All I keep thinking of is who the most likely new Capcom additions would be.
From SF its a tossup between:
- Necalli
- Juri
- Rashid
- Urien
All very popular new characters like C. Viper was in 4 during the MVC3 days and all of them have very strong movesets with potential for Marvel style play. Urien isn't new but he is insanely suited for Marvel and the hype bomb that went off for him is one that is significant enough that they may keep riding it.
From misc other Capcom Properties I think strong likelihoods would be:
- Kitties from Monster Hunter. They've been milking the shit out of them and MH is one of their biggest draws.
- Asura. Dude is popular and he already had DLC that put him vs SF cast in fights. Folks are eager for this.
- A Dragons Dogma rep. Its one of their more loved new franchises to push.
- Yet again...Resident Evil. I'd say more than likely just a return of Wesker given his popularity, but its the anniversary of it so it'd need some representation given its money making power.
Other than those additions I can't really tell with Marvel who would be a "likely" addition. That game series draws on their past heavily and ends up with some surprising additions. Son Son, Ruby Heart, Haggar, Arthur, Phoenix Wright, Hsien Ko...these were all pretty deep grabs during the time of their inclusions. Phoenix Wright was the only one that wasn't getting pretty old by the time he was added but he was a very odd one to develop for.
So help me if this game is happening I may just have guaranteed locals for a game I'm playing again. Currently theres a place near me that plays a lot of casual Friday stuff, but no consistent crowds. Better than the all smash all the time scene a few hours away though.
EDIT:
This time though...I think I wanna tier whore. I probably should've never dropped some of the cast I originally played looking back. I used to play Hulk, Haggar, Ryu, C.VIper, Wolverine, Sentinel, Chun and Storm heavily in vanilla in different combinations. Ultimate hit and everything went into making Iron Fist functional which ended in Taskmaster/Iron Fist/ Arthur. Looking back I think I had the most fun playing as Chun Li , Haggar, and Sentinel in various teams.
I could've probably kept a more enjoyable team using any of those vanilla hopefuls than my final setup. It was too much work to maintain an Iron Fist/Arthur setup. Shouldv'e kept it as my guilty pleasure team. I got disgusted early though with what I saw it turning into with the meta involving Doom and TAC though. Had no idea how much worse it would get when I called it quits lol.