Marvel vs Capcom Infinite: 7+ Years Later 

Disney is so scummy for opting out the Xmen for this game. Those guys were the root of this series.

the fact that you can enter an MVCI tournament nowadays and get a guaranteed top 8 placing (even when going 0-4) will always be funny to me

I could’ve sworn this game came out 3-5 years ago, wow now I feel old

MvCI commited a grave sin for a capcom vs game - having a forgettable soundtrack

From my understanding it wasn’t licensing issues that kept X-Men fantastic four from Marvel. It was just the fact that Marvel didn’t own the movie rights to the characters at the time so they didn’t want to promote characters that they couldn’t put on film. That’s why Marvel wasn’t really doing a lot with those characters in the comics as well.

"MvCI doesn't need a formal intro" *Proceeds immediately into a formal intro*

It's been longer between MVCi and now than mvc3 and mvci

the biggest thing that screwed over MvCI was honest to god just it's visuals if it had looked half as clean as the relatively close releasing DBFZ it would've proabally boosted it's sales

UMvC3 Ironman: PROTON CANNON! MvCI Ironman: proton cannon

What I need is a new Tatsunoko Vs Capcom. Dear lord that game was INCREDIBLE.

It’s interesting how MvCI, SxT, and BBTAG are all 2v2 games, 2 of which with active tag, that fell flat with audiences. It’s a shame considering how cool active tag is that it hasn’t appeared in a generally beloved game.

I will never forgive them for Doctor Strange level 3. He is not supposed to fly around the opponent like a floaty pervert trying to glance up a skirt. He sends an astral form out to bind the person. This game was all parts and no soul.

X is honestly the Capcom character I've had the most fun as in any CapVS title, and I really hope he returns in Jump/Sega/whoever vs Capcom... but that's probably a pipe dream

The lack of X-Men characters is what killed this game for me

To be fair the last time capcom released a 2p2k game that was an asset flip it was mvc2 and a huge success

Marvel may be heavily promoting X-Men and Fantastic Four now, but the damage they did back then will always be remembered Their poor decisions potentially killed an entire series

It's crazy thinking about how long it's been already. They let us play as Jehda and that alone made me check it out. I wasn't blown away but was happy that it wasn't just mvc3 but with infinity stones.

I think one overlooked detail I really like about MVC: Infinite is the greater focus on “teamwork” compared to the previous games. Characters actually interact with each other when certain pairings are picked on the character selection screen, and your partner will actually call out from off-screen (playing in the left/right audio channels as if they’re next to you) and express concern when you hit 25% HP or lower (“DANGER!”). Stuff like that might not seem like much in the grand scheme of things, but it’s something I really appreciate about this game for what it’s worth. Despite its shortcomings, Infinite will always hold a very special place in my heart.

Has it REALLY been 7+ years!!!??? My goodness!!!

MVCI failed for the same reason SFIII did, Capcom removed all the popular characters alienating the audience. You can't make a sequel to a game, reset all the characters and expect success. Those past characters are the foundation on why the franchise is popular.

No X-men no sell

It’s astonishing how there is at least one thing wrong with each of the characters’ models in this game. It’s kinda funny tbh.

I can't lie, I still mess with this from time to time. It is a guilty pleasure. One can only hope in the near future that this franchise gets revived. I think plenty of time has passed and Hopefully lessons have been learned.

Jedah was the coolest thing about MVCI

For me, it’s the lackluster characters on the capcom side - my favorite part of MvC has been how it took non-fighting characters and put them in a fighting game, or just had more wacky characters all around.

If you've watched pre-release videos, Disney Marvel won't allow to see their beloved comic heroes can't get hurt but to see them superior than Capcom's characters.

Getting another Marvel vs Capcom game is difficult because Disney, the only thing Capcom can do is Capcom vs Snk 3. Oh yeah, it looks like Capcom could just make a crossover fighting game specifically for Megaman. Maybe because after seeing "vs Capcom" gameplay involving Megaman characters, I was confused about which candidate was suitable to be playable.

8:15 Bruh, there was no "licensing issues". Marvel, and by extension Disney, alaways had the rights to X-Men and Fantastic Four, it's only the movie rights they didn't have. All this was is Disney wanting to devalue the series by not giving them exposure. They could've made an X-Men vs FF game if they wanted. They had both teams in Marvel Ultimate Alliance 3 no problem.

I was reminiscing the MvC franchise earlier today (about 1-2 hours before this was posted) so this video was dropped right on time. Here's hoping that one day, in spite of everything, we'll see a proper MvC4.

