"There will be weeping there, and gnashing of teeth, when you see Abraham, Isaac and Jacob and all the prophets in the kingdom of God Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3, but you yourselves thrown out bought the vanilla version."
Hey, guys! I'm gonna make this edition of L.I.E.S. quick because I need to go back to pleasing Penelope Cruz, but here's a pic I took of a very official ESRB document. I don't even know why it's so offtarget, but it had a pic of Baby Bobbie Hood and Ironfist in it. Here L.I.E.S. the truth.
As ridiculous as it is, though, the suits are awesome. SF1 Ryu is the only one that actually surprises me, though. But what else could Capcom go for with the rest of the game's cast? Read on!
Tron
This is what Tron wears when she's tinkering in the lab. I think she rocks the DR Insano look.
Felicia
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Hey, look! Two fetishes for the price of one! Chun Li
After avenging her father's death in SF 2, Chun Li wore this and swore she would return to her previous occupation as a young single girl. I wonder how that turned out...
Spencer
You can't buy this much smoothness...
Wesker
Wesker, Circa Code Veronica.
Jill
From the third game. Aw, yeah.
Morrigan
Lilith. Just...Lillith.
Haggar
From that Wrestling game he was in.
Amaterasu
John Talbain palette, man.
Trish
Poison. It's the only way it could happen. Hsien Ko
Lin Lin, Hsien Ko's sister. The outfit is mostly the same!
Sentinel
Hey, now that Capcom has succesfully turned the franchise into Sentinel Fest 2011, why not give him his regular, Kirby inspired look? Hulk
Future Hulk more clawed!
MODOK
Don't Question it.
She Hulk
Erm.. or...
Yeah, let's go with that. X-23
Wild thing, Wolverine's future daughter in MC2 verse.
Magneto
From that time he fought the Fantastic 4...while high... Hey, you exhausted every other Magneto meme...
Storm
Wait up, Capcom! There are still more ways to suck the dick of the tourney scene!
Spider-Man
Spider-Man from the old Japanese show. He has a flash of anger in his eyes.
Phoenix
Rather than hit that obvious 90s costume, I favor Jean's original look
Wolverine
Patch, Wolverine's stupid undercover persona.
Deadpool
Come on. Deadpool dressed as Cable. It's brilliant!
A Spanish language magazine had a recent interview with Ryota Nitsuma, MVC3's producer. I translated the whole thing with the power of Spanish, so you don't have to do it yourselves or use Google translate. Aren't I a saint?
Eurogamer: So far 36 characters have been revealed for the game, aside two that will arrive in DLC form. How many fighters will the game contain?
Nitsuma: I'm sorry, but we can't reveal the amount of fighters, but we can there are some let to reveal.
EG: What factors made you choose some characters over others?
RN: In a game of this kind, multiple factors come into play when it comes to the final roster. Obviously first you list characters both Marvel an Capcom want in the game. We also look at which are fan favorites. Once we put together this 3 lists we decide which are appropriate for the game. That is to say ' should this character be in a fighting game?'. Finally it's about balancing the roster in all aspects. We do not want to have to many characters with similar characteristics, nor too many strong or fast fighters. Then gender comes into play, and we also try to balance that. It's a mix of everything, and it's very complex.
EG: Let's ask more concrete questions: Will we see a Rival Schools character in the title?
RN:(laugh) In MVC3 we split characters between 4 criteria: Standard, Power, Technical and fast. With such divisions, Rival Schools characters did not fit very well. Besides, we had several standard types and it was(to be?) imbalanced. Another problem is that RS is not that well known. Not completely unknown, but it's been a while since the title was launched, so when you choose a Rival Schools character you wonder ' is this the best choice, or are other characters priority? And at the end that's usually the case.
EG: Will we see Sagat or Zangief in the future?
RN It's a hard question. We where close to having Zangief, but it was a choice between Zangief and Haggar, and of course most people preffer Haggar. Regarding Sagat, he was a very standrd character, very similar to Ryu, with the same fireball and the same style of punc(ED: I think he means uppercut), so he had to choose between Ryu and Sagat ,and Ryu is always a priotrity in this type of choice. And we return to what we said before, we did not want similar characters, Clones. MVC2 had many clone characters and recived (bad) critiques over it, so we set out to solve that.
