>5 shotos
>2 joke characters

What the FUCK were they thinking.

People had soul back in the 90s and didn't let tourneyfag mentality from non-retro times dictate what games they could and couldn't enjoy

the marvel side is based as hell and all the shotos have unique revamped movesets.
Also charlie is playable as shadow.

how did he make the cut

>>11882106 (OP)
They were pretty lazy with the US release. Since they couldn't put Norimaro in the game they could have put one of the Street Fighter characters from XMVSF in the game. Cammy would have been appreciated.

Additionally, one of the secret characters is actually Charlie! Shadow should have been right there on the character select screen instead of needing a code to play.

They could have also given U.S. Agent a different playstyle than Captain America to put a little more variety into the game.

No women on the Marvel side is pretty weird, especially since Psylocke was in COTA and MSH so she was right there to utilize.

>>11882223
It's badass, that's why. Fucking autistic retard.

>>11882324
damn, sounds like I hit a nerve

Also no one likes this fucker.
The only reason Capcom keeps giving him special treatment is because he has a unique playstyle, but no one is ever asking Capcom to include Dhalsim.

>>11882479
let me guess, makoto fag?

>>11882119
God, I miss when fighting games were just fun.

>>11882106 (OP)
>The bottom row are a bunch of literal whos instead of stuff like Submariner, Ironman or Thor.

>>11882426
>the optical nerve

>>11882479
He's awesome, and my father's favorite character.
>>11882223
The same reason the devs loved Psylocke. They're very Japanese.

>>11882310
The game itself is pretty lazy and forgettable, it came out like 6 months after XMvSF and like 9 months before MvC1 and has pretty similar characters and feel to both

>>11883439
Doesn't it reuse backgrounds?

>>11882893
Iron Man was a literally-who-cares character who could barely sell comics, that they made a movie off of because the licensing rights were cheap and they managed to rope in a washed out recovering druggie to play him, only to be caught off guard when they accidentally caught lightning in a bottle
People don’t like the comic book character of Iron Man, they like Robert Downey Jr being Tony Stark, and when these games were being made no one would have thought twice about his absence in the roster

>>11882479
Are you unaware that he has stretchy arms AND legs?
Teleports?
Breathes fire?
Shouts YOGA!!?!?

This game was clearly made on a low budget, the only newly-made character was Norimaro (and Cyber Akuma if you count him.)

>>11883559
Yes. It's kind of like the situation with Vampire Savior 2 and Vampire Hunter 2.

>>11882106 (OP)
You see, every Marvel/Capcom character was supposed to be a counterpart of each other. Captain America is the counterpart of Dhalsim, because America and India are enemies. Sakura is the counterpart of Shuma Gorath, because she has two eyes. Ken is the counterpart of Cyclops, also because he has 2 eyes. Zangief is the counterpart of Spider-Man, because he is Russian and Spider-Man is not. I'm sorry you zoomers don't get this

>>11882893
>Submariner
who?

I KNOW you didn't just talk shit about Norimaro.

>>11883671
unrelated but what the fuck is that pic, looks like a megaman

>>11884129
el jotito

>>11884126
Kefka's father

>>11882119
I thought the crux of "soul" was not following a template. Five shotos seems like the opposite of not following a template. And surely a casual player would prefer a variety of playstyles rather than four extra Ryu's.

>>11884051
Ok, this was genuinely funny

>>11884519
Normal people and normies only play with "Ryu and Ken" and their equivalents in other games

>>11884536
A learned helplessness that doesn't get any better by pandering to it so thoroughly!

>>11882223
People go
>Japanese chose deep cuts
Not really, No-retro MVC3 was because of MCU synergy (GOTG is from 2014), In MVC1 case marvel brought the character back at that time and also because his rights were allowed for use

game would have been infinitely better if this absolute banger was in it
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=24kssYOEysU&t=1s

>>11882479
I disagree, you haven't lived until you've out bullshitted this fucker by preemptively striking his limbs.

>>11885585
It had this in it, no need for anything else. It also gave all the SF characters new themes instead of just reusing the SF2 ones.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=m1NQylsRDDg

>>11884131
its a current gen pokemon

Capcom always made these games with an eye towards revisions/sequels which basically just added more characters and stages, right?

>>11882893
>the recycled sprite game doesn't have characters who'd need new sprites

>>11885983
capcom was just testing super moves and reusing characters they already had, easy way to keep profiting from the marvel license. The only exception has always been MvsC1, the one time they gave a shit and made half the roster and gorillion assists from the ground.
Even gave ryu a new VA, only to drop him the next game.

>>11886013
That's interesting, wonder if the Marvel tie-in played a part there at all. Even then the Marvel deal must've been misbalanced so they could pull all sorts of legalese.

>>11884557
>MVC1 case marvel brought the character back at that time and also because his rights were allowed for use
Shuma wasn't in MVC1. He was on Marvel Super Heroes, and his last appearance before it was in Conan three year earlier with a different design.
Then he was forgotten save for a small cameo in Universe X.

>>11884557
>MVC3 was because of MCU synergy (GOTG is from 2014)
Do I have to walk you through why this statement is stupid?
Also, there are sources that state they did choose some picks back then for the fuck of it.

>>11886013
MvC2 had a decent amount of new assets too, but they're overshadowed by the game in its entirety looking like a Mugen asset flip.
Have they ever gone on a record on wheter the stages, OST and OC characters were from a cancelled game or someting?

>>11882106 (OP)
Wasnt the entire reason this game exists at all, was to appease their legal obligations to put Norimaro in a street fighter game?

>>11886083
ruby is known to be a rejected darkstalkers character, but i don't know if she was unfinished for vampire savior and just decided to complete her.

>>11885983
Yes, they had a contract with Marvel for four games with the intent to reuse assets between them.

>>11886132
They had plans for four games from the beginning, being X-Men, Marvel Super Heroes, X-Men 2 and Marvel Super Heroes 2. The latter two ended up becoming crossovers.