The incredible has been done. Marvel Vs Capcom 2 has been released, with online play, on the xbox 360. I was never an arcade contender, I’ll admit to that, but in my circle of friends, I was tops.
Oh the good old days of Megaman Akuma Serverbot, back when I used to leave my dreamcast in my locker at school on the off chance we’d have a free hour to play. Myself, Sean and the Phil were the real contenders for power, but there was also the odd bunch in the band room that would put up some good fights.
Over the years of playing fighting games with my brother, however, I developed an internal limiter. This was reinforced playing with Sean and Phil. If I didn’t hold back and let them win while looking like I was trying, they would quickly quit playing and I’d be stuck playing with the computer. This has unfortunantly crippled my development for online play. My brother can now wipe the floor with me since he had my copy of marvel when he went to college. Apparently he had a decent group of people and learned a few of the more decent air combos.
There was my MAS (see the above team) phase until Phil found Jin to be a great Servebot counter. Then I started using Mega Akuma and Wolvie. Wolvie would just tear Jin appart. He started getting good with Captain Commando, so I ended up swapping Mega out with Rouge. Not the best CapCom counter, but it worked. My team has evolved considerably since those teams. Since playing SSF2HDR, I picked up playing Cammy because it was the only way to survive in online play. She’s amazingly fast but I’ve yet to figure out any of her good air combos. There’s Cammy for moving around and confusing people, pulling off her QTC back + PP to catch people in the middle of attacks. There’s Mega for playing a distance game with those pesky infinite Magneto scrubs (though he is sometimes switched for Felicia cause throwing waves of cat litter at people is fun). As for my last character, remind me to thank Phil for introducing me to the awesome of Jin. I’ve worked out an air combo that I can lead-in to a mech gun super. I can’t do it all the time, but when it works it looks awesome and can drain about 60% life on some poor unsuspecting kid (oddly enough, I’ve had most success using it against MC Wolvierine).
As a parting I leave you with these two videos. Do with them what you will.
Always remember,Oh you so Pringles, Where yo curly mustache at, and That Bitch is Blue like Candy. Remind me to thank Ben for these vids.