For the record, I loved the game back in college when my buddies and I spent hundreds of hours playing it on the Dreamcast. In fact, we loved playing all of the versus games back in college, but back then, we were all just college kids playing for fun and there were always a lot of us to play with so there was a ton of variety in our matchups.
Now that Marvel vs Capcom 2 has been released on the 360 and is getting pretty good reviews (unlike King of Fighters XII, which is apparently getting destroyed in reviews), I’m considering purchasing it. I downloaded the demo to check it out, and it features just 2-player offline combat with six characters. Not really enough to be a game, but enough to see how the engine holds up in this new generation of TVs and I will say that it looks fine. The gameplay is really frenetic though, and I’ve forgotten how over the top it was with air combos into supers and all that.
The reason I’m most interested in the game is nostalgia. I loved the Marvel vs. Capcom fighting game universe that Capcom created, and enjoy playing with characters like Jill, Omega Red, and several of the X-Men. It’s disheartening to see that of the 50 or so selectable characters, only a small fraction of that number is actually considered playable at a competitive level. So while I want to reminisce with characters I enjoy, if I were to play the game long enough, all I’d probably end up seeing are Magneto, Cable, Storm, and Sentinel. This game is 9 years old – and it’s pretty much established already. At this point, if I want to invest enough into the game, I will have to either figure out a way to beat Magneto’s infinite with my low-tier characters, or learn to play Magneto myself. Not a huge fan of either decision. Blah…
But it’s only $15 right? Hrm, even after writing this, I’m still on the fence. Maybe I should get through BlazBlue first before picking up another fighting game. And maining Carl Clover is certainly helping with the possible transition to Marvel vs Capcom 2.