Eurogamer: ¿Qué motivaciones se esconden tras la elección de Sir Arthur? Lo cierto es que es bastante sorprendente su presencia..
EG: What motivations hide behind Arthur's choice? Truthfully, we're surprised by his appearance.
RN :We did not want a roster with only typical characters anyone could expect. We wanted characters that would surprise people and make them ask "Why?" (laughs). This was the point and I think we have achieved it.
Eurogamer: Has comentado que partíais de una lista confeccionada por Marvel, ¿significa eso que a la hora de escoger personajes de su plantilla tuvisteis limitaciones? ¿A qué superhéroes echáis de menos de Marvel?
EG: You said you started off from a list Marvel made: Does this means when the time to choose characters of their roster you had limitations? Which Marvel Heroes did you miss?
Nitsuma: In effect, we where unable to choose characters that where not in th e list, and if there was one we wanted to use, Marvel would say : Don't use this one, use that other one. In that sense, we wanted to bring back a couple of MVC 2 characters such as Juggenaut and Sentinel, but where unable to.
Eurogamer: ¿La licencia de Marvel va a ser sólo para este juego o servirá para otros títulos?
EG: Will the Marvel license be for just this game, or will it work for other titles?
The license is limited to Marvel. We do not have a specific contract for any one character, but the whole roster, so it's all complicated.
EG: Which would you say are your favorites from each side?
RN: For Capcom, Dante, form Devil May Cry. My love for Dante is proportional to the time it took us to put him in the game. We invested a lot of time because he has many moves, and it probably the hardest to balance, even though he's been in the game since easly stages of development. On Marvel's side, Deadpool, for similar Reasons. He's a little(a bit?) Marvel sides most complete character and has a lot of elements and moves that we had never done, but wanted to do. We invested a lto of time in Deadpool.
EG: Much has been spoken of DLC. We wanted to know how it will work. For example, what price will a character 2 pack cost? How often do yoo plan to upload DLC?
RN: We are still unable to speak on the subject. We are still discussing this aspect of ime scales and price with Capcom's American, European and Japanese divisions. In any case, I can say that, though there's no price, yet, it will not be too expensive. As for schedule,it is also undefined. We will keep working on the game and if we need a balance patch to balance the game the game at launch, we could launch it. But just to give you an idee, we could potentially launch something every two weeks, not during launch, but for a time(?).
Eurogamer: Pasemos ahora al aparto visual. ¿Os planteasteis en algún momento hacer un MVC3 a la antigua usanza, con sprites y gráficos en dos dimensiones?
EG: Moving on to visuals. Did you consider at some point to make MVC3 using old school sprites and 2d graphics?
RN: Really, the core of the title was American comics and in paper and taking that style to pixels and sprites was very dificult, so moving the models to 3d was very natural(ED: WTF?)
EG: Seeing the success of SF4 with the visual style, why did you not choose that graphic style?
RN: Correct, SF4s visual style was a success, but the reason not to follow it was precisely because we did not want to make Street Fighter IV+Marvel chars. This was not the intention. We wanted tp ,ale .
EG: Given SF 4s will be published in Nintento 3DS, is there a chance MVC3 will show on the handheld?
RN: As a developer, I am very interestd in N3DS. As of your comments on MVC...it is a very powerfull game technically, with many effects, charactes, and a screen full of elements. I do not know what happens to that if you add 3D, might be too much. Whoever, the machine itself is very interesting.
EG: Keiji Inafume left the company a few months ago. What is your opinion about it? How has if affected Capcom's march?
Inafume-San is very charismatic and a natural leader. Obviously, his idea of what has to be is different from Capcom's as a company, and he's got his respect for following his own idea, leaving Capcom, and doing what he wanted to really do, because it makes no sense for someone to stay doing what they don't want to do. Regarding the second part of the answer,... well, we've lost a leader but I think I now we're even more united in tearms of teams, a comunicatting with each other more than ever. In stead of a single leader for the team, we now work more as a group. Bedsides, there s still much talent that feels comfortable at Capcom and will keep working to make mindbending games.