It wasn't a superhero fatigue, it was a garbage movie fatigue. They knew what they were doing when they mcu'd the roster and retconned Scarlet Witch and Quicksilver in the comics. A good roster can recover the backlash of a bad story and ugly looks. Even Street Figher V recovered eventually with the dlc and arcade mode.

Super hero fatigue isn’t real , it’s bad movie fatigue

This is my favorite MVC in the seris from. GAMEPLAY standpoint...it played so damn smooth.. the roster was definitely lacking though but it wasn't enough too stop me from playing

I would kill for a new Capcom Vs. SNK game

Worst part of MvCI is that its a damn fun game, trapped in an ugly, low budget, and limited scope release that was forced on them by corporate mandates. Disney pretty much burned the bridge of working with Capcom again for VS titles; so here's hoping we can get some other Capcom VS whatever to fill the hole in our hearts. Or, just play the fan mods of MvC3. Either or works, I guess.

I distinctly remember that around the release for MvCI, there was a lot of people choosing between DBFZ and this game because they were releasing close to each either and both were tram fighters

Such a shame that one of the most fun and refreshing entries in the series got saddled with everything it did. Honestly, a better roster would've done so much for this game alone.

We all know the reason behind the ‘characters are their mechanics, not their looks or story’ thing was the best explanation the director could give without pissing off the higher ups. But one thing, if this was made to ‘advertise’ the mcu more, why not just make the characters MCU? Obviously different voices cause of money, but wouldn’t it have made more sense for this to have become an MCU game?

Another thing that I dislike about both Marvel Infinite and even Marvel 2 is the lack of character endings. While 3’s endings had their own issues, having unique endings for every character is a fantastic way to get you to play with other characters and experiment with them. You can have over 10-100 characters in your roster, and the lack of any endings, will kill any incentive for me to continue playing after the first arcade run.

Mvc3 still gave us a flash forward to the Disney mcu movies introducing the mainstream to Hawkeye and rocket racoon

holy cow on the barn, it has been 7 years have pass all ready? wow...time fly when you don't pay any attention of any kind to stuff like that.

Looking back at this now, I think that in my opinion It looks fun. Controversy and bad publicity aside, I wouldn't mind diving into this game when given the opportunity.

Honestly I enjoyed playing this more than 3 even without phoenix wright.

My biggest problem with this game is none of the marvel characters I use are in the game such as Logan , magento, Deadpool , Storm , Jean grey and Laura Kinney .

The game had over 1 million sales... that should have told Capcom and Marvel something... We wanted the game... It was a good game... but shady business practices are what killed it on arrival. Also, I honestly believe Capcom messed up when they created 3 v 3 gameplay... it was nice that MVCI came back to the game's roots. If anything, if we ever get another MvC game, they should, and I am sure can easily, incorporate both 3v3 and 2v2 gameplay... If a player picks 3v3, they don't get active switch... and if they pick 2v2, they get active switch...

What people need to understand is, the X-men and Fantastic Four CAN be used in video games without worry. Marvel sold the MOVIE rights to those franchises to other companies back in the 90s, but video games, they are all still allowed to appear in because the rights to use them in games are still in Disneys hands. Best example, Marvels Contest Of Champions, yes it’s a mobile game but still a video game. And as other RU-vidrs pointed out, this game was data mined and the X-men were going to be in the game. Marvel just wanted to focus on MCU characters at the time, obviously a poor choice.

Marvel vs Capcom has always been a series that’s had an over-the-top presentation to celebrate the union of these two prominent properties. The decisions involving Infinite’s development made it suffer and result in something that did not match this high standard. Infinite is not a _bad_ game. But it’s not the blockbuster the other entries were either. As a result, this is the only MvC game that’s average at best.

I know many people hate this game but from an outside looking in perspective it looks really fucking fun. If I were to ever get into MvC I’d probably start with this game

They might have used the MvC3 models for MvCI as a base, but the MvCI models are clearly different with a much higher polygon count than MvC3 (the models were ripped by fans, and can be downloaded for free and analyzed in a model viewer like Blender)

hey as one of the best player who still play it i like this vid. Its ashame what happened to this game, dbfz, the memes etc but at core its a good and fun game just needed more love and time which people realize now!! Hope to get a new marvel one day and not have issues that seem to happen on marvels end as usual smh

This makes me kinda sad, as a kid I always wanted to use x as a fighting game character and then this game released and I was very hyped but I didn't enjoyed the game that much

This was my first Marvel and I really enjoyed it. I wish the budget had been spent on dev instead of the stupid story though - when those end credits role its like 90% the story studio 10% game devs :D :D

SEGA deserves a Capcom fighting crossover more. /lighthearted But seriously, Infinite is oh so fascinating in hindsight. Disney wiped out the X-Men because of MCU-related restrictions and a head-scratching obsession with "function inclusions" over "character inclusions", but at the same time, there's what was at least supposed to be a tighter version of Marvel Super Heroes' old Infinity Gem mechanics. It fell short not because it was bad, but because it was relatively weird compared to the highs of MVC2 and Ultimate MVC3.

