Today is the 2-Year Anniversary of Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite

[Jawmuncher]

It's crazy to think that it has been 2 years, despite the release feeling like it was yesterday. The game has been talked to death at this point, but I wanted to bring up the anniversary all the same as I didn't realize it was the anniversary until I saw Max's Tweet.



It's such a shame how things turned out, since there were some good ideas on display within the title. I wonder how long it'll be until we hear about the series again.
The Official Twitter hasn't posted since the game was added to Play Anywhere on Feb 27, 2018. The couldn't even be bothered to RT that the title was coming to gamepass.
I think the only real consolation at the moment is that Capcom is pretty good about letting people know when stuff is getting de-listed. Makes me wonder if Infinite will succumb to that fate as well.

 

[Magneto]

What a dumpster fire MvC:I was.

 

[Jeremy]

I honestly hated this game.

I got it for dirt cheap on PC and still felt ripped off.

 

[Soulflarz]

From what I've heard it wasn't even the worst game ever but it was just a bad mvc with a shit roster so people were angry af?

 

[Kouriozan]

The game that removed Marvel fighters from being at Evo.
We know it was supposed to be constantly updated, hence the "infinite", but we know how it turned out.

 

[JunkerXseed1013]

Not a bad game, but MVC deserved beter than this.

 

[nsilvias]

From what I've heard it wasn't even the worst game ever but it was just a bad mvc with a shit roster so people were angry af?

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for such a legendary series and with the popularity of marvel nowadays this felt like a cash in more than celebration of the series.

 

[ShinUltramanJ]

I had this on my wishlist, and Game Pass saved the day on this one.

I'd rather buy Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3.

 

[Flon]

From what I've heard it wasn't even the worst game ever but it was just a bad mvc with a shit roster so people were angry af?

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The game had some terrible PR leading up to release in order to justify some of the unfortunate decisions. They were obviously stuck in an awkward position regarding the roster, but they made it so much worse when they spoke about it.

 

[Lord Vatek]

From what I've heard it wasn't even the worst game ever but it was just a bad mvc with a shit roster so people were angry af?

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The roster means everything in a game like this. Being bad will completely make or break it.

 

[Deleted member 40179]

The Smash Bros Brawl of MvC.

 

[SofNascimento]

Nemesis looked quite cool in this.

 

[RockmanBN]

Sigma and Monster Hunter were cool

 

[rude]

The choices for newcomers were bad except Jedah, Ultron and X tbh. And then X's moveset was trash.

Black Panther should've been hype but he played like garbage too.

 

[Kinanza]

Eugh, never again will I play a MvC game as long as it's actually good

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btw it's also the first anniversary of Bowsette

 

[JoJoBae]

The Smash Bros Brawl of MvC.

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This. But like if Smash Ultimate came out before Brawl.

 

[Chaos2Frozen]

From what I've heard it wasn't even the worst game ever but it was just a bad mvc with a shit roster so people were angry af?

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The gameplay is great and the netcode is good, but the rosters and visuals are bad.

 

[ThatMeanScene]

"We haven't officially released the roster. Let's just say we think our fans will be pleased with what's being announced. And what we talked about earlier with games-as-a-service, we certainly expect Marvel vs. Capcom to be that. There's going to be content released over time. We're not seeing this as a one-off that ships this fall; it's a service that goes on for years."

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https://www.gamesindustry.biz/artic...games-why-they-dont-make-em-like-they-used-to

I wish Marvel Games Senior Vice President Jay Ong would tell us what happened. 🙃

 

[Papercuts]

Functions will be the only thing I ever associate with the game.

Quite possibly the stupidest single line I have ever read from PR.

 

[Weiss]

Time for Capcom Fighting All-Stars.

 

[ThatMeanScene]

I found an interview I had never seen before. Oh boy, I hope what I bolded in orange below doesn't happen ever again with any Capcom fighting game:

Q. So, the market in North America is large. Did your North American subsidiaries play a significant role in development, then?

Yes. We gave a lot of weight to incorporating ideas from Capcom U.S.A.'s marketing team into development, including direction and insights gleamed from research.

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http://www.capcom.co.jp/ir/english/interview/2017/vol01/

 

[Deleted member 401]

The Smash Bros Brawl of MvC.

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Honestly, it has the opposite problem Brawl had.

