Gaming Inbox: Which Characters Should Be In A New Marvel Vs. Capcom?

Beyond infinity
We all know how Capcom loves a good crossover and now they’ve brought back the Marvel license, can it really be that long before we get a new Marvel Vs. Capcom? Infinite didn’t do well, but it was low-budget and held back because Marvel didn’t own Fox’s movie rights back then. But now they do, so not only could it have the X-Men in it, but Marvel will probably be going for it.

So you can have Wolverine, Cyclops, Cable, Magneto, Colossus, Gambit, Iceman, Juggernaut, Psylocke, Rogue, Sabertooth, Sentinel, Storm, and all the others that appeared in the original games.

But there are also a lot of characters that have come and gone in popularity in the last 25 years, so I’d expect to see Deadpool, Phoenix, X-23 bring over from Marvel Vs. Capcom 3 and then maybe Magik, Mystique, Armor, Bishop, Sync and Kid Omega.

Capcom’s side of things is more straightforward, but I hope they dig into older games as well as just new ones. I’m sure there’s some way they can work in characters from 1942, Commando, or Forgotten Worlds. I love it when Capcom gets vague and I hope they can come up with a new game if it happens.
Johnson

Limited interest
I was looking at the new games announced for Limited Run Games physical editions and some of the choices are so strange to me. Are there really enough people out there for the likes of Gex and Bubsy to want to buy overpriced port comps? I think Bubsy Bobcat was literally a joke, like the worst of the lovable Sonic animal mascots?

I understand that nostalgia is one thing, but this seems to be taking it to extremes. I remember playing some of these games back in the 90’s and they were terrible back then, so I’d hate to think how they play now.

I don’t think it’s hurting anyone, but I often wish people were as passionate about playing new and original games, even if they were junk they bought as kids. Nostalgia is a drug and many drugs are bad for you.
LiteWait

Is it A
Here’s an interesting bit of pedantry: is Metroid Prime a first-person shooter? Of course, the 2D games are Metroidvanias, hence the name, but I don’t think anyone looking at the 4 trailer would have guessed it was anything other than a shooter. Those who have played the other games know this isn’t true, but it seems a little lacking to call it just a Metroidvania.

I’m surprised that genre labels have lasted this long to be honest, as they are no longer relevant in many cases. You hardly even find them in movies. Maybe specific things like comedy and horror, but everything else is as it is.
Gorf

GC: We won’t call it a first-person shooter. Shooting is not the focus and you barely have to aim.

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Any day
There are two games I love this year. This is the first time I’ve only bought two games in a 12 month period. First up should be Assassin’s Creed Shadows, but I won’t be buying it day one like I usually do. I’m going to wait a few months, not because I can’t afford it yet, but I’m sick of buying them day one for £70 and a few weeks later they’re half price or better, which to me is a joke. With some players knocking it up before it’s out, it could drop in price even faster, so I’ll wait for that.

The second is Astro Bot. I like the demo or whatever it was called that you get for free with the PlayStation 5, but I hope Sony drops the price, which they honestly never do on their own games.

I’m not worried about Call Of Duty: Black Ops 6 one bit. I had played it before because it’s Call Of DUty with a different skin and then next year it’s GTA 6 and I’m really looking forward to that game. It will be massive and the sales will be something we have never seen before. Dare I say it, £2 billion in sales within the first 48 hours. I think I’ll pay £100 for that game.
DAVID

GC: Astro’s Playroom was not a demo, but elements of it are likely to be similar to the new game.

Weird priorities
I saw your article on Sony ending support for the PlayStation VR2. I don’t understand the logic, business wise or game wise. You spend a fortune making, from what I’ve seen, a very good machine, but you don’t back it up with games.

They did the same with the hand business; they were great, great screens and great games, but after a while the games just stopped. It seems financial madness, if that’s your point of view, then why do them in the first place?
TWO MAKES

GC: It’s a mystery. The PS Vita’s early departure can be attributed to disputes between Sony Japan and America, but why did Sony decide to prioritize the PlayStation VR2 so early in the life of the PlayStation 5, with no plans for any first-party games after launch, it’s a mystery.

Bite the bullet
Interesting weekend reader feature about the Xbox 360 being the zenith of gaming. I certainly have a lot of nostalgia for the console, but I’m sure I’m not alone in being glad that the games have gotten even more realistic and complex since then. However, as the reader points out, this comes at a cost that may not be sustainable.

The problem is, what is the solution? To artificially keep all consoles at the same power as Xbox 360 or slightly above? No one will do that, especially not with competing companies. The second Microsoft or Sony put out a low-powered machine, the other will do the opposite, which is partly what happened with the Xbox One and its ridiculous Kinect obsession.

The fact that Nintendo is sitting there proving that it absolutely can work to keep things the same (there was very little improvement from GameCube to Wii, so they’ve been at least a generation behind since then) doesn’t seem to matter. It should, but I just can’t see either Xbox or PlayStation doing it.

There are many ways out of the current situation, but no one seems willing to make any big decisions and it seems like they are just making things worse by putting things off.
Korea

A year later
RE: Crime Boss: Rockay City. After GameCentral’s 3/10 score, the game has had many updates and is very enjoyable now. To make it even better, all DLC is now free for a limited time on all platforms.

The only drawback is that you have to restart the game.
Cassius2K

Short challenge
With so much chatter about live service games at the moment, I thought I’d mention my experience with Ubisoft’s XDefiant, which I found to be a really fun alternative to Call Of Duty at first and now… I haven’t played it in a week and will probably never return to it. There’s nothing wrong with it, but while it’s comparable to Call Of Duty, it’s not necessarily better than it by any means.

Being such a known quantity of Call Of Duty means not only that you know what you’re looking for, but that you’re already in its ecosystem and not starting something from scratch. I think that’s why things like Helldivers 2 and Palworld and XDefiant have dropped so much after a few months. They’re good, but they’re not world beaters and feel more like diversions from other, bigger games.

Fortnite and Apex Legends and whatever aren’t necessarily better games, but they’re so established, no one is going to stop playing them for any serious length of time in favor of something that isn’t much better. That’s why we keep seeing these live service games that do well for a few months and then go away.

And does anyone think it will be better with Concord? Can anyone see themselves playing this until the end of the year, let alone 2034? If I were a developer, the last thing I’d want to work on is a live service game, not only because it’s probably not what I got into gaming for, but because there’s such a slim chance that it will be a hit.
Zeus 2

Inbox-ka too
I love it when developers congratulate each other on doing well. I can really see CD Projekt and FromSoftware working well together as well, if they did some kind of joint project. Maybe some new DLC?
Authentic

Just to point out that it was the 25th^th anniversary of the monkey’s escape last week. The only positive I can say is that maybe there will be a reference to it in the new Astro Bot?
Gamgee

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