamora? Who wanted these characters? The whole thing reeks of their influence, and aside from the graphical fidelity, excluding the X-men doomed the game from the start. Sure Capcom haven't been great lately, but if SFV:AE is any consolation, it seems they're trying their hardest to make things right. Feels like a classic case of corporate suits thinking they know best what consumers want when in fact they have absolutely no clue.

I'm of the mind Marvel is mostly to blame for this. I mean look at the roster of Marvel characters. The game might as well have been called MCU vs Capcom: Infinite. I mean, really...Black Widow? Winter Soldier? Gamora? Who wanted these characters? The whole thing reeks of their influence, and aside from the graphical fidelity, excluding the X-men doomed the game from the start. Sure Capcom haven't been great lately, but if SFV:AE is any consolation, it seems they're trying their hardest to make things right. Feels like a classic case of corporate suits thinking they know best what consumers want when in fact they have absolutely no clue.

WindNinjaDW wrote:

I'm of the mind Marvel is mostly to blame for this. I mean look at the roster of Marvel characters. The game might as well have been called MCU vs Capcom: Infinite. I mean, really...Black Widow? Winter Soldier? Gamora? Who wanted these characters? The whole thing reeks of their influence, and aside from the graphical fidelity, excluding the X-men doomed the game from the start. Sure Capcom haven't been great lately, but if SFV:AE is any consolation, it seems they're trying their hardest to make things right. Feels like a classic case of corporate suits thinking they know best what consumers want when in fact they have absolutely no clue.

Everything Marvel in general went downhill in quality when promoting the movieverse became top priority in everything. It's just more apparent here when we have past games to compare this to. No X-Men, because avoiding promoting a competitor's movies is more important than fans of the franchise. Not even Wolverine, which is amazing considering how much Marvel milked him in the 90s and 00s. Instead we have Black Widow, who literally no one outside fans of the movieverse cares about because she's so irrelevant. I can't even be excited about Ms. Marvel being in the game finally because it's the horrendous Captain Marvel version of her they've been pushing for the past few years.

-Stuart Smith