Brawl had lackluster gameplay and great everything else.

MvCI had great gameplay and lackluster everything else.

 

[Mr. Von Touchdown]

Great gameplay with poor art direction and a mediocre roster. Also a god awful story mode.

Still the best playing Mahvel game though, the systems are too much fun.

 

[TheDinoman]

The Smash Bros Brawl of MvC.

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Brawl, for all of its faults, was at least filled with a lot of content and had a huge roster, the largest Smash had at the time. None of that describes MVC:I.

 

[cubotauro]

Winter Soldier's gun loops are so hype to watch.

All the newcomers played great except maybe for X, and Black Panther should also had a bit more damage for how complicated he is to use.

 

[Jawmuncher]

I found an interview I had never seen before. Oh boy, I hope what I bolded in orange below doesn't happen ever again with any Capcom fighting game:

http://www.capcom.co.jp/ir/english/interview/2017/vol01/

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If this is what I think it is. Dead Rising 4 and Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite busting the same year are more than just coincidence now. Seems there was a "Fuse" effect where someone was taking Market Survey's as gospel rather than a guideline.

 

[Deleted member 40179]

Honestly, it has the opposite problem Brawl had.

Brawl had lackluster gameplay and great everything else.

MvCI had great gameplay and lackluster everything else.

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I know and you're right but they're equally despised and I saw an opportunity.

 

[TRUE ORDER]

I tried to like Infinite but couldn't. It was fun but the mediocre presentation and the boring roster didn't do much for me...

 

[Vagabond]

I preordered the stone collector edition - $200 I believe. 2 months later it was discounted to $60

I played it a lot launch month. Then I decided to play UMvC3 again 'just for fun' and it clicked - I had WAY more fun playing UMvC3 than MvCI and after a month the online populations were about the same so... MvCI is a gateway drug to UMvC3.

 

[MaverickHunterAsh]

My boy X deserved so much better than the Vs. game he finally debuted in being such a flop. :(

Hopefully the next one, if there is one, just uses Infinite's roster as a base and builds onto it. No cuts. X was like 95% of the reason I was so hyped for Infinite.
Hopefully the next one, if there is one, just uses Infinite's roster as a base and builds onto it. No cuts. X was like 95% of the reason I was so hyped for Infinite.

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But at least the story mode established X as unquestionably the most powerful character in the entire roster save for possibly Thanos, given he's the only other one who can handle using all the Infinity Stones at once!

 

[DrArchon]

My boy X deserved so much better than the Vs. game he finally debuted in being such a flop. :(

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At least X characters (Zero) got to be in other games.

Meanwhile, us Monster Hunter fans got jack.

 

[Zero-ELEC]

Infinite was really fun.

It was done dirty by both Marvel and Capcom.

 

[A Strong Latte]

Well I know max liked it, but if it was so good to play why did the tournament scene die in record time? You could do a lot of crazy shit in this game, but I don't think it was actually fun. BBTAG is basically the same concept with even more niche characters and that game is way better and way more popular.

Other games with good gameplay that don't light up the sales charts stick around like Under Night

 

[Baron Von Beans]

One of the most fun FGs ever made. Plus, having such a perfect representation of Monster Hunter in a character was sublime. Being a GS and Bow main in MH, I felt right at home.

 

[KillstealWolf]

I preordered the stone collector edition - $200 I believe. 2 months later it was discounted to $60

I played it a lot launch month. Then I decided to play UMvC3 again 'just for fun' and it clicked - I had WAY more fun playing UMvC3 than MvCI and after a month the online populations were about the same so... MvCI is a gateway drug to UMvC3.

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Hold onto those stones, one as a reminder on pre-ordering and two because well... it's one of the most infamous deluxe editions out there, and even infamy would make it have value in the long run.

There's a few gameplay changes that could be brought over, but the whole game felt undercooked and underbudgeted. Perhaps if it was given longer in the oven, even now you could have the X-Men and Fantastic 4 back. Still, game could have been amazing and there would have been a swarm that wouldn't buy it because of no Wolverine anyway.

I imagine we'll get an MvC4 next at some point. Hopefully the wait won't be another 10 years.

 

[TimeFire]

Well I know max liked it, but if it was so good to play why did the tournament scene die in record time? You could do a lot of crazy shit in this game, but I don't think it was actually fun. BBTAG is basically the same concept with even more niche characters and that game is way better and way more popular.

