Have you been living under a rock for the past two years?
This game has so many things wrong;
- No X-Men or Doctor Doom, which are the Marvel faces of the franchise.
- The excuse for the missing characters above was ****ing pathetic. ("No one cares about them, characters are just functions")
- A lot more fan favorites were removed which, while it wasn't as impactful as the lack of X-Men, was still a source of complaints.
- The story mode was heavily marketed, but it ended up being so bad it makes Street Fighter V's story look good, and that one was frankly a pile of trash.
- The dissonance of character quality. Some look amazing, others just look horrible.
- The DLC having more Marvel characters than Capcom characters.
- Speaking of, two story characters being locked behind a DLC paywall also qualifies.
- 95% of the music is either generic dubstep or generic orchestra, which is a HUGE step dowm compared to MvC3.
- Etc.
The gameplay is freaking good though, but everything else just flopped so much that the game didn't last very long.
I agree with every point you've made!
Doctor Doom and the X-Men were the characters I mostly played on the Marvel side of the roster. Not including them was a big **** you to both the fgc and marvel comics fanbase.
The X-Men are my favorite superhero team and a lot of 'em are among my favorite characters in all of fiction. Them not being included was just like a nail piercing my and every other x-men fans chest.
Somehow I had a little bit of hope and bought both the game and the first season pass in December. It was in February that I realized the game was pretty much dead. And my hopes of having Cyclops, Wolverine, Doom, Wolverine and Jean in the game vanished all of a sudden.
And man... the fact that Marvel has one slot more than Capcom really makes me want to sell the game.