Which reminds me it's almost mango season over here...
We're on our final stretch of MVC3 watch, with only short weeks before Capcom takes us all for a ride. I say the roster is mostly full of great choices so far.
But...rumor has it the final reveals are...very sad. Akuma and Sentinel in. Megaman and Bison out.
I think it's an unfortunate choice to put Akuma in when Bison offers so much more in gameplay terms. And Sentinel...I would rather Cable be in. You can't please the Tier whores unless you make him God King of the Dojo again. And who wants that?
So we pin our hopes on DLC. I'm a little wary of it. They already announced Jill "The Master of Unlocking" and Shuma "Been in all of 12 comics" Gorath are in the download pipeline, together costing less than 20 bucks. I don't feel this is ripoff only in that Jill and Shuma are completely unessential to me. Seriously thought they weren't gonna make it and I did not give a damn.
But which Characters I would pay for, though, read on!
The Thing
Lousy, no good crossovers...
Some would argue that Thing would be far too similar to Hulk in moves. Those people would probably argue against She Hulk being in, so they have no bearing here. I think The Thing's major difference should be his resistance: He should be superarmored, which I think Hulk is not.
Misty Knight
Happy non-lethal retaliation day!
Misty Knight is Marvel's Blaxsploitation inspired female character. She is a bionic armed African American lady with Big hair and a bionic arm and kung fu skills. In an era where people don't think movies like Sucker Punch or Cowboys and Aliens are too tacky to exist, who can argue that Misty Knight shouldn't be in MVC3?
Ultron
Quick test: Why would a robot SIT?
Ultron is a robot who wants to erradicate all life. I think Ultron's time to shine fast aproaches, and he would indeed be better than Sentinel.
Amadeus Cho
That face tattoo really brings out the woman in you!
Amadeus Cho is a super-genius Asian of sorts. His inventions and wit have made him an internet favorite. So he's awesome ,but not a lot of media to show. D'Oh!
Alas, poor Antman. I knew him. He was a man of gaudy taste who once slapped his wife.
Sigma
Sigma, voiding Zero's warranty
Sigma is a robot who wants to erradicate all life. I think Sigma's time to shine fast aproaches, and he would indeed be better than Akuma.
Sigma has taken many forms duting his tenure. While his moves should encompass a anything he did in the Megaman X series short of giant robot forms, his original Green armored dude with a lightsaber is my choice of look.
Vanessa Schneider
She's a Private Dancer! Dance until Morning! Shoot at some robots and things!
Vanessa is from the Gamecube 3rd person P.N.03. While the game hasn't exactly become Capcom's signature game, the main character's style, fighting and attacking enemies while gyrating to the beat, would be crazy awesome to have in this game. A flipping, shaking rhythmical fighter! How cool would that be?
Linn Kurosawa
I'd be scared to see someome that happy draw a sword.
Not a chance!? I know! But...hear me out! Linn Kurosawa is great! She can like, cut people up with a Katana! w.. Oh you already have that? She can , like SHOOT with guns that...Oh, that too. Still, she is awesome, and Cameod around Capcom for many yea...Oh, you are right! I already said all this in my old post. It still stands for reason she's an interesting character who could balance the new faces.
Phoenix Wright
Still Waiting...
Opinion polls confirm Phoenix Wright is one of the most sought after characters for this game. This is it, Capcom. It's money, sitting across your table. I know yo tried to put him in other games and failed. But now the time is ripe. With DLC, you have time to nail whatever it is wasn't working down. Some people think a lawyer with no fighting skills would be ridiculous in a fighting game. And I agree.
That is exactly what would make it awesome.
He'd be a new Jin, a new Capt. Falcon. After this, no one will wonder what Phoenix Wright would be like in a fighting game. No one would imagine a fighing game without Phoenix Wright.
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