Nina would absolutely need to be the BoF rep.
That's what I'm hoping for too.
It was Nina and Fou Lu.
This just makes me even more sad that the final roster is what we got.
Daredevil is the most obvious choice that's never been included in the VS series IMO. Popular in the 90s, normal athetlic build (easy model to make) and acrobatic moveset that's take 5 mins to conceptualize, opens up a wide variety of side characters to introduce like Electra/Bullseye/Typhoid Mary/Kingpin etc etc.
I think the main reason MVCI specifically, didn't sell is because of the bad Roster and horrible graphics. The Story mode was also really bad, but I think that's what actually made the game sell those 1 million copies (if I remember right).
Yeah. The gameplay at its base was good. But the roster was missing a lot of favorites, the graphics were memed on from the moment Chun-Li was seen in close-up, and it just didn't really do anything to satisfy any particular audience beyond the mechanics.
If we go outside of the list, I'd also put money down for Ms. Marvel & maybe Star-Lord (both of whom were rumored).
At this point, they'd be better off waiting until next-gen for any new fighting game. It's too late in the generation to justify releasing a fighting game that Capcom would ideally want to support for multiple years.
IF we get an MvC4. Though funny enough, we almost got Miles in UMvC3 (he was apparently one of the 8 cut characters).
I think its more of a when.
On one hand, I recognize that Capcom franchises have returned from worse (Devil May Cry would have some stories to tell on that front, namely with regards to DMC2). But at the same time, nothing is certain, especially after MvCI. While I won't jump on the "MvC is Dead" bandwagon, I don't feel confident that another entry is guaranteed.
The thing with Capcom is that in a perfect world, they'd do multiple seasons of DLC. Hard to do that when you have to juggle current-get & next-gen hardware. In my opinion, unless Capcom wants to do a Switch port for whatever fighting game is coming next, just save it for the next-gen consoles.
You could also argue that a game with lower-poly count models and recycled models from the Capcom side of previous Marvel games is a perfect late-generation/crossgen title, since SF6 and its super detailed characters would not be ready before year 2 of the console.
For one, it's too late in the generation to justify another fighting game that would likely get DLC for years. Likewise, with NRS on their MK-Injustice pattern (Ed Boon openly talking about his talks with Marvel about an idea for a Marvel vs. DC game kinda takes NRS off the table) & Arc System Works having their plate full, that only leaves Capcom, Bandai Namco, & SNK.
Next gen will be announced at E3 or around TGS time this year anyway so we'd be talking about roughly the same release timeframe anyway, right?
Maybe for Xbox, but it's possible that PS5 may not be announced until early next year. Likewise, I'd imagine that we wouldn't get a Marvel fighting game reveal until well into the generation. Assuming that Capcom does another Marvel fighting game, they typically do Street Fighter before a Versus game.
I... I never imagined you could hear it as "payday". It was always "Let's go crazy!" to me, even as a dumb kid.Related/unrelated
Back in '98, I swore that if you put a quarter into a MVC1 machine, it would scream 'Let's Go Payday'...because money was going in, right?! Even Adam Heart who worked on MVC Origins agreed with me. My hopes were dashed with this poster. I later aquired this holographic print from the JP release of MVC2, gonna get it framed and put ducktape over 'crazy' for 'payday'.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QUrkI1URB84
Say what you will about Infinite, but the gameplay is probably the best of its close peers.
Black Panther was a disappointment though.
