Megaman will be playable in some form. There is no way that they'll let a DLC costume get in the way of that. I refuse to believe that.
Maybe, but the costume is pretty much X as close as you can go, it'd be pretty confusing to the layman seeing both Zero with the X costume and X on the screen at once, and alternatively really fucking weird if they had different models and proportions yet still being the same character.
I gave up hope the moment I started using my Hsien-Ko avatar again. I'm willing to take scraps from these guys now. I've lowered my expectations by a whole lot.
THE RETURN OF SOLARPOWERED TO MAHVELGAF? STAY TUNED.
This is for the money. If they do sell DLC characters they are likely coming from a pool of already designed characters. I refuse to believe that they'll toss us complete wild cards again if they can throw at least one mid-big name character our way.
They can't be stupid enough to toss us more sex slave Jills and Shuma's can they?
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What do you mean pool of already designed characters? I mean, this isn't Ono's team where they can shit out old characters at will. Even vets from MvC2 received substantial tweaks. If Psylocke makes it into UMvC3, I expect a massive retooling. Similar faces I can see them picking from, but I still expect them to do what they do best with making unique fighting styles for the cast and not pasting in more shotos which conveniently work with the system.
Why no more Darkstalkers? Every single one is absolutely unique in this cast. They do a far better job of distinguishing themselves from other characters at this point.
Morrigan is the undisputed Queen of lameness, Felicia is one of the top 3 strongest rushdown characters in the game and Hsien-Ko is the worst character in the game(Phoenix isn't time tested like she is :3).
All of the Darkstalkers outside of Q Bee, Demitri and Victor would add crazy ass shit to the cast too. Also, there should be enough room for a Darkstalker and Street Fighter in my hopeless world of four DLC characters followed an eight character AE upgrade.
No more Darkstalkers cause there are already 3 of them. Mix it up a bit, give other series love. We didn't need 4 RE characters and 4 SF characters would be too much already if it wasn't their premiere fighting franchise. No more Capcom franchises that already have 3+ reps. I will flip my shit if Leon S. Kennedy gets in the game or something. Marvel is a different story when it comes to interconnectedness of franchises they have, but for the most part their picks were pretty distinct too.
All this talk of DLC is just weird considering the costumes and H&H sort of fit the bill far too well when it came to "who didn't make the cut." So when you imagine more DLC characters, you don't think there would be much overlap with characters that are already referenced in the game, which is a scary thought because most fan favourites made it in with those kinds of references. I honestly don't see CapCom making it in either, he's kind of a dry design overall, would also require a massive retooling. Cable for Ver 2012 confirmed then? I would get so hype if the trailer had AHVBx5.
More =/= better. Fighting game rosters are way too bloated nowadays. The faster coming updates/patches/sequels makes things worse. We don't even get a chance to learn these games anymore. As a person with interests outside video games, it's hard for me to get as much value as I can out of all these FG releases with so many characters in each game's roster. Playing multiple games would be much more feasible if I didn't have to become familiar with 12,636,000 possible matchup permutations in each one.
Casual interests think they want a large roster - but they don't. It's just a marketing bullet on the back of the box that persuades them to make a purchase, but once they see the character select screen, it's just one of the many things about fighting games that scares them away.
IMO, less characters in FGs is better for everyone that plays them, from the competitive scene, to the casual crowd. Plus, it's less money to produce the product. Problem is: it's a hard thing to sell to people that aren't willing to think about it, since expectations for sequential leisure commodities (video games) scale.
So many characters I want to attempt to maximize potential with in this game. Don't add anymore, Capcom.
I disagree with this entirely. The wealth of permutations and creativity is essential to Marvel's charm and can only grow. And your wrong about casual interests, people love choice. A lot of people I play MvC2 with that get to the character screen are DELIGHTED with all the options, not terrified, some going as far as playing MvC3 afterwards and criticizing it for having so many fewer characters even though on average they're so well designed. More is definitely better, especially when you have such quality to work with already. Not sure about your point about more characters somehow decreasing the value of the game. It's depth, that's all it is. I can't criticize more depth as long as these characters are as well designed as the rest of the cast. Yeah the learning curve gets slightly higher but if your juggling multiple games already I'm not sure if you should be blaming the game because you don't have enough time to devote to them all. That's why I stick with Marvel, and devote my little time to it exclusively instead of acquiring in-depth knowledge about every fighting game that comes out.
