Let's learn about fighting games and get murdered together.

[Assisted Living Godzilla]

Seems weird weird these are the characters videos we’re getting now.

Duck King ducks in the background. Kind of wonder how big the roster on this game will be. While it is a good looking game, and I’m liking what they’re doing with the stylization, the actual character models themselves look like they’re about as detailed as Marvel vs Capcom 3. SNK is doing more with the hair in City of the Wolves than Capcom did in MVC3, but the rest of the model don’t look any more detailed than MvC3. I only bring this up because Capcom ended up making 50 completely new characters for Marvel vs Capcom 3, (Fate of Two Worlds had 36 and two DLC characters, Ultimate added 12) so I wonder of City of the Wolves ends up with a roster closer in size to The King of Fighters 15 than the 14 character roster of Mark of the Wolves.

Besides Grant, who is dead and has been replaced by his student and new character Vox Reaper, it seems like everyone from Mark of the Wolves is probably returning. So that’s 14 characters. You got new character and Joe Higashi’s student Preecha. Billy Kane is here. Looks like Duke King will be in...or some Duke King related character. Joe and Andy were shown off in a teaser a year ago. And I could also see Mai, Yamazaki, Blue Mary, Nightmare Geese, Li Xiangfei, the Jin brothers, Big Bear, Rick Strowd, Mr. Karate Ryo, and probably Franco Bash‘s son making it in. Yamazaki (the dojo buster) and Ryo get mentioned in MotW, and Ryo shows up in some art for the game. That’d be 30 characters. Marie Heinlein and Gato’s dad seem like new characters that’ll show up since this is a continuation of Mark of the Wolves, and maybe some version of some of the old unused Mark of the Wolves 2 characters since a version of Joe’s student was there. Could maybe end up having like 35 or 36 characters. It’s also possible at this point that someone like Ryu shows up in the game.

 

[Assisted Living Godzilla]

Video of Max showing off that Marvel vs Capcom Infinite mod he’s been involved in.



The game definitely would’ve looked better if they went with cel shading. So much so that it’s kind of a surprise Capcom didn’t put that in as an option when negative reactions started rolling in after they first showed it off at E3.

They replaced the games default Captain America model with the Captain America model from Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3. Kind of surprised they didn’t just take the Marvel vs Capcom 3 model. Although the Captain America in both MVCI and MUA3 is a spin on Captain America’s Marvel Now look.

Don’t like the art they’re using on the main menu though. That shit does not look good at all.

 

[Assisted Living Godzilla]

 

[Assisted Living Godzilla]

 

[d1r]

Of course they completely butchered her special attack. Can current SNK actually do anything right?

 

[Jason Liang]

 

[Jason Liang]

So I guess this happened



Witness Xiaohai ascend to nerd godhood. Villain in KoF, hero in SF6, amazing. And who knew his lady was so hot

 

[Poseidon00]

Fighting game tournaments are near unwatchable to me because they always, always use nigger commentators and announcers. Just utterly sick of it at this point. If I wanted that shit I would watch...just about anything else in the mainstream.

 

[Assisted Living Godzilla]

Surprised this was announced before the Marvel vs Capcom Collection came out. The digital MvC collection gets a digital release next month, September 12th; and the physical version comes out November 22th.



Games included in this collection are:

Capcom vs SNK Pro
Capcom vs SNK 2
Power Stone
Power Stone 2
Project Justice
Plasma Sword
Capcom Fighting Jam
Street Fighter Alpha 3 Upper

Surprised there’s no Tech Romancer, which did get an English release, and does have Jin Saotome from Cyberbots in it. Seems like something you’d put in just to mirror Cyberbots being in the first release. Sadly no JoJo’s Bizarre Adventure... would’ve been nice to be able to get a physical version of the HD version they did in 2012.

 

[SomeGuyWithAnOpinion]

I'm going to make a very controversial statement:

All fighting games suck. Yes, that means 100% of them. There is not a single fighting game that exists that doesn't suck absolute ass. You're probably already typing counter-examples into the reply box, but no, they also suck.