Monster Hunter in Wakanda would be a dope crossover. Monster Hunter weapons with vibranium would be cool

last line of the vid sums it up perfectly LOL i copped the game with a mate years after release when it was on sale for like 3 bucks and we had a lot of fun with it, probably the best $3 ive ever spent

Since this game runs on Unreal Engine, I'm surprised it didn't even get mods taken or inspired by other games that run on the engine. Not even a single Fortnite Stage mod... Heck, I want a Ripto's Arena or Just Beachy stage mod as well.

Whether it be Capcom or Marvel's interference, the coffin was sealed for this game when their approach to marketing for new players was to have the Fine Bros do a "Teens React" video for the game. Yes, this really happened.

No wolverine and xmen in general, was the biggest mistake probably.

The fact budget and time were the main problems... If they had waited until after endgame, the RE engine would be in use for the character models, disney would have access to the xmen characters by that point, and capcom would have time to remake the models in the new graphical system. The fact most of the ideas and gameplay for the game work just fine but the presentation is so atrocious because its rushed when it could have been like, the most successful game, ever.

Honestly, this channel is far better than Top Hat Gaming Man. Whenever he does a video on the subject, the video and its comments are mostly cynical spoutings of "WAAAH! DISNEY KILLED MVC! BOO-HOO! ALL IS LOST!" whereas here it's a lot more positive and optimistic. I honestly think THGM is a scummy content farmer who is no better than the corporations he criticizes. This may sound controversial to many, but it's my opinion and I stand by it.

Those dlc characters were just cut characters they sold as separate dlc because they knew this game was gonna die

7 years i played this game SEVEN YEARS AGO WOW I FEEL OLD DAMN

only half of the DLC characters are in the story mode (Monster Hunter, Black Panther and Sigma)

It's not superhero fatigue, it's a quality content problem. There is a reason anime/mamga it's kicking American comics in the US.

This is the first game in the Marvel vs. Capcom series that have no X-Men characters.

Watching gameplay of mvci is so fun that I'm sad the jarring aspects of the game like roster and visuals bring it down a ton

At least there's still some pretty cool Capcom choices.

Basically, i see this as the last game Marvel and capcom will ever make together and the one that killed the series.

I think they should just do a new X-Men '97 vs Street Fighter and ease their way into it.

With marvel now having the rights to the x men and us getting a Deadpool and wolverine movie on top of that street fighter 6 is a large improvement over 5 I think the future is bright for marvel vs capcom and with the series recent popularity I think we will see a new game in 3 years tops

MvCi is such a tragic end to this fantastic crossover series, ruined by the dunderheaded disney manegement, Taking away comic style,the music, Ui & the X men (even though they had the rights! Fox only had the movie rights) the game does have its bright spots, the gameplay can get wild with the tagging + stones & the rollback netcode is smooth , But it was doomed from the start. Thanx for the revisit Khanage, hope it returns ( but meanwhile, we got great mods for mvc3)

I feel like Capcom has eyes only on street fighter, meanwhile arcsys has been developing like 3 to 4 franchises(the style are very similar, ok) but this is sad

I rented umvc3 from blockbuster convinced all my friends to get it and we had a blast my team was x23 wesker and skrull I didnt know who x23 or super skrull was and looked up comics they were in and they are in soft spot in my heart, venom and black panther were cool but I wish they picked more obscure characters😅

For me, this game was dead the minute Arc Sys revealed Dragon Ball Fighterz. Sure, with more time MVCI could've been better, but there was no way it was standing toe to toe with a fighting game based on an anime everyone and their grandma has seen.

u start the video by saying ur not gonna waste time telling us things we already know, im 2 minutes in and all youve done is explain things we already know

I still play this 😊

Speaking of MVC, there are other characters you didn't do guide videos about them in UMVC3

To me I always felt like the only reason mvc infinite was made, was to promote newer marvel movies. I still stand by this feeling today

What do you mean 2017 was 7 years ago

I like MvCI, but you can tell from what we're looking at it was a shoestring budget, the Marvel side has more new characters than rehash and better models to please their partners. If it ever comes back i would love to have this gameplay back, its probably the most fun and experimental gameplay they've ever done. But in my opinion i hope Disney somehow looses the Marvel license, it woule be so much better without them. Cause around the same year. Marvels Ultimate Alliance 3 was announced and that has MCU plus a dozen others that Capcom used and referenced before. Including voice actors who were in UMVC3 and not on infinite. Such a strange favoritism.

