Marvel Live! returns with a full house in their latest episode. The crew — led by host Hayden “Kinderparty” Griswold — cover two major topics: Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 at CEO 2017, and Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite‘s story and versus demos.
Regarding Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3 at CEO 2017, the big topic of discussion was Ryan “RyanLV” Romero’s continued dominance in the game this year. With his team of Chun-Li, Morrigan, and Phoenix, RyanLV had another impressive showing at CEO 2017, where his run culminated with him beating fellow Morrigan player and Evo 2016 UMvC3 champion EG|Christopher “NYChrisG” Gonzales to win the tournament. With this in mind, the Marvel Live! crew talks about the possibility that RyanLV may ride this momentum towards a win at Evo 2017 — especially after beating the current champion at CEO.
The bigger portion of this episode however is dedicated the upcoming Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite. Both the publicly-available Story Demo as well as the versus demo at E3 and CEO are covered here, with the crew giving their impressions of both. With the amount of time allotted here, they’re able to go into some details others may not have covered, such as the stage lengths (shorter than Ultimate Marvel vs. Capcom 3), the “height” of the game (it seems to be easier to get up higher), as well as individual characters and how they’ll fit into the new tag system (e.g. Ryu’s Tatsumaki is now a legitimate lockdown “assist” once used with tag).
More importantly, they discuss why players who tried the game have become quite hype for it. The game’s system, especially the tag system, seems to allow a nearly limitless amount of freedom and creativity. For comparison, they bring up Street Fighter V, a game that has been criticized for limiting players that space to be creative and express themselves. Marvel vs. Capcom: Infinite on the other hand seems to be doing the opposite by giving players the freedom to express themselves. Co-host Samantha “Persia” Hancock states that once she got to see people who had gotten their heads around the system (such as Echo Fox’s Justin Wong or Splyce’s Filipino Champ) play the game, she thought “This game’s gonna be ridiculous, it’s gonna be super broken,” which is really all any Marvel vs. Capcom player can ask for.
Source: Team Spooky