Other games with good gameplay that don't light up the sales charts stick around like Under Night

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Being unstreamable sure didn't help the popularity of the game. Good gameplay can only go so far. It's also by far the uncoolest fighting game you can play in terms of perception so it turns a lot of people away haha

 

[Man God]

They got real lucky naming the game infinite because they can always deny its a maingame if they ever make a MvC4 and it somehow ends up being good.

 

[RaySpencer]

Not a great roster, but after MvC2, it's my favourite playing MvC game.

 

[Man God]

See I come into this already not liking the look of MvC3 (a controversial opinion I know) but man does it run circles around MvC:I visually. The ugly cutscene models are only a slight problem compared to how awful the actual models look.

 

[Deleted member 1839]

Fantastic gameplay loved every second playing it probably my favorite out of the four games, but man everything else about it was shit unfortunately. From how it was handled, the roster and visuals, it could have done a lot better.

 

[AWizardDidIt]

An object lesson of how companies should not treat their brands.

You can really tell in the play how much love the devs had for fighting games but damn if it was poisoned from the outside in by a mixture of over management and under funding.

I still have hope for a true MvC4. Believe it!

 

[ZeoVGM]

Well, at least nu-Capcom has set themselves up for an amazing comeback with the obvious MvC4 that will be coming.

 

[Man God]

The Capcom side of the roster is so bad before the "DLC" characters that were clearly finished before the game was out.

 

[XrossExam]

As Max once said in one of his MVCI videos, MVCI was set to die so we could eventually get the MVC4 we all wanted from the get-go. Sometimes a game has to sacrifice itself to move forward.

Personally I played MVCI for quite some time because I loved the series and the gameplay was a lot of fun. It became clear after a while how dry the game became in both presentation and the gameplay getting stale quicker. UMVC3 may have had more dumb shit you could do, it still almost made it more fun because of that shenanigans factor.

 

[Tetra-Grammaton-Cleric]

I actually think the game looks fine in motion though clearly the budget wasn't there, which is bizarre when you consider the popularity of the brand.

Still a ton of fun to play.

 

[DanteLinkX]

This game was fucking awesome, art style aside of course.

 

[MaverickHunterAsh]

At least X characters (Zero) got to be in other games.

Meanwhile, us Monster Hunter fans got jack.

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Yeah, no, Zero's not even close to the same. I know that probably sounds crazy to anyone who doesn't know their Mega Man (not saying that's you), but anyone who is a huge fan of X — the character, not the series — will tell you Zero is not a stand-in for/the same as X. Trust me on this, haha.

Zero getting into MvC 3 without X on top of Mega Man being cut and THEN X being "added" as a costume for Zero were the main reasons I couldn't stand that game. Zero isn't a replacement for any Mega Man, despite Niitsuma's (very flawed) interpretation of the series, haha.

Also, regarding Monster Hunter... it sounds like you're kind of in the same boat as I, right? I finally got X and you finally got Monster Hunter (the character) in Infinite only for it to flop. My condolences. :(

(Though I do recognize what you mean about Mega Man having had representation in general before Infinite and not Monster Hunter.)

 

[Weiss]

Yeah, no, Zero's not even close to the same. I know that probably sounds crazy to anyone who doesn't know their Mega Man (not saying that's you), but anyone who is a huge fan of X — the character, not the series — will tell you Zero is not a stand-in for as good/the same as X. Trust me on this, haha.

Zero getting into MvC 3 without X on top of Mega Man being cut and THEN X being "added" as a costume for Zero were the main reasons I couldn't stand that game. Zero isn't a replacement for any Mega Man, despite Niitsuma's (very flawed) interpretation of the series, haha.

Also, regarding Monster Hunter... it sounds like you're kind of in the same boat as I, right? I finally got X and you finally got Monster Hunter (the character) in Infinite only for it to flop. My condolences. :(

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I thought Infinite still did okay sales wise? Just not the megahit eSports "service" Capcom was hoping for.

 

[skillzilla81]

Some of the best gameplay in the series. Shame it was in such an unattractive package.

 

[RockmanBN]

I thought Infinite still did okay sales wise? Just not the megahit eSports "service" Capcom was hoping for.

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1.3m while the best selling MvC game is 3 with 2.4.