The reason for this is because fighting games by their core design have virtually no high-level strategy. It's mostly basic counterplay and practicing specific movements repeatedly. In the vast majority of cases, your opponent won't win because they outplayed you or strategised better, it's because they were more practiced at inputting the correct series of buttons more accurately than you, and could therefore perform moves with a higher degree of precision or tighter timing. It's like Counter-Strike, but for even dumber people. Add in the fact that fighting games tend to be long-running series from some of the worst companies that exist in the gaming marketplace, and they become unjustifiably bad.

This is why so many tournament-level fighting game players tend to be mindless brutes who yell at each other and don't shower properly. They are too stupid to play better games, so they waste their life mastering button combinations and timing because it's all their brain can handle.

 

[Nathir]

Absolutely retarded ≠ controversial.

 

[Arthandas]

I'm going to make a very controversial statement:

All fighting games suck. Yes, that means 100% of them. There is not a single fighting game that exists that doesn't suck absolute ass. You're probably already typing counter-examples into the reply box, but no, they also suck.

The reason for this is because fighting games by their core design have virtually no high-level strategy. It's mostly basic counterplay and practicing specific movements repeatedly. In the vast majority of cases, your opponent won't win because they outplayed you or strategised better, it's because they were more practiced at inputting the correct series of buttons more accurately than you, and could therefore perform moves with a higher degree of precision or tighter timing. It's like Counter-Strike, but for even dumber people. Add in the fact that fighting games tend to be long-running series from some of the worst companies that exist in the gaming marketplace, and they become unjustifiably bad.

This is why so many tournament-level fighting game players tend to be mindless brutes who yell at each other and don't shower properly. They are too stupid to play better games, so they waste their life mastering button combinations and timing because it's all their brain can handle.

Play Tekken.

 

[Silverfish]

All fighting games suck. Yes, that means 100% of them. There is not a single fighting game that exists that doesn't suck absolute ass.

 

[Tehdagah]

I play fighting games for the plot and backstory.

 

[Tehdagah]

You can now date DOA girls

 

[Assisted Living Godzilla]

But can you still play beach volleyball with them?

 

[911 Jumper]

All that tech going to waste on a dating sim.

 

[Cheesedragon117]

All that tech going to waste on a dating sim.

Hey, maybe it's an engine test for DoA 7...

 

[Assisted Living Godzilla]

All that tech going to waste on a dating sim.

Hey, maybe it's an engine test for DoA 7...

I think that’s what the first two Dead or Alive Xtreme games were.

 

[911 Jumper]

Double Dragon Revive Is a PS5, PS4 Brawler Bursting with PS2 Energy

 

[Tehdagah]

 

[Assisted Living Godzilla]

Seen some stuff for this game for a while now. Didn’t realize it was a Kickstarter project, looked good enough I figured it was just something that was going to happen, but looking at where the Kickstarter is it seems like it may not happen.

 

[karoliner]

 

[Melcar]

VF was always the only 3D fighter I could enjoy. And that's not saying much, as I hate 3D fighters.

 

[Assisted Living Godzilla]

With Marvel vs Capcom Fighting Collection: Arcade Classics being a thing, it seems almost certain that the next Marvel vs Capcom game is a thing that Capcom has been working on for a while. So, I’m wondering, do we get a reveal for the next MvC game during the upcoming Game Awards show? I think we probably do, but it also seems like something they could just wait until June for. But the Game Awards being one of the few big shows to reveal stuff on seems like a good place to reveal a game going into the summer shows. You announce it off next month during the Game Awards, you show it off some more in June and July, and then you release character trailers leading up to a late 2025 or early 2026 release. If it was any later I doubt the collection would’ve come out this year, after all, Marvel vs Capcom 3 released not even two full years after the big Marvel vs. Capcom 2 release on Xbox Live Arcade.

Then again Marvel vs Capcom Fighting Collection: Arcade Classics got reveal on some random Nintendo Direct showcase, so I guess a new Marvel vs Capcom game could skip the awards show and show up in some Nintendo Direct between the Game Awards and whatever the E3 stuff is called now.