The gameplay was fun from what i remember

yo nights into dreams music, hell yeah!

Man I love MVCI so much I wish MVC3 worked with my brain cuz I just CANT play that one

This is just boring to watch. The local scene died so fast in NYC. It was on the main rotations for 3 months and then it just died.

This game had so much missed potential. Really wish we got more from this game such as more characters having those special level 3 like Cap and Bucky. Also many characters were missing from this game eg Leon should have replaced Chris, a game about using stones should have had Edward Falcon (Power Stone) and Asura. On the Marvel side they should have had characters like Loki

The fact that Crapcom abandoned this game with more Marvel characters than Capcom ones is probably the greatest sin of all.

I feel the like marvel side could have been good (not great) with out the X Men. But some how they didn't add some of the more popular MCU characters. Like, how the hell were characters like Loki and Star Lord not in this? I'm also shocked we didn't get a SF5 character in this too. Atleast we have that Rashid mod in UMVC3.

How did we go from something so amazing from 2 and 3 to infinite, like jeez

How is this game 7 years old? I remember being so excited for this game and being so disappointed in it.

Of course it feels strange to return to a similar game after a long time.

Funny how an UMVC4 with the same physics, new characters, all the old characters and no infinite combos would’ve been enough.

I legit don’t even remember this game.

Mvci was ok. It’s not so bad. I love the character roster in this game (despite not having the x-men because of licensing issues). You get to use the Infinity stones, the story is ok & the graphics are amazing.

Considering I grew up in the arcades with all the versus games, I actually preferred the active tag switch. The combo routes were so limitless they had to nerf a grip of characters right away(Ultron, Dante, Zero, Dormammu). Now if they had just chose a different art style something a little more focused on originality and added more characters we wanted, the game would've been a banger.

i feel like Capcom and Disney did everything they could to make this game fail, it's depressing

As a kid…? How old were you when this game came out..?

WE NEEEEEED A NEW ENTRY

Whelp, time to wait for Lythero and the Gang to take over.

Awesome 😎 good job 🎉 I have just joined your channel and we are connected now 🙂

7 years???!!! Dear GoooD

The death knell for Marvel vs Capcom Infinite was not carrying over everyone from Ultimate Marvel vs Capcom 3. In a game reusing some many animations, where the returning Capcom side is basically all just retextured models from three, everyone should have come back. I can get not adding more X-Men or Fantastic Four brand characters, (although Disney/Marvel was directly involved in X-Men shows like Legion and The Gifted at that point) it’s stupid, but I can get it, and I think by and large the audience would’ve been OK with it too; but not bring back the already finished characters from 3 was a bridge too far. There should’ve been a big pivot on that idea, especially given the overwhelming negative reaction to the leaked roster not having everyone. If Infinite had just been the 50 characters from UMVC3, plus 16 new characters (gotta have the two sides be even) and everyone got four costumes (every returning character [besides Magneto] could’ve just reused their two UMvC3 costumes) I don’t think the reaction to Infinite would’ve been anywhere close to as negative. There’s also just odd absences. Wesker is gone. My guess would be because Ant-Man was seemingly original meant to be in the game, and he would’ve been handled in a similar way to Wesker, but Ant-Man never made the game. MODOK is gone as a playable character despite still being in the game. Taskmaster, She-Hulk, Iron Fist, and Shuma-Gorath don’t return on the Marvel side; and this is despite Iron Fist having a show at the time that was technically part of the MCU, and everyone else showing up in MCU things that were in development as the game was being made. And Capcom loses a lot of characters, especially odd are the Street Fighter, Devil May Cry, and Resident Evil related ones. Also, Infinite has to be the worst timing for a deal ever. Disney buying Fox is announced the very year Infinite comes out, meaning all the stupid shit with Marvel and the Fox movie controlled characters would come to an end the same year Infinite was out.