Wednesday
Feb162011
MVC3 Review: From The Eyes of a Tekken Player
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Aris ON Wednesday, February 16, 2011 at 5:44PM
Aris ON Wednesday, February 16, 2011 at 5:44PM 
I thought I would do a quick review of MVC3 from the perspective of a Tekken player to help some of the Tekken players out there who might be interested in this game but aren't sure exactly how it works in relation to Tekken. Hope you enjoy it.
Reader Comments (31)
good review Aris.....I will be playin' prolly till TTT2. Im gonna be puttin' in maaaad work for TTT2. I want to play competively in MvC3 but I dunno, this shit is HEMMA BROKE (thats that STL shit....lol)
i actually really like the game.
my favorite thing to do in tekken is sit in training mode and come up with shit. offense, juggles, setups, defensive punishes, anti-strats. something that boring games like sf4 do is stifle creativity and simplify options so that there never really is too many options to explore.
and i think that marvel captures your imagination, and say "try it out!" and most times, it will work.
i think people are blownback by how damaging offense can be, but its really just high damage in general. people aren't yet looking for counter teams, aren't looking at how defense is going to improve, how to capitalize on defensive mechanics like push block or xfactor canceling is going have on the long term playability of this game. yes, every day, and every week will have some new bullshit that people will complain about, but will be outdone later by some counter strat or team...
i guess what i'm really saying is that this game is fun. hitting buttons is fun. doing mass damage is fun. doing cheap shit is HELLA fun. this game is button pressing mayhem to the n^th degree, and i don't think it would be fair to the game to criticize it in its current state. this game allows so much room to grow and improve on that even if it gets to the point of being broken, the path to that will be retarded amounts of fun.
You lose to sentinel your first time playing the game and you whine and bitch and call it cheap. Holy shit dude. I'll welcome playing against Sentinel players, hey free win.
@Josh, Who said anything about losing to Sentinel. I haven't even played a good Sentinel player yet.
this is a great review aris. especially from the tekken player point of view. also, you say some of the funniest shit ever. lmao.
this practice mode is great, but how the fuck do you access the record functions?
this game is nothing but an example of how fighting games are going straight to the casual crowd to grab the money, they only way to play this game is offensively , there is no defense, advance guarding and zoning are useless against the good aggressive chars, and nobody has anything that is punishable....there all at damn neutral frames or plus on block...
imo the only hope for a good competitive fighter is the 3d scene ( with a dash of mk9). this shit makes me want to start playing tekken and im not even a big fan of the game. but at least its a real fighting game where actual thought is involved.
@Josh, http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DNjm51dmagM I know what I'm talking about.
Nice review Aris.
Seems like they tried to make everyone cheap in this game to try to 'balance' characters out.
This game is good fun though. Bought it, played it with a friend from sunrise to sunset.
Aris; just want to point out also that you seem to have a problem with "guessing" as a defense. This is personal preference and doesn't need to be a bad thing (I actually prefer it instead of having 95% of throws broken on reaction) as is the case of Virtua Fighter where you actually also guess in your defense. What I'm saying is that some people really like this way of mindgames over reactiontests and it's not very uncommon. But then again only the surface has been scratched on this game wait until people even start thinking about optionselects etc...
P.S; Kind of cheap finding a way to back up your opinions with the Marn video (one could find LOTS of counterexamples of people liking this game) cause you shouldn't need to. Wtf you're a tekkenplayer just stating how you feel after a brief test but when you start defending your opinions etc it's an entirely different thing if you understand.
http://shoryuken.com/content/marvel-vs-capcom-3-game-ages-3622/
http://www.joystiq.com/2010/09/30/capcom-expecting-better-sales-for-marvel-vs-capcom-3-than-stree/
Are some interesting links also. Or will this site only feature MVC3 stinks articles cause it's your personal opinion? :)
@Reality, I actually don't think MVC3 stinks. I'm having a lot of fun with it and would recommend any fighting game fan pick it up. However, Its competitive longevity is becoming more and more questionable day by day. I'm very interested in learning about the game and seeing how it pans out. EVO will be quite